Quote:COLOSSIANS: 2
16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
18. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19. And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
20. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances
Answer :
In christ, you are not to bow nor be subjected to the flesh and order,practice or rules of the flesh made by man such that doesn't enhance our faith, cause us to fear the lord,seek him and love him more and for the sake of salvation or becoming one body with our lord jesus more. Especially such that depicts or that doesn't justify nor established our holiness,salvation and cause us to seek him more in the spirit nor the practice of true holiness,doctrine of our lord jesus and christ-like salvation and practices.
• You are not to bow nor worship the name of the lord in form of image or statue made by handiwork of man in any form. I.e, cross, hand neck/chains, erected statue of our lord or holy Mary et al.
You mustn't be found among those who'd rather worship the lord in the flesh by the flesh and obedient to the fruit of the flesh instead of the spirit.
What are the fruit,holiness or salvation of the flesh? :
• Prioritising and observing celebration of our lord jesus(christmas et al) above the true essence of the celebration such as : sober reflection, true repentance,salvation,evangelism,his second coming,his death,the power of resurrection and the reason(jesus) for such celebration :Jesus!
All these are a must above these celebration while the celebration can be aborted if we choose to. As the celebration is a practice,demonstration and manifestation of our relationship with the lord jesus, which is useless without the true essence of the celebrant(jesus) nor of the fruit of the spirit and his doctrine and purpose for our lives and souls after death.
Answer 2 :
Quote:2 THESSALLONIANS: its actually 3
3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
The end will not come and there may not be judgment until prophesy is fulfilled (which is already being fulfilled now considering the level of decadence of our today's generation and of this perilous generation and how man now derives joy in blasphemy against the living God, on social media..i.e on NL, facebook, twitter among others) :
◄ 2 Timothy 3:2 ►
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,
always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Hmm.. Now, isn't it obvious that we are the generation of the end time,exactly, the above generation the lord is referring to up there?
The end is not longer near. It's already Here!
Bless you.