Skeptics Galore
My life was affected by a photo I took on Easter Eve 2015
on Thrash land concerning a little black cloud. [EGW] In the
east a small black cloud, about half the size of a man's hand.
It is the cloud which surrounds the Saviour and which seems
in the distance to be shrouded in darkness. [according to GC
page 640] At first, I was a little skeptical of the writings of the
Spirit Of Prophecy. The more I got into the role of shepherding
the flock, the more I believed in Jesus as the Christ. Amen, Amen.
Book of Hebrews chapter 6 Therefore let us leave the elementary
doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foun-
dation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
2 and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the
resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this we will
do if God permits. 4 For it is impossible, in the case of those who
have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and
have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of
the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have
fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are
crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding
him up to contempt. 7 For land that has drunk the rain that often
falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it
is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it bears
thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed,
and its end is to be burned. 9 Though we speak in this way, yet
in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things - things that
belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook
your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving
the saints, as you still do. 11 And we desire each one of you to
show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until
the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those
who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God
made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to
swear, he swore by himself, 14 saying, Surely I will bless you and
multiply you. 15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained
the promise. 16 For people swear by something greater than them-
selves,
and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation. 17 So
when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the
promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed
it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which
it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might
have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope
that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus
has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest
forever after the order of Melchizedek. Chapter 7 verse 1 For this
Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 and to
him Abraham apportioned a tenth part of everything. He is first, by
translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also
king of Salem, that is, king of peace. 3 He is without father or
mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of
life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.
(ESV)
In Hebrews chapter 9, there was directions for the second veil
in the earthly Sanctuary, the entrance to the Sanctuary was the
first veil, and that leads to the literary composition of the book
which one reads as a progressive narrative or sermon. This brings
a different connotation to the Forerunner mentioned in chapter 6,
reference cited the Gospel of John chapter 20, the words of Jesus,
I am not yet ascended to my Father.
Ultimately, I was declared a dreamer by my father in Alabama,
yet I was deep in thought or listening to baseball on the radio.
As an original libertarian my meals were created from scratch
which I developed over the years. Being a pharmacist, I once saw
brown rice on an apothecary shelf in Brawley CA and cultivated
a taste for dates as food in the Coachella Valley. Lived the good
life, but nobody understood. Rest in peace, my sweet dreams.
God is Good.
|
|