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JH Brake posted a comment · Feb 14, 2021
Like I wrote in another post, I would rather stand with the remnant and thought a fool than stand with the fearful and unbelieving. Defining "delusional" Dr. Brown uses the example of a remnant within the broken Church who believe the prophets! - A remnant who love God, who try to hear Him, have repented, and cry out daily for deliverance from unrepentant thieves and the creeping darkness that is settling upon our country. And writing in a Christian forum on the "delusional", Dr. Brown completely ignores the demonic worldly-wise who mock God, claim gender fluid nonsense as truth and murder babies as a right! Truly amazing. And a respondent below speaks of "common sense"! Was the parting of the Red Sea, the resurrection of Lazarus, or even the resurrection of Christ Himself "common sense"? Methinks the doctor doth greatly err.

yeshuais4me posted a comment · Feb 07, 2021
Isaiah 66 (CJB)
66:1
“Heaven is my throne,” says Adonai,
“and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house could you build for me?
What sort of place could you devise for my rest?
2
Didn’t I myself make all these things?
This is how they all came to be,”
says Adonai.
Comment: Here it appears that God is mocking man for wanting to build Him a house. God denied King David’s request to build a house for God and the ark but then allows Solomon, King David’s son to build a house for Him. I also appears that Solomon was the cause of the 10 tribes to leave Judah and Benjamin.
Continue Isaiah 66:
“The kind of person on whom I look with favor
is one with a poor and humble spirit,
who trembles at my word.
3
Those others might as well kill a person as an ox,
as well break a dog’s neck as sacrifice a lamb,
as well offer pig’s blood as offer a grain offering,
as well bless an idol as burn incense.
Just as these have chosen their ways
and enjoy their disgusting practices,
4
so I will enjoy making fools of them,
and bring on them the very things they fear.
For when I called, no one answered;
when I spoke, they did not hear.
Instead they did what was evil in my sight
and chose what did not please me.”
5
Hear the word of Adonai,
you who tremble at his word:
“Your brothers, who hate you and reject you
because of my name, have said:
‘Let Adonai be glorified,
so we can see your joy.’
But they will be put to shame.”
6
That uproar in the city,
that sound from the temple,
is the sound of Adonai repaying
his foes what they deserve.
7
Before going into labor, she gave birth;
before her pains came, she delivered a male child.
8
Who ever heard of such a thing?
Who has ever seen such things?
Is a country born in one day?
Is a nation brought forth all at once?
For as soon as Tziyon went into labor,
she brought forth her children.
Comment:
A professor at Hebrew University, Eleazar Sukenik, was seeking to purchase scrolls from the dead sea discovery. The day before the final vote to give God’s people the land that they had been promised, Sukenik brought several scrolls from an antique dealer in Bethlehem. Sukenik did this at great personal safety and expense. One of the scrolls was the Isaiah scroll which matched word for word the Isaiah scroll that was being used in 1947 and within 24 hours after the Isaiah scroll reached it’s home in Jerusalem, the vote was passed. So what is so great about this in relationship to Israel becoming a country? The Isaiah scroll contains two questions in Isaiah 66: 8, first is a country born in one day? Second is a nation brought forth all at once? Within a day of the scroll reaching Jerusalem the country of Israel was born and the moment the British left the land given to God’s people, a nation came to be. You can read the entire story of how this happened in ”The Dead Sea Scrolls” the overview by Hershel Shanks.
Continue:
9
“Would I let the baby break through
and not be born?” asks Adonai.
“Would I, who cause the birth,
shut the womb?” asks your God.
Comment: God would not prevent the process of His creation to be stopped; however, man would. I recently saw report saying there were 42 million plus abortions in the world in 2020. Is not God saying we do not murder the unborn?
10
Rejoice with Yerushalayim (Jerusalem)!
Be glad with her, all you who love her!
Rejoice, rejoice with her,
all of you who mourned for her;
11
so that you nurse and are satisfied
by her comforting breast,
drinking deeply and delighting
in the overflow of her glory.
12
For Adonai says, “I will spread shalom
over her like a river,
and the wealth of nations
like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried in her arm
and cuddled in her lap.
13
Like someone comforted by his mother,
I will comfort you;
in Yerushalayim
you will be comforted.”
14
Your heart will rejoice at the sight,
your bodies will flourish like newly sprouted grass.
It will be known that the hand of Adonai
is with his servants; but with his enemies, his fury.
15
For — look! — Adonai will come in fire,
and his chariots will be like the whirlwind,
to render his anger furiously,
his rebuke with blazing fire.
16
For Adonai will judge all humanity
with fire and with the sword,
and those slain by Adonai will be many.
17
“Those who consecrate and purify themselves
in order to enter the gardens,
then follow the one who was already there,
eating pig meat, reptiles and mice,
will all be destroyed together,” says Adonai.
18
“For I [know] their deeds and their thoughts.
“[The time] is coming when I will gather together all nations and languages. They will come and see my glory, 19 and I will give them a sign. I will send some of their survivors to the nations of Tarshish, Pul, Lud (these are archers), Tuval, Greece and more distant coasts, where they have neither heard of my fame nor seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory in these nations; 20 and they will bring all your kinsmen out of all the nations as an offering to Adonai — on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, on camels — to my holy mountain Yerushalayim,” says Adonai, “just as the people of Isra’el themselves bring their offerings in clean vessels to the house of Adonai. 21 I will also take cohanim and L’vi’im from them,” says Adonai.
22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will continue in my presence,” says Adonai, “so will your descendants and your name continue.
23
“Every month on Rosh-Hodesh (new moon)
and every week on Shabbat, (seventh day of week)
everyone living will come
to worship in my presence,” says Adonai.
24
“As they leave, they will look on the corpses
of the people who rebelled against me.
For their worm will never die,
and their fire will never be quenched;
but they will be abhorrent
to all humanity.”
[“Every month on Rosh-Hodesh
and every week on Shabbat,
everyone living will come
to worship in my presence,” says Adonai.]
Comment:
I understand most of the above but there are a few things that I still struggle with. A example would be when Jerusalem had been reunited with Israel in 1967. The Messiah tells us in Matthew 24 “34 Yes! I tell you that this people (Those who follow Torah both Jew and Gentile) will certainly not pass away before all these things happen. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
I need to ask, could we be in the generation that the Messiah speaks of in Matthew 24 since Jerusalem and Israel were united in June 1967?
Leviticus 19:34 (CJB) Rather, treat the foreigner staying with you like the native-born among you — you are to love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt; I am Adonai your God.
Deuteronomy 10:17-18 (CJB) For Adonai your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty and awesome God, who has no favorites and accepts no bribes. 18 He secures justice for the orphan and the widow; he loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
Comment: God wants all His human creation to follow His Torah and Avraham, a goy (gentile), is the father of the Hebrews. The Messiah tells us this twice, first in the Gospel of Matthew (5:17-18) and then again in the Gospel of Luke (16:17).
There is a difference between being chosen and being a favorite. Normally a person is chosen for a task and God has no favorites for He created all mankind in this world. Mankind decides if he wants to follow God (good) or the Adversary (evil).
Also know that the Sh'mittah year started October 3, 2020.

WildOliveBranch posted a comment · Feb 05, 2021
If I were to describe our nation today, it would be "we are under a strong delusion." We are long overdue for God's reckoning. In 82 years I have witnessed our slide to oblivion. For the last 90 years, we have seen the growth of the imperial presidency and the growth of the administrative state. But our government saves no one.
What are committed Christians to do? We need to return to the Lord and focus on being witnesses for the Gospel ... living it, and failing that, telling it.

B.W. posted a comment · Feb 05, 2021
Gadgettribe/skwh310 and pray tell how did you contribute to the delusion ? where are you standing in all this dung heap of humanity ? are you above reproach ? are you one of those that Jesus spoke to about throwing stones ? high and mighty non born again! I ask You this?????
"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. Born Again skwh310 who would I be not to warn you ! You MUST be born again! Jesus said it!

Gadgettribe posted a comment · Feb 03, 2021
Dr. Brown, with all due respect - you have to admit - you contributed your portion to this mess as well. The writing was on the wall. This isn't a novel thing that has recently emerged. This is merely the denuding of what has been unfolding for quite some time within (let's be honest) mainly White Evangelicalism. While I don't affirm Obama's policies on many issues, the obsession over odd theories like 'Birtherism' was embraced by White Evangelicals. It was routed in racism and had no basis - but that didn't matter to them. They embraced the fallacy and were not rebuked by their leaders. Heck - their leaders affirmed it. Then the lies that Trump told - from denying the 'grab them by their p***ys' to inciting violence at his rallies, to saying that it was always his intention to downplay the significance of the virus - the Evangelicals knew better, yet they forfeited the truth for political expediency and power over their 'enemies'. They sacrificed their witness at the altar of Christian Nationalism and excused Trump's destructive rhetoric so long as he was granting Christians power. You initially called Trump out, then did an about face; admitting that his rhetoric was problematic yet rendering it a fair trade for his policies. The difference between many Trump supporters and Biden supporters as you inquired in your recent article is that the former views Trump as a Messiah-figure and is interested in Christendom. The latter isn't deifying Biden. Hence the delusion that many Evangelicals to our chagrin are undergoing. Yet you have a significant platform and leveraged it to lift up Trump. You need to own that.

Swkh310 posted a comment · Feb 03, 2021
Willful ignorance. It’s that simple.