Q. Grace Thru Faith has been such a blessing to me and I gain so much information from your knowledge of the scriptures.  I have a question that has been bothering me for some time now.  There are several people close to where I live who have not had a job in years and live on SSI.  I am retired and live on SS and have cut expenses as much as possible but I still tithe.  From time to time, one of these people will come to me and ask to ‘borrow’ money.  I’m not a stingy person but when these people come to me for money, I feel like they think I’m a soft touch and I feel like I’m being used.  Getting the ‘loan’ paid back isn’t the issue.  I realize that our Lord wants us to be generous but when does being generous become being used?

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Q. I have a question about Our Lord when He was on earth. I have heard it said that His knowledge or power was limited on earth according to God the Father’s discretion. That is why Jesus frequently prayed to the Father or the scriptures say, “Not even the Son of Man knows” about a particular thing. Do you agree with this?

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Q. I would like to know why Jesus was dead for three days and not one or five.  Is there a symbolic reason for three days?

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Q. In Revelation 3:10 Jesus promises the Philadelphia church that He will keep them from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.  I use this as one of my pre-trib rapture evidences of the church being spared from the judging wrath of God.  However  since it is not the last church to be addressed, how does Laodicea fit in?  Is Laodicea the apostate church?   Yet it reads like they can be saved also, so how can they come after the church that is spared?  Or are the two church types overlapping at the same time?

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Escucha, oh Jehová, mis palabras; considera mi gemir. Está atento a la voz de mi clamor, Rey mío y Dios mío, porque a ti oraré. Oh Jehová, de mañana oirás mi voz; de mañana me presentaré delante de ti, y esperaré.

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Q. Regarding the Royal Family, when I look at 1 Pet. 2:9 I first have to remind myself that Peter addressed this letter to Jews because in his salutation he addresses it to the pilgrims of the Dispersion/exiles of the Dispersion/aliens scattered/God’s elect, strangers in the world, scattered. When he states in 2:9 that you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God isn’t he talking about the children of Israel and not the Church? Wouldn’t it be the children of Israel that is the Royal Family?

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Q. In Isaiah 17, after Damascus becomes a ruinous heap, vs. 4 and on speaks of the glory of Jacob waning and the land becoming lean, etc.  Is this past or do you think Israel will once again have agricultural lack? And in Psalm 83–scholars say it is yet future.  Indeed it sure could be.  Do you think any of the ancient past wars, 1948, 1974, or 1967 would have fit that picture as well?  Or is it just future?

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Q. Who do you suppose will hear the command, the voice, and the trumpet call which are all described in I Thessalonians 4:16  “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” Will it be the dead in Christ only, all believers (dead or alive) or everyone on earth that will hear these things?  Thanks so much for your insight!

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Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing. Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

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Q. Regarding the question and answer “OSAS And Being Forced To Recant”,  does that apply to those that would accept the mark of the beast under duress?

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