39 The Millennial Mountain

    Now Jehovah God turns from focusing on the sins of the Jews exiled to Babylon and refers again to the future when Israel will be gathered together from the four corners of the earth. Now however He is advancing the time on the world chronology to the second time that He will gather them (Isaiah 11:11-12) after the Tribulation which is discussed in chapters six through nineteen in the book of Revelation. Other passages add clarity to the concept of holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel; the house of Israel. Because of the extent …

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God’s Say-so

                                                                      He hath said . . . so that we may boldly say . . . — Hebrews 13:5-6   My say-so is to be built on God’s say-so. God says – “I will never leave thee,” then I can with good courage say – “The Lord is my helper, I will not fear – ” I will not be haunted by apprehension. This does not mean …

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The Battleground of the Soul by T. Austin-Sparks

Reading: Matt. 16:13-25; Luke 22:31-34( below). “Blessed art thou, Simon… My Father (hath revealed it unto thee)” (Matt. 16:17). “He… said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan” (Matt. 16:23). “Simon… Satan asked to have you… but I made supplication for thee” (Luke 22:31-32; A.S.V.).   We have before us the spiritual history in the making of a servant of God, and this can be seen in the representative and very human case of Simon Peter. The thing which comes out of the passages above is the fact that, in the life of one who stands related vitally to the …

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He that loveth not knoweth not God." 1 John 4:8

  The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle, “Christ loved me and gave himself for me.” Then love gives the countersign, and stamps upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. “We love him because he first loved us.” In those grand old ages, which are the heroic period of the Christian religion, this double mark was clearly to be seen in all believers …

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