Category: Scripture Notes
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Truth from Israel
Will the time come again that truth will reminder from the children of Israel moreso than from Christianity among the gentiles? I certainly don’t know that but it could very well happen.
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Different plans
The Lord did not have the same plan for all people. Some heard Him during His mortal life. Others heard Him after His resurrection. Others would not hear Him directly but only through the Holy Ghost. While the paths were not uniform they were all fully capable of bringing people to exaltation.
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The beam in thine own eye
Reading that this time made me think of the Love Dare and how going through that refocused me not on what Laura could do better or how to love her despite her faults—I discovered that loving someone is based on drawing ourselves closer to Christ so that we see as He sees and have more…
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Israel united
The prophecy of Ezekiel is that all of Israel, not just the Jews, will be united in the land of their inheritance. Not only that, but they shall not displace the streamers that dwell among them. We have a ways to go yet.
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A prophet’s role
The role of the prophet is to earn the people as a watchman on the tower. If he warns then he will be free of guilt if they do not heed. If he fails to warn he will answer for their guilt It is also interesting that the Lord has Ezekiel explicitly say that while…
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The calling of Ezekiel
This is interesting. As i read the first part of the book of Ezekiel I wonder if I have ever read it before. I know aí have but I have no recollection of it
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Notice the focal point
Of an the things said in the Lord’s prayer, the one that Christ drew attention to was the plea to “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” And the part of that which He emphasized was that if we do not forgive our debtors it is unreasonable to expect God to forgive our…
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Old to new
The message he Christ is that the old law is completed and the new law is more pure than the old law was.
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He who should come
How did all the people who were there know that Christ “was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come”? Did they all know the scriptures that well? I can’t believe that. I’m confident that they were all able to testify not just from their period knowledge but from the witness…
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Experiencing sorrow
It has been several years since I have read in Lamentations and it has never really made any sense to me before. This time I feel like I can understand the sentiments of sorrow and feeling utterly forsaken and bereft. I wonder if it is necessary to experience those things in some form to fully…