Revolution in Iran

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Well, Moses, who happened to know bible doctrine. Knew exactly why Israel is here and knew the eternal/unconditional contract that God made with Israel.
Unfortunately, many believers today will say, "Burn ,baby burn!" Thank God Israel had Moses. Seems the majority of believers today want God to break His contract........with a little bit of glee it seems.

9 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are an obstinate people. 10 So now leave Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”



11 Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said, “LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘With evil motives He brought them out, to kill them on the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and relent of doing harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’” 14 So the LORD relented of the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Galatians 3 says all who are of the faith are the sons of Abraham.

“For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen…” 2 Corinthians 1:20
 
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With all due respect, I must reject your views and believe what my Minister teaches instead.
He taught us that, "Every date-setter in history has been wrong. Such predictions bring disrepute to the Gospel and cause unnecessary trauma when the date passes".
"I believe in the literal, personal return of Jesus Christ. However, because Jesus specifically said no man knows the day or hour, (a day can mean a year in the bible), I must reject all date-setting as unbiblical. I will remain faithful in my calling, by living each day ready for His appearance, rather than chasing predictions".
Date setting for the return of Jesus Christ, is a violation of clear biblical teaching and an exercise in arrogance. My Minister teaches, the sovereignty of God, the authority of Scripture, and the necessity of constant readiness rather than calculation.


Matthew 24:36 "But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only." Anyone claiming to know the date is claiming to know something that Jesus said even He did not know in His humiliation.
Acts 1:7 When the disciples asked about the time, Jesus replied, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority".
1 Thessalonians 5:2 The "day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night." This implies it will be unexpected, unannounced, and sudden, not a predicted date"

Christ could return at any moment. Setting a date (e.g., "September 2026") destroys this imminence because it wrongly suggests Christ cannot come before that date.
"The Bible tells me to look for Christ, not a calendar. Any date set is a contradiction to the doctrine of imminence".
"Jesus tells us to 'watch' (Mark 13:37) because we do not know the time, not to search for clues to build a timeline. My duty is to be doing the work of the Great Commission, not mapping the end times".
With all due respect, I must reject your views and believe what my Minister teaches instead.
He taught us that, "Every date-setter in history has been wrong. Such predictions bring disrepute to the Gospel and cause unnecessary trauma when the date passes".


Certainly NOT true.

I have done the investigation and calculations myself (several times), and have concluded that May 14, 1948 and June 7, 1967 do in fact fall prophetically and mathematically in accord with earlier dates that God intentionally (INTENTIONALLY!) marked for reference.

Get this idea firmly fixed in your mind: God intentionally specified dates. They have purpose. The wise understand this purpose.


Jer 25:11
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Dan 1:1
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.

2Ki 25:1
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Ezr 1:1
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Hag 2:18
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider it. (Kislev 24, 520 BC)

Ezr 6:15
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

Lev 26:18
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

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BTW, I also hear several (carefully chosen) elite pastors of extraordinary scholarly and intellectual abilities and capacities.
And frankly, I do not FULLY agree with any one of them!
Blithely following one pastor is an amateur move. A lesson you will learn in due time. If you stick around long enough.
 
With all due respect, I must reject your views and believe what my Minister teaches instead.
He taught us that, "Every date-setter in history has been wrong. Such predictions bring disrepute to the Gospel and cause unnecessary trauma when the date passes".
This is a brazen assertion that openly defies Scripture. You would be accusing Jesus Himself of being a "date-setter" and "date-chaser".
The truth is that Jesus is the One Who is BOTH setting the dates AND keeping them!

To my point: Jesus "arrived" (for Israel) PRECISELY "on time" in accord with the prophetic template so declared by HIMSELF in Daniel 9.

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Daniel 9:24-27 (the "70 weeks" prophecy) is a precise timeline pointing to the Messiah.
Core elements:

Starting point: The decree of Artaxerxes Longimanus (20th year of his reign) authorizing the rebuilding of Jerusalem, dated to March 14 (or 1 Nisan), 445 BC, based on Nehemiah 2 and astronomical data.

"69 weeks": Daniel 9:25 refers to 69 "weeks" (7 + 62) until "Messiah the Prince." Anderson takes this as 483 years.

Prophetic year: a 360-day "biblical/prophetic year" (common in Genesis 7-8 and Revelation). Thus:
483 years × 360 days = 173,880 days.

Endpoint: Exactly 173,880 days later lands on April 6, AD 32 — the date calculated for Jesus Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday), fulfilling the arrival of the Messiah.

The first 69 weeks has already been fulfilled historically, with the 70th week (the final 7 years) as a future tribulation period involving the Antichrist. This constitutes mathematical proof of biblical prophecy and Christ's messianic claims.
 
God made promises to the faithful in Israel, ie, the believing remnant. That is all.
Infantile ignorant fussy squalling does not in any way constitute itself as sound mature Biblically supported truth.
Neither does the abject and intentional promoting of heresies. That is outright defiance of Biblical truth.

Rom 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Rom 11:28
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching ***the election***, they are beloved (still beloved!) for the fathers' sakes.

Rom 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans around AD 56–57 (most likely during the winter of 56/57), while he was in Corinth, Greece.
Right. God still loved the Jews then, the same way that Jesus loves His brethren the Jews today.
And yes, He WILL redeem them in the near future, as He is the Kinsman Redeemer of Israel.
 
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Chechens are Russians, so this would effectively bring Russia into the war, but probably not officially. About 4 years ago something like 10,000 Chechen special forces resigned from the Chechen army and pledged their loyalty to Putin as his personal army that he could send anywhere in the world to do whatever task he assigned them. Chechens are Sunni, so this would be Sunnis fighting alongside Shias

 
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Infantile ignorant fussy squalling does not in any way constitute itself as sound mature Biblically supported truth.
Neither does the abject and intentional promoting of heresies. That is outright defiance of Biblical truth.

Rom 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

Rom 11:28
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching ***the election***, they are beloved (still beloved!) for the fathers' sakes.

Rom 11:29
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans around AD 56–57 (most likely during the winter of 56/57), while he was in Corinth, Greece.
Right. God still loved the Jews then, the same way that Jesus loves His brethren the Jews today.
And yes, He WILL redeem them in the near future, as He is the Kinsman Redeemer of Israel.

The election are the believing remnant, not all natural Israel. The believing part of Israel that is not hardened are beloved and to them the gifts and calling are without repentance. You are merely spouting the doctrine of the pharisees that rewards unbelief and rebellion.
 
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I have done the investigation and calculations myself (several times), and have concluded that May 14, 1948 and June 7, 1967 do in fact fall prophetically and mathematically in accord with earlier dates that God intentionally (INTENTIONALLY!) marked for reference.

lulz
 

Ceasefire talks collapse as US jet downed over Iran​

Ceasefire negotiations between the US and Iran have broken down after Tehran rejected Washington's demands and refused to meet in Islamabad. The collapse coincides with heightened hostilities, including the downing of a US F-15E fighter jet over Iranian territory, leaving one crew member missing. The setback underscores deepening military and diplomatic deadlock as the conflict enters its sixth week.
 
The only interpretation that makes sense to me is, that "Israel" is the "Church".
Is the Church an enemy of the Gospel? Is the Church in partial blindness until the fullness of the gentiles have come in?

Romans 11:25-28
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.
 
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The election are the believing remnant, not all natural Israel. The believing part of Israel that is not hardened are beloved and to them the gifts and calling are without repentance. You are merely spouting the doctrine of the pharisees that rewards unbelief and rebellion.
Paul is wrong and you are right. Is that what you are trying to say? :censored:
 
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the father's sakes.

Correct interpretation:

As concerning the gospel, the unbelieving part that is blinded are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election that believes, they are beloved for the father's sakes.