Archive for January, 2008

Questions From The Ezekiel Study

If your supposition is correct that the Lord deals with the Church and the nation of Israel separately, and if Psalm 83 (possibly Isaiah 17) and the battle described in Ezekiel are separate events, then could it be that the rapture should happen before both occur?

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Where’s The Temple Going To Be?

Your article “the Coming Temple” mentions it being where a Tabernacle once stood in Shiloh but I don’t see how this can really take the place of where the Temple of Solomon came to be built.

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A Virgin Or A Young Woman?

Orthodox Jews claim that Matthew 1:23 misquoted Isiah 7:14. They say that word “Alma” means young woman and not a virgin. And the word for virgin is “Besula”. Is that true?

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Increasing Knowledge

A recent article states archaeologists have found and verified parts of Nehemiah’s wall in the area of the Temple Mount. Does this fulfill any end times prophecy?? Thanks for your insight.

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Spirit And Truth

Our worship director indicated that he is going to be bringing more visual arts into worship so that there are additional means for the range of worshipers to express themselves. He thinks our church is too focused on head knowledge and not enough on expressive worship.

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Still Hurting. Still Angry?

I’m trying to help a friend who is having this issue - He and his dad have had a rocky relationship in the past, he has forgiven his dad for past events but his dad keeps talking about the past to sort of joke about the negative events. It hurts my friend very much having to relive these things.

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Breaking Bread

Could you please explain to me the simplicity of “Breaking of Bread” of the early church compared to the diversity of modern denominations? Of what I understand, it is a get together on the first day of the week. Saturday evening or Sunday morning. How did the first church actually keep Jesus’ commandment?

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The Transfiguration

Could you please explain (Matt. 16:28) to me. Isn’t Jesus speaking to the disciples when he says “some of you standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom”? Is that the Second Coming or is it something else?

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Form Without Substance

My question concerns 2 Timothy 3:1-5. It explains the last days and the behavior of those in the world, but I don’t understand verse 5, “having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof”. To whom does this refer?

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Did Elijah Go To Heaven before Jesus?

I was reading through John last night and had a question about John 3 v 13. “No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven­, the Son of Man.” How can that be when 2 Kings 2 vs 11 says Elijah went up to heaven?

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