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Adir-Dor-Yahu | Desert Sage's avatar

In Matthew 25:1-13, Jesus doesn’t say the wise virgins were chosen before time—He says they were prepared. The foolish virgins could have been wise, but they failed to prepare. If their fate was already sealed, why does Jesus tell them to ‘watch therefore’? The warning to stay ready only makes sense if there was a real possibility of being shut out. This aligns with Jeremiah 18:7-10, where God declares that a nation’s fate can change based on its actions, and Ezekiel 18:30-32, where He calls people to repent and live, showing that His judgments are not predetermined but responsive to their choices.

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Adir-Dor-Yahu | Desert Sage's avatar

Sergio,

"I always felt a distance between me and my Lord. But my love was indeed distanced by the idea of Jesus versus the Father—exactly as you describe here." — Linda

Do you see what I’m trying to convey about the Logos, which dwelt within Jesus and now dwells within us? Everything in the Bible is about a relationship with our Abba. Jesus is now our High Priest and advocate, interceding on our behalf.

He modeled this perfectly for us:

"Our Father who art in heaven..."

"No one comes to the Father but by me..."

Throughout the New Testament, Jesus consistently points us to the Father. He died so that we could be reunited with the Father, yet doctrines have deceived us, placing a wedge between believers and their Abba.

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Linda Twaddell's avatar

I always felt a distance between me and my Lord. But my love was indeed distanced by the idea of Jesus versus the Father - exactly as you describe here. My love crisis brought me to 1 John. And it was not a simple crisis, mark my words. But suddenly the door of my heart was opened by the Holy Spirit and I was introduced to the reality of Abba who is love. I moved a million miles in a moment from the sanitary confession of sin and a life of more sanitary words like "grace, and faith" to the realization of adoption. I could write endless words about the words that changed in one instant but if the oceans were my ink well, it would run dry.

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Sergio DeSoto's avatar

You got me teared up a little Linda. Beautiful.

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John Shaphat's avatar

RE: The Stolen God Of Esau, Who Impotently Serves Within Satan’s Anti-Theocratic Synagogue of Socialist Democracy

What if the God you (democratic ‘old wineskin’ hearted foolish virgins from Messiah’s holy-theocratic Bride) pray to isn’t the One who declares, “I have loved you (i.e. Commonwealth of Israel’s wise virgins in Messiah’s Elect Bride) with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3), but a Kabbalah version shaped by Babylon’s anti-theocratic kings and Masonic clerics to keep Sodom-Egypt’s digitally-marked (SS#) chattel patriotically enslaved within Satan’s Socialistic Security System? For 2,000 years, the Judeo-Xian goats corralled within Socialism’s eugenic Security System have been blinded to the holy-theocratic God Who sovereignly foreordains and controls the clay vessels He created at the Potter’s wheel—Who never foreknew in His constraining love, Esau, the Devil’s accursed son of perdition. But foreknew Jacob in His infinite constraining love, as promised to Israel, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6).

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