Hello Marilyn and Doves
PRIVATE
1. Belonging to a particular person or group :
this lake is private, and no fishing is allowed.
2.Personal; individual :
I have private reasons for wanting to stay home.
3. personal, not official :
The senator was a rancher in private life.
A policeman may have to enforce laws of which he disapproves as a private citizen.
4.Secret; confidential :
We made private arrangements for the surprise party.
5. Closed to the public :
The actors gave a private performance last night.
6. Lowest ranking soldier in an army:
7. In private secretly:
The committee met in private to discuss new club members. (private-ly)
I find it very interesting that the word "Private" is used only ONCE in the King James Bible.
It is found in 2 Peter 1:20
Knowing this (first,) that no prophecy of the scripture is of "private" interpretation.
It has been my obligation to provide the "scripture" concerning the
questions posed to me here in the Doves, and when posting a letter
about an subject, it has also been obliged that I do likewise.
How an individual believes is "private" and personal. I respect that privacy.
But we all know there will always be varying opinions.
The phrase "of the matter" is used 4/4 times in the King James Bible.
1 Samuel 10:16
Eshter 2:23
JOB 19:28
Daniel 7:28
Job 19:28 KJV brought forward:
But ye should say, Why persecute [we] him, seeing the root 'of the matter' is found in me?
May you always be Blessed
I too; have had visions and dreams, most have been visions.
Mine do not come [always in deep sleep] they come at the time when nodding off to sleep, before even I am asleep.
I know the experience of being somewhere else, and returning back again.
What does one call such visions/ trips? I don't know.
But I am there. I can hear my foot steps in some, and in others, I do not hear them.
I
feel the gravel under my feet, and the smooth surface also. Sometimes I
am wearing shoes, and others I am not. I see individuals and they see
me, but other times, I am only a witness of something and am not seen.
There has been ONE occasion where I have witnessed a manifestation while awake and reading in bed.
Was it someone from the hell or from heaven?
I believe neither.
I believe Satan uses his evil demons and angels to deceive.
I rebuke it and go on with life. I do not marvel over them, or give them recognition.
Paul never said that (he) went to the 3rd heaven. He said he knew a man
that went to the 3rd heaven and heard unspeakable things.
2 Corinthians 12:1-7 KJV
IT IS NOT EXPEDIENT FOR ME DOUBTLESS TO (GLORY.) [I WILL] COME TO VISIONS AND REVELATIONS OF THE LORD.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, ( whether in the body, I
cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell (:) God
knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a
man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;) How that [he was caught up into paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
(Of such a one will I glory :) yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.
FOR
THOUGH I WOULD [DESIRE] TO GLORY, I SHALL NOT BE A [FOOL;] FOR I WILL
SAY THE [TRUTH :] but [now] I forbear, LEST ANY MAN SHOULD THINK OF ME
ABOVE THAT WHICH HE SEETH ME TO BE, OR THAT HE HEARETH OF ME.
And that I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF THE REVELATIONS,
THERE WAS GIVEN TO ME A THORN IN THE FLESH, (THE MESSENGER OF SATAN TO BUFFET ME,)
LEST I SHOULD BE EXALTED ABOVE MEASURE.
Ecclesiastes 12:13,14 KJV
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it is good, or whether it be evil.
That which happened to you, is private, and yours to judge privately.
As mine are mine. # ONE in the above definitions of "private"
God bless you
KML