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February 12, 2021May 18, 2023

Do You Love Jesus?

Do you love Jesus? That’s a weird question to ask, right? As a Christian or a person of faith, you obviously love Jesus. We live in a society today that’s obsessed with love. And that’s not a problem in itself, love is good. God is love, but it becomes a problem when you make a blanket statement such as ‘I love Jesus’ or ‘I love God’ but live your life as if He doesn’t exist. What does that mean exactly? How do you know you love Jesus? Join ArieRashelle as she searches for the answer to these questions and more.

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John 14:15
1 John 2:4-6
Matthew 22:34-40
Romans 13:8-10
Ephesians 5:25-27
Jeremiah 31:31-33
Ezekiel 20:30-31
Ezekiel 23:28-30
Romans 6:16
Galatians 5:1
Deuteronomy 4:23-24
Exodus 34:13-15
Hebrews 6:4-6
Hebrews 10:29
Galatians 5:19-24
Romans 12:21
1 John 5:4
John 3:3
2 Corinthians 5:17
Revelation 3:20

How Do You Love Jesus?

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:7-8

According to James, in order to love Jesus, you have to spend time with Him. You have to seek Him because when you seek Him, you will find Him. This is what God tells the prophet Jeremiah to tell to the people of Israel:

“¹¹For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ¹²Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ¹³You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:11-13

Jesus tells us that in order to love Him we have to put Him above ourselves, our family, our desires. He has to be our everything. He has to be our number one. We have to follow in His footsteps, even if that means following Him to the cross.

²⁴Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ²⁶For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
Matthew 16:24-26

How can I know for sure that you love Jesus? When you start to change who you once were, and you start to become more and more like Jesus. When you see the fruit of the Spirit start to manifest in your life, that’s when you know that you love Jesus.

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The Four Beasts of Daniel 7: The Third Beast

The book of Daniel is filled with prophecies of the end times. Many are scary and frightening, especially the four beasts of Daniel 7. We’ve already gone through the first two beasts of Daniel 7 in our last three videos. In our first two videos we explained that Beast One was Satan and that Beast Two was Leviathan. Check out those videos below.

The third beast is described as a leopard with four wings, four heads, and dominion. Join ArieRashelle as she goes through each description of the third beast of Daniel 7 in her fourth video, The Four Beasts of Daniel 7: The Third Beast, to find the truth behind who this mysterious beast is.

Daniel 7:6
Jeremiah 5:6
Hosea 13:7
Revelation 13:15-17
Matthew 23:37
Hosea 4:19
Genesis 1:2
Ephesians 5:23
Colossians 2:9-10
Revelation 2:20
Hosea 2:8
1 John 4:3
Hosea 2:16-17
1 John 2:22
1 John 4:6
Jude 11
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
Revelation 13:12-15

Summary of The Third Beast of Daniel 7

⁶After this I looked, and behold, another, like a leopard, with four wings of a bird on its back. And the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
Daniel 7:6

As we stated in the video, the third beast is a leopard because it lies wait watching over its territory. It has two pairs of wings representing the two obligations of his people to receive protection from him. It has four heads representing the four leaders or spirits that it uses to deceive the world and the Church. Lastly, it is given dominion and/or authority.

As we stated in the video, the third beast is the Beast Out of The Earth, also known as the False Prophet. As we stated in our video ‘The Beast Out of The Earth,’ the False Prophet is Belial. The False Prophet is a false religious leader that leads the world and some of the Church astray.

Verses For The Time of The Third Beast of Daniel 7

^5b I will not leave you or forsake you.
Joshua 1:5b

²Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me.
Psalms 129:2

¹⁶for the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
Proverbs 24:16

⁴Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4

The First Beast Pt. 1?

The First Beast Pt. 2?

The Second Beast?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 1?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 2?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 3?

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How Do You Become Wise?

Everyone wants to be wise, but does everyone know how to become wise? Is there a special formula for wisdom? How do you become wise? This was such an important question that this is one of the very first things James wrote about.

⁵If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
James 1:5

Wisdom is the key to understanding God. It is the foundation of our faith. We have to first believe that God exists, but we have to know the attributes of God in order to have faith in Him. What is the foundation of wisdom? Look at what the wisest man who ever lived said about the foundation of wisdom.

¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Proverbs 9:10

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, but what’s next? How do you truly become wise? Do you just ask God for wisdom, and He gives it to you? Are there requirements for wisdom? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to the age-old question, “How Do You Become Wise?”

Genesis 3:6
Genesis 3:4-5
1 Corinthians 1:25
James 1:5
Proverbs 30:24-28
Matthew 4:1-4
John 6:48-58
Hebrews 4:12
Matthew 24:15-21
Matthew 7:24-27
1 Peter 2:1-8
Daniel 9:26a
John 16:5-7
Matthew 10:34-39
Matthew 7:15-20
Psalms 8:4-8
Revelation 3:12
Revelation 21:2-4
Psalms 23:6
Revelation 21:22
Revelation 3:20

More Verses on ‘How Do You Become Wise?’

⁷ Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
Proverbs 5:7

⁶ Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Proverbs 6:6

⁸ The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.
Proverbs 10:8

¹⁵ The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
Proverbs 12:15

¹⁴ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
Proverbs 13:14

It’s not enough just to know Scripture. Anyone can quote Scripture. Atheists, heathens, Pagans, any non-believer can quote Scripture. The Devil himself can and does quote Scripture, wisdom is a lot more than knowing Scripture. True wisdom is living Scripture. It’s following in the footsteps of Jesus. It’s living your life like God is watching every move you make, because He is. To truly have wisdom, one has to do more than talk. They have to lead by example.

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The Four Beasts of Daniel 7: The Second Beast

Daniel’s vision of Daniel 7 was filled with four horrifying beasts. We discussed that the first beast is Satan and not a kingdom or nation in our first two videos. But who is the second beast that is like a bear? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the right answer to this question in our video The Four Beasts of Daniel 7: The Second Beast.

Daniel 7:5
2 Samuel 17:8
Hosea 13:8
Revelation 13:4
Job 41:10
Revelation 13:5
Daniel 11:36-39
Genesis 2:21-22
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Numbers 11:33
Proverbs 30:14
Joel 1:6
Revelation 13:7-10
Matthew 24:9
Luke 9:23-25
Philippians 1:21
Revelation 13:2
Revelation 12:11

Summary of The Second Beast of Daniel 7

The second beast of Daniel 7 has four descriptions in all:

1. A bear
2. Raised up on one side
3. Three ribs in its mouth
4. Told ‘Devour much flesh’

As we stated in the video, the bear represents the fierceness and aggression of a she-bear. It is only raised up on one side because the second beast has limited power. It has three ribs in its mouth because it tramples on the Church, but it does not destroy it. Lastly, it is told to ‘devour much flesh’ because it slaughters many human beings, especially those in the Church.

How can we be sure that the many of the Church will die during this time?

⁹When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne. ¹⁰They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?” ¹¹Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Revelation 6:9-11

Words of Encouragement for the time of the second beast of Daniel 7

Don’t lose heart, don’t be distraught. As we stated in our videos, we overcome Satan and all of his kingdom by the Blood of the Lamb and The Word of our Testimony. We overcome because Jesus has already overcome the world. Don’t be discouraged, be encouraged by the spirit of God. Always remember:

⁸We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; ⁹persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; ¹⁰always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
2 Corinthians 4:8-10

The First Beast Pt. 1?

The First Beast Pt. 2?

The Third Beast?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 1?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 2?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 3?

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Who Did Jesus Come To Save?

As a gentile, it’s easy to feel as if Jesus didn’t really come to earth to save us. It’s easy to feel as if it was just a side effect of saving His own people. Almost as if He really only came for the Jews, we were just thrown in by default when He did on the cross and rose again on the third day. But is that the Truth? Did Jesus really only come for the Jews, or were the Gentiles always a part of His plans? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to the question, “Whom Did Jesus Come To Save?”

Matthew 15:24
Matthew 10:5-6
Jeremiah 4:1-2
Genesis 12:1-3
Romans 15:8-13
Galatians 3:7-9; 23-29
Romans 3:29-30
Revelation 5:9-10

More Verses on Who Did Jesus Come To Save

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.
John 3:16-17

²⁵As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’” ²⁶“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
Romans 9:25-26

¹⁶And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:16

Jesus didn’t come just for the Jews or just for ‘the righteous’. Jesus came for everyone. Why? Because God loves all of His creation. He doesn’t favor one more than the other, He shows no partiality. Jesus came for everyone, that means He came to save you.

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Does The Bible Support The Death Penalty?

The Death Penalty is instated and abided by in many countries all over the world. Many feel that the Death Penalty is an unjust, inhumane, evil law that should be abolished, while others feel that the Death Penalty is a necessary evil that we need to instill so that we can keep order in our countries. We all have opinions about the Death Penalty, but the only opinion that really matters is God’s opinion because, unlike mankind, God is perfect and all of His ways are Just and True. Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to find the answer to the only question that matters, ‘Does The Bible Support The Death Penalty?’

Matthew 5:29
Exodus 21:12-14
Hebrews 10:1
Hebrews 8:4-5
Colossians 2:16-17
Romans 6:23
1 John 5:16
Matthew 26:52
Genesis 9:6

Does The Bible Support The Death Penalty?

¹⁶Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16-17

¹⁰If anyone is to be taken captive,
to captivity he goes;
if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
with the sword must he be slain.
Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.
Revelation 13:10

³³ You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Numbers 35:33

¹⁰And the LORD said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground.”
Genesis 4:10

God cannot turn a blind eye to the shed blood of mankind because the life is in the blood, Leviticus 17:11, therefore our life calls out asking for justice. The only justice for the spilled blood is the murderer’s blood to be spilled. This is why Jesus had to die for our sins because we spiritually murdered ourselves, and our spiritual blood was crying out to God. So Jesus had to come down and take our place. He had to take our death penalty upon Himself so that we could live forever with Him in Eternity.

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Can Christians Support War?

So many people have given their lives for freedom. They’ve defended this country. They’ve defended our many freedoms. But in the process, many have died. Does the Bible justify this? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through Scripture to answer the question, ‘Can Christians Support War?’

Matthew 24:6
Matthew 5:38-39
Exodus 21:24
Leviticus 24:20
Deuteronomy 19:21
1 Samuel 8:7
Numbers 35:9-34
Romans 6:12-23
Galatians 5:1
2 Peter 2:19
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Romans 13:8-10
Matthew 5:43-48
John 18:36
Revelation 12:7-9
Ephesians 6:10-12
Matthew 10:14-15
2 Corinthians 6:14-16
Luke 14:31-33
Romans 13:1-7
1 Peter 2:13-17
Revelation 19:11

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Christians can and should serve in our military. Only the redeeming blood of Jesus can remove the pain of taking a life. When Jesus met with soldiers, He didn’t denounce them because of their job. He didn’t tell them to go war no more, in fact, Jesus commended a Gentile soldier for the amount of faith he had.

See, God has nothing in common with evil, so He cannot use sin as an example of who we are as Christians. We are the bride of Christ, but we are also warriors of Christ Jesus. That doesn’t mean we are supposed to go out and slaughter the heathen, it means we are spiritual warriors. We are in a war, both physical and spiritual, the only ones who can win this war are those who are Christ-Following Christians.

So, defend your nation as a soldier in the military, but don’t carry the pain of the military with you when you’re home. Give it to God, and He will take it. Quote Scripture, and you will be freed from all that you have seen and all that you have done. Christians should support just and righteous war. Seek discernment to know when war is righteous and when it is not.

Freedom Verses

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalms 51:10

²Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Romans 12:2

²¹and since we have a great priest over the house of God, ²²let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.
Hebrews 10:21-23

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Can Christians Pray To The Saints?

When it comes to prayer, is prayer only for God, or can Christians also pray to the Saints who have gone on before us? Does the Bible even cover this topic? Is this a grey area in Scriptures, or is the Bible clear on prayer? Join ArieRashelle as she searches through the Scriptures to find the answer to the question, ‘Can Christians Pray To The Saints?’

Revelation 6:9-11
Psalms 106:28-29
1 Samuel 28
Isaiah 8:19
1 Timothy 2:5-6
John 14:6
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
1 Corinthians 3:16
Galatians 2:20
John 15:4
John 15:9
1 John 4:8
John 15:16
John 14:14
Romans 8:26-28
Romans 8:34

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We oftentimes find it difficult to let go of sins simply because it is tradition. When something is passed down from generation to generation, it becomes a generational curse. It becomes a stronghold in the lives of our descendants. Look at what Jesus accuses the Pharisees of doing:

Matthew 15:1-9

¹ Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ²“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” ³He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

⁴For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ ⁵But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,”⁶he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. ⁷You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

⁸“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; ⁹in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Explanation

The Pharisees were living in sin and teaching others to live in sin all because of tradition. Tradition is one of the most dangerous weapons the Devil has in his arsenal. Don’t let that trip you up. Study the Scriptures for yourself to see if what is being taught to you is true or not, don’t just take someone’s word for it. Be like the Bereans who would go and look to see if what Paul was teaching them was true. If the Bereans took the time to double-check the greatest apostle who ever lived, we can take the time to double-check our pastors and teachers of our day and age. Seek the discernment of the Holy Spirit so that you may recognize false prophets in your lives. So that you can recognize wolves in sheep clothing. And so that you can recognize the goats living among you.

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Can Christians Trunk or Treat?

As Christians, we are to abstain from the very appearance of evil, but how do we know if something is evil? Aren’t we called to go out into the world? Aren’t we told to do as the Romans do when in Rome? So, once a year on Halloween, can’t Christians Trunk or Treat? It’s not like we’re really trick or treating. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he searches through Scripture to answer these questions and more in his video, Can Christians Trunk or Treat?

Proverbs 18:13
Exodus 32:4–6
Matthew 23:25
Matthew 23:27–28
Proverbs 8:36b
1 Thessalonians 5:22
1 Corinthians 10:31
Colossians 3:17
1 Peter 4:11
2 Corinthians 6:14b–16a
Ecclesiastes 5:1
Proverbs 14:12

Can Christians Trunk or Treat?

Trunk or Treat

Trunk or Treat is just the Christian way of saying Trick or Treat. It’s so that our children don’t feel left out while all of their friends get to go trick or treating. We then try to make it Christian and change the name so that no one can say anything, but God still sees this as it is. It’s still sin.

¹⁴Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? ¹⁶What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
¹⁷Therefore go out from their midst,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
then I will welcome you,
¹⁸and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Our Story

While in Lakeland, Florida, we did host a Trunk or Treat event, with the Pastor’s blessing and participation in 2012. We provided food. Handed out candy. Did face painting. We only played Christian music. We even had a trunk specifically about Jesus. With all of that said, there were still no converts. No one got saved. No one found Jesus. We were simply falling into the lie that you can mix paganism with Christianity as long as you make it look Christian enough.

We fell into the lie again when we moved to Tennessee in 2015. The problem was we allowed ourselves to give into a form of peer pressure, if you will. We didn’t want to come across as that rude, anti-social house. So, we gave out candy. We once again mixed paganism with Christianity. We’ll tell them happy Thanksgiving instead of Happy Halloween. We’ll build relationships with our neighbors so we can witness to them. Once again, no one saw Jesus. The only change was in our home when an evil spirit entered in 2017, which we talk about more in our video Can Christians Celebrate Halloween?

When we mix the righteous with the unrighteous, like Christians and Trunk or Treat, we are giving in to the Spirit of Belial. The Spirit of Belial is the King of The Religious Spirits. He will help you justify any sin that you want to partake in, and sooner or later, you will believe the lie that you have told yourself.

John Ramirez

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The Four Beasts of Daniel 7: The First Beast Pt. 2

In our video The Four Beast of Daniel 7: The First Beast Pt. 1, we discussed the first three riddles or mysteries of the first beast Daniel saw coming out of the sea in his vision. We addressed the reason behind Daniel seeing Satan as having a lion’s body, eagles’ wings, and then suddenly, those eagles’ wings being plucked off. Join ArieRashelle as she explains the last two riddles or mysteries of the first beast in Daniel 7.

Daniel 7:4
1 Peter 5:8
Psalms 104:21
Luke 22:31
Revelation 12:7-9
Matthew 2:13-15
Luke 10:18
Daniel 4:34
Matthew 4:8-9
Proverbs 27:19
Proverbs 4:23
1 Samuel 16:6-7
John 14:30-31
Colossians 2:13-15
Isaiah 53:6
Matthew 4:8-9
Psalms 24:1-2
John 15:18-19
2 Corinthians 5:18-19
Matthew 25:41
Romans 6:23
Revelation 20:15-16
Genesis 3:15

The First Beast of Daniel 7

Description of the First Beast of Daniel 7

⁴The first was like a lion and had eagles’ wings. Then as I looked its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man, and the mind of a man was given to it.
Daniel 7:4

The First Beast Part One Description

Satan is the first Beast of Daniel 7. Satan is described as having a lion’s body because of his spiritual authority as a Glorious One.

⁸Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. ⁹But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”
Jude 1:8-9

He is described as having eagles’ wings because of his right to enter the presence of God, but that was stripped away when he was thrown from Heaven to earth, which is why his eagles’ wings were plucked off.

The First Beast Pt. 1?

The Second Beast?

The Third Beast?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 1?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 2?

The Fourth Beast Pt. 3?

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