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Israel's Harvest Festivals: A Picture of God's Plan The scope and sequence of God's redemptive purpose is understood through the harvest festivals God commanded Israel to observe. These were not merely agricultural celebrations or religious formalities. They were prophetic patterns — visible...

Act 1:3 To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. Yet after 40 days with Jesus... this was their reply..... Act 1:6 So when they had come...

The Proclamation Before the Cross Mark 1:14-15 Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, 'The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.' This is the earliest recorded summary of...

The Gospel of the Kingdom What Jesus Proclaimed Before the Cross Many Christians grow up assuming the Kingdom of God is heaven—a destination beyond this world where believers go after death. Yet the promises made to Abraham concerned a land, a people, and a throne. After the resurrection, the...

Son of God - This title for Jesus has been given meanings and attributes that were never intended. People have erroneously used the human father-son relationship to describe this title of Jesus’. They have thought that since a human son has the actual essence (made of the same matter) of his...

Good for what? Rom 11:32 For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.

Ezekiel 28: Another Human King Another passage used to construct the Lucifer story is Ezekiel 28. First, read what God says right at the beginning: Ezekiel 28:2 Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God... yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as...

What the Text Is Not: The Absence of Satanic Biography The traditional interpretation of the subject as Satan moves beyond what the immediate text establishes — it is a theological construction rather than a direct exegetical conclusion. The text does portray something dark and adversarial at...

Most of us carry an image of Lucifer as an angel of light — radiant, proud, the most glorious of all created beings — falling from heaven like lightning. Is that image actually in the text of Isaian 14 or did tradition teach us that? Or did we bring it with us? This passage deserves to be...

Agency The foundation of our Bible is the Old Testament. It contains the first three-quarters of Scripture, and it stands to reason that if we misunderstand this Hebrew foundation, we build a system of error. The art of successful reading is generally to let the last quarter of a book agree with...

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What happens when you get a translator who mistranslates scripture? How about a translation that is the only accepted version allowed to be used? And what if that translation was the only Bible used for over 1000 years. Could one simple mistranslation alter our view on scripture for over 1000...

It's not a short story, It's called life.... Concordant OT Ecc 1:13 “It is an experience of evil Elohin [God] has given to the sons of humanity to humble them by it.” Ecc 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity5769 in their heart, yet so that man will not...

I just posted this 5 min ago... about the same subject.... So it seems to fit here too! Mat 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Name - This word of course brings to mind an actual name, such as...

Mat 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Name - This word of course brings to mind an actual name, such as John Doe. But what does it mean to a Jew. Name - 1. designates more than the external...

Part 2 Here are the clearest pieces of historical evidence: Many priests became obedient to the faith in Jerusalem itself Acts 6:7 (written c. 62–65 AD, within living memory of the events): “So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number...

Part 1 Lend Me Your Ear I would like to review one of the most pivotal stories in the New testament that I believed aided in the growth of the early Christian Church among the Jews and especially the Temple priest. One of the most overlooked yet theologically significant moments in the...

The question goes much deeper... Do we read the scriptures already thinking we know what it says or teaches before finishing the text? Has the Bible spoken to us or do we hear what we were told before we even read it? There is a habit of reading so natural it is almost invisible: we treat the...

Ezekiel 28. Before reading the poetic imagery in that chapter, read what God says right at the beginning: Ezekiel 28:2 Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God... yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. Again: thou art a man...

The four living creatures in Revelation are the same throne guardians identified as cherubim in Ezekiel, while also sharing features with the seraphim of Isaiah, indicating they belong to the highest class of heavenly beings directly surrounding God’s throne. They are Cherubim whom attend and...