Thursday, September 3, 2026

Fish became an important symbol

What Water Baptism Means

Fish became an important symbol  ∝ ⋉

Some creatures, the fish life, survived the Flood well. Because they live in water.

As far as the fish were concerned, the Flood did not really affect them.

So, the fish became a symbol of those that God saves.

We learn a lesson. If we are continually washed in the water of the Word by endlessly wanting to obey God’s Word, then the floods of distress that sweep over our lives will not destroy us.

Jesus Christ wanted His disciples, who became the apostles, to be fishers of men.


The three main apostles of the original twelve apostles were fishermen, Peter, James, and John.


Remember, the fish were spared the Judgement of the great Flood.


Those people who are pulled into a spiritual relationship with Jesus by the beliefs of the apostles in the New Testament, will be spared the Judgement of Fire that hits the world during great Tribulation.


Fish became an important symbol in the Lord’s ministry.


Fish, totally immersed in water, are pulled out of the water.


Already, by mentioning fish, there is a symbolism of a future water baptism that is involved.


Most people are unaware that only one miracle, that was performed by Jesus before His death, is mentioned in all four Gospels.


That miracle was the feeding of the five thousand with bread and fish.


And 12 baskets of rejected scraps were collected.


This event has a much deeper meaning that needs to be understood.


MATTHEW 16:9 "Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?"


Loaves of bread represent the Word of God.


JOHN 6:48 "I am that bread of life."


Jesus puts the emphasis on the Word of God that tells us God’s Plan with humanity. The Word tells us how God’s Plan has unfolded.


But Jesus also created fish for this amazing meal. Fish represents life that has to be pulled out of the water. Again, we get the idea of a future water baptism.


God worked with the 12 tribes of Israel for the roughly 2000 years since Abram was called, until they killed Christ.


Feeding the 5000 involved 5 loaves and two fish, from a schoolboy’s lunch.


MATTHEW 14:17 "And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes."


Bread and meat both represent doctrine.


MATTHEW 14:20 "And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full."


MATTHEW 14:21 "And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children."


The rejected fragments or scraps represent the rejected bread and fish that the Jews did not eat and just threw away.


This symbolizes the Jews rejecting the Bread of Life, the Word of God, that Jesus preached.


They ate what suited them and threw the rest away.


Jesus then made the disciples gather up the rejected Gospel and this was then written down as the New Testament.


God would turn away from the Jews at Calvary when they killed Messiah.


When God worked with the Jews, then He rejected the Gentiles.


Thus, when God rejected the Jews for killing Messiah, God then turned to the Gentiles.


When God cuts off the Gentile church for rejecting the revelation of the mysteries of the Bible, then God will turn back to the 12 tribes of Israel again.


The Gospel they rejected in the days of Jesus is now written for them as the New Testament.


The two prophets Moses and Elijah will use this information, symbolized by the 12 baskets of rejected scraps, to guide the 144000 from the 12 tribes of Israel, to Christ during the 3½ years of great Tribulation.


But this has a great warning for the Gentile church.


The Roman Catholic church destroyed the truth in the Dark Ages.


The Reformation that started in 1520 in Germany and the Missionary age of the 1800s saw God starting to reveal the doctrines of salvation by faith and holiness and outreach.


The King James Bible was translated into English and checked for about 160 years before being published in 1769 as the infallible and Absolute Word of God.


Pentecostal power was restored in America in 1906 in Los Angeles. The City of the Angels.


God moved powerfully in people’s lives in those days.


2025 saw devastating fires burn large portions of Los Angeles. This is an obvious warning from God against people who prefer the godless filth of Hollywood to the revelation of the mysteries of Scripture. Hollywood is in Los Angeles.

What Water Baptism Means ( Part 1)

 What Water Baptism Means (Part 1)

Water baptism should be a simple issue but it has so many church variations that it is seldom done correctly.

The Earth was baptized at Creation

When God created the Earth, it was initially covered in water.

GENESIS 1:7 "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so."

The firmament is what we call the atmosphere.

GENESIS 1:9 "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so."

God made the land rise up out of the water so that the land could bring forth life.

God’s pattern is for life to be covered by water and then to emerge from that water.

Natural birth follows the same pattern.

A baby in the mother’s womb is completely covered in water in its amniotic sac, a kind of water bag. The wall of the sac must tear or rupture. We say the water breaks. The baby then emerges from the water in order to be born.

In effect, the body of a baby is just a handful of earth that God has breathed life into.

That teaches us that God has a deep plan that He sticks to. God brings earth-life out of the water that fully covered the life.

So, when we contemplate receiving eternal Life, which is the Spirit of God, we should also expect to be fully covered in water at our water baptism.

Initially, men lived around 900 years but wasted their long and easy lives by indulging in violence and immorality.

God then began his long-range Plan to finally have a reasonably sin-free Kingdom for 1000 years. This can be called the Millennium which will probably be starting reasonably soon, when the battle of Armageddon is over.

God’s fight against sin involved a terrible Flood that eliminated everyone except eight members of Noah’s family. The highest mountains were covered in water.

GENESIS 7:19 "And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered."

God had effectively baptized the earth. Totally immersing the earth in water to kill off sinful human life.

Water baptism thus symbolizes that we have died to self and been cleansed from sin by the blood of the Lord. We have handed over our lives to Jesus.

Water is symbolic of God’s Word. We bury ourselves in God’s Word to get His forgiveness, guidance, and protection.

Our minds must be washed in the water of the Word.

We believe that every word in the King James Bible is the Perfect and Absolute Truth.

EPHESIANS 5:26 "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,"




f MRI

 fMRI stands for functional magnetic resonance imaging, which is a specialized brain-scanning technique that measures and maps active areas of the brain.

How It Works

• Blood Flow: An fMRI scan tracks tiny changes in blood flow.

• Oxygen Use: Active brain cells need more oxygen.

• BOLD Signal: The scan measures differences in magnetic properties between oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood. This process is called the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response.

• Brain Maps: Computers turn this data into color-coded 3D pictures that show which parts of the brain work hardest during specific tasks.

Common Uses

• Surgical Planning: Doctors use it to map critical functions like speech and movement before operating on a brain tumor.

• Brain Mapping: It helps identify which regions handle thought, sensation, and language.

• Research: Scientists use it to study how healthy brains work and how diseases affect mental processes like memory and decision-making.

If you'd like, I can explain how an fMRI differs from a standard MRI or share more about the history of brain scanning.

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Timeline of events preceding the Second Coming of Jesus

40 days, the dead rise, 7 Thunders, Rapture the Bride

40 days, the dead rise, 7 Thunders, Rapture


Timeline of events preceding the Second Coming of Jesus, as He raises the dead and changes the bodies of the living Bride.

The Jewish day

 

 

The Passover and the 7 days of Unleavened bread

 

 

The Passover and the 1st Day of the Feast of Unleavened bread(Feast of the Passover)

 

 

From Choosing the Lamb to the Crucifixion

 

Comparing the Crucifixion with the Passover and 1st Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Feast Day)

 

 

The Resurrection

“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.” — 1 Corinthians 16:23

1 of 10 ; Water Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection

 Water Baptism in the name of Jesus Christ 



Baptism is symbolic of death, burial, and resurrection. The Father and the Holy Spirit neither died, nor were buried.

  • 1 of 10; Water Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection
  • 2 of 10; What is the name of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost
  • 3 of 10; Churches have many alternative false water baptisms
  • 4 of 10; Baptism requires repentance
  • 5 of 10; Jesus was washed as the sacrifice and High Priest
  • 6 of 10; Two Scriptures on baptism cannot contradict each other
  • 7 of 10; Jesus is the Son of God but is never called God the Son
  • 8 of 10; The Rock is the revelation of Who Jesus is
  • 9 of 10; Key to Heaven is Repent and baptism in name of Jesus
  • 10 of 10; The true Bride must take on the name of her Husband


Water Baptism symbolizes death and resurrection

Water baptism represents death, burial, and resurrection back to life.

Trinitarians speak of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.

The Bible never says "God the Son" and "God the Holy Ghost". That is man-made fiction.

The Old Testament never speaks of "God the Father". Trinitarians cannot explain why.

The Father never died nor was He buried. The Holy Ghost never died nor was He buried.

So what did God the Father and God the Holy Spirit have to do with the water baptism?

Nothing, if they are separate Persons from the Son.

The Name Jehovah dominates the Old Testament, and the Name of Jesus is never mentioned in the Old Testament.

The Name Jesus dominates the New Testament, and the Name of Jehovah is never mentioned in the New Testament.

Trinitarians cannot explain this.

The Greek word "baptize" means to immerse or submerge.

Baptism is symbolic of death and burial under earth.

A person is "buried" underwater, where water symbolizes the earth that the corpse has been buried under. Underwater you cannot breathe, just like a corpse that cannot breathe.

ROMANS 6:3

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in newness of life.

:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Baptism in water symbolizes burying the old sinful self in a grave covered with earth. Then a new person, with the Spirit of Christ inside that person, rises out of the watery "grave" to begin a new life focused on the Word of God and on the Holy Spirit of God, not on the things of the flesh and of the world.

There are numerous types of water baptism in modern-day churches. Many of them wanting to get away from the physical messiness and inconvenience of full immersion. So "baptism" by sprinkling or by partial immersion is popular. But, we do not bury anyone by sprinkling soil over them or partly immersing their bodies in a grave.

Many baptize unsaved people, but the apostle Peter did not do this.

ACTS 2:38

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Notice the order—first repentance and then the burial of baptism.

True repentance means to die to one’s self. You can only bury someone who has already died.

Having repented and accepted Jesus Christ as your Saviour, your new faith is immediately put to a strong test.

Can you discern the Scriptural baptism of the Book of Acts from the whole variety of baptisms that are on offer by today’s churches?

This is a tough test that very few pass.

Let us consider some of the alternative church baptisms.

1. No water baptism at all. Based on the thief on the cross who went to Paradise without being baptized.

But being nailed to a cross, he had no chance of being baptized.

Secondly, the commission to baptize, which was given by Jesus, only came after His resurrection.

The thief on the cross never heard the command of Jesus to get baptized.

MATTHEW 28:19

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

"Teaching them". The idea of teaching is repeated twice to emphasize the importanceof understanding what the name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is. There must be something difficult to understand if we need to be taught. This is not as simple as it sounds.

Repeating a formula, "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" without having any understanding of what that name is, simply implies that no teaching has been done.

Learning something off by heart, that we cannot explain, is not teaching.

奉耶稣基督的名受洗


洗礼象征死亡、埋葬和复活。圣父和圣灵既没有死,也没有被埋葬。


1/10;水洗礼象征死亡和复活


2/10;圣父、圣子和圣灵的名是什么?


3/10;教会中有很多虚假的洗礼仪式


4/10;洗礼需要悔改


5/10;耶稣作为祭品和大祭司被洗净


6/10;关于洗礼的两段经文不可能互相矛盾


7/10;耶稣是神的儿子,但从未被称为“神的儿子”


8/10;磐石是耶稣身份的启示


9/10;通往天堂的钥匙是悔改并奉耶稣的名受洗


10/10; 真正的新娘必须接受她丈夫的名。


水洗礼象征着死亡和复活。


水洗礼代表死亡、埋葬和复活。


三位一体论者谈论圣父、圣子和圣灵。


圣经从未提及“圣子”和“圣灵”。那是人为的虚构。


旧约从未提及“圣父”。三位一体论者无法解释原因。


圣父从未死去,也从未被埋葬。圣灵也从未死去,也从未被埋葬。


那么,圣父和圣灵与水洗礼有何关系呢?


如果他们与圣子是不同的位格,那么就没有任何关系。


旧约中以耶和华的名字为主,而耶稣的名字从未被提及。


新约中以耶稣的名字为主,而耶和华的名字从未被提及。


 三位一体论者无法解释这一点。


希腊语“洗礼”意为浸入或淹没。


洗礼象征着死亡和埋葬于地下。


人被“埋葬”在水下,水象征着尸体被埋葬的土地。在水下无法呼吸,就像尸体无法呼吸一样。


罗马书 6:3


岂不知我们这受洗归入基督耶稣的人,是受洗归入他的死吗?


6:4 所以,我们藉着洗礼归入死,和他一同埋葬,原是叫我们一举一动有新生的样式,像基督藉着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。


 5 我们若在他死的形状上与他联合,也要在他复活的形状上与他联合。


水洗象征着将旧的罪性自我埋葬在用泥土覆盖的坟墓里。然后,一个新生命,带着基督的灵,从水中的“坟墓”中复活,开始以神的话语和圣灵为中心的新生活,而不是以肉体和世界的事为中心。


现代教会中有许多种水洗礼的方式。许多教会想要避免全身浸入式洗礼带来的身体上的脏乱和不便。因此,洒水洗礼或半浸式洗礼很流行。但是,我们不会用撒土的方式埋葬任何人,也不会将他们的身体部分浸入坟墓里。


许多人给未信主的人施洗,但使徒彼得并没有这样做。


 使徒行传 2:38


于是彼得对他们说:“你们各人要悔改,奉耶稣基督的名受洗,叫你们的罪得赦,就必领受所赐的圣灵。”


请注意顺序——先是悔改,然后是洗礼的埋葬。


真正的悔改意味着舍己。你只能埋葬一个已经死去的人。


悔改并接受耶稣基督为救主之后,你的新信仰立刻面临严峻的考验。


你能否从当今教会提供的各种洗礼中,分辨出使徒行传中符合圣经的洗礼?


这是一个极少有人能通过的严峻考验。


让我们来探讨一下教会中一些另类的洗礼方式。


1. 完全不施行水洗礼。这种做法源于十字架上那个没有受洗就进入乐园的强盗。


 但他被钉在十字架上,根本没有机会受洗。


其次,耶稣所颁布的施洗的使命,是在他复活之后才颁布的。


十字架上的强盗从未听到耶稣命令他受洗。


马太福音 28:19


所以,你们要去,使万民作我的门徒,奉父、子、圣灵的名给他们施洗。


20 凡我所吩咐你们的,都教训他们遵守。我就常与你们同在,直到世界的末了。阿们。


“教训他们”。“教训”一词重复出现两次,强调理解父、子、圣灵之名的重要性。如果我们还需要被教导,那必然是有什么难以理解的地方。这并非听起来那么简单。


 仅仅重复“奉圣父、圣子、圣灵的名”这样的口头禅,却不理解这些名号的含义,这根本算不上教导。


死记硬背一些我们无法解释的东西,并非教导。


French: Le baptême d'eau au nom de Jésus-Christ


Le baptême symbolise la mort, l'ensevelissement et la résurrection. Le Père et le Saint-Esprit ne sont ni morts ni ensevelis.


1 sur 10 ; Le baptême d'eau symbolise la mort et la résurrection


2 sur 10 ; Quel est le nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit ?


3 sur 10 ; Les églises proposent de nombreux faux baptêmes d'eau alternatifs


4 sur 10 ; Le baptême exige la repentance


5 sur 10 ; Jésus a été lavé en tant que sacrifice et Souverain Sacrificateur


6 sur 10 ; Deux passages bibliques sur le baptême ne peuvent se contredire


7 sur 10 ; Jésus est le Fils de Dieu, mais il n'est jamais appelé « Dieu le Fils »


8 sur 10 ; Le Rocher est la révélation de l'identité de Jésus


9 sur 10 ; La clé du ciel est la repentance et le baptême au nom de Jésus


10 sur 10 ; La véritable Épouse doit porter le nom de son Époux


Le baptême d'eau symbolise la mort et la résurrection


Le baptême d'eau représente la mort, l'ensevelissement et le retour à la vie par la résurrection.


Les trinitaires parlent de Dieu le Père, de Dieu le Fils et de Dieu le Saint-Esprit.


La Bible ne mentionne jamais « Dieu le Fils » ni « Dieu le Saint-Esprit ». Ce sont des inventions humaines.


L'Ancien Testament ne parle jamais de « Dieu le Père ». Les trinitaires ne peuvent pas l'expliquer.


Le Père n'est ni mort ni enseveli. Le Saint-Esprit n'est ni mort ni enseveli.


Quel rôle Dieu le Père et Dieu le Saint-Esprit ont-ils donc joué dans le baptême d'eau ?


Aucun, s'ils sont des personnes distinctes du Fils.


Le nom de Jéhovah domine l'Ancien Testament, tandis que le nom de Jésus n'y est jamais mentionné.


Le nom de Jésus domine le Nouveau Testament, tandis que le nom de Jéhovah n'y est jamais mentionné.


Les trinitaires ne peuvent pas expliquer cela.


Le mot grec « baptizein » signifie immerger ou plonger.


Le baptême symbolise la mort et l'ensevelissement sous terre.


Une personne est « ensevelie » sous l'eau ; l'eau symbolise la terre sous laquelle le cadavre a été enterré. Sous l'eau, on ne peut pas respirer, tout comme un cadavre ne peut pas respirer. ROMAINS 6:3


Ignorez-vous que nous tous qui avons été baptisés en Jésus-Christ, c’est en sa mort que nous avons été baptisés ?


:4 Nous avons donc été ensevelis avec lui par le baptême en sa mort, afin que, comme Christ est ressuscité des morts par la gloire du Père, de même nous aussi nous marchions en nouveauté de vie.


:5 En effet, si nous sommes devenus une même plante avec lui par la conformité à sa mort, nous le serons aussi par la conformité à sa résurrection.


Le baptême par immersion symbolise l'ensevelissement du vieil homme pécheur dans une tombe recouverte de terre. Ensuite, une nouvelle personne, habitée par l'Esprit de Christ, émerge de cette « tombe » d'eau pour entamer une vie nouvelle centrée sur la Parole de Dieu et sur le Saint-Esprit de Dieu, et non sur les choses de la chair et du monde.


Il existe de nombreuses formes de baptême d'eau dans les églises d'aujourd'hui. Beaucoup cherchent à éviter les désagréments et les contraintes matérielles liés à l'immersion totale ; c'est pourquoi le baptême par aspersion ou par immersion partielle est très répandu. Or, on n'ensevelit personne en saupoudrant simplement de la terre sur lui ou en n'immergeant que partiellement son corps dans la tombe.


Beaucoup baptisent des personnes non sauvées, mais ce n'est pas ce que faisait l'apôtre Pierre.


ACTES 2:38


Pierre leur dit : Repentez-vous, et que chacun de vous soit baptisé au nom de Jésus-Christ, pour le pardon de vos péchés ; et vous recevrez le don du Saint-Esprit.


Remarquez l'ordre : d'abord la repentance, puis l'ensevelissement par le baptême.


La véritable repentance signifie mourir à soi-même. On ne peut ensevelir que quelqu'un qui est déjà mort.


Une fois que vous vous êtes repenti et que vous avez accepté Jésus-Christ comme Sauveur, votre nouvelle foi est immédiatement mise à rude épreuve.


Savez-vous distinguer le baptême biblique, tel qu'il est décrit dans le livre des Actes, de la multitude de baptêmes proposés par les églises actuelles ?


C'est une épreuve difficile que très peu de gens réussissent.


Examinons quelques-unes des autres formes de baptême pratiquées par les églises.


1. L'absence totale de baptême d'eau. Cette pratique s'appuie sur l'exemple du brigand sur la croix, qui est allé au Paradis sans avoir été baptisé.


Mais, étant cloué sur une croix, il n'avait aucune possibilité d'être baptisé. Deuxièmement, l'ordre de baptiser, donné par Jésus, n'est intervenu qu'après sa résurrection.


Le brigand sur la croix n'a jamais entendu l'ordre de Jésus de se faire baptiser.


MATTHIEU 28:19


Allez, faites de toutes les nations des disciples, les baptisant au nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit ;


:20 et enseignez-leur à observer tout ce que je vous ai prescrit. Et voici, je suis avec vous tous les jours, jusqu'à la fin du monde. Amen.


« Enseignez-leur ». L'idée d'enseigner est répétée deux fois pour souligner l'importance de comprendre ce qu'est le nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit. Il doit y avoir une difficulté de compréhension si un enseignement est nécessaire. Ce n'est pas aussi simple qu'il y paraît.


Répéter une formule — « Au nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit » — sans comprendre ce qu'est ce nom, implique simplement qu'aucun enseignement n'a été dispensé.


Apprendre par cœur quelque chose que l'on ne peut expliquer ne constitue pas un enseignement.