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| Free Speech | |
| By: Theo102 Date: November 8, 2018, 4:52 pm | |
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| "One of the great "successes" of the pubilc indoctrination | |
| system is that there are generations that actually genuinely | |
| believe that rights and freedoms come without duties and | |
| obligations." ~ Catherine Raye | |
| #Post#: 2083-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: patrick jane Date: November 9, 2018, 9:15 am | |
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| [quote author=Theo102 link=topic=219.msg2065#msg2065 | |
| date=1541717527] | |
| "One of the great "successes" of the pubilc indoctrination | |
| system is that there are generations that actually genuinely | |
| believe that rights and freedoms come without duties and | |
| obligations." ~ Catherine Raye | |
| [/quote]This is a great country but free speech has been under | |
| attack by the liberal left for years now, maybe decades. Now the | |
| liberal tech companies like Google/YouTube and Facebook and | |
| Twitter attack free speech on a grand scale. | |
| #Post#: 2409-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: patrick jane Date: November 21, 2018, 10:01 pm | |
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| NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY OR THE HOUR? | |
| At the Time of the End, the wise shall understand. Dan 12:10 | |
| Understanding the expression "No man knows the day or hour" is | |
| not possible | |
| by simply taking the English translation literally, because in | |
| the book of | |
| Daniel and the Book of Revelation, we are given EXACT | |
| descriptions of | |
| timing, relative to KEY events - such as the shutting down of | |
| the altar | |
| sacrifices in Jerusalem at the MID-POINT of the 70th week. Dan | |
| 9:27 | |
| Jesus was asked, "When shall these things be?" Matt 24:3 | |
| His answer ties us in to a very specific event (The Abomination | |
| of | |
| Desolation) which can be measured on our calendars: "When you | |
| therefore | |
| shall see the Abomination Of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the | |
| prophet, | |
| stand in the holy place, (whoever reads, let him | |
| understand:)..." Matt 24:15. | |
| It is now clear that "no man knows the day or hour" does NOT | |
| mean "no man | |
| knows the day or hour" as we read it from a modern-day English | |
| perspective. | |
| >From his book "Signs In the Heavens" by Avi Ben Mordechai, he | |
| devotes a | |
| chapter to explaining what "no man knows the day or hour" truly | |
| means from | |
| a rabbinical Hebraic perspective. It is a figure of speech. | |
| The following chapter contains edited excerpts from Avi Ben | |
| Mordechai's | |
| commentaries and builds on them aiming to explain that the Holy | |
| Bible does | |
| in fact reveal the "day and hour" or "exact timing" of our | |
| Lord's Return. | |
| No One Knows the Day or the Hour? | |
| Christians over the centuries have separated themselves from | |
| their Hebraic | |
| roots causing the misunderstanding of key Jewish biblical | |
| idioms. An idiom | |
| is also a figure of speech. When Y'shua (Jesus) uttered His | |
| famous words | |
| concerning the Messianic Era in Mattityahu (Matthew) 24:26, | |
| "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in | |
| Heaven, nor the Son, but | |
| only the Father", He used a common Jewish figure of speech | |
| referring to a | |
| specific Jewish Festival. In essence He was saying, "I am coming | |
| for My | |
| Bride on such and such a day! Be watching!" What day could the | |
| Jewish idiom | |
| be referring to? Keep reading! | |
| HEBRAIC ROOTS | |
| Y'shua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah) was Jewish and lived a | |
| Torah-observant Jewish life. Evidence suggests that He | |
| communicated to His | |
| audience in the Hebrew language, in Hebraic ways. What does it | |
| mean to | |
| communicate in Hebraic ways? | |
| It means to think and talk like a Jew. In Y'shua's day it meant | |
| to speak in the language and idioms of the day. | |
| Those who heard the Lord speak knew what He was saying and | |
| usually what He was | |
| alluding to unless He was speaking in parables, which had their | |
| own | |
| analogies. Of course, today's generation of believers struggles | |
| to | |
| understand His words and concepts. | |
| Speaking, thinking and acting like the | |
| Jewish Rabbi He was helped His mission in bringing the gospel | |
| message to | |
| "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt 15:24). | |
| Y'shua was quoted in Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:11 as saying: "I say | |
| to you | |
| that many will come from the east and the west, and will take | |
| their places | |
| at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of | |
| Heaven". | |
| Since we are talking about Jewish idioms, have you ever | |
| considered the meaning of | |
| these words? Specifically, our Lord used and confirmed common | |
| Jewish ideas | |
| about the Day of the Lord - the millennium - and its relation to | |
| the Feast | |
| of Sukkot (Tabernacles) in Z'kharyah 14. | |
| In speaking, Y'shua referred to | |
| the Festival and its traditional guests of honour, Avraham, | |
| Yitzchak and | |
| Ya'acov, called the ushpizin (uoosh-piz-zin) or seven shepherds | |
| (exalted | |
| guests), invited into every succah (tabernacle) at the Feast of | |
| Sukkot in | |
| the fall of the year. | |
| The seven shepherds in descending order are | |
| 1. Avraham (Abraham), 2. Yitzchak (Isaac), 3. Ya'acov (Jacob), | |
| 4. Mosheh | |
| (Moses), 5. Aaron, 6. Yosef (Joseph) and 7. HaMelech David (King | |
| David). | |
| By mentioning the feast and three of the seven shepherds, | |
| His audience | |
| immediately understood the allusion to the Messianic age - | |
| "Millennium" or | |
| "Day" of the Lord. | |
| "For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" | |
| (Luke 19:10). | |
| Again, in this simplistic phrase Y'shua, the Son of Miriyam and | |
| Yosef, | |
| spoke of two things: His Deity (by calling Himself the subject | |
| of the | |
| prophet Dani'el's vision) and His mission (by calling Himself | |
| the One God | |
| Who spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai) as it is written in Dani'el | |
| and | |
| Yechezk'el (Ezekiel): | |
| In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was One like | |
| a Son of | |
| Man, coming with the clouds of Heaven. He approached the Ancient | |
| of Days | |
| and was led into His presence (Dani'el 7:13-14). | |
| For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I Myself will search | |
| for My sheep | |
| and look after them (Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 34:11ff). | |
| In the Gospel narrative of Luke 23:31, Y'shua said: "For if men | |
| do these | |
| things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?" | |
| In this | |
| verse Y'shua points His audience, who had portions of the | |
| writings of the | |
| Prophets memorized, to the verses in Yechezk'el (Ezekiel) 20:45 | |
| to 21:7. | |
| Without question, Y'shua's hearers knew He referred to Chevlei | |
| HaMashiach | |
| or Ya'acov's Trouble in the Great Tribulation and warned His | |
| audience that | |
| what they do to Him in hardness of heart now, God will do to the | |
| nation in | |
| judgement later. | |
| Y'shua's encounter with Natan'el (Nathanael) is recorded in | |
| Yochanan (John) | |
| 1:47-48: When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, | |
| "Here is a | |
| true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false". "How do You | |
| know me?" | |
| Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still | |
| under the | |
| fig tree before Philip called you". | |
| Again, our Lord used a strong figure of speech pointing to a | |
| widely taught | |
| Jewish expectation concerning the resurrection and the | |
| millennium. In | |
| brief, He told Natan'el that he will be alive on the Last Day to | |
| inherit | |
| the land promised to Avraham (Bereshith-Genesis 17:8). From | |
| Y'shua's words, | |
| Natan'el understood he would participate in the resurrection | |
| since "that | |
| Day" was yet future. | |
| This is understood in the first century Jewish figure | |
| of speech, "I saw you while you were still under the fig tree", | |
| which | |
| refers to life and study of Torah in the millennium (Midrash | |
| Rabbah | |
| Genesis, Rabbah Song of Songs). | |
| Y'shua also told Natan'el that he is like | |
| righteous Avraham who received his reward for trusting God. This | |
| is | |
| understood because of the phrase, "Here is a true Israelite, in | |
| whom there | |
| is nothing false". The millennial concept of the fig tree is | |
| found | |
| throughout the Tanach including Z'kharyah 3:10: | |
| "In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under | |
| his vine and fig tree", declares the | |
| LORD Almighty. For this reason Natan'el responded emphatically | |
| to Y'shua | |
| and His words, saying: "Rabbi, you are the Son of God; You are | |
| the King of | |
| Israel!" | |
| God through HaMashiach Y'shua spoke to the Jews in many portions | |
| and in | |
| many ways (Hebrews 1:1-2) relying upon known figures of speech, | |
| common | |
| expectations and direct thoughts from Talmudic and Pharisaic | |
| teachings. The | |
| concepts I addressed only scratch the surface, so-to-speak. | |
| Every phrase | |
| and word from the mouth of the Lord meant something to His | |
| audience. He | |
| spoke with precision. With that as a basis, let us go on to one | |
| of the most | |
| interesting Jewish figures of speech misunderstood by the Church | |
| over the | |
| years. It concerns Y'shua's phrase, | |
| "No one knows about that day or hour, | |
| not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but only the | |
| Father". In | |
| context, He refers to the home-taking of His bride, the | |
| beginning of the | |
| Messianic era and His millennial reign as King of kings over all | |
| the earth. | |
| To understand this concept, we begin by examining its | |
| foundation. | |
| ROSH HASHANAH | |
| Chapter Five described the annual Jewish Festival of Trumpets or | |
| Rosh | |
| HaShanah - the first day of the seventh month. A few themes | |
| linked to this | |
| Jewish festival are resurrection, repentance, kingship, | |
| corronation and a | |
| marriage feast. | |
| This chapter shows another theme and convincing proof that | |
| Rosh HaShanah is not only the start of "The Day of the Lord" | |
| (Millennium), | |
| but is also the day of the resurrection! It has to do with the | |
| moon and its | |
| 29-day cycle of renewal. | |
| In this period of slightly less than 30 days, the moon goes from | |
| darkness | |
| to light and back to darkness again. This is not a haphazard | |
| occurrence | |
| attributed to evolution or science. | |
| God planned it for many reasons, one | |
| being as a picture of resurrection and renewal. With each cycle | |
| of nearly | |
| 30 days the ancient rabbis understood that the moon was being | |
| reborn or | |
| "born again" (Sefard siddur, Mussaf for Shabbat and Shabbat Rosh | |
| Chodesh, | |
| p. 509 and 646-648). | |
| NEW MOON | |
| In Y'shua's day, the moon was so important that a Jewish | |
| festival was | |
| proclaimed at the beginning of every month (Talmud Tractate | |
| Chaggigah 17b; | |
| Shavuot 10a; Arachin 10b). This was called the New Moon Festival | |
| and in the | |
| B'rit Chadashah, Rabbi Sha'ul (Paul) makes note of it | |
| (Colossians 2:16). | |
| Even in the Tanach, King David provoked King Sha'ul (Saul) over | |
| it (1 | |
| Shmu'el-Samuel 20:5). | |
| In the coming millennium the gate of the inner court | |
| of the Temple facing east shall be opened on the new moon | |
| (Yechezk'el-Ezekiel 46:1). | |
| And finally in the millennium all nations will | |
| celebrate the New Moon festival every month (Yeshayahu-Isaiah | |
| 66:23). It is | |
| obvious from the Hebrew Scriptures that in the millennium God | |
| has no plans | |
| to do away with His system. | |
| Since it is so important, exactly what is a new moon? It is the | |
| opposite of | |
| a full moon. Every month the moon goes through a complete cycle | |
| of renewal | |
| called Rosh Chodesh, the head or beginning of the renewed month. | |
| Twelve | |
| times a year on Rosh Chodesh, the moon always starts off with | |
| its disk | |
| being very dark to the naked eye. | |
| Over the course of 15 days it gets | |
| brighter and brighter until it finally reaches a full | |
| white-faced disk or | |
| full moon. Over the next 15 days it becomes darker and darker | |
| and finally | |
| becomes invisible to the naked eye again. | |
| The ancient rabbis saw a great lesson in this. Just as the moon | |
| has no | |
| light of its own but receives its light from the sun, so we too | |
| have no | |
| light of our own and must receive it from God. | |
| As the moon goes through a | |
| near 30-day cycle of dark to light to dark, so we need constant | |
| spiritual | |
| renewal and repentance. Like the moon, we too must be reborn or | |
| "born | |
| again" into HaMashiach and constantly renewed through | |
| repentance. This is | |
| why God called it a faithful witness in the sky (Mizmor-Psalm | |
| 89:37). | |
| If the moon is so important to God, why do we pay so little | |
| attention to | |
| it? We have lost touch with God's faithful witness in the sky. | |
| But Y'shua | |
| and the people of His day never lost touch with it. And as I | |
| previously | |
| noted, not only was the new moon necessary for the Jewish | |
| calendar, it was | |
| also a monthly festival celebrated with a feast fit for a king! | |
| So, when | |
| Y'shua said His famous words in Mattityahu-Matthew 24:36, it had | |
| far-reaching implications. Here are the words of Y'shua in a few | |
| different | |
| translations: | |
| But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of | |
| heaven, but | |
| my Father only. (KJV) | |
| No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in | |
| heaven, nor the | |
| Son, but only the Father. (NIV) But of that day and hour knoweth | |
| no one, | |
| not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father | |
| only. (ASV) | |
| About the exact time, however, and the hour, none knows - not | |
| even the | |
| messengers of Heaven; but My Father alone. (Fenton Modern | |
| English | |
| Translation) | |
| Failing to think like Y'shua and taking phrases out of Jewish | |
| context can | |
| lead one to misunderstand His words. For example, in many places | |
| of the | |
| B'rit Chadashah Y'shua knew the future and talked about it | |
| openly. In one | |
| instance He warned His talmidim (disciples) about their future | |
| saying, | |
| "See, I have told you ahead of time" (Mattityahu-Matthew 24:25). | |
| His | |
| context concerned the tribulation, the destruction of the | |
| Temple, the rise | |
| and fall of false messiahs (antichrists), etc. | |
| If He knew the future in | |
| Mattityahu 24:25, and the context concerns the Day of Trouble, | |
| why would He | |
| suddenly speak as though He did not know the future in the same | |
| context | |
| just 11 verses later in Mattityahu 24:36? Was He confused? Or | |
| was He making | |
| perfect sense in light of the customs of the Jews? | |
| Since the subject of our discussion is the new moon and figures | |
| of speech, | |
| realize the phrase, "Of that day and hour no man knows" refers | |
| to the | |
| sanctification or setting apart of the new moon. Without this | |
| sanctification, the Jews had no way of determining God's | |
| "appointed times" | |
| or moedim. | |
| Twelve times a year a new Jewish month (Rosh Chodesh) was | |
| announced to the | |
| people. We have no system like it today. We look at a calendar | |
| to determine | |
| the first of the month; the Jews, however, looked at the moon. | |
| This system | |
| of chronology was given to the Jews to know precisely when the | |
| Holy | |
| festivals (moedim) would fall (there are still eight of them; | |
| seven | |
| appointed times and Shabbat). The moon was the faithful Jewish | |
| calendar or | |
| witness in the sky and 12 times a year was sanctified as the | |
| basis of the | |
| Jewish stellar calendar. | |
| GOD'S APPOINTED TIMES | |
| Because the moon was so important for Jewish date - setting, the | |
| authorities | |
| in charge of announcing the new moon in Y'rushalayim took great | |
| care to | |
| ensure the first day of the month was announced on time. To | |
| correctly | |
| announce the first day of the month, established by the new | |
| moon, was one | |
| of the Sanhedrin's greatest responsibilities. They had to ensure | |
| the people | |
| knew when the first of the month began 12 times a year! | |
| Therefore God said | |
| to the leaders of Israel: | |
| These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations | |
| which you | |
| shall proclaim at the times appointed for them | |
| (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:4). | |
| In other words, God gave the Sanhedrin authority to announce and | |
| sanctify | |
| the new moon to the people. Its proclamation on earth was | |
| supported by God | |
| in Heaven (c.f. Mattityahu 18:18-20 where the Jewish context | |
| supports a | |
| believers' Sanhedrin as seen in Acts 15). | |
| As soon as the new moon was | |
| announced, the first day of the month began. Once the beginning | |
| of the new | |
| month was established, the festivals and weekly Shabbats for the | |
| upcoming | |
| month were sanctified for observance. In Hebrew, those | |
| observances have | |
| always been called "appointed times" or moedim, literally "a | |
| sacred and | |
| set time". | |
| From God's perspective, the appointed times belong to Him | |
| (Midrash Rabbah Numbers, Vol 2.21.25, p. 852) and no one has the | |
| authority | |
| to change the celebration of an appointed time. | |
| To do so was a serious | |
| matter and great sin. Appointed times had to be kept because of | |
| their | |
| Messianic implications. | |
| Further in Vayikrah (Leviticus) 23:4, notice the phrase, "holy | |
| convocation". The phrase in Hebrew is mikraw kodesh, better | |
| translated, | |
| "holy convocation and rehearsal". In other words, God's | |
| appointed times are | |
| actually "holy rehearsals" set apart to reflect events in the | |
| Messianic | |
| era. God said to the people, | |
| "Pay attention! On this day I am going to do | |
| something! Wake-up! The Jews were to know and practice all of | |
| God's mikraot | |
| or holy convocations. This is the essence of Rav Sha'ul's words | |
| that the | |
| Shabbat, new moons and festivals, "are a shadow of things to | |
| come; the body | |
| of Mashiach" (Colossians 2:17). | |
| Twice a year, in the spring and fall, there were several | |
| appointed times | |
| and specific days of holy convocation dedicated to the Lord. The | |
| new moon | |
| was the key in being able to fulfill those set times, holy | |
| convocations and | |
| rehearsals. | |
| For example, when the new moon was announced on the first day | |
| of Nisan, also called Aviv, the people knew when to observe the | |
| holy | |
| convocations and set times of the 10th (Shemot-Exodus 12:3), | |
| 14th and 15th | |
| (Shemot-Exodus 12:6; Bamidbar-Numbers 33:3), 16th | |
| (Vayikrah-Leviticus | |
| 23:15), and finally the 21st. | |
| In the same way, when the new moon was | |
| announced on the first day of Tishri also called Ethanim, the | |
| people knew | |
| when to observe the Holy convocations of the 1st | |
| (Vayikrah-Leviticus | |
| 23:23), 10th (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:26), 15th | |
| (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:39), | |
| and 22nd (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:36). | |
| Thus from the announcement of the new | |
| moon to the festival dates which followed, it was only a matter | |
| of counting | |
| the right number of days. In a moment you will understand how | |
| this applies | |
| to the phrase that Y'shua spoke concerning His coming again. | |
| THE SANHEDRIN AND THE TWO WITNESSES | |
| The Mishnah, also referred to as the Oral Law, dealt with the | |
| legal | |
| elements of daily Jewish religious life, in Hebrew called | |
| halachah. In the | |
| treasure of the first and second century halachah we find many | |
| explanations | |
| to help us understand the Torah particularly in Y'shua's day | |
| since it was | |
| still oral then. | |
| In volume two called "moed" or festival, tractate Rosh | |
| HaShanah teaches us about the Sanhedrin and its selection | |
| process of two | |
| witnesses who would tell us when the new moon arrived. Once a | |
| month the | |
| Sanhedrin discussed when to proclaim the new moon. They did this | |
| through | |
| the agency of two witnesses, the element of all legal | |
| transactions in | |
| Judaism. | |
| One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or | |
| for any | |
| sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, | |
| or at the | |
| mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. | |
| Deut 19:15 | |
| The men were important because by their witness, Israel | |
| celebrated God's | |
| appointed times. They had to be of good character and were | |
| always treated | |
| with great honour. | |
| They had special privileges such as authorization to | |
| ride into Y'rushalayim on horseback on the Shabbat to bring the | |
| good news | |
| of the new moon festivities! The men had special status because | |
| they were | |
| the confirmation that Y'hudah (Judaea) depended on for the | |
| correct timing | |
| of the new month and the festivals. | |
| Rosh HaShanah Chapter 2, Mishnah 5 reads: There was a large | |
| court in | |
| Jerusalem called Beth Ya'azek. There all the witnesses used to | |
| assemble and | |
| the Beth Din used to examine them. They used to entertain them | |
| lavishly | |
| there so that they should have an inducement to come. (The | |
| witnesses were | |
| allowed to break the Shabbat travel restrictions for this one | |
| purpose lest | |
| they might be reluctant to come and give the essential evidence | |
| of the | |
| sighting of the new moon). | |
| Continuing in Chapter 2, Mishnah 6: How do they test the | |
| witnesses? The | |
| pair who arrive first are tested first. The senior of them is | |
| brought in | |
| and they say to him, tell us how you saw the moon - in front of | |
| the sun or | |
| behind the sun? To the north of it or the south? How big was it, | |
| and in | |
| which direction was it inclined? | |
| And how broad was it? If he says (he saw | |
| it) in front of the sun, his evidence is rejected. After that | |
| they would | |
| bring in the second and test him. | |
| If their accounts tallied, their evidence | |
| was accepted, and the other pairs were only questioned briefly, | |
| not because | |
| they were required at all, but so that they should not be | |
| disappointed, | |
| (and) so that they should not be dissuaded from coming. | |
| In qualifying the witnesses, the Sanhedrin used the following | |
| criteria: | |
| They never arrived at the same time. | |
| They were never questioned at the same time. | |
| There were always two new witnesses each month. | |
| In short, the two qualified witnesses usually stood before the | |
| Nassi or | |
| President of the Sanhedrin (Jewish High Court) to give account | |
| of the | |
| moon's appearance prior to its becoming total dark (Moed Rosh | |
| HaShanah, | |
| Chapter 3, Mishnah 1). | |
| Just before the moon's disk enters total darkness, | |
| there are tiny slivers of white on the edges of the waning disk. | |
| These were | |
| called the "horns" of the moon. | |
| Correctly sighting the "horns" (on the | |
| waning crescent) determined the beginning of the new month. Once | |
| the two | |
| witnesses were qualified and questioned, if the President (who | |
| had | |
| knowledge of astronomy) was convinced their observation was | |
| accurate, he | |
| publicly sanctified the start of the new month. | |
| After careful scrutiny to determine the official arrival of the | |
| new moon, | |
| the Nassi or President of the Sanhedrin proclaimed Rosh Chodesh | |
| with the | |
| words: "Sanctified", and all the people repeat after him, | |
| "Sanctified, | |
| sanctified". After the proclamation, the Sanhedrin ordered | |
| watchmen on the | |
| nearby hillsides to light fires and thus inform the Jews in all | |
| of Y'hudah | |
| (Judaea), Shomron (Samaria), Egypt, Babylon and the galut | |
| (diaspora) that | |
| the new month had begun. That started the festival of the New | |
| Moon and | |
| counting of the next 29- days to the next new month | |
| proclamation. | |
| Again, once the Sanhedrin set Rosh Chodesh, or the beginning of | |
| the new | |
| month by sighting the new moon, the rest of the festivals were | |
| calculated. | |
| However, the seventh month, Tishri, was particularly important | |
| because it | |
| was the only month that had a holy convocation or appointed time | |
| on the | |
| first day of the month. | |
| This posed a unique problem. The first day of | |
| Tishri was the appointed time called Rosh HaShanah, the Feast of | |
| Trumpets | |
| (Vayikrah-Leviticus 23:24). Yet no one could begin observing the | |
| festival | |
| until they heard those famous words from the President of the | |
| Sanhedrin, | |
| "Sanctified!" | |
| No one in Israel could plan for the first day of the seventh | |
| month Tishri, | |
| called Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets (also called Rosh | |
| HaShanah). | |
| When they knew how many days to count to a festival, that would | |
| be easy. | |
| But: | |
| HOW COULD THEY PLAN FOR A FESTIVAL THAT THEY DID NOT KNOW AT | |
| WHAT DAY OR | |
| HOUR IT WOULD PUBLICALLY BE ANNOUNCED AND THUS BEGIN? | |
| This was unique to Rosh HaShanah and dependent upon the | |
| testimony of the | |
| two witnesses. Prophetically, we are informed of two important | |
| witnesses | |
| during the Great Tribulation: | |
| And I will give power unto My Two Witnesses, and they will | |
| prophesy 1260 | |
| days, clothed in sackcloth. | |
| Rev 11:3 | |
| Of course, anyone could look up into the twilight or early | |
| morning sky and, | |
| if they looked hard enough, see the new moon or at least its | |
| "horns". And | |
| certainly an astute observer knew when about 29- days were | |
| completed since | |
| the previous Rosh Chodesh. | |
| But recall, ONLY THE SANHEDRIN NASSI had the | |
| authority to proclaim the first of Tishri, which was already | |
| established as | |
| a technical procedure. | |
| Once proclaimed, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh | |
| HaShanah) commenced. Until that public announcement by the | |
| Nassi, everyone | |
| had to wait before they could begin the observance of the | |
| festival. No one | |
| could begin the festival beforehand! | |
| Thus, we can more clearly see the | |
| analogy Jesus made with His words: "But of that day and hour | |
| knoweth no | |
| man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only" was in | |
| regards to | |
| this important festival of Rosh HaShanah. | |
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| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: Theo102 Date: December 6, 2018, 12:28 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote]This is a great country but free speech has been under | |
| attack by the liberal left for years now, maybe decades. Now the | |
| liberal tech companies like Google/YouTube and Facebook and | |
| Twitter attack free speech on a grand scale. [/quote] | |
| The liberals and the left have different ideologies. Liberalism | |
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| #Post#: 2889-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: guest8 Date: December 20, 2018, 9:10 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote author=Theo102 link=topic=219.msg2680#msg2680 | |
| date=1544120895] | |
| [quote]This is a great country but free speech has been under | |
| attack by the liberal left for years now, maybe decades. Now the | |
| liberal tech companies like Google/YouTube and Facebook and | |
| Twitter attack free speech on a grand scale. [/quote] | |
| The liberals and the left have different ideologies. Liberalism | |
| is more about having an open mind, the left is characterized by | |
| an immature or perverse world-view. The social media "though | |
| police" are ideologically aligned with humanism and the | |
| corporate paradigm. | |
| [/quote] | |
| [shadow=blue,left]Liberalism is associated with "any goes" world | |
| view or Post Modernism. They are on the scale as follows. | |
| Leftist....Liberals.....Moderates.....Conservatives.......Right | |
| Wingers | |
| While the Leftist and Right Wingers are both extremist, the | |
| liberals have a ideology akin to Socialism. This was started | |
| back in the 60's and has been slowly evolving unto today. Like a | |
| prophecy out of the Bible, a one world government is coming. | |
| Conservatives are the capitalist who prefer the rule of law. | |
| Their ideology is one that looks at the constitution as the | |
| law(s) of the land not something to change as society grows | |
| (living Constitution). | |
| Free Speech is one of those liberties that will have to be | |
| constantly fought for. | |
| The coming war will once again be within our own borders. those | |
| on the left of Moderate against those on the right. | |
| The Minority of both groups, those who are part of the Church | |
| (Bride of Christ) will not be there. | |
| Blade[/shadow] | |
| #Post#: 2890-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: Theo102 Date: December 21, 2018, 2:55 am | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| [quote]Leftist....Liberals.....Moderates.....Conservatives...... | |
| .Right | |
| Wingers[/quote] | |
| IMO its not one dimensional. You've got a liberal-conservative | |
| axis but you've also got a libertarian-statist axis. The | |
| liberal-conservative axis is ethically agnostic, but the | |
| libertarian-statist axis has lawful conduct against fraudulent | |
| conduct (i.e involving corporate fictions). The left-right axis | |
| also seems to have an ethical nature (i.e. left-bad, | |
| right-good), but it also seems to have more of an association | |
| with the liberal-conservative axis than with the | |
| libertarian-statist axis. | |
| Free speech includes the ability to speak falsely or | |
| fraudulently, so it's no surprise that free speech is big with | |
| statist societies eg the United States of America. | |
| #Post#: 4747-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: patrick jane Date: April 3, 2019, 12:11 am | |
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| Three YEARS in PRISON For Posting Offensive Content??! | |
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| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: patrick jane Date: April 5, 2019, 9:20 pm | |
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| Re: Free Speech | |
| By: patrick jane Date: April 6, 2019, 3:00 am | |
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| Re: Free Speech | |
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