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Who Are The "Bereans" and Why Should We Care?

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The Bereans "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so" (Acts 17:10-11). In ancient times, the  Bereans  were the inhabitants of the city of  Berea , also known in the  Bible  as Beroea, now known as  Veria  in what is today Greek Macedonia,  northern Greece . The name has been taken up by certain  Protestant  groups.  ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereans ) A new Protestant Christian group began in the 1850s in the United States under the tutelage of Dr. John Thomas. The name " Christadelphian " was chosen as it is believed that those who believe and obey the  Commandments of Christ  and the Bible as the inspired word of God, are "Brethren in Christ". The original group split, with one group continuing with the name "The Christadelphians" and the second group adding the word "Berean" to become the " Berean Christadelphians ".  The word ...

Salvation at The Cross of Calvary.

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"It is Finished"! The act of Christ dying on the cross for our salvation and access to heaven justified us to God and God and His Son in dealing with the rebellion of Satan.   It is seen that for the salvation of a fallen race, the Ruler of the universe had made the greatest sacrifice which love could make.   One of the most solemn and yet most glorious truths revealed in the Bible is that of Christ’s second coming to complete the work of redemption.   To God’s people, a precious, joy inspiring hope is in His promise of His appearing again to take His people to their home in heaven.   Christ’s second coming is the very keynote of the scriptures.   From the day when Adam and Eve turned away from Eden, we have waited for the coming of Jesus to break Satan’s power on the human race and bring back Paradise.   The coming of Christ to usher in the reign of righteousness has inspired and impassioned writers from all levels from poets to prophets, t...

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT LIFE AFTER DEATH?

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  The Bible does not contradict itself and the word of God does not lie.   The scriptures all have to support each other in what they mean. King Solomon wrote: “So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.   All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. “As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.   This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: “The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.   Anyone who is among the living has hope—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion! “For the living know that the...

IS THE OLD TESTAMENT RELEVANT TODAY?

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This question can be logically answered in the Word of God.  When Christ was teaching he told the people to "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me" (John 5:39). "The Jews considered that eternal life was revealed to them in their Scriptures, and that they had it, because they had the word of God in their hands. Jesus urged them to search those Scriptures with more diligence and attention....They did indeed search the Scriptures, but it was with a view to their own glory..." ( https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/Matthew-Henry/John/John-5-39-44 ). They searched but, because they were seeking "their own glory", they could not then and do not to this day see Jesus Christ as the messiah.  On the surface, that is what this scripture is referring to, the religious Jewish authorities questioning His claim to be the Messiah. But there is a message here that goes deeper than th...

THE BIBLE AND THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF JESUS CHRIST ON EARTH, THE MELLENNIUM.

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The Christian Bible has many scriptures that talk about a period of time that will happen in our future where Jesus Christ will return to earth and reign as the King and ruler of the entire earth.  The Saints of Jesus Christ will help Jesus in this task.  This particular period is known by Christians as the "Millennium".  This will be a time that will be the start of something new that has never happened on earth before.  There is a lot of misrepresentation about this time period because the ruler of the earth at the present time, Satan , doesn't want you to understand what will happen.  The Bible scriptures tells you the truth about what will happen during this period of time. Revelation chapter 20 starts off by telling us how an angel will come down from heaven and take Satan, who has already been defeated by Jesus Christ as explained earlier in Revelation, and the angel will lay "...hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan...

HEAVEN - IS IT REAL?

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HEAVEN - IS IT REAL? This book is written and published by - Robert R. Richard Sr. Author of this Blog This is copywrited material. Printed in the United States of America. All rights are reserved. All Scripture quotaions are taken from The New King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise indicated.   PREFACE There is a polka that goes: IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER, THAT IS WHY WE DRINK IT HERE. AND WHEN WE’RE GONE FROM HERE, ALL OUR FRIENDS WILL BE DRINKING ALL OUR BEER. The reason there is no beer in heaven is because the only one who ever died and went into heaven is Jesus Christ , and I don’t think He was much of a Beer drinker. When man dies, the simple truth is, he does not go to heaven, hence the lack of beer in heaven. What does happen to man when he dies? Is there any way to really know? There is only one way to find out what happens to you when you die. That is by studying the scriptures , the word of God . If you ...