Comments by "Scented-leaf Pelargonium" (@scented-leafpelargonium3366) on "Journeyman Pictures" channel.

  1. @fatahmaswadeh6245 : And how are you going to free Palestine? By commiting the same atrocities or worse? Sounds pretty like it from some of the hate I hear breathed by the Atabs against the Jews. The Arabs decimated the ancient Jewish community of Hebron in 1929. Not much said about that. The actions of Hamas are much worse than this tragedy.
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  2.  @barbaraerlinger5487  Shabbat shalom 🕊
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  3.  @rwd2213  Yes, it does address the matter very well, although I rarely hear it preached or taught in the detail contained in it, and it actually speaks of the Jews in a better light than I hear from most Gentile Christians in the denomination for whom Jewishness is a negative by-word. The Scriptures here certainly seem to bring it together without prejudice. All level before God.
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  4. That's great. No more tedious heterosexual couples lording it over anyone who is single.
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  5.  @rwd2213  Again your post is not viewable, at least by me, on the public platform, but only in my private inbox for some reason, which puzzles me whether I should reply publicly in return. (?) Yes, I have had a similar conviction building momentum over the last four decades until I could no longer with any conscience submit to the ecclesiastical denominations any longer. Having lived in Israel for 10 years I met many Jewish believers in Yeshua who don't use the Gentilized term "Christian" and did not follow the observance of "Sun"-day or "Easter" or the Roman "Christ-Mass" as they rested and worshipped on the Sabbath as described in the Ten Commandments, remembered the Lord's death at Passover on the actual Biblical date of Nisan 14th and they did not have any sentimental attachment to or Biblical command to keep December 25th. When I returned to my native Northern Ireland I learned more about the pre-Roman Celtic Church who kept the same practices across Britain and Ireland which caused me to look into Church history and why certain observances within Christianity are venerated. The Celtic Church founded by Patrick took their lead from the Sabbath-keeping "Quartodeciman" (10 + 4 = "14") churches founded by John the Apostle across Asia Minor until the Synod of Whitby in 664 when King Oswy of Northumbria, England, was swayed by clever Roman prelates to accept the new Roman "Easter" over the Passover of the LORD, and from that point the British Church turned Roman, with Protestants today observing the same Roman changes until this day without question. So, I, too used to meet in a more "casual" manner. However, one will soon get into hot water if one mentions any of these things to clergy or Christians within the denominational churches, especially if one brings up "Christ-Mass" etc. 🎄 After Covid I became parricularly disillusioned with this blanket rejection to any discussion, plus with my own emotional thoughts not really being squared despite years of effort and my own personal battle with being terminally ill with little or no practical support from Christians, it began to dawn on me just over a year ago that in reality I would never truly fit into the Christian landscape and so to avoid further hurtful experience I knew it was time to detach from it all. Some of the unkind comments I receive here online from professing Christians only galvanizes my position, and I do have peace of mind as a result, despite still having years of indocrination and learning within my knowledge. I therefore am a deconstructed or non-practising Christian, a term Christians often use to describe homosexuals. One soon realises who one's real friends are. 🥶 Condemnation is alive and well within the body of Messiah, which is why I naturally recoil.
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  6. Look up the Hebron Masscre 1929.
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  7.  @pastorbri  yes, that's true, homophobia is not the best word to describe hatred, discrimination and marginalisation of people who are attracted to the same sex, and even the term homosexual is not 100% accurate as it implies sexual activity, when many people abstain like I did for many years as a Christian, but the labels of "gay" and "homosexual" tainted people's views of me within the pews, resulting in at least one expulsion from a congregation for no clear moral or Biblical reason, so terminology and labels are a problem. One gay counsellor I attended as a young man used the word homophile to describe his gayness due to the negative sexual link to "homosexual" and "gay" describes "happy" which may not in all cases be 100% accurate either! When I lived in Israel the Jews explained that "anti-Semitism" is not a foolproof description of Jew-hatred either, as Arabs are Semitic too, and if they are disparaging Jews they cannot be accurately described as being "anti-Semitic" as they would be saying they are against themselves! Judeophobia like homophobia denotes more a fear of Jews, which isn't correct either, a bit like the term Islamophobia. At any rate the 'phobia' or fear is being directed at Judaism and Islam, not Jews or Muslims, when Judeophobia and Islamophobia are used. I would just call it Jew-hatred or hatred of Jews which is more widespread that most admit, with even latent "anti-Semitism" lurking in the ranks of the Church via theology and political viewpoints, and the same for gay people. Christians amd other people speaking or acting in a way that is perceived by gay people as being negative are not "afraid" of gay people, but rather have a set agenda to disparage them and minimise their claim to a private peaceful life of love. Of course not all are private in their expression, but then neither are Christians who seem to come round the S-bend every time you go to the toilet with another Bible verse to re-quote. I think the only term that could be clear enough to be used would be "anti-gay" as even if these people, religious or not, oppose gay lifestyles, they are in fact against or "anti" being gay, or at least having a fulfilled gay relationship in the same manner as heterosexuals do. Is that fair though? Maybe there needs to be more Christianophbia or anti-Christian sentiment to counter all the unjustified negativity just so that they can experience what it is like to have your freedom of choice and lifestyle attacked on a regular basis with an agenda to bring their movement down. Just food for thought... 🙃
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  8. Camelot : Most churches reject God's Biblical principles on eating unclean animals, which God said is an ABOMINATION. It's in the same book of Leviticus that is used to condemn gayness.
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  9. ​ @Camelotskin  God's laws are God's laws. It's all the same book. There is more than just sexual SIN.
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  10. They would be as "enlightened" as today's denominational Christians who teach that they don't need to heed the laws in the Old Testament as they live "under grace," (but how does that list what is right and wrong?) 🙃 In that day Yeshua, (later re-named "Jesus" by the Gentiles), will say unto them, "Depart from Me, you workers of LAW-LESS-NESS!" Today we have "LAWLESS" Christians who do not have the Law in regard to sin just as those amcient Mesopotamians. 🤯
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  11. "These people keep knocking on the doors, keep pushing us until we back down"? Is it not Biblical to knock on a door so that it will be given to you, seeking that you may find? 🤔 Does the Church not want people banging on the doors or wanting in?! The Church is not a hotel for saints, but a hospital for sinners. You will also find it is many Christians who are "pushy" about what they believe and "pushing" vulnerable and marginalised people in society into a corner as well so that they can fully indocrinate them and remove any free thinking or will. I think you will find more Christians "pushing" their doctrine onto gay people and others than the other way around. Most gay people just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace. 🙃 🕊
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  12.  @rwd2213  Do they bother you?
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  13.  @rwd2213  but most couples expect to be married in heaven, which makes single people kinda dread the loneliness of eternity after having spent a lonely life on earth. Not that much of a prospect according to accepted Christian mainstream thought which only focusses on pairs. At least Jesus should have some free time as he won't be bound up by matrimonial bliss! 🙃
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  14.  @rwd2213  Yes, I do fully agree with you. However I hear Christians comforting widowed spouses after a death with the false premise that they will be reunited in heaven, implying marital status. This comfort by implication cannot therefore be extended to believing singles. Singles do tend to be marginalised in many family-focussed churches, so it is to be expected.
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  15.  @rwd2213  Yes, I was taught that at age 15, so it is not a new concept. Of course we know ALL LIARS won't enter heaven either which doesn't leave out that many people! Most people who have an issue in their lives already know the rightness and wrongness of it according to Scripture (apart from the verses/commands that Christians teach "under grace" no longer apply, such as the distinction between clean & unclean animals that even the Gentile Noah seemed to obey). I guess after decades of finding no practical answer apart from spritual platitudes one realises that one's prayers are not getting answered, and so there is no solution, save lonely celibacy. As for the disappearing texts, you might find information about that if you "google" as it may be a technique of surveillance making the right to free speech just a myth or something of the past.
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  16.  @rwd2213  In theory. In practice is another matter. As I said 4 decades of praying (and people praying for me) have not produced a result i.e. a certain sin remaining with us. In the end the facts and figures speak for themselves, despite the belief, doctrine, theology or Bible verses. The proof is in the pudding after all, so like during the Holocaust God can be pretty inactive.
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  17. Westb102 : No, but nearly every funeral of a partner that has been in a heterosexual marriage contains platitudes as if it does. 🙃
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  18. @Fabian Darell I didn't say I didn't believe in the afterlife. I was discussing the subject of people considering themselves still married after they die, whereas Yeshua, before His given Name was changed by the Gentiles to "Jesus," said people would not marry, but be like the angels. I was not arguing about going into a dark void or not, but that in many Christian funerals they do eulogies talking as if couples will be "together" again once they meet in heaven. 👫❤❤ In other words eternal bliss for them, while single people will be alone & single for all eternity. That was my objection and point, not questioning the existence of eternal life itself. Although I don't really relish spending all of eternity with nit-picking judgemental Christians. 🙃
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  19.  @55runescaper  yes, Noah boarded the Ark with clean and unclean animals (Leviticus 11:10-12) in TWOS and SEVENS, twos for the UNCLEAN just for breeding purposes (as they were created to clean the earth of rotting detritus, not for humans to eat) and sevens (the Biblical number of perfection) for the CLEAN animals, permitted by God for FOOD, hence the bigger numbers of themni.e. cattle, poultry etc., which Noah observed as a GENTILE, long before the Law was given to Israel at Mount Sinai. So if the DAYS OF NOAH are returning and it will be as it was "in the days of Noah," then the righteous GENTILES will know about CLEAN & UNCLEAN food instructions from the Creator, rather than just IGNORING HIM and risk getting food poisoning!
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  20.  @SnickerbarConsciousness  Why are you still here then? You can't have an end "here" and not be still alive! If it's coming, you are still alive, but if it's HERE then you're not. End means end and the Bible doesn't use any other word. But Christians use it every day in a very nonchalant way.
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  21. Well men voted doctrine when the majority of denominational churches replaced the commanded Sabbath of the LORD as clearly instructed as the 7th day, now re-named "Saturday" after the god Saturn by the Gentiles with the non-commanded "Sun"-day named after the "sun" and not the "Son" and usurped the remembrance of the Lord's death on the Biblical date of Passover, Nisan 14th, when the Passover lambs were being led to the slaughter for the Passover sacrifice with the man-made Roman "Easter" ostensibly named after the pagan goddess variably known in differing cultures and time frames as Ishtar/Astarte/Asherah/Ostara/Eostre-Eastre and the ABOMINABLE Ashtoreth from the pages of the Bible whom the LORD detested! 🙃 All these doctrines were voted in by MEN, most notably in England in 664 at the Synod of Whitby when the king of Northumbria, Oswy, was swayed by the clever arguments of the Roman prelates against the pre-Roman Sabbath-keeping Celtic Church of Britain and Ireland, after which point the British Church turned Roman, the invented "holy days" and dates upheld without question by by the so-called "Protestant" churches who are Roman in their man-made observances of the Mass of Christ ("Christ-Mass" on December 25th) and many others. It is the lack of proper doctrine that has allowed this to happen resulting in a mongrel church.
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  22.  @fgfjfdjdjdfhhgfjgcjf8300  well I guess just like the verse you quoted from Leviticus 18:22 which is favourite stick used against gay people because it uses the word ABOMINATION if it is not sin unless an actual act has taken place or the above commandment has been broken, then obviously Christians must feel the same way if the commandment in the SAME book of Leviticus in chapter 11 verses 10-12 is broken where God says it is an ABOMINATION to eat sewage-imbibing shellfish FOUR TIMES, not just only once, as in Leviticus 18:22, so do they sin if they commit the ACT of consuming and touching what God very clearly forbade in no uncertain terms, or as usual will the Christian dodge the commandments he prefers to ignore and cherry pick those he knows he can cast up to others, such as the one on not lying with a male as with a woman? Everything you have written above in support of obeying and heeding Leviticus 18:22 in the Old Testament must apply to Leviticus 11:10-10 or else your religion and your claims are a sham and your doctrine is based on personal choice and not upon what the Bible actually instructs to do.
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  23. @Cancel Patrick the "church" is not a building, but a people. The early Jewish Church would have used the word KEHILAH, which means CONGREGATION, which is the same word that the Old Testament uses to describe the CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL during the Exodus from Egypt. The BUILDING where people met, apart from the Temple in Jerusalem on appointed festival days, was called the BEIT KNESSET, or HOUSE OF MEETING (lit: "house of coming in") which is translated out of the Greek SINAGOGA to "SYNAGOGUE" in English translations of the Bible, but is a generic term to describe any MEETING HOUSE, not just exclusively for Jews as it is used today just because in those instances it was used by Jews in the New Testament passages. It would be more grammatically and historically and Biblically correct to say that Christians or the "Church" ("congregation") meets in a MEETING HOUSE "BEIT KNESSET" or "SYNAGOGUE". The early Gentile Church Fathers who began to preach sermons against the Jews "for killing Christ" etc., (even though it was European Gentiles from Rome who physically crucified Him), wished to disassociate from the Church's Jewish roots and viewed the term "Synagogue" as used in Scripture to apply only to Jews (despite it being a generic term for any people group) and began to use the word "church" to describe their meeting houses, but how can a church be both a building and a people?! That would be like calling a 'people' a Synagogue! It is not logical, and neither is it Scripturally correct, yet the error persists, as most Gentile Christians view the word "SYNAGOGUE" ("SINAGOGA"/"KEHIKAH") as being exclusively Jewish due to not wanting to be aligned with the Jews is any way. Thus the Church uses the very word "Church" incorrectly! 🙃 Yes, many churches do act as social clubs, but they are actually Gentile Synagogues!! 😚
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  24.  @fgfjfdjdjdfhhgfjgcjf8300  I will not respond by copy/pasting from Got Questions Ministries but from my own "Got Answers" from personally studying the Scriptures in English and Hebrew for over 40 years, which is the only way I know to search out problems with doctrine and dilemmas over Christian practice. You state that the dietary restrictions God gave were solely to the nation of Israel, yet the purpose of me quoting those laws from Leviticus was because Christians quote laws about homosexuality from that SAME book of Leviticus expecting people to fully obey Levitical laws that you yourself insist are only for Israel, so the Church should not quote this. You can't have your spiritual cake and eat it. You either heed these laws in Leviticus or reject them, you cannot cherry-pick between the ones YOU may prefer or choose to duly ignore. 🤯 You then argue that the purpose of the food laws was to make Israel distinct from all other nations, which if true, they are still a remarkable holy people distinctly chosen and favoured by God, while the Church by not having this distinction cannot by the same testing strategy be any different to the world, but eats sewage-imbibing scavengers and theoretically approves the eating of dogs, cats, budgerigars, monkeys, horses, frogs, toads, snakes, slugs and the like. Everyone can do what seems right in their OWN eyes whilst Israel is God's distinct nation (you said this, not me). As you plainly claim, "The dietary rules were never intended to apply to anyone other than the Israelites." Does that mean God is partial and favours Israel over the Church? 🙃 You then go on by saying that "Jesus (whose given Name was YESHUA) declared all foods clean" with a Scripture reference from Mark 7:19. Please look up Mark 7:19 in as many Bible versions as you can find and you will soon see that that final comment, variously worded, at the end of that verse is in parenthesis or brackets, as it is not part of the original text, but added by the translators, supposedly for clarity, but it fact it pushes an extra-Biblical man-made doctrine. The same thing happens in the same chapter in verse 11 when the Hebrew word CORBAN is mentioned concerning honouring parents the TRANSLATOR (NKJV) adds the following words in parenthesis/brackets, saying, ("that is, a gift to God"), which is clearly not part of the original text, and therefore is not part of the inspired Word of God, as the Bible is considered to be, but is rather MAN-MADE parenthetical comments by various translators who are human, not divine. This is because the main purpose of the dietary laws, not specifically to set God's people apart, although that would be a by-product of their obedience to His instruction concerning it, is to PROTECT HIS PEOPLE, and indeed ALL PEOPLE WHO WILL LISTEN TO HIS WORD, from food poisoning, sickness and death by eating these toxin-laden scavengers that He created, not for man to eat, as He provided sufficient other "clean" species for that, but they were created to specifically clean the planet of rotting detritus, dead carcases and even faeces and sewage, as is the case with pigs and prawns/shrimps whose diets are basically garbage guts for the earth. That is why God did not destroy them when the animals boarded the Ark, as they were an ecological necessity, but not designed by the Creator for human consumption (but man always thinks he knows better, yet is not surprised by the frequency of food poisoning eating these creatures). Noah, who was not an Israelite or a Jew nor had received the laws handed to Moses at Sinai that are quoted in Leviticus, knew about the differentiation between clean and unclean, as the UNCLEAN animals were boarded in TWOS strictly for the purpose of preserving the species, whereas the CLEAN animals, such as cattle and poultry etc., which God permitted as FOOD were boarded in pairs of SEVENS, the number of 'perfection' in Scripture, as more of these were required as they were deemed edible. You must really tick God off for allowing a non-Jew to heed distinctions concerning clean and unclean animals that were "never intended to apply to ANYONE other than the Israelites" (your words, or your 'quote'). You must really take Noah to task too for not ignoring these distinctions as they are clearly not intended for Gentiles, which of course Noah was. Many Christians say that the food distinctions do not apply because Christians are under GRACE, but in this same story of the clean and unclean animals boarding the Ark, we read that: "Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the LORD"! Seems pretty consistent. Besides the BIOLOGY and scavenging DIET of these UNCLEAN animals, many of them described as an ABOMINATION to eat, has not changed one iota since the crucifixion and resurrection. 🤔 You then go on to cite the vision that Peter was given on the roof of Simon the Tanner's house in Joppa (Jaffa) where I lived and worked as a missionary among the Jews in the early 1990's, and which spot I was very familar with, hence my great interest in the event described there. You say that the vision in Acts 10:15 "implied formerly unclean animals could be eaten." Yes, the wording by God to Peter was, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat" (which puts vegetarianism out the window!), but it does NOT say that Peter got up and ATE monkeys, crocodiles, donkeys, camels, pigs, rabbits, kangaroos and the like. INSTEAD the sheet containing the four-footed animals, wild beasts, creeping things and birds of the air WAS TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN AGAIN THREE TIMES. Peter was PREVENTED from consuming his sumptious mixed feast, yet neither did he desire it, but rather OBJECTED VEHEMENTLY before the LORD (knowing God's Own Word on the matter), by citing His OBEDIENCE to God's commandments by saying, "Not so, Lord! For I have NEVER eaten anything common or UNCLEAN." So clearly Peter still obeyed God's holy instruction and eating of all these UNCLEAN animals was NOT enacted that day, or else God would have let the sheet remain before him to enjoy and eat, and this is often IMPLIED by Gentile Christians. In verse 19 it says that Peter "THOUGHT ABOUT THE VISION." It was not a straighforward dietary adjustment, but something much deeper. It was a cryptic but memorable puzzle for Peter to work out and an unforgettable visual aid for what God really wanted him to understand. Again in verse 17 it says that "Peter wondered within himself what this vision which he had seen MEANT." IT HAD A DEEPER MEANING and that was revealed to him when he was asked to visit the Gentile Cornelius in Caesarea where he said (Acts 10:34), "Of a truth I perceive that God shows NO PARTIALITY." (In other words He does not favour Jews over Gentiles by only protecting them from food poisoning, but that His love and protection through His Word and His risen Son are extended to the Gentiles, which Peter and most Jews would have considered as "unclean.") This is later amplified in Acts 11:18 when the conclusion of the MEANING of the vision is announced, saying, "Then God has ALSO granted to the Gentiles REPENTANCE to life," including turning away from eating unclean animals forbidden by God so that they could eat together. I could ditch the dietary laws too as taught by so many denominational churches, but as a qualified Hilton Chef 👨‍🍳 who worked for over 10 years in Israel, including Tel-Aviv Hilton, I was taught by SECULAR authorities in Catering College that PORK AND SHELLFISH were "HIGH RISK" FOODS! In fact the Bible does not even describe them as "food," which opts them out of New Testament verses concerning "food," as they are not "food" but a forbidden ABOMINATION! Now retired due to being terminally ill with End-Stage Kidney Disease and Amyloidosis with over 5 years chemotherapy and kidney dialysis before a transplant three years ago, I remain immunosuppressed and told by my SECULAR doctors not to eat SHELLFISH or PORK! 🙃 So who do I listen to, doctors and teachers, or to the Word of God which this advice matches? I can eat PORK AND SHELLFISH to obey your Christian Gentile doctrine, but it would kill me! 🖤 So do I listen to your copy/paste "Got Questions" and start to eat animals our Creator God said are UNCLEAN ("only for Jews"), despite the GENTILE Noah, or listen to the docs, tutors & God?
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  25.  @fgfjfdjdjdfhhgfjgcjf8300  I typed out a detailed reply to your rebuttal but it did not appear, so I have not energy to repeat the process, and anyhow my nurses tell me off for wasting time on negative people online, so probably better I don't exert valuable energy on someone who is very unlikely to countenance what you write, as I know how closed-minded denominational Christian indocrination can be, having been a victim of it for some 40 years or more, so it IS pointless! That is your own prerogative to call me a LIAR before God concerning my study of the Bible for many years since the decade I spent living and working in Israel, firstly as a Christian missionary among the Jews for the Church of England for 4 years (where they paid for my intensive language course for 5 months full-time before I could work so that I could read, write and speak the local tongue, which even in the UK foreign workers are EXPECTED to learn ENGLISH) from 1991-1995 until I was HEAVILY PRESSURED to resign against my will (for being gay), after which I progressed to the prestigious Hilton Tel-Aviv as Chef de Partie for the King Solomon Fine Dining Restaurant where it was my job to teach Israeli chefs how to do European cuisine for foreign guests and to translate menus from Hebrew into "flowery" English for the Head Chef, during which after another 6 years my Hebrew advanced to a fluent level, and it was during this 10 years (from 1991-2002) that I was able to read my bi-glot Bible (Hebrew & English) which helped me to read (or "study") the Scritpures in the original text which showed how translators "choose" certain words to "translate" the Hebrew words along with the logical Hebrew "consonantal root" system that ties words together that does not exist in English or other Gentile languages, such as the statement in English where if says, "And they called His name Jesus because He will save His people from their sins" (roughly paraphrased from poor memory on immunosuppressant medication, in case I get picked up on "mis-quoting" Scripture, as others have tried to do!). In English this sentence has no intrinsic meaning grammatically, whereas in Hebrew the word "save" (YOSHEA) and the Saviour's holy given Name (YESHUA) both come from the 3-letter "root" (YUD-SHIN-AYIN) or "Y-Sh-A" which comes from the verb "to save," YESHUA meaning "salvation," whereas the transmogrified "Jesus" has no intrinsic meaning or Biblical history. For instance in Hebrew the words DEACON, TOILET, SUN and the character SAMSON all interlink by the same root letters, (SHIN-MEM-SHIN) or "Sh-M-Sh" but they do not in English. SHEMESH (root: Sh-M-Sh) = "SUN" meaning to "SERVE" the earth with light, which is related to the word DEACON, which is SHAMASH in Hebrew (same root: Sh-M-Sh) but with differing vowels sounds as Hebrew is a consonantal language, (the Massoretical system of adding dots and dashes under the consonants to let the reader know what vowels to use came much later). SHAMASH has the same root meaning, as it is a humble office of the Church meaning "to serve" (the Church) or literally "SERVANT" (but not the same root as "SERVANT" from the root "to work" which is EVED, meaning SERVANT or WORKER, from the root word AVODAH, meaning WORK, and which has a dual meaning of WORSHIP, plus EVED is also rendered by English translators as SLAVE, which causes all kinds of attacks on Christianity, without the knowledge of the original Hebrew root meaning of "SERVANT" which is not the same as Western "slavery." So there are TWO words for SERVANT in Hebrew, but not always in English, which is often the case, which can reduce the English readers' clarity of the intention and interlinking words in the text, such as with the link of YOSHEA & YESHUA which is not obvious in the English rendering. The word SMAMASH is also used at the Festival of Hanukkah, which winter Feast Yeshua attended in John 10 (if my memory "SERVES" me correctly!) which recalls the re-dedication of the Temple after it being desecrated c 165 BCE by the Greeks under Antiochus Epiphanes IV who put a pig on the holy altar and boiled Jews in oil and other gruesome tortures for their refusal to eat swine's flesh as according to the Word of God (which your theology allows them to do), the word HANUKKAH meaning "DEDICATION" in Hebrew, related to the name of the only man in Genesis that did not die as the LORD [YHVH] "took him" or was "translated," i.e. HANOCH which means "DEDICATED," (the English translators changing his 'name-with-meaning' to "ENOCH"), who was the father of METUSHELACH or "Methuselah" who was the oldest man who ever lived, as his name means METU = die/death + SHELACH meaning "send" (as the word "apostle" SHALIACH, "sent one") as God's mercy was so that it was prophesied that the flood/destruction would not come until Hanoch's son Metushelach would DIE, then God would SEND judgement, but God held off in mercy until Metushelach became to oldest man ever to live (in Scripture), aged 969. I cannot finish, as someone is texting me on WhatsApp, but basically House of Services in Hebrew is BEIT SHIMUSH (same root: "Sh-M-Sh") which is polite for saying a public TOILET! And SHIMSON ("SAMSON") means "SERVING ONE" or ostensibly via the "sun" SHINING ONE. So, no you don't have to believe that I study the Bible in Hebrew, for GOD knows who is righteous in this matter. I do not have to prove that to doubtful and scathing men, but answer to God alone. As for all the verses you quote I have read them many times over the past 40 years.
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  26.  @fgfjfdjdjdfhhgfjgcjf8300  I forgot to mention (as I was getting fatigued and someone else was trying to reach me and so I tried to conclude my response a little quicker than I should have), that the word SMAMASH that I was highlighting concerning the Jewish Feast of Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, on 25th of the Hebrew month that occurs at the same time as the Gentile "December" (from where some believe that 4th century Gentile Christians got the idea and emulation for "Christ-Mass" or the Mass of Christ by focussing on the Hanukkah theme of "light" for their candles and decorations and also the choosing of the "25th" date of the month, so being basically Christian "copycats") is the "SERVANT" CANDLE or light on the HANUKKIAH or special Hanukkah menorah or lampstand/candelabrum that lights the "eight lights" of Hanukkah over eight days, that record the miracle of the holy oil in the Temple staying alight long enough to prepare more in the prescribed method for the golden Menorah or 7-branched lampstand in the Temple from the Apocryphal inter-testamental books of I & II Maccabees, not considered as part of the Canon of Scripture, but helpful for Jewish history during the 400 years between the end of the "Old" Testament or "Tanach" and the beginning of the New Testament or "Brit Hadashah" in Hebrew (New "Covenant" - with the House of Israel only Jeremiah 31:31 as the Gentiles had no "old" covenant to supercede as being "new") - which would match your theology of God only applying certain parts of His Word to the Jews and Israel only and not to Gentile Christians who are "law-less." The HANUKKIAH has NINE candles, whereas a regular MENORAH has only SEVEN, if you ever observe the difference between the two in a Jewish home or Judaica shop. The SEVEN-branched one just represents the Golden Menorah in the Temple, whereas the NINE-branched one is representative of the story of HANUKKAH and the miracle of the OIL (or SHEMEN in Hebrew, from where we get the word GAT-SHEMEN or "oil-press" at the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem known by most by the Anglicised form "GETHSEMANE" which was indicative of Yeshua being pressed by the heaviness of the weight of that night preceding the Cross where He literally SWEATED blood just like the olives that were being pressed in the GAT-SHEMEN). EIGHT of the candle holders or oil holders represent the EIGHT DAYS of the HANUKKAH MIRACLE (of only enough OIL being in the Temple for ONE DAY, after the Greeks desecrated the Temple, but it stayed alight for EIGHT DAYS, the right amount of time to make new holy oil which was made with much care under priestly supervision, which was considered to be a MIRACLE), which miracle Yeshua celebrated as is recorded in John 10 when He went to Jerusalem in the WINTER time (December) for the FEAST OF "DEDICATION", that is "HANUKKAH" or "CHANUCHAH" (the transliteration varying when transcribed into English, but the Hebrew letters remaining the same), and of course Yeshua was known as the Light of the World. 🕯 The NINTH, or FIRST (first/last) candle is the SERVANT CANDLE which in Hebrew is the SHAMASH, the same word as SERVANT for a DEACON in the Church, which being a very humble office reflects Yeshua's HUMILITY as not coming to be served, but TO SERVE, as a humble SERVANT KING, which is why many "Messianic" Jews or Jews who believe that Yeshua is the MASHIACH ("Messiah") - literally "ANOINTED" - say that the SMAMASH used at Hanukkah to "SERVE" the other candles by "lighting them" and giving them "life" is symbolic of YESHUA. 🕎 I know these things don't interest Gentiles as they disparage generally anything they regard as being "Jewish," despite the word "JEW" ("YEHUDI" from the word "YEHUDAH" or "Judah") meaning "PRAISE" and there are not many people praising the Jews today, even though from their midst came the LION OF JUDAH ("ARIAT-YEHUDAH", meaning Lion of Praise) and He was entitled as KING OF THE JEWS (not of the Gentiles) or MELECH HA-YEHUDIM, although He even supercedes that as MELECH HA-M'LACHIM or "KING OF KINGS" and His Name YESHUA as "NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES," even though very few Gentile Christians have ever heard it or acknowledged it, and probably won't with the anti-Jewish state of ecclesiastical denominational theology in the churches of today until they bow before THAT Name alongside all the others who never knew or acknowledged it either. You never know, they might even pick up a few words of Hebrew! 🙃
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  27.  @anthonyrucker8567  Good for you. That would include you of course as well.
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