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| Jorgfe Registered user Username: Jorgfe Post Number: 849 Registered: 11-2005 |
During a manic episode one is not able to think straight. One's capacity for logical thought is severely diminished. One's access to the normal rules of civilized behavior is impeded. One loses contact with reality. It is called psychosis. But one's head is not empty. There is definitely something going on in there, something going on very fast. I call it mania's "magic glasses." The truth is the road to freedom. Gilbert Jorgensen It has been 162 Years, 11 Months, and 4 Days since October 22, 1844 | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 6881 Registered: 12-2003  |
Interesting, Gilbert. I've been working on my Bible study for women's Bible study--and this Monday we're looking at the letter to the church in Thyatira. God's complaint against Thyatira was that they "tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols" (Rev. 2:20). As an Adventist, the identity of Jezebel always seemed obscure and somehow related to Babylon and making alliances with false religion (read that Sunday-keeping...). Today for the first time I realized that, according to John MacArthur and the footnotes in the NIV Study Bible, "Jezebel" was a real woman in the church of Thyatira. She was a self-proclaimed prophetess, and she taught the church to incorporate pagan practices into their lives. She taught syncretism. God said that He had given her time to repent, but she had refused, so He would lay her on a bed of sickness and those who were practicing her perversions would also suffer unless they repented. Granted, Thyatira was a true church (as opposed to Adventism which grew out of Ariansim), and some within it were not compromised. But suddenly, today, I saw the issue of the prophetess leading people astray in Thyatira with new understanding. Isn't it interesting that Adventism didn't teach this obvious understanding? Colleen | ||
| Patriar Registered user Username: Patriar Post Number: 445 Registered: 3-2005 |
Wow, Colleen. That timing is absolutely divinely inspired.  Seriously, though. I sat here stunned that you just posted that information. That is NEW information to me and I needed it. Thank you! Maybe someday I can explain... Patria | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 4339 Registered: 3-2004  |
Thanks Colleen. You are so right that the SDA church does not teach the identity of Jezebel. So she was a real woman who was wreaking real havoc in the Thyratira church. Interesting. Diana |
