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What Fruit are You Eating? Of the Tree of Knowledge or the Tree of Life?

Friday Morning Manna                                                  March 13, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                 email:[email protected]

What Fruit are You Eating? Of the Tree of Knowledge or the Tree of Life?

    “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”

Deut. 29: 19, NKJV

We continue from last week quoting from E.G. White’s “Confrontation,” published originally under the title of “Redemption; or the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness,” Review & Herald Publishing Association, pp. 12-15. They are in bold face and my comments with necessary references are in regular type:   

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Which is Deadlier: Deception or Temptation?

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March 6, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                           email:[email protected]
Which is Deadlier: Deception or Temptation?

    “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven . . . Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name, cast out demons in Thy name, and one done many wonderful things in Thy name? And then I will declare unto them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice iniquity ”

Matt. 7: 23

Calling upon His, i.e., Jesus Christ’s name, invoking the authority and power His name, apparently doing the very works He entrusted to His disciples, apostles and followers— prophesying, which of course comprehends teaching and expounding on the prophecies, casting out demons, ah! Yes! exorcising demons out of the possessed, and doing many wonderful things, including performing miracles of course!  

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Where the Eroding Laws and Institutions of Man, the Churches and the Crumbling of Society Are Leading To

Friday Morning Manna                                                              February 28, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                     email:[email protected] 

Where the Eroding Laws and Institutions of Man, the Churches and the Crumbling of Society Are Leading To

I cannot thank God enough for the high and holy privilege—with the corresponding accountability to Him that comes with it—of still having free, untrammeled access to “the Spirit of prophecy, which is the Testimony of Jesus” (Rev. 10: 10) entrusted to the “remnant people” who further carry the distinctive mark as “the saints patiently keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14: 12.  On that I share these. The extracts below are from the inspired pen of Ellen G. White in her must-read, must-own, must-study-with-Bible-prophecy, non-fiction, handbook of the last days, “The Great Controversy,” 1911 ed., pp. 584-589:

Church Authority vs Heaven’s Authority; Church Doctrine vs Bible Doctrine; Man’s Laws vs God’s Law. “No error accepted by the Christian world strikes more boldly against the authority of Heaven, none is more directly opposed to the dictates of reason, none is more pernicious in its results, than the modern doctrine, so rapidly gaining ground [this was written in 1884], that God’s law is no longer binding upon men.

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Eroding Laws and Institutions of Man: No Assurance in Anything Human or Earthly both of State and Church: Part I

Friday Morning Manna                                                           

February 21, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                 

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Eroding Laws and Institutions of Man: No Assurance in Anything  Human or Earthly both of State and Church: Part I

What is currently unfolding in rapid-fire action before us, particularly with the state of affairs of the state and its three branches of government— executive, legislative and judicial and their respective institutions, legal, constitutional and traditional, in relation to the church and its religious institutions and powers—will impact and shape our immediate future and eternal destiny in ways most still haven’t yet imagined, figured out or have been fully warned of. (Fast forward: The work of the three angels’ messages of Revelation 14, culminates in “enlightening the whole earth with knowledge of God’s glory” in the last invitation “to come out of her, My people” called the fourth angel of Revelation 18. God, through the Holy Spirit takes over the reins of the work of salvation in the promised latter rain. Then earth’s probation ends.)    

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“Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three . . .

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 February 14, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                   email:[email protected]
“Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three . . .

“But the greatest of these is charity, or LOVE.” 1 Cor. 13: 13. We all know that, So, what else is new? What, if any, do we still need to know? Perhaps it is not knowing more as it is first settle questions that remain unanswered satisfactorily, i.e., if we still believe somehow that “love is what makes the world go round,” “love is a many-splendored thing,” “love is the answer,” “love unites,” “love conquers all,” etc. You get it.

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Revealed! The Fowler’s fastening Cords and Snares!

Friday Morning Manna                                                    

February 7, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                  

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Revealed! The Fowler’s fastening Cords and Snares!

   “I will say unto the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust. Surely He will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler.”

Ps. 91: 2, 3, K.J.V.  

Here’s more: “Our soul is escaped as a bird out of a snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.” Ps. 124: 7, 8. “Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.” Prov. 6: 5. “The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the [false] prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.” Hos. 9: 8.

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Kobe Bryant’s Sudden Death Reminds All: Today May Be Our Last. How Well Did We Live It?

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January 31, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo                                                                   

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Kobe Bryant’s Sudden Death Reminds All: Today May Be Our Last. How Well Did We Live It?

It is fallen human propensity. We mortals forget what we should remember, and sadly, more often than not, in that general forgetfulness, miss and even lose what matters most. For this reason, reminders are indispensable and may prove to be a life saver. We  need to be reminded of what we should never miss, even if we forget the rest.   

So, while it is still fresh in the consciousness of countless grieving fans and admirers nationally and even globally, holding its own amidst the crush of cascading events, prominent of which are the U.S. history-making current impeachment trial of  president Donald Trump, dovetailing into the approaching 2020 presidential election, the steadily mounting unrests, conflicts and wars in an increasingly angry, edgy, and violent world, and one quickly following the other without hardly a break—the devastations of record-breaking wildfires, uptick of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flooding, outbreaks of new, deadly diseases attributed to what they call “global warming,” etc.,– let’s do something together with our hearts and minds. Consider the following:

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The Spirit of Prophecy Explains What is Happening in the World Today and What to Expect and Prepare for:

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January 24, 2020

Nathaniel Fajardo

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The Spirit of Prophecy Explains What is Happening in the World Today and What to Expect and Prepare for:

One of the nine spiritual gifts [not the same as the nine fruits of the Spirit, Gal. 5: 22) to the church enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12 is the gift of prophecy. But in these last days of earth’s probation, reckoned from the year 1844, the end of the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8: 14, the Revelator specifies it in this order: First identified is the church that has it: “They that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” Rev. 14: 12. as “the Spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of Jesus.” In Rev. 19: 10 John is told that he is a “fellow servant” of the One who gave him the message “and your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”