super blue blood moon on Wed. January 31, 2018

[Gray]

No one ever went broke betting against an imminent apocalypse. 

[The Nehor]

6 hours ago, Alaris said:

I don't want to open a can here as tithing is between you and the Lord - and I think that's exactly why it's fire insurance. If you've developed enough of a relationship with the Lord to figure out how to pay tithing correctly, you will not be burned. Also, I do not want to derail this thread that is about the super blood moon. With that disclaimer, here's my personal view:

D&C 64:23 Behold, now it is called today until the coming of the Son of Man, and verily it is a day of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my people; for he that is tithed shall not be burned at his coming.

24 For after today cometh the burning—this is speaking after the manner of the Lord—for verily I say, tomorrow all the proud and they that do wickedly shall be as stubble; and I will burn them up, for I am the Lord of Hosts; and I will not spare any that remain in Babylon.

I too pay net, and here's my reason. I feel tithing is a law of exactness. The Lord doesn't want you to pay 11 percent or 9 percent. He wants you to render to caesar and then render to the Lord. Those things which are caesar's are not the Lord's - if they were He wouldn't have worded it in that order imho.

Mark 12:7 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled at him.

So you don't tithe Caesar's stuff. And the Lord's things are not yours to spend on expenses or anything. I could go deeper into that with percentages and how when Caesar robs you blind, gross tithing makes less and less sense until it becomes impossible. 

Verse 24 is key. Those who are A. Proud and B. Do wickedly shall be burned. Some people who pay tithing are proud and some are wicked, but as a general rule of thumb - again in my very humble opinion - the proud might overpay and be bragging about gross or rounding up to 11 percent whereas the wicked may be justifying underpaying. As a law of exactness I think it's less about being off by a few pennies and more about your relationship to God where tithing is a measure of where you are in that relationship. Are you overpaying to be on the "safe side" without seeking after exactness and seeking after the Lord's mind on the matter, or are you justifying underpayment?  Fire insurance.

That was a joke. Sorry. Hard to tell in this medium sometimes.

[Alaris]

21 minutes ago, The Nehor said:

That was a joke. Sorry. Hard to tell in this medium sometimes.

No need to apologize. I appreciate a good joke and likely missed it in my longing for a substantive discussion. 

[JAHS]

Las Vegas Temple.

[Stargazer]

On ‎1‎/‎28‎/‎2018 at 7:11 AM, nuclearfuels said:

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Posted Friday at 03:26 PM (edited)

From the original post.

Reposted as you missed the emphasized part.

“The Talmud states that Israel is judged by our actions, by our commitment to Hashem (God), and not by astrological signs,” Rabbi Berger told Breaking Israel News. “In fact, the Talmud states that a lunar eclipse is a bad sign for those who hate Israel.”

My comment about astrology was just a general comment, not specific to the post.

[Alaris]

http://fox13now.com/2018/01/30/hundreds-of-birds-fall-from-sky-in-draper/

[The Nehor]

On 1/31/2018 at 4:28 PM, Gray said:

No one ever went broke betting against an imminent apocalypse. 

I sold all my worldly possessions and gave it all to a deranged homeless guy and then went out naked on top of a hill to await the advent of the End of Days.....

....Another dud.....

And another arrest.

Okay, when is the next End of Days sign?

[JLHPROF]

2 hours ago, The Nehor said:

I sold all my worldly possessions and gave it all to a deranged homeless guy and then went out naked on top of a hill to await the advent of the End of Days.....

....Another dud.....

And another arrest.

Okay, when is the next End of Days sign?

You didn't get the memo from the First Presidency.
The Super Blood Moon is actually a sign that there are exactly 666 months to go.  So watch out for the summer of 2073.

[The Nehor]

1 hour ago, JLHPROF said:

You didn't get the memo from the First Presidency.
The Super Blood Moon is actually a sign that there are exactly 666 months to go.  So watch out for the summer of 2073.

Yeah, I'm definitely dying first then. I think I will die before I reach my nineties and call it a day and get a better across the veil seat for the Second Coming.