An Opinion: The Reason Stephen Got "stoned".

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
MT 23:38

This is the statement, that I believe, was the main reason
STEPHEN was stoned:

But Solomon built him an house.
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord:
or what is the place of my rest?

Hath not my hand made all these things?
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost:
as your fathers did, so do ye.
ACTS 7:47-51

A "stone" temple that is called HIS, by humans, and IS without HIS PRESENCE,
is an abomination of HIS DESOLATION.

LOVE, RICOEL

HOLY OIL + HOLY LAMP = ?

Many times the word OIL, in HIS WORD, means and/or directs one
to HIS SPIRIT.

Yes, HOLY OIL = HOLY SPIRIT...

"YOUR HOLY WORD/LAW is a HOLY LAMP to my FEET/DIRECTION."
(my understanding)

...and HOLY LAMP = HOLY WORD/LAW.
One without the other, in one, makes one of no use to GOD.

Remember, the virgins.
In the parable the unwise virgins did not have oil
and the ones with both oil and lamp were taken.
the world will not ACCEPT HIS SALVATION so it does not know
of HIS HOLY OIL/SPIRIT so it cannot refuse HIS OIL.

Now, out of those that claim HIS HOLY OIL/SPIRIT in them,
there are many who flatly refuse HIS HOLY OIL to LIVE/LIGHT
by denying HIS HOLY LAMP and there are many who are trying to
live with HIS HOLY LAMP, themsleves, and denying HIS HOLY OIL in them.
These, like the unwise virgins, will wake up without
HIS HOLY OIL. Remember, what happened to the servant
who did nothing wih GOD'S GIFT.

HIS OIL WILL LIVE/LIGHT HIS LAMP.

LOVE, RICOEL

HIS SALVATION Gets Us To JUDGEMENT

HIS GIFT of SALVATION GIVES us HIS LIFE in us.
That's why HE CAME; to PLACE HIS LIFE, HIS LAW/WAY of LIVING,
in us.
"I WILL PLACE MY LAW in them."


Now, HE IS PATIENT and WAITS; WILLING that ALL
should come to REPENTANCE. "COME to ME."

2PET 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.

HE LOVED us even when we were sinners.

the GIFT of SALVATION gets us,
those that SUBMIT to HIS SALVATION - HIS WAY, to JUDGEMENT.
Without HIS GIFT of SALVATION, we would not even make JUDGEMENT.

At JUDGEMENT, we will BE JUDGED ACCORDING to HIS WORD
in HIS Book of LIFE, Genesis to Revelation..
"...and those whose names/lives were not in HIS Book of LIFE..."

I am come a light into the world,
that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
And if any man hear my words, and believe not,
I judge him not:
for I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world.
He that rejecteth me,
and receiveth not my words,
hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken,
the same (HIS WORD)
shall judge him in the last day.
JN 12:46-48

HE CAME to SAVE us by PLACING HIS LIFE in us. Deny "self"
and HE WILL LIVE. We must not refuse HIS LIFE through us.
A LIFE that SUBMITS to HIS Book of LIFE, Genesis to Revelation.

That's why HE WROTE HIS Book of LIFE. So that we would KNOW
when it is HIM that is MOVING through us;
the ONLY ONE WHO CAN LIVE HIS WORD in HIS Book of LIFE!

LOVE, RICOEL

GOD SHOWED me the world

Two birds sat on a branch watching the humans in the world below them.
One said, "They always look so worried and lost."
The other bird said, "They must not have a GOD to WATCH over them."

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GOD YHSHWH SHOWED me the whole world
and I saw a deep valley where there were people milling around,
actually doing nothing.
GOD YHSHWH ASKED me,
“Do you think that these dead people will MOVE for ME?”
I answered,
“Only YOU would KNOW that.”

Again, HE SAID,
“Go and tell these dead people to LISTEN to MY WORD.”
This is what HE TOLD me to SAY,
“I WILL GIVE you LIFE and you shall LIVE:
and I WILL MAKE you into ONE BODY and PUT MY SPIRIT in you,
and you WILL LIVE; and you WILL KNOW that I AM GOD YHSHWH.”

So I repeated what HE HAD SAID, to these dead people,
and they started LISTENING and MOVING together as ONE BODY.
In their coming together, they SUBMITTED to HIS WORD
but, still, there was no BREATH/LIFE in them.

Then, GOD YHSHWH SAID,
“Tell them that MY SPIRIT/MY LAW WILL COME into them.
Say ‘Come HOLY SPIRIT and BREATHE on these slain people,
that they may LIVE.’”
So, I repeated what HE HAD SAID and HOLY SPIRIT CAME into them,
and they became ALIVE,
and STANDING as the BODY of GOD YHSHWH against the world;
a GREAT and MIGHT “MANY in ONE”; HIS ONE.

GOD YHSHWH SAID,
“These people are the whole HOUSE of ISRAEL:
they were saying
‘Will we be able to accomplish what we are supposed to do?
How can we? We are so divided.’”

I AM telling you people, you dry bones,
this is what GOD YHSHWH SAID,
“LOOK, O MY PEOPLE,
I WILL BRING you back from the dead with New LIFE, MY LIFE,
and BRING you into the land of ISRAEL.
And you WILL KNOW that I AM GOD YHSHWH,
when you realize that you are ALIVE because of ME,
O MY PEOPLE.”

“I WILL PUT MY SPIRIT, MY LIFE, in you, and you WILL LIVE,
and I WILL PLACE you in your own land.
Then, you WILL KNOW that I, GOD YHSHWH,
have SPOKEN IT and COMPLETED IT.”

This is what GOD YHSHWH SAYS to HIS PEOPLE, ISRAEL.
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[b]The above is a rendering of GOD YHSHWH
SPEAKING through HIS SPIRIT through EZEKIEL.[/b]

37:1 The hand of the LORD was on me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the middle of the valley which was full of bones,
37:2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, see, they were very dry.
37:3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, you know.

37:4 Again he said to me, Prophesy on these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
37:5 Thus said the Lord GOD to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:
37:6 And I will lay sinews on you, and will bring up flesh on you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
37:8 And when I beheld, see, the sinews and the flesh came up on them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

37:9 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus said the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.
37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great army.

37:11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

37:12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
37:13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,

37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall you know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, said the LORD.

WHO IS GOD of HIS TEMPLE, your body?
LOVE, RICOEL

carnal or SPIRIT?

PAUL has taught me that for self/flesh/carnal mind to try to live GOD'S LAW is vanity and sin.
I am to SUBMIT to HIS LIVING LAW (HIS SPIRIT), in me, WHO LIVES HIS WRITTEN LAW, through me, MAKING me GOD'S SON, an INHERITOR to ALL HIS COVENANTS.
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What I found to BE the REAL LIFE, I found to be my death.

Because when we were carnal, the actions of sin, by the LAW, were working through our physical members producing fruit of death. But now we have been released from the LAW, not existing in death, and we should serve in THE NEW LIFE of HIS SPIRIT, and not in carnal/death following the LAW.

So, should we say that the LAW is sin? GOD forbid. I would not know what sin is if the LAW did not say it is sin. I would not know lust, except by the fact that the LAW says, Thou shall not covet. But sin, set in motion by the COMMANDMENT, created in me all sorts of desires/lusts. Because without the LAW, I did not know that it was sin.

I was alive without the LAW: but when the COMMANDMENT came, I saw sin in me and I had to die. The COMMANDMENT that was to give me LIFE, I found to be my death. For sin, set in motion by the COMMANDMENT, fooled me, and was killing me.

Why, the LAW is HOLY and the COMMANDMENT HOLY, JUST and GOOD. Does this mean that that which is good is death to me? GOD forbid. But for me to see sin, that was death to me, that sin had to be shown really sinful to me by the COMMANDMENT (LAW).

Because we know that the LAW is SPIRITUAL, but I am carnal, a slave to sin. Because I do the things I shouldn’t, I do not do what I should, but what I hate - I do. So, if I know that I do that which I shouldn’t, I am agreeing with the LAW that the LAW is GOOD.

Now, I realize that it is sin in me that drives me to do it. Because I know that in me (carnal self), there is nothing that is good. I know I have choice/a will, but I cannot choose/will something that is not in carnal me. Because the good that I want to do - I don’t do it; but the evil that I don’t want to do, I do. Now, if I am doing what I don’t want to do, I know that it is the sin in me. I find, then, a LAW, that when I do good, I realize that there is evil in me.

Because I delight in the LAW of GOD that is after the inward human. But, I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me a slave to the law of sin, in my members. I am evil! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

I thank GOD, JESUS CHRIST, our LORD. I conform my mind, myself, to serve the LAW of GOD, even though my carnal self follows the law of sin. Now therefore, there is no condemnation to them who are in CHRIST JESUS, who do not follow the carnal self, but FOLLOW/SUBMIT to HIS SPIRIT.

Because the LAW of the SPIRIT of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS has made me free from the law of sin and death. Because what the LAW could not do, in my weakness of carnal self, GOD, in HIS SON, who was in the likeness of carnal sin, condemned sin in the carnal self. That the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the LAW is fulfilled in US who FOLLOW/SUBMIT to HIS SPIRIT and not our carnal self.

Because they that follow carnal self do carnal things, but they that follow HIS SPIRIT do things of HIS SPIRIT. Because to be carnal minded is death, but to BE SPIRITUALLY MINDED is LIFE and PEACE. Because the carnal mind is an enemy of GOD, because it does not submit to the LAW of GOD, neither can it. So, they that are carnal minded cannot please GOD.

You do not live by the flesh, but LIVE BY HIS SPIRIT, if you are TRULY INDWELLED BY GOD’S SPIRIT. Now, if anyone does not have the SPIRIT of CHRIST, that one is not GOD’S. And if CHRIST BE IN YOU, your body is dead because of sin but HIS SPIRIT IS LIVING ALIVE because of RIGHTEOUSNESS.

If HIS SPIRIT that RAISED JESUS from the dead DWELLS in you, HE that RAISED CHRIST from the dead SHALL LIVE through/GIVE LIFE to your mortal bodies BY HIS SPIRIT that DWELLS in you.

Therefore, BROTHERS/SISTERS, we are in debt, not to self/flesh/carnal mind to live as self/flesh/carnal mind. For if you live as self/flesh/carnal mind, you will die: but if you deny self/flesh/carnal mind and SUBMIT to HIS SPIRIT you SHALL LIVE. For those that SUBMIT to HIS SPIRIT to LIVE through them are the SONS/DAUGHTERS of GOD.

For you have not received the spirit of bondage to be in fear but have RECEIVED HIS SPIRIT, INTAKING us INTO HIMSELF, where we can CALL HIS ABBA FATHER! HIS SPIRIT BEARS WITNESS as to WHO we ARE as HIS CHILDREN, HIS INHERITORS, INHERITORS of EVERYTHING that IS COVENANTED TO CHRIST, yes, JOINT-HEIRS; in that we SHALL SUFFER and BE GLORIFIED, together, WITH HIM.

Romans 7:6 – 8: 17