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The Holy Black Madonna Icon in Poland who survived an attempt of destruction bearing scars and was painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist; doctor and author of The Gospel of Luke and The Book of Acts.

One of my greatest encounters in the "Miracle of CommunionFire"

It was 2014 during a CommunionFire encounter with Jesus while having Communion with my wife Camille in our home. Dining with the Lord upon the bread He calls His flesh, therefore so do I, I saw Jesus in a n octagonal library room that for some reason made me think is this what the rooms in the Library of Congress look like? It was austere and made of 8 walls and a doorway, probably a study room for privacy from the public. Perhaps 10-12 feet high and at 10oclock from where I saw the Lord, the door was open inviting sunlight from another entry/exit door to the outdoors. The light cascaded down the steps probably because the sun was just where it needed to be.

As I took drink of the wine that had become His precious blood, again through the miracle He invites us all to participate in, I felt the fire of His passion transfusing into my bloodstream to quicken me to become the righteousness of God in Christ. He had become sin for me that I might become a partaker of His divine nature.

As I waited for a moment I saw coming from the staircase a scroll surfing on the rays of light from the sunbeam. As it entered the room above our heads it unfurled and out fell the person of a young woman. She stood next to her Son Jesus and Jesus introduced me to His Mother, the Holy Virgin Mary!

About 5 Months later the same vision repeated itself as Camille and I share the Table of the Lord together. It was early morning and this time from the scroll came Saint Peter, Saint Ephraim of Syria, Holy Mother Mary and Saint Joseph. As they stood with Jesus across from me, Mary spoke to me directly for the very first time. She looked at me and with a gentle smile in a soft and caring voice said, "Bob, be bold." That was it and I felt almost translated into a new dimension of faith. About 8 months later I began to go on an evening prayer walk to pray the Rosary. That was almost 3 years ago now on June 20th 2015 and I still take my evening prayer walks praying the Rosary every night. I have to say of a truth, I now know my Savior more personally and intimately because I have met His Mother who now has become my Mother in Christ and my Queen of heaven who is preparing the Bride for her Son.

True Devotion to Mary by St. Louis-Marie de Monfort

10/5/2017

True Devotion to Mary
by St. Louis-Marie de Monfort (Author):

Considered the greatest single book on Virgin Mary ever written, this classic shows the way to Jesus through Mary. It sums up the entire Christian life and provides the key both to sanctity and to salvation.

Beloved by countless souls; makes lasting devotees. St. Louis De Montfort prophesied that True Devotion to Mary would be the way of life of the great Saints of the latter times. This devotion is destined to change the world!

Saint John Paul II (1978--2005):

"The reading of this book was a decisive turning-point in my life. I say 'turning-point,' but in fact it was a long inner journey . . .

This 'perfect devotion' is indispensable to anyone who means to give himself without reserve to Christ and to the work of redemption." . . .

"It is from Montfort that I have taken my motto: 'Totus tuus' ('I am all thine'). Someday I'll have to tell you Montfortians how I discovered De Montfort's Treatise on True Devotion to Mary, and how often I had to reread it to understand it."

Blessed Pope Pius IX (1846--78):

Declared that Saint Louis De Montfort's devotion to Mary was the best and most acceptable form of devotion to Our Lady.

Pope Leo XIII (1878--1903):

Granted a Plenary Indulgence to those who make Saint Louis De Montfort's act of consecration to the Blessed Virgin. On his deathbed he renewed the act himself and invoked the heavenly aid of Saint Louis De Montfort, whom he had beatified in 1888.

Pope Saint Pius X (1903--14): "I heartily recommend True Devotion to The Blessed Virgin, so admirably written by [Saint] De Montfort, and to all who read it grant the Apostolic Benediction." . . ."There is no surer or easier way than Mary in uniting all men with Christ."

Pope Benedict XV (1914--22): "A book of high authority and unction."

Pope Pius XI (1922--39): "I have practiced this devotion ever since my youth."

Pope Pius XII (1939--58): "God Alone was everything to him. Remain faithful to the precious heritage, which this great saint left you. It is a glorious inheritance, worthy, that you continue to sacrifice your strength and your life, as you have done until today."

Pope Paul VI (1963--78): "We are convinced without any doubt that devotion to Our Lady is essentially joined with devotion to Christ, that it assures a firmness of conviction to faith in Him and in His Church, a vital adherence to Him and to His Church which, without devotion to Mary, would be impoverished and compromised."

Vatican Council II (1962--1965): 'The maternal duty of Mary toward men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. All her saving influence on men originates not from some inner necessity, but from the divine pleasure. It flows forth from the superabundance of the merits of Christ, rests on His mediation, depends entirely on it and draws all its power from it.' . . . 'The practices and exercises of devotion to her recommended by the Church in the course of the centuries [are to] be treasured.'

HARBINGERS 2017 The 100th Anniversary of The Miracle of the sun in Fatima

10/2/2017

2017 The 100th Anniversary of The Miracle of Fatima with The 6 Appearances of Holy Mother to the 3 children of Fatima (May 13-October 13 1917) as a pre-cursor or foreshadowing sign of Queen Mary, Virgin Mother of Jesus, Theotokos Mother of God pointing to 100 years later when her Children of Faith looking for the Miracle of her Son Jesus to come in the clouds with power and great glory!

Just like the Miracle of the Sun in 1917, in 2017, May 13th-October 13th the same time period: On May 13th Pope Francis Consecrated Saint Jacinta and Saint Francesco as the youngest Saints ever canonized in the History of the Catholic Faith.

August 13th in 1917 when the 3 innocent children were falsely arrested delaying their meeting with Mary until 8/21/1917 - pointed to 8/21/2017 the time when the Miracle of the USA Total Solar Eclipse would happen. This was immediately followed by the weather attacks of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma that broke loose as a 'season of sorrows' in the USA with neighbors and territories of Mexico and the Caribbean Islands.

September 13th when 30,000 gathered in Fatima Holy Mother announced that the Miracle in 30 days would confirm from heaven the messages delivered by her to the 3 children. This pointed to the two earthquakes in Mexico as another round of natural disasters on the North American Continent. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the Patron of North and South Americas and Our Mother of the Immaculate Conception is the Patron of The United State of America.

Then on September 23, 2017 there was the Miracle of the Constellation alignments of Leo the King (Jesus Lion of Judah) aligning astronomically with Virgo (Holy Virgin Mother Mary, Queen of Heaven with a crown of 12 stars) pointing to Revelation 12:1-2;

October 13th The EVENT of the Miracle of the SUN - which came toward earth to the 70,000 who thought they would die (the dead in Christ shall rise first) then pulled back and began to spin and dance in the sky pointing to (those who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with the Lord) leaving all who were drenched by the rain, and the ground all dried and the lame walked and the blind could see and the deaf could hear in Fatima 1917 pointing towards The Miracle of Her SON, our Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, our blessed hope who will be coming in the clouds with power and great glory!)

*KEY of Total Solar Eclipse: While the natural sun is darkened by the moon the Son of righteousness will arise with healing in His wings and shine brighter and brighter until the full day!

Total Solar Eclipse; Harbinger (weapon) 1 Hurricane Harvey (landed on Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) then went inland to Houston; Harbinger 2 is 8.3 Earthquake in Mexico; Harbinger 3 Hurricane Irma; Harbinger 4 Hurricanes Jose and Maria (Joseph and Mary)

**KEY Revelation 12:1-2 9/23/17 Constellation of King Jesus and Queen Mother Mary in form of the constellations of Leo and Virgo

Harbinger 5 is 7.1 Earthquake in Mexico City followed by two social earthquakes hitting the USA Professional NFL Athletes in stadiums around the world... countless millions battling on the grounds of perceived good and evil (the same fruit the serpent got Adam and Eve to eat - knowledge of good and evil is ruled by the law that points out sin and leads to a death sentence.

*** KEY Rosh Hashanah and the Feast of Trumpets September 20-22

Harbinger 6 is Attack on the innocent of social issues manifested in the likes of campus unrest, the NFL and the lethargy of Christian people to pray and seek God for His solution in His Son, our Lord Jesus. The only solution to the knowledge of good and evil is the revelation in the face of Jesus Christ and knowing His voice as His sheep, the flock in His pasture. Anything else is the zero solution issue of our arrogance and inability to do justly in our own strength because without Jesus it is an impossible equation that is deplete of His mercy as we are left to our own ignorance..

Harbinger 7 October 2, 2017 Then the Entertainment Industry of Las Vegas during an outdoor concert with 30,000 people on October 2, just after Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement 9/30/17 (shedding the blood the of the innocent lamb) remember Yom Kippur War in Israel? Now the enemy chooses the capital of entertainment in Las Vegas as the place to create terror on the innocent through a lone wolf!

In 40 days between

Most devastating Hurricanes in U.S. History Combination of Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria

Most devastating earthquakes in Mexico's history 8.3 and 7.1

Most horrific shooting in U.S. History (58 killed so far and 515 Injured so far)

The issue isn't good and evil being judgments sent by God, it is that it happened where God's mercy may be greatest of all, where The Lord sends His light out to nations around the world like a city set on a hill in the last days.

The enemy wants to compromise the testimony of Jesus as the Good Shepherd who came as The Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world removing judgment on all that believe!

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, makes me lie down in green pastures beside the still waters to restore my soul.

He leads me in the paths of His Testimony, His Story, the paths of salvation and righteousness which He purchased for all who believe on His name.

And even though He leads us into the valley of the shadows of His death on the Cross we will fear NO EVIL for He is holding our hands, His rod and staff will protect and comfort us and then

He invites us to His Table in the wilderness to dine with Him in the faces of our mutual enemies.

While there Dining with Him, we dine upon His presence and it touches our heads like anointing oil opening the revelation of His grace and glory, faithfulness, life, love and hope until our hearts overflow with His goodness and mercy. so that

Others may see and hear and know His Good News.

His goodness, mercy and love in our lives, draws others to Him and they believe because they see the reality of hope within us to be with Him and dwell with Him forever!

Keep your hearts open and lift your hands looking to the skies and the clouds where Jesus is returning with power and great glory, with the voice of the Archangel and the Trump of God the final blast of the feast of Trumpets this year was on September 30th just 14 days before October 13th! Be ready for you know not when the Lord comes but you do know the season...

The Next 12 days October 2 - 13 2017

Who are the 70,000 of 1917 pointing their witness to the testimony of the dancing sun that spun in the sky at the bequest of the Holy Virgin to confirm the word of Her Son to the 3 children? What does their witness mean to us in the next 2 weeks of October, 2017?

What has the enemy planned to distract us and
What are the Lord's plans to Manifest Victory!

Know this: the Lord Jesus will hear every tear and then exchange His beauty for your ashes, His oil of joy for your mourning, the garment of praise for your spirit of heaviness that He might be glorified now and forever!

AESCLJ Amen. Even So, Come Lord Jesus
Revelation 22:20 the final prayer of the Church

The Rosary and Sacred Scripture Part 3

8/10/2017

"Hail"
is the key word here.

Many non-catholic translationns use other words like 'rejoice'.

This is interesting when the heavenly Mystery of the Virgin Mary still has not dawned on the hearts of so many non-Catholic believers; so here is a study from the Scriptures about the Holy Rosary which I now pray everyday.

My introduction to Mary came from no person on earth. My introduction to her was in the light and glory of Jesus we call

The Miracle of CommnionFire.

The Rosary and Sacred Scripture

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.

Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said,
"Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you."

The Greek kecharitomene means favored by grace, graced. Its tense suggests a permanent state of being "highly favored," thus full of grace. Charity, the divine love within us, comes from the same root. God is infinite Goodness, infinite Love. Mary is perfect created goodness, filled to the limit of her finite being with grace or charity.

Blessed art thou among women

Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting,
the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth,
filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,
"Most blessed are you among women..."

Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness;
behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed."

Among all women is a way to say the highest/greatest etc. of a group in Semitic languages (these words would likely have been spoken in Aramaic). Mary is being called the greatest of all women, greater than Ruth, greater than Sarah, greater than EVE! Since Eve was created immaculate (without original sin), Mary must have been conceivedimmaculate. And, although Eve fell into sin by her own free will, Mary must have corresponded to God's grace and remained sinless. She could not otherwise be greater than Eve. Thus, as the Fathers of the Church unanimously assert, Mary is the New Eve who restores womanhood to God's original intention and cooperates with the New Adam, her Son, for the Redemption of the world.

Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus

Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."

Jesus is Mary's fruit. Good fruit does not come from anything but a good tree

(Mt. 7:17-18)! The all-holy Son of God could not be the fruit of any other tree than the Immaculate Virgin.

Holy Mary, Mother of God

Luke 1:43 "And how does this happen to me,
that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

Kyrios is the Greek word used by the Jews in the Septuagint Bible (Greek translation) for Yhwh, the Divine Name of God. In her greeting of Mary, Elizabeth is saying: "How is it that the mother of my God should come to me." Against the heresies of the 4th and 5th centuries which tried to split the Person of Jesus into two, divine and human, denying one or the other, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD proclaimed Mary Theotokos (God-bearer, i.e. mother of God). Jesus is a single Person, a Divine Person, the 2nd Person of the Most Holy Trinity. To be mother of the Person Jesus is to be mother of a Person who is God. Mary's title protects this truth against errors which emphasize or deny, either the divinity or humanity of the Lord.

Pray for us sinners,
Now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Luke 2:35 "...and you yourself a sword will pierce so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."

John 2:5 "His mother said to the servers, "Do whatever he tells you."

Mary sees a need and appeals to Her Son to satisfy it. He does. We turn to Mary to ask her to intercede with her Son in our daily spiritual and material needs, but especially at the hour of our death. At that moment our salvation hangs in the balance as the devil makes his final foray to deter us from the path to God (Rev. 2:10). It is not surprising, therefore, that both the Hail Mary and the Our Father conclude with an appeal to be delivered from the evil one.

The Power of Intercessory Prayer:

Intercessory prayer proceeds from faith in God that holy men and women who have died are as alive today as they were on earth (Luke 20:38). If the prayer of the just man avails much, how much more the prayer of the one made perfect (Rev. 21:27) and living with God in heaven (the patriarchs, apostles and other holy men and women).

James 5:16b "the fervent prayer of a righteous man is very powerful."

Rev. 5:8 "When he took it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each of the elders held a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of the holy ones.

The angels, too, mediate our prayers. This is taught explicitly in the Jewish book of Tobit (Tob. 12:12), accepted by Christians as inspired until Luther on his own authority rejected it. It remains part of the Catholic Bible.

Tobit 12:12 I can now tell you that when you,
Tobit, and Sarah prayed, it was I who presented
and read the record of your prayer before
the Glory of the Lord; and I did the same thing
when you used to bury the dead.

Rev. 8:3 "Another angel came and stood at the altar,
holding a gold censer. He was given a great quantity
of incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the
holy ones, on the gold altar that was before the throne."

Is the Rosary mindless babbling?

The purpose of the different beads on the rosary is to count the various prayers as they are said. Unlike the Moslem prayer beads and the mantras of Buddhism, the prayers of the rosary are meant to occupy our whole being, body and soul, while meditating on the truths of the Faith. Any prayer is vain, however, if said mechanically without devotion. Simply to repeat prayers is not the vain repetition condemned by Christ (Mt 6:7), since He Himself repeats His prayer in the Garden three times (Mt 26:39, 42, 44) and the Psalms (inspired by the Holy Spirit) are often very repetitive (Ps 119 has 176 verses and Ps. 136 repeats the same phrase 26 times).

Matthew 6:7 In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Psalm 136:1-26
Praise the LORD, who is so good;
God's love endures forever;
Praise the God of gods;
God's love endures forever;

. . . Praise the God of heaven,
God's love endures forever.

Matthew 26:39 He advanced a little and fell prostrate in prayer,
saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me;
yet, not as I will, but as you will."

Matthew 26:42 Withdrawing a second time, he prayed again,
"My Father, if it is not possible that this cup pass
without my drinking it, your will be done!"

Matthew 26:44 He left them and withdrew again and prayed
a third time, saying the same thing again.

The Church believes that it is necessary for a Christian to meditate (prayerfully think about) the will of God, the life and teachings of Jesus, the price He paid for our salvation, and so on. Unless we do this we will begin to take these great gifts for granted and ultimately fall away from the Lord. Every Christian must meditate in some way in order to preserve the gift of salvation (James 1:22-25).

Many Catholic and non-Catholic Christians prayerfully read and apply Scripture to their lives, that is, meditate on them. With the rosary this can be done virtually anywhere and anytime.

The Holy Rosary - Part One

7/8/2017

From St. Louis De Montfort: After Holy Communion
270. After Holy Communion, close your eyes and recollect yourself. Then usher Jesus into the heart of Mary: you are giving him to his Mother who will receive him with great love and give him the place of honour, adore him profoundly, show him perfect love, embrace him intimately in spirit and in truth, and perform many offices for him of which we, in our ignorance, would know nothing.271. Or, maintain a profoundly humble heart in the presence of Jesus dwelling in Mary. Or be in attendance like a slave at the gate of the royal palace, where the King is speaking with the Queen. While they are talking to each other, with no need of you, go in spirit to heaven and to the whole world, and call upon all creatures to thank, adore and love Jesus and Mary for you. "Come, let us adore."

272. Or, ask Jesus living in Mary that his kingdom may come upon earth through his holy Mother. Ask for divine Wisdom, divine love, the forgiveness of your sins, or any other grace, but always through Mary and in Mary. Cast a look of reproach upon yourself and say, "Lord, do not look at my sins, let your eyes see nothing in me but the virtues and merits of Mary." Remembering your sins, you may add, "I am my own worst enemy and I am guilty of all these sins." Or, "Deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man." Or again, "Dear Jesus, you must increase in my soul and I must decrease." "Mary, you must increase in me and I must always go on decreasing." "O Jesus and Mary, increase in me and increase in others around me."

273. There are innumerable other thoughts with which the Holy Spirit will inspire you, which he will make yours if you are thoroughly recollected and mortified, and constantly faithful to the great and sublime devotion which I have been teaching you. But remember, the more you let Mary act in your Communion the more Jesus will be glorified. The more you humble yourself and listen to Jesus and Mary in peace and silence - with no desire to see, taste or feel - then the more freedom you will give to Mary to act in Jesus' name and the more Jesus will act in Mary. For the just man lives everywhere by faith, but especially in Holy Communion, which is an action of faith.

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The Holy Rosary Part 2 What is the Rosary

7/7/2017

Where Your Treasure is there will Your Heart Be Also

EWTN https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/rosary/how_to.htm

The Rosary Prays The Lord's Prayer & Life of Jesus with The Holy Mother

Joyful Mysteries - Monday & Saturday Luminous Mysteries - Thursday

Sorrowful Mysteries - Tuesday & Friday Glorious Mysteries - Wednesday & Sunday

Behold the Beauty of the Lord in His glory, joy, heavenly light and suffering

Mary: The Surest & Safest Way to Jesus
As I have previously written, most of my life has been one bad decision after another. This rocky road started for me when I was 14 years old and decided to leave the Catholic Church. It was all downhill from there. Since that first wrong turn, so many decades ago, there have been only two decisions in my life that have withstood the test of time: marrying my husband, and returning to the Catholic Church. As I have also written, even upon returning to the Church, I still made very bad decisions which took me in very wrong directions.

I have finally come to the conclusion that I can't trust myself. The theme of my life can be summed up by Proverbs 14:12: "There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death." I have also recently come to see, more clearly than ever, just how sinful and evil I really am. My sins completely distort my view of God and His Will.

Getting good counsel, reading all the right things, going to Mass every day, receiving the Sacraments - in other words, doing all the right things, still brings me up short because, even with the great, limitless mercy of God, a lifetime of sins has left me a spiritual cripple. I can keep going as I am, but my spiritual progress is long and slow as I fight my greatest enemy: myself.

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Coincidence That 100th Anniversary of Fatima Coincides with the Sign & Wonder of Manifestation of Revelation 12 in the Stars or Final Warning?

2/21/2017

click on the picture of those who see the sign of Fatima for the video link

click on the official logo to see the official 100th Anniversary website

For almost one hundred years, the miraculous apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima have been inspiring the faith of millions, and EWTN is honored to add new and inspiring programs based on the young Fatima visionaries starting in May and continuing until May of 2017. Click to See Details

“But you are not in darkness, that this day should overtake you like a thief.” 1 Thessalonians 5:4

Now a great sign appeared in heaven:
a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a garland of twelve stars.
Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
REVELATION 12:1-2

"He delivers and rescues and performs signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has also delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."
Daniel 6:27

Fatima 100th Anniversary Year ~ What Happened 33 Years Ago and Why is that Important to the Whole World? Part Two: A momentary release from the harness of time and space to interrupt one woman for the sake of all mankind...

2/3/2017

Click this picture for Part One if ou missed it.. gives you the background to this series

...I did some... math...

I was reading 33 Days to Morning Glory on a journey with the Holy Spirit to Marian Consecration.

On Day 21 I ran across some dates that were very revealing to me. I haven't heard of others who have noticed this as yet.

If my theological assumptions as a South Carolina baptacostal, evangeliical, charismatic ragamuffin are anywhere close, maybe even 'within the ballpark', consider:

Saint Anna gives birth to the Emmaculata: Mary (by virtue of a miracle that can only be traced to God's grace and eternal blessing)

Saint Gabriel Comes to Virgin Mary to announce birth of Jesus

Holy Spirit becomes the eternal, heavenly spouse of Mary to conceive Jesus

Mary goes to Elzabeth who says "How is it that the Mother of My Lord comes to my house?"

This is told by one, who knew Jesus His whole life, to Luke and Luke (not one of the 12) writes one of the four Gospels, which is even considered to be 'synoptic' to Matthew and Mark. John has his very own distinction as the one who Jesus loved. Meaning an additional heavenly grace and blessing on one of the Sons of Zebedee.

As told to Him by... ready for this? The Holy Mother of God, The Theotokos, The Ever Virgin Mary who is living with Saint John after the Crucifixion.

.Without immediate details from the map of how I arrived to this conclusion... at this point, please, for a moment, rediscover, like an excited kid who wants to hear one more good story before going to bed, your hunger to collect clues as the story unfolds.

Mary has 33 years (30 of which are alone with Jesus and and a few years with Saint Joseph). Mary spent every day of her life from the womb to the tomb at Jesus side.

She knows things that it would take 2,000 years for the world to even begin to know. Saint John himself said that there were not enough books in the world to contain all that Jesus said and did in 3 years! Can you imagine what Mary, his beloved Mother, must have known? By living with John can you imagine what else John came to know about His Savior and Lord and best friend? And what did he, apart from the other 11 learn about Mary outliving the others by 30 years or so?

Then, what about Luke? He knew Saul/Paul before He met Jesus and then didn't meet Mary until who knows how long? but when He did come to know Her as the Holy Virgin Mother of God ad interviewed her before the writing of His Gospel, Luke for conveying some very important moments from those things that she pondered in her heart. Then Luke wrote the book of Acts for Paul, or the revelation of Paul's Gospel.

Got your attention yet?

Isn't it possible that she was unique among all humankind and selected from all women in all of creation to be the celebrated Holy One of a kind human vessel that, though born with the Adamic nature like the rest of us, was somehow preserved by od to be without the stain of sin who was the only one worthy of God, because of his great love for us and for His only Son, to become the other of God become flesh?

Wow!

Mary was a little bit more than selected, she was chosen before the begining to become the new Eve who would bring redemption into the world by giving birth to the Only Son of God to be the Son of Man as the Lamb of God who could take upon Himself the sin of Adam and the sins of the whole world. He was to become the only one who could take upon hHimself our sin so that He could make anyone 'heaven-ready' by His grace.

Think about this too. Mary would 'house God in her womb' for nine months she became the Ark of the Covenant, She would give birth to HIm in a perfect and emaculately clean, pure and holy wormb, because we know that darkness cannot house light! Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit when He overshadowed her and she said, "okay" to becoming the Mother of the Lord. In this case then, the arc of time and space was put on hold for a miraculous, one time event in the midst of His own creation to Create a relationship with one woman that would produce the Word made flesh to dwell among us just as He dwelled inside of Mary for 9 months.

Keep reading, imagining and faith-pretending if you will for the moment. Don't we all kind of faith-pretend until faith is rewarded by ways that God confirms the truth to us so that the blindness of faith rewards us with the birth of truth!

What if the Lord, by His Holy Spirit asked you to give Him a penny or a dime or a quarter when you were twelve or a bag of chips that you wanted to a homeless person? Do you emember the relie and then the joy that caught your heart the very first time? Isn't it wonderfuul that God rewards us with a greater sense of His reality when we do something He leads us to do and we find His grace to do it and then He goes on to reward us for our conduct and attitude.

What if you were 13 or 14 year old youong lady and an angel came from the very Throne of heaven and told you, "Hail chosen one, God wants to bless you! He wants you to become the Mother of His Son!"

Mary said, "If that is what God wants, i belong to Him, so that is fine with me. But how is this physically possible since I am a virgin?"

The Archangel Gabriel said to her, "This is a very special occasion and this will happen as a miracle in your womb when the Holy Spirit overshadows you."

Mary said, "May this be done to me according to the message you delivered to me."

Mary then runs to Her older Aunt Elizabeth (also called cousin, who was the sister of her Mother, St. Anna) Anna like her sister Elizabeth was barren and therefore considered cursed by God. The Archangel Gabriel visited her as well and told her husband Zacharius that Elizabeth's son would be named John, just as he told mary that her son was to be named Jesus!

I know this sounds like family stuff... but don't get bored... this is not just any family. This is the only and one of a kind family that never was before nor ever shall be agin. The wheels of heaven were in motion and God was moving to earth by virtue of His onl begotten Son and this would be announced by the miraculous boirth of His cousin John, the greatest (Jesus said it) prophet of all Old Covenant time.

We will be covering a few of the following in the coming days and weeks.

* The first 9 day Novena was led by Jesus Mother, Mary, with the 120 until the Coming of the Holy Spirit! Mary was giving a nine day prayer seminar on "How to Receive Miracles from God!"

* Saint Pope John Paul II Went to heaven on the eve of the Feast of Divine Mercy

* Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, French (31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Roman Catholic priest and Confessor. He was known in his time as a preacher and was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI. As well as preaching, Montfort found time to write a number of books which went on to become classic Catholic titles and influenced several popes. Montfort is known for his particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the practice of praying the Rosary. Montfort is considered as one of the early writers in the field of Mariology. His most notable works regarding Marian devotions are contained in The Secret of Mary and the True Devotion to Mary. The Roman Catholic Church, under the pontificate of Pope Pius XII canonized Montfort on July 20, 1947.[1] A "founders statue" created by Giacomo Parisini is located in an upper niche of the south nave of Saint Peter's Basilica.

Saint Maxmillian Kolbe (Polish) 1. Mary appeared to him as a boy.
Baptized as Raymund Kolbe, our saint was a normal child and the stories of his childhood don’t have the false patina that Flannery O’Connor said exist in the stories of pious children. Yet there is this one stunning exception. One night in Kolbe’s childhood, Our Lady appeared to him in a dream holding a white crown and a red crown. He later related, “She asked if I was willing to accept either of these crowns. The white one meant that I should persevere in purity, and the red that I should become a martyr. I said that I would accept them both.” So, yes, St. Maximillian had a normal childhood, but with one tremendous difference that was to define the course of his life.

Lourdes and St. Bernadette (France)

Fatima Saint Lucia (Portuguese)

St Theresa of the Little Flowers

St. Padre Pio (Italian)

St. Faustina and Divine Mercy (Polish)

St. John Paul II (Polish)

St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Brittish)

Pope Francis 2017

and others...

We are living in a time unequalled in all of Jewish, Muslim and Christian History. We are living in the days when Jesus Christ will return in the clouds with power and great Glory!

This is the most exciting moment in Time/Space History!

Stay tuned...

And a child shall lead them...

Blessed Jacinta Marto, of Fátima, 1917. Shortly before her death at age 9, Jacinta asked everyone to consecrate to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Cosmosian Christian Faith From the CommunionFire

1/31/2017

CommunionFire Word-Smithing: Cosmosian
pronounced: kaus-moh'-zian

The supernatural realm of unseen cosmos micro and macro - only accessed through ongoing true scientific theory and faith that is Communion-centric.

It is the power released in essence and resident in the bread and wine that has been blessed by Jesus Christ. By grace through faith of those who believe in their heart and confess their faith through conversion, conversation and tangible expressions of worship and missions of mercy, empowered by Holy Spirit baptism by Jesus Christ, can see and hear spiritually.

Science has been talking about parallel dimensions, parallel universe structuring and string theory upheld by the basics of Newton, Einstein and others. The bending of time or flat universes perceives that flt may not be flat but slightly bent as talked about through Steven Hawking and Michio Kaku

Occasionally my rant will include preaching that says "Cosmosian Theology" a kind of String theory, parallel Universe concept creating a need for cosmic theology.

What does this entail?

How about what happened between Genesis 1:1a and Genesis 1:b
Could that be the Ice Age or "Ice Epic"? before the Flood Age of Noah?

What about an antidaluvian people group?

PreAdamic race?

Come on don't tell me you haven't heard of these or how about...

Job and the ultimate barriers of time and space being broken through by level of vision that pierced through to see revelation of the first and second coming of Jesus in Job 19.

Rant: Jesus is Very Pro-Supernatural
So are the Creeds... In the name of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit... "I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth..."

What about the OT appearances of the 4th man or the Angel of theLord?

These are types and shadows of Jesus?

Or were thay actual appearances of Christ, the Word of God taking on the appearance of a man or Angel capital "A" ?

King and High Priest Melchizzadek?

The Angel and other two angels of Abraham to negotiate for the the judgement on Sodom?

What about Heaven's intervention with a Ram from God in place of Isaac, the type of Christ or the ladder of Jacob, which like Jesus revealed angels ascendng nd descending into the vestibule of heaven?

What about the 70 plus Moses, Joshua and Abner who went halfway up Sinai before the Law was given in Exodus 24 where they found themselves on a field of lapis lazuli - stone so clear blue they thought they were standing on the sky as they ate and drank with God?

There are so many episodes in the OT pointing to Jesus that we are working on another book to deal with this phenomenon.

Then what about Gospel fulfilment of the times and seasons of Jewish culture and law in the life of Jesus?

Mary, His Mother becomin Queen of heaven by Jewish culture and history? Or did you know abut that one? What about the early Church that had no New Testament Canon of Scripture for the first 400 years of the Chuurch? How did they possibly get along without aNew Testament? Ever hear off Jesus, the Word made Flesh who then sent His Holy Spirit to confirm the reality of His presence accessed through the bread and wine of Communion that Jesus called His flesh and Blood? Is Commnion just a symbolic act? Is it just a Memorial?Or is it something powerfilled from heaven, full of grace and truth like Holy Virgin Mother Mary Queen of Heaven and John's declaration as Jesus approached him for baptism, "Behold the Lamb of God Who Takes Awaythe Sins of the World!"

What about Sola Scriptura vs. Apostolic Succession, Liturgy and Holy Scriptuure that includes the Apocrypha? (There is the Roman version and the Easten Orthodox versions of the Apocrypha... hmmmm

What about Sola Scriptura vs. Apostolic Succession, Liturgy and Holy Scripture that includes the Apocrypha? (There is the Roman version and the Easten Orthodox versions of the Apocrypha... hmmmm

The Seven Solas that have emerged as a consequence of the Reformation and ensuing adjustments among 40,000 non-catholic (Western or Eastern) Schismatic denominations.

Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")

Sola fide ("by faith alone")

Solus Christus or Solo Christo
("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone")

Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")

Sola Gratia, or ("only Grace")

Sola Ecclesia ("the Church alone")

Sola Caritas ("Charitable-love alone)
Evangelical Alliance
The Cambridge Declaration of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century changed Christianity forever.
Roused to action by the corruption and abuses they saw in the Roman Catholic church of the time, visionary pastors and leaders like Martin Luther and John Calvin spearheaded a movement that transformed Christianity and eventually led to the emergence of the Protestant denominations that exist today.
The Reformers were guided by the conviction that the church of their day had drifted away from the essential, original teachings of Christianity, especially in regard to what it was teaching about salvation—how people can be forgiven of sin through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and receive eternal life with God. The Reformation sought to re-orient Christianity on the original message of Jesus and the early church...
- The Five Solas are five Latin phrases (or slogans) that emerged during the Reformation to summarize the Reformers’ theological convictions about the essentials of Christianity.
  The Five Solas are:
  Let’s have a brief look at each of these five points.
  
  http://www.theopedia.com/the-cambridge-declaration-of-the-alliance-of-confessing-evangelicals
  
  http://www.alliancenet.org/
- Soli Deo Gloria (“to the glory of God alone”): We live for the glory of God alone.
- Solus Christus (“Christ alone”): Jesus Christ alone is our Lord, Savior, and King.
- Sola Gratia (“grace alone”): We are saved by the grace of God alone.
- Sola Fide (“faith alone”): We are saved through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
- Sola Scriptura (“Scripture alone”): The Bible alone is our highest authority.
- Catholic 101
  
  During the Protestant Reformation, the Reformers invented five Latin solas (sola means only), that summarized their protestant belief system about getting "saved". They are :
  
  Sola fide ("by faith alone")
  Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
  Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
  Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone")
  Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
  
  The Catholic Church recognizes seven sacraments:
  http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-7-catholic-sacraments-definition-history-quiz.html#lesson
  - Baptism.
  - Eucharist.
  - Confirmation.
  - Reconciliation.
  - Anointing of the sick.
  - Marriage.
  - Holy orders.

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What to do?

Where are the non- roman catholic/eastern catholic theologians who:

Write about Church history between 400 AD and 1500 AD?
Have Communion on a Constant Basis or Every Day
Understand CommunionFire
Understand that there is more to it than Graphe
The Word includes Jesus the Logos Made Flesh
The Word includes the Phos and Rhema of the Holy Spirit
Understand that it is in His glory we are transformed
Pray the Rosary
Pray the Divine Mercy
Would rather spend time at the Lord's Table than enything else in this life
Embrace all Christians with the Love of Jesus oman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestants and all who love Jesus including the Evangelicals and Charismaics of all persuations
Desire like Jesus for all to come to salvation and are willing to prove it by laying aside every single weight that would distract you from doing otherwise!

Etc... 2017 Its time to fly toward heaven.

Where are the Catholics (Eastern and Western)

Who want the Eucharsitic Adoration to show and tell... Jesus favorite thing is to reveal Himself to those who are His friends
Who want the medicine and fire of the Eucharist
Who want to personalize Evangelization by showing the divine mercy of Holy Mar and Her Son?
Who embrace Christians of all backgrounds who are within the relational bounds of an Orthodoxy and Praxis of love for Jesus Christ?
Who want all Christians to be catholic?
Who open the doors of their hearts to be embraced even by those 'who don't get it yet?
To lay aside every weight that keeps you from the fresh air and revelation of the reality of heaven

And And And

What will you do when you see Him coming in the clouds? Are you going to judge who should or should not
Have eternal Life
Be embraced by Him for Eternity
Be raised up
Be "In Him"
In whom He should dwell
Our stampswill not get us to heaven
Only the Seal of Grace by the power of the Holy Spirit for all who BElIEVE

#BobBeBold
#BeBoldBelieve

Abram/Abraham & Sarai/Sarah's (for Zeb) BeBold

11/12/2016

Prophecy comes from the root word PHOS a ray of heaven's light that breaks through the clouded skies... od spoke to Abraham and revealed His promises

For Zeb from Bob-Bob

To The Young Man of God and Potler Tribe
The B-Boys and The Starmen and Starwomen,
Blessed be the name of Jesus Christ
by whom we have eternal life
#BeBoldBelieveBig

As said by G.K.Chesterton

A Thing Worth Doing by ACS
QUESTION: I keep hearing people quote Chesterton as saying,

"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

Where did he say that? And what on earth did he mean by it?

ANSWER: To answer your first question first, he said it in his wonderful and timely book, What’s Wrong with the World, which was written in 1910.

Your Question
Why in Genesis does Abraham and his wife keep going into kingdoms and saying they are just brother and sister? Zeb 11/8/16

In the following three parts I will at least try to answer your very good question badly! Love You! bob-bob

Part One:
Background: Brief outline of the life of Abraham
Take a look at the first part summarizing the chapters in Genesis that have to do with Abraham's life.

Part Two: 2 Chapters you refer to in your question
Genesis Chapters 12 and 20 in two columns

Part Three: Below the 1st Song
A Brief Commentary
Man's Fallen Condition
God's Continued Love & Grace
Before the Law of Moses,
During the Law of Moses and finally
in the days of God's love shown in the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus to the full day.

PART ONE
Descendants of Noah - Shem, Ham & Japheth

Genesis 11
verse 10 These are the records of the generations of Shem [from whom Abraham descended]. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the flood.

There were 9 generations from Shem and Abram was the tenth generation since the days of Noah.

Noah - Shem - Arpachshad - Shelah - Eber - Peleg - Reu - Serug - Nahor - Terah - Abram, Nahor and Haran <-firstborn and was father of Lot

verse 31 Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.

Genesis 12 see below

Genesis 13
Abram and lot go their separate ways

Genesis 14
Abraham rescues Lot and defeats 4 enemy kings and kingdoms and rescues 5 'friendly' ally kingdoms and takes the spoil of victory with 318 men! It was lot, his nephew that was his motive for asking and finding divine deliverance. Then Melchizzadek, King and high Priest of Salem appeared bringing Bread & Wine and Abraham responded by 'tithing' 1/10th of all the spoils of war and did war no more! From then on The Lord dd all the judgment and warfare - from heaven! He intervened with dreams, angels, visions and other supernatural revelations blessing those who blessed his family and brought destruction on those who refused him or his people. In Abrahams life and the life of his sons, Isaac and Ishmael and Jacob and Esau we see the honor of god for the people He loves by covenant or agreements until the days of Moses, David, Elijah and the 1st Coming of the Word made Flesh - God become man giving Him the name Jesus!

http://www.communionfire.com/blog/first-mention-of-the-elements-in-communionfire-part-iii-then-melchizedek-brought-out-bread-wine

Abram and Melchizedek

17 Then after Abram’s return from the defeat (slaughter) of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

18 [c]Melchizedek king of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) brought out bread and wine [for them]; he was the priest of [d]God Most High. 19 And Melchizedek blessed Abram and said,

“Blessed (joyful, favored) be Abram by God Most High,
Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth;

20 And blessed, praised, and glorified be God Most High,
Who has given your enemies into your hand.”
And Abram gave him a tenth of all [the treasure he had taken in battle].

Genesis 15
God Promises Abraham son

Genesis 16
Barren, Sarah offers Hagar to have the promised son

Genesis 17
God creates the Covenant of circumcision to set apart Abraham's children from the rest of the world, begining with Ishmael and Abram becomes Abraham and Sarai becomes Sarah (the "ah" means the name of God so as to ratif the covenant of circumcision.)

Genesis 18
The Three Angels visit Abraham to announce that Sarah will give birth to the son God promised Abraham and to warn Abraham about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Abraham intercedes for Lot and his family. 2 angels go to rescue Lot and family and Abraham. Type of Jesus and foreshadow of angels and deliverance of God's family.

Genesis 19
Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, death of Lot's wife. Lot and his family relocate, daughters get him drunk and sleep with him and one gives birth to Moab father of the Moabites and the other daughter gives birth to Ben-Ammi, father of the Ammonites. Type of the last days

Genesis 20 see below

Genesis 21
Isaac Born; verse 4 So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born. Shadow of the Covenanted people

Genesis 22
Isaac on Mount Moriah as type of Golgotha

Genesis 23
Death and Burial of Sarah as type of Mother Mary? (Isaac)

Genesis 24
Bride (Rebekah) for Isaac as type of Bride of Christ, second coming and wedding feast of the Lamb

Genesis 25
Abraham's Death and the children of Ishmael and Isaac

Part Two
The Green indicates the Brother/Sister references
The Black indicates general text of the story
The Yellow indicates where or how the Lord intervened
The Red Burgundy is where we follow Abraham
Blue headers and names

Abram Journeys to the Negev then to Egypt Blessed but Deceptive

Genesis Chapter 12

Now [in Haran] the Lord had said to Abram,

“Go away from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house,

To the land which I will show you;

Promise One
2 And [a] I will make you a great nation,

Promise Two
And I will bless you [abundantly],

Promise Three
And make your name great (exalted, distinguished);

Promise Four
And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];

Promise Five
3 And I will bless (do good for, benefit) those who bless you,

Promise Six
And I will curse [that is, subject to My wrath and judgment] the one who curses (despises, dishonors, has contempt for) you.

Promise Seven
And in you all the families (nations) of the earth will be blessed.”

Abram at 75

4 So Abram departed [in faithful obedience] as the Lord had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.

5 Abram took Sarai his wife (age 66) and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the people (servants) which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [great] terebinth (oak) tree of Moreh.

Now the [b] Canaanites were in the land at that time.

7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said,
“I will give this land to your descendants.”

So Abram built an altar (at Sheckem at the great oak tree of Moreh)
there to [honor]
the Lord who had appeared to him.

8 Then he moved on from there

Between the House of God and Heap of Ruins

to the mountain on the east of Bethel (house of God), and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai (heap of ruins) on the east;

and there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord

[in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].

9 Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev (the South country of Judah).

10 Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.

11 And when he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife,

“Listen: I know that you are [c] a beautiful woman; 12 so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me [to acquire you], but they will let you live.

13 Please tell them that you are [d] my sister... so that things will go well for me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”

14 And when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

15 Pharaoh’s princes (officials) also saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken [for the purpose of marriage] into Pharaoh’s house (harem).

16 Therefore Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

17 But the Lord punished Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18 Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and go!”

20 So Pharaoh told his men concerning him; and they escorted him on his way, with his wife and all that he had.

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Abraham’s Deception to King Abimalech of Gerar Back in the Negev

Genesis Chapter 20

Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev

Negev (desert in the South country)
= negeb: From an unused root meaning to be parched; the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine) -- south (country, side, -ward).

and settled between
The Sanctuary and The Wall

Kadesh =
The same as qadesh; sanctuary; Kadesh, a sacred place in the Desert
and

Shur =
Shur: a desert region Southwest of Pal. on E. border of Egypt; From shuwr; a wall (as going about)

then he lived temporarily in Gerar

Gerar. Probably from garar; a rolling country; Gerar, a Philistine city – Gerar – Drag away

Abram 99 years old (who became Abraham (abr–jah–am) "exalted of God”; father," the father of the Jewish nation [about 99-100 years old at the time]

said [again] of

Sarai 90 years old (princess) who became Sarah = sar/jah (princess of God); wife of Abraham [Sarah was about ninety years old at this time.],

“She is my sister.”

So Abimelech
Abimelek: "father is king," a Philistine name, also an Israelite name; From ‘ab’ + ‘melek’; father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites -- Abimelech.

king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem].

note: [The word “Abimelech” may be a royal title instead of a proper name. In either case this man is probably the father or grandfather of Abimelech king of the Philistines encountered later by Isaac (26:1).]

But God came to Abimelech in a dream during the night, and said,“Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken [as your wife], for she is another man’s wife.”

4 Now Abimelech had not yet come near her; so he said,

“Lord, will you kill a people who are righteous and innocent and blameless [regarding Sarah]?

5 Did Abraham not tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this.”

6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this in the integrity of your heart, for it was I who kept you back and spared you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not give you an opportunity to touch her. 7 So now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her [to him], know that you shall die, you and all who are yours (your household).”

8 So Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were terrified.

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him,

“What have you done to us? And how have I offended you that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin?

You have done to me what ought not to be done [to anyone].”

10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What have you encountered or seen [in us or our customs], that you have done this [unjust] thing?”

11 Abraham said,
“Because I thought, ‘

Surely there is no fear or reverence of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.’

12 Besides, she actually is my [half] sister; she is the daughter of my father [Terah], but not of my mother; and she became my wife.

13 When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her,

‘This kindness and loyalty you can show me: at every place we stop, say of me,

“He is my brother.”

14 Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him [as God commanded].

15 So Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.”

16 Then to Sarah he said, “Look, I have given this brother of yours a [d]thousand pieces of silver [Perhaps about three years’ or a thousand days’ wages.]; it is to compensate you [for all that has happened] and to vindicate your honor before all who are with you; before all men you are cleared and compensated.”

17 So Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, and they again gave birth to children, 18 for the Lord had securely closed the wombs of all [the women] in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Amazing Grace Breaks Every Chain
Covenant is About Being Part of
God's Family First and Always
The Revelation of God's Love Melts Away
The Icy Grip of Knowing Good and Evil
The Ocean of God's Eternal Love
Constantly Pounds My Heart with Waves of Jesus' Grace

Part Three:
Commentary
Your Question
Why in Genesis does Abraham and his wife keep going into kingdoms and saying they are just brother and sister? Zeb 11/8/16

Abraham was called by God to become the father of His Holy People Israel. He did this by Agreements He made with Abraham. His intention was to have a people for His name that would have an eternal relatonship with Him. The Trinity of God is Love because God is love and He needed to extend the object of His love so He made man in His image. Man fell but God's love or him never failed. (The word "Man" is inclusive of all mankind; ie., men and women, mankind and womankind).

Man had to be given the free choice to love Him back but that did not change His eternal love for His created family. Man fell pray to the serpent's cleverness who manipulated Adma and Eve into thinking God's command not to eat from one tree He created, The Tree of Knowlege of Good and Evil.

God said they would die if they disobeyed this one little demand among the thousands of blessings, trees, produce and great provision He created for them to live in free of labor and filled with the presence of His love.

So for the next era of generation from Adam to Noah there was a progression of children, Cain and Abel on through to Enoch, Methusela, Lamech and Noah. (10 generations Genesis 5)

Father Adam actually lived almost to the days of Noah's flood so that he saw most of those ten generations. Then the earth was destroyed by a global flood and Noah began where Adam and Eve left off by his 3 sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth to create a people for His name. Now man was fallen and corrupt by the serpent's deception of Eve and Adam and Eve's disobedience. So, God created a covenant with Noah (the rainbow) to assure them he would not destroy the earth by flood ever again.

So from the sons of Shem came 10 genrations to the birth of Abram. By that time another set of fallen humanity had evolved through the sons of Ham and Japheth. God was preparing through Abram's seed to create then next event of the Patriarchs of the Hebrew people. This would lead to the advent of Joseph and benjamin the first and the last of the sons of Jacob, who both shared the same mother Rachel, Then through a series of events came 400 years in Egypt, the miracle preservation of Moses and 80 years later the release from slavery and Egypt of a nation of people destined to inherit the promised land establiished by the Patriarchs 440 years earliier.

So in the days of Abraham God gave him power to conquor the inhabitants of the land God promised to him. After defeating the enemies of God, Melchizzadek the High Priest and King of Salem brought bread and wine and Abraham dd war nomore. This advent of peace meanth that God would protect and battle for Abraham and Sarah, nomatter what the situation. Abraham was suspicious of everyone and knew that if he was killed Sarah would not survive and God's plan for a nation that would be a blessing to all the nations of the earth would perish. So Abrraham to protect himself and the promise of God took it upon himself to insure a future.

The first threat came from Pharoah's request to have the 65 year old "sister" of Abram, Sarai become a part of his 'harem'. God intervened and told Pharoah he could not have Sarai because she was married to Abram. So he dealt with Pharoah and Pharoah came to Abram and said, "Why did you decive me and compromise me with your God?"

Abram got his sister/wife Sarai back, plus slaves, livestock and treasures. Abraham points out that Sarai is the daughter of his father but from a different mother. So, in his mind, he was protecting the future of a promised people and a covenant with God. He no longer did war so he offered Sarah in place o taking up arms with Egypt.

The second threat came from King Abimalech of Gerar of the Negev. Abraham convinces himself that he needs to protect God's covenant and his life and the life of Sarah and leave the rest up to God. So he aske Sarah to go along with him and say that she is his "sister"! She goes along with him and, again, God intervenes. This time through a series of supernatural events that included an encounter with God by Abimalech, Sarah was returned to Abraham from a terrified king who met God. He blessed Abraham

So whydid Abraham do this?

1) He was not Adam - He was a man whose faith counted as righteousness but still bound by the same fallen condition and sin of Adam + 20 generations of people who did not know God personally like Abram.

2) Though a man of faith, Abraham had been an undefeated warrior, and for lack of military tact reacted in despration to a circumstance he was ill- equipped to deal with.

3) The situaton with Pharoah, God directly intervened and for all he knew, was surprised that somehow Pharoah figured out that Abram and Sarai were married. There were no 'laws' of marriage in those days... but God made it clear that Pharoah's desire for Sarai was unacceptable.

4) With Pharoah Sarai was 64-65 yeas old and Abram was 75 years old. Somehow grandmom was still so beautiful that Pharoah wanted her for his harem. 25 years later Sarah was 90 years old and Abraham was 99 years old. On top of that Sarah may have been pregnant with Isaac when they faced off with King Abimalech, because Isaac was born when Sarah was 91 and Abraham was 100 years old. So at 90 years old she was still so beautiful that the King wanted her for his harem!

It is the failing of Abram/Abraham and Sarai/Sarah to understand the eternal scope of God's covenant promise so they reacted to their situation without 'violence' and not knowing what to do relied on their own intellect to 'handle' both situations 25 years apart from eachother. But The Lord did not hold it to their charge but to the natural appetite of those that had the power to separate and kill them before God could fulfill His promises to them. The enemy is always trying to distract God's family by twisting the situation n such a way we try to solve things ourself instead of trusting the Lord, His promises and the great love he has for those He covenants with.

5) How do we see Jesus in all of this? It is during their lives that Abraham meets King and High Priest Melchizzadek (perhaps an OT appearnce of 'the Word of God') alone, bringing Abraham bread and wine (the law of first mention for Communion as seen in the upper room with Jesus!

6) Then after that there were the three angels for whom Abraham provided bread, wine and meat in addition to supplies. 2 of the angels leave for Sodom and the other Angel (again a type or forshadow of Christ - and perhaps was another OT appearance of Jesus) is negotiated with by Abraham to 'save' Sodom. Are there enough righteous to make it worth saving? When the Angel said no, then Abraham interceded for His nephew Lot and his family to be delivered from Sodom before the fire fell.

7) what do we learn about the nature and character of God here? Abraham becomes the friend of God and they become "blood brothers" by virtue of a covenant that God outlines in Chapter 12. So in effect Abraham grows in his relationship with God and God makes him victorious over all the power of the enemy. Then, after Communion with Him in the person of Melchizzadek, Abraham gves Melchizzadek a tenth of all the spoils of war and does war no more. Now he enters another covenant when the three angels come and tell Abraham that Sarah will give birth at 91 years old! Sarah laughs but God fulfills his promise and protects her through the decision of Abraham to try and help God. Before the Covenant of a Communion meal God delivers Abraham from a half truth and after the Communion 25 years later He still delivers Abraham and Sarah a scond time; from the exact same decision made by fear rather than by faith 25 years earlier!

Old Covenant or New - the only ransformation that can happen is from God's end. He loves us first, cares and provides for us, protects us and gives us a peace that ony comes from Him. We see this in both Abraham and Sarah's life and then in the lives of those who are his direct descendants even if He has to show up Himself to insure the safety of His Covenant with us!

When Jesus said, "It is finished" it was. There's nothing else He can do to save you any more than that. If you believe, He promises you eternal life and that He will raise you up on the last day. When we respond to His invitation to sit down at His Table to dine with him and upon Him, He gives us daily our daily bread and drink with enough revelation or his life and love that it satisfies our hunger and thirst, igniting our heart with His fire and passion to get through each day!

In the face of Jesus we awaken to His reality for He is truth. When we dine with Him by dining upon and drinking in His provison of Himself, it is to lead us into His presence personally so that He might fill us and flood us with the glory of His presence! Commuunion = Christ in you the hope of glory! Alleluia!

The Greater Glory of the New Covenant
(Ratified by the same meal that Melichizzadek brought to Abraham, that God provided to the 73 on Mount Sainai (Exodus 24) and by Jesus at the Last Supper or First Communon. Jesus said (John 6) if you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have eternal life and i will raise ou up in the last day!)

2 Corinthians 3:7-18

7 Now if the ministry that brought death,
which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory,
so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was,

8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

9 If the ministry that brought condemnation was glorious,
how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!

10 For what was glorious has no glory now
in comparison with the surpassing glory.

11 And if what was transitory came with glory,
how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!

12 Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to prevent the Israelites from seeing the end of what was passing away. (The glory faded after his encounter with God)

14 But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read.

It has not been removed,
because only in Christ is it taken away!

15 Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory (as in a mirror or glass),

are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory,

(from glory to glory to glory to glory)

which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

"Give us calendar day by calendar day our daily Communion Bread of your flesh & Wine of your blood!"

Thanks be to God for His eternally amazing gift of Himself every day!

Love,
Bob-Bob 11/14/2016

Chapter 20

100th Anniversary of the Miracles at Fatima begins Today! CommunionFire Brings Heaven to Earth through Communion Part I

10/13/2016

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John's Gospel explains: These things are written, journaled, published and produced that you might believe! He also declared that all the books in the world would not have space to record all that Jesus did and said. So, john picks out 7 examples that reveal the love and power of God... that we might believe? #BeBoldBelieve!

Why are ongoing apparitions, miracles, angelic visitations, spiritual combat, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and manifestations that confirm heaven on earth until Jesus returns?

John 20:30-31
#BeBoldBelieve

Hebrews 3:8-11 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation …

Hebrews 10:28-30 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses

1 Corinthians 10:6 These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did.

7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in pagan revelry.”

8 We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.

10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.

11 Now these things happened to them as types; foreshadows, examples

(originally: a mark made again and again as a stamp struck by a die, a figure: copy or image; a pattern, model; a type,

prefiguring something or somebody, written down, journaled as examples for us - who see the fulfillment at the end of the age (last generation)

John 20:26-30
Near the end of his gospel account John said, “Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

But these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name”

This tells us John selected these seven miracles specifically for their ability to help us believe that Jesus is who He claimed to be, and that by believing we might have eternal life. So what do these particular miracles show us that would help us believe?

Miracle 1
Water Into Wine
(John 2:1-11) shows He came to take us from the stone cold and empty way of man’s religion into a living and joyful relationship with Him.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type & shadow' reveals that God is quite capable of the next miracle of turning wine into everlasting, glorified and divine blood that allows us to drink in His love, live and divine nature that has the power to transform by its Glory.

Miracle 2
Healing the Official’s Son
(John 4:43-54) shows we are saved by grace through faith.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals the power of the funnel of faith. When one believes another is healed, delivered, raised up and set free.

Miracle 3
The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda
(John 5:1-9)
shows our own futile works are insufficient to save ourselves. We need Him to save us.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals the constant visit of the Archangel Raphael stirs the waters but that Jesus His creator is more powerful by His word alone.

Miracle 4
The Feeding of the 5000
John 6:1-5 not only shows His supernatural care and provision for those who seek Him.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals the New Moses in Jesus Christ by the sign the Jews were looking for "The miracle of the Manna would confirm the arrival of the New Moses. not only this but that the bread of life is none other than Himself. Certainly if He can create Manna every day for 40 years to feed a million or more people and multiply natural bread for 15,000 or more from 5 loaves, He can also turn our bread into His eternal blessed, eternal, life-giving, glorified divine flesh in the Communion meal every time we choose to sit down with Him.

Miracle 5
Walking on the Water
(John 6:16-25) shows that because of His miraculous power, we can easily accomplish things through Him that would be all but impossible on our own.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals... Got Communion?

Miracle 6
Healing The Man Born Blind
(John 9:1-41) reveals that if we’ll allow it, He can cause even the lowliest person born spiritually blind to see and believe, and
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals... Got Communion?

Miracle 7
Raising Lazarus From The Dead
(John 11:1-44) reveals His promise that all who believe in Him will live even though they die, and those who live and believe will never die.
We also see CommunionFire here because this 'type and shadow' reveals... Got Communion?

In Communion the veil is removed and we see Him as He is... as though through a glass or in a mirror... and when we do... we see all things new... as through His eyes and not our own

"In His Glory we are transformed from glory to glory so as by the Spirit who is the Lord"...

2 Cor. 3:18
2 Cor. 4:18
2 Cor, 5:16-17

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