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The sea is called the Dead Sea, Sea of Arabah, Sea of Death, and Salt Sea. Its surface and shores are 1,401 ft below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land, the deepest hyper-saline lake in the world. It is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean. This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which animals cannot flourish, hence its name. The Dead Sea is 31 miles long and 9 miles wide at its widest point.
JESUS AND THE GLORY OF YAHWEH
Hebrew 9:4 and 5 – …the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat; but of these things we cannot now speak in detail
The Ark of the Covenant in the tabernacle and the Temple was a type for Jesus. The millennium age Temple will not have the ark because Jesus will be there.
Luke 2:1-20 The shepherds saw the glory of Yahweh.
Yahweh uses His name over 6,000 times in the Bible. He is the main theme. The Bible is about Yahweh.
Approximately 281 years after the death of Jesus the Christ the council at Nicea “determines” that Jesus is of the same essence of substance as God. And that anyone who believes otherwise is a heretic.
In 381 the council at Constantinople “determines” that the spirit is also of the same essence and substance as God and Jesus. And that all three should be worshipped and glorified.
George Washington is born and 281 years later we have the iPhone 5S.
In 2010 it is estimated that there are over 2.2 billion Christians in a world of approximately 7.2 billion.
The Bible is a complete work. We don’t need councils to “determine” and add to it. Yahweh is the custodian of His work and teaches us by His spirit.
The wants even more than the needs motivate us to do what we do.
thereby enjoy peace and contentment.
He guides me in the path of righteousness. The shepherd, not the sheep, knows
the right way to go. Proverbs 2:1-15
4 – “The valley of the shadow of death” can be translated “valley of deep darkness.” Yahweh is always with you. Psalm 139:1-12
The rod and staff guide and provide for the sheep and keep treacherous animals away. 1Samuel 17:34-37
5 – While your enemies try to disgrace you, Yahweh will exalt you.
The oil protects and heals.
My cup overflows – I have all that I need and more. Because Yahweh is my shepherd, I shall not want.
6 – Yahweh’s sheep have goodness and mercy or lovingkindness with them all the days of their life, and they will be with Him forever.
God loves you. Be ye thankful.
The post Yahweh Loves You first appeared on Living Hope.– if you believe loved ones are in heaven and are not only aware of what you are doing but can help you, then you may pray to them and ask for help as well as credit them when good events happen
– if you believe loved ones are in purgatory you may make special offerings to the church on their behalf to shorten the time they need to suffer
– if you believe the dead are ghosts walking among us you may pay a medium to contact your dead loved one once a year on their birthday or deathday (night mares, horror movies)
if you whack your foundational belief with the hammer of scrutiny at full force two positive outcomes are possible
our approach to figuring out which of these 7 possibilities is correct: the Bible is our standard for testing ideas
I’m going to give you some verses that those who hold these beliefs point to for support
Now I realize this may be a very sensitive subject for you. If you have lost loved ones and believe that they have communicated with you, what I’m saying could easily shake you up. But I encourage you to be the Berean. Don’t accept what I say; don’t reject what I say; listen to it; compare it to the Scriptures; find out what is right.
Besides whatever you and I decide on this issue is not going to change the facts of the matter. If dead people are in heaven right now, then that will still be the case whether we believe it or not. If they are asleep then praying to them all day will not make a lick of difference.
What Happens at Death?
2. Hell (torture in fire forever): Luke 16.19-31; Matthew 25.46; Revelation 14.11; 20.10
3. Purgatory (tortured in fire until sins are purged): Luke 16.19-31; 1 Corinthians 15.29 ; 1 Peter 3.19; 4.6; 2 Maccabees 12.43-45
4. Ghosts (live on earth among us without a body, possibly able to interact or possess): Matthew 14.29; Luke 24.37; 1 Samuel 28.3-25; Acts 12.15
5. Reincarnation (at death one’s memory is wiped and they are reborn into another organism): Job 1.20-21; Ecclesiastes 1.9; Jeremiah 1.4-5; Malachi 4.5; Matthew 11.13-14; John 9.1-3; Romans 9.11-13
6. Gone (their thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. are gone forever): Ecclesiastes 9.5; 9.10; Psalm 146.4
7. Sleep (unconscious but able to be resurrected): Deuteronomy 31.16; 2 Samuel 7.12; 1 Kings 1.21; 2.10; 11.21; 11.43; 14.20; 14.31; 15.8; 15.24; 16.6; 16.28; 22.40; 22.50; 2 Kings 8.24; 10.35; 13.9; 13.13; 14.16; 14.22; 14.29; 15.7; 15.22; 15.38; 16.20 ; 20.21; 21.18; 22.20; 24.6; 2 Chronicles 9.31; 12.16; 14.1; 16.13; 21.1; 26.2; 26.23; 27.9; 28.27; 32.33; 33.20; Job 3.11-13; 7.21; 14.12-15; Ecclesiastes 3.19-20; 9.5-6; 9.10; Psalm 6.4-5; 13.3; 30.9; 31.17; 49.12; 88.10-13; 115.17; 146.4; Isaiah 26.19; 38.17-19; Daniel 12.2; Matthew 27.52; John 5.28-29; John 6.39-54; John 11.11-14; Acts 2.34; 7.60; 13.36; 1 Corinthians 11.29-30; 15.6; 15.17-23; 15.51-55; Ephesians 5.14; 1 Thessalonians 4.13-17; 5.9-10; 2 Peter 3.3-4; Revelation 20.4-6
John 5.26-29
John 6.38-44, 54
time line: need to think temporally rather than spatially (triple-decker heaven, earth, hell is wrong)
John 11.11-27, 43-44
Bodies, why is it that people always talk of the dead as bodies rather than people? On the news they don’t say, “A fifty year old man was found dead yesterday” rather they say “the body of a fifty year old man was found yesterday.” Or at a funeral they say, “where do you want to bury the body?” This is not how they talk in the Bible.
John 20.11-18
“No one has ascended into heaven” –Jesus (John 3.13)
Why should there be a resurrection of the dead if no one is really dead?
The post Death, Then What? first appeared on Living Hope.The physical life of our first birth will come to an end when we die or when Jesus returns.
The new birth with its new life we enjoy now, but it to can come to an end depending on how we live.
The new birth that comes when Jesus returns is eternal.
The post Born Again, Again first appeared on Living Hope.Matthew13:19 – the wicked one
God wants everyone to live godly today and enter into His kingdom when Jesus returns. The devil wants everyone to live ungodly and enter eternal damnation.
Proverbs 13:13 (The Living Bible)
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