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Two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC

He came over here in 2021 and was granted asylum. His legal stay ended in September 2025 and thus remained in the USA illegally.
He is here legally with request for green card pending.


“A Department of Homeland Security official told CBS News the suspect was paroled into the U.S. on humanitarian grounds back in 2021. That was the main legal mechanism the Biden administration used to welcome tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees after the Taliban takeover in August 2021.
Lakanwal later applied for asylum with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2024 and his application was granted in 2025, the DHS official said. But his request for a green card, which is tied to the asylum grant, is pending.”
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Biblical Exegesis explanation and discussion

lol I’m not surprised that you would answer yes.
Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would be with His Church.
My church is His Church and so are all of the churches where 2 or 3 are congregated in His name. Jesus said that.
Christ also said that he who hears you hear Me, and that he who rejects you rejects Me and the One who sent Me.
Ok but how does that prove that your church’s Traditions (big T) outside of scripture are infallible? Are the ECFs infallible? Are your popes throughout history infallible?
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Zions New Children

Hi samaus,

kjv
Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

In context, Jesus was speaking to the scribes, chief priests, and Pharisees at the time. Jesus referred to the scriptures in verse 42, about their rejection of him (Jesus). So the kingdom of God was taken from because they produced no spiritual fruit. They did not promote the gospel of salvation in Christ Jesus.

Another nation of Jews, Israel in the end times, will produce the fruit, when they turn to the gospel of salvation and Jesus in the middle of the 7 year 70th week of Daniel 9:27.

Here us the text of their turning to gospel of salvation and Jesus...

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Currently, the vast majority of Jews reject Jesus and the gospel of salvation. But that is going to change after they go through a bad experience of thinking the Antichrist is their King of Israel messiah (for the most part of the first half of the 7 years).
no that is wrong. he was saying the kingdom of heaven would go out to anyone whether circumcized or not via faith in Jesus which happened with his death burial reserrection then ascension then pentecost then God destroys the OT kingdom and kills the people that killed Jesus 70 ad.
only christians are jews israel etc now not the synagogue of satan. but i am mainly interested in what this other person was saying about the words nations/gentiles.
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Zions New Children

Matthew 21:43


“Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.



That is Jesus talking to the Israelites saying he will give the kingdom of God to non Israelite peoples.​
Hi samaus,

kjv
Matthew 21:42 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

In context, Jesus was speaking to the scribes, chief priests, and Pharisees at the time. Jesus referred to the scriptures in verse 42, about their rejection of him (Jesus). So the kingdom of God was taken from them because they produced no spiritual fruit. They did not promote the gospel of salvation in Christ Jesus.

Another nation of Jews, Israel in the end times, will produce the fruit, when they turn to the gospel of salvation and Jesus in the middle of the 7 year 70th week of Daniel 9:27.

Here us the text of their turning to gospel of salvation and Jesus...

Revelation 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.

Currently, the vast majority of Jews reject Jesus and the gospel of salvation. But that is going to change after they go through a bad experience of thinking the Antichrist is their King of Israel messiah (for the most part of the first half of the 7 years).
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btw the loud voice in heaven in Revelation 12:10 - that is going to be coming from us, resurrected/raptured Christians.
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Two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC

He came over here in 2021 and was granted asylum.
He didn't apply for asylum until December 2024, and it was granted in April of this year.

His legal stay ended in September 2025 and thus remained in the USA illegally.
He has been in the country legally from the time he arrived in 2021 until now. At no time was he in the country illegally.
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Biblical Exegesis explanation and discussion

That's not the question.
That was my question.
The OP is putting for a theory that is not taught in Scripture.
What exactly is the OP’s theory that is not in scripture?
You guys are sooooo funny.
Thanks?
His Church teaches that Scripture is part of Tradition. Scripture is not all of Tradition.
Hence my question. See, we did a full circle which is not uncommon for you.
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Zions New Children

Are you aware that, in scripture, the singular nation only refers to the nation of Israel?

And that, whenever gentile nations are referred to, it is always nations in the plural?
you are saying goy ethnos is only ever used when referring to israel and never goyim or ethne?
and always the opposite for non israelite nations?
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Is Catholic Tradition (big T) outside of scripture infallible?
That's not the question. The OP is putting for a theory that is not taught in Scripture. You guys are sooooo funny.

His Church teaches that Scripture is part of Tradition. Scripture is not all of Tradition. But you guys don't believe what His Church teaches.
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Trump dispenses with trials, orders military strike on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat (Now up to 2, 3, 4...)

I'm just trying to establish where certain people are going with this.
Fair enough.
Most likely not. But it's not entirely certain what all actually took place.
The video is quite graphic though. I’m sure at best an admiral is going to loose their job.
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WHAT DOES PAUL. SAID OF Eph 1 : 4. !!

Hey Dan, I would say, not hell, but Hades. Hell, as understood by 16th century Christians who translated the KJV, carried the same idea as Hades does today, called Sheol in the OT. The NKJV Bible fixed that. I agree that it's not a parable. Abrahams bosom, that's where OT believers who where physically dead waited for Jesus and the cross. Promises don't justify, nor do they make born again, only in Christ do we have those things that save us. Without the Holy spirit indwelling (baptism with the Holy Spirit, we are not in Christ and not saved.
And I had a booklet from. the BEREAN BIBLE , WHERE they printed a booklet and THERE IS

#1. HELL

# 2 HADES

# 3 PARADISE , MENTIONED ONE TIME IN LUKE. , ONE. TIME BY THE ONE ON. THE CROOS WITH CHRIST AND ONE

in 2 COR 12:5

# 4 SHEOL;

# 5 GRAVE

# 6. DARKNESS

# 7 GEHANIA

dan p
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The New Testament begins in Acts not Matthew chapter one.

I think you are using the term "church" and the "Body of Christ" equivalently.

The Body of Christ is indeed the church for today.

But that does not mean anytime you see the word "church" in scripture, it must be the Body of Christ (Acts 7:38)

Church means "called out assembly" and such assembly existed even in the OT.
Yes, Jesus is the true Church, the Body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:13
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If a teaching or tradition is not found in the Scriptures - then it is extrabiblical and cannot be treated as infallible.
I find it funny you come to that conclusion since the Bible itself doesn't conclude it. Ugh. Your promoting a man made tradition.
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WHAT DOES PAUL. SAID OF Eph 1 : 4. !!

Dave, I appreciate your kind reply. However, I think if you look deeper. the Ezekiel verses parallel the Jeremiah verses in talking about the new covenant for Israel and the earthly kingdom they could expect.

Jer 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The desire to see everything in the bible (especially the gospels) as applying to us can be very strong. By maintaining a distinction between what is intended for Israel and what is for the body of Christ, we can avoid a lot of confusion. I know it is unconventional and unfamiliar, but then there was a time when not praying to Mary was radical.
Hey Tim

'I will put my Law in the hearts' is the Holy Spirit working from within. It's no longer an external Law but an inward desire. This is what the indwelling, the baptism with the Holy Spirit brings. This all points to what I've already said. The universal knowledge (John 12:32-33). Forgiveness of sins (Romans 3:25-26). All fulfilled at Pentecost with the giving of the Holy Spirit. The 'placing into' Christ which results from that indwelling (1 Corinthians 12:13.
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