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One stone upon another
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But
if ye shall at all
turn from following me,
ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments
and
my statutes which I have set before you, but go and
serve other gods, and worship them:
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Then
will I cut off Israel out of the land
which I have given them;
and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight;
and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
Here the condition is formulated (“serve other gods, and worship them”)
for cutting off “Israel out of the land”
(1 King 9:6-7).
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And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to
him
for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
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And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things?
verily I say unto you,
There shall not be left here one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
Christ, in fact, saying that “there shall not be left here one stone upon another”
(Matt 24:2)
only confirmed that Israel had abandoned God and began to “serve other gods and worship them”
(1 Kings 9:6).
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Let no man deceive you by any means: for
that day shall not come,
except there come a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
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Who opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped;
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
This condition was formulated long before the coming of the Messiah and it remains true to this day. That's why apostle Paul talks about the
apostasy,
that “he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God”
(2 Thess 2:4).
By the Temple of God we should understand, in the strict sense of the word, the human heart, not in the strict sense of the word — the Christian Church.
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And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
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But they cried out, Away with
him, away with
him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?
The chief priests
answered, We have no king but Caesar.
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And the people stood beholding. And
the rulers also with them derided
him,
saying, He saved others;
let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
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…
the chief priests and our rulers
delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
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And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did
it, as
did
also your rulers.
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But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
The blame for the crucifixion of Christ lies mainly with
the high priests and rulers:
“The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar”
(John 19:15).
The Apostle Paul speaks of future
high priests and rulers:
“he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God”
(2 Thess 2:4).
The current Pope has compromised himself with
Pachamama
(one of the main female deities in Quechua mythology).
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For if the casting away of them
be
the reconciling of the world, what
shall
the receiving
of them be, but
life from the dead?
…
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For if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed
lest he also spare not thee.
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Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity;
but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in
his
goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
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And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
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For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural
branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
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For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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And so
all Israel shall be saved:
as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
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For this
is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
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As concerning the gospel,
they are
enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election,
they are
beloved for the fathers' sakes.
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For
the gifts and calling of God
are
without repentance.
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For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
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Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
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For
God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
When
turning from following God
and
accepting other gods and worshiping them,
a Christian must remember that “otherwise thou also shalt be cut off”
(Rome 11:22).
We just have to wait patiently for the “life from the dead” to come
(Rome 11:15),
that is, the “first resurrection”
(Rev 20:5).
And we hope for all the mercy of God: “God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that He might have mercy upon all”
(Rome 11:32).
Published:
December 17, 2023
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