Well, it has been quite a while since I left off posting, was sick for about a month and then into my family genealogy for researching while I had the time on Ancestry;  then it was over and I actually got a really good deal on a 3 month world subscription for just a $1.,  and I will have to cancel before it runs out or be charged a lot more than I can afford.  I didn't know about the special deals until someone mentioned that it pays to look around, which I did.  Now my sister-in- law's daughter wants to learn all about her family's ancestors and how to do a family research so I am going to teach her as much as I can about it so she can take over my TREE and keep it going after I am gone. I have many family lines started on my TREE and it will be a world tree basically because all are related through relations of others. Anyone who does a family tree should realize the truth that we all come from one couple in the beginning of time;  as you find your ancestors and the marriages that they had which brought another whole family line into your line it really is a magnificent family explanation of how the world came about. Everyone is born a good person, but also under the stain of the first SIN, so we are all considered sinners:  In the beginning, people had to kill and sacrifice animals for every type of sin that they committed to bring them into a relationship with the Almighty God, but God saw a way to help all the people if they would accept it and he caused His Son to be born of a Virgin woman, so that He was considered HOLY by all, as He was GOD and MAN in one and He was God's sacrifice for all of us to have salvation if we believe in His Son and do not reject HIM.

Glory to God in the Highest;  God's Son is our mediator for judgment day;  If we belong to Jesus, He will speak for us to His Father on that day of judgment when the world will be no more;  for those who reject Jesus, there is the Lake of Fire for Eternity for the souls of disbelievers;  for those who believe, there is a New Garden of Eden paradise for eternity to be with God and Jesus and all the Saints. Rewards for those who died for the sake of Christ and other rewards for those who believed and fought for but didn't die for the Son, but who lived a good life toward all others and thought only of doing good to other's and for other's without judging the person, but judging what that person is doing and trying to warn them of the pitfalls of their actions. I pray always for a Jesus moment to effect the outcomes of people's actions and hopefully it will change their idea of the things that they are doing. Until next time God Bless you all.

          This is copied from Noah's WLT report  on the speculation of Why a Flat Earth and Why Does It Matter:   I did this on Dec 3, 2023:  For my own research and because I believe the Bible more than Science and the Globalists who are controlled by FreeMasons mostly. And Satan being the Father of all lies and he wants to destroy our Godly relationship with God who created all the Universe and all that is in it.  Get ready for the biggest hoax and lie with AI being the tool that will be used to make some of the God created things that happen in Revelation appear to be from God when it will be Satan behind it and will cause many to perish because they fall away from the true God. 

 Again from Skiba’s TestingTheGlobe, I give you all relevant scriptures:

 

       Job 9:
6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

  Job 22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit {Hebrew: “chug”} of heaven.
Job 22:14 (HCSB) Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see, as He walks on the circle of the sky.
Job 22:14 (ASV) Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

  Job 26:
7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
12 He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. 13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

 Job 37:18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

 Genesis 1:

 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

 6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

 Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 8:2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

2 Samuel 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

Psalm 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalm 29:10 The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

 Psalm 78:

21 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. 25 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

Psalm 104:

1 Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
2 Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
3 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:

Psalm 148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens.

Proverbs 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set {Hebrew: “chaqaq”} a compass {Hebrew: “chug”} upon the face of the depth:
Proverbs 8:27 (ESV) When He established the heavens, I was there, When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep.

Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22 (ISV) He’s the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He’s the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Isaiah 44:24 Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am
the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

Isaiah 45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

Isaiah 48:13 Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Isaiah 66:1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

Ezekiel 1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

Amos 9:6 It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
Amos 9:6 (ASV) it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.

Amos 9:6 (ESV) it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heaven, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; the LORD is his name.
Amos 9:6 (Darby) It is he that buildeth his upper chambers in the heavens, and hath founded

his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.

 Amos 9:6 (NASB) The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The Lord is His name.

Scriptures concerning the nature of the earth below the firmament:

Job 9:6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Job 26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Job 26:10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Job 28:24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;
Job 37:3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Job 38:
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

Genesis 1:
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are
the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.

2 Samuel 22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

1 Chronicles 16:30 Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved. Psalm 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were

discovered at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Psalm 93:1 The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Psalm 96:

9 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
10 Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not

be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
11 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 102:25 Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

Psalm 104:
5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

Psalm 136:
6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Proverbs 8:
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set {Hebrew: “chaqaq”} a compass {Hebrew: “chug”} upon the face of the depth: – (ESV) When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep.
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

Isaiah 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22 (ISV) He’s the one who sits above the disk of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He’s the one who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in,

Isaiah 43:6 I’ll say to the north, ‘Give them up’! and to the south, ‘Don’t keep them back!’ Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth—

Daniel 4:

10 Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:

Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

Matthew 4:
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me

Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

John 17:24

Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world.

Revelation 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Revelation 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Revelation 20:8 He will go out to deceive Gog and Magog, the nations at the four corners of the earth, and gather them for war. They are as numerous as the sands of the seashore.

Scriptures concerning the nature of the sun, moon and stars:

Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

 

Genesis 1:
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

Judges 5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

 Psalms 19:
1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.
4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

 Psalm 136:
7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Psalm 148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

 Isaiah 13:9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

 Isaiah 38:8 Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

 Ezekiel 32:
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

Daniel 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.

Joel 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:

Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

 Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

Acts 7:43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

1 Corinthians 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

 Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.

Revelation 6:13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

Revelation 8:
10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
12 And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

 Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who Will Not Enter The Kingdom of God

 I copied this from Health Impact News by Brian Shilhavy:  He is a student of the Bible.

 

              

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.

I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”

Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.

He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

This is the second death.” (Revelation 21:1-8)

Prayers and Pledges

 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, One nation, Under GOD,  indivisable, with liberty and justice for all. AMEN

Many people coming into the USA brought their own ideas about Prayer and Bible reading and beliefs, 

From 1910 on, legal challenges were brought against having Bible reading in public schools on the ground that students should not be forced to practice a faith other than their own.

Two landmark Supreme Court  decisions in the 1960's banned prayer in public school: They ruled against public school prayer in 1962 which that decision struck down a New York State law that required schools to start the day with either a Bible reading or a recitation of a specially written  non-denominational prayer. 

 In 1963 the Supreme Court struck down voluntary Bible readings and recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools.  

In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled against a Kentucky Law that required a posting of the Ten Commandments in all public schools.

In 1981 the Supreme court ruled that a University could not prohibit a religious group from using facilities that were made open for use by all kinds of organizations.  Three years later the Equal Access Group guaranteed all student religious groups the same rights as other groups.

In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled that school officials violated the First Amendment by inviting the clergy to give an invocation and a benediction at a public high school graduation. 

In 2000, the Supreme Court ruled against a Texas school district policy of facilitating prayers over the public address system at football games and holding elections to choose the student selected to deliver the prayer.

Some legal challenges in the 90's and 2000's brought wide spread news about lawsuits against schools that put forth requirements and punished students who didn't obey them. But with terrorist attacks on the United States many schools tried to bring back the Pledge into their schools, reviving dormant laws.  In 2004 the Supreme Court reviewed a case about whether the Pledge violated the Constitution, but the court decided the case on procedural grounds not on the constitutionality of it. 

We need to instill in our children the belief that the Bible is the authority over all things - it is God's way of protecting the people from evil things. The more who read and use the Bible as the ultimate answer to everything, the better a country is, the better a home is, the better education is, the better the world can become.  I said the pledge of allegiance in school, and also the Lord's prayer which I still say today as it is the way to bring me back to following God's commandments, and to help all others who are in need.

 

Do Animals Have Souls? Is it called Instinct?

 The following quotes I took from Bible Study Tools author Clarence L. Haynes, Jr. on the subject:  Do Animals Have Souls?.

 "If you are or have ever been a pet owner, you know the joy that comes over your pet when you come home and they haven’t seen you all day. You also know that look on their face when they have done something they know they should not have. These are intentional emotions which flow out of the soul. If you have seen an animal hunt for food, protect their young ones in the wild, even mourn loss – these are all emotions that come out of the soul. I would argue that these are clear evidence that animals have souls."

"When God created the animals on the earth, the sky, and the sea, he spoke them into existence. He said let there be and there was. However, notice the difference when he made man."

"“Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (Genesis 2:7).  Hopefully you see the difference. Animals were formed by the word of God, and when he spoke they were able to exist and operate in their full capacity."

 

I agree that it is possible for animals to have souls if our belief is that the soul is our intellect, feelings, emotions, basically 'who we are',  then yes, (in animals it is called instinct) because animals do exhibit joy when they see us when we return and a downing of the head when they know we are upset with them for doing something wrong. I don't believe they will go to heaven because I don't believe they have a spirit and it is the spirit that returns to God upon the body's death and at the resurrection connects to the soul and becomes the immortal person to live for eternity.  So the soul must be basically changed when the spirit reconnects to arrive in heaven or the New Heaven and Earth for eternity; whereas the souls of evil ones will also burn in hell for eternity (whether they receive a spirit, I don't know but probably not.)

When cats have kittens or dogs have puppies or cows/horses give birth they instinctively know what to do and usually have no trouble bringing them forth; look at the wild animals who don't have doctors and nurses and buildings and God did instill all things to instinctively do what they are made to do by his word - even the plant life. insect life, all life.  The phrase- Praise God All Creatures Here Below to me means they will understand what that means. Listen to the Voice of God.  The donkey spoke to the prophet in the Bible and the Dragon spoke to Eve in the Garden, the evil spirits spoke to Jesus  and asked to be sent into the herd of swine. Those are examples of what God can do and has done. 

 The Bible speaks about the Lion  laying down with the lamb, and the child will be able to play by the asp's hole and not be harmed, so animals may be in heaven or on the New Earth or both with people and no harm will befall either of them. We are also going to know our relatives, family members who may be there if they are judged righteous (or if we are), and there are two judgment episodes, one for righteous believers and one for those who denied Christ. The book that will be opened to see who's name was written down on the page and if it is still there or has it been erased?

Prayers Answered or Not

                               DO YOU BELIEVE GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS    

 

  I believe it. I believe he also helps those who want to stop doing a "something that is hurting them in any way," but it takes prayer and belief in Jesus and who He is. Jesus is not a magician, when He works it is real, not a false thing and He doesn't answer a prayer immediately - you have to be serous enough about what it is you want done, know the consequences if it is or is not done. Since Jesus knows what's good for us, he waits to be sure we know or we don't care what they are, we just want it to stop. I've had my prayers answered in the past. But I thought I knew how they should be brought about so I told God what I wanted done and how to do it and believe me, he answered in a way that I will always think about whenever I think I need a prayer answered again.

I used to smoke cigarettes, from the time I was 13 or 14, when my best friend introduced them to me when we were at a California town where our father's worked for a produce company. She was a year younger than me, but was older looking and had matured quicker but we were the best of friends, neither of us had a lot of friends because of our families always moving around the country for work. Anyway, she stole cigarettes from her mom and dad depending on what they smoked at the time, and I think it was Pall Mall her step-mother smoked and Winston her dad smoked, where my dad smoked Lucky Strikes and mother smoked a menthol cigarette. Well, the first time I had one, I think it was a non filter one, the tobacco got in my mouth and when I inhaled the smoke I almost choked to death and coughed and coughed and gagged. Well, friend of mine said to try a filtered one, so I took a Winston and lit it and was careful about the size of my inhale in doing so and it still made me cough but not as much. Long story short I continued to smoke many years until I was in my 30's or 40's when I decided I needed to quit for good. I had tried quitting but they were addictive and I was an addict for them and just couldn't get myself to quit lighting up one after another. In fact, there were times when I had one in an ashtray, and lighting up another at the same time and even worse there came a time when I had one in my hand, one in my mouth and one in the ashtray because it was a habit, a strong habit that the process of taking a cigarette from a pack and lighting it was automatic and I was non-thinking, just doing. I knew I needed help. Everyone in my family, parents, brothers and sisters-in-law all smoked. I had to quit, I had to get help. I prayed. 

I was not a church going person at the time, but I believed in God and Jesus an knew what Jesus had done for our salvation. I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Bible as a very small child, when my parents dropped me off when they went to work, and left me with an older couple, (old in my eyes), who read to me from the Bible, the stories that were there. So, I started praying every night, down on my knees beside my bed, telling God how I needed to quit smoking because my lungs hurt and it was hard to breathe sometimes. I never thought about going to the doctor for help with this addiction. I thought I could handle it myself with God's help. So month after month, night after night down on my knees telling God how I could quit with his help. Did you get that? I was telling God how to help me quit. 

When I was pregnant with my sons, I couldn't smoke, hated the smell of cigarettes, and was nauseated by other's smoking around me and would actually leave the room or house to get away from it. So here I began to tell God, (God who knows all), that He could help me by causing my body to be sick just like when I was pregnant and I knew it would help me quit smoking, so I prayed and prayed and by golly, he did exactly that but a whole lot more than I bargained for. For about 3 or 4 weeks, I was not alive to what was going on around me; I had quit eating, quit cleaning, quit cooking, quit taking care of my sons, my husband, NO, I slept and slept and hurt and I was like in a drugged state and didn't care about anything but being oblivious to how I felt. When I woke up the only thing that went in my mouth was a candy bar and a soft drink, and then back to sleep. I didn't even clean myself up, didn't comb my hair or wash my face, just wanted to be left alone and I had pain in my chest, throat, head. I think it was about three weeks into it, when my husband demanded I get up because we were all going to the doctor and I found out then that they had all three been sick too and I hadn't known it. I went. 

Our doctor diagnosed me with bronchial pneumonia and bronchitis, and they had a lighter case of it but we were all put on medication and things and me got better. But I didn't smoke any longer until about 5 years later, I thought, "I think I want a cigarette", and asked my brother-in-law who I was babysitting for his 5 kids, if he would give me one and he refused. I ended up buying a carton, then I took one, just one cigarette, and the realization of what I was doing hit me with a jolt and my lungs began to hurt even though I hadn't put the cigarette in my mouth yet. Obviously I threw it away and gave the carton of cigarettes away and I haven't smoked since, thank God for that. My motto to this day is, Be careful for what you wish for" or at least be careful how you wish for it and don't tell God how to do it for you. 

Be Healthy and Be  Happy and God Bless you all.

 

JUDGMENT DAY

   I just came across an article about what we will be judged for on that Judgment Day in the future. It is so important that we know what to expect, I had to come here and copy some of it here for saving for future and present reading. It is so revealing on how we should be living our lives right now. It is not to late to change. You have time, how much is up to God and your lifestyle. Let's begin:

The first and foremost judgment: JESUS:  How do you treat Jesus? Do you accept him or deny him? Do you believe in him? Do you follow his ways? Is he the figure to emulate in your life? How did your life show that you loved Jesus? Beatitudes, Ten Commandments, Fruits of the Spirit, and all the other good and positive things written in the Bible for our instruction on how to live life for Jesus.

We will be judged for our ACTIONS, not for our intentions.  We intend to do a lot of good things, but sometimes we fail miserably in actually doing them. Actions speak louder than words is a truth worth remembering and putting into our hearts and minds. Do what you intend to do if it is good. 

THE CHURCH: We will not be judged on whether we do or don't go to 'church'.  Church is not the building that we go to, sit and listen, and sing praises, give an offering etc.  Here is what the article says:

"Church has never been something you attend in a specific building at a specific time. Church has always been the followers of Jesus, living out His commands in their daily lives. You will not be judged for how many services you attend but you will be judged for how you lived out His commands in your everyday world"

Parables:  Jesus used parables to explain things in a way that they and us could understand what He meant. In the parable of the TALENTS, it shows us that the master (GOD) goes away and leaves his servants (we are his servants), and tells them to take care of what belongs to him, and he gives each of them a different amount of talents, (money) to see what they will do with it and he will expect an accounting of the same when he returns. The day he returns (judgment day) he asks them;  the first two had different amounts but both had doubled their amounts during his absence.  The third had a smaller amount but he didn't double it, he put it away for safe-keeping, not earning anything more for his master. "the third servant was condemned not for squandering his money, but for failing to leverage it and invest it."     What ever God gave us,  we are to improve on it. We all have a gift - to make people laugh, to help people heal, to write a truth, to preach, what ever it may be, develop it. 

LOVE: We will be judged on how we treat other people, whether they are a different color or a different religion, or a different nation, or a different perspective/mind, whether they are a neighbor or a stranger, whether they are rich or poor, whether you like them or not, JESUS TELLS US TO LOVE them as we love ourselves.  We are to love God/Jesus above everyone else in our lives, but secondly we are to love all people, not their actions or beliefs, but the person God made in the womb, his children.