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HEY ALL Today DEC 25 2018 is here I hope you are have or will have a good time with family or friends===but let us all remember why they world is celebrating this event dgrimm60

Wishing all my brothers and sisters here on Adventistan a Merry and Blessed Christmas! Jesus kept His promise to come the first time; let us look forward with confidence to His Second Coming - not as a helpless baby but as an omnipotent King and Conquerer!!

Martin Luther, E.G. White, and the Christmas Tree Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition as we now know it in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Legend has it that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amid evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles. “Letters of inquiry have come to us asking, Shall we have a Christmas tree? will it not be like the world? We answer, You can make it like the world if you have a disposition to do so, or you can make it as unlike the world as possible. There is no particular sin in selecting a fragrant evergreen, and placing it in our churches; but the sin lies in the motive which prompts to action, and the use which is made of the gifts placed upon the tree. “The tree may be as tall and its branches as wide as shall best suit the occasion; but let its boughs be laden with the golden and silver fruit of your beneficence, and present this to Him as your Christmas gift. Let your donations be sanctified by prayer.”—The Review and Herald, December 11, 1879. – {EGWE 254.2,3}

This is probably not the time of year when Jesus was born. More likely He was born in September-October (when shepherds would be in the fields). That means Christmas could be the day when Jesus was conceived in Mary’s womb, but we don’t have any records or evidence so that we can know for sure. […] The post The Meaning of Christmas appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article

Joe: Remember you said Islam which is a religion, it is not an empire. Yes, Ottoman was an empire whose religion was Islam. This was in the 15th Century and I did mention Iran who was originally Persia. However, during the time it was known as Persia the false worship was not Islam. Also, look at: Now first the little horn that came up among the 10 horns. 1. Another little horn came up among them; 2. and its appearance was greater than his fellows; 3. And three of the first horns were uprooted before it; You have to identify the 10 horns or kingdoms that the little horn came up among them. That is why we cannot interpret it ourselves, the angels tell you who it is. You said; “I am a futurist as opposed to a preterist or a historicist concerning eschatology.” Did you ever think that YAHWEH uses collectively futurist, preterist, and historicist, but not eschatology? Christian theology is actually not Biblical and there are too many different theologies or shall we say beliefs or religions or denominations or churches. So which Christian theology is correct? Now, humbly, I will include the study of 'end things' but not our way or study again, but THE ALMIGHTY WAYS. Who gave us the study, THE FATHER and THE SON so how come we can’t allow THEM to show us THEIR OWN STUDY of end things that are futurist, preterist, and historicist? I humbly feel if we get out of THEIR WAY, and use the gifts that THE HOLY SPIRIT gives us combine then we can see through a glass clearly as Paul said! Daniel did see in the future, but events like Babylon falling to Persia were also the future and to Daniel it took place and to us, it already happened in the past. This is preterist and historically we have it on record. The three works together that make up the whole and still point to the end. Let me see if I can state it this way, certain future things or events Daniel saw he saw them happen, others would come still in the future after he died. YAHWEH, not us, deals with the past, the now, and the future. That is why YAHSHUA said HE is the Alpha and the Omega; THE BEGINNING and THE END. We do not have those POWERS, so we historically can learn about the past, we are in the present and we look forward to the future. Remember when tomorrow comes it becomes to us as the present and tomorrow is still the future. Now some of us might not make it to tomorrow that’s futurist! Let me say this to you, chronology is consistent with YAHWEH, it is the order of things that will take place in there appointed time. Allow the angel Gabriel to tell us what we need to know. He is the one that gave the prophecies and the understanding to both Daniel and John can we just humbly allow him to speak for himself? Blessings and prayers!?

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