HEARING GOD SPEAK
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In your opinion, Paul and those he was with didn’t audibly hear Jesus or you believe God/Jesus doesn’t do that anymore?
Acts 9:5-7
5“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,”He replied. 6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless. They heard the voice but did not see anyone.
Acts 9:5-7
5“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,”He replied. 6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
7The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless. They heard the voice but did not see anyone.
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I also think that many think they are hearing from God and they are actually their own thoughts. That's what is usually the source of the false prophecies and so called "words of knowledge" . God doesn't give those to the the religious unbelievers who are trusting and teaching the law or some other form if works for salvation.
I didn't explain, so I'll elaborate.
Before salvation, the spirit if man is dead.
With few exceptions, he will not hear from God the same way as a believer will.
God shows Himself through creation, the Bible, and often through circumstances when they cry out for Him, often through desperation. What He wants them to do is to receive the gospel from believers as Cornelius and his band from Peter.
Many decades can go by as a pastor reads and studies God's Word, teaching every Sunday. However, they are spiritually blind and the Holy Spirit will not speak to them. This is true of most. Why is that?
"But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
I Corinthians 2
I didn't explain, so I'll elaborate.
Before salvation, the spirit if man is dead.
With few exceptions, he will not hear from God the same way as a believer will.
God shows Himself through creation, the Bible, and often through circumstances when they cry out for Him, often through desperation. What He wants them to do is to receive the gospel from believers as Cornelius and his band from Peter.
Many decades can go by as a pastor reads and studies God's Word, teaching every Sunday. However, they are spiritually blind and the Holy Spirit will not speak to them. This is true of most. Why is that?
"But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
I Corinthians 2
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Well....the passage here was recorded by a prophet but I don't know how that prophet received the words which are here reproduced 'electronically'. Seems like magic. The prophet probably didn't have a clue about 'electromagnetism' or even what he was recording. But I was more interested in the question I put at the bottom of the passage.......................................................
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......................................................... .Jeremiah 16.......................................KJV
God Will Restore Israel
14“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 15but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes. 18And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”
Verse 16 seems to have its' start when Yeshua was sent & provided a flesh & blood body. Yeshua referred to 'fishers' of men at that time. The passage also seems to indicate some time after the 2nd Advent and possibly 'hunters' being needed at that time. ????!!!???
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......................................................... .Jeremiah 16.......................................KJV
God Will Restore Israel
14“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 15but, ‘The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers.
16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the Lord, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes. 18And first I will repay double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable idols.”
Verse 16 seems to have its' start when Yeshua was sent & provided a flesh & blood body. Yeshua referred to 'fishers' of men at that time. The passage also seems to indicate some time after the 2nd Advent and possibly 'hunters' being needed at that time. ????!!!???
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I base my coming to believe in Jesus as my Savior in large part on my encounter with 'ministering spirits' as per Hebrews 1:14 and I posted in part that experience on this chat somewhere???? Testimonies maybe?? I did also actually have a visual experience but it involved clouds and I was very young (8, 9, 10?).
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I recorded my experience as it happened in reality and my experience as a young child, while vague in some ways, was almost certainly real. All I do is relate my own experiences. I am certain others have similar experiences and like myself were not aware of what was happening at the time. It took me 50 years to come to the realization of the spirit world after my encounter.
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Were they statues? 
You think this was real or in my head?
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I think saying something is only "in your head" is misleading. Partly because everything
is experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only
Paul understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His
companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was
speaking to him. We do not even know what if anything they may have heard.
It was received and understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
is experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only
Paul understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His
companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was
speaking to him. We do not even know what if anything they may have heard.
It was received and understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
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I think saying something is only "in your head" is misleading. Partly because everything is
experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only Paul
understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His companions
saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was speaking to him.
We do not even know what if anything they may have heard. It was received and
understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only Paul
understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His companions
saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was speaking to him.
We do not even know what if anything they may have heard. It was received and
understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
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I think saying something is only "in your head" is misleading. Partly because everything
is experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only
Paul understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His
companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was
speaking to him. We do not even know what if anything they may have heard.
It was received and understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
is experienced/processed in our heads via/courtesy of the brain. Also, for instance, only
Paul understood the words spoken to him by Jesus on the road to Damascus. His
companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of Him who was
speaking to him. We do not even know what if anything they may have heard.
It was received and understood only by Paul, in his head.
To answer your question, I think you saw something spiritual. An angel? Perhaps. That I do not know
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The reality is there is a Spiritual dimension to life that many are largely unaware of.
Then because they have never experienced it, they deny that any can. Like an agnostic.
Which is weird when you think about it, because God is supernatural and yet Christians
will deny that experiencing Him supernaturally is possible. I found this just now
In PSALM 93:4, David declares that “The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters…”
and in describing “four living creatures,” Ezekiel “heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
many waters, like the voice of the Almighty…” (EZEKIEL 1:24). In EZEKIEL 43:2, the prophet proclaims
God’s “voice was like the sound of many waters” and in the only physical description of Jesus offered
in the New Testament, the Apostle John affirms “His voice as the sound of many waters” (Rev 1:15) source
Then because they have never experienced it, they deny that any can. Like an agnostic.
Which is weird when you think about it, because God is supernatural and yet Christians
will deny that experiencing Him supernaturally is possible. I found this just now
In PSALM 93:4, David declares that “The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters…”
and in describing “four living creatures,” Ezekiel “heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of
many waters, like the voice of the Almighty…” (EZEKIEL 1:24). In EZEKIEL 43:2, the prophet proclaims
God’s “voice was like the sound of many waters” and in the only physical description of Jesus offered
in the New Testament, the Apostle John affirms “His voice as the sound of many waters” (Rev 1:15) source
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