We should definitely lift her up in prayer. I also have had to witness once strong believers go astray and that is I think harder than watching an unbeliever and wonder why won’t they accept the Gospel? Also a good admonition for us all TR that sometimes these personal revelations are limited to the person. While they may give us hope for a time or something to maybe connect to, the Word of God is really all we need for encouragement and edification. And yet, there are some on other forums that still view Charity’s dream as almost gospel. We should test all things and take encouragement where we can, but remember that we already have the Word which is more than enough. This is not to say that God cannot use jars of clay and cracked vessels, (or crack pots as we might call some of them today!) He spoke through a donkey once, and if Charity’s thing does pan out and turns out that it was legit, all glory will go to God even if she went off the path. (Edit to add) now I really feel goofy telling my cat story lololol! Who’s the crackpot now? Indeed an international forum that is well read attracts people to the allure of being in the limelight! If memory serves, she was easily titilated and at the forefront of sharing a lot of personal knowledge. There but for the grace of God, go I! Sadly, many incessently are drawn and captured by the supernatural and flashy and appearing to be in the know! For this reason I always enjoyed Arthur's input and knowledge! Even though I may not have always agreed with him! And as the scriptures say: blessed is he that endures unto the very end! TR I miss Arthur. I hope he did not leave us because of differing opinions of the Ukraine war. I always found him to be very sensitive to not offending others' feelings and quick to apologize if he felt that he may have done so. Does anyone have contact with him? I miss Arthur as well, he usually had a unique perspective which I enjoyed, and one of his posts was interesting enough to provoke me to quit lurking and sign back up to participate on the new RITAN site, glad I did. Hope he didn’t get offended at anything. That might have been what happened with me last time too, I can’t remember, but it happens. Even though the Lord prayed that we would all be one, it is He that will have to mix the cement because we as Christians tend to annoy each other a lot at times. Iron does sharpen iron and we should always challenge one another, but the sharpening process requires heat and friction and we sometimes need to harden our skins or recognize when we might be rubbing a brother or sister “wrong”. I mentioned earlier that while I wish the rapture came 7 years ago I am very grateful for some of the blessings of the last 7 years and that is one of them - growing and maturing in the faith - listening to other view points and not just hearing, holding my ground when I think I am right but doing it in a spirit of meekness and gentleness and always in love and backing down when I realize that I am not being productive or well received. These are all works of the Spirit that I am so grateful that God continues to build in me. As much as a hot mess as I have been in the past, I love to watch the Lord work in the tapestry of my life! And these are some of the things He has worked on me these last 7 years! So I hope Arthur is still lurking like I was. I forgot when I dropped off RITAN I feel like it was probably sometime around 2017, but I would always lurk and check in periodically - so first I hope Arthur is OK an able to get online and second if he has been offended in anyway I hope he continues like I to lurk and will at some point be drawn back to our fellowship because we all benefit from his perspective and love him as a brother in the Lord! No reversing of number places is necessary! Reading right to left as in Hebrew it presents itself well! TR Most countries in Asia would use year, month, day format. 29-11-1 If we deduct 2550 days from that particular day of 11/1/29 then that would be 11/8/22. I remember when Lisa talked about this number and her saying that it was told to her that it was a date, wonder if it is the second coming instead of the rapture? Not being dogmatic of course, but always up for adding another high watch day. :mail:
