What do you think is the message of this passage? What is that foundation spoken of here... "having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone...
Ephesians 2:19-22
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
"Apparently, the material from Proph about Easter and Ishtar is complete nonsense. All one has to do is Google, "Is Easter Ishtar?" and enlighten one's self."
Actually I did google "Is Easter Ishtar" and found the following paragraphs in the liberal Wikipedia!!
What is 'complete nonsense' is Urantia's claim that Jesus lived on earth 37 years which ended in AD 30; since God's Word states that Jesus began His ministry when He was 30 years old {as per Luke 3:23} in the 15th year of Tiberius in AD 29 {As per Luke 3:1,2} and 3 1/2 years later he became our **PASSOVER LAMB** when He put an end to all other sacrifices for sin as per Daniel 9:27a in the middle of the Last 7 years.
Exact quotes from Wikipedia concerning **ISHTAR** and the **QUEEN OF HEAVEN**:
Inanna was the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, justice, and political power. She was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name **Ishtar**. She was known as the "Queen of Heaven" and was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, which was her main cult center. She was associated with the planet Venus and her most prominent symbols included the lion and the eight-pointed star. Her husband was the god Dumuzid the Shepherd (later known as Tammuz)
The cult of **Inanna-Ishtar** may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh and, although Inanna herself is not directly mentioned in the Bible by name, the Old Testament contains numerous allusions to her cult. Jeremiah 7:18 and Jeremiah 44:15-19 mention "**the Queen of Heaven**", who is probably a syncretism of **Inanna-Ishtar** and the West Semitic goddess Astarte. Jeremiah states that the **Queen of Heaven** was worshipped by women who baked cakes for her.
Early Christians in the Middle East assimilated elements of **Ishtar** into the cult of the Virgin Mary. The Syrian writers Jacob of Serugh and Romanos the Melodist both wrote laments in which the Virgin Mary describes her compassion for her son at the foot of the cross in deeply personal terms closely resembling **Ishtar's** laments over the death of Tammuz.
Early Christians in the Middle East assimilated elements of Ishtar into the cult of the Virgin Mary. The Syrian writers Jacob of Serugh and Romanos the Melodist both wrote laments in which the Virgin Mary describes her compassion for her son at the foot of the cross in deeply personal terms closely resembling **Ishtar's** laments over the death of Tammuz.
Many Evangelical Christians have argued that the modern English word Easter must be derived from Ishtar due to the phonetic similarity of the two words and that **ISHTAR** is positively similar to the **QUEEN OF HEAVEN** in Jeremiah 44:15-19 and Jeremiah 7:18!
Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the **SUN**-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.
**ISHTAR**, who was now worshipped as the "MOTHER OF GOD** and the **QUEEN OF HEAVEN**", continued to build her mystery religion.
Read Jeremiah 44:17-29 about the evil worship of the **QUEEN OF HEAVEN** by the Jews and God's judgment for this terrible sin. The Roman Catholic Church now copy this Satanic worship of **ISHTAR** and pray to and worship Mary who they call the **MOTHER OF GOD** and **QUEEN OF HEAVEN**.
Jeremiah 44:17-22: The Jews said to Jeremiah, "We will burn incense to the **QUEEN OF HEAVEN** and will pour out drink offerings to her just as our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.... Then Jeremiah said to them, "Did not the Lord remember and call to mind the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your ancestors, your kings and officials. When the Lord could no longer endure your wicked actions your land became a curse and a desolate waste as it is today!!"
The following paragraphs are quoted in Wikipedia:
The name "Sunday", the day of the **Sun**, is derived from Hellenistic astrology, where the seven planets, known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the ***SUN***, Venus, Mercury and the Moon, each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was regent during the first hour of any day of the week gave its name to that day. During the 1st and 2nd century, the week of seven days was introduced into Rome from Egypt, and the Roman names of the planets were given to each successive day.
In Roman culture, Sunday was the day of the Sun god. In paganism, the sun was a source of life, giving warmth and illumination to mankind. It was the center of a popular cult among Romans, who would stand at dawn to catch the first rays of sunshine as they prayed.
The opportunity to spot in the nature-worship of their heathen neighbors a symbolism valid to their own faith was not lost on the Christians. One of the Church fathers, St. Jerome, would declare: "If pagans call [the Lord's Day] the 'day of the sun,' we willingly agree, for today the light of the world is raised, today is revealed the sun of justice with healing in his rays."
A similar consideration may have influenced the choice of the Christmas date on the day of the winter solstice, whose celebration was part of the Roman cult of the sun. In the same vein, Christian churches have been built and are still being built (as far as possible) with an orientation so that the congregation faced toward the sunrise in the East. Much later, St. Francis would sing in his famous canticle: "Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of you, Most High, he bears the likeness."
So maybe Christians should think twice before calling the glorious Resurrection Day of our Lord And Savior Jesus, **EASTER{ISHTAR} **SUN**DAY**!! Our Lord's Resurrection took place at sunrise, April 5th, AD 33 which is always the 16th Day of the first Lord's month of Abib, and should not be celebrated on the first **SUN**DAY after a full moon according to the first evil Babylonian moon month called Nisan.
The first day of God's first month is called **ABIB** which means **SPRING** The first day of **SPRING** or **ABIB** is always sundown, March 20th to sundown, March 21st. And the 14th day of ABIB which is always **PASSOVER DAY** is always sundown, April 2nd to sundown April 3rd each and every Bible year!! And our Lord Jesus became our **PASSOVER LAMB** on **PASSOVER DAY** which is always April 3rd each and every Bible Year; and not on the first Friday after a full moon according to the evil Babylonian Moon Calendar on their first month called Nisan!!
**DOES POPE FRANCIS QUALIFY TO BE THE FUTURE FALSE PROPHET OF 666 WHO WILL COME UP FROM THE ABYSS OR HELL?? IS THE FUTURE FALSE PROPHET OF 666 ALREADY HERE!!**??
Jesus is called a **LAMB** 30 times in the book of Revelation and Revelation 13:11 states the False Prophet of 666 will be **LIKE A LAMB** which implies that he may be a very deceptive religious leader.
Revelation 17:9 shows that the future headquarters of 666 and his False Prophet will be the evil city on 7 hills or Rome {See Rev 17:9}; which is also the present headquarters of Pope Francis and the former headquarters of 666, Nero Caesar, who will come up from the Abyss!! {See Daniel 7:23-25}
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis waded into the controversial debate over the origins of human life, saying the big bang theory and evolution did not contradict the role of a divine creator, but even required it. The pope was addressing the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which gathered at the Vatican to discuss �Evolving Concepts of Nature.� Pope Francis said, �When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,� Francis said. �He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment.� �God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life,� the pope said.
Pope Francis: says, The Church could support civil unions??? By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor: - Pope Francis suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions. The Pope reiterated the church's longstanding teaching that "marriage is between a man and a woman." However, he said, "We have to look at different cases and evaluate them in their variety."
Francis delivers homilies each day, the contents of which are summarized by Vatican Radio. On May 22, 2015 he caused no shortage of confusion when he suggested that even atheists could find salvation!!! In his homily, Francis said: "The Lord has redeemed all of us, with the Blood of Christ:, not just Catholics. Everyone! Even the atheists. Everyone!" However Jesus says, "No one can come to the Father except through Me."
Francis said to his Church and the World that �GOOD DEEDS� of atheists, Muslims and homosexuals can get them to Heaven with NO NEED of Salvation or Faith and belief in JESUS. This is completely opposed to what the Word of God says.
Pope Francis tell his flock that �the Quran and the spiritual teachings contained therein, is just as valid as the Holy Bible.� NO, it is most certainly not. It is a book of WAR, violence and bloodshed, while the Holy Bible is a Love Story between God and man. How in the world can someone so ignorant to the polar opposites of Christianity and Islam be the leader of billions of Christians globally?! It is a very dangerous thing.
Pope Francis also says "Who am I to judge homosexuals." and Pope Francis states that sincere homosexuals will also enter the kingdom of heaven. But what does God's Word say?? I Corinthians 6:9-11: Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor **HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS** will inherit the kingdom of God. {Unless they repent} And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Pope Francis also claims that **THERE IS NO ETERNAL HELL** and that the very evil will just be annihilated! Which is exactly what the False Prophet will tell people during the Great Tribulation if they worship the Beast or take the mark of 666!!
For the first time in History the Roman Catholic Church has elected a **JESUIT POPE*!! One of the main enforcers of the Roman Catholic Inquisitions were the Jesuits. All Jesuits take the same Satanic oath today. Pope Francis has taken and administered this same Satanic Jesuit oath which includes the following amazing statements:"I promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage war , secretly and openly, against all heretics and protestants as I am directed to do, to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive those infamous heretics; rip open their stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race.
And so it is interesting to note that the 112th and last pope {??} who is the leader of about 1,000,000,000 {One Billion} Roman Catholics agrees with Satan on everything!!
Matthew 23:9: "Jesus says, "Do not call *ANYONE on earth 'father,' for you have **ONE FATHER**, and He is in *HEAVEN*!!" This is an obvious reference to a SPIRITUAL FATHER since earthly fathers of earthly children are mentioned hundreds of times in God's Word. And so according to Jesus: calling the leader of the Satanic Roman Catholic Church 'Holy Father' is a terrible sin.
Pope Francis {Who Satanists call **HOLY FATHER**} has made a Papal Decree stating that he alone has given power to Roman Catholic priests {Who Satanists call **FATHERS**} to forgive **ALL ABORTIONS** which would include Gruesome and Horrific Abortions an hour before conception!! Is this **MURDER**??
As usual, the Satanic Pope Francis is absolutely contradicting God's Sacred Word!!:
Psalm 22:10: David said, "From my mother's **WOMB** you have been My God!"
Psalm 139:13: David said, "For you created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's **WOMB**!"
Isaiah 44:2: This is what the Lord says--He who made you, who formed you in the **WOMB**!
Isaiah 44:24: This is what the Lord says--your Redeemer, who formed you in the **WOMB**!
Jeremiah 1:5: The Lord said, "Before I formed you in the **WOMB** I knew you!"
Extremely Satanic Quotes by Pope Francis:
"Jesus Christ�s life ended in **FAILURE**, **FAILURE** of the cross�"
"When God fails, and He fails many times, we have to feel the pain of His failure, accompany the people who have felt the failure of their God"
"If at times our efforts and works seem to fail and produce no fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus� and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, in the failure of the cross."
When actually The **SUCCESS** of Jesus at the Cross was the greatest success in the history of mankind!!
The Apostle Peter wrote in I Peter 1:17-19: For you know it was not with perishable things such as silver and gold that you were **REDEEMED** from the empty way of life handed down to you from your forefathers, but with the **PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST**, a Lamb without blemish or defect!!
MATTHEW 28:18-20: Jesus says, "**ALL AUTHORITY** in heaven and **ON EARTH** has been given to **ME**!{Not some Pope} Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... teaching the to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you **ALWAYS**!!"
And so we can safely conclude that Pope Francis completely qualifies to be the future deceptive False Prophet of 666 from the evil city on 7 hills!!
** WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY ABOUT THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CHURCH**??
Titus 1:6-9: An **ELDER** must be blameless, faithful to **HIS** wife, a **MAN** whose children believe... Since an **OVERSEER** manages God's household, **HE** must be blameless... **HE** must **HOLD FIRMLY** to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that **HE** can encourage others by **SOUND DOCTRINE and **REFUTE THOSE** WHO OPPOSE IT**.
I Timothy 5:17: The **ELDERS** who direct rhe affairs of the church well are worthy of a double honor, especially those whose work is **PREACHING ** and **TEACHING**
I Timothy 3:1 Whoever desires to be an **OVERSEER** desires a noble task. Now the **OVERSEER**is to be above reproach, faithful to **HIS** wife, tenperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable and **ABLE TO TEACH**!!
I Timothy 2:11: A **WOMAN** should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a **WOMEN** **TO TEACH** or to assume authority **OVER A MAN**!
I Corinthians 15:34,35:**WOMEN** should renain silent in the churches, They are not allowed **TO SPEAK**, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about anything, they should ask their husbands at home; for it is **DISGRACEFUL** for a **WOMAN** **TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH**!!
2 Peter 3:15,16: Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our **DEAR BROTHER PAUL** also wrote you with the **WISDOM GOD GAVE TO HIM**. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand {To unbelievers} which **IGNORANT AND UNSTABLE PEOPLE DISTORT**, as they do other Scriptures, to their own **DESTRUCTION**!
I Timothy 3:16,17: All Scripture is **GOD-BREATHEED** and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead and in view of His appearing and His Kingdom, I give you this charege: **PREACH THE WORD**; be prepared in season in out of season, correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear!!
I Peter 1:23-25: For you have been **BORN AGAIN**, not of perishable seed but the imperishable, through the living and enduring **WORD OF GOD**. For all people are like grass, and all their glory is like flowers in the field; the grass withers and the flowers fail, but the **WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER**!!
Now ET or Ella claims to be a minister and an evangelist in churches when men are present for 32 years. And since she has quoted Paul, I asked her if she believed that all of Paul's teachings were inspired by God, and if she did, I asked her to exegete and explain 1 Timothy 2:11 and I Corinthians 14:34,35 above.
Ella has refused to answer these simple questions which any true Christian would be happy to answer wuth her interpretation of these God-breathed Scriptures. Some women preachers believe that none of Paul's writings are God-breathed, and some believe that most of Paul's Scriptures are God-breathed but these 2 Scriptures could not be. Others believe that these commands by God were only true for the early church but do apply to the present time.
It is interesting to note that women are to teach other women in the New testament; but there is not even one Scripture of a woman speaking in a church or teaching men in a church. However Acts 18:26 shows that married women can teach God's Word to men in their home and mothers can certainly teach God's Word to all of their children at home.
Acts 18:26: When **PRISCILLA AND AQUILA** heard **HIM** they invited **HIM** to their home and explained to **HIM** the way of God more adequately.
There are many who believe that women can teach boys under 12 in church since according to Jewish custom they are only considered men on their 12th birthday. There are also many who believe that women can teach men on radio, TV and the Internet since the men are at home and not in church. However, I believe women should not judge men who sincerely give their exegesis of God's Word on the internet. For God''s Word in I Timothy 2:11 says, "I do not a women to teach or to **ASSUME AUTHORITY** over a man."
