Jim Lincoln wrote:
Mike, videos can be manipulated so just because it's a video doesn't guarantee that it's showing what it should be ❗👎
I would also add this.
"5 Georgia election fraud claims explained"
"Suspicions of voting fraud are unproven"

Jim Lincoln wrote:
They can always complain to the Georgia Secretary of State if they think they got a case.

G. Bird wrote:
A simple question (and I ask this as an Englishman with right wing leanings - I have no fondness for Biden and his Antifa/BLM thugs): Is there actually any solid proof that this election was rigged, or does this all just come down to personal biases and opinions?

This simple proverb says it all.

Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

The pouring of His Spirit is defined clearly as God making known His Words unto you. So what occurred 2000 years ago?

Jer 23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

His people were being taught lies, hence Matt. 21:43. The Wheat turned, while the tares remained.

So when He made this promise...

Zech 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace

He did so by His chosen Vessel Paul.

Paul is said to be a pattern (1 Tim 1:14) for believers from that point forward so believers, if they are following the pattern Paul said he was, are chosen vessels as well.

Unprofitable Servant wrote:
Not denying man’s inability, not denying that only God’s sheep will hear His voice, denying the non Biblical premise that men are not called to respond to the gospel when clearly they are.

Gay M Allen wrote:
Thank You James, and ladybug~! your help is awesome, I respect your wisdom as I have been reading your comments for a while now and have come to the conclusion that they are accurate and you speak truth, may God bless you.

Psalm 100:3 Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

May God bless you Gay.

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Gay M Allen wrote:
Thank You All, BLB is great I forgot all about it too, what is your opinion of e-sword.net ?

In my thoughts, The bottom line is that commentaries are written by men wheras Scripture is written by God.
Scripture has its own commentary given through the cross references of the prophets cited by the NT authors. That's why there can really be no such thing as a New Testament church as the NT is citing prophets and explaining what they said in detail.

Acts 15:16 cites Amos 9:11.
That creates an objective context that's there for us to explore, learn, and ask questions. Like;

What sword?
How did God raise the tabernacle of David again?
What happened to the first?

Does modern worship consist of such dialogue?

None I'm aware of yet Jer 9:24 says God delights in us knowing and understanding Him and He promised to give us a heart so that we could (Ezek. 36:26)

There are plenty of these tethered texts in which to do the same such as these:
Acts 2:17 / Joel 2:28
Isa. 49:6/ Acts 13:46-47

Jennifer Cunningham wrote:
What is the fascination with Trump the narcissist, get over it. The people has spoken, look at his behavior after the election, firing and putting down people who don’t agree with his wicked assumptions with no proof, even the judges he put in there didn’t buy it.

Here's a source right here on SermonAudio which contains the proof of the Dominion voting machines ability to be manipulated by an outside source via a wireless internet connection. Javan Pulitzer, an IT expert detailed how a team infiltrated the machine in Fulton County and could manipulate the information it contained during a GA senate panel hearing.

Another shared the same information in Michigan a whistle blower named Melissa C. She is an IT professional hired by Dominion.

ladybug wrote:
Yes James, blb is an excellent source for study. I use bible hub too, but prefer blb. Concerning Isaiah, spot on. God teaches His sheep His truth. Hope your day is filled with Christ, a deeper desire to know Him, and to proclaim Him to a world that is getting darker by the hour...

Ladybug wrote:
Excellent advice James interlinear bibles are helpful in the studying of His word as well. Keeping chapters and verses in context and cross referencing is a must. Sometimes it's helpful to look at parallel translations as we study. In the end, the Spirit teaches and guides the sheep all truth.

Your last sentence reminded me of His promise to teach those who are His.

Jennifer Cunningham wrote:
What is the fascination with Trump the narcissist, get over it. The people has spoken, look at his behavior after the election, firing and putting down people who don’t agree with his wicked assumptions with no proof...

What if what he is saying is true and not wicked assumptions?
What if those whom he thought he could trust turned on him?

Look, No one here is fascinated with Trump as far as I know, except maybe for Jim. He loves Trump.

The problem is the people have not spoken. They have been stolen from. The proof of a stolen election is not being reported but actually censored by the MSM and the evidence is plentiful.

Read the 106 page lawsuit in Georgia filed by Sidney Powell. The allegations of treason are backed by witnesses ready testify.

The state of Penn. mailed out 1.7 million ballots and received back 2.5 million.
Even my 7 year old Grandson knows something is wrong with that.

That's just two examples but there's plenty more.

Dr. Tim wrote:
There is substantial evidence that Mr. Trump did win the election, Jim. Tragically for America, the same cabal of crooked citizens, politicians, judges and newspeople who stole the election not from Donald Trump, but from the American people, are now denying and suppressing the evidence of fraud on the same massive scale as the election counting itself. If it’s “fair” for the left to take the election by fraud, then I for one say that it is equally fair—nay, more than fair—for the right to repossess it by force. I think it’s time for martial law until civil law can be restored.

Neil wrote:
However great a man he may have been, he did not have the last word on how NT Greek should be translated. If one must paraphrase, it should be as close as possible to the original word, and "abusing themselves" is too vague – there are many ways to abuse oneself.

And your right, there are many ways to abuse oneself like those who did so with man's wisdom defiling themselves, prefering their idols over God's Word.

1 Cor. 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

If you look across the prophets, the souls were defiled by lies served up by the priests. (Mal.2:1)

Same spoken here as well.

His instrument of vengeance is a sword. (Deut 32:41)

All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword (Amos 9:10-12, cf Acts 15:15-18).

There's no biblical warrant for Rom 13 to be a reference to civil magistrates.

Its simply a misunderstanding of whom bears the sword and furthermore what the sword even is.

If the above "minister of God" is a reference to secular authorities, then why is that same revenger - which revealed wrath in Rom 1:18- said to have come from heaven?

Using your example:

1 Tim 1:10For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind,

We can see that whoremongers defiled themselves with their own inventions.

In Jer 3:9 there were those who
committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

The context remains the same in these other examples as well.

Psalm 106:39
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Isa 24:5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Ezek 22:4
Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made;

Carl in Asheville wrote:
The word "beasts" in Daniel 7 and Revelation 13 are symbols of world powers (i.e. empires and leagues of nations) governed by human.

Daniel 7:12 As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

The beasts had their dominion taken away.
What dominion?

Matthew 21:43
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

Any other references to these beasts? There's 2 Peter 2:4 and also here.

Jude 1:10
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.