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. My contributions to this thread may be taken as a public service announcement. I close my remarks with lines from the movie spoken a few hours after the rapture that go something like this: Journalist: It looks like the end of the world. Chloe Steele: No, not yet. I'm afraid this is just...

. It's sometimes objected that a truly loving, sensitive, kind-hearted god would never leave children behind to go thru the calamitous events depicted in the book of Revelation. How many children were spared the Flood? How many children were spared Sodom and Gomorrah? How many children...

. I recently viewed a 2014 movie on NetFlix starring Nicolas Cage titled "Left Behind". There was a glaring omission: nobody came back from the dead for the rapture; only living people were taken out. Something else overlooked by the movie's producers is the category of folk who are supposed to...

. I ran across an interesting story on YouTube recently. It's about a man who grew up in a Christian home and attended a Christian church. He believed that Jesus Christ died for his sins and rose again. He believed in the Spirit birth about which Jesus spoke in John 3:3-8. He was baptized in the...

. THE ELITE 144,000 So-called Replacement Theology is just another name for identity theft. Take for example the Watchtower Society's interpretation of Rev 7:1-8 wherein is listed a specific number of Hebrews taken from every tribe of the sons of Israel. The Society alleges that those aren't...

. Palm Sunday was fairly easy to predict; and from that, the wise men probably obtained a pretty good rough idea when to expect Jesus' birth. The explanation is a bit too long to post. Follow the link below for details. Palm Sunday Plus, the wise men had an advantage. According to Matt 2:12...

. ● Luke 2:25-31 . . Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ. Moved by...

. ● Luke 2:1-12a . . Now it came about in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all were proceeding to register for the census, everyone to his own...

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. SOLOMON vs JESUS ● 2Tim 3:16 . . All scripture is inspired of God Followers of Islam claim that the entirety of the Koran was given to Muhammad word for word via voice dictation; but Christians dare not make the same claim for the Old Testament, viz: though it's all inspired, it was not all...

. OF MICE AND MEN ● Luke 12:16-20 . . He spoke an illustration to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man produced well. Consequently he began reasoning within himself, saying, "What shall I do, now that I have nowhere to gather my crops?" . . . So he said, "I will do this: I will tear...

. THE BREATH OF LIFE Human existence is thought by some to be entirely organic. It's not. There's a non-organic element to human existence called the breath of life. ● Gen 2:7a . . And Jehovah God formed a man's body Mankind's creator didn't give birth to humanity like women give birth to...

. SHEOL / HADES ● Jonah 1:17 . . Jehovah appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, so that Jonah came to be in the inward parts of the fish three days and three nights. Q: Was Jonah alive in the fish? A: Yes. (Jonah 2:1) Q: The whole time? A: No. At some point in his nautical adventure...

. THE PARAKLETOS ● John 14:16-17 . . I will request the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever, the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither beholds it nor knows it. You know it, because it remains with you and is in you. ● John 14:26 ...

. UNAPROACHABLE LIGHT POSIT: It is impossible for Jesus Christ to be in heaven as a human being in the presence of God because 1Tim 6:16 says that the king of all kings dwells in an unapproachable light, whom "not one of men" has seen or can see. RESPONSE: The Greek word translated...

. THE ANOINTING ● 1 John 2:26-27 . .These things I write you about those who are trying to mislead you. And as for you, the anointing that you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to be teaching you; but, as the anointing from him is teaching you about all things, and is...

. THE LAST ADAM ● 1Cor 15:45a . . The first man Adam became a living soul. ● 1Cor 15:47 . .The first man is out of the earth and made of dust Those verses are references to Gen 2:7, which reads like this: "Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his...

. I'm not in the habit of offering unsolicited spiritual counseling on internet forums; but today I probably should. Post No.52 pertained to Christ's high priesthood. Non-anointed Jehovah's Witnesses-- a.k.a. the earthly class; viz: the hewers of wood and haulers of water, the great crowd ---do...

. LEARNING OBEDIENCE ● Heb 5:7-9 . . In the days of his flesh Christ offered up supplications and also petitions to the One who was able to save him out of death, with strong outcries and tears, and he was favorably heard for his godly fear. Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from the...

. THE FIG TREE ● Mark 11:12-13 . .The next day, when they had come out from Bethany, he became hungry. And from a distance he caught sight of a fig tree that had leaves, and he went to see whether he would perhaps find something on it. But, on coming to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it...