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The risen Jesus spend some 40 days with the disciples teaching them about the kingdom of God, and Jesus claimed that he was restoring God’s kingdom over the world, beginning with Israel. Jesus called Israel to live under God’s reign by following him and he was enthroned as king when he gave up...

The third rebellion in Genesis 11:19, the story of Babel, when the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, and when he fixed the borders of the peoples, according to the number of the sons of God. But the Lord’s portion, but Yahweh’s portion is his people, Jacob...

Christian’s believe the fall in the garden of Eden is why the world is the way it is, but that’s actually incomplete, what happened in Eden was just the first of three reasons why there’s so much evil and death in the world. There were actually two more supernatural rebellions, Genesis 6:1-5...

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, while he was sleeping, he took one of his sides and covered it with flesh, then the Lord God built a woman from the side he had taken from the man and he brought her to the man. In all of the history of the Hebrew language, that word...

There is a major problem here, American Dispensationalism, with the idea of the rapture, it has actually turned the idea of Jesus’ second coming into it’s opposite in the New Testament. The second coming is not Jesus coming back to scoop up some people and take them off to heaven with him. In...

On the seventh day God rests from his work, so what are these seven days about? God’s making his cosmic temple and he’s inaugurating it on the seventh day. The Israelites, they rested after Joshua brings them into the land, why, so they can get to the business of human flourishing. So God is...

In verse two of Genesis, we find a description of what we could call the blank canvas that God starts with, the pre-creation state. The earth is formless and empty and that darkness was over the surface of the deep, deep means deep waters, bottomless waters, these are ways that the ancient...

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said, let there be light and there was light, God saw that the light was good, and he separated the...

According to the Bible, the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the son of God, links you up to a story that’s already, it’s like jumping into a rushing river, we are jumping into a story that’s already midstream and has all this momentum already. So in the Bible, the idea of heaven and earth are...

We are going to see a character known as wisdom and the character is spoken of in female terms. Proverbs 8:22-31 and in chapter 8, wisdom is speaking at the beginning of the chapter, and in verse 22 The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old…then I was...

Angel of the Lord in Exodus 3:1-3, the question is, who’s in the bush? Now Moses…the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. But look at verse 4, when the Lord saw he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush. Well...

One of the more noticeable functions of the heavenly host is that they serve, at least a number of them, serve as God’s warriors, soldiers. The scripture uses military or army imagery and terminology. The members of the heavenly host get that label in certain passages, these are warriors. The...

In the Bible, reality is made up of two overlapping realms. The heavens and the earth, our space and God’s space. While life here on earth may seem ordinary, sometimes we can encounter heaven right here in our own realm, this happens a number of times in the Bible and when it does, we often...

Hebrews 12:22-24, You have come to Mount Zion, (We got sacred space, we got divine presence where God’s presence is, where his entourage is, plenty of Old Testament passages about the throne room of God.) into the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and to innumerable angels in festal...

The debate over what is hell, what is the final punishment, is it some sort of everlasting ongoing torment or is it annihilation? They’re both defensible, textually. The debate turns on how to answer the question of the death of death, Revelation 20:14-15. This is the great white throne...

Acts 8:9-13, We get a specific episode in Samaria that concerns Simon, Simon the magician. In verse 9, There was a man named Simon who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him from the...

Look at the language use to describe the Name in Isaiah 30:27. Behold, the Name of the Lord comes from afar. Looks like we’re getting language that makes the Name sound like a person. In blazing wrath with a heavy burden, his lips. The Name has lips? This language is speaking about the Name as...

Acts 8:1-3, opens with Saul approving of Stephens execution, and there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. Saul was ravaging the church and entering house after house. He dragged off men...

What was Paul thinking when he used the phrase “all Israel will be saved?” To answer this question of what Paul was thinking, we have to address three questions. One, how does Paul define “all Israel?” When Paul uses the term Israel or thinks of Israel, he isn’t excluding ethnic Jews, but he’s...

Freedom from God’s condemnation is a reality for every single believer, not because of any new found performance capabilities, but because we are made the righteousness of God in our union with his perfectly righteous son. On top of that, everything necessary to prove to us beyond any shadow of...