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		<title>EVIL, WHO CREATED IT? DID GOD CREATE EVIL?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brother Tom Many Atheist and Christian&#8217;s alike have not really thought out the argument that since God created everything, He is responsible for the creation of evil. So lets take a few minutes here and I will get the ball rolling. Of course this is my own opinion on the subject and you are welcome [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=932&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">By Brother Tom</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Many Atheist and Christian&#8217;s alike have not really thought out the argument that since God created everything, He is responsible for the creation of evil. So lets take a few minutes here and I will get the ball rolling. Of course this is my own opinion on the subject and you are welcome to give you own as well. So here we go&#8230; </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">The  word &#8220;Evil&#8221; is a word that we use to describe certain things, events, or happenings to us (most of which are caused by other people) or to others because we are Evil or someone did an Evil thing to us personally, &#8220;they are an evil person.&#8221; Why do we say that, because they did something, some kind of action, that warranted the comment?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Who created it? Who invented Evil? What exactly is it? These could be some questions that may come up in discussion with your kids in a bible study or just talking around the office break room at the office. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">In reality, &#8220;Evil&#8221; is not a physically created thing at all and, therefore, does not fall within the realm of something <em>created </em>by God. Evil is not a created thing like a horse or a fish, that God created in the Beginning. It is not in the list of things that God created in the first week of Creation. So lets take a better look at this, thing or invention or condition or maybe a personality persona or flaw in ones character. Who created it, if God didn&#8217;t? Now we have something to work with. We have provided enough questions to work with here. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Some folks will say that God created Evil because he created everything in the first place. I think their argument is fundamentally flawed, for the following reasons:  </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">That God Himself Created Evil. This statement I find to be not true or flawed. And here is why. Evil is <em>allowed</em> by God so that free Will Beings can choose between good (i.e., God) or evil (absence of God) in the Beginning. We look back to the Cross, and those before the Cross were looking forward, since Adam, for the Messiah. We all will have an opportunity to choose Christ as our Savior. All mankind will have that choice, and rightly so, thanks to the Work of Christ Jesus. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Without evil, it is not possible to choose between good and evil, and the universe would have no ultimate purpose. The Tree of the knowledge of the Difference between Good and Evil, gave Adam and Eve the ability of being able to know both fully, making them aware of the Differences. God is Good and Evil is the Absence of God in my opinion. God wanted mankind to know the difference so they would understand who He was or is&#8230;Love! He is present with Man, inside Him. He is that warm feeling, that comfort and pleasant joy of completeness man has when God is in him, living in him- a peace comes over a person when God(The Holy Spirit and Jesus also) comes in and makes their Abode within a person. <span id="more-932"></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">When Man was created, He met His Creator. He knew them(let us make Man in OUR own Image-Father, Son and Holy Spirit) very well. Man was and is today the house of God, thanks to the redemptive work of Christ Jesus. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">In Genesis-Now that he has lost that relationship because of his Willful Sin, Adam now understands evil and what it means to him and his wife who also knows the differences now&#8230;They built a barrier between themselves and God, their Creator when they didn&#8217;t Believe God, when they didn&#8217;t heed the warning. Adam brought Sin (missing the mark, a Archery term, meaning not hitting the bullseye-failing God&#8217;s Standards as a Truthful, Honest, Loving man) and bought death into the World.  Man found that God, being missing from his life, is just not exceptable. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Adam clearly knew he did wrong in the site of his Creator. He was now separated from his Creator and wanted very much to get back in His graces and his Rest, the Garden of Eden. Now that the Creator is no longer living within Man, Adam will die, corrode, run down like a weak battery. Evil has now entered into the Creation-the Physical and Spiritual Universes.  Evil could be define as the lack of God in mankind, causing man to do Evil which if God was in him, would cause Good or make him Good. Like Cold is the absence of Heat. Cold does not exist. its just a word that we use to discribe the absence of heat.  </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Evil being the absence of God in the Spirit of man or the Fallen Angels. Evil is the lack of love that is God in the situation. To hate another person is lacking love for that person, is it not? Despise means to &#8220;look down&#8221; on someone. To have contempt for them. In all cases, we would lack Love for someone. This creates evil, evil thoughts, evil actions, evil premise, Just plain evil. Evil describes the lack of love for someone or something. People who do Evil or are Evil, in most cases I found, lack Love for others in some way, form or action. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Another example could be this:  If I had bugs in my bed, in my face or lunch box uninvited I would want to destroy them. That would be justified in my book for their destruction immediately. Justified punishment, or removal instantly. They were not wanted in those places. But if they were in the garden or in the forest, they would not partake of my judgment. I would not feel ill toward them, despise them, or hate them. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, messing with the wrong person. So they got their just fruits. All of a sudden they found something new in their life&#8230;Judgment! Righteous judgment in my personal opinion. I am working out some ideas and malling over this subject of Evil here. Was it Evil of me to not want the bugs in my face of lunch box? I think not. But if I was to go out of my way to kill them in the forest where they would not harm me or hurt someone. That could be counted as Evil. A wrongful act or conduct. I am not sure if this is a good example but it will do for now. Evil thinking or doing is produced by man and not by God. It is created in us by us. What God does is Judgment because of unrighteousness, Righteous Judgment or justified Judgment. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Evil is morally wrong or Bad conduct. I would say, lacking Goodness or God in their lives or in their person. Lacking Love does not mean someone is Evil or morally wrong or even Bad. But it will come into fruitation soon if they continue in this condition. To not feel for others, or love, could create evil. We can create evil, by doing harm to someone or something. Evil is an act, or in some cases, the potential of evil can cause a feeling of evil presents. Evil is developed in the mind of a person. It is a thought that becomes an act. Love is the same. It is a thought that becomes an action, giving evidence of love. Love brings sacrifice in some way into the situation. Evil brings the absence of love into situations. Man&#8217;s mind creates both. God/Love commands that we love one another. It is not an emotional action or reaction. It is a willful act of a true Christian Believer. Evil is natural to form in the mind of man from birth, because of our own sin nature. We create Evil, not God. He judges it, but does not create it. He allows it to exist in order to teach us that we can not live without Him in us. We need Him and He wants us to know it. Each one of us human beings much discover our need for our Creator God to be in us or our lives are dead, are wasted, in vain. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Satan the Devil created Lies, He is said in the Bible to be the father of lies. By his lies he fooled Eve into eating the fruit that was their demise. Adam on the other hand, knowingly and willfully ate the fruit that the Creator warned about. God hates lies. Lies is the untruth. Lies are produced or created by those that speak them. They can be carried on from one to another without the knowledge of the speakers, that they are in fact lies(like Traditions of men that are based on lies of the past). So they are not liars, they are just an unknowing instrument of a lie. Satan being the father of them, meaning creator of them, does not mean he speaks all of them. Man does a great job of telling lies or falsehoods like a bad habit all by himself. Liars can be considered Evildoers. God does not like Evildoers. and His Justice will prevail over them. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">My father always told me the punishment for liars is that they can not believe others when they are telling the truth. They think every one is the same as them, liars! So they have a hard time in life, always thinking that it is normal to lie all the time. In fact most people are natural speakers of the truth according to scientists.  Your body gives you away when you try to lie. It is not natural for people to lie.  Their inter being, phyiscally doesn&#8217;t like to lie. But those that lie on a regular basis get use to doing it, and soon believe their own lies as part of their punishment as well. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Evildoing and Lying are natural to those that lack love for others. They are in most cases lovers of themselves. And live in a world of fantasy and think the rest of the world is just like them. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">So Evil was not created by God, but by man and the Devil. The creator of lies is the Devil Satan, a fallen Angel. He told the first Lie as it is recorded in Genesis. Since that day, a battle began where lies and truth are in conflict. Jesus Christ reintroduced Truth back into the Creation. Now once again, Mankind can make a free choice to choose God or not. To believe Him or not. We are so weak in our sin nature that alone we can not find Him, So He calls us, will you answer  your cell phone? Can you see it is him, on your caller I.D. will answer the call?  He loves you and wants you to be with him. He knocks on your door, will you answer it, and invite Him to sup with you? His yoke is light, His love is Great. His Mercy is wonderful, His Grace is bountiful. Your father Abba awaits you. Take a moment and ask Him to come into your life and take charge of it. Agree with Him, that you are a sinner and are in need of a Savior. You are a lost soul looking for His Love. He gives it freely to those that will seek Him and love His son the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith comes by hearing, your faith is counted as righteousness. Pray and Seek His face. Bend the knee and cry out to your Lord and Savior Jesus(Yeshua). Ask for His forgiveness and He is faithful to do it. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Good is the opposite of Evil. They are opposites as God is from Man at this point in time. Man and God were at War, until Christ Jesus came and made peace between mankind and God.  One is of God and the other is of Mankind. We must learn the differences of these two and choose Good, which is God. God is Good, He is what is right, what is true, He is love. He gives it to us freely, all we have to do is Believe Him and trust Him. Will you not take that step of trusting God, your Creator to be your Savior?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">See some examples in the Scriptures of Evil and how God deals with it:  </span></p>
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For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: &#8220;I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.&#8221; (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Romans%209.17" target="_blank">Romans 9:17</a></em>) The evil that Pharaoh perpetrated against the Jews was the means by which God demonstrated His power to His people.<br />
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you My power and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Exodus%209.16" target="_blank">Exodus 9:16</a></em>)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Psalm%2034.14" target="_blank">Psalm 34:14</a></em>)<br />
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Ecclesiastes%2012.14" target="_blank">Ecclesiastes 12:14</a></em>)<br />
Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Amos%205.14" target="_blank">Amos 5:14</a></em>)<br />
&#8230;those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/John%205.29" target="_blank">John 5:29</a></em>)<br />
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Romans%2012.9" target="_blank">Romans 12:9</a></em>)<br />
But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/Hebrews%205.14" target="_blank">Hebrews 5:14</a></em>)<br />
He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/1%20Peter%203.11" target="_blank">1 Peter 3:11</a></em>)<br />
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. (<em><a href="http://bible.logos.com/passage/nasb/3%20John%201.11" target="_blank">3 John 1:11</a></em>)</span></li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below are Ten major New Testament proofs, which completely disprove the claim that Peter was in Rome from the time of Claudius until Nero. These Biblical points speak for themselves and ANY ONE of them is sufficient to prove the ridiculousness of the Catholic claim. Notice what God tells us! The truth IS conclusive! PROOF ONE: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=926&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Below are Ten major New Testament proofs, which completely disprove the claim that Peter was in Rome from the time of Claudius until Nero. These Biblical points speak for themselves and ANY ONE of them is sufficient to prove the ridiculousness of the Catholic claim. Notice what God tells us! <strong>The truth IS conclusive!</strong></p>
<p><strong>PROOF ONE:</strong></p>
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<ul>We should consider Christ&#8217;s commission to Peter. This is often very embarrassing to Catholics, because Christ commissioned Peter to become chief minister to the</ul>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">CIRCUMCISED, not to uncircumcised Gentiles. </span></p>
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<ul>&#8220;The gospel of the CIRCUMCISION was unto Peter; (For He that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)&#8221; (Gal. 2:7-8). Here we have it in the clearest of language. It was Paul, NOT Peter, who was commissioned to be the chief Apostle to the Gentiles. And who was it that wrote the Epistle to the ROMANS? It certainly WASN&#8217;T Peter! &#8220;And when James, Cephas [Peter], and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace [i.e., the gift or office] that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision&#8221; (Gal. 2:9). Paul further mentioned his special office as the Gentile Apostle in II Timothy 1:11: &#8220;Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.&#8221;</ul>
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<p><strong>PETER is NOWHERE called the Apostle to the Gentiles!</strong></p>
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<ul> This precludes him from going to Rome to become the head of a Gentile community.</ul>
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<p><strong>PROOF TWO:</strong><br />
Paul specifically told the Gentile Romans that HE had been chosen to be their Apostle, not Peter. &#8220;I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable&#8221; (Rom. 15:16). How clear! Paul had the direct charge from Christ in this matter. He even further relates in Romans 15:18 that it was Christ who had chosen him &#8220;to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed.&#8221; <strong>PAUL Established The Only TRUE Church at Rome.</strong></p>
<p><strong>PROOF THREE:</strong><br />
We are told by Paul himself that it was <span style="text-decoration:underline;">he &#8212; not Peter</span> -who was going to officially found the Roman Church. &#8220;I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established&#8221; (Rom. 1:11). Amazing! The Church at Rome had not been ESTABLISHED officially even by 55 or 56 A.D. <strong>However, the Roman Church would have us believe that Peter had done this some ten years before &#8212; in the reign of Claudius. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">What nonsense!</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>PROOF FOUR:</strong><br />
We find Paul not only wanting to establish the Church at Rome, but he emphatically tells us that his policy was NEVER to build upon another man&#8217;s foundation. &#8220;Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, LEST I SHOULD BUILD UPON ANOTHER MAN&#8217;S FOUNDATION&#8221;(Rom. 15:20). If Peter had &#8220;founded&#8221; the Roman Church some ten years before this statement, this represents a real affront to Peter. <strong>This statement alone is proof that Peter had never been in Rome before this time to &#8220;found&#8221; any church</strong> – because Peter was <span style="text-decoration:underline;">not in Rome.</span></p>
<p><strong>PROOF FIVE:</strong><br />
At the end of Paul&#8217;s Epistle to the Romans he greets no fewer than 28 different individuals, but never mentions Peter once! See Romans 16 &#8211;read the whole chapter! Remember, Paul greeted these people in 55 or 56 A.D. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Why didn&#8217;t he mention Peter? &#8212; Peter simply wasn&#8217;t there!</span></p>
<p><strong>PROOF SIX:</strong><br />
Some four years after Paul wrote Romans, he was conveyed as a prisoner to Rome in order to stand trial before Caesar. When the Christian community in Rome heard of Paul&#8217;s arrival, they all went to meet him. &#8220;When THE brethren [of Rome] heard of us, they came to meet us&#8221; (Acts 28:15). Again, there is not a single mention of Peter among them. This would have been extraordinary had Peter been in Rome, for <strong>Luke always mentions by name important Apostles</strong> in his narration of Acts. <span style="text-decoration:underline;">But he says nothing of Peter&#8217;s meeting with Paul. Why? Because Peter was not in Rome!</span></p>
<p><strong>PROOF SEVEN:</strong><br />
When Paul finally arrived at Rome, the first thing he did was to summon &#8220;the chief of the Jews together&#8221; (Acts 28:17) to whom he &#8220;expounded and testified the kingdom of God&#8221; (Verse 23). But what is amazing is that these chief Jewish elders claimed they knew very little even about the basic teachings of Christ. All they knew was that &#8220;as concerning this sect, we know that everywhere it is spoken against&#8221; (Verse 22). Then Paul began to explain to them the basic teachings of Christ on the Kingdom of God. Some believed &#8212; the majority didn&#8217;t. <strong>Now, what does all this mean? It means that if Peter, who was himself a strongly partisan Jew, had been preaching constantly in Rome for 14 long years before this time, AND WAS STILL THERE &#8212; how could these Jewish leaders have known so little about even the basic truths of Christianity?</strong> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">This again is clear proof Peter had not been in Rome prior to 59 A.D.</span> There is no mention of Peter in Paul&#8217;s Letters.</p>
<p><strong>PROOF EIGHT:</strong><br />
After the rejection of the Jewish elders, Paul remained in his own hired house for two years. During that time he wrote Epistles to the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians, Philemon, and to the Hebrews. And while Paul mentions others as being in Rome during that period, he nowhere mentions Peter. The obvious reason is &#8212; the Apostle to the circumcision wasn&#8217;t there!</p>
<p><strong>PROOF NINE:</strong><br />
With the expiration of Paul&#8217;s two year&#8217;s imprisonment, he was released. But about four years later (near 65 A.D.), he was again sent back a prisoner to Rome. This time he had to appear before the throne of Caesar and was sentenced to die. Paul describes these circumstances at length in II Timothy. In regard to his trial, notice what Paul said in II Timothy 4:16. &#8220;At my first answer no man stood with me, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">but all men [in Rome] forsook me</span>: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.&#8221; This means, if we believe the Romanist Church, that <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Peter forsook Paul</span>, for they tell us Peter was very much present at Rome during this time! Peter thrice denied Christ, but that was before he was indwelt by the Spirit at Pentecost. <strong>To believe that Peter was in Rome during Paul&#8217;s trial, and FORSOOK Paul as he forsook Christ,</strong> is absolutely untenable. Peter did not forsake Paul; PETER WAS NOT IN ROME.</p>
<p><strong>PROOF TEN:</strong><br />
The Apostle Paul distinctly informs us that Peter was not in Rome in 65 A.D. &#8212; even though The Romanist Church says he was. Paul said: &#8220;Only Luke is with me&#8221; (II Tim. 4:11). The truth becomes very plain. Paul wrote TO Rome; he had been IN Rome; and at the end wrote at least six epistles FROM Rome; and not only does he NEVER mention Peter, but at the last moment says: &#8220;Only Luke is with me.&#8221; Peter, therefore, was never Bishop of Rome!</p>
<p>Near 45 A.D., we find Peter being cast into prison at Jerusalem (Acts 12:3, 4). In 49 A.D., he was still in Jerusalem, this time attending the Jerusalem Council. About 51 A.D., he was in Antioch of Syria where he got into differences with Paul because he wouldn&#8217;t sit or eat with Gentiles. Strange that the &#8220;Roman bishop&#8221; would have nothing to do with Gentiles in 51 A.D.! Later in about 66 A.D., we find him in the city of Babylon among the Jews (I Pet. 5:13). Remember that Peter was the Apostle to the CIRCUMCISED. <strong>Why was he in Babylon? Because history shows that there were as many Jews in the Mesopotamian areas in Christ&#8217;s time as there were in Palestine. It is no wonder we find him in the East…. scholars say Peter&#8217;s writings are strongly Aramaic in flavor, the type of Aramaic spoken in Babylon. Peter was accustomed to their Eastern dialect.</strong></p>
<p>At the times the Romanists believe Peter was in Rome, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Bible clearly shows he was elsewhere</span>. There are, of course, many supposed historical accounts of Peter in Rome &#8212; but none of them are first-hand accounts, and none of them should be put above the many accounts of The Bible.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sword_of_the_spirit.tripod.com/" target="_blank">The Sword of the Spirit: On the Apostles Peter and Paul</a></strong></p>
<ul>THE VATICANUS &#8212; Keller ought to have better logic to know that this Peter buried in this cemetery, of all places, could NOT be the Apostle Peter. In the first place, Peter was a Jew, and they had to be buried in their own cemeteries. This is quite a big step from not even being able to eat with gentiles to be buried is the special cemeteries reserved for the chief pagans and self-proclaimed Gods or &#8220;Pators&#8221;. And even if by a happen-chance a Jew could be buried in a Roman cemetery, it is most unlikely that a Jew &#8212; especially one who attacked the Roman religion as the Apostle Peter did &#8212; would ever have been allowed into the most holy of pagan cemeteries! This cemetery was reserved for prophets, soothsayers and the great ones of pagan Rome. I personally think that the apostle Peter would not be caught dead in a pagan cemetery.</ul>
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<p><strong>&#8220;There is a hundred times more evidence that Peter was buried in Jerusalem than in Rome.&#8221;</strong> <em>~~ Rev. Father J.T. Milik, Roman Catholic Priest and archaeologist</em></p>
<p><big><big><big><strong>&#8220;Well, we will have to make some changes&#8230; but for the time being, keep this thing quiet.&#8221;</strong></big></big></big> <em>~~ Pope Pius XII, the Bishop of Rome</em></p>
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		<title>Law vs. The Efforts of Jesus Christ</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brother Tom Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says,     &#8230;&#8221;Now that the coming of God&#8217;s kingdom is proclaimed, then, the measure by which God measures is no longer the Law or the achievement of legal works (cf. the metaphors of the old coat and wine skins in Mark 2:21 f.).  But this changed situation and age is wholly bound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=924&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>By Brother Tom</p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says, </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> &#8230;&#8221;Now that the coming of God&#8217;s kingdom is proclaimed, then, <strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">the measure by which God measures is no longer the Law </span></em></strong>or the achievement of legal works (cf. the metaphors of the old coat and wine skins in Mark 2:21 f.).  But this changed situation and age is wholly bound up with the word and person of Him who brings it. Mark 2:21 itself shows this, for the occasion of the sayings is the contrast between the disciples of Jesus and those of John. Inasmuch as the disciples belong to Jesus they belong to the new age. This means that in the Synoptists the freedom of Jesus vis-a&#8221;-vis the Law is Messianically and Christologically grounded (cf. Luke 2:41 ff.). In Matt 17:24 ff. Jesus, as the Son, is free from the Law even though He keeps it.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Jesus, then, bases the relation of men to God on their relation to Himself and to the lordship of God which comes in Him. His specific invitation as the One who pardons is to sinners. <strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">This means that He firmly negates the Law</span></em></strong> in so far as it stands as a mediator between God and man. He firmly negates the righteousness of the Law. <strong><em><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Law is forced out</span></em></strong> of its key position by the person of Jesus Himself.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">(from Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Copyright © 1972-1989 By Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. All rights reserved.)&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"><strong>Source:</strong>  Dictionary quote from a portion of an Email by Bro Don Childs, Park Church, Blountstown Fl.  A Discussion on the Law of Moses. May2011.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">     Now that the Great Theologians have had their way and their say. Here is my take on the subject&#8230;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"><strong>&#8221; Since the Cross, Mankind can Stand before God Almighty and Be Judged, or we can fall down on our knees before Him and be forgiven, crying out Abba Father save me.&#8221; Bro Tom </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">I think sometimes that some of our modern Theologian&#8217;s, Denominations and Churches have lost the simple things of what Christ did for us on that Faithful day on the Cross nearly 2000 years ago. The power of his effort, the strength of his determination to do his Father&#8217;s Will, obey to the point of laying down his own life for you and me, has been lost along the way for some. Christ Jesus, the Passover Lamb, the Savior of the World, gave us one thing that no one could before, give each man or woman the ability to reject the offer of that piece of fruit in the Garden.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Before the efforts of Christ Jesus, we were all doomed to the works of Adam and Eve on the Faithful day of death. The day they made a free will choice to eat of that Tree, which gave them the knowledge of the Difference between Good and Evil, but at the same time, destroyed their relationship with their Creator, putting all of us in slavery to sin. Jesus Christ, Yeshua Messiah by dying on the Cross paid the fee, the every life of every man, woman and child. He came to restore our ability to just say, &#8220;NO! Thank you Serpent.&#8221; And By doing so restoring us to our former relationship with our Creator plus a whole lot more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">We stand before Him dead in our Sins, but we are made Alive, or Given a Whole new chance to ask for forgiveness and no longer be an enemy with God and our fellow brothers and sisters hidden in Christ, being kept safe by Him. Praise the Lord Almighty for His Plan B. We once again have been given a Free Will or Free choice in the matter of our own personal relationship with our Creator and not tied to the death sentence that Adam and Eve gave us as an inheritance. Presently, those that are unsaved, not having the saving grace of Christ-are doomed to Sin and Death and Slavery to both, because of one man&#8217;s deed. Now because of another man&#8217;s deed, Jesus Christ, we can be restored to our Heavenly Father, Adopted into His Royal and Priestly family. If we will take on the Righteousness of Christ Jesus and die to our old sin nature from Adam, which keeps us in slavery and death, by faith we are lifted up out of the tomb of darkness and brought into the light of the living. By way of the Cross and Christ whom died on it in our stead, it has been given to us to make a free will choice like Adam had but was lost to us, his children of the flesh. We can become children of the light, children of the Spirit. No longer locked into the Sin nature of Adam, lost by his Will and not of our own. Even though we too would of acted in the same way as he did, if we were in his place. it is called &#8220;Federalism&#8221; in Theology circles. Christ freed us so we can now reject or except God. We can stand in sin or we can be set free of the slavery of sin. We have been given the freedom of choice like Adam gave up for all mankind. Christ came to give us freedom, not just freedom he said, but &#8220;Abundant Freedom.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">In order to qualify to become children of God, we have to be like Christ, born of the Flesh and be born of the Spirit(Holy Spirit). He transforms us into Children of God by washing away our sins, and calling us out from among the lost sheep of Adam, the Children of the Lost fold, the ones that were lost in the wilderness. He found us wanting and torn and broken. He called out to us, and we respond to his call, &#8220;here we are Lord, here we are(in a weak and sad voice).&#8221; He ears out cries and lifts us up! Feeds us by way of his Word, The Word of God, giving us Living Water and His Word for Bread. Now we can grow in Him and be Restored to our former Glory with Him on the Very Throne of God of our Abba Father. A God of Perfect Judgment and of Peace and Joy and Mercy and Grace and most of all&#8230;Love!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">In some Churches today their life has grown cold and icy toward the efforts of our Savior that faithful day. I strongly feel that we will soon see a &#8220;Great Falling Away&#8221; from the true faith by those that are so busy &#8220;Guarding&#8221; or Keeping the Law. They forget its purpose and the remedy for it. We can not keep any law of God, nor any covenant (which is what the Mosaic Law is) with God as He requires, perfectly, without his Help, plain and simple folks. We are much too weak to do that. That is what the Law was designed to do, show us we are not able to keep any law, and our failure is up front and personal. We need Christ Jesus! That is why He came. And besides all that, the Gentiles have or had no law. We were given 4 rules to appease the Jews at the time of the Apostles so as not to offend our Jewish brothers and sisters in Christ. No laws were given to the Gentiles. If we were given Laws, we too could not keep them perfectly and were be failures as well. So be it, we need Christ Jesus too. Praise the Lord! For that. Cleanse me Lord. Cleanse me. Wash away my deadly sins.<span id="more-924"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">To Keep or Guard the Law, to complete or fulfilled the Mosaic Law by living it out fully without Adam&#8217;s/our sin nature in Him, obeying it by the Spirit of the Law and the Letter as only He knew how. That is what He did for Israel and for the World (John 3:16).  By the time He came, The Pharisees and other Religious leaders customs and laws that were added to God&#8217;s Law made it impossible for anyone keep or obey to the fullest.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">The Mosaic Law can not save anyone, so even if they tried it-it can&#8217;t save anyone. If you do, you are condemned the moment you try. It was designed to show Israel that they needed their/our Creator/Savior. This was all in His Plan B, which He knew was going to happen since before the Foundation of the World or since the beginning. Proof of that is He wrote His Plan in the Stars and Constellations of the night sky, he says so in His Word, the Bible. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Not to keep the Law with us or for us, but to Heal us from needing any law. Yes, he kept the Law and obeyed it to the letter and in the Spirit of it, but he did much more for the Jews and for us Gentiles. He completed the requirements of  the Covenant or Contract with God and Israel. So what extra thing did he do for man? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Adam was in God&#8217;s Rest, he was under no law, no covenants or agreements. He was in the Love of God. He was warned not to eat of one tree in the midst of the Garden of Rest(of Eden). Adam having a Free Will made an unwise choice. There is so much more Theology there that we will not discuss here. But as you can see in the Garden of freedom, peace, Rest in God and Love, it was all free will, free choice, but it all lacked one thing&#8230; Definition. Adam and Eve had God&#8217;s Love and Goodness and Rest, but did not know what they had. They had no experience in life, no way of knowing what these things were and what it was to not have them, in the second place. They had no understanding of God, his Love and the Absence of those things and what the cost would be if they lost them. They were children in Adult bodies. They didn&#8217;t know the differences between Good and Evil. What is evil? What is the Differences between Good and Evil Daddy? Well he let them know. The Truth would set them free, to grow and mature into Wise people. It was the only way, or God would not have let them make such a choice. He loves us too much. He cares too much for us. He took our place. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">They only knew Good. So all things including Adam and Eve were spoken into existence as &#8220;Good.&#8221; God made everything and he saw that it was all Good. But not perfect. Perfection needed to come next. But it is a painful process that only He could understand at the time. He worked His Creation, Man like a Sliver Smith does Sliver, with great patience and fire. He works the sliver to remove all the impurities until he can see himself in the metal. His own image. It is then considered perfect! Perfecto!  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Adam and Eve had to fail in order to understand their true need for their Creator. If everything remained Good, He could never take them to the next step, Perfection. His Very Throne Room and sitting next to Him, the Throne of God! To help Rule His Kingdom, The Second Adam&#8217;s Kingdom to come and the Creators Family to be. All Creation needed to understand and know Him for Who and What He is, A God of Love and Mercy and Perfection. A God full of Grace and Joy. But these words were yet to be defined by Him or by us. So this was the plan B. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Plan A, Adam keeps being a Good man working a small Garden of Rest for his Creator, or plan B, Adam would fail himself, and us, his children and his Creator, BUT by doing so, it would bring a whole knew meaning to his life. Death and sin entered into the picture (A Roller Coaster ride for the next 6 thousand years).  A whole new understanding of his Creator&#8217;s purpose for him. God was creating Himself a house, made without hands. God was going to make Adam Perfect and give him an inheritance with his Brother and Savior (we are all included in this statement-Followers of Christ), Jesus, The Christ-God himself in the Flesh. A Man-God, 100 percent man and 100 perfect God, so we could relate to Him and Learn to Trust Him. He had to come to earth, His Creation and lay down His own life for the World. By doing so, The Whole Universe understood what and who he was&#8230;.LOVE! He defined it fully on the Cross, Burial and Resurrection, in the newness of Life. A seed of the New Made Man, the first fruits of this new kind of Mankind. Made of flesh and Spirit-made alive forever. For Eternity. King of Kings, Lord of Lords, The one and only true God. Christ in you. the Holy Spirit restoring you to your former Glory. He is cloning Himself today and has for 50 generations of faithful followers. He has created a new Kingdom of Men and women made without hands. A new Kingdom of God/Heaven for Himself to dwell in. A Succoth, a Tent, A house for God Almighty.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">By this method, God showed the Universe who He is and what He is, LOVE! Also by this method, this plan B, Adam(us) can see and understand why we need Him, and because we now understand Him, we want to love Him as he loves us. It is of our own Free Will that we Love Him, and not by force or like a Robot, no love for anyone or anything. We are the Flavor of the Universe, the small light seen from a Distance coming closer and brighter, thanks to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We will not just rule a small Garden, but the Whole Universe with our Abba Father from His Throne with our Elder Brother Lord Jesus(Yeshua), with our old father Adam and our New Father, by Legal Adoption Abba Father, our Heavenly Father. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">So now we today, are under the Law of Christ, which really is no law at all. It is written on our new fleshy hearts and minds. It is just second nature to us now. We love God with all our hearts, soul, mind and Strength automatically. No more reading about it, studying it, obeying it, or just wishing we could keep it. The Love of God living in us, makes the old Law useless. Like some one who sees a sign on the Road that says 55mph is the speed limit. But they are doing 50, so the law does not apply to them. It has no effect. To them it is useless. It only serves those that are doing 56 plus. It immediately condemns those folks. But it never condemns those that are driving under the limits. Love is self controlled, the self governing spirit of the Law, not the letter of law. The Law of Love is what God wants from us and put it in us, the Believers of Christ Jesus, that is. Those that want to keep on keeping the Law, that condemns them, The Apostle Paul and the Book of Hebrews says there is no more sacrifice for you. You will remain condemned or Judged already, because the Law can not save  you nor can your own good deeds of trying to keep the Mosaic Law or even the 10 commandments (see Hebrews chapter 8 &amp; 9), nor just being a good boy or girl. Please don&#8217;t shoot the massager, Read it for yourselves, do a study on it. It is real, it is true. The Law of Christ is supreme over all other Laws, and Covenants of God with Mankind. Jew or Gentile, no longer are different, they all come under Christ the new made man. Under the Law of Christ and Grace, there is no longer a Jew or Gentile, but the New Man, the new Creature, made in Christ Jesus. Just men and women created in the New image of Christ. No longer are we in the image of Adam. We are now, being made in Christ, born of water and of the Holy Spirit combined to form a New Creature that was hidden in God since the Foundations of World. We were in his plan B all along, but hidden in God so Satan, the Devil would not try to stop the purpose of the Cross. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">Because we now love our Creator God, we do not want to offend God so we do our best to obey his Will. When we can not, He over looks our &#8220;missing His mark,&#8221; because Christ&#8217;s shed Blood blocks His view of our errors. We are not doing them out of our own stubborn will any longer but in error of our failed sin nature that we inherited from Adam, that still lives in us and wants to destroy us from within, a battle rages in us until Christ comes for us and gives us a new body made perfectly without the sin nature in it. Christ came and washed away our old sin nature ills and gave us a new heart and a new will to obey our Father in Heavenly places, and by way of the Holy Spirit, gives us the power to overcome our own sin nature so we go and sin no more, as a normal habit of life for us now, that we are being perfected in Christ Jesus. We desire to obey our Father in Heaven as He did and does. We want to and do live by faith, we trust in Christ for our everything. Including our eternal life. We are being made into his Image, like a Sliver smith working the sliver until their is no more impurities in it. We will shine like a mirror with His image, His reflection in us. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">To me and to most of my dear friends and family, the vision of the Cross is seen, not in the distant pass, but in the present moment for those of us that were lost and are in need of a Savior. We have stepped out in Faith toward that vision.  The theme of the Gospel Message and the Ushering in of the Kingdom of Heaven-God in us, remains mankind&#8217;s greatest need. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">The Love of Christ and our Heavenly Abba Father is what our very souls cry for. He hears our cries and touches our stony hearts restoring them to a fleshy heart so we can love him and one another forever more.  The Work of Christ made it possible for us to bend the knee before our Heavenly Father and ask Him for His forgiveness with a broken heart. He will listen, he will heal our brokenness and restore us before the Universe for his own Glory and Joy. It is with pleasure He does this. It gives Him the greatest of Joys to see His family come into the light, into his Presence.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">To finally reject the darkness that over took us. Come to the light of Christ my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Bring your family with you. Trust and obey Him, he will lead you to the Light of Grace and Eternal Life. Listen to His voice, can you hear Him, he is but a quiet whisperer, calling you out from among the lost souls of the world. Calling you to the Lamb of God, to your own Marriage Festival. You are so stubborn and lost in this world of sin and grief. Give yourself a Rest. Rest in the bosom of your God and your Abba Father. Trust him, His yoke is light and He will bring peace to your heart, soul and mind. He will give you love and joy beyond measure. His strength is ours to keep. Take it! Ask Him now. Not for my sake but for your own soul, Ask Him into your heart and times of refreshing will come to you. He will fill your hearts with living water and give you the bread of life. Your sins can and will be forgiven, as far as the East is from the West. Forever Forgiven. Wouldn&#8217;t you like to be at peace with God and your fellow man?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">The Laws of Moses and the world are for those that need to be reminded that their actions, their emotions, their conduct in general is in need of being monitored and restricted in order to keep the peace among men and the Creator. The Law points to mankind&#8217;s failure to have self control, not commit fouls toward our fellow man and our Creator. It points to a need to have a better way of life. A way of life that no longer needs laws by men or God, but a system that frees us from the letter of the Law, restoring a time of Rest&#8230;A system of life that reflects the true nature of our Creator that should be reflected in mankind. the Law of Love. No more police, no more need for rules, no more fouls against one another or the government of our Creator. Peace between mankind and our Abba Father, our Creator, our Lord and our Savior. Our Healer of the mind and the Soul and of our Spirit. Peace between each other in love and our comfort of Rest with Him, forever cured of Sin and disease and death and hatefulness toward Him and each other. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">No more need for the Speed signs on the road of life. We obey out of love, not by law. Because of the efforts and works of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He showed us &#8220;The Way&#8221; home, the way to peace of heart, the way to our inheritance, Eternal life and the very Throne of God Almighty. He is, &#8220;The way, the truth and the Life.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:medium;">God Bless you in all that is righteous, Love others with all your might. Remember the one serving is greater then the one being served. So serve God and one another in love and kindness. </span></p>
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		<title>THE NEW DEALS-NT-GRACE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brother Tom Jr. 1. Christ (Yeshua Messiah) completed the Law of Moses and the prophets he was living under before his death on the Cross. He says on the Cross, just before He died the death of death. &#8220;It is Finished!&#8221; (see John 19:28-30; Romans 7:1; II Corinthians 3:1ff as well as Hebrews 8:13-9:4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=909&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p align="center">By Brother Tom Jr.</p>
<p>1. Christ (Yeshua Messiah) completed the Law of Moses and the prophets he was living under before his death on the Cross. He says on the Cross, just before He died the death of death. &#8220;It is Finished!&#8221; (see John 19:28-30; Romans 7:1; II Corinthians 3:1ff as well as Hebrews 8:13-9:4 and others). Israel was trying to keep (Guard) the Letter of the Law, which was not working for them. The Law could never save anyone. It was a failure. Not by God, but by the Israelites as a Nation. Also they were to go and teach the Gentile Nations who the Creator was and His love for them too (see book of Exodus-Mount Sinai). They refuse to do it. Christ kept the Spirit of the Law, which they Hated Him for it, so they killed Him (The Israelites and the Gentiles both had a hand it his death).</p>
<p>2. AFTER the Resurrection. A NEW deal was in effect. HE had set up a NEW DEAL with Israel just prior to the Cross, the Last Supper (it was not the Passover meal as some surmise, it was Preparation Day, the day before Passover, He was the Passover Lamb, remember?). They, Israel, did not keep it (see Acts 3:19), if they had he, their Messiah, would of Returned right then and &#8220;times of refreshing would begin.&#8221;  Just didn&#8217;t happen! They rejected the offer and locked up Peter and John in jail instead.  Also see Acts 28:28. He was finished with them and wiped them off the face of the map and made their lands a desert, no tree, no bush, no Jews, no more Temple or Law of Moses-they can not keep the Law of Moses without a Temple folks. He outlawed them living there, Via the Roman Empire. (See Josephus. 70 AD the Destruction of the city of Jerusalem). The Temple and all of Israel and the Israelites all over the Roman Empire were killed and or destroyed. Also see Eusebius, Church Historian writing about 320AD, the Ecclesiastical history of the Church( by Cruse). God was Finished with them at that point in History. <span id="more-909"></span></p>
<p>About the year 63 AD the Apostle Paul said he received a New Revelation from Christ Jesus that the Final Deal was now in force. It is called, Grace! Pure Grace, as was it with Adam and Eve. Grace now abounds. Paul called it, The Dispensation of Grace in the Book of Ephesians or The Agreement of Grace or The Contract of Grace or The Administration of Grace or The Trust of Grace, all meaning the same thing. Even the Apostle Peter thought Paul&#8217;s writings were hard to understand at that time, but later I am sure he understood what was happening. The Apostle Paul was given the Grace to finish the NT canon. He wrote so in II Timothy. He finished the race. Now we have our race to run, our own Cross-to bare for the Lord, for our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who have yet to be identified or yet to be saved. Just one more Lord, just one more! Give us the time we need to bring you that last Christian into the fold. Who could it be? Who is that last soul to be saved by Grace? By His Mercy, they will come forward and give their life to the Savior.</p>
<p>3. The Apostles Paul and Peter saw that Jesus Christ was not going to return in their lifetime (Matthew 24) as everyone supposed (Israel as a Nation continued to Reject their Messiah), and so they began to prepare their written documents for the Church of the Future after they passed on. We needed to be taught the Gospel and what happened and so forth. The NT Canon was born.</p>
<p>Nowhere did Jesus Christ tell them to write down the events of His Ministry nor to record what he said. The Apostles were to do that Job, to the locals and to the &#8220;Diaspora.&#8221;  But the Holy Spirit worked in their hearts to do the very thing. Record it for us. 50 generations of Christians since the beginning of the Church. Thank God for that. He left us His legacy, The Written word of God in the Flesh and in from Heavenly Places (Paul&#8217;s Revelation and John&#8217;s Revelation of Jesus Christ, what I call the 5th Gospel, The Gospel of Jesus Christ).</p>
<p>4. The Law of Moses which included the &#8220;Big 10&#8243; was &#8220;Passing Away&#8221;, because they, ABBA and Jesus (Yeshua) cut it off, but it had to be done slowly, passing away, like an old man who is dying. It gives the family time to say their goodbyes. The Jews, and the Messianic Jews would have killed them all if it happened too fast. So it had to go away slowly (See Hebrews Chapters 8 &amp; 9). So it became OBSOLETE totally and PURE GRACE was the new norm, it steps into its place. GRACE was for all mankind, and not just an OT or NT deal for the Jews. Now there was no more Jew, Gentile, Male or Female, slave or free, rich or poor. Just the NEW MAN made in Christ. One Lord, One Savior, One God, One Baptism-By Fire, the HS, etc. See the book of Ephesians. All are equal in the eyes of God. All are under the order of Melchizadek and are High Priests with Christ Jesus as well as Kings that will Judge the World and rule over all with ABBA and our Elder Brother, on the Throne of ABBA-All By His Grace and Mercy, He restores all things and places us where we can see Him face to face. All to His Glory and for His good pleasure.</p>
<p>5. Now we all live under one roof, one Gospel Message, one system of Salvation&#8230;FAITH in Christ Jesus. All hangs on our Faith in Him, and His love for us, His brothers and sisters Adopted into the Family of God-ABBA. It is a very easy deal. The Law of Christ is written on our New made Fleshy hearts and Mind. It is automatic&#8230;we Love Him and each other. Simple, no religion to it. No ceremonies, no High days, No Passovers, No works except what was laid down for us to do for our future rewards. We cannot work for our salvation, because works proved we need a Savior and He had to do the works for us. Living out His life under the Law, the OT and completing it, IT IS FINISHED.</p>
<p>The Old Contract was made complete in Him. He made a New Contract with Israel and they did could not keep it either. He gave them 40 years to repent of Killing Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah). They still rejected him as a Nation and so they were LO-AMME, not my people in the Hebrew. Sin was made Obsolete, with His Shed Blood along with the Temple works and the OT law system of works. Everyone in the world now has the same opportunistic choice as Adam did, once again, to BELIEVE GOD! We can accept his warning not to eat of that Tree or reject Him.</p>
<p>Free Choice comes into play again with the price of Lord Jesus Christ shed Blood. The men on the Cross next to Christ Jesus, both had a free choice to reject or to except him. One did and one didn&#8217;t and mocked Him instead.  No more being under slavery of Sin. All is free to choose Christ to Save us. ABBA calls us, pulls on our heart stings, we answer the call and Christ does the rest. All men and women of the world are given free choice once again to chose God over Satan as our their master. We all know the difference between Good and Evil. As for my house we will choose to follow the Lord. See it is a choice. What do you choice my friend??</p>
<p>6. Three things to fix next. Our Redemption, His enemies and ours put underfoot, and finally Death destroyed. He then says, &#8220;IT IS DONE!&#8221; (See Rev. 21:6)</p>
<p>7. We will all be living happy with ABBA in us and CHRIST forever more in the NEW JERUSALEM, WE being the BRIDE of CHRIST, we all become ONE, bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh and SPIRIT of His SPIRIT.  Christ was born of water and of the Spirit, and so are we. Born of water (via our mothers womb) and of the Spirit of God, the HS (see John Chapter 3). After all this happens, Then and only then can ABBA live in the Creation which has been Washed and Cleaned of all the Leaven (sin), All of us under control (our minds no longer at war with our Creator) and not trying to Kill Him. Our Creator God, who loves us very very much. And now we see that he loves us and so love him back. At the moment, ABBA, Christ and the HS can only live in us, the Temple of God. The Universe is still Hostile to Him (the Bad Angels etc.) have been yet to be deal with. It is coming to a Movie house near you soon. Stand by!! The War to end all wars is coming to a planet near you.</p>
<p>8. Pray for us all to weather through, Prayer changes things and we are the only ones that can do that&#8230;Pray! Our power is in our ability to talk to our ABBA. He will Listen! Like our Elder Brother (see John 17). Our forgiveness comes from our Prayers, our soul is made at peace with our father, ABBA by our prayers. Our relationship with Him is by our continued prayers, or discussing our wants and needs or the needs of others. I strongly believe Prayer is why Paul and others were saved by the asking forgiveness of those about to stone Deacon Stephen and what Jesus Christ said on the Cross-as they killed him. &#8220;Forgiven them for they know not what they do.&#8221;</p>
<p>Note this is just a quick view of what I think happened and is happening. You are welcome to continue this study on your own. Check the verses out and dig deep into the Theology of the Bible. See for yourself the truth of the matter, I did. I have spent the last 48 years studying the Bible in order to understand what was happening in the First Century Church, our foundations and the why and what for has always kept my nose in &#8220;The Good Book.&#8221; Over the years I have enjoyed the opportunity to learn from several wonderful teachers and mentors. My father has not left me alone in this World. I have you and we can learn as much as we can stand. Our resources are endless today with Pastors, Teachers, Theologians, Authors of Books, Magazines and the Internet, using the Holy Spirit as our glide; we too can know the truth of the matter. So much is at our fingers tips today. The joy of knowing, the freedom to find out and the ability to share what we found, is just God given for this Generation. Thanks for taking the time to read this and ponder it. For the Love of Christ.</p>
<p>Trying to KISS (Keep It Simple Saint).</p>
<p>In His Hands Forever,</p>
<p>Brother Tom : )</p>
<p>References: Josephus, The Essential Writings (Maier)</p>
<p>Eusebius (Cruse)</p>
<p>Bible-Old and New Testament (various Translations)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends and family, As I continue to &#8220;Dig&#8221; up information and articles on the Hard (Physical) Evidence of the Biblical History in the dirt, I will share my finds with you. Each time I find more evidence, I noted that the bible is being used by those Archaeologist who are successful in their digs. They are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=907&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p style="display:inline!important;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">As I continue to &#8220;Dig&#8221; up information and articles on the Hard (Physical) Evidence of the Biblical History in the dirt, I will share my finds with you. Each time I find more evidence, I noted that the bible is being used by those Archaeologist who are successful in their digs. They are using the Bible as as a road map to find artifacts and ancient</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-weight:normal;"> cities. It is as if God documented land marks and &#8220;X marked the spot&#8221; for them to find or he placed bread crumbs for them to follow. From </span>Genesis<span style="font-weight:normal;"> to Revelation God put his mark on Nature and in his Land, showing the world He will not be Mocked! His word is true.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">I watched a new video to me called, Jesus, The Great Debate by Grant Jeffery. It had a lot of good information in it with top notch Theologians and Archaeologists. It was well done. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Bro Tom : )</span></span></p>
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<p>This Information below was gathered by Steve Rudd</p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.bible.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.bible.ca/</a> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:large;"> Archaeologists are digging up bible stories!!</span></p>
<p></strong><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Archaeology is an important science that confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible. Since the Bible makes reference to hundreds of cities, kings, and places, we would expect to find evidence from on-site excavations. If we did not find any such evidence, we would highly question the Bible&#8217;s claim of inspiration and tend to view it as myth and folklore. We would regard the Bible as the product of human imagination rather than a divinely inspired record about real historical events, about real people living in real cities.</p>
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<p>At the turn of the century, skeptics viewed the Bible as myth rather than real world history. For example, the Bible makes over 40 references to the great Hittite Empire. You see, 100 years ago, no archaeological evidence had ever been found to prove it really did exist. &#8220;Just another Bible myth!&#8221; skeptics charged in an attempt to destroy our faith in the Bible. This, however, cannot be said today, for in 1906, Hugo Winckler uncovered a library of 10,000 clay tablets. These ancient records fully documented the long lost Hittite Empire and confirmed the reliability of the Bible. Later excavations uncovered Boghazkoy, the capital city of this so called, &#8220;mythical&#8221; empire.</p>
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<p>These discoveries not only authenticate Scripture, but also illuminate many aspects of biblical culture. Abraham&#8217;s purchase of Ephron&#8217;s field records the following: &#8220;So Ephron&#8217;s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the sons of Heth.&#8221; (Genesis 23:17), This reflects the standard Hittite real estate procedure of counting the trees involved in any purchase or sale of land. Note also that the witnesses to Abraham&#8217;s purchase were the &#8220;son&#8217;s of Heth&#8221; -i.e. the Hittites.</p>
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<p></span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Today, so many Bible cities, names and events have been unearthed through archaeology that the Bible is considered the single most important historical document in existence. Many lost cities have been located using the Bible as a road map. So startling and impressive are some of the finds that one archaeologist was compelled to say, </span><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">&#8220;They are digging up Bible stories!&#8221;</span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The shovel and spade have confirmed that the historical information of the Bible is both accurate and reliable.</p>
<p>Skeptics once rejected the Bible&#8217;s claim that the Hittite Empire existed until they saw the evidence with their own eyes. Today, skeptics reject the Bible&#8217;s claim that God himself exists or that the Bible is a divinely written book. Perhaps the only way they will believe in God is after they have seen him with their own eyes when they stand before Him in the judgment day. Only, then it will be too late!</p>
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<p>For many centuries, the Old Testament stood as the lone historical record of numerous events, places and people of the ancient world. Many of these records were once publicly ridiculed by skeptics of the Bible as being inauthentic and incorrect. It was reasoned that since no mention of them had been found in any other historical writing that this proved once and for all that the Bible was incorrect. Recent archeological discoveries, however, have proven the Bible to be correct in great detail and those who opposed it to be false.</p>
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<p>If only more would realize that the Bible is not only a guide to the fallen ruins of ancient cities, but also a road map to the glorious city of Heaven! If only more would trust their Bible as being God&#8217;s inspired message for mankind. Since archaeology has proven the historical trustworthiness of the Bible we had better take note about what the Bible says will happen in the future before it too, becomes a true footnote in history.</p>
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<blockquote><p>&#8220;We constantly thank God that when you received from us the word of God&#8217;s message, you accepted it not as the word of men, but for what it really is, the word of God&#8221; (1 Thessalonians 2:13).</p></blockquote>
<p></span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Abraham’s city of Ur:</p>
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<li>In Genesis 11:31, for instance, Abraham (Abram) is said to have lived in the city of Ur.</li>
<li>The existence of this great city was often scorned until, recent archeological diggings uncovered its ancient ruins.</li>
<li>Temples, houses, and even the king&#8217;s and queen&#8217;s tombs have been discovered.</li>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Egyptian city of Pithom:</p>
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<p></span></strong><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The ancient Egyptian city of Pithom has been uncovered and storehouses fitting the description of those built by the Israelites have been found, the lower portion containing brick with straw and the upper portion containing brick without straw. (See Exodus 1:11; 5:7). The mummy of Neneptah II, widely believed to be the Pharaoh of the exodus, has been discovered. A hymn to him mentions Israel and the inscription tells of the death of his young son, possibly the one mentioned in the last plague (Exodus 12:29).</p>
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<p></span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Joshua’s Altar:</p>
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<li>In a personal discussion with Adam Zertal, he said that this archeological site has made a Bible believer out of him. Amen!</li>
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<li><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Adam Zertal has undergone a transformation of faith that is truly remarkable. Like most of his fellow Israeli archeologists, he did not believe the Bible stories of the exodus to be true.<strong>He told me directly that the most anti-Biblical forces in archeology are the professors in the various Universities in Israel.</strong> Many Christians and Jews are surprised that this would be the case. Palestinian Muslims quote these Israeli archeologists in Tel Aviv as proof that the idea of a Jewish homeland that dates back to 1400 BC is a myth. Zertal was one of these Bible trashing archeologists. But that all changed in 1983, three years after Zertal first stumbled on the site while doing a formal archeological survey of the area. After studying the structure for three years with no idea what is was used for, he suddenly realized that it was the site of Joshua&#8217;s Altar. We agree with him and now he believes the Bible. &#8220;</span>They are digging up Bible stories<span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">!&#8221;</span></li>
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<li>Adam Zertal commented: &#8220;We discovered this place, all covered with stones, in April 1980. At that time I never dreamt that we were dealing with the altar, because I was taught in Tel Aviv University &#8211; the center of anti-Biblical tendencies, where I learned that Biblical theories are untrue, and that Biblical accounts were written later, and the like. I didn&#8217;t even know of the story of the Joshua&#8217;s altar. But we surveyed every meter of the site, and in the course of nine years of excavation, we discovered a very old structure with no parallels to anything we had seen before. It was 9 by 7 meters, and 4 meters high, with two stone ramps, and a kind of veranda, known as the <em>sovev</em>, around.&#8221;</li>
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<li><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">More on </span><a href="http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm" target="_blank">Joshua’s Altar</a><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Tomb of Solomon and David:</p>
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<li>Acts 2: &#8220;his tomb is with us to this day&#8221;</li>
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<li><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">&#8220;Fifty of their most important outposts and nine hundred and eighty-five of their most famous villages were razed to the ground. Five hundred and eighty thousand men were slain in the various raids and battles, and the number of those that perished by famine, disease and fire was past finding out. 2 Thus nearly the whole of Judaea was made desolate, a result of which the people had had forewarning before the war. </span><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">For the tomb of Solomon, which the Jews regard as an object of veneration, fell to pieces of itself and collapsed, and many wolves and hyenas rushed howling into their cities</span><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">.&#8221; (</span><a href="http://www.bible.ca/archeology/bible-archeology-jerusalem-temple-mount-roman-history-cassius-dio-229ad.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Roman History, Cassius Dio</span></a><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">, Book 69:14, 229 AD, Translation by Earnest Cary p 425-467)</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Tel Dan: Jeroboam’s Altar discovered</span></strong></p>
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<li>1 Kings 12:28-29, &#8220;king made two calves of gold&#8221;</li>
<p></span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Inscription: &#8220;House of David&#8221;</p>
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<li>At Tel Dan</li>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Oldest Hebrew Text</p>
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<li>Found in burial cave in outskirts of Jerusalem.</li>
<li>Silver Amulet, Deut.6:24-26</li>
<li>300+ years older than Dead Sea Scrolls</li>
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<p><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';"> </span><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;">Old Testament verified by Archeology:</p>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Genesis 10:10-12</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">These cities, the earliest that are mentioned in the Bible were uncovered by archaeologists over a century ago and have been positively identified. So also the ancient Canaanite and Egyptian civilizations are known. Thus the setting for the Genesis narrative, the call of Abraham and his journey of faith has a historical basis to it that cannot be denied.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Numbers 6:22-27</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A Silver Scroll dating to 600 B.C. quotes this passage, showing that this Scripture existed before the date admitted by critics.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Numbers 22 to 24</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An inscription found in 1967 and published in 1976 refers to &#8220;Balaam Son of Beor&#8221; and records a prophecy similar to that found in Scripture.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Numbers 33</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Egyptian maps found at Karnak confirm the geography of the exodus route taken by the children of Israel as recorded in the Bible.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Judges 10:6-9</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The earliest known reference to Israelites says that they were &#8220;laid waste&#8221;. It appears on the Merneptah Stele dating to 1209 B.C.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 6</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An inscription discovered by archaeologists refers to &#8220;the House of Yahweh&#8221;—i.e. Solomon&#8217;s Temple at Jerusalem</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 12:19,20</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An inscription found at Tel Dan in 1993, refers to &#8220;The House of David&#8221; and thus shows that David is a real historical character.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 12:20</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A seal bearing the inscription &#8220;Shema servant of Jereboam&#8221; is but one confirmation of this king&#8217;s existence in history.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 12:28-31</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Jereboam&#8217;s &#8220;High Place&#8221; was discovered at Dan in 1979.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 14:25,26 &amp; 2 chronicles 12:2-9</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Victory relief of Shishak discovered at Karnak in 1799 shows him with prisoners from Palestine.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">1 kings 16:23-24 &amp; 1 kings 22:39</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The Royal buildings of Omri and Ahab were found by archaeologists in 1933.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 3:4-5</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The black basalt &#8220;Moabite Stone&#8221; discovered in 1868 describes the battle between Mesha King of Moab and Ahab son of Omri.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 10:31,32</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An Assyrian &#8220;Black Obelisk&#8221; discovered in 1846 depicts king Jehu</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 10:35</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A Hebrew seal found bearing the inscription: &#8220;belonging to JEHOAHAZ son of the king&#8221;</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 15:29-30; 16:7-9</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Cuniform text discovered in approx. 1850 are the records of Tiglath Pilesar and mentions kings Pekah and</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 17:3</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An inscription of Shalmanezer 11, known as &#8220;the Kurkh Monolith&#8221; mentions &#8220;Ahab the Israelite&#8221;</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 18:13-16; isaiah 36:1</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Taylor&#8217;s Prism, also known as the Sennacherib Prism discovered about 1850 records Sennacherib&#8217;s invasion of Judah, and mentions king Hezekiah.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 20:20; 2 chronicles 32:3-4, 30</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">An inscription discovered in 1880 describes the construction of &#8220;Hezekiah&#8217;s tunnel&#8221;.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 24:10, 15, 17</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">In 1955 a tablet was deciphered which records the captivity of king Jehoiachin and the appointment of Zedekiah.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 24:10-17; 2 chronicles 36:9-10</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A Babylonian tablet describes the capture of Jerusalem by king Nebuchadnezzar.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 24:17</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The &#8220;Lachish Letters&#8221; discovered in the 1930&#8242;s mention several Biblical characters, including Mattaniah (Zedekiah).</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 kings 25:27-30</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The &#8220;Yaukin Tablet&#8221; found at Babylon (1932/3) mentions king Jehoiachin and the rations allowed to him.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">2 chronicles 32:9</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A Relief discovered at Sennacherib&#8217;s palace in Nineveh (about 1850) depicts the seige of Lachish—a contemporary snapshot of a Bible event!</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Ezra 1:1-4</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The famous &#8220;Cyrus Cylinder&#8221;—a clay cylinder of king Cyrus describes the return of captives after the &#8220;liberation&#8221; of Babylon</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Nehemiah 4:1,2</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A reference to SANBALLAT, the governor of Jerusalem has been found.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Isaiah 20:1</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">In about 1850, the records of Sargon were discovered.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Isaiah 30:8</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">In 1947 the now famous DEAD SEA SCROLLS were discovered in caves. They demonstrate the accuracy and reliability of the Biblical text.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Jeremiah 35:3; 36:10; and 38:1-4</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The Lachish Letters also mention GEMARIAH the scribe, JAAZENIAH and speak of a &#8220;prophet&#8221; who demoralized the people and urged surrender to the Babylonians</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Jeremiah 36:4</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">In 1986 a seal was found dating to 587 B.C. It was inscribed: &#8220;Belonging to Baruch the son of Neriah&#8221; This is without doubt Jeremiah&#8217;s scribe.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Jeremiah 36:9-12</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Bullae found at Jerusalem (1982/3) bears the inscription &#8220;Belonging to Gemariah son of Shaphan&#8221;</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Jeremiah 43:9-11; 44:13</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Excavations in 1881-1891 by Flinders Petrie uncovered the actual pavement mentioned in this Scripture.</span></td>
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<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Bricks discovered at Babylon (1880) bearing the name Nebuchadnezzar.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Daniel 5:1</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Clay Cylinder found at Babylon in 1854 refers to BELSHAZZAR.</span></td>
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<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Evidence of the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah found at Gezer and other locations.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Nahum 3:7, 15</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Reliefs found at Nineveh in the 1850&#8242;s, and which can be viewed in the British Museum are burnt black by the fires of destruction.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Matthew 26:5, 7</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The tomb of the Caiaphas family was discovered in Jerusalem in 1990. Scholars believe that the tomb of Caiaphas himself is among them.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Matthew 27:2</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Two separate inscriptions have been found mentioning the name of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate.</span></td>
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<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The foundations of Jesus&#8217; synagogue at Capernaum were identified in 1983, it lay underneath a later construction built by Jews around the third century.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Luke 21:5</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">The huge platform upon which the temple was built in the time of Herod is there for all to see in Jerusalem today. Archaeologists have also uncovered amazing evidence of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus in this chapter.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">John 18:38</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">A small piece of papyrus known as the &#8220;John Ryland Fragment&#8221; was discovered in 1934. This fragment is the earliest known New Testament document and has demonstrated that it was in curculation by A.D. 100. The words on the fragment are significant. They are from John 18 including the question &#8220;What is Truth?&#8221;.</span></td>
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<td width="25%" valign="TOP"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Acts of the apostles</span></td>
<td width="75%" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman';">Many sites where events took place are known to us incl. amphitheatres, roads etc.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bro Ken W. of  Texas The Gentile Tabitha/Dorcas (Acts 9:36).  She died and Peter went to visit the town she lived in.  The Christians cried because they lost one of their best crafts people who donated her goods to the poor.  That touched Peter. It wasn&#8217;t about what she knew.  It doesn&#8217;t say she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=904&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">The Gentile Tabitha/Dorcas (Acts 9:36).  She died and Peter went to visit the town she lived in.  The Christians cried because they lost one of their best crafts people who donated her goods to the poor.  That touched Peter. It wasn&#8217;t about what she knew.  It doesn&#8217;t say she understood her doctrines (which can lead to pride), but she was doing the right thing.  Her works (debt that she owed God) put into action (crafts, making garments to help others) showed Peter that here was someone who knew God.  He went and prayed over her body and she was raised from the dead.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Jesus told a story, too.  Matthew 21:28-32</span></p>
<p><em>What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ </em><em>‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. </em><em>Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. </em><em>Which of the two did what his father wanted?&#8221; &#8220;The first,&#8221; they answered. Jesus said to them, &#8220;I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. </em><em>For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.&#8221; </em><span style="font-size:x-small;">(NIV).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Jesus told us what to do, but many Christians argue over doctrines and create names for themselves.  Jesus is looking for workers to go out and reap his harvest, but we are either in the social club churches or arguing between denominations about which is the Sabbath and whether God is One or Three. Jesus wants us to do his Will.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">What is his will?  To keep his commandments? Sure, but what commandments? Many say the commandments are Old Testament. I would say he definitely wants us to be holy. He wants us to avoid sexual sins, lying and drunkenness, anything that would destroy our witness with the world in other words. But he wants us to go out and DO his will, not just talk about it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">If we are doing his will he said he would 1) give us the words to say to the people to whom we minister. 2) He would provide signs to go with us showing that we are his people. All else is just details, isn&#8217;t it? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Before I close this email I want to share some things with you that I think will encourage your own walk as your eyes have been opened even more than they were.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Consider Acts 15 again.  I shared this with you once before concerning the Law.  Paul and Barnabas reached Jerusalem and a council was held. </span><sup>5</sup><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Note what that says.  To keep the law of Moses.  Why is this wrong?  Because The Holy Ghost had been poured out on the Gentiles already.  They had spoken in tongues and it astonished the Jews because it meant a veil like in the temple had been torn down.  No longer were they the special ones.  Now, the Gentiles were equal. </span><br />
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<p><sup>7</sup><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.</span></div>
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<p><sup>8</sup>And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;</p>
<p><sup>9</sup>And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.</p>
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<p>Peter even says he hopes that the Jews can be saved in the faith that the Gentiles are. (v.11)  This is important because it shows the Gentiles are living in more faith than the Jews.</p>
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<p>What was the result of the meeting?  This is what is required to be a Christian in our day.  This is all that is required:</p>
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<p><sup>28</sup><span style="text-decoration:underline;">For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;"> </span><sup>29</sup><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">That ye a<strong>bstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. (t</strong>hree of the four items is about food that Israel was </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">displeased</span><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;"> about the Gentile eating habits, but even Paul had no real problem with eating meat offered to Idols, just if it made you weak brother stumble<strong>). </strong></span></p>
<p><sup>30</sup>So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:</p>
<p><sup>31</sup>Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">Consolation.  What was the consolation?  The argument was settled. The division within the Body was healed. In other words, you believe in Jesus, you have the Holy Ghost as witness, now you are free to do God&#8217;s Will, which is to win souls for Christ, so much more important then worrying over what you eat or keeping the Law of Moses, which was a covenant with the House of Israel and Judah, not the rest of the World. They were the keepers of the Temple. It is gone with the requirements that were a shadow picture of the coming Christ. He came, He </span><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">fulfilled</span><span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;"> the Law and the Prophets, It is FINISHED! and he left so he could send down a NEW DEAL, THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU, like it was in HIM. Not leaving and coming, but day and night with us, our comforter, our mark that we belong to God the Father and Christ Jesus, Yeshua Messiah. </span></p>
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<p>If we add the early creed of 1 Corinthians 15, a statement of faith concerning the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, and we add to it these few rules, then we have the complete necessary belief of the New Testament church.  If we believe we are part of that same church no matter our background or denomination.</p>
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<p>My own messages concerning Scripture since I started preaching the resurrection of Christ has been more concerned with explaining the epistles and comforting my brothers and sisters in Christ, encouraging them about what it means to live in this wicked world, and calling them to holy living. To the sinner the message is to repent, change your ways and live in God&#8217;s Will.  That is what it means to disciple others.<br />
<span style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:small;">The gospel is indeed a very simple thing and woe unto us or anyone who tries to make it hard. </span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bro Tom People talk about God&#8217;s Grace, but never want it.  As was with Israel and the Gentiles/Pagans, they all want to work for the Lord or for their false gods, but he wants them and us today to trust him and He will do the work in us, by us, through us, and for us. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=900&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;">People talk about God&#8217;s Grace, but never want it.  As was with Israel and the Gentiles/Pagans, they all want to work for the Lord or for their false gods, but he wants them and us today to trust him and He will do the work in us, by us, through us, and for us. By doing so will transform us into a new man, a new creature made in the very image of Christ, Yeshua Messiah.  They are looking back to the very thing that killed them in the first place. Works! We can not work for our salvation, our work for anything that truly matters. If we do, it follows the second law of thermodynamics, it corrupts and dies. Because it is of the natural man, of the flesh. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;">The minute we try, The Creator says, not so fast buddy, you owe me all your labor as it is. Adam was fired in the Beginning and so he owes God his labor, since he is our father we owe our labor too. He was removed from the Garden of Eden, God&#8217;s Resting place. So easy was the labor for Adam and Eve. If you get hungry just pick the fruit from the tree, no real labor in that. Just do the Will of God Adam and all will be so easy. But it was not in the Plan. That is another discussion. </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size:small;">The minute you start to work, you owe the full debt to Him. His plan is to get you to stop working and smell the Roses so to speak, Take a &#8220;Rest&#8221; a Sabbath, come enter His Rest. He could be saying something like this:   &#8220;Take a minute son or daughter and listen to me. I will do the workload for you, but you have to listen to me.&#8221; he Said.  &#8221;IF you will listen, I will forgive the debt and give you a new home, a place of rest so we can be together again and work together for a higher purpose as one&#8230;Just stop working and listen. Let me give you my Grace, my mercy, my love, my only begotten Son to do the work for you and pay the redeeming price for your debt owed to me (His very life&#8217;s blood is the cost, I am afraid to say). Obey my voice and do a new labor for me, start loving me and trusting me and love others as your labor. A labor of Love.&#8221; This he will count, this labor of Love, as a new work that is worthy of full payment to you from Heavenly places. It is given by GRACE, His Mercy that you do not deserve. If you try to work, keep laws etc. All you are doing is digging the whole deeper for your grave, you are now telling me that you want to pay the debt and lose your own life in the process. I have offered your brother as the final payment for what you owe me, your life. He has paid the price of your works, keeping laws and walking the line. He has restored all things so you can now be with me again. Live in my sight, love me fully and I will love you. His shed blood will remove or wash away the rotten smell of dead flesh full of sin. So you can now work a new way, Love. Love takes energy, it takes sacrice, it takes a part of you and gives it to another. I</span><span style="font-size:small;">t takes away your need to labor in vein. Our works are dead. Yahweh(God) does not want our physical labors that glorifies us. It wants us to work at loving Him and others, that he will count for a reward that is laid up in Heavenly Places for us. </span></div>
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<div>We must listen to God or we will die the death of death as was told to Adam in the Beginning. No manner of works was going to get Adam and Eve back in that Garden but BELIEVING GOD and making babies so the Messiah could come and restore all things, Plus some. Yeshua, Jesus could not be born to save the world unless they obey God this time. So they put faith in His words, and so be it, we are here and He came and saved us from permanent death.</div>
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<div>Let Grace abound in your life. Listen to our Father in Heavenly Places. He gave us the Holy Spirit as a guide and comforter. Take the Gift that He offered, His only Begotten Son, Our Lord and Savior Yeshua(the Lord Jesus Christ). He is our savior, our Elder Brother, our family of God, our Redeemer. Give your labors to Him in love, and practice his ways. Love one another, Love your enemies, Love God(Yahweh) with all your heart, soul, mind and Strength. Trust in Him that He will keep his promises and give your life totally to him so you will see His blessings up front and personal. He wants to bless you and give you peace in heart and mind. His goal is to see you face to face, Like a King with his own child, adopted we maybe, but none the less, we are his and his alone. Satan can only tempt us, he can not make us do anything. We must over come our own sin nature. By His power and Love we can overcome our sin nature, bring life back in to our dead body. Restoring our relationship with Him. Amen!!</div>
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		<title>Desires Of The Flesh</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desires of the Flesh By Bro Tom Romans 8:4 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh (desires) -           Desire rules over all of us The flesh will seek to satisfy our desires outside of God The flesh will sin in attempt to fulfill those desires [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=896&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Romans 8:4 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh (desires)</p>
<p>-           Desire rules over all of us</p>
<p>The flesh will seek to satisfy our desires outside of God</p>
<p>The flesh will sin in attempt to fulfill those desires</p>
<p>It is impossible to fulfill our desires apart from God</p>
<p>God designed the human machine to run on himself</p>
<p>There is no other fuel than God</p>
<p>God cannot give us peace &amp; happiness apart from himself because it does not exist</p>
<p>With out God we will fail to satisfy longing in ourselves</p>
<p>The love of flesh pleasing is the cause of all sin.</p>
<p>All sin begins with your desires</p>
<p>Sanctify means to make you completely Holy (begins in your spirit)</p>
<p>If you are not a Christian, spiritually you are dead.</p>
<p>If you fulfill your lust or desire you are sinning</p>
<p>If you fulfill your natural desires you will sin</p>
<p>Your soul is your sense of personality</p>
<p>-           The two components of your soul are, one your heart</p>
<p>The heart &#8211; is the seat of our affection</p>
<p>Two your mind – the seat of your will (this determines your actions)</p>
<p>Before sin infected you, your heart’s affection was focused on God.</p>
<p>When sin infects you, your affection for God is replaced with affection for             yourself</p>
<p>Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes</p>
<p>Proverbs 21:2     Every way of a man is right in his own eyes</p>
<p>The flesh is not only the common idol, but also the most devouring idol in the world.</p>
<p>Flesh is a wicked idol; it consumes our mind, heart, and our all</p>
<p>Ephesians 5: 29 For no one ever hateth his own flesh, but nourishes &amp; cherishes it</p>
<p>Romans 8:4 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh (desires)</p>
<p>The only difference between lust &amp; desire is intensity</p>
<p>The amount of time spent in church indicates nothing about your true spiritual condition</p>
<p>The spirit lust against the flesh &amp; vice-versa</p>
<p>Your flesh &amp; God do not get along</p>
<p>Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.</p>
<p>We were created by God &amp; created for God</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Real Mount Sinai? &#160; Paul specifies that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia. Galatians 4:25. Why is the mountain on the Sinai peninsula not the Biblical Mt. Sinai? Artifacts consistent with the encampment of nearly 1 million people for over a year have never been found around the mountain on the Sinai peninsula. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=894&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Paul specifies that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia. Galatians 4:25.</p>
<p>Why is the mountain on the Sinai peninsula <strong>not</strong> the Biblical Mt. Sinai?</p>
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<li>Artifacts consistent with the encampment of nearly 1 million people for over a year have never been found around the mountain on the Sinai peninsula.</li>
<li>There is not space enough to accommodate the camping of 1 million people anywhere near the mountain on the Sinai peninsula.</li>
<li>The mountain on the Sinai peninsula was not determined to be the Biblical Mount Sinai through Jewish history or scholarship. Rather, it was designated in the 4<sup>th</sup> century AD by Constantine&#8217;s mother after consulting a psychic.</li>
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<p>What is the Biblical information regarding the location of the true Mount Sinai?</p>
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<li>It is located in Arabia. (Galatians 4:25).</li>
<li>It is near to Midian, where Moses herded sheep for Jethro: &#8220;Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush.&#8221; Exodus 3:1-2. &#8220;So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, &#8216;Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.&#8217; And Jethro said to Moses, &#8216;Go in peace.&#8217; &#8221; Exodus 5:18.</li>
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<li>It is <span style="text-decoration:underline;">not</span> in land controlled by Egypt at the time of the Red Sea crossing. The Sinai peninsula was controlled by Egypt &#8212; Migdol on the Gulf of Aqaba was a military outpost of the Egyptians. The children of Israel were not out of Egypt until they were in Arabia. &#8220;Now it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled.&#8221; Exodus 14:5. &#8220;So he [Pharaoh] made ready his chariot and took his people with him. . . . So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them [the children of Israel] camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth ["mouth of the gorges"], before Baal Zephon.&#8221; Exodus 14:6, 9. When Pharaoh was told the Israelites were fleeing out of his land, then he knew they were not going into the wilderness only three day&#8217;s journey with the thought of returning.</li>
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<p>There is a large mountain in Arabia, east of the Gulf of Aqaba (eastern arm of the Red Sea), which is known locally as <em>Jebel al Lawz</em> &#8212; the &#8220;Mountain of Laws.&#8221; The top third of the mountain looks burned, with darkened granite. At the eastern base of this mountain are many artifacts indicating encampment by a large group of people. Multiple circular base enclosure of rocks mark what may be old campsites. There is a large altar built of stone with a cattle corral leading up to it. There is also the remains of another altar the stones of which are scratched with multiple petraglyphs of cows and bulls, Apis and Hathor, the gods of Egypt. On rocks in the area are many petraglyphs scratched in the shape of footprints. To the west of the mountain and a little to the north is a large rock rising some 40 feet into the air, which is split down the middle. On either side of the split, on both sides of this huge rock, the rock shows erosion typical of running water. This rock marks the site of Rephidim, near the back-side of Mt. Horeb (Exodus 17:1-6).* Truly, Mount Sinai is in Arabia!</p>
<p>*See: <em>The Exodus Case</em> (book); <em>The Exodus Revealed</em> (DVD by Quastar<br />
Productions); or <em>The Sinai Connection </em>(video with Michael Rood).</p>
<p>This discovery in recent years also redirects our thinking about the Red Sea crossing. The crossing must have been through the Gulf of Aqaba, but the gulf is a chasm 5000 feet deep &#8211; <span style="text-decoration:underline;">except</span> for one area at Nuweiba Beach (29 North) which has an underwater land bridge. And now, with further exploration with underwater cameras, has been found coral growth which has obviously grown on the wreckage of wheels, axles and other man-made debri both on the Egyptian side and within 100 meters of the Arabian shore of this land bridge. The coral shapes which appear to have grown on wheels are the size and configuration of chariot wheels of the 18<sup>th</sup> dynasty in Egypt. Most of the wheels appear to be six-spoke, but the gold plating from two wheels is clearly four-spoked. The coral has been unable to grow on the gold, leaving the fragile gold covering intact. The axle lengths correspond to the width of chariots pulled by a team of two horses. (See above references.)</p>
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<p>On the beach of Nuweiba was found a memorial pillar awash in the shallow water. All the writing had worn away, but on the opposite side of the Gulf of Aqaba was a matching pillar which was still standing, with the old Hebrew inscription still readable. The inscription says that the pillars were erected by Solomon to commemorate the crossing of the Red Sea by the Israelites. The Saudi Arabian government has since removed the pillar. They certainly do not want a Jewish holy site on their land. But what can they do about the mountain? They have fenced it off, and put up a guard-house. They will not allow anyone into the area. But the secret is out, and it is on videotape!</p>
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<p>&#8220;Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, &#8216;Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.&#8217; So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt. . . . So they took their journey from Sukkot and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness.&#8221; Exodus 13:17-18, 20. &#8220;Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: &#8216;Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon. You shall camp before it by the sea.&#8221; Exodus 14:1-2.</p>
<p>See Map: Red Sea Crossing <a href="http://adventistmessianicfellowship.com/articles/Map%20--%20Mt%20Sinai%20scan.pdf">(.pdf)</a> <a href="http://adventistmessianicfellowship.com/images/Map1.png">(small .png)</a> (<a href="http://adventistmessianicfellowship.com/images/Map2.png">large .png</a>)</p>
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<p>&#8220;Instead of pursuing the direct route to Canaan, which lay through the country of the Philistines, the Lord directed their course southward, toward the shores of the Red Sea. . . . Across a dreary, desertlike expanse they journeyed. Already they began to wonder whither their course would lead; they were becoming weary with the toilsome way, and in some hearts began to arise a fear of pursuit by the Egyptians. But the cloud went forward, and they followed. And now the Lord directed Moses to turn aside into a rocky defile, and encamp beside the sea. It was reavealed to him that Pharaoh would pursue them, but that God would be honored in their deliverance.</p>
<p>&#8220;In Egypt the report was spread that the children of Israel, instead of tarrying to worship in the desert, were pressing on toward the Red Sea. Pharaoh&#8217;s counselors declared to the king that their bondmen had fled, never to return. . . .</p>
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<p>&#8220;The Hebrews were encamped beside the sea, whose waters presented a seemingly impassable barrier before them, while on the south a rugged mountain obstructed their further progress. Suddenly they beheld in the distance the flashing armor and moving chariots betokening the advance guard of a great army. . . .</p>
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<p>&#8220;It was not an easy thing to hold the hosts of Israel in waiting before the Lord. Lacking discipline and self-control, they became violent and unreasonable. They expected speedily to fall into the hands of their oppressors, and their wailings and lamentations were loud and deep. The wonderful pillar of cloud had been followed as the signal of God to go forward; but now they questioned among themselves if it might not foreshadow some great calamity; for had it not led them on the wrong side of the mountain, into an impassable way? Thus the angel of God appeared to their deluded minds as the harbinger of disaster.</p>
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<p>&#8220;But now, as the Egyptian host approached them, expecting to make them an easy prey, the cloudy column rose majestically into the heavens, passed over the Israelites, and descended between them and the armies of Egypt. A wall of darkness interposed between the pursued and their pursuers. The Egyptians could no longer discern the camp of the Hebrews, and were forced to halt. But as the darkness of night deepened, the wall of cloud became a great light to the Hebrews, flooding the entire encampment with the radiance of day.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Then hope returned to the hearts of Israel. And Moses lifted up his voice unto the Lord. &#8216;And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto Me? Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.&#8217; . . . As Moses stretched out his rod the waters parted, and Israel went into the midst of the sea, upon dry ground, while the waters stood like a wall upon each side. The light from God&#8217;s pillar of fire shone upon the foam-capped billows, and lighted the road that was cut like a mighty furrow through the waters of the sea, and was lost in the obscurity of the farther shore.</p>
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<p>&#8221; &#8216;The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh&#8217;s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians.&#8217; [Exodus 14:23-24 Revised Version]. The mysterious cloud changed to a pillar of fire before their astonished eyes. The thunders pealed and the lightnings flashed. &#8216;The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of Thy thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightning lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.&#8221; Psalm 77:17, 18 R.V.&#8221; <em>Patriarchs and Prophets</em> pp. 282, 283, 284, 287.</p>
<p>&#8220;And He took off their chariot wheels, so that they drove them with difficulty; and the Egyptians said, &#8216;Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.&#8217; Then the Lord said to Moses, &#8216;Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.&#8217; &#8221; Exodus 14:25-26 NKJV.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Egyptians were seized with confusion and dismay. Amid the wrath of the elements, in which they heard the voice of an angry God, they endeavored to retrace their steps and flee to the shore they had quitted. But Moses stretched out his rod, and the piled-up waters, hissing, roaring, and eager for their prey, rushed together and swallowed the Egyptian army in their black depths.</p>
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<p>&#8220;As morning broke it revealed to the multitudes of Israel all that remained of their mighty foes &#8212; the mail-clad bodies cast upon the shore. From the most terrible peril, one night had brought complete deliverance. That vast, helpless throng &#8212; bondmen unused to battle, women, children, and cattle, with the sea before them, and the mighty armies of Egypt pressing behind &#8212; had seen their path opened through the waters and their enemies overwhelmed in the moment of expected triumph. Jehovah alone had brought them deliverance, and to Him their hearts were turned in gratitude and faith. Their emotion found utterance in songs of praise. The Spirit of God rested upon Moses, and he led the people in a triumphant anthem of thanksgiving, the earliest and one of the most sublime that are known to man.</p>
<p>&#8216;I will sing unto Jehovah, for He hath triumphed gloriously;<br />
The horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.<br />
The Lord is my strength and my song, and He is become my salvation:<br />
This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father&#8217;s God, and I will exalt Him.<br />
The Lord is a man of war: Jehovah is His name.<br />
Pharaoh&#8217;s chariots and his host hath He cast into the sea:<br />
And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.<br />
The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.</p>
<p>Thy right hand, O Lord, is glorious in power.<br />
Thy right hand, O Lord, dasheth in pieces the enemy. . . .</p>
<p>Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods?<br />
Who is like Thee, glorious in holiness,<br />
Fearful in praises, doing wonders? . . .<br />
Thou in Thy mercy has led the people which Thou has redeemed:<br />
Thou has guided them in Thy strength to Thy holy habitation.</p>
<p>The peoples have heard, they tremble. . . .<br />
Terror and dred falleth upon them;<br />
By the greatness of Thine arm they are as still as a stone;<br />
Till Thy people pass over, O Lord, Till the people pass over which Thou hast purchased.<br />
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of Thine inheritance,<br />
The place, O Lord, which Thou hast made for Thee to dwell in.&#8217;</p>
<p>Exodus 15:1-17, R.V.</p>
<p>&#8220;Like the voice of the great deep, rose from the vast hosts of Israel that sublime ascription. It was taken up by the women of Israel, Miriam, the sister of Moses, leading the way, as they went forth with timbrel and dance. Far over desert and sea rang the joyous refrain, and the mountains re-echoed the words of their praise &#8212; &#8216;Sing ye to Jehovah, for He hath triumphed gloriously.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;This song and the great deliverance which it commemorates, made an impression never to be effaced from the memory of the Hebrew people. From age to age it was echoed by the prophets and singers of Israel, testifying that Jehovah is the strength and deliverance of those who trust in Him. That song does not belong to the Jewish people alone. It points forward to the destruction of all the foes of righteousness and the final victory of the Israel of God.&#8221; <em>Patriarchs and Prophets</em>, pp. 287-289.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement or Letter of Declaration on Creation Story as Literal 6 Day Creation by Brother Tom Wynn Jr. • I believe that God’s Word is not only inerrant, but that it is also clear to the learned and unlearned alike; that I affirm that when God reveals his mind—on creation or any other matter—he is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=numademan.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4091210&amp;post=889&amp;subd=numademan&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Statement or Letter of Declaration on Creation Story as Literal 6 Day Creation </strong></p>
<p><strong>by Brother Tom Wynn Jr.</strong></p>
<p>• I believe that God’s Word is not only inerrant, but that it is also clear to the learned and unlearned alike; that I affirm that when God reveals his mind—on creation or any other matter—he is quite capable of making his thoughts known in ordinary language that does not require extraordinary hermeneutical maneuvers for interpretation.</p>
<p>• Accordingly, I believe that when God revealed his creation as ex nihilo (out of nothing) and by the power of his word, and when he surrounded the six days of creation with such phrases as “the first day . . . the second day” and “evening” and “morning”—all phrases which would have been understood in their normal sense by Hebrews in the second millennium BC—that God himself intended to convey that the work of his creation spanned six ordinary days, followed by a seventh and non-continued day which also spanned 24 hours like the other six days.</p>
<p>• I believe that an accurate study of OT texts does not support the gap theory, the framework hypothesis, the analogical theory, or the day-age view. Indeed, I find the OT creation texts to be interpreted as normal days, and no passage demands that Genesis 1-2 be re-engineered to yield other interpretations. The long history of rabbinical commentary, the very dating of time by the Hebrew calendar, and orthodox Jewish thought so understands these texts to embrace only days of ordinary length.</p>
<p>• The NT church and Scriptures offered no revisions of this view, and nowhere do those texts themselves advocate framework or day-age views. I certainly believe that if the wording of Genesis 1-2 required clarification or modification away from the normal meaning of the Hebrew terms, God would so indicate in the text itself, as Ill as in NT treatments of Genesis 1-2.</p>
<p>• The earliest post-canonical commentaries either advocated a 24-hmy view of the days (e.g., Basil, Ambrose) or followed by Augmetine in a somewhat platonic scheme. Augmetine’s view, however, was that creation occurred instantaneously, and he nowhere enunciated a day-age view or a framework hypothesis.</p>
<p>• Until the Protestant Reformation, only two views Ire propagated: (1) the Augmetinian view (followed by Anselm and John Colet) and (2) the literal 24-hmy view (espoused by Aquinas, Lombard, and others).</p>
<p>• The magisterial Reformers (Luther, Calvin, and Beza) adopted a uniform view that of 24 hours and overtly repudiated the Augmetinian view.</p>
<p>• Prior to the West Minster Assembly, the leading Puritans (Ainsworth, Ames, Perkins) and others repudiated the Augmetinian view and taught a sequential, normal day view.</p>
<p>• Leading southern Presbyterians (such as ThornIll, Dabney and Girardeau) however, simultaneously resisted efforts to broaden the church on this point, as is documented in the Woodrow trial and decisions.</p>
<p>• Early in the Ninth century, numerous evangelicals — and some seminaries — became overly concessive to a secular cosmology, departing from the historic view expressed in the Churches standards on this subject.</p>
<p>• Some like me, at earlier times, are willing — due to love of the brethren and respect for esteemed teachers — to declare that the meaning of confessional language on this question was vague.   I am no longer able in good conscience to do so.  Both the normal meaning of the confessional phrases and the original intent as verified by other writings of the divines is now abundantly clear, with no evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>• Even the secular confidence in earlier cosmologies is declining in some areas around the world within the scientific communities.  Evolution is becoming known for what it is, a lie and a fraud.</p>
<p>• Therefore, I declare my view shares the exegesis of the Istminster divines that led them to affirm that God created all things “in the space of six days” by the word of his power. I also believe that this clear meaning of confessional language should be taught in my house and pulpit, and that departures from it should be properly safeguarded.</p>
<p>• Accordingly, I <strong>reject</strong> the following contemporary notions: (1) that John 5:17 teaches a continuing seventh day of creation; (2) that violent spiritual death entered the cosmos before the fall; (3) that ordinary providence was the only way that God governed and maintained the creation during the six days of creation; and (4) that Scripture is unclear in its meaning of “evening and morning” attached to the days of creation.</p>
<p>I admit that some Christians have been too lacks on this subject, and others have been too narrow.  Hence, I hope to enunciate in this statement a moderate, historic, and biblical position. Even should other fine men differ with me on this subject, I hereby announce my intent to remain faithful to the teaching of the Bible on this subject matter.     <strong><em>To God alone be glory</em></strong><em>.</em></p>
<p><strong>TWjr Nu-Made Man Ministries &amp; International Missions 2003</strong></p>
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