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“For our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV)
The author of Hebrews is quoting from Deuteronomy 4:24. The context there is that Moses was warning Israel not to worship anything except God. He then says, "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God" (Deut 4:24 ESV). By depicting God as consuming fire, Moses is basically warning them that God can destroy them (picture the destruction caused by wild fires... that's the kind of image to have in mind here).
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In the present time, there are many who have deviated from the path of truth and have opened themselves up to deception. This has been the case for a long time, but has been particularly evident in the past year where questionable prophecies from Christian leaders have been given.
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12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control. (1 Timothy 2:12-15 NKJV) Is Paul banning women from ministry in this verse? No, he is not. As I will explain below, he was simply responding to a false teaching that claimed Eve was created before Adam. It appears that this false teaching made at least some of the women feel that they could domineer the men, and it is this that Paul is correcting. The Last Templar is a novel written by Raymond Khoury. He is also the screenwriter of the BBC’s Spooks and the Emmy Award winning drama Waking the Dead. Through The Last Templar Khoury puts forward the theory that the story of Jesus Christ as we know it is actually a myth. It is also claimed that Jesus Himself wrote a gospel, in which He was not the Son of God. Furthermore, The Last Templar claims that certain people in the Roman Catholic Church know about this ‘gospel’. It is common to hear people say 'Hallelujah' in a church service. But what does this word actually mean in the Hebrew language?
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