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7/27/2020 8:14 AM |
James Thomas | | | |
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Bro QC, It's my pleasure to share what I've been shone. One of the more helpful lenses that can be tested out is that biblical figures typically remain constant through Scripture. Once a clear definition is found in one place, put it to the test in the other mentions in Scripture and sometimes you may find more than what your looking for. Like here. Are Babylon and Jerusalem two different places or is Babylon simply figured as Jerusalem under the curse? Jer 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, Jer 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; I haven't yet found a better way to identify the figures mentioned in the Revelation other than to look back into Scripture where those same figures are also mentioned and expounded upon. Anyway, Thanks for listening to me ramble a bit. |
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7/26/2020 8:20 AM |
James Thomas | | Fla | | | |
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The Quiet Christian wrote: the curtailing of economic activity by those who do not have the mark of the beast. Here's a different perspective on this subject. Consider that there is an economy found in Scripture that has the currency being that of righteousness. Prov 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Isa 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Everyone that thirsts for righteousness. (See Matt. 5:6.) The waters being the Living waters as described in Jer. 2:13 as well as John 4. Isa 55:2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Labor that satisfieth not? Sounds like works of self righteousness. The beast received power from the dragon per Rev 13:4, so why not search out where else dragons are spoken of. Deut. 32:33 "Their" wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. Who's the "their" that are figuratively tied to dragons and asps? |
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7/24/2020 9:39 AM |
James Thomas | | | |
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Good question Mike. Here's also something worth considering. Psalm 56 8 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. ----- HEB 12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. Both had tears yet One was accepted and the other rejected. |
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7/23/2020 2:12 PM |
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John UK wrote: James, it is always helpful, thank you. If you are willing, can you give personal testimony of weeping in prayer yourself, or is that a rarity, or something that never happens, or something that happens now and again? Are you by nature an emotional sort of character? Or was that sort of thing knocked out of you by your parents or severe illness? Okay if you don't want to say, no pressure. Just as an example, there are many of us praying for the Quiet Brother's wife who was diagnosed with cancer. Did you weep yourself while praying or not? When I prayed I did not weep, that is my testimony. I've wept many times in prayer John. I'm not necessarily emotional by nature but there are times I can be. When I pray for QC, I simply ask God to see them though the trial they have before them and that they may be stronger because of it. After all, that is the purpose of trials if we really stop and think about it. I think its always helpful to search out a term cover to cover and read the context just to see how its used and then we can discern the meaning of the tears. Reason I say that is Esau had tears, but they were of no use. |
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