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"We have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly, and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances... We have not listened to Your servants the prophets... Open shame belongs to us, O LORD... because we have sinned against You... Indeed all Israel has transgressed Your Law and turned aside, not obeying Your voice... Your people have become a reproach to all those around us" Dan. 9:5-16 In verses 5-16 Daniel identifies with his people and intercedes on their behalf. That's a common practice in Scripture. For example, Moses interceded for the Israelites after they sinned by worshiping the golden calf (Ex. 32:11- 13). All Paul's recorded prayers are intercessions. In Ephesians 6:18 he instructs us to "be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints." In 1 Timothy 2:1-4 he says, "I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for k...

John MacArthur — Grace to You Blessed are a the pure in heart, forthey shall see God. Matthew 5:8 Throughout Scripture the heart is used metaphorically to represent the inner person, the seat of motives and attitudes, the center of personality. But in Scripture it also includes the thinking process, particularly the will. Proverbs 23:7 says, “As [a man] thinketh in his heart, so is he” (KJV). The heart is the control center of the mind and will, as well as emotion. Jesus said that it is in the inner person, in the core of our very being, that God requires purity. This was not a new truth but an old one long forgotten in ceremony and tradition. “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life,” counseled the writer of Proverbs 4:23. God has always been concerned above all else with the condition of a person’s heart. When the Lord called Saul to be Israel’s first king, “God changed his heart” (1 Sam. 10:9). Until then Saul...

II rész A két ítélet félreértelmezése Két esemény – egy félreértelmezés – kétezer évnyi zavar Ezek a fejezetek azt vizsgálják, hogy miért keveredett össze oly gyakran az isteni ítélet - két különálló formája, kifejezése, ami súlyos doktrinális következményekkel jár. Az is érthetővé válik, hogy az athéni domboldalon kőbe vésett eredeti görög szó, a bema hogyan tárja fel nekünk Pál apostol üzenetnek pontos és szándékos kifejezéseit és eredeti jelentését. I A központi zavar: két különálló esemény összemosódott A Bema-szék (a hívők számára) és a Nagy Fehér Trón / juhok és kecskék ítélete (minden nemzet / hitetlenek számára) összekeverése nem egy apró hermeneutikai hiba. Ennek mélyreható doktrinális következményei vannak. Amikor ezt a két eseményt összekeverik, az eredmény szinte mindig az evangélium megrontása. Mi vész el Krisztus befejezett munkája finoman alá van ássva – az üdvösség eg...

Part II Misinterpretation of the two judgments Two Events — One Misreading — Two Thousand Years of Confusion These chapters examine why two distinct divine judgments have so often been collapsed into one — with grave doctrinal consequences — and how the original Greek word bema , carved in stone on an Athenian hillside, unlocks Paul's precise and deliberate meaning. I The Core Confusion: Two Distinct Events Collapsed Into One The mixing of the Bema Seat (for believers) and the Great White Throne / Sheep & Goats judgment (for all nations / unbelievers) is not a minor hermeneutical slip. It has profound doctrinal consequences . When these two events are blended together, the result is almost always a corruption of the gospel itself. What Gets Lost The finished work of Christ is subtly undermined — salvation begins to feel conditional on performance. Assurance of salvation is stol...