| Author | Message | ||
| Jude the Obscure |
$1000 Reward! For Anyone who Can PROVE THAT SABBATH-KEEPING IS THE NEW TESTAMENTíS ěSEAL OF GODî Dear Adventist Friend, You are, of course, at liberty to make use or any texts in the Bible. But to win you must tie together and make sense of the following basic texts: Under NIV heading: Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two: Luke 10:18: [Jesus] replied, ěI saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.î Under NIV heading: Warning Against Refusing God: Hebrews 12:22: But YOU [new Jewish converts] HAVE COME TO Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, to the church of THE FIRSTBORN, WHOSE NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. Under NIV heading: 144,000 Sealed: Revelation 7:1-4: After this [the worldís upper classes calling to rocks, ěFall on us!î] I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another ANGEL coming up from the east, HAVING THE SEAL OF THE LIVING GOD. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea: ěDo not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we PUT A SEAL ON THE FOREHEADS OF THE SERVANTS OF OUR GOD. Then I heard THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO WERE SEALED: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. Under NIV heading: The Trumpets Revelation 9:4: They [locusts] were told not to harm to grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only THOSE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD ON THEIR FOREHEADS. Under NIV heading: The Lamb and the 144,000 Revelation 14:1-5: Then I looked and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 WHO HAD HIS NAME AND HIS FATHERíS NAME WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. NO ONE COULD LEARN THE SONG EXCEPT THE 144,000 WHO HAD BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH. THESE ARE THOSE WHO DID NOT DEFILE THEMSELVES WITH WOMEN, FOR THEY KEPT THEMSELVESS PURE. THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES. THEY WERE PURCHASED FROM AMONG MEN AND OFFERED AS FIRSTFRUITS TO GOD AND THE LAMB. NO LIE WAS FOUND IN THEIR MOUTHS; THEY ARE BLAMELESS. And there you have the evidence, my dear Adventist friend, right in front of your face. I would be greatly honored to see YOUR scriptural proof of what you profess to believe and for which you would die. In grace alone, faith alone, and Christ alone, Jude |
