Tag: power

Categories
FMM

Additional Lessons from the Feeding of the Five Thousand

Matt Burns/Flickr

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA  

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FIVE Part VI

 Additional Lessons from the Feeding of the Five Thousand

(Messages for Holy Week Celebrants)

 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances.

Strong men believe in cause and effect.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Conduct of Life

_______

Most, if not all Catholics as well as other mainstream Christians will abstain from eating meat, but not fish, today, Good Friday of the Lenten Season.  If you still eat fish at this time of earth’s polluted history, check on the internet “Top 12 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t Be Eating.”www.manukafeed.com./contaminated-fish/?utm_source=yahoo8utm-campaign=yahoo-fish-us&utm-medium=cpc&utm_content=fishl. (Note: there are cookies on this site)

The Bible clearly distinguishes unclean and clean animals for eating purposes, including fish; the clean have fins and scales. All other sea and fresh water creatures are unclean, that is, according to the Creator’s love and wisdom, not man’s reasoning. See Leviticus 11: 1-47, etc. This divine classification was not only given to and for the Israelites but in the time of Noah!  See Gen. 6: 6: 17-22; 7: 1-24.

Continue reading “Additional Lessons from the Feeding of the Five Thousand”

Categories
FMM

The Four Divine Kingdoms

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA  

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR & FORTY– Part XVIII

 The Four Divine Kingdoms

Breaking News: Dateline: Washington. Updated 8: 10 AM EST Jan. 17, 2017.

CNN Polling Director, Jennifer Agiesta reports:

      “Donald Trump will become president Friday [today] with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.  Following the tumultuous transition period, approval ratings for Trump’s handling of the transition are more than 20 points below those for any of his three most recent predecessors. . . . Despite these declines, many Americans remain confident that Trump will achieve several signature campaign promises . . .” 

Continue reading “The Four Divine Kingdoms”

Categories
FMM

Fourfold Lie/Deception Embedded in the First Temptation Alone

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA  

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR & FORTY– Part XI

Fourfold Lie/Deception Embedded in the First Temptation Alone

 

 Main Source: Confrontation, originally published under the title of Redemption; or The Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness by E.G. White, pp. 37-40:

    “When Christ bore the test of temptation upon the point of appetite He did not stand in the beautiful Eden, as did Adam, with the light and love of God seen in everything his eye his eyes rested upon; but Christ was in a barren, desolate wilderness, surrounded with wild beasts. Everything around Him was repulsive. With these surroundings, He fasted forty days and forty nights, ‘and those days he did eat nothing.’ He was emaciated through long fasting and felt the keenest sense of hunger. His visage was indeed marred than the sons of man [Isa. 52: 14].

Continue reading “Fourfold Lie/Deception Embedded in the First Temptation Alone”

Categories
FMM

Christ’s Forty Days in the Wilderness of Temptation

"Jesus Praying" Photo Credit by Samson Daniel/Flickr

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA 

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR & FORTY– Part X

 Christ’s Forty Days in the Wilderness of Temptation

 

See Matt. 4: 1-11.  Satan knew that everything concerning his prosperity depended on his success or failure in overcoming Christ in the wilderness of temptation. Disguised as an angel of light, apparently in answer to Christ’s prayer, he appears when Christ is at His weakest, most vulnerable condition in His forty-day fast.  Satan submitted Christ to his “very best,”—the subtlest of artifices and force of his powerful temptations to allure Christ from His allegiance to the Father and adherence to the moral law He himself established as the foundation of His eternal throne. He came “to magnify the law and make honorable” (Isa. 42: 21), not abrogate it.

Continue reading “Christ’s Forty Days in the Wilderness of Temptation”

Categories
FMM

Forty Years: The Longest-running, Uninterrupted Miracle

"Miracle" Photo Credit by Jose Maria Cuellar/Flickr

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA 

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR & FORTY– Part VI

Forty Years: The Longest-running, Uninterrupted Miracle

Miracle comes from the Hebrew oth, “sign,” “omen,” “token,” “pele,” “wonder”; Greek dunamis, “power,” “deed of power,” “wonder,” semeion, “sign.” The English word “miracle”  is from the Latin miraculum, “an object of wonder, “ “a wonder,” “a wonderful thing” “a strange thing” “a marvel, “a marvelous thing,”  from mirari, “to wonder at,” “to be astonished at,” “to be amazed at.”

Continue reading “Forty Years: The Longest-running, Uninterrupted Miracle”

Categories
FMM

Christ’s Forty-day Fast and Temptation

Photo Credit by Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi/Google Cultural Center

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA 

 Biblical Numerology: NUMBER FOUR – Part IX

 Christ’s Forty-day Fast and Temptation

A.D. 27: John the Baptist, Christ’s prophesied forerunner, yielding to Christ’s gentle yet firm request, buried Him beneath the waters of the Jordan. “And straightway coming up out of the water,” Jesus “saw the heavens opened, and the Holy Spirit like a dove descending upon Him.” (Gabriel told Zacharias the priest, John’s father that the child would be filled with the Holy Spirit from his mother’s womb, and would go forth in the spirit and power of Elijah “to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1: 8-17).

Continue reading “Christ’s Forty-day Fast and Temptation”

Categories
FMM

The Beast, His Image, and the Mark of the Beast

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE- Part XLII

 The Beast, His Image, and the Mark of the Beast

Throughout these series on end-time prophecies the word “church” refers to the host of worshippers, generally the Christian churches of America but more specifically the once-Protestant churches of once-Protestant America while “Church,” even as the secular media constantly alludes to, is the Church of Rome, or in specified instances, state churches such as the Church of England. Below we continue quoting fromThe Great Controversy by Ellen G. White, 1911 ed., pp. 443-458. Comments and emphasis by this compiler are so indicated and/or enclosed in brackets.     

Continue reading “The Beast, His Image, and the Mark of the Beast”

Categories
FMM

Three Mediums of Communication: Visions, Urim & the Prophets (Continued)

Photo Credit Flickr/ernestkoe
Photo Credit Flickr/ernestkoe

FRIDAY MORNING MANNA 

Biblical Numerology: NUMBER THREE – Part XXXIV “Three Mediums of Communication: Visions, Urim & the Prophets: Lessons for the Nations and the Church(es) Today – Part B”

  “Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and Idolatry.” 1 Samuel 15: 11, 23, NKJV.

What is the right faith we must now possess while Christ is closing up His work of atonement in the most holy in heaven simultaneous with the work on earth in preparation for the close of probation, followed immediately by Christ’s glorious second coming?

Continue reading “Three Mediums of Communication: Visions, Urim & the Prophets (Continued)”