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Do Not Miss the Boat

Posted by Darrell in Christian on August 31, 2010

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But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe  entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:37-39

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What did the early Bible commentators understand that today’s Preachers and Evangelists miss?

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Deuteronomy 31:24-26 …’ And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.’

Exodus 40:20 …’ And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:’……Note from these two verses above, that the stone tablets (The Testimony) on which were written the Ten Commandments were placed INSIDE the ark, yet the book of the law by Moses, was placed in a pocked BESIDE the ark. This also shows a distinct separation between the two laws.

2 Chronicles 33:8 ….’ Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.’ ….That word ‘and’ separates the two laws…. The Ten Commandments and the Laws of Moses.

Take a look at the above verse from Deuteronomy 31, where it says ..’that it may be there for a witness against thee.’ This is talking about the ‘book’ of the law, not the Ten Commandments. Now take a look at the following verse from the New Testament:

Colossians 2:14 …' Blotting out the handwriting  of
ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and  took it out of the way, nailing it to
his cross;'
..Notice a couple of things from this verse. The Handwriting of
ordinances were the laws of Moses, which contained the ceremonial
laws and it was these laws that were against us,
NOT the Ten  Commandments. It was the laws of Moses that were taken
out of the way by Jesus Christ, being nailed to the Cross.

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Three last points from the last book in the Bible are:

“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 12:17

“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” Revelation 14:12

And from the very last page of the very last book :

“Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” Revelation 22:14

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What Does the Bible Say?

When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. Revelation 6:7-8

As we’re told in the passage above, one fourth of the world’s population will die during this time period, because of war, famine, plague, and wild beasts… all unleashed on the world as the first of many judgments from God.

Considering that this is the first massive loss of life in the end times, the opening of the Fourth Seal appears to be when the “Time of Wrath” — as prophecied in the Book of Daniel — begins. Daniel states, the Time of Wrath is when the Antichrist comes to power.

The Bible tells us, in Isaiah:

Isaiah 26:9 – …When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

Jesus Christ – the King of Kings

The Time of Wrath is coming onto the world to essentially serve 2 purposes. The first is to eventually destroy all evil and all unbelievers and to put the nations of the world under the feet of Christ, who will take control of the world with his armies as the “King of Kings and Lord of Lords”.

The second purpose of the Time of Wrath, just as the passage above in Isaiah reads, is to teach the people to fear the Lord and learn righteousness.

There are many people in Christianity today who are not walking in true faith. These are Christians who Jesus warns multiples times in chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation to repent. Jesus even says, “Because you are lukewarm — neither hot nor cold — I am going to spit you out of my mouth.”

God will Judge

As revealed in Hebrews 10:26-31, it is a terrible thing to proclaim Christ in your life, and then to fall away back into the sinful ways of man. God promises to bring wrath. Hebrews 10:26-31 states that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, and that God will judge his people.

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Many Christians today are walking on a false sense of security and their entire world is going to come crashing away under their feet when the Time of Wrath begins and they realize that all the warnings in the Bible to turn from their sin are absolutely true. God hates sin. But God forgives our sin when we believe in Jesus Christ, and follow the commands of God. Ask for the Holy Spirit. God is faithful to give his spirit to all who turn to him in repentance.

Repentance

It’s not hard to stay in repentance, if you let the Holy Spirit take complete control of every area of your life, and you make the decision to live by the Word of God (the teachings of the Holy Bible all Christians are commanded to follow.)

Following Jesus is not an option. It is a command.

I don’t know if you have ever walked as a true Christian in the past… If you have, look at your life for a moment… Have there been any hard times in your life since that day you first started praying to God, and maybe you thought you had a relationship with Jesus Christ?… Pay attention to the hard times that have happened in your life. This could be God trying to wake you up and tell you that you are not walking the walk, or walking in the faith.

In Revelation 3:19, Jesus says, “Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.”

Again I say… look at the things happening in your life…

Is God trying to wake you up?

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1 John 1:5 reads:

“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”

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1 John 2:3 reads:

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“We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.”

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And finally, 1 John 2:9, reads:

“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.”

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If you’re not sure if you’re walking in true faith, and if you’re tired of having darkness control any areas of your life, please pick up the Bible and read in the Word of God how you can be saved, and how you can let the Holy Spirit take complete control of your life, so that you’re trained in the ways of God and not in the traditions of men.

Jesus will bring you through the wrath that will come over the world.

When the Fourth Seal of Revelation 6 is opened, it is going to take most of the world by surprise. Everything we know is going to change in many unexpected, destructive, and terrifying ways.

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Of course, those walking in true faith and holding firmly to the commands of God have nothing to fear. How many commands? Christians want to fight to keep God’s Commandments public view, but they can’t seem to remember them!

They lift up the Commandments without any intention of honoring them completely—the very definition of a form of godliness without power.

Shouldn’t Christians be more concerned about obeying those Commandments than making them a historical display on the walls in our halls of justice? Shouldn’t we stop treating God’s law as an idol of government, but instead as the living, fulfilled testimony of Jesus Christ?

God’s commandments need not be followed for our salvation. Because of Jesus and what He did for us at the cross, it’s an automatic process of a true Christian to obey His commandments.
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Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Revelation 11:14-19 Before the sounding of the seventh and last trumpet, there is the usual demand of attention. The saints and angels in heaven know the right of our God and Savior to rule over all the world. But the nations met God’s wrath with their own anger. It was a time in which he was beginning to reward his people’s faithful services, and sufferings; and their enemies fretted against God, and so increased their guilt, and hastened their destruction. By the opening the temple of God in heaven, may be meant, that there was a more free communication between heaven and earth; prayer and praises more freely and frequently going up, graces and blessings plentifully coming down. But it rather seems to refer to the church of God on earth. In the reign of antichrist, God’s law was laid aside, and made void by traditions and decrees; the Scriptures were locked up from the people, but now they are brought to the view of all. This, like the ark, is a token of the presence of God returned to his people, and his favour toward them in Jesus Christ, as the Propitiation for their sins. The great blessing of the Reformation was attended with very awful providences; as by terrible things in righteousness God answered the prayers presented in his holy temple now opened.

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   “This ‘handwriting of ordinances’ our Lord did blot out, take away, and nail to His cross (Colossians 2:14). But the moral law contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away… The moral law stands on an entirely different foundation from the ceremonial or ritual law… Every part of this law must remain in force upon all mankind and in all ages.” John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions, 2-Vol. Edition, Vol. I, pages 221-222. Powered by Hackadelic Sliding Notes 1.6.4

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The 144,000

Posted by Darrell in Christian on July 4, 2010

The DayIn religious matters, sources of information available to us reveals that the majority has always been wrong.
The ones that were correct was always a very small group or the minority. Just like Noah and the other 7 persons that were on the ark.

Noah preached for 120 years that the flood was coming. The majority of the people didn’t believe him. There may have been millions of people alive at that time and they all died without knowing God. The 8 people on the ark are the only ones that made it.

The Bible tells us that the 144,000 are people who have the seal of the Living God and do 2 things. They follow God’s Commandments and follow Jesus Christ. Revelation 12:17, Revelation 14:12.

The number is represented by 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of Israel: Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin.

The Bible says in Revelation 14:4 “They are not defiled by women; for they are virgins.”
This does not mean that they are celibate (have no sexual relations), or that they are unmarried Jews.
(This would go against Paul’s teachings in 1 Tim 4: 1, 3) A woman in the book of Revelation is a symbol of a church (Rev 17.)  So the meaning is that they are not defiled by an apostate church.

The 144,000 represent a final remnant of God’s Israel in Spirit (Spiritual Israel) and will still be alive when Jesus returns in the clouds. They won’t be defiled by deceptions and false prophecies. They will have been transformed into “Spiritual Israel” (just like Jacob was transformed and his name was changed), and have come out of spiritual Babylon.  Revelation 18:4-8  They will not live like the rest of the World, God is first place in their lives.

And there shall be a time of trouble, Such as never was since there was a nation, Even to that time. And at that time your people shall be delivered, Every one who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:1, 2

The 144,000 will serve the same purpose as the 12 Apostles

Evidently, this great multitude who come out of great tribulation are converted under the preaching and influence of the 144,000. Shortly after Pentecost, the 12 apostles reached a great multitude, then there followed a great persecution (Acts 8:1). Shortly after the Holy Spirit is poured out on the 144,000, a great multitude will be converted and then comes the great tribulation.

We are to love our Jewish brothers and sisters, but people are wrong in keeping an eye on the middle eastern city of Israel. They are thinking just like the people that didn’t know or recognize that Jesus was talking in a spiritual sense and not a literal sense.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit Romans 2:28,29

Remember Galatians 3:29 We are all Abraham’s seed. All true Christian’s are Spiritual Israelites. In Exodus 19:6 we see “And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”

The book of James says this: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad, greetings James 1:1

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Prophecies Fulfilled by Jesus about the Messiah

Posted by Darrell in Christian on May 30, 2010

BibleThen He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.” Luke 24:44 (NKJV)

Here are some Old Testament prophecy verses; and the verses in the New Testament that fulfilled them.

A Study in the messianic prophecies from the Old Testament proves their fulfillment in the person of Jesus Christ.

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1. Isaiah 7:14 …..Born of a virgin….. Matthew 1:21-23
2. Genesis 12:1-3; 22:18…..A descendant of Abraham….. Matthew 1:1; Galatians 3:16
3. Genesis 49:10….Of the tribe of Judah….Luke 3:23, 33; Hebrews 7:14
4. 2 Samuel 7:12-16…Of the house of David Matthew 1:1
5. Micah 5:2….Born in Bethlehem….Matthew 2:1; Luke 2:4-7
6. Hosea 11:1….Taken to Egypt….Matthew 2:14-15
7. Jeremiah 31:15…..Herod´s killing of the infants….Matthew 2:16-18
8. Isaiah 11:2…..Anointed by the Holy Spirit…..Matthew 3:16-17
9. Isaiah 40:3-5…Heralded by the messenger of the Lord (John the Baptist)…Malachi 3:1; Matthew 3:1-3
10. Isaiah 35:5-6….Would perform miracles….Matthew 9:35
11. Isaiah 61:1….Would preach good news….Luke 4:14-21
12. Isaiah 9:1….Would minister in Galilee….Matthew 4:12-16
13. Would first present Himself as King 173,880 days from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem (Daniel 9:25; Matthew 21:4-11)
14. Would enter Jerusalem as a king on a donkey (Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 21:4-9)
15. Would be rejected by Jews (Psalm 118:22; I Peter 2:7)
16. Would cleanse the Temple (Malachi 3:1; Matthew 21:12-13)
17. Die a humiliating death (Psalm 22; Isaiah 53) involving:
a. rejection (Isaiah 53:3; John 1:10-11; 7:5,48)
b. betrayal by a friend (Psalm 41:9; Luke 22:3-4; John 13:18)
c. sold for 30 pieces of silver (Zechariah 11:12; Matthew 26:14-15)
d. silence before His accusers (Isaiah 53:7; Matthew 27:12-14)
e. being mocked (Psalm 22: 7-8; Matthew 27:31)
f. beaten (Isaiah 52:14; Matthew 27:26)
g. spit upon (Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 27:30)
h. piercing His hands and feet (Psalm 22:16; Matthew 27:31)
i. being crucified with thieves (Isaiah 53:12; Matthew 27:38)
.j praying for His persecutors (Isaiah 53:12; Luke 23:34)
.k piercing His side (Zechariah 12:10; John 19:34)
.l given gall and vinegar to drink (Psalm 69:21, Matthew 27:34, Luke 23:36)
.m no broken bones (Psalm 34:20; John 19:32-36)
.n buried in a rich man’s tomb (Isaiah 53:9; Matthew 27:57-60)
.o casting lots for His garments (Psalm 22:18; John 19:23-24)
* Would rise from the dead!! (Psalm 16:10; Mark 16:6; Acts 2:31)
* Ascend into Heaven (Psalm 68:18; Acts 1:9)
* Would sit down at the right hand of God (Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 1:3)

The list above is a short list, here is the longer one.

Genesis 3:15…..He will bruise Satan’s head…..Hebrews 2:14, 1 John 3:18
Genesis 9:26,27…The God of Shem will be the Son of Shem…Luke 3:36
Genesis 12:3…As Abraham’s seed,will bless all nations…Acts. 3:25,26
Genesis 12:7…The Promise made to Abraham’s Seed…Galatians 3:16
Genesis 14:18…A priest after Melchizedek…Hebrews 6:20
Genesis 14:18……..A King also……..Hebrews 7:2
Genesis 14:18…The Last Supper foreshadowed…Matthew 26:26-29
Genesis 17:19…….The Seed of Isaac…….Romans 9:7
Genesis 22:8…The Lamb of God promised…John 1:29
Genesis 22:18…As Isaac’s seed, will bless all nations…Galatians 3:16
Genesis 26:2-5..The Seed of Isaac promised as the Redeemer..Hebrews11:18
Genesis 49:10…The time of His coming…Luke 2:1-7; Galatians 4:4
Genesis 49:10…….The Seed of Judah…….Luke 3:33
Genesis 49:10……Called Shiloh or One Sent……John 17:3
Genesis 49:10…To come before Judah lost identity…John 11:47-52
Genesis 49:10…To Him shall the obedience of the people be…John 10:16
Exodus 3:13,14……..The Great “I Am”…….John 4:26
Exodus 12:5…A Lamb without blemish…1 Peter 1:19
Exodus 12:13…The blood of the Lamb saves from wrath…Romans 5:8
Exodus 12:21-27…Christ is our Passover…1 Corinthians 5;7
Exodus 12:46…Not a bone of the Lamb to be broken…John 19:31-36
Exodus 15:2…His exaltation predicted as Yeshua…Acts 7:55,56
Exodus 15:11…His Character-Holiness…Luke 1:35; Acts 4:27
Exodus 17:6…The Spiritual Rock of Israel…1 Corinthians 10;4
Exodus 33:19…His Character-Merciful…Luke 1:72
Leviticus14:11..The leper cleansed-Sign to priesthood..Luke5:12-14; Acts 6:7
Leviticus16:15-17…Prefigures Christ’s once-for-all death…Hebrews 9:7-14
Leviticus16:27…Suffering outside the Camp…Matthew 27:33; Hebrews 13:11, 12
Leviticus17:11…The Blood-the life of the flesh…Matthew 26;28; Mark 10:45
Leviticus17:11…It is the blood that makes atonement…1 John 3:14-18
Leviticus 23:36-37…The Drink-offering: “If any man thirst.” ..John 19:31-36
Numbers 9:12…Not a bone of Him broken…John 19:31-36
Numbers 21:9…The serpent on a pole-Christ lifted up…John 3:14-18
Numbers 24:17…Time: “I shall see him, but not now.”…Galatians 4:4
Deuteronomy 18:15…”This is of a truth that prophet.”…John 6:14
Deuteronomy 18:15-16…”Had ye believed Moses, ye would believe me.”…John 5:45-47
Deuteronomy 18:18…Sent by the Father to speak His word…John 8:28, 29
Deuteronomy 18:19…Whoever will not hear must bear his sin…John 12:15,
Deuteronomy 21:23…Cursed is he that hangs on a tree…Galatians 3:10-13
Ruth 4:4-9…Christ, our kinsman, has redeemed us…Ephesians 1:3-7
1 Samuel 2:10…Shall be an anointed King to the Lord…Matthew 28:18; John 12:15
2 Samuel 7:12…David’s Seed…Matthew 1:1
2 Samuel 7:14a…The Son of God… Luke 1:32
2 Samuel 7:16…David’s house established forever…Luke 3:31; Revelation 22:16
2 Kings 2:11…The bodily ascension to heaven illustrated…Luke 24:51
1 Chronicles 17:11…David’s Seed…Matthew 1:1; 9:27
1 Chronicles 17:12, 13a…To reign on David’s throne forever…Luke 1:32, 33
1 Chronicles 17:13a…”I will be His Father, He…my Son.”…Hebrews 1:5
Job 19:23-27…The Resurrection predicted…John 5:24-29
Psalms 2:1-3…The enmity of kings foreordained…Acts 4:25-28
Psalm 2:2…To own the title, Anointed (Christ)…Acts 2:36
Psalm 2:6…His Character-Holiness…John 8:46; Revelation 3:7
Psalm 2:6…To own the title King…Matthew 2:2
Psalm 2:7…Declared the Beloved Son…Matthew 3;17
Psalms 2:7, 8…The Crucifixion and Resurrection intimated…Acts 13:29-33
Psalm 2:12…Life comes through faith in Him…John 20:31
Psalm 8:2…The mouths of babes perfect His praise…Matthew 21:16
Psalms 8:5, 6…His humiliation and exaltation…Luke 24:50-53; 1 Corinthians 15:27
Psalm 16:10…Was not to see corruption…Acts 2:31
Psalms 16:9-11…Was to arise from the dead…John 20:9
Psalm 17;15…The resurrection predicted…Luke 24:6
Psalm 22:1…Forsaken because of sins of others…2 Corinthians 5:21
Psalm 22:1…Words spoken from Calvary, “My God…” Mark 15:34
Psalm 22:2…Darkness upon Calvary…Matthew 27:45
Psalm 22:7…They shoot out the lip and shake the head…Matthew 27:39
Psalm 22:8..He trusted in God, let Him deliver Him…Matthew 27:43
Psalm 22:9……Born the Saviour……Luke 2:7
Psalm 22:14…Died of a broken (ruptured)heart…John 19:34
Psalms 22:14,15…Suffered agony on Calvary…Mark 15:34-37
Psalm 22:15……..He thirsted……..John 19:28
Psalm 22:16…They pierced His hands and His feet….John 19:34,37;20:27
Psalms 22:17,18…Stripped Him before the stares of men…Luke 23:34,35
Psalm 22:18…..They parted His garments…..John 19:23,24
Psalms 22:20,21…He committed Himself to God…Luke 23:46
Psalms 22:20,21..Satanic power bruising the Redeemer’s heel..Hebrews 2:14
Psalm 22:22…..His Resurrection declared…..John 20:17
Psalm 22:27…He shall be the governor of the nations…Colossians 1:16
Psalm 22:31……It is finished……John 19:30
Psalm 23:1….I am the Good Shephard….John 10:11
Psalm 24:3……His exaltation predicted……Acts 1:11; Philippians 2:9
Psalm 30:3……His resurrection predicted……Acts 2:32
Psalm 31:5…Into thy hands I commit my spirit…Luke 23:46
Psalm 31:11…His acquaintances fled from Him…Mark 14:50
Psalm 31:13…They took counsel to put Him to death…John 11:53
Psalms 31:14,15…He trusted in God, let Him deliver him…Matthew 27:43
Psalm 34:20…..Not a bone of Him broken…..Jn 19:31-36
Psalm 35:11….False witnesses rose up against Him….Matthew 26:59
Psalm 35:19…He was hated without a cause…John 15:25
Psalm 38:11…..His friends stood afar off…..Luke 23:49
Psalms 40:2-5…The joy of His resurrection predicted…John 20:20
Psalms 40:6-8….His delight-the will of the Father….John 4:34
Psalm 40:9….He was to preach the Righteousness in Israel….Matthew 4:17
Psalm 40:14…Confronted by adversaries in the Garden…John 18:4-6
Psalm 41:9…..Betrayed by a familiar friend…..John 13:18
Psalm 45:2…Words of Grace come from His liPsalms..Luke 4:22
Psalm 45:6…To own the title, God or Elohim…Hebrews 1:8
Psalm 45:7…A special anointing by the Holy Spirit…Matthew3:16; Hebrews1:9
Psalms 45:7,8…Called the Christ (Messiah or Anointed)…Luke 2:11
Psalms 55:12-14…Betrayed by a friend, not an enemy…John 13:18
Psalm 55:15…Unrepentant death of the Betrayer…Matthew 27:3-5; Acts 1:16-19
Psalm 68:18…To give gifts to men…Ephesians 4:7-16
Psalm 68:18…Ascended into Heaven…Luke 24:51
Psalm 69:4…Hated without a cause…John 15:25
Psalm 69:8…A stranger to own brethren…Luke 8;20,21
Psalm 69:9…Zealous for the Lord’s House…John 2:17
Psalms 69:14-20…Messiah’s anguish of soul before crucifixion…Matthew 26:36-45
Psalm 69:20…My soul is exceeding sorrowful…Matthew 26:38
Psalm 69:21…Given vinegar in thirst…Matthew 27:34
Psalm 69:26…The Saviour given and smitten by God…John 17:4; 18:11
Psalms 72:10,11…Great persons were to visit Him…Matthew 2:1-11
Psalm 72:16…The corn of wheat to fall into the Ground…John 12:24
Psalm 72:17…His name, Yinon, will produce offspring…John 1:12,13
Psalm 72:17…All nations shall be blessed by Him…Acts 2:11,12,41
Psalms 78:1.2…He would teach in parables…Matthew 13:34-35
Psalms 78:2b…To speak the Wisdom of God with authority…Matthew 7:29
Psalm 88:8…They stood afar off and watched…Luke 23:49
Psalm 89:27…Emmanuel to be higher than earthly kings…Luke 1:32,33
Psalms 89:35-37…David’s Seed, throne, kingdom endure forever…Luke 1:32,33
Psalms 89:36-37…His character-Faithfulness…Revelation 1:5
Psalm 90:2…He is from everlasting (Micah 5:2)…John 1:1
Psalms 91:11,12…Identified as Messianic; used to tempt Christ…Luke 4;10,11
Psalm 97:9…His exaltation predicted…Acts 1:11;Ephesians 1:20
Psalm 100:5…His character-Goodness…Matthew 19:16,17
Psalms 102:1-11…The Suffering and Reproach of Calvary…John 21:16-30
Psalms 102:25-27…Messiah is the Preexistent Son…Hebrews 1:10-12
Psalm 109:25…Ridiculed…Matthew 27:39
Psalm 110:1…Son of David…Matthew 22:43
Psalm 110:1…To ascend to the right-hand of the Father…Mark16:19
Psalm 110:1…David’s son called Lord…Matthew 22:44,45
Psalm 110:4…A priest after Melchizedek’s order…Hebrews 6:20
Psalm 112:4…His character-Compassionate, Gracious, et al… Matthew 9;36
Psalms 118:17,18…Messiah’s Resurrection assured…Luke 24:5-7;1 Corinthians 15:20
Psalms 118:22,23…The rejected stone is Head of the corner…Matthew 21:42,43
Psalm 118:26a…The Blessed One presented to Israel…Matthew 21:9
Psalm 118:26b…To come while Temple standing…Matthew 21;12-15
Psalm 132:11…The Seed of David(the fruit of His Body)…Luke 1:32
Psalms 138:1-6…The supremacy of David’s Seed amazes kings… Matthew 2:2-6
Psalms 147:3,6…The earthly ministry of Christ described…Luke 4:18
Psalm 1:23…He will send the Spirit of God… John 16;7
Song of Solomon 5;16…The altogether lovely One…John 1:17
Isaiah 6:1…When Isaiah saw His glory… John 12:40-41
Isaiah 6:9-10…Parables fall on deaf ears…Matthew 13:13-15
Isaiah 6:9-12…Blinded to Christ and deaf to His words…Acts. 28:23-29
Isaiah 7:14…To be born of a virgin…Luke 1:35
Isaiah 7:14…To be Emmanuel-God with us… Matthew 1:18-23
Isaiah 8:8…Called Emmanuel…Matthew 28:20
Isaiah 8:14…A stone of stumbling, a Rock of offense… 1 Peter 2:8
Isaiah 9:1,2…His ministry to begin in Galilee…Matthew 4:12-17
Isaiah 9:6…A child born-Humanity…Luke 1:31
Isaiah 9:6…A Son given-Deity…Luke 1:32; John 1;14; 1 Timothy 3:16
Isaiah 9:6…Declared to be the Son of God with power… Romans 1:3,4
Isaiah 9:6…The Wonderful One, Peleh…Luke 4:22
Isaiah 9:6…The Counsellor, Yaatz…Matthew 13:54
Isaiah 9:6…The Mighty God, El Gibor…Matthew 11:20
Isaiah 9:6…The Everlasting Father, Avi Adth…John 8:58
Isaiah 9:6…The Prince of Peace, Sar Shalom…John 16:33
Isaiah 9:7…To establish an everlasting kingdom…Luke 1:32-33
Isaiah 9:7…His Character-Just…John 5:30
Isaiah 9:7…No end to his Government, Throne, and Peace…Luke 1:32-33
Isaiah 11:1…Called a Nazarene-the Branch, Netzer…Matthew 2:23
Isaiah 11:1…A rod out of Jesse-Son of Jesse…Luke 3:23,32
Isaiah 11:2…The anointed One by the Spirit…Matthew 3;16,17
Isaiah 11:2…His Character-Wisdom, Understanding, etc….John 4:4-26
Isaiah 11:4…His Character-Truth…John 14:6
Isaiah 11:10…The Gentiles seek Him…John 12:18-21
Isaiah 12:2…Called Jesus-Yeshua…Matthew 1:21
Isaiah 25:8…The Resurrection predicted…1 Corinthians 15:54
Isaiah 26:19…His power of Resurrection predicted…John 11:43,44
Isaiah 28:16…The Messiah is the precious corner stone…Acts 4:11,12
Isaiah 29:13…He indicated hypocritical obedience to His Word…Matthew 15:7-9
Isaiah 29:14…The wise are confounded by the Word…1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Isaiah 32:2…A Refuge-A man shall be a hiding place…Matthew 23:37
Isaiah 35:4…He will come and save you…Matthew 1:21
Isaiah 35:5…To have a ministry of miracles…Matthew 11:4-6
Isaiah 40:3,4…Preceded by forerunner…John 1:23
Isaiah 40:9…”Behold your God.”…John 1:36;19:14
Isaiah 40:11…A shepherd-compassionatelife-giver…John 10:10-18
Isaiah 42:1-4…The Servant-as a faithful, patient redeemer… Matthew 12:18-21
Isaiah 42:2…Meek and lowly… Matthew 11:28-30
Isaiah 42:3…He brings hope for the hopeless… John 4
Isaiah 42:4…The nations shall wait on His teachings… John 12:20-26
Isaiah 42:6…The Light (salvation) of the Gentiles…Luke 2:32
Isaiah 42:1,6…His is a Worldwide compassion… Matthew 28:19,20
Isaiah 42:7…Blind eyes opened… John 9:25-38
Isaiah 43:11…He is the only Savior… Acts. 4:12
Isaiah 44:3…He will send the Spirit of God… John 16:7,13
Isaiah 45:23…He will be the Judge… John 5:22;Romans 14:11
Isaiah 48:12…The First and the Last…John 1:30;Revelation 1:8,17
Isaiah 48:17…He came as a Teacher…John 3:2
Isaiah 49:1…Called from the womb-His humanity…Matthew 1:18
Isaiah 49:5…A Servant from the womb…Luke 1:31;Philippians 2:7
Isaiah 49:6…He is Salvation for Israel…Luke 2:29-32
Isaiah 49:6…He is the Light of the Gentiles…Acts 13:47
Isaiah 49:6…He is Salvation unto the ends of the earth… Acts 15:7-18
Isaiah 49:7…He is despised of the Nation… John 8:48-49
Isaiah 50:3…Heaven is clothed in black at His humiliation… Luke 23:44,45
Isaiah 50:4…He is a learned counsellor for the weary… Matthew 11:28,29
Isaiah 50:5…The Servant bound willingly to obedience… Matthew 26:39
Isaiah 50:6a…”I gave my back to the smiters.”… Matthew 27:26
Isaiah 50:6b…He was smitten on the cheeks… Matthew 26:67
Isaiah 50:6c…He was spat upon… Matthew 27:30
Isaiah 52:7…To publish good tidings of peace… Luke 4:14,15
Isaiah 52:13…The Servant exalted…Acts 1:8-11; Ephesians 1:19-22
Isaiah 52:13…Behold, My Servant… Matthew 17:5; Philippians 2:5-8
Isaiah 52:14…The Servant shockingly abused… Luke 18:31-34; Matthew 26:67,68
Isaiah 52:15…Nations startled by message of the Servant… Romans 15:18-21
Isaiah 52:15…His blood shed to make atonement for all… Revelation 1:5
Isaiah 53:1…His people would not believe Him… John 12:37-38
Isaiah 53:2a…He would grow up in a poor family…. Luke 2:7
Isaiah 53:2b…Appearance of an ordinary man… Philippians 2:7-8
Isaiah 53:3a…Despised…. Luke 4:28-29
Isaiah 53:3b…Rejected… Matthew 27:21-23
Isaiah 53:3c…Great sorrow and grief… Luke 19:41-42
Isaiah 53:3d…Men hide from being associated with Him… Mark 14:50-52
Isaiah 53:4a…He would have a healing ministry… Luke 6:17-19
Isaiah 53:4b…He would bear the sins of the world… 1 Peter 2:24
Isaiah 53:4c…Thought to be cursed by God… Matthew 27:41-43
Isaiah 53:5a…Bears penalty for mankind’s transgressions… Luke 23:33
Isaiah 53:5b…His sacrifice would provide peace between man and God… Colossians. 1:20
Isaiah 53:5c…His back would be whipped… Matthew 27:26
Isaiah 53:6a…He would be the sin-bearer for all mankind…Galatians 1:4
Isaiah 53:6b…God’s will that He bear sin for all mankind… 1 John 4:10
Isaiah 53:7a…Oppressed and afflicted… Matthew 27:27-31
Isaiah 53:7b…Silent before his accusers… Matthew 27:12-14
Isaiah 53:7c…Sacrificial lamb… John 1:29
Isaiah 53:8a…Confined and persecuted… Matthew 26:47-27:31
Isaiah 53:8b…He would be judged… John 18:13-22
Isaiah 53:8c…Killed…. Matthew 27:35
Isaiah 53:8d…Dies for the sins of the world… 1 John 2:2
Isaiah 53:9a…Buried in a rich man’s grave… Matthew 27:57
Isaiah 53:9b…Innocent and had done no violence… Mark 15:3
Isaiah 53:9c…No deceit in his mouth… John 18:38
Isaiah 53:10a…God’s will that He die for mankind… John 18:11
Isaiah 53:10b…An offering for sin… Matthew 20:28
Isaiah 53:10c…Resurrected and live forever…. Mark 16:16
Isaiah 53:10d…He would prosper… John 17:1-5
Isaiah 53:11a…God fully satisfied with His suffering… John 12:27
Isaiah 53:11b…God’s servant… Romans 5:18-19
Isaiah 53:11c…He would justify man before God… Romans 5:8-9
Isaiah 53:11d…The sin-bearer for all mankind… Hebrews 9:28
Isaiah 53:12a…Exalted by God because of his sacrifice… Matthew 28:18
Isaiah 53:12b…He would give up his life to save mankind… Luke 23:46
Isaiah 53:12c…Grouped with criminals… Luke 23:32
Isaiah 53:12d…Sin-bearer for all mankind… 2 Corinthians 5:21
Isaiah 53:12e…Intercede to God in behalf of mankind… Luke 23:34
Isaiah 55:3…Resurrected by God… Acts 13:34
Isaiah 55:4…A witness… John 18:37
Isaiah 59:15-16a…He would come to provide salvation… John 6:40
Isaiah 59:15-16b…Intercessor between man and God… Matthew 10:32
Isaiah 59:20…He would come to Zion as their Redeemer… Luke 2:38
Isaiah 61:1-2a…The Spirit of God upon him… Matthew 3:16-17
Isaiah 61:1-2b…The Messiah would preach the good news… Luke 4:17-21
Isaiah 61:1-2c…Provide freedom from the bondage of sin and death… John 8:31-32
Isaiah 61:1-2…Proclaim a period of grace… John 5:24
Jeremiah23:5-6a…Descendant of David…Luke 3:23-31
Jeremiah 23:5-6b…The Messiah would be God… John 13:13
Jeremiah 23:5-6c…The Messiah would be both God and Man… 1 Timothy 3:16
Jeremiah 31:22…Born of a virgin… Matthew 1:18-20
Jeremiah 31:31…The Messiah would be the new covenant… Matthew 26:28
Jeremiah 33:14-15…Descendant of David… Luke 3:23-31
Ezekiel 17:22-24…Descendant of David… Luke 3:23-31
Ezekiel 34:23-24…Descendant of David… Matthew 1:1
Daniel 7:13-14a…He would ascend into heaven… Acts 1:9-11
Daniel 7:13-14b…Highly exalted… Ephesians 1:20-22
Daniel 7:13-14c…His dominion would be everlasting… Luke 1:31-33
Daniel 9:24a…To make an end to sins… Galatians 1:3-5
Daniel 9:24b…He would be holy… Luke 1:35
Daniel 9:25…Announced to his people 483 years, to the exact day, after the decree to rebuild the city of Jerusalem… John 12:12-13
Daniel 9:26a…Killed… Matthew 27:35
Daniel 9:26b…Die for the sins of the world… Hebrews 2:9
Daniel 9:26c…Killed before the destruction of the temple… Matthew 27:50-51
Daniel 10:5-6…Messiah in a glorified state… Revelation 1:13-16
Hosea 13:14…He would defeat death… 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
Joel 2:32…Offer salvation to all mankind… Romans 10:12-13
Micah 5:2a…Born in Bethlehem… Matthew 2:1-2
Micah 5:2b…God’s servant… John 15:10
Micah 5:2c…From everlasting… John 8:58
Hag. 2:6-9…He would visit the second Temple… Luke 2:27-32
Hag. 2:23…Descendant of Zerubbabel… Luke 3:23-27
Zechariah 3:8…God’s servant… John 17:4
Zechariah 6:12-13…Priest and King… Hebrews 8:1
Zechariah 9:9a…Greeted with rejoicing in Jerusalem… Matthew 21:8-10
Zechariah 9:9b…Beheld as King… John 12:12-13
Zechariah 9:9c…The Messiah would be just… John 5:30
Zechariah 9:9d…The Messiah would bring salvation… Luke 19:10
Zechariah 9:9e…The Messiah would be humble… Matthew 11:29
Zechariah 9:9f…Presented to Jerusalem riding on a donkey… Matthew 21:6-9
Zechariah 10:4…The cornerstone… Ephesians 2:20
Zechariah 11:4-6a…At His coming, Israel to have unfit leaders… Matthew 23:1-4
Zechariah 11:4-6b…Rejection causes God to remove His protection.. Luke 19:41-44
Zechariah 11:4-6c…Rejected in favor of another king… John 19:13-15
Zechariah 11:7…Ministry to “poor,” the believing remnant… Matthew 9:35-36
Zechariah 11:8a…Unbelief forces Messiah to reject them… Matthew 23:33
Zechariah 11:8b…Despised… Matthew 27:20
Zechariah 11:9…Stops ministering to the those who rejected Him… Matthew 13:10-11
Zechariah 11:10-11a…Rejection causes God to remove protection… Luke 19:41-44
Zechariah 11:10-11b…The Messiah would be God… John 14:7
Zechariah 11:12-13a…Betrayed for thirty pieces of silver… Matthew 26:14-15
Zechariah 11:12-13b…Rejected… Matthew 26:14-15
Zechariah 11:12-13c…Thirty pieces of silver thrown into the house of the Lord… Matthew 27:3-5
Zechariah 11:12-13d…The Messiah would be God… John 12:45
Zechariah 12:10a…The Messiah’s body would be pierced… John 19:34-37
Zechariah 12:10b…The Messiah would be both God and man… John 10:30
Zechariah 12:10c…The Messiah would be rejected… John 1:11
Zechariah 13:7a…God’s will He die for mankind… John 18:11
Zechariah 13:7b…A violent death… Matthew 27:35
Zechariah 13:7c…Both God and man.. John 14:9
Zechariah 13:7d…Israel scattered as a result of rejecting Him… Matthew 26:31-56
Malachi 3:1a…Messenger to prepare the way for Messiah… Matthew 11:10
Malachi 3:1b…Sudden appearance at the temple… Mark 11:15-16
Malachi 3:1c…Messenger of the new covenant… Luke 4:43
Malachi 4:5…Forerunner in the spirit of Elijah… Matthew 3:1-2
Malachi 4:6…Forerunner would turn many to righteousness… Luke 1:16-17

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Nailed To the Cross?

Posted by Darrell in Christian on May 9, 2010

The 10 Big Ones

“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man”  Luke 17:26. Only eight people were saved from the flood and “as it was then” so shall it be at His coming.

Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”.  Matthew 7:21-23

Jesus dealt with the Pharisees over and over again because of legalism.

If you get nothing at all from this post other
than this one fact, please let this sink in!

Because He highly condemned salvation by works, people have assumed that Jesus considered obedience unimportant. Please note the beautiful balance in Christ’s doctrine of faith and works. Jesus taught that obeying in order to be saved is the worst kind of legalism, but obeying because we are saved is a true religious experience. Obedience follows true faith just as surely as day follows night.

The word “legalist” has been thrown around just
like the word "awesome". In my humble opinion only God
is awesome, anything else just doesn't compare.

I believe that many sincere Christians have been accused of legalism just because their love for Christ has led them to be more partial in obeying God than their accusers.

A legalist is one who believes that he can be saved by his works.

The person who keeps the commandments because he doesn’t want to displease the God he loves is not a legalist at all.

Religious activity is useless if we are not doing the
will of God! Willing disobeying God after knowing the truth
cuts off the relationship, drives away the Holy Spirit by which
we are sealed, and effectively removes us from the position of
grace.

People are being taught today that the Ten Commandments have been abolished and that God and His Son Jesus Christ are responsible for them being “Nailed” to the Cross. Other people say that the Ten Commandments are still in force except the 4th. It was disobedience that nailed our Savior Jesus Christ to the cross.

Jesus said Himself that He did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it.  Note: The word fulfill here means to keep it or fill full.  No one can be saved by keeping the law. Salvation comes only through grace, as a free gift from Jesus Christ, and we receive this gift by faith, not by works. The law serves only as a mirror to point out sin in our lives. Cleansing and forgiveness from that sin come only through Christ.

Paid in FullFor what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.  Romans 8:3, 4.

This means that through Jesus Christ and what He did for us at the Cross, we are changed so we can measure up to that law.

Our Father’s Commandments actually reflect the very character of God Himself. To love God with all our heart, all our soul, all mind and all our strength and to love our neighbor as ourselves is the purpose of our existence. God wrote His law in stone! It’s absolutely true that violating any part of God’s law always brings negative consequences. As our world is being overrun by evil and crime, doesn’t it make sense that for peace and safety we need to obey the laws of the land? Well, the same holds true with God’s law in our own lives!

Revelation 22:14 “Blessed are they that do his Commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.”

Wages of sin is deathThat first sin was was caused by disobedience. Let’s not follow in their footsteps, but instead desire to eat from the tree of life by keeping God’s Commands. Below are one hundred questions to ask yourself and think carefully about in regards to God and His Law. If the Ten Commandments have been abolished, how many verses in your Bible are meaningless and should be left out? As you ask yourself the following one hundred questions, please remember that your Bible says that God is Holy, Righteous, Perfect, Unchangeable, Just, Kind and Good.

100 Questions»
  • The Sabbath Command is in the center of His Law.
  • The Sabbath is God’s Mark or Sign of His Power and authority as the Creator. Exodus 20:8-11.
  • The Sabbath has always been God’s test of obedience. Exodus 16:4-31.
  • God’s Law is in His Heart. May we never wound His heart of love and insult His Grace.
  • If God has abolished His Law then hundreds of texts in your Bible become meaningless and should be left out!

Here are some examples:

1. All the texts that speak of repentance.

2. All the texts that mention or refer to the Law.

3. All the texts that mention the Commandments of God.

4. All the texts that speak of obedience.

5. All the texts that speak of transgression.

6. All the texts that speak of SIN. (Sin is the transgression of the Law. 1 John 3:4).

7. All the texts that speak of Jesus as the Savior from sin. etc, etc.

If God has abolished any part of His Law then every Bible text that
speaks of the Law as Perfect, Holy, Just and Unchangeable etc.,
become meaningless. “Not one tittle of the Law shall fall.” If we
offend in one point of the Ten Commandments we are guilty of all.

See James 2:10-12 and Matthew 5:17-19.

Proof That the 10 Commandments Weren't Nailed To The Cross»

Please understand that I prayed diligently for wisdom and Bible truth.

AdoptionI believe that if we had no opportunity to learn a certain Bible truth, God won’t hold us accountable.  In some places on earth, information is hard to come by. That’s not the case in the U.S., even with no money a Bible is always accessible. It was my responsibility to hunt diligently for the truth.

The Bible teaches that I am responsible to God for all the light (knowledge of right) I have and all I can have! People who refuse or neglect to study, seek, learn, and listen (Place God above all else) will be destroyed because they have “rejected knowledge.”

“If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.” John 9:41. “To him that knoweth to do good,and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” James 4:17. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee.” Hosea 4:6. “Seek, and ye shall find.” Matthew 7:7.

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I believe God chose me to be a Noah in our day!

Will you get in the boat?

An umbrella will do you no good, and the rain is coming!

100 Questions

1. How could and why would a perfect God (Matthew 5:48) abolish a perfect Law? Psalms 19:7.

2. How could and why would a Righteous God (Psalms 145:17) abolish a Righteous Law? Psalms 119:172.

3. How could and why would God who is unchangeable (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8) change or abolish a Law that is unchangeable? Matthew 5:17-19; Psalms 111:7-8.

4. How could and why would a God of Truth (John 14:6) do away with a Law that is the Truth? Psalms 119:142, 151.

5. How could and why would a God who is Just (Acts 3:14; Deuteronomy 32:4) do away with a just Law? Romans 7:12.

6. How could and why would a Holy God (Isaiah 6:3) abolish a Holy Law? Romans 7:12.

7. How could and why would a God who is Good (Psalms 34:8) do away with a Law that is good? Romans 7:12.

8. How could and why would a Spiritual God (John 4:24) abolish a spiritual Law? Romans 7:14.

9. How could and why would God abolish the Law that tells what sin is? 1 John 3:4; Romans 4:15; Romans 7:7.

10. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that Christ came to magnify and make honorable? Isaiah 42:21.

11. How could and why would God do away with a Law which He wrote on stone? Exodus 31:18. The fact that He wrote it on stone indicates that it was to last forever.

12. How could and why would God abolish the Law which tells what His will is? Romans 2:18; Matthew 7:21; Psalms 40:8.

13. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that He commanded to be sealed among His disciples? Isaiah 8:16.

14. How could and why would God abolish a Law that is “pure” and that “enlightens the eyes?” Psalms 19:8.

15. How could and why would God do away with the Law that is not made void, but by the Christian’s Faith? Romans 3:31.

16. How could and why would God do away with the Law that He told His people to remember and teach to their children and their children’s children? Psalms 78:1-7.

17. How could and why would God abolish the Law that the Christian should “meditate in day and night.” Psalms 1:1-3.

18. How could and why would God do away with His holy Law that the wicked have turned away from and made void? Psalms 119:126, 150.

19. How could and why would God abolish His Law which must be fulfilled in the life of the Christian who is led by the Spirit of God? Romans 8:3-4.

20. How could and why would God abolish His Law after promising a “woe” upon them that “cast away the Law of the Lord” and “call evil good, and good evil?” Isaiah 5:20-24.

21. How could and why would God do away with a Law that enters into the very heart of an individual and condemns the secret sins of his life which he must in the judgment? Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

22. How could and why would God abolish His Law that makes people happy when they keep it? Proverbs 29:18.

23. How could a God of Peace destroy a Law that brings peace to troubled hearts? Psalms 119:165.

24. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that Jesus has in His heart? Psalms 40:8.

25. How could and why would God do away with His Law which is to be the standard by which men and women will be judged? Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

26. How could and why would God abolish His Law which is to “stand fast forever?” Psalms 111:7-8.

27. How could and why would God abolish His Law after He said His people have forgotten His Law and are destroyed for lack of knowledge? Hosea 4:6-7.

28. How could and why would God do away with His Law after accusing the religious leaders of hardening their hearts against His Law, and deceiving the people? Malachi 2:7-9.

29. How could and why would God do away with His Bible Ten Commandments when Jesus promised the Holy Spirit to those who would keep them? John 14:16-17, 26; Acts 5:32.

30. How could and why would God have abolished His Law at Christ’s death, and then later be with Stephen as he was stoned for having told his murderers that they had not kept God’s Law? Acts 7:53-56.

31. How could and why would God abolish the same Law that is to be the standard by which we measure the teachings of every teacher, and every preacher, and every church? Isaiah 8:20, Compare 1 Peter 4:11 and Acts 7:38.

32. How could and why would God do away with the Law when Jesus suffered and died to redeem us from the curse of the Law? Galatians 3:13. Jesus came to redeem them that were under the Law. Galatians 4:4-5.

33. How could and why would God do away with His Law when the Bible says “Where no Law is, there is no transgression?” Romans 4:15; Romans 5:13.

34. How could and why would God abolish His Law when His followers delight in it? Psalms 1:1-3; Psalms 119:70, 77, 92, 174.

35. How could and why would God have the Bible Ten Commandments abolished at the cross when Jesus told His disciples to pray that they might be able to keep the Sabbath command forty years after the crucifixion? Matthew 24:20.

36. How could and why would God do away with the Commandment that says, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,” when Jesus said that He Himself was Lord of the Sabbath, and that it was made for man? Mark 2:27-28.

37. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that helps in converting the soul? Psalms 19:7.

38. How could and why would God do away with the Law that helps a sinner to realize his need? When a sinner realizes that death is the penalty for transgression, and in sorrow he comes to God for forgiveness, he receives a pardon through Jesus. That pardon is Grace. Would God abolish the very Law that Christ died for to make it possible to give grace to the sinner? If God abolished His Law there would be no transgression and therefore no need of forgiveness or grace. Grace is not something apart from the Law; it is necessary. Paul said to the Christians: “you are not under the law but under grace.” Romans 6:14. Then he said, “shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid.” Verse 15. In Galatians 3:21 Paul says “the law is not against the promises of God.” How could God abolish His Law and thus do away with Grace too?

39. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when Jesus said He Himself was Lord of the Sabbath? Mark 2:27-28. And Jesus Himself made the Sabbath. John 1:1-3; Mark 2:27. And it was Christ’s custom to keep it. Luke 4:16.

40. How could Christ do away with His Law and the Sabbath that He made and not say a single word about it to His closest followers? At the same time of His death they kept the Sabbath according to the Commandment. Luke 23:55-56. Compare Matthew 24:20.

41. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath when Jesus said: “It is easier for Heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the Law to fail?” Luke 16:17.

42. How could and why would God forsake His Law when that is the very thing that the Bible says the wicked have done? Psalms 119:53.

43. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments when Jesus said that those who worship in vain have the commandments of men? Mark 7:7, 9. The worship which is accepted of God must be where the Bible Ten Commandments of God are taught and obeyed. John 14:21.

44. How could and why would God abolish His Law when the Bible says, “The way of transgressors is hard?” Proverbs 13:15. Where there is no law there is no transgression. Romans 4:15.

45. How could and why would God abolish His Law when the Bible says, “He that turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be an abomination?” Proverbs 28:9.

46. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments when the Bible says, “The whole duty of man is to fear God and keep His Commandments.” Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.

47. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments after He promised to show mercy to all who would keep them? Psalms 103:18.

48. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments that the angels keep? Psalms 103:20.

49. How could and why would God abolish His Law which is so perfect and high that it points the believer to Christ as the end for righteousness-the very highest standard of a perfect sinless life? Romans 10:4. Compare Isaiah 51:7 and James 5:11.

50. How could and why would God abolish His Law which gives wisdom and understanding? Psalms 119:98, 100.

51. How could and why would God do away with His Law which gives comfort in affliction and trial? Psalms 119:92

52. How could and why would God abolish the very Law that the Righteous, who inherit the New Earth, will have in their hearts? Psalms 37:29-31.

53. How could and why would God abolish the Law that Jesus said was more enduring than the earth itself? Matthew 5:17-19; Luke 16:17.

54. How could and why would God abolish the Law that forbids murder and adultery? James 2:10-12.

55. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments that Jesus kept? John 15:10.

56. How could and why would God do away with a Law which is so perfect and wonderful that even if you break any part of it, you are guilty of all? James 2:10-12.

57. How could and why would God do away with the Law that Jesus referred to when He said: “Whosoever shall break one of these least Commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom?” Matthew 5:19.

58. How could and why would God do away with His Commandment in order to make room for Tradition-the commandments of men? Matthew 15:3, 6, 9.

59. How could and why would God do away with His Law which gives His people liberty when they obey it? James 2:10-12. It is the lawbreaker who is put in Jail and who is in bondage.

60. How could and why would God abolish the Law that helps a poor sinner to realise his condition? Romans 3:20; Romans 3:9, 23.

61. How could and why would God abolish the Law that “stops every mouth” and makes “all the world guilty before God?” Romans 3:19. Compare Romans 3:9, 23.

62. How could and why would God abolish the Law that tells what sin is when the Bible says: “If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous?” 1 John 3:4 and 1 John 2:1. Why have an advocate if the law is gone?

63. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments, or Moral Law, at the same time that He abolished the ceremonial law which had to do with the offerings and sacrifices? Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:14-17. The Hand writing of Ordinances are not the Bible Ten Commandments. See Colossians 2:16.

The ceremonial law was instituted to show the people what to do when they broke the Moral Law. By their sacrifices they could show their faith in the great sacrifice which was to be offered on Calvary. All the Sacrifices and offerings pointed forward to Christ. When Jesus died the veil in the temple was torn signifying that the sacrificial or Ceremonial law had ended.

Many people confuse the Ceremonial and Moral laws.

64. How could and why would God do away with the Law that has the Sabbath command in it when God Himself ceased from labor and rested on the seventh day, and your Bible says that all who have entered into rest (spiritual rest too) with Him, have ceased from their own works as God did from His? Hebrews 4:4, 9-10. Study those 2 verses prayerfully and carefully.

65. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that His people are to keep in order to have works to show their faith? James 2:18. Read carefully James 2:10-12. The “works” here referred to are works of obedience as the verses plainly indicate. Paul says: “Do we make void the Law through faith? God forbid, we establish the Law.” Romans 3:31.

66. How could and why would God abolish the Bible Ten Commandments that Jesus referred to when He said “whosoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Matthew 5:19.

67. How could and why would God do away with the same Law that He promised to write in the heart of every Christian who is really under the New Covenant? Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrews 8:10.

68. How could and why would God do away with the Law that the carnal of sinful mind refuses to obey? Romans 8:7.

69. How could and why would God do away with His Law when only those who keep it can have justification? Romans 2:13.

70. How could and why would God destroy the very same Law that Jesus said He came not to destroy? Matthew 5:17-19.

71. How could and why would God abolish the Ten Bible Commandments, the same Ten Commandments that Jesus said hung on the two Great Commandments of Love to God and Love to Man? Matthew 22:35-40. The first four Commandments show our relation to God; the last six show our relation to Man. Thus they all hang on the two principles of love to God and to man. See the greatest Bible Commandment.

72. How could and why would God abolish the same Commandments that Jesus told the young ruler to keep if he wanted to enter into life and be saved? Matthew 19:17. Compare Revelation 22:14.

73. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments when they give a good understanding to all who keep them? Psalms 111:10.

74. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments which are the foundation of sound doctrine? Proverbs 4:2.

75. How could and why would God make void His Law when Jesus condemned the Scribes and Pharisees for making void the Law of God by their tradition? Matthew 15:3, 6, 9.

76. How could and why would God have abolished His Law when the curse of God rests upon the world because the inhabitants have transgressed His Law? Isaiah 24:3-6.

77. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments when Jesus told His disciples to keep them if they loved Him? John 14:15. How much do we love Him?

78. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He pronounced a blessing upon the man who would keep the Sabbath? Isaiah 56:2, 6.

79. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He said that all who would take their foot off of the Sabbath, would be blessed in many ways, and would help to raise the foundations of generations, and be called to repairer of the breach? Isaiah 58:12-14.

80. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when Jesus said that He Himself was LORD of the Sabbath? Matthew 12:8.

81. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He said the Sabbath was a sign of sanctification? Ezekiel 20:12. Should not a sanctified Sabbath and a sanctified person he in harmony?

82. How could and why would God turn away from His Law and abolish it when He has always been hurt when His people turned away from it? Jeremiah 16:10-11, 16; Isaiah 58:1, 12-14.

83. How could and why would God do away with the very Law that He says He has implanted in the hearts of those who “know Righteousness?” Isaiah 51:7.

84. How could and why would God reject His Law and abolish it when He said He would bring evil upon those who rejected it? Jeremiah 6:19. Compare Jeremiah 6:4-5.

85. How could and why would God do away with His Law that some people “will not hear” and even tell their ministers not to preach? Isaiah 30:8-10. God calls them rebellious children.

86. How could and why would God abolish His Commandments after promising peace and righteousness in abundance to those who “listened to His Commandments?” Isaiah 48:18.

87. How could and why would God do away with the Sabbath Commandment when He gave the Sabbath to be a sign that He is our God? Ezekiel 20:20; Exodus 31:16-17. The New Covenant was made with the children of Israel which if we be Christ’s then we are. Hebrews 8:10. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and so if we are God’s children then we are Abraham’s seed and therefore children of Israel and heirs according to the promise. Romans 2:28-29; Galatians 3:28-29.

88. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments which are called righteousness, Psalms 119:172 and also, “My Righteousness shall not be abolished?” Isaiah 51:6. He also said, “Listen unto me you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law.” Isaiah 51:7.

89. How could and why would God do away with His Law after making the statement that some of the people would stop their ears and make their hearts like stone so they would not hear His Law? Zechariah 7:11-12.

90. How could and why would God do away with the Bible Ten Commandments which are the test by which we know that we know God? 1 John 2:3.

91. How could and why would God abolish His Law after making the statement that the people have trespassed against His Law, and have “sown the wind and shall reap the whirlwind?” Hosea 8:1-7.

92. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and then later have John write that the man who claims to know God and does not keep God’s Commandments, is a liar? 1 John 2:4.

93. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments, when Jesus kept them and we are told “to walk even as He walked?” 1 John 2:6.

94. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and also promise to hear the prayers of those who keep His Commandments? 1 John 3:22.

95. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and later have John write that those who love God and keep His Commandments will love the children of God? 1 John 5:2.

96. How could and why would God have His Commandments abolished when it “is the love of God that we keep, His Commandments?” 1 John 5:3. Compare 2 John 1:6, and John 14:15.

97. How could and why would God do away with His Law and the Sabbath after He says the “Priests have violated His Law and have hid their eyes from His Sabbath, and have showed no difference between the holy and the profane?” Ezekiel 22:26.

98. How could anyone accuse God of changing or abolishing His own perfect Law when the Prophet saw a PERSECUTING POWER that would think to change it? Daniel 7:25. Read about the four beasts and the little “horn.” Daniel 7:1-8. Read verse 23-fourth kingdom (Rome). Little horn represents a religious power that started in Rome and in 321AD they changed God’s Sabbath to Sunday. A fact unknown by many Christians today. Now read verse 25 again.

99. How could and why would God have abolished His Commandments when it says that the last or remnant people of God will be keeping the Bible Ten Commandments just before Jesus comes to gather the harvest of the earth? Read carefully Revelation 12:17 and Revelation 14:12-16.

100. How could and why would God do away with His Commandments and also promise that in the New Earth His People will be keeping the Sabbath? Isaiah 66:22-23.
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Proof
Probably the greatest distortion of truth has resulted from the idea that the Ten Commandment law was the Old Covenant and that it has now been done away with. Friends, this just simply isn’t true. The facts are that the Old Covenant was an agreement between God and His people regarding the keeping of the Ten Commandments. You read that very specifically in the Bible. Now here is the proof that the law was not the Old Covenant.

According to the eighth chapter of Hebrews, the Old Covenant waxed old and vanished away. It also had poor promises in it, and it was described as faulty. Who can believe that this describes the Ten Commandments? Nowhere are they called faulty, in fact, the Bible says, “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” Neither has anyone ever been able to point out a poor promise in the decalogue. And Paul clearly declares that the Ten Commandment law is established by faith. It has not vanished away in any sense of the word.

Briefly stated, the Old Covenant was the agreement of the people at Mt. Sinai to keep the law of God in their own strength and through their own efforts. That agreement was faulty because those poor promises of the people were almost immediately broken, rupturing the covenant. In Hebrews 8 God said He would make a new covenant based upon better promises, and then, He proceeded to make the promises which formed the basis of that new agreement. Those promises involved Christ living in the heart, regenerating and empowering the individual to obey the Ten Commandments through love. Now we shall go on to consider another phase of the two covenants that has often been misunderstood, that is, the ordinances or ceremonies connected with the covenants. These were added because of sin.

“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary… which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience: which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.” Hebrews 9:1,9,10.

The Bible is perfectly plain on the fact that the ceremonies of the Old Covenant would remain in force only until the time of reformation, when Jesus died. Other passages make it plain that the time of reformation spoken of here was the time when the New Covenant was ratified. Thus we read in Colossians 2:14-17: “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross:… Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.”

What does Paul say was blotted out at the cross? Those things which were a shadow of things to come. The types and symbols which pointed forward to Christ, the Lamb of God. This included the offering of lambs, the meat offerings and drink offerings, which were a part of the ordinances, not the Ten Commandments. There is not even a suggestion in the above passage that any of the Ten Commandments were blotted out at the cross. The sabbath days and holy days affected were only those 6 yearly feast sabbaths:

1. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Passover, Leviticus 23:5

2. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:6

3. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Pentecost, Leviticus 23:20

4. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Trumpets, Leviticus 23:24

5. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Atonement, Leviticus 23.27

6. Yearly Feast Sabbath of Tabernacles, Leviticus 23:34

These yearly feast sabbaths with their meat and drink offerings were the ones “which were shadows of things to come.” The Sabbath of the Ten Commandments is not a type or a shadow. It was given to man in the Garden of Eden before Adam sinned, before there were types and shadows. The types and shadows were added after man sinned.

The things that were blotted out were “against us.” 1 John 3:4. The Ten Commandments were given for our good to tell us what sin is.

One of the ordinances of the Old Covenant was circumcision. But under the New Covenant “circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing: obedience to God’s Commandments is everything.” 1 Corinthians 7:19(Weymouth).

That word obedience is to some people a most hated word. They want to tell you what God has to say about grace and forgiveness, but never do they reveal that God has quite a bit to say about obedience also. Obedience, of course, isn’t the means of justification, but it is an evidence of justification and salvation. To get a full picture of the subject let us read what Paul has to say. He explains in Romans 8:3,4, that it is the very purpose of the New Covenant to bring us into harmony with God’s law. Now do you see why the keeping of the Commandments of God is everything under the New Covenant? Paul also says in Romans that we know God’s will as we are instructed out of the law. Romans 2:18 “And knowest His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.” So the man who wants to do away with the Ten Commandments doesn’t want to know God’s will. But remember the law never saves. Only the grace of Jesus saves. The purpose of the law is to tell us right from wrong. To reveal God’s will to us.
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The Dead Know Nothing

Posted by Darrell in Christian on May 8, 2010

Are the dead really dead?

Can a relative that has died and believed to have gone to Heaven see you when you’re taking a shower?

Not many people talk about this question but I’m sure it has crossed many a mind!  The answer is a no! The truth that’s taught in the Bible is very clear on this subject, but most people, even professed Christians ignore the correct Biblical answer.

The Bible says that the dead know nothing! Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10 “The dead praise not the Lord.” Psalms 115:17.

Jesus called death a “sleep” John 11:11-14. Before I read the Bible for myself and studied this particular subject in great depth, I found it mysterious or strange that we go to Heaven or hell before we are even judged!

If this would be the case, then God would not be a righteous judge!  Someone who died a thousand years ago or more, and went to hell would suffer torment a lot longer than someone who would die and go to hell right at the end of the world. Think about that for a minute! I have good news, that’s not the case.

The dead sleep in the grave until Jesus returns at the end of the world. In death, humans are totally unconscious with no activity or knowledge of any kind. Time has no meaning, therefore, to you, just as soon as you die (in the twinkling of an eye) Jesus will be here. The man that died a thousand years ago (depending on if he is saved or not) and you will rise at the same moment. To each of you though, it will seem as though no time has gone by since you kicked the bucket!

Most people hang on to a very few cloudy verses that they say points towards an immortal soul that pops out of the body at the moment of death and flies away at death, but that idea is not at all biblical. There are hundreds of verses that proves that the dead are dead, and stay dead until Jesus returns. If you would like to learn more about this truth for yourself pray about it and then do a detailed Bible study on this topic.

“The body without the spirit is dead.” James 2:26. “The spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Job 27:3.

The spirit that returns to God when we die is the breath of life. Nowhere in all of the Bible does the “spirit” have any life, wisdom, or feeling after a person dies. It is the “breath of life” and nothing more.

“So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more.” Job 14:12. “The day of the Lord will come … in the which the heavens shall pass away.”
2 Peter 3:10.

If the dead are really dead and can’t communicate with the living, how can the mediums and psychics talk to my dead relative.

Crystal Ball

The truth is that they can’t. They may be communicating with something, but it ain’t your peeps! It’s actually the fallen angels (demons) that got thrown out of Heaven along with Satan! It’s in the Bible, and God plainly warns us about it.

The Bible Says that after death a person: returns to dust (Psalms 104:29), knows nothing (Ecclesiastes 9:5), possesses no mental powers (Psalms 146:4), has nothing to do with anything on earth (Ecclesiastes 9:6), does not live (2 Kings 20:1), waits in the grave (Job 17:13), and continues not (Job 14:1, 2).

The belief that we don’t really die when we die began when Satan lied to Eve at the very beginning. “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.” Genesis 3:4. “That old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan.” Revelation 12:9.

Does it really matter one way or the other what we believe happens when we die? Yes, it does. Misunderstanding this subject will almost certainly allow you to be deceived by Satan about this and other subjects including the Battle of Armageddon in the last days. If you know for certain that the dead are actually dead, the Devil and his demons will have a hard time making you believe that you are being visited or led by one of your dead relatives.

One of the biggest misconceptions is that the unsaved go straight to hell and the righteous go straight to Heaven at death! The Bible couldn’t be any clearer, that the unsaved don’t go to hell as soon as they die, but are reserved in the grave until the day of judgment to be punished. Jesus taught this truth in the well-known parable of the Wheat and Tares. But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.’ Matthew 13:29, 30.

Now follow the words of Christ as He explains the meaning of the parable: “He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 13:37-42.

Isn’t what Jesus said plain and simple? It is so clear that a child can understand it. He said the tares represented the wicked people, and that they would be cast into the fire “at the end of the world.”It was in the harvest.

The harvest is the end of the world that the separation would take place, and He plainly stated, “.” How can anyone twist these words of Jesus? The whole idea of the wicked going to hell at the time of death contradicts our Lord’s specific teaching that they would be cast into the fire at the end of the world.

Since the judgment also takes place after Christ comes we can see how impossible it would be for anyone to be punished before that time. Justice demands that a person be brought into judgment before being punished. Peter declared, “The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” 2 Peter 2:9. That certainly makes sense, doesn’t it?

Read more about this interesting Bible topic here.

The truth from the Bible says something totally different than what the majority is teaching and believing!

Unbelievable!

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