THE PURPOSES OF TESTINGS, AFFLICTIONS AND THE CHASTENING OF GOD…..FOR HIS CHILDREN PART 3 Nowadays the threatening Words of Christ to all His followers (Luke 12:45-47, 19:12-24, Matthew 25:30) or the frightening acts of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:9, 1st Corinthians 11:29-30) have no meaning in modern day Christianity. Christians have been lulled to sleep [...]
THE PURPOSES OF TESTINGS, AFFLICTIONS AND THE CHASTENING OF GOD…..FOR HIS CHILDREN PART 2 There are two groups in the “Church of God”. By this, we mean those who have feared Him and have heard the redemptive call; both Jews and Christians. The Church of Jesus Christ is part of the Church of God. (The [...]
THE PURPOSES OF TESTINGS, AFFLICTIONS AND THE CHASTENING OF GOD…..FOR HIS CHILDREN. It first should be understood that there is a great difference between enduring with faith and patience testings and afflictions… and that of being chastened of God. But they both have the same end in view, which is worthiness. Upon finishing this chapter, [...]
THE INTERMEDIATE PLACE OF THE DEAD What does dying mean? We are going to examine this thoroughly from Scripture. In other chapters we have endeavored to show from Scripture that we are a triad being; spirit soul and body (1st Thessalonians 5:23). We are a Living Soul (Nephesh in Hebrew), we have a spirit, and [...]
CONTINUING ON WITH THE THEME OF THE CONTINUITY OF PROPHETIC SCRIPTURE FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION…. Now one purpose of this book is to show the mind and purposes of God in direct line of correlation between the Writings of Torah (the first 5 books of the Bible), the Prophets, and Psalms alongside the New Testament [...]
PICKING UP AGAIN IN THE PROPHETIC WORD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN SEEING FROM THE BEGINNING WHAT IS BEING PREDICTED AND FORESHADOWED ABOUT THE END TIMES. Earlier in this chapter we began to lay some of the typical prophetic events and Words over New Testament prophetic understanding, with a primary view towards that Great End [...]
BEING SET APART / MORE TYPES AND SHADOWS IN THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS…. One clear truth brought out in the “Major and Minor” Prophets is that Israel, at some great and final point, will be purged of iniquity, and then found to be righteous in a restored kingdom. The specific great time of this [...]
PROPHECY THREADED THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ALL UNFULFILLED PROPHECY SEEN IN OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE MAIN SUBJECT BEING THE END TIMES, THE SECOND COMING, AND MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. At the time of the birth of the Messiah Jesus, the Nation of Israel was under the bondage of Rome, who was then the great [...]
THE KINGDOM COMING…. This Gospel (good news) message was given to man from the beginning. Enoch, the 7th from Adam, and Noah were among the first to minister the Everlasting Kingdom message. “And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute [...]
THE FULL PURPOSES OF THE ATONEMENT Additionally (at the risk of being repetitive) regarding this same Scriptural theme of the 2 distinct Parts of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, (with its two standings that a Christian may stand in) it should be understood that…. It was not necessary for Jesus Christ to die for a [...]