[quote author=Gina link=topic=14174.msg125591#msg125591
I'm dying to know what the people who are raised from the dead are going to have running through their minds. What will they be thinking? Will they see the technology (of whatever sort it may be when that day arrives) and sort of flip out, like: "Is that a bird? a plane? Where on earth am I?!" hehe What will they think if they happen to see the computer technology? It'll be wild. Or will they be resurrected back to the times they lived in? I don't really know! But that's what I wonder and think about when the topic of time and eternity and, hence, the resurrection/reign with Christ comes up.
I suppose all we can really do is speculate and take wild guesses at this point.
I can imagine many people will be freaking out and scared out of their minds! Some technology I see now freaks me out some. I often wonder what the Apostles of old will think about current Spiritual knowledge now- would they even agree with it. Time has to be taken in context of your current knowledge, and knowledge can change with growth; I can't count the times I have been wrong about so many things. Hindsight can often be better than foresight, but when your hindsight was deceived, then foresight is certainly a type of freedom.
I kind of wish you would have explained the Seven Spirits of God a bit more, it certainly intrest me; I am curious about it. If a Spirit has a Consciousness, and God has seven Spirits, I wonder then if he could have upwards of Seven distinct Consciousness? That would be incredible! But as you have stated, we can only speculate on such things.
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Hi, MIKIEL (not JFK, oopsie):
Rev. 4:5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which ARE the seven Spirits of God.
Rev. 1:19 "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands ARE the seven churches.
I understood it to mean that the seven spirits ARE the seven lampstands (lamps burning with fire) which ARE the seven churches.
Ray explains it all in his papers. Look in Ray's article on Hell Part D, I believe is where I saw it. Or google:
site:bible-truths.com + "seven spirits" and you'll find everything.
Hope that helps a little. Now, back to time and eternity. And let's....
(http://www.xnh.co.nz/images/SESA_-_STAY_ON_TARGET.jpg)
;D hehe (I love that.)
and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which ARE the seven Spirits of God[/b].
Rev. 1:19 "Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later. 20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands ARE the seven churches.
I understood it to mean that the seven spirits ARE the seven lampstands (lamps burning with fire) which ARE the seven churches.
Ray explains it all in his papers. Look in Ray's article on Hell Part D, I believe is where I saw it. Or google:
site:bible-truths.com + "seven spirits" and you'll find everything.
Hope that helps a little. Now, back to time and eternity. And let's....
(http://www.xnh.co.nz/images/SESA_-_STAY_ON_TARGET.jpg)
;D hehe (I love that.)
Thanks Gina,
Interesting scriptures, I will resist the temptation to continue on the seven spirits.
I agree with Rays views on time, that it will continue. I kind of like Eph. 5:16" Redeeming your time, because the days are evil." Making the most of our time. I often spend time meditating and hopeing for the day that God gives me his Spirit, often " Begging him for it." It tickled me when I heard Ray say in one of his vedios that theres nothing wrong with begging God for things, I felt better about the times I have begged. The hunger and thrist for righteousness is very real in me, and I am comforted by Jesus teachings that those hungers will be filled one day. In time.
Time will bring about the fulfilling of those who crave Gods righteousness, like myself. If time is the unfolding of Gods will, I look forward to time.