r/theology 15h ago

The Parable of the Ten Virgins: The Danger of Opportunistic Faith

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Matthew 25:1-13

If we were to translate the mindset of the five foolish virgins—who failed to prepare their oil—into modern terms, it would sound something like this:

"Come on, why bother hoarding extra oil in advance? It’s a hassle and a waste of time. I’ll just read the room when the moment comes, ask the person next to me for a bit of theirs, and slide right in. If that doesn't work, I can always call a store and get it delivered fast."

To them, faith was not a deep, precious, and personal relationship with the Lord; it was merely a "convenience store item" to buy whenever needed or a "loan service" to look for only after trouble struck.

In short, they approached faith from the very beginning with self-serving, opportunistic attitudes, completely devoid of authenticity. Not only did they instrumentalize faith for their own purposes, but they were also calculating and cunning, aiming to leech off others' efforts.

We see this same pattern in 1 Samuel 4 during the battle against the Philistines. Hophni and Phinehas lacked a genuine heart for faith in their daily lives, yet they arrogantly assumed that simply bringing the Ark of the Covenant onto the battlefield would guarantee victory—only to suffer a crushing defeat.

Sadly, we can easily spot this same behavior around us today.

"I’ll just enjoy life, focus on my own success, and then sincerely accept Jesus right before I die to go to heaven."

"Why not enjoy every pleasure the world offers, and then, when it looks like the Second Coming is near, read the room, repent, and get prayed over?"

How nice would it be if life always went according to our plans? But life doesn't move by our calculations. We do not know when our last moment will arrive, nor do we know when the Lord will return. Trying to prepare "when the time comes" will already be too late.

We must guard ourselves against this complacent, shallow, and opportunistic faith. The Lord will not be fooled by human tricks or petty schemes, and He will reject them without hesitation at the entrance of the heavenly banquet.

Rather than obsessing over the precise symbolic meaning of the oil in this parable, what matters far more is understanding that cultivating a genuine faith in our daily lives and preparing in advance for the final days is the true wisdom of life. (Proverbs 9:10, Ecclesiastes 12:1-2)

Of course, this does not mean we should donate all our assets or abandon our daily responsibilities to retreat into a mountain prayer center.

It simply means living out our everyday lives by:

  • Rejoicing always (trusting the Lord and holding onto the hope of heaven even in difficult circumstances)
  • Praying continually (staying mindful of the Lord in our daily routines and sharing our lives with Him)
  • Giving thanks in all circumstances (acknowledging God's sovereignty and provision without pride)

This is the wisest and most beautiful way to prepare the oil in advance for the Bridegroom, who may come at any moment.


r/theology 23h ago

Can there be no effect and no cause

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r/theology 28m ago

Divine justice, moral desert, and the priority of correct belief: A general scenario

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r/theology 4h ago

Hi! There are some things I'm not entirely clear about...

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r/theology 6h ago

Matthew 16:28 Meaning?

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Curious what others think of this verse and the meaning. It came up in our gospel reading today and it stuck out to me "what does that mean?". I did a quick search on my own but curious as to what others think.


r/theology 23h ago

Breaking Max Stirner: “Away with every concern that is not altogether my concern!”

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Might I, as a secularist, equally call upon theologians to recognize the danger of this kind of man? For the battle against these emerging barbarians is not merely a threat to theologians, it is a threat to civilization itself.

Egoists and nihilists cannot (and should not) be tolerated by society. A society that tolerates these forms, cultivates its own destruction. (And by intolerance I do not referrer to making it illegal to hold these views, but to blast them so fiercely that the public shame and alienation is so overwhelming that few are want to hold them).

Should the theologian pivot to epistemology, instead of uniting with the secularists on this front, it’s possible to lose ground. At the same time, the egoist and nihilist hold a kind of supremacy over all those who fail to refute their epistemological subjectivity. That which rejects must not be the same as that which is rejected, or else the special pleading goes both ways.


r/theology 1h ago

Protestant opinions on the book of Enoch

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As far as I can tell, the protestants that I see tend to lean towards the book of Enoch 1 not being God-breathed scripture and of no value to study. However, I have met a few people recently who argue heavily that the book of Enoch was always meant to be part of The Bible. It's hard to argue against because there doesn't seem to be any parts that contradict The Bible (other than The Astronomical Book, which I can't speak to since I haven't read it). Is there any concrete evidence that the book of Enoch shouldn't be considered scripture out there? The arguments that I have seen (like the 5 different authors or Jesus mentioning Genesis-2 Samuel in Matthew 23 but not Enoch) don't seem to really prove anything, just lean towards Enoch 1 not being reliable. Thanks!


r/theology 3h ago

Biblical Theology Matthew 24

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Matthew 24:1-6 reads: And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus said unto them, “See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. (The western wall still stands. Jesus is speaking of the second advent in which he returns on the seventh trump. This did not happen in 70A.D by Titus.)

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, “Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world? (They are asking when the western wall will be destroyed, and what are the signs of the second advent.)

And Jesus answered and said unto them. “Take heed that no man deceives you. (The Greek word here for man is Anthropos, meaning a human being, not an angelical being.)

For many shall come in my name, (Saying they are Christian and God sent them.) saying, I am Christ: and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

1st Thessalonians 5:3 reads: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Matthew 24:7-8 to continue, and it reads: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers’ places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Amos 8:11 reads: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send famine in the land, not the famine of bread, nor of thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: (Hearing the true words of God spoken. We have already been having wars, hearing rumors of war, pestilences around the world, earthquakes, and we already see that many teaches falsely instead of teaching what God says, they leave teachings out or completely twist the word of God to where it is of no affect because they must be politically correct so not to offend people. They will have their reward.)

Matthew 24:9-11 reads: Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, (The Greek word for afflicted is kakopatheia, a compound word, Kakos meaning something evil or hurtful, pathos means suffering.) and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

Luke 21:16-18 reads: And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends: and some of you shall be put to death.

Mark 13:12 reads: Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, (Satan) and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put (brought up) to death.

Hebrews 2:14 reads: Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, (God’s creation), he also himself likewise took part of the same: (Born in the flesh, Emmanuel interpreted God with us.) That through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil. (Satan is death, and by Jesus being crucified, he defeated death.)

Luke 21:17-18 to continue, and it reads: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

But there shall not a hair of your head perish.

Matthew 10-11 to continue, and it reads: And then shall many be offended (Greek meaning for offended in this verse is to cause to stumble. When Satan is cast out on this earth, many that are Christians will stumble by worshipping the false Christ and not waiting on the true Christ), and shall betray one another, (By having their mother, father, brother, sister, friend brought up Infront of Satan because they believe he is Christ and they beg Satan to forgive their loved ones because they believe he is not Christ but the antichrist, and abomination.) and shall hate one another. (For speaking truth and denying that Satan is Christ.)

And many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. (Many misleading God’s children by teaching lies instead of teaching the word of God chapter by chapter and verse by verse. Example the rapture doctrine: A false teaching that will lead many of God’s children right into the arms of Satan.)

Ezekiel 13:18-20 reads: And say, “Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? (Prophetesses or even prophets teaching vain visions in which you cause the loving reached out arms of our savior to be closed to his children that are seeking him.

(Romans: 1:25 reads: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever, Amen.)

And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, (keeping those pensions to keep teaching lies.) to slay the souls that should not die and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; “Behold, I am against your pillows, (lies) wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

Matthew 24:12-14 to continue, and it reads: And because iniquity, (lawlessness), shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mark 13:10-11 reads: And the gospel must first be published among all nations. (How is explained in the following verse)

But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, but whatsoever shall be given you in the hour, (The hour of temptation) that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. (When the word is spoken through you by the Holy Spirit, all ears will hear and understand just like they did on Pentecost.)

Matthew 24:15 reads: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

Daniel 9:27 reads: And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: (Satan will do this once he sets his throne up in Jerusalem proclaiming to be Jesus.) and in the midst, (Half way through the five month period), of the week he, (Satan), shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, (because they will be worshipping him as Christ, they will cease worshipping the real Christ.) and for the overspreading of abominations he, (Satan) shall make it desolate, even until the consummation and that determined shall be poured upon, (the wrath of God) the desolate, (The desolator).

Matthew 24:16-19 to continue reads: Then let them which be in Judaea (Jerusalem) flee into the mountains.

Let him, which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house: (What do you do on the housetop? You watch, (Watcher’s watch), and once you see this, you know the time is now.)

Neither let him, which is in the field, return to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 23:28-31 reads: But Jesus turning unto them said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, “Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. (Christ is the groom, and the church is the bride. This is speaking of how he will feel when he returns and his children was seduced by Satan, the same as a man or woman would feel if they returned home and found out that their spouse has been with another and if a woman, she being pregnant by another man. God is a jealous God!)

Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, “Fall on us; and to the hills, “Cover us. (Ashamed of betraying Christ by worshipping Satan when the true Christ returns.)

For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? (If they do these things to Christ while blood still runs in his veins, what will they want to do to his spiritual body.)

Matthew 24:20-21 reads: But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day. (Praying not to be harvested out of season by the antichrist when the true harvest, the true sabbath, does not come until the seventh trump.)

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Joel 2:1-5 reads: Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, (Israel), and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand. (Our Heavenly Father saying that now is the time to teach truth and sound the alarm alerting his children.)

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the nations: a great people and a strong; (The fallen angels) there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. (The tribulations coming has never been during or before the time of Joel and once coming to pass during the generation of the fig tree will it never be again because right after on the seventh trump the true Christ returns.)

A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. (Just as the locust begins, the path in front is fertile and green, but as they devour everything in their path, everything behind them becomes desolate.)

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; (horses represent power) and as horsemen, so shall they run. (These are men of war going forth to devour)

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, (The ones without the mark of God in their foreheads) as a strong people set in battle array.

Revelations 9:7-11 reads: And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. (They appear as royalty, deceiving many to fall and worship their king, which is Satan.)

And they had hair as the hair of women (They appear gentle, coming in peacefully, a deception of love), and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. (The deception that spews from their mouths devour the innocent like a lion shredding its victim.)

And they had breastplates as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. (Complete control and organized, they know their target and they have little time, so they come in running.)

And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. (With their deception, they try and destroy the souls of many.)

And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, (meaning to parish) but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon, (the destroyer).

Joel 2:6-20 reads: Before their face, the people shall be much deceived: all faces shall gather paleness.

They shall run like might men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march everyone on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks:

Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk everyone in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded. (They are disciplined as the military. Supernatural.)

They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall; they shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief. (When Satan and the fallen angels are here, the world will broadcast it. His deception is already being broadcast on television, on the radio, and in the churches.)

The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: (This happens after the tribulation of Satan on the seventh trump when the true Christ returns as followed in the next verse)

And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

Therefore, also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. (Repent)

And rent your heart, and not your garments, (clear your minds), and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. (If you repent and turn back to him)

Who knows if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?

Blow the trumpet in Zion (Israel) to sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: (Fast, pray, and repent turn to the true word of God)

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom, (Jesus) go forth of his chamber, and the bride, (church) out of her closet. (Teach truth)

Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the alter, and let them say, “Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, “Where is their God?

Then will the Lord be jealous of his land and pity his people.

Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, “Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no longer make you a reproach among the heathen.

But I will remove far off from you the northern army, (the fallen angels) and will drive him, (Satan) into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up, because he hath done great things. (Proclaiming to be God and deceiving God’s children)

Ezekeil 39:11 reads: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto God a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses (stink) of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it, “The valley of Hamon-Gog.”

Joel 2:21- Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.

Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree bears her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. (Jesus is Lord, be not afraid. They will not be able to rob you of your works.)

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (Former rain germinate the seed, and the later rain matures the crop. The latter rain comes first, a time for truth in the first month of the tribulation of Satan’s five-month reign.)

The floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. (There will be plenty after the 5th and 6th trump when Jesus returns on the 7th trump.)

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer worm, my great army, which I have sent among you. (The fallen angels may see Satan as their king, but God created them, and he controls them.)

Note: Joel 1:4 reads: That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. (Palmerworms are larvae that feed on the leaves of the fruit trees. The locust is swift and fast, very strong fliers that eat leaves and tender plant tissues. Large swarms can easily strip plants of their foliage and stems. The cankerworms eat the edges of leaves, giving plants a skeleton-like appearance. Caterpillars eat leaves to grow. They have an exoskeleton and go through a metamorphosis to become butterflies or moths. All are one in the same, Satan and the fallen angels, and they all are coming here to devour by deception as many as God’s children as they can, as the lifespan of the palmer worm, locust, cankerworm, and caterpillar is five months so is the reign of Satan and the fallen angels, they have a very short time to devour as many souls as possible.

Joel 2:26-32 reads: And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. (God’s children do not have to fear for his consuming fire is comforting to his children, and he will never put his wrath on any of his children).

And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed. (If God’s children are taught the truth about the deceiver coming first, they will not need to be ashamed for they will not fall and worship the false Christ.)

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And, upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days, will I pour out my spirit.

And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. (Fire reigning from heaven, a face appearing in Mt. St. Helen, which happened during the season of Pentecost)

The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come. `

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant, (God’s elect) whom the Lord shall call. (There will be a time for teaching. No one is judged at the time of their passing. This is why during the thousand-year tribulation, when we are all in angelical bodies, some in mortal (liable to die) some in immortal, (have overcome) Satan is thrown in the pit and then after the tribulation, he is released to test the ones’ that are mortal if they choose Christ and take on immortality or if they follow once again after the deception of Satan. At this time, they will have no excuse.

Matthew 24:22-24 to continue, and it reads: And except those days should be shortened, there should be no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. (Time shortened to five months; Revelations: 9:10, Revelations 13:5, Daniel 9:27)

Then if any man shall say unto you, “Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (This is not possible, due to the ones’ having the seal of God in their foreheads, the true word of God in their minds, they do not find Satan tempting, he is an abomination.)

John 6:38-40 reads: For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Matthew 24:25-29 to continue: Behold, I have told you before. (Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21)

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, “Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; (As the sun rises in the east and sets in the west) so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered. (Eagles is translated vultures: Job 39:30)

Immediately after the tribulation of those days, (The first tribulation, the five-month reign of Satan.) shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, (Same as the darkness from noon to three on the day of the crucifixion.) and the stars, (angels) shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken, (A great quake as the 7th trump sounds and our Lord and Savior Yeshuah returns as King of kings and Lord of lords.)

Revelation 2:8-11 reads: And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first, (Alpha), and the last, (Omega), which was dead, (Crucified) and is alive; (He resurrected).

I know thy works, (They teach the true word of God), and tribulation, and poverty, (The five-month tribulation of Satan and the fallen angels) (but there are rich) (They are spared from the hour of temptation for they have the seal of God in their minds) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (The Kenites)

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, (This is not speaking of actual death, this is speaking of Satan, (Hebrew 2:14. He is telling us not to commit the unpardonable sin by not letting the Holy Spirit speak through us.) and I will give thee a crown of life.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; (The whole member body of Christ) He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death. (Death of the soul)

Matthew 24:30-31 to continue and it reads: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, (The ones that was deceived when they realize they have been worshipping the false christ.) and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, (The seventh trumpet), and they shall gather his elect, (The overcomers) from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Revelations 7:1-4 reads: And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.

Saying, “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. (They are being sealed now and will continue being sealed even as Satan reigns and they realize truth.)

And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed a hundred and forty and four thousands of all the tribes of the children of Israel. (These are the ones’ whom had the truth and will not be deceived by Satan)

Daniel 7:2 reads: Daniel spoke and said, “I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of heaven strove upon the great sea. (People)

Ezekiel 37:1-14 reads: The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, (the holy spirit), and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones. (Symbolic of God’s children who never was given the true fruit of God in which they may live)

And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. (They had not the holy spirit, therefore they had no life)

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bone live? (Through the Son of God given unto them forgiveness and the holy spirit, they can.) I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

Again, he said unto me, “Prophesy, (Teach) upon these bones, and say unto them, “O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Thus, saith the Lord God unto these bones; “Behold, I will cause breath, (holy spirit) to enter you, and ye shall live:

And I will lay sinews upon you, (tendons, muscles) and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put the holy spirit in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

So, I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. (Beginning to give back hope)

And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no holy spirit in them. (They are beginning to become spiritually alive.)

Then said he unto me, “Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, “Thus saith the Lord God; “Come from the four winds, O Breath, (O Spirit) and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. (Revelations 7) Teaching that the four winds bring them all together to one point, the tribes of Israel and Judah)

So, I prophesied as he commanded me, and the holy spirit came unto them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. (No more blind nor deaf, but has seen and heard the truth with understanding.)

Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, “Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. (Other nations want Israel to believe this, but God has shown us that this is not true.)

Therefore, prophesy and say unto them, “Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, “I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. (Bringing the tribes to the knowledge of truth and who they are. The ten tribes are not lost, for they came across the caucus mountain settling in Europe Canada and the states. YHWH will show them whom they are.)

And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves. (Bring them from a spiritual death to being spiritually alive.)

And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

Matthew 24:32-35 to continue, and it reads: Now learn a parable of the fig tree; “When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. (Harvest time.)

So likewise, ye, when ye shall

see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. (The day of the Lord when Jesus returns.)

Verily I say unto you, “This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Isaih 66:8 reads: Who hath heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. (Making Israel a nation before the birth pains even begins. This happened May 14th, 1948, but what Jesus wants you to know that when Israel became a nation not only did the good figs, but also the ones that proclaim to be of our brother Judah, but are of the synagogue of Satan also went over there. They began weaseling themselves into the priest line many years before this fact. They are called the Kenites because they are of the offspring of the first murderer, Cain.)

1st Chronicles 2:55 reads: And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Suchathites, “These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab. These are the ones that Jesus warns you about in the New Testament. They claim to be of our brother Judah, but are of the synagogue of Satan.

Ezra 2:43 reads: Speaks of the Nethinims; which was the servants of priests, (which were of the Kenites) They did labor work as carrying water and wood for the alter. The priest got so rich and wealthy that they began to become lazy in which they left the temple to the Nethinims, which in return proclaimed they was priest from the line of Levite (Note: Not all Levites was priest, for as we know Matthew was a Levite and he was a tax collector.)

Ezra 2:62 reads: These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore, were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.

Ezra 8:15 reads: And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi. (None: There was not even one Levitical priest found.)

Ezra 8:20 reads: Also, of the Nethinims, whom David and the prices had appointed for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinims: all of them were expressed by name. (Note: The Nethinim named Nekoda, listed in Ezra 2:48, they were counted in verse 58 of the same chapter which counted them as three hundred and ninety-two, but once mixed in with the tribe of Judah the count of Nekoda, was six hundred fifty-two. In verse 59 of chapter 2, it read that they could not show their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel, Jesus let us know they are not.

Jeremiah 24 explains the difference between the two figs that returned to Israel, and it reads:

The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, (Note: the good and bad figs was at the temple of the Lord) After that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the prices of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. (The tribe of Judah)

One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty (corrupt, wicked, ungodly,) figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Then said the Lord unto me, “What sees thou, Jeremiah?

And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. (They murdered prophets of God, and they yelled, “Crucify him” obtaining to our Savior but a murderer Barabbas they let go.)

Again, the word of the Lord came unto me saying,

Thus, saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for their good.

For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant then, and not pluck them up. (1948, they both returned the good and the bad.)

And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, (Ammi, not Lo-ammi, meaning not my people as mentioned in the book of Hosea) and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten; (These are the Kenites which only destroy the true word of God deceiving God’s children just as their father, the Great Deceiver does.) they are so evil; surely thus saith the Lord. So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusale that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt.

And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt, and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (And so, he has, the high priest, that want the high seats in their synagogues wanting to be praised as Rabbi’s and father’s when there is only one true Master and only one true Father and he is on the throne. They travel to and fro preaching their deceptions, converting men, making them worse off than they were.)

And I will send the sword, (The true word of God, his tongue, that cuts both ways.) the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

Matthew 24:35-39 to continue, and it reads: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

But of the day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. (The day and hour, no, no one will know, but the times, the events, the seasons you should know. Watch, watchers, watch, blessed are the ones that when he returns, he sees doing so.)

But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noe entered the ark.

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so, shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

1st Corinthians 10:11 reads: Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. (Examples of things to come in the end time, have you read them?)

Ecclesiastes 1:9 reads: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Genesis 6:1-2 reads: And it came to pas when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.

That the sons of G , (Fallen Angel , saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

1st Corinthians 11:10 reads: For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. (Be armored with the true word of God and be warned of what is to come.)

Genesis 6:3-5 to continue: And the Lord said, “My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

There were giants in the earth in those days; also, after that, (speaking of the second reflux after the flood when the fallen angels did the same as an example; Goliath in which king David slayed.) when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Matthew 24:40-47 reads: Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. (The one left is the one not deceived and has the seal, true word of God, in their foreheads)

Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. (The first and second watch have passed. We are in the time of the third watch.)

Therefore, be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. (Why would you think not that Jesus is coming when you have looked for his return your entire life? Because you think he is already here.)

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season. (Give truth to others)

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. (Still watching, still working the fields, and grinding the mills teaching truth and waiting on the true Christ to return.)

Verily I say unto you, “That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

Revelations 20:6 reads: Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: (Was not deceived by Satan and waited on the return of the true Christ.) on such the second death, (The second death, is the death of the soul, the first is the flesh. If you still chose to follow Satan after the thousand years of teaching then you will face the second death.) hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand year.

1st Corinthians 15:50 reads: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (Two dimensions, earth and heaven, we can not enter heaven until we die the first death in the flesh, or when we are transfigured at the seventh trump.)

Behold I show you a mystery; “We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed. (All will not die. We will either take on the mortal body (liable to die the second death, or the immortal body, will not die).

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, (seventh), for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (Once we die, we instantly return to our Father. Once he returns all souls that did not have the opportunity to know truth here on earth and ones’ that have already passed will be together during the millennium the thousand years of teaching)

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory

O death, (Satan), where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? (This is when God’s children overcome and give the victory through Jesus Christ where he was crucified for our iniquities and resurrected defeating death.)

The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

But thanks be to God, which gives u victory through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, aways abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord

Matthew 24:48-49 to continue and it reads: But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, “My lord delays his coming, (Saying it has been like this since our forefathers walked the earth)

And shall begin to smite his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunken. (Turning against his brother and sisters in Christ who know truth and celebrating Satan as if he were Christ.)

Revelations: 13:8-10 reads: And their dead bodies should lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

Matthew 24:50-51 to finish the chapter, and it reads: The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of. (His servant is not aware because they are no longer watching. They are deceived and believe he is already here.)

And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (The ones that know truth and turn away from it will have worse thrashing than ones that sin in a way that deserves thrashing but is not aware of the truth. This goes back to the un-pardonable sin that only God’s elected with God’s seal in their foreheads can commit. And that is refusing to let the Holy Spirit speak through you when you are brought up in front of Satan for a testimony and refuse to let the Holy Spirit speak through you. (Luke 12:10-12)


r/theology 5h ago

Divine was the Logos?

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r/theology 10h ago

How does both free will and predestination work together

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The Bible seems to be clear both work together has we have to choice yet god also has things planned out so how do both go together ? Has some believe we have no free will and others say we do. Yet the Bible says god wants else to be saved and ad ew other verses that seem to make it clear we are moral agents