Why must a father methodically train his children to know and love Jesus, the Bible and live obediently to the indwelling Holy Spirit?
Not surprisingly, the demonically laden atheists in this forum have expressed vitriol and disdain over the subject of training children in the tenets of Christianity. For those who live a life based in reality, logic, reason, and pursue morality based in the Holy Bible and rely upon the Holy Spirit for their anointing to live daily honoring our Creator, Jesus Christ, these men who have assumed the most honorable role of husband, father, daddy, grandpa, know the necessity of training a child in the ways of sustainable morality while seeking to restrain and negate the Adamic sin-nature that infects the human genome at conception (Romans 5:12). Our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, hold the “father” or “daddy” of the family unit specifically responsible for teaching, training, equipping, protection, provisions, of the family divinely entrusted to him.
Children are to be taught the temporary and eternal benefits of morality in sexuality; the eternal importance of telling the truth; the honor of standing for God’s righteousness; the honor of defending the defenseless; the necessity of providing for the poor; the honorable character of interceding for the abused and neglected; all of which, are the resultant of knowing and loving Jesus as their Messiah, daily walking in obedience to the indwelling Holy Spirit as the Spirit produces divine fruit through them, fruit that brings honor and glory to our Heavenly Father (Galatians 5:15-23; John 15:8).
A father’s greatest fear, other than the untimely death of his children our beloved spouse, is that said father would fail in the divine mandate to love and honor and train his children to know and obey Jesus our Messiah by example and that his children would live an honorable and wholesome life as a servant of the Father, Son and Spirit. A father’s greatest fear should be that his child mature to become the victim of demonic evolution, the greatest progenitor of atheism known to mankind; a father’s greatest fear should be that his child become a useless, nihilistic, defiled, atheist-secular humanist void sanity, logic, reason, wisdom, a son or daughter bound for death in Hell in nihilism; essentially, a wasted, failed, impotent, life.
Why are sightings of unexplained phenomena in the Heavens increasing with rapidity? Is there a physical or spiritual explanation?
There are no other life forms in the vast Universe except those existing upon this Earth created for a specific cause and purpose and those existing in the Spiritual Realm that flows through and around Time and humanity incessantly.
When individuals constrained by physics observe unexplained phenomena violating the acceptable rules of physics/energy, these manifestations find their origin in the Spiritual Realm and as we ebb ever so close to the second advent of Messiah Jesus, these sightings and interactions will increase like birth pangs experienced by a woman in labor (John 16:21).
There is a spiritual war of incredible veracity being waged around us and through us over the previous 6000-years and that war is increasing in intensity and viciousness with each passing day. This spiritual war has routinely interfaced with Time and humanity via World Wars and specifically those wars targeting the Nation of Israel and the Israeli people; the Holocaust being but one horrid example. As the final 3.5-years of the Great Tribulation nears, the armies of Elohim and Satan will become increasingly interactive in Time thus prefacing the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus and the incarceration of Satan.
The atheist/secular humanist/religionist should be taking stock relevant to what is manifesting around them but the overwhelming majority will remain in atheistic arrogance and stupidity and stumble into Hell in blindness and deafness and spiritual ignorance (Matthew 7:13-14). So goes the Adamic sin-nature of the atheist unrestrained by the Holy Spirit gifted to all who trust in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14).
One Biblical example of the Spiritual World interfacing with the temporary and inferior Realm of Time…
Ezekiel’s Chariot, Chapter 1 of the Major Prophet, Ezekiel…
The Chariot of the Lord—God’s Throne
4 I was watching a big storm come in from the north. It was a big cloud with a strong wind, and there was fire flashing from it. Light was shining out all around it. It looked like hot metal glowing in a fire. 5 Inside the cloud, there were four living beings that looked like people.
6 But each one of them had four faces and four wings.7 Their legs were straight. Their feet looked like calves’ feet, and they sparkled like polished brass. 8 Under their wings were human arms. There were four living beings. Each living being had four faces and four wings. 9 The wings touched each other. The living beings did not turn when they moved. They went in the direction they were looking.10 Each living being had four faces. In the front they each had a man’s face. There was a lion’s face on the right side and a bull’s face on the left side. There was an eagle’s face on the back.
11 Their wings were spread out over them. With two of the wings each living being reached out to touch the one near it, and with the other two wings it covered its body. 12 Each living being went in the direction it was looking. They went wherever the spirit caused them to go, but they did not turn when they moved. 13 That is what the living beings looked like.Inside the area between the living beings, there was something that looked like burning coals of fire. This fire was like small torches that kept moving around among the living beings. The fire glowed brightly and lightning flashed from it.
14 The living beings ran back and forth—as fast as lightning.15-16 I was looking at the living beings when I noticed four wheels that touched the ground. There was one wheel by each living being. All the wheels looked the same. The wheels looked as if they were made from a clear, yellow jewel. They looked like there was a wheel inside a wheel. 17 They could turn to move in any direction. But the living beings did not turn when they moved.18 The rims of the wheels were tall and frightening. There were eyes all over the rims of all four wheels.
19 The wheels always moved with the living beings. If the living beings went up into the air, the wheels went with them. 20 They went wherever the spirit wanted them to go, and the wheels went with them, because the power that moved the living being was in the wheels. 21 So if the living beings moved, the wheels moved. If the living beings stopped, the wheels stopped. If the wheels went into the air, the living beings went with them, because the spirit was in the wheels.22 There was an amazing thing over the heads of the living beings. It was like a bowl turned upside down, and the bowl was clear like crystal.
23 Under this bowl, each living being had wings reaching out to the one next to it. Two wings spread out one way and two wings spread out the other way, covering its body.24 Then I heard the wings. Every time the living beings moved, their wings made a very loud noise like a lot of water rushing by. They were loud like the Lord All-Powerful. They were as loud as an army or a crowd of people. When the living beings stopped moving, they put their wings down by their side.25 The living beings stopped moving and lowered their wings. Then there was another loud sound that came from above the bowl over their heads.
26 There was something that looked like a throne on top of the bowl. It was blue like sapphire. There was also something that looked like a man sitting on the throne. 27 I looked at him from his waist up. He looked like hot metal with fire all around him. I looked at him from his waist down. It looked like fire with a glow that was shining all around him. 28 The light shining around him was like a rainbow in a cloud. It was the Glory of the Lord. As soon as I saw that, I fell to the ground. I bowed with my face to the ground, and then I heard a voice speaking to me.
Judaism was given Israel for eschatological purposes, the Law, sanctification from paganism, the blood sacrifices, as Israel’s children were to be the progenitors of Messiah through Judah and take custody of the New Covenant’s Gospel and Great Commission in fulfillment of Elohim’s promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Israel rejected the Gospel, murdered their Messiah upon a tree via Pilate/Rome, Israel’s children demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children…so it was and it is…the New Covenant was taken from Israel and given to the Gentiles until such time the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of God (Romans 11:25).
Judaism was a roadmap to the New Covenant as prophesied by Jeremiah in chapter 31 and Ezekiel in chapter 36 and Israel was foreordained to be the custodians of the New Covenant but Israel’s covenants with Elohim were overwhelmingly predicated upon National obedience (Deuteronomy 28) and Israel failed. I’ve not changed Judaism and its eschatological purposes in my defense of the New Covenant…Elohim provided Israel with Sinai’s Commandments and the 603 Mosaic Laws to thwart a repeat of the failures of the Adamic and Noahic generations and their compromise with paganism but Judaism was NEVER intended to be the path to righteousness with Elohim and passage to the Kingdom of Elohim, the New Covenant was foreordained to be the Right of Passage via Messiah via faith and the New Covenant’s Gospel was ordained as the battle strategy to defeat Satan “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10). Judaism was simply a covenant precursor, a foundation, for the realization and strategic implementation of the New Covenant established in Messiah Jesus’ blood at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28).
“So, one is “good” so long as Jesus is in them; otherwise, they are bad?” So then, only Christians are good?
Christian response,
The “goodness” or righteousness of Jesus is gifted-imputed by New Covenant promise over the life of the one who believes that Jesus is Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 8:12). Man is sinful by nature (Romans 5:12) and can therefore NEVER attain self-righteousness sufficient to please the Father (Ephesians 2:8-9; Romans 4:1-8), but the Father has made a way for mankind to receive divine righteousness that is gifted-imputed-promised through faith in Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21).
What did Jesus do for you and me in the New Covenant?
Jesus took our sin upon Himself and paid the required price for that sin which is “blood atonement” as per Leviticus 17:11 (1 Peter 1:18-19; Genesis 3:21); the animal blood sacrifices performed in the Old Covenant foreshadowed the blood sacrifice of Messiah Jesus upon a Roman Cross (Matthew 26:28) yet the blood of animals could never take away sin (Hebrews 10:4); only the precious blood of Jesus makes acceptable atonement for sin (1 Peter 1:18-19). In the Old Covenant blood sacrifices, it was NOT the blood of the animal that resulted in righteousness (a right standing) with the Father but it was the “faith” of the one offering the sacrifice that engendered Covenant-righteousness (Hebrews 11); faith being a “sincere trust” that Elohim would do exactly as He has promised. It is the sinless blood of Jesus that provides a divine Path to life in Eternity (John 14:6; John 3:16; Matthew 26:28).
Righteousness in the New Covenant,
In the New Covenant, as established in the blood of Jesus (Matthew 26:28), the Father agrees to forgive and forget the sins of the one who trusts in Jesus as their payment (propitiation) for sin (Hebrews 8:12) and the Father then endows the one forgiven of sin with the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Ezekiel 36:27) and it is the indwelling Holy Spirit who begins a new work or a work of righteousness in the “new man” (2 Corinthians 5:17) and daily, the Holy Spirit begins to produce divine “fruit” through the faithful in Jesus (Galatians 5:16-23). It is this divine “fruit” that fulfills all Law and that same “fruit” honors the Father (John 15:8) as the Spirit incrementally transforms the redeemed into the obedient image of Jesus; this divine transformation is a life-long pursuit as the Spirit prepares the redeemed for service in the coming New Jerusalem where those who have loved and trusted in Jesus will serve Him in resurrected bodes, eternally (Philippians 3:21; Revelation 21-22).
“Goodness” concerning humanity?
There is nothing intrinsically “good” in humanity (Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12); this, due the Adamic sin-nature but godly “goodness” comes through faith in Jesus and that goodness is gifted by Covenant promise (Hebrews 8:12); the Christian is a sinner by nature (Romans 5:12) and is redeemed by faith in Jesus and consequently they become a New Creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and though they are not “perfect” in reality, they are NOT what they used to be as servants of Satan and they are now walking in the path of studious obedience (Philippians 2:12; 2 Timothy 2:15) seeking to honor the Father and Jesus and the Spirit who has provided them a new life and eternal Hope (Galatians 5:16).
Christians are NOT perfect, yet…
Christians still struggle with the sin-nature that is integral with the flesh (Romans 5:12; Romans 7:14-25) but the Christian, unlike the lost in Satan, are divinely anointed and empowered and guaranteed life by the indwelling Holy Spirit and consequently have peace with the Father (Romans 5:1) and the Christian walks in victory as Jesus is victorious over the Devil and the Devil’s works which are Death-Hell-the Grave (Revelation 5:5). Christians become divinely perfect the moment they shed this body of fleshly, decaying, death and enter into the presence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:8).
How can I be sufficiently “good” to please my Creator, Jesus Christ, and enter into eternal life?
It matters not how “good” you “think” you are through self-achievement in this life when the reality is, we’re all sinners in word, thought and deed and we all fall short of our Creator’s perfect moral standard for entering His Kingdom (Romans 3:23; 5:12) and entering into His presence in Eternity (Revelation 21:27); therefore, due His compassion and eschatological plan that is focused upon destroying the works of Satan via selfless love, perfect love as demonstrated by Jesus at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b), the Father has provided human kind ONE STANDARD for eternal life – absolute, unadulterated, PERFECTION; hence, the need for Jesus as one’s Messiah by faith (John 14:6; 3:16).
Jesus entered Time for YOU as His primary reason for entering Time was “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b) which are death-Hell-the grave. Jesus’ battle strategy to destroy the works of the Devil and pave a path for YOU to be forgiven of sin and allowed entrance into the KINGDOM is the Gospel which is first pictured for us in Genesis 3:21 and fulfilled by Jesus in Matthew 26:28 and John 19:30 with the words “It is finished.” It’s important and relevant to note that the Gospel, a divine battle strategy to destroy the works of Satan, was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
The Father has promised that anyone who will trust in Jesus as Messiah who died for them; that is, if one believes that Jesus is the Messiah promised in the Scriptures and they believe the shed blood of Jesus makes atonement (Leviticus 17:11), provides divine payment, for their sin, they are forgiven of all sin past-present-future (John 3:16; Hebrews 8:12) and they are welcomed into the Family of Elohim, forever, and they’re endowed the indwelling Holy Spirit who is their Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father, forever (Ephesians 1:13-14)…those redeemed in Jesus by faith receive a new life, a changed life, a life directed and controlled by the indwelling Holy Spirit which is theologically referred to as “Christian sanctification” (2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:16). Those who believe in Jesus as Messiah are gifted-imputed the righteousness-perfection of Jesus over their life, forever, and the Father agrees to no longer see their sin but only sees the righteousness of His dear Son, Jesus our Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus is our propitiation – payment for sin.
Jesus is the ETERNAL STANDARD for New Covenant relationship with the Father…there is NO OTHER WAY (John 14:6)! These life giving divine parameters concerning eternal life in the Kingdom are the will of the Father and irrespective of what YOU or anyone else thinks of these divine parameters, they are eternal and you will abide by them; that is, believe in Jesus as Messiah who died for you and LIVE or you’ll reject Jesus and the Father’s love through Jesus and you’ll be barred from entrance into the Kingdom due your unrepentant sin and you will die in Hell as there exists no other place for your unredeemed soul (John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15).
YOU CAN NEVER BE SUFFICIENTLY GOOD TO EARN GOD’S FAVOR (EPHESIANS 2:8-9). READ THE “GOSPEL OF JOHN” FOR YOURSELF AND MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION CONCERNING YOUR ETERNAL DESTINY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE (Hebrews 9:27)!
Why the Trump LandSLIDE Victory – Can America Unify?
The Democrat-Progressive-Left-Abortion Advocating-Sexual Perversion justifying-Marxists suffer from a demonically rooted mind virus that destroys mind, body, soul, in Hell.
There is NO unification with a mentally ill, spiritually ill, people/demons who salivate over the mutilation of babies in the womb; who are sexually aroused by forcing transsexual “gender affirming” mutilation, the cutting off/excision of male and female genitalia of confused and spiritually ill children for profit; there is no unification with a spiritually ill people who espouse men in women’s sports and allow these “men” into women’s locker rooms to shower with our daughters and wives; there is no unification with a demonically rooted people who open America’s borders and allow millions of foreign criminals and terrorists to enter our Nation unencumbered by immigration laws – a hoard of foreign born demons who proceed to rob, rape, murder, our children, our women, our families; there is no unification with a people suffering from a liberal mind virus who force a faux “man induced” climate change hoax upon an entire Nation of people who KNOW BETTER due commonsense and then proceed to force “Green Energy” policies upon a Nation that are bankrupting the lower and middle class, making our Nation dependent on our enemies for energy while enriching the elite which create billionaires at the expense of the working – labor class striving to feed and house their family.
The Democrat Party in the United States is a vile enemy of the people and it should be eradicated through civil war, incarceration, deportation. America needs Jesus, not the god of the Democrat i.e., Satan!
Why do you choose to honor a God who promises to judge you via a “second death” in Hell if you reject Him?
Our Creator, Jesus our Messiah (Elohim, Genesis 1:1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1) is Holy, Just, Righteous, and you and I are created by Him in His spiritual image (Genesis 1:26-28) for a specific purpose as our entire creation is predicated upon war and we are participants in that war for His glory…a war that has been removed from the Spiritual Realm and placed here apart from the Kingdom. As His creation, we are provided the free will to choose life in Him by faith in Jesus as our Messiah and Mediator for our sin (John 3:16) or we can choose to ally with Satan and live in accordance with the will of Satan in debauchery, arrogance, self-righteousness, moral filth, deception and death and suffer for our sin just as Satan will suffer for his (Revelation 20:10-15).
I choose to worship and serve the King of the Universe because His ways are holy and good and sustainable and I identify with the divine attributes of my Creator, I adore Him, I love Him, I choose Him, because He first loved me and gave Himself for me on a Roman Cross to pay my sin-debt owed the Father; Jesus did this for me as Jesus is my Warrior King who has defeated the works of Satan, death-Hell-the grave, through His divine obedience…I choose victory in Jesus over death and Hell in Satan.
If you are wise and prudent, unlike the majority in this demonically rooted debate forum, you will open a Bible and read the “Gospel of John” for YOURSELF and make an eternal decision for YOURSELF as to whom you will serve in this temporary life constrained by Time and physics. You are under the careful eye of your Creator…will you choose to honor Him and live with Him eternally as His servant or will you choose to honor Satan, this dying World, and die in Hell in your sin as has the overwhelming majority in this “Debate Island” debate forum? I implore you to NOT allow the demons in this forum to lead you in the ways of eternal death in Satan…there is very little “good” present in this forum! Do not internalize the words of death that flow from @Factfinder @Joeseph @Polytheistwitch @Fredsnephew @MayCaesar @Maxx @21CenturyIconoclast @JulesKorngold @Jack and many more…be your own man…choose your own way in Jesus, alone.
Briefly, explain the relevance of the 144,000 Jewish witnesses in Revelation 7?
The 144,000 anointed Jewish witnesses in Revelation 7 are representative of the 12-Tribes of Israel who will fulfill what Israel failed to fulfill during Messiah’s First-Advent; that is, Elohim sanctified the children of Israel as messengers and caretakers of His divine words; Elohim sanctified the children of Israel as progenitors of Messiah via Jacob’s son, Judah; Elohim sanctified the children of Israel as progenitors and proselytizers of the New Covenant as proclaimed in Jeremiah 31;31-34 and Ezekiel 36:26-27; Elohim sanctified the children of Israel as servants of the Gospel and the Great Commission which was to be taught and provided to “every family of the Earth” as Israel was to be Elohim’s blessing and fulfillment of what Elohim had promised through Abraham and the coming Messiah in Genesis 12:3b; unfortunately, Israel rejected the New Covenant’s Gospel; Israel rejected their Messiah and murdered Him upon a tree via Pilate and demanded that Messiah’s blood be upon them and the children; Israel rejected the Great Commission; therefore, Elohim turned to the Gentile and gave the Great Commission, the Gospel, the New Covenant, to the Gentile and placed the children of Israel under judgment until the fullness of the Gentiles have entered the Kingdom of Elohim (Romans 11:25).
The 144,000 spoken of in Revelation 7 will be a belated fulfillment of what Israel was foreordained to be and the “remnant” of Israel that is saved through the Tribulation Era will be the “remnant” spoken of by Isaiah (Isaiah 10:22) and reiterated by Paul (Romans 9:27). Elohim will honor His covenants and promises made to Israel’s children; this, NOT for Israel’s glory but for the righteousness and holiness and faithfulness of Elohim as Elohim does not lie but does exactly as He has promised irrespective of Satan’s success among the defiled of humanity (Numbers 23:19). There will be a “remnant” of Israel’s children who come to faith in Messiah Jesus during and in the final days of the Tribulation Era.
How can a Christian prove to God that they Love Him If they Don’t Keep His Commandments?? John 14:15.
If Commandment Keeping that actually pleased the Father unto righteousness were possible, Jesus died needlessly (Galatians 2:21).
Commandment keeping which honors the Father is a work of the indwelling Holy Spirit SUBSEQUENT establishing a New Covenant relationship with the Father by faith in Jesus, FIRST (John 6:29; 15:8). It is our spiritual fruit produced through us by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23) that honors the Father, not our efforts to keep rules and regulations in self-righteousness which are ultimately interpreted by the Father as “filthy rags” (Isaiah 64:6).
If one seeks to honor the Father through obedience, first obey the Father’s will; that is, “believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for your sin (John 6:29); then, all of these other things, peace – joy – obedience – assurance, will be added as well (John 6:29; Matthew 6:33). Relationship first – obedience will follow through the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit via daily Christian sanctification (Galatians 5:16). You will know them by their fruit (Matthew 7:15-20), divine “fruit” against which there is no law (Galatians 5:23).
The Universe was created for cause as a repository for a Kingdom War initiated by Satan in the Spiritual Realm before Time began…that Coup and its destructiveness was removed, extricated, from the Kingdom and placed within the created Realm of Time partially constrained by physics as our entire creation is predicated upon WAR (war…which has inundated our existence from the Genesis forward) and a formal declaration of war was announced early in the Genesis in Genesis 3:15, a war that would proceed forward between Elohim (Genesis 1:1) who would enter the Realm of Time in flesh via the “seed of the (virgin) woman” and do battle with Satan and Satan’s army…the battle strategy that Elohim would employ is first pictured for us in Genesis 3:21 which is a picture of The Gospel of Jesus Christ (Matthew 26:28) where Elohim, Himself, would shed innocent blood to clothe fallen humanity in a gifted-imputed “robe of righteousness” and thereby destroy the works of Satan, death-Hell-the grave, through an act of selfless love thereby modeling for the faithful angels in the Kingdom the honor and dignity and necessity of obedience to Elohim’s will and the superiority of obedience to disobedience…our entire creation in Time, the previous 6000-years of war and horror initiated by Satan, acts as a bulwark against future rebellion in the Kingdom where free will exists and is paramount by necessity; in fact, the primary reason Jesus our Messiah entered the Realm of Time was “to destroy the works of Satan” (1 John 3:8b) via the Gospel which was ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
You and I are but demonstrative vessels for a much superior life-form in the Spiritual Realm, the Angels, and those of temporary humanity who coalesce with and support Elohim in His battle with evil via faith in Jesus as Messiah will reap the benefits of that loyalty in Eternity…those who reject and war against Elohim will ultimately cease to exist subsequent Judgment via the “second death.” (John 3 v. Revelation 20:11-15)
Time is a created entity for a specific cause and purpose and Time, this physical World, will be dismantled and destroyed by fire (2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 21)…purified and made fit for the eternal Kingdom, the New Jerusalem (Revelation 21-22), where the faithful in Jesus as Messiah will serve Him, forever, in resurrected bodies fashioned after the resurrected body of Messiah (Philippians 3:21).
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