Hi there!...
The greatest of love and peace to you!
Jesus deposited that sin and death when He preached to the spirits in prison. While He walked nothing clung to Him. He could have entered heaven at any time but He stayed to take our sins...away.
I do not deny that our Lord could have entered at any time, and I get it that many believe him to have a perfect physical body, one that was a strapping, healthy, even tall specimen of a... well, man. That truly was not the case, however: he DID owever, he did carry the sins of those he healed/resurrected in his flesh:
"Just as there were many who were appalled at him -- his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness -- so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmitiesand carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. " Isaiah 52:14 - 53:5
"Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: ' Physician , heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' " Luke 4:23
Psalm 41.. I’m sure it is David. A foremost king of my people
And I am sorry, but you are in error. You believe as you do because HUMANS have taught that this is David. Verses 9 and 11 tell us who it is; however, to FULLY understand who is speaking in the Psalms, one would have to read them... from the first... to the last. My Lord begins speaking... THROUGH David... starting in the 3rd chapter. True, David was the "instrument" that our Lord used to put the words on paper, but the words were our Lord's, which David received directly FROM our Lord... whose was speaking TO David. It is "scripture" and thus, David was TOLD... to "write:"
"He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms. Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. " Luke 24:44
I encourage you to read the Psalms... all of them. Before you do, however, I would also encourage to go to the MOST Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies, and ask HIM to send you the Spirit of HIS Truth, the Holy Spirit... which is the HOLY One of Israel, His Son and Christ, JAHESHUA MISCHAJAH. You are in for a treat, if you do... AND you put FAITH in the One who comes to you!
I'm quite sure that God sent me here to encourage His "church". I don't think that I can go into all the details but while I was reading my bible and getting to know my people and their relationship to God I fell in love.
I know of many who feel as you do!
(the Holy Spirit would encourage reading the Word...without question.)
Again, I am sorry, but that is not true. You can SAY it, but that doesn't make it true. The Holy Spirit would ENCOURAGE you... to listen to HIM. Without question. Just as the "Word" YOU are referring to STATES:
"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." John 14:16, 17
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit , whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you ." John 14:26
"But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will bring glory to me by taking from what is mine and making it known to you." John 16:13, 14
Nowhere... NOWHERE... in these statements does my Lord say that the Holy Spirit would tell you to even pick UP "the Word," let alone READ it. Nowhere. What the Holy Spirit WOULD tell you... is what MY Lord TOLD you (because, as my Lord SAID, he would REMIND you of everything my LORD said):
"You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life." John 5:39, 40
THAT... is what CHRIST said... and what the Holy Spirit WOULD have REMINDED you of.
All of a sudden I picked up by a "lock of my hair"...(Ezekiel 8:3)...plopped down "on earth" looking up "to heaven"(rev 14:1) toward the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world (rev 13:8)...(even before angels formed ranks!)
IF the "spirit" that picked you up was from the Father... then, blessed YOU are among earthling man! If NOT, then you might need to find out whose "spirit" that was!
I know that He is there in His person...He is not the Holy Spirit.
Okay, no problem. But I am directed by that Spirit to also ask YOU... to WHOM was Paul referring when he wrote 2 Corinthians 3:17 (a verse that NO ONE has bothered to comment on/respond to, YET. NO ONE. How... peculiar!)
I believe in a Triune God as defined by the catholic church...
Okay... and I do not judge you. To your own "master" you will stand... or fall.
I believe that God is wise and understanding and that's why He marked me to come here and encourage the church and all you guys.
And I don't disagree, at all, as to the first part of your statement. As to the rest, I am sorry but I MUST disagree as some of the things you have stated thus far (i.e., "the Holy Spirit would encourage you" to "read the 'Word' without question" being just one of them)... lead me to believe otherwise. Quite.
By showing the WBTS that they are wrong, God is bringing His blessing to "it".
Hmmmm... my Lord tried to show the scribes and Pharisees of HIS day that THEY were wrong. They not only rejected his message... but had him put to death. The BLESSING they will ultimately receive, however, IF they indeed receive one at all... is due to HIS LOVE. Not their all of a sudden "getting it"":
"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to (Gehenna)? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar." Mathew 23:33-35
"Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:34
If they want the truth....both the WBTS and I believe that the bible is the sword of the Lord they should read rev 13:9 and make some response.
I am not sure how Revelation 13:9 applies...
As for the 666 mark...it signifies man or beast...
Not sure I understand. The "Word" that you refer to say that while it is the number OF the beast, the number... is MAN's number:
"This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666." Revelation 13:18
Satan has this mark but he doesn't have an "image" he's a spirit.
(Sometimes, I have to ask myself what WORD are folks READING???) That a being is a SPIRIT, dear one... DOESN'T preclude it from having... or BEING... an "image." GOD... is a SPIRIT... and HE has an image... Christ... who is ALSO a spirit:
"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."John 4:24
"The Son isthe radiance of God's glory and the exact representation (Greek, "image") of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word." Hebrews 1:3
I'm not a spirit I'm a "man"...but I will be in the "image" of my Father...with a body.
Ummmmm… a “man” can be a spirit, dear one… OR he can be flesh with its blood. The Most Holy One of Israel… is a MAN, albeit not EARTHING man:
"The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven."
1 Corinthians 15:47-49
God is pointing to the fact that I understand and know my God...to put this confusion to a definate end to facilitate a campaign. (I've even "heard" the pope has the numbers 666 in his hat)
Ummmmm... okay. I am sorry, but I don't recognize the pope as anything other than yet another earthling man... who has seated HIMSELF... in the "seat" of Moses:
"The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses..." Matthew 23:2
anyway...the WBTS is in the valley of decision and other than that...I don't think I should say much more than I've already said...for now.
Again, then, dear Michelle, I am sorry but now I have to reject entirely that you even are who you are claiming to be... or sent for the purpose you are stating, as my spirit... and the Holy Spirit, with whom my spirit bears witness... direct me to do. There is no longer any great mystery of God from the "church"... for ALL things are revealed IN Christ, THROUGH Christ, and BY Christ. Just as he (Christ) said they WOULD be. It is NON-believers who are still in "darkness" - not the Congregation of the Firstborn, which is the Body of Christ.
Please know - I have nothing against you: indeed, he that is not against me is for me. However, I cannot acquiesce to your assertions simply because you "speak" sweetly, kindly, and in "love." Because, unfortunately, MY spirit bears witness that they are false. Virtually entirely. I do understand that you believe you speak in "love" - many make the same claim.
But "love" does not make a lie true, or what is false truth. So, as I have said to others... we will simply have to agree... to disagree... at this juncture. Because I will NOT sacrifice my Lord, the Truth... or my love OF the him OR the truth... in order to be "loved" and/or accepted by others, including you.
This is NOT about me, dear Michelle, OR you. It is about the Truth, my Lord, the Holy Spirit and Holy One of Israel, JAHESHUA MISCHAJAH, the Son and Christ of the MOST Holy One of Israel, JAH of Armies. I will NOT compromise my love, my faith... and my loyalty to them... for the sake of "agreeing" with YOU... simply because you speak with kinds words and "love." Sorry, but I can't do it. There are plenty of others here that will, however. May you find one of them... and "appease" your spirit... and the "spirit" that is speaking to you.
As always, I bid you the greatest of love and truth... and ears to hear and eyes to see the TRUTH... AS HE TRULY IS... as well as the truth about these other matters... if you so wish it.
A slave of Christ,
SA