tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20236620635668607142024-03-27T17:22:24.884-07:00Who Are Anointed?Who are God's "Chosen Ones"?
Who are the "anointed"?Pearl Doxseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023662063566860714.post-78350245853405887782010-12-28T07:51:00.144-08:002023-07-04T18:41:27.680-07:00Who are anointed?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span><b>What follows is a collection of responses to </b></span></span></span><b style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">various letters I have received</b><b style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">, which contained questions about those anointed. It is a lengthy Blog, so can perhaps be broken down into reading segments.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span><b><u>QUESTION FROM READER:</u></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"> I’m having a problem with those who claim to be anointed. One of the things that has always bothered me is the answer given when asked, “How do you know that you are anointed?” The standard answer is, “The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children.” (Rom. 8:16) Really? That’s it? That doesn't cut it with me. I was expecting something more, like a gift that was given by spirit. Something like the gifts also mentioned by Paul, prophecy, ministry, teaching, exhorting, distributing, presiding, mercy. But the one with brotherly love, without hypocrisy, and abhorring what is wicked is the most valuable of all gifts of the spirit. That especially would mean a deeper understanding of God's word.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">How are the anointed chosen? Is it due to qualities that reflect the personality of Jesus Christ, or maybe the time period in which a person is born? I can’t believe that Yhwh and Jesus choose those to be anointed in a willy-nilly fashion. There are to be 144,000 who will reign as kings and priests with Christ. (Rev.5:9,10; 7:4,5,6,7,8) On the scale of averages, that makes about 73 persons a year from 33 C.E. to 2010, to fill those positions. Is that number filled, or are there more to be chosen? Does the spirit bear witness to you when meeting another anointed person?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Of course we know that on Pentecost of 33 C.E., 120 were gathered in a room in Jerusalem, to choose a replacement for Judas Iscariot. The holy spirit was poured out upon those present. So, that leaves the number at 143,880 to be anointed over time. Then there were the others of the time from Paul to John receiving the Revelation. How many would that be? We don’t know. Then there are those who became apostate, those mentioned by Paul, Peter, John and the other apostles.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">There hasn’t been any prophecy since John wrote Revelation. So all that is left for our day, are the other gifts of the spirit. So I have many questions to ask those who make the claim of being anointed. Why were you chosen? What is your gift? What are you doing </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">with that gift </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">today ? <b>Are only those who are anointed, Jehovah’s Witnesses? </b>Be careful how you answer.</span></span></span><br />
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I hope I can help you with this problem.<br />
Let me start by saying that the scripture you've quoted is actually true. God's spirit bears witness with our spirit, that we have been selected/chosen. But then, do we doubt the scriptures? Perhaps it would help to expound on that concise statement. I suppose the reason why anointed do not usually expound upon it is because the witness given by God's spirit may be different for each one. After all, people are not made in a cookie cutter, and Yhwh is able to give a tailored witness to the uniqueness of each individual. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Remember too, that how one is chosen, can be an indication of which position God has chosen for them, within the body of Christ </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(1Cor.12:18,27,28,29; Eph.4:11,12; 2:20,21,22; 1Pet.2:5,9; 1Cor.3:16; Acts 7:48,50; Eph.2:10; 2Cor.6:16). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">For example, only a prophet or apostle would receive a spirit witness, that included visions (Num.12:6; Amos 3:7).</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In sharing our personal experience, we would not want to give a false impression of what generally happens to all those chosen. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It is also true, that for the anointed one to have no doubt that the witness is from God, would it not need to be of a supernatural nature? If the contact with Holy Spirit could be explained away by coincidence, imagination, etc., how could these ones be certain of the witness? </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Because the Spirit's Witness is powerful and unmistakable, an anointed one would be hesitant to speak of it in an atmosphere lacking faith. One would be asking for ridicule, mocking and incredulity. Such reactions would expose God's Spirit to public shame. (Matt.7:6) An anointed one would not want to be guilty of such irresponsibility (Heb.10:29).</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br />I am really just a babe who knows so little of the knowledge of God (Rom.11:33). But according to my limited singular experience, l will say from personal experience, that being anointed by God through Christ is a profound event...one that can never be forgotten. It is unmistakable in nature, and for me personally, it was also immensely illuminating. It taught me so many things, that I am still learning from the experience that took place 46 years ago. If you would like to read more about my personal experience of being anointed, you can find the account contained in the article, <a href="https://pearl-personalfile.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-personalfile.blogspot.com</a> . The account begins almost half way down that page.</span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">I believe that being chosen by God requires that His Holy Spirit makes contact with that one (Rom.8:16).</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">I know of no other way, according to the scriptures (Acts 10:47).</span><br />
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">Each of us are chosen personally (John 15:16; 2Chron. 16:9 A; Rom.9:15,16; Rev.5:9,10; 1Pet. 2:9,10; Isa.43:10,21).</span><br />
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">I do not think it is <i>just</i> a feeling. When someone contacts us, <i><b>we know it</b>. </i>How much more so, when that contact, is from the Creator.</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">(Gal.1:15; Acts 9:15; Rom.8:28,30; 1Cor.1:9; Eph.4:1,4; 2Tim.1:9; Heb.9:15; 2Pet.1:10).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">Feeling is <i>with</i> the contact, because God speaks to our hearts </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">(2Cor.1:22; Eze.36:27; 2Cor.3:3; Jer.31:33; Deut.6:6,8; Heb.8:10). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;"><b>What does the spirit say/put, into our heart? </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">Note these four scriptures:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">"<i>Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has <u>given us new birth</u> into <u>a living hope</u> through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This <u>inheritance is kept in heaven for you</u></i>" (1Pet.1:3,4)</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">"<i>And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because </i></span><i><b style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">He has given us the Holy Spirit to <u>fill our hearts</u> <u>with his love</u>.</b><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">" (Rom.5:5)</span></i></span></span><i><br />
</i><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;"><i>"whom he poured out on us generously </i><u style="font-style: italic;">through Jesus Christ our Savior</u>" (Titus 3:6)</span><br />
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">"<i>Because you are his sons, </i></span><i><u style="color: #3e3e3e;">God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts</u><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">, </span><b><span style="color: red;">**</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">the Spirit who calls out, '</span><u style="color: #3e3e3e;">Abba, Father</u><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">.</span></b></i><span style="color: #3e3e3e;"><i>' </i>" (Gal.4:6)</span></span><br />
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">**</span></b><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">A father, naturally loves his son. The love God pours into our hearts, tells us of our adoption.</span></span><br />
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e;">"<i>Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and <b>gave us the Spirit in our hearts</b> as a pledge.</i>" (2Cor.1:21,22)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">The chosen receive a circumcision of the heart.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><i>28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.</i>" (Rom.2)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">"</span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><i>In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision, not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh was put off when you were circumcised by Christ</i>" (Col.2:11)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;">Every anointed one with whom I have spoken about this moment, all claim that they felt overwhelming love being poured into their hearts, and knew the event was from outside themselves.</span></span><br /></span>
<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">For me personally, this occurred during a vision, because of my own place in the Body of Christ (Num.12:6).</span><br />
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<span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">We have Holy Spirit poured into our heart, like the oil of anointment (2Cor.1:21; Ex.29:7; 30:30; 1Sam.10:1; 16:1,7,12,13; Zech.4:14).</span><br />
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As far as the "gifts" that the spirit may give upon anointment, the scriptures tell us that these are given again, on an individual basis (Matt.25:15). The Bible states that God gives these gifts just as it pleases Him (Heb.2:4; Rom.12:6,7,8; 1Cor.12:4-5,6-7,8-9,10-11,18). Then the scriptures continue with a list of possible gifts (1Cor.12:28; Gal.5:22,23). We are also told that He places each anointed one as a member of a body, each having their own function...all necessary, all equal in value (1Cor.12:14-31 <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Cor.12%3A14-31&version=NKJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">>LINK</a>), according to their own ability (Matt.25:15). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I know that I have been given some ability to teach and prophesy. Each person has their own strengths, abilities, talents and desires. Yhwh's name infers that He is fully capable of giving gifts of spirit, according to any consideration He pleases. Yet receiving such a gift would by no means remove a person's imperfections or their physical, emotional, or spiritual challenges that they may be struggling with. The gift of free will is with all of us until we die, and we all therefore, are still subject to sin and even unfaithfulness.</span></span></span><br />
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How are the anointed chosen? I have asked myself this question. The Bible gives a very clear, concise answer. "Yhwh's eyes are roving about in all the earth, to show His strength in behalf of a heart who is complete toward Him." (2Chron.16:9) I have personally taken this to mean that Almighty God searches the entire planet, throughout the centuries, searching through the hearts of humankind. He is not looking for outer beauty, money, intelligence, education, fame, skill, talent, hours in service, conformity to the arrangements and doctrine of an organization.....but, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">a complete heart <i>toward the person of God</i>.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">What does this mean? </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Part of it, I think, is that a person reaches the point of caring about NOTHING else but pleasing our Heavenly Father. Yhwh can, apparently, work with that. He will then lead them through learning obedience as Christ did </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(Heb.5:8; 2Cor.1:5; Rom.8:17; 6:5; Phil.3:10; 1Pet.4:1). He then refines them, preparing them for their unique eternal service</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(Heb.12:6; 1Pet.1:6,7; 1Cor.3:13; James 1:3; Isa.48:10; 51:23; Rev.9:5,6,18; Zech.13:9; </span></span></span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">Ps.66:11,12,13;</span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;"> </span><span face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-size: large;">1Pet.2:10,9).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I also remember Jesus' words when speaking of young children. He said, "the kingdom of the heavens belongs to suchlike ones." (Matt.19:14; 18:10) </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So this augments our understanding, that besides a complete heart, Yhwh is also looking for childlike humility, willingness to believe, innocence, and simplicity of conscience.</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(1Pet.5:6; Ps.113:7,8; Matt.23:12; Prov.29:23; Micah 6:8; Isa.66:2; 1Sam.2:8).</span></span></span><br />
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If you consider what I believe to be the truth, there were always anointed Christians, as well as non-anointed Christians, from the time of Christ down to our day and up until the end (Luke 21:32; Ps.14:5; Matt.24:13; 28:20; 1Cor.15:24). And so, I wouldn't worry about the math. Our father in heaven knows how to count, and when he gathers in the exact number of the New Heavens, this administration will fulfill all of His purposes for it (Eph.1:3,4,5,10,11). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">There is no scriptural basis to believe that all those in the first century were anointed. In fact, the scriptures convey a very clear, different image.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It should also be kept in mind, that the number 144000 is given to us in the book of Revelation. That book is written entirely in symbolism. The meaning of 144000 can accommodate any literal amount. (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/02/666-144000.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>)</span></span></span><br />
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As far as what the anointed are doing today....hopefully whatever God reveals as His will, to them. The scriptures give a large to-do list. Personally, at the time of my anointing, my heavenly Father also made clear to me, things He expected of me personally. These expectations were in harmony with scripture, but God clarifies our individual role as a member of Christ's body, through more individualized verses. In general and as a group, we would primarily be occupied with what Jesus asked of Peter......</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">"Do you love me?....Then feed my little lambs!" Yes, Jesus loved his sheep. He knew he had to leave them, but he wanted to be sure they would be cared for. He asks his anointed brothers to do this for him. For me, writing back to you is part of that </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">(Mal.2:7; 1Pet.2:9; Rev.5:9,10; Luke 12:42,43; Heb.13:17).</span></span></span><br />
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And lastly, are we his only witnesses? </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Do you remember the transfiguration scene? When Jesus was seen glorified in Kingdom power, on each side of him stood Moses and Elijah (Matt.17:3). These two represent his final co-rulers, also in Kingdom power. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Many times the scriptures speak of the anointed as "two witnesses" Rev.11:3; Zech.4:11,12,13,14 (Moses and Elijah, <i>symbolically </i>). There is much more to this subject, which I intend to write about and publish (There is a search box at the <a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">MAIN PAGE</a>). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">But my point is that one of the primary purposes of the anointed, is to bear testimony about Yhwh and Christ (Rev.20:4; 12:11,17). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">While Yhwh primarily views the Anointed as having this job (Isa.43:10,21; 1Pet.2:9 "<i>chosen</i>" witnesses/ "priesthood" Rev.5:10; 20:6)... that <i>by no means</i> indicates that everyone else who hears by spirit (Rev.2:29) is excluded from witnessing about Him (Rev.22:17). In fact we are told that even the Creation bears witness about it's Creator (Psalm 148:1-14 ><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ps.148%3A1-14&version=NKJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LINK</a> ; Rom.1:20). If lifeless planets, vegetation and animals can glorify Him, how much more should ALL men?</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">If you have been invited to the "marriage feast" (Matt.22:8,9 <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt.22%3A8-9&version=CSB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CSB</a> Matt.22:10; Rev.19:9) of spiritual provisions, given to the faithful virgins and shared by them (Matt.25:10; 22:8,9,10; Luke 12:37,42); you who "hear" are also instructed to invite as many as you find, to come partake of it (Rev.22:17).</span></span></span><br />
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And finally you say, "<i>Be careful how you answer</i>"</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">I have been careful, as I always try to be when doing service for my Father. I hope you have had some of your needs satisfied. Feel free to write me with anything else, and I will do my best.</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">The "anointed" are those taken into the "New Covenant". To read about this, you are welcome to go to:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Regarding your comment... </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" face=""tahoma" , "calibri" , "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">"<i> </i></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";"><i>There hasn’t been any prophecy since John wrote Revelation. So all that is left for our day, are the other gifts of the spirit.</i>"...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Please consider Acts 2:17; 1Cor.12:28,18; and Rev.11:3. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">If you want to see what the Bible says about prophesying in the time of the end, please consider <a href="https://pearl-prophecycease.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-prophecycease.blogspot.com</a> .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As regards your comment, </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"</span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><i>Of course we know that on Pentecost of 33 C.E., 120 were gathered in a room in Jerusalem, to choose a replacement for Judas Iscariot.</i>"</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">.....you may want to read </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><a href="https://pearl-whowasthetwelfthapostle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://pearl-whowasthetwelfthapostle.blogspot.com/</a> , </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">since men do not choose apostles....Jesus does (John 15:16), and you will find much Bible evidence in that article link above, to prove that Paul (not Mathias) was the replacement of Judas. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Priestly positions are by God through Christ; not by, nor through, men (Gal.1:1; Mark 10:40; 1Cor.12:18; John 14:10).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>You also asked</u>:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"<i>Does the spirit bear witness to you when meeting another anointed person?</i>"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of the spirit's gifts mentioned as being given some members of Christ's body, is "the ability to discern spirits" (1Cor.12:10).</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Just like the other gifts (prophesying, teaching , healing), not all receive all gifts (1Cor.12:29) </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(except the apostles, because they are "first" 1Cor.12:28). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The "ability to discern spirits" can be described in two capacities. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>The first</u> is the ability to know if a teaching is true. Such teachings are sourced in "spirit" (Rev.16:13; Matt.10:20). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><u>The second</u>, is the ability to recognize which of these spirits a person harbors in their heart.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So my answer to your question is this:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>If</i> you have been given the ability to discern spirits, and you meet another anointed one....Yes, you will be able to tell if that one is a brother in Christs Truth, or not.</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;">For more information: </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2021/03/can-genuine-anointed-recognize-one.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2021/03/can-genuine-anointed-recognize-one.html</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><b>QUESTION</b>:</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I must say I have always been fascinated with the anointed and have seen first hand the rough ride they get within the cong for just claiming this. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What will happen to them after the thousand year reign, will they come back to earth or continue on in heaven with Jah?</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">How do you cope with leaving your loved ones and even the earth itself and all that that would entail.</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I would also like to say thank you for sharing what Yah has given you, as in visions and knowledge.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At first I doubted you and thought it could be demonic experience.....but after leaving it with Yah I feel very comfortable in talking with you.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I nearly was stumbled away from Yah but after two years of inactivity I wholeheartedly went to my God for help.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I went to the memorial and during the service all was normal. After the service I was filled with such overwhelming love and forgiveness for my brothers and sisters. I was on a literal high of warmth affection and understanding for them. I no longer had any bad feeling towards them. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So my question was answered and I know Yah wants me in his organization.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have a hunger for spiritual food but my poor brain can only cope with so much.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So keep up the good work you do for I for one and i know many others really need this encouragement even if we are just the other sheep.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>MY REPLY</b>:<br />
</span></span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The un-anointed are the very reason the anointed were chosen. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We are to be ministers of you and one another, seeing to it that we do our best in forwarding Yhwh's care </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Mal.2:7; Luke 12:42,43; Rev.5:9,10; Heb.13:17). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We will "render an account".</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Regarding the Bible's meaning of "other sheep", please see</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/addition-to-http4womaninthewilderness.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/addition-to-http4womaninthewilderness.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> ----(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/04/anointed-flockthe-truth.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/04/anointed-flockthe-truth.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">--------(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-question-i-do-have-question-for-you.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-question-i-do-have-question-for-you.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">Have you ever considered that the "little flock" were fleshly Jewish anointed (Matt.15:24; 10:6); and the "other sheep" were the fleshly Gentile anointed to come? (Acts 15:14; 13:46) At the time that Jesus spoke of the "little flock" and their becoming "one flock" with a larger group; Jesus had only been working with fleshly Jews (Matt.15:24; Matt.10:5,6).</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">These Gentile <i>anointed</i> to come (John 10:16; Acts 10:45; 9:15; Rom.3:28,29; Isa.56:7; Haggai 2:6,7) (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/04/anointed-flockthe-truth.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>), were a much larger group than Jewish anointed. But these all became one anointed group, and were then all considered <i>spiritual</i> Jews and <i>spiritual</i> seed of Abraham (Rom.2:28,29; 3:30; Gal.3:27,28,29; Rev.5:9,10) regardless of their flesh, making them all one flock of <u><b><i>spiritual</i></b> Jews.</u> (Eph.2:14,15,16; Gal.6:15,16).</span><br />
<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-jew-what-is-gentile-answers-to.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-jew-what-is-gentile-answers-to.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: medium;">[Jesus well advised us, that when we flee apostate Jerusalem (Matt.24:16; Rev.18:4), we should not take anything (especially false teachings), along with us (Luke 17:30,31,32,33; Mark 2:21,22)....even if we feel more comfortable with teachings that are familiar (Luke 5:38,39)].<br /></span></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span">First, regarding what will "happen" to the anointed when they are completed with their "Millennial" work...</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It first must be said that we must have an accurate understanding, of <i>when</i> the "thousand years" takes place </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-kingdom-when.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/04/two-kingdoms.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-day-and-night-of-thousand-years-two.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/08/144000-and-great-crowd-compared.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/10/two-appointments.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/02/satans-fall-when.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/11/timetable-of-kingdoms.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/06/when-do-anointed-become-kings_17.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) (<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-remaining-ones.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and a recognition, that the anointed rule not only for the time-limited symbolic "Thousand Year" period; but also, those found faithful during the "thousand years" will inherit the promise of ruling forever (Dan.7:18). A clear understanding of those two eras of "reigning" (having divine authority and power), is imperative.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">The answer to your "millennial" question, is supported by establishing of the following facts. I will first give the scriptures, and then the concluding point that supports the final answer.</span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2Cor.5:17-20:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"17 Consequently if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away, look! new things have come into existence. 18 But all things are from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of the reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was by means of Christ reconciling a world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and he committed the word of the reconciliation to us.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">20 We are therefore ambassadors substituting for Christ, as though God were making entreaty through us. As substitutes for Christ we beg: “Become reconciled to God.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Once again, verse 17: "if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new creation"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Note associated scriptures...</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Gal.6:15,16:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"15 For neither is flesh circumcision anything nor is flesh uncircumcision, but a new creation [is something]. 16 And all those who will walk orderly by this rule of conduct, upon them be peace and mercy, even upon the Israel of God."</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Hebrews 9:11,12:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">11 However, when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come to pass, through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, <i>not of this creation</i>, 12 he entered, no, not with the blood of goats and of young bulls, but with his own blood, once for all time into the holy place and obtained an everlasting deliverance [for us]."</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We see a few facts established...</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The "Israel of God"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "Tent not made with hands"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> those "in union with Christ"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "ambassadors substituting for Christ"</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">are also spoken of as</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "a new creation" (3X)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "new things"</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> "not of this creation"</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So the question arises...In what way will the resurrected anointed be a "new creation"?</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, to be created physical beings, is not new.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To be created as spirit sons, is not new.</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Outside these two kinds of bodies, there is no other creation.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To understand how the anointed are to be new, we need to look to the outcome of Christ, which will be the same eventuality for his faithful brothers (Rom.6:5; 1John 3:2). How did Jesus become a "new creation"?</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Before Christ, had any creation lived as both, spirit and flesh? No.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jesus experienced living as both belonging to heaven, and as belonging to the earth.</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">John 3:13:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"13 Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man."</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Note the phrase that we see in many scriptures...</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">the fact that Jesus referred to himself many times as, "the Son of man".</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This term highlights his established birth and existence in the flesh.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yet, also note another term that applies to him...</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Matt.16:15,16,17:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"15 He said to them: “YOU, though, who do YOU say I am?” 16 In answer Simon Peter said: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” 17 In response Jesus said to him: “Happy you are, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal [it] to you, but my Father who is in the heavens did."</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(see also Matt.8:29; 14:33; Mark 1:11)</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These scriptures establish that Jesus was unique, in that he was the only creation to exist and be born both-- as a physical man, as well as born as a spirit Son of God. (John 8:23; 6:62) *(1Pet.3:18; John 21:14)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yet, "he was the firstborn among many brothers", "that he might be first in all things". </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://pearl-materialize.blogspot.com" target="_blank">https://pearl-materialize.blogspot.com</a></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Romans 8:28,29,30:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"28 Now we know that God makes all his works cooperate together for the good of those who love God, those who are the ones called according to his purpose; 29 because those whom he gave his first recognition (Rev.20:6) he also foreordained <i>to be patterned after the image of his Son</i>, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 Moreover, those whom he foreordained are the ones he also called; and those whom he called are the ones he also declared to be righteous"... (Rev.19:8)... "Finally those whom he declared righteous are the ones he also glorified."</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Col.1:18:</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"18 and he is the head of the body, the congregation. He is the <i>beginning</i>, the <i>firstborn</i> from the dead, that he might become <i>the one who is first</i> in all things".</span></span></span><br /><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We see there that "Christ's brothers" are to follow this same pattern of the Christ </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(1Cor.15:49; Rom.8:29; 6:5; 1Pet.3:18) </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Gal.4:19; Eph.2:6; 4:13; 2Pet.1:4; Heb.12:22,23)....</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">that of a rebirth as spirits (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/10/coming-to-life.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Conquerors are given a new body, a spiritual one (1Cor.15:44). They are literally, born twice, or, born again </span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(John 3:3,5,6</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">; </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Eph.5:26,27</span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">).</span><br />
<span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">[(John 3:5; 1Pet.1:23) The "water" is the "Word".]</span> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We see from the previous scriptures, that Christ was the first to be born twice, or, born again </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Matt.1:18,21; 1Pet.3:18; 1:3,23; Rom.8:11; John 20:19,20; 1:13; 1John 3:9). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also see from the foregoing verses, that his <i>faithful</i> "brothers" follow this same pattern (Rom.8:9). Those sealed as slaves of God, are also born as spirit (1Cor.15:50,53,44). The spirit body cannot be seen, but <i>is</i> present within them (John 3:8; 6:63).</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Christ was the first one on earth, to live <i>naturally</i> as both man and then as an immortal human-spirit (a hybrid, so to speak) after his being resurrected (1Pet.3:18; John 20:19,20). Sealed anointed also follow this pattern, by also becoming this "new creation"...living in a full and natural sense, as both flesh AND spirit (2Cor.5:17; John 11:26).</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now reason on this please....</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">if God re-creates these ones to be this "new creation", will he then take this duel capacity and existence away? </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">No, there is no scripture that indicates this state of glorious freedom as being only temporary. Instead, the scriptures indicate that this freedom is given to them forever, just as it is given to Christ, forever </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Heb.10:5; John 1:9,12,13; Heb.1:6; 1Pet.3:22) </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Gen.28:12,13,14; Ps.2:8; Matt.5:5; Gal.3:29).</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com" target="_blank">https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Why has the New Creation been given this duel nature, ability, and naturalness?</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is according to God's purpose that both abilities/states will be put to full use and function (Heb.1:6,7; John 1:51; Rev.22:3).</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yhwh would not reward these ones by frustrating their duel nature.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In other words,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">if Yhwh recreates these new creatures to be both spirit and flesh, able to enter into heaven or descend to the earth;</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">then this is what they will do </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Gen.28:12,13,14; John 1:51; Prov.11:30; Rev.22:2; Heb.1:6).</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In fact, the scriptures clearly indicate that this transference will be ongoing. This ability and activity will be required, as "Bride/City" ambassadors will be envoys of the heavens forever, bringing spiritual food to the earth, from heaven. (Rev.22:1,2,17; John 6:51)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This system was first referred to in the scriptures, by "Jacob's ladder" (Gen.28:12) (John 1:51). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(see @ <a href="https://jacobsladder-obadiah.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://jacobsladder-obadiah.blogspot.com/</a> )</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(@ <a href="https://pearl-materialize.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-materialize.blogspot.com</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(@ <a href="https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-holycity.blogspot.com</a>)</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This is a huge scriptural subject. All the scriptures depicting this, are covered in the Psalm 45 article, which will be released in it's entirety soon. (<a href="https://pearl-psalm45.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>) This activity and use of their duel nature, is the very structural essence of the "Holy City" that descends from God during the Thousand Years (Rev.3:12). It is the means by which the "tent of God" will be "with mankind" (Rev.21:3-5; 1Cor.3:16)</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(^ see 3 links above @).</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These "trees of life" which descend from heaven to bring their life-giving fruit and leaves to the earth; are Sons of God (Rev.22:1,2; Matt.7:20; Zech.4:11,14; Rom.8:19; Gen.22:18; 28:13,14; Gal.3:29). When in heaven, they appear before God's face (Matt.5:8; Rev.22:4). Yhwh has affection for them (John 16:27). They will always own their new spirit bodies. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The ability to materialize into flesh, or de-materialize back into spirit, will never be taken from them. Although Jesus was the first human to be raised as Spirit (1Pet.3:18), he materialized in flesh at will (1Cor. 15:4,5,6). Christ's resurrected brothers will similarly, always be able to at will, visit their heavenly Father, or, visit their earthbound loved ones. A "New Creation" indeed! Can you see this?</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Although the job of restoring the <i>new creation/priesthood/</i>God's Temple of angelic messengers (Mal.2:7; Heb.1:14; 2:16) (Matt.19:28; Dan.8:14; Mal.3:1,2,3), will finally finish after the great tribulation and Armageddon (for the great crowd of remnant priests)...</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> [after which the creation will then be ruled directly by Yhwh (1Cor.15:24,25,26,27,28)], </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">...the glorious inheritance of freedom given these Chosen firstborn Sons, will not end, nor be given to others (Rom.8:18,19,20,21; Dan.2:44; </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">John 8:35)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Forever will they be a new creation, able to enter heaven, or earth. They will forever tell forth the Glory of the Father of us all, as personal eyewitnesses of His Face (Rev.22:3,4; Matt.5:8). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They will have seen His divine light, that is filled with Love and Life. Forever will they bring it down to Gods physical children (Rev.21:11,22,23,24; 22:4). </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These are His firstborn...His first-fruits (Num.3:12; Rev.14:4). They are born from sin and death first (Rev.20:6). These faithful conquerors receive the "<i>double portion</i>" of life, as firstborn sons (Rev.21:7; Isa.61:6,7,8,9; Job 42:10; Zech.9:12)! How gracious and undeserved! These ones inherit both the rewards of the heavens, and the rewards of the earth. (Luke 22:29; Matt.28:18; Rev.5:10)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The scriptures may even be speaking of these ones having/enjoying their physical children (Isa.61:8,9; 65:23).</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Jesus' Rulership and Kingdom is spoken of in four ways...</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*as being handed over to Yhwh after the perfecting of the <i>New</i> creation (ingathering/harvest of faithful kings/priests) (Eph.1:9,10)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*as being eternal (in that it will serve in some capacity, forever)(Dan.7:13,14)</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">*as starting in the first century, and exercised through the members of Zion (Luke 22:69; </span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;">Ps.110:1,2; 1Cor.15:25; 1Pet.3:22; Matt.28:18; 1Cor.15:25,24; Eph.1:20,21,22,23; Col.1:13; Rev.14:1)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">*as being concluded </span><i style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";">after</i><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua";"> his enemies are debased and conquered beneath his divine authority and power, through the lifetime service of his faithful kings and priests (1Cor.15:24,25; 2Cor.10:3,4,5; Rev.17:14; Eph.5:11; 6:11,12; 2Tim.2:3).</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/04/two-kingdoms.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/04/two-kingdoms.html</a>)</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">--(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/06/when-do-anointed-become-kings_17.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/06/when-do-anointed-become-kings_17.html</a>)</span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">----(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2022/04/when-do-anointed-serve-as-priests.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2022/04/when-do-anointed-serve-as-priests.html</a>)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, since Jesus made a covenant for a Kingdom with his Chosen Ones, <i>just as his father made a covenant with him</i> (Luke 22:29), </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">then it is indicated that the Chosen Ones will rule in the same two ways (Matt.25:23). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: book antiqua; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/10/two-appointments.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2015/10/two-appointments.html</a>)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In <i>fuller</i> capacity, they will continue beyond this era, to be ambassadors, "trees of life", and priests of God's heavenly Temple, </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">just as the eternal life of Adam and Eve was eternally dependent upon the original "Tree of Life"/"The Word". (Gen.2:9; 3:22,23,24; Rev.22:1,2; </span></span></span><span style="color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Rev.20:6)</span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I feel deep understanding of what this eternal role will prove to be. (Dan.2:44)</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Yhwh bestows upon the Faithful Chosen, a new existence. They will eternally be both spirit and human, and will be able to materialize at will. This will enable them to do their eternal ministry. This ability will be theirs forever, enabling them to transverse both heaven and earth...enjoying the blessings of both. </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(see <a href="https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-holycity.blogspot.com</a> ) and </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://jacobsladder-obadiah.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://jacobsladder-obadiah.blogspot.com/</a> )</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">--(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/09/someone-on-panel-of-broadcast-at.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/09/someone-on-panel-of-broadcast-at.html</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">----(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-question-hello-there-could-you-please.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-question-hello-there-could-you-please.html</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">------(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/10/here-is-letter-from-reader-who-wants-to.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2012/10/here-is-letter-from-reader-who-wants-to.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span">I hope that answers your question.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Regarding your "comfort" inside the Kingdom Hall....</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">pleasing God is never about our own comfort, as we learn from the example of Jesus Christ and other authentic Christians </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(Luke 9:58; 2Cor.12:15; Acts 14:22; 9:16; 1Thess.3:3). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Our life is to be obediently directed by scripture, regardless of the cost to us (Mark 8:35; Rev.12:11) (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/02/dedication-and-baptism.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>). Regarding our choice to associate with those known as "Jehovah's Witnesses", may I suggest you read </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/02/jehovahs-genuine-mountain.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/02/YHVHs-genuine-mountain.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">--(<a href="https://pearl-disgustingthing.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-disgustingthing.blogspot.com</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">----(<a href="https://pearl-winepress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-winepress.blogspot.com</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">------(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/07/hide-or-herald.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/07/hide-or-herald.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">--------(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/05/he-who-seeks-to-save-his-life-will-lose.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/05/he-who-seeks-to-save-his-life-will-lose.html</a>)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please let me know if reading these links leave you with any unanswered questions.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(oh dear, that just answered (partially), your first question)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Next, how do I cope with leaving my husband and family, and this beautiful earth?</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, hopefully the answer to your previous question sheds light on my expectations concerning these sacrifices. But if such does not prove to be....</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Paul said, all things are refuse in comparison to the grace of God (Phil.3:8).</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have full trust in Yhwh... that he adds no pain to serving him (Prov.10:22).</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Even if I stand to lose all I know, in my heart I love Yhwh so much, and appreciate His goodness, that I do not feel entitled to anything. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If I am only given the power to give my devotion through free will, it is enough for me. To be the lowest slave in His house, is more than anyone deserves.</span></span></span><br /><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Any love I have for attachments of this life,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I only hope that these ones too, will be found approved,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">and please Yhwh's face.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3e3e3e;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span>Lastly, you say:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">"Are only those who are anointed, Yhwh’s Witnesses? Be careful how you answer."</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Who are "Yhwh's Witnesses"? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">A familiar scripture tells us (Isa.43:10,21; 1Pet.2:9). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Isa.43:10 is the very same verse which "Jehovah's Witnesses" use to justify taking the label as God's witnesses. Do you see in Isa.43:10, that God's witnesses are chosen? (1Pet.2:9).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Did God choose "Jehovah's Witnesses" to represent Him?...Or, did they blaspheme, by presumptuously taking that designation for themselves? (Rev.17:3; 13:5) Even Jesus Christ refused to appoint such a position (Mark 10:40).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">What "Jehovah's Witnesses" wrongly assume, is that God's name is "Jehovah". I was nearly terrified for them, when the Hebrew meaning of Jehovah was disclosed to me, by another anointed one.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-name.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-name.html</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">--<a href="https://nameofgodatobadiah.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">https://nameofgodatobadiah.blogspot.com</span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">----<a href="https://exatoverdade-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2013/03/testemunha-de-yahawah.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en" target="_blank">https://exatoverdade-blogspot-com.translate.goog/2013/03/testemunha-de-yahawah.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Ironically, "Jehovah's Witnesses" is an accurate designation for those who idolize the Watchtower organization. They propagate the teaching of the actual bearer of that descriptive name (Rev.16:13-15; 1Tim.4:1; Rev.2:9; 3:9; 2Cor.11:13-14,3,4; Matt.24:24-25; Rev.13:11,14; 19:20)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Please re-examine the verses that JWs use to justify their claim (Isa.43:10-11), in the hope that as was the case with me, your misconception can be guided into accurate knowledge by means of the Bible.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Isa.43:10,11,12,21:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">10 “You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “and my servant <u>whom I have <b>chosen</b></u>, (1Pet.2:9)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">so that you may know and believe me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and understand that I am he.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before me no god was formed,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> nor will there be one after me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">11 I, even I, am the Lord,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> and apart from me there is no savior.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">12 I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I, and not some foreign god among you.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord, “that I am God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">21 the people I formed for myself</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><u>that <i>they</i> may proclaim my praise</u>. (1Pet.2:9)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">22 “Yet you have not called on me, <i>Jacob</i>,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> you have not wearied yourselves for me, <i>Israel</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">28 So I disgraced the dignitaries of your temple;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I consigned Jacob to destruction</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> and Israel to scorn."</span><br />
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<span>I have emphasized some of the points that God's words make, because of their relevance to the misconception mentioned earlier.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The <i>individual </i>Witnesses (2Chron.16:9) referred to in this scripture, received that position, not from men, but from God.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Isa.43:10 clearly states that Yhwh's genuine witnesses, are those "chosen" by Him </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">(Rom.9:16,18,23,24,21; 8:28,29,30; 2Chron.16:9; Eph.1:14; 2Cor.5:5). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Could such a divine representative be chosen and designated by mere men? (Rom.2:29; Col.2:11; 2Cor.10:18; 4:7; John 15:16,19). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Can men read hearts? (1Sam.16:7; 2Chron.6:30) </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">No. (<a href="https://pearl-whowasthetwelfthapostle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">LINK</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This misconception occurred based upon the assumption that God had already judged and appointed the "faithful and discreet slave" over all his belongings in 1914; and that God installed not only those, but also the resurrected 144,000, over Christ's total kingdom inheritance (Matt.28:18; Rev.1:18; 1Cor.15:24; Dan.2:44; 7:27) (2Thess.2:1,2,3,4). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">It was concluded that all those in the association with the earthly "faithful slave", could also serve as God's Witnesses, because they were later mistakenly identified as the "Great Crowd". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This is not at all what these verses in Isa.43 say, nor what any of the end-time prophecies, indicate.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The symbolic last two prophets are called Christ's "witnesses" (Rev.11:3).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">According to prophecy, every one of them are "killed" (Rev.11:7; 20:4; 6:11) (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2016/01/symbolic-death-by-means-of-world.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The nation created by God to declare His praises (Isa.43:21) is His Chosen priests (1Pet.2:9,10) (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/04/who-are-yhwhs-witnesses.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>)</span><br />
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<span>The Bible makes clear who God's "chosen" ones are [Col.3:12; Luke 1:78 (2Pet.1:19); Luke 18:7; 1Pet.2:9,10; Deut.7:6).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It also makes clear what their assignment is (Isa.43:21; 1Pet.2:9). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">The assignment of the Priesthood is not to be rendered from the spiritual "Temple" by any other (Num.18:7; 2Chron.23:6; Heb.5:4; Eze.44:16). Only those chosen to be priests may render "acceptable service" (1Pet.2:5; Rev. 5:9,10; Rom.15:16; Heb.13:15; Rev.1:6) in the Temple arrangement (1Cor.3:16; 1Pet.2:5; Eph.2:20,21,22).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Any other arrangement is considered an abomination by God (Eze.44:6,7,8,9; 9:4; Joel 3:17), a "disgusting thing standing in the holy place" (Matt.24:15), "standing where it ought not" to be (Mark 13:14)...."trampling" the priesthood of "holy ones" 2Chron.13:9; Lam.1:10; Rev.11:1,2; 2Thess.2:4; Rev.13:6,7; Dan.8:13; 1Chron.13:9,10; Matt.5:13).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-disgustingthing.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://pearl-disgustingthing.blogspot.com/</a>)</span><br />
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<span>The next point made at Isa.43:10, is that these ones whom God chooses, are given by God Himself....divine knowledge, understanding, and faith in and of the True God (1John 2:20,27,28; 2Cor.5:5; 1Thess.4:8). These ones are then said to realize, that besides this True God, there is NO other identity to be served or worshiped.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Isa.43:11 adds the trait, that these chosen ones understand, that besides Yhwh and His expressed arrangement, there is no other means nor path of salvation (Eph.1:8,9,10,11,12; Isa.2:3; Rev.7:10).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">At Isa.43:12, Yhwh emphasized once again, that he himself is the only source of salvation, revelation, light, and divine proclamation among these chosen ones. No organization is cited as a means of salvation (Matt.23:10; Gal.1:11,12). God's spirit is the source of knowledge to those chosen by Him (James 1:5; Prov.2:5,6; Ec.2:26; 2Cor.1:21,22). Those chosen priests, are His messengers of truth and salvation (Mal.2:7; 2Cor.5:20; 2:15,16,17).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Almighty God also finds it necessary to clarify and repeat, that there is no other object of worship and service among God's witnesses. At Isa.43:12, God concludes by saying that these personal students of His, teach what they know (1Pet.2:9; Matt.5:14,16; 10:20) ....specifically, that only Yhwh is the God deserving service, fear, and worship (Rev.4:11; 1:6; 14:7; 19:1; Matt.22:37; Deut.13:4; Eze.2:3,4,5,6,7; Luke 4:8; Matt.4:10), not an organizational mountain offering salvation (Rev.6:16; Zech.4:7; Mark 11:23; Rev.8:8; Rom.1:25; Rev.13:8).(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/02/jehovahs-genuine-mountain.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/02/YHVHs-genuine-mountain.html</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This exclusive devotion indicates that only God is to be personally worshiped, served and glorified. This teaching would characterize God's genuine "witnesses"....but not the climate of God's people in the time of the end (Rev.13:8,7,10,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,4)</span><br />
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<span>Isa.43:21 adds more detail about these genuine witnesses. It highlights the facts that this new creation is being "formed" by God over time, into a group with a purpose (1Cor.3:9; Heb.9:11; Rev.14:1). That singular purpose is to "declare" God's "praise" (Isa.43:21; 1Pet.2:9). This would exclude working to accrue praise for any other identity (Isa.42:8; Rom.2:29; Gal.1:10), nor pointing to it's worldly power for salvation or divine knowledge. This singular purpose would certainly NOT include procuring praise for oneself (John 7:18,16,17; Luke 17:10). For God does not share His glory and praise with any other identity. Yhwh's genuine and chosen witnesses, already know this (Isa.42:8,12).</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span>Do we have any scriptural teachings in the Greek scriptures to indicate who these chosen witnesses are (since Isaiah is written to those in the Covenant that has already ended)? </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>Yes...those chosen to be witnesses of Yhwh...those who continue to fulfill Isa.43:10-28 are identified under the New Covenant Nation (1Pet.2:9,10). </span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>The people God forms for himself to declare his praise, based upon the knowledge they have received directly from His spirit; are clearly identified for any who wish to be followers of Christ (John 7:17; Matt.7:20).</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But Isa.43:22,28 points to the misdeeds of those in covenant with God. We see that God divides His Nation in two. "Jacob" are the leaders who have turned to the power of the Nations rather than turning to God. "Israel" has subjected themselves to this arrangement and have become slaves to this new master. God says that instead of serving Him and declaring His praise...."Israel" is working tirelessly for something other than God. "Jacob" is not calling to God....not looking to Him for the provisions He has promised to provide (Isa.55:2; Rev.3:18; 13:17).</span><br />
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<span>For God to proclaim that "Jacob" is consigned to "destruction"/"the curse" (Isa.43:28), is a fine detail which warrants further understanding. "Destruction" is also clearly identified within end-time prophecy (Rev.9:11; 2Thess.2:3; Rev.17:16,17; Jer.4:30)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We are also told that "Israel" is consigned to "scorn". Jacob is subject to a curse, "destruction". Israel suffers scorn. Why?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Without rescue, Destruction is a permanent judgment. The scorn of Israel, is temporary, according to God's own promise (Isa.54:7; Eze.14:22; Mal.3:2). God is just, and this scorn is deserved. The behaviour of Israel is in violation of the context of these very verses of Isa.43. The "good news of the kingdom" is the redemption of Jacob from his enslaved captivity to destruction (Rev.13:7,10; Isa.48:20,21; Psalm 103:3,4,5).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> According to Rev.13:8, "all the earth" (<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2014/07/world-earth-home.html" target="_blank">LINK</a>) at one point is worshiping the Wild Beast (Matt.24:24,25; Rom.3:10,11; Eze.22:30). This includes the "holy ones" (Rev.13:7; 9:10). This is why the faithful remnant of Israel (present in the time of the end) must repent in sackcloth (Rev.11:3,4); and learn to be willing to die for truth (Rev.6:9; 12:11) in order to be cleansed and redeemed (Zech.3:4,5,6,7; Rev.19:8).</span><br />
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<span>According to Yhwh Himself..."Yhwh's Witnesses" are the anointed "chosen" ones, as long as they are:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">worshiping God alone,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">are taught by means of God's spirit and Word exclusively (John 4:24; 17:17),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and like Jesus, they must preach and teach others to have an exclusive devotion and worship to God alone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span>In the time of the end, God's genuine witness prophets are only found among those who have repented of their violations to these commands.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So, when you ask if I am a critic of "Yhvh's Witnesses"</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/03/wolves-in-sheeps-clothing.html" target="_blank">https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/03/wolves-in-sheeps-clothing.html</a>)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">...No....I do not judge my fellow anointed, who are proving faithful according to God's own definition of who His witnesses are (Rom.8:33; Deut.17:12; Luke 6:37). That standard is according to Bible command (1Cor.4:5). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">You may realize though, that while I am not judging those who are working within God's guidelines at Isa.43; I myself, have been judged by my anointed brothers, beaten, and thrown out by spiritual Gentiles who act on their behalf </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">(Matt.24:49,15; 2Chron.13:9; 1Sam.22:21; Rev.11:1,2,7; John 16:2). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead of obeying scriptural council, and coming to us personally; the governing body has dispatched it's "Beast"/Gentile elders (Matt.18:15; 5:23,24) to bully us. This is a cowardly act of opposition. It imitates the pattern of the Jewish religious leaders of the first century, who used the Romans to kill the "seed", Christ (Gal.3:16,29). This is the pattern of the adulterous harlot, riding the Beast (Rev.17:3,6; 11:7; Matt.23:34,35; Rev.18:24).</span><br />
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<span>Regarding the fact that I write admonition, corrections, and exhortations toward those who have been mislead into becoming counterfeit witnesses of God (Rev.13:16,18)...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-666.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-666.blogspot.com</a>)</span></div><span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/mark-of-beast.html" target="_blank">Mark of Beast</a>)<br /></span><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">(<a href="https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-letter-i-received-hi-sister-pearl-i.html" target="_blank">Mark of Slavery</a>)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">...I do so because the Bible commands God's genuine chosen witnesses, to do so with urgency (2Tim.4:2; 1Cor.9:16; Eph.4:25; 5:11). Those who have been called into light, and all the grievous realizations that this entails, are directly responsible to herald this vital warning (Eze.33:1-9; Rev.14:7). </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">Regarding Jude 1:9; As long as we are using God's word of truth to "rebuke" false teachers (as Jesus did -Matt.23:13; Mark7:6,7,8); the rebuke we speak, does come from "the Lord" (Jer.1:9; 5:14; Ex.4:12; Matt.10:20; Hosea6:5).</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">There are many parallel prophecies concerning the time of the end, and the apostasy of God's chosen nation which has occurred (2Thess. 2:4; 1Cor.3:16; Rev.8:10,11; 9:1; 13:11,9,10; 17:1,2; 2:20,9). Understanding the genuine message of the scroll of Revelation is key to conscious awareness of this condition. If a "chosen" one is neglecting to recognize these foretold realities, and declare them; That drowsiness will come at great cost </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;">(Rev.10:10; Eze.3:1,4,7,17,18; Luke 12:46,47; Matt.25:30)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Thank you for your kind questions. If I have neglected any part of them, please follow up. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">If you have any comments or questions about what you read, please leave a note in the comments section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">A COMMENT I RECEIVED </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: medium;">> </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Pearl!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> I have read part of this, but there's just to much in it, too much meat!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> Keep getting indigestion so to speck!!! I have tried a few time now</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> Get to the first part! And there's times am walking beside you! And can understanding you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> And then I find myself wandering off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> Is there anything just that bit lighter? For me to study.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> Am trying to pace myself and sticking to the questions you put before me, without going off track!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">> And l don't want to move from here! till l come to an understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">MY REPLY:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">I am sorry you are having trouble. You don't tell me which part is hard, but maybe if I tell you this....</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Think of a family.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">A father, a mother, and children.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">The Father is God. The mother is a promise God makes, in His purpose to save us from sin and death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-thewoman.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-thewoman.blogspot.com</a>)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">The children are us, here on earth. But there is a difference between the mother and the children (Gal.4:26).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">There is the child born first (the firstborn), and the children born later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">This follows the pattern God taught us, by means of the nation of Israel, and the Hebrew scriptures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Listen to what God said of all the human children and animals on earth....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">"Consecrate to me every firstborn male. The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Exo.13:2 (Exo.13:12; 22:29; 34:19;</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"> Lev.27:26)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"> God then decided that he would choose a certain group to represent these firstborn. See who they are.....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">"I have taken the Levites (priests) from among the Israelites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman. The Levites are mine for all the firstborn are mine. When I struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, I set apart for myself every firstborn in Israel, whether human or animal. They are to be mine. I am the LORD." Num.3:12,13 (Heb.11:28; Num.8:15,16)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Even though the firstborn (Levites/Priests) belonged to God; they still needed to be purified/redeemed/consecrated (Num.18:15,16; 3:46,47; Exo.13:2,15; Num.8:6,21; Neh.13:22) unless they were already designated as clean (Num.18:17; John 15:3; 17:17,19; 13:10; Eph.5:26). As you can see, these "holy" animals, were destined to be sacrificed to God (Num.18:17; Lev.3:2; 17:6) </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">While alive, these were not to work mundane labor/commercial business, nor have their hair/wool shorn (used for profit/exploited) (Deut.15:19; Num.6:5; Judges 13:5; Col.3:2; Eze.44:15-20). These priests lived and served, as if it were always God's Sabbath Rest, by which these ones were owned. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-sabbath.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-sabbath.blogspot.com</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">The Levites of Israel were like a shadow of the real firstborn priesthood to come (Col.2:17; Heb.8:5; 10:1; 1Pet.2:5,9,10)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">God now invites the ones He chooses, to be candidates/electives, for the "firstborn son" position and it's priestly work </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(James 1:18; John 1:13; 15:16; 2Cor.1:21,22; 1Pet.1:3,23; 2Tim.2:15; Rev.14:4).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">If they prove faithful through Satan's testing </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(Luke 22:31; 2Cor.11:3; 10:4; Eph.6:12; 2Tim.4:7; 2Cor.13:5; John 16:33; 3:33,34; Heb.12:2,3,4; James 1:12) they are sealed into the reality of a new priesthood of "firstborn sons" (Heb.12:22,23),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">of which the Levites foreshadowed (Rom.8:23; 2Cor.1:22; 5:5; Eph.1:14; Rev.5:9,10; 20:6). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Like the firstborn "holy" animals meant for sacrifice (Num.18:17); these priests also must give their lives on God's altar (Zech.11:4; Rom.8:36; Rev.6:9,10,11) if they are to fulfill their full purpose and assignment as belonging to God. Jesus set the example in this, for those who would come to belong to the true priesthood reality (not the shadow example of the past). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(John 10:15,18; 15:13,12,17; 1Pet.2:21; Rom.6:3,5; 8:17; Phil.3:10)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><b>Who are anointed?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">They are those chosen by God to run the race for life now....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">to be among his "firstborn sons" in God's earthly family. These firstborn will receive a double inheritance and responsibility (Gen.25:31; Deut.21:17; Rev.12:5; 2:26,27; Psalm 2:8,9; Dan.7:18; Rev.3:12; 20:6,5)...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">to restore creation (the rest of God's earthly family) to freedom from sin and death (John 14:12 Rom.8:19,21; Matt.17:11; Acts 3:21)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">in the Kingdom to come (Jer.33:1-26; Rev.22:1-21). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-holycity.blogspot.com</a>) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">(<a href="https://pearl-materialize.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">pearl-materialize.blogspot.com</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">All Bible references to anointment, are regarding priests and kings, with the following exceptions:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Genesis 31:13 where Jacob anointed the stone he had a dream on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Isaiah 21:5 where a shield is anointed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Ezekiel 28:14 anointed covering cherub</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">I believe all these to be symbols for the same priests and kings...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><b>Stone</b> of vision - 1Pet.2:5,9; Eph.2:20; Gen.31:13; </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Prov.9:1; Rev.1:20; 3:12; 5:6)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><b>Covering cherub</b> of Eze.28:14 is referred to as being on the Holy Mountain of God (Rev.14:1), in the midst of the stones of fire (1Pet.2:5; 1Cor.3:9; Eph.2:20,21,22). He is spoken of as having "an abundance of trade" (Eze.28:16; Rev.13:17; Eze.27:24,27,30,33,34; Rev.18:3,9,16,17,19) and as you can see, is referring to the last Harlot, "wormwood", daughter of Babylon, the false prophet, and yes...an <b><i>anointed</i> <u>priest</u>,</b> who <i>fell</i> (Isa.14:12; Rev.8:10,11; 9:1; 2:5; 2Pet.3:17) (Isa.14:11; Rev.18:22; Isa.14:13; Rev.8:8; Zech.4:7; Rev.17:3) (Rev.8:10 -- Matt.5:14; Phil.2:15; Dan.12:3), etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><b>Shield</b> can be applied to any who provide spiritual protection through wisdom (Psalm 18:30) as the anointed <i>faithful</i> priests also do (Prov.4:6; Ec.7:12; Mal.2:7; Isa.32:2).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">God's Word is consistent, and poetically beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">I hope this helps you to know who the anointed are.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Love,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua"; font-size: large;">Pearl</span><br />
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