-James
4:15 How can I be sure the Lord is with me?
1Samuel
3:19,20 "And Samuel grew and the Lord was with him and did let none
of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel
from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet
of the Lord."
If you have the same loving
nature in you that Christ
himself has, then you can be sure that He is more than just
with
you. You'll know that your
body is a device the Creator-God made for you to use and you'll know
also that you are part of a body of others: Ephesians
3:14,15.
-1Peter
3:19 Does this mean that after death some or maybe all persons go into
a sort of prison?
The word 'prison' means 'a
place of guarding'; 'watched over'. The Greek.(original
language of the
New
Testament).word.(phulake).used
for 'prison,' denotes a
place of custody, not a place of punishment for those not knowing the
Creator, for they can't know Him unless
He calls them.
These spirits, the souls
of those physical humans back then.(1Peter
3:20, just below).were
disobedient. Because God makes
up His plan for humanity as things go along, He decided that He had
enough of humanity's drifting into increased wickedness:.Genesis
6:5-8, 11-13.
It's like us today. We are
out of the standard of high consciousness that Creator-God is in when we
are daily existing using our egos. The ego
is a prison which wants to retain its inmates. There is a way out:.Romans
7:24,25.
1Peter
3:20 states why they were held in 'prison'. The time of their disobedience
is stated. It was while the ark was being prepared for the
great flood.
There were only a few good
non corrupt
people around back then, called "preachers of righteousness".(2Peter
2:5,7,8), not enough of them to
reach everybody with a message of why the flood was to occur to the unGodly.
After their physical termination, what
we call death, those having died in the flood were preached to by the One
who later became Emmanuel.
Creator-God wanted them to know why they were gotten rid of, so they could
learn something which when applied would improve them for their next
go-around, so that they would be aware of a better way of living than
the ego level which led to their demise.
Being aware is one thing, but applying to their lives the
higher principles of God, is quite
another. Will they do it this time around.
It was not God's time for
the world then to descend into such depravity.
The evil spirits working behind
the scenes back then, as today, wrongly influenced humanity, as they
always do, people, with their wickedness brought God to the point of destroying
the world. And that's the purpose of wickedness, to destroy humanity. Why?.Hebrews
2:7.
Have you ever started a project
and later scrapped it, only to begin it again in a different manner? This
was God's 'first crack' at humanity. God
makes
up His plan as things go along.
The depravity was perhaps
too quick, too widespread:.Genesis
6:5,7,11,13. Yet, conversely,
God always wants man to be aware that He.(God).will
never
coexist with anything unlike His nature, which
is love and in God's unbending resoluteness
to purity, we find such great love, such
as we humans have never heretofore comprehended.
And all this happened after
man's creation long before. God decided to destroy the world then by water.(Genesis
6:17).but
was patient for some time before it happened:.1Peter
3:20 "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein
few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
Just as He destroyed the
world back then by water and saved a few back then by water, so today,
He uses spiritual water to both
destroy the selfishness in man and saves those who are wiling to be, by
the continual flow of His spiritual water,
the
Holy Spirit.
The same thing would have
happened much sooner again, however many of these spirits that worked their
evil back then in people, have been under constant guard, slowing down
the depravity,
discontentment
and tribulation that is to be here.(unless
things change).just
before Christ's return:.Matthew
24:37 "But as the days of Noe.(Noah).were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Isaiah
13:5-22.
A type of the end time swelling
of problems in society and the world occurred back then just before the
fall
of Jerusalem. His disciples asked Him about the signs just before the
end:.Matthew
24:3 "And as He sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto
him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall
be the sign of your coming and of the
end of the world?"
His answer for then and for
now.(as
verses
37-39 show):.Matthew
24:36 "But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only."
-2Peter
2:13 Re: those that riot in the day time.
Those that do obviously have
no time for spiritual concerns. They are into things that
control them and concerns
that bind them to the physical.
-1John
2:27 What does it mean."you
have no need that any man teach you"?
As the verse before.(1John
2:26).shows,
John wrote this regarding them that were seducing
others through deceit or wrong teachings.
John refers to this as antichrist. What was antichrist?
-1John
2:29 Just how are we to."do".righteousness
if righteousness is a gift.(Romans
5:17)?
The word here 'doeth', in
the original, can also be rendered into English as 'bring forth', 'cause',
'bear, etc. One brings forth righteousness
through belief.
-John
14:27.and
Matthew
10:34-36 What does it mean here."as
the world gives peace"?
How does the world give peace?
Peace to the
world, the world being those still in the
mass mind of humanity, comes with acquisition,
that is, when wants are continually satisfied, no matter how selfish they
may be and/or how much they may inconvenience or be injurious to another
in some way. Peace to those with the love
of the Great Infinite One in them comes from service to others, service
from a heart that puts another in importance, not deprecating
them in any way:.Philippians
2:3.
When there are enough
of us to affect the others in the collective consciousness of humanity,
peace will roll on in. All that's needed is a
critical mass, a tipping point, tipping toward the way of love.
Comprised with.Barnes
Notes: These verses in John 14:27 and in Matthew 10:34-36 are taken
from Micah 7:6. Christ did not here
mean to say that the object of his coming was to produce discord
and contention,
for he was the Prince of peace:.Isaiah
9:6; 11:6-9; Luke
2:14. He means to say that such would be one of the effects
of His coming, especially so, as people move into a higher consciousness
than what their family and friends may possess at the same time.
Christ came as
an example to follow, not as an enforcer
of peace, for God's principle is never
to override anyone and that's because it's character development, not
control of, that is most important to God.
In Matthew
10:34 it talks about Christ coming with a sword. How's
this work? And in Luke 12:49 it
speaks of Christ sending fire on the Earth.
One part of a family that
was opposed to him, would set themselves against those who believed in
him, as strikingly
happened during
the inquisition, where relatives of a family butchered
those who didn't agree with their religion. Religion
is often a reason for satanists
to divide We the People.
The wickedness of men is
the cause of this hostility.
It is unnecessary to say that no prophecy has been more strikingly fulfilled
and it will continue to be fulfilled, till all unite in peace.
-Psalms
34:19.Why
would the righteous have many afflictions as it says here?
The word."afflictions".means
'evils' in the original. So, why would the righteous have many evils?
The more light that is in
you.(Matthew
4:16;
6:22,23),
the deeper and sharper the shadow becomes, so you can clearly see your
dark side. You've got to know who you are and not play games with yourself.
How
to know your real self and how
to get rid of the dark side in you and or bothering you with negativities.
Just by witnessing your dark
side and how it can be influenced by demonic
broadcasting, just by being aware of it and not hiding from it as Adam
did.(Genesis
3:8-10), you dissipate
it. Awareness of it is the key. You shine light on the dark side when your
attention is on it.(Daniel
2:22; John 1:5),
not that you get into such dark things as though they were an addiction
to you, just that you are aware of what your dark side overall
is like and what's going on in your life; what have your life patterns
been up to now? It's an awareness of, not a fetish
toward.