What If My Enemy Is A Believer?
Published: August 20, 2014I read your commentary on Psalm 21 with much encouragement. But I have a question. You wrote, “Our enemies will be vanquished and required to admit in our presence that we were right and they were wrong. They’ll suffer the consequences of their behavior, while we enjoy the rewards of ours.”
I’m wondering if this will be true if one’s “enemy” is a professed believer? Specifically, I have had a run-in with two people who claim the name of Christ with outspoken piety, yet every time their lips are moving, they are gossiping, slandering, and lying about other believers. My thought is to put them “out of the church” as publicans and heathens, in hopes that they will repent, but others see it differently, and tell me to forgive and reconcile. Any advice?
Who Populates the Earth?
Published: August 19, 2014I have a question about the sheep from the sheep and goat judgments. The sheep are ushered into the Kingdom and eternal life after the judgment. Would these people not be immortal since they have eternal life? I am having trouble figuring out where the mortals who repopulate the millennium come from. Are not all tribulation believers given eternal life and therefore no longer mortal?
Were Immortal Children Possible?
Published: August 19, 2014My question is could Adam and Eve have had children before they sinned and became mortal? What would the ramifications of this be today? Thanks!
Who Is The Church?
Published: August 19, 2014Who is the Church? What church or group of people will be raptured? Some churches claim that they are the true church and that they are the one’s who are going to be raptured, and they use the reference in Revelation 3:10. Why is it so important to join a church? Most of them are not righteous. I don’t think God’s church is in one or two locations. I think the church is scattered all over the world consisting of righteous people who believe in Jesus Christ and know that he will come soon. What does the Bible say about my opinion of these issues?
Can A Person Who Denies OSAS Be Saved?
Published: August 18, 2014The subject of OSAS came up in an internet group I belong to. The group leaders say they believe in OSAS and I definitely agree with that. But they say if a born again believer thinks a Christian could walk away from God, then they don’t believe the whole truth of the Bible, are making God out to be a liar and therefore, they are lost. I personally don’t believe a person is lost just because they don’t subscribe to OSAS just as I don’t believe a person is lost if they believe in a mid-trib rapture. What do you think?
Another Dual Covenant Teaching
Published: August 18, 2014I have been watching a beautiful study on the typology of Joseph, specifically how his brothers killed the goat to put blood on Joseph’s tunic and even though they meant it for evil God only saw the blood and counted it as a sacrifice for what they had done. Fast forward to the Pharisees yelling “let His blood be on our hands and our children” likewise they meant it for evil but The Sacrifice was applied to them. This is very interesting to me because I see God had to choose a people to carry out His will and blinded them to do so. It seems that in the fulfilling of God’s will He made sure the Jewish people were counted among the saved. I don’t know if this is the case but I hope it is.
How Did It Happen?
Published: August 18, 2014I know I am saved, but I don’t know how it happened. I am hoping you can help me understand. Paul tells us we were included in Christ when we heard the word of truth the Gospel of our salvation, and having believed, we were sealed with the Holy Spirit, the guarantee of our inheritance. I believe and have accepted this. However, in 1 Cor. 2:14 Paul also said “The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” and in 1 Cor. 12:3 “… and no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except in the Holy Spirit.” Do we first need to seek the truth about Jesus? Does the Holy Spirit then come to us, work on us, and enable us to truly believe in Jesus? Is it only when we finally accept the whole truth that we are sealed with the Holy Spirit?
Reconciling Secular Perceptions With Prophecy
Published: August 18, 2014Imagine you own a business, an international company. Imagine you employ hundreds of people and millions of others rely on your product or service. Now, imagine you are a Christian and you know what is coming down the pike because of your knowledge of prophecy.
Imagine your company needs to be competitive to stay in business, and that you need to develop long term strategies in order to insure its future longevity. As a Christian, what do you do? How do you reconcile one vision, business, with the other, prophetic?
Work For The Lord. Get Paid Twice.
Published: August 17, 2014Do you think there is any chance of a future or anything? I keep thinking of Jeremiah 29:11 whenever I think about a career, but when I see the world collapsing I wonder if anything is worth it anymore. I’m basically praying for Him to return soon but remember I still have work to do and such ministry wise with my photography projects and whatever career door opens up. I am honestly running out of options and have hit one of those road signs that says either continue here and hit the same bumps again or go there and everything will fall into place since everything happens for a reason.
OSAS And Rev. 3:5
Published: August 17, 2014I firmly believe in once saved always saved, and the verses that once led me to doubt it, for the most part, have been explained to me. However there is one verse that I still can’t get my mind around, and that is Rev. 3:5. Now I know that we are not supposed to take one scripture and use it to disprove the many that say otherwise, yet since Rev 3 is talking to the churches, how do we explain that we have everlasting life if our names can be blotted out?