tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113449312024-03-13T23:17:51.009-07:00ELIZABETH'S REALMElizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-71484921446461963152023-02-27T20:14:00.006-08:002023-02-28T10:54:43.974-08:00 Institutional Capture: How Religions Are Subverted & Coopted / Jesus Revolution: CIA, LSD & Lonnie Frisbee-Jesus People Psy0p<p>DOUBLE FEATURE (and three witnesses)</p><br />
Two of my favorite scholars<br /><br /><b>
Institutional Capture: How Religions Are Subverted, & Coopted</b>, Feb. 24, 2023<br />
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Rachel Wilson, who has done a good bit of investigation into subversive foundations and funding sources joins Jay Dyer to complement the last live stream they did on church subversion by state / intelligence agencies. They look at the agenda many of these "activists" use who are often overtly funded and aided by these foundations, think tanks, NGOs and academic centers for subversion.</i><br /><br />
Another important researcher:<div><br /><b>
Jesus Revolution: CIA, LSD & Lonnie Frisbee-Jesus People Psy0p, </b>Feb. 27, 2023<br />
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<b>Primary Sources Prove that the Entire 1960s Counterculture was Created by the CIA</b><br /><br />
<a href="https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html">https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html</a><br /><br />Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-24987896241119565152023-02-26T08:18:00.007-08:002023-11-08T13:11:03.729-08:00The Gathering <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNi-Lnh6vFvRK_0KCknbEaJVq5TmHaIjcirTu5hLXf0o0WU8pleqaKZVDlNF3lwUcyWwkJeRC4HhNupWJqq5bpZ94VZBVHCTRpvS-S436PvrZNqxFMnePIBAucSfzUuQY1YmeUdy-UTxv0-jxLPZYYvvqoKKGOkxXISO4ebP_wO7-kZVE/s716/READY.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNi-Lnh6vFvRK_0KCknbEaJVq5TmHaIjcirTu5hLXf0o0WU8pleqaKZVDlNF3lwUcyWwkJeRC4HhNupWJqq5bpZ94VZBVHCTRpvS-S436PvrZNqxFMnePIBAucSfzUuQY1YmeUdy-UTxv0-jxLPZYYvvqoKKGOkxXISO4ebP_wO7-kZVE/w263-h400/READY.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord has asked me to deliver one last authorized message to this group before I'm transferred to another mission field.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord asked me to express his concern that many of you are clinging to false doctrines such as the Davidic Servant / One Mighty and Strong, or thinking that you have to have to build Zion on the earth before the Lord appears in the clouds, and other misinterpretations of scripture which have been passed down to you by your forefathers, and which are preventing you from seeing, hearing, and knowing what the Lord is doing right now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He also wants people living near ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ and other ๐ด๐ฒ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ to please ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป to this message, I will address this issue near the end of this post.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Please begin by looking up the following scriptures - and as you continue to read, all of the additional scriptures cited:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Rev. 3:20, Matthew 24:30-31, 40-41, Luke 17:34, Isaiah 26:19-21, 1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, D&C 45:45, Luke 21:36</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord has stated in the scriptures that the sudden destruction (1 Thessalonians 5:3) that is coming upon the earth is greater than any of the previous destructions of the past, "unequaled from the beginning of the world until nowโand never to be equaled again," Matthew 24:21. See also, Mark 13:19.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Because of this difference in the level of destruction the Lord is about to gather those who have made themselves ready (Rev. 19:7), the repentant, and the pure in heart (D&C 45:54)into the air during the resurrection of the living and the dead in Christ because there will be no safe place for people to gather on the earth when the sudden destruction occurs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Jesus tells us that this gathering in the clouds is going to take place on an ordinary day . Being an ordinary day demonstrates that this gathering is going to take place before the sudden destruction which has always been the pattern of all gatherings in scripture. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In Matthew 24: 37 - 38 Jesus says, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Luke 17: 26 - 27 records the same thing, "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Except in Luke Jesus adds one more illustration in verse 28, โIt was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After the sudden destruction people are not going to be eating or drinking. People are not going to be marrying or giving in marriage. Just as in Lot's day, after the sudden destruction people are not going to be, "buying and selling," or "planting and building." </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord tells us that when, "he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other" (Matthew 24:31) that it will be an ordinary day before the sudden destruction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He says, "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left." (Matthew 24: 40-41). In Luke 17:34 he says, "I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After the sudden destruction most people aren't going to have grain to grind or a safe place to grind it. After the sudden destruction most people aren't going to have a bed to sleep in, much less be able to sleep even if they did have a bed left at that point. Remember Jesus said this is going to be worse than any war or natural disaster that has ever happened before.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Old Testament and the New Testament give us the same order of events. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In the Old Testament Isaiah mentions the resurrection taking place before sudden destruction (Isaiah 26: 19-21):</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"But your dead will live, Lord; their bodies will riseโ let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joyโ your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead. Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed by. See, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose the blood shed on it; the earth will conceal its slain no longer."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians Paul mentions the resurrection immediately before he mentions the sudden destruction: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, โPeace and safety,โ destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape" (1 Thessalonians 4: 16 - 1 Thessalonians 5:3).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The "birth" of the dead Isaiah mentions is the same birth Paul mentions in 1 Thessalonians 5:3 and the same birth resulting from the labor pains spoken of by Jesus in Matthew 24: 8 and the same birth in Revelation 12: 5 to the manchild who is caught up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The same order of events is given in Doctrine and Covenants section 45, verse 45:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"But before the arm of the Lord shall fall, an angel shall sound his trump, and the saints that have slept shall come forth to meet me in the cloud," and again as Paul just stated, "the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air," (1 Thess. 4:17). As soon as the dead are resurrected then the living will immediately receive their glorified bodies:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed โ in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality," 1 Corinthians: 50-53. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">D&C 101 verses 11 and 13 says that at the time of his indignation, "they that have been scattered shall be gathered."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The first resurrection consists of three separate phases that differ in timing. You can learn more about these "harvests" If you study the Lord's appointed agricultural harvests and his other appointed times (moedim), as well as the temple symbolism in the Bible. All of these things have both practical and prophetic significance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Jesus said that the events He called birth pangs in the scriptures would be characteristic of the entire astronomical age (aiลnos, referring to the precession of the equinoxes - each age lasting roughly 2000 - 2100 years) not just a single generation at the end of the age (Matthew 24:6-8). In other words, the birth pangs / tribulation will be present throughout the age, but just as in the way life works in our own experience - as the end gets closer the birth pangs will become more frequent and more intense, like the labor pains of a pregnant woman.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Both Paul and Isaiah prophesied about this woman. This is the same woman in Revelation 12. The woman is the church. The child she gives birth to in the wilderness is the firstborn, the church of the firstborn, the firstfruits harvest, the first group of people to spiritually mature and ripe for harvest. When the manchild is "caught up" to God and his throne (Rev. 12:5) that is the resurrection of the Living and Dead in Christ (the morning of the first resurrection indicating further harvests later in the day). In Revelation 12 We see that the church is in the wilderness at the time of the Resurrection. This corresponds to Paul saying these things will not take place until after apostasy occurs (2 Thessalonians 2:3).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The woman left behind in the wilderness are the church members, "foolish virgins" who weren't ready when the Bridegroom came (Matthew 25:11-12). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Those who have made themselves ready (the Wise Virgins) will be "spared the hour of trial" (Revelation 3:20). This is the firstfruits harvest, the church of the Firstborn, or those "born again" first, the manchild, the morning of the first resurrection and correlates with the barley Harvest since barley ripens before wheat. They are the Bride of Christ, the Wise virgins. The Resurrected body is the wedding garment. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Barley is easily harvested by throwing it in the air. Historically, until the invention of modern machinery wheat is much more difficult and has to be beaten with a tribulum to be harvested. Grapes have to be crushed and have their juice (blood) spilled to be made into wine.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The harvest of those who must endure the hour of trial will continue after the sudden destruction (D&C 101: 1-9).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The group gathered in the air that Paul and Jesus speak of, are all changed into glorified beings in the twinkling of an eye and include people who are ALIVE at the time they meet the Lord in the air and do not have to wait for anything because after this they will be with the Lord from that point onwards. Paul, Isaiah, and Jesus all talk about this unexpected event taking place before the sudden destruction. John is describing a separate resurrection event that occurs after the sudden destruction. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It is an event that requires those that are part of John's resurrection group to wait for the last person who would lay down their life for having faith in Jesus by being beheaded. Those who are waiting under the altar also cry out to Jesus to avenge their deaths. This is very different from what Paul and Jesus describe. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The group in the resurrection John is describing does not allow for people who are alive. John's group are not immediately resurrected when the Lord appears in the clouds. John's group gather in the Lord's sacrificial altar which is in the outer court of the temple. John does not describe a sudden unexpected resurrection event the way that Jesus and Paul do (Rev. 6:9-10, Rev. 20:4). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After the sudden destruction (for those who did not die in their sins during the sudden destruction) the Lord will show mercy and give many people a second chance. After the Foolish Virgins have had time to repent, after others who didn't know of the Lord before the sudden destruction learn of him and repent, the Lord will send his resurrected army will come back to execute judgment, cleanse the earth, and to gather this next harvest (as prophesied in Isaiah). "Look! the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones!" (Jude 1:14). This is Ezekiel's Army of Dry Bones (Ezekiel 37:10). This is Joel's Army (Joel 2:11). This is also the quorum of the 144,000 (Revelation 7:4). They will do the "greater things" Jesus prophesied in John 14:12. This second gathering on the earth of those left behind (and who were given a second chance by the Lord) by resurrected beings is also prophesied in Isaiah. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This quorum is headed by the Davidic Servant and the One Mighty and Strong (Jesus Christ). They are also considered Davidic Servants and Ones Mighty and Strong because they are types of Christ and they are his agents on his errand. This is the meaning of "free agency." Agency is not merely free will. You can choose to be an agent of the creator or an agent of the destroyer. An agent is someone who agrees to do something for another party (the principal), subject to the control of the other party, and the other party (the principal) also agrees to the agreement. It simultaneously means the principal is bound (normally) by what the agent does, since the agent acts as if the principal were there him/herself. "...whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants, it is the same," D&C 1:38.</span></p>
[Yes, Joseph Smith is Messiah ben Ephraim / Messiah ben Joseph and A Davidic Servant, but he is subordinate to Jesus Christ, THE Davidic Servant. Anyone who spends one fraction of a second focusing more on Joseph Smith than Jesus Christ, anyone spending more time focusing on the return of Joseph Smith without giving far more attention to the return of Jesus Christ is at risk for incurring the wrath of a jealous God and being destroyed off the face of the earth according to the words of Jesus Christ in Exodus 20:5 and Exodus 34:14.]<br />
<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some of those left behind will be asked by the Lord to sacrifice their lives for him in order to be saved (the grape harvest, Rev. 14:17-20). Others he will have mercy on and send resurrected beings to bring them to places of safety which the Lord has prepared because they need more time to repent, to grow and mature so they can be harvested ( the wheat harvest). Both of these harvest groups (those who had to sacrifice their lives and those who were gathered to places of refuge will have their own harvest / resurrection at a later time (we might call this the afternoon of the first resurrection - but it will still be during what is considered the first resurrection).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The early Christians taught the same order of events as the scriptures cited above:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ephraim (306 AD โ 373 AD) was made a deacon in the church in Syria in 338 and later became the bishop of Nisibis. In his work, On The Last Times 2, he wrote:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">โ๐๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ (๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ), ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฎ. ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ค๐ค๐ถ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด? ๐๐ฉ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต, ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข๐ธ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ง๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ? ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ (๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต) ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ, ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด? ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด: โ๐๐ฐ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ!โ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cyprian (200 AD โ 258 AD) was Bishop of the church in Carthage:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">โ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ. ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐จ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ง, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฑ๐ธ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Irenaeus (130 A.D. โ 202 AD) was a bishop of the church in Lyons, France. He was an eyewitness to the Apostle John (who wrote the Book of Revelation) and a disciple of Polycarp, the first of the Apostle Johnโs disciples. in Against Heresies 5.29, he wrote:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด, ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ข๐ช๐ฅ, '๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ.โ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.'"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Note his use of the term โcaught upโ which is the very definition of "harpazo," which is translated as โcaught upโ in the King James translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐, ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฑ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">D&C 45:39 And it shall come to pass that ๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ต ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ข๐๐๐ก๐ forth for the great day of the Lord to come, even for the signs of the coming of the Son of Man.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Rev. 3:3 ๐๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I come upon you [If you will watch I will not come upon you as a thief and you will know what hour I come upon you). See also, "But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief," 1 Thessalonians 5:4.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ช๐๐ง๐๐, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man, Luke 21:36.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ๐ณ, D&C 45:44.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, โMy master is staying away a long time,' and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, Matthew 24:48-51.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐น๐ผ๐๐ฑ๐. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hebrews 11: 10 says that the architect and builder of Zion / the New Jerusalem is God. Hebrews 11:16 says, "he has prepared a city for them." Moses 7:62 says Zion is, "a place I shall prepare." In fact 4 Ezra says, "๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ป๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป'๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ in a place where the city of the Most High was to be revealed."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God, Hebrews 11:10.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Instead, they were longing for a better countryโa heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them, Hebrews 11:16.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, Hebrews 12:22-23.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">โฆto gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem, Moses 7:62.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฒ</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Because it is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand, 4 Ezra 8: 52.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป'๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Therefore I told you to go into the field where there was no foundation of any building, ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ก๐ข ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป'๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ in a place where the city of the Most High was to be revealed. 4 Ezra 10: 53-54.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The purpose of this post is to offer the reader a chance for a better resurrection (Hebrews 11:35) and to point out to the reader the scriptural instructions for how be spared the hour of trial (Rev. 3:20) in order to be spared pain and suffering that could otherwise be avoided through adherence to the instructions given in the scriptures. The purpose of this post is to help you to be ready and fully prepared for the Lord's gathering of his people in the clouds which is soon at hand. There are two more reasons why you want to be part of the Barley harvest and not wait until after the sudden destruction to be harvested.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป #๐ญ:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Those living near coastal areas or other precarious geographical locations.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord has more options for people not living in geographically precarious areas. If you close to the ocean such as the West Coast of the United States (where an unprecedented earthquake and tsunami have been prophesied to occur for many years now) there are only two options when the sudden destruction hits: be worthy to escape in the air, or die in your sins (Luke 21:36, Matthew 24:30-31, 40-41). Keep in mind that many innocents such as children and even pets (and perhaps many animals and other lifeforms) and the pure in heart who did not have the scriptures and did not know the Lord will be included in the gathering in the air (D&C 45:54). But if you have been given the scriptures then you are held to a much higher standard to obey them and be prepared, if not you will be judged much more harshly for not adhering to them. (I have also received personal revelation that some people who did not know the Lord and did not have the scriptures who die in certain areas with fewer options for the Lord to choose from may have the opportunity to be born in the Millennium and be taught properly from birth and be "resurrected" that way.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Now if you live in a less geographically precarious area when the sudden destruction hits then there is a greater chance that if you weren't ready to be gathered in the air that the Lord can show mercy on you despite your unrepented sins and give you more time to repent and grow and mature spiritually.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For over a decade now the Lord has been pouring out dreams and visions of his gathering to safety in the clouds and of the sudden destruction which will follow on thousands of ordinary people from every walk of life, as per Joel 2:28-29 and Amos 3:7.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are two examples:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">East Coast Tsunami and Earthquake, December 12, 2022</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2022/12/east-coast-tsunami-visiondream-december.html">https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2022/12/east-coast-tsunami-visiondream-december.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">West Coast Tsunami and Earthquake February 10, 2023</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2023/02/west-coast-tsunami-visiondream.html">https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2023/02/west-coast-tsunami-visiondream.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This week the Lord asked me to update this playlist of videos of dreams and visions given to thousands of ordinary people from diverse walks of life around the world for the past decade. All of the people in this playlist are NOT LDS, only one. I urge you to please listen to the testimonies of these people (who don't know each other and who don't know who I am) as a second witness that the Lord is providing for you before you make up your mind about this message the Lord has asked me to give you. If you want to know what the Lord is saying and doing right now please prayerfully consider these other testimonies independent of my own!!!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Many of the dreams and visions the Lord has given me have already been fulfilled and many others have already begun the process of fulfillment:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 1 (March 2013) My Dreams and Visions</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 2 (January 2017) Other People's Dreams and Visions<br /><br /><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Part 3 (December 2022) major UPDATE abt. the Jubilee year</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-update-on-2017-post-about-dreams.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-update-on-2017-post-about-dreams.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ป #๐ฎ</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">STRONG DELUSION is coming after the sudden destruction: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"...๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ด [๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด] ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ [๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ง๐ณ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด๐ต]. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐บ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด," 2 Thess. 2: 6-12.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The cryptocracy / ruling elite have been planning to coverup the disappearance of the first fruits for many years now. I have seen three main stories already at play and I feel inspired that even though each scenario is very different that all of these scenarios will be given in order to create cognitive dissonance and chaos. The first story will be that all of the people that disappeared were abducted by aliens. The second one is why the false idea of the "multi-verse" has been perpetuated - they will say that we have "jumped timelines" and that's why all the people disappeared. The third one you can read below:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/03/occult-elite-laying-groundwork-already.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/03/occult-elite-laying-groundwork-already.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Lord has authorized me to warn you that you don't have nearly as much time left to prepare to be gathered in the clouds with him as you think you do! The gathering and the sudden destruction are going to happen any day now! We are just about out of time!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-6838428992478961202023-02-22T21:40:00.012-08:002023-02-28T10:52:06.915-08:00Asbury - sign of Apostasy before the Lord's return<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: center;">CLICK on any PHOTO to enlarge</span></p><br />
<p>The point of this post is not the people who are attending but discerning the powers behind this event:</p><p></p><blockquote><i>"For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against the evil principalities and authorities of the unseen world, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, and against evil spirits in the the spirit world."</i> - Ephesians 6:12</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><i>The secret power of lawlessness is already at work</i>...(2 Thessalonians 2:7, see also Ephesians 2:2, 1 John 4:3)<br /><br />
<i>The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.</i> 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12<br /><br />
<i>For Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness?</i> 1 Corinthians 11:13-15.<br /><br /><i>
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
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โ<i>I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people</i>.โ<br /><br /><i>
Therefore</i>,<br /><br />
โ<i>Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you</i>.โ 2 Corinthians 6: 14-17<br /><br />
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This is a counterfeit. This is man-made. This is preparing the way for the antichrist to come on the scene. The antichrist spirit is a very religious spirit. We must always pray for discernment. We are instructed to "<b>test the spirits</b>" (1 John 4:1). This is a false spirit (Ephesians 2:2, 1 John 2:18). We are exhorted to, "fervently contend for the faith which was once [or originally] delivered unto the saints." Paul is talking here about the Doctrine of Christ. Nothing more. nothing less. There is no evidence that people are being convicted of sin resulting in broken hearts and contrite spirits at this so-called revival. They are promoting both more and less than the Doctrine of Christ. They are teaching and doing everything but the Doctrine of Christ. <i>"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed"</i> (Galatians 1:8).<br /><br />
The concept of revival preceding the Lord's return is not in the scriptures. The scriptures prophesy an apostasy before the Lord's return not revival (2 Thessalonians 2:3). The Lord's true church (according to his definition in the scriptures) is in the wilderness at the time of the Resurrection / his gathering his people to himself in the clouds (Rev. 3:20, Matthew 24:30-31, 40-41, Luke 17:34, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, Isaiah 26:19-21, D&C 45:45, Revelation 12:5, Luke 21:36) which is soon at hand. <br /><br />
This is not Joel 2:28-29. For one thing this scripture is not talking about the Holy Spirit just being generally poured out for no particular reason. This scripture is also not saying that the purpose of God's spirit being poured out during this prophesied time is for revival. The scripture states that when this particular prophesied instance of the Holy Spirit begins to be fulfilled that this results in dreams and visions not revival. The Holy Spirit is also not being poured out just for the sake of people having dreams and visions about any old subject. These Joel 2:28-29 dreams and visions that the Lord has been pouring out on thousands upon thousands of his servants for over a decade now have a very specific purpose. They are always about just one subject: warning and preparing people to be ready for the Resurrection / the Lord gathering his people to himself in the clouds / and the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. No one at this so-called revival is reporting dreams or visions of the Lord's soon return in the clouds to gather his people. No one in this so-called revival is warning people to watch for the Lord's return and to be ready as he commands (Matthew 25:10, D&C 45:39, Rev. 3:3, Luke 21:36, D&C 45:44 ). But for the actual servants of the Lord the fruit of these dreams and visions is that they are compelled to tell as many people as possible in order to warn others and prepare others as they have been prepared through these dreams and visions. Quite often the Lord even tells them to make a YouTube video and share the dream or the vision that way. But you will never see the national news covering the real move of God happening right now - these prophetic dreams and visions about the Lord's return being given to thousands of people around the world, unlike this so-called revival which has gotten tons of attention from the mainstream media.<div><br /><div>(<i>You can view a number of Joel 2:28-29 dreams and visions here</i>:)</div><div><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a><br /><br />
Homosexuality is being promoted. The Ecumenical agenda (One World Religion) is being promoted. "Worship" is being led by LGBTQ+ students. This was also pre-planned contrary to the myth that's already being spun. You can find all of the documentation here:<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ijirRImyIKjUJ0BH-lQEad6TMbapVCBf-ljqag4oX6pHZSV7ztOAROpMd9PPFRIoVd-oCXbkugELRzOC6nMj9mlxSC1nL6s5q21dwJ-Nn-sM5zY-4-maNP16dKv3ZmJ8nKhOeCg4YTUvaR7Q6yUekudbHPJV_A6sUHkNIUvzKxxHc7E/s787/Asbury_Twitter_queer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="787" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ijirRImyIKjUJ0BH-lQEad6TMbapVCBf-ljqag4oX6pHZSV7ztOAROpMd9PPFRIoVd-oCXbkugELRzOC6nMj9mlxSC1nL6s5q21dwJ-Nn-sM5zY-4-maNP16dKv3ZmJ8nKhOeCg4YTUvaR7Q6yUekudbHPJV_A6sUHkNIUvzKxxHc7E/w400-h385/Asbury_Twitter_queer.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMztX1gtLpOdCVZWz-UO_kvOY1z_qKe2POH5V_ideq3OZnob6BnygiN-_BxMci8Qy7SrvPjtF8ghZ3FZiLQNJxhdw6Oz3wEYOo_pxvWJhTFaVB4qBewZX1Fs1BXPE_oidLgV6_lluRwRuGPboWnkB1WLP1Ossft8QOxKnvQtVhFmURvM/s797/Asbury_queer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="797" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheMztX1gtLpOdCVZWz-UO_kvOY1z_qKe2POH5V_ideq3OZnob6BnygiN-_BxMci8Qy7SrvPjtF8ghZ3FZiLQNJxhdw6Oz3wEYOo_pxvWJhTFaVB4qBewZX1Fs1BXPE_oidLgV6_lluRwRuGPboWnkB1WLP1Ossft8QOxKnvQtVhFmURvM/w400-h384/Asbury_queer.png" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90V4OGD7bap0F0a4iQYFS9w1u3jjUix5reztx85JAjucvK6Y6x3JGdtyFqQ-SnxHBzWGKCN-9J48AtKuwcwnqWu48UGKOFkVC-qQzZ3eki8VIfnGYAqYYOpx-AJ6g-wxhcgccFcNc_T0q9IcUQbN-avddrit56Kvp2RepTw-gnjLywpU/s1600/Asbury_elijah_tweet.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj90V4OGD7bap0F0a4iQYFS9w1u3jjUix5reztx85JAjucvK6Y6x3JGdtyFqQ-SnxHBzWGKCN-9J48AtKuwcwnqWu48UGKOFkVC-qQzZ3eki8VIfnGYAqYYOpx-AJ6g-wxhcgccFcNc_T0q9IcUQbN-avddrit56Kvp2RepTw-gnjLywpU/w400-h225/Asbury_elijah_tweet.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;">This man witnessed "faculty stopping" people from "trying to pray the gay away over students." Says people are repenting over sins such as "homophobia."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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Asbury "revival" Wikipedia entry</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>
What I witnessed this week at the Asbury revival</b> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">โ Baptist News Global<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Says, <i>"People speak of the Asbury revival as...ecumenical."</i><br /><br />
She also says, <i>"Queer persons long have been participants and leaders in revivals, although often closeted or later erased,"</i> and cites one of the first transgender people, Jemimah Wilkinson, as taking <i>"center stage"</i> in the revivals of the 1700s.
<br /><br />She also mentions similarities to Billy Graham:</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://archive.ph/Y9VAr">https://archive.ph/Y9VAr</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Billy Graham was a weaponized anthropologist and an agent of the Roman Catholic Church who also received funding from the CIA. It is a documented fact that Billy Graham was having people in attendance at his so-called revivals fill out cards with their contact information and then handing all of that information over to the Roman Catholic church.</div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Billy Graham Exposed, interview with Dr. Cathy Burns</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UnQsPd31Z-o">https://youtu.be/UnQsPd31Z-o</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Billy Graham and His Friends</i> by Dr. Cathy Burns (full audio book)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXUpJOQeR8&list=PLfhrpBK3BMYpRAmyBzxKdCd0iO9Jo6IuM&index=1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXUpJOQeR8&list=PLfhrpBK3BMYpRAmyBzxKdCd0iO9Jo6IuM&index=1</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Is The Asbury โRevivalโ A Real Revival?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Testimony of a skeptical man who attended Asbury (says he was saved a number of years ago at what he calls a fake revival):<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>And yet, just because some of us do not think itโs a revival doesnโt mean we believe God isnโt regenerating people at Asbury.<br /><br />
There are plenty of reasons why we should be concerned about some of whatโs happeningโor not happeningโat Asbury. But as I suggested earlier, I became a genuine Christian at a fake revival.<br /></i><br /></blockquote>
But he also testifies that contrary to the falsehood that this was a purely spontaneous event that it was actually pre-planned:</div>
<blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"The Asbury โrevivalโ started after a 10 am chapel service last week Wednesday when a group of about 20 students and the worship team said they felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to continue worship past the end of the chapel service.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>According to one of the students I talked to, a few hours later,<b> the president of the seminary sent an email to the students encouraging them visit the chapel </b>to join the 20 students on what he described as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Apparently 200 students arrived for worship at the chapel soon after..."</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://archive.ph/dWtEr">https://archive.ph/dWtEr</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This video shows documents demonstrating <b>Asbury has a long history of pre-planned "revivals" which usually take place in February</b>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Not A Good Sign At Asbury: When Todd Bentley And Queer Students Like Your Revival</i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qmjtH0uiYsE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">More documents demonstrating that this was pre-planned:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/EJs.Mobile.Detailing/posts/pfbid0RvW2a7ebg7XawWSQz3W58YrhPi65GGbvSVuerqPPL5QXzTamf6yagMaaoP1fHqK1l">https://www.facebook.com/EJs.Mobile.Detailing/posts/pfbid0RvW2a7ebg7XawWSQz3W58YrhPi65GGbvSVuerqPPL5QXzTamf6yagMaaoP1fHqK1l</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Very important short list of facts to consider:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0SoB7dPV8H3TZwBoDDRDP7qDJDjANXW5M7T4aHxPZzL5uYjxa2YmBdFGtWLtx1Z3vl&id=100001378623266">https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0SoB7dPV8H3TZwBoDDRDP7qDJDjANXW5M7T4aHxPZzL5uYjxa2YmBdFGtWLtx1Z3vl&id=100001378623266</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A short thought to consider:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mike.poirier1/posts/pfbid0D1KWXpAf4G5EHZtqjuCcPGQ6pBiLHsyYqN8kpnYqirxPEHazXuVJi9RURRq4DJWwl">https://www.facebook.com/mike.poirier1/posts/pfbid0D1KWXpAf4G5EHZtqjuCcPGQ6pBiLHsyYqN8kpnYqirxPEHazXuVJi9RURRq4DJWwl</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Asbury โRevivalโโLetter to the Editor Raises Concerns About Possible Pre-Planned Exploits</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=35804">https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=35804</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Good summary / analysis from a Biblical perspective about what's going on at Asbury</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://safeguardyoursoul.com/asbury-revival-real-or-false/">https://safeguardyoursoul.com/asbury-revival-real-or-false/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Eucharist is being served at Asbury</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/487637003384173/">https://www.facebook.com/reel/487637003384173/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Eucharist is unBiblical and anti-Christian</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://spirited-tech.com/2021/07/28/proof-the-roman-catholic-mass-is-unbiblical-and-anti-christian/">http://spirited-tech.com/2021/07/28/proof-the-roman-catholic-mass-is-unbiblical-and-anti-christian/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A Catholic who claims to have the Holy Spirit who is not convicted to obey Jesus Christ's commandment in Rev 18:4 to come out of the Roman Catholic church has a false spirit.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/jesus-was-right-next-to-me-asbury-revival-sets-catholics-on-fire-with-holy-spirit">https://www.detroitcatholic.com/news/jesus-was-right-next-to-me-asbury-revival-sets-catholics-on-fire-with-holy-spirit</a></div><br />
</div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b>SEE ALSO:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Institutional Capture: How Religions Are Subverted & Coopted, Feb. 24, 2023</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Jay Dyer and Rachel Wilson discuss church subversion by state / intelligence agencies and the agenda many "activists" use who are often overtly funded and aided by these alphabet agencies, foundations, think tanks, NGOs and academic centers for subversion,</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CzC5PriQLr0" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><i><br /><br />
Primary Sources Prove that the Entire 1960s Counterculture was Created by the CIA<br /><br />
<a href="https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html">https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html</a><br /><br />
<b>Jesus Revolution: CIA, LSD & Lonnie Frisbee-Jesus People Psy0p</b><br />
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7yUe2VYpbs8?start=1404" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-70897320147954146762023-02-16T14:40:00.977-08:002023-05-17T18:00:33.740-07:00My Testimony, The church of Brigham Young, Ezra Taft Benson, D&C 112, and the Scattering and Gathering of the House of Israel<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVkwc6oQYHFPpCxx8rM8PhXOC9VXT9gp07jevgzjmkWSvjg543lw-CwEmymmMN5Z_iMnT0tLWlqBvhi6URpLxgWacUGqi0zzp6vdQ2teRr8-O3JIHQVg9u-KZUq4ZE5L3YgXZN2-Do-KUkQyNaZGdhO1_NCP3isp3sP1i6BZu3_MvEG4/s609/Orwell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="529" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqVkwc6oQYHFPpCxx8rM8PhXOC9VXT9gp07jevgzjmkWSvjg543lw-CwEmymmMN5Z_iMnT0tLWlqBvhi6URpLxgWacUGqi0zzp6vdQ2teRr8-O3JIHQVg9u-KZUq4ZE5L3YgXZN2-Do-KUkQyNaZGdhO1_NCP3isp3sP1i6BZu3_MvEG4/w348-h400/Orwell.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Documents and Eyewitness Accounts of the Mormon Purge </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>1991 - 2014</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>UPDATE: A woman just contacted me and told me that it is her understanding that at least 5000-6000 people were excommunicated in Utah County alone.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG9KNgOwIQEdkQVyBPBNkIdYP6D7AIfLR12LGSQXDK8r_F_9aiZf3awHSgnOOipJixUQsCYALydlX2C00khIY7OrcbezIaaKyFsgPPhOz3TsDMysqaKXo3XfczZigv9T_nF2nb2rqm8wLWVCRYjRYnkzFsvofpJ1QSV6XFqw4Mj7De6Fw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="286" data-original-width="425" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhG9KNgOwIQEdkQVyBPBNkIdYP6D7AIfLR12LGSQXDK8r_F_9aiZf3awHSgnOOipJixUQsCYALydlX2C00khIY7OrcbezIaaKyFsgPPhOz3TsDMysqaKXo3XfczZigv9T_nF2nb2rqm8wLWVCRYjRYnkzFsvofpJ1QSV6XFqw4Mj7De6Fw=w640-h430" width="640" /></a></div>Kissinger and Scowcroft<br /><br /></i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">CORRECTED VERSION:</b></div><br />
The 1980s was a very narrow window of time that I feel was the best time to be in the LDS church, or to grow up in the LDS church.<br /><br />
it was a time when a lot of the things Brigham Young added to the church after the death of Joseph Smith were finally being removed.<br /><br />
The church was distancing itself from the Adam-God theory.<br /><br />
Blacks were once again eligible to hold priesthood offices.<br /><br />
In 1990 the grisly blood oaths were removed from the temple ceremony.<br /><br />
In the late 1960s and early '70s two new publications independent of the LDS church were born, <i>Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought</i> was founded in 1966 and <i>Sunstone</i> in 1974. These new forums for contemplation and scholarship coalesced with the appointment of <b>Leonard J. Arrington</b> as the first non-general authority since 1842 to be appointed as the official historian of the LDS church out of which the field of Mormon studies emerged.<br /><br />
This began the pre-internet search for truth independently of the LDS church leadership.<br /><br />
Leonard J. Arrington biography<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_J._Arrington">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_J._Arrington</a><br /><br />
Arrington's obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune<br /><a href="https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3988110&itype=CMSID">
https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3988110&itype=CMSID </a><br /><br />
One of the most pivotal moments of my life was the October 1984 General Conference just one month after starting my freshman year in high school. I was riveted when <b>Ezra Taft Benson</b> reminded us that the church was under condemnation and warned us that we had been treating the <i>Book of Mormon</i> lightly. <a href="https://archive.ph/o8hiH">https://archive.ph/o8hiH </a><br /><br />
One of the other highlights of my life was being able to attend a week-long EFY (Especially for Youth) at BYU in Provo in 1987, the summer between my junior and senior year in high school. I used to love the EFY soundtracks. One of the songs that year was called, <i>Like a Lighthouse</i> by Michael Webb. We were listening to it on tape all week but then near the end of the week we went to go see the artists perform some of their songs live. I remember near the end of the performance Michael Webb came on the stage and began singing, <i>Like a Lighthouse.</i> I remember the Spirit was so strong that everyone around me, myself included, was crying. My Bishop was sitting right next to me and he was crying. The next thing I knew everyone in that theater was balling their eyes out and all of sudden I knew that Jesus Christ was in that room. Not just the Holy Spirit but that he was, bodily, present in that room and I knew exactly where he was. I couldn't see him and yet I knew exactly where he was on the left side of the stage. I was so overwhelmed to experience him making his presence known in the most undeniable way. It was an experience that was way more than emotion. I could not deny that I knew that he was physically there during that song. It was one of the most powerful experiences of my life but I didn't say anything to anyone about and the concert ended and we went home a day or two after.<br /><br />
The next week we had a special fast and testimony meeting during Sacrament meeting so we could share our testimonies about EFY. The Bishop got up and started sharing his testimony about his experiences at EFY. Then he said that when Michael Webb came on the stage and started singing that song that he knew that Jesus Christ had entered that room and was not just spiritually present but physically present with us and he began crying so hard when he said that and I was crying so hard because I hadn't told anyone about my experience but to have a second witness provided for me like that just blew my mind because it helped reassure me that I was not imagining that experience. That second witness was just as much of a gift as that visit from the Savior, himself. So I got up and also provided a second witness from the pulpit that I had the exact same experience and that what the Bishop was saying was true.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1mebl3wV-ZFuz7YpyXBM9wy5Z67YjgBq1pilfTeXGMQR9K-_tp0VfzUWf2m2zTtDpJchNs2dck-iQhdrAxAbwPRRDkrOPxXX9_c7yPq72TGmstZls6nyZZ4QOK1wiFjy-UmEYfchanUyPg4R9DuDpgKfnu5rxHeoPXOCX_Of9Ip-m25U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1441" data-original-width="2048" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1mebl3wV-ZFuz7YpyXBM9wy5Z67YjgBq1pilfTeXGMQR9K-_tp0VfzUWf2m2zTtDpJchNs2dck-iQhdrAxAbwPRRDkrOPxXX9_c7yPq72TGmstZls6nyZZ4QOK1wiFjy-UmEYfchanUyPg4R9DuDpgKfnu5rxHeoPXOCX_Of9Ip-m25U=w400-h281" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />In the 1980s My father was part of the Mormon intellectual community and when I was in high school I used to borrow books from his library and periodicals such as <i>Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought</i>. My father's book collection also included numerous unpublished manuscripts before some of them were later published as books or articles. These included such documents as Paul Toscano's, <i>The Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood</i>, Margaret and Paul Toscano's <i>"The Missing Rib: The Forgotten Place of Queens and Priestesses in the Establishment of Zion."</i> Andrew Ehat's <i>The Words of Joseph Smith</i> (which demonstrated the numerous changes that Joseph F. Smith had made when allegedly publishing those same words as <i>"Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith"</i>), Andrew Ehat's Master's thesis, <i>โJoseph Smithโs Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question.โ</i> BH Roberts magnum opus, <i>The Way the Truth and the Life</i> (which had never been published in book form until 1994), A book-length manuscript of D. Michael Quinn's pre-publication research into 19th century American folk magic, investigations by other authors into the origins of the temple ceremonies, as well as investigations into the relationship between 19th century Mormons and freemasonry, as well as manuscripts by Hyrum Andrus among others.<br /><br />
My dad also owned a complete set of the <i>Journal of Discourses</i>, he owned most of Hugh Nibley's books and He also began collecting Avraham Gildeadi's books beginning with the first one published in 1988 when I was a senior in high school, and for the record I should also note that in the 1990s my parents and I loved studying <i>Book of Mormon</i> evidence that suggested that the <i>Book of Mormon</i> lands were within what are now the present-day borders of the United States.<br /><br />
Before the purge I was used to seeing the LDS church in the national news from elementary school to my mid-twenties. I was also accustomed to having some degree of involvement in some of those headlines, a theme that would continue throughout my life.<br /><br />
Beginning in 1984 as the <b>Mark Hoffman</b> situation began to unfold making national headlines even before any bombs had gone off. I remember my parents reading and discussing each news story as they were published week after week and how worried my mother was about the implications of these supposed new historical discoveries. There was tremendous overlap with the cast of characters and subject matter in both the Hoffman situation and the later purge, for instance Paul Toscano was a friend of Steven Christensen who was killed. Mormon history was involved.<br /><br />"The White Salamander Murders: Mark Hoffmanโs Discoveries Had Shaken the Mormon Church - Then a Bomb Went Off. And Then Another," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, April 5, 1987 <a href="https://archive.ph/0BBUD">https://archive.ph/0BBUD </a><br /><br />
If you haven't yet seen <i>Murder Among the Mormons</i> on Netflix I cannot recommend it highly enough.<br /><br />
I always tell people who are waking up to the re-writing of LDS history by Brigham Young and his cronies, that if Mark Hoffman could fool the best forensics experts of the twentieth century how much better could a 19th century forger?<br /><br />
In 1989 when I was 19 years old I found out that my mutual teacher, a neighbor and close friend of the family, was one of the victims of satanic ritual abuse interviewed by <b>Bishop Pace</b>, and although not interviewed, my mother was a survivor as well - most likely a generational one, as her mother, a Relief Society president, and temple worker, had Dissociative Identity Disorder and also abused my mother along with a group of unknown people. My mother's memories did not surface as a result of a therapist, some things she remembered since the time that they happened. Other memories that had been repressed such as the memory of a satanically distorted temple ceremony come back to her the first time she was endowed in the LDS temple. Later on in life, after I became a mother, this became the primary cause of a number of years of inactivity in the LDS Church for me because once I became a mother, I became fearful of bringing my young son to leave alone in a church classroom with people that I really didn't know.<br /><br />
A couple of years later In October 1991, the Pace memorandum was leaked to the press making national headlines. In his memo, Bishop Pace stated that he had met with sixty victims who had either recovered memories (or always had memories) of ritualistic abuse during their childhood, again my former mutual teacher having been one of them.<br /><br />
On July 4, 1992 <b>the Mormon Alliance</b> was formed. The purpose of the group was:<br /><br /><i>
to identify and document ecclesiastical/spiritual abuse, to promote healing and closure for its survivors, to build more sensitive leadership, to empower LDS members to participate with more authenticity in Mormonism, and to foster a healthier religious community.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://mormon-alliance.org/about.htm">
https://mormon-alliance.org/about.htm </a><br /><br />
in 1996 they published <b>the Pace memo</b> in their case files: <br /><br /><a href="https://mormon-alliance.org/SiteMap.htm">
https://mormon-alliance.org/SiteMap.htm </a><br /><br />
In August of 1992, due to the leak of the Pace memo the LDS church was forced to admit the existence of a Joseph McCarthy-style intelligence arm of the LDS church, the <b>Strengthening Church Members Committee</b>.<br /><br />"Secret Files," <i>New York Times</i>, August 22, 1992
<a href="https://archive.ph/eevlU">https://archive.ph/eevlU</a><br /><br />
"First Presidency Statement Cites Scriptural Mandate for Church Committee," <i>Church News Archives</i> August 22, 1992<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/hpsVA">
https://archive.ph/hpsVA </a><br /><br />
Within three months of the revelation of the SCMC, accusations of an LDS church "purge" began making the rounds of the wire services. The Associated Press wrote the following:<br /><br />
"Ultraconservatives Say Church is Purging Them," November 29, 1992, <a href="https://archive.ph/YFHtS">https://archive.ph/YFHtS </a><br /><br />
I don't think it's any coincidence that several months prior to accusations of a purge that amidst rumors of President Benson being drugged and muzzled by the other church leaders that <b>Gordon B. Hinkley</b> brought <b>General Brent Scowcroft</b> (the national security advisor to six U.S. presidents) to give a commencement speech where he mentioned the formation of a "<b>New World Order</b>" seven times. He also said, "You are graduating at a time when the world is going through the same sort of transition that you are in your personal lives. The world is moving from one historical era to another, and you are joining the world, as it were, at a period of dramatic change. Only 4 years ago when many or most of you began your studies here, the world was a very different place. In historical terms, change has taken place at an astonishing pace. It is this historical transition that I would like to discuss with you this afternoon."<br /><br />
In hindsight it is clear that it's no coincidence that a "historical transition" was taking place in the LDS church as well. As I was compiling this information it became very apparent to me how significant the The title of Scowcroft's commencement address is, <i>World in Transition</i>. I believe this is the key to understanding the timing of the purge. This was a transitionary time in American history and world history, which happened not coincidentally at the same time the Internet was just being rolled out. This was a huge coordinated effort on the part of those building a New World Order both inside and outside of the church.<br /><br />
"<i>Some believed he was being held hostage, and possibly drugged by his counselors.</i>"
<a href="https://archive.ph/AjvnQ">https://archive.ph/AjvnQ</a><br /><br /><b>
Scowcroft commencement speech</b>, April 23, 1992 (audio)<br /><a href="https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/brent-scowcroft/world-transition/">
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/brent-scowcroft/world-transition/</a><br /><br />
BYU removed the transcript but there is a very good <b>transcript</b> with highlighted key words and excellent commentary on the LDS Freedom Forum:<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/ROhg0">
https://archive.ph/ROhg0</a><br /><br /><b>
The Atlantic Council</b>'s obituary for Brent Scowcroft (a picture is worth a thousand words),<br />
August 7, 2020<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/7LWpv">
https://archive.ph/7LWpv</a><br /><br />
For those who missed the call to join the N W 0 the <b>Deseret News</b> resounded the call for anyone who missed it:<br /><br />"Scowcroft Says Now is Time to Help Shape World," <i>Deseret News</i>, Apr 24, 1992<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/QYDTS">
https://archive.ph/QYDTS</a><br /><br />
In the 1980s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Lynn_Pearson">Carol Lynn Pearson</a> had been on a number of national talk shows such as Phil Donahue discussing her book, "Goodbye. I Love You." She was well-known in the LDS church as a poet and a playwright and a songwriter. We were in the same ward in Walnut Creek, CA and Carol Lynn had been best friends with my mother's second cousin's wife when they were in high school. I was at the beginning of my study of women in the scriptures, the feminine divine in the scriptures as well as the lost and suppressed history and culture of women going back into pre-historic times. At the time Carol Lynn was touring with her play <a href="https://carollynnpearson.com/motherwovethemorning">Mother Wove the Morning</a> and hosting regular gatherings for Mormon women in her home.<br />
<br /><br />
I had one foot in the Mormon intellectual community and another foot in more conservative subcultures so I never supported 3rd wave feminism. I couldn't stand Gloria Steinem (who later turned out to be a CIA asset) and I was always opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment (aka the ERA) since I was and still am a Constitutional activist. At age 22 in 1992 I was the vice chairperson for the Libertarian party in Contra Costa County, CA.<br /><br />
In 1993 the Libertarian National Convention was held in Salt Lake City. In 1992 I'd been campaigning in San Francisco for the Libertarian Presidential ticket and in 1993 I was able to attend the Libertarian party national convention in Salt Lake City, synchronistically having moved to Provo from the Bay Area in 1993.<br /><br />
My parents were the same way. My dad was part of the Mormon intellectual community but he and my mom had also been members of the <b>John Birch Society</b> back in the day, and my mother still occasionally attended JBS meetings until the early 2000s.<br /><br />
Upon arriving in Utah I began a radio broadcasting internship at a Salt Lake City radio station called KTALK aka <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTKK">KTKK</a>.<br /><br />
That same year <b>Col. James "Bo" Gritz</b> was speaking at events in Salt Lake City such as the "Preparedness Expo" and teaching workshops called SPIKE Training which teaches self-sufficiency, self defense and survival skills. Gritz is probably best known for his role as a negotiator in the FBI siege on the Randy Weaver family at <b>Ruby Ridge</b> in 1992. Gritz was the real life model for the film <i>Rambo</i> and claims to have been the most highly decorated special forces officer in America and he was sharing his special forces skills with the masses. He was also a convert to the LDS church and he was running for President (although I still continued to support the Libertarian party and I didn't like some of the people that Gritz affiliated with). But that year in '93 I did do the SPIKE training with him in Salt Lake City.<br /><br />
SPIKE training<br />
<a href="https://www.spike-team.com">https://www.spike-team.com</a><br /><br />
Trailer for feature film documentary about Gritz<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/TIh1i-2WZb8">https://youtu.be/TIh1i-2WZb8</a><br /><br />
More biographical info re: Gritz' church membership, patriarchal blessing, and more (2021)<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/NDDee">https://archive.ph/NDDee</a><br /><br />
"Speaking Their Peace: Survivalists Sound Off LDS Zealots Muzzling Outspoken to Protect Tax Status, Gritz Says," <i>The Salt Lake Tribune</i>, January 22, 1993<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/Y468W">https://archive.ph/Y468W</a><br /><br />
"`Doomsday' Mormons Say Church Rejects Them," <i>The Chicago Tribune</i>, January 3, 1993<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/0Ft7y">
https://archive.ph/0Ft7y</a><br /><br />
Spring 1993 <b>Lavina Fielding Anderson</b> published a chronology of the history of the purge from the 1970s up to that point in 1993.<br /><br />
I think this is the most important article of all of the articles included in this study. <br /><br />
This is a play by play account of everyone involved in this, citing dates and names of both the accusers as well as the accused, and not just the historians and the feminists but Avraham Gileadi, Bo Gritz and everyone else involved in the purge who was a household name at the time.<br /><br />
This also documents the LDS church hypocritically breaking its own rules. <br /><br />
I also thought that this quote is extremely important. Lavina says:<br /><br /><i><blockquote>
We must protest, expose, and work against an internal espionage system that creates and maintains secret files on members of the church. If there were some attempt to maintain a full and complete recordโincluding the record of church service, the lives influenced for good, and the individual's spiritual strengthโI might feel differently. I might also feel differently if individuals had access to their files. But they are secretly maintained and seem to be exclusively accusatory in their content. I find such an activity unworthy in every way of the Church of Jesus Christ.</blockquote></i><br />
<a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf">https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V26N01_23.pdf</a> <br /><br />
Summer 1993 <i>Dialogue</i> publishes, <i>Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts</i> by D. Michael Quinn<br />
<a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/V26N02.pdf">https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/issues/V26N02.pdf</a><br /><br />
This is a play by play account of the conflicts that Benson encountered over the years while he was in church leadership.<br /><br />
I thought it was charitable of Quinn to include this statement:<br /><br /><i><blockquote>Despite their dissent, the politically moderate general authorities allowed Ezra Taft Benson to become an enduring hero of ultra-conservatives. It now seems uncharitable for the LDS hierarchy to punish Mormon "true believers" for emulating this apostle's thirty years of rejecting political moderation.</blockquote></i><br />
On the other hand Quinn tried to tie Ezra Taft Benson to a "spy ring" at BYU in the late '60s but years later Gary James Bergera published his investigation into the matter in the <i>Utah Historical Quarterly</i> and could find no proof that Benson was part of the spy ring.<br />
<a href="https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume79_2011_number2/s/10373893">https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume79_2011_number2/s/10373893</a><br /><br />
September 1993 "<b>the September Six</b>" was born.<br /><br />
"Six Facing Censure Accuse Mormon Church of Purge," <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, Sept. 18, 1993<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/0GAeL">https://archive.ph/0GAeL</a><br /><br />
Something else that took place in the early 90s in the Utah Mormon culture (and those of us outside of Utah in the Mormon diaspora) was that people were beginning to use the Internet to find and chat with like-minded people. It was also getting close to the end of the astronomical "age" of Pisces, referring to the precession of the equinoxes which Jesus referred to in the New Testament and as we got closer to the year 2000 people were feeling more inspired to prepare for his return and a desire to gather with like-minded Saints. A lot of people said they were feeling a spirit of gathering and felt inspired to move to Utah (I was one of them and moved there from 1993 - 1994). Other people were seeing the disconnect between the Book of Mormon and the Institutional LDS church and trying to go "back to the original" and sort things out. As people were sorting things out they were noticing the changes that had been made in the LDS church - changes to ordinances, such as the sacrament, as prophesied in Isaiah. They noticed that the Lectures on Faith had been removed from the Doctrine and Covenants. We were obtaining copies of documents such as the original <i>Book of Commandments</i> (which later became the Doctrine and Covenants) to see what changes had been made. We were seeking to identify what the <i>Lectures on Faith</i> call "the pure and unadulterated religion of heaven" and separate it from the false traditions in the LDS church. Many of us were studying the prophecies of <b>Bishop John Koyle</b> in Spanish Fork, Utah. which he prophesied around the turn of the 20th century. Many of us were also studying old documents such as <b>David Whitmer's, An Address to all Believers in Christ</b>.<br /><br />
Some really important books that really changed a lot of people's lives were very inexpensive and self-published.<br /><br />
One was called, <i>Back to The Original - The Restoration of The Dispensation of The Fullness of Times</i>, Part One (Edited by Givoah Ali), published in 1991. I was 21 years old and this was the first book I read that suggested that <b>Joseph Smith was not a polygamist</b> and actually fought polygamy. This was also an early attempt at separating the "<b>Doctrine of Christ</b>" and Jesus Christ's definition of his church as found in the scriptures from the man-made traditions of the LDS church. I still have a hard copy but it can be found online as well. It's definitely outdated but it is a wonderful relic of the quest for truth happening during that time period.<br />
<a href="http://backtotheoriginal.faithweb.com/ten.htm">http://backtotheoriginal.faithweb.com/ten.htm</a><br /><br />
Another one, published in 1993 was called, <i>Experiencing the Mighty Change</i>. I still have my original copy of that one as well but it's also since been posted online. This one was about the necessity of obtaining the <b>Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost</b> and how to obtain it.<br />
<a href="http://mightychangeofheart.com/etmc/intro/">http://mightychangeofheart.com/etmc/intro/</a><br /><br />
Beginning in December of 1993 to the Spring of 1994 the Lord gave a humble servant named <b>Donovan Bramwell </b>15 separate messages or "<b>Words from the Lord</b>" to publish online directed to both the LDS hierarchy and the general public pronouncing woes upon the LDS church if they don't repent and <b>prophesied that He would lead a remnant out of the LDS church who are "willing to be taught from on high</b>." In contrast to the Denver Snuffers and the Phil Davises and the Mauricio Berger's of today no one ever saw a picture of Donovan or knew anything about him because he never made it about himself. He was simply hearing and obeying the voice of the Lord. Three years later Donovan was excommunicated.<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/5f5fS">https://archive.ph/5f5fS</a><br /><br />
Approximately four months before Ezra Taft Benson died, <b>Avraham Gileadi</b>'s <i>The Literary Message of Isaiah</i> was first published on January 01, 1994.<br /><br />
My dad and I had already heard of Gileadi and his work prior to publication so my dad bought a copy as soon as it was hot off the press. As soon as my dad was finished reading it I borrowed it and never gave it back. After years of study it's still sitting in tatters on the bookshelf having just about been loved to death. The Lord has since shown me a couple of errors in Gileadi's work but regardless his work as a whole has been a great source of spiritual nourishment and inspiration to me as I was maturing in the Gospel.<div><br /></div><div>The <b>Davidic Servant</b> Error</div><div><a href="https://ldsanarchy.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/the-davidic-servant-error/">https://ldsanarchy.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/the-davidic-servant-error/</a><br /><br />
May 30, 1994 just a few days or weeks after my move from Provo to Salt Lake, Ezra Taft Benson dies in Salt Lake city. I remember video taping the funeral services and having that tape in my library for decades to come.<br /><br />
I am still a Constitutionalist but I no longer participate in party politics. I am still totally opposed to the UN, communism, socialism and just about every other "ism." However, over the past 10 years the Lord has shown me that most of these freedom oriented groups back in the day were often not what they appeared to be on the surface. One thing he showed me was the anti-Communist crusade back in the '50s and '60s was actually being used to get freedom-loving Americans to compromise Constitutional principles in order to justify the need for a police state. Another example that makes me suspicious about the JBS is that just like the now known CIA front, <i>National Review</i>, the JBS was also established in the same year, 1958, at the height of the CIAโs psychological warfare research and development phase and during the CIAโs creation of its <b>Operation Mockingbird</b> program, which would pave the way for the <b>CIA</b> to use the media for covert domestic and international psychological warfare. <b>John Birch</b> himself worked for U.S. intelligence through the Office of Strategic Services (<b>OSS</b>) and like <i>National Review</i>, it appears the JBSโ function may have been to homogenize the conservative movement and, eventually, the conspiracy community, into one manageable controlled opponent.<br /><br />
Regardless, Ezra Taft Benson did act as a prophet on many occasions. A prophet is not a title or an office. A prophet is as a prophet does. it s an action. a prophet warns a people or a nation of their apostasy and impending judgment. It's also not necessarily a 24 / 7 gig. They're a prophet when they are prophesying and the rest of the time they're an ordinary person.<br /><br />
If Paul (who saw the Resurrected Jesus Christ in person) says that he "saw through a dark glass" and that, "All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely" (1 Corinthians 13:12) how much more does this apply to Ezra Taft Benson?<br /><br />
But in his <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1984/10/a-new-witness-for-christ?lang=eng">October 1984 General Conference talk</a> he spoke truth to power, and I believed risked his life to do so. The Lord was definitely authorizing this "witness and a warning." That day He reminded the LDS church that according to the scriptures they were still under condemnation. That was in the same talk where he stated the need to return to "the Key Stone of our church," the <i>Book of Mormon</i>. I still remember feeling the Spirit so strongly. I've always felt blessed that I'd been privileged be a witness to that kind of history. He's a heroic figure not because he was perfect or knew everything, but in spite of not being perfect or knowing everything the Lord gave his final warning over the pulpit through that man.<br /><br />
Other prophetic acts he performed under divine inspiration included warning and testifying of the fundamental need to double-down on protecting the Constitution and our God given rights, and to identify and adhere to the "Proper Role of Government."<br /><br />
Under divine inspiration he gave us one of the best quotes of all time, "There is no conspiracy theory in the <i>Book of Mormon</i> โ it is a conspiracy fact.โ ("Civic Standards for the Faithful Saints," <i>Ensign</i>, p 59. July 1972)<br /><br />
In the April 1989 General Conference, four and a half years after his October 1984 talk, <i><a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1984/10/a-new-witness-for-christ?lang=eng">A New Witness for Christ</a></i> (where he warned that we were under condemnation and treating the Book of Mormon lightly), Thomas S. Monson read <a href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-church-ezra-taft-benson/chapter-10-flooding-the-earth-and-our-lives-with-the-book-of-mormon?lang=eng">a message from President Benson addressed to the children of the Church</a>. In this message, President Benson said:<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>I know you are reading the Book of Mormon, for I have received hundreds of personal letters from you telling me that you are reading this sacred book. It makes me weep for joy when I hear this.</i></blockquote><br />
I wish I had time to locate additional sources but I can tell you from experience and hearing from many people older than me that from the time of Brigham Young to the time of Ezra Taft Benson the Book of Mormon was not emphasized in the LDS church at all. It was not systematically taught and studied like it is now. It wasn't taken nearly as seriously until president Benson warned us that we were "treating it lightly."<br /><br />
The Lord was able to use President Benson as an instrument to change the lives of countless people for the better. This move of God was definitely a huge blessing to me.<br /><br />
On the other hand, prior to becoming President, Benson gave a talk at a 1980 BYU devotional called โ<a href="https://nathanrichardson.com/2014/07/fourteen-fundamentals-in-following-the-prophet-lesson-materials/">Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet</a>โ codifying the already-existing prophet worship in the LDS church to the level of <b>Papal Infallibility</b> and would make heretics out of anyone who followed his later counsel to take the <i>Book of Mormon</i> seriously. It's almost as if the Lord had divinely orchestrated this choice to see who gravitated toward which talk because these two talks are not compatible. One talk kept people in the church and one talk may very well have led some people out of it.<br /><br />
Then to make matters more confusing, forty years later no one still knows who actually started the Strengthening Church Members Committee. If you go online to try research who started it it's always linked to Ezra Taft Benson by pointing out that it began under his administration but there is absolutely no evidence online that can tie Benson directly to the organization. Under pressure, the church was forced to admit its existence in 1992 but it only identified <b>Russell M. Nelson</b> and <b>James E. Faust</b> as being active on the committee at the time.<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/hpsVA">https://archive.ph/hpsVA</a><br /><br />
As far as the purge itself goes it has since been <a href="https://www.mic.com/articles/64875/meet-the-mormons-kicked-out-of-the-church-for-being-feminists-and-freethinkers">documented</a> that the primary person responsible for the excommunications of the September 6 was <b>Boyd K. Packer</b>.<br /><br />
On June 6, 1994 The day after <b>Howard W. Hunter</b> became President of the Church he gave a talk titled, <i>Come Back and Feast at the Table of the Lord</i>, where he invited the purged and other disaffected church members back into the fold. Nine months later he was dead having served the shortest tenure of any president of the LDS church.<br /><br />
As the purge continued, BYU professor, <b>Hyrum Andrus</b> came under scrutiny for conducting scripture-based study and in private firesides and cottage meetings a wide variety of questions and subjects such as what is priesthood? the Holy Order, the second comforter, prophecy and the signs of the return of Jesus Christ, establishing a Zion society and more. Andrus was heavily pressured by the church leaders to stop his firesides and cottage meetings but a former assistant has dispelled the persistent rumors that Andrus was excommunicated.<br /><br />
One of Andrus' former research assistants, a woman named <b>Gaia</b> was on a number of the same invitation-only, private list-servs as myself and other well-known scholars and researchers back in the '90s.<br /><br />
She <a href="https://discussmormonism.com/viewtopic.php?p=2156535&sid=1ac934c3c5333622603bee8aa2a36d4a#p2156535">recounts</a>:<br /><br /><i><blockquote>
I was a research assistant to Andrus for several years during the publication of (what was to be) a four-volume "tour-de-force" work on the thoughts and teachings of Joseph Smith: "Foundations of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ."<br /><br />...I think it's important to note that while it's certainly true that his tendency to discuss controversial topics didn't exactly make him a favorite of the Brethren (especially of BR McConkie), Andrus was never excommunicated nor disfellowshipped.</blockquote></i><br /><br />
<b>Paul Toscano</b> was also a student assistant to Hyrum Andrus at BYU.<br /><br />
I certainly don't think that anyone mentioned in this video is perfect or knew everything there is to know about everything and I very much agree with <b>John Hajicek</b>'s recent critique of the so-called New Mormon History (which I will post a link to here for anyone who hasn't seen it yet)<br /><br />
John Hajicek, <i>A 3rd View of Mormonism</i><br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/ZSMQpE0hcVM">https://youtu.be/ZSMQpE0hcVM</a><br /><br />
But I think most of the people involved in the events cited here were sincere in their quest for truth and that many of them even those I disagree with had a sincere love for God and the Restoration.<br /><br />
I also think it's possible that a lot of people were inspired to conduct some very important research in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and aside from most of the so-called New Mormon History there were many lines of worthwhile inquiry that bore good fruit, such as looking at what the scriptures say priesthood is versus man-made LDS priesthood traditions, searching for the origins of the temple ceremonies, searching for the original words of Joseph Smith versus the heavily revised, <i>Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith</i>, etc.<br /><br />
These are some examples of Theological explorations that bore good fruit:<br /><br />
Paul Toscano, <i>Priesthood Concepts in the Book of Mormon</i><br /><a href="https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/074-08-17.pdf">
https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/074-08-17.pdf</a><br /><br />
Margaret Toscano, <i>If Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood since 1843, Why Aren't They Using It?</i><br /><a href="https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V27N02_231.pdf">
https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V27N02_231.pdf</a><br /><br />
Hyrum Andrus' research:<br /><a href="https://www.hyrumandrus.com/about/">
https://www.hyrumandrus.com/about/</a><br /><br />
In 1986 I began studying graduate level research every Sunday while I was in high school. This was the beginning of my participation in the Mormon intellectual community. A decade later, In the late 1990s I began to study religious studies, cultural anthropology, and archaeology in college and then at the graduate level.<br /><br />
I was invited to speak at the <b>Sunstone Symposium</b> four times between 2007 to 2012. In 2008 my path came full circle when <b>Margaret Toscano</b> chose to be the respondent to the paper I read that year, a paper that was later published as my master's thesis.<br /><br />
In 1995 the newspaper articles continued:<br /><br />
An article by Peggy Fletcher Stack in <i>The Salt Lake Tribune</i>, May 27, 1995, pg. D1 documented the spiritual and cultural milieu that was taking place at the time:<br /><br /><i><b>
DOOMSAYERS ARE HAVING THEIR SAY DOOMSAYE</b><br /><br />
Dozens of current and former Mormons say they are having visions, writing scripture, speaking in tongues and talking with angels.<br /><br />
Now these believers are trying to wake up humankind to its imminent demise.<br /><br />
โThe great cleansing of the Earth is about to begin,โ declared a large advertisement in Sundayโs Salt Lake Tribune. โIt will start with those who have been given the most light and yet deny his power among them.โ<br /><br />
The ad went on to urge people to โseek the spirit of God in their lives and to come out from under the bondage of relying on the arm of flesh,โ in preparation of a thousand-year reign by Jesus Christ, known as the millennium.<br /><br />
The $4,300 ad, which covered nearly three-quarters of a page, carried 75 signatures. It was placed by Mike Rigby, a 39-year-old Orem man who runs Modern Automated Publishing (M.A.P.) which specializes in life-after-death books.<br /><br />
But Rigby denies that he is the leader of any organized group or movement.<br /><br />
Rather, he insists, he is just one voice testifying of Godโs continuing spiritual gifts. Rigby said he, like many of those associated with the movement, has been excommunicated from the Mormon Church. But many more have not, he said.<br /><br />
Rigby said their revelations do not urge them to practice polygamy, stockpile weapons, escape to the mountains, attack the U.S. government, stop paying taxes or establish a church.<br /><br />
Rigbyโs sojourn with the supernatural began when he published Life in the World Unseen, a book purportedly dictated by Robert Hugh Benson, an Anglican priest who died in 1914.<br /><br />
The book describes the afterlife, allegedly from Bensonโs experience, Rigby said, and โit went along with LDS doctrine.โ<br /><br />
Benson could not reach โthe upper levels of heavenโ without the appropriate signs and symbols, Rigby said. So Rigby and his wife Carol went to the Mormon temple in Provo to perform vicarious temple rituals for Benson, including posthumous baptism into the Mormon Church.<br /><br />
The next morning, Rigby said, Benson and two of his friends โshowed up in our bedroom.<br /><br />
โIt was fascinating,โ he said.<br /><br />
For the first six months, Rigby said, he didnโt tell a soul of his otherworldly callers. Now he is ready to tell the world.<br /><br />
โWe are raising the consciousness of people,โ Rigby said this week. The destruction will begin in Utah with those Mormons โunwilling to accept additional light and truth.โ<br /><br />
That includes current members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as all the breakaway groups such as the polygamists of Manti lead by Jim Harmston, Rigby said.<br /><br />
People who hear his story want to join with him or form an organization.<br /><br />
โTheyโre coming from a system where the prophet tells them what to do and think,โ he said. โSo now they want a new leader.โ<br /><br />
But that is precisely the problem, said Rigby, who compares the movement to a colony of ants in which each ant performs a specific function and contributes to the whole without central leadership.<br /><br />
โThe curse of a prophet is depending on him rather than on oneโs own revelations,โ he said.<br /><br />
Rigby said he has been having daily exchanges with God and Jesus Christ for at least the past two years and in much of his life does only what God tells him to do โ like placing the ad. Someone else in the movement, he said, was likewise told to pay for it.<br /><br />
David Whitmer, a Sandy contractor and father of nine, claims to have had similar divine manifestations for the past 10 years. He also claims to have received sacred writings known to Mormons as โthe sealed portion of the Book of Mormon.โ<br /><br />
Mormons believe that founder Joseph Smith was commanded by God not to translate all the writing on the gold plates he received from a heavenly messenger.<br /><br />
Together, Rigby and Whitmer produced Sacred Scripture, which includes writings they purport are from the Old Testament prophet Abraham and the Mormon prophet Moroni.<br /><br />
They sell the book for cost, Rigby said.<br /><br />
Not everyone finds in the new scripture additional light and truth, however.<br /><br />
John Muir of Davis County said much of the book is โfilled with expanded and fanciful accounts of old prophets like Abraham, Adam, and some new Nimrod.โ<br /><br />
The book promises but fails to โreveal things of the future,โ Muir said. In addition, Muir noted several passages describing the prophet Abraham dancing naked with several of his wives.<br /><br />
This work claims to celebrate โsome kind of holy ravishmentโ where the enlightened few โexpend fluids into the waiting mouths of those who want to be filled with the light and holiness of the power of God,โ Muir said. โThis sounds like an orgy to me.โ<br /><br />
Jenet Hansen, who signed the ad, said the passages to which Muir was referring were โfrom Abrahamโs personal diary and that was his experience, not ours.<br /><br />
โGod only gives us what is for our highest good,โ she said. โI donโt believe in a God who has any need for sexual perversions.โ<br /><br />
All the adโs signers want to do is share their spiritual experiences, Rigby said.<br /><br />
โGod and Jesus are getting ready to divide the sheep from the goats,โ Rigby said. The criterion is not church membership, but โwhatโs in your heart.โ</i><br /><br />
At 24 years old I was one of the 75 signers of the 3/4 page ad that was put in the <i>Salt Lake Tribune</i> titled: <div><br /></div><div><b>A WITNESS, A WARNING, AND A BLESSING</b><br /><i>
Salt Lake Tribune</i>, May 21, 1995<br /><br /><i>
Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people: That we the undersigned, through the grace of God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ do declare that the work of the Father has now commenced upon the earth. And this work is a work of love and of gathering into one body all nationalities of the world, regardless of race, color, or religious affiliation. We declare with words of soberness that angels have ministered unto many of us and have brought into the light of this day many sacred scriptural writings which have been withheld from man that they might come forth to a pure and believing generation, even portions of the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon, which portion is a testimony of the Father and the Son and their love for all the generations of mankind.
<br /><br />
And He has shown unto us that the great cleansing of the earth is about to begin, and that it will start with those who have been given the most light and yet deny His power among them. We have seen that it will start with his own house being set in order and then shall commence forth until it shall fill the whole earth. We plead unto all men and women everywhere to seek the Spirit of God in their lives and to come out from under the bondage of relying on the arm of flesh. Listen and do His promptings and seek His face continually without putting your trust in man. We who have bound ourselves together with God do not put one man above another, and there is no appointed leader among us. We hold all things in common and are given by God to know the needs of each individual as they arise.<br /><br />
All of the gifts of the Spirit (healings, visions, prophesying, speaking in tongues, and interpretations of tongues) are manifest among us, for God cannot withhold them when we unitedly seek His will and do it in all things.
<br /><br />
And now we declare unto the world that this work and way of life shall be that order which shall proceed for a thousand years when Christ shall reign as King of kings and Lord of lords. And glory and honor and power be to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which is one God. Amen.
</i><br /><br />
Looking back, I think that this was a real move of God, or at least a real <b>grassroots movement</b> but one thing I learned from back in those days was that every time the Lord begins to pour out his Spirit or make a move that the Adversary will send counterfeits and deception like a flood to muddy the waters so that finding truth in that situation will be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. In the end, <b>Mike Rigby</b> and <b>David Whitmer</b> were deceived about those new "scriptures" they were discovering but at least they weren't trying to organize a group or make things about them. They and many other people were both searching for further light and truth and trying to excavate what Joseph Smith restored and separate it from all the things that Brigham Young added to it and in that process people were beginning to identify what Jesus Christ referred to in the scriptures as his doctrine and Jesus Christ's definition of his church versus the LDS definition of their church.<br /><br />
The primary message that I remember being preached in the early to mid-nineties by so many of these independent-minded Mormons, and what so many of us discovered in our studies, was the the primary goal of the restored gospel was was to obtain a personal manifestation of Jesus Christ and after that do whatever he tells you to do, and that the only way to hear and obey the voice of the Lord was to first obtain the <b>Baptism of the Holy Ghost</b>.<br /><br />
We noticed that these things had always been in the scriptures and had even been taught by the LDS church until about the mid-nineties , it's just that they would teach one thing but then do another. These truth's had always been present in the LDS church up to that time but so many things had been added to it that we had to excavate it from all of the traditions of men and the doctrines of devils that had been added to it to muddy the water. This led many of us were to hope and pray for years that the Lord would "set his church in order." But that was before I realized that Christ's definition of his church and the LDS definition of Christ's church are two different things and if we are talking about Christ's actual church according to his definition, then that church has never been out of order.<br /><br />
This leads me to speak for a moment about my concern for the younger generation that came up after me in the LDS church because I've been concerned that after the purge that the younger generation would become prey to the <b>Denver Snuffer</b>s, <b>Phil Davis</b>es and <b>Mauricio Berger</b>s of the world. I think its entirely possible that some or all of these individuals and organizations were created by the LDS church knowing that as the church continued to integrate itself into the N W 0 that more and more people would continue to become disaffected and begin to jump from the frying pan into the fire and it feels entirely possible to me that they may have created an assortment of frying pans to catch as many of those people as possible and keep them in the fold (of course without people realizing they may well still be in that fold).<br /><br />
SEE:<br />
<b>Institutional Capture: How Religions Are Subverted & Coopted</b>, Feb. 24, 2023<br />
<i>Jay Dyer and Rachel Wilson discuss church subversion by state / intelligence agencies and the agenda many of "activists" use who are often overtly funded and aided by these agencies, foundations, think tanks, NGOs and academic centers for subversion. They also talk about the current purge going on in Orthodoxy</i>.<br /><br />
<a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2023/02/double-feature-institutional-capture.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2023/02/double-feature-institutional-capture.html</a><br /><br />
Regardless of whether the LDS church (or the government, or the Jesuits - I've had to wonder if Denver Snuffer is a Jesuit) is behind any of these people or whether these self-appointed leaders are just deceived of their own accord, several years ago I once told the <b>Fellowship of Christ</b> Facebook group (Denver Snuffer's group) that what was going on back then reminded me a little bit of what some of the people in Snuffer's group were engaged in but with some major differences.<br /><br />
That book in the early '90s called <i><b>Experiencing the Mighty Change</b></i> which helped many people obtain the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost in the early to mid-90s - nobody knows who really wrote that book, and more importantly no one cared. It was all about seeking the Lord's face. That book may have been written under pen names. I couldn't tell you who those people were and I don't think anyone else could. No one ever saw a picture of what they looked like. It was never about cults of personality or trying to organize any groups. And it probably didn't cost a penny more than the cost to print it. For most of the people I crossed paths with in those circles it was only ever about hearing and obeying the voice of the Lord and following the Lord alone.<br /><br />
I was taught about the first and second comforter in the LDS church and the scriptures and my patriarchal blessing. I was taught that I needed to seek the Lord's face and obtain his will and instructions for my life in the <i>Lectures on Faith</i>. I didn't need to buy Denver Snuffer's books to learn about that. Everything that Denver Snuffer taught up until 2016 I had already been taught in the L.D.S. church when I growing up, and these things were simply re-emphasized to me by many independent-minded church members in the early to mid-nineties without having to join a group or enter into multiple covenants<br /><br />
But I've suspected since 2017 that Denver Snuffer and some of the people in his organization may well have based their operation on studying and copying what the actual remnant back in the early to mid '90s was saying and doing - crafting a similar but <b>artificial movement</b> and that the people most prey to it, or vulnerable to it, are the younger people who grew up after Hinckley and his co-conspirators purged the collective memory of the LDS church by purging the Lord's remnant out of it decades before and then watering down their teachings like Isaiah prophesied in Isaiah 1:22 so that those who were starving for truth would be more prey to the Snuffers, the Davises, and the Bergers of the world. But again even if the LDS church isn't behind those imposters the Adversary is. The cosmic powers behind this present darkness mentioned in Ephesians 6:12 saw all this coming and so with or without the help of conspiring men on the earth they definitely have been able to lure some of those disaffected into man-made splinter groups.<br /><br />
Back to the narrative:<br /><br />
In 1996, as I was preparing for my endowment ceremony in the Oakland, CA temple, I fasted and prayed and earnestly sought the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost with every fiber and cell of my being. One night as I was kneeling down in prayer and asking for forgiveness of my sins, I suddenly felt like a lightning bolt come down through the top of my head and shoot through my entire body. After that experience I was a completely different person. I was always a compassionate and sympathetic person but after this experience I had a bleeding heart for everything and as the scriptures promise I did lose my disposition to do evil.<br /><br />
In 1999, <b>Doctrine and Covenants 112:24-26</b> began to be fulfilled first on the Lord's house in Salt Lake City and then one year and one month later on what was once the Lord's house in America. </div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord.<br /><br />
And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord;
First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord. </blockquote></i></div><br />
<b>F-2 Tornado in downtown Salt Lake City</b><br /><br />
Pt. 1<br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000614174859/http://www.greaterthings.com/Newsletter/31_SLC_tornado.htm">
https://web.archive.org/web/20000614174859/http://www.greaterthings.com/Newsletter/31_SLC_tornado.htm</a><br /><br />
Pt. 2<br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000611015306/http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Tornado/Newby.htm">
https://web.archive.org/web/20000611015306/http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Tornado/Newby.htm</a><br /><br />
Pt. 3<br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000603120819/http://www.greaterthings.com/Newsletter/31_Feedback.htm">
https://web.archive.org/web/20000603120819/http://www.greaterthings.com/Newsletter/31_Feedback.htm</a><br /><br />
<b>September 11, 2001</b><br /><br />
<i>Inside St. Paul's chapel, where <b>George Washington</b> prayed after taking the oath of office โ that remained standing when the Twin Towers fell across the street</i><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/st-pauls-chapel-new-york-city-photos-history-911-2018-9">
https://www.businessinsider.com/st-pauls-chapel-new-york-city-photos-history-911-2018-9</a><br /><br />
BYU professor <b>Steve Jones</b> was one of the first academics to contest the official 9 1 1 narrative and after publishing his scientific findings in an academic journal was forced into early retirement by BYU and church leaders.<br /><br />"Controversy Dogs Y's Jones," <i>Deseret News</i>, Sept 11, 2006<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/5DH7K">
https://archive.ph/5DH7K</a><br /><br />"BYU Professor in Dispute over 9/11 will Retire," <i>Deseret News</i>, Oct. 22, 2006<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/5DH7K">
https://archive.ph/5DH7K</a>
Sometime between 2001 - 2002,the purge continued outside of Utah, in this case in Pennsylvania. My first online friend, <b>Todd Jumper</b>, a young father in his early 20s, his children were just babies, had his entire social support network torn out from under him. If I remember correctly Todd seems to have been targeted for running what I would call fansites, or personal websites talking about his love for Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon as well as his own spiritual experiences and explorations. These websites may have touched on the esoteric and the mysteries of God but these were pro-Mormon sites talking about his personal life. There was nothing critical of the LDS church on these sites. I highly recommend listening to Todd give the rest of his testimony. It's eerie hearing him say that he saw the file that church leaders had been keeping on him.<br /><br />
Todd's testimony (27 min.)<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/Ob6nTduD3PY">https://youtu.be/Ob6nTduD3PY</a><br /><br />
In 2005 the creator of the <b>Greaterthings.com</b> website began compiling his memoirs of the Purge. Greater Things also hosted the David's Outcasts discussion group which was a hub for Constitutionalists, people concerned about the N W 0, people seeking to hear from the Lord directly, and other independent thinkers in general.<br />
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20151209204459/http://www.greaterthings.com/Books/MormonPurge/">http://web.archive.org/web/20151209204459/http://www.greaterthings.com/Books/MormonPurge/</a><br /><br />
In 2014 <b>Rock Waterman</b> updated us on the latest round of purging while undergoing the process of excommunication himself. I highly recommend this important article to everyone. Here are a couple of highlights:<br /><br /><i><blockquote>
The repeated denials from Church PR that no one in the hierarchy has had anything to do with the current string of actions is palpably, laughably false, and pretty much everyone knows it.<br /><br />
There is no conceivable justification for kicking a believer out of the church of Christ unless he has committed an egregious sin, or the person advocating his removal has motives that are less than pure.<br /><br />
The second way abuse occurs is in not following the rules laid out by God by which a person is properly removed. This abuse occurs almost every time in the modern Church, because the scriptural procedure is almost never followed. It has been usurped by conflicting rules published in the Church Handbook of Instruction. Elevating the CHI over scripture is a violation of the law, part of which reads, "Any member of the church of Christ transgressing, or being overtaken in a fault, shall be dealt with as the scriptures direct." (D&C 20:80) See? Nothing in there about going by the corporate handbook.</blockquote></i><br /><br />
This leads to an excellent discussion of spiritual abuse, and he also addresses the Strengthening Church Members Committee.<br /><br />
This also reminds me of <b>Isaiah's prophecy about latter-day Ephraim</b> that, "<i>all who watch for iniquity shall be cut off, those who at a word adjudge a man to be guilty</i>." That is they watch for iniquity in others, not in themselves and on mere hearsay they condemn others (Isaiah 29:20-21).<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/BjGef">https://archive.ph/BjGef</a><br /><br />
In 2018 a blogger was reading Leonard J Arrington's biography and noted that, "One of the interesting observations Arrington made was about the existence of โ[an] <b>underground church</b>.โ that ran parallel to the official LDS church. I just came across this during the course of this research and loved it! I had never considered the fact that I had been a part of an underground church all those years.<br />
<a href="https://archive.ph/swDpL">https://archive.ph/swDpL</a><br /><br />
After re-visiting this study for the past two weeks I've concluded that the purge was never about targeting any particular type of group or individual. People all over the social and political spectrum were targeted but what each individual had in common was that they were <b>independent thinkers</b> and <b>noncomformists</b>.<br /><br />
The question asked by someone else which launched this study was how it is that there used to be so many <b>patriots</b> in the church but now only mostly <b>globalists</b>?<br /><br />
When I left the church I took my son with me. If my adult son were to have had children already that would be three generations of our famliy that has been missing from the church for the past 25 years.
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What happens to the demographics of an organization when you systematically remove three generations of critical thinkers from that organization?<br /><br />
Purging the people purged the people's collective memory within the LDS church, 1984 style.<br /><br />
<blockquote>"<i>Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth</i>." <b>George Orwell</b>, <i>1984</i>.</blockquote><br />
In conclusion, this is an excerpt from a <a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">blog post</a> I wrote six years ago:<br /><br />
It is a well established fact that in the early to mid-1990's, many people were having <b>dreams</b> and <b>revelations</b> instructing them to gather with the Saints in Utah and the <b>Mormon Corridor</b> in the Intermountain West. Many people began moving to the region in droves and many more were in the process of planning to move. I was one of them. My great-grandmother, <b>Maggie Evans Richardson</b>, is buried in the Spanish Fork, Utah cemetery in the plot directly adjacent to <b>Bishop Koyle</b> who prophesied of the <b>Relief Mine</b> and the "<b>White City</b>" - a place of refuge prophesied to be built up around the "<b>Dream Mine</b>" as it is also known. She reiterated Koyle's prophecy to my grandfather and to my mother, who reiterated it to me, saying that that area would be a place of refuge during the winding up scene and that our family should move back to Utah from California before it was too late.<br /><br />
This move of God was most disturbing to the powers-that-be in Salt Lake City. They began to aggressively preach against gathering to Utah and scattered the flock by telling everyone over the pulpit to stay where they are and to stop moving to Utah. Many people who were considered by Church leaders to be too pre-occupied with the events leading up to the Second Coming of Christ were excommunicated which came to be known as "the purge." This was also around the time of the excommunication of "the September Six."<br /><br />
Many people still continued to move to Utah, especially <b>Manti</b> and <b>Sanpete County</b> (where the Lord was directing many people to go). The problem was that without the assistance of the leadership of the LDS Church, many people moving to the area began to fall prey to a new group of wolves-in-sheep's-clothing known as the TLC Church. Because the TLC Church was preaching about the obvious corruption of the mainstream LDS Church it became a gathering place for many well-meaning people who had nowhere else to go. It didn't end well for those involved, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_and_Living_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Saints_of_the_Last_Days">the rest is history</a>.<br /><br />
I believe the Lord holds the L.D.S. Church leaders responsible for this scattering of the flock as evidenced in the following scriptures:<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>Woe to the leaders, the drunkards of Ephraim.</i> <br /><br />
Isaiah 28:1<br /><br />
<i>Be stunned and amazed, blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not from wine, stagger, but not from beer. For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleepHe has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.</i><br /><br />
Isaiah 29: 9-10<br /><br />
<i>For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep leaving nothing but a few bones.</i><br /><br />
Zechariah 11:16<br /><br />
<i>And now I say unto you, all you that are desirous to follow the VOICE of the good shepherd, come ye out from the wicked, and be ye separate, and touch not their unclean things...For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And behold, if a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can, he will destroy him. And now I say unto you that the good shepherd doth call after you; and if you will hearken unto his voice he will bring you into his fold, and ye are his sheep; and he commandeth you that ye suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among you, that ye may not be destroyed.</i><br /><br />
Alma 5:57-60<br /><br />
<i>The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a strangerโs voice.</i><br /><br />
<i>Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.</i><br /><br />
<i>A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they donโt belong to him and he isnโt their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because heโs working only for the money and doesnโt really care about the sheep.<br /><br />
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.</i><br /><br />
Jesus Christ, John 10: 2-5, 7, 12-13, 10<br /><br /></blockquote>
The Lord has fulfilled <a href="https://archive.ph/5f5fS">his prophecy</a> through Donovan Bramwell that he would remove a remnant from the LDS church that would be, "willing to be taught from on high."<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>But you have received the Holy Spirit, and it lives within you, so you donโt need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what it teaches is trueโit is not a lie. So just as it has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ.</i> 1 John 2:27<br /><br /></blockquote>
<b>The Gathering of the Lordโs People</b><br /><br />
A revelation describing the Lordโs work in the last days in gathering out a people to be His people. Written December 11, 22, and 25, 1993.<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>Thus saith the Lord, the Lord of Hosts:<br /><br />
My people nod their heads in assent to many fine sounding words, and they perform many works that have the appearance of obedience, but their obedience is taught by the precepts of men. Therefore I will proceed to do a work among them, even <b>a marvelous work and a wonder</b>, and the wisdom of their wise ones will perish, and the understanding of their prudent ones will come to naught.<br /><br />
I will pour out a deep sleep upon them, that <b>when my work proceeds among them they will not be aware of it</b>. I will make their eyes heavy, that they see it not, and their ears hard of hearing, that they perceive it not.<br /><br />
<b>I will gather out from among them a people who refuse to be taught by the precepts of men</b>. They will come unto me, and I will protect them as a mother shelters her little children beneath her skirts. <b>They will disappear from the midst of the people, so that no one sees them</b>.<br /><br />
Those who remain will wonder, Where are they? Where did they go? I will hide them unto myself, saith the Lord, and they shall be my people. For <b>I will have a people willing to be taught from on high</b>, and they shall know their God, even the Holy One of Israel. They shall stand in his presence and see his face and be instructed by the words of his mouth. The voice of the Lord has spoken it. Amen.</i></blockquote><br /><b>
Manifestations of the Spiritual Gifts</b><br /><br />
A prophesy promising a manifestation of the spiritual gifts. Written March 23, 1994.<br /><br /><i>
I prophesy in the name of the Lord that the time is now at hand when the saying recorded in the Book of Joel will be fulfilled. The Lord will pour out his spirit upon his people in great abundance. Old men will dream dreams, and young men will see visions. Their sons and their daughters will prophesy, and </i><b style="font-style: italic;">ordinary men and women of the working class will speak in the name of the Lord</b><i>.</i><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"></blockquote><br />
I stopped attending the LDS church in 1997 a year after going through the endowment ceremony in the LDS temple. Five years later I briefly attended the LDS church for about a year from 2002 - 2003. I did not step foot in an LDS church again until my father died five years later in 2008. In 2009 - 2010 I attended my mother's ward while I was living with her that year just as a way to spend time with her. A couple of years later In 2012 - 2013 I attended an LDS ward for a few months but the last time I walked out of the door I knew that that was the last time I would ever step foot in an LDS church ever again. That was almost ten years ago.<br /><br />
in 2010 after undergoing a terrible tragedy I began to hear the voice of the Lord when he told me he would grant me access to his Holy of Holies.<br /><br />
Three years later, in January of 2013, the Lord began pouring out his spirit on me I'd already been baptized by Fire and Holy Ghost but this was a whole new level of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. This led me to the discovery that the Lord was pouring out his spirit on all flesh as prophesied in <b>Joel 2:28 - 29</b>. The Lord then showed me that there were thousands of people from diverse walks of life all around the world hearing and obeying his voice. The Lord showed me that those of us who claimed to hear his voice were all being given the same revelation about his soon return. The Lord showed me that there were thousands of people around the world who are ready to stand face to face with him in the clouds when he comes to gather us at any moment. The Lord showed me that his church was alive and well that we were organized by no man or earthly institution, only by Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lord showed me that the prophetic timeline was much farther along than most people with LDS backgrounds realized and that most people with an LDS background, (even those that have left the church or are seriously questing the church) are blind to how soon he is returning and unprepared because they refuse to let go of the false traditions of men and false interpretations of scripture passed down by their forefathers. They're stuck in the past and have no idea what the Lord is saying and doing right now.
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During this time Father in Heaven sent the <b>Holy Spirit of Promise</b> (Ephesians 1:13)prophesying my marriage (which took place almost four years later), sealing that marriage, and giving other covenant promises, making my calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10), giving me an invitation to the <b>Marriage Supper of the Lamb</b> (Revelation 19:9) and pouring out dreams and visions most of which have either already come to pass or have already begun their process of fulfillment (Joel 2:28 - 29). I also began experiencing many miracles, signs and wonders, often there were witnesses (Mark 16:17-19). I was also called to sacrifice my career and all of my possessions and called to live by faith and not the arm of flesh. I was set apart by the Lord himself (Acts 13:12, Hebrews 10:10) and called to go on a mission to prepare the way for the Lord's return (and given an endowment of power to accomplish that mission) which has taken me to three states in a 25 year-old beat up truck (that broke down a few times) and is still ongoing ten years later. In addition to preaching his soon return, the Lord also gave me an intercessory prayer ministry and a spiritual warfare ministry.<br /><br />
You can read more about the Lord's work over the past decade through myself and thousands of others here:<br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/discussdoctrineofchrist/posts/1293745597853050">
https://www.facebook.com/groups/discussdoctrineofchrist/posts/1293745597853050</a><br /><br />
and here:<br /><br />
Pt. 1 January / March 2013 Visions<br /><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html">
https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html</a><br /><br />
Pt. 2 The The Day of the Lord is upon us! + a Revelation on the Gathering (2017)<br /><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">
https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a><br /><br />
Pt. 3 2022 UPDATE on 2017 post about DREAMS & VISIONS<br /><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-update-on-2017-post-about-dreams.html">
https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2022/12/2022-update-on-2017-post-about-dreams.html</a><br /><br />
After working on this project for the past two and a half weeks something that I have known for a long time only just now crystallized in my mind. Despite claims of continuing the work and Joseph Smith and perpetuating the Book of Mormon, The Utah-based LDS church was never a lawful successor to the organization that Joseph Smith began, not according to the laws set forth in revelations given to Joseph Smith by the Lord and not according to the Bible or the Book of Mormon. It is a documented fact that <b>Brigham Young's church</b> was created through an unlawful seizure of power.<br /><br />
Brigham Seizes Power (short version)<br /><a href="https://rumble.com/v1z9ls0-december-6-2022.html">
https://rumble.com/v1z9ls0-december-6-2022.html</a><br /><br />
Apostolic Coup D'รฉยทtat - The History of Brigham Young's Seizure of Church Power Part 1<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/9BMoPpEtJV4">
https://youtu.be/9BMoPpEtJV4</a><br /><br />
Apostolic Coup D'รฉยทtat - The History of Brigham Young's Seizure of Church Power Part 2<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/AMVoa_uG5Vs">
https://youtu.be/AMVoa_uG5Vs</a><br /><br />
Can an organization never authorized by God to exist in the first place be set in order?<br /><br />
The LDS church has spent the past century removing Brigham Young's most controversial teachings and practices, but how can you completely remove the founder of an organization from that organization? During the past couple of weeks I have noticed a common theme in all of this information and that is <b>espionage</b>. It is well documented that The LDS church has been spying on its own members for decades. This inspired me to see how far back this espionage goes and It appears that the church hasn't just been spying on it's members for decades, it appears that Brigham's church has been spying on its members from its inception. Brigham Young has been accused of <b>tampering with U.S. Mail</b> and using <b>illegal wiretaps</b>.<br /><a href="https://archive.ph/QiSjo">
https://archive.ph/QiSjo</a><br /><br />
It also appears that Brigham Young created the <b>Home Teaching</b> program as a method of surveillance as well.
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Brigham Young had a murderous heart and also taught blasphemous doctrines of demons in place of the doctrine of Jesus Christ:<br /><br />
In the <i>Deseret News</i>, April 16, 1856 Brigham Young is reported as saying:<br /><br /><i><blockquote>
โWill you love your brothers and sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood? That is what Jesus Christ meant.โ<br /><br />
โAny of you who understand the principles of eternity โ if you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood, except the sin unto death โ would not be satisfied or rest until your blood should be spilled, that you might gain the salvation you desire. This is the way to love mankind.โ</blockquote></i><br /><br />
In the <i>Journal of Discourses</i>, Young is reported to have said:<br /><br /><blockquote>
โ<i>Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it,โ</i> Journal of Discourses, v. 1, pp. 108-109.<br /><br />
โ<i>It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it [the blood of Christ] can never remit</i>,โ Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, v. 4, p. 54.</blockquote><br /><br />
John 1:7 tells us: โ<i>The blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from <b>every</b> sin</i>,โ<br /><br />
and the <i>Book of Mormon</i> states:<br /><br />
"<i>Remember that there is <b>no other way nor means</b> whereby man can be saved, <b>only through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ</b>.</i>"<br /><br />
Helaman 5:9<br /><br />
Please listen to the testimony of my 2nd great-uncle, <b>William Adams Hickman</b>, who was a hit man for Brigham Young, crimes which he repented of by trusting not in the shedding of his own blood but by relying on the Atoning blood of Jesus Christ alone.<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/DQcKEH5yXDY">
https://youtu.be/DQcKEH5yXDY</a><br /><br />
Can we determine what kind of man Brigham Young was based on the scriptures?<br /><br />
John said, "<i>Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For <b>many false prophets</b> have gone out into the world.</i>" (1 John 4:1 ).<br /><br />
Jesus said, <br /><br />
<blockquote>โ<i>A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad. You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things from the treasury of an evil heart. And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you</i>.โ Matthew 12: 33-37</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>According to the scriptures preaching doctrines of demons instead of the doctrine of Christ makes one an <b>antichrist</b>.<br /><br /><i>
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience</i>, (Ephesians 2:2).<br /><br />
The "<i>spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience</i>" is the spirit of the antichrist which John said is already in the world at this time (1 John 4:3).<br /><br />
Almost 2000 years ago John said that, "e<i>ven now many antichrists have come</i>" (1 John 2:18).<br /><br />
All of Brigham Young's words and actions fit very perfectly in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (also known as the DSM-V) section on cluster B personality disorders which includes <b>narcissism</b> and <b>sociopathy</b>.<br /><br />According to this researcher, Brigham Young was married to fourteen women who never divorced their husbands. <a href="https://youtu.be/yiQfVnbxPss">https://youtu.be/yiQfVnbxPss</a><br /><br />
Can an organization born from a spirit of <b>murder</b> and <b>adultery</b>, <b>narcissism</b> and <b>sociopathy</b> be redeemed? <br /><br />
Jesus Christ said, "<i>no man can serve two masters</i>" (Matthew 6:24).<br /><br />
All man-made churches are part of <b>the Great and Abominable Church of the Devil</b>. The Lord commands us In Revelation 18:4 to come out of the Great and Abominable Church of the Devil lest we share in her punishments. We must come out of the <b>Synagogue of Satan</b> in order to be "<i>spared the hour of trial</i>" (Rev. 3:20; Matthew 24:30-31, 40-41; Luke 17:34; Isaiah 25:19-21;1 Thessalonians 4:16 - 1 Thess. 5:3; D&C 45:45; Luke 21:36).</div></div><div><br /></div><div>SEE ALSO:</div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>Institutional Capture: How Religions Are Subverted & Coopted</b></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Rachel Wilson, who has done a good bit of investigation into subversive foundations and funding sources joins Jay Dyer to complement the last live stream they did on church subversion by state / intelligence agencies. They look at the agenda many of these "activists" use who are often overtly funded and aided by these foundations, think tanks, NGOs and academic centers for subversion.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2023/02/double-feature-institutional-capture.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2023/02/double-feature-institutional-capture.html</a></div></div><div><br /></div></div>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-19599728656726306162022-12-17T20:08:00.028-08:002023-11-16T15:30:43.474-08:002022 / 2023 UPDATE on 2017 post about DREAMS & VISIONS<p> Pt. 1 - <a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html</a></p><p>Pt. 2 - <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.52)" face="Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a></span></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>CLICK ON ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE:</b></div></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Were the Signs of 2015 a Seven-Year Warning?</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L5dgVzsvAzM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>
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Many Watchmen and women thought that the Jubilee took place after the last Shemita / Shmita cycle which took place from 2014 - 2015, but now it has been revealed that the Jubilee is this year, 2022 - 2023!!! The video, above, explains why<br /><br />
SEE ALSO:<br />
<b>Biblical proof 5783 is Jubilee in God's reckoning!</b><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/LlmVa6PzUE4">
https://youtu.be/LlmVa6PzUE4</a><br /><br /><b>
Why Did Moroni Deliver the Plates on the Jewish New Year</b><br />
<a href="https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-moroni-deliver-the-plates-on-september-22">https://knowhy.bookofmormoncentral.org/knowhy/why-did-moroni-deliver-the-plates-on-september-22</a><br /><br />
The official Jewish Year of 5783 begins during the first month of Tishrei on September 25, 2022 and ends on September 15, 2023 (on the Gregorian calendar, but other timekeeping systems say that the first month (Tishrei) will not be taking place until October 2022 - October 2023)
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Another new revelation has come forth this year and that is the knowledge that this Jubilee year corresponds with, and is being highlighted by, two significant book ends.<br /><br />
A watchwoman named Kathy brought us information about the Flood that is tied to 11:11 (a number which Christians and non-Christians alike have been noticing everywhere the past few years).<br /><br />
Everything Jesus said and did in the Bible is layered with deep meaining for those with eyes to see and ears to hear (via the Holy Spirit).<br /><br />
In Matthew 24:37 Jesus said,"But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."<br /><br />
The Flood lasted one year and ten days. It began on the 17th day during the 8th month (also known as Cheshvan 17). It ended the next year on Cheshvan 27.<br /><br />
Who could have guessed that the anniversary of the start of the Flood during 2022 would be on 11/11/22 and that the anniversary of the end of the Flood in 2023 would be on 11/11/23?!<br /><br />
The Lord is clearly using these "bookends" to point out and highlight a particular year. This year is a once in a lifetime event for two different reasons!<br />
<br /><div style="text-align: center;">Watch here for more info:</div>
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I also believe this is the real Jubilee year because it appears the Lord has sent me three of my own personal confirmations (according to the Law of Witnesses, 2 Cor. 13:1; Deut. 17:6; Deut. 19:15; Matt. 18:15โ16; John 8:12โ29) so that I can know this for myself rather than merely having to decide whether or not to believe in the opinions or revelations of others.
These signs have taken place during the course of the continuation of the fulfillment of the visions which I received in 2013 and documented in a previous post:<br /><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html">
https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-day-of-lord-is-upon-us-revelation.html</a><br /><br />
In the past 5-6 years since I wrote that post things were relatively quiet for awhile until 2020:<br /><br />
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Then after quieting down for awhile again, things really began to ramp up again this year in March. Many sudden and shocking things began to occur that seemed to indicate the Lord was telling me I was going to have to move. I was so shocked. I had assumed that Oregon would be my final destination before the Resurrection takes place. I knew that I had a few months to save up money. I didn't know where I was supposed to go but I knew I had to be there by the end of summer. <br /><br />
As summer went on I realized that I was being directed to move to Utah. I was so surprised, despite having had a vision of driving to Utah in January of 2013. I had always interpreted that vision as being symbolic but never literal. This was one of the last visions that remained unfulfilled...until now.<br /><br />
This time (as opposed to Texas) my son came with me, just like in the vision. The Lord asked me to put my husband on the altar of sacrifice. Just told him that I was going to take my son to Utah and would be gone indefinitely. But the Lord said it's only for a season and my marriage has already been sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise (Ephesians 1:13, Ephesians 4:30, 2 Corinthians 1:22),<br /><br />
The Lord gave additional confirmation here:<br /><a href="https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-merging-of-physical-and-spiritual.html">
https://iamcallingyounow.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-merging-of-physical-and-spiritual.html</a><br /><br />
We headed east on Interstate 84 from Oregon to Utah. Approaching Joseph, Oregon was a reminder that this land is the inheritance of the house of Joseph who was sold into slavery in Egypt, the Promised Land for the tribes of Ephraim and Mannaseh. <div><a href="https://bookofmormonevidence.org/washingtons-covenant-on-the-land-of-joseph/">https://bookofmormonevidence.org/washingtons-covenant-on-the-land-of-joseph/</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Oregon's town of Joseph is named after Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph was determined not to abandon his ancestral lands and to stand his ground without violence. Chief Joseph took a stand by fighting for his people till the day he died. Chief Joseph was very courageous, because he refused to relocate his people to a reservation. For his principled resistance to his tribe's forced removal, Joseph became renowned as both a humanitarian and a peacemaker.
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Lavoy Finicum was on the Lord's errand. He sealed his testimony with his own blood.</b><br /><br />
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Lavoy Finicum at the re-named Harney County Resource Center</b><br /><br />
Just to the southwest of Joseph, Oregon (and the Nez Perce and Unmatilla Reservations) we crossed the juncture of Interstate 84 and Highway 395 where LaVoy Finicum was assassinated on his way to John Day, Oregon on January 26, 2016.<br /><br />
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As we continued down 84 we passed Cairo, Oregon as we left Oregon and entered Idaho. The Lord had been sending me numerous signs before leaving Oregon that I was "leaving Egypt." One of the last videos I watched before leaving was a random video that was in my suggested videos feed on YouTube about the rise and decline of a once famous city in Illinois by the same name at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It is in the area of Southern Illinois known as Little Egypt, the city being named after Egypt's capital.<br /><br />
Just 14 miles down the road as we entered Idaho we passed the town of New Plymouth. Little did I know until a few weeks later how symbolic this would be.<br /><br />
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What are the odds that we would first cross the road where LaVoy Finicum spent his final hours and then a couple hundred miles later pass by Emmet, Idaho where Ammon Bundy is currently living and running for Governor of Idaho, if not for being led by the Lord through this sacred landscape.<br /><br />
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Once again, just as in my 2013 "Texas" vision, I was driving through hills and golden grass all through eastern Oregon and southern Idaho. As the vision continued to unfold before me I realized that this vision was not just about the California hills, or Texas hill country or Nevada and Oregon, Standing Rock and now Idaho. Maybe these golden hills in my vision are America's "amber waves."<br /><br />
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This is a recap of the fulfilment of my 2013 visions - fulfilled and continuing in fulfilment, 2014 - present:</b></span></u></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>The Video The Feds Don't Want You To See</b> (15 min.)</div>
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</div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>BUNDY, the True Story โ Official </b>(36 min.)</div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GhNmZ2lWc9U" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">A modern day Ammon</b><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><i style="text-align: left;">And those men again stood to scatter their flocks. But Ammon said unto his brethren, Encircle the flocks round about that they flee not; and I go and contend with these men who do scatter our flocks.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> Book of Mormon, Alma 12:48 / 17:33</span><br style="text-align: left;" /><br style="text-align: left;" /><i style="text-align: left;">Therefore they did not fear Ammon, for they supposed that one of their men could slay him according to their pleasure, for they knew not that the Lord had promised Mosiah that he would adeliver his sons out of their hands; neither did they know anything concerning the Lord; therefore they delighted in the destruction of their brethren; and for this cause they stood to scatter the flocks of the king.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> Alma, 12:50 / 17:35</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ammon Bundy's testimony of hearing and obeying the voice of the Lord</b>...all the way into jail, and then hearing and obeying the voice of the Lord all the way through two court trials and back out of jail - without ever being convicted of a single crime!</div>
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What fruit has been born from the events of 2014 - 2016?</span></b></div><br />PEOPLE'S RIGHTS: Uniting Neighbors to Defend their Families, Faith, Freedom, and Future<br />
<a href="https://www.peoplesrights.org">https://www.peoplesrights.org</a><br /><br />
<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two people documented to have been shown these things beforehand by the Lord, 9Nania and myself.</span></b></h2><div>
Cowboy Vision Fulfilled (Posted 7/2/12 Fulfilled 1/26/16) by 9Nania<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FEEzJB52ba4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></b></div>
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BLM Attempted Cover-up of Sen. Reid/Chinese govโt Takeover of Ranch for Solar Farm<br /><a href="https://archive.vn/5QyNI">
https://archive.vn/5QyNI</a><br /><br />
Questions Raised About China / Senator Reidโs Connection to Bundy Ranch Dispute<br /><a href="https://thenewamerican.com/questions-raised-about-sen-reid-s-connection-to-bundy-ranch-dispute/">
https://thenewamerican.com/questions-raised-about-sen-reid-s-connection-to-bundy-ranch-dispute/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://redoubtnews.com/2017/03/cox-america-know-bunkerville-trial/">Shawna Cox</a> Not Guilty Addresses Uranium One And Illegal Land Grab<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/9B657dodjyI">
https://youtu.be/9B657dodjyI</a><br /><br />
Lazaro Ecenarro ~ Uranium One, Malheur Refuge - Great Breakdown of Wikileaks Information<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/XSLMgYRcYFg">
https://youtu.be/XSLMgYRcYFg</a><br /><br />
Blog with Laz and Shawna research<br /><a href="https://conservativelisa.blogspot.com/2017/11/podesta-groupgovernor-kate-brownsenator.html?m=1">
https://conservativelisa.blogspot.com/2017/11/podesta-groupgovernor-kate-brownsenator.html?m=1
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<i>Oregon SB1113 is regarding the Uranium that went to China. Uranium extraction area ranges from Vale, Oregon through Malheur County to Harney County/Steenโs Mountain in Eastern Oregon. [Note: Uranium has a โsignatureโ and itโs possible to determine from where it was sourced]
There was a lot of information in the documents found by the Bundy Occupiers in the Malheur Wildlife Refuge about these activities and the persons involved. (No wonder local, State and Federal Government entities got so upset and just wanted them OUT of the Refuge and Harney county).<br /><br />
Goal of Bundy Malheur Occupation was to help the Hammonds, Cattle Ranchers on Steenโs Mountain, who were having their Ranch taken from them (see <b>American Standoff </b>) in Oregon. Apparently, the Hammond Ranch had already been sold to Uranium One (Russia) without the Hammondโs consent and this would explain the intense interest of the several parties (including the Clintons, of course) in successfully imprisoning the Hammond men to force the Hammonds to sell and then the BLM would get first option to buy the Ranch as agreed (under duress upon the Hammonds) during the previous court proceedings. </i>Lazaro Ecenarro, July 2018<br /><a href="https://bundystrong.wordpress.com/2021/09/16/explosive-must-see-2/">https://bundystrong.wordpress.com/2021/09/16/explosive-must-see-2/</a><br /><br />
"Malheur County Targeted for Gold, Uranium Mines," The Oregonian, Jan 09, 2012<br /><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2012/01/malheur_county_targeted_for_go.html">
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2012/01/malheur_county_targeted_for_go.html
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ATT Audience Network presents:</span><b style="font-weight: bold;"> American Standoff</b><b> </b>(excellent feature film documentary, addresses Uranium issue):<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/H6GAoqvK5s0">
https://youtu.be/H6GAoqvK5s0</a><br /><br />
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Ancient Native Prophecy of the Black Snake is happening at this very moment. This is number 8 of 9 Hopi and Lakota Prophecies. This also fulfills the words of Christ: "But before the great day of the Lord shall come, Jacob shall flourish in the wilderness, and the Lamanites shall blossom as the rose." --Doctrine and Covenants 49:24<br />
<a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2016/12/breaking-news-black-snake-prophecy.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2016/12/breaking-news-black-snake-prophecy.html</a><br /><br />
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*MUST READ!!!*</b> <i>Promised Lands</i> by Hugh Nibley<br /><a href="https://truthmarche.wordpress.com/tag/john-boyden/">
https://truthmarche.wordpress.com/tag/john-boyden/</a><br /><br />
Standing Rock connection to Uranium / Beyond Standing Rock: Extraction Harms Indigenous Water Sources<br /><a href="https://www.globalissues.org/news/2016/12/20/22739">https://www.globalissues.org/news/2016/12/20/22739</a><br /><br />
Alliance of Ranchers and Indigenous Communities Challenges the Keystone XL
As a group calling itself the โCowboy Indian Allianceโ<br /><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/cowboy-indian-solidarity-challenges-the-keystone-xl/">
https://truthout.org/articles/cowboy-indian-solidarity-challenges-the-keystone-xl/</a><br />
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Black Hills Alliance<br /><a href="https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/bha/">
https://sites.evergreen.edu/zoltan/bha/</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GrrsvrQ_3JU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></b></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhFhP5aCsTWnw6ThQBbuz33C9s3VMga6QaDJtjDwe3ltYFAoA1msQ1jm8ifmVYihEQW88AWzhus6_1oT-MgcgicBolBZl9qzZazt8BHr4Kik2Q7mxYSUmiE9wULmiiSeQnVJQl8AJAOkCFFOxLkDOUmqeSUFVUDpzX8I0mqgsjbnrYf4/s1073/Umatilla_Uranium.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="1073" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOhFhP5aCsTWnw6ThQBbuz33C9s3VMga6QaDJtjDwe3ltYFAoA1msQ1jm8ifmVYihEQW88AWzhus6_1oT-MgcgicBolBZl9qzZazt8BHr4Kik2Q7mxYSUmiE9wULmiiSeQnVJQl8AJAOkCFFOxLkDOUmqeSUFVUDpzX8I0mqgsjbnrYf4/s16000/Umatilla_Uranium.png" /></a></div><br /></div><div><b>2023 UPDATE:</b></div><div><div><br /></div><div>Another layer of prophecy unfolds. It's archetypal. It's like an onion.</div><div><br /></div><div>Just as some cowboys/ranchers went to <b>#StandingRock</b> to <b>#stand</b> with the Indians, and just as some Israelis came to America to stand with those at Standing Rock, now on November 3, 2023 cowboys from Utah, Montana and Arkansas have gone to Israel to stand with the Israelis. The Israelis now have a new hashtag, #standwithus. </div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-cowboys-saddle-up-help-israeli-farmers-front-line-hamas-attack">https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-cowboys-saddle-up-help-israeli-farmers-front-line-hamas-attack</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZp0plfRaT6mcvA1RwOYuwWFl5YSblMzYI47TAiyB3RZfqK3L_A7JHGphGdrF0NItl15oAErCdvqBu4RKy1_DyiE8GpbzU6ZwSo_Pzy0uTLoDy4eapnkvv_kIQtCL7F2TCwk5m2QZcfK7HV0LzYUxmyAAaDgI_359AcOG7hm0XVu0ghVJBQ/s889/Cowboys_Stand.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="889" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZp0plfRaT6mcvA1RwOYuwWFl5YSblMzYI47TAiyB3RZfqK3L_A7JHGphGdrF0NItl15oAErCdvqBu4RKy1_DyiE8GpbzU6ZwSo_Pzy0uTLoDy4eapnkvv_kIQtCL7F2TCwk5m2QZcfK7HV0LzYUxmyAAaDgI_359AcOG7hm0XVu0ghVJBQ/w640-h500/Cowboys_Stand.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfeNu_oBFecPvwYh4uOiHdEmw4D4vfmhNv2gXd0wjwzwgHD79OPk8godA34WO5o5JcCUe2t1ar5H7EeBDoUwW0Bsk1SS194vK_6eix3AckH7zodIqfyptWBatorvW7444XZLmYY79p2g2hW3Pww6Fr3U6MTdTcYDTi3rPEGzjrOasA0ecaMA/s800/Cowboys_Stand_2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfeNu_oBFecPvwYh4uOiHdEmw4D4vfmhNv2gXd0wjwzwgHD79OPk8godA34WO5o5JcCUe2t1ar5H7EeBDoUwW0Bsk1SS194vK_6eix3AckH7zodIqfyptWBatorvW7444XZLmYY79p2g2hW3Pww6Fr3U6MTdTcYDTi3rPEGzjrOasA0ecaMA/w640-h640/Cowboys_Stand_2.png" width="640" /></a></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">American cowboys in Israel. Reminiscent of the Nevada and Oregon photos.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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One of the first visions I had in 2013 was of my then teenage son as a 3 year-old saying in his baby voice, "<i>Crossing the Jordan is a spoiled thing to do</i>." Driving south through Utah we drove alongside the Jordan River from Salt Lake to Provo, we may not have crossed it yet but it was definately another token from the Lord that we are standing on the edge of all of his covenant promises.
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SEE ALSO:<br /><br /><b>
5 Incredible โCoincidentalโ Similarities Between The Holy Land and Utah Valley</b><br /><a href="https://thirdhour.org/blog/faith/5-similarities-holy-land-utah/" style="font-weight: bold;">
https://thirdhour.org/blog/faith/5-similarities-holy-land-utah/</a><br /><br />
We arrived in Utah during the final week of September as instructed, just days before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).
As the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) commenced I was struck by something that I'd only just noticed a year or two ago and that is that every year since 1997 the Lord has provided me with a sukkah (a temporary dwelling used during the week-long Biblical festival of Sukkot) every single year (or just about every single year) for the past 25 years - effortlessly. </div><div><br /></div><div>The first twelve years, every Fall when I attended the traditional dance ceremonies of the California Indians in the Sierra Nevada mountains I slept in a bark teepee known as an Umacha, or in a tent. This pattern began one year after I obtained the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost in 1996 and the Lord has continued to point me to Sukkot for the past 25 years and has always provided me with a temporary dwelling during that festival every Fall. </div><div><br /></div><div>This year while I was studying Sukkot during the feast days I read that one of the purposes of this holiday was to remember God's provision and protection as Israel wandered in the wilderness after their deliverance from slavery in Egypt. The Lord had just been telling me for weeks that I was leaving Egypt and now here I was in the literal wilderness in Utah staying in a temporary dwelling that the Lord had provided for me.
Then it began to be announced by some that the Hebrew year we are now entering, 5783, is a Jubilee year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Some of us had thought that the Jubilee may have taken place after the last Sabbatical cycle (2014- 2015) in 2016. I asked the Lord to tell me if the Jubilee was in 2016 or October 2022 - October 2023. I was immediately shown three things: </div><div><br /></div><div>First, my sister (who shares the same maternal MtDNA as I do since we have the same mother) had just gone back to our ancestral homeland in Glarus, Switzerland - the first time anyone in our family had been there for well over 120 years, and not just one of our ancestral homelands but the land that our mother's maternal lineage dwelt upon for at least 400 years that we knew of (but after my sister arrived she found out that our mother's, mother's mothers had been living in the same small town, womb to womb, for at least the past 1200 years - although according to DNA my direct maternal line does eventaully go back to the Middle East, but that is another story!) </div><div><br /></div><div>My sister was there for at least a couple of weeks and every day during Sukkot (after the Jubilee had been announced) she was calling me and doing video calls and showing me around town via her camera on the internet.
It felt like I was there, which is interesting considering that In the year of Jubilee everyone returns home to his family property (Leviticus 25:13). </div><div><br /></div><div>The next thing I realized was that during the summer (before leaving Oregon) I felt led to contact my son's biological father in Utah whom I hadn't seen in 20 years, and my son had only met him once when he was small. I had a list of people that I assumed I should contact and some of them had offered me a place to stay once we arrived in Utah but without any rational explanation I kept feeling led to contaact my son's biological father first and to go and visit there first. </div><div><br /></div><div>After we arrived we found out that there just happened to be two perfect places for us to stay. The third floor consisting of an office and a bedroom was unoccupied - the perfect place for my son. There was another dwelling on the property that was not being used and turned out to be the perfect private quarters for me AND was also able to serve a s a Sukkah during Sukkot. We were told that we could stay as long as we needed to until we can find our own place to live. </div><div><br /></div><div>But here is where it gets interesting.
A few years ago, after being divorced for over 40 years, my son's biological father's parents got re-married. Then they bought a house with the specific intention to be able to pass down to their children and grandchildren so that their children and grandchildren would always have a place to go in case of an emergency. Then a couple of years later they got too old to take care of themselves so they moved into that house for their grandchildren, and their son (my son's biological father) moved in with them to take care of them and to help keep them out of a rest home. </div><div><br /></div><div>My son has never met his biologial father's parents. The night we arrived we took a photo of my son, his biological father and his biological grandfather. Three generations of men in the same room for the first time ever in the house his grandfather bought to pass down his grandchildren, and a marriage and a family miraculously restored together under the same roof by the hand of God. My son had been returned to his ancestral possession - effortlessly!</div><div><br /></div><div>Within days I found out that a Jubilee year was being announced and suddenly the signs and tokens that this was really it became so clear. </div><div><br /></div><div>One other thing that happened soon after this was a third witness to the Jubilee year. I was born and raised in California and it didn't occur to me until now that I was being sent back to my most recent ancestral hiomeland on my mother's side of the family, which is Utah. I'm a seventh-generation Utahn on my mother's side and my son is an 8th generation Utahn on both sides of his family.
Before leaving Oregon I kept imagining how wonderful it would be to find a place to rent in Spanish Fork, Utah where my mother's father and my great-grandmother and other ancestors were born in "the old Evans homestead" at 511 East Center St. I kept imagining a "For Rent" sign across the street. One day I went to visit the Spanish Fork city cemetary where so many of my famly members are buried, including my sister and my mother's parents, just a couple of blocks away from the old famliy homestead which is still owned by my mother's cousin. I couldn't believe my eyes. There was a "for rent" sign across the street just as I had imagined weeks before! I immediately made an appointment and viewed the property.
I was actually surprised that even though the size and price were just what I was looking for but there was one thing about the place that I couldn't live with so I knew I had to pass. I think that I had the vision of the place not because I was necessarily supposed to rent it (the resurrection is so soon, who knows if there is even enough time to rent it or live in it?) but I think that it was another token from the Lord that I am about to receive the land of my inheritance, my own Promised Land very soon because I'm in covenant with the Lord and this is the Jubilee year! </div><div><br /></div><div>Then the Lord showed me two more signs pointing to both 11:11, the Covenant, and the Jubilee. </div><div><br /></div><div>First we passed Cairo as we left Oregon and then passed New Plymouth as we entered Idaho; then it was announced that the anniversary of the beginning of the Flood on 11/11/22 and the anniversary of the end of the Flood on 11/11/23 bookend the Jubilee year; then I found out that not only was Plymouth the Promised Land for my Mayflower ancestor, George Soule and the other Mayflower passengers (both of my parents are descended from the same Mayflower passenger) but the Puritans entered into a covenant with God 402 years ago on 11/11/1620!!!
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This date points to arks of safety, covenants, jubilees and promised lands.
In Matthew 24:37 Jesus said, But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."<br /><br />
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But America has broken her Covenant...</b></span></div>
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Could there be better year for the Lord to gather us in the clouds in resurrected bodies where we will be able to observe the Jubilee and not have to worry about planting and sowing, or buying and selling, or working during a sabbatical year? (and then if we return with him at the end of this year during the Feast of Tabernacles 2023, touching down on the Mt. of Olives in the original Promised Land would be the ultimate fulfilmment of the final Jubilee!)
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It is interesting that I just found out this year that the sabbatical Shemitah cycle and Jubilee share the same themes as Sukkot which is the reminder that we are reliant on God for all of our provision whether we realize it or not.<br /><br /><blockquote><i>
"In the final Jubilee, at the very end all things return to the very beginning - to before the Fall, before the darkness, before the entrance of evil ...and sorrow, before the seperation from God...to the way it was in the beginning...to paradise...the ultimate ancestral possession..."</i></blockquote><br />The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled by Jonathan Cahn, p. 275.<br /><br /><blockquote><i>
Who is the owner of everything? God. So in the last Jubilee everything will return to Him who it belongs,"</i> p. 276.</blockquote><blockquote><i>
"End time prophecy is Jubilean," </i>p. 254.</blockquote><blockquote><i>
"Yovel or Jubilee means ram's horn or trumpet,"</i> p. 211</blockquote>
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Outside the Federal courthouse in Portland, OR. with Brand blowing the shofar, the Trump of God in the Bible. - Janalee Tobias, October 5, 2016.</b><br /><br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Jericho march around the courthouse with dueling shofars, October 28, 2016.</div><br />
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A SECOND WITNESS APPEARS: On December 4, 2022 Mary Greely published a dream she believes was given to her by God which contains the same message as my "<b>Mt. Diablo is a volcano vision</b>" given in 2013.<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/JL3kJ1P4Rnw">
https://youtu.be/JL3kJ1P4Rnw</a></div><div><br /></div><div>You can see the photos of the initial fulfillment of this vision given to me here:</div><div><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/10/january-march-2013-visions.html</a><br /><br />
<div>2017 - I found out that Denver Snuffer is a wolf in sheep's clothing.</div><div><br /></div><div>2017 - I realized that Alex Jones is a "lifetime actor" (and probable counterintelligence agent) previously known as the comedian, Bill Hicks.</div><br /><b>
My testimony about Alex Jones:</b><br /><br />
The Lord used Alex Jones as a symbol in my 2013 Texas vision. The Lord's use of symbols does not constitute an endorsement of the symbol.<br /><br />
Once again, the Lord led me down a path that would help me to be able to independently form an educated opinion based on my own personal experiences and not have to rely on merely believing or disbelieving the opinions or revelations of others.<br /><br />
I should have realized that Alex Jones was Bill Hicks long before anyone else because I had noticed a possible relationship between the two several years before anyone started talking about the idea that they are the same person.<br /><br />
Back in 2007 I was campaigning for Ron Paul for President. I was heavily involved in the campaign with a number of other people. We spent a lot of time together, traveling, working, eating, sharing news and entertainment, etc. Some of my new friends introduced me to a comedian named, Bill Hicks. I had always loved comedy and comedians and so I loved Bill Hicks. Bill had some comedy specials on DVD that we watched. He did a lot of social commentary and critiques of the ruling class, so his shows became really popular with those of us campaigning for liberty.<br /><br />
At the time I was in college and an aspiring citizen journalist. I also had a longstanding history with genealogy, not just my own but I had worked in the LDS family history center back in the '90s and had helped a lot of people do their own genealogy so I had a personal interest in other people's genealogy as well.<br /><br />
I also found genealogical research to be useful and interesting as a tool in the field of investigative journalism as well as a method of deepening or broadening my own historical studies. I am such a nerd that one idea that I had entertained for a long time was that I wanted to do a PhD program where I could study both genetics and linguistics and then try to trace the historical migrations of peoples through studying the migration of surnames.<br /><br />
I also had the rare blessing of having numerous family photographs going back at least seven or more generations - back to the beginning of photography - and have studied those photographs for years. I have learned a lot about how strong genetics are and how people's descendants can look like carbon copies of them, even generations later. When clickbait began to be a thing on the internet I started noticing a lot of click-baity links showing photos of celebrities next to old black and white photos from the 1800s trying to claim time travel or cloning but I've always wanted to tell people who fall for things like that that if they only knew how powerful genentics are and how we are all related.These types of deceptions prey on people's ignorance. That has been another big theme of mine for years, to try to explain to people that there is only one race - the human race. So I always ask people about their family history and I'm always looking for connections, because everything is interconnected. <br /><br />
Keeping this in mind, it's only natural that in 2007 I would notice how similar Bill Hicks was to Alex Jones. Alex Jones was one of the few news outlets that was covering Ron Paul's campaign so I was listening to both Alex and Bill during that same time period. As soon as I first started watching Bill Hicks I was astonished at how much he looked and acted like Alex Jones, and I noticed that they were from the same city, Austin, TX so I immediately set out to find out if they were related. Bill had died about 13 years before but I decided that I wanted to add a project to my "to do" list and that was to find out if Alex and Bill were related and then to interview Alex and ask him if he had ever met Bill or what he thinks about Bill's work as a comedian, social comentator, etc.<br /><br />
I think the first time I ever saw anyone allege that Alex was Bill was in 2015, maybe late 2014. My initial reaction was that that was some kind of diversion / distraction / psychological operation by the-powers-that-should-not-be. I thought it was silly. It's funny that that project I had set out to do several years before didn't occur to me at the time. I was also in denial because I had been a superfan since I started seeing Alex on TV in the '90s and then when he started to become better known around 2000. As far as I was concerned I was the president of the Alex Jones fan club for the past 13 years, and I was his biggest defender. I sincerely believed he was sincere. I did not idolze him because I am no respector of persons but I just believed that everything he said about himself and his motives was true and I projected my own sincerety and good intentions onto him.<br /><br />
Then in 2013, the year that I was called to help prepare the way for the return of Jesus Christ by warning of the prophesied sudden destruction and announcing that the only way to escape it is to be worthy to be included in the first fruits resurrection (Luke 21:36, Rev. 3:20, Isaiah 26:19 - 21) which is obtained through the Doctrine of Christ, the Baptism of Fire and the Holy Ghost, and entering into a covenant with Jesus Christ to hear and obey the voice of the Lord. (There will also be many innocents who will be taken to safety in the Resurrection: children, pets, and others. It's not just about "worthiness," but he does tell us that we must "pray to be worthy to escape," Luke 21:36 KJV.)<br /><br />
But later that same year I had those visions Alex helps produce a documentary arguing AGAINST the Resurrection of the living and dead in Christ immediately preceding the Great and Dreadful day of the Lord. It should have been a red flag that this man is fighting against the Work of God, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe he's just sincerely misguided. But anyone who truly knows the Lord knows how soon he is coming to take his sheep out of harm's way.<br /><br />
Then I heard the rumor that Alex was Bill and remained in denial. I didn't even listen to Alex anymore (once I started hearing from the Lord I didn't need to listen to anyone else) but I was still defending him.<br /><br />
Then as soon as Trump announced his campaign in 2015 Alex flipped his script. For over a dozen years Alex always taught people that the two-party political system are just two wings on the same bird, a Hegelian-style dialectic, that the "left - right paradigm" is a false dichotomy and a tool to manipulate the masses.<br /><br />
He used to preach against people employing the terms "left wing" or "right wing." Then overnight he does a 180 and starts employing those very same terms and supporting a candidate that no one could have imagined him supporting previously, a candidate who by all scriptural definitions is an antichrist (1 John 2:18, 1 John 4:3, Ephesians 2:2).<br /><br />
Alex was as consistant as can be for 15 years so to then suddenly do a 180 overnight and become the opposite of what he had been preaching was shocking. That was the first time I became suspicious of him. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks: he is Bill Hicks! I get it now. I get the operation: the long view! This was a long game they had been playing.<br /><br />
The operation was to take all of these people from back in the '90s and early 2000s who were disenchanted with politics, and people who were fed up with government corruption, and people who wanted to get out of Babylon and get them together in a group and harness their energy and then after running then around in circles for years - lead them right back into politics and a "political solution," right back where they started!<br /><br />
I also have numerous other sources that inform my current understanding of the situation, which I don't have time to get into. I am only saying all of this to say that the Lord has helped me to form my own opinions based on my own experiences and that my opinion is not based on some article or video that I saw, or what other people are saying.<br /><br />
One other quick example that I can give is that the Lord already had me studying the CIA's social engineering of the artificial 1960s counterculture and their use of "lifetime actors" in creating it. Here is a post that the Lord actually had me put together so that others can benefit from my studies as well. And again! My opinions on the CIA's artificial culture creation don't just come from studying the work of others. I was married into TWO CIA families and I have personally known a number of the "lifetime actors" who were at the forefront of creating the 60s counterculture and they were working for the CIA the whole time! I know this from experience not just watching YouTube videos!<br /><br />
"Bill," (or whatever his name really is) is not the first "lifetime actor." Please read this entire post (espeically the second half!) for more information on lifetime actors:<br />
<a href="https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html">https://exposingcorruptioninhighplaces.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-cia-created-60s-counterculture-and_1.html</a>
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While the issue of whether or not this person has been lying to us about their identity is important it is not nearly as important as his actions, especially because he has always claimed to be a Christian and a servant of God and many people believe his claims and support his claims by giving him money. We can observe what kind of tree he is by his actions and what kind of fruit he bears (Matthew 7: 15-17). The best example I have seen of his actions contradicting his words is at the end of the following film.<br /><br />
There was a really good documentary that came out by Caliberhitter. But then when YT began cens0ring content (circa 2015 - present) it was removed. There were other films and compilations of evidence of varying quality. There isn't much left if you do a search but this film remains, a patchwork collection of the best evidence from diverse sources before they were removed (not including Caliberhitter's film which was the best one, but he says that he is working on remaking it - YOU CAN NOW WATCH IT HERE! <b>Performance Artist: Alex Jones is Bill Hicks</b>, part 1 <a href="https://youtu.be/iyg1RZ5s1Rg">https://youtu.be/iyg1RZ5s1Rg</a>). It's long but the last 5 minutes is the most important part, but it's not nearly as hard hitting unless you watch the entire film for context.<br /><br />
"ALEX JONES IS BILL HICKS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT" BY MATTHEW NORTH<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="https://www.bitchute.com/embed/s5c4H5Zckx8Y/" style="border: none;" width="640"></iframe></div>
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In addition to the last 5 minutes of the film (above), January 6 is the best indictment of Alex Jones counterintelligence-style behavior. (It was a staged event by Trump, Alex and the conspiring men behind them.) He was there - staging a mockery of <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeHYUL7-OXUKfRRpcbmWBi6FwlJcq_llv">what the Lord has been doing in America for the past several years with the cowboys and the indians</a>, the Lord's remnant of Ephraim and Manasseh. AJ is a COUNTERFEIT. He's a fake Christian, a fake patriot and he behaves like an agent provacatuer!<br /><br />
Bill Hick's best friend (who also just happens to be Alex Jones' best friend) summed it up best in the title of his biography about Bill:
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In the title Kevin Booth tells us that Bill is an "agent" and he tells us why: for the sake of "evolution." The devil always tells us that his machinations are "for our own good," (see Moses 4:1, and <a href="https://archive.org/details/ForYourOwnGood">https://archive.org/details/ForYourOwnGood</a>).<br /><br />
Kevin also tells us at the end of the book that after Bill supposedly died that, <i>"Bill had appeared sitting shotgun in my car. He told me that he had done it, that he had pulled off the world's biggest joke, like it was all a magic trick.<br /><br />
...I also had dreams that he wasn't yet at his final resting place he was still struggling to get his message of love and hope across. It was just happening in a different place..."</i><br />
pgs. 423-424.<br /><br />
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If you watch the film above and the film below, it's clear that this has always been a big inside joke that was always intended to be divulged eventually.<br /><br />
One of God's laws is that the "conspiring men" who rule our world have to tell you what they are doing:<br /><br />
<blockquote><i>James Shelby Downard calls this "the Revelation of the Method." This alludes to the process wherein murderous deeds and hair-raising conspiracies involving wars, revolutions, decapitations, secret archaeoastronomic deity cult-worship, and every manner of horror show are first buried beneath a cloak of secrecyโฆand then, when finally accomplished and secured, slowly revealed to the unsuspecting populace who watchโฆdeep-frozenโฆas the hidden history is unveiled...<br /><br />
...But Luke 8:17 predicts this as well, so if man doesn't act, God will, sooner or later! In the meantime, exposure itself does not defeat the cryptocracy, because given the degraded and atrophied nature of modern man's perceptions and insight today, such revelations may only serve to strengthen the cryptocracy's mental hold. The record shows that the recent revelations of occult crime have almost never been accompanied by arrests, prosecutions, convictions and punishment of the initiates involved, hence the reputation of the cryptocracyโs invincibility is heightened by the revelations. </i></blockquote><blockquote><span r=""><i>
Moreover, the spectacular nature of the revealed crimes carry a highly charged aura of the violent and the erotic and in the final analysis, when exposed to public attention, only become further grist for the seemingly limitless public appetite for shock-titillation and passive voyeurism..."</i></span></blockquote>
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There are a lot of articles and videos comparing Alex' and Bill's teeth. They are all poor quality except for this one:<br />
<a href="https://pieceofmindful.com/2021/02/10/bill-hicks-became-alex-jones-case-closed-part-2/">https://pieceofmindful.com/2021/02/10/bill-hicks-became-alex-jones-case-closed-part-2/</a><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
There is also one other thing to consider, and that is who is behind AJ and why? Others have begun questioning that as well. This is a very important film on who created Infowars and Alex Jones and why.</span></b><br /><br />
YouTube version:<br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W2XhGA7LMOo" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Links to other uploads of this film with better sound quality (no music):
<a href="https://hive.blog/alexjones/@titusfrost/the-infowars-documentary">https://hive.blog/alexjones/@titusfrost/the-infowars-documentary</a><br /><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/U6InwG9--XA">https://youtu.be/U6InwG9--XA</a></div><div>
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<a href="https://www.kboo.org/media/58525-dakota-access-pipeline-struggle-continued-co-host-jacqueline-keeler-and-guests-christine">https://www.kboo.org/media/58525-dakota-access-pipeline-struggle-continued-co-host-jacqueline-keeler-and-guests-christine</a></div><br />
LEAKED DOCUMENTS REVEAL COUNTERTERRORISM TACTICS USED AT STANDING ROCK TO โDEFEAT PIPELINE INSURGENCIESโ<br />
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/">https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
Why does it matter if Alex is lying about serving the Lord or not? </span></b></div></div><div><br /></div><div>We are instructed to "mark and avoid:" </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.</i> - Ephesians 5:11 </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.</i> - Romans 16: 17-18 </div><div><br /></div><div><i>Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? </i></div><div>2 Corinthians 6: 14-15. </div><div><br /></div><div><i>I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lordโs table and the table of demons.</i> </div><div>1 Corinthians 10:20-21<br /><br />
<b>One final warning...about Jonathan Cahn</b><br />
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Jonathan Cahn writes in his book, <b>The Oracle: The Jubilean Mysteries Unveiled</b>
that there is something he calls a "Dark Jubilee," a counterfeit Jubilee. Since Jonathan Cahn is the one who falsely called the last sabbatical cycle a Jubilee year is he telling on himself?
</div></div></div>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-46301853285244344452022-06-06T13:17:00.009-07:002022-11-01T14:03:53.310-07:00Why are so many LDS people / people in Utah and the Mormon Corridor into Reiki / "Energy Work"???<p> </p>
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<h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">"There is good medicine, and there is bad medicine. Not all medicine is good
medicine." </span></i></b></h2>
Traditional Hopi Elder, Yaiqub Israelite Gadite<br />
<a href="https://youtu.be/URF4J-NgAwo">https://youtu.be/URF4J-NgAwo</a>
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<i>One great evil is that men are ignorant of the nature of spirits; their
power, laws, government, [and] intelligence and imagine that when there is
any thing like power, revelation, or vision manifested [assume] that it must
be of God...</i>
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- Joseph Smith, โ<a href="https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/times-and-seasons-1-april-1842/9">TRY THE SPIRITS</a>," <i>Times and Seasons</i>, April 1, 1842<br /><br />
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<i>Now the Holy Spirit explicitly says that in the last days some will depart
from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons.<br /></i>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">- Paul the Apostle, 1 Timothy 4:1<br /><br /></span>
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<i><b>For the time will come when men will not endure sound doctrine; but after
their own lusts shall they heap for themselves teachers, having itching
ears.</b></i> -
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul the Apostle, 2 Timothy 4:3<br /><br /></span>
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<i>For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly
women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts, ever learning, but never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth </i>-
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Paul the Apostle, 2 Timothy 3:6-7<br /><br /></span>
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Reiki is a false spirit and a counterfeit of the Holy Spirit. Anyone who desires
to use any spirit other than the Holy Spirit (or alongside the Holy Spirit) is
saying through their actions that the Holy Spirit is inadequate (whether they
realize it or not.) 1 John 4:1, "believe not every spirit, but try the spirits
whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world." John says that the spirit of antichrist has been operating on the earth
for the past 2000 years. Paul says that anyone who disobeys the light of Christ
is a child of disobedience and is therefore operating under the spirit of
antichrist. Ephesians 2:2 (KJV), "Wherein in time past ye walked according to
the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the
spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." (See also: Job 24:13
(KJV), "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways
thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof." Not all "light" is the light of
Christ, (2 Corinthians 11:14).
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It is true that there is a "life force" that permeates all things. The Light of
Christ and the Holy Spirit are different degrees of that life force (the
contemporary word "energy" is a misnomer, the scriptural word, "spirit" is more
accurate). This is the "ether," "chi," etc. spoken of in other times and places.
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The power of God operates through the Holy Spirit. If you want to wield the
power of God you must do so via the Holy Spirit.
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Proof that Reiki and the Holy Spirit are not the same thing:
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Reiki requires initiation. If you have already been baptized by the Holy Spirit
you do not need any initiation.
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Reiki uses symbols. You do not need to use any symbols when you wield the Holy
Spirit / power of God.
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Reiki has hierarchical levels in it's self-described hierarchical "system,"
which includes the title of "Master." Jesus Christ said, "Neither be ye called
masters: for one is your Master, even Christ," Matthew 23:10 (KJV). If Reiki was
the power of God it would not require the use of a "system."
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The founder of Reiki and his successor had a steep fee structure. According to
one source well versed in the history, "At the time of Usui-sensei and Hayashi
sensei, it cost a lot of money to become a Reiki practitioner. Only wealthy
people could afford to become First and Second degree practitioners...I donโt
know why Usui or Hayashi charged high fees. Hayashi charged 50 yen at that time.
He taught a five-day workshop to minimum of 10 students. At that time, it was a
lot of money...I asked my teacher, Mrs. Yamaguchi, โWhat could you do with 500
yen?โ She said you could buy a small house." <a href="https://reikiinmedicine.org/reiki-basics/reiki-healing-money-hyakuten-inamoto/">https://reikiinmedicine.org/reiki-basics/reiki-healing-money-hyakuten-inamoto/</a><br /><br />
Most contemporary Reiki practitioners charge money.
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Charging money to wield the power of God's Holy Spirit is, by all scriptural
definitions, priestcraft.
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There are only two primary spirits operating in this world (as described above).
Every other spirit is just a variation of one of those two spirits. For instance
"a spirit of fear," mentioned in 2 Timothy 1:7, is one of the "fruits" (or
qualities) of the antichrist spirit. A spirit of joy, mentioned in Galatians
5:22, is one of the "fruits" (or qualities) of the Holy Spirit / Light of
Christ. Every entity, whether on earth or in the spirit realm, is possessed by
one of these two spirits.
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Many people would be surprised to know that the antichrist spirit is a very
"religious" spirit. It is the antichrist spirit that is sustains the Pope as a
legitimate representative of Jesus Christ. It is the antichrist spirit that is
the spirit behind any LDS person who trusts in the arm of flesh, and upholds the
traditions of men, and the philosophies of men mingled with scripture, and who
puts a man (Russell M. Nelson) in between them and Jesus Christ. The spirit of
antichrist is the religious spirit of the Pharisees and Sadducees that
persecuted and had Jesus Christ killed, all the while thinking they were doing
God a favor (John 16:2). The antichrist spirit can cause un-Christlike spiritual
entities to appear as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), or wicked human
beings to masquerade as ministers of righteousness (2 Corinthians 11:15, Jude
1:4). It is the antichrist spirit that can perform "lying signs and wonders" (2
Thessalonians 2:9).
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One of the definitions of antichrist is "in place of." People using Reiki are
doing so "in place of" the Holy Spirit. No man can serve two masters (Matthew
6:24). A person has to sacrifice Reiki in order to be in obedience to Jesus
Christ and receive the blessings thereof, including healing (D&C
130:21).
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Reiki was given a false Christian narrative in order to make it more appealing
to people in the west.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikao_Usui#Claims_of_Reiki's_Christian_origins">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikao_Usui#Claims_of_Reiki's_Christian_origins</a><br />
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Many people are enamored with the "trappings" of Reiki and other
spiritual counterfeits (whether they realize it or not). They love the
symbols, they love the systems. They love the fancy embroidery. To some
of these people the Holy Spirit is boring (even if that thought has
never crossed their mind - but their actions demonstrate that they
believe, consciously or otherwise, that the Holy Spirit is inadequate or
else, why the need to replace it with something else?). But Jesus Christ
gave me a word to share with those people, "they stumble because of the
simplicity of the way."
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I pray that anyone involved with Reiki will repent of it, and lay down
everything to obtain the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and then learn how
to do spiritual warfare / engage in Mighty Prayer instead of Reiki. In
the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-45260941004046784182021-02-21T14:34:00.000-08:002021-02-21T14:34:01.719-08:00What is the Triple-headed Eagle??? The Meaning of Ezra's Three-headed Eagle Revealed!!!<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCWjmqpHdthBEenRboh3ygUioZhxpv5GNPIIFo-6z_sb4i0dyGMzwKGjQp7QY65WHY5criIymimXHWM7HJOlWxiFmXFy2FluFYl4PrcivsXg7BFBLHiDfia5dd2EX_cJOmvU/s288/Novikov_triple_eagle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCWjmqpHdthBEenRboh3ygUioZhxpv5GNPIIFo-6z_sb4i0dyGMzwKGjQp7QY65WHY5criIymimXHWM7HJOlWxiFmXFy2FluFYl4PrcivsXg7BFBLHiDfia5dd2EX_cJOmvU/s0/Novikov_triple_eagle.jpg" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">A three-headed eagle is mentioned in the apocryphal </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Esdras" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2 Esdras">Latin Ezra</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">, featuring in a dream by the high priest </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0645ad; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ezra">Ezra</a><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> (aka Esdras).</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">SEE ALSO:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-headed_eagle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-headed_eagle</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;">The interpretation of the three heads in Esdras' vision can be found in the following article, reprinted from:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city">https://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="post-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Open sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arimo, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 10px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Three Corporations run the world: City of London, Washington DC and Vatican City</h1></div><div class="post-meta-blog" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: rgb(94, 94, 94); border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 4px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta_author" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted by <a href="https://www.sinhalanet.net/author/shenali-d-waduge" rel="author" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 166, 2); border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Shenali D Waduge">Shenali D Waduge</a></span> <span class="meta_date" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On May 31, 2014</span> <span class="meta_comments" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.sinhalanet.net/three-corporations-run-the-world-city-of-london-washington-dc-and-vatican-city#respond" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 166, 2); border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">0 Comment</a></span></div><div class="post_content entry-content" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">World events most of which are โengineeredโ leave a trail that leads to the architects. We next discover that there are 3 cities on earth that come under no national authority, they have separate laws, they pay no taxes, they have their own police force and even possess their own flag of โindependenceโ. These 3 cities control the economy, military onslaughts and the spiritual beings of those in powers. The 3 cities are actually corporations and they are the City of London, District of Columbia and the Vatican. Together they control politicians, the courts, educational institutions, food supply, natural resources, foreign policies, economies, media, and the money flow of most nations as well as 80% of the worldโs entire wealth. Their ultimate aim is to build a totalitarian rule on a global scale where people will be divided into rulers and the ruled after they have depopulated the world to numbers they wish to rule over. What we need to understand is that the world does not work according to what we have been led to believe. We are drowning in misinformation.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the center of each city state are giant phallic shaped stone monuments called obelisks.</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.sinhalanet.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image.png" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 166, 2); border: 0px; color: #409bd4; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="image" class="size-full wp-image-2946 alignleft" height="246" src="http://www.sinhalanet.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image.png" style="border: 0px; display: block; float: left; font: inherit; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="170" /></a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">London obelisk</strong> (aka Cleopatraโs Needle): Located on the banks of the River Thames, this obelisk was transported to London and erected in 1878 under the reign of Queen Victoria. The obelisk originally stood in the Egyptian city of On, or Heliopolis (the City of the Sun). The Knights Templarsโ land extended to this area of the Thames, where the Templars had their own docks. Either side of the obelisk is surrounded by a sphinx, more symbolism dating back to the ancient world.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D.C. the obelisk </strong>is known as the Washington monument was dedicated to George Washington by the secretive brotherhood of Freemason Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia in 1848. They also contributed 22 masonic memorial stones. 250 masonic lodges financed the Washington monument obelisk including the knights templar masonic order.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vatican obelisk: Located in St. Peterโs Square, was moved from Egypt to its current location, in 1586. The circle on the ground represents the female vagina, while the obelisk itself is the penis. This is commonly known as occult symbolism.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Roman Empire prevails through the :</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. CITY OF LONDON INC </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The City of London was formed when the Romans arrived in Great Britain 2000 years ago and started a trading post on the River Thames. Exactly 1000 years later William the Conqueror (King William III) gave sovereign status to the City of Londoners in 1694 allowing them to continue enjoying separate rights and privileges so long as they recognized him as King. The Kings that succeeded William however, decided to build a new capital city and named it Westminster. There have been numerous instances of the King and the Cityโs Mayor at loggerheads with each other.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is peculiar is that laws passed by the British Parliament does not apply to the City of London. </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However the City of London is not an independent nation like the Vatican.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Today the City of London is a one-square mile city. The 2 Londons have separate city halls and elect separate mayors, who collect separate taxes to fund separate police who enforce separate laws. City of London has its own separate flag and crest while London city does not. The Mayor of the City of London has a fancy title โThe Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Londonโ and rides a golden carriage to Guildhall while the Mayor of London wears a suit and takes a bus. The Mayor of London has no power over the Right Honorable Lord Mayor of London (City of London). Whatโs unique is that the City of London is a Corporation and older than the United Kingdom but has a representative in the UK Parliament through a person known as the โRemembrancerโ who is present to protect the โCityโs interests.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The City of London houses</strong></p><ul style="border: 0px; font: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 20px 40px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rothschild controlled โBank of Englandโ</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lloyds of London</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The London Stock Exchange</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All British Banks</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Branch offices of 384 Foreign Banks</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">70 USA Banks</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fleet Streets Newspaper and Publishing Monopolies</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Headquarters for Worldwide Freemasonry</strong></li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Headquarters for the worldwide money cartel known as โTHE CROWNโ</strong></li></ul><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The City of London is controlled by the Bank of England, a private corporation owned by the Rothschild family after Nathan Rothschild crashed the English stock market in 1812 and took control of the Bank of England.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Queen refers to the City of London Corporation as the โFirmโ but it is known as The CROWN (not representing the Royalty of Britain). Buckingham Palace is in London but not in the City of London and the City is not part of England.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">City of London directly and indirectly controls all mayors, councils, regional councils, multi-national and trans-national banks, corporations, judicial systems (through Old Bailey, Temple Bar and the Royal Courts of Justice in London), the IMF, World Bank, Vatican Bank (through N. M. Rothschild & Sons London Italian subsidiary Torlonia), European Central Bank, United States Federal Reserve (which is privately owned and secretly controlled by eight British-controlled shareholding banks), the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland (which is also British-controlled and oversees all of the Reserve Banks around the world including our own) and the European Union and the United Nations Organization. The Crown controls the global financial system and runs the governments of all Commonwealth countries, and many non-Commonwealth โWesternโ nations as well (like Greece). The Crown traces back to the Vatican, which is headed by the Pope (who owns American Express) <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In essence the City of London Corporation would become the โOne World Earth Corporationโ and would privately own the world. </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Washington DC (District of Colombia)</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Washington DC is not part of the USA. District of Columbia is located on 10sq miles of land. DC has its own flag and own independent constitution. This constitution operates under a tyrannical Roman law known as Lex Fori. DC constitution has nothing to do with the American Constitution. The Act of 1871 passed by Congress created a separate corporation known as THE UNITED STATES & corporate government for the District of Columbia. Thus DC acts as a Corporation through the Act. The flag of Washingtonโs District of Columbia has 3 red stars (the 3 stars denoting DC, Vatican City and City of London).</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A look at the various Treaties raises the question of whether US remains a British Crown colony. The basis of this goes back to the first Charter of Virginia in 1606 that granted Britain the right to colonize America and gave the British King/Queen to hold sovereign authority over colonized America and its citizens. Colonized America was created after stealing America from the Native Indians. If America was colonized with British subjects these people are subjects of the British Government.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To negate this was the Treaty of 1783 declaring independence from Great Britain. However, this Treaty identifies the King/Queen of England as the Prince of the United States. (please refer <a href="http://www.treatyofparis.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 166, 2); border: 0px; color: #409bd4; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.treatyofparis.com</a>) Nevertheless, according to the Bouviers Law dictionary in โmonarchicial governmentsโ a subject owes permanent allegiance to the monarch in which case the British subjects in colonized America owed permanent allegiance to the monarch.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reverse is applicable under Constitutional law where allegiance is owed to the sovereign and to the laws of a sovereign government and natives are both subjects and citizens.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The issue is if a war was fought in 1781 and America became victor why would Britain need to sign a Treaty in 1783? When US has won a war, America should not require the British monarch to cede land and refer to himself as Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and of the United States? There is also the issue of the use of the term โEsquireโ given that it is a title of nobility again showing allegiance to the Queen/King and when Benjamin Franklin, John Jay Esquire and John Adams signing on behalf of the US use the name โEsquireโ it is raising the question of how valid the 1783 Treaty is. John Jay went on to sign the 1794 Treaty between England and US raising again why 13 years after the Paris Treaty the US needs to sign a Treaty with England if US was really โindependentโ.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What needs to be further investigated is why US still continues to pay tax to the City if it is a free nation?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 1794 Treaty signed between England and the US was negotiated by John Jay Esquire who negotiated the 1783 Treaty. The question is why would US need to sign Treatyโs with England 13 years after the Paris Treaty of 1783 declaring US independent? Why would Article 6 and Article 12 continue to dictate terms to an โindependentโ America?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Further reading of US history would reveal what happened to America when it cancelled the Charter of the First National Bank in 1811 and immediately afterwards 4500 British troops arrived and burnt down the White House, both Houses of Congress, the War Office, the US State Department and Treasury and destroyed the ratification records (signed by 12 US states) of the US Constitution wherein the 13<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>Amendment was to stop anyone receiving a Title of nobility or honor from serving the US Government. The 1812 war lasted 3 years and the Bank Charter was re-established in 1816 after the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815. Note: 13th amendment which was ratified in 1810 no longer appears in current copies of the U.S. constitution.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1913 the Federal Reserve was passed by US Congress handing over Americaโs gold and silver reserves and total control of Americaโs economy to the Rothschild banksters. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned banking system that does not belong to America or Americans.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is no better a time to question whether US is a country or a corporation and the US President and officials at the Congress are working for that Corporation and not for the American people. It appears that the US Corporation is owned by the same country that owns Canada, Australia and New Zealand whose leaders are all serving the Queen in her Crown Land and US too has been and remains a crown colony that belong to the Empire of the 3 City States โ City of London, Vatican City and Washington DC. The <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">US president is nothing more than a figurehead for the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">central bankers</i> and the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">transnational corporations</i> โ <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">both of which</i> are controlled by High Ecclesiastic Freemasonry </strong>from the City of London the home of the global financial system.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Vatican City</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Vatican City is not part of Italy or Rome. The Vatican is the last true remnant of the Roman Empire. The State of Israel is also said to be a Roman outpost. The Vaticanโs wealth includes investments with the Rothschilds in Britain, France and US and with oil and weapons corporations as well. The Vaticanโs billions are said to be in Rothschild controlled โBank of Englandโ and US Federal Reserve Bank. The money possessed by the Vatican is more than banks, corporations or even some Governments and questions why the wealth is not used to elevate at least the Christian poor when it preaches about giving?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vatican wealth has been accumulated over the centuries by taxing indulgences, some Popes have sold tickets to heaven. Today, they are harvesting souls in Asia as a 3<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 0.3em; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">rd</span>millennium goal.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Together the 3 Cities have under their wing various societies and groups placed globally with their own so that no one contests their global plan and those that do โฆwell all the assassinations will explain what happens.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Fabian Society is one such entity which written in 1887 is a mixture of fascism, Nazism, Marxism and communism. It is not hard to now imagine that all these โideologiesโ would have also been engineered by the same people. It should come as no surprise then to discover that the Fabian Society is accredited with creating Communist China, Fascism in Italy and Germany and Socialism globally as well. How far people have been fooled and also explains the role played by the Fabian Society in formulating policies for the decolonized British Empire. It would also mean that quite a number of British educated natives given the mantle of leading the newly independent nations would have also been members of the Fabian society. The communist takeover of Russia too is said to be the work of the British Fabian Society financed by the City of London banking families.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A closer look at entities like the Bank Of International Settlements (BIS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Club Of Rome, The Committee Of 300, the Central โIntelligenceโ Agency (CIA), the Council On Foreign Relations, The Tri-Lateral Commission, The Bilderberg Groups, the โFederalโ Reserve System, the Internal Revenue Service(s), Goldman Sachs, Israel and the Israeli lobby, the Vatican, the City of London, Brussels, the United Nations, the Israeli Mossad, and Associated Press (AP) will reveal that they are all part of the Fabian Society which also controls the European Union.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A noteworthy quote is that of Australian Senator Chris Schacht who said in 2001 โYou probably were not aware that us Fabians have taken over the CIA, KGB, M15, ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organization), IMF, the World Bank and many other organizations.โ</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">From all this we should realize that NOTHING HAPPENS IN ISOLATION. Therefore, every event however small is engineered and orchestrated by a handful of people who control the world and what goes on in the world.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Together they have been responsible for</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Global Warming/Climate change โ by creating an environmental catastrophe and winning the Nobel Prize, they have created a public awareness for a โglobal governmentโ that gives them the right to take action over national governments. Known as UN Agenda 21 a closer look at its clauses will reveal how people will need to get permission for everything they do โ in other words it is being used to control people.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Federal Banking system โ The Fabian Society created the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 handing over the US economy to a cartel of international financiers.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Big Pharma โ is responsible for drugging the Third World</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. System of local government โ promoting devolution and new concept of regional councils in a bid to increase a revenue generating system. It is within an overall plan to abolish independent sovereign national governments. Britain is divided in 9 separate regions of the EU. The British will be shocked to discover that EU laws take precedence over British laws and if they have doubts they need to ask why the Queen and British PMs have signed Treaties handing over power.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Abolition of property rights โ in 1974 at the Habitat Conference private property was identified as a threat to peace and equality of the environment. Using โenvironmentalismโ as a ploy the quest was to take over earthโs resources and place it under a central authority (UN) and issue licenses for payment. Who owns the UNโฆthe same banking families. In 1987 the World Wilderness Congress was held organized by the Rothschildโs World Conservation Bank which was set up the same year. The World Bank is likely to be replaced by the World Conservation Bank โ the aim is to break down national banks and assets will also be diverted to the new bank which is why there is an aim to merge currencies into 2 or 3 major currency groups and replace them with a new electronic currency which is said to be called the โearth dollarโ. New Zealand has apparently transferred over 34% of its land area into UN Heritage Areas and Conservation Parks and these will all be owned by the same banking families. In 1992 the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil was chaired by Mikhail Gorbachev responsible for dividing the Soviet Union and Maurice Strong, the Rothschild London agent. The topic was Agenda 21 which gave man rights superior to animals, fish, plants, trees and forests.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. The Patriots Act, the Human Rights Bill, the European Union Constitution, the Security and Prosperity Partnership are all being manipulated to place power in the control of a few hands. Their plans are plotted annually through the Bilderberg Group and their agents run numerous think tanks that steer Government policy which are funded by the banksters who in real terms run the world. Thus the 13 banking families that run the world control the central banks of the world that print money, give loans on interest and explains how national debt never decreases. Economic crises, oil crisis (simply to increase prices), Arab Springs are all manufactured as are wars. There is a saying that all wars and bankers wars. The danger is when it comes to food as the control is being placed under Monsanto and GMOs. Monsanto is the same company that introduced Agent Orange therefore it is worthwhile reading UNโs Codex Alimentarius and the impeding dangers.</p></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-52293557323447512642021-02-21T14:16:00.006-08:002021-03-18T10:14:33.850-07:00What is the "Eighth Day"??? 3 articles explain the origin of "The Lord's Day"<article class="post-5276 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured category-headline" id="post-5276" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="gdlr-standard-style" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="blog-content-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="blog-content-inner-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 40px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="post-header" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4W0dsKddCO6rLMYKuulpw7E-sjvcNQXSM0nMrY8h2Tc6Cnqzs92kRuXBd4ZdnklzeOgi5bVoAOJTXwaTC49xnMshCMX7TkzopMYHMLRvcI19ymhiNt6cvihnXVqWDZotuQk/s600/Eighth-Day-Of-The-Week.png" style="background-color: #fff2cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy4W0dsKddCO6rLMYKuulpw7E-sjvcNQXSM0nMrY8h2Tc6Cnqzs92kRuXBd4ZdnklzeOgi5bVoAOJTXwaTC49xnMshCMX7TkzopMYHMLRvcI19ymhiNt6cvihnXVqWDZotuQk/s320/Eighth-Day-Of-The-Week.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></h1><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 1px;">THE EIGHTH DAY by Joseph Gleason, reprinted from:</span></h1><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: arial;">https://theorthodoxlife.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-eighth-day/</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gospel Reading: <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A19-23+&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John 20:19-23</a></span></p><hr style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 24px;" /><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Our God is One. </em></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In the beginning, God took six days to create the heavens and the earth, and He rested on the seventh. In response, we eagerly ask, โWhat happens next? What happens on the 8th day?โ</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Alas, Adamโs sin introduced a dark twist into the story, and thousands of years would pass before we could see the glory of the 8th day. And all through the Old Testament, God gave us hints and examples, shadows and types providing a foretaste of what that blessed day would look like. Israel was constantly reminded of the 8th day.</span></p><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">An Israelite entered into Godโs Covenant by being <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+12%3A3&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">circumcised</a> on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+9&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">priestly ordination</a> of Aaron and his sons was completed on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">With <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=+Exodus+22%3A29-30&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">livestock</a>, your sacrifice of first fruits to God was to be on the 8th day. In general, any lamb, goat or bullock was not acceptable for offering until the 8th day of its life.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">A healed <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus+14%3A1-33&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">leper</a> was declared clean on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Ceremonial cleansing after an <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+15%3A19-30&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">issue of blood</a> reached completion on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Ceremonial <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+6%3A9-12&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cleansing of a defiled Nazarite</a> reached completion on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+23%3A36&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Feast of Tabernacles</a> reached its climax on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">King Hezekiahโs <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+29%3A17&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">cleansing of the Temple</a> was completed on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Ezekielโs <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=ezekiel+43%3A26-27&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">purification of the altar</a> climaxed in Godโs acceptance on the 8th day.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">When the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+8%3A66&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Ark of the Covenant</a> was brought to Solomonโs Temple in Jerusalem, on the 8th day, the people blessed the king and went into their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David His servant and for Israel His people.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">We also remember that, in Noahโs Flood, <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=genesis+7%3A13&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">eight souls</a> were saved by water, and <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+16%3A10-13&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">King David</a> himself was the 8th son of Jesse.</span></li></ul><p class="inline-ad-slot" data-adtags-visited="true" data-adtags-width="640" id="inline-ad-0" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"></p><div class="ata-frame-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 50px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="50" scrolling="no" src="about:blank" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; height: 50px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;" width="300"></iframe></span></div><div class="ata-controls" id="inline-ad-0__controls" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><span class="ata-controls__complain-btn" face="Verdana, sans-serif" id="inline-ad-0__complain-btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c8c7cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 6px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">REPORT THIS AD</span></span></div><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">What is the significance of the number eight? Why does the 8th day figure so prominently and frequently throughout the Old Testament?</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Around the year 150 AD, there were still people alive in the Church who had lived during the same time as the Apostles. At this time, <a href="https://orthodoxwiki.org/Justin_Martyr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">St. Justin the Martyr</a> had a written dialogue with Trypho the Jew. In this dialogue, St Justin said,</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">โFor righteous Noah, along with the other mortals at the deluge, i.e. with his own wife, his three sons and their wives, being eight in number, were a symbol of the eighth day, wherein Christ appeared when He rose from the dead forever the first in power.โ<a href="https://theorthodoxlife.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-eighth-day/#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</a></span></p></blockquote><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In Noahโs Ark, why were eight people saved? According to St. Justin, the number eight was prophetic. It pointed forward to when Jesus Christ, the Son of God would rise from the dead on the 8th day.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">About 100 years later, around the year 250 AD, <a href="https://orthodoxwiki.org/Cyprian_of_Carthage" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">St. Cyprian</a> was in Carthage in a council of 66 bishops. They considered a question that had been posed by a man named Fidus in a letter. Fidus had suggested that infant baptism should be delayed until a child is eight days old, because in the Old Testament circumcision had always been delayed until the 8th day. This was the response given from this council of 66 Orthodox bishops:</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">For in respect of the observance of the eighth day in the Jewish circumcision of the flesh, a sacrament was given beforehand in shadow and in usage, but when Christ came, it was fulfilled in truth. For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord should rise again and should quicken us and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lordโs day, went before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came and spiritual circumcision was given to us. <a href="https://theorthodoxlife.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-eighth-day/#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a></span></p></blockquote><p class="inline-ad-slot" data-adtags-visited="true" data-adtags-width="640" id="inline-ad-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"></p><div class="ata-frame-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 100px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="100" scrolling="no" src="about:blank" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; height: 100px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;" width="320"></iframe></span></div><div class="ata-controls" id="inline-ad-1__controls" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span class="ata-controls__complain-btn" face="Verdana, sans-serif" id="inline-ad-1__complain-btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c8c7cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 6px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">REPORT THIS AD</span></span></div><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">According to St. Cyprian and this council of 66 bishops, Old Testament circumcision was prophetic. It always took place on the 8th day pointing forward to when Jesus Christ, the Son of God would rise from the dead on the eighth day.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Long before we even reach the New Testament, we see the 8th day figure into numerous aspects of Israelโs history and Israelโs everyday life:</span></p><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Whenever you read about Noahโs Ark, you would think about the number eight.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Whenever you circumcised your son</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Whenever you offered God sacrifice of the first fruits from your livestock</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And whenever you celebrated the annual Feast of Tabernacles you would think about the eighth day</span></li></ul><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The eighth day finally reveals its significance after the final week of the Old Covenant. From Palm Sunday to Good Friday, Jesus performs his final works for our salvation. On Friday He says, โIt is finished,โ and gives up His spirit. On Holy Saturday, His body rests in the tomb as He keeps the final Sabbath in the Old Covenant. Then, on the 8th day. . .</span></p><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 24px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the 8th day death is defeated.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the 8th day, the gates of Hell are shattered.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the 8th day, the graves release their captive.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the 8th day, the Son of God rises from the dead holding the keys of death and hell in one hand and the broken teeth of the devil in the other.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the 8th day, the old creation begins passing away, and the new creation begins breaking into our present world, for when the Apostles look upon the Risen Christ, they are looking at a human body which has already crossed over from death into life.</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">They are looking at a human body that will outlive this present universe. When this world burns, and we meet the end of the world as we know it, our Risen Savior will still be there, alive and well on the other <span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">side.When</span> the Apostles see the Risen Body of Christ, they are seeing their own future. For in the New heavens and the new earth, our bodies will be like His.</span></li></ul><p class="inline-ad-slot" data-adtags-visited="true" data-adtags-width="640" id="inline-ad-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"></p><div class="ata-frame-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 50px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="50" scrolling="no" src="about:blank" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; height: 50px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;" width="320"></iframe></span></div><div class="ata-controls" id="inline-ad-2__controls" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span class="ata-controls__complain-btn" face="Verdana, sans-serif" id="inline-ad-2__complain-btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c8c7cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 6px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">REPORT THIS AD</span></span></div><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The 8th day, the day of the Resurrection, is such a significant cosmic event that Jesus immediately leads his disciples to commemorate that day. From that day forth, every Lordโs Day is a commemoration of the 8th day. Every Sunday is observed as sort of a โlittle Easter,โ a weekly celebration of the Resurrection of the Son of God. In the Gospel of John, we see that Jesus immediately sets up a pattern for his disciples to follow.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The first Sunday, on the day of the Resurrection, the Apostles were gathered together in one place. Jesus came to meet with them. Jesus said, โPeace be unto you.โ The Apostles were able to see the wounds in Jesusโs hands, feet, and side. The Apostles respond with gladness, and their unbelief is gone.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jesus says, โ<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A21&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Even as My Father has sent Me, so send I you.</a>โ Heโs talking about evangelism. Heโs talking about the Gospel being carried out into the rest of the world.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The next Sunday, the week after the Resurrection, you see the same thing. The Apostles are gathered together in one place. Jesus comes to meet with them. Jesus says, โPeace be unto you.โ The Apostles, this time including Thomas, were able to see the wounds in Jesusโs hands, feet, and side. Thomas responds, โ<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A28&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">My Lord and my God!</a>โ and his unbelief is gone.</span></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jesus says, โ<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A29&version=NKJV" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed</a>.โ Once again, Heโs talking about evangelism. Heโs talking about those of us who would believe the words of the Apostles and would believe in the Resurrection of the Son of God and would join His family in the Church.</span></p><p class="inline-ad-slot" data-adtags-visited="true" data-adtags-width="640" id="inline-ad-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 24px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"></p><div class="ata-frame-wrapper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 100px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="100" scrolling="no" src="about:blank" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; height: 100px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;" width="320"></iframe></span></div><div class="ata-controls" id="inline-ad-3__controls" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; height: 10px; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 320px;"><span class="ata-controls__complain-btn" face="Verdana, sans-serif" id="inline-ad-3__complain-btn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #c8c7cc; cursor: pointer; float: right; font-size: 6px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">REPORT THIS AD</span></span></div><p></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Early in the Fifth Century, Cyril of Alexandria summed it up well. He said:</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3em; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">With good reason then we are accustomed to have sacred meetings in churches on the eighth day. And, to adopt the language of allegory, as the idea necessarily demands, we indeed close the doors. But Christ still visits us and appears to us all, both invisibly as God and visibly in the Body. He allows us to touch His holy Flesh and gives it to us. For through the grace of God we are admitted to partake of the blessed Eucharist, receiving Christ into our hands, to the intent that we may firmly believe that he did in truth raise up the Temple of His Body . . . Participation of the Divine Mysteries, in addition to filling us with divine blessedness, is a true confession and memorial of Christโs dying and rising again for us and for our sake. Let us, therefore, after touching Christโs Body, avoid all unbelief in Him as utter ruin and rather be found well grounded in the full assurance of faith.<a href="https://theorthodoxlife.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-eighth-day/#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></span></p></blockquote><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Our God is One. </em></p><hr style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 24px;" /><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">NOTES AND REFERENCES</span></h3><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://theorthodoxlife.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/the-eighth-day/#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #0066cc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</a> โDialogue with Trypho.โ In <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Anti-Nicene Christian Library: Justin Martyr and Athenagoras</em>, edited by Sir James Donaldson and Alexander Roberts, By St. Justin Martyr London: Hamilton and, 1870.</span></p></div><div><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></span></div><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #212121; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 32px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Theological Significance of the Eighth Day </span></h1><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #212121; font-size: 32px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/author/nbatzig/" rel="author" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #8e8e8e; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Nicholas T. Batzig"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: arial;">Nicholas T. Batzig</span></a></h1><div class="gdlr-blog-info gdlr-title-font gdlr-info" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #8e8e8e; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 13px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 2.3; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="gdlr-seperator" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); float: left; margin: 0px 18px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Reprinted from: </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: 1px;">https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/</span></span></span></span><div class="clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; zoom: 1;"></div></div><div class="clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); clear: both; color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; zoom: 1;"></div></header><div class="gdlr-blog-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 60px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In recent decades, the โeighth dayโ has been taken up by American pop-culture as something of a rhetorical literary device. When I was in high school there was a somewhat annoyingly catchy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYiENXquKUc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">song about God making sweat tea on the eighth day</a>. Then there was the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Superbowl commercial about how God supposedly made farmers on the eighth day</a>. While these attempts to employ the idea of the eighth day as an apparatus to show appreciation for the goodness of beloved objects, there is a divinely invested theological significance to the eighth day in Scriptureโboth with regard to the day on which the Israelite boys were to be circumcised (Genesis 17:12), as well as to the ceremonial Sabbaths in the Old Testament ceremonial law (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e.g.</em> the Feast of Tabernacles in Leviticus 23:36-39 and Numbers 29:35). The โeighth dayโ (in a seven-day week cycle) denotes new creationโone and eight representing creation and new creation.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In his disputation with Faustus, Augustine explained the change of signs from circumcision to baptism, and the change of the Sabbath day from the seventh to the eight, by suggesting that the โeighth dayโ in the Old Testament carried with it the idea of new creation and resurrection. He wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("images/dark/quote.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 18px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 37px 35px; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 0px 90px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">[Christ] <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #222222; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">suffered voluntarily, and so could choose His own time for suffering and for resurrection, He brought it about that His body rested from all its works on Sabbath in the tomb, and that His resurrection on the third day, which we call the Lordโs day, the day after the Sabbath, and therefore the eighth, proved the circumcision of the eighth day to be also prophetical of Him. For what does circumcision mean, but the eradication of the mortality which comes from our carnal generation? So the apostle says: โPutting off from Himself His flesh, He made a show of principalities and powers, triumphing over them in Himself.โ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #222222; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The flesh here said to be put off is that mortality of flesh on account of which the body is properly called flesh. The flesh is the mortality, for in the immortality of the resurrection there will be no flesh; as it is written, โFlesh and blood shall not inherit the kingdom of God.1</span></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Notwithstanding his overly cautious caveat, John Calvin also indicated that he was attracted to this redemptive-historical idea regarding the โeighth dayโ for circumcision in the Old Covenant in his comments on Genesis 17:12:</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("images/dark/quote.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 18px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 37px 35px; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 0px 90px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #222222; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Augustine also thinks that it had reference to the resurrection of Christ; whereby external circumcision was abolished and the truth of the figure was set forth. It is probable and consonant with reason, that the number seven designated the course of the present life. Therefore the eighth day might seem to be fixed upon by the Lord, to prefigure the beginning of a new life. But because such a reason is never given in Scripture, I dare affirm nothing. Wherefore, let it suffice to maintain what is certain and solid; namely, that God, in this symbol, has so represented the destruction of the old man, as yet to show that he restores men to life.2</span></p></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">This also fits in well with the idea of the eighth day Sabbaths at the appointed feasts and festivals in the ceremonial law. On a seven day week, the first and the eighth are essentially the same day, with this one differenceโthe eighth day represents the re-creation or new creation. If you were an Old Covenant Israelite, reading the divine prescriptions concerning the observance of the Old Covenant ceremonies, you would be compelled to ask the question, โWhy, if the Sabbath Day, from creation to the giving of the Law on Sinai, was the seventh day of the week, is there explicit reference to eighth day Sabbaths attached to the festivals?โ For instance, in Leviticus 23:36-39โat the institution of the Feast of Tabernacles, the LORD commanded Israel:</span></p><div class="version-NKJV result-text-style-normal text-html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("images/dark/quote.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 18px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 37px 35px; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 0px 90px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="text Lev-23-36" id="en-NKJV-3439" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the <span class="small-caps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord</span>. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the <span class="small-caps" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord</span>. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on itโฆon the first day <i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there shall be</i> a sabbath-<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rest</i>, and on the eighth day a sabbath-<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rest.</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="text Lev-23-36" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note especially how the Lord prescribed a first and eighth day Sabbath during the Feast of Tabernacles. This alone ties together the point about them having identity in their theological significance. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="text Lev-23-36" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then in Numbers 29:35 we read again read of the Feast of Tabernacles: โOn the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no customary work.โ The Feast of Tabernacles was a reminder to the Israelites of God coming and dwelling with them in the wilderness. Israel lived in tents. In His redeeming mercy, God graciously came and dwelt with His people. In order to do so, He became like His people. The Israelites lived in tents, so God lived in a Tent. This was all a prefiguration of the incarnation. The Apostle John tells us, โThe Word became flesh and tabernacled among usโ (John 1:14). The purpose of the incarnation was to restore the lost presence of God to His chosen people. In order for this to occur, the incarnation was necessary; butโand this should be carefully notedโreconciliation was only possible through the sin-removing, substitutionary death of Jesus. In order for God to dwell with His people their sins need to be atoned for and His wrath needs to be satisfied. This is what Christ accomplished in His death. The incarnation (tabernacling) made this possible. Interestingly, as Augustine noted, Jesus finished this necessary work and then rested in the tomb on the Old Covenant Sabbath. Then, on the first day of the week (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">i.e. </em>the eighth day), He rose and His presence was forever guaranteed to believers. The restored presence of God is seen in the manifestation of the two angels, sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus lay, just as the two Cherubim sat over the Ark of the Covenant where the presence of God appeared when the blood of the sacrifice was sprinkled on the mercy seat. In the resurrection of Jesus on the first day (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">i.e.</em> the eighth day), the glory of Godโs presence is made manifest to His people. Jesus brings about the new creation through His incarnation, death and resurrection and so fulfills the Feast of Tabernacles. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Sabbath day prefigured the need for eternal and new creation rest. Picking up on the time element of the Sabbath, Iain D. Campbell, in his very helpful work, <a href="http://www.dayone.co.uk/products/on-the-first-day-of-the-week" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the First Day of the Week</em></a>, made the following observation on the significance of the eighth day in the prophecy of Ezekielโs eschatology Temple:</span></p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("images/dark/quote.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 18px 15px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 37px 35px; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 35px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 0px 90px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Things will be different in the future, but the Sabbath principle will remain. The blessings of communion with God, of which the Sabbath speaks so eloquently, will be enjoyed in new measure by the people of God. Iain Duguid brings out the importance of this, when he comments on the โlack of timelessnessโ so often found in eschatological visions in the Bible. He goes on to say that โin Ezekielโs reordering of the festival calendar, time itself is brought under the discipline of the new ageโ, and he goes on to apply this to Christian worship today. And although he does not explicitly speak of the Sabbath factor in Christian worship, that is surely one of the main lines along which Ezekielโs vision takes us: to the realization that just as Jesus is our sacrifice and Prince, and just as we are a spiritual temple in him, so he has given us a new sacred โtimeโ, a new Sabbath, a Sabbath of the eighth day (<i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cf.</i> 43:27), our Lordโs Day Sabbath.3</span></p></blockquote><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">While these truths certainly have implication for the theological shift from the bloody sign of circumcision to the unbloody sign of baptism, and from the seventh day to the first day (eighth day) for the Sabbath, they teach us much about the fulfillment of all things in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus. The storyline of the Scriptures is the story of the new creation through the death and resurrection of Christ. By His death on the cross, Jesus brought about the new creation. Peter T. OโBrien makes the following helpful observation about the meaning of the phrase โthe circumcision of Christโ in Colossians 2:11 when he suggests, โIt is better to regard the statement as denoting the circumcision that Christ underwent, that is, His crucifixion, of which His literal circumcision was at best a token by way of anticipation (<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cf. </em>Bruce, 234).4 His death was a bloody circumcision that brought about the circumcision (made without hands) in the hearts of His people. When he was cut off in bloody judgment under the wrath of God, He was providing all that was necessary for the cutting away of the guilt, corruption and power of our sin. By His resurrection, Jesus ushered in the new creation, by both raising His people up to newness of life now as well as by securing our bodily resurrection and the New Heavens and New Earth wherein righteousness will dwell at the consummation. The โeighth dayโ is pregnant with ceremonial significance in redemptive history. As with all the types and shadows ordained by God, it was invested with theological significance to serve the redemptive historical purposes of God.</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">1. St. Augustine <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf104.iv.ix.i.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply to Faustus the Manichaean</a> </em><a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf104.iv.ix.xviii.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">16.29</a></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">2. An excerpt from Calvinโs comments on Genesis 17:12 in his <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/calcom01.xxiii.i.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Commentary on Genesis</em></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">3. Campbell, I. D. (2005). <a href="http://www.dayone.co.uk/products/on-the-first-day-of-the-week" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the First Day of the Week: God, the Christian and the Sabbath</em></a> (p. 95). Leominster, UK: Day One Publications.</span></p><p class="p1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">4. Peter T. OโBrien <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Word Biblical Commentary: </em><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colossians, Philemon</em> (Word, Inc., 1982) vol. 44 p. 117</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); 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Batzig">Nicholas T. Batzig</a></h4><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Nick Batzig served as the founding pastor of <a href="http://www.newcovpres.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">New Covenant Presbyterian Church</a> (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA. Currently, he is a pastor at <a href="http://www.waysidechurch.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Wayside PCA</a> on Signal Mountain, TN, and an associate editor for <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Ligonier Ministries</a>. Formerly, Nick served as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/teachers/nicholas-batzig/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Tabletalk Magazine</a></em>, <a href="http://www.reformation21.org/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Reformation 21</a>, <a style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">He Reads Truth</a>, and <a href="http://www.christwardcollective.com/christward" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">the Christward Collective</a>. Nick was also the host of <a href="http://reformedforum.org/programs/eastofeden/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">East of Eden</a>, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NickBatzig" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a> and follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Nick_Batzig" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">@nick_batzig</a></span></div><div class="clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; zoom: 1;"></div></div><div class="gdlr-comments-area" id="comments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 70px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="comments-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: rgb(69, 69, 69); 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I remember reading sometime ago that water makes itโs first appearance in the embryo on the eighth day. The author went on to say that this is the water mentioned in John 3:5 Jesus answered, โTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of Godโฆโ He then drew the conclusion that the eight day was when God implanted the soul in the embryo. Any thoughts or comments? This seems to stay with the theological importance of the eighth day and new creation. Just wondering</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-183539" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2014-09-16T19:09:35-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Pingback : <a class="url" href="http://www.bloggingtheologically.com/2014/09/17/links-i-like-628/" rel="external nofollow ugc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Links I like</a></span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-183778" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The eighth day never ends.</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-183778" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2014-09-17T11:14:01-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">September 17, 2014 at 11:14 am</time></a></div></div></article></li><li class="pingback odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="comment-203845" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">The Eighth Day: Bloody Memories and Hopeful Futures โ Peculiar Faith</a></span></p></li><li class="comment odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-252535" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="comment-article" id="comment-252535" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #454545; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://www.tdgordon.net/" rel="external nofollow ugc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #454545; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">T. David Gordon</a></div><div class="comment-reply" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-label="Reply to T. David Gordon" class="comment-reply-link" data-belowelement="comment-252535" data-commentid="252535" data-postid="5276" data-replyto="Reply to T. David Gordon" data-respondelement="respond" href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/?replytocom=252535#respond" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></header><section class="comment-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Nic,</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Very interesting stuff. Barnabas also understood the eighth day eschatologically. In the Epistle of Barnabas (c. AD 70-79), the fifteenth chapter is about the sabbath, and the eschatological understanding of the sabbath is quite striking.. Barnabas quotes Isa. 1:14 (โYour new moons and your feasts have become a burden to meโ), and then explains the meaning:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">โYou see what his meaning is; it is not your present sabbaths that are acceptable, but that (sabbath) which I have made; when I have put to rest all things I will make the beginning of the eighth day, which is the beginning of another world. Therefore also we keep the eighth day for rejoicing, on which Jesus also rose from the dead, and, after being manifested, ascended into the heavens.โ</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">แฝฯแพถฯฮต ฯแฟถฯ ฮปแฝณฮณฮตฮนยท ฮแฝ ฯแฝฐ ฮฝแฟฆฮฝ ฯแฝฑฮฒฮฒฮฑฯฮฑ [แผฮผฮฟแฝถ] ฮดฮตฮบฯแฝฑ, แผฮปฮปแฝฐ แฝ ฯฮตฯฮฟแฝทฮทฮบฮฑยท แผฮฝ แพง ฮบฮฑฯฮฑฯฮฑแฝปฯฮฑฯ ฯแฝฐ ฯแฝฑฮฝฯฮฑ แผฯฯแฝดฮฝ แผกฮผแฝณฯฮฑฯ แฝฮณฮดแฝนฮทฯ ฯฮฟฮนแฝตฯฯ, แฝ แผฯฯฮนฮฝ แผฮปฮปฮฟฯ ฮบแฝนฯฮผฮฟฯ แผฯฯแฝตฮฝ. ฮดฮนแฝธ ฮบฮฑแฝถ แผฮณฮฟฮผฮตฮฝ ฯแฝดฮฝ แผกฮผแฝณฯฮฑฮฝ ฯแฝดฮฝ แฝฮณฮดแฝนฮทฮฝ ฮตแผฐฯ ฮตแฝฯฯฮฟฯแฝปฮฝฮทฮฝ, แผฮฝ แพ ฮบฮฑแฝถ แฝ แผธฮทฯฮฟแฟฆฯ แผฮฝแฝณฯฯฮท แผฮบ ฮฝฮตฮบฯแฟถฮฝ ฮบฮฑแฝถ ฯฮฑฮฝฮตฯฯฮธฮตแฝถฯ แผฮฝแฝณฮฒฮท ฮตแผฐฯ ฮฟแฝฯฮฑฮฝฮฟแฝปฯ.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Peace,</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">T. David</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-252535" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2015-01-06T13:39:19-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 6, 2015 at 1:39 pm</time></a></div></div></article><ol class="children" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nbatzig bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-253329" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author gdlr-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #454545; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 4px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="https://twitter.com/Nick_Batzig" rel="external nofollow ugc" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #454545; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Nicholas T. Batzig</a></div><div class="comment-reply" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 0px; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-label="Reply to Nicholas T. Batzig" class="comment-reply-link" data-belowelement="comment-253329" data-commentid="253329" data-postid="5276" data-replyto="Reply to Nicholas T. Batzig" data-respondelement="respond" href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/?replytocom=253329#respond" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></header><section class="comment-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Thanks for this, David! I am surprised how little has been written on this subject. It seems as if it is worthy of much more focused writing. I suppose that this neglect is partly due to the reticence that many Reformed have to typology on account of dispensational abuses and to numeric significance due to the abuses in numerology.</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-253329" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2015-01-08T09:16:35-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 8, 2015 at 9:16 am</time></a></div></div></article></li></ol></li><li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-283248" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="comment-article" id="comment-283248" style="background-attachment: initial; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Thank you for your teaching and edification.</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-283248" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2015-03-09T20:32:48-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 9, 2015 at 8:32 pm</time></a></div></div></article></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-441834" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The 8th Day which is the New Creation is the resurrected Christ into whom you are baptized.</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-441834" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2015-12-16T17:01:12-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December 16, 2015 at 5:01 pm</time></a></div></div></article></li><li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-607445" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; 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vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></header><section class="comment-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 15px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Great article! Iโve come across it some time after it was written, of course. One thing I noticed is you mentioned โbloodyโ circumcision replaced with โunbloodyโ baptism. Like you, I come from a Reformed tradition practicing infant baptism but it is helpful to remember Jesus referred to his own death as a โbaptismโ and our baptism, too, is a rehearsal and unification in his death and resurrectionโฆ So still kind of bloody! Anyway, thanks for a great article!</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-607445" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2016-03-22T18:08:54-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">David is the 8th son. There also seems to be a connection with 50 (7ร7 + 1). Both Jubilee (new freedom) and Pentecost (firstfruits/resurrection/Spirit poured out) take place on a 50th day. If seven represents completion or perfection, then eight seems to represent โnew and better.โ</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-781260" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2017-11-03T10:34:36-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">November 3, 2017 at 10:34 am</time></a></div></div></article></li><li class="comment odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-786824" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="comment-article" id="comment-786824" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The seed of Abraham came through the deadness of the womb. The new birth. The supernatural birth of which Jesus referred to wth Nicodemus. Circumcision on the 8th Day pointed to the resurrection of Christ with whom we are resurrected- the fulfillment of the preamble to the Abrahamic covenant โI am your inheritance and rewardโ after the conquest of the 5 Kings. Interestingly enough we miss the signposts God has put in creation. It all refers to the new birth. A lunar calendar has 28-29 days. The 8 th day was sometimes a two day feast to conclude the Shavuot โ and other festivals- when the Diaspora was included โ inclusion of the Gentiles into the seed. New moon on the โ8th dayโ. Same as the womb of a woman. Menstruation occurs every 28-29 days. The shedding of blood must occur for new human life pointing to the new life we have being born into the Seed. Thus the womb is holy as are the children of believers. Circumcision was the seal of faith for the resurrection (new birth) into the Seed to come. Paul tells us that the Holy Spirit is the seal of our new inheritance (new birth). Circumcision was fulfilled in the resurrection of Christ on the 8th day. Baptism cannot replace circumcision because now the birth into the Seed (new birth and kingdom of God) happens upon repentance of sin- the very thing John the Baptist heralded. We are the body of Christ โ part of the Seed, partakes of the Divine nature (Peter) regaining what was lost at the Fall. Israel the perfect historical object lesson of God dwelling with His elect One of whom we are part.</span></p></section><div class="comment-time" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://feedingonchrist.org/theological-significance-eighth-day/#comment-786824" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #004276; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 300ms ease 0s, background-color 300ms ease 0s, opacity 300ms ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2018-04-23T23:47:05-05:00" style="background-attachment: initial; 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border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">where should we look for the 8th day? first of all, we cannot step into it. not yet. 1 now, when jesus rises, his feet step into the 8th day.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />2 what john writes in the beginning of his gospel becomes more true. he was in the beginning. 8th and 1st become the same. simply, eternity. numbers cannot define eternity.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />3 pentecost is also the 8th day. now, i am jumping ahead. to fully understand pentecost or shavuot, one has to understand that it is more than 50 in count. it is a hundred. not because of numbers, because of time. if one takes pentecost and understood the 7 and 7 to be fourteen, one needs to look at it as a day. See day were and is considere a time in 12 hours. the extra hour is saying . . . someone eternal is doing something. in reality, the hour does not exist. we count out when looking at maybe days to count pentecost, 50 days out to get pentecost. the question should it be from sunday or monday. Should it be when the curtain tore? The curtain tore should take one backwards to 3 men in the spirit at the transfiguration. 3 men in the spirit โ the curtain tears โ 120 people in the spirit. there are other ways of seeing this time line. It is not in days. this means what I am saying, an hour is equal to a time. in the case of pentecost, an hour is equal to a day. It is less about numbers and more about time. we use numbers to tell time. there is really no perfect 7.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />I could go on more and more. I am basically talking about weeks and that there are specific weeks like genesis and like the passion week. there are 15 in all. when one understands the weeks, one understand better why the 1st day is the same as the 8th day. or the 8th day is the same as the 50th day in in pentecost. It is about the eternal showing us step by step the way to Christ and eternal life. in short here is godโs weeks.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />genesis . . . god is almighty. It will end with a 8th day or a 50th day. the eternal god has never left eternity to accomplish the week. so by logical argument, the 1st day is the same as the 8th day. we have not arrived into the 8th day. this week will end last.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />ark of the covenant . . . god is holy<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />temple . . . god is worshipped in spirit and truth<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />Immanuel . . . god is with us<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />Passion . . . god can be touched.<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />pentecost . . . god is in us<br style="border-color: rgb(235, 235, 235);" />2nd pentecost . . . enter the kingdom of god.</span></p><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">All of these time periods if you believe they are historical are also weeks. these are the weeks god completes to bring for reconciliation, redemption and revelation. as you can see, all are complete except for the genesis week and the 2nd pentecost. all of these weeks are examples of the 1st day and the 8th day are the same. The 8th day is the same as the 50th day. The 1st day is the same as the 100th day. It is not about numbers. These numbers help to understand time. time is running out. When there is no time, there will be no numbers. There will be only eternity to spend with Christ. To spend with Christ is what all weeks are about. The story is about Jesus. He is the first to step into the 8th day or the 1st day . . . . or eternity. He was always there like John says, in the beginning. He ends the story with him being there two. Step into the 8th day. Follow Jesus.</span></div></section></div></article></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Discussion of the Eighth Day on Wikipedia (below), excerpted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day</span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <b>Lord's Day</b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> is generally <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sunday">Sunday</a>, the principal day of communal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worship" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Worship">worship</a>. It is observed by most Christians as the weekly memorial of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus_Christ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Resurrection of Jesus Christ">resurrection of Jesus Christ</a>, who is said in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_Gospel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canonical Gospel">canonical Gospels</a> to have been witnessed alive from the dead early on the first day of the week. The phrase appears in <a class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Revelation%201:10&version=nrsv" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Rev. 1:10</a>.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">According to some sources, Christians held corporate worship on Sunday in the 1st century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Beckwith2001_1-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Beckwith2001-1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> An early example of Christians meeting together on a Sunday for the purpose of "breaking bread" and preaching is cited in the New Testament book of Acts (<a class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%2020:7&version=nrsv" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Acts 20:7</a>). 2nd-century writers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Justin Martyr">Justin Martyr</a> attest to the widespread practice of Sunday worship (<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Apology_of_Justin_Martyr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First Apology of Justin Martyr">First Apology</a></i>, <a class="external text" href="http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">chapter 67</a>), and by 361 AD it had become a mandated weekly occurrence. During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, Sunday worship became associated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_in_Christianity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sabbath in Christianity">Sabbatarian</a> (rest) practices. Some Protestants today (particularly those theologically descended from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritans" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Puritans">Puritans</a>) regard Sunday as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Sabbath" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christian Sabbath">Christian Sabbath</a>, a practice known as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-day_Sabbatarianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First-day Sabbatarianism">first-day Sabbatarianism</a>. (Some Christian groups hold that the term "Lord's Day" can only properly refer to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Sabbath" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Seventh-day Sabbath">seventh-day Sabbath</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Saturday">Saturday</a>.)</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Sunday was also known in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patristic_writings" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Patristic writings">patristic writings</a> as <b>the eighth day</b>.</span></p><div aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" class="toc" id="toc" role="navigation" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: #202122; display: table; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; padding: 7px;"><input class="toctogglecheckbox" id="toctogglecheckbox" role="button" style="direction: ltr; display: none; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; position: absolute; z-index: -1;" type="checkbox" /><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" lang="en" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 0px; color: black; display: inline; font-size: 13.3px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan" style="font-size: 12.502px;"><label class="toctogglelabel" style="color: #0645ad; cursor: pointer;"></label></span></span></div><ul style="list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Biblical_use" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Biblical use</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Textual_tradition" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Textual tradition</span></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Ambiguous_references" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ambiguous references</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Undisputed_references" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Undisputed references</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Early_church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early church</span></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Origins_of_Sunday_worship" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Origins of Sunday worship</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Edict_of_Constantine" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Edict of Constantine</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Middle_Ages" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Middle Ages</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Modern_church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Modern church</span></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Protestantism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Protestantism</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Jehovah's_Witnesses" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Jehovah's Witnesses</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Roman_Catholicism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Roman Catholicism</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Eastern_Christianity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Eastern Christianity</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#See_also" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#References" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#Further_reading" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Further reading</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#External_links" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="color: #202122; display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Biblical_use">Biblical use</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Biblical use">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h2><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The phrase the "Lord's Day" appears only once in the Bible in <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Revelation#1:10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="s:Bible (King James)/Revelation">Revelation 1:10</a> which was written near the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_1st_century" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity in the 1st century">first century</a>. It is the English translation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Koine Greek">Koine Greek</a> <i>Kyriake hemera</i>. The adjective <i>kyriake</i> ("Lord's") often <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Elision">elided</a> its noun, as in the neuter <i>kyriakon</i> for "Lord's [assembly]", the predecessor of the word "<a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:church">church</a>"; the noun was to be supplied by context.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In Rev. 1:10, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_John" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apostle John">apostle John</a>, used <i>Kyriake hemera</i> (ฮฯ ฯฮนฮฑฮบแฟ แผกฮผฮญฯแพณ, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day") in a way apparently familiar to his readers. Observers of first-day worship hold that this means he was worshiping on Sunday, resurrection day. Seventh-day Sabbatarians hold that since Jesus said he was "Lord of the Sabbath"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> and that Isaiah called the Sabbath the "Lord's Holy Day"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup> then the Lord's Day is the Seventh-day Sabbath (i.e. Saturday). Both parties accordingly use this verse to lay claim to the name "Lord's Day" for their day of worship.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The New Testament also uses the phrase <i>te ... mia ton sabbaton</i> (ฯแฟ ... ฮผฮนแพท ฯแฟถฮฝ ฯฮฑฮฒฮฒฮฌฯฯฮฝ, "the first day of the week") both for the early morning (Mary Magdalene <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/John#20:1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="s:Bible (King James)/John">John 20:1</a>) and evening (the disciples in John 20:19) of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Sunday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Resurrection Sunday">Resurrection Sunday</a>, as well as for the breaking of bread at Troas (Acts 20:7) and the day for the collection at Corinth (1 Co 16:2).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup></span></p><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Textual_tradition">Textual tradition</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Textual tradition">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h2><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Ambiguous_references">Ambiguous references</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=3" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Ambiguous references">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The term "Lord's" appears in <i>The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles</i> or <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Didache">Didache</a></i>, a document dated between 70 and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_2nd_century" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity in the 2nd century">120</a>. <i>Didache</i> 14:1a is translated by Roberts as, "But every Lord's day gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving";<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup> another translation begins, "On the Lord's own day". The first clause in Greek, "<span lang="grc" title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%AC" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:ฮบฮฑฯฮฌ">ฮบฮฑฯฮฌ</a></span> <span lang="grc" title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AE%CE%BD" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:ฮบฯ ฯฮนฮฑฮบฮฎฮฝ">ฮบฯ ฯฮนฮฑฮบฮฎฮฝ</a></span> <span lang="grc" title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%CE%AD" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:ฮดฮญ">ฮดฮญ</a></span> <span lang="grc" title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:ฮบฯฯฮนฮฟฯ">ฮบฯ ฯฮฏฮฟฯ </a></span>", literally means "On the Lord's of the Lord",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></sup> a unique and unexplained double possessive, and translators supply the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elision" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Elision">elided</a> noun, e.g., "day" (<span lang="grc" title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><a class="extiw" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%A1%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="wikt:แผกฮผฮญฯฮฑ">แผกฮผฮญฯฮฑ</a></span> <i>hemera</i>), "commandment" (from the immediately prior verse 13:7), or "doctrine".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-archer_7-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-archer-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></sup> This is one of two early extrabiblical Christian uses of "ฮบฯ ฯฮนฮฑฮบฮฎฮฝ" where it does not clearly refer to Sunday because textual readings have given rise to questions of proper translation. Breaking bread (daily or weekly) may refer to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communion_(Christian)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Communion (Christian)">Christian fellowship</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape_feast" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Agape feast">agape feasts</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eucharist">Eucharist</a> (cf. <a class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%202:42&version=nrsv" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Acts 2:42</a>, <a class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Acts%2020:7&version=nrsv" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">20:7</a>). <i>Didache</i> 14 was apparently understood by the writers of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didascalia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Didascalia">Didascalia</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apostolic Constitutions">Apostolic Constitutions</a> as a reference to Sunday worship.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Around 110 AD, St. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Antioch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ignatius of Antioch">Ignatius of Antioch</a> used "Lord's" in a passage of his letter to the Magnesians. Ambiguity arises due to textual variants. The only extant Greek manuscript of the letter, the Codex Mediceo-Laurentianus, reads, "If, then, those who had walked in ancient practices attained unto newness of hope, no longer observing Sabbath, but living according to the Lord's life ..." (<i>kata kyriaken zoen zontes</i>). A medieval Latin translation indicates an alternate textual reading of <i>kata kyriaken zontes</i>, informing Roberts's translation, "no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's [Day]".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The expanded Pseudo-Ignatian version of Magnesians, from the middle of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_3rd_century" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity in the 3rd century">third century</a>, rewrites this passage to make "Lord's Day" a clear reference to Sunday, as Resurrection Day. Pseudo-Ignatius adds a repudiation of legalistic Sabbath as a Judaizing error: "Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness .... But let every one of you keep the Sabbath after a spiritual manner, rejoicing in meditation on the law, not in relaxation of the body, admiring the workmanship of God, and not eating things prepared the day before, nor using lukewarm drinks, and walking within a prescribed space, nor finding delight in dancing and plaudits which have no sense in them. And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lordโs Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></sup> Other early church fathers similarly saw weekly observance of seventh-day Sabbath sometimes followed the next day by Lord's Day assembly.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-socrates_11-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-socrates-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sozomen_12-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-sozomen-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup></span></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Undisputed_references">Undisputed references</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=4" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Undisputed references">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The first undisputed reference to Lord's Day is in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apocryphal">apocryphal</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Peter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gospel of Peter">Gospel of Peter</a> (verse 34,35 and 50<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></sup>), probably written about the middle of the 2nd century or perhaps the first half of that century. The <i>Gospel of Peter</i> 35 and 50 use <i>kyriake</i> as the name for the first day of the week, the day of Jesus' resurrection. That the author referred to Lord's Day in an apocryphal gospel purportedly written by St. Peter indicates that the term <i>kyriake</i> was very widespread and had been in use for some time.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Around 170 AD, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius,_Bishop_of_Corinth" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth">Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth</a>, wrote to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocese_of_Rome" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Diocese of Rome">Roman Church</a>, "Today we have kept the Lord's holy day (<i>kyriake hagia hemera</i>), on which we have read your letter." In the latter half of the 2nd century, the apocryphal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Peter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Acts of Peter">Acts of Peter</a> identify <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Domini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dies Domini">Dies Domini</a></i> (Latin for "Lord's Day") as "the next day after the Sabbath," i.e., Sunday. From the same period of time, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Paul" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Acts of Paul">Acts of Paul</a> present St. Paul praying "on the Sabbath as the Lord's Day (<i>kyriake</i>) drew near." However, the Lord's day is identified with the Sabbath in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_John" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Acts of John">Acts of John</a> as "on the seventh day, it being the Lord's day, he said to them: now it is time for me also to partake of food."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup></span></p><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_church">Early church</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Early church">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h2><div class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" role="note" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">See also: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Early Christianity">Early Christianity</a></span></div><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; color: #202122; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto;"><div class="thumbinner" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); font-size: 13.16px; min-width: 100px; overflow: hidden; padding: 3px; text-align: center; width: 222px;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #fff2cc; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="thumbimage" data-file-height="3534" data-file-width="2358" decoding="async" height="330" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG/220px-Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG/330px-Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG/440px-Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12.3704px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 0px;"><a class="internal" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_Cenacle_BW_5.JPG" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("/w/resources/src/mediawiki.skinning/images/magnify-clip-ltr.svg?8330e"); color: #0645ad; display: block; height: 11px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none; text-indent: 15px; user-select: none; white-space: nowrap; width: 15px;" title="Enlarge"></a></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenacle" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cenacle">Cenacle</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Zion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Mount Zion">Mount Zion</a>, claimed to be the location of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Supper" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Last Supper">Last Supper</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecost" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pentecost">Pentecost</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bargil_Pixner" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bargil Pixner">Bargil Pixner</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Pixner_15-0" style="font-size: 9.89632px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Pixner-15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></sup> claims the original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Zion,_Jerusalem" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Church of Zion, Jerusalem">Church of the Apostles</a> is located under the current structure.</span></div></div></div><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In the first centuries, Sunday, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest (based on the Jewish Shabbat, because the earliest Christians were all Jews) was still observed by "almost all churches".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-socrates_11-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-socrates-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sozomen_12-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-sozomen-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup> Often first-day worship (Sunday morning or Saturday night) was practiced alongside observance of seventh-day Sabbath rest<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham_16-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup> and was a widespread Christian tradition by the 2nd century, attested in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patristic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Patristic">patristic</a> writings of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_2nd_century" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christianity in the 2nd century">2nd century</a>;<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham2_17-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham2-17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-18" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></sup> over time, Sunday thus came to be known as Lord's Day. These early Christians believed that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Resurrection">resurrection</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_of_Jesus_Christ" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ascension of Jesus Christ">ascension</a> of Christ signals the renewal of creation, making the day on which God accomplished it a day analogous to the first day of creation when God made the light. Some of these writers referred to Sunday as the "eighth day".</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The 1st-century<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-19" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></sup> or 2nd-century<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-archer_7-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-archer-7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Barnabas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Epistle of Barnabas">Epistle of Barnabas</a> or Pseudo-Barnabas on <a class="external text" href="https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Isaiah%201:13&version=nrsv" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Is. 1:13</a> stated "Sabbaths of the present age" were abolished in favor of one <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial_Day_Theory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Millennial Day Theory">millennial</a> seventh-day Sabbath that ushers in the "eighth day" and commencement of a new world. Accordingly, the eighth-day assembly (Saturday night or Sunday morning) marks both the resurrection and the new creation. Thus first-day observance was a common regional practice at that time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-20" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By the mid-2nd century, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Justin Martyr">Justin Martyr</a> wrote in his apologies about the cessation of Sabbath observance and the celebration of the first (or eighth) day of the week (not as a day of rest, but as a day for gathering to worship): "We all gather on the day of the sun" (ฯแฟ ฯฮฟแฟฆ แฟพฮฮปฮฏฮฟฯ ฮปฮตฮณฮฟฮผฮญฮฝฮท แผกฮผฮญฯแพณ, recalling both the creation of light and the resurrection).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-justin67_21-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-justin67-21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup> He argued that Sabbath was not kept before Moses, and was only instituted as a sign to Israel and a temporary measure because of Israel's sinfulness,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-22" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a></sup> no longer needed after Christ came without sin.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-23" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a></sup> Curiously he also draws a parallel between the Israelite practice of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Circumcision">circumcision</a> on the eighth day, and the resurrection of Jesus on the "eighth day".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-24" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a></sup></span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">But the Gentiles, who have believed on Him, and have repented of the sins which they have committed, they shall receive the inheritance along with the patriarchs and the prophets, and the just men who are descended from Jacob, even although they neither keep the Sabbath, nor are circumcised, nor observe the feasts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-25" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a></sup></span></p></blockquote><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-justin67_21-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-justin67-21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup></span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a> (early 3rd century), writing against Christians who participated in pagan festivals (Saturnalia and New-year), defended the Christian festivity of Lord's Day amidst the accusation of sun-worship, acknowledging that "to [us] Sabbaths are strange" and unobserved.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-26" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-27" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[27]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cyprian">Cyprian</a>, a 3rd-century church father, linked the "eighth day" with the term "Lord's Day" in a letter concerning baptism.</span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">'For in respect of the observance of the eighth day of the Jewish circumcision of the flesh, a sacrament was given beforehand in shadow and in usage; but when Christ came, it was fulfilled in truth. For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord should rise again, and should quicken us, and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lord's Day, went before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came and spiritual circumcision was given to us</span></p><div class="templatequotecite" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">โโ<cite style="font-style: inherit;">Cyprian, Letter LVIII<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-28" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[28]</a></sup></cite></span></div></blockquote><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Origins_of_Sunday_worship">Origins of Sunday worship</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Origins of Sunday worship">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Though Christians widely observed Sunday as a day of worship by the 2nd century, the origin of Sunday worship remains a debated point: scholars promote at least three positions:</span></p><ul style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bauckham" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Richard Bauckham">Bauckham</a> has argued that Sunday worship must have originated in Palestine in the mid-1st century, in the period of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Acts of the Apostles">Acts of the Apostles</a>, no later than the Gentile mission; he regards the practice as universal by the early 2nd century with no hint of controversy (unlike. for example, the related <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartodeciman" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Quartodeciman">Quartodeciman</a> controversy).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham_16-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup> In the 2nd century the church of Rome lacked jurisdictional authority to impose a novel universal change of Sabbath rest from the seventh day to the first, or to obtain universal Sunday worship had it been introduced after the Christian church had spread throughout the known world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham2_17-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham2-17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup> Bauckham states that there is no record of any early Christian group which did not observe Sunday, with the exception of a single extreme group of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebionites" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ebionites">Ebionites</a> mentioned by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eusebius of Caesarea">Eusebius of Caesarea</a>; and that there is no evidence that Sunday was observed as substitute Sabbath worship in the early centuries.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham_16-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Some Protestant scholars have argued that Christian Sunday worship traces back even further, to the resurrection appearances of Jesus recorded in the Gospel narratives where Jesus would appear to his disciples on the first day of the week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[29]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-30" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a></sup></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Seventh-day Adventist">Seventh-day Adventist</a> scholar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuele_Bacchiocchi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Samuele Bacchiocchi">Samuele Bacchiocchi</a> has argued that Sunday worship unconnected to the Sabbath was introduced<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (April 2020)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> in Rome in the 3rd century, and was later enforced<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (April 2020)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> throughout the Christian church as a substitution for Sabbath worship.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-31" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[31]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-32" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[32]</a></sup></span></li></ul><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">There is evidence of early Christians simultaneously observing both seventh-day Sabbath rest and Sunday worship,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham_16-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_Scholasticus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Socrates Scholasticus">Socrates Scholasticus</a> states that 4th-century Rome had ceased to worship on the Sabbath, while Alexandria held its love feasts or Eucharists on the first day, substituting it for the Sabbath as kept in other churches.</span></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Edict_of_Constantine">Edict of Constantine</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Edict of Constantine">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On 3 March 321, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a> decreed that Sunday (<i>dies Solis</i>) will be observed as the Roman day of rest [CJ3.12.2]:</span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">On the venerable day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-33" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[33]</a></sup></span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Constantine's decree was most likely modeled on pagan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sol Invictus">sun worship</a>, though it is probable that he also intended to benefit the church, which already met for worship on Sunday.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham_16-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In the 4th century, <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_Scholasticus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Socrates Scholasticus">Socrates Scholasticus</a> stated that the Christians of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rome">Rome</a> partook of the "mysteries" (the love feast or Eucharist) on the first day of the week (Saturday evening), though they also held worship meetings on Sabbath like almost all other churches.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-socrates_11-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-socrates-11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></sup> By the 5th century, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozomen" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sozomen">Sozomen</a> stated that most churches, such as at Constantinople, met both on Sabbath and first day (Saturday evening), but that Rome and Alexandria met only on the first day (Saturday evening) and no longer on Sabbath.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-sozomen_12-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-sozomen-12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup></span></p><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Middle Ages">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h2><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine of Hippo</a> followed the early patristic writers in spiritualizing the meaning of the Sabbath commandment, referring it to eschatological rest rather than observance of a literal day. However, the practice of Sunday rest increased in prominence throughout the early Middle Ages. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a> taught that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ten Commandments">decalogue</a> is an expression of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Natural law">natural law</a> which binds all men, and therefore the Sabbath commandment is a moral requirement along with the other nine. Thus Sunday rest and Sabbath became increasingly associated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham3_34-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham3-34" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[34]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Following Aquinas' decree, Christian Europeans could now spend less time denouncing the Judaistic method of observing the Sabbath, instead establishing rules for what one "should" and "should not" do on the Sabbath. For example, while the Medieval Church forbade most forms of work on the Sabbath, it allowed "necessary works", and priests would allow their peasants to perform the needed agricultural work in the field.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Harline_35-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Harline-35" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[35]</a></sup></span></p><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); color: black; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Modern_church">Modern church</span><span class="mw-editsection" face="sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Modern church">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h2><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Protestantism">Protestantism</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=10" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Protestantism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><div class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" role="note" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1.6em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Main article: <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Sabbatarianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sunday Sabbatarianism">Sunday Sabbatarianism</a></span></div><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Heidelberg Catechism">Heidelberg Catechism</a> of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reformed Church">Reformed Churches</a> founded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Calvin">John Calvin</a>, teaches that the moral law as contained in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ten Commandments">Ten Commandments</a> is binding for Christians and that it instructs Christians how to live in service to God in gratitude for His grace shown in redeeming mankind.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OPC2018_36-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-OPC2018-36" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[36]</a></sup> The doctrine of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reformed_Church_in_North_America" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Christian Reformed Church in North America">Christian Reformed Church in North America</a> thus stipulates "that Sunday must be so consecrated to worship that on that day we rest from all work except that which charity and necessity require and that we refrain from recreation that interferes with worship."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CRC2019_37-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-CRC2019-37" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[37]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Likewise, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Martin Luther">Martin Luther</a>, in his work against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antinomianism">Antinomians</a> who he saw as heretical, Luther rejected the idea of the abolition of the Ten Commandments.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-38" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[38]</a></sup> They also viewed Sunday rest as a civic institution, which provided an occasion for bodily rest and public worship.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham4_39-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham4-39" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[39]</a></sup></span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Sabbatarianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sunday Sabbatarianism">Sunday Sabbatarianism</a> became prevalent amongst both the continental and English Protestants over the following century. A new rigorism was brought into the observance of Lord's Day among the 17th-century <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Puritan">Puritans</a> of England and Scotland, in reaction to the laxity with which Sunday observance was customarily kept. Sabbath ordinances were appealed to, with the idea that only the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bible">word of God</a> can bind men's consciences in whether or how they will take a break from work, or to impose an obligation to meet at a particular time. Their influential reasoning spread to other denominations also, and it is primarily through their influence that "Sabbath" has become the colloquial equivalent of "Lord's Day" or "Sunday". The most mature expression of this influence survives in the Reformed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Confession_of_Faith" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Westminster Confession of Faith">Westminster Confession of Faith</a> (1646), Chapter 21, <i>"Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day"</i>. Section 7-8 reads:</span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">7. As it is the law of nature, that, in general, a due proportion of time be set apart for the worship of God; so, in his Word, by a positive, moral, and perpetual commandment binding all men in all ages, he hath particularly appointed one day in seven, for a Sabbath, to be kept holy unto him: which, from the beginning of the world to the resurrection of Christ, was the last day of the week; and, from the resurrection of Christ, was changed into the first day of the week, which, in Scripture, is called the Lordโs day, and is to be continued to the end of the world, as the Christian Sabbath.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">8. This Sabbath is then kept holy unto the Lord, when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe a holy rest, all the day, from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations, but also are taken up, the whole time, in the public and private exercises of his worship, and in the duties of necessity and mercy.</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The General Rules of the Methodist Church requires "attending upon all the ordinances of God" including "the public worship of God".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AbrahamKirby2009_40-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-AbrahamKirby2009-40" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></sup> The founder of Methodism, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="John Wesley">John Wesley</a>, stated "This 'handwriting of ordinances' our Lord did blot out, take away, and nail to His cross (<span class="nourlexpansion nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a class="external text" href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Col.+2%3A14&version=KJV" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #3366bb; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Col. 2:14</a></span>). But the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away .... The moral law stands on an entirely different foundation from the ceremonial or ritual law .... Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind and in all ages."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-41" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[41]</a></sup> This is reflected in the doctrine of Methodist denominations, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Wesleyan_Methodist_Connection" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection">Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection</a>, which in its 2014 <i>Discipline</i> teaches that the Lord's Day "be observed by cessation from all unnecessary labor, and that the day be devoted to divine worship and rest."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-AWMC2014_42-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-AWMC2014-42" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[42]</a></sup> In explicating the Fourth Commandment, a prominent Methodist catechism states:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rothwell1998_43-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Rothwell1998-43" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a></sup></span></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="border-left: none; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 1em 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">To keep holy means that no unnecessary work or travel be done on this day. It is a day of rest and worship, a day of Bible reading and prayer. We must not buy, sell, or bargain on Sunday, which is the Lord's day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Rothwell1998_43-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Rothwell1998-43" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[43]</a></sup></span></p></blockquote><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Though Sabbatarian practice declined in the 18th century, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_awakening" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Evangelical awakening">evangelical awakening</a> in the 19th century led to a greater concern for strict Sunday observance. The founding of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day_Observance_Society" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lord's Day Observance Society">Lord's Day Observance Society</a> in 1831 was influenced by the teaching of Daniel Wilson.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bauckham4_39-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-Bauckham4-39" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[39]</a></sup></span></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span id="Jehovah.27s_Witnesses"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Jehovah's_Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=11" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Jehovah's Witnesses">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Lord's Day is not a single day consisting of 24 hours, but a period of time that started in 1914 (the start of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_War" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="First World War">First World War</a>) that will include Christ's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Millenarianism">thousand-year reign</a> on earth.</span></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Roman_Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Roman Catholicism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Second Vatican Council">Second Vatican Council</a>, in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitution" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apostolic Constitution">Apostolic Constitution</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrosanctum_Concilium" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sacrosanctum Concilium">Sacrosanctum Concilium</a></i>, asserted that "the Lord's day is the original feast day" and the "foundation and kernel of the whole liturgical year."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-44" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-44" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[44]</a></sup> The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_letter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apostolic letter">apostolic letter</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> entitled <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dies_Domini" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dies Domini">Dies Domini</a></i> charged Catholics to remember the importance of keeping Sunday holy and not to confuse the holiness of the Lord's Day celebration with the common notion of the weekend as a time of simple rest and relaxation.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-45" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Day#cite_note-45" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[45]</a></sup></span></p><h3 style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Eastern_Christianity">Eastern Christianity</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin-left: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lord%27s_Day&action=edit&section=13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Eastern Christianity">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></span></h3><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a> distinguishes between "Sabbath" (Saturday) and "Lord's Day" (Sunday), and both continue to play a special role for the faithful. Many parishes and monasteries will serve the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Liturgy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Divine Liturgy">Divine Liturgy</a> on both Saturday morning and Sunday morning. The church never allows strict fasting on any Saturday (except <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Saturday" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holy Saturday">Holy Saturday</a>) or Sunday, and the fasting rules on those Saturdays and Sundays which fall during one of the fasting seasons (such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Great Lent">Great Lent</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Fast" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Apostles' Fast">Apostles' Fast</a>, etc.) are always relaxed to some degree. During Great Lent, when the celebration of the Liturgy is forbidden on weekdays, there is always Liturgy on Saturday as well as Sunday. The church also has a special cycle of Bible readings (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Epistle">Epistle</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Gospel">Gospel</a>) for Saturdays and Sundays which is different from the cycle of readings allotted to weekdays. However, Lord's Day, being a celebration of the Resurrection, is clearly given more emphasis. For instance, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Russian Orthodox Church">Russian Orthodox Church</a> Sunday is always observed with an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Night_Vigil" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="All-Night Vigil">All-Night Vigil</a> on Saturday night, and in all of the Orthodox Churches it is amplified with special hymns which are chanted only on Sunday. If a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Feast day">feast day</a> falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octoechos_(liturgy)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Octoechos (liturgy)">hymns for Sunday</a> (unless it is a <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Feast" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Great Feast">Great Feast</a> of the Lord). Saturday is celebrated as a sort of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave-taking" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Leave-taking">leave-taking</a> for the previous Sunday, on which several of the hymns from the previous Sunday are repeated.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In part, the reason Orthodox Christians continue to celebrate Saturday as Sabbath is because of its role in the history of salvation: it was on a Saturday that Jesus "rested" in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Sepulchre" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holy Sepulchre">tomb</a> after his <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passion_(Christianity)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Passion (Christianity)">work on the cross</a>. For this reason also, Saturday is a day for general <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_for_the_dead" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prayer for the dead">commemoration of the departed</a>, and special <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannikhida" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pannikhida">requiem hymns</a> are often chanted on this day.</span></p><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ethiopian Orthodox">Ethiopian Orthodox</a> church (part of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodox" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oriental Orthodox">Oriental Orthodox</a> communion, having about 40 million members) observes both Saturday and Sunday as holy, but places extra emphasis on Sunday.</span></p></div></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">--END EXCERPT--</span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); color: #555555; font-family: "Sorts Mill Goudy"; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">SEE ALSO: Today is the 8th Day Assembly - Shemini Atzeret! (Yesterday was Hoshana Rabbah / Anniversary of Jesus' Baptism) </span></p></li><li class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-788456" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2015/11/today-is-8th-day-assembly-shemini.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2015/11/today-is-8th-day-assembly-shemini.html</a></span></span></p><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px;">According to Wikipedia the number 8 in the Bible represents:</span></h1><div><p style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> A "new life," "resurrection,"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology#cite_note-14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup> or a new beginning.</span></p><dl style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Examples include:</span></dd></dl><ul style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Eight people on Noah's Ark (see <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Genesis#7:7" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="s:Bible (King James)/Genesis">Gen 7:7</a> and <a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/2_Peter#2:5" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="s:Bible (King James)/2 Peter">2 Peter 2:5</a>)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Circumcision on eighth day (<a class="extiw" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Genesis#17:12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366bb; text-decoration-line: none;" title="s:Bible (King James)/Genesis">Gen 17:12</a>)</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Jesus was crucified on the sixth day, rested in the tomb on the seventh, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Resurrection of Jesus">rose from the dead</a> on the eighth day.</span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Eighth day marks a new day or a new beginning (cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Enoch" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2 Enoch">2 Enoch</a> 33.1; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylline_Oracles" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sibylline Oracles">Sib. Or.</a> 1.280-81).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology#cite_note-15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></sup></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In Rev. 17:11, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Beast (Revelation)">beast from the sea</a> โ...even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.โ The eighth is a counterfeit messiah that parodies the true โeighth,โ which is Christ.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_numerology#cite_note-16" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup></span></li></ul></div><h1 class="gdlr-blog-title" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(235, 235, 235); line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #212121; font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></h1><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The number eight in the Bible signifies Resurrection and Regeneration. It is the number of a new beginning. Eight is 7 plus 1 and since it comes just after seven, which itself signifies an end to something, so eight is also associated with the beginning of a new era or that of a new order. In the bible one can find many examples which bring forth and which associate the number eight with a new beginning.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">One such example is of Noah. When the whole earth was covered in floods, it was Noah the eighth person who stepped out and took the responsibility of starting a new era of life, to commence new order of things. The resurrection of Christ is also one fine example of this. The resurrection of Jesus is the ultimate new beginning. It is said in The Bible that Jesus rose on the first day of the next week from the day he was crucified. Thus again it was Eighth day which was chosen by God. The eighth day marked the beginning of new life form. Thus we can see that the number eight in the Bible signifies resurrection and new beginning. Not only this, there have been eight different resurrections in the Bible. Out of which three can be seen in the Old Testament, Three can be seen in the Gospels and the remaining two can be read in the Acts 9 and 40. There were eight miracles of Elijah as told in the bible. And God made eight covenants with Abraham.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">According to the Bible, Eight has a special meaning for God, as He chose the eighth day to mark the beginning of the new week. Everything that has a new beginning in the Bible has the number eight associated with it. Eight is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the letter values of the name Jesus in the Greek we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the numeric value of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Saviour which has the value 1408 (2 x 8 x 88). Jesus is also Lord which again, is a multiple of eight being 800 (100 x 8). Messiah has the numeric value 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8). Jesus said "I am the truth": the numeric value of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ which has exactly 888 Greek words. All the Dominical names of Jesus Christ are marked by eight as a multiple if the laws of Gematria are applied to them. It can be seen as follows: Christ, 1480 (8x185), Lord, 800 (8x100), Our Lord, 1768 (8x221), Saviour, 1408 (82x 32), Emmanuel, 25600, (83x50), Messiah, 656 (8x82), Son, 880 (8x110).</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The number 8 has been traditionally been associated with the entrance into the Covenant of God by the historic Christian Church, which has followed the bible blindly. This kind of understanding can come from God Himself who had commanded Circumcision - the Sign of the Covenant - to be performed on the Eighth Day. Thus once again, the number eight has exemplified the beginning of a new era in the bible. Following are the Lordโs covenants with Abraham: (were eight in number; seven before Isaac was offered up, and the eighth when he had been received "in a figure" from the dead).</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 12:1-3, sovereignty.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 12:7, the seed.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 13:14-17, Divine assurance, rising and walking on resurrection ground.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 15:13-21, the limits of the land; the 400 years; the 4th generation.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 17:1-22, invincible grace.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 18:9-15, human failure and imperfection.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 21:12, Spiritual blessing headed up in the seed.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Gen 22:15-18, resurrection blessing.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In the Bible there is a mention of a feast. The Feast of Tabenacles. This feast is said to have lasted for eight days. The number eight associated with this feast can show us that this feast was to celebrate a new beginning. The number 888 is the ultimate symbol of the lord himself as mentioned in the Bible. The resurrection of Jesus Christ on the eighth day along with the mention of eight people who were saved in the Noahโs Ark are a sign of the concept of revivification, restoration and a revival of a new era and order that is associated with the number eight. Apart from this, eight is used in the bible in other places also which donโt really have a link with a new beginning like the eight songs in the Old Testament, the Eight Miracles Of Elisha and the Seth lines of names, the sum of which is 3168, which again is a multiple of eight.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> SEE: https://www.astrovera.com/bible-religion/189-bible-number-8.html#:~:text=The%20number%20eight%20in%20the,that%20of%20a%20new%20order.</span></p></div></li></ol></div></div>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-66215720717833739662019-10-07T05:42:00.000-07:002019-10-07T05:42:59.341-07:00The Book of Mormon as Ascension Text<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A talk given by Adrian Larsen at a Book of Mormon conference held in Independence, MO on April 26, 2019.</span><br />
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XYutps6YpLo" width="560"></iframe>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-77826177438042180562019-09-03T13:08:00.003-07:002024-02-14T10:58:35.107-08:00The Gospel Through the Ages and TWO Perennial Traditions (the Bible and the Book of Mormon say that there have ever only been two bloodlines, two cultures, and two religions)<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Dz6YETNG_GiapCnYdVMnEWq1GiNV9UOKS2e5cJlr15iBzIr3XAj9pn84fu2EDcInvjpSyjEKH5DozuKGGUGXFp_bNWvEFHu_T8mnRs-f2B1jahkrLbKzRhGWoaf9VfF0i3ZhbydiHWs01dRtFLH8lAUDbHWjwOwhHUXtJ7SC3GeEpec/s1200/crush_snake.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Dz6YETNG_GiapCnYdVMnEWq1GiNV9UOKS2e5cJlr15iBzIr3XAj9pn84fu2EDcInvjpSyjEKH5DozuKGGUGXFp_bNWvEFHu_T8mnRs-f2B1jahkrLbKzRhGWoaf9VfF0i3ZhbydiHWs01dRtFLH8lAUDbHWjwOwhHUXtJ7SC3GeEpec/s600/crush_snake.jpg" width="600" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Detail from Madonna and Child with St. Anne by Caravaggio showing Jesus as a boy atop his motherโs foot as they crush the serpent (public domain).</span></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Why is Mary depicted standing on a snake?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://aleteia.org/2020/09/08/why-is-mary-depicted-standing-on-a-snake/"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://aleteia.org/2020/09/08/why-is-mary-depicted-standing-on-a-snake/</span></a></div><br />
<b>The Bible says there are only two bloodlines:</b><br /><i></i><blockquote><i>
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; and thou shalt bruise her heel but she shall crush thy head</i>, Genesis 3:15.</blockquote>After the Fall, the practice of procreation between the fallen angels and the daughters of men continued as documented in Genesis:<br /><blockquote>
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,<br /><br />
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.<br /><br />
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.<br /><br />
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown,<br />
Genesis 6:1-4.</blockquote>SEE ALSO:<br /><br />
How the Giants came back after the Flood<div><br /><b>
The Canaanite Altars of Jekyll Island</b></div><div><br />(One of the most important interviews you could ever listen to on any subject)</div><div><br />
Contains little-known information on the Federal Reserve, and important information on a little-known American archaeological site, as well as spiritual warfare. This is what a covenant relationship with Jesus Christ looks like.<br /><br /><a href="https://youtu.be/ZtwW9a5lfmM">
https://youtu.be/ZtwW9a5lfmM</a></div><div><br /></div><div>*I don't think these two primary lines have remained seperate. It appears the Adversary's hybrid line has sought to infiltrate the purely human line and also sought to control both, probably creating some lines that are more heavilly hybrid and some that are less for various purposes. I think that everyone is probably descended from both at this point, to one degree or another.*<br /><br /><b>
The Bible says there are only two cultures, Zion and Babylon:</b><br /><br />
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Promised Lands</i><br /><br />
(Hugh Nibley's legendary speech on the two cultures, the Hopi, Mormons, and Mother Earth speaking truth to power and calling out LDS ties to the Peabody Corporation)<br /><br />
<a href="about:invalid#zSoyz">https://truthmarche.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-hopi-mormons-and-mother-earth-part-2/</a><br /><br />
<i>Approaching Zion</i> by Hugh Nibley (full text)</div><div><br /><a href="https://www.latterdayconservative.com/docs/hugh-nibley-approaching-zion.pdf">
https://www.latterdayconservative.com/docs/hugh-nibley-approaching-zion.pdf</a><br /><br />
Mormon anarchist review of Nibley's book, <i>Approaching Zion </i>(good summary)</div><div><br /></div><div>
<a href="https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-3/the-zionbabylon-dualism-in-mormonism-and-anarchism/">https://themormonworkerdotnet.wordpress.com/past-issues/mw-issue-3/the-zionbabylon-dualism-in-mormonism-and-anarchism/</a><br /><br />
My symposium paper, archaeological data demonstrates there have ever only been two bloodlines, two cultures, and two religions:<br /><br /><i>
The Once and Future Bee Priestess</i><br /><br />
<a href="https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/05/text-of-once-and-future-bee-priestess.html">https://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2013/05/text-of-once-and-future-bee-priestess.html</a><br /><br /><b>
The Book of Mormon states that there are only two religions:</b><br /><br />
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Latter-day Saints believe that their temple ordinances are as old as the human race and represent a primordial revealed religion that has passed through alternate phases of apostasy and restoration <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">which have left the world littered with the scattered fragments of the original structure</span>, some more and some less recognizable, but all badly damaged and out of proper context. . . .Among the customs and religions of mankind there are countless parallels, many of them very instructive, to what the Mormons do. . . . But what about the Egyptian rites? What are they to us? They are a parody, an imitation, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">but, as such, not to be despised</span>. For all the great age and consistency of their rites and teachings, which certainly command respect, the Egyptians did not have the real thing, and they knew it. . . . in the words of Abraham, โPharaoh, being a righteous man,โ was ever โseeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reignโ (Abraham 1:26), for he โwould fain claim [the priesthood]โ (Abraham 1:27). If the Egyptian endowment was but an imitation, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">it was still a good one, and we may be able to learn much from it, just as we may learn much about the early church from the vagaries of the gnostics</span>. But it is not for a moment to be equated with the true and celestial order of things. . . . What these few bits of added information do is to supply a new dimension to . . . [our temple] experience, along with the assurance that a wealth of newly found records <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">confirms the fundamental thesis of its antiquity and genuineness</span>.<span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Thankfully (as of Vol. 2), the author, D. Christian Markham has <u>changed his definition of Jesus Christ's church to correspond with Jesus Christ's own definition of his church in the scriptures</u> (and which transcends all denominations), and no longer feels that the institutional LDS Church is Christ's definition of his church. </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><div>Jesus Christ defines his religion in the Book of Mormon and revelations to Joseph Smith:</div><div></div><blockquote><div><i>Behold this is my doctrine: <b>whosoever repenteth, and cometh unto me, the same is my church</b>: whosoever declareth more or less than this, the same is not of me, but is against me: therefore, he is not of my church.</i></div></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>Revelation, Spring 1829 [D&C 10], p. 22, The Joseph Smith Papers, accessed May 11, 2023, <a href="https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-spring-1829-dc-10/1#full-transcript">https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-spring-1829-dc-10/1#full-transcript</a></blockquote><a href="https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/revelation-spring-1829-dc-10/1#full-transcript"></a><p></p><div></div><div></div><blockquote><div><i>And again I say unto you, <b>Ye must repent, and be baptized in My name, and become as a little child</b>, Or ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God! Verily, verily I say unto you that this is My doctrine; And whoso buildeth upon this, buildeth upon My rock, And the gates of hell shall not prevail against them. And whoso shall declare more or less than this and establish it for My doctrine, The same cometh of evil and is not built upon My rock; But he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, And the gates of hell standeth open to receive such when the floods come and the winds beat upon them.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 5:40-42, Restored Covenant Edition (non-denominational)</div></blockquote><div><i></i></div><blockquote><div><i>For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will <b>enter in by the way and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do. Behold, this is the doctrine of Christ</b>; there will be no more doctrine given until after that He shall manifest Himself unto you in the flesh. And when he shall manifest himself unto you in the flesh, the things which he shall say unto you, shall ye observe to do.</i> [this is re: his mortal ministry in the New Testament]</div><div><br /></div><div>Book of Mormon, II Nephi 14:6-8, Restored Covenant Edition (non-denominational).</div></blockquote></span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">I agree with the author's new understanding since he published the book - now if only we could update the book and substitute the phrase "the Church of Jesus Christ" for "LDS Church" in the book.</span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></div><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">So please make sure to at least keep that in mind and do so mentally if you check it out. If you want to understand why and how the conspiracy against humanity arose in this world then this is a must read! "God creates, satan imitates."</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">My work in anthropology and archaeology definitely confirm Nibley's thesis, above.</span></div>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-62273523341765049932019-09-03T11:57:00.000-07:002019-09-03T13:25:36.682-07:00REFUTED! Proof the Book of Mormon is NOT Racist<center>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neil Simmons dispels the myth that the Book of Mormon is racist. In the morning session of the 2019 Joseph Smith Restoration Conference, Simmons demonstrates that the "curse" on the Lamanites, "has absolutely nothing to do with ethnicity, or racial identity and has everything to do with cultural practices," particularly the use of body paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kevin Christensen lends further weight to this argument (in a separate forum) by pointing out that the "skins" being referred to may also be the animal skins worn as garments in the Book of Mormon:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What God Told Me About My Unborn Baby</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...and after threatening to prosecute polygamists!</span><br />
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</span> <i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jon Bystrom, 25 yr. investigative reporter reveals who really shot and killed Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Maybe Brigham Young was not the prophet the Mormon church touts him to be. His Freemasonic and banking connections along with his grandiose ego and need to be in control drove Brigham's motives for orchestrating the murder of the Smith brothers. A forensic and ballistic investigation shows the overwhelming likelihood that Willard Richards and John Taylor were the henchmen, under Brigham's orders that betrayed the Smiths. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Willard Richards, known church historian, then underwent the task of rewriting church history. It would appear as though Joseph Smith was not a polygamist after all. Brigham Young is the "prophet/profit" that practiced polygamy out in the open and reveal it as eternal doctrine. If this is so, then the Mormon church has a lot of explaining to do and setting the record straight. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We'll also be discussing Dallin H. Oaks and background. Stay tuned to find out who this character is and how he came to be 2nd in command of the Mormon church without ever serving an LDS mission. Maybe his ties to E.H. Herriman has a little something to do with it. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Malachi and his wife are moving to Liberty in the next month or so. He has the boldness and faith to EXPECT that people will hear God and DARE them to try! Maybe YOU should try this technique. It's what we do in Liberty all the time to help jump start folks' hearing"</i> - Doug</span>Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-50748776231205808002018-07-03T16:03:00.000-07:002018-07-08T21:23:33.943-07:00Holy Smoke: Cannabis in the Word of God<center>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>CANNABIS ( Marijuana) is IN the BIBLE and JESUS USED IT</b> (45 min.)</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>kaneh bosm = Cannabis</b></span></span></span><br />
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</span> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jesus and Cannabis</span></b><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/marijuana-info/marijuana-in-the-bible/jesus-cannabis/">https://patients4medicalmarijuana.wordpress.com/marijuana-info/marijuana-in-the-bible/jesus-cannabis/</a></span><br />
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</span> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Holy Cannabis: The Bible Tells Us So</span></b><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-marcus-phd/holy-cannabis-the-bible-t_b_4784309.html">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-marcus-phd/holy-cannabis-the-bible-t_b_4784309.html</a></span><br />
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</span> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cannabis Use in the Scriptures</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Joseph Smith and Herbal Medicine</i> by John Heinerman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See also: <i>A Historical Analysis of the Word of Wisdom</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6038&context=etd">https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6038&context=etd</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"And whosoever among you are sick and, have not faith to be healed, but believe, shall be nourished with all tenderness, with herbs and mild food, and not by the hand of an enemy."</i> - Word from the Lord, 1831</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doctrine and Covenants 42:43</span><br />
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</i></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye <u>and to gladden the heart</u></i>... - Word from the Lord, 1831</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Meet Your Endocannabinoid System: How You Could Benefit from Cannabis Use</b> by Christiane Northrup, M.D.</span><br />
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</span> <a href="https://www.drnorthrup.com/benefit-using-therapeutic-cannabis/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.drnorthrup.com/benefit-using-therapeutic-cannabis/</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><i>Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan</i></a><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Greek word for "sorcery" in the Book of Revelation is "pharmakeia." This is where we get the word "pharmacy" (Revelation 18:23).</span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The lost and rediscovered apocryphal text, </span><i style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">The Book of Enoch<i></i></i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> (cited in the Bible, Jude 1:14) states:</span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><i style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">and they [the fallen angels] taught them [men] charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the cutting of roots and trees.</i><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Enoch 7:1 (from the Ethiopic)</span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Bible states, </span><i style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> (Ecclesiastes 1:9)</span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The most amazing revelation regarding modern sorcery to come forth is recent times is the fact that it is now well-documented that the CIA created the whole "drug counterculture." SEE: </span><b style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/psychedelic-intelligence-c-counterculture/" target="_blank">Psychedelic Intelligence โ The C.I.A. and the Counterculture</a></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> by Logos Media </span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">SEE ALSO: </span><b style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/manufacturing-the-deadhead-a-product-of-social-engineering-by-joe-atwill-and-jan-irvin/" target="_blank">Manufacturing the Deadhead: A Product of Social Engineering</a></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> by Jan Irvin and Joe Atwill </span><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">AND: </span><b style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gnosticmedia.com/how-darwin-huxley-and-the-esalen-institute-launched-the-2012-and-psychedelic-revolutions-and-began-one-of-the-largest-mind-control-operations-in-history/" target="_blank">How Darwin, Huxley, and the Esalen Institute Launched the 2012 and Psychedelic Revolutions โ and Began one of the Largest Mind Control Operations in History</a></b><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One of the most well-known doctors involved in L.S.D. research, Willis Harmon (of the Stanford Research Institute), stated that <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/2b8jxt/was_lsd_discovered_before_albert_hofmann_claims/" target="_blank">L.S.D. was discovered decades before Albert Hofmann </a></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/2b8jxt/was_lsd_discovered_before_albert_hofmann_claims/" target="_blank">by Rudolf Steiner and his followers</a> (an offshoot of Theosophy) and interestingly, <a href="http://www.lucistrust.org/en/arcane_school/talks_and_articles/descent_and_sacrifice" target="_blank">Theosophists claim to have contact with the Fallen Angels</a>(!) </span><br />
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<br />Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-54208648941634102592017-12-13T12:35:00.001-08:002018-02-28T13:43:43.946-08:00Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No Johnny-Come-Lately: The 182-Year-Long BLACK Mormon Moment Darius Gray</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Diversity in the Mormon Church (1/4)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jane Manning: Black, Mormon, Strong (3/4)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An Accurate History of Black Mormons (4/4)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>JOSEPH SMITH FOUGHT POLYGAMY: The Exoneration of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum (2017)</b></span><br />
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<br />Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-12867617858076870562017-11-03T13:10:00.001-07:002023-05-13T15:21:14.080-07:00NEW BOOK: The Exoneration of Emma, Joseph, and Hyrum (2017)<div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><img alt="The Exoneration of Emma, Joseph & Hyrum: Part One by [Karren, Ronald]" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/519qH0WX2LL.jpg" /></span></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br />
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</span> <i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This treatise grew out of Mr. Karrenโs life-long need to find the answers that could explain his personal shortcomings or dysfunctions within his Mormon environment. As a 7th-generation Mormon who left the church in 2009, former 30-year Utah resident and church leader, Ronald Karren, started by researching his church (both its history and doctrine). In studying his history, it was evident that the dysfunction reached back at least five generations. By 1995, he saw the dysfunction not only in his ancestry, but also contemporarily in his extended family, in-laws, friends, neighbors, and fellow church members.</span></i><br />
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</i> <i>Today, Utah experiences abnormally high rankings in child physical and sexual abuse, teen suicides, prescription drug abuse, and pornography addiction, which its governor recently declared an epidemic. Seeing a stark dichotomy to the universal religious tenet โby their fruits shall ye know themโ, Karrenโs intrigue pushed him to obtain those answers. He found them.</i></span><br />
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</i> <i>As an obedient Mormon, he limited his research to pro-Mormon sources. When he saw those sources were not reliable, he dove into the journals of the LDS founding fathers: Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, William Clayton, John Taylor, etc. Therein, he found information that literally forced the first two generations in Utah to engage in compartmentalization just to survive, though to dysfunctional levels.</i></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i><br />
</i> <i>Josephโs only handwritten account of the First Vision includes only one personage, not twoโidentical to Apostle Paulโs vision. Josephโs dialogue differs greatly from the traditional LDS version. Additionally, Joseph clearly had neither interest in nor reverence for temples or temple worship. In over 50 journal entries, the Kirtland Chapel was never once referred to as a โtempleโ by Joseph. The Nauvoo โtempleโ was not an LDS temple until 2002. The David O. McKay Papers show the LDS purchase of the Nauvoo Masonic Temple in 1954. From that โtempleโ cornerstone they removed Kimball and Claytonโs Masonic Minute Books, which they had created, doctored, and partially destroyed before depositing them into that cornerstone at the โtempleโ dedication in 1843.</i></span><br />
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</i> <i>To cover up their elaborate plan of hijacking Josephโs Church, and to ensure a โvalidโ succession from Joseph to Brigham, Joseph, Hyrum, and Samuel not only had to be removed from the picture, but also framed with spiritual wifery and temple worshipโa narrative that Emma, alone, vehemently fought to her dying day. </i></span><br />
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</i> <b>This book is only .99 cents online</b>:<i> </i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exoneration-Emma-Joseph-Hyrum-Part-ebook/dp/B07728CX7N">https://www.amazon.com/Exoneration-Emma-Joseph-Hyrum-Part-ebook/dp/B07728CX7N</a></span><br />
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</i> SEE ALSO (free online book)<b> JOSEPH SMITH FOUGHT POLYGAMY:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emmanuel Ft. Joyce, "Rapture"</span></h2>
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SEE ALSO: <b>The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is near at hand! Have you received an invitation? </b><a href="http://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-marriage-supper-of-lamb-is-near-at.html">http://bethanymagdalene.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-marriage-supper-of-lamb-is-near-at.html</a><br />
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On August 23, Margaret Starbird posted to Facebook:<br />
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<i>In the wake of the total eclipse phenomenon that travelled across the USA on Monday, I recalled that in ancient times an eclipse was feared as an ill-omen, blotting out the sun. But among medieval alchemists this analysis was rethought and a new interpretation was proclaimed: an eclipse is a "heavenly marriage" (Latin: "conjunction") of the sun and moon, representing the ideal of the "sacred partnership" of the masculine and feminine energies ascribed to the sun (sol) and moon (luna). The "Rosary of the Philosophers," a medieval series of 20 woodcuts (c. 1550), celebrates the alchemical marriage of the sun and moon. The images are posted here:</i><br />
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Blessings of peace and light!<br />
Margaret<br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>SPIRITUAL WARFARE PRAYERS: Warfare prayers of the Word and Spirit for Transformation and Change of Circumstances by Bern Zumpano, M.D. </b>(free ebook)</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is another free PDF book you can save to your computer:</span><br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>The Rules of Engagement by Cindy Trimm</b></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>The Mystery of Faith and Group Deliverance Prayer</b> - Chris LaSala (video)</span><br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Self Deliverance 101: Engaging Devils</b> - Chris LaSala (video)</span><br />
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</span> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Chris LaSala's YouTube channel</b> (you can watch deliverances here)</span><br />
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</b> <b>Bob Larson... The REAL Exorcist</b> (deliverance ministry and YouTube channel)</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB6EOb_aWWrL85jzT5rjVqnq4vCbRaYnV4Hd7SYAUkaU2FTGgVPD4_O9grDJb8l9sVzR5GyBon2mE6lbqhF9BMOVDjrUK3WGIQNdl9T88gWu_KfCDqLzfbSyLf-58WIFC2cOs/s1600/warfare-against-the-world-spiritual-warfare-2-3-638.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="638" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB6EOb_aWWrL85jzT5rjVqnq4vCbRaYnV4Hd7SYAUkaU2FTGgVPD4_O9grDJb8l9sVzR5GyBon2mE6lbqhF9BMOVDjrUK3WGIQNdl9T88gWu_KfCDqLzfbSyLf-58WIFC2cOs/s320/warfare-against-the-world-spiritual-warfare-2-3-638.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Churches are not always safe places to be. Many of them are infiltrated (Matthew 7:15; Jude 1:4). No church owns the scriptures. This is a powerful non-denominational book of scripture (the stick of Joseph) which is a companion to the Bible (the stick of Judah) <b>Ezekiel 37</b>, which you can read for free, online. This book can show you how to make and keep a covenant with Jesus Christ, which is the safest place on earth to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190124052940/http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE">https://web.archive.org/web/20190124052940/http://www.restoredcovenant.org/RCE.asp?CAT=RCE</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Intercessory Prayer for SALVATION, HEALING, DELIVERANCE, Baptism of the Holy Spirit for a SPOUSE, CHILD, FAMILY MEMBER or anyone else who stands in need:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Pray out loud: </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>โ Lord Jesus Christ, I stand in the gap for (name), and counter-petition for their soul and spirit in the mighty name of Jesus Christ . In Jesus Christ's might name, I plead the Blood of Jesus Christ between them and Satan and every evil spirit and every work of darkness, immediately and continually. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I pray a hedge of protection around them to keep them from the wiles of the enemy. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I pray a hedge of thorns around them to obstruct every path that they would take that is not of you and that would lead them away from you, in order to direct them back in order to know and find You. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I immediately and continually bind Satan, all territorial spirits, every principality, power, ruler of the darkness, wicked spirit in high places, the ruler spirit(s) on assignment against them, all familiar spirits, all curses, hexes, vexes, bewitchments, enchantments, spells, cantrups, ligatures, judgments of witches or warlocks, all assignments, blueprints, plots and designs of Satan, all of Satan's seedings, works, plans and activities against him/her (name) , and all demonic ministrations to his/her thought-life, and all of (name) un-Christlike thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and perceptions; In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I take each and every one of these things captive to Christ and cast them down as vain thoughts and imaginations. </div><div><br /></div><div>By faith in You, Lord Jesus Christ, I call him/her Baptized by Jesus Christ's Holy Spirit, born-again, sealed by the Holy Spirit, Spirit-filled, healed and delivered from all oppression of the enemy. Through the ministry of impartation by the spoken word and prayer, I speak into his/her life, strength in the inner man (or woman, as the case may be), and I call a clear, unobstructed path cut to his/her heart, mind, soul spirit, body and environment; </div><div><br /></div><div>In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I immediately and continually bind each and every unholy, un-Christlike spirit and entity ministering to his/her thoughts and command, in Jesus Christ's mighty name, that they stop ministry now and decree that they must do so for Your Glory, God; I break their powers, communication lines, supply lines, and bind up and off all reinforcements. I take into captivity all of their seedings, works, plans and activities, and call them all canceled, made null and void, never seeded, never completed, never come to pass, cursed and destroyed at their roots and rendered of no effect in his/her life. </div><div><br /></div><div>In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I bind all spirits not of the Holy Spirit, all spirits mentioned or unmentioned, known or unknown, and all of their assignments against him/her and break their powers, off of every aspects of his/her (name) life and every particle of their being. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I immediately and continually plead the Blood of Jesus Christ against all of them. </div><div><br /></div><div>In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I immediately and continually loose (name) from Satan, and bind Satan off from the ruler spirit and those above, around and below him, the ruler spirit off from Satan and all above, around and below him, and all below the ruler spirit up and off from Satan and from each other. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I break their powers, plots, and designs. I take captive to Christ, bind, break, destroy, and loose (name) from all works of evil, trauma-based mind control programming, satanic ritual abuse, propaganda, strong delusion, and witchcraft, and from all workings through blood pacts, blood covenants, or blood sacrifices or curses spoken over, formed against, or directed at him/ her. I take each and every one of these things into captivity, break them off of their body, mind, spirit, heart, and environment, and curse them at the roots, call them cancelled, made null and void, never seeded or completed, never come to pass, cursed and destroyed at their roots and rendered of no effect.</div><div><br /></div><div>By faith in Jesusโ Name, Father, I dispatch warrior angels and ministering angels to go forth immediately to minister to (name), to protect him/her, to turn the enemy back and drive the enemy out of every aspect of their life and every particle of their being, to retrieve their soul-fragments by force, which I call restored to (name) and re-integrated into their soul-life through Jesus shed blood and work on the cross and by Your Spirit of power and might of the Holy Spirit. </div><div><br /></div><div>Father, Jesus said that no man can come to Him unless called by the Father. Please, Father, have compassion upon (name). Please call them to Jesus right away. Please increase their capacity to seek truth, to find truth, to care about the truth, and to love the truth. Give them an overwhelming, irresistible, irrepressible, undeniable desire and the Grace to respond and to reach out, that they may have a revelation of Jesus Christ and who Jesus Christ really and truly is. Please bless them with the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and discernment to discern between the true and living Christ and every false Christ and anti-Christ. Where there is a heart of stone, Father, give him/her a heart of flesh; soften his/her heart towards you, towards me, and towards the truth of all things, Father, show them Your mercy and compassion and make a way out for them. Make them to see with the eyes of Christ's Holy Spirit and to hear with the ears of Christ's Holy Spirit. Do not withhold any good thing, Father.</div><div> </div><div>(Optional paragraph)</div><div>Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, Your promise to me in Your Word is that my household and I will be saved. Your Word is true. You ere not a man that You should lie. Perform Your Word, Lord, for his/her life and my life, and for Your Glory, God. You are able to deliver and I know that You will, In Jesus Christ's mighty name. I pray the Holy Spirit, fall on him/her in the mightiest, most powerful way possible, immediately and continually. </div><div><br /></div><div>Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I donโt care what I see going on in his/her life. You are bigger and You are greater. I know that I do not need great faith in God. I need only to have faith in a Great God, and that God is You, Father and your Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. In Jesus Christ's mighty name, I walk by faith and not by sight. I confess and decree ALL of these things that I have prayed, fully accomplished already in the Spirit, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ and for Your Glory, God. I decree that the enemy is already defeated in the life of (name). </div><div><br /></div><div>In Jesus Chist's mighty name, I speak to you, Satan and all of your spirits and minions, and I command you and demand, in Jesus Christ's mighty name, that you take your hands off of (name) right now, in Christ Jesus Name. (Name) is loosed from you in the Name of Jesus Christ. He/she is now cordoned off with warrior angels of the Lord Christ Jesus and I decree to you that you cannot and you will not have him/her. Get your hands off of him/her and do it now! I curse at the roots every legal ground upon which you try to stand, Satan, and I call them null and void by faith in Jesusโ Chrit's mighty name. I plead and speak the Blood of Jesus Christ which was your defeat at the cross, against every demonic stronghold and call all strongholds in the life of (name), DOWN in Christ Jesusโ Name. I break all of your control off of the thought-life of (name) and all confusion, trauma-based mind control programming, satanic ritual abuse, un-Chirstlike thoughts, beliefs, attitudes and perceptions, propaganda, strong delusion, and witchcraft as well. By faith, in Jesusโ Christ's mighty name, I decree him/her Baptized by the Holy Spirit, FREE, BORN-AGAIN, SPIRIT-FILLED, HEALED, SEALED, AND DELIVERED, ALL in Christ Jesusโ mighty Name. Loose him/her, Satan. Let go. Back off, and get out ... I decree that you MUST, all in Christ Jesusโ Name. </div><div><br /></div><div>Father, I thank You that You have already heard and answered these prayers in the Spirit and I give You ALL of the Glory, praise, and thanksgiving, for Your Word is already settled in heaven, Praise to Your Name, Father, and your son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit by which I decree ALL of these prayers already answered in the Spirit, and by trusting faith in You, now call them forth in the natural realm for Your Glory and in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.โโ (Now, pray a prayer forbidding retaliation, in Jesusโ Name.)</div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><div><b>HELP for T.I.s:</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>There are two forms of what people call "gangstalking." Sometimes it is really true that people who have been subjected to Satanic Ritual Abuse and / or MK-Ultra-style trauma-based mind control (or covert experimentation) are actually tracked, targeted and harassed. Other times it is a spiritual phenomenon that manifests physically but is actually the Adversary controlling the people around you (often without their knowledge) to create a delusion of being stalked. This is exacerbated by spirits of fear and paranoia sent by the Adversary. The people who fall into this second group have often (although not always) have a history of drug use. </div><div><br /></div><div>Whichever of these two is the cause of your experience, there is only one solution and that solution is to pray and ask the living and Resurrected Jesus Christ to show you if he is real, and if so to show you the truth of all things, and to protect you (if he could do miracles in the Bible he can do miracles for you). Ask him for safety and protection and deliverance from your enemies and deliverance from evil spirits and to show you what he created you for, and to show you what he wants you to do every day (one day at a time) and don't worry about tomorrow. Ask him how he wants you to serve him in return for all he's done (and doing for you). Seek his face and his voice. This is not about religion. Depend on him for everything. He created you. He loves you. He will be your best friend if you sincerely seek him without giving up. He can teach you everything you need to know. He's the only one that you can truly trust in this life. There is nothing he cannot and will not do for you. He can show you the truth of all things. Most of all, ask him for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. If you are willing to be baptized by the Holy Spirit and to serve your Creator, there is no more powerful form of protection. Ask Jesus to help you use logic and the Holy Spirit in a harmonious balance. Prayerfully study the scriptures, and pray for discernment, revelation, knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Test all revelation against what the scriptures say to make sure that it is in harmony with scripture. That's how you know your revelations are from the Lord or not.</div><div><br /></div><div>More spiritual warfare prayers and resources for everyone's needs (not just T.I.s), below:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Meegs B is a Christian who helps T.I.s (Targeted Individuals)</b></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MeegsB/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/MeegsB/videos</a></div><div><b><br /></b>Meegs lives in California and gives out her phone number at the beginning of this video if anyone wants to call into her YouTube show and get some support and prayer. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Today is the National Day of Prayer and I have an urgent prayer request for our brother-in-Christ, Ammon Bundy. He has never been convicted of a crime and has no criminal record. He has been denied bail for 471 DAYS for political reasons while awaiting trial. Yesterday (and the day before) he was tortured by guards for hours - physically assaulted, injured, chained to a 3x3 shower stall over night (13 HOURS standing) with no shirt, left without a bathroom all night, denied food for two days, then the next day thrown in solitary while violently ripping off of his remaining clothes. His temple garments were later returned by a sympathetic guard. He is still without clothing and without medical attention for his injuries (To top it off, in the past they have been sexually abusive while doing body cavity searches). They pick on him because they know he is a Christian and they think no one will hold them accountable for it. You can hear Ammon give an account of the horrific abuse he has been enduring and he is not the only one. Many prisoners in this country are being abused by guards who know they will not be held accountable by the public. No human being, whether guilty, or unconvicted (and innocent until proven guilty), deserves to be abused for any reason. You can listen to Ammonโs account of what happened in this video (recorded after his wife Lisaโs account) here: https://youtu.be/ehIw3-4JJs4 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Ammon warned Lisa (and the rest of us) about the consequences of the introduction of the use of torture in a post-911 world , โI see exactly what they are doing. They are learning how to do it in here and then they are going to do it to us out there. Itโs not far, history has shown this, it has happened in concentration camps and the holocaust and I sure hope America is not going in that direction.โ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> If we donโt stand up against torture and cruel and unusual punishment - and punishment of those innocent until proven guilty - the Lord will allow us to experience those very things as if to say, โAre you sure this is what you really want?โ Please ask the Lord what action he would like you to take regarding these matters. In addition to prayer, letters and phone calls to the proper authorities can be of assistance. These abusers need to know the public is willing to hold them accountable.<br />
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<br />Elizabeth Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04399048740365186315noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11344931.post-11937882219587549232017-04-23T23:16:00.002-07:002017-04-23T23:16:55.246-07:00The Ephraim AwakeningSkiba (and the Apostle Paul) make an interesting point. Skiba asks if it is really possible for a Gentile to be a believer. The Gentile nations were out of covenant. The word Hebrew means, โcrossed over,โ if you have crossed over from death to life and have gone from being out of covenant to being in covenant with Yahuah, it is impossible to remain a Gentile. You are either grafted into the cultivated olive tree of Romans 11 (which is Israel) or you remain a branch on the wild olive tree, you cannot be an โin covenant / out of covenantโ believer. You are either in covenant or you out of covenant, either still in death, or you have crossed over into life. You are either grafted in or still a stranger on the commonwealth of Israel or you have been brought into it (Ephesians 2โฆ) โThat at that time ye were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ, ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.โ Made nigh to what? To the commonwealth of Israel , the covenants of promise the hope of salvation. You cannot be a gentile believerโฆI ask which stick are you on [Ephraim or Judah] you better be on one of them because there is no third stick called the churchโฆthe adulteress wife (in this case Israel) was freed from the curse of the adultery by the death of Christ who is the Word of Yahuah made flesh thus the Father redeemed His Bride, Israel, through Yeshuaโฆthis is the most amazing love story ever: in order to get His Bride back, the Groom had to die. The Holman Christian Standard Bible renders Romans 7:4 a little clearerโฆ โWherefore my brothers, you also were put to death in relation to the law through the crucified body of the Messiah so that you may belong to another, to him who is raised from the dead that we may bear fruit for God.โ Now this makes Paulโs words to the Ephesians make a whole lot more sense (in โฆ5:25) where it says, โHusbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church and gave himself for it.โ This verse explains why Yeshua said what he said in Matthew 24. He loved His Church, the Bride, which is Israel (as confirmed by Revelation 21 and many other scriptures) so much that He gave His own life to redeem her back to HimselfโฆHe had a big plan from the beginning, a great mystery that Paul figured out and because of Paul we can figure it out. This is the reason why Gentiles get grafted / adopted into this family: to be the Bride is to be Israel which was redeemed unto Yahuah by the death of a husband. Gentiles were never in covenant to begin with. Gentiles are out of covenant people. When you accept Christ you cross over which is what the word Hebrew actually means from death to life, once you do that you are grafted into the cultivated olive tree which is Israel. More specifically you are adopted in through the family name of Ephraim which was himself adopted by Jacob from Joseph to be his own.<br />
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Reprinted from:<br />
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The Mystery of the Omer and the<br />
Seven Churches of Revelation<br />
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Why Do We Count the Omer from Passover to Pentecost?<br />
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Why does God say we are to "count fifty days" from<br />
The Passover to determine the date and observance of<br />
Pentecost? What is the vital significance of "counting"? <br />
What is the "omer"? Why didn't God just say we are to<br />
observe a particular date like the other festivals? Here is <br />
wonderful NEW TRUTH!<br />
<br />
William F. Dankenbring<br />
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Herbert Armstrong, in his booklet "Pagan Holidays or God's Holy Days -- Which?", wrote his opinion that the reason God commanded us to count the days to Pentecost was as follows:<br />
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"All other holy days or festivals come on definite days of definite<br />
months. But this one annual Sabbath must be determined by counting.<br />
It is very simple and plain.<br />
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"It is of very grave importance that we figure the right day. This day,<br />
and this day only, is made holy by the Eternal Creator" (p.9).<br />
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Armstrong then went on to say that the Pharisees gained control of Jewish religious observations shortly after the middle of the first century, A.D. -- that prior to that time, the high priests of the family of Boethus, who were Sadducees, were in control, and points out that they counted Pentecost from the day after the weekly Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and not as the Pharisees do, counting from the first High Holy day Sabbath. He also mentioned that the Samaritans and Karaites also counted like the Sadducees. <br />
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Herbert Armstrong was correct in pointing out that the Boethusians counted Pentecost from the weekly Sabbath. But he was absolutely wrong and incorrect to state that they controlled the Temple services and Jewish religious observances! He was in utter error to claim that the Pharisees did not control these functions until after the middle of the first century. Herbert Armstrong was no historian. He was fed false information, and therefore he came to an utterly false conclusion. Says Angus Bible Dictionary:<br />
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"The Jews, AT LEAST AS EARLY AS THE DAYS OF CHRIST,<br />
connected with the Passover, and commemorated on the 6th Sivan,<br />
the giving of the Decalogue. It was made out from Exodus ch.19<br />
that the law was delivered on the fiftieth day after the Exodus. It<br />
has been conjectured that a connection between the event and the festival<br />
may possibly be hinted at in the reference to the observance of the law in<br />
Deuteronomy 16:12. The Pentecost was ESSENTIALLY LINKED TO<br />
THE PASSOVER -- that festival which, above all others, expressed the<br />
fact of a race chosen and separated from all other nations -- and was the<br />
solemn termination of the consecrated period" ("Festivals," p.356).<br />
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What's Wrong With a Permanent Sunday Pentecost?<br />
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However, Angus Bible Dictionary points out that the opinion of the Boethusians (Sadducees) means that every year Pentecost, or the "Feast of Weeks," would of necessity fall on a Sunday -- without exception! Notice!<br />
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"The Boethusians and the Sadducees in the time of the second temple,<br />
and the Karaites since the 8th century of the Christian era, have taken<br />
'Sabbath' in the sense of the seventh day of the week, and have main-<br />
tained that the omer was offered on the day following the weekly<br />
Sabbath which might happen to fall within the seven days of the<br />
Passover. This would make Pentecost always come on the FIRST<br />
DAY OF THE WEEK" (ibid.).<br />
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Notice this carefully! This interpretation, if followed, always makes Pentecost to occur on a SUNDAY! What's wrong with that?, you might wonder. The answer is simple: If Pentecost always occurred on a Sunday, it would be the only Festival of God which would always occur on a SUNDAY -- the day of the SUN-GOD BAAL!!<br />
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But is this reckoning of the Sadducees correct? The truth of the matter is, as history proves, and you can check this out yourself just by visiting a library, and reading about the Sadducees, that they perished with the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. They never had real power or authority over the religious practices of the Jews, but were always regarded by mainstream Judaism as an aberrant sect -- an erroneous and apostate offshoot. Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century, points out that they never had the masses, the multitudes, of the people on their side, but performed all their priestly duties in accordance with the dictates of the Pharisees! <br />
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We read in Antiquities of the Jews concerning the Pharisees:<br />
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". . . the Pharisees, who are one of the sects of the Jews . . . These have SO<br />
GREAT A POWER OVER THE MULTITUDE, that when they say anything<br />
against the king OR AGAINST THE HIGH PRIEST, they are presently<br />
believed. . . . the Pharisees have delivered to the people a great many obser-<br />
vances by succession from their fathers, which are not written in the law of<br />
Moses; and for that reason it is that the Sadducees reject them . . . concerning<br />
these things it is that great disputes and differences have arisen among them,<br />
while the SADDUCEES ARE ABLE TO PERSUADE NONE BUT THE RICH,<br />
AND HAVE NOT THE PE0PLE OBSEQUIOUS TO THEM, but the PHARI-<br />
SEES HAVE THE MULTITUDE ON THEIR SIDE . . ." (Ant., XIII, x, 5-6).<br />
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The early New Testament Church was composed primarily of Pharisees and common people, who listened to and respected the Pharisees. The Sadducees were so far gone, spiritually, that they denied the resurrection from the dead, and argued with Christ over this teaching (Matt.22:23-28). Jesus said to them, "Ye do ERR, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God" (verse 29). That is a fatal flaw of the Sadducees, which Christ Himself addressed. He labeled them as erring heretics, who did not understand or teach the Scriptures correctly! <br />
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Why, then, do modern day sects and churches insist -- against all good teaching and truth -- that they will follow the Sadducees, "come hell or high water"? It is very strange. But rather than repent, some would rather "cut off their nose to spite their face," as the expression goes! Or, to put it another way, they would rather go to Hell, than submit to Heaven!<br />
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The Apostle Paul -- a True Pharisee<br />
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The apostle Paul himself was a Pharisee. He was brought up "at the feet of Gamaliel," who was one of the chief exponents of the Pharisees (Acts 22:3). Paul says he was "TAUGHT according to the PERFECT MANNER OF THE LAW of the fathers, and was zealous toward God" (same verse). He could not have said such a thing if he had been taught falsely or incorrectly concerning such a vital matter of the LAW as the proper date for observing Pentecost, could he? Of course not!<br />
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When Paul was brought before the Jewish Sanhedrin, because of his faith in Christ, he gave a resounding defense of his actions:<br />
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"But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the<br />
other part Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I<br />
AM A PHARISEE, THE SON OF A PHARISEE: of the hope and<br />
resurrection of the dead I am called in question. And when he had so<br />
said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees:<br />
and the multitude were divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no<br />
resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.<br />
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees'<br />
part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a<br />
spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God"<br />
(Acts 23:6-9).<br />
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Paul explained before king Agrippa, on a later occasion,<br />
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"My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine<br />
own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews; which knew me from the<br />
beginning, if they would testify, that AFTER THE MOST STRAITEST<br />
SECT OF OUR RELIGION, I LIVED A PHARISEE" (Acts 26:4-5).<br />
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Paul had lived his life as a STRICT Pharisee. He wrote to the Philippians, saying that he was<br />
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"Circumcized the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,<br />
an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the LAW, A PHARISEE; concerning<br />
zeal, persecuting the church; TOUCHING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH<br />
IS IN THE LAW, BLAMELESS" (Phil.3:5-6).<br />
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We have seen that the Bible shows the Sadducees were apostates, whom Christ Himself derided and accused of "not knowing the Scriptures." We have seen that the Pharisees were the ones who were in control of the religious worship of the Jews, whom the multitudes followed -- as the Jewish historian Josephus attests. We have seen that Paul himself was a PHARISEE, and laid claim to this title even 25 years after his conversion, in 62 A.D., when he appeared before the Jewish Sanhedrin and King Agrippa! And as such, he observed God's laws "blamelessly"!<br />
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Even though some of the Pharisees during the time of Christ were wicked men, self-seeking, proud, arrogant, and evil-tempered, and guilty of many sins, as Christ Himself stated very plainly in Matthew 23, where He called them "snakes," "fools," "blind," and so forth, nevertheless, He NEVER hinted, intimated, declared, or stated, that they had NO AUTHORITY concerning the Scriptures or the Word of God. <br />
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Rather, He Himself told the multitudes, along with His own disciples:<br />
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"The scribes and PHARISEES SIT IN MOSES' SEAT: ALL therefore<br />
WHATSOEVER THEY BID YOU OBSERVE, THAT OBSERVE AND<br />
DO; but do not ye after their works [their own wicked deeds]: for they<br />
say, and do not" (Matt.23:2-3).<br />
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Notice! This is a plain statement -- a clear cut commandment. Jesus did not mince words. He said we are to OBEY "ALL" that the Pharisees commanded us to do, so long as it is founded truly on the words of Moses โ the Torah of God!<br />
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Note that He said โWHATSOEVERโ they told us to observe โ it is not up to us to โpick and chooseโ! Of course, He was not endorsing any FALSE teaching, but He was endorsing every teaching truly derived from the LAW of God!<br />
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Jesus Christ -- the Final Judge<br />
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Such a powerful, unequivocal statement plainly includes the question of WHEN TO OBSERVE PENTECOST! In other words, if there is ANY DISPUTE as to the time of observance of Pentecost, as there was between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, then Jesus Christ -- the FINAL JUDGE and TRUE ARBITER of all arguments and discussions -- RULED THAT THE PHARISEES SAT IN MOSESโ SEAT โ NOT THE SADDUCEES! Therefore, WE MUST FOLLOW THE PHARISEES, ON QUESTIONS ON THE LAW, and NOT the opinions of the Sadducees! <br />
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What could be PLAINER? <br />
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What does it take to convince you? What does it require to OPEN YOUR MIND? WHAT must we do to "pry open your brain," and install some TRUTH there? How can we help you empty your mind of the cobwebs of confusion, doubt, and error and falsehoods, that have lodged there, that have taken roost there, that have been fed into your brain by ignorant or false ministers, wicked false prophets and apostate teachers?<br />
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What will it take? Only YOU can make that final determination. God will not do it for you. Christ will not FORCE you to admit the truth. He will force you to worship Him, and even break your legs if necessary, to get you to bow before Him -- eventually (Phil.2:9-11). But those who have to be forced, will inevitably be cast into the ever-burning LAKE OF FIRE for their final judgment!<br />
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Herbert Armstrong was wrong to follow the custom of the erring Sadducees, who themselves followed the wicked Samaritans, the historic enemies of God's people (see II Kings 17:24-41), who in turn followed the abominations of the apostate king Jeroboam of northern Israel who rebelled against the House of David (I Kings 12:1-22), and who established his OWN pagan CULTIC religion (I Kings 12:25-33), and thereby led Israel into grievous SIN!<br />
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Jesus Himself said the Samaritans knew not what they worshipped (John 4:22). <br />
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The truth is, they were worshipping DEMONS, disguised as "angels of light." And modern day ministers who follow their teachings, are also following "doctrines of demons" (I Tim.4:1-2). As the apostle Paul warned, "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel: for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed AS the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works" (II Cor.11:13-15). <br />
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Why do modern Christian leaders, who even profess to keep the holy days of God, follow the pagan practices and observances of Jeroboam the Apostate, the Samaritans, and the wicked and devious Sadducees? <br />
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WHY do modern ministers -- even those who CLAIM to follow and endorse the LAWS of God -- follow doctrines of DEMONS?<br />
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WHY DO THEY DENY AND REJECT THE VERY WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST on the Holy Days and LAWS of Almighty GOD?<br />
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Yes, WHY?<br />
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The Truth about PENTECOST<br />
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The Angus Bible Dictionary goes on to state, concerning the Sadducean interpretation of the observance of Pentecost, that it poses innumerable and serious difficulties. Notice:<br />
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"Against this [the Sadducean conclusions] MANY ARGUMENTS are<br />
presented, showing that such an OPINION involves MANY ARBITRARY<br />
AND IMPROBABLE ARRANGEMENTS. Commenting on Lev.23:15-22,<br />
K. and D. (Com. in loco) say that 'Sabbaths (v.15) signifies WEEKS. <br />
Consequently, the "morrow after the seventh Sabbath" (v.16) is the day after<br />
the SEVENTH WEEK, not after the seventh sabbath.' It is therefore evident<br />
that the JEWS, who DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE KEPT PENTECOST<br />
FIFTY DAYS AFTER THE 16TH NISAN, RIGHTLY INTERPETED THE<br />
INJUNCTION in Leviticus 23:15-22" ("Festivals," p.357).<br />
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Of course the Jews were right! The Second Temple was finished in 515 B.C., during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah. From that time, till 70 A.D., the Jewish nation, led by the scribes and Pharisees, and their antecedants, observed Pentecost ON THE DAY FIFTY DAYS AFTER NISAN 16, counting from the day of the omer, which was offered on Nisan 16 -- the day after the first High Holy Day of Passover and Unleavened Bread!<br />
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Jesus Christ never corrected the Pharisees on this point of the Law. He never quibbled with them, or charged them with error, on the date they calculated and counted Pentecost! If they were in error, such an error would have warranted His scathing denunciation and condemnation. But He was silent. His silence speaks volumes. Why, it is perfectly obvious. He agreed with them โ totally! <br />
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In fact, there is even evidence that Jesus kept Pentecost WITH the Jews! Notice the astounding proof of this fact! In the gospel of Luke we read these straight-forward, simple words concerning the practice of Jesus Christ the Messiah:<br />
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โThe DAY OF WEEKSโ<br />
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"And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, AS<br />
HIS CUSTOM WAS, he went into the SYNAGOGUE [which were<br />
all controlled by Pharisaic rabbis in Galilee and Judaea] ON THE<br />
SABBATH DAY [Greek, "day of the SABBATHS"], and stood up<br />
for to read" (Luke 4:16).<br />
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In this verse, the expression in Greek translated "sabbath day" is literally, "Day of the Sabbaths" -- plural. It could just as readily be translated as "Day of the Weeks." The annual Sabbath Day of Pentecost is derived by "counting the WEEKS" until seven weeks have passed. It is also therefore called, "The Feast of WEEKS" (Deut.16:9-12). The Jews to this day generally call Pentecost the Feast of "SHAVUOT" which means, literally, "weeks."<br />
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Therefore, this Gospel verse could well be an allusion to the fact that Jesus, on the "Feast of Weeks," or "Day of Weeks," -- that is, Pentecost! -- went into the synagogue to preach the gospel, and to announce His Ministry (Luke 4:16-21).<br />
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This same expression is used in Acts 13:14, where we read, "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down." It is also found in Acts 16:13, where we read, "And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither." <br />
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In both of these verses, the identical Greek expression is used that is found in Luke 4:16 -- which literally is "the day of sabbaths," or "The Day of Weeks." Notice, now, an astonishing admission!<br />
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An Amazing FACT from the Ambassador College<br />
Bible Correspondence Course!<br />
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The old Ambassador College Correpondence Course of the Worldwide Church of God admitted, in Lesson 35, "The Church In God's Master Plan," that these verses referred to PENTECOST! Notice! Here is their own testimony:<br />
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"5. Does the Greek New Testament refer to Pentecost as the day of<br />
Weeks anywhere in the New Testament? Acts 13:14 and Acts 16:13.<br />
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"COMMENT: In Acts 13;14, the 'Sabbath' day Paul kept in Antioch<br />
of Pisidia can properly be translated, 'day of WEEKS'!<br />
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"In Acts 16:13, the Sabbath meeting held by the river in Macedonia was<br />
actually the annual Sabbath of Pentecost! Again, the word 'Sabbath' should<br />
be translated 'WEEKS' from the Greek word 'sabbaton', which means either<br />
'sabbaths' or 'weeks.'"<br />
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Could this "day of Weeks," be a reference to a Sunday Pentecost, as the Worldwide Church of God NOW observes? Or could it refer to even a Monday Pentecost, as they used to observe, and some small fragmentary groups still cling to?<br />
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In Acts 16, verse 12, Luke the Church historian records that Paul and his group left Neapolis (v.11), and from there traveled to Philippi, and says, "and we were IN THAT CITY ABIDING CERTAIN DAYS. And on the SABBATH [Greek, "day of weeks" -- Pentecost!] we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made . . ."<br />
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Do you get it? They abode in the city at least two or three days. Then on PENTECOST they left the city, to hold a Bible Study and worship service, at a special place where prayer was made. There undoubtedly was no synagogue in that city, or they would have gone to it. But they celebrated Pentecost in a special setting where they could conduct a Bible Study! <br />
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But this begs the question -- if Pentecost was celebrated on a Sunday or a Monday (Monday is when the Worldwide Church of God used to observe Pentecost, and some break-away groups still do, and Sunday is the day they now observe it, along with Church of God International, Philadelphia Church of God, and others) -- then WHY DIDN'T THEY VISIT THIS PRAYER SITE ALSO ON THE WEEKLY SABBATH, which would have been only one or two days before? <br />
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Why didn't they hold a Bible Study at this spot on the WEEKLY Sabbath, since they were there in Philippi "certain days" -- plural -- in advance of Pentecost? Why would they have just abode in town over the weekly Sabbath, and not use that opportunity to go to the place of prayer for religious worship? That would make no sense at all! Therefore, the truth is plain -- they were observing Pentecost on the same day the Jews observe it -- which can fall on other days during the week!<br />
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This Scripture gives additional proof and weight to the fact that Pentecost was NOT observed on a specific day of the week every year -- such as on a Sunday or Monday -- but rather on a specific day of the month, fifty days from Nisan 16! This date could vary a day or two in the old days, when an observed calendar was used, and the second month Iyar could have either 29 or 30 days. <br />
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Thus both Paul and the New Testament Church, and Jesus Christ as well, all observed "the Day of Weeks" or Pentecost WITH THE JEWS, who were also observing it in their synagogues, on the day approved by the Pharisees! Shouldn't we, today, do the same, following their example?<br />
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But Why, Then, Should We Count Fifty Days?<br />
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In Leviticus 23:13, the Hebrew word for "count" is "safar." There are several different, but accurate, meanings for "safar." It is only Judaism which provides the internal history necessary to discover which meaning is intended to be understood in the Biblical text. Although "safar" can mean to count up the total in order to arrive at a sum, it can also just as easily and accurately mean to inscribe by making a mark, to enumerate, or to celebrate.<br />
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Judaism teaches that the intended meaning of "safar" in Leviticus 23:15 is "to ritually inscribe by celebrating, i.e., to inscribe to ritual celebration." Jewish author and historian Chaim Raphael, in his newly published book entitled Festival Days: A History of Jewish Celebrations (c.1990, Grove Weidenfeld: New York), provides us with the key to rightly understanding the use of the word "safar" in Leviticus 23:15. He informs us that:<br />
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"In the Jewish practice, an Omer (sheaf) of the new barley was offered<br />
to the Temple every day after Passover to be 'waved' ceremonially by<br />
the priest. The Omer began to be counted daily from the second day<br />
of Passover for seven weeks, at which point the festival of Shavuot<br />
('weeks') was celebrated. 'Counting the Omer' until the seven weeks<br />
were concluded became a recognizable stretch of Jewish life with its<br />
own traditions . . ." (p.69).<br />
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This same author adds:<br />
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"The seven-week period from Passover to Shavuot had a ritual in which<br />
a sheaf of grain from the new harvest was offered to the priest every day.<br />
Every offering was COUNTED OFF DAILY until the forty-ninth day,<br />
after which Shavuot was celebrated" (p.71).<br />
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It should be clear that this ritual of "counting" was performed EVERY YEAR, as a special adjunct to the Passover celebration, at which the spring harvest BEGAN, and continued for forty nine days, until Pentecost, when the spring harvest was COMPLETED! Since the spring harvest is a TYPE of the "firstfruits" of God's creation -- true converted people of God, from the time of the patriarchs down to true Christians -- the period of time from Passover to Pentecost represents the TIME OF GOD'S SPIRITUAL SPRING HARVEST -- with Christ Jesus, our Passover, being Himself the "the firstfruits" from the dead unto God (I Cor.15:20), "Christ the firstfruits" (verse 23); "afterward they that are Christ's AT HIS COMING" (same verse).<br />
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True Christians are they "which have the FIRSTFRUITS of the Spirit" (Rom.8:23). Paul spoke of a certain believer Epaenetus, "who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ" (Rom.16:5). The apostle James wrote, "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of FIRSTFRUITS of his creatures" (James 1:18).<br />
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At Christ's coming, He will MARRY the Church, the "firstfruits" (Rev.19:6-9), just as He "married" Israel when He came down to Mount Sinai on that first Pentecost, or Feast of Weeks (Exodus 19-20; 24:9-11). Thus the daily "counting of the omer" is a ritual which REFLECTS THE SPRING HARVEST OF TRUE CHRISTIANS and all the holy men and women of old who will be in the FIRST RESURRECTION, and who will "MARRY" Christ at His coming!<br />
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The vast, overwhelming majority of Christians do not even begin to realize or recognize this amazing, wonderful TRUTH! Every day, from Passover to Pentecost, when WE COUNT THE OMER, as we pray to God, reciting, "This is the ___ day of the Omer," and continue on in our prayers, we are LOOKING FORWARD TO and ANTICIPATING JOYFULLY our coming UNION with CHRIST the MESSIAH at His Coming! The daily "counting of the omer," then, beginning with the first Omer, representing Christ Himself, risen from the dead, continues for forty nine days, or until Pentecost -- and spiritually symbolizes the FIRSTFRUITS OF THE CHURCH OF GOD which have been "harvested" throughout the centuries and millennia leading up to the great day of CHRIST'S COMING, when Christ will COMPLETE THE HARVEST OF FIRSTFRUITS, and then MARRY HIS BRIDE!<br />
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What a wonderful truth! There is far more involved in "counting the omer" than most of us have ever realized! <br />
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In the words of Pogo, "We have met the Omer, and it is US!"<br />
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How could the end-time churches of God be so IGNORANT of this amazing truth?<br />
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Could it be that they are merely following the traditions and ideas of MEN, and not searching the Scriptures to learn and grow in obedience to the Word of God?<br />
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The Seven Churches of Revelation<br />
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It is also interesting to note that the "50 days" from Passover till Pentecost also represent a "Jubilee" period of days. A Jubilee "cycle" of years is 50 years, according to the Bible. God says,"You shall count off seven weeks of YEARS -- seven times seven years -- so that the period of seven weeks of years gives you a total of forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the horn loud; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month -- the Day of Atonement -- you shall have the horn sounded throughout your land and you shall HALLOW the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release ["liberty"] throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a JUBILEE for you" (Lev.25:8-10, Tanakh). <br />
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But in the case of Pentecost, or the Feast of Shavuot ("Weeks"), God says, "You shall count off seven WEEKS" (Deut.16:9). The book of Leviticus has it, "And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of elevation offering -- the day after the sabbath -- you shall count off seven weeks. They must be complete: you must count until the day after the seventh week -- fifty days" (Lev.23:15-16, Tanakh). Notice the fascinating similarity. Countdown to Pentecost is a "daily" TYPE of the countdown to the JUBILEE YEAR! On the Jubilee year Christ the Messiah will return to earth, and bring LIBERTY to its inhabitants, and marry His bride, the Church of God. On the jubilee of Pentecost, we celebrate the completion of the spring harvest, and when Christ will marry His bride, the Church! So Pentecost typifies the return of Christ -- the true Jubilee! We are to look forward expectantly to the feast of Pentecost, just as we look forward to the coming of the Messiah, to bring His government, His Kingdom, and His laws (Isa.2:1-4; Micah 4:1-4).<br />
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Interestingly, by "counting off" forty nine weeks, we count seven times seven weeks, symbolizing the TIME from the Passover (death and resurrection of Christ) till His Second Coming -- a time which spans the entire CHURCH AGE. <br />
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The prophecy of Revelation points out that during this time span there are seven successive CHURCH ERAS -- the seven successive churches of Revelation, beginning with Ephesus, the apostolic age, and ending up with Laodicea, the present "End-time" degenerate and apostate final church era (Rev.2-3). Thus, applying this prophecy to the seven times seven "days" between Passover and Pentecost -- that is, between Christ's first coming and His Second Coming! -- we find that each of the seven churches of Revelation is given ONE SYMBOLIC WEEK to do its "work" -- its "heyday" of existence, if you will. The dominant Church of the first century was the apostolic church, called "Ephesus" -- the capital of the Roman province of Asia. The dominant Church during the "End Time" is that of Laodicea -- a city famed for its wool, physical riches and wealth, its medical industry, and for its "lukewarm" water supply.<br />
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As we count the "omer," therefore, each successive week it would be good to reflect on the history of God's Church down through the ages. The first week, Ephesus; the second week, Smyrna; the third week, Pergamos; the fourth week, Thyatira; the fifth week, Sardis; the sixth week, Philadelphia; and the seventh week, Laodicea. <br />
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During the count of the Omer, the Jews relate each week of the Omer Count to one of the seven patriarchs โ beginning with Abraham, then Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and then king David.<br />
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They also relate each week to a special quality or character facet of the nature of God as He deals with mankind, which we should we working on to build within our own character during these seven weeks โ as a pattern to be working on during the entire rest of the YEAR! These qualities are, in order,<br />
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Patriarch Hebrew Quality<br />
Abraham chesed loving kindness<br />
Isaac gevurah strength of character<br />
Jacob tifirat beauty, harmony, mercy<br />
Moses netzach victory, triumph, perseverance<br />
Aaron hod glory, majesty, humility<br />
Joseph yesod foundation, strong support<br />
David malkut kingdom, sovereignty, rulership<br />
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Notice how this amazing parallel works out in church history:<br />
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Week Church Feature History<br />
1 Ephesus Loving-kindness Apostolic church, first century<br />
2 Smyrna Strength of character Persecuted church, Asia Minor<br />
3 Pergamos Peace, harmony Albigenses, 4th-6th century church<br />
4 Thyatira Victory, triumphant Waldensians, 8th-14th century church<br />
which preached the gospel widely, violently opposed by Catholic church<br />
5 Sardis Majesty, Humility Sabbatarian & Evangelical churches,<br />
15th-21th century, Wycliff, Tyndale,<br />
George Mueller, Church of God Seventh Day 6. Philadelphia Foundation, Small faithful remnant of church, Brotherly love with small door no one can shut 20-21st century 7 Laodicea Kingship, Kingdom Large sleeping, lukewarm churches of end time โ miserable, naked, blind and nearly apostate โ 20-21st century โ final generation of the true church<br />
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Notice that Ephesus was the early true church which had the teaching of the original apostles. They fit the description of โloving kindness.โ Smyrna was a small but strong church, persecuted greatly, in the 2nd to 4th centuries. It fits the description of โstrength.โ Pergamos, the time of the faithful Abigenses, fits โbeauty, harmony.โ Thyatira was the powerful church of the Middle Ages, led by such men as Peter Waldo, who departed from Catholicism and did a great work. It was truly a โconqueringโ church, overcoming, to whom was promised โpower over the nations,โ to โrule them with an iron rod,โ whose last works excelled their former works.<br />
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Sardis was the notable evangelical and Sabbatarian churches of the last few centuries. Prominent among these were such men as Tyndale, George Mueller, and the Sabbatarian movement, including Church of God, Seven Day. Philadelphia is a small, faithful remnant who are steadfast and strong, although very small in numbers. They are famous for โbrother love,โ and know that the foundation of character and righteousness is LOVE. They will be โpillarsโ in the Temple of God โ strong supports of the great Church or spiritual Temple during the Millennium and all eternity!<br />
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And Laodicea is the large, numerous end-time churches of God which possess much basic truth, but have become lethargic, lazy, and lukewarm. They are spiritually blind, miserable, pitiable, wretched, and naked โ a terrible spiritual condition. Yet they are the FINAL generation, closest to the Kingdom of God. They are told to REPENT of these sins and defects and flaws of character, and to CHANGE and to get ZEALOUS โ then they will be forgiven, and will receive a wonderful reward in Godโs Kingdom. They will sit with Christ in His Throne, even as He sits with the Father in His Throne!<br />
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Note that the LAST church age is โLaodiceaโ โ symbolized by โKingshipโ or โKingdomโ โ and it is the final church before the installation of the KINGDOM of God, when the Messiah comes! Therefore, as they are the closest church to the Kingdom, their church age introduces the Millennial rule of Christ, and they will sit with Him in His Throne as kings โ so โMalkutโ or โKindomโ befits their final description and analysis.<br />
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For more insight into these churches, read our article, โThe Seven Churches of Revelation.โ<br />
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These churches picture the Omer Count down through the ages, from Christ and the early apostles to our own century and time, today! <br />
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We are now living in the FINAL WEEK of the โOmer Countโ! The coming of the Kingdom of God is right around the corner! This means that the Laodicean Church Age is full-blown and all around us! The Laodiceans are surely not counting the Omer โ to them it seems like sheer foolishness! They need desperately to REPENT!<br />
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As we near the end of the countdown, we should have rising expectations and increasing joy as we look forward to and relish and eagerly anticipate the FINAL DAY OF JUBILEE, ending all our trials and tests -- the final PENTECOST when Christ Jesus the Messiah will return, the saints will be resurrected and made immortal, and God's Spirit will be poured out upon all nations, and the knowledge of the Lord will begin to fill the earth (Rev.11:15-17; I Thess.4:16-17; Isa.11:9).<br />
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Pentecost, 30 A.D.<br />
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It was on the Day of Pentecost that God first sent His Spirit upon men. After Jesus was raised from the dead, He appeared to His disciples for forty days (Acts 1:3). Jesus was slain Thursday, Nisan 14, and was buried before sunset. He was in the grave 3 days and 3 nights (Matt.12:40), that is, a portion of 3 days and 3 nights, and arose from the dead early Sunday morning, before sunrise (John 20:-2). (Write for our article, โHow Long Was Jesus Christ in the Grave?โ and โThe Birth, Ministry, Death and Resurrection of Christโ.) <br />
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Jesus Christ appeared to Mary Magdalene and the other Mary (Matt.28:1-9). The omer symbolizing Christ, the first of the firstfruits, was offered that Saturday, Nisan 16, the day after the Feast Day. The weekly Sabbath was, therefore, day one of the omer countdown. Beginning that Sunday, therefore, day two of the omer count, Jesus first appeared to His disciples, and did so for another 39 days, making forty in all, bringing us to the 41st day of the omer count, when He was taken up into heaven and out of their sight (Acts 1:9-10). <br />
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Jesus, being with His disciples, "gave them this command: 'Do not leave Jerusalem, but WAIT for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT" (Acts 1:4-5). This was the 41st day of the omer count; they still had nine days to go till Pentecost.<br />
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Notice! They were to "wait" for something, even as they were already "waiting" for and counting down to PENTECOST! Jesus was making an oblique reference to the waiting they were already doing in counting the omer. Then what happened? "When the day of Pentecost came [or "was fully come," KJV], they were all together in one place [celebrating Pentecost!]. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT and began to speak in other tongues [languages] as the Spirit enabled them" (Acts 2:1-4).<br />
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God poured out His Spirit upon men that day -- the first time in all human history! <br />
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This was the BEGINNING of the New Testament Church of God!<br />
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An Old Testament Type<br />
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Now notice something interesting. If the month of Nisan had 30 days that year โ which was 30 A.D. โ then during Nisan from Nisan 16-30 there were 15 days of counting the Omer. If the second month, Iyar, also had 29 days, then by the end of the month there were 44 days of counting the omer. Since Pentecost is on the 50th day, the Feast of Pentecost would have been on Sivan 6 that year, as it normally is. <br />
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Christ ascended to heaven after appearing to His disciples 40 days. The first day of His appearance to them was the day after the Omer began to be counted. So it was the 41st day of the Omer count. The 41st day of the Omer count would have been Iyar 26, when He ascended to heaven. The next day, Iyar 27, would have been nine days before Pentecost. He would have been seated at Godโs right hand in heaven for eight days โ and then Pentecost would have arrived, when He sent the Holy Spirit upon His disciples as flaming fire, as His first official act as our High Priest in heaven! <br />
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Notice how this squares with a parallel induction into the office of high priest in the days of Moses and Aaron. We read of the preparation of the consecration of Aaron as high priest: โAnd you shall not go outside the door of the tabernacle of meeting for SEVEN DAYS, until the days of your consecration are ended. For SEVEN DAYS he shall consecrate you. . . Therefore you shall stay at the door of the tabernacle of meeting day and night for SEVEN DAYS . . . So Aaron and his sons did all the things that the LORD had commanded by the hand of Mosesโ (Lev.8:33-36, NKJV).<br />
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Even so, Christ was at the Fatherโs right hand, in heaven for SEVEN DAYS, being consecrated as our High Priest, from Iyar 27, 28, 29 through Sivan 1, 2, 3, 4. The next day would have been the eighth day. <br />
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Continuing the account: โIt came to pass on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. . . . So they brought what Moses commanded before the tabernacle of meeting. And all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.โ After the required offerings, โThen Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and peace offerings. And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of meeting, and came out and blessed the people. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people, and FIRE CAME OUT FROM BEFORE THE LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their facesโ (Lev.9:1-24).<br />
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The eighth day, Sivan 5, would have been the day Christ assumed His full office of High Priest, after having been consecrated at Godโs right hand for seven days.<br />
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The very next day, Sivan 6, would have been Pentecost โ โthe fiftieth dayโ โ when as our High Priest, He sent THE HOLY SPIRIT AS FIRE DESCENDING UPON HIS DISCIPLES! (Acts 2:1-4).<br />
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The End of the Age Pentecost<br />
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In the same way, when Christ returns to this earth, God says, "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on ALL people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will POUR OUT MY SPIRIT in those days" (Joel 2:28-29). <br />
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The apostle Peter explained to the Jews in Jerusalem that the pouring out of God's Spirit on that Pentecost was in fulfillment of this prophecy in the book of Joel (Acts 2:5-21). Of course, this was actually a TYPE. The great fulfillment will occur just around the corner, at the coming Feast of Shavuot, when the "weeks are completed" of this present Age -- and the Messianic Age begins!<br />
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Those final "weeks" and "days" are ALMOST COMPLETE NOW! We are nearing the END -- and the time of our Spiritual REDEMPTION! Let us joyously, "count" the days, till the coming of that GREAT PENTECOST, when God will pour out His Spirit on all people! <br />
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So far as I know, no Church on earth -- not the Worldwide Church of God, nor the Church of God International, not the Seventh Day Adventist Church, nor the Church of God Seventh Day, or any other Church, understands the significance and deep meaning behind the traditional "counting of the omer." <br />
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This is undoubtedly NEW TRUTH! <br />
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Let us thank God for revealing it to us, and rejoice in understanding the amazing, incredible truth about the "Omer" - the "firstfruits"!<br />
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What about you? Will you learn how to โCount the Omerโ โ and โmake the Omer countโ in your life?<br />
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There is much more to the subject of the Omer than generations of Christians have ever realized! It is time to WAKE UP! Within the mystery of counting the Omer is a vital secret for OVERCOMING human nature, the devil, his wiles, and the worldly influences around us. It is a veritable KEY to overcoming, and remember โ only the overcomers will inherit the Kingdom of God (Rev.21:7).<br />
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To learn more about the Omer, write for our articles, โThe Mystery and Meaning of the Omer,โ โSefirat Ha Omer โ the Key to Overcoming,โ and โWhat Do You Mean, Count the Omer?โ<br />
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