I enjoyed your feature article this week. But I’m still puzzled. Why Joplin? What did the people there do to deserve this judgment?

With the death of the controversial Jack Kervorkian, I was wondering what scripture has to say about “doctor assisted” death. One of my mother’s all time favorite expressions was “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Is it possible that Dr. Kervorkian’s “good intentions” in helping folks die while avoiding severe pain and suffering might result in a place for him in Hell? After all, no matter how you look at it, he was taking the life of one of God’s children.

In Hosea 6:2 it says, “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” Could this mean to say that after two thousand years (following Christ’s death and resurrection) that He will return to “revive us”, and during the 1000 year millennium he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight?

Would I be wrong to believe that the Jews in the Old Testament had a kind of Eternal Security? They were able,no matter what the sin to sacrifice an animal and be forgiven. If we who believe in Jesus’ sacrifice for us were to sacrifice an animal,it would be blasphemous. So if we are able to be lose our salvation for sinning, it would appear that the old covenant is better than the new covenant! Am I seeing this correctly?

Jesus told His disciples on the Mount of Olives that no one could know the day when Christ returns (Mt 24). Paul tells us in Heb. 10:25 that we will know the day Christ returns. Are they contradictory or are they referring to different events?

My best friend, who is also a Christian, is dating a Jewish boy. My youth group pastor told us that Christians are not supposed to date those aren’t committed Christians. What should I tell my friend? Should I support this relationship?

In the question Is God Using Weather To Judge Us you said:

“You can make a circumstantial case from the Bible that it had never even rained on Earth before the Great Flood. Extreme weather is one of the enduring consequences of that judgment,”

Can you develop the answer a little more? I have some difficulties in finding support in the Bible.

I live near Joplin, MO where an F5 tornado struck last weekend. Please help me because I know as I go to Joplin and help with our church I will be asked why God allowed this to happen, and I would like to be able to answer them from God’s word. We don’t know why God allows storms or stops storms or why they hit where they do. But He is in control of them and He sees the big picture and He’s God who are we to question Him, so basically I feel confused. Also there are a lot of people saying that when disaster strikes it’s God’s judgment on their sin and if that’s the case wouldn’t all of us need to take cover because we are all sinners?

A while back, I read something you wrote about Tribulation saints NOT sealed by the Holy Spirit, but recently, I happened upon something in my reading Revelation. In Chapter 9, it talks about the plague of locusts, with tails of scorpions. And the locusts are sent to sting ONLY those who DON’T have the seal of God in their forehead. (Revelation 9:4). Is that different than being sealed by the Holy spirit? If so, how?

I’ve heard the bible mentions that the world will one day accept a one-world government. Does that mean that the conspiracy theorists are right to say that the Bilderberg Group / Illuminati will be a global government, and thus the Illuminati was prophesied in Rev 13:3?