John just made reference to Vincent Tan's experience with the
angels at the bottom of Sherry's post:
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and I decided it was time to once again go follow the link
that John provided and (like many times over these years) read afresh Jim
Bramlett's description of these encounters. As I did, this one part really
jumped out at me that never seemed especially significant before, but now is
highly significant, in light of recent posts here. Namely, the way in which
Jesus changes from saying day and hour to just saying hour in the later verse,
because He had just given us the day, thus suggesting that we can know the day,
but not know which hour in that day. I noticed that one of the repeated
practices of this angel in dealing with Vincent was that he would do and say
things that were important to Vincent that there was no way any regular stranger
could know about in order to let Vincent know that he was an angel. Even giving
him the exact amount of money that will fill his gas tank yet future. When
Vincent found that money then he knew that this was an angel for sure because
only an angel could have done that. This seems exactly like that to all of us
who are watching here. What other verses of scripture could have been quoted
like this that would have greater impact than these in light of recent
discoveries that now have raised our excitement over them? The following is from
Jim Bramlett's article:
It was very dark, but the man took Vincent's King James Bible
and, without searching, flipped immediately to the exact page, to Matthew,
chapter 24. Then Vincent shined the flashlight on the page as the man read verse
36: "But of that day and hour
knoweth no man, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." He then jumped
down to verse 42: "Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
There it is, the very verse that has us excited because this
suggests that Jesus did give us the day but not the hour. The portion that the
angel skipped was where Jesus tells us the day: Matthew 24:
37 But
as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be.
Praise God! Don't let this world steal your joy or your crown!
We made it! We are well able!
Barry Amundsen