“Art thou greater than our father Abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead? Whom makes thou thyself?” John 8:53. In being born of a virgin, Jesus had taken “the seed of Abraham” and so continued until he was 30 years of age when, in baptism he consecrated his being to God a living sacrifice. He was accepted, and from that moment, being begotten of the Spirit and sealed as a new creature, he is a partaker of the divine nature, the human nature…
“Many are familiar with the outline of God’s plan as embodied in the three worlds, – The world that was before the flood, the world that now is, and the world to come. This is a striking example of the fundamental character of the number three in the structure of the Bible plan of revelation and salvation. Each of these worlds, or orders, is spoken of in succession as having its own “heavens and earth.” 2 Pet 3. Here we have the foundation…
Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast. 1 Cor 5:7 The Passover was a Jewish feast kept annually (and is still observed by them) as a commemoration of their remarkable deliverance under the tenth plague upon Egypt – the Passing-over or sparing from death of their first-born. The circumstances as narrated in Exodus Chapter 12 – the slaying of the Lamb, the roasting of the flesh with fire, and the eating of it with bitter herbs and unleavened bread while…
Those who will first recognize the millennial day as begun, and its sun of righteousness as having risen, the kingdom of God as having been “set up,” or commenced its reign, will be the “great company who go through the coming time of trouble and come up (to the family condition, as partakers of the Divine nature) but not being the overcomers – the bride – they do not sit in the throne, but therefore are they before the throne.” NOTE: this was an early assumption however after further review one which…
TO WHOM DO WE APPEAR? This is a question of interest. The type (Lev 9:23) shows that the appearing is to “all the people.” Their typical priest so appeared and so blessed “all the people” for whom the sin offerings (plural) had been made. Israel being the type of the world as the house of Aaron (type of Levi) had before been used as a type of the household of faith, from which the “little flock” of priests are selected: So our…
“As it was appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” Heb 9:27-28. Perhaps no other text of scripture has ever been more widely misapplied than the above; it is generally supposed to refer to mankind in general, and to mean that there comes a judgment to them after death….
What will be raised up, in the resurrection? The body says someone. Not so I answer, it is the BEING that God promises to raise up. It once existed, and lost existence and is to be raised up to existence or being again. Men, can resurrect a body from the tomb (that is, bring a body out of a tomb to the surface); but only God’s power can resurrect or bring to existence again a being who has died. We see then that resurrection means the restoring of being. Now, “with what…
The death and resurrection of a human body as a thing distinct and separate from the intelligent being, is never mentioned in the Scriptures. We never read that Abraham’s body died, nor that Jesus’ body died, nor that any one’s body died. Being signifies existence, and there can be no being or existence without both life and body. Withdraw life and the being or existence ceases, for life is but a power or principle, the same in the lower animals as in man; the difference in qualities between man and the brute, consisting not in…
Now let us notice the likeness of men to angels, which will abolish marriage after the Millennium. Marriage is proper in this age. It is of divine arrangement. It is the method by which it pleased God to create a race–by creating one pair with whom he lodged the powers of procreation, to “multiply and to fill the earth.”–Gen. 1:28. Angels are most probably without sex—neither male nor female as we use those terms, though like God generally referred to…
Let us once again return to our scripture in question and find the true significance of our Lord’s meaning to our subject text, viz., Luke 20:34-36. First as any good bible student would do, we should thoroughly read the context to find out exactly why the Lord made this statement and to what or to whom (as well as to when) it is applicable. The Sadducees with whom our Lord held this conversation were disbelievers in a resurrection. They held…