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The Coming Temple Revisited

Published: August 18, 2021
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If the Tribulation period is to be seven years long, and if there is to be a Temple that the Anti-Christ will use (and abuse), how can a Temple be built in such a short period of time? Didn’t Herod’s Temple take about 40 years to be built? You have also indicated that you think the Temple may be built in Shiloh. Can you elaborate on that?


Believer To Follower

Published: August 17, 2021
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I have a question about verse Luke 9:23. Is this verse talking about sanctification? or eternal salvation? And finally, what are we to deny ourselves? Thank you for your time.


Becoming Who We Are

Published: August 17, 2021
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While reading Philippians 2:14-16, this verse says we are to do everything without complaining. Other versions use arguing, disputing, and grumbling. My question about this verse is: Is Paul saying that we must do everything without complaining or arguing so that we can be blameless and children of light while living in a warped and crooked generation? How do you interpret this verse?


More On The Sabbath

Published: August 16, 2021
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Re: Why Do You Do What Is Unlawful On The Sabbath? I wonder what made you want to write about the seventh day? After all it’s one of the 10 commands we have as guide lines for our lives. Clearly the fourth command upsets many and many will one day wonder why they made such a feast of trying to ignore it. There’s no other command that seems to attract as much reasoning why not to keep it as this one. The Catholics have tried to change everything that may link to the Jewish upholding of feasts, days, and times etal. More the reason to agree with our Father.

To those who delete from His scriptures He will delete from their future and to those who add they will receive the plagues.


What’s The Difference?

Published: August 13, 2021
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What is the difference between seeking the kingdom (Matt. 6.33) , and seeking God (Psalm 34.10) and how do we know when we have achieved these things to God’s satisfaction? In other words we have fulfilled the conditions so that God can begin to bless.


Unlawful On The Sabbath, Follow Up

Published: August 13, 2021
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I read the article “Why Do You Do What Is Unlawful On The Sabbath?” My question is then do we have to keep the sabbath day which is Saturday as our day of worship?


How Could He Have Known?

Published: August 12, 2021
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In John 3:10, when Jesus asked Nicodemus, “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?” What things is Jesus referring to? If He is referring to being born again, how could Nicodemus have known? Isn’t this the first time the phrase “born again” was used in history?


Are Fish and Shellfish OK To Eat?

Published: August 12, 2021
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Can you please explain about eating fish? As in Deuteronomy, we may eat all water animals that has both fins and scales on it. But current studies talk about the danger of eating fish which has medium to high mercury content. So, It contradicts the word of GOD. Also, can we eat prawns & lobsters, because they don’t have scales & fins. Are they detestable? Kindly explain. It bothers me a lot.


Our Sabbath Rest

Published: August 12, 2021
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But every Church I go to has a different teaching about the Sabbath. One says we don’t need to keep it. Another says Jesus is our Sabbath so we keep it whether we rest on a day or not. Even another says that we can keep it if we want to, and disregard it if we would rather do that. Imagine the confusion we laypeople go through. We don’t have time to become famous Bible expositors. Who is correct about the Sabbath?


Atonement

Published: August 11, 2021
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What do you think of this saying:

“the atonement is at-one-ment. It makes us one with God.”

Atonement is the sacrifice that paid the sin debt. But does it alone, really make us one with God? Isn’t justification the point in time in which we become one with God?