free popcorn, pop, and the showing of a gospel movie are all given to the public at the community of christ church in sterling, il every wednesday at 7:00pm.
take a look at the web sight, and post your comments.
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Hello
Free popcorn, pop, and the showing of a gospel movie are all given to the public at the Community of Christ Church in Sterling, IL every Wednesday at 7:00pm.
Take a look at the web sight, and post your comments.
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/Free.htm
Thank you,
Mathew Enoch Mount
this is one of the funniest web sights that you will see that promotes a ministry.
click below to go to the community of christ church mens room
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One of my favorite photographs is of a church high chair for babes looking like an electric chair and located by a huge furnace.
this is one of the funniest web sights that you will see that promotes a ministry.
click below to go to the community of christ church mens room
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/building-restrooms-men.htm
Hello,
I remember that years ago many congregation members almost attacked each other over the thermostat issue. In fact the issue has been raised every few years for several decades now. Since the church has several ministers the thermostat issue has become highly political.
The link to the thermostat issue is below.
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/Building-Temperature-Controls.htm
Thank you,
Mathew Enoch Mount
this is one of the funniest web sights that you will see that promotes a ministry.
click below to go to the community of christ church mens room
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/building-restrooms-men.htm
This is one of the funniest web sights that you will see that promotes a ministry.
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Click below to go to the Community of Christ church Men’s room
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/Building-Restrooms-Men.htm
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Click below to go to the Community of Christ church Women’s room
http://community-of-christ.mathew-mount.com/Building-Restrooms-women.htm
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Click below to go to the Community of Christ church Children Supplies
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Click below to go to the Community of Christ church Child Constructions
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i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
Setting: Outside of a building in the midst of a night’s sky.
Godel: The darkness has overtaken the light and into the hands of darkness the sun of heaven has been betrayed for the light has gone from us. We are blind in utter darkness without a vision or even a shadow of the day.
Rebecca: The sun has not gone from out sight for us to be in utter darkness because of the power the darkness has to overtake the sun by the will of night, but rather the light of the sun of day has chosen for us to be handed over to utter darkness of the night. The will of the sun pronounces that darkness may dwell among us for a time so as to honor our hearts with gladness in the hour of the coming of the dawn.
Godel: Truly the plan of the sun of heaven is to give us over to the night, so that in the coming of the new day by our rejoice in the sun we will be forever the children of the light not born of natural decent or a husband’s will but adopted into the family of warmth. But also let us not forget the fact that the children of the night whom gain pleasure from their deeds of darkness, and whom hide in deeds done in secret while committing adultery with the rulers of this age may only be burned by the heat of the sun when the day of light brings what is hidden in darkness into full view of the fire of the blazing sun.
Rebecca: Truly in the age of man and all of the darkness dwelling the darkness is in a battle with the sun only to foretell the day of the proclamation of the intent and the will of deeds done in secret. Truly the actions of our hands are the very force of the will driving and governing each of us. We are fighting in a war as candles while battling the coldness and all encompassing power of the darkness.
Godel: How are the worlds of your speech true in the sight of the all mighty presence of the day of the sun of heaven. How can the actions of your hands be as a matter of choice to be our deliverer into either the blaze of the wrath of the sun or the warmth of love of the provider of our crops and fields? Are we not just the instrument and the product of a hand not ours that has formed us and made us complete in whom we walk and have our being. Is not our time only but his time in whom is the author of all both the day and the night. Is not our cry and desire not our cry and desire, but only the design and blueprint by such that we are made and maintained in accordance with a complete plain that can never be molded or changed.
Rebecca: Truly the powers and the lights of heaven foresaw the time of the age of darkness only to form and to create a race of children that may chose from one desire and another. A race of those in whom the outcome may be foreseen, but in whom are made to choose between the will of the night and the will of the dawning of the day hoped for. Truly by one set of clay two pots where made not to seal one set in the darkness for destruction and another in the warmth of the sun, but rather two pots formed by a potter whom gave fuel both to the desire and the heart choosing darkness and the desire and the heart choosing light so as to show the end and the destruction in those of darkness and the end of the tribulation for the children of light.
Godel: Yes! The author of light is not an author of darkness, but instead is an author of fairness and justice in whom choices are nurtured into the maturity of both the poised of the weeds and the fruit of the barriers. For truly the author of all nurtured both the light and the darkness, but this author made not the darkness or its dwelling but only instead choose to honor its requests only until the time when both the pots of noble purposes and the pots of common purposes may be exposed for what each is when the day of light exposes all that is hidden by night.
i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
More than a dream
By
Mathew Enoch Mount
More than a dream
As I look around myself, I see dim lights all casting slightly overlapping beams down to the lightly disturbed soil floor of an old farm storage building with old withered wood for walls. Under the overlapping beams in the large building, the size of a football field, I look to my left to see a rather dirty hunched old man in the distance at the opposite end of the building slowly walking along a wall perpendicular to my view. My concentration suddenly focuses upon the old man because I thought myself to be the only person in this time withered old wood building.
As I startlingly observe the man from the great distance, I try to understand the man's purpose. Great comfort fills me from feeling the walls, floor, and dark ceiling as being part of me like a turtle's shell is to a turtle, but yet I am greatly disturbed to see an unrecognized person in my dwelling. Vast space of the open room feels like my body while I stand as a figure like that of the center of awareness of my mind, but yet I recognize the hunched old man as being not part of my body.
Concern quickly focuses my concentration, and my desire for knowledge makes my point of observation suddenly shift from looking from a distance to looking from a few feet away. Focus penetrates the man as I perceive not my emotions but those of the man as if my own, and I instantaneously recognize the man as the adversary. Recognition of the adversary shifts my self awareness back to my original position, and from the distance I concentrate upon the walls, floor, and ceiling as being the body of my mind.
Strengthening my understanding of the structure of my mind forces the adversary away from my center of awareness as the man is forced backwards through the wall of the old farm building. Pressure builds against the walls, ceiling, and floor of the building now that the adversary is an outside force. Concentration of my mind strengthens the building's structure, but a quick force grabs a portion of roof and tears the spot away just a few feet above me.
My eyes gaze into the blackness of sky while power surges through my form against the huge storm with voice louder than the collective screams of the souls floating in the worldwide of the eternal blaze of hell. Hands rise from my very defiance of sky's eminence power to destroy the soul, through the squelch of greater heat than molten rock, as my voice through confidence commands, "in the name of Jesus Christ who works through me I command you to depart." Authority of a greater power threatens the great destroyer by the representative of the eternal god calling his craftsman who made the world and everything in it.
Trust in the victory of Christ is continuously undiluted within the focus of my self awareness. The great destroyer has come to add another awareness of a person, to be mixed throughout the molten rage eternally consuming all people and substance together in the blaze, through the power of all the figures of death dwelling in hell. The blackness of the sky above presses with the power of damnation to claim another victim to be disfigured forever throughout the entire substance of the intense heat of darkness. Power of the storm's fury becomes overpowered by the strength of the great heavenly authority of the eternal god while the sky becomes clearer with every new ray of light from the gleam of dawn. Sky reveals the light of the sun of heaven by gradual development until the noonday sun shines light brighter than eyes can handle when victory is complete. Within a sudden moment of complete triumph, my eyes open as my head lay against my pillow only to look onto the vastness of my bedroom for the light of sun to reveal empty living quarters.
i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
Why exorcism should be allowed in public schools By Mathew Enoch Mount
Today many employees of public schools, such as instructors and councilors, use practice from the field of psychology in order to work with student’s minds. Not all religious beliefs endorse any practice of knowledge obtained from psychology; moreover, for students who represent a religious belief system that does not endorse psychology some substitution for working with that student's mind should be present in order to respect his or her religious beliefs. One can see that allowing alternatives for working with student’s minds is an alternative to the exclusive practice of psychology in public schools, and allowing alternatives to working with students minds can represent and respect religious freedom in America.
Many students go to guidance councilors in public schools in order to get some advice and guidance, but guidance councilors study psychology and use psychology on their students who may or may not be of a religion that endorses psychology. What would be ideal is that a student may be allowed to meet with his or her religious leader for guidance during school time instead of meeting with a guidance councilor in order that the student's religious beliefs are respected. In fact guidance councilors could be allowed to practice their practice based upon volunteering and the passing of standardized tests that would determine the person's ability to give academically except able advice for the future.
With many religions believing that all people should do the will of god and people do not know the will of god because of demonic possession caused by man loving evil, some guidance councilors may feel exorcism necessary for students to know what their future goals should be. Since many exorcists feel that exorcism works best over many trials over a long period of time students may be allowed to visit a exorcist about once a week for a few years in order that the demonic forces of evil be driven out of the student in order that the student may know his or her future goals. By exorcism of students in public schools students may be able to know of their future plans just as they may with a traditional guidance councilor, but the difference is that their religious beliefs would not be oppressed during the guidance counseling process by the allowance of exorcism for the counseling process.
Guidance counseling is not the only example of how students may have religious oppression by not going to an exorcist instead of a psychology practitioner. I say such a thing because sometimes teachers form practice of teaching on students based in knowledge of psychology in order for students to learn better. Many religious systems are oppressed by teachers practicing psychology on students so students can learn better because some religious systems believe that evil forces throw people into confusion and only man united with god allows man to know truth.
In order to respect and represent the religious beliefs of oppressed religious systems volunteer teacher’s aids may be allowed to help students in class who represent the religious belief system of the student or students who are religiously oppressed. In fact religious systems that require exorcists could be represented by teacher's aids that drive out evil demons of students as a study routine. Teacher's aids driving out demons of students could respect the individual religious beliefs of the students during the educational process because the students could be educated with their own religious system taken into consideration in the process of education.
Student's religious systems are not only oppressed by the teaching of public education but also by the disciplinary actions of public education, so students should have a representative of their religious system responsible for disciplining them as a volunteer program. Students who are part of a religious system that recognizes exorcism as being a way to free students from sin by driving out demons may be exercised by an exorcist as a disciplinary action that would respect their own religious beliefs. An example could be to say that students with supporting religious beliefs who get in trouble for drugs, fighting, obscene language, or little progress may meet with their exorcist in order to have demons driven out of them.
Overall with the extraordinary problems that students face with discipline, poor education, and little goals in life such problems may be corrected for by allowing religious freedom instead of oppressing religious freedom, and students may meet with exorcists in order to have demons driven out of themselves as a way of curing the problems with respect to the student's supported religious system. By students being treated as a participant of a religious system instead of being treated as a believer of no religious system the student's religious beliefs would be taken into account by the entire educational process, so that students may be uplifted by public education instead of oppressed by public education because of their educational beliefs. Exorcism provided to public education students for the reason of religious freedom could be a integral part of education so that student's religious beliefs are no longer oppressed.
One can rest assured that all volunteer religious leaders could be tested for academic competency before taking any volunteer position at a public school. One could also rest assured that parents could still have a part in their children's education by being required to sign permission forms before students meet with their respective religious leader or exorcist for academic success. One could also be rest assured that the public education system would improve from its failed state because students would no longer have religious oppression and would have better conduct by having the demons driven right out of them.
i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
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Okay. I can see how the JWs are not the best people to present the gospel of Jesus Christ, but the Jews that I found chose not to accept my teaching so I looked for the next best group with persistence. I feel that a Jew who knows Christ is better than a Jew who does not know Christ, and I know that the JWs are at least affective in presenting at least some teaching about Christ to people. Overall, I just want to give someone else an opportunity to testify about Jesus Christ to the Jewish people that I am talking about.
The fact of the matter is that I am a catholic deacon in an organization that has Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and Greek Orthodox ordination lines. I just felt that some group with some strong power to evangelize would enter discussion with the Jews that I am talking about in order that at least some presentation of Christ would be given other than what I gave. Overall, many of the Jews that I am talking about are very obnoxious, so I was really hoping to bring someone serious about presenting their justification of Christ to the attention of the Jews.
I understand that JWs do not believe in the trinity or even in a trinity, and I also understand that JWs do not believe that Jesus has a divine nature. Very frankly however JW teaching would bring many Jews from hatred to Christ to at least a strong appreciation of Christ if the JW teaching were believed. Overall, very few people at the time of the ministry of Christ appeared to believe that Christ had a divine nature, so if this problem did not upset Christ greatly, then I myself do not think that the issue should upset us as much as the issue currently does in many cases.
What I am saying is that people that had been for Christ are people that Jesus recognized and hardly ever spoke harshly against. What Jesus did speak harshly against however had been people who had been against his teaching. Overall, the point that I am making is that I do not see any harm in some JWs trying to speak well about Christ before some Jews because at least the JWs would give some honor and respect for the person of Christ among some people that have very little respect for Christ.
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i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
Hello,
Some people would still refuse to believe that Christ centered Judaism exists, so I would like to quote the following again from Jesus on the Web.
Leviticus 14:1-8
The Cleaning from Sin
The LORD said to Moses, "These are the regulations for the diseased person at the time of his ceremonial cleansing, when he is brought to the priest: (NIV)
We know that sin is un-cleanliness because evil spirits are in the Scriptures referred to as unclean spirits. We are told about sin relating to un-cleanliness by David when he states, "Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow." (Psalm 51:7 NIV) Overall, we thus know that hyssop represents the cleansing from sin, and we also know that appeals to god are made for the cleansing of sin.
3 The priest is to go outside the camp and examine him. (NIV)
Notice that the priest is to go outside of the camp to see the person who is unclean. Jesus was crucified outside of the camp at Jerusalem; moreover, we are even told in Hebrews that he is our high priest. Overall, we can thus see already that this passage has a fulfillment in Christ.
Now we are told about the hyssop the following, "Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning." (Exodus 12:22 NIV) Since we know that Jesus died for our sins as our sacrificial lamb we can thus see how by hyssop applying the blood of the lamb we are considered cleaned from our sins so that death would pass over. Overall, the point is that our high priest (Christ) inspects us outside the camp, and by his blood and the cleansing of the application by hyssop death may pass over us like in the Passover that Christ fulfills by offering his body and his blood as the Passover meal (last supper).
If the person has been healed of his infectious skin disease, 4 the priest shall order that two live clean birds and some cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed. (NIV)
We are told about scarlet the following,"'Come now, let us reason together,' says the LORD. 'Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool." (Isaiah 1:18 NIV) Much reference thus can be made for the color of the yarn to represent sin by color, however yarn is like a vine just as Jesus is the vine. Now we know that by Jesus dying on the cross he took on all the sins of the world, and so the scarlet yarn might represent a piece of the vine that is with sin separated from all else to be grafted into the true vine (Christ the seed of Israel). Overall, we know that the true Children of Israel are thus not born by natural decent or a husband's will but are instead born of god by being adopted into the family of god or grafted into the tree or vine of Israel through Christ the true Adam who was the first born of his kind.
We are told in the following, "wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart. The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the pine trees." (Psalm 104:15-17 NIV) Now we know that wine represents the blood of Christ and that bread represents his body as the Passover meal (last supper), and we also know that oil represents the grace of god. We can thus see that the lord plants the trees and that we are like those cedars. Overall, we also know that because of the parable of the mustard seed referring to faith that we may grow to be large enough for the birds of heaven to rest in us and seek refuge.
Now we can see the meaning of the cedar wood, scarlet yarn and hyssop for the cedar wood represents us who are part of the tree of Israel, the scarlet yarn represents a part of vine or tree about to be grafted in, and the hyssop represents the application of cleaning.
5 Then the priest shall order that one of the birds be killed over fresh water in a clay pot. (NIV)
Now we know that during the Passover time a ceremony existed to let one prisoner free from among those who had been chosen to pay a penalty such as death. Such a ceremony was most likely modeled after this type of law, and we know that when people had been given the opportunity to choose between one of two prisoners to be put to death Jesus was chosen to be put to death instead of a guilty murder. Now we also know that we are like clay pots that are either filled with the holy spirit or filled with something else, and so with the pot of the water of life (that Jesus gives) being mixed with blood of the innocent bird (Christ) our sins are atoned for.
6 He is then to take the live bird and dip it, together with the cedar wood, the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, into the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. (NIV)
Now we can see that by this process of dipping the elements together in the blood the fulfillment of Christ thus becomes apparent for by this process Christ cleanses us of sin by reuniting us with the vine of Christ or grafting us back into the tree of Christ (Israel), and by filling us with the Holy Spirit as a vessel that contains water.
7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the infectious disease and pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields. (NIV)
Now we know that god chooses to demonstrate himself seven times before showing his final decision like in the case of the destruction of Jericho. Now the live bird that was released represents us who like the murder who deserved death but that Christ died in the place of was set free to the open filed to tell his story of who died in his place (Christ). Overall, not only that but Christ also died as the bird who was killed, but when he returns he will be like many of us the bird that was set free because he will be shown to live as one who is set free from judgment
Now both in the example of the seven in Jericho and in the example of the seven in the sacrifice of the two birds we see that the finial judgment is held until all seven attempts of god are expressed. Now we know that a day to god is like a thousand years, and we know that the destruction of Jericho may represent the judgment of the entire earth. We can thus see that on the seventh day or the Sabbath god will rest from his work by judging the inhabitance of the earth, so that he can rest just like in the example of Jericho.
8 "The person to be cleansed must wash his clothes, shave off all his hair and bathe with water; then he will be ceremonially clean. After this he may come into the camp, but he must stay outside his tent for seven days. (NIV)
We are thus told the following about washing the robes, "Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city." (Revelation 22:14 NIV) The blood of the lamb washes the robes that are then washed, so that like this case a person may go into the camp or into the gate of the city. Overall, also about the hair is not this a symbol of humility or giving something away (like the former life) for if the hair is gone is that not a symbol of being striped naked and of a sacrifice made for a purpose.
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i am interested in jehovah witness theology, and i at this time write to a jewish news group.
many of my jewish friends are starting to belive in the new testement.
i was hoping that someone could reply to my public post below, so that me and my jewish friends can understand why we should become jehovah witnesses.
Hello,
Some people refuse to believe that a Jewish interpretation of scripture is existent with a Christ center, so I would like to quote the following writing from Jesus on the Web as a study of Luke 2:21. The following is a study from Jesus on the Web.
Luke 2:21
21And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb. (NIV)
We are told about giving a first-born male child to the lord on the eighth day in the following reference, "'Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. 'You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.'" (Exodus 22:29-30 NIV) We are even told the following about Circumcision, "You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner-those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant." (Genesis 17:11-13 NIV) Overall, the point is that for seven days a child is to be with his mother, but on the eighth day the child is to be set-aside for the lord by a promise being made between the child's parents and the lord.
Notice that Jesus was the name for the child before the child was conceived; moreover, this refers to the predestination of individuals. Jesus was already determined to be who he was before he was conceived. The name Jesus can be taken to have the meaning of "god saves", so even before Jesus was born the destination of Jesus was already determined by the father to be the savior of mankind.
Now Jesus is said to have been crucified at the age of 32 by traditional teaching, and with the circumcision of Jesus happening at the age of eight at such a time the he was dedicated to his father the two numbers together can be of some significance. We are told about Jehoshaphat the following, "He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years." (2 Kings 8:17 NIV) Now if Jesus was crowned king by suffering and thorns at Jerusalem the city of the kingdom of David who Jehoshaphat was a son and ruler of, then at the age of 32 when Christ was crucified he would have become the true Jehoshaphat by sitting on the throne of David at the right hand of the father.
If Jehoshaphat was a foreshadowing of Christ in the scripture then we can see some qualities in Jehoshaphat that would be reviled in Christ. We are thus told the following about Jehoshaphat, "Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers. He appointed judges in the land, in each of the fortified cities of Judah." (2 Chronicles 19:4-5 NIV) Now then in Jehoshaphat we see that he turns the hearts of the people back to the father like Christ had done among those who had gone astray (Ephraim), and in Judah he elects judges just like Christ brought judgment upon the supposed dedicated Jews of Judah by his judgment and by preparing his disciples to one day Judge on twelve thrones.
Now Jehoshaphat would also be a foreshadowing of Christ who reinitiated the priesthood through Melchezadec. We are thus told the following about this foreshadowing, "In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem. He gave them these orders: "You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly in the fear of the LORD. (2 Chronicles 19:8-9 NIV) Overall, such is fulfilled in Christ because the true priesthood of Christ all live and will live in the New Jerusalem at such a place that they serve faithfully and wholeheartedly.
The rule of Jehoshaphat even depicts the great battle in the end of days between the lamb and the armies of gog and maygog. The following is thus said about the foreshadowing, "The Moabites and Ammonites with some of the Meunites came to make war on Jehoshaphat. Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, 'A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from the other side of the Sea. It is already in Hazazon Tamar' (that is, En Gedi). .Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly. He said: 'Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the LORD says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's.'" (2 Chronicles 20:1-15 NIV) Overall, a point can thus be made about the last Great War being not a war for anyone but god, and this war is foreshadowed in this battle well.
The foreshadowing of the battled of the end of this age is seen in the battle of Tekoa; moreover, this is especially noted by the book of Revelation referencing the singing of praises when the army of god faces the army of gog and maygog. The following is thus said about the foreshadowing, "Early in the morning they left for the Desert of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, 'Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the LORD your God and you will be upheld; have faith in his prophets and you will be successful.' After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the LORD and to praise him for the splendor of his holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: 'Give thanks to the LORD, for his love endures forever.' As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated." (2 Chronicles 20:20-22 NIV) Overall, one can thus see how the last battle can be foreshadowed in this one battle.
The scripture is very clear about the fact that the last battle of mankind is foreseen in the battle of Jehoshaphat. The following is thus said about the issue, "In those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning my inheritance, my people Israel, for they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land." (Joel 3:1-2 NIV) Overall, the point then is that Jehoshaphat is a foreshadowing of Christ, and the battle of Tekoa is a foreshadowing of the last battle of mankind that the scripture talks about.
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