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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN
Beginning and End of the Dark Ages
The end of “a time, and times, and half a time” is the “the time of the end” of Daniel 12:9.
From Facts of Faith by Christian Edwardson, pp. 52-60, Southern Publishing Association, Nashville 8 TN, 1943:
“The little horn of Daniel 7: 8, 25, was to reign for ‘a time and times and the dividing of time.’ This same ‘time, and times, and half a time’ is also mentioned in Revelation 12: 14,
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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN
God’s reveal: it’s the System, not the People
QUOTE FOR THE WEEK
“It is more palatable to human nature to do penance than to renounce sin.”
– Ellen G. White, 4SOP 383.
Are you finding yourself somehow attracted to the bigly distractions of political theater and stunts sweeping across America? Do you find some kind of a twisted, guilty pleasure of watching and listening to the “sounds of war” in both sophisticated and blatant lying, accusations and denials causing confusion that appear to rule the day?
FRIDAY MORNING MANNA May 4, 2018
Nathaniel Fajardo email:[email protected]
Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part ___
Blind Spot: Why seeing is not always believing
Because it pleases us, we believe what we want to believe—even if the preponderance of acceptable evidence and the testimony of credible witness prove otherwise. While unbelief is the obvious symptom, the unconverted heart is the not-too-obvious but real problem. To make matters worse, we misdiagnose the symptom as the cause and try to “cure” it only to be met with temporary relief, if at all, and the same if not a worse situation prevails. Thus untreated, it eventually reaches a deadly “point of no remedy.”
FRIDAY MORNING MANNA April 27, 2018
Nathaniel Fajardo email:[email protected]
Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN
Neutrality is neither here nor there or anywhere near the truth as it is in Jesus
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
“Our standing before God depends, not upon the amount of light we have received,
but upon the use we make of what we have.”
– Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 239.
The Gold Mine of God’s Word: “We have seen only the glimmering of divine glory and of the infinitude of knowledge of wisdom; we have, as it were, been working on the surface of the mine, when rich, golden ore is beneath the surface, to reward the one who will dig for it.”- E.G. White, My Life Today (Devotional), p. 108.
How deep have you dug into the gold mine of God’s Word—this far into your life, this late in earth’s history and
FRIDAY MORNING MANNA March 30, 2018
Nathaniel Fajardo email:[email protected]
Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part 41
The Lesson of the Passover
QUOTE FOR THE WEEK
“If you sit in a barbershop long enough, eventually you’re going to have a haircut. – From Alcoholics Anonymous
We address what I believe are relevant signs of the times, i.e., in the cast of antitypical fulfillments of previous types—whether invaluable teaching lessons for all time and all generations based on individual and national experiences recorded in the Old Testament,
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True Happiness According to the Scriptures
Happy is the man who finds, and the man who gains understanding . . . . her ways are the ways of pleasantness, and all her ways are peace . . . .and happy are all who retain her. (see Proverbs 3: 13-18, NKJV.)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! But how do we make this really happen? Is there fail-proof formula? By what metric do we measure this specific happiness’ index? In what meaningful sense will 2018 really be new? How did we start it beginning New Year’s Eve, i.e., by sunset of January 31 of the 1017?
Was it “peaceful and quiet with family members,” as the pleasant pharmacy tech at Loma Linda Community Pharmacy told me yesterday or like the world celebrates with a super-boosted adrenaline trip from a sugar high and other popular boosters through to past midnight, winding up with a nasty headache and a downer “rainy days and Mondays” feeling —into the very first day of the New Year? “A journey of a thousand miles [or a year] begins with the first step.”
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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part 13
The Dark Ages Shortened for the Elect’s Sake
See Matthew 24: 21, 22 regarding “the great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
What is really happening to planet Earth, right now? Our loudly-touted, far-advanced science-and technology achievements seem unable to stay in front of all the record-breaking catastrophes forming and overlapping each, leaving countless victims simply stunned and tongue-tied except for guttural screams or other-worldly groans: “Lord, have mercy!” Many hold to the putative view that “global warming” is to blame—
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Biblical Numerology: NUMBER SEVEN – Part 13
THYATIRA: The Church’s Age of Adversity: The Dark Ages
18 And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath His eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet like fine brass 19 I know thy works and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Revelation 2: 18, 19, K.J.V.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
All great alterations in human affairs are produced by compromise.
SYDNEY SMITH, Catholic Question
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Thyatira. “The origin and meaning of this name is uncertain. Some have suggested that Thyatira means “Sweet savor of labor,’ perhaps on the basis of the ‘works’ of the church set forth in v. 19.” . . . As applied to Christian history, the message to Thyatira is particularly appropriate to the experience of the church during the Dark Ages [538- 1798, A.D. of 1,260 years].
