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[Intheswamp]

chick-n-farmer, yours is a blessed family. Thank you for sharing the info about your grandfather, I thank him for *all* he did.

My heart and prayers are with ya'll.
Ed

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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Oh, when the Saints go marching in........

He is now wearing a robe and crown!!!!

I am sure he received a HERO's welcome!

 

[jennh]

I just received this in an email. Very interesting

Genesis 47:13-27

ALL I CAN SAY ABOUT THIS IS WOW!!!!!

RECENT VIRGINIA CHURCH SERVICE-STIMULUS SERMON

Genesis 47:13-27

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in Virginia a hug and a high five. This guy is obviously a leader.

Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is.....It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years.

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Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will to the 47th chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? .....(reading)...

Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray... So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock -their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year...

But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food,and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh..." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes.

But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled in the landof Egypt, in the land of Goshen .. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one.

We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth "once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr.Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"?

Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. Obama is no Messiah! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will...

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..."

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government.

In God We Trust...

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[PeepsInc]

I was always told the Bible said they don't let pets into heaven. Is that true? I just had to put down a lame chick, which raised a question in my mind. If god created all living things. Why wouldn't animals be excepted into heaven? Noah was asked to save 2 of each species for a reason. God obviously loves all his creatures. I spend every day surrounded by them here on earth. I hope My heaven will be filled with them.....Whats your thoughts?

 

[speckledhen]

It doesn't really say yea or nay. There are passages like this one in Ecclesiastes 3:19-20:

Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

To paraphrase it, the passage says that what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.
All go to one place: all are from the dust, and all return to dust. There is no mention of the soul here, just the body, though.


Yet, there are animals mentioned as being in Heaven, just not dogs and cats, specifically, so who knows?​

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

After His Second Coming the lion will eat grass like the ox. The lion will also sleep with the lambs. God created the animals in the garden of eden and saved more animals than humans on Noah's Ark. So....guess we will find out when we get there.

An atheist professor declared that there was no way Jonah got swallowed by a whale or giant fish. A student disagreed. In their heated debate, the student said he would ask Jonah about it when he got to Heaven. The professor sarcasticly said, "And what if Jonah is not in Heaven?" The student replied, "Then you ask him!"

As beautiful as animals are, God has to have some in Heaven!

 

[gckiddhouse]

I think the bible very clearly separates humans from animals. He gave us dominion over them. They are God's creation just as the trees and fish and birds.

I believe that our animals are God's provision for us here on earth. Some are our companions. I tell my kids that we won't need them in heaven like we need them here.

 

[gckiddhouse]

Don't you think He uses them to teach us? Even reflect his heart? Here's something you might enjoy:

 

[hoosiergal]

Jesus is my Lord and Savior. The love of my life.

 

[juliechick]

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I just had to share this: My 7 year old son asked me the same question yesterday as we were driving. "Do pets go to Heaven, Mom?" I didn't want to get into a big discussion, so I said, "We will see when we get there." He immediately came back with, "That won't be long for you!" After I nearly ran off the road laughing, he realized that he might have said something wrong. Don't you just love this age?