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Watch and Prepare verses
Dennis Vogel:
Thinking about new YouTube Shorts topics and remembered this topic. New Short?
A trillion seconds is equivalent to 31,709 years , 8 months , 1 week , and 1 day - Google
Think about that. It takes almost 32,000 YEARS for a trillion SECONDS to go by. A trillion is a VERY BIG number.
And yet this country is 35 trillion dollars in debt and counting!
Hard times are coming but there is a way out as zvezda pointed out:
Luk 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
As always, no politics please.
Porter:
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zvezda wrote
But all ten virgins (both the wise and foolish) did fall asleep while waiting, it's strange that the wise five didn't stay alert.
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As long as a person has prepared faithfully it is alright to sleep, because when you awake to answer the call it will be with joy and not with dread.
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--- Quote from: zvezda on September 11, 2023, 07:57:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: indianabob on September 11, 2023, 02:45:14 PM ---=
zvezda wrote
But all ten virgins (both the wise and foolish) did fall asleep while waiting, it's strange that the wise five didn't stay alert.
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As long as a person has prepared faithfully it is alright to sleep, because when you awake to answer the call it will be with joy and not with dread.
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But the scripture tells us not to sleep
Mark 13:36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
1 Thes 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
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I think you're both right. It's only strange if we can't see that all ten virgins were physically dead and then were “awakened” when they heard a shout.
Joh 5:28 Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice
Joh 5:29 and come out--those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.
It seems the word sleep is used interchangeably to mean either being literally dead or spiritually dead. I find it amusing that the five foolish virgins woke up dead. Not that I think judgment is funny, but it just sounds weird.
Edit: Sorry about the weird formatting, I don't know why it does this to me.
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