You said it. There is error in what Jonathan utters. A true prophet will not contradict the word of God. I also have to correct myself. I said I didnt see much error in his posts, but I also had not read some of his Prophecies. Some are filled with hate and anger. I don't know where in the bible a single prophet spoke with hate and anger. Yet Jonathan said it wasn't his words, but Gods. We all know God is a loving God. He will not speak with hate.
Hi Elizabeth,
Two things about what you posted. God is not just a loving God, (I don't remember a scripture that characterizes Him in such a fashion,) but God is love. The difference is subtle, but very significant.
Secondly, (and this is a difficult request, I know,) read, just read and not study the prophets. Daniel and Ezekiel and Jeremiah and so on, just reading like it is a book. As you read these words which are from God's heart, when you have finished with the last one, then remember that Paul got the doctrines he taught from here.
The first place the Holy Spirit took me to read in the bible to teach me about God and His heart was Lamenations. (I was still broken hearted by the vision of the cross that He had shown me, and this vision just broke me even more.) I went from there to read in His light every prophecy in the bible, just reading and absorbing.
We say that God is a loving God, but we really don't understand what that means. It certainly does not mean that He never says anything harsh or angry. (I would never characterize God as mean, because that attribute belongs to humans and the devil alone.) God most certainly does get angry. Almost right from the beginning of Romans Paul explains how the anger of God burns against the unrighteousness and wickedness of men. it is a constant theme throughout the new testament that God will punish sinners. All sinners.
Paul's doctrine is not simple to explain, but it is very simple to live. He taught that all are sinners, period. And that all sinners must die, as the just result of their sin. Bit when we see the righteousness of God, we try to please Him by living a good life, but it is impossible for us, we are sold under sin. But God in His mercy sent Jesus to die our death due us for sin, so that in Jesus we might live. Notice that we still die, only now it is in Jesus' death, not as sinners, but joined with Christ. And the reason for this is so we can be raised with Him to new life, in His resurrection, in His life. The old life is passed away, literally, and we have become new creatures in Jesus.
If we continue to live in the old life then we must die. But to give us the power to live in the new life God has given us the Holy Spirit, and by Him we put to death the deeds of the flesh. But even more we have the Spirit as our guide, to lead us into all righteousness, but most of all as the seal and the proof and the actual fact of our being His children.
I got distracted.
Anyway, read the prophets, just reading and not studying. This is a revelation every Christian should receive.
In Christ