Cletus
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Post by Cletus on Oct 23, 2018 18:46:50 GMT -5
And I truly find that the anointing is not as strong at this time of the year, for many reasons, and many others have noticed this as well. I think we should just be natural focused on evangelism every day of the year. And most people even though they hear about the birth of Christ, are more focused on presents, I know as an unbeliever I was. And I use to be a Roman Catholic, and even in the Catholic church you would hear about the birth of Jesus, but of course the anointing is not there. It may have made me think of Jesus, but it did not prick my heart to get saved. the anointing is not as strong as it used to be in general. good preaching is not as common. truly the wickedness of man is great. the scripture rev. 18:5 comes to mind. a stack of sin bigger than the mountains.
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Post by Giller on Oct 24, 2018 2:03:17 GMT -5
Rom 14:5-7
(5) One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
(6) He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
(7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
This scripture is mentioning 2 things.
1. Esteeming a day above another
2. Regarding the day.
Here is a comment from Albert Barnes on the word esteemeth:
(Albert Barnes)
(Romans 14:5
One man esteemeth - Greek “judgeth” κρίνει krinei. The word is here properly translated “esteemeth;” compare Act_13:46; Act_16:15. The word originally has the idea of “separating,” and then “discerning,” in the act of judging. The expression means that one would set a higher value on one day than on another, or would regard it as more sacred than others.…)
Now no day is more important than the other, all are of equal value, but there are some people who observe certain days and consider them to be more sacred or of higher value than other days.
One who esteems every day alike, is one who considers every day as being equal and they worship God every day, yet do not regard or observe the feast days that were held under the Old Covenant, for this is truly what Romans was dealing with.
Romans was dealing with the observance of the day, that is any specific Old Testament holy day.
And it was dealing with days that potentially can be regarded as unto the Lord.
Which would mean that, it is referring to days that can be regarded as unto the Lord, which the Lord would accept, and these specific days it was dealing with were the holy days of the Old Testament, which God had established.
Now under New Testament times, these days are no longer obligatory to be observed, but if one wants to observe them, it is not wrong to do so, but specifically it was referring to weak brethren who thought that the feast days were still obligatory, but as long as they do so for themselves and be persuaded in their own minds and not unto somebody else’s mind then that is fine.
They are not to push it on others for these days are no longer obligatory, and if they do, they can get to a point where they may eventually fall from grace, that is the danger, so they must be shown, though with love.
Now many use this scripture as referring to Christmas, but this scripture has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas which is actually pagan.
It has to do with what they were dealing with back then which was God’s holy feasts.
Did you notice that I just called Christmas pagan?
Now days in and of themselves are not wrong, such as the days of the week or the days of the month.
But say for example Halloween is held on October 31st; is that day of the month wrong?
No, but what is wrong is what they are celebrating on that day, which is the evil celebration of Halloween.
It is a pagan feast, it has bad roots, and even why the day was chosen stems from pagan roots.
But now what about Christmas?
Now we know that Christ’s birth has nothing bad to it, it was pure, it was holy, and so forth.
Here is a bit of info, concerning Christmas and why December 25th was chosen:
(www.apostolicolivetree.com)
( ...The word ‘Christmas’ itself is an attempt to join the Holy Name of Christ with ‘mass,’ a false doctrine of the Catholic Church!...
“The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038, and Cristes-messe, in 1131.”...
...The Catholic Church absorbed many of the Roman pagan religious holy days and festivals, such as the Saturnalia, into Christianity in the form of several ‘new holy days’ for Christians to celebrate. It is admitted that these ‘holy days’ (holidays) were not in the Bible. Nevertheless they were added. There was the Roman Saturnalia, celebrated from December 17th to December 23rd, in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture and sowing. Then there was December 25th, the birthday of the sun god Mithras (Persian), or Sol Invictus (Roman). This holy day corresponded to the winter solstice on the Julian calendar. This feast was known as Natalis Invicti. Here is a quote from the Catholic Encyclopedia about this December 25th pagan feast. Natalis Invicti…The well-known solar feast, however, of Natalis Invicti, celebrated on 25 December, has a strong claim on the responsibility for our December date....
...“In fact, the winter solstice or Brumalia, by now the feast of Mithras and the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus), had been associated with the birth of Jesus in 354 AD by Bishop Liberius of Rome. This move had been made to accommodate the new doctrine…the new feast of Christ’s mass at the winter solstice was exported to Constantinople in 379 AD, and in 506 AD the Law Book of Alarich designated it as a public holiday. As we have seen, in the time of Constantine, the new faith of Christianity was taken to be similar to that of the Unconquered Sun, whose feast day, together with that of Mithras, was also at the winter solstice.”...
...Though the Romans celebrated the Saturnalia festival annually for many years, eventually it was absorbed into Christianity as the Catholic holiday of Christmas.... )
Many times of you read within Roman Catholic history, many, such as Constantine always wanted to appease the pagans of the day, and the December 25th date was not chosen out of good faith, but rather the Catholics purposely chose the date of the birthday of the Sun God, for one thing to appease the pagans, and also because Roman Catholicism was itself pagan, and it is known that Constantine secretly worshiped the sun god, and what they eventually did, is associate this pagan feast and the day of the sun god’s birthday with the birth of Jesus, which it is said that it began to be celebrated since A.D. 354.
Now the word of Christmas did not exist back then but came into being at about 1038 A.d. it is said.
And it was originally used to point to the Catholic mass, and is still in some form used by the Catholic Church to point to the mass (check out the Catholic encyclopedia), but at what point was it used to merge into pointing to Christ’s birth?
I do not know, but eventually it did, and yet even to this day the Roman Catholics have a special mass called the midnight mass which is held on Christmas eve, and flows into December 25th.
So even how they picked the date, was for a wrong reason, and has bad roots, and is dishonoring to God, for why would we purposely pick a day which was the sun god’s birthday, and associate it with Christ?
The word Christmas has bad roots, and even why they picked the date of December 25th has bad roots, and God wants us to cut off bad roots.
So it is not the day of December 25th itself that is wrong, but why they chose the date, and then merging a date that was well known to point to the birth of the sun god, and associating it to the birth of Christ?
That is blasphemy.
And really Satan drove people to purposely choose that date? Why?
To perpetuate a lie, and so people can say that Christmas was the day Christ was born, Satan will do anything to tarnish Christ, through pagan means.
But remember that we cannot mix the holy with the unholy for it may not matter to you but it matters to God.
I have more to say on this issue, but just want to try to keep each post, as short as I can.
My next post will be on how should we celebrate Christ’s birthday, and things of that nature.
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 12:50:55 GMT -5
OH , Giller , pope francis is not going to like this . BUT let us remember , if the POPE approves of us , OOPS we went wrong somewhere . We don't measure or take notes from Rome , from man , WE take from the BIBLE and if it opposes the GOD of the bible, it gets the spiritual boot out of our lives .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 12:54:25 GMT -5
Its what I commonly term , the SPIRITUAL mule kick. We cant take what is unholy , try and make it clean and then honor GOD which is of the table of belial. We serve and Honor the LORD by the HOLY SPIRIT in us . And that which is unholy man cannot make Holy . God alone is HOLY and anything from darkness is not holy . Now , let each one leap up and praise the LORD .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 12:57:38 GMT -5
Their is another holiness that man has brought into the church . And I call it the swiss cheese holies . got more holes in it and every time they try and claim it as holy , I see only more HOLES in their doctrine .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 12:58:24 GMT -5
And we cant stand on that holness , nope going to fall through a deep hole only .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 13:08:34 GMT -5
Its like witchcraft , mysticism for example . The church says , but its christain now , christan yoga . we doing it for GOD so its holy . WELL if doing witcraft unto God is HOLY , WE GOT A SERIOUS LOG of deception n our eyes . But its just decorating a tree with ornaments . IS IT . TAKE A PEEK at where it comes from . NOPE they brought the pagan in and tried to make it seem HOLY> But its just harmless easter eggs , GO take a peek at its origin . OH but its just harry potter , its fun for the kids , NO ITS WITCHCRAFT made to SEEM HARMELSS and FUN . FOLKS either we deceived or we aint . We take nothing from the evil and try and call or make it holy . Nothing .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 13:14:23 GMT -5
For the dark one rests not and is always seeking whom he may devour and take captive at his will . And the serpent always has a way of making evil seem harmless ,fun and etc . HE KNOWS how to deceive , hes been doing it since the tree. Always trying to make what is unholy seem holy and what is holy seem unholy . HE is highly deceptive . OUR ONLY DEFENSE , IS JESUS .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 13:15:27 GMT -5
and how are we made WISE unto SALVATION through our faith IN CHRIST . YES THE BIBLE FOLKS , IT IS the HOLY SCRIPS .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 24, 2018 22:22:39 GMT -5
The more I read our responses , the more I see that in time we will just be seen as the enemy more than ever . Now lets throw those hands up and praise the LORD . Let us do all by grace to continue to exhort .
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Post by frienduff on Oct 25, 2018 10:51:46 GMT -5
Giller, butero, letters , sister , Cletus and all, Rome in league with many daughters have began what they believe is the final solution . One unity , one people , one nation of all inclusivity under the dark one . I have seen, I have seen an abomination of the final solution flowing into the mindsets of even other religions , pc, political , the different faiths . And how it has grown . This diversity move has swallowed them up in its net of delusion . And we must have no part in it , other than to expose it and warn against it .
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Post by John on Oct 25, 2018 12:06:28 GMT -5
Giller, butero, letters , sister , Cletus and all, Rome in league with many daughters have began what they believe is the final solution . One unity , one people , one nation of all inclusivity under the dark one . I have seen, I have seen an abomination of the final solution flowing into the mindsets of even other religions , pc, political , the different faiths . And how it has grown . This diversity move has swallowed them up in its net of delusion . And we must have no part in it , other than to expose it and warn against it . Most protestant churches are far from following scripture. How much worse the RCC? We can have no unity with the Vatican! I don't see the faithful here being pulled into that movement.
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Cletus
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Post by Cletus on Oct 25, 2018 16:04:58 GMT -5
its real simple... if you hear the word unity, but you do not hear the name, the name above all names spoken... run. if you hear the word unity and hear that name spoken but there is something off, even one small minuscule phrase that dont line up with the Holy Bible... have nothing to do with it. there are three groups of people concerning this, those who reject the truth, those who know the truth, and those who hear and are coming to the truth. if someone is preaching whats not in the bible as truth or rejecting the bible no unity can be had because they want you to get on their page... problem is that page is not even in The same Book. their book is titled the doctrine of devils and it has been re written re packaged over and over since the garden of eden... your eyes will be opened and you will become your own god... thats the one thing every false religion has in common. somewhere in it. some how. it all goes back to the tower of babel. man wanted to build a tower to heaven so God confounded their languages and scattered them so they could not complete this. from there the people spread out and cultures DID worship the same gods but with different cultures and languages and names. the ancient Egyptians had a book of the dead for their bible. they worshiped the dead, and God is The God of The Living, the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Jesus Christ on the mount of transfiguration appeared with TWO witnesses. they did not have the appearance of a demon, or the dead... and i have seen demons with my own eyes. it aint what The Book says about their appearance. you look at the back of a dollar bill and you see a pyramid with an eye on top... in ancient Egypt they had pyramids but the had an eye symbol that was to be a symbol of the "all seeing eye of ra" .. a false god, a devil. in ancient Egypt they had obelisks... which is the same as the Washington monument. and every presidential inauguration they try to resurrect their false demon god into a person. you look at similarities of other gentile cultures from the tower of babel and on and you will see so much similarities in their false gods personalities and what those gods are over. there is nothing new under the sun. if you make unity with rome... you make unity with devils that have history all the way back to ancient babylon. there is no fellowship between light and dark, no fellowship between God and belial. all the world religions are the same because they do all worship the same false gods... fallen angels and their offspring. And The Bible says come out of her My People, that ye be not partakers of her sins and share not in her plagues. this scriptures time is coming soon. to be friends with the world is to be Gods enemy. do not fall for the same lie mankind has been duped by since the garden of eden. The Lord comes soon and it wont be good for you if you are friends with mystery babylon, friends with the world, friends with unity of devils. Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth, and The Life. there is none other. Praise Him! and Glory to Him and no other! Worthy is The Lamb! Unity cant save you. Only Jesus Christ can save you.
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