I have a dream today ... I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go several countries across the world. With the faith of Jesus we will build upon the cornerstone the temple of the Lord. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nations into the beautiful symphony Philadelphia brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to face opposition together, to preach freedom together, knowing that we are sons and daughters of a tender Father who does not use any principle of force, violence and death.
We choose to go to build the temple of the Lord. We choose to go to build the temple of the Lord in the next 25 years and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are promised, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
What is God really like? Jesus came to this world to reveal the character of God. He is the perfect expression of Him. Jesus said to Philip in John 14:9 "If you have seen me you have seen the Father."
In the first 4 books of the New Testament we are shown the first image of God and it is this picture that we will use to explain all the stories of the Bible that appear to give us a different picture.
This video is from the book called Agape.
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This part 1 of 24 in the series.
The condemning power of Satan would lead him to institute a theory of justice inconsistent with mercy. He claims to be officiating as the voice and power of God, claims that his decisions are justice, are pure and without fault. Thus he takes his position on the judgment seat and declares that his counsels are infallible. Here his merciless justice comes in, a counterfeit of justice, abhorrent to God. {CTr 11.4}
It was generally believed by the Jews that sin is punished in this life. Every affliction was regarded as the penalty of some wrongdoing, either of the sufferer himself or of his parents. It is true that all suffering results from the transgression of God’s law, but this truth had become perverted. Satan, the author of sin and all its results, had led men to look upon disease and death as proceeding from God,—as punishment arbitrarily inflicted on account of sin. Hence one upon whom some great affliction or calamity had fallen had the additional burden of being regarded as a great sinner. – {DA 471.1}
These two foundations ( Identity Wars/Divine Pattern) are old lights made new for us, I believe with them it will lead us to a better understanding of the covenants and the 1888 message. Mainly it helped me in prayers to ask God to bless me with a spirit of meekness and submission towards others without harming my integrity and freedom of conscience. The covenants were eye opening and now I'm free of the dispensationalism that has plague Christianity since Augustine. This too I studied to make sure what was taught through TRSC and MM was correct regarding this issue and the weight of evidence leans that the covenants are 2 personal experiences in the heart of the individual that are ongoing until total victory over unbelief, sin and character blemishes are cleansed through the Spirit of God. As the Bible and Ellen White said the new birth is a process; the human heart is desperately wicked and deceitful, and so it makes sense that it is a process. Just like the literal birth, it takes time to learn to crawl, walk, talk, etc..
Mat 26:37-38: "And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me."
The Atonement Ark of Safety
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Over the past few months we have been studying and discussing the subject of the atonement in the context of the character of God, the sacrificial system and the actual penalty of sin. This study process culminated in the two presentations called:
As in the Days of Noah
The Atonement, The Identity of the Son and the Character of God
With a deep sense of wonder and joy we discovered that the gopher wood that the ark was made from is the Hebrew root word for the word brimstone in Isa 30:33.
Isa 30:33 …the breath of the LORD, like a stream of <
Gen 1:26 tells us that man was given dominion over the earth. Man is made of the dust of the earth. What is the relationship between man and the earth. God has established eternal laws in nature and when man rebels against God, nature will reflect this rebellion towards man in the same manner. This has implications for the destruction in the flood and the fire that comes at the end of time.
The year 2017 is drawing to a close. We thank the Lord for the wonderful things He has shown us and done for us over this year. Our Last News Letter was sent in May this year. Since that time we have been travelling and preaching in several countries sharing the message of the Father and Son and their character of Love and the times they especially desire to meet with us.
The goats identify their characters with that of Satan and therefore they share his fate. In this fire they all suffer according to the measure of their experience of God’s merciful character. This is why many will die quickly and other will suffer much more. When all of them have died, then the physical fire, which is the outer expression of the spiritual fire, will cleanse the earth. This is what we learn from the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was tormented physically but He died because of what sin does to everyone by hiding the Fathers merciful face. So in the day when the antitypical scapegoat with all his followers are sent in the wilderness to bear their iniquities, then it will be clear for EVERYONE that God’s judgments are righteous and do not require arbitrary intervention which is contrary to the law that governs the universe. God destroys no man but every man that is destroyed will have done so through his own actions. When those actions are revealed in the light of God’s merciful character the guilt of their selfishness will crush out their life.
