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This is Barbara Deter and I just wanted to say thank you for the encouragement you gave to me and to all the mothers proud of you. Praying for God’s blessing and your ministry.

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Good morning Grace! Joining from Florida 🌞

Great message about Our advocate Holy Spirit. The handout is chock full of good nuggets and explanation

What a blessed Assurance

JESUS NEVER PROMISED A RAPTURE TO HEAVEN! HIS FOLLOWERS BELIEVED HE WOULD GIVE THEM A NEW NATION! BUT JESUS, HIMSELF, ONLY TALKED ABOUT CHANGING PEOPLE! If someone actually takes the time to read the Jewish Prophets and the Canonical Gospels of the Christian Bible, it should be clear most of the Jewish people in Jesus' day were hoping for one thing--a new, independent nation of Israel. That's what Jesus' followers thought he, as the promised Messiah, would bring about. But you would never get that from what today's "bible-believing" Christians say! Probably because they don't actually read the Bible they're always toting around, they have some crazy idea that Jesus came to "rapture" them to a Heaven somewhere! Now, this idea about a Rapture to Heaven comes from a really bad interpretation of something Paul the Apostle said concerning how the Messiah would gather God's people to Jerusalem upon his coming and the Great Citizenship Hearing, otherwise known as the Judgment Day. In his first letter to the Christians in Thessaloniki, the Apostle Paul makes it clear he believed God would miraculously fly them TO JERUSALEM (not Heaven) through the air (I Thes. 4:17)! However, the Jewish prophets were not that specific in terms of exactly how the Messiah would get his people to Judea. Perhaps, they're just going to take commercial airline flights! What is clear is that, prophets like Isaiah (11:12) said the Messiah would get them back to their homeland somehow: "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth." Most of the Jews of Jesus' day also believed the Messiah, after his return to oust the Romans, he would then hold a citizenship hearing--Judgment Day--to make it clear who is worthy of becoming a citizen in the new, Jewish government (that will be called "The Kingdom of God") and who will not, at least not to begin with! This would be obvious to Christians if they ever bothered to read the Jewish Prophets, but for all the bible toting they do, 99.9% of them have never once read through a single one of them...and of the few who did, they couldn't understand a word they said because they were using a bible written in Old English! In fact, they don't even read the Canonical Gospels! If they did, they'd know just how important is was to most of the Jews of Jesus' day to regain independence from Rome. Just to cite a few examples, Luke 2: 25 has a man named Simeon who "was waiting for the consolation of Israel"! In Luke 2:38, a certain Anna tells "all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem" about Baby Jesus. James and John wanted Jesus to promise they would get the two best jobs (not a couple of Lazy-Boys) when he, as the Messiah, sets up the new government (Mark 10:37). The promise of a restored Israel, as a literal, earthly nation, is ALL over the Bible! But you have to take the dispensationalist Doctrine Goggles off to see it! There is just one rub here--Did Jesus, himself, really believe in all the stuff about a new nation for the Jews? Again, if one actually reads the Gospels carefully, like Luke, Chapter 17, it would appear that he did not! Instead, Jesus' definition of the "Kingdom of God" was not about an earthly government (and certainly not about some Heaven in a spirit realm), but a place inside the minds and hearts of PEOPLE! Rick Lannoye, author of www.amazon.com/Real-Life-Jesus-Nazareth-Really-Stood-ebook/dp/B09V4BJ62D Are you or someone you care about a victim of Bible Abuse? Get help at ricklannoye.com/contact