Carrying on with the legacy of faiths successful track record and the dynamics of GODLY fear. This not many of our day know nor does the religious realm respect. Though it says that it does, but as outsiders we know by inner inspiration their confessions to be erroneous. Today, if anyone hears, "come out from among," where would they go and from who or what would the coming out be from? Some say the world, which is correct in part only, as we have seen there remains at least one other part. That we have also seen to be mankind's religious form, of which there are some 1500, each claiming to be the only true one. These were the very words my wife and I heard back in the mid 80's shortly after our family, each member receiving the awakening of the Holy Spirit, from the youngest to the oldest, and that would have been me; That is to say Christ's activating our spirits. Just as recorded in chapter 11's theme and term "by faith."
Hebrews 11:13-16 "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. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." (KJV)
Hebrews 11:13-16 "These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city." (ESV)
Hebrews 11:13-16 "These heroes of faith all died believing. Although they did not witness the promise (in the physical realm they all fell to sleep waiting for the day of the LORD! That would raise then from the dead, this took place as recorded in Matthew 27:51-54.) in their life time, they saw it fulfilled in the future and embraced the promise by their persuasion. Convinced of its reality; they declared by their way of living that they were mere sojourners and pilgrims in a shadow land whose geography could neither confine nor define their true inheritance. (While we on the other hand though in this same earth bound portal are now, since the cross, living out eternal life while here as sojourners with them of Jewish history. We are the peculiar people unto GOD. We don't fit as with a square peg into a triangular hole. This the effects of coming out from among them.) They clearly declare by faith a hinterland beyond their immediate horizon. (A Place of promise wherein GOD and humanity are one again.) They did not regret the country they had left behind. Their faith took them beyond the point of no return. (Do not allow the contradictions in your past or present to become your reference once again. James says that the person who goes back into an old mind-set immediately forgets what manner of person they are, in James 1:24-25. The old things have passed away [in its death]. behold, everything has become new again! In his resurrection we were born anew. [2Corinthians 5:14-17, 1Peter 1:3]) Their faith saw a greater reality in the spiritual realm than that in which they experienced in their present situation; they reached for their true native home and city designed by GOD where he himself is proud to be our permanent address. (The fulfillment of this promise is Christ! He is both our native land and our eternal home. The very place of many rooms that Jesus spoke of in John 14:2-3.) (The Mirror, with editing)
Until our next visit may the LORD show both you and yours your salvation.
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