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Originally Posted by awareness

There's so much packed into that paragraph.

1) Jesus may now know when he's returning, but he's not telling any more than the Father was telling back then.

And you know this how????

2) "But He is now fully God and fully man." ??? Can a heavenly being be fully man? That's interesting.

He has always been God. The second Person of the Godhead. A Mystery for sure.. But sometimes the "God" part of Him was Blocked by the Father. I will explain in a bit.

when you are praying, .... “Pray, then, in this way:

‘Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
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‘Your kingdom come.
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.


In this passage Jesus was talking to the people by the mountainside..at least 5,000 I believe. (btw.. have you ever thought how all the people heard Him so clearly?? I am sure He made sure every single person heard Him loud and clear without using a megaphone!)

But in John 14:6 Jesus disclosed to His disciples in order to get to the Father in Heaven, they had to go through Him. “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

Why did Jesus not tell that to the people at the mountainside ?

Can you imagine how arrogant He would have come across? They would have stoned Him right then and there!! With His disciples though, He was preparing them to take the gospel out the world. And I am sure they were convinced Jesus was the Savior and Messiah.

Ya know 5 months before getting saved, I was writing a 'Dear God" letter one night. As I was writing, I 'heard' a Voice telling me to call on Jesus. To pray to Him. But in the other ear, the devil (not knowing it was Satan) told me to skip 'the middle Man' and go straight to God.

If there are 2 things, I am forever grateful for being in the LC in San Diego, was I learned to go to the Father through JESUS.

I am so baffled by the number of believers who rarely pray directly to their LORD, JESUS. So many people pray O GOD.. O GOD.. ETC.. in the Name of Jesus. I get the sense they do not know Jesus the Christ. But I may be wrong. And to be clear, I do address the Father at times, the Holy Spirit at other times, and our Sweet Lord Jesus most of the time. Often times, I address all Three. I also pray 'In the Name of Jesus' at times too.

The second important and most important teaching in the scriptures I learned and experienced in the LC was trusting in the PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS, THE BELOVED LAMB OF GOD Who took away all of my sins, past, present and to come. I do not take His Cleansing Blood for granted in any way at all.

I do have to admit that prophecy is captivating. I was caught up in it back in the Hal Lindsey days (before his 1988 failure - and yes, I know he's still active - but if we went by the Old Testament we would have stoned him already).

Hal Lindsey is still around. The man is the most B O R I N G teacher/preacher around. Maybe that's why he has been married 4 times, He bored his wives to death! (Sorry LORD, just a joke..he may bore me, but not You or other people)

I still and always will believe we are in the last SECONDS of the last days. Still a die hard believer in the PRE TRIB RAPTURE followed by the TRIB and the second coming of Christ at the battle of Armageddon WITH HIS armies.

HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED WEEK Harold and everyone here!