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  There are many Bible verses that are taken out of the context of the passage they are found in to support various Christian doctrines.   In order to understand passages, the entire passage needs to be read, and then it has to be related to the time period that the passage is referring to.   We then need to be sure that our interpretation can be verified and not denied by other passages in the Bible.   Matthew 25:46 is one of these passages.   It reads, “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”   Several questions immediately come to mind.   What time period is this talking about?   Who are “they”?   What is meant when is says that the righteous will “go away…to eternal life”?   The chapter Matthew 25 is describing the future judgment of the “nations” .   This judgment will take place immediately after the second coming of Jesus Christ.   During this time period there will ...

...IF YOU KNOW THE FACTS!     ( http://www.theberean.org/ )   FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN LIVE YOUR LIFE FREE FROM WORRY. CLICK LINK FOR FREE INFORMATION.   Ecclesiastes 7:11-14    Wisdom is good with an inheritance, And profitable to those who see the sun.  For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense, But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.  Consider the work of God; For who can make straight what He has made crooked?  In the day of prosperity be joyful, But in the day of adversity consider: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.   Solomon is comparing two powers that offer their possessors the ability to defend themselves against many of the vicissitudes of life. On the one hand is money and on the other, wisdom . Money can help one avoid and even preserve a person f...

Today the trend is to live in and conduct all our personal business without using actual physical cash.   It has been reported that North Americans pay 97% of purchases today without using money.   Instead they use some sort of credit, debit or some other plastic bank card.   This was unprecedented 60 to 80 years ago.  Technology does not have to be developed to live in a society that is described in Revelation 13:16-18.  The passage is talking about a period of time where a person will have to have some type of electronic identification if they want to "buy or sell", if they want to engage in any type of economic activity.   It is in this passage that the scriptures talk about man receiving “the mark of the beast”.   The scriptural text describes man receiving some type of mark “in their right hand or in their forehead”.   What the scripture is actually talking is about how people will act during this period of time.   “I...

There is a general outcry today about the atrocities that are happening in the Middle East, especially countries that are Muslim, and also about what is happening around the rest of the world.   There has been a major effort in the last thirty years by utilizing political maneuvering coupled with diplomatic and economic unification efforts, to set the stage for a future global government. One of the key tools that the masterminds of this global effort uses the commissioning of the scientific community to support the idea of “climate change”.   The climate in one way or another effects every nation, every human being living on earth no matter what your political agenda is.   Because of the negative consequences to all human beings, this is one thing that every nation can rally around. The scientific community does use climatic facts to support their theories.   This is why it makes their arguments so convincing.   The planet over the last decad...

King Cyrus was ruling over Babylon.   It was the third year of his reign.   The Jews were being held captive in Babylon since Jerusalem was conquered and they were taken as slaves.   One of the people taken was the prophet Daniel.   (See Daniel Chapter 10).   The prophet Daniel was concerned over the eventual fate of the Jewish nation and was earnestly praying to God for an answer to this concern.   “In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.   In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks.   I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled” (Daniel 10:1-3). Daniel had a vision from God.   He writes, “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and...