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Acts chapter 17, it is where Paul and his co-worker Silas went to the ancient Greek city of Thessalonica, and after just one mouth of telling people the good news about Jesus, a large number of Jewish and Greek people gave their allegiance to Jesus and they form the first church community there...

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...

We are God’s new temple and our foundation is of the most holy faith, which refers to the core message of good news about Jesus’ life, death and resurrection for our sins. On that foundation, the integrity of this building will be maintained by staying alert for the return of Jesus to bring his...

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...

You are eternally is secure, if you believe, you will have eternal life if you believe the gospel, you don’t merit salvation. If you do not believe, by definition you’re not a believer. Conditions are going to be oriented not around behavior, conditions are always going to be fluttering around...

Page one of the Bible and the first person we meet there is God, he’s the one with authority over all creation. He speaks and creation obeys and he defines what is good and not good, he alone is king. But then surprisingly, as the pinnacle of all of God’s creative work, he makes humans and he...

Revelation 1:4, the phrase that we get in verse four and that is, “Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come,” this phrase gets repeated in verse 8, “I am the Alpha and the Omega says the Lord God who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty,” the phrase “him...

Judah was one of Jesus’ four brothers who are named in the gospel accounts, none of the brothers followed Jesus as the Messiah before his death, but afterwards they saw him alive from the dead and then because his disciples. Judah ties Jesus to that ANGEL in the Old Testament!

Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Hear O Israel, the LORD is our God, the Lord is one, and as for you, you shall love the LORD your God with all of your heart, with all of your soul, and with all of your strength. Look at the second day word here, LORD, written in all capital letters, this is the personal name...

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...