Monday, February 13, 2017
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BOOK PREVIEW - What Happens At Death
What does happen to us when we die? It’s a question that has many, including children, ask. It has crossed humanity’s finest minds since humans have been around and has been recently the subject of a number of groundbreaking scientific studies. Do you know? Do you want to know? Take a trip into the world of the deceased and understand what happens when you die!YOUR SOUL And YOUR SPIRIT.
YOUR SOUL And YOUR SPIRIT.
BOOK PREVIEW - The terms soul and spirit have been discussed at length throughout philosophy, literature, and religion.
Even scientists have ventured remarks about the soul. Often, though, soul and spirit are interpreted to mean the same thing and end up being used interchangeably. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR SOUL AND YOUR SPIRIT ARE? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY WILL BE DOING AFTER YOU DIE? READ THIS BOOK AND FIND OUT!SPIRITS, IMMORTALITY, GHOSTS
"HEAVEN IS WAITING FOR YOU!"
BOOK PREVIEW - Everyone sometime in their lifetime thinks about heaven and what it would be like to live there. Especially children, one of the first things they ask about, concerning what happens when someone dies and they are told that people go to heaven is, “What is heaven like?”.
Questions always come to mind. What will we do there? Will I recognize anyone there? Will I get bored? Will I be able to do things that I like to do now, (within reason of course)? Now you do not have to guess. Find out what heaven is really like. You will love it!Sunday, February 12, 2017
Jesus warns us that we will receive the same kind of judgment that we make of others.
Matthew 7:2
(2) For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
New King James Version
New King James Version
Jesus warns us that we will receive the same kind of judgment that we make of others. Do we really want that? That warning ought to sober any thinking person! Do we really believe God when He gives us such a stern warning?
Jesus adds another warning: Our judgment may be distorted because we may have a flaw of far greater magnitude in us than the flaw we observe so critically in our brother. The unspoken intimation is that because the flaw is ours, and we love ourselves, we are willing to be lenient in our self-judgment. By focusing our criticism on another, it enables us to avoid scrutinizing ourselves carefully and critically. Some enjoy correcting others because it makes them feel virtuous, compensating for failures in themselves that they have no desire to face. But the judgment we make about others is in reality the judgment we will receive from God.
(The Berean.org, John W. Ritenbaugh, http://www.theberean.org/)
(The Berean.org, John W. Ritenbaugh, http://www.theberean.org/)
— John W. RitenbaughJohn W. Ritenbaugh
Friday, February 10, 2017
A Key Concept for Personal Spiritual Growth Is Understanding God's Holiness.
God chose us before the foundation of the world. In Christ, He blessed us with every spiritual blessing so that we may reflect the grace of His character and seek His holiness.
Holiness is not a state of perfection that we struggle to achieve. It is continually becoming more like Jesus, a state achieved daily through the power of the Holy Spirit as we fellowship with God in prayer and through His Word. Holiness is the result of beholding the beauty of Christ’s character.
God’s holiness consists largely of two major elements. First, it includes His righteous, pure character that is intrinsically part of His nature. God cannot act contrary to His own nature; so, His actions are always righteous, pure, and just. Second, God’s holiness sets Him apart from all created beings. His love, graciousness, goodness, justice, and compassion are infinite. There is no one else like Him in the entire universe (Lev. 19:2; Ps. 47:8; 1 Pet. 1:15, 16).
Meditating upon God’s holiness leads us to reflect His holiness in our own lives (2 Cor. 3:18). Ellen G. White states clearly, “It is a law of the mind that it gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is trained to dwell.”—Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 596.
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How do we even begin to grasp the holiness of God when our nature is fallen and corrupt and His is uncompromisingly holy?
His holiness defines Him as singular and separated from the world of sin and death that we humans experience. Yet, here is the most amazing thing: God offers us the opportunity to participate in His holiness. That’s part of what a covenant relationship with Him is about. “ ‘Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: “You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy” ’ ” (Lev. 19:2, NKJV). Or, as the book of Hebrews says: “ ‘Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. . . . For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people’ ”(Heb. 8:8–10, NKJV). In these texts we can see the connection between holiness, covenant, and law. We cannot be holy apart from obeying God’s law, and we obey His law only as He Himself, the Holy Spirit, writes His law in our hearts and minds. What a sacred privilege is ours: “that we may be partakers of His holiness” (Heb. 12:10, NKJV), which we express by loving obedience to His law.
The Reality of Escaping Death.
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
ONLY AFTER JESUS RETURNS!
ONLY AFTER JESUS RETURNS!
Nobody can or will escape death. The reality is as certain as life
itself. Most are uncertain of the
meaning and interpretations of death vary considerably among Christians and
non-Christians alike.
There is a belief that the dead are really still alive and
that death simply opens a door into a larger life, unexplained but still
believed by many. There are others who
say that death is finale, that everyone who dies just cease to exist.
There are many who search for the answers to death and to
suffering and blame God saying He is the one responsible for even allowing it
to happen. That God is the one who is
the major contributor to all the pain, suffering and heartbreak in the world.
Where do the dead go?
Do they go to heaven or hell or do they just exist in a certain level of
consciousness until the God of the universe decides it is time to judge them? Can the dead communicate with us, hear us,
see us? Do the dead come back to life
sometime in the future?
The answers are contained in the story of creation and to
understand you need to follow the story from the beginning to the end of this
age.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO ENOCH?
If you take each Hebrew word from the original scripture and translate them with the most common usage, in the spirit of the rest of the scriptures, while at the same time completely ignoring secular philosophies and contemporary Doctrine, it reads, “Enoch walked God, God took”, (Chanowk halak 'elohiym 'elohiym laqach). The Hebrew word “halak” interpreted “walk” can also have the common translation, “ to live” as in “a manner of life” or “a way to live your life”. The Hebrew word “laqach” has a translation that says “to take from, take out of, take away, be removed from ”. So this verse would actually say:
- “Enoch
lived a life according to God and God eventually took him away or
removed him from that life, Enoch died."
Putting it in context with what
the rest of the scriptures teach, this interpretation of the scripture
makes more sense and is telling us that Enoch had a relationship with
God and God recognized him as a righteous person but eventually
God had to remove Enoch.
In Genesis 5:24 God is telling us that a righteous person lives his life a certain way. If you ignore the interpretation that this scripture is proof of heaven, we can see that this ties in with what Jesus was trying to tell Nicodemus in John chapter 3. Nicodemus thought that Jesus was teaching that a person had to be literally born, as in from the womb.
Jesus was actually teaching that in the Jewish sense, being born again was when one brings another person over to his way of life, to convert someone. He said that this change was not simply being baptized by water but a person had to change his spirit. He had to change the vital principal by which he feels, thinks, and decides. A person needed to change his actions and his relationship with God.
Enoch was made righteous by living his life according God’s ways. Some time in our future Jesus Christ will return to earth and set up His kingdom, here on earth. It will be at that time that Enoch will be resurrected and will once again “walk with God”.
BIBLICAL PROPHECY CLEARLY PREDICTS WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE.
"Daniel the prophet receives an intriguing prophecy from the archangel Gabriel in this passage, known as the Seventy Weeks Prophecy, for Gabriel gives a seventy-week time frame for the coming of the Messiah. He divides the first sixty-nine weeks into two periods, the first of seven weeks and the second of sixty-two weeks.
"The prophecy shows that the Messiah would die, "but not for Himself." That is in perfect agreement with the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ! He gave Himself to redeem us from our bondage to sin and death (Galatians 1:3-5; Ephesians 2:1). "Next, the prophecy says He would "confirm a covenant with many." Is this not what He did? Did He not become the Mediator of a new and better covenant (Hebrews 9:15)? When He instituted the new symbols for the Passover, Jesus says about the wine, "For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28; see Mark 14:24). "Then Gabriel prophesies that the Messiah would bring to an end to the need for ritual animal sacrifices and offerings. The writer of Hebrews plainly states, "For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins" (Hebrews 10:4). Christ's sacrifice was much more effective: "Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption" (Hebrews 9:12). "The angel says the Messiah would accomplish this "in the middle [midst, KJV] of the week." Obviously, its primary meaning refers to the middle of the seventieth week, or literally, three and a half years, the exact length of Christ's ministry. However, as we have seen, God fulfills His prophecies perfectly. Not only did Jesus' ministry last for three and a half years, but He also died on a Wednesday, the exact middle day of a week!" (Richard T. Ritenbaugh, http://www.theberean.org/) |
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- 1 Corinthians 1:26
- 1 Corinthians 15:24
- 1 Jesus Christ Admonishes Those Who Blindly Follow Teachings Of Their Religious Leaders
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- What does "the fear of the Lord" entail?
- WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL US ABOUT LIFE AFTER DEATH
- WHAT HAPPENED TO ENOCH
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