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@Ron Amnsn Now you have just gone to mere speculative eisegesis. And to what point? The context of what I was responding to and the whole point I was making is made just as well with any or all of the translations. It does not matter. Drop the word you started quibbling over - "what". "The kingdom of God is not [pick your preferred wording] food, drink, eating drinking, to eat or not to eat, meat or wine, a matter of eating, to eat, food, meat, or whatver translation you wish. This is not a matter of importance to our salvation or faith. That was the point I was supporting with that statement by Paul. But since you seem to want to make an issue of the "what" of eating, just stay with the immediate context and back up a mere two or three verses. And again it comes through loud and clear, no matter which translation you pick, that Paul is in fact talking about that which is eaten, the specific food, meat or vegetables, clean or unclean. Look at verses 14 and 15 - And completing the whole immediate context, framing the one verse you have chosen to quibble over, keep reading onward to verses 20 and 21 - And coming full circle to where I think I began way back at the begining of this whole topic, whatever one concludes on this issue of eating and drinking, one should keep it to oneself as a matter between you and God. It is not an issue over which one should divide the body of Christ. I should have remained quiet since my brothers here seem to be stumbling all over this issue. Verse 22 - Sorry, to have made anyone stumble in their walk of faith. I will just keep it to myself that I see no reason to worry about such things any more, since along with Paul I am convinced...

Sorry Kevin. All your big words did nothing to convince me that Jesus entered the Most Holy Place on October 22, 1844. And if Jesus did NOT enter the Most Holy Place back in 1844, then October 22nd was NOT the fulfillment of the Yom Kippur prophecy, and Ellen White was NOT a true prophet of Christ. “I was then shown what did take place in heaven as the prophetic periods ended in 1844. I saw that as the ministration of Jesus in the Holy place ended, and he closed the door of that apartment, a great darkness settled upon those who had heard, and had rejected the messages of Christ's coming, and they lost sight of him. Jesus then clothed himself with precious garments. Around the bottom of his robe was a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate. He had suspended from his shoulders a breastplate of curious work. And as he moved, it glittered like diamonds, magnifying letters which looked like names written, or engraven upon the breastplate. After he was fully attired, with something upon his head which looked like a crown, angels surrounded him, and in a flaming chariot he passed within the second veil." Personally, I believe her description FITS better with the Pentecost which followed the resurrection. On that DAY Jesus was glorified and became our High Priest in Heaven itself. And Heaven is not divided into two "apartments". I believe that Jesus will go before the Heavenly Court on the last DAY of this age - to receive the Kingdom. He will NOT be dressed in the DAILY glorious garb with bells and pomegranates. If I could have a big wish, I would want a grave to be opened in the Holy Land or somewhere Paul went. In that grave would be a copy, or even the original manuscript of Matthew. A letter would be found with the bones, saying the LORD told him to bury this writing, so that many years hence, when his grave is found, the world would have the TRUE Gospel.

Pam, I sent you a PM about this.

Technically, conspiracy against Constitutional rights is a federal crime, although nobody seems to care about that sort of thing anymore.

Kevin, I did NOT SAY that I don't believe in a pre-advent judgment. I said I don't believe it began back in 1844 and still continues after 172 years. I DO believe that Jesus will go before the Heavenly court, to receive the dominion. I just believe the Fall Feast prophecies will be fulfilled LIKE the Spring Feasts were fulfilled. The Passover TYPES were fulfilled within ONE SINGLE DAY. Feast Fruits TYPES were fulfilled on ONE SINGLE DAY. Pentecost Feast prophecies were fulfilled within ONE SINGLE DAY. And I believe the Day of Atonement TYPES will also be fulfilled within ONE SINGLE DAY. That's why it's called The DAY of Atonement. Jesus will go before the Heavenly Court, receive the dominion, come out of the Temple (Heaven itself) to bless His waiting people, and banish the Scapegoat - all on the same DAY. Why do SDAs call it the "Investigative Judgment"? Do you seriously believe that Jesus needs to look thru any records to figure out whose hearts belong to Him. He said, "I KNOW My sheep." He doesn't need any time to "investigate". The SUBJECT of the judgment described in Daniel 7:9-10 is Jesus Himself. We are only involved in a secondary sense. When Jesus is given the dominion, that dominion includes every human being within His dominion, every human who has ever lived. At that DAY Jesus will judge those within His dominion. He already KNOWS them.