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shibboleth:
Psalms 40:7 says: Then I said, "Behold I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me. this scripture is repeated in Hebrews10:7
The reason we look for Christ in the OT and anywhere we can in scripture is because He is there! He said we would find him if we dilligently search for him. The numbers, ark, feasts, animals, celebrations, people all point to Christ. They are like mini pictures of him and what he has done for us.
I hope this helps you understand why we can get so excited when we find him in the word.

love_magnified:

--- Quote from: undignifieddancer ---I could be in way left field here but after reading all of this, including the Mike's piece...I just want to say does it matter?  This difference in the wheat?  Hasn't the victory of Christ occured?  Weren't these parables taught prior to the victory?  Aren't most of us on here certain that salvation was given to those who at least believe if not to the whole world?  So who is concerned about seperations, lake of fires and all of that stuff?  Don't we discount or doubt the victory of the cross when we consider picking these issues to bits?

Again I live in left field from most.  So excuse me for butting in where I don't belong.

Peace
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I think the reason for understanding those things is so that we can understand the scope of God's plan. The world has not been saved outright, it has been reconciled. The bridge has been built for a new relationship with God through Christ. But there are separations and judgements because the kindom will be whittled down to only a few chosen to take part in what Paul called the "high calling" which is to judge the world and to deliver creation into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Understanding these things can help us stay on the right path. I don't know about you but I don't want to be booted out of the kingdom on my rear for not doing the will of our Father in Heaven (turning away from wickedness, bearing the fruit of the spirit, spreading the Gospel etc).

The high calling is what I want to be a part of and only few are chosen, which is why I run this race, not turning from Christ and losing faith in his victory. That is the prize. Understanding separation, judgement, spiritual symbolism, and eventual restoration of all things keeps me at peace in my heart yet earnest in my walk. I hope that makes sense.

joyful1:
"22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
23Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
24Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?    
26For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.  
27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
28Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
29This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working." Isaiah 28:22-29

What do you see here? Joyful1

love_magnified:
What I get is that there are different methods for different fruit. Not all fruit can be grown the same way with the same tools and the same approach. Hence he blinds some, and reveals to others. He raises up to promenence, and delivers down to obscurity. The farmer works all things to the council of his own will.

Bobby Smith:
Gehenna  is the eternal abode of the lost, both angels and men.Punishment included both body and soul.It is eternal torment.Gehenna is the proper name, the Lake of fire is a descriptive name.Both death and hades are cast into the lake of fire(Gehenna).Death refers to the material part of man, the body.Hades refers to the immaterial part of man, the soul and spirit.If you need more information, let me know.

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