Q. God Bless you and your ministry. You have helped me and countless others to grow in an understanding of God’s Word, and I thank you.

I also believe that not everyone has the same Spiritual Gifts, and that God gives them according to His perfect will; I also believe that our gifts don’t change, but that God sometimes gives us a gift we don’t have to fulfill a specific purpose. But I was reading I Corinthians 12 and found something that confused me. Verse 31 says,” But earnestly desire the greater gifts.” Also, I Cor. 14:1 says, “Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.”

When he said “desire the greater gifts” and “especially that you may prophesy” was he speaking to those who didn’t know what their gifts are? Or am I missing something? Thanks in advance for your help! Read Post »

Q. Thank you very much for your time and dedication to this site. I love the new lay-out, which has enabled me to easily find answers to questions when I become stumped on something.

I can’t seem to find an answer to this question. In ( 1 Thessalonians 4:16 and 1 Corinthians 15:52 ), the verses reference the dead rising first during the rapture. I don’t believe in soul-sleep, so I am confused by the word “dead.” When I try to make sense of it by thinking those verses refer to the dead, but saved in Christ, rising first and the church being caught up second, I’m confused as to why God would want to raise up dead bodies. Do you know what I mean? I don’t think God has an interest in raising our physical bodies, many of whom have been cremated, so what is going to be raised up if the souls are already in Heaven? Thanks so much for your help! Read Post »

Q. I was reading about a new book on (a popular Christian news service)  that cites the Book of Enoch, concerning the return of the Nephilim, possibly this year. I do not know if Enoch had written any book, but I can’t help wondering.  Enoch supposedly says that at the 70 generations of 70 years is set to expire. What are your thoughts on this theory, and the Book of Enoch? Read Post »

Q. I was watching (a well known TV preacher) while He and his guest were discussing Communion, and how it can be taken daily to heal our infirmities. Now, I believe that God does indeed heal today, but the way they presented it made me think that they were using Communion as a tonic. I covet your thoughts please. Read Post »

Q. I am teaching Revelation in an adult Sunday school class. I am confounded by the different opinions on the 144000. Some say they are the same as chapter 7 and some say they are from the church ( your articles on rev support the latter ). My question is why would the church be mentioned at this point in the book of revelation. Being at the mid point of the tribulation, the two witnesses have been killed and raised from the dead and taken into heaven….why not the 144000 Jews of ch.7 also? Read Post »

Q. I was wondering why, seeing as baptism was not performed in Old Testament times, John the baptist started to baptize people to symbolize their repentance.  I know in the New Testament Jesus instructs people to be baptised in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, but John came before Jesus. Read Post »

Q. I have two questions about this verse: “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?” My first question is,why Jesus imply to ask the Holy Spirit from God,if the Spirit is already sealed in us by God when we first believed? Read Post »

Q. The Bible is very clear that I, as a Born again believer have been passed from eternal death unto eternal life right now because Jesus took all my sins, including future sins,  to the Cross and dealt with them there once for all, never to bring them up again to my presence for ever.

The above being the truth,  as also given in  Rom. 8:1,  why is 1 John 1:9 applied to born again believers as well? Read Post »

Q. Do you believe that there are such things that God does not want us to have in our homes? and is there anything in the bible on this? The  reason i ask is my husband loves lego and i know he would really like the lego model of the Taj Mahal, however beacuse it is a muslim temple we are not sure whether this is something that we should have in our home? Read Post »

Q. I wish Pastors and teachers would abolish the phrase “once saved always saved” it going to send a lot of people to hell. They don’t teach that if you go back to that life style and stay there, you are not saved. They go right back to the sinful life style thinking that they are locked into salvation. I was in a bible study that taught that, it didn’t sit right with my spirit so I got out of it. Read Post »