Posted July 28th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. A garden of God is mentioned in Ezekiel 28:13, is this the same garden as the Garden of Eden in Genesis?
Where did the skins come from that God used to clothe Adam and Eve? Was this the first sacrifice for sin done by the hands of God as an example to Adam and Eve of the fulfillment of His justice?
Posted July 28th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. In 2 Thess. 2 verses 6 and 7 it is speaking of the restraining and the restrainer. The commonly held belief is that in order for the Holy Spirit to stop restraining, the Church has to be gone. Why can’t He stop restraining the man of lawlessness just in obedience to the Father’s timing?
Posted July 28th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. You wrote: “According to 2 Thes. 2:7, the anti-Christ, AKA the man of lawlessness or son of perdition, can’t be revealed to begin the Great Tribulation until the “restrainer” is taken out of the way, or literally out of the midst.”
I understood that the 70th Week begins immediately after the Rapture and AC is revealed at that time because the Restrainer is removed then. The above sounds as if AC is not revealed until the Abomination, halfway through the 70th Week, or 42 months after the Rapture. So…
Relative to the Rapture, when does the 70th Week begin? When is AC revealed?
Is not the 70th Week synonymous with the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation only the last 42 months, starting with the Abomination?
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Posted July 27th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. How should we as Christians view the current war between USA and the middle east?
I’m supporting a soldier in the middle east by writing to her … then I hear people saying what about the innocents of war and why support men and women who are sent to murder and kill? Whats Gods view on all this? Isn’t this war part of end times prophecy?
Posted July 27th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. I have a question I’ve wondered about for a number of years. I have been an intercessor and have always considered it a calling of the Lord to pray in intercession for others. I understood early on in my Christian walk the importance of prayer and have seen a great many of those prayers answered. To God goes the glory for those answered prayers. I seem to know things about a person when I pray for them that I had not known before and I am sure the Holy Spirit gives me what to pray at those times. Is this a calling from the Lord or a gift of the Holy Spirit or both?
Posted July 27th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. I have a question on Wheels with eyes in Ezekiel 1:15-21. While I was studying Ezekiel I came across this, and was completely perplexed. I think most of the commentators are too, because the 2 commentaries I’ve read, don’t have anything to say about it really, except that the rims full of eyes symbolize the all seeing nature of God. So, my question is, what are the wheels, what do they symbolize, what significance do they have in the passage?
Posted July 27th, 2009 in Estudios Biblicos En Espanol
Un Estudio Bíblico por Jack Kelley
En una referencia a los “nueve días” que culminan en Tisha B’Av, los rabinos le dicen al Presidente de los EE.UU., Obama, que “durante estos días, en los cuales el pueblo Judío lamenta la destrucción de Jerusalén y traen a ingrata memoria a sus destructores, estamos seguros que usted, Sr. Barak Obama, no desea pertenecer a la desacreditada lista de todos aquellos que han levantado su mano para castigar a Jerusalén y a quienes moran allí”.
Posted July 26th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. I was just reading one of your lessons, and the writer was concerned about class differences in heaven based on our works for the Kingdom after we are saved.
I recalled the parable Jesus taught about the workers who were hired late in the afternoon receiving a penny, the same wage as those who went to work early in the morning. The early birds complained, but the owner of the field said it was his field and his money, and he could pay whatever he wished to whomever he wished.
It seems to me that this teaches that the Blessed will not make invidious comparisons regarding who gets the most rewards in the Kingdom or Eternity. What do you think?
Posted July 26th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Mr. Kelley,
Thanks as always for your time and teaching.
Q. I have a question about Psalm 33 and Genesis 18. In Psalm 33 it states that God sees all of mankind from Heaven. He is able to view and know every man and woman’s thoughts, feelings, etc. There are a number of other places that say as much as well, this is just the one I remembered the Book and chapter for.
In Genesis 18:20-21 He says that He is going down to look at Sodom and Gomorrah to see if the sin and wickedness is as bad as the outcry that has reached Him.
Why? Why would He need to go and see in person when He can see from Heaven?
Posted July 26th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. Most people want to know about who’ll they’ll remember or see. My question is about our personalities. I’m not one for wanting to be around crowds. As for here on earth, being left alone with my bride and son on our homestead with our animals and garden suits me fine. Then there’s the time I spend with Jesus Christ alone with my bow chasing game to hunt or fish. Others might want to race about the universe but not me. There’s no marriages in heaven so my family won’t be together. Since there’s probably no killing in heaven I guess hunt’n and fish’n are out. The things the Lord has blessed me with here on earth probably won’t be available so would I have to reinvent who I am ?
