Acts of Apostles – Epiphany 2


Baal worship in Christendom has “Epiphany” as the date that The Three Kings paid a visit to King Herod and caused a slaughter of babies.
From the mouth of the devil itself:
Epiphany (/ɪˈpɪfəni/ i-PIF-ə-nee), also known as Theophany in the east, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation (theophany[1]) of God incarnate as Jesus Christ.
In Western Christianity, the feast commemorates principally (but not solely) the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, and thus Jesus’ physical manifestation to the Gentiles.[2][3] It is sometimes called Three Kings’ Day, and in some traditions celebrated as Little Christmas.[4] Moreover, the feast of the Epiphany, in some denominations, also initiates the liturgical season of Epiphanytide.[5][6]
Eastern Christians, on the other hand, commemorate the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, seen as his manifestation to the world as the Son of God.[7] The spot marked by Qasr el Yahud in the West Bank, and Al-Maghtas in Jordan on the east bank, is considered to be the original site of the baptism of Jesus and the ministry of John the Baptist.[8]
The traditional date for the feast is January 6. However, since 1970, the celebration is held in some countries on the Sunday after January 1. Those Eastern Churches which are still following the Julian calendar observe the feast on what, according to the internationally used Gregorian calendar, is January 19,[9] because of the current 13-day difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars.[10]
In many Western Christian Churches, the eve of the feast is celebrated as Twelfth Night (Epiphany Eve).[11][12] The Monday after Epiphany is known as Plough Monday.[13]

What an epiphany actually means is a sudden enlightenment as a truth comes into your senses that up until then you had be unable to see or realise. It comes from the term used to describe the power Jehovah God promised to share with a fellowship of the early Christian Church; described in the book of Acts:
Acts 1:
The first account, O Theophilus, I composed about all the things Jesus started to do and to teach until the day that he was taken up, after he had given instructions through holy spirit to the apostles he had chosen After he had suffered, he showed himself alive to them by many convincing proofs.
He was seen by them throughout 40 days, and he was speaking about the Kingdom of God. While he was meeting with them, he ordered them: “Do not leave Jerusalem but keep waiting for what the Father has promised, about which you heard from me; for John, indeed, baptised with water, but you will be baptised with holy spirit not many days after this.”
So when they had assembled, they asked him: “Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?”
He said to them: “It does not belong to you to know the times or seasons that the Father has placed in his own jurisdiction. But you will receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria and to the most distant part of the earth.”
After he had said these things, while they were looking on, he was lifted up and a cloud caught him up from their sight. And as they were gazing into the sky while he was on his way, suddenly two men in white garments stood beside them and said:
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?
This Jesus who was taken up from you into the sky will come in the same manner as you have seen him going into the sky.” Then they returned to Jerusalem from a mountain called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, only a sabbath day’s journey away.
[A standard unit of measure in those days in that location.]
When they arrived, they went up into the upper room where they were staying.
[When they arrived the “gifts, in men.”?]

There were Peter as well as John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the zealous one, and Judas the son of James. With one purpose all of these were persisting in prayer, together with some women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers.
During those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (the number of people was altogether about 120) and said: “Men, brothers, it was necessary for the scripture to be fulfilled that the holy spirit spoke prophetically through David about Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus.
For he had been numbered among us and he obtained a share in this ministry. (This very man, therefore, purchased a field with the wages for unrighteousness, and falling headfirst, his body burst open and all his insides spilled out. This became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their language Akeldama, that is, “Field of Blood.”) For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his dwelling become desolate, and let there be no inhabitant in it’ and, ‘His office of oversight let someone else take.

[Psalm 69:
Save me, O God, for the waters threaten my life. I have sunk down into the deep mud, where there is no solid ground. I have come into deep waters And the rushing stream has swept me away. I am exhausted from calling out; My throat has become hoarse. My eyes have grown weary while waiting for my God.
Those hating me without cause Are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who would do away with me, My treacherous enemies, have become many. I was forced to hand over what I had not stolen. O God, you are aware of my foolishness, And my guilt is not hidden from you. May those hoping in you not be put to shame because of me,
O Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of armies. May those seeking you not be humiliated because of me, O God of Israel. I suffer reproach on your account;
Humiliation covers my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, A foreigner to the sons of my mother Zeal for your house has consumed me, And the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen upon me. When I humbled myself with fasting, I was reproached for it. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became an object of scorn to them. I am the talk of those sitting in the city gate, And the drunkards make me the subject of their songs. But may my prayer come to you, O Jehovah, at an acceptable time. In your abundant loyal love, O God, Answer me with your sure acts of salvation. Rescue me from the mire; Do not let me sink down.
Rescue me from those who hate me And from the deep waters. Do not let the rushing flood-waters sweep me away, Or let the deep swallow me, Or let the well close its mouth over me. Answer me, O Jehovah, for your loyal love is good. According to your abundant mercy turn toward me, And do not hide your face from your servant. Answer me quickly, for I am in distress.
Come near to me and rescue me; Redeem me on account of my enemies. You know my reproach and my disgrace and my humiliation. You see all my foes. Reproach has broken my heart, and the wound is incurable.
I was hoping for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters but I found none. But for food they gave me poison, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Let their table become a trap for them, And their prosperity, a snare. Let their eyes become darkened so that they cannot see, And make their hips tremble constantly.
Pour out upon them your indignation, And may your burning anger overtake them. Let their encampment become desolate;Let there be no inhabitant in their tents. For they pursue the one whom you struck, And they keep recounting the pains of those you wounded. Add more guilt to their guilt,And may they have no share in your righteousness. Let them be erased from the book of the living, And may they not be enrolled among the righteous.
But I am afflicted and in pain. May your saving power, O God, protect me. I will sing praises to the name of God, And I will magnify him with thanksgiving. This will please Jehovah more than a bull, More than a young bull with horns and hooves. The meek will see it and rejoice.
You who are seeking God, may your hearts revive. For Jehovah is listening to the poor, And he will not despise his captive people. Let heaven and earth praise him,The seas and everything that moves in them. For God will save Zion And will rebuild the cities of Judah, And they will dwell there and possess it. The descendants of his servants will inherit it, And those who love his namel will reside in it.]

(And it is this epiphany that I believe is being poured out onto all mankind at the moment -IF if Satan has not tricked me into a trap -having transformed itself into an angel of light.
However I think caution here is the better part of valour yet history IS repeating itself one verse after another is quite a coincidence is it not?)

Acts 1 continued:
It is therefore necessary that of the men who accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus carried on his activities among us, starting with his baptism by John until the day he was taken up from us, one of these men should become a witness with us of his resurrection.”
So they proposed two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. Then they prayed and said: “You, O Jehovah, who know the hearts of all, designate which one of these two men you have chosen to take the place of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas deviated to go to his own place.” So they cast lots over them and the lot fell to Matthias, and he was counted along with the apostles.

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