Sublime

their leaders are supposed to make decisions by consulting with God.

Mercy triumphs over judgment.

The first was a young man called Saul of Tarsus, later known as Paul.4 According to his own account, he was a Jew by birth who had been sent by the community to suppress the activities of the new sect of Christians, Jews who believed that the Messiah had come. On his way to perform his mission he experienced a conversion and became convinced that

At the very least, prophecy is truth telling.

“sons of God,” a potential reference to angels, and in this case fallen angels.

God’s family is made up of people with new hearts, not similar DNA.

God calls for three different censuses.

Jehovah Tsidkenu, which means “the LORD Our Righteousness.”

In Scripture the phrase “an angel of the Lord” refers to a messenger angel. But in this instance, 16:7 says “the angel of the LORD.” Many scholars believe this distinction refers to the preincarnate Jesus—God the Son appearing on earth as a man before He was born as a human named Jesus.