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Eden
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Betty Louise wrote quote:
I do not honestly believe that any sinner will be capable of speech in Jesus's presence and will only speak, if He allows them to.
I agree with you on that. And what about us "adopted sons and daughters of God, can we speak "when we want to to our Father", or can we also only speak when He allows us to?
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In the Bible, God also uses these phrases in teh Old Testament such as "the mountains shook" and "the elements melted", and similar phrases, to mean "a calamitous event" and not necessarily "the end of the earth as we know it".
My brother has a bible study somewhere on that subject, "The wild language of destruction in the Bible", where, if I remember correctly, similar language of the earth shaking and the elements melting, etcera, were used to signify the "destruction of Samaria" by the Chaldean Babylonians.
But, in any case, AT HIS PRESENCE momentous things happen, that is FOR SURE.
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Betty Louise
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I am feeling pretty good. It is raining and cold and me and my dog are sitting here listing to the song The King is Coming on XM radio. I pray it is soon.
Have a blessed day.l
love,
betty
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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I'm doing great Betty. How are you? Despite the pain in my back today...You just made my day! You are right, John did walk with Him and still fell at His feet in awe! How Awesome! What a mighty God we serve! We have no clue just yet just how Awesome-- but soon we will ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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~To Him That is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy...to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.~ Jude 24
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Betty Louise
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How are you doing FoundInHim?
John the Apostle walked with Jesus for three years, and yet when he saw Jesus in His glorified body in Heaven, he fell at Jesus feet. If John was that much in awe, this old woman will surely faint from being in such Heavenly Presence!
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Luk 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
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I am right beside you on that one Betty! Just because Jesus became flesh does not mean He is like we are. People get that confused.
When "the Lord appeared to Abram" to make his covenant with him,"Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him . . ." Genesis 17: 1 -3
The prophet Ezekiel fell upon his face when he beheld the glory of the Lord. Ezekiel 1:28
Scripture says that the glory of the Lord so filled the house of God "that the priests could not stand to minister!" II Chronicles 5:13-14
John saw Him and "fell at His feet as (if) dead."
Revelation 1: 17
"... Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship." Joshua 5:14
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Betty Louise
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I have heard people say in anger how they are going to tell God off when they see Him face to face. Truth is even Christians saved by the blood will at the feet of Jesus be speechless. I do not honestly believe that any sinner will be capable of speech in Jesus's presence and will only speak, if He allows them to.
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Amen
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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Calvin's Commentary
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
Nahum continues still on the same subject, - that when God ascended his tribunal and appeared as the Judge of the world, he would not only shake all the elements, but would also constrain them to change their nature. For what can be less consonant to nature than for mountains to tremble, and for hills to be dissolved or to melt?
This is more strange than what we can comprehend. But the Prophet intimates that the mountains cannot continue in their own strength, but as far as they are sustained by the favor of God. As soon, then, as God is angry, the mountains melt like snow, and flow away like water. And all these things are to be applied to this purpose, and are designed for this end, - that the wicked might not daringly despise the threatening of God, nor think that they could, through his forbearance, escape the punishment which they deserved: for he will be their Judge, however he may spare them; and though God is ready to pardon, whenever men hate themselves on account of their sins, and seriously repent; he will be yet irreconcilable to all the reprobate and the perverse. "The mountains, then, before him tremble, and the hills dissolve" or melt.
This useful instruction may be gathered from these words, that the world cannot for a moment stand, except as it is sustained by the favour and goodness of God; for we see what would immediately be, as soon as God manifests the signals of his judgment. Since the very solidity of mountains would be as snow or wax, what would become of miserable men, who are like a shadow or an apparition? They would then vanish away as soon as God manifested his wrath against them, as it is so in Ps. 39, that men pass away like a shadow. This comparison ought ever to be remembered by us whenever a forgetfulness of God begins to creep over us, that we may not excite his wrath by self-complacencies, than which there is nothing more pernicious. "Burned, then shall be the earth, and the world, and all who dwell on it".
Prayer.
Grant, Almighty God, that as thou settest before us here as in a mirror how dreadful thy wrath is, we may be humbled before thee, and of our ownselves cast ourselves down, that we may not be laid prostrate by thy awful power, - O grant, that we may by this instruction be really prepared for repentance, and so suppliantly deprecate that punishment which we daily deserve through our transgressions, that in the meantime we may be also transformed into the image of thy Son, and put off all our depraved lusts, and be cleansed from our vices, until we shall at length appear in confidence before thee, and be gathered among thy children, that we may enjoy the eternal inheritance of thy heavenly kingdom, which has
been obtained for us by the blood of thy Son. Amen.
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