BROTHERS--SISTERS---CAN Y O U SEE?

     SADLY, many of us are too busy coping with daily life, that our views become myopic, even short-sighted, as we lose the view that our Creator has instilled into each and  everyone of His children!

     We are so busy, so concerned with life's problems, that we have forgotten our Father which art in Heaven! For this is THE reason of the title as God Our Father, of us all, that made us,  thus, in point of fact, brothers and sisters.  Yet, most of us live this life, as if we are all enemies of each other!  Look at was was forecast...

     In "Tomorrow's Newspaper. . . Today" !......


     2 Timothy 3:1-7  "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth"

Note:   Please read the above, again, and think of how common all these "short-comings" are today! Think, you. . . .that there is a purpose behind all the mannerisms?  Please,...think. . .of this fact more than 80% of all Bible prophecy has come to pass, as written, and on time. So why think that the rest of it will not happen? Revelation and Daniel must be studied together, or Revelation will not reveal itself to you. But in a nut-shell this is what it means......

     Ecclesiastes 1:9-10  "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us."

     This is where we have "History repeats itself ", saying just look at the Church history during the Dark Ages, it was called dark because the the Bibles were kept from the people, "You can't know it's meaning, let your Parish Priest interpret it for you", was their reason, but God truth or Light was kept from the people, hence Dark Ages, that produced all the Inquisitions, where ever Catholics ruled, in fact the last Court of Inquisition closed its doors in Quito, Peru only in 1890's! Plus the present Pope, Francis, a Jesuit Priest, told his family that his older brother, a Seventh day Adventist, for 53 years, and who taught his younger brother all the Bible,  who, when he joined the Jesuits, he told his family to think of his older brother as being dead!
    How about him preaching what he  himself practices, unity in Christ, indeed.....

   Matthew 5:22  "But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire."
    So.... Pope Francis, reconcile with your brother, while you still can!

    John 9:1-2  "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?"

Note:  When one studies the Holy Bible,  study it not just speed read it, which avails nothing, we must keep in mind the social norms for that time. The Hebrews all thought that if a man was poor, or sick, or crippled, it was because of some sin against God. The worse the loss, the greater the sin had to have been,  we, see  this in the question: "Who did sin...."  it was also for this reason Christ spoke....

    Matthew 19:24  "And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." [Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25]

Note: Most villages, had a surrounding wall, with a heavy gate facing the road. Most larger towns and cities would have had a small gate, which a unladen camel could get through, but one had to unload it, pass through, and carry all the goods through, load it back up to go home! That's a lot of work and effort, and so it is for a rich man, not to place his wealth on par or above God! That little gate was called the Needle gate or eye gate. {Because they had a small hole, for the guards to look through hence the eye gate!}

     John 9:3-4  "Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."

      Remember Ecc.1:9  "no new thing under the sun" above?  Well the" Believe as I say, or die" bunch of the Vatican,, during the Dark ages shall come again, and for God's Light/Truth it will become as dark , once again!.....

    Revelation 13:11-18  "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

     Daniel 7:23  "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."

Note: Reading Daniel, learn that earthly powers guided by Satan, yet under the overall control of God, were Babylon, the head, Medo-Persia, the silver arms and chest, the Greeks of the bronze belly, and the terrible beast being Pagan Rome. God did not have Daniel name Rome for it had the power and the organization skills to wipe out the Bible. which its successor the Church of Rome inherited!...Pagan Rome became the Holy Roman Empire!
      Daniel 7:24-25  "And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.25. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Note: shall arise after them...Rome under the emperors lasted until the late 3rd century, when the Church and the Popes began to exercise their powers. In A.D.493 the Heruli were uprooted , Vandals in 534 and Ostrogoths in 538 A.D, Rome ruled as Church and state as one!

      Daniel 7:8  I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Note: Speaking great things.......
      The Popes are called ," Our Lord God, the Pope".  Pope Julius 2nd. in the Lateran Council, was told, " Take care that we lose not that salvation, that life and breath, which thou hast given us, for Thou art our shepherd, Thou art our Physician, Thou art our Governor, Thou art our Husbandman, Thou, finally art another God on earth".The Bible refers her to the Little Horn Power" in Daniel but as the Beast as well meaning church and State-- ruling as one!

From the Catholic National, July, 1895. :The Pope is not only the Representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ Himself, hidden under veil of flesh."

Note: Would Y O U and God call these great words, against the Most High? HE did and  I do!

    John 9:5-7  "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,  And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing."

    John 9:8-12  "The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not."

Note: How do Y O U think you'd react witnessing a true miracle?  I have, my  friend whose wife was in a hospice for two years, constantly loosing weight, when she got to 43 pounds, the MD's and the State of Oregon, all told him, let's stop food and water, and let her die! Well he took her home, after much prayer, and he began a strict vegan diet, blending everything into a pudding like state. Well today she is walking with a walker and her weight is back up to near normal! By the way both are now into the mid 80's!  But look at the Temple leaders....

     John 9:13-17  "They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. And it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet."

Note: "..and there was division among them..."  Is this not a fact among people today? Some believe, most say they do, but live as non-believers, yet call self Christian, right?

   
      John 9:18-21  "But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself."

     NOTE: Who can not see, that this man, born blind, now able to see, bringing God the glory?  Some may say, "That's awful of God, to have done this, right?' But we are in the flesh bodies but a few years, compared to time eternal, available to all,  so that lessens the pain, but God knows the future for each, and we do not know what pain this man avoided by being blind! God did and does all the weighing, good vs. the bad.

      John 9:30-34  "The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out."

Note: Yes, it is difficult to unlearn what one has been taught, and accepted as truth, but these people rejected living proof of  the truth, in Christ.

     John 9:35-41  "Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him. And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."

Note: Seven miracles, all 7 on the 7th day Sabbath! What is this pointing towards?

    Genesis 2:1-3  "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made"
    .Exodus 20:8-11 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."

Note: Do not the bulk of Christians follow the dictates and laws of men in Rome and worship on the SUN-god-day? YES they do! They follow the Laws of men and not law of God!
    Many will reach for the excuse, "Well the Sabbath is for the Jews, only!" Right?  But.......

     Mark 2:27  "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:"

Note: When the Bible speaks of man it usually speaks to all of mankind! So DO Y O U see the word, Jew or Hebrew, in Mark's passage? God's LAWS applies equally to all humanity! Beside just how arrogant must men be, to think they can change God's Laws? Teaching men falsely?

   2 Peter 2:1-2 " But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of."

Note: The Vatican II of 1999 has seen the singing of most of the world's religions, in their head long rush back to the "Mother" church in Rome. This, sadly included not only all of the "Eastern Religions" but also nearly all of the Protestant faiths, who now joined the Pope and kissed his ring, holding that it is HE, who has world-wide authority over all things religious and it is HE that decides what is heresy and and who are heretics, and this power system still holds the right to exterminate all heresy and heretics! Hence this verse...

     Revelation 13:15-18  "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.  And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:  And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six."

Note: Sorry but 666 is NOT Satan's number! It is a number of a man, which Satan certainly is not!
        Many have seen the pictures of the Popes wearing the Triple Crown, signifying heaven, earth, and hell!
Plus it has the wording , "VICARIUS FILII DEI  ... Latin for "The Vicar of Christ", but when taken this to the Latin, or the Greek-Lateinos or the Hebron- Romijth into numerical values in all three they add up to 666!

     Revelation 14:6-11  "And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."

Note: The above is not a threat, but points of fact! God wants your love, all of it, and He's not willing to share you with any other being, but Jesus Christ. It is for this reason that God died for Y O U and your sins, and why HE'l;l reach out to Y O U even if all you can lift in your little finger!

 
        2 Peter 3:9 " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance."

Note: But what about, all those "ENTERTAINMENT 'Preachers' " in the Mega churches today?

    2 Peter 2:9-12  "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.  Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.  But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; "

     Matthew 6:5  "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward."

Note: Indeed they have their reward, in what they wanted, the adulation of men, rather than the love of God, and His love ,returned to Him!

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