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FAULTS & FAILURES OF BIBLE HEROES SERVE AS ENCOURAGEMENT & WARNING, NOT EXCUSE OR JUSTIFICATION

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FAULTS & FAILURES OF BIBLE HEROES SERVE AS ENCOURAGEMENT & WARNING, NOT EXCUSE OR JUSTIFICATION

TDG 255: Jesus, our Savior, Life Coach, Example, and Standard of character said the following:

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John 16: 33.

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even AS I overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne.” Rev. 3:21, KJV.

“Inspiration fully records the faults of good men, those who were distinguished by the good favor [grace] of God; indeed, their faults are more fully presented than their virtues [like David, etc.].

“Men whom God favored, and to whom He entrusted grave responsibilities, were SOMETIMES overcome by temptation and committed sin EVEN as we at the present day strive, waver, and frequently fall into error. Their lives, with all their faults and follies are open before us, BOTH for our encouragement and warning.

If they had been represented as without fault, WE, with our sinful nature, might DESPAIR at our own mistakes and failures. But seeing where others struggled through discouragements LIKE our own, where they fell under temptation AS we have done, and YET took heat again and CONQUERED THROUGH THE GRACE OF GOD, we are encouraged in our STRIVING [opposite of ignoring, worse, defending] AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS.

As they, though SOMETIMES beaten back, RECOVERED their ground, and were blessed of God, so we too may be OVERCOMERS in the STRENGTH [the amazing, mpowering grace] of Jesus.” – Patriarchs & Prophets, p. 238.

“The life of Christ’s disciples is to be LIKE His, A SERIES OF UNINTERRUPTED VICTORIES, not seen to be such here [by mortal vision now on earth], but recognized as such in the GREAT HEREAFTER.” – Vol. 6, Testimonies, p. 307/TDG 245.

Such never boast about their success of overcoming their faults and weaknesses but do so quietly because they seek to please God, not their fellow mortals! Bless all, NMF

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GOD DWELLS IN THE SANCTUARY, SO DOES HIS PEOPLE (Part 1)

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GOD DWELLS IN THE SANCTUARY, SO DOES HIS PEOPLE (Part 1)

“And God spoke unto Moses, saying….Let them make Me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.” Exo. 25: 1, 8, 9, KJV.

The psalmist said: “Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary, who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doeth wonders: Thou hast declared Thy strength among the people.” Ps. 77: 13, 14.

NOTE: If carefully read contextually and spiritually, God here clearly declares that “HIS STRENGTH” is in “HIS WAY,” and this way is “IN THE SANCTUARY.” Designed by the omnipotent Mind, this sanctuary is what God COMMANDED Moses, to command Israel, “LET them
make it according to the pattern shown to him at the mount,” that is, mount Sinai,
where Moses also received the Ten Commandments written by the Creator’s own finger.

In creating the world God’s FIAT declared “LET there be” and there the commanded thing instantly sprang into existence, without hesitation or protracted “evolutionary” process over eons of time.

Please keep this pivotal point in mind as we proceed on this precious and comprehensive subject of the SANCTUARY, so vital to the sinner’s eternal salvation! Why and How?

Herein God has chosen to reveal His grand plan as well as its minute details—as far as the human mind is capable of understanding— His planned “way of salvation,” cradled as it were in the matrix of the everlasting whole gospel that was “prepared before the foundations of the earth were laid,” the precious brainchild of the heavenly Council of the omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent three-Persons of the GODHEAD, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Any One without the Others is a an “other god,” verily Satan and his own “masterpiece” creation, the Antichrist/s, and all the heathen deities and gods who are fallen angels, evil spirits).

The Old and New Covenants and Sanctuaries in Type and Antitype ——-“The question, What is the sanctuary? is clearly answered in the Scriptures. The term ‘sanctuary,’ as used in the Bible, refers FIRST, to the ‘tabernacle’ by Moses, as a pattern of heavenly things; and SECONDLY, to the ‘true tabernacle’ in heaven, to which the earthly sanctuary pointed.”

Calvary is often called the “tipping point” of both the way of salvation of the whole gospel and eternity, among other indispensable truths, also because of the following:

“At the death of Christ the TYPICAL SERVICE [of the ceremonial law of the Old Testament, Mosaic period or dispensation] ENDED. The ‘true tabernacle’ in Heaven is THE SANCTUARY OF THE NEW COVENANT.” (E. G. White, Great Controversy, 1911, p. 417).

Clearly then, God’s end-time chosen people, antitypical Israel, spiritual Jews, are the “faithful few” Ten commandment, Sabbath-keeping” remnant church, distinctly and exclusively identified as a “people of PROPHECY and the SANCTUARY.” Are you intellectually and spiritually part of this specific chosen people?

(To be continued) Bless all, NMF

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THE EXTREME OATH OF THE JESUITS

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THE EXTREME OATH OF THE JESUITS

“I______, now in the presence of the Almighty God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Blessed Michael the Archangel, the Blessed St. John the Baptist, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and all the Saints, sacred hosts of Heaven, and to you, my ghostly Superior General of the Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the Pontification of Paul the Third, and continued to the present, so by the womb of the virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and aware that his holiness, the Pope, is Christ’s Vicegerent, and is the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by the virtue of the keys of binding and loosing, given to His Holiness by my Savior Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths and governments, all being illegal without his sacred confirmation, and that they may safely destroyed.

“I do further declare, that I will help and assist and advise any and all of His Holiness’ agents in any place wherever I shall be, and do my utmost to extirpate the heretical PROTESTANT or LIBERAL doctrines and to destroy all their pretended powers, legal or otherwise.

“I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the propagation of the Mother Church’s interest, to keep secret and private all her agents’ counsels, from time to time as they instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, writing, circumstances whatsoever; but to execute all that shall be proposed, given in charge, or discovered unto me, by you, my ghostly Father……..

“I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion of will of my own, or any mental reservation whatsoever, even as a corpse or cadaver (perinde ac cadaver) but unhesitatingly obey each and every command that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope and Jesus Christ.

“That I will go to any part of the world, whatsoever, and without murmuring and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to me…….I do further promise and declare, that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly or openly, against all heretics, PROTESTANTS and LIBERALS, as I am directed to do to extirpate and exterminate from the face of the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor condition, and that I will hang, waste, flay, boil, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women and crush their infants’ heads against the wall, in order to annihilate forever their execrable race.

“That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use the poison cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet of the honor, rank, dignity or authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the Society of Jesus.” – Portions of the Jesuit ‘Extreme Oath of Induction,’ as recorded in the Congressional Record of the United States of America (House Bill 1523, contested election case of Eugene C. Bonniwell, against Thos. S. Butler, Feb. 15, 1913, pp. 3215-16.)” – The New Illustrated Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, published by: Laymen for Religious Liberty Inc., PO Box 908, Dyland, FL 32721.

Blissful Ignorance appears benign and passive yet is the broadband tyrant of the populace and public square. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation and be deceived by the enemy hiding in plain sight. NMF

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TWO POINTS REGARDING ‘ANTICHRIST’ MADE CLEAR (The Great Divide between Protestantism and Catholicism)

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TWO POINTS REGARDING ‘ANTICHRIST’ MADE CLEAR (The Great Divide between Protestantism and Catholicism)

Edwardson says: “There were two arguments used against the position taken by the Reformers [regarding the Antichrist] which have puzzled many:
(1) It was claimed the Apostle John used two distinctions; ‘AN Antichrist’ to distinguish the false teachers of his day, and ‘THE Antichrist,’ referring to some superhuman monster of Jewish extraction that would appear just before Christ’s second coming.

“But on this point C. H. H. Wright truthfully remarks: ‘St. John, the only New Testament writer who employs the term [Antichrist], makes no distinction whatever between ‘AN Antichrist’ and ‘THE Antichrist.’ That distinction was in the main an INVENTION of the learned JESUIT interpreters.’ – ‘Daniel and His Prophecies,’ p. 166, London: 1906.
(2) The second objection was that while ‘THE Antichrist’ would deny the incarnation, for he would deny that ‘Christ is come in the flesh’ (2 John 7), the Pope does not deny this, therefore he cannot be the Antichrist. This argument has seemed so logical and conclusive that Protestants, to a large extent, have GIVEN UP the Protestant Doctrine that the Papacy is Antichrist, and have ceased to PROTEST.

“This argument however is based on a MISUNDERSTANDING caused by overlooking ONE WORD in this text. Antichrist was not to deny that Christ had come in the flesh, but was to deny that He had ‘come in THE flesh,’ in ‘THE SAME’ kind of flesh, as the human race He came to save. (See 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7, and Heb. 2:14,17).

“On this VITAL DIFFERENCE hinges the real ‘truth of the gospel.’
[Q]: Did Christ COME ALL THE WAY DOWN to make contact with the fallen race, or only part way, so that we must SAINTS, POPES and PRIESTS intercede for us with a Christ who is removed too far from fallen humanity, and it needs to make DIRECT CONTACT with the individual sinner? Right here lies the GREAT DIVIDE that parts Protestantism from Roman Catholicism. In order to understand this point clearly” we must consider the gospel of Christ vs the gospel of Rome! (From Facts of Faith, pp. 203-4).

To be continued. Bless all, NMF

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BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF CHRIST’s EMPOWERING GRACE IMPARTED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH

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BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF CHRIST’s EMPOWERING GRACE IMPARTED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH

Jesus said to His disciples, “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth.” John 14:16,17, KJV.

Before offering Himself as the antitypical sacrificial Victim, verily the Lamb of God at Calvary “Christ sought for the MOST ESSENTIAL AND COMPLETE GIFT to bestow upon His followers, a gift that would bring within their reach the BOUNDLESS RESOURCES OF GRACE. [John 14:16-18 quoted. Read it].

“Before this the Spirit had been in the world [see Gen. 1:2]; from the very beginning of the work of REDEMPTION He [the Holy Spirit] had been moving upon men’s hearts. But WHILE Christ was upon the earth [for 33 1/2 years and only 3 1/2 years public ministry from His baptism to His crucifixion], the disciples desired NO OTHER Helper. Not UNTIL they were deprived of His presence would they feel their NEED of the Holy Spirit, and then He could come.

“The Holy Spirit [never any Pope!] is Christ’s Representative [Vicar], but divested of the personality of humanity, and independent thereof. Cambered with humanity [all the limitations of man’s nature four thousand years after the fall], Christ could NOT be in every place PERSONALLY [He partook of the same flesh and blood nature as His brethren, Heb. 2:14].

Therefore it was FOR the disciples’ interest that He SHOULD go to the Father, and then send the Holy Spirit as His Successor on earth. NO ONE then could have ANY ADVANTAGE because of his location or personal contact with Christ. By the Holy Spirit Christ [and His empowering. saving grace] would be ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.

In this sense He would be NEARER to them than if He had not [in His permanent adopted human nature in the Incarnation] ascended on high.

“This promise [of His grace imparted by the Holy Spirit] belongs to US NOW as it belonged to the first disciples. Let every church member kneel before God, and pray earnestly for the IMPARTATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

Cry, ‘Lord, increase my faith. Make me to understand Thy Word; for the entrance of Thy Word gives light. Refresh me by Thy presence. Fill my heart with Thy Spirit.’ Amen.

“At all times and in all places, in all sorrows and in all afflictions, when the outlook seems dark and the future perplexing, and we feel helpless and alone [like now], the Comforter will be sent in answer to the prayer of faith.” (From God’s Amazing Grace, p. 191). Bless all, NMF

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WHO SHALL THE SPIRIT GIVE POWER OF SPEECH AND WHAT TO SAY IN TIME OF TRIAL?

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WHO SHALL THE SPIRIT GIVE POWER OF SPEECH AND WHAT TO SAY IN TIME OF TRIAL?

Jesus said, “But when they deliver you up, take no thought [don’t worry or stress] what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour [at that moment and place] what ye shall speak.” Matt. 10:19, KJV.

Read Matthew 10: 1-42. It contains the marching and working orders for Christ’s disciples, then and today. Now this:

“The servants of Christ are to prepare NO SET SPEECH to present when brought to TRIAL for their faith. [Why?] Their preparation is to be made DAY BY DAY, in treasuring up in their HEARTS the precious truths of God’s Word, in FEEDING upon the teaching of Christ, and through PRAYER strengthening their faith; then, when brought before trial [before ‘kings, governors, and great men of the earth’], the Holy Spirit will bring to REMEMBRANCE the very truths that will reach the hearts of those who shall COME to hear. God will flash the knowledge OBTAINED by diligent searching of the Scriptures, into their MEMORY, at the very time when it is needed.

“You are NOW to get ready for the [soon coming time of trial]. Now you are to KNOW whether your feet are planted on the Eternal Rock [as the wise man built his house (character) upon the rock, not sand].

You must have an INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE and not depend on others for your light. When you are brought to the test, how do you know that you will not be ALONE, with no EARTHLY friend at your side? Will you then be ABLE to realize that Christ is your support?

“Will you be able to RECALL the promise, ‘Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world?’ [Matt. 28:20]. There will be INVISIBLE ONES about you bent upon your DESTRUCTION.

Satan and his agents will seek in every way to make you WAVER from your steadfastness to God and His truth. But if you have ‘an eye single to His glory’ [Matt. 6: 22, 23], you need not take a thought as to HOW YOU SHALL WITNESS for His truth.

“Are you ‘growing up to the full stature of men and women in Christ’ [Eph. 4:13], so that when the CRISIS COMES, you cannot be separated from the Source of your strength?

If we would stand in the TIME OF TEST [now and the final one], we must now IN THE TIME OF PEACE, be gaining a LIVING [not vicarious, insipid or half-awake] EXPERIENCE in the things of God [not the ‘things of the world’].

We must now understand what are THE DEEP MOVINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD. Christ must be our all and in all, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’ (Rev. 22:13).”- E. G. White, Maranatha, p. 255.

Gather and stock up as fast and as much as you can now. Earth’s final bitterest and darkest spiritual winter is on its way! Bless all, NMF

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APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY UNITES WITH THE RESURRECTED PAPACY (Rev. 13).

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APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY UNITES WITH THE RESURRECTED PAPACY (Rev. 13).

“And the ten horns which thou sanest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom AS YET, but receive power as kings ONE HOUR [prophetic time] with the BEAST. These shall have ONE MIND and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” Rev. 17: 12,13, KJV.

“As we approach the last crisis, it is of vital moment that HARMONY and UNITY exist among the Lord’s instrumentalities. [Why?] The world is filled with storm and war and variance [alienation, division, contradiction, enmity]. YET under one head—THE PAPAL POWER—the people [multitudes] will unite to oppose God IN THE PERSON of His [faithful commandment-keeping] witnesses.

“What is it that gives its KINGDOM [‘power and strength’] to this power [the beast]?

PROTESTANTISM, a power which, while professing to have the temper and spirit of a ‘lamb’ [Rev. 13: 11-16] and be allied to Heaven ‘speaks with the voice of a dragon. It is moved by a power from BENEATH.

‘These have one mind.’ [What does this mean?] There will be a universal bond of union, one great harmony, a confederacy of Satan’s forces. ‘And shall give their power and strength unto the beast.’

Thus is manifested the SAME arbitrary, oppressive power against RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, FREEDOM TO WORSHIP GOD ACCORDING TO DICTATES OF CONSCIENCE, as was manifested by the Papacy, when in the past [the Dark Ages] it persecuted those who DARED to refuse to conform with the religious rites and ceremonies of ROMANISM.

“In the warfare to be waged in the last days there will be UNITED, in opposition to God’s people, all the corrupt powers [once-Protestant] that have APOSTATIZED from the allegiance to the law of Jehovah.

In this warfare the SABBATH of the fourth commandment will be THE GREAT ISSUE [not China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Communism, Socialism, Islam, jihad and sharia law; not even racism, neo Nazis, home-bred terrorism, or QAnon conspiracies. etc.]; for in the Sabbath commandment the great LAWGIVER identifies Himself as the CREATOR of the heavens and the earth.

“Through the TWO GREAT ERRORS of the [1] the immortality of the soul and [2] Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people UNDER his deceptions. While the former [natural soul immortality] lays the foundation of SPIRITUALISM, the latter [alleged Sunday sacredness] creates a BOND OF SYMPATHY with Rome [who bitterly persecuted and desolated the Protestant Christians for over a thousand years in the Dark Ages!].

“The Protestants of the United States [not in Europe or anywhere else] will be FOREMOST in stretching their hands across the gulf [that once separated them] to grasp the hand of SPIRITUALISM; they will reach over the ABYSS to clasp hands with the ROMAN POWER; and under the influence of this THREEFOLD UNION, this country [U.S.A.] will follow the steps of Rome in trampling upon the RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE.” – E. G. White, Maranatha (devotional book), p. 187.

Faithfully practice, treasure above silver and gold, and learn how to defend your inalienable right to worship God according to dictates of conscience. This is what the very last GLOBAL warfare will be, starting in America and quickly followed by all nations!
Bless all, NM

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MEANING OF ‘REDEEM,’ ‘REDEEMER’ IN THE GOSPEL

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MEANING OF ‘REDEEM,’ ‘REDEEMER’ IN THE GOSPEL

Whenever you sing the hymn, “Redeemed, how I love to proclaim it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb,” be sure you understand what “redeemed” means and its appointed function in the gospel. Satan has his counterfeit for it!

Both words are “generally a rendering of the Hebrew ga’al, ‘to ransom,’ ‘to buy back,’ ‘to recover,’ and of the Greek lootroo, ‘to free by paying a ransom,’ ‘to redeem,’ ‘to set free,’ ‘to rescue.’ The term ‘redeem’ is used in the sense of :
(1) the buying back or ransoming of property or slaves;
(2) the release from physical bondage or captivity;
(3) the redemption from SIN and SPIRITUAL BONDAGE or CAPTIVITY.

“A Hebrew landowner forced, for financial reasons to sell (actually lease, see Jubilee) his land might redeem it at any time (Lev. 25:25). Under certain circumstances produce that could be ordinarily tithe could be redeemed for cash, that is bought back for personal use (ch. 27:31).

“BOAZ was willing to redeem the property that had belonged to NAOMI’S husband (Ruth 4:1-10).

“God redeemed ISRAEL from Egyptian bondage (Exo. 6:6; 2 Sam. 7:23; 1 Chron. 17:21, etc.) and promised to redeem them from BABYLONIAN captivity (Micah 4:10).

“God redeems HIS PEOPLE FROM SIN (Ps. 130:8; Titus 2:14) and the CURSE (Gal. 3:13) and will redeem them from the GRAVE (Hos. 13:14; cf. 1 Cor. 15: 51-54; 1 Thess. 4: 16,17, etc.).

“Our redemption is made possible through sacrifice of Christ (Gal. 3:15; 4:4, 5; 1 Pet. 1:18, 19: Rev. 5;9, etc.).”

Read these verses carefully and it will be clear that having been “redeemed by the blood of the Lamb” that one is already eternally saved! God “redeemed” Israel from Egyptian bondage but only faithful “remnant” were obedient and faithful to their end. Jesus said, “he that endures to the end the same shall be saved.”

Bless all, NMF