EXODUS 17- AN EXAMPLE OF HOW MEN DO THEIR PART WITH GOD FOR DELIVERANCE

In a battle described in Ex.17 we read that Israel was defeating their enemy while Moses held up his arms up. But when his arms grew weary and began to come down the enemy began to advance against Israel. When I read stories like this in the Bible I always want to ask why didn’t God just win the fight for them? He does it other times. Why here were they only able to defeat their enemies while Moses’ arms were up? This is the question I want to address in this message. Some might say this is an example of how we who are being pastored must support the pastor. But, I contend that that is a Roman Catholic view based on her mandate of allegiance to the ruling priest class. And that while Israel in the Old Covenant…

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Satanic Temple now recognized by IRS as a church, temple says

This means the satanic temple gets tax-exempt status like other churches. The Satanic bible is a collection of essays, composed and compiled in 1969 by Anton LaVey, detailing the basic, fundamental Satanic rituals and ideology. Its proponents regard the Satanic bible as the foundation of the Satanic paradigm, while maintaining that the book is not subject to revision nor interpretation and that no ritual or ideology contrary to what is depicted in the Satanic bible is compatible with Satanism. Note – the vast majority of Satanists do not even believe in the existence of a personal being named Satan. Rather, Satan is a symbol of struggle against a tyrannical God. The Satanic bible is divided into four books, namely, “The Book of Satan,” “The Book of Lucifer,” “The Book of Belial,” and finally “The Book of Leviathan.” It is generally…

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