Kim Hopper's voice strikes somehow like Vestal Goodman's, in Kim's own powerful style. But Vestal is still the only Vestal for all times. Dottie will always be the only Dottie! See you in heaven, Vestal, forever! See you in heaven, Dottie! For all soulfully uplifting, living memories, helping us get through each second of this challenging earthly journey called life, in JESUS' saving love, humankind is so grateful, Vestal Goodman and Dottie Rambo plus all our #GaitherHomecoming Brethren. Thanks a billion, Kim, for this: "The Holy Hills of Heaven" touching rendition in celebration and memory of Dottie Rambo! In GOD's abiding, loving care, abundant blessings to all our inspiring #GaitherVocal Homecoming Praise + Worship Family! I am so grateful, always! And thank you LORD for another new day! It's been a long, tiring way home. Shalom!
Dottie Rambo wrote some of the most beautiful gospel songs that were ever written. I LOVE her music and though I am not a professional and my voice is not in the same league as Kim Hopper or Vestal Goodman or Dottie Rambo, I used to be asked to sing in church and I would pretty much ALWAYS select a Dottie Rambo song to sing. I would love to think that for the first ten thousand years or so in heaven we can hear everyone singing Dottie Rambo songs. I live in Nashville and I had seen her perform a short time before her death. She was performing over in the Opryland area which is about five minutes from where I live, and I told my husband that because she was in such poor health I wanted to go over and see her one last time. Of course I had no idea that we would lose her in that traffic accident a short time later. I was able to attend the Dottie Rambo Home-Going service and I am so happy to see that someone put her service on YT.
Maryann Anderson: Thanks for the sweet tribute. I was a friend of Dottie's since the late '60s but did not get to see her often. I am pleased that I met no opposition to posting all the songs in the memorial service DVD. I was reared in the days when hymnals were in every church, and most of them had at least one Dottie Rambo song, sometimes two. I miss those days.
Amazing Dottie Rambo Will live forever She has gone HOME to Jesus will wrap his loving arms around her and give her peace Greetings from Dublin Ireland brother and sisters we know all about Dottie HERE... Ar dheis Dè go raibh a hAnam dìlis May her noble soul rest in peace ....
Kim has was of the most awesome voices in gospel music today, she is one great lady with an outstanding voice, most importantly you can see Christ in the songs she sangs
Aloise Mason: Yes, she has a sad-country-music quality that I love. Listen to the title song I posted from one of her CDs: ruclips.net/video/-vAdsy_VmRQ/видео.html The background I used for the stills is a photograph I took of a wall in a Walt Disney World ride that no longer exists - in case you wonder.
I loved to hear Dottie Rambo sing. But my all time favorite will always be Vestal Goodman, what an annointed lady. Now she is singing in Heaven's choir with Jake, Howard, Rusty, Sam, and all the others. Can't wait to join them someday. What a day that will be. Glory be to God!!!!!!!!
Kim Hopper sounds GREAT on this song, one of my favorites written by the legendary Dottie Rambo....Kim blasts this number, perfect song for Dottie's going home celebration.....great job KIM !!!!!!!! Dottie really did take her "flight like a mighty eagle"......
I'm sure Dottie is writing a song for the day all blood washed children of God stand around Jesus, having the holy communion with Him for the last time, before He is crowned Lord in our presence. For the angels cannot write that song, but Dottie sure can.
I love God's songs in his vessel Mrs. Dottie Rambo. Some of my favorite songs of hers are; I go to the rock, Mercy throne, Glory in the Cross, I've never been this homesick, Too much to gain to lose, What earthly reason, & The oil & the wine, We shall behold him, He sees the blood. My current favorite is Mercy Throne, for now, until I hear the rest of her catalog of songs. I know she's went through a lot when she was in the flesh, but now, she in her real body with so many of the Body of Christ in heaven. I enjoy listening to God's songs that he put IN her, along with others in the body of Christ, who have gone on to their reward in heaven, & for the one's whose songs are public domain gospel songs like amazing grace. Thanks be to God for his deposits of the anointing of the Holy Ghost's gifts & talents in & on his bride in earth & in heaven, especially of yoke destroying singing, songwriting, & all the body of Christ Holy callings of God in 1st Corinthians chapter 12.
Kim does fantastic on this one! I can't help but to remember when Vestal would belt this one out, and i'll bet Vestal and Dottie would have been proud of Kim, and watching from above. In fact, weeks prior to Vestal's homegoing, she would hand off the microphone to Kim to finish What a Lovely Name.
+Lisa Lee May 11, 2008, as she slept in her bed on her tour bus, when a wind gust blew the bus off the road. She died in her sleep just as she had prophesied in her major hit song "Sheltered In The Arms Of God". "Soon I shall hear the call from heaven's portals. Come home my child, It's the last mile you must trod I'll fall asleep And wake in God's new heaven For I'm sheltered in the arms of God." ruclips.net/video/2zQGnwq-U-s/видео.html
+SidsCardShop -- Here is the information you wanted about Dottie's Homecoming Service. What a woman of God she was, and how I love her! I listen to her sing sometimes for hours..her and Vestal..I wish I had found this music a longer time ago than earlier this year. God bless, brother! openeyesopenears.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/dottie-rambos-homegoing-celebration-program/
Don't know anything about the driver, but Larry is all over the social scene and knows everybody in the entertainment industry. You can start following him at www.mrnashvilletalks.com/ and facebook.com/larry.ferguson.712
The police report I looked at did not give those details, and I felt it would be insensitive to ask Larry, but I imagined that she died when she slammed into an obstruction inside the bus at 50 or 60 miles per hour. Larry (her manager) and the bus driver were seriously injured, but it was not their time to go. See Psalm 139:16 in any version of the Bible except the King James.
+SidsCardShop - Why not in the King James? That's the true word of God. The others have been altered. In any case, Dottie's enjoying Heaven, and one day we'll see her :) God bless!
Are you saying that people who lived and died before 1611 did not have the true word of God? FYI, only the original manuscripts were inspired by God, and we don't have any of them - none have survived the ravages of time and carelessness of man. The reason we call the KJV "the inspired Word of God" is that we believe He protected the successive Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic copies (from which the English was translated) from doctrinal corruption. Those copies are still consulted today by Godly scholars who create new versions of the Bible - although perhaps some of them do not. During the translation of the KJV, politics played a role. There was much argument about whether the public announcement of a convert should be accompanied by sprinkling with water, pouring water, or complete immersion in water. Consequently, the KJV translators just used the Greek root word baptizo and its cognates instead of translating it into English, and let readers interpret it as they wish. I hope you know that one cannot read the entire KJV today without doing some translating in the process; for example, Jesus said, "Suffer the little children ...." Was He saying to abuse them, or was He saying to allow them? Be honest, when you read that, do you not interpret "suffer" to mean "allow?" So what is wrong with changing the text to the modern meaning, so that no interpretation is needed? Addressing directly the issue of Psalm 139:16: apparently the KJV translators could not fathom that God would know how many days a person still in the womb would live, but He surely could see and know how many arms and legs he would have, so they settled for that. That was a poor decision, limiting God to something short of omniscience, an error that translators in the 1950s corrected in the Revised Standard Version. When I said, "any version except the KJV," I was assuming that none of my readers would have the 1599 Geneva Bible or the 1833 Noah Webster's Bible, as they also contained the error. And when I say, "error" I don't mean falsehood, because what is said is true, but I mean incomplete, limited. Knowing that God established the number of days of my lifespan has been a great comfort to me, and more so as I age. I am 75, and I don't have to worry that cancer or some other terrible thing will "cut my life short," because I will live as many days as God has ordained for me, and nothing or nobody can change that. He used an incredibly strong crosswind to blow a heavy bus off the road and into an embankment in the process of calling Dottie home on her last day. What will He do when He calls me? I don't want to know, but, based on the fact that the world today is as wicked (or worse) as it was in the days of Noah, I'm hoping He will come in the clouds and call His bride away so that I won't have to die. The first sign of the end times Jesus gave His disciples was that there would be an era of deception (Luke 21:7-8). Do you not agree that people today are being deceived like never before? Many do not even know what gender they are - allowances are being made, affecting everyone, for people who felt like a man yesterday, but feel like a woman today, and billions are choosing a god who wants them to die for him, over the God Who has already died for us, and wants us to live for Him. God bless you, Sister Mary.
+SidsCardShop -- Thank you for a pretty awesome response. I've used different versions on occasion, but the King James is my "go to " Bible version most of the time. As far as other versions, however, just *please* skip over 'The Message' version. Any book calling itself a Bible and writes the Lord's Prayer with, "As above so below" isn't one (In my opinion) a Christian should use. That and many other reasons. The atheists/satan lovers use that "As above so below" all the time so I want no part of it. At the end of Paul's Epistles, can you imagine Him saying, "Well, that about wraps it up!" (oye!) I just got a Bible that's the English Standard version I think it's called to help me to translate as you said BUT!! Even when I first read, "Suffer the little children to come to me," I knew what Jesus meant. Many may have thought the other version of suffer, but I honestly did understand what He meant. Oh my goodness, *this* world now is unbelievable indeed!! I just turned 61, and I raise a grandson who is now 8. I pray to be here when Jesus comes in those clouds to take us up to Him! I'm disabled and have a few illnesses, and I have 8 children and 12 grandchildren..I've had a fairly good life. Can't say cancer doesn't still scare me, but I know where my eternity lies. This world is indeed the *worst* mess it has EVER been and YES, all those people who don't know who they are on any given day! "Man, I feel like a woman today..." Can you imagine that going on about 30 years ago? Wasn't perfect, but far more were moral than this ...perversion! Worse than the days of Noah indeed! God's patience with all the foolishness is amazing to me. I've never seen so many deceived people AND so much of it coming from churches and Pastors! WORLD famous churches! Hillsong for one and their "Chris-Lam" saying that our God and Allah are the same God..phooey! We serve THE real Lord God Almighty!! Deception about the truth of Salvation, so, so much of it everywhere in every way indeed. Being almost completely homebound, I do a lot of praying, and I so enjoy teaching my grandson about the Christ who loves him SO much, and how my Jon loves Him! I do wonder often about the Rapture, as there is SO much for God to be so fed up with this world over! We just keep spreading the GOOD news to all who'll listen and remind ourselves that this is NOT Home, when it gets overwhelming. (I have a great husband also!) Take good care of yourself, my brother. You'll be in my prayers. God bless you abundantly, always!
"Amen" to everything you said. Being a Bible teacher (retired) and philologist, I don't even look at a "Bible" version that is categorized as a paraphrase, except when I am really "stuck" and am looking for a perspective that might help me get unstuck, and your references to "The Message" have confirmed my wisdom in staying away from it. I love the ESV (English Standard Version), upon which theologian Dr. R. C. Sproul of Sanford/Orlando Florida based The Reformation Study Bible, that I acquired immediately when it became available. An excellent recent translation that uses modern English is the New Living Translation. I have not studied it throughout, but have found no problem with it. Thanks for your response, and a special thanks for shepherding that young man - be sure he knows that Jesus loves him more than he could ever possibly imagine, no matter how tough things get. Share with him the Amplified Bible version of Hebrews 13:5b: " ... for He (God) Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, not forsake nor let you down, relax my hold on you. Assuredly not!" This translation maintains all the available pertinent meanings of Scripture that are normally "left on the cutting room floor" by editors who do not want readers to be overwhelmed by "too much information." Especially important is the three-fold statement "I will not." Greek has no absolute superlatives, so to emphasize the importance of a statement, it was repeated, with the maximum possible emphasis being two repetitions - hence the three times it was said. The Holy Spirit wanted us to know that He is serious about His support at all times. God bless you.
I can only imagine when the doors of Heaven burst wide open and Dottie walked through them! Glory be to God!
Thank you Dottie for that beautiful song 🎵 ❤
See you in Heaven 🙏✝️❤❤
R.I.P Dottie ❤ you will be remembered 😇
Awsome performance from Kim Hopper, what a singer! God bless her!
Now she has a voice and no sing like she does. Put Tony and Kim and her tim heaven hearing them sing. Kim you are a blessing to me ❤❤❤❤
Kim Hopper's voice strikes somehow like Vestal Goodman's, in Kim's own powerful style. But Vestal is still the only Vestal for all times. Dottie will always be the only Dottie! See you in heaven, Vestal, forever! See you in heaven, Dottie! For all soulfully uplifting, living memories, helping us get through each second of this challenging earthly journey called life, in JESUS' saving love, humankind is so grateful, Vestal Goodman and Dottie Rambo plus all our #GaitherHomecoming Brethren. Thanks a billion, Kim, for this: "The Holy Hills of Heaven" touching rendition in celebration and memory of Dottie Rambo! In GOD's abiding, loving care, abundant blessings to all our inspiring #GaitherVocal Homecoming Praise + Worship Family! I am so grateful, always! And thank you LORD for another new day! It's been a long, tiring way home. Shalom!
Beautiful voices praising our Savior 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Dottie Rambo was so blessed of God with her song writing. I loved when the Rambos sang. The daughter had a wonderful voice.
She is home where no tears will stain the city. She is now with the Great I AM who she represented while with us
Brilliant, Kim, just brilliant!
God Bless Dottie and may we see her sing to our Lord in Heaven when we get there..Praise Our God.
These songs never grows old bless the Lord 🙏
Beautiful. Kim Hopper is amazing. How amazing to have written your own funeral music as Dottie did. What a blessing Dottie Rambo was.
Few songwriters touch the heartstrings as Dottie Rambo did with her songs ... after I meet the Lord and see family, I'll drop in to chat!
Dottie Rambo wrote some of the most beautiful gospel songs that were ever written. I LOVE her music and though I am not a professional and my voice is not in the same league as Kim Hopper or Vestal Goodman or Dottie Rambo, I used to be asked to sing in church and I would pretty much ALWAYS select a Dottie Rambo song to sing. I would love to think that for the first ten thousand years or so in heaven we can hear everyone singing Dottie Rambo songs. I live in Nashville and I had seen her perform a short time before her death. She was performing over in the Opryland area which is about five minutes from where I live, and I told my husband that because she was in such poor health I wanted to go over and see her one last time. Of course I had no idea that we would lose her in that traffic accident a short time later. I was able to attend the Dottie Rambo Home-Going service and I am so happy to see that someone put her service on YT.
Maryann Anderson: Thanks for the sweet tribute. I was a friend of Dottie's since the late '60s but did not get to see her often. I am pleased that I met no opposition to posting all the songs in the memorial service DVD. I was reared in the days when hymnals were in every church, and most of them had at least one Dottie Rambo song, sometimes two. I miss those days.
Amazing
Dottie Rambo
Will live forever
She has gone HOME to Jesus will wrap his loving arms around her and give her peace
Greetings from Dublin Ireland brother and sisters we know all about Dottie HERE...
Ar dheis Dè go raibh a hAnam dìlis
May her noble soul rest in peace ....
this is what we call gospel music 🎶 dottie fare thee well
I could shout right here in my living room! From the Throne--the Savior beckons.
I dearly love Dottie Rambo! All of her songs speak to my heart and soul! 💞🕊
Kim has was of the most awesome voices in gospel music today, she is one great lady with an outstanding voice, most importantly you can see Christ in the songs she sangs
Rolfe Barnard
Sensational..Kim Hopper is so talented..Many blessings to all.
Aloise Mason: Yes, she has a sad-country-music quality that I love. Listen to the title song I posted from one of her CDs: ruclips.net/video/-vAdsy_VmRQ/видео.html
The background I used for the stills is a photograph I took of a wall in a Walt Disney World ride that no longer exists - in case you wonder.
I loved to hear Dottie Rambo sing. But my all time favorite will always be Vestal Goodman, what an annointed lady. Now she is singing in Heaven's choir with Jake, Howard, Rusty, Sam, and all the others. Can't wait to join them someday. What a day that will be. Glory be to God!!!!!!!!
David Hayes Hmm.
Kim Hopper sounds GREAT on this song, one of my favorites written by the legendary Dottie Rambo....Kim blasts this number, perfect song for Dottie's going home celebration.....great job KIM !!!!!!!! Dottie really did take her "flight like a mighty eagle"......
so sad to hear that she is gone! rest in peace
when did dottier rambò dead
Jonathan Richards q
I love to hear Kim when she rarest back and just lets it go
I'm sure Dottie is writing a song for the day all blood washed children of God stand around Jesus, having the holy communion with Him for the last time, before He is crowned Lord in our presence. For the angels cannot write that song, but Dottie sure can.
This song is annointed by GOD almighty!!!!!
Kim Hopper
Yes it sure is!!
This is one of my favorite Rambo songs
What a talent. I like to say that God chooses only the best for Himself.
Here's another Kim Hopper song I uploaded:
ruclips.net/video/-vAdsy_VmRQ/видео.html
I love God's songs in his vessel Mrs. Dottie Rambo. Some of my favorite songs of hers are; I go to the rock, Mercy throne, Glory in the Cross, I've never been this homesick, Too much to gain to lose, What earthly reason, & The oil & the wine, We shall behold him, He sees the blood. My current favorite is Mercy Throne, for now, until I hear the rest of her catalog of songs. I know she's went through a lot when she was in the flesh, but now, she in her real body with so many of the Body of Christ in heaven. I enjoy listening to God's songs that he put IN her, along with others in the body of Christ, who have gone on to their reward in heaven, & for the one's whose songs are public domain gospel songs like amazing grace. Thanks be to God for his deposits of the anointing of the Holy Ghost's gifts & talents in & on his bride in earth & in heaven, especially of yoke destroying singing, songwriting, & all the body of Christ Holy callings of God in 1st Corinthians chapter 12.
greatest song by dottie, and so relivent in todays world of grief god blessed her such a talent
it's sad to know she gone
but she lives still
i love Dottie and Jessy dixon they bless my heart
Oh I'm so thankful for your time here and will continue to live with my memories of the inspiration you've been to me.
Beautiful Beautiful thank you so so much. We miss Dotty!!! Love you and praying for you all Sue Nelson
Heart touching celebration!! Now she's beside JESUS.
I am so sorry for your loss I really do miss her so much
one of my favorites...saw the Rambos in Tulsa years ago!!!! Love Buck and Reba so much also!!!! Oh, the singing in Heaven!
wonderful needed a little pick me up this morning! This is it!
RIP mama
U were a good singer
Such a beautiful song
Thank you Dottie for your wonderful gospel song. Rest in peace
I always loved Dottie Rambo and Vestal Goodman.. They were such beautiful, talented and blessed altos
"These doors of clay are going to burst wide open" HALLELUJAH!
Gute Reise ins Licht hast viel Freude bereitet Dottie.
I really loves this song
these people are an inspiration to me..I can't think of life without them in mine..Gotta hear and see them every day..God's will
I love this somuch God will bless madam Dottie's families
Vestal sang this to Dottie when she arrived in Heaven!!!
That song take me so far away my heart is so sort
Bless Dottie Rambo And i love her songs, Amen.....
I so love this song. When it is my time this is one I want sung at my home going.
Kim sure can has a beautiful voice and does she know how to sing!!
Só Hoje 26/01 2020 dia do meu Aniversário fiquei sabendo que Dottie Rambo morreu, muita músicas lindas que ela fez.
Em que ano ela morreu? Só a conheci hoje fevereiro de 2022, que voz linda, música e letra também! Chorei muito!
Hearing this, I am longing for "home."
Wonderful. I had not seen this video before. She made it to those holy hills of home!!
Kim, this is absolutely beautiful
Kim does fantastic on this one! I can't help but to remember when Vestal would belt this one out, and i'll bet Vestal and Dottie would have been proud of Kim, and watching from above. In fact, weeks prior to Vestal's homegoing, she would hand off the microphone to Kim to finish What a Lovely Name.
Rip Dottie Waiting That Blessed morning When we The Saints Will Meet No More Death.
Kim can sing. MERCY- Tis is annointed.
She's in heaven with God and the angels 😇😇😇
When did she pass I used listen to her when I was a teenager. I love that lady her voice was like an angel.
+Lisa Lee May 11, 2008, as she slept in her bed on her tour bus, when a wind gust blew the bus off the road. She died in her sleep just as she had prophesied in her major hit song "Sheltered In The Arms Of God".
"Soon I shall hear the call from heaven's portals.
Come home my child,
It's the last mile you must trod
I'll fall asleep
And wake in God's new heaven
For I'm sheltered in the arms of God."
ruclips.net/video/2zQGnwq-U-s/видео.html
+SidsCardShop -- Here is the information you wanted about Dottie's Homecoming Service. What a woman of God she was, and how I love her! I listen to her sing sometimes for hours..her and Vestal..I wish I had found this music a longer time ago than earlier this year. God bless, brother!
openeyesopenears.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/dottie-rambos-homegoing-celebration-program/
This song is one of my favorites, and Kim Harper sure sings this so beautifully.
Awesome 💗
I'll take my flight like a mighty eagle...hallelujah😭😭😭
Can't agree more
Beautiful rendition!
Rest on thy servant of the holy God...
Muito lindo mas treste muitas saudade
Amen
A great singer.
Thank you Dottie
What a great celebration.
Saudade de você. Ranbo
We will one day take our flight when the hills of home starts calling us
Eu era fã zona !
Rest well Dottie . There will be a meeting again.
Kiitos =tänkkiy kim hopper ❤
@mcduffie18 Sometime in May 2008; I have lost track of the exact date, and the DVD bears no date.
Yes Jesus
Those doors of heaven busted open for my parents Sept 26 2021.
Kim has a voice like a angel she put her heart and soul in her singing. Dottie would be so proud of her I know I am.❤❤❤
I know that is justamoment of time he is just at our heart door calling ous all he will never leveous a lone or fasakeous hold on to jesus
KIM HOPPER REMINDS ME OF VESTAL GOODMAN!
@SidsCardShop Dottie Rambo passed away on May 11, 2008 in a tour bus accident on her way to a Mother's Day performance in Texas
Praise the lord bless her heart
Dottie made an impression on the gospel stage
HALLELUJAH!
i went to school with kim ,shes the real deal.....
@jeffb4685 Thanks, but the question was when was the memorial service, which mcduffie18 answered 6 months ago.
WOW!
@mcduffie18 Monday, May 19, 2008 at Christ Church in Nashville, TN.
[iminent=MBTxb9gUWfOB] ★I thank God for the lovely sister Kim Hopper. ☼
Amen!
😢🙏🌹🇺🇸🇺🇾
NAO SOU EVANGELICO MAIS ME EMOCIONEI OS LINDOS HINOS DELA FARAM MUITA FALTA
When was this?
Does anyone know how I could attain this dvd?
dose her bus manger and driver still toure
Don't know anything about the driver, but Larry is all over the social scene and knows everybody in the entertainment industry. You can start following him at www.mrnashvilletalks.com/ and facebook.com/larry.ferguson.712
how did she pass in her bed on the bus that night
The police report I looked at did not give those details, and I felt it would be insensitive to ask Larry, but I imagined that she died when she slammed into an obstruction inside the bus at 50 or 60 miles per hour. Larry (her manager) and the bus driver were seriously injured, but it was not their time to go. See Psalm 139:16 in any version of the Bible except the King James.
+SidsCardShop - Why not in the King James? That's the true word of God. The others have been altered. In any case, Dottie's enjoying Heaven, and one day we'll see her :) God bless!
Are you saying that people who lived and died before 1611 did not have the true word of God? FYI, only the original manuscripts were inspired by God, and we don't have any of them - none have survived the ravages of time and carelessness of man. The reason we call the KJV "the inspired Word of God" is that we believe He protected the successive Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic copies (from which the English was translated) from doctrinal corruption. Those copies are still consulted today by Godly scholars who create new versions of the Bible - although perhaps some of them do not. During the translation of the KJV, politics played a role. There was much argument about whether the public announcement of a convert should be accompanied by sprinkling with water, pouring water, or complete immersion in water. Consequently, the KJV translators just used the Greek root word baptizo and its cognates instead of translating it into English, and let readers interpret it as they wish. I hope you know that one cannot read the entire KJV today without doing some translating in the process; for example, Jesus said, "Suffer the little children ...." Was He saying to abuse them, or was He saying to allow them? Be honest, when you read that, do you not interpret "suffer" to mean "allow?" So what is wrong with changing the text to the modern meaning, so that no interpretation is needed? Addressing directly the issue of Psalm 139:16: apparently the KJV translators could not fathom that God would know how many days a person still in the womb would live, but He surely could see and know how many arms and legs he would have, so they settled for that. That was a poor decision, limiting God to something short of omniscience, an error that translators in the 1950s corrected in the Revised Standard Version. When I said, "any version except the KJV," I was assuming that none of my readers would have the 1599 Geneva Bible or the 1833 Noah Webster's Bible, as they also contained the error. And when I say, "error" I don't mean falsehood, because what is said is true, but I mean incomplete, limited. Knowing that God established the number of days of my lifespan has been a great comfort to me, and more so as I age. I am 75, and I don't have to worry that cancer or some other terrible thing will "cut my life short," because I will live as many days as God has ordained for me, and nothing or nobody can change that. He used an incredibly strong crosswind to blow a heavy bus off the road and into an embankment in the process of calling Dottie home on her last day. What will He do when He calls me? I don't want to know, but, based on the fact that the world today is as wicked (or worse) as it was in the days of Noah, I'm hoping He will come in the clouds and call His bride away so that I won't have to die. The first sign of the end times Jesus gave His disciples was that there would be an era of deception (Luke 21:7-8). Do you not agree that people today are being deceived like never before? Many do not even know what gender they are - allowances are being made, affecting everyone, for people who felt like a man yesterday, but feel like a woman today, and billions are choosing a god who wants them to die for him, over the God Who has already died for us, and wants us to live for Him. God bless you, Sister Mary.
+SidsCardShop -- Thank you for a pretty awesome response. I've used different versions on occasion, but the King James is my "go to " Bible version most of the time. As far as other versions, however, just *please* skip over 'The Message' version. Any book calling itself a Bible and writes the Lord's Prayer with, "As above so below" isn't one (In my opinion) a Christian should use. That and many other reasons. The atheists/satan lovers use that "As above so below" all the time so I want no part of it. At the end of Paul's Epistles, can you imagine Him saying, "Well, that about wraps it up!" (oye!) I just got a Bible that's the English Standard version I think it's called to help me to translate as you said BUT!! Even when I first read, "Suffer the little children to come to me," I knew what Jesus meant. Many may have thought the other version of suffer, but I honestly did understand what He meant. Oh my goodness, *this* world now is unbelievable indeed!! I just turned 61, and I raise a grandson who is now 8. I pray to be here when Jesus comes in those clouds to take us up to Him! I'm disabled and have a few illnesses, and I have 8 children and 12 grandchildren..I've had a fairly good life. Can't say cancer doesn't still scare me, but I know where my eternity lies. This world is indeed the *worst* mess it has EVER been and YES, all those people who don't know who they are on any given day! "Man, I feel like a woman today..." Can you imagine that going on about 30 years ago? Wasn't perfect, but far more were moral than this ...perversion! Worse than the days of Noah indeed! God's patience with all the foolishness is amazing to me. I've never seen so many deceived people AND so much of it coming from churches and Pastors! WORLD famous churches! Hillsong for one and their "Chris-Lam" saying that our God and Allah are the same God..phooey! We serve THE real Lord God Almighty!! Deception about the truth of Salvation, so, so much of it everywhere in every way indeed. Being almost completely homebound, I do a lot of praying, and I so enjoy teaching my grandson about the Christ who loves him SO much, and how my Jon loves Him! I do wonder often about the Rapture, as there is SO much for God to be so fed up with this world over! We just keep spreading the GOOD news to all who'll listen and remind ourselves that this is NOT Home, when it gets overwhelming. (I have a great husband also!) Take good care of yourself, my brother. You'll be in my prayers. God bless you abundantly, always!
"Amen" to everything you said. Being a Bible teacher (retired) and philologist, I don't even look at a "Bible" version that is categorized as a paraphrase, except when I am really "stuck" and am looking for a perspective that might help me get unstuck, and your references to "The Message" have confirmed my wisdom in staying away from it. I love the ESV (English Standard Version), upon which theologian Dr. R. C. Sproul of Sanford/Orlando Florida based The Reformation Study Bible, that I acquired immediately when it became available. An excellent recent translation that uses modern English is the New Living Translation. I have not studied it throughout, but have found no problem with it. Thanks for your response, and a special thanks for shepherding that young man - be sure he knows that Jesus loves him more than he could ever possibly imagine, no matter how tough things get. Share with him the Amplified Bible version of Hebrews 13:5b: " ... for He (God) Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless, not forsake nor let you down, relax my hold on you. Assuredly not!" This translation maintains all the available pertinent meanings of Scripture that are normally "left on the cutting room floor" by editors who do not want readers to be overwhelmed by "too much information." Especially important is the three-fold statement "I will not." Greek has no absolute superlatives, so to emphasize the importance of a statement, it was repeated, with the maximum possible emphasis being two repetitions - hence the three times it was said. The Holy Spirit wanted us to know that He is serious about His support at all times. God bless you.
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