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  • Who will keep watch at the gates?

    Who will keep watch at the gates?

    From the Watchtower

    Are YOU a watchman on the watchtower of Scripture given by God?

    Does your Shepherd preach TRUE Scripture without distortion?
    Note from Doctrine of the Bible: 
Some contemporary ‘translations’ of the Bible are *biased against true Scripture and do NOT actually translate Scripture from the original Hebrew and Greek. *Examples of Anti-Trinitarian bias of the NWT (New World Translation) of the Jehovah Witnesses cult

    (Don’t be misled by that Watchtower of the cult which denies Christ Jesus by twos and distorts Scripture.)

    Is your Pastor a Gatekeeper of Scripture?

    Scripture reveals TRUE identity of the approaching enemy as well as the True Shepherd and faithful shepherds of the sheep of the Lord.

    The Gatekeeper Determines: ‘Who may enter the gate?’

    Speaking of gates.. (see yesterday’s post) .. Last year in 2020 I wrote mostly from John’s Gospel. And from the scene of Jerusalem we took a look at gates and watchtowers. Today our examples teach from both Old Testament & New Testament Scripture. Apply the imagery of these gatekeepers and watchtowers to your church.

    IF ANY may enter, expect wolves to be hidden among the flock which claims to be ‘the Lord’s.

    It was common practice of the people, including shepherds leading sheep for the slaughter of the sacrifice, to travel here from far away hills and trade within Jerusalem’s walls. Then they worshiped within the courts of their Temple, surrounded by walls of watchmen.

    The gatekeeper is much more than a ticket taker, so to speak, a man of authority.

    from “The Gatekeeper & the Shepherds – Part 1

    Scriptures

    2 Samuel 18-19

    “This one also is bringing good news.”


    So it appears, but is he?

    Ezra 1:2

    Hebrews 3

    Nehemiah 2,4,11 (excerpts)

    1 Chronicles 9

    Isaiah 60

    His watchmen are blind,

    All of them know nothing.

    All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,

    Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

    And the dogs are greedy, they are not satisfied.

    And they are shepherds who have no understanding;

    They have all turned to their own way,

    Isaiah 56:10-11a NASB

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    The Gatekeeper & the Shepherds
    From March 7, 2020 – Part 1 – TOPIC: Gatekeeper – [Part 2 linked in Comment]
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  • Let’s cut the crap! Are we under Construction?

    Let’s cut the crap! Are we under Construction?

    What Crap?

    ‘Our CHURCH has no crap to deal with,’ you say.

    Nonsense! In a brief post by a reader he addresses such crap using an illustration from Nehemiah.

    • Definition
      1. usually vulgar : FECES
      2. usually vulgar : the act of defecating
    • slang, sometimes vulgar : NONSENSE, RUBBISH also : STUFF

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    Scriptures

    Nehemiah 2, 3, 12 excerpts

    Original talkofJesus.com post by Bruce Bender

    The Dung Gate
    From August 23,3013 – TOPIC: Gossip of the Church
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  • The pronouncement which Habakkuk the prophet saw

    The pronouncement which Habakkuk the prophet saw

    PROPHETS – WARNINGS FOR 21ST CENTURY ‘CHRISTIANS

    timeline of prophets after David

    Habakkuk prophesied during the final days of the Assyrian Empire and the beginning of Babylonia’s world rulership – Source:

    .. late seventh century B.C.

    Habakkuk

    How long, Lord, have I called for help,
    And You do not hear?
    I cry out to You, “Violence!”
    Yet You do not save.

    Are You not from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    We shall not die.
    O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment;
    O Rock, You have marked them for correction.

    “Behold the proud,
    His soul is not upright in him;
    But the just shall live by his faith.

    “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
    He is a proud man,
    And he does not stay at home.
    Because he enlarges his desire as hell,
    And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
    He gathers to himself all nations
    And heaps up for himself all peoples.

    “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
    Who establishes a city by iniquity!

    Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts
    That the peoples labor to feed the fire,
    And nations weary themselves in vain?

    “But the Lord is in His holy temple.

    Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”

    Habakkuk 2:20 NKJV

    O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid;
    O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years!
    In the midst of the years make it known;
    In wrath remember mercy.

    Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
    I will joy in the God of my salvation.

    Original talkofJESUS.com post

    GOD Allows Violence
    from August 17, 2013