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Hello @Sister-in-Christ, * The Gospels record the birth of Israel's King, His proclamation, and rejection by Israel in the land: His sacrificial death, burial, quickening, and resurrection. The book of Acts records His ascension, His proclamation by 'them that heard Him', and by those Apostles...

Hello there, I read the following today, and thought it worth entering on the forum for consideration:- We must not take Truth belonging to a past economy (or dispensation) and interpret it of the present. If we do we at once put ourselves under the Law, to which we died, in Christ, and from...

Hello @David in NJ, The two verses that you referred me to, in Isaiah:- 49:8, and 42:6-7, were on my mind last night, with the obvious prophetic reference to the Lord Jesus Christ, Whom as the Messiah would come unto Israel, 'for a covenant of the people' . The whole chapter (ch.49) is a...

Subject Heading:- 'The Gospels Are Not New Testament' Hello there, @Doug, The last of the prophetic books of the Old Testament looks ahead to the coming of John the Baptist, and in the first gospel record, the gospel of Matthew, we immediately see the person of John the Baptist as the...

'I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;' To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.'...

'But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfilled. .. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, .... that your sins may be blotted out, ...... when the times of refreshing shall come ........ from the presence of...

Hello @Doug, Thank you for your explanation. In Christ Jesus Chris

Hello @Doug, The whole of the four Gospels are a continuation of the Old Testament, in which the Kingdom was proclaimed and afterwards rejected. In Christ Jesus Chris

Subject Heading:- ' The Gospels Are Not New Testament' 'Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the...

Hello @The Gospel of Christ This is not what @Doug is saying. Please do not use false accusations. Instead, take time to consider what is really being said. In Christ Jesus Chris

'Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that...

Thank you, Doug. Praise God! In Christ Jesus Chris

'Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from My God: and I will write upon him My new name.'...

Hello @Scott Downey, The following references show three spheres. ' The earth', 'A heavenly city', and 'far above all heavens', in Christ Jesus. All three linked to inheritance. (1) 'For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it...

Subject Heading:- 'The Jerusalem which is above is the heavenly city of promise which God has prepared for His saints.' Hello there, @ScottDowney, Looking through the thread it is apparent that there are many differing views regarding this subject: I too differ from you in this regard. There...

'Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.' (2Tim. 1:13) Those 'sound words' are written on the pages of Scripture for us to read and digest for ourselves. If our minds are stayed on what is written, then no false doctrine...

'... ... ... Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ: Whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.' (1Cor. 15:15) In the verse above, Paul gives a clear picture of what false doctrine is, in this case, as the...

'But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received...

'For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.' (2Co.11:4 ) 'I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you...

'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.' (Joh 3:16-17) For the wages of sin is...