Dec 15 2010
In Memory: Rev. June Norris
Rev. June Norris
MCC has lost another of our pioneers with the passing of Rev. June Norris on 14 December. She was 88 years old and still active until recently when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. She chose not to undergo treatment, but to let it take its course, giving her quality time to say goodbye to friends, colleagues, and loved ones.
June was a mentor, teacher, outstanding example, friend, confidant, supporter. She was spirit-filled, generous, kind, compassionate, and more to/for many in MCC throughout the years. She frequently shared her wisdom and her fantastic sense of humor with those on LayLink and on the clergy list. She radiated love to all around her. If MCC had official saints, Rev. June would definitely be one!
Her passing leaves a void which no one else can ever fill.
A Memorial Service is tentatively planned for Sunday, 9 January, 2011.
Biography
Rev. Norris was born on 30 June in Colorado, raised in the Baptist church in southern Illinois, married at 15, and had three children by age 20. They moved to Florida. After 28 years of marriage, she left her husband to discover what life was like beyond being allowed to be only a wife. She received her GED at age 46 and moved to California to attend college.
The only person she knew in Los Angeles was her nephew Ted Sweet. He was gay and invited her to attend MCC with him. She experienced God’s call that day, although it took her awhile to understand what that really meant for her life.
She joined MCC LA in November 1971 and entered Samaritan Bible School, MCC’s seminary at the time. In 1972 she was licensed as an Exhorter (student clergy); in 1973 she was licensed as Clergy; and in 1974 she was ordained, becoming the first heterosexual person and the second woman (after Rev. Elder Freda Smith) to be ordained in MCC.
In 1976, June lost her job at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital because of her association with homosexuals, so Rev. Elder Troy Perry put her on staff at the mother church.
In 1980, she moved across the US to answer the call to pastor MCC Fayetteville (North Carolina). St. John’s MCC in Raleigh also needed a pastor, so she served both churches for awhile before going fulltime at St. John’s MCC until 1988 when she returned to California.
While in Raleigh she stood up to Southern Bell (telephone company) after being notified her that the church could not identify itself with the word “gay” in their phone book. “I told them it would be on their heads if someone committed suicide because they couldn’t find us,” she said. She won the argument.
In 1989, Rev. Norris was called as pastor of Church of the Holy Spirit MCC (Des Moines, Iowa) where she served until she retired in 1992. She returned to southern California, this time to Escondido and being active at MCC San Diego until her homegoing this week. She preached both services there on 24 October and was honored by the congregation that day.
Not only was she a wonderful pastor for many years, but she also served on the Clergy Credentials and Concerns Committee (1983-87), as a founding member of White People Healing Racism, as Assistant District Coordinator for the Gulf Lower Atlantic District (1985-6), and as the UFMCC liaison to the National Council of Churches’ Family Ministry and Human Sexuality Committee (1983-87)
Additional Biographical Information
June Norris was born in Colorado on June 30, 1922, and raised in the Baptist Church in southern Illinois. She was married at 15 and had three children by age 20. “Back in those days, kids did get married young, especially in southern Illinois. That’s the kind of country place where I lived”, Norris said.
After 28 years of marriage, she left her husband and their Florida home. “I decided I wanted to become whoever I am, because he wanted me to be just his wife,” she said. She decided to go to California to go to college. She got her GED in Florida when she was 46.
As an adult, Norris attended the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and she took a job at the church’s White Memorial Hospital in Glendale, California, attending East Los Angeles College at night. New to the city, she looked up her only relative in the area, her sister’s son, Ted Sweet, who had moved to Los Angeles after a divorce. One night at dinner, Sweet told his aunt he was gay. After her nephew left, Norris began doing research. “I was trying to find out why he thought he was gay, because I didn’t think he was,” she said. “I didn’t know very much about them. I’d heard there were people like that, but I didn’t think I knew anybody who was gay. I didn’t think I’d ever met anybody like that.” Although naïve, Norris had not been raised to think badly of homosexuals. After taking her nephew to church one Saturday, she agreed to go on Sunday to a new church he had been attending. “It was the first building they had bought,” she said. “It was a church on Union Street in Los Angeles. When I approached it, there was this beautiful stained glass window, with Jesus and his hands outstretched. I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is really a church.’ I had always had a strong spiritual life,” she said. “I had never felt the same kind of feeling about a church that I had in that building. I think it was God speaking to me. I think I was being called to this ministry at that moment, but I didn’t know what it all meant.
Read more about Rev. June at LGBT Religious Archives Network by clicking here.
Listen to the Oral HiStory Rev. June provided MCC in 2007 by clicking here.
A Poem by Rev. June
This is a poem which Rev, June wrote in 1989 summarizing the many stories people shared with her during the years, thinking that they were forever excluded from God’s love..
MY 151st PSALM
God, where are you?
Jesus, did you really die for Me?
Holy Spirit, where is the power you promised?
I told my friend who I am
My friend became my enemy!
To my parents, I revealed myself
They turned away
My heart is shattered; my tears are unquenchable
Why, O God, am I different?
I went to my pastor for comfort and received condemnation
Is there a place for me in your plan?
Or am I condemned to death?
Then in my deepest need YOU CAME!
You came in the form of a friend
whose loving heart knew my pain
who told me of a special place a church
where ALL are God’s people
Cynical, broken, could I dare to believe?
“Come,” she said, “Taste the new wine! Come and see
the goodness of God.”
Fearfully, with racing heart and trembling knees I entered
and found You there.
Your arms embraced me.
Your love surrounded me.
I was HOME!!
Sweet tears of joy!
Sweet, sweet Spirit
Feed me!
Touch me!
Guide me!
Thank you God for freeing me to be me!
A hymn text written by Rev. June Norris, 1986 (Shared by Rev. Jeremy McLeod)
WHY SEEK YE THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD?
“Why are you here?” the bright angel said
“This is a place that is kept for the dead.”
“We’ve come to see Jesus,” the woman cried.
“The one Roman soldiers have crucified.”
“We want to anoint his body,” they say.
“That’s why we’ve come to the tomb today.
Please stand apart, that we may go inside.
It’s now the third day since our Jesus has died.”
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
“Women, women, please listen to me.
The tomb is quite empty. Look! you can see
the burial clothes lying there on the floor.
And God’s mighty power has opened the door.
Remember he said, ‘I’Il rise from the grave
and death will be conquered, all people to save?”
Stunned disbelief filled the women with fear.
“He was laid in this tomb. Why isn’t he here?”
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
They went to a gardner they saw standing there.
“Where did you take Jesus?” cried Mary’s despair.
“Mary, Mary, ” the man gently said.
“Look! I am Jesus. Do I seem dead?”
Rejoicing and running, Mary went like the wind.
Found Peter and John, who called Jesus friend.‘
“I saw him,” she shouted. “Oh please come and see.
He’s not in the tomb where we thought we would be.”
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Quickly they followed, but not with belief.
“The woman,” they whispered, “is crazy with grief
We’ll go to show her the body is there.”
But it wasn’t! It isn’t! Today it’s our prayer
That we, as we tell this great story again
be enthralled; be enraptured. All women and men
will embody the Christ and forging ahead
Will ne’er seek the living among the dead‘
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
June Norris March 1986, revised March 1999
We celebrate with heartfelt praise, written by Rev. June Norris
We celebrate with heartfelt praise
On this most holy day of days,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Our Christ has risen from the ground!
We praise God’s name with joyful sound!
O praise God! O praise God!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
O, let our praises fill the air,
And let our hearts unite in prayer,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Thanksgiving, laud, and honour give
To Christ, who lives that we may live!
O praise God! O praise God!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
God’s sons and daughters all are we;
Christ lived and died to set us free.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Clap, sing and shout what God has done!
The victory o’er death is won!
Christ is risen! Christ is risen!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Joyful people come and worship, written by Rev. June Norris
Joyful people come and worship!
Lift your happy hearts in song,
Giving praise for our church family
In God’s house, where all belong
Celebrating our uniqueness
Filled with love and pride today,
Forth we travel on faith’s journey,
We who once had turned away.
And today we lift our voices;
Of amazing love we sing,
Giving thanks and praise to Yahweh
For the joy that love can bring!
Praising Jesus and the Spirit,
Singing of amazing grace,
Here we see that same sweet Spirit
On each sister’s, brother’s face.
God, whose mercies know no bound’ries
Heard our cries for liberty;
Broke the chains of fear that bound us,
Lifted, loved, and set us free!
Learning how to love each other,
How to live and how to grow,
Children of God’s new creation,
Onward upward now we go!
I was sad to learn of June’s passing. She was truly a blessing to a great many people. I will always remember her fondly. Her wisdom, grace, and compassion has touched my heart forever.
Peace,
Wayne
June was “my beautiful butterfly lady”. She had the softest voice and the warmest spirit when she would rest your cheek in the palm of her hand.
I met June many years ago when I was a 17-year old, trying to find my way – and she was there, ever and always. Wherever my life went over the years, we were never too far apart.
While our life journeys took us different locations (and she always kept her license plates – she had quite the collection), we always kept in touch and got together whenever we could. Those were wonderful and peaceful times. I guess that’s what I remember most, her peaceful spirit. Even when she didn’t understand the cause of something, she didn’t judge or close off – she kept listening and striving to understand.
More recently, when she came to guest preach at Christ Chapel MCC, I was so proud to be her host, and as the Board Member on Duty introducing her to my church family.
I always looked for her when I went to visit MCC San Diego – and it was always as if no time had passed since our last meeting. When she was talking, you were the most important person in her world. She focused on you and despite people doing “coffee hour”, the rest of the world went away and it was just the two of you talking, sharing, communing.
She will be missed, but her spirit and her love is just a thoughtful reflection away.
Rest in peace, June. You are loved.
(I just listened to the start of her oral interview recording – be sure to learn more about her in her own voice – but you might want to have a hanky handy, I needed one).
Thank you June for all your love!
It is with heavy heart that I just learned of the passing of Rev. June Norris. While she was in Raleigh, that became a hub of ministerial candidates. One of them, Rev. J.T. Atkinson, came from her tutilage and became of Pastor, at MCC Hartford, in Hartford, Connecticut. While I never knew Rev. Norris personally, I could feel her radiant influence and the profound effect she had on the Raleigh community. May she rest in Heaven. God Bless all who knew her and were profoundly influenced by her.
In God’s Love, Clyde Proch, MCC Hartford
June and I joined MCC-LA on the same day, November 14, 1971. I got to know her well during her time on staff at MCC-LA. I was sorry to see her leave Los Angeles, but her ministry took her to North Carolina and later to Des Moines, Iowa where she did an incredible job pastoring those congregations. In recent years we kept in touch by e-mail, and I will miss that correspondence.
Rest well, June, you deserve it after a job so well done.
I met June at a conference when I first came into MCC. Unfortunately, I didn’t know what a wonderful psalmist and hymnwriter she was. Incidentally, I don’t know when that picture was taken, but she looks better there than she did when I met her when she was in Raleigh.
Heaven is all the sweeter now that June is there.
I met June in 1985. She sure did a good thing standing up to the phone company! Hard to believe that recently the word gay would not be allowed. I remember her long robe and kind smile.
I’m at a loss for words. I met June several different times during my time with UFMCC and never failed to be amazed at her wonderful personality and spiritual gifts. I treasure my brief times with her. She is one of the memorable people in my life.
June had such a warm, caring presence about her that whenever I saw her, I instantly felt valued and loved. She had a great capacity for joy, but could still be with someone in their suffering with such grace and hope.
She was a great friend to me and many other persons living with HIV/AIDS. When I was first diagnosed, she called me out of the blue (I did not know her then), and when she prayed with me, she began speaking in tongues. It was really quite an extraordinary, healing experience. Over the years, whenever I was sick and housebound, she paid daily attention to me, offering her compassionate, healing support through conversation and prayer, and in later years through email.
I will always cherish my memories of her, and hold her close in my heart.
Rest in Peace, dear one. You will be sorely missed.
Howard Wells ordered me to attend the 1972 General Conference at 1050 South Hill Street in L.A., and being a shy Easterner, I sat in the balcony at the evening services, and right nearby was a kind lady with Southern done-up hair whom I got to know. (Bill Johnson of the United Church of Christ and Chris Glaser, the Presbyterian were also up in the balcony with us.)
I knew June for all the years since and recognize the truth of everything that has been written above by others. Not only was she one of the “responsible adults” with which the rather-young denominational leadership was gifted and who protected us from some of our excesses, she was amazingly kind and warm-hearted.
The only miraculous healing I have ever experienced in life thus far came at a joint laying-on of hands by June and Kerry Brown and Nancy Radclyffe. I was attending a Southeast District Conference on behalf of the Clergy Credentials Committee in Columbia, South Carolina, sometime around 1981 or 1982 and was staying with Kerry and Nancy at their residence/church which was a converted prisoners’ families residence for family members visiting prisoners in the state prison there. It was not what you would call a luxury motel.
The first morning I got up, I asked Kerry if I could borrow a plastic trash bag to wear in the shower to protect my foot which was afflicted with plantar warts on the bottom. For over a year I had been undergoing medical treatment for them which consisted of regular visits to the doctor where he sliced them off with a sharp knife and burned the skin beneath with acid. This was quite painful. And after a year or so, they were still there. So Kerry provided me with the bag but also summoned June and Nancy and they stood around me that morning and laid hands on me and prayed that the plantar warts WOULD BE HEALED. I was somewhat dubious but I had nothing to lose but the pain and affliction.
A couple of weeks later I went back to the doctor in St. Louis, and the things had disappeared! He accepted my miraculous explanation, and I never saw the man again.
To other people, this may seem like a trivial healing, but friends if they are on YOUR foot, you will take it seriously. June was friends with Kerry & Nancy (whom I think talked her into going to North Carolina in the first place) and was staying with them during that district conference.
Later, I enjoyed quality time with June at more General Conferences than I can remember and grew fonder and fonder of her with the years. I had my last email from her three weeks ago.
I surely think she was the kind of Christian minister who causes people to think well of churches, and I am thankful for all her encouragement and kindness to me.
I had only known June from the “God, Gays and the Gospel” video, which was the new exciting outreach tool when I first came into MCC. I was always struck by her gentle manner and firm faith in that film. Many years later, I was mugged during a trip to visit our MCC congregations in South Africa. June was one of the people who contacted me to let me know that she was praying for me. I was so touched that she took the time to do that. If she did that for me, someone she didn’t know, I imagine that she was an even greater blessing to those who knew her personally.
I am saddened and shocked to read about the passing of the Rev. June Norris. June was a great woman and a dedicated servant of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I’ll never forget my sister June. She and I attended Samaritan Bible School together in the early 70′s. Now that she is at peace with God I pray that she will meet my late husband Tim Johnson whom I miss very much.
June, Dear sister, Oh how I miss you. You were always such a supportive and encouraging friend. I’ll never forget the day you received Baptism in the Holy Spirit, upstairs in the church office of MCC/LA with Bob Ennis and I present. Few would ever imagine that yolu were a real holy roller that day – literally from one side of the office floor to the other. God did a real work in you that day. A tongue talking Adventist? who’d ever have thought how God would then use you so mightily in the work of MCC’s founding and development of our witness to God’s all inclusive love in North Carolina. It was a pleasure to have your aid on the staff at MCC/LA when six of us TEAMed together to pastor 1,200. Your pastoral prayers always brought such comfort and your life toiuched and brought healing change for so many. Your light lives on, life on earth is better and heaven is brighter, because of you! Your Rev Baby – Lee Carlton
I am saddened by Rev. June’s passing. When I came to St. John’s in the early 80′s, I was an angry, bitter, synical lesbian who wasn’t ready for a straight woman to be the pastor of the MCC church. Why should I trust her – straights can’t be trusted, can they? June was patient, gentle, and most of all perservering while she worked with me to understand my value as a person. We remained friends and I shall miss reading the emails from her life. Thank you, June, for all you have done for me and others!
I didnt know Rev June but I do know is she was great MCC Pioneer. REST IN PEACE JUNE
What a beautiful person you were and are in my life. Thank you for all your guidance friendship and love you have so freely always given. Heaven is truly brighter now that you are there. Please tell my “brother” Chip Parker hello. see you soon my dear sweet lady, Love Judy Boothe
I’m saddened in learning of June’s death but know heaven is richer for her presence. She was a remarkable woman and minister. I greatly appreciated her mentorship to me and having her present to bless my own ordination in 1986 made a such a significant occasion even more special.
Dear June, one day we will meet again; Love, Gail Van Buren
Biblical truth about the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus
When was Jesus born
Jesus Christ; is he the son of God, just a lunatic or a simple myth similar to other pagan gods? In our research we have found that several individuals feel that Jesus is a religious myth like so many other gods, with the following similarities:
Born on December 25th, born of a virgin, a star in the East foreshadowed his birth, adorned by wise men, teacher of men at a young age, baptized and begun his ministry by age 30, had 12 disciples, performed miracles, called the “Lamb of God” etc., was crucified, dead for three days and resurrected.
In the history books many other gods have followed this same succession of life such as:
Dionysus – Greece – 500 BC
Krishna – India – 900 BC
Attis – Greece – 1200 BC
Mithra – Persia – 1200 BC
Horus – Egypt – 3000 BC
This is just to name a few.
The first point that I would like to bring across in this teaching is that Jesus Christ was in fact not born in December like all of these other gods are believed to have been. Does this fact set him apart from the others? Yes. I’m sure you’re asking yourself how we can determine this fact when many world scholars have been unable. Well for one, our minds have not been tainted by supposed facts, and we will not stand by and go with the “norm” just because that is what has been accepted through out time. We have conducted research using the one doctrine left to us – The Bible.
One event that is continuously mentioned through out the Bible is Passover. Every time the Bible mentions the age of Jesus Christ, Passover is also mentioned. We can use this to pin point when he was born as well as when he died. First, allow us to explain what Passover is and where it began and when it should be observed. Passover was first mentioned in the Old Testament. Exd 12:13“Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you [are]. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy [you] when I strike the land of Egypt.” Exd12:14“So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.” Eze 45:21 “In the first [month] (also know as Nissan), on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall observe the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.”
{Explain}
With this being said we can now show you that by using Passover we can create a timeline that shows when Jesus Christ was born, died and resurrected.
From the book of Daniel we read:
Dan 9:24 “Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy.
Dan 9:25 “Know therefore and understand, [That] from the going forth of the command to restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, [There shall be] seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.
Dan 9:26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it [shall be] with a flood and till the end of the war desolations are determined.
Dan 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the Consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.”
The seventy weeks explained.
7 weeks + 62 weeks = 69 weeks. 69 weeks of years periods would pass from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the coming of the Messiah. The Messiah would be “cut off” and the city and temple would be destroyed again. A 70th week period would follow, which is the last seven years.
Dan 9:24-25 says that from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem to the coming of the Messiah there will be 483 years.
7 + 62 “weeks” = 69 groups of seven years. 7 x 69 = 483 years
A prophetic year or lunar year = 360 days. This is based both on ancient history and on Rev 11:2, 13:5, 11:3, and 12:6 which indicate that 42 months 3 ½ years are equal to 1,260 days.
Persian Emperor Artaxerxes Longimanus (who ruled Persia from 464-424 BC) issued the edict to rebuild Jerusalem on the 1st of Nissan in the 20th year of his reign (that is, March 5th, 444 BC; see (Neh 2:18) 173,880 days from March 5th 444 BC ends at March 30th 33 AD. Here’s the math:
Therefore, 483 years x 360 days = 173,880 days
March 30th, 33 AD was exactly 5 days before Passover on April 3rd, 33 AD. According to John’s Gospel, the Triumphant Entry took place 5 days before Passover: “Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. Jhn 12:1… Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus. The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: ‘Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD! The King of Israel.
According to the Gospel accounts, Christ was crucified the day before Passover, was “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Mat 12:38-40), and was resurrected before sunrise on a Sunday (Mar 16:1-2). In order for Christ to have been crucified the day before Passover and resurrected on a Sunday three days and three nights later, Passover would have had to fall on a Friday, whereby Christ was crucified on a Thursday (Luk 24:21). We can narrow down the year of Christ’s crucifixion to one possibility: 33 AD.
march 28, 1 AD Passover: Nisan 14, 3761 (Monday) ——– 1st Month (Nisan)
The birth of Jesus,Lk,2:6:14.
April 15, 2 Passover: Nisan 14, 3762 (Saturday) Jesus was 1 year old.
April 4, 3 Passover: Nisan 14, 3763 (Wednesday) King Herod attempt to kill Jesus, Mt ,2 : 1-21.
April 14, 13 Passover: Nisan 14, 3773 (Friday) Luke 2: 41-42 – Jesus was 12 years old
March 26, 31 Passover: Nisan 14, 3791(Monday) Luke 3: 23 – Jesus was 30 years old when he started his ministry. J h 2:13-15.
April 14, 32 Passover: Nisan 14, 3792 (Monday) – He was 31 years old, he feed the multitude Jh,6:4-12.
April 3, 33 Passover: Nisan 14, 3793 (Friday) Jh, 19:31-37- For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us (He was 32 years old). He had a two years ministry .1 Cr,5:7.
The bible stated at age twelve Jesus was taken to Jerusalem to take part in the Feast of Passover as was a yearly custom Luke 2:41-42. Also, at the age of thirty the Bible mentioned that Jesus began his ministry Luke 3:23. Some would ask, “Why did he wait so long to start his ministry?” I myself have asked why but it is evident that he [Jesus] was definitely waiting for something to happen before he started his great works. In John 2:4 “Jesus said to her, “Woman [Mary], what does your concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” What time could he possibly be referring to?
Several entries in the Bible show that it was a tradition to begin service for God at the age of thirty. Num. 4:23 From thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, you shall number them, all who enter to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of meeting (Also read: Num. 4:23, Num. 4:30, Num. 4:35, Num. 4:47) 2Sam. 5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
When Jesus began his ministry at age thirty is it just a coincidence that it is during Passover? John 2:13-15 “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables
Below is what took place on his second Passover during his ministry.
Jh 6:4-12, He feed the multitude on Passover and on the feast of Tabernacle he told his brothers his time has not yet come.
Jhn7:5 for even His brothers did not believe in Him.
Jhn7:6 then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
Jhn7:7 the world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil.
Jhn7:8 you go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for my time has not yet fully come.”
That being said, he was waiting for a specific time to fulfill Daniel prophecy.
Third Passover!!!
Jhn 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Mat 26:18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.” ‘ ”
From Daniel prophecy we all can agree that Messiah was cut off in year 33 AD on Passover. We know that He spent three Passovers during the course of his two years ministry according to John’s gospel. He really died at the age of thirty two.
“Below is a calendar starting from 1 AD to 40 AD”
March 28, 1 AD Passover: Nisan 14, 3761 (Monday) ——– 1st Month (Nisan) The birth of Jesus,Mat,2:6-14.
April 15, 2 Passover: Nisan 14, 3762 (Saturday) ———- Jesus was a year old.
April 4, 3 Passover: Nisan 14, 3763 (Wednesday) King Herod attempt to kill Jesus,Mat,2:1-21.
March 24, 4 Passover: Nisan 14, 3764 (Wednesday)
April 13, 5 Passover: Nisan 14, 3765 (Monday)
April 2, 6 Passover: Nisan 14, 3766 (Friday)
March 21, 7 Passover: Nisan 14, 3767 (Monday)
April 9, 8 Passover: Nisan 14, 3768 (Monday)
March 29, 9 Passover: Nisan 14, 3769 (Friday)
April 16, 10 Passover: Nisan 14, 3770 (Wednesday)
April 6, 11 Passover: Nisan 14, 3771 (Monday)
March 25, 12 Passover: Nisan 14, 3772 (Friday)
April 14, 13 Passover: Nisan 14, 3773 (Friday) Luke 2: 41-42 ———- Jesus was 12 years old
April 2, 14 Passover: Nisan 14, 3774 (Monday)
March 22, 15 Passover: Nisan 14, 3775 (Friday)
April 10, 16 Passover: Nisan 14, 3776 (Friday)
March 31, 17 Passover: Nisan 14, 3777 (Wednesday)
March 19, 18 Passover: Nisan 14, 3778 (Saturday)
April 7, 19 Passover: Nisan 14, 3779 (Friday)
March 27, 20 Passover: Nisan 14, 3780 (Wednesday)
April 14, 21 Passover: Nisan 14, 3781 (Monday)
April 4, 22 Passover: Nisan 14, 3782 (Saturday)
March 24, 23 Passover: Nisan 14, 3783 (Wednesday)
April 12, 24 Passover: Nisan 14, 3784 (Wednesday)
April 2, 25 Passover: Nisan 14, 3785 (Monday)
March 22, 26 Passover: Nisan 14, 3786 (Friday)
April 9, 27 Passover: Nisan 14, 3787 (Wednesday)
March 29, 28 Passover: Nisan 14, 3788 (Monday)
April 16, 29 Passover: Nisan 14, 3789 (Saturday)
April 5, 30 Passover: Nisan 14, 3790 (Wednesday)
March 26, 31 Passover: Nisan 14, 3791(Monday) Luke 3: 23 ——– Jesus was 30 years old when he started his ministry.
April 14, 32 Passover: Nisan 14, 3792 (Monday) John,6:4. He feed the multitude.
April 3, 33 Passover: Nisan 14, 3793 (Friday) Jh 19:31-37. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us (He was 32 years old) 1Cr 5:7.
March 22, 34 Passover: Nisan 14, 3794 (Monday)
April 11, 35 Passover: Nisan 14, 3795 (Monday)
March 30, 36 Passover: Nisan 14, 3796(Friday)
March 20, 37 Passover: Nisan 14, 3797(Wednesday)
April 7, 38 Passover: Nisan 14, 3798(Monday)
March 27, 39 Passover: Nisan 14, 3799 (Friday)
April 15, 40 Passover: Nisan 14, 3800 (Friday)
Pro 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Rom 3:3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief makes the faithfulness of God without effect?
Rom 3:4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar, as it is written: “that you may be justified in your words, and may overcome when you are judged.”
Our LORD Jesus was not born on December 25th as we have been told, now we know for sure He was born on Passover and because of that faith, the Devil will pass right over us and fall strait in to Hell were he belongs. Mt, 25:41.
Should we celebrate Christmas? “ Most certainly not “ our bible tell us that we should remember the LORD death till he comes . 1 Cr 11: 23-32.
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I’ve know June since I entered the UFMCC in 1972. She was a woman who looked you in the eye and listened. You knew, when she looked at you, at she sincerely cared about you. She was sent by God to our Fellowship so that we could experience love and peace and joy. When June entered a room, gentleness entered the room with her. What a blessing she was and is and will always be. Heaven is made more beautiful.
The Reverend June Norris was a light in my life in the 1980′s. I was at the very beginning of a very long prison sentence, and after a friend asked her to visit me she came to North Carolina’s Central Prison several times. She simply asked how I was, what was going on in my life (sadly, given the violence of prison in those days I couldn’t really say), and was a bright light in a terribly dark world.
Well over two decades later, I was able to earn my way out of prison, and had dearly hoped to look her up, and thank her for her kindness. Alas, given the difficulties of reacclimating after so many years, it took a while to track her down, only to learn she’d gone on only a short time ago.
I am sure she touched other’s lifes, but in my life she was a beacon, giving me hope in the Real World.
Thank You June.
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