Previously, we looked at God’s own declaration that Israel will never cease to exist before Him as a nation or a people no matter what they do (Jeremiah 31:35-37). Thus, to claim that there is currently no true Jewish people or nation is to call God liar. However, the Scriptures declare “Let God be true […]
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A foundation for the claim that the great tribulation and Jesus’ second coming has already happened (i.e. Preterism) is the false claim that Jesus Himself said the great tribulation and His second coming will happen in the first century. This results from a misrepresentation of what Jesus said in His Olivet Discourse (i.e. Jesus’ teaching
Preterism is the teaching that the great tribulation concluded in 70 AD and Jesus’ second coming happened in the same year so that we are currently living in the Millennium or thousand year reign of Christ (Partial Preterism) while Full Preterism teaches that the Millennium and even God’s final judgment are over. This means that,
God Himself has declared in Scripture, not as an Old Testament Law but an eternal prophecy, that Israel, just as it was in biblical times, will never cease to be a nation or people before Him forever, no matter what they do. This is what the Scriptures say, “Thus says the LORD, Who gives the
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We should rather find it worrying or strange that as God’s people, we can rightly use Psalm 121, and other similar passages – e.g. Isaiah chapters 41 & 43, to pray and partake of their blessings, despite their direct references to Israel but when it comes to the following Psalm, Psalm 122, where an exhortation
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In Matthew 7:24-25, Jesus taught that His words constitute the safe and secure foundation upon which we ought to build. To neglect to do this is to build on dangerously shaky ground and be eligible for a great fall (Matthew 7:26-27). Jesus iterated this same truth when He rose from the dead and ushered in
If it were true that works have no place under grace, then Jesus would have been in error when He demanded from the church in Ephesus that they return to their first love by doing the deeds they did at first (Revelation 2:5). This should cause us to have a biblical understanding of the place
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In Revelation Chapter 2, Jesus sent a message to the church in Ephesus and commended them for the things they excelled in. These included their good works, perseverance, and shunning evil (Revelation 2:1-3). If these were qualities Jesus praised them for, then He expects the same from us. Moreover, if Jesus’ Himself acknowledged their good
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”…So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief…However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:19-21) As shown in the previous study, the original Greek rendering of the opening text quotes Jesus as saying,
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Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”…So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief…However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:19-21). In Matthew 17, after the disciples had failed to cast out a demon from an epileptic boy, they
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