DennisTate

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  1. Here is the context for my dilemma at that time: Back around 1990 I went through a pretty serious theological crisis when I found out that the Soul Sleep theory was in error. I had believed in it pretty firmly since the early '70's. It sure sounded a whole lot more humane than the gospel as presented by Dr. Billy Graham..... that had inspired me to become an Atheist from around 1967 - 1973 until I began to listen to Evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong. Without Soul Sleep until the resurrection......the plan of G-d as explained by Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus sounded pretty awful.Matthew 22:14"For many are called, but few are chosen."Matthew 7:13¶Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."Matthew 5:28"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast itfrom thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."So the possible reality of this hell.... that is so scary that it would be a good idea to take an axe to our right hand....made the Gospel / Good News..... look a whole lot less good. Near death experiencer Bob Jones was shown that only about two percent of people in North America can go quickly into the paradise / heaven environment after death.http://www.thequickenedword.com/rhema/BobJonesTestimonyAugust81975DeathExperience.htm
  2. Back in 1990 I went through a time of being angry with Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus over some of the statements he had made...... I ended up literally raising my right hand in my air and asking to be taken by the right hand....... and I did it in anger and quoted much of: https://www.lds.org/scriptures/ot/isa?lang=eng 1 Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; 2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: 3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. 5 ¶ I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
  3. Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not know that the weekly Sabbath was up there with Yom Kippur!!!! I've been fasting on Yom Kippur since the 1970's...... but I recently made a judgement call regarding observance of the Friday evening portion of the weekly Sabbath that I have been questioning...... if this latest judgment is actually correct or not????
  4. Here is another angle on how all this could become extremely relevant to the plans that Messiah Yeshua - Jesus has for his own people the Jews.... as they interact with His own people.... .the Latter day Saints and other Christians who have asked for..... and been given the Holy Spirit. Speaking of worship.... my heart is in my throat as I listen to this: Regarding the change of the real Sabbath from Friday and sunset to Saturday and sunset by Christians....... back in the fourth century the newly formed Roman Catholic Church was terrified of Jews.... and all things Jewish.... due partly to predictions that they recorded in the eighth century edition of the Roman Catholic Encyclopaedia on the subject of the anti-Christ. Here is a copy of an e-mail that I had sent off to Jerusalem Sanhedrin Rabbi Yeshayahu Julius Hollander back in 2010. I will bold the parts that are most relevant to your question: ...// (Dannion Brinkley) As to the fact that Latter day Saints meet together on Sunday.... rather than on the Sabbath....... I am thinking that Joseph Smith really did have prophetic ability and this judgment call sets up his disciples in the year 2019 to not appear to be such a threat to Jews.... and to Judaism....... as many Jews regard people like me to be. Some Latter day Saints have a calling to work with Jews as both Cephas / Peter and the Apostle Paul had.... and also Timothy who was even circumcised...... after becoming a Messianic Jew..... a believer in Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus as Moshiach.... (perhaps as Moshiach ben Ephrayim the warrior Messiah)???? I gave a suggestion to the Latter day Saints here on the forum that could actually give them a project that they could work together with Orthodox, Chassidic, Conservative and Reform Jews on....... and this could be done on the real Shabbat.... Friday sunset to Saturday sunset....... The full text of my message to Rabbi Hollander can be viewed in post # 7 here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tate4centralnova/my-correspondence-with-rabbi-t383.html#.VsDYdsf8iOw (If I am not mistaken the President of the Latter day Saints and your twelve leading Prophets might just find my correspondence with Rabbi Hollander to be of some value)?!
  5. Speaking of worship.... my heart is in my throat as I listen to this: Regarding the change of the real Sabbath from Friday and sunset to Saturday and sunset by Christians....... back in the fourth century the newly formed Roman Catholic Church was terrified of Jews.... and all things Jewish.... due partly to predictions that they recorded in the eighth century edition of the Roman Catholic Encyclopaedia on the subject of the anti-Christ. Here is a copy of an e-mail that I had sent off to Jerusalem Sanhedrin Rabbi Yeshayahu Julius Hollander back in 2010. I will bold the parts that are most relevant to your question: ...// (Dannion Brinkley) As to the fact that Latter day Saints meet together on Sunday.... rather than on the Sabbath....... I am thinking that Joseph Smith really did have prophetic ability and this judgment call sets up his disciples in the year 2019 to not appear to be such a threat to Jews.... and to Judaism....... as many Jews regard people like me to be. Some Latter day Saints have a calling to work with Jews as both Cephas / Peter and the Apostle Paul had.... and also Timothy who was even circumcised...... after becoming a Messianic Jew..... a believer in Rabbi Yeshua - Jesus as Moshiach.... (perhaps as Moshiach ben Ephrayim the warrior Messiah)???? I gave a suggestion to the Latter day Saints here on the forum that could actually give them a project that they could work together with Orthodox, Chassidic, Conservative and Reform Jews on....... and this could be done on the real Shabbat.... Friday sunset to Saturday sunset....... The full text of my message to Rabbi Hollander can be viewed in post # 7 here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tate4centralnova/my-correspondence-with-rabbi-t383.html#.VsDYdsf8iOw (If I am not mistaken the President of the Latter day Saints and your twelve leading Prophets might just find my correspondence with Rabbi Hollander to be of some value)?!
  6. This is in my opinion one of the most positive webpages by non Latter day Saints about the work of Latter day Saints that I have ever read! I think that this is a major open door to the world for you! This is an absolutely fascinating article that really impressed me regarding what is taught by some of your members who had a near death experience. https://www.near-death.com/science/experts/widdison-and-lundahl.html
  7. https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/7?lang=eng
  8. I just started reading: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=qm_DR972jwwC&rdot=1&source=gbs_atb&pcampaignid=books_booksearch_atb Gaze Into Heaven: Near-Death Experiences in Early Church History
  9. I personally attempt to observe the Jewish Sabbath from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset but it is a great idea to attend church with fellow Christians on Sunday to worship. I did make it out to the nearest Ward of the Latter day Saints three times in the last year and I am planning to make it out soon after doing some more studies on the Book of Mormon and other LDS literature.
  10. I have been asking myself an unusual question for several years now............... could Satan....... ultimately be thinking surprisingly like Stanley Milgram Ph. D. who conducted a rather shocking experiment during the time of the Nuremberg War Crimes trials???? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment I listened to the Book of Moses several times over these past few weeks.......... and the question comes to mind that maybe.... just maybe..... Satan wasn't joking about having a plan to drive everybody toward "salvation"..... by driving everybody lower and lower and lower and lower until everybody rebelled and returned to G-d with their whole heart.........?????
  11. This is a basic idea that I did try myself about six years ago when my daughter was ten years old. I am a janitor at a school so I usually get seven or eight weeks off during the summer. I read my daughter perhaps fifty or more of those NDE accounts that summer........ I had no particular church even in mind at that time other than to simply attend whatever church my wife really wanted to attend.......... I wanted my daughter to know that there is a G-d who loves her .... and even loves her dogs..... She had three amazing dogs that really improved life for her....... one little guy was half Dashund and half Shitsu and he was fearless............ and super friendly....... but his fearlessness eventually got him killed when he even went out past the half kilometer distance on our dirt road to the paved highway....... and he got killed. We had another amazing Golden Lab - Sheperd mix who we miss so much....... and reading about how some people meet their previous deceased pets gave my daughter a very positive image of her Creator and the plan for her life.... and our lives......... (and even for the lives of her dogs and cats.) My daughter now has a very zealous prayer life...... and even knows how to intercede for others through prayer..... so my plan seems to have worked. Here is the same account in writing if you prefer: https://www.near-death.com/experiences/with-pets/jan-price.html
  12. In one of his lectures Rabbi Alon Anava stated that there are SEVENTEEN angels with DVD - IMax technology hanging out with each and all of the eight billion infinitely precious human lives on this earth. These angels record every minute detail of our lives...... and those recordings are used in the Life Review that so many near death experiencers report. Human life...... seems to be far, far, far, far, far more important to G-d....... than it is even to each of us?! I will see if I can find the lecture by the Rabbi where he mentioned that intriguing detail. Here it is.... that statement is made before the two minute mark in this video:
  13. You could well be correct ....... I plead guilty to be fascinated by this subject. but.....give some thought as to why the Scribes and Pharisees also wanted to kill Lazarus???? Did Lazarus have a personal testimony somewhat similar to that of Howard Storm...... .or Rabbi Alon Anava..... or other modern near death experiencers???? Could Lazarus have been the one who the Apostle Paul met above fourteen years ago who he referred to in II Corinthians 12:2-4???? https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/2-cor/12?lang=eng
  14. If your local missionaries were involved in those groups....... it could be amazing how many doors would probably open up for your missionaries. Even if people don't become full fledged members of the Latter day Saints church.... still you would have assisted them to take one or two or more steps in generally the right direction in life. Although I am not yet a Latter day Saint..... I am seriously impressed by how this discussion has gone so far:
  15. I am a former member of the Worldwide Church of God who got myself disfellowshipped after I began to study near death experience accounts and could no longer go along with the Soul Sleep teachings of that church. I would not trade that church though for the way that they brought me up out of Atheism. The WWCG produced two major written publications, "The Plain Truth" magazine that was mostly watching world events and trends with a few basic scriptures tossed in to get the reader interested in reading the Bible. "The Good News" magazine on the other hand was quite "meaty" in the sense that it quoted a lot of scriptures from both the Jewish Bible and the New Testaments. There was also a newspaper like publication for specific church news. I have began several forums with a title something like "Near death experiences Bring us Together" and they really are surging in membership and participation. The first group that I began with that name already has over ten thousand members on a Closed facebook group. I have delegated the majority of the Administration to some actual near death experiencers but I do still participate there a lot. If... you were to begin a society or foundation with a title something along that line... you could easily do meetings in the areas of every ward that might get a surprisingly positive response.
  16. In my opinion....... .based on my fifty nine years of experience.... you just gave an exceptionally good answer to this type of question. Sincere and well meaning people can do a lot of harm......... Here is an example of how perfectionism...... and exaggeration can creep into any system of belief and tradition. Mark 3:4 seems to be referring to a situation faced in two major occasions in Jewish history...... in the time of the Machabees but also during the time when the armies of Israel led by Joshua walked around Jericho again, and again, and again, and again and again and again...... and again X7. Was Rabbi and Messiah Yeshua - Jesus asking the Pharisees and Scribes if they would condemn the Machabees.... or the Jews of the time of Joshua...... from fighting back on the Sabbath????? Mark 3:4 Ecc 7:16 Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Perfectionism..... .can become a stumbling block that is cast in front of teenagers.... it is like the proverbial boiling milk that the kids of the goats can be boiled in........ Exo 23:19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. The metaphorical Mother = the church ward...... the milk = exaggerated teachings or sincere exaggerations on traditions or beliefs......
  17. This is an impressive answer that sure reminds me of: I personally can see no significant error in the ideas in this section????? https://www.near-death.com/science/research/future.html#a03
  18. Here is a fascinating statement in a very Jewish article that will explain where I am at Philosophically. My apologies if I should actually have posted this in the Judaism forum....... but my reasoning is mostly Christian..... and partly based on ideas in Judaism. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/101679/jewish/The-Personality-of-Mashiach.htm The Personality of Mashiach By J. Immanuel Schochet
  19. On one level... .I highly recommend Goggling the name Stanley Jacob M. D. and his writings on MSM...... that from nineteen years of use I can verify that all that he has written on that topic is true............. https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Miracle_of_MSM.html?id=QXXnCgcoDIAC&redir_esc=y
  20. Wow!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!! It is so seriously cool how Jews realize that even Gentiles can have their names written in the Book of Life!
  21. It is a truly cool tradition! My life has been positively changed by my feeble and rather incompetent attempts to observe some aspects of the Festival of Tabernacles / Sukkot. Funny story........ I lived in Quito, Ecuador for over a year. Sukkot was coming up and I saw a bunch of palm tree leaves on the street as I was walking home after my job as a teacher. I picked up the palm branches and took them home but I forgot to explain to my wife what I had done and why. She found them....... had no idea why those palm branches where there and she threw them out of the apartment....... I explained why I had dragged them home later on..... and it was a good laugh!
  22. I love your reaction and explanation for how you voted!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely love it!!!!!!!
  23. Is The Book of Moses one part of the Pearl of Great Price? I read a lot of it... and listened to it five times so over the past few weeks.... I love it.
  24. They are indeed awesome........ This last Sunday I attended the local Ward of the Latter day Saints for the third time in the last twelve months.......and I find them to be astonishingly polite.... amazingly well read...... and far more open minded than the vast, vast majority of my other Christian friends. Latter day Saints seem to have a higher level of love.... and a lower level of fear....... than most Christians tend to have. Most Christian officials fear me...... because I am pretty good at debating, (funny story... it often takes HaShem five, ten, fifteen years or more to show me that I am in error on various topics....... that I am terribly in error on............ but my Christian friends who actually were closer to the truth on those topics debated their ideas so badly........ that they left me more so confused than convinced............ five, ten, fifteen or so years go by...... and I find out that my debate opponents were actually closer to the truth than I had been.......... .even though they were not so good at proving their points)?! Sorry for writing that in a confusing manner........ I do find that whole thing to be confusing?! I mostly am referring to the Soul Sleep theory that I was terribly in error on until 1990 or so... I debated that idea a lot and actually convinced some people to join me in my error....... even though I was wrong on that doctrine?!