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Also to keep with the subject. One night I asked God for a dream about his coming before I went to bed.
That night, I really did get a dream and remembered it, which is rare because I usually forget all my dreams.
I was in a house with a bunch of computers. Everyone all around me were playing my favorite video games I played growing up. The people who were playing included some of my friends and people around the age of those in my youth group. (I'm a youth counselor at my church). I enjoyed watching them but I never yielded to the temptation to play.
Then one of the elders of my church approached me and ask "What makes you accountable?"
And then I responded "It's the glory of heaven that awaits!"
It had nothing to do with the second coming, but I believe God was telling me to persist in faithfulness and spread the message that our momentary suffering is working out to an eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17).
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I think you answered perfectly! You were not attached to the computer games!!
In one of little John's messages (the 10 yr old) he preaches on detachment. "Detach! Detach! Detach!!" Really cute.
That voice sounded so familiar...then I realized it was Jesse Duplantis. LOL.. I had his video until I lent it out.. and you know how that goes! I haven't seen it in years! The video does not have the techno noise though. LOL..the viewers all complained about the techno crap. In the original video, he is sharing from the pulpit.
Here is another video you will like. This man has visited heaven more than 80 times. it is an hr & 38 minutes though but very, very interesting!! No techno noise. :-) There are no pictures but the man's description of the outer court, the Holy Place & the Holy of Holies is awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5QBZU870Ms
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(Note: I believe Jesus lifted paradise from Sheol to heaven after he died - 2 Cor 2:14. The bible teaches that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8). And where is Jesus right now? But at the right hand of the Father in heaven.)
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Why of course !! That reminds me....
A couple of years ago, I was talking to an LC friend who had no clue whatsoever that Paradise was now in heaven.
I explained to her that before Jesus death, the old testament saints went to Paradise which is in the middle of the earth. Hades was the compartment where the wicked reside. I pointed her to the account of the rich man & Lazures. I explained when the Lord ascended, He took paradise with Him to heaven. That is why believers go to heaven when they die because that is where Paradise is and the wicked go to hell/hades located in the middle of the earth.
She had never heard that. Wow. The LC doesn't teach any thing about heaven, paradise does it? or does it? She didn't know.
But she couldn't bring herself to say the word 'heaven'. When I asked her where believers go when their bodies die, she replied "with the Lord" AND WHERE is the LORD at? I would ask. Her reply was a question "Well. Where is He?" She could not bring herself to say HEAVEN!!
Weird...don't know if it was her or the LC..or both. But Lee was way too focused on 'the Recovery'....among other things.
Blessings...
More later!
Carol