Month: June 2019

Rebelling against God, Biblical verses

depiction of Satan with wings
Satan Starts from the Touch of Ithuriel's Spear

QUOTED FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS

  1. [Genesis 27:40] You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
  2. [Exodus 23:21] Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.
  3. [Exodus 32:9] Then the LORD said, “I have seen how stubborn and rebellious these people are.
  4. [Deuteronomy 9:7] Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  5. [Deuteronomy 9:24] You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
  6. [Deuteronomy 13:5] That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
  7. [Deuteronomy 31:27] For I know how rebellious and stubborn you are. Even now, while I am still alive and am here with you, you have rebelled against the LORD. How much more rebellious will you be after my death!
  8. [Numbers 14:4] So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
  9. [Job 34:37] To his sin he adds rebellion; scornfully he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
  10. [Joshua 22:22] “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows! And let Israel know! If this has been in rebellion or disobedience to the LORD, do not spare us this day.
  11. [1 Samuel 15:23] For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you as king.”
  12. [2 Kings 17:21] When the LORD had torn Israel away from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king, and Jeroboam led Israel away from following the LORD and caused them to commit a great sin.
  13. [Psalm 41:9] Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.
  14. [Proverbs 17:11] Evildoers foster rebellion against God; the messenger of death will be sent against them.
  15. [Proverbs 28:2] A land in rebellion has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.
  16. [Isaiah 48:8] You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth
  17. [Isaiah 63:10] But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
  18. [Jeremiah 2:19] Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
  19. [Jeremiah 28:16] Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.’
  20. [Jeremiah 29:32] this is what the LORD says: I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good things I will do for my people, declares the LORD, because he has preached rebellion against me.’”
  21. [Ezra 4:19] I issued an order and a search was made, and it was found that this city has a long history of revolt against kings and has been a place of rebellion and sedition.
  22. [Nehemiah 9:17] They refused to listen and failed to remember the miracles you performed among them. They became stiff-necked and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore you did not desert them,
  23. [Daniel 7:25] He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time
  24. [Daniel 8:12-13] Because of rebellion, the Lord’s people and the daily sacrifice were given over to it. It prospered in everything it did, and truth was thrown to the ground. Then I heard a holy one speaking, and another holy one said to him, “How long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled—the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, the surrender of the sanctuary and the trampling underfoot of the Lord’s people?”
  25. [Daniel 11:37] Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
  26. [Micah 1:5] And why is this happening? Because of the rebellion of Israel— yes, the sins of the whole nation. Who is to blame for Israel’s rebellion? Samaria, its capital city! Where is the center of idolatry in Judah? In Jerusalem, its capital!

QUOTED FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS

  1. [Matthew 26:23] Jesus answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with Me will betray Me“.
  2. [Luke 17:1] Jesus said to His disciples, “It is inevitable that stumbling blocks will come, but woe to the one through whom they come!
  3. [Luke 22:21] Look! The hand of My betrayer is with Mine on the table.
  4. [John 13:18] I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the Scripture: ‘The one who shares My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’
  5. [John 16:1-3] They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.
  6. [Acts 7:51] Oh, stiff necks, who are uncircumcised in their hearts and in their hearing, you always are opposing The Spirit of Holiness, as your fathers did, so do you!
  7. [Acts 20:30] Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
  8. [1 Corinthians 11:19] For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
  9. [2 Thessalonians 2:2-4] Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness (the son of destruction) is revealed. He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God
  10. [2 Thessalonians 2:9-10] The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved
  11. [1 Timothy 1:9] We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,
  12. [1 Timothy 4:1] Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons
  13. [2 Timothy 4:3-4] “for the time is coming when men will not endure sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear”
  14. [Titus 1:6] An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
  15. [Titus 1:10] For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, 
  16. [Hebrews 3:8] do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, 
  17. [Hebrews 3:15] As it has been said: “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts, as you did in the rebellion.”
  18. [1 John 2:22-23] Who is the liar, if it is not the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
  19. [1 John 4:3] but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
  20. [2 John 1:9] Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son
  21. [Jude 1:11] What sorrow awaits them! For they follow in the footsteps of Cain, who killed his brother. Like Balaam, they deceive people for money. And like Korah, they perish in their rebellion.
  22. [Revelation 13:7] And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
  23. [Revelation 19:20] And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

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If Jesus is God, why he said the Father is greater than I?

The Father is greater than I

Muslims and other Antichrists (Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah’s witnesses, etc.) used to quote John 14:28 in trying to disprove the divinity of Jesus. 

[John 14:28] You heard Me say, ‘I am going away, and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I

ANSWER: Jesus came out from the source Spirit who is the Father God (Isaiah 6:8 & John 15:26), for this reason the Father is greater than Jesus. No messenger is greater than the sender as Jesus said in John 13:16. Moreover, Jesus went to the world only to serve, consider the statement of Jesus below;

[Luke 22:27] For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

In the verse above, Jesus pointed out that the Father Spirit is greater than him in the sense that the Father is sitting at the table, than himself who is serving at the table. For instance, if you serve food or drinks to your visitor at a table, he is greater than you in that instance since you are serving him, but it doesn’t mean he is greater than you in general sense.

The persons of God are co-equal since they are one in nature _Divine spirit. When the spirit or word of God (the Son) came to the world, he lowered himself because he lived on Earth in human flesh (John 14:10). And why the Son needed to become a man? Because all people sinned, thus they are doomed to perish since the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Humankind needed a perfect or sinless man to save themselves. Jesus should be a perfect man and live without sin because that is what the law requires from a man. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man (1 Corinthians 15:21). The Son’s lesser status was only for meantime while his saving work on Earth was not yet finished. But when his flesh died and was glorified, his status renewed to equality with the Father, the same glory he had with the Father before the world was (John 17:5). Consider the verse below;

[Hebrews 2:9] But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Prophet Isaiah testified that the Son to come to Earth is God;

[Isaiah 7:14] Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (God with us). 

[Isaiah 9:6] For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

Even the Father called the Son as God;

[Psalm 45:6-7] Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.

[Hebrews 1:8-9] But about the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.”

If Allah can not show to the people in flesh, then he is not God, for all things are possible to God (Matthew 19:26). Our God Yahweh visited us in human form and performed miracles before the many (Isaiah 52:10). 

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