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The Three Times In God's Plan

The prophetic anniversary date of the return of Jesus Christ occurs on the third of these three times. Christ spiritually fulfilled the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread in the first century on the actual anniversary dates of these commemorated days. Likewise, Pentecost, the second of these times, also was fulfilled on the actual day of Pentecost [Lev. 23:16] in the first century when the Spirit of God was sent from our Father according to Christ's promise. [John 15:26Acts 2]. Prior to this, these days were physically observed by the children of Israel. And Christ's return will occur on the actual first day of the third of these times. Ironically, while Christians really want to know when Christ will return, we are looking everywhere except to the source given to our forefathers millennia ago that spelled it out for us. [See the Feature article, Three Temple Ages Make A Plan].

"Socrates told us, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge." 
 Roger Ebert
"Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
 Stephen Hawking
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." 
Voltaire

 

"He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind."
 John Adams
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." 
 Albert Einstein
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." 
 Albert Einstein 
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." 
 Ellen Parr 
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
 Arnold Edinborough
"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." 
 Charles Proteus Steinmetz 
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." 
 Samuel Johnson
"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity. Never lose a holy curiosity." 
 Albert Einstein 
"Be curious always!  For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
 Sudie Black
"Perhaps the greatest virtue of man is curiosity." 
 Anatole France 
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
 Smiley Blanton
"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." 
 William Wirt 
"Curiosity sets us apart from the average lump of dirt."
 Millo Of Accaus
"Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity." 
 Chopra/Tanzi, Super Brain
"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best." 
 Michael J. Fox
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." 
 Walt Disney
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." 
 Samuel Johnson 
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." 
 Leo Burnett 
"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
 Freya Stark
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
 Roy T. Bennett
"Why am I so curious? I don’t know. But I’ll find out." 
 Anon 
"People die when curiosity goes." 
Graham Swift

 

"Curiosity is an eager desire to know, or learn about something."


 Dictionary
"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
 Bryant McGill
"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts." 
 Sherlock Holmes

 

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life." 
 Linus Pauling
"The spark of curiosity ignites passion in great minds." 
 Anon 
"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps man alive is curiosity!"
 Mehmet Murat Ildan
"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute." 
 William Phelps
"Curiosity is the deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections."
 Baris Gencel
"Without curiosity, one does not think."


 Anon
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."


 Shakespeare's Hamlet
"When holy curiosity is driven by passion, and critical thinking by perseverance, wisdom and truth emerge." 
 Anon
"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle." 
 Leo Rosten
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." 
 Marie Curie

 

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
 Anatole France
"Curiosity is the ultimate power tool."
 Roy Underhill
"A person without curiosity may as well be dead."
 Judy Blume
"Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act." 
 Damien Echols
"Curiosity without action is like a boat without water."
 Anon
"Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained." 
 Philo of Alexandria
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." 
 James Stephens

Book Excerpts

Christ And The Duality Of The Atonement

The duality of the Day of Atonement [Yom Kippur],1 both of the old covenant, the flesh, and the new covenant, the Spirit, are referred to in the New Testament Book of Acts. “But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ [the second time] which before was preached of you …." [quote from the apostle Peter, Acts 3:18-20].

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On What Ground Are We Sowing?

The rising autumn heralds yet another evanescent summer. Millions will witness creation’s rite of passage as the green leaves of summer fire into bright harvest reds, oranges and yellows of autumn before gravity tugs them gently to the ground, painting country lanes with their artistic hues. This marks the time of the fall harvest, a bigger harvest compared to the first fruits harvest of the summer. When a farmer has tilled good ground, and sown his heirloom seed wisely, he reaps the fruit of a bountiful harvest. The seven-day feast of Tabernacles1 marked the time for the children of Israel to rejoice in their fall harvest blessing by our LORD God. This feast has tremendous theological relevance for the House of Israel today, that's us, for it represents the Millennium, the thousand years of peace in Revelation 20 after the return of Christ, culminating in the great resurrection.