The Spirit of God Commentary Two: The Holy Spirit is God ~ Chuck Smith

The Holy Spirit Is God

Since the purpose of this book is to bring you into a full, personal, and soundly biblical relationship with God the Holy Spirit, we need to first show that the Holy Spirit is one of the three Persons of the Godhead.

The church has accepted throughout its history that there is one God who exists in three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In the Scriptures we find Them working together in total harmony for the redemption of man. Paul confessed to Timothy that the Godhead was a great mystery; for us to try to fully comprehend it is a futile expenditure of mental energy.

Many cult groups (such as Jehovah’s Witnesses) take advantage of this gulf between the finite and the infinite to attack the triunity of God by denying the deity of Jesus Christ and passing off the Holy Spirit as an essence.

Other groups deny the existence of the Father and the Holy Spirit, and say that Jesus alone is God. One of the common marks of every cult is a denial of the deity of Jesus Christ and the Person of the Holy Spirit.

T h e Tr i u n e G o d

Because this is one of the areas that the enemy constantly attacks, we must affirm not only the fact of the deity
of the Holy Spirit, but also why we believe in His deity. The word trinity is not found in the Bible, but it is a convenient term that theologians use to describe the three Persons of the one God. Perhaps the term triunity would more accurately describe God.

He is not 1 + 1 + 1 = 3, but 1 x 1 x 1 = 1.

In Genesis 1:1 we read, “In the beginning God…” The Hebrew word translated God is “Elohim,” which is plural for El (God in the singular). In Hebrew there is a singular, dual, and plural tense. “God” in the singular is El, in the dual is Elah, and in the plural is Elohim.

There can be no denying that the word Elohim at least suggests the triunity of God.

Continuing in Genesis 1:2 we read, “…the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” The Holy Spirit is the first Person of the Godhead to be identified separately in the Bible.

In Genesis 1:26 we read, “And [Elohim] said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” He did not say, “I will make man after my image.” In other words, the three Persons of the Godhead were speaking jointly.

T h e A t t r i b u t e s o f t h e H o l y S p i r i t

To establish that the Holy Spirit is God, we will first show that attributes which can be ascribed to God alone
are ascribed to the Holy Spirit. One of the divine attributes is the eternal nature of God. He has always existed. In Hebrews 9:14 we read that Christ through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God. If the Spirit is eternal, and this is an attribute that can only be ascribed to deity, then the Spirit is God.

Notice also how the three Persons of the Trinity are linked in the verse.

Another attribute of God is His omniscience. God knows all things, as James said in Acts 15:18: “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.”

This attribute is also ascribed to the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 2:10–11 we read, “But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” Here the knowledge of God is attributed to the Spirit of God.
Another attribute of deity is omnipresence.

God exists everywhere in the universe at once.

In Psalm 139:7 David asks, “Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?” God exists in the heavens, in hell, and in the uttermost parts of the sea. The Spirit is with me now where I am, and at the same time He is with you wherever you may be reading this book right now. God is omnipotent.

This is a word used to express that He is all powerful.

When Sarah laughed at the announcement that she was to have a son in her old age, the angel of the Lord asked, “Is any thing too hard for the LORD?” (Genesis 18:14). Jesus said, “With God all things are possible” (Mark 10:27).

In Luke 1:37 He said, “With God nothing shall be impossible.” The angel said to Mary when she questioned him on how she, a virgin, could bear a child, “The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee” (Luke 1:35).

Here the Holy Spirit and the power of the highest are used synonymously.

T h e Wo r k s o f t h e S p i r i t

Not only are divine attributes ascribed to the Holy Spirit, but so are divine works. One of the divine works is that of creation. The entire Trinity was active in creation. In Genesis 1:1 we read, “In the beginning [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth.” In John 1:1–3 we read, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.… All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

The Spirit was also an active force in creation. In Genesis 1:2 the Spirit is described as moving over the face of the waters. The Spirit was in conference with the Father and the Son when God said, “Let us make man in our likeness” (Genesis 1:26). In Psalm 104:30 we read, “Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.”

Another work of God is that of giving life.

We recognize that God is the giver and sustainer of life. In 2 Corinthians 3:6, as Paul was referring to the letter of the law, he said, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” In John 6:63 Jesus said, “It is the spirit that [maketh alive].”

The Bible was written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, yet we properly refer to the Bible as the Word of God.

Second Peter 1:21 tells us, “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy [Spirit].” In 2 Timothy 3:16 Paul declares, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” Peter says that the writers were moved by the Holy Spirit and Paul says that they were inspired by God. Thus the Spirit is recognized to be God.

This is why many Scriptures in the Old Testament which declare that the Lord spoke are attributed to the Holy Spirit when quoted in the New Testament. In Isaiah 6:8–9 the prophet said, “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. And he said, Go, and tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.”

When Paul quoted this passage in Acts 28:25–26 he said, “Well spake the Holy [Spirit] by Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers, saying, …hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.” Isaiah said the Lord spoke; Paul said the Holy Spirit spoke.

They can both be right only if the Holy Spirit and the Lord are one.

T h e Tr i n i t y Wo r k i n g To g e t h e r

In Acts 5:1–11 we have an interesting account of discipline in the infant church as God was seeking to preserve its purity. Motivated by love, many Christians attempted to establish a Christian community by selling all their possessions and turning the proceeds over to the apostles, so that the Christians might have all things in common. A certain couple, Ananias and Sapphira, sold their property, but together decided to hold back a share of the price for themselves.

When Ananias brought his portion to Peter, Peter asked, “Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy [Spirit], and to keep part of the price of the land? While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God” (Acts 5:3–4). Peter said that Satan had filled the heart of Ananias to lie to the Holy Spirit, then declared that he had lied to God, thereby making the Holy Spirit and God one.

Throughout the New Testament we see the Trinity working together or coupled together. When Jesus commissioned the disciples to go out and teach all nations (Matthew 28:19–20), He told them to baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

These three names distinguish the three Persons of the one God.
In 2 Corinthians 13:14, in his apostolic benediction, Paul said, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy [Spirit] be with you all. Amen.”

Here again the three Persons of the one God are linked together.

In 1 Corinthians 12:4–6 Paul says, “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.” In verse four he refers to the Spirit, in verse five to the Lord (Jesus), and in verse six to God (the Father).

So, though there may be diversities in the gifts and in their operation and administration, there is a unity because God is behind it all.

A c c e s s T h r o u g h t h e S p i r i t

At this point you may be thinking, “Well, what difference does it all make whether the Spirit is God or just an
essence from God?”

Because the Spirit is a part of the Godhead, it is proper to worship Him, and we are correct when
we sing, “Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” God has
ordained that we relate to Him through the Spirit.

It is in the realm of the Spirit that man can touch God.

It is my spirit brought into union with the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, “God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).

Paul also said, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit” (Romans 8:16).

If I am to have communion with God, I must recognize the Holy Spirit and realize that He is the One that makes this fellowship possible.

Man has never had direct access to the Father; this is a common fallacy among people who forget the awesome holiness of God. When God manifested Himself on the Holy Mount to the Jewish people (Exodus 19), He had them set boundaries around the mountain so they wouldn’t get too close to the manifestation of God and be put to death.

When the people saw from afar the awesome demonstration of God, they said to Moses, “You speak to us and we will hear, but don’t let God speak to us lest we die.”

The veil in the tabernacle demonstrated the separation that must exist between the Holy God and an unholy
people. This veil could only be penetrated after an elaborate cleansing and sacrifices by the high priest, and this only one day in the year, and by only one man, the high priest.

Jesus said, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). Jesus told the Jews that they really didn’t know the Father. He also told them that Moses would be the witness against them. They do not follow the prescribed way to God that was given to Moses by God, but today seek to approach Him on the basis of their good works without sacrifice.

Sin has always been the barrier between man and God, and until something is done about man’s sin, there can
be no approach to God.

In Isaiah 59:1–2 we read, “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.”

Jesus provided a way to cleanse us from our sins, thus making the approach to God possible.
Through faith in Jesus Christ my spirit is made alive, and thus can be united with God’s Spirit.

In this way God and man are joined in the Spirit.

What Is Purgatory?~Jack Kelley

What Is Purgatory?

Q. I thank the Lord for you, your staff and for this website.

In regards to your articles on Jesus preaching to the spirits in prison, is this the same place what the Roman Catholics believe as PURGATORY? If not, where did they get the concept from?

A. Before the cross, no one from Earth could enter into heaven upon dying. (John 3:13) Both the saved and unsaved went to a place called Sheol in Hebrew and Hades in Greek. For those who had died in faith of a coming redeemer who would die for their sins it was a place of comfort, but for non believers it was a place of torment. The story of Lazarus and the Rich Man describes this. (Luke 16:19-31) It also explains that there was no way of crossing from one to the other. In other words, once a person has died their eternal destiny is fixed. So there is no such place as purgatory.

The practice of praying for the dead originated in ancient pagan religions and may be the source of the Catholic belief in purgatory. The idea was first introduced into the Catholic Church in the 2nd Century AD. as a place between heaven and hell where the dead who have not sinned greatly enough to warrant hell, but have not yet purified themselves enough in goodness to enter into heaven, go to prepare and purify themselves of sin.

As you can see belief in purgatory requires that one first assumes the Lord’s death was not sufficient to pay for all our sins, and that it’s up to us to finish the work He only began. This is a non Biblical doctrine that is specifically and repeatedly denied in Scripture.

Moving The Ark Of The Covenant~Jack Kelley (update Michael James Stone)

Moving The Ark Of The Covenant

Q. As an archeology buff, the “Ark of the Covenant” is a fascinating subject and I really wish someone would find it. The question I have is, since the presence of the Lord is no longer dwelling in the ark itself, would we be able to touch it today if it were found or would the “don’t touch” rule still apply?

A. Numbers 4 gives very clear instructions on moving the Ark. I would imagine they still apply. Those who claim the Ark was recently moved from Ethiopia to Jerusalem are careful to note that all the soldiers involved were Levites.

I should note that so far there’s been nothing to substantiate this claim, and with the Ethiopian priest’s reversal of his recent promise to unveil it, we can’t even know for sure if the Ark was ever in Ethiopia.

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Recent news articles and reports have confirmed the Ark in Ethiopia reported to be found was a Hoax. All investigators and scholars, while silent on the facts now found, still wish it would turn up in Ethiopia, or somewhere else, are suddenly going "no comment" on the embarrassment.

Semsationalizing scripture is dangerous for your reputation if you jump on the band wagon. There will be no "find" of the original ark. There will be a substitute made and it will be counterfeit like the Channukiah is a counterfeit miracle and corruption of the Menorah seen in Heaven.-MjS

I am a gay Christian. What do I do?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: I’m gay and am Christian. I have tried so hard to pray to God, counseling, etc. and nothing works! I still have gay tendencies! Why isn’t God healing me of my sickness? What do I do? I don’t want to go to Hell, I’m so scared!

When you asked Jesus to forgive you of your sins, you confessed you were a sinner and could not stop sinning. Remember that?

Remember when you closed your eyes and asked the Creator of the Universe to take over your life and lead you?

How did you feel back then when you realized God the Father so loved you He gave his only Son for you and promised he would never leave you nor forsake you?

What was it like the first time you realized you had the Holy Spirit to comfort you and to lead you as well as teach you how to read the Bible daily?

Was it fun when you read your first psalm, your first proverb, the book of John?

I can tell you for me it was just like yesterday and I have been saved for 35 years and I still sin.
I admit, I am getting better, but you know the bible says everyday we are sinners until the Lord Jesus takes this body I live in away.

When He does, we ALL will be perfect.

Till then, in time, day by day, God promised he would work on us till one day HE would present us, present you, to his Father faultless.

You will suffer, as he promised we all would, but one day, when it is time, your tendencies will be to rejoice,

That once you were lost, now you are found, was blind but now you see.

You will. You'll See. It just takes God time.

Michael James Stone

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Could this be it? Blair could become Europe’s first president~ Future Anti-Christ?

Blair could become Europe’s first president

Tony Blair was formally confirmed last night as the UK Government's official candidate to be Europe's first president - if he wants the job.

Baroness Kinnock, the ex-Labour MEP and now Gordon Brown's Europe Minister, made official the unofficial line that the Prime Minister's predecessor would get the backing of the government should he throw his hat in the ring.

However, the SNP claimed the Prime Minister would be making a huge mistake in backing a "warmonger" for the role, which the party said needed a unifier. "Putting forward Tony Blair for this job would be divisive and damaging for the EU institutions," claimed Ian Hudghton, the SNP MEP.

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The new role of president, expected to carry a pay and perks package of £200,000, is due to be created as part of reforms under the Lisbon Treaty, which has yet to come into force largely due to public resistance in Ireland, where voters face a second referendum on it in October.

The Whitehall line before yesterday was that talking of who would be EU president was premature when the prestigious post had not yet been created.

However, at a briefing in Strasbourg, Lady Kinnock declared: "The UK Government is supporting Tony Blair's candidature for President of the Council."

She insisted Mr Blair, 56, who is currently a Middle East envoy, had the "strength of character" and "status" to take on the job. Asked if the issue had been discussed with the ex-PM, she said: "It is the government's position. I am sure they would not do that without asking him."

She added: "People know who he is and he could step into this new role with a lot of respect and he would be generally welcomed."

Mr Brown's spokesman confirmed Lady Kinnock's statement, saying: "It's the Prime Minister's view that Tony Blair would be a good candidate for any big international job.

"If Tony Blair decides to stand as President of the European Council, once that job has been created, then, of course, we will support him."

William Hague for the Conservatives, who oppose the creation of an EU President, claimed Mr Blair, like any holder of the post, would be "likely to centralise power for themselves in Brussels and dominate national foreign policies.".

He added: "In the hands of an operator as ambitious as Tony Blair, that is a near certainty."

Last night, Mr Blair was keeping his options open. His spokesman said: "There is no campaign. As we have said, time and again on this, there is nothing to be a candidate for since the job doesn't actually exist."

If the post were to be created and if the ex-PM were to seek the post, then he is likely to run up against opposition from some of Britain's EU fellow member states.

His role in the Iraq war is likely to put off some heads of government. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, a onetime supporter of Mr Blair's, is now said to favour Felipe Gonzalez, the 67-year-old former Spanish Prime Minister. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, is also said to have cooled on Mr Blair's potential candidacy, but Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi has described the former premier as the "ideal personality" to be president.

Newsquest (Herald & Times) Limited.

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Future Anti-Christ?

WOW...,

1. The post has not been created "yet" but they are campaigning it.
2. All parties agree on a EU "President of the Council"
3. Tony Blair is strong fore front leader

With his personality and profiles recently done on PBS, History channel and several documentaries, it is almost biblically impossible to make President Obama ever be the anti-christ no matter what he does.

But the shoe size seems to fir Mr Blair very well....

Michael James Stone

More Scam by Goldman Sachs, Cap and Trade, ~Gerald Celente

Goldman Sachs Scams and Schemes Gerald Celente

Gerald Celente on Coast 2 Coast AM 14 july 2009

George Noory of Coast to Coast AM had Gerald Celente of trends research Institute for an hour of refreshing ideas , Gerald is a trends analyst he offered commentary on the economy, and noted that the chasm between rich and poor is wider in the US than all of the other industrialized nations. He called for a kind of renaissance: we don't need Wall St., we need Main St.; we don't need Walmart, we need Mom & Pop shops, we don't need agribusiness, we need family farms.
ex Goldman Sachs gangs still running the show Poulson Ruben Garry Gansler all ex Goldman Sachs they all interests and own shares in the companies that are going to be buying and selling carbon emissions thanks to the Cap and Trade scheme ...
The Gap between the rich and the poor is the widest in the United States than it is in any industrialized country in the world , we used to be the most egalitarian country in the world , it was the time when we did not have Wall Street as the major power , Main street was , we did not have Wall Mart we had Mom and Pops we were a nation of shop keepers and a nation of entrepreneurs now we have become a nation of shelf stalkers hamburger flippers and clerks , we do not need Wall street we need main street we do not need Wall Mart we need Mom and Pop 's again .....we do not agro business we need family farms .that's what America was at its strongest
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Emergent Church~Jack Kelley~update by Michael James Stone

Emergent Church

I have a question regarding the rapid growth of the emergent church and I wonder if you could explain this movement to me in more detail. I had always thought that the real Church would be the one falling away from the false teachings going on in organized religion today.

Q. Again thank you so much for your knowledge and faith.

I have a question regarding the rapid growth of the emergent church and I wonder if you could explain this movement to me in more detail. I had always thought that the real Church would be the one falling away from the false teachings going on in organized religion today. Not falling away from OUR FATHER, but false religion.Thanks again.

A. The Emergent Church is also known as the Seeker Friendly or Seeker Sensitive movement. It was begun a few years back as a way to bring more people to church on Sundays. The Gospel is de-emphasized in favor of a less threatening message with a focus on entertainment and socialization. The idea is to attract as many people as possible into a church setting thinking that some of them would want to learn more about Jesus on their own.

Although the movement has attracted a great many people who wouldn’t otherwise have gone to church, it’s criticized by traditionalists for not providing clear guidance into a born-again relationship. After all the point of Christianity, they say, isn’t to spend Sunday mornings in a building singing and laughing with a bunch of people, but to secure our place in eternity and learn how to live in a manner pleasing to God while we wait.

The phrase falling away comes from 2 Thes. 2:3 where it’s also called the rebellion. The Greek word it comes from is the one from which we get apostasy, which is the act of abandoning the truth. So it’s not the true church falling away from false doctrine, but the exact opposite.

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• Great Falling Away
• The Emergent Church
• Emergent Or Emerging?
• What Is The Emergent Church?
• Seeker Friendly Signs

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 20th, 2006 at 8:48 am and is filed under Ask a Bible Teacher.

"Sign of the Swine" Alert

It is easy to see "emergent" ideologies in anyone and everyone we disagree with. Whether it be the Jesus Movement when Hippies getting saved were called Cults and were so non-denominational and House or "home bible study" based that we who live it recall being called "Freaks" because we did not fit in the Traditional mold of Pews and Suits and Ties.

We even went barefoot to church....,

There is a false doctrine out there, making it's rounds as False doctrines do. They are meant to happen and do occur to test us, stregthen us, and cause us to reveal our nature:

1. Do We condemn or convince?

One of the biggest splits in the Early Jesus Movement was Vineyard and Calvary Chapel. In a simplified anlysis:

Calvary Chapel put the Word or Bible First over experience.
Vineyard put the Experience of the Holy Spirit First.

We who were there, could have fought tooth and nail to argue fine points of what God was doing, but God used Calvary Chapel......

AND

God used Vineyard.

Eventually God allowed the Toronto Blessing to occur.....it nearly destroyed Vineyard Ministries and aftermath is still around, an Experience that taught the leaders well.

I recall a wise statement Chuck Smith told me once, He said, we will watch and see what you are calling this new blessing and if the Holy Spirit is leading you, then you go, but as we are also Blessed by God, we will continue as God leads us.

I do not know WHO is in fact a bonafide off the wall account of a "seeker friendly" or a User Friendly, or a Emergent Church.

I do know the gospel and Jesus radically shook up established religion by saving the poor, sinners, destitute, prostitute and Tax collectors and he went where they were no matter where they were....

So I say the Doctrine may be off, but until YOU ACTUALLY see for yourself, or a factual texting of a sermon is presented:

1. Be careful who you label
2. Check your facts first
3. Pray First for the people and the ministry
4. Seek to Ask to speak and listen to the Pastor
5. Watch to see if people "are" getting saved.
6. See if they mention the name "Jesus"
   

We can resist the false spirits that are out there, and we can STAND against emerging ideas if they contradict scripture and we know why and how they do, but we do have to be careful as to individuals who often have no idea what you are talking about when you label them something they do not know.

Genuine Miracles actually occur at some of the biggest charlatans in Christendoms History because God will Judge the Minister, but he will Do as He chooses to do as He wills and not our will.

In the Winter, I will go to a Emergent Church and repost back.

On the Doctrine I can find fault, on the presentation, I ahve yet to see.

Michael James Stone

Israel to Nab Russian, Iranian Nukes ~ Bible Prophecy Today ~ I don't Think So Michael James Stone

Bible Predicts: Israel to Nab Russian, Iranian Nukes ~ Bible Prophecy Today

Israel to Nab Russian, Iranian Nukes ~ Bible Prophecy Today I Don't Think So~Michael James Stone

I have a real problem when impractical gets to impossible and their is enough good in the post to not promote a wild idea like using Nuclear Arsenals from Russia or Iran.

Israel isn't interested. Period.

It has and sells fissionable fuel to India (or has) and does in fact sell to countries arms and development.

The post above presumes a "weak and inferior" Israeli Nuclear arsenal that even experts are amazed at Israeli ingenuity for redeveloping and redeploying inferior American Technologies, then selling them back to us.

Israel does not need Russia Nukes or Iran fissionable material, period.

Another KEY PHRASE used in the post is the "RETHINK" which in Christian Prophecy Political Correctness is: We were wrong so now we want to change our mind.

Words like "if" , 'may be", possible, "many scholars" "some" "without getting into details" are all ways of avoiding accountability, responsibility, and factual Prophecy scholarship.

In other words if it was a Used Car, it would be "like new".

To show the difference in style here is my Response.

Israel will NOT nab or use Nuclear Fuel or nuclear weapons from Russia.

Notice I said "Nuclear" because WNB does sensationalize a lot so they added the Word nuclear to the prophecy because people know Ezekiel does describe a Nuclear type incident where God intervenes, but No where does it say Israel uses Gog or Magog's Nuclear Weapons....

Weapons or that which is left behind maybe, but try picking up pieces from a Nuclear Blast....I am sure it's usable to someone, just not Israel.

Israeli, as shocking to some as this is, DOES NOT WANT TO EXPAND.

Israel, wants Peace. Period.

When Persia and Gog, and Magog are defeated, Israel isn't going to go move in, they know better. They DON'T want another nations peoples or lands.

Europe might and certainly Fear of Israel might fall on the World to start a Crusade of anti-Israeli sentiment, or worse, a treaty to rebuild Israel where EU and UN comes in to HELP RESTORE Israel after the Russian Invasion....

Now that is plausible for Prophecy....especially as it would make a treaty to rebuild, restore and renew, Israel, after a huge onslaught, acceptable to the average Israeli.

The problem withe making vague posts like the one above is the reader is left with fear based on no facts rather than pointed to Jesus and reassurance God said it, how he said it, when he said it, they way he said it, and will fulfill what he said, the way he said, the way he chooses.

Listening or reading to posts like this I want maple syrup to go with the waffles because someone is serving waffles for breakfast to earn their bread and butter.

"PROVE ALL THINGS (especially prophecy authors, bloggers, posters, pundits)
Hold Fast that which is Good"

Michael James Stone

Senate Will Approve Sotomeyor~ Bible Prophecy Today follow up~Rush Limbaugh

Senate Will Approve Sotomeyor ~ Bible Prophecy Today Follow up by Rush Limbaugh

Follow Up to This By Rush Limbaugh:

As Hearings Kick Off, Democrats Focus on Sotomayor v. El Rushbo

July 13, 2009

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RUSH: All right, to the audio sound bites involving the hearings with Sonia Sotomayor. This is very important, actually. It's a lifetime appointment that will affect this nation for decades. Sotomayor will be involved in rulings that impact the next generation. And I don't care about flash polls. I don't care what Chuck-U Schumer says. What I care about is that Obama has nominated a radical who reflects his beliefs. Remember, the importance of these hearings. Like Lindsey Graham is out there saying, "Well, she's probably going to make it barring the meltdown." Well, then why do the hearings, Lindsey? Look, there's politics here. This woman... If done right -- and the Republicans got off to a good start today -- these hearings could help inform the country about who Barack Obama is because this woman, Sonia Sotomayor, is a reflection. She is a radical. She reflects the beliefs of Barack Obama, including his own racial attitudes. Conservatives and Republicans must not only expose her but they have to vote against her. This empathy business? Empathy is another word for activism. Sessions was great on that today. The truth is that a judge who uses empathy to rule is not empathetic. This is the interesting thing. Empathy means that you're able to feel the circumstances of other persons. It's not sympathy. You don't have to feel sorry for them. You empathize, you relate to them, you understand the hard times they've had in their lives. A judge who uses empathy to rule is not empathetic. Sotomayor is abusing her position to punish someone because of their race or their income, which has nothing to do with justice. This is perverse. "Empathy" means you understand who's been disadvantaged for whatever reasons and then you go after them, and you give them preference and weight. She's an affirmative action judge. Call it whatever you want. Now, the Democrats want to make this all about Sotomayor versus me. We have a spot, a new ad run by a liberal Latina organization called "Presente Action." They have a website called DenunciaRush.com. DenunciaRush.com and they're running these radio ads in Florida against John Mica and Adam Putnam. ANNOUNCER (translated from Spanish): Sonia Sotomayor is set to be the first Latina, and Puerto Rican, to serve on the US Supreme Court. It is a proud moment for our community. Yet Republican leaders insist on attacking her: RUSH ARCHIVE: She doesn't have any intellectual depth. She's an angry woman. She's a bigot. She's a racist. ANNOUNCER (translated from Spanish): That's Republican leader Rush Limbaugh calling Judge Sotomayor a racist and a bigot. It's insulting to all Latinos and Americans. We asked Republican Congressman John Mica if he would denounce Limbaugh's words. His response? Silence. Let's put a stop to the hate. Call Congressman Mica (R-FL) today. 407-657-8080. Tell him to condemn this language. RUSH: Must have hit home on that one if they're running ads out there trying to denounce -- they've got a whole website called DenunciaRush.com because I called her a "racista," a "racista and a bigot," and they're taking that... By the way, I sounded pretty good in that sound bite, don't you think? I'm the only one in English in the whole bite, but you get the drift here. The last line of this: "We asked Republican Congressman John Mica if he would denounce Limbaugh's words. His response? Silencio." Silence. So from that we were able to glean how Pat "Depends -- Leaky Depends" Leahy would open the hearings today. LEAHY: Unfortunately some have sought to twist her words and her record and to engage in partisan political attacks. Ideological pressure groups began attacking her even before the president made his selection. They then stepped up their attacks by threatening Republican senators who do not oppose her. That's not the American way, and that should not be the Senate way. RUSH: Jeez. LEAHY: I think we have a high responsibility to base any criticism we have on a fair and honest statement of the facts, and that nomination not be subjected to distortions of their records.

RUSH: This is just absurd. I mean, this is a guy that seeks to destroy every Republican nominee that comes up there. "It's not the American way. It's not the Senate way." Partisan political attacks? Here's the woman comes out and says a wise Latina would rule better than an average white guy. Her ruling was overturned, the Ricci firemen ruling in New Haven, Connecticut. During these hearings all the senators get their open statement. Sotomayor still hasn't said a word. She's just sitting there beaming, and not beaming when the Republicans are speaking (except for Lindsey Grahamnesty) and these blowhards are going through their opening statements and telling everybody how important they are. They're creating sound bites for their reelection efforts. Here's Russ Feingold. Now, Cookie, who put the audio sound bites together, is convinced Feingold was talking about me even though they don't even mention my name. FEINGOLD: I'm glad, however, that Judge So-to-may-or will finally have an opportunity to answer some of the unsubstantiated charges that have been made against her. One attack that I find particularly shocking is the suggestion that she will be biased against some litigants because of her racial and ethnic heritage. This charge is not based on anything in her judicial record, because there's absolutely nothing in the hundreds of opinions she has written to support it. That long record which is obviously the most relevant evidence we have to evaluate her, demonstrates a cautious and careful approach to judging. Instead, a few lines from a 2001 speech taken out of context, have prompted some to charge she's a racist. RUSH: Uh-huh. And she is. She's racist and she's bigoted. Look, if words still mean things, then she is. "A wise Latina would be far better" to make judgments because of her "rich background" as a wise Latina than your average white guy, an average white male. Now, we may not want to face the hard reality of the definitions of words but there's no other way to characterize what she's talking about. Also, he says here that there's nothing in her judicial record to support this. Well, what about being overturned all these times by the Supreme Court? What about the Ricci case that was just overturned? She didn't even delve into the constitutional issues of that case. She simply decided against the white firefighters. There's no question what the woman is. She reflects the racial anger, attitude that Obama has. They both have used that anger to advance themselves throughout their careers. Next up, it was Dianne Feinstein from San Francisco, and they had a little problem here in the middle of Feinstein. FEINSTEIN: Everything in your record to indicate you -- MAN: (shouting) LEAHY: (banging gavel) MAN: (shouting) LEAHY: The Senate...! The Senate will...! The -- the police will remove that man! Let me make very clear: There will be no outbursts allowed in this committee either for or against the nominee, either for or against any position that Senator Sessions or I or any other Senator will have. This is a hearing of the United States Senate. We will have order and we will have decorum. RUSH: Now, this bite -- because the screaming starts and the gavel pounds and Leahy starts yelling -- you can't hear everything that the abortion protester said, but what he said was, "Stop the genocide of unborn Latinos." He was a ponytail guy. He looked Hispanic, but I don't know. But he was screaming, "What about abortions? Stop the genocide of unborn Latinos," and that's when they jumped into gear and they got the guy out of there. A little fireworks early on. Here's Jeff Sessions laying out what the hearing is all about. SESSIONS: Our legal system is at a dangerous crossroads. Down one path is a traditional American system so admired around the world where judges impartially apply the law to the facts without regard to personal views. This is the compassionate system because it's the fair system. In the American legal system courts do not make law or set policy, because allowing unelected officials to make law will strike at the heart of our democracy. Down the other path lies a Brave New World where words have no true meaning, and judges are free to decide what facts they choose to see. In this world, a judge is free to push his or her own political or social agenda. I reject that view and Americans reject that view. RUSH: That's Jeff Sessions, the Republican leader on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was good, and all that followed. They were all that followed. They're pretty unified with all this. Before we go to the break, he was so good. The State-Run Media had to rebut Sessions, and what we have here, this is Matthews. Chrissy! Chris Matthews talking with Richard Wolffe of Newsweek. "This fight between Republicans, Democrats today across the board, you're saying," O wise one?

WOLFFE: It's not just about Sotomayor. This is a proxy battle about President Obama. Does he represent core American values? Can you trust his woooord? Is he in league with some foreign power? This is codeword for stuff that we all know circulates on the extreme of the conservative movement. This is -- MATTHEWS: That somehow a world government is going to come into Nebraska -- WOLFFE: (clucking) MATTHEWS: -- or in Idaho and take away your guns and then take you away. WOLFEE: Take away -- or take away your private property for a shopping mall. RUSH: I think that happened not in Nebraska. It happened in New London, Connecticut, did it not? Liberal enclave, did it not? Did not the Supreme Court take away someone's home to build a shopping mall that has not been built? All right. Why would people be worried it could happen to them if it's already happened in New London, Connecticut? Why would people be worried about that? Is that paranoia? Is that extremism? All right, quick time-out. We're coming back. We've got more. Stay with us. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: we have crashed, ladies and gentlemen, we have crashed DenunciaRush.com. They are at the moment finito. DenunciaRush has been crashed. So Russ Feingold, a couple of words that Sonia Sotomayor said taken out of context. You mean like Macaca? George Allen saying Macaca? We heard about that for weeks and months as the Washington Post and the Democrats sought to destroy Allen. He'd been a congressman, a governor, and a senator. Sotomayor's comments are much worse than Macaca, and they're frequent, and they are long held. You see how this race thing works, folks. If you're a liberal nothing you say can be held against you. And then Richard Wolffe, the British guy in the last sound bite, (muttering) "Take private property in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and open a shopping mall." Well, this is a guy that has written a kiss-up book on Obama, is a failure. Renegade is the book, number 217 on Amazon. Nobody is buying Richard Wolffe's book and nobody is reading it. What do you think the G8 cap and trade and all the rest is about, Richard, you dunce? It's about the transference of wealth. It's about the redistribution of wealth. It is about the expansion of government and the loss of individual liberty. What do you think Kyoto and its success are all about? These libs make no sense. They talk about being global citizens and sophisticated and urbane. When you call 'em on it then they call you a nut. Richard Wolffe, yeah, it's Richard Wolffe who wrote the Obama book, Renegade, number 217 on Amazon. I don't know what it is in Coeur d'Alene, Iowa. 217. I don't know what it is in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. It was just a slip of the tongue. Coming up, Colin Powell, this was last Sunday when I was already on the golf trip. But we told you we had the preview of what he was going to say because CNN was using it to promote their Sunday show, State of the Union, and he chimed in on me and called me a nonelected official, a problem for the Republican Party and so forth.

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Read the Background Material...

• The Hill: Sessions Says Sotomayor 'Prejudiced' • Washington Times: Graham: Sotomayor Confirmation Likely Unless 'Meltdown' • Reuters: Republicans Fight Obama Supreme Court Choice • American Thinker: What Ricci Says About Sotomayor - and Obama

*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time. ------------ The Answer for a Christian is simple: Pray for Sotomayor. Whether appointed or not is irrelevant to God, but her salvation is. We are not called to fix the World or Save the Supreme Court, We are told to change the heart of man and the World would conform. The only way.....The ABSOLUTE only way to change the heart of Men in politics, supreme court, or next door is Jesus. Michael James Stone

Arab Jews~Tamar Yonah & Follow up by Michael James Stone

Arab Jews

Tammuz 7, 5769, 6/29/2009

Some are calling them Jewish Palestinians. The fact is, that there are Arabs today who are living in Israel and the Palestinian Authority who are outwardly Moslem, but claim they are really Jewish.

"Up to 85 percent of the Arabs living between Jordan and the sea are
Jews in one way or another, and at least the half of them know it." says Tsvi Misinai, a Researcher & Hi-Tech entrepreneur who is working on a unique project to - in his words- try to bring peace to Israel.

"In 1012, about a thousand years ago, there was a decree here [in the Land of Israel] by the Fatimid Khalif, called El-Hakim. And the decree stated that whoever is not converting to Islam has to leave the country. At that time, the majority of the Christians left, and the population that remained here was mainly the people of Israel [Jews], that had to convert to Islam externally, but at home, they had been like Marranos (anusim) [the Jews from Spain who were forced to convert to Christianity) they continued with [their] Judaism." . Misinai shared this information that few people know about, on Israel National Radio's Weekend Edition.

Misinai, and the team he works with, including Arabs themselves, are on a mission trying to bring peace to Israel through a one-state/nation solution. Educating Arabs that they most likely stemmed from Jews and then integrating them into society as Jews (after proper conversion) will join these lost sheep back to their true heritage. It is in this way that Misinai believes the fighting can stop and peace can begin.

This unique and questionable project to bring peace between the Arabs and the Jews is called, "The Engagement": The Roots and Solution to the Problem in the Holy Land.

Misinai works visiting Arabs in several villages in Israel. He has witnessed many Jewish customs imbedded in these (today) Muslim Arab families. Jewish customs such as the way they bake bread and taking [hafrashat challah] a separation of dough, and signs of a mezzuzah on their door posts [that he says were removed because of Islamic hostility], Jewish slaughtering rituals, eating matzah on Passover, and tearing their shirts and mourning for 7 days after the death of a family member, are found practiced in certain Arab villages. "What we are finding is only in the minority of the population, about 200,000 people." Misinai stated in the interview. "Most of them today are secular, and they just know their story from grandfather to grandchild, which is given when the old person is close to his death, and is telling the truth, because this is the last time that he can." -he described, similar to how the Jews from Spain would reveal their Jewish roots to their children when on their death bed.

Misinai describes himself as a secular Israeli but when delving deeper, he admits to a deep belief in G-d and even attempts at keeping many mitzvoth or commandments.

Tsvi Misinai explains that at least half of the Arabs in Israel know somewhat of their Jewish roots. "Since many Arab clans marry only within themselves, their own villages, some admit in interviews that they consider themselves part of the Jewish nation. They even take pride in the fact that they are part of the Israelite nation since they have not married 'out' throughout the ages. After we inform them that they are Jews de facto, we will be successful in bringing them back to the Jewish nation. They will take courses in Hebrew, Judaism, Torah and learn about their history, and how they were coerced to accept Islam. It is in this way that these Arabs in Israel can be prepared for conversion. They will eventually take an oath that they are not Arabs, but rather, Jews or Israelis, for not all of them are from the tribe of Judah, and within 40 years, we will return the majority of them to Jewish awareness. Whoever is not Muslim will be recognized as a kosher Jew, as they are already Jews."

Misinai continues that just as they are religious or secular today, they will accept Judaism instead of Islam. "If I, as a secular individual am considered a kosher Jew, there is no reason to force them to be religious, for they are Jews just as I am. We were one people and we will return to being one people."

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The above is posted as a follow up to this Post:

Thursday, July 9, 2009

You a Jew?: Are the Palestinians Also Jews? ~ Bible Prophecy Today

Are the Palestinians Also Jews? ~ Bible Prophecy Today



The Chassidic Rebbe Schneersohn started a Holy War so to speak when He was challenged to answer the most important question a Jew asks another Jew:

You a Jew?

The fight and the fancy has gone on for centuries but the fact of this man's reply was perfect:

A Jew is a Jew.

There are Rabbinic Courts, Chassidic Interpretations, Reform Jews, Applications, Israeli Supreme Court decisions and a host of WANNA BE's as well as Replacement Theologies to shake a stick at and say:

You a Jew? Oy mein gott!!!!!

From Russian deceptions (oh come on now, we know not all Jews who immigrated to Israel from Russia WERE Jews) to Ethiopia, Sudan and some American Indian Fringe Elements.........

EVERYONE WANTS to be a Jew.

ARE YOU NUTS?........Dershtikt zolstu veren!!!

When the Messianic Movement got really Messy,

ALL Jews seeemed to come from Texas and Say : Yah Yah.

The yo-yo's would come out and you could see people like me going....uh huh...sure...no problem....you a jew?....nice....no problem....you say it's yah yah.........no problem....you say you are the lost tribe....no problem....

Whistling with the Yo Yo going UP and Down....Up and Down, I could tell watching the money there were cashing it on it was for them..........No Problem...

So, you see the Problem?

As long as there is no problem, no pogrom, no persecution, no adversity, no God to deal with and have deal with you.......it was fun for people to WANT TO BE A JEW.

People want the Bennie's and i don't mean steinberg, the benefits of being a Jew without the cost....,

Such a Deal.........., I should be so lucky.............., I could have been a Gentile.........,we have Jews who would just as easily say could you pick someone else for awhile God , and others saying : Pick Me, Pick me,

Or Bless Me Bless Me, I am not tooo sure sometimes......,

At any rate the latest craziness is paying to prove your ancestor is a genetic match for all the not so few numbers of people who lived previously in a genetic pool area of the Middle East.

Do you know How Many People tell me they are ANCIENT ISRAELITES? Some blood bank out there is getting rich......

I say we Jews decide to be Gentiles and all the Gentiles in the World BE JEWS....

Hmmmmm....Might work out....ah God...Can I talk to for a minute?

Michael James Stone

If Jesus loves me, he won’t torture me forever for not believing that he exists?

Question posted on Yahoo! Answers: If Jesus loves me, he won’t torture me forever for not believing that he exists?

I mean, how can you say you love someone but then turn around and torture them forever, what type of love as that then?

It is not torture, it is salvation you go to Hell.

In your present condition, if you went to heaven, God as a Consuming Fire, would be so bright, so Holy, so "full" of godliness, You, as Sinner, would be consumed.

Imagine you are a matchstick.

Hold up a candle in one hand and take you, as the matchstick and slowly move it towarsd the flame of the candle.

From a distance, you are safe, closer you ignite.

You are that matchstick.

Now take another match stick, me, and dip me in oil, move me close to the candle, use the right oil and you can even see me light up, but the oil is consumed not me, the matchstick.

As long as the Oil is covering the matchstick, it is not consumed.

That is God.

If God took you to heaven the way you are, you would choose Hell over heaven.

Science has proven the Body you are in, the soul that need "input" from senses, if deprived of all sensory input, screams in agony as the mind, the nerves, the soul, all wants input.

It burns for input from the place it was created: Creation.

TO preserve you from being consumed by God, you have to get as far from his nature, a consuming fire, as possible. You have to literally find a place God isn't, or has so removed his godliness you can exist with out consumption.

Hell is that: It wasn't designed for you, but if you go there, it was done as mercy not hate. You get what you ultimately want, but should have known better.

Hell was designed for angels, not men.

Michael James Stone

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What is salvation? What is the Christian doctrine of salvation?

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What is salvation? What is the Christian doctrine of salvation?

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Question: "What is salvation? What is the Christian doctrine of salvation?"

Answer: Salvation is deliverance from danger or suffering. To save is to deliver or protect. The word carries the idea of victory, health, or preservation. Sometimes, the Bible uses the words saved or salvation to refer to temporal, physical deliverance, such as Paul’s deliverance from prison (Philippians 1:19).

More often, the word “salvation” concerns an eternal, spiritual deliverance. When Paul told the Philippian jailer what he must do to be saved, he was referring to the jailer’s eternal destiny (Acts 16:30-31). Jesus equated being saved with entering the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24-25).

What are we saved from? In the Christian doctrine of salvation, we are saved from “wrath,” that is, from God’s judgment of sin (Romans 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9). Our sin has separated us from God, and the consequence of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Biblical salvation refers to our deliverance from the consequence of sin and therefore involves the removal of sin.

Who does the saving? Only God can remove sin and deliver us from sin’s penalty (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 3:5).

How does God save? In the Christian doctrine of salvation, God has rescued us through Christ (John 3:17). Specifically, it was Jesus’ death on the cross and subsequent resurrection that achieved our salvation (Romans 5:10; Ephesians 1:7). Scripture is clear that salvation is the gracious, undeserved gift of God (Ephesians 2:5, 8) and is only available through faith in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12).

How do we receive salvation? We are saved by faith. First, we must hear the gospel—the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection (Ephesians 1:13). Then, we must believe—fully trust the Lord Jesus (Romans 1:16). This involves repentance, a changing of mind about sin and Christ (Acts 3:19), and calling on the name of the Lord (Romans 10:9-10, 13).

A definition of the Christian doctrine of salvation would be “The deliverance, by the grace of God, from eternal punishment for sin which is granted to those who accept by faith God’s conditions of repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus.” Salvation is available in Jesus alone (John 14:6; Acts 4:12) and is dependent on God alone for provision, assurance, and security.

Recommended Resource: Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification by R.C. Sproul.

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OK...Call me stupid but if I Knew all that before I got "saved" I would never have asked Jesus into my life.

I would have run as far and as fast from you if you told m e that as I could.

It just wouldn't make sense, not would I care to try to figure it out.

But tell me I am going to Hell because God said it, then tell me I can avoid Going to Hell because God said it, then tell me I can talk to God because God said it, and tell me How to find out Waht God said...

Well I'm no idiot....I'll go ask God if He said it.

Ya don't give babies Prime Rib, so if you're a mother nursing a child, which works better if your breast feeding....,

Scaring the Snot out of New Born Babe?

Or Loving them to nurse and fall asleep in yours?

You can show me the Beef, like above,

But Show Me the Love, and I WILL get saved.

Michael James Stone