Since I know this post was directed at me...

...I thought I would answer it. My answers have the *** next to them. =)

Taken from http://farm-hijabi.blogspot.com/

Submitting to your Christian husband's authority and Saints in heaven...
"And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home"

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To put it short and blunt: Christian ladies, whatever pew your husband's backside sits in on Sundays, your backside needs to be right there beside him. If you are away off on your own going to a separate church then you are not in submission to your husband.

*** Since you must know Michelle, my husband doesn't attend Mass. He prefers to stay home, draw, watch TV, and play around online. Sunday is his day off and that's what he chooses to do with it. He allows me to worship YHWH where ever he leads and is supportive of that. ***

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Therefore, you are not in submission to God. You are in rebellion. You are sinning.

*** Really? I am not in submission to YHWH, am sinning and am in rebellion when my husband himself wishes me a good day at church on Sunday and means it? Yeah, that makes sense. You can think all those things about me, I don't mind. I am where I am in my walk with YHWH and I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that if I were SINNING, being REBELLIOUS or UNSUBMISSIVE, the Holy Ghost would easily convict me of it because my heart, soul, and mind are always open for that.. ***

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If you do not agree with your husband's choice of church then pray that God either show your husband that he is wrong - or that God show YOU that your huband is right.

*** I don't care where my husband goes to church. I don't care that he's Catholic. What he does in his spiritual life is up to him, he's the one who has to answer to YHWH on how he lived the Bible. ***

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Meanwhile zip your lips and plunk your butt down beside your husband where it belongs.

*** On the couch watching TV all day and watching him play Mafia Wars online? Think I will pass. ***

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In the meantime you need to be asking your husband for instruction in the Faith, be he Catholic, Baptist, Mennonite... You have no right to go off on your own digging around in Scripture by yourself and asking other people at other churches to teach you.

*** Actually the Bible tells us we are to 'search the Scriptures' (Acts 5:39) and to 'study to show thyself approved' (2 Tim. 2:15) so that's what I am doing, with the help of the Holy Spirit of course. =) We might as well throw out our Bible if we don't plan on studying and learning from it.

So I am supposed to ask my husband who doesn't read the Bible, doesn't attend Mass, doesn't pray for Bible instruction, eh? ***

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The Bible is very clear that we believers are to submit to our husbands and to be instructed by our husbands.

*** I DO submit to my husband and you need to stop saying that I don't because you have no idea what goes on in our house. ***

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The Bible does NOT tell us women to go digging through the Scriptures on our own, deciding doctrine and theology for ourselves.

*** See above Scriptures. And for the record, I haven't posted anything unBiblical. Well, maybe to you I have, but I am just using Scripture to back up Scripture. You are the one causing a huge ordeal over it ***

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If your husband cannot answer your question then it is HIS duty, not yours, to seek answers from a more knowledgable Christian. End of story.

*** No, that's not true to an extent, because I, only, I will have to give an account of my life before YHWH on how I obeyed His Word. My husband is NOT responsible for my soul. I am.

So if my husband has no umph or desire to go seek answers to my questions, then what Michelle? I just sit like a lump and do nothing till he decides to make an effort? ***

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If you can't handle this then stop being Christian and worship yourself.

*** Nothing will ever stop me being a child of Elohim. Keep talking though Michelle, you are letting the whole blogosphere see your true colors and they are anything but GODLY. ***

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And remember: If you married a man of a different denomination (or whatever you call it) you only have yourself to blame. You knew ahead of time that he wasn't the same kind of Christian as you.

*** Actually Michelle, I got saved after I got married. ***

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But now you're married and you are commanded by God to submit to the man who is now your husband.

*** I do submit to my husband. He freely lets me worship where ever I want to go and doesn't have a problem with it. ***

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You may want to stop reading my blog over the next several weeks Michelle because I am going to continue to share what YHWH is opening my eyes up to and it will probably make you irate.

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Michelle, I don't think you prayed and saught YHWH before you typed this post and the posts you did in the comment section of my 'thief on the cross' post because if you did, you would have handled it like a real Titus 2 woman would have, discreet, chaste with a meek and quiet spirit in a personal e-mail. You are reacting on your feelings and your flesh.

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I love you my Sister in Yahshua. <3

~ Dawn

~ Enoch & Elijah -- where art thou? ~

Jessie-Bessie asked me my thoughts on the whereabouts of Enoch & Elijah. I thought 'oooo more studying the Scriptures...woohooo'. =) I must say though, today has been a very in depth Bible studying day and I think I fried more than one brain cell in trying to understand what Yah wanted me too.

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Anywho, ya'll grab your Bibles so you can see / read what I read, that way there is no miscommunication...

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We will start with Enoch.

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We know he lived to be 365 years old (Genesis 5:23) and we know he walked with YHWH (Genesis 5:24).

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The full verse of Genesis 5:24 states -- "And Enoch walked with G-D; and he was not; for G-D took him.

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The Bible doesn't say G-D took him to Heaven or Hell, He just took him.

Why and where did He take him? I don't know, I'm not G-D. We'll ask Him when we see Him though...hee hee. =)

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That is all the Old Testament has to say about our pal Enoch.

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Let's go to the New Testament and see what it has to say, shall we...

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Turn to the book of Hebrews chapter 11.

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Hebrews 11:5 -- " By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because G-D had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased G-D".

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Translated - Strongs # 3346 states: to transfer, to change, to transfer ones self or suffer one's self to be transferred.

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Hmmm...interesting...

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Translation - Strongs # 3331 states: transfer: from one place to another, to change, of things instituted or established.

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So... Enoch was changed / transferred that he should not see death and was not found because G-D had changed / transferred him. We can also see before his change he had his testimony that please G-D.

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Enoch was a witness for G-D. Take a look in the book of Jude, verses 14 & 15. It says -

" And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him".

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So, I am sure your question is 'did Enoch die or is he still alive somewhere'?

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Go back to Hebrews 11. The first half of this chapter sometimes is called 'the roll call of the heroes of faith'. The heroes of faith include Abel (vs. 4), Enoch (vs.5), Noah (vs. 7), Abraham (vs. 8-10), Sara (vs. 11).

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Now look at Hebrews 11:13. It states - " These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."

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I hope that answered your question of Enoch's whereabouts. To me it can't be any clearer.

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Now onto our pal Elijah...

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Let's turn to II Kings 2.

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Before we get into the Scripture study, I would like to point out that Elijah himself and his people knew he was going to be taken away. Read verses 3,5,9 & 10.

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II Kings 2:1 -- " And it came to pass, when the L-RD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal"

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* would take up - Strongs # 5927 - to go up, ascend, climb.

* into heaven - Strongs # 8064 - as abode of the stars, sky, alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move.

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II Kings 2:11 -- "And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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YHWH took Elijah up into the sky, the heavens, not Heaven - Heaven, i.e. our Eternal resting home.

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Did Elijah die? Nope! Take a look at II Chronicles 21:12...

" And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet saying, Thus saith the L-RD G-D of David thy father, because thou has not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah".

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The word writing in Strongs can be found in # 4385. It means a letter, a thing written, a document.

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So we see that Elijah was still alive and kickin'!

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The New Testament seems to be silent on Elijah.

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So, where is Elijah? Again, the Bible doesn't say. It says G-D took him up towards the sky (the heavens).

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It will be one of those questions we will ask when we see Elijah... 'Elijah...where exactly did YHWH take you?' I can't wait for his answer. =)

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Jessie-Bessie, thank you for asking me my thoughts on Enoch and Elijah...I had a wonderful time pouring through the Scriptures to find the answers...and now my brain and fingers hurt and I don't think I can type or think anymore...lol.

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I would love to hear other's thoughts of their take on Enoch and Elijah. Maybe I missed something!

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YHWH bless you, my dear readers.

In Love,

Dawn

The Thief on the Cross -- my research. =)

There's no better way to spend Shabbat then in the Word of G-D! =)

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In my 8.5 years of being a Christian, I never really studied up on the thief on the Cross.

Who knew it would cause so much division though...wow...

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So with my Bible, concordance, pen and paper, this morning / afternoon I went to work to get a better understanding of it. (Luke 23)

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What most Christians quote is that 1 verse, verse 43 which states "And J-SUS said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise".

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But they are missing something, something important...verse 42!

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Verse 42 states this " And he (the thief) said unto Jesus, L-RD, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom".

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Christ's reign of His kingdom is still yet to come! He hasn't come back for His church.

Unless me and millions of other Christians have missed the boat and He came back without us knowing. =)

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And now to the verse that sends everyone overboard...

Verse 43 -- "And J-SUS said unto him, Verily, I say unto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise".

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So I sat there with my Bible and concordance and thought to myself 'what exactly is this paradise Yahshua speaks of?'

According to Strong's # 3857 it's a park, an Eden (place of future happiness).

Sounds like my kind of place! =)

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I seen that the word paradise is only mentioned 2 more times in Scripture so I decided to scope them out to see what they say.

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II Corinthians 12:4 - " How that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, which is not lawful for a man to utter"

It's Paul's vision of paradise. It also mentions about a 3rd heaven in verse 2.

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The final verse of Scripture about paradise is found in Revelation 2:7 --

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" He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit saith unto the churches; To him that over cometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of G-D".

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Guess what? The tree of life talked about here is the same tree of life talked about in Genesis 2:9, Genesis 3:22 in Eden!

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I can see how Yahshua wants to restore His kingdom to what it used to be like in the garden of Eden, before the fall.

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So, after I figured that out, I sat wonder why all the confusion over this verse?

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The confusion lies that many believe the thief when to Heaven with Yahshua after they both breathed their last breath.

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Both Yahshua and this thief, after breathing their last breath, went to their graves.

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We know what happened to Yahshua, he laid in the sepulchre 3 days, 3 nights before His resurrection.

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You all can disagree with me or give me some actual Scriptural proof as to where the thief went to, but I still see that all of us who breathe our last breath are asleep until Yahshua's 2nd coming. I don't have to repeat Scriptures for that as you can find them all in my previous blog posts.

Why would it be any different for the thief?

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But Yahshua did promise the thief that he will be in the new Kingdom with Christ when He returns.

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A few tidbits to think on:

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Figures...

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So, I praise Yahweh for this study and I do believe I have a better understanding of this controversial topic. =)

Shalom,

Dawn

Questions 4 Catholics

The Word of G-D tells us that when we die we are asleep till Yahshua returns ( 1 Thess. 4:13-14, Acts 7:60, I Cor. 15: 6, 18, 51, I Cor. 11:30, II Peter 3:4, Acts 13:36, Job 14:12, Daniel 12:2) and that no one has gone up to Heaven except Yahshua (John 3:13), so, my question for you is..

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If the dead are asleep till Christ returns and no one has gone up to Heaven except Yahshua, then how can the doctrine / dogma (whatever you want to call it) of praying to the Saints or asking intercession from them be valid based according to the Scriptures above?

It can't be. It goes against Scripture, wouldn't you agree?

These Saints are dead (asleep) till the 2nd coming, just like you and I will be when we breathe our last breath.

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Also, if nobody is in Heaven yet, then how in the world did these Saints get there? Because the Pope put them there?

And why does the Pope have the authority to make these people Saints and send them on to Heaven?

Remember, nobody is in Heaven yet, so the above thinking is just a bit 'off' wouldn't you agree?

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Only G-D determines our Eternity. Whether we go to Heaven or Hell.

And that will be proven on Judgement Day.

Please don't think of this as a dispute because I am not arguing, I am simply asking logical questions.

I would like some Scriptural answers to these questions. Thank you.

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P.S. NO ARGUING! PLEASE RESPOND LIKE CIVIL ADULTS. THANK YOU.

Evening greetings friends!

Thought I would pop in and say hello!

I can't believe tomorrow is the Sabbath...where did the week go? Ah well, it just means we are one step closer to Yahshua's return, right? =)

November 8th I met up with my bud Kelly (http://theaccidentalanabaptist.blogspot.com) who lives about 35-40 minutes from me and we decided to go visit the Mennonite church in Cleburne, TX (Cleburne Christian Fellowship). Plus we wanted to see our pal Leslie and her family who attends there. Leslie is just the sweetest thing ever! =)

My thoughts and opinions about Cleburne Christian Fellowship I will keep to myself, but I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I will stick with Grandview Gospel Fellowship when visiting.

I don't go as frequent to GGF as Yah is moving me on, but I do enjoy visiting at least once, maybe twice per month.

Anyway, after service was finished at CCF, there was a fellowship meal that me and Kelly stayed for and then we gabbed with the ladies there, for, oh I don't know how long, we lost track of time...lol. It was fun though, but what fellowship isn't?

Eventually, we left and I treated Kelly and I too a treat from Sonic, then we went back to her house and gabbed away for 3 or 4 more hours. =) Ate this awesome pasta salad while we yakked.

Kelly let me have a book that I had my eye on which will sit on my bookshelf till I get to it in a year or so...lol.

It was a good day...long, but good.

My hubby had to do a field training exercise with the Reserves for a few days last week so he was gone then. Came home exhausted but at least that's over till next year.

Been decluttering and getting rid of anything that we haven't used in the past year or two or anything that doesn't have an real value to it.

Goodwill is going to love me pretty soon...I got bags of stuff for them, and now more space in my home sweet home.

Been catching up on in depth Bible studying and getting my Bible binder organized. That's a task in itself!

Soon my good friends from Missouri will be down! Woohooo! I booked them 2 rooms at the Holiday Inn near my house the other day.

I can't wait to see them!

Since there will be 7 of them, Robert and I plan on taking them to Golden Corral for supper. That way they can eat till they burst..hee hee. =)

Life is busy and hectic one day and calm and serene the next, but I am grateful to Yah for each day I live, for the trials and errors, the joys and happinesses, each day is a gift from Him. Who am I to complain about it?

Be safe. Be happy. And Praise Yah, for He is worthy to be praised!

~~ Dawn

Death: In a better place? Alive with Yahshua? What do the Scriptures say?

Yahweh has given me topic after topic to study about this past year, year and a half and while it truly is exciting, it sure can make a gal's head spin, in a good way of course. =)

But the Holy Ghost continues to give me wisdom and guidance and the more I study the more I better understand.

It is a common thing amongst the Christian world that when a loved one dies they are "in a better place" or "they are dancing on the streets of Glory" or "they are with J-SUS".

It gives us as humans a level of comfort to believe that.

But that's not what the Word of G-D has to say on the matter.

Before you get mad at me and think of me as some horrible insensitive person, take your Bible and read along with me.

1Th 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

1Th 4:14
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

Act 7:60
And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

I Corinthians 15:6

After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.

I Corinthians 15:18

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

I Corinthians 15:51

Behold, I shew you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

I Corinthians 11:30

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

II Peter 3:4

And saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Acts 13:36

For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of G-D, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption.

So...you all still following?

According to the Greek text, these words of sleep and asleep work interchangeably.

You can find the actual meaning of these words in Strongs # 2837. It states 'to put to sleep, to slumber, to decease, sleep, be dead.

Nowhere does it say that when we die we either go to Heaven or hell. Do you know where we got that idea from? Paganism. If you don't believe me..go ahead and do a Google search.

How this theory creeped into our church world, I don't know, but then again, lots of paganism has infiltrated our churches, but people seem not to care.

It's also been said many times 'oh grandma is looking down on us right now' or some other words of comfort.

Now take your Bibles and please follow along with me in the following verses...

Psalm 6: 5 'For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?'

Psalm 115: 17 'The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.'

Psalms 146: 4 'His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.'

Ecc. 9: 5-6 "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun."

Ecc. 9:10 "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. "

When we are dead, we're dead...done..no longer in existence...

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the coming of Yahshua, when we will stand before an Almighty G-D and the books will be open as we give an account of our life.

Till then, we are asleep. We don't go automatically to Heaven or hell. We aren't reincarnated. We aren't sent to Purgatory or Limbo, outer space or some black hole somewhere.

As I wrap this up...here are 3 more verses to ponder on...

Job 14:12
"So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep."

Daniel 12:2
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Deuteronomy 31:16
And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Now, I may have ruffled some feathers and that's okay because how else are we to learn and grow in our walk with Yah?

I don't claim to be a know it all. I am simply sharing what He has shown me and wanted to share it with you all so you can see how deceived we all have been in our churches.

There are churches though that indeed do preach that we are asleep till Yahshua's return and that is a blessing because they are preaching truth.

The church I got saved in was one of those 'oh he's in a better place, he's with G-D now' and I didn't know any better as my eyes weren't opened back then as I was a new babe in Him.

I am open to comments, but please be civil and act like adults. No mud slinging, no temper tantrums, no finger pointing.

This blog is to edify Yahweh and His Word, not tear people down.

Love you in the Messiah <3

~ Dawn

P.S. I thought Yah was done but I came acorss this verse...

John 3:13 And no one has gone up into Heaven, except He having come down out of Heaven, the Son of Man who is from Heaven.

Well, we can't explain away that verse, now can we? =)

Also, remember, when Yahshua died, He didn't immediately go to Heaven. You know...the whole 3 days, 3 nights thing.... =)

Okay, now I am done. =)

It really is true...

...of course, I already knew this...

Proverbs 17:22 -- A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Well I have been trying to get some in depth Bible studying in for a blog post I would like to do in the near future and my thoughts kept getting interupted by 2 cute fuzzy cutie patooties who wouldn't leave their mama alone.

I must have sat there for an hour or more as they constantly tried to eat her tail, claw at her face, pounce on her and she, in return, would swat them away, and the cycle would repeat itself over and over again...it was just so funny. :)

You could tell mama cat had had enough bullying because she left them and went to the front of our house for food and water and to get some rest.

The kittens ended up finding some sun and falling asleep curled up on top of each other.

Of course once the kittens awoke from their nap it was play time all over again. I was playing with them through the sliding glass door..they were trying to grab my camera string through the glass...it was so hilarious. =)

These kittens aren't like her other little she had....these kitty's refuse to sit still for a picture!!! It was jump, jump, pounce, pounce, and never taking a break just to sit still for 5 seconds, but I tried to get some good photos nonetheless...