Q. In your article, “The End Times According to Isaiah, Part 1″ you talk about the ritual involving the scape goat where a scarlet ribbon was tied to the temple door and to the goat, and how it turned white at the moment of the goat’s death.  I mentioned this in a Sunday School class yesterday, and someone asked me “Where did he get that info from?”  and I thought that was a fair question as we are to evaluate what our leaders say and not just take it blindly.  Can you please let me know your reference on this?  Read Post »

Q. The other day I was at work and talking to a co-worker and Israel came up about the war. He was saying that the Israelis were not being fair to the Palestinian people because it was not their land (country). He was saying to give the land back to the Palestine people. Could you put some clarity on this?  Read Post »

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

We’re beginning this installment in Isaiah 2:6 and will continue through chapter 4. Having given us a brief overview of Israel’s Kingdom Age, Isaiah will now back up to provide more detail concerning the time just preceding the 2nd Coming. Read Post »

Q. I’m curious and as always expecting the soon return of the Lord. If the current trouble in Israel and Gaza turns out to be something in any way prophetic, what in your opinion do you think we’d see and what might it be?  It could still be one of the many wars that Jesus said would occur in the last days, right? Yet anything that relates to Israel must have some value in that regard.  Also, it seems I read in the Word that Gaza once belonged to Judah. Is this correct? Read Post »

Q. There has been a lot of talk about the Isaiah 17 scenario but I was wondering if the “Burden of Moab” in Isaiah 15:1,2 could not be included in the Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 war?  I think the Moab area would be included in this conflict as well.  Any comments or thoughts would be deeply appreciated. Read Post »

Q. Thanks so much for all of the great articles, they are very much appreciated.  The latest one however had a disturbing misunderstanding of scripture which could lead to undue pain to a new Christian (or an old one for that matter).   There is nothing in the book of Job which states or leads one to believe Job was out of fellowship or being pained due to sin, or that Job had the sin of self-righteousness to deal with at all.   The self-righteousness did not come out until Job was well into the trials, and explaining himself to his “friends”.  God does not hold us accountable to confess sins we have not yet committed and would not commit if we were never given a specific trial in order to bring them out of us. Read Post »

Q. In your Ask a Bible Teacher section, I came upon this question, Why Did God Judge Eve First?, and have a question of my own.

In Genesis 3:6 – “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.”

Does “with her” mean at the time of her conversation with the serpent?   If Adam was with her, had he not already sinned by allowing her to eat of the fruit? Read Post »

Q. Genesis says that God created man and gave him dominion over the earth. Later on in scripture the role and responsibilities of the man and father are further clarified in the lives of others when traditions and roles were defined and then recorded in scripture and advocated as “the law.” My question is this, having been created in God’s image and given dominion and if Adam was the man in charge, why did God approach Eve first in addressing original sin? Read Post »

Q. Could you explain to me how the Bible doesn’t contradict itself when certain scripture says that Moses spoke to God face to face and then Jesus says that no man has ever seen God. Thank you. Read Post »

Q. I know there is no contradiction the Word of God, but in Exod. 30:1-10 and Heb. 9:1-5; articles in the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies.. do you see any contradiction? Read Post »