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Numbering His People
bobf:
--- Quote from: hillsbororiver on August 25, 2007, 02:12:40 PM ---Hi Bob,
Thank you for your comments, you also got me thinking about remnant, yes christianity has used this word to justify the doctrine of ET or annihilation.
I believe that remnant, or remaining, residue (Strongs 3062 loipoi) is another example of the depth and texture of His Word, the sharpness of His two edged Sword. Remnant can be applied to the firstfruits of the harvest as well as what is left remaining in all the Sons and Daughters at the culmination of the ages when God is All in All. Everything that defiles or is impure is burned away leaving only the pure, refined and burnished spirit of His perfection in us and His creation.
His Peace to you,
Joe
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Thanks Joe,
Yes, I see it both of those ways too.
Here is the outward remnant, the first fruits, God's elect.
Romans 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to [the image of] Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Here (I think, though this passage is difficult) is the remnant within us, the Seed which is Christ in you.
Romans 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved 28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. 29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
God bless,
Bob
rocky:
Zec 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zec 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
1Pe 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold thatperisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.
hillsbororiver:
Interesting stuff Bob & rocky,
This just got me to thinking once again about types/shadows, firstfruits/fall harvest....
Could this remnant be showing that we are composed of "beast, spirit of antichrist and the Spirit of Christ" within us? That 2 out these 3 need to be burned away by God's consuming fire either in this age or the ages to come?
Could it also at the same time be a parable showing first a few then the many entering His Kingdom?
Just speculating here, thank you both for the thought provoking posts!
His Peace to you,
Joe
hillsbororiver:
Now swerving back to the main topic. ;)
How interesting is this?
Gen 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
His Peace to you,
Joe
rocky:
--- Quote from: hillsbororiver on August 27, 2007, 09:58:25 AM ---Now swerving back to the main topic. ;)
How interesting is this?
Gen 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
His Peace to you,
Joe
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Hi Joe, very cool
reminds me of this verse
Mark 4:3,8
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow. 8- And other fell on good ground, anddid yield fruit that sprang up and increased, and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
and in Genesis 12:3
in thy seed, all families of the earth blessed.
blessed in Hebrew carries meaning of to bow down, (not at home to get the defintion), and
makes me think of every knee will bow, .....
cool!!
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