The Feast of Shavuot, God's Perfect Timing

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You shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths.  You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord.”  (Leviticus 23:15-16)     Traditionally, both Jews and Christians have thought of Shavuot as a “birthday”.  For the traditional Jewish community, this feast was first celebrated around the time when God gave Israel the Torah at Mount Sinai, about fifty days after leaving Egypt (Ex. 19:1). Therefore, …

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A True Friend

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1 Samuel 23:14–18 14 David now stayed in the strongholds of the wilderness and in the hill country of Ziph. Saul hunted him day after day, but God didn’t let Saul find him. 15 One day near Horesh, David received the news that Saul was on the way to Ziph to search for him and kill him. 16 Jonathan went to find David and encouraged him to stay strong in his faith in God. 17 “Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him. “My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be …

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The Seventy Weeks of Daniel

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By Jack Kelley The seventy weeks prophecy is one of the most significant and detailed Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. It is found in Daniel 9. The chapter begins with Daniel praying for Israel, acknowledging the nation’s sins against God and asking for God’s mercy. As Daniel prayed, the angel Gabriel appeared to him and gave him a vision of Israel’s future. The Divisions of the 70 Weeks: – In verse 24, Gabriel says, “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city.” Almost all commentators agree that the seventy “sevens” should be understood as seventy “weeks” …

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Legalism, License, or Liberty

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Reflections     You will often hear that life in Christ is a balance between legalism and license. This is patently false. The Truth is outside of both. Life in Christ is exactly what the word suggests: It is LIFE. But most folks are blind to the fact that Christ is in us, and that He is to be our life – that is, that we are to live from out of Him by faith. And frankly, if I am blind to that I can practice either legalism or license until I am blue in the face and it will …

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Cave Dwellers

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1 Samuel 22:3-23 3 And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.” 4 And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold. 5 Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth. Saul Kills the Priests …

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"We love him because he first loved us." 1 John 4:19

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  There is no light in the planet but that which proceedeth from the sun; and there is no true love to Jesus in the heart but that which cometh from the Lord Jesus himself. From this overflowing fountain of the infinite love of God, all our love to God must spring. This must ever be a great and certain truth, that we love him for no other reason than because he first loved us. Our love to him is the fair offspring of his love to us. Cold admiration, when studying the works of God, anyone may have, but …

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"There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle." Psalm 76:3

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  Our Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of his people, the breaking of “the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.” Behold the hero of Golgotha using his cross as an anvil, and his woes as a hammer, dashing to shivers bundle after bundle of our sins, those poisoned “arrows of the bow;” trampling on every indictment, and destroying every accusation. What glorious blows the mighty Breaker gives with a hammer far more ponderous than the fabled weapon of Thor! How the diabolical darts fly to …

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As in The Days of Noah Were Msg 17

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This is the concluding message in this series. Dr. Woodhead discusses In this final video of the series of As in The Days of Noah Were, Transhumanism and Gene Experimentation. This is indeed the promulgation of abnormal activity. The sadistic medical practices of joining human genes with those of animals. This is preparation for the coming demonic invasion lead by Satan to lead the corrupt offspring against the Lord Jesus. Jesus will prevail

A Sense of Impending Doom – by Hal Lindsey

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As we enter the sweltering days of summer, 2016, it feels like we are trapped inside a bizarre and sometimes frightening carnival funhouse. America is plunging headlong into a presidential election that has already proven itself one of the most tumultuous in our history — and we’re not even to the real race yet! Who would have bet that the three remaining candidates would be an avowed Socialist, a real estate tycoon who has never held public office, and a failed Secretary of State teetering on the edge of criminal indictment. And who could have guessed that the hot-button issue …

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The Nature of Love

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Reflections   We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. (I John 4:19-20)   We do not make ourselves disciples – “a taught one” – by loving others. Rather, if we are a disciples – i.e., someone who has learned Jesus Christ – we are going to want to love others. We will love others because we have first received the love that God has for us. There is no other way we can love others. We can only give that which we have first …

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"They are they which testify of me." John 5:39

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  Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of him. At the creation we at once discern him as one of the sacred Trinity; we catch a glimpse of him in the promise of the woman’s seed; we see him typified in the ark of Noah; we walk with Abraham, as he sees Messiah’s day; we dwell in the tents of Isaac and Jacob, feeding upon the gracious promise; we hear the venerable Israel talking of Shiloh; and in the numerous types …

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Born of the Flesh

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Reflections          That which is born of the flesh is flesh. (John 3:6)   In the final analysis, we are all made of the same flesh – that which belongs to the old creation in Adam. Built into that nature is the same potential for sin. But because each of us are born into a different family, into a different environment, and exposed to different situations – with differing temperaments — we each develop our flesh uniquely. Our personal choices also mold and shape our flesh, but in the end, it IS flesh. We each have a …

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