Like I said last Thursday in my last note, Abraham is called a prophet here — he’s the first in ALL the Scriptures to be explicitly mentioned as one. I’ve also learned over time (it was as early as 2011) that prophets are called by God as such today even still, and so are apostles (I learned this about two years later). I know God’s called me to be like Abraham in this manner, but that’s only because He knew I wouldn’t call myself this; I instead wanted God to call me into something greater than what I had been living in at the time… 2019’s arguably better than much of what’s happened in my college days, actually 😇😇😇 but I feel no need for anyone — including myself — to say you’re a prophet and do all sorts of funny stuff, yet God can call anyone to this if He wants… but I prefer being sensible, for the most part. I was actually dragged into a mental hospital once partly because of this, and also (mostly) because they believed Christianity was stupid. Either way, one shouldn’t prosecute anyone lightly. I know I wouldn’t. But I’m not a self-appointed prophet, for Jesus called me to do this. Hopefully I can speak life to many people through this and hopefully going abroad. (This passage is found in page 10 of my NKJV Bible, page 13 of my NASB Bible, pages 23-24 of my VOICE copy, and page 23 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.) I think Abraham was called as a prophet to speak for God on a regular basis… I love doing this! It’s weird how anything spiritual is mocked by the culture and government at large, though. But we shouldn’t allow anything detrimental, right? Several friends have spoken the prophet thing over me before, once because I had heard God speak audibly. But I think Abraham was called this because he had heard Him speak before, even before he believed (compare Genesis 12 with chapter 15). Besides, I don’t want to speak for myself again… and as I was writing this, I told my other roommate, Dean, about my prophetic calling — thank God he didn’t rebuke me for knowing this was biblical to walk in! It’s why I never mention it to anyone; people mostly speak this over me, and I wouldn’t blame them!
Also, if you read footnote n in this chapter (found in the original Amplified Bible), you will find that Abraham’s and Moses’ locations are different versions of the same pieces of land. This happens all throughout this book, actually… any confusion might be cleared up with the commentary of that version and/or the book of Exodus… by the way, the footnotes go in alphabetical order until you get to “z,” and then it rests to “a” if there’s a 27th footnote, and of there’s a 53rd footnote, a 79th footnote… and so on. It happens in pretty much every book, if not all of them. I just got done reading Malachi in that version, and from there the footnotes (throughout the New Testament) are very frequent and they never give much information, so I won’t read most of them… unless God wants me to find something interesting, but some footnotes have citations from false sources, like John Calvin, for example, but we don’t need to talk about him 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 and I’m also in Colossians in the NASB Bible — I’ve progressed quite a bit since the last time I mentioned how far I’ve gone in both versions. The South country’s name in verse 1 is spelled differently between the NASB and Amplified classic, though. Also, I really don’t want to forget the Scriptures or treat them lightly, because when you read several versions of the Scriptures front to back in just ten years or so, you can start forgetting if you’re not careful.
I should mention that God came to Abimelech in a dream as Abraham and Sarah were visiting — they passed up the half-sister/half-brother thing without marriage once again; I still don’t think you need to do it today; they must’ve only done it because there weren’t many people in those days — but at least Abimelech didn’t do anything wrong here. But I’m thinking, how often we tell people some of the truth and not reveal the whole thing? I’ll write more on this in the next post, but at least Abraham and Sarah were a godly couple, prioritizing Jesus first, as always. That’s what we do as God’s children. It can happen in many ways, and most of them can be more or less very unusual. I took three bike rides last week and in the first one (it was the day we had gotten back from Prescott in), I found a Bahama Buck’s shaved ice parlour and bought a triple mix there, and also witnessed to an employee about the peace of Christ during my visit. I think the other two people heard it, so I think it was pretty cool, but I often am afraid there is no fear of God anywhere, due to the many hypocrites that believe the world is their oyster, and as a result, think they can do as many satanic and demonic things as they can, especially in terms of passing any of that as if it were godly. It’s really not cool — I was sure I’d meet an ugly end with any of them. It’s been five days since my last spontaneous bike ride, but I’m getting an ugly feeling that someone will persecute me for believing in Christ again… and this time, I won’t make it through the ordeal and live to tell the tale. Anyone who knows me will remember my horrific three-year period of almost constant suffering. I won’t mention it today, though.
Any prayer requests? Leave them in my e-mail: ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I know I have like none right now but I just haven’t publicized it much. In fact, the only link I have in any of my social media accounts that leads to this site is my Instagram bio. But I’ll see you in the next 24 hours or so as I wait for my brother and/or another family member to hopefully get back to me upon seeing Bee this week — everyone’s at work right now, and it sucks that I can’t get there today. But I’m ok with being here in Gilbert right now; I’d still live in the house I’m at until I get married — I want to relax in the pool today, actually 😌😌😌🏊🏼♂️🏖☀💧 see you guys tomorrow!
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