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"I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only." (Psalm 71:16) The tears and sorrows and battlings in strife against the world, the flesh, and the devil are all very necessary in the present time. We should neither hope nor expect to be...

Yes, the Bible does teach there is a difference between being a friend of God or a son of God. This distinction can be found in both the Old and New Testaments. Isaiah 41:8 (NIV), “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you descendants of Abraham my friend…” James 2:23 (ESV)...

In Matt. 24:37-39 Jesus gives a strong proof of the fact that mankind would not physically see Him in His Second Advent: "As were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming [Greek, parousia, presence, margin] of the Son of man. For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and...

The thought implied in this verse is that our Lord's Return would be thief-like in its manner (1 Thes. 5:1-6; 2 Pet. 3:10; Rev. 16:15). When a thief comes to break into a house, does he carry a bright light and blow a trumpet, shouting to the people, "Hello, you people! Wake up! I am coming to...

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3: 16 This is a wonderful verse, and is all the more wonderful when we understand of the lengths and breadths and heights and depths of the Divine...

ACCORDING to the creeds, Jesus is to return visibly to the physical eyes of mankind, riding upon a literal cloud, blowing a literal trumpet, shining with a dazzling literal light and blasting the literal universe into atoms. Usually this view of the manner of His Return, His Second Advent, is...

Jesus said he had come to seek and save that which was lost. Adam by disobedience had lost life, the right to life, and a perfect environment to sustain life. Adam no longer reflected in his character the image and likeness of his creator as originally bestowed. He did not lose heaven, for he...

Not only the living will benefit in the Millennium and have an opportunity for the earthly salvation. Paul speaks of "God our Savior, whose will it is that all men should find salvation and come to know the truth." Those who died without this knowledge must therefore be awakened from the dead if...

In Ex. 3:14 God identified Himself to Moses as “I AM THAT I AM” AND "I AM’; and in John 8:58 Jesus said, “Before Abraham was I am.” Some try to draw the conclusion that Jesus was claiming to be the God of the Old Testament, because they both use the same expression “I am.” But the Apostle Paul...

In Genesis 1:26 we read: “God said, Let us make man in our image.” Who are referred to here by the words us and our? The words “God said” prove that the Father only is the Speaker. Obviously He spoke thus to His “only begotten Son,” the Logos, the precarnate Lord Jesus (Psa. 89:27; Prov. 8:22...

There are, generally speaking, three kinds of sin: (1) Sins of weakness and/or ignorance, sometimes call venial sins: “He that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes” (Luke 12:48); “I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers”...

What is meant by Satan’s being” loosed a little season” (Rev. 20:3, 7) after the 1000 years are fulfilled? As Satan’s imprisonment means his being in error and away from any contact with the race on earth, his loosing would imply his being brought back into touch with the race and finding out...

"... the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life ..." "... by grace are ye saved ..." Romans 6:23; Ephesians 2:8 Salvation from the death sentence is God’s gift, because God sent his own son to bear the death penalty for man. (John 3:16) But doesn’t salvation require the...

WITHIN recent years there has been a considerable upsurge of interest, especially among Fundamentalist Christians, in Jesus' Second Coming and His Thousand-year Reign over the earth with His Church. This upsurge has been caused mainly by the signs of the times, which demonstrate that we are...

"The times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send Jesus Christ … whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:19-21) DO YOU KNOW: That...

We often hear Bible Believing Christians say: “Well, it doesn't make a difference what you believe, as long as you're honest and do the best you know how.” But a careful study of the Scriptures will convince anyone that Our Lord and the Apostles thought differently: Come now, and let us...

Below are some scriptures that prove that man is NOT immortal or possesses an immortal soul. "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7) "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of...

THE word "Ransom" is used in respect to the purchase-price of humanity and also in connection with the deliverance of mankind after having been purchased by that price. As an illustration of the two uses of the word, I'll give two texts of Scripture: "Who gave himself a Ransom for all, to be...

The term “little flock” is found in Luke 12:32. In this connection we should keep in mind that the time—in the Millennial Age—has not yet come for the world’s conversion. If God has been trying to convert the world during the Gospel Age and previously, He has signally failed; for the heathen...

"For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment." - 2 Pet. 2:4—Holman margin)? The noun tartarus, or tartaros, was used in Grecian mythology as the name for a dark abyss or prison in which...