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What specifically does it mean to enter into a covenant with the Father, a covenant by sacrifice? “Jesus taught (Matt 7:21) that "Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father." What is that will of the Father? Paul...

Having in our previous posts (which please see) now an understanding of what it means to be “IN Christ Jesus”, the next question naturally would be, How does one get “IN Christ Jesus” in the first place? How do we get into the body of Christ? The Apostle answers that we were baptized into...

Revelation Chapter 8 “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the...

Revelation Chapter 8 Once again we would like to take a look at Verses 3-5 and the censer-bearing angel as explained in The Keys of Revelation. “And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the...

“As the Apostle Paul said to some of the Jews in his preaching: "It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles; for so the Lord hath commanded us." (Acts...

The first invitation to the feast, recounted in the parable, represents the first years of our Lord's ministry, which were specially directed toward interesting the scribes and Pharisees and Doctors of the Law, who, as the leading men of that nation, and as our Lord said, occupying Moses' seat...

“The parable represents a great feast, with a large number of friends of the host invited in advance, that they might be ready at such a time as the feast would be ready and announced. God himself is the host in this parable, and the Jewish nation were his friends to whom, as a people, he had...

A ROYAL BANQUET DECLINED (Luke 14:15-24) “Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!” Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, and sent his servant at supper...

Revelation Chapter 8 VERSE 5 “Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thundering’s, lightning’s, and an earthquake.” NOTE: Here brethren take two views of things. Many apply Verse 5 to the Jewish Harvest; some apply...

Revelation Chapter 8 VERSE 3 continued, “Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.” THEN ANOTHER ANGEL: This angel is Jesus...

Revelation Chapter 8 VERSE 3 “Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.” Why is the Incense Altar Inserted Here? Why are we...

Revelation Chapter 8 Introduction to the Seven Trumpets (Rev 8:2-6) A WORD REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS INTRODUCTION For reasons which will become more apparent when Verse 6 is discussed, it is likely that the Introduction to the Seven Trumpets is constructed something like this: Verse...

Revelation Chapter 5 VERSE 12 “saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!” “Many of the descriptions that applied originally to Jehovah can now be applied to our Lord Jesus. If we look in...

Revelation Chapter 5 VERSE 11 “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.” THEN I LOOKED: For the fourth time in this chapter (5:1, 2, 6)...

Revelation Chapter 5 VERSE 9 “And they sang a new song, saying: “You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.” “After Christ had proven worthy, all the scriptures...

Let us now examine some more texts which support the fact that our Lord was indeed a created being. Our first text comes from one we mentioned in our precious post, Col 1:15 “…who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.” What does the word born mean? The dictionary...

Was our Lord a created being? Rev 3:14 clearly states that our Lord is “the beginning of the creation of god”, but what exactly does this imply? The Scriptures inform us that all things are OF our Father; that he is the first cause of all things; and that all things are BY (or through) our...

CHRIST IN US With this thought we pass to the last of Paul's studies of our relationship to Christ. He showed that our life IN 'Christ is dependent on our having the spirit of Christ in us, for that spirit is our source of life. "If any man has not the spirit of Christ," he wrote, "he is none...

Being IN Christ Jesus was also explained by the Apostle in another series of word pictures, in the first of which the consecrated followers of the Lord are likened to members of his Body. In the twelfth chapter of the first letter to the Corinthians he used this metaphor to explain how unity in...

BEING IN JESUS CHRIST The Apostle introduced another aspect of our relationship to the Lord in the thought that we are IN him. Jesus illustrated this for us not only in the symbol of the Vine, but also in that of the Wedding Garment. The original meaning of the word translated "garment" was...