Clouds

Job 35:5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.

The Holy Roman Empire and the Rise of Islam

Back to the James White Church History series. These two still have pretty bad sound quality but I am managing to catch most of it.

The Rise of Islam

HRE (Holy Roman Empire) and Monasticism

Since all things Muslim are so prevalent these days, I've posted these for anyone unfamiliar with where this religion came from. The kiddos and I have done some world history recently, so much of this I already knew. The way it started is very interesting. Mohammed received a vision from someone who called himself (or itself) Gabriel the angel.


  
Interestingly,  Joseph Smith of Mormon fame was also supposedly visited by an angel. I thought it was also called Gabriel but have since found it was named Moroni. Nevertheless, it reminds me of these:

2Cr 11:14 -15 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Gal 1:8 -9     But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any [man] preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

Islam and Mormonism are certainly different gospels. The conspiracy theorist in me just cannot pass up the opportunity to mention the claims by Alberto Rivera that Islam was invented by the Roman Catholic Church in order to regain control of the Holy Land.





Ok I'll admit that I haven't watched all of this video, but I did download the mp3s here and plan to listen to them eventually, so I'll report back.

Jack Chick has done some interesting comics with the story, though.



Dr. White also talks a bit about monasticism and how that got started.  I did learn that we do owe a great debt to the monks of the middle ages for transcribing and keeping the Scriptures and most other literature.

There was some teaching about  the Inquisitions, but the sound was so bad that I couldn't really catch most of it. That will have to wait for later, I guess. It probably deserves to be studied on its own.

Next, we're going into the development of purgatory and indulgences, the sacrifice of the mass and transubstantiation.  I'll have plenty to comment on about that.

Should Women Speak?

When I started this blog, I mostly had in mind that I would link to great sites and bible studies that I enjoyed and perhaps share my thoughts on a few topics.

Then I started to panic. Am I starting to sound too preachy or teachy with my commentary? Are these the types of things I should be saying in (possibly) mixed company.  I wondered about this:

1Ti 2:12      But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Am I out of line here and overstepping my bounds? Should I just stick to recipes and homeschool advice and the like? Maybe this was a big mistake.  Then I found this great post by on Today's Thought that helped to ease my mind:

Should women speak in the church? Several years ago I had to pin down the answer to this question because I was being asked to speak publicly about my faith in Jesus Christ and the church Larry and I were attending at the time had reservations about women teaching men or preaching in public. Why can’t women preach? Larry and I had to have the answer before I could go out in public. Here is what I found and presented to both Larry and my pastor. After listening to me, both agreed I was free to speak in public, to both women and men, about faith in Christ. read more

Amy S. Trosen has many great articles there and I would invite you all to check it out. In addition to the verses she pointed out there is this one:

1Cr 11:5      But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with [her] head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

How could a woman prophesy without speaking?  And the head covering...not going there now!

Women do have their role in the Body as do men. I do think the bible states that in a church setting, a woman is to be in subjection and is not be a pastor of a congregation or to lead a men's bible study or be in authority over a man. So, please gentlemen, if you're out there, take what I say as discussion as a woman who loves the Lord and wants to learn and grow in Him and nothing more. As a woman of faith my main roles are as wife and mother and teacher of my children. I do, however, really enjoy writing and bible study and I am a doctrine and end times kook.

School's out for summer.

I know, it needs weeding.

My favorite place in the world...seriously.

Tortillas!

I do "womanly"stuff, too. I bake bread, homeschool the children, dabble in gardening (well the Mr. does most of the hard work, I just cook and process it). I  keep the home and all that, but this is my outlet for adult conversation and theological discussion. Even if I am only talking to myself. :)

Wifely submission is something that does NOT come naturally to me, or to any woman I would suspect, and that's why Paul had to tell us to do it.

Col 3:18      Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

And my husband had admitted that Paul also needs to admonish them:

Col 3:19      Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them.

Bitter against me? I can't imagine why.

The beginning of our marriage was very rocky with the roles still being established. Since neither one of us had a biblical world view at the time, things could get pretty contentious around here.  It wasn't until we both submitted to the Lord that things started working as a godly family should. I am so thankful to have the freedom in Christ to express myself, but am also very blessed to be content in my role as the woman of the home in which God has placed me.

So I do think it is okay for me to "speak" here. I am one blessed lady!

Facets of Grace

While looking around at the net a bit this morning, I ran into this site.

Facets of Grace

It has some great quotes set to artwork. There's some really cool stuff here. I have posted a couple of his pictures at the bottom of the ol' blog here.


My husband and I were just talking about this last night:


http://eddieeddings.blogspot.com/2008/12/profound-verse-of-scripture.html

Trumpets and Voices and Shouts

 

Richard Jordon of Grace School of the Bible is currently going through the book of 1Thessalonians in his Sunday night studies at Shorewood Bible Church. He just got into the big "last trump passage". I have read some things lately that give a pretty good presentation that the "last trump" is the seventh trumpet of Revelation. I just happened to run into Mr. Jordan's teaching in my daily listenings at the same time as seeing opposing views on other blogs and from other teachers that I respect. If anyone is interested, this is a well studied look at the issue. Brother Rick is very rightly dividing in his understanding of the scriptures, so that is something to consider.

The whole Thessalonians series is worthwhile to listen to, but this is the teaching where he explains why he believes that the last trump is not the seventh trump.