📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. I submit these thoughts on the matter. Scripture records only two instances when Satan indwells a man. Firstly that was accomplished with Judas. When Jesus spoke thanking the Father for those that had been given him (Apostles), he also acknowledge that one of them was a devil! Secondly we are told that the AC will also be indwelt by Satan! If then history is a template for future events, then it is highly likely that the AC will be Jewish! Would the Rabbi's of the day accept any who wasn't Jewish?! What say you? TR Indeed the Law has not been abolished. The Law was obviously given to the Jewish people. The law was everyone's schoolmaster, but Israel is the keeper of the Law. Regina, nice metaphor! God knows our frames, for sure. Jesus never played the harp or tended sheep, but He brought what he had to the table. As we all do! TR Your statement, yhwhtalmidah, "There is also evidence that we may be following His feast calendar during the millennium;" prompted me to search the Word for the term "forever," which I recall from Leviticus 23, where the seven annual feasts are decreed. I found 17 instances of the word in that one chapter, many of which were part of the phrase, "It is a statute forever throughout your generations;" Therefore I conclude that not only throughout the Millennium, but on the earth forever, the Jews will observe these moedim. And according to Zechariah 14, all nations must celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem. That might be forever too. Or maybe after the Millennium there will be no more generations on the earth...?? Like everyone living here will be immortal...? Never mind. That's too far into the future. We don't even know about that elusive Rapture date yet. Sigh! TR, you pose some interesting questions. I do watch what is happening in Israel and Jerusalem because I do think it helps us watching for the rapture to gauge how close we are (I mean, if they start building the third temple tomorrow - that'd be a dead giveaway, right?!!!). But, I also watch the signs of the tribulation converging at a faster rate. I watch both and combined it tells me that we are so very close. I think we also have to be careful to label it the "Jewish calendar" or say that we shouldn't rely on the rapture timeline to be connected to anything "Jewish." The timeline is not Jewish. It is God's calendar/timeline that he created. He established it and loaned it to His chosen people, the Jews. There is also evidence that we may be following His feast calendar during the millennium; which again establishes that it is God's calendar/timeline and not the Jews' calendar/timeline. Also, Jesus was a Jew! That does tie things to the Jewish people. While I do not think everything is 100% Jewish for the rapture timeline, I caution trying to separate the Jews from it and say it is only a gentile thing. My two cents... Indeed, with regards to Israel we must also consider that there does seem to be a spiritual blindness that has been placed upon them. Again you've heard me say. Though the Lord can heal all manner of sickness, illness, disease and even death at times, He can't heal stupid! TR
