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Why Did Jesus Miss one Passover? John 6:4
indianabob:
Exactly correct Marques,
Please also consider that the wicked who will still be here and who will not have learned righteousness, will not have been called and that will include the oppressed, the starving and all the populations of Africa, China, South America and even most of babylon who are of the U. S. who will desperately need the help and love of fully trained, spiritually converted and faithful servants of the most high God. They will not have had any opportunity to learn righteousness prior to that time. Who are we to teach righteousness if not to the "wicked"?
Isa 26:9; who will provide the "judgments" in the earth if not the elect of God?
I don't know if you have ever worked with starving, sick, depressed people who don't know who they can trust or what is good, but they certainly will not be in a mood to listen to or practice the counsel we can provide if their guts are racked with pain. When Jesus was on the earth his first concern was the sick and oppressed and he demonstrated a good approach when he fed the 5000. Yes he preached to them first, but they only followed him because of the healing miracles he performed and they did not understand until after the resurrection, until the spirit of Christ worked with them and in them. Even the apostles did not understand although the spirit "dragged" them to Christ.
The physical may not be the primary need in importance, but it certainly is in time order.
Please give some thought to this additional information.
Thanks, Bob
mharrell08:
--- Quote from: indianabob on March 03, 2009, 08:28:20 PM ---I don't know if you have ever worked with starving, sick, depressed people who don't know who they can trust or what is good, but they certainly will not be in a mood to listen to or practice the counsel we can provide if their guts are racked with pain. When Jesus was on the earth his first concern was the sick and oppressed and he demonstrated a good approach when he fed the 5000. Yes he preached to them first, but they only followed him because of the healing miracles he performed and they did not understand until after the resurrection, until the spirit of Christ worked with them and in them. Even the apostles did not understand although the spirit "dragged" them to Christ.
The physical may not be the primary need in importance, but it certainly is in time order.
Please give some thought to this additional information.
Thanks, Bob
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Bob,
Whether the wicked and unbelieving are in 'a mood' to listen and adhere to Kingdom of God is irrelevant...when God's judgments are in the earth, they will learn righteousness; no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I wasn't 'in the mood' when the Lord began to do a work in me...I wasn't seeking him at all. He came and brought me out of the church on His time, not when I was ready or in the mood to listen. I don't know anyone on this forum who got in the mood or ready to follow after Christ before God dragged them out...God dragged us out, THEN we learned to follow.
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Greater works than these...greater than feeding the masses, greater than opening the eyes of the blind, greater than healing the sick, even greater than raising the physically dead...the work of God in His elect will be greater than all these as it will be SPIRITUAL.
--- Quote from: indianabob on March 03, 2009, 06:56:19 PM ---I suppose my point here is that there will be plenty of work for Jesus and his elect to do without resurrecting all the rest of humanity in the first decade or even the first century. Think of the dozens of climatic conditions to deal with and the hundreds of languages and dialects and cultures that will need to be adjusted with love and patience.
Of course Jesus will set the pace and of course Jesus is not limited in the scope of his ability, but the living people are limited in their ability to cope with difficult human circumstances AND we have the whole 1000 years or at least some part of it to do God's work on the earth at that time.
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I see no reason for Christ and His elect to be limited in any way to only the wicked who are alive at His coming...no scripture stating such. And also Bob, it seems the scriptures that speak of Christ returning with 'wrath & indignation' [Matt 3:7, Lk 3:7, John 3:36, Rom 5:9, Eph 5:6, etc] are ignored in your comments that liken Christ return to a United Nations 'feed & clothe the homeless' act. I'm not trying to knock those kinds of works, but unjust need to be SANCTIFIED and PURGED.
I'm going to stop now as my input into this thread has gone far enough...
Marques
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