Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matt 24:35) The Bible Version Dilemma. The last 50 years or so has seen a great ‘explosion’ in the number of bible versions in English. Many bible studies are plagued by participants all showing up at home groups with their own preferred Read More…
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7.6 The Great Apostasy
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 2 Cor 1:12 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart Read More…
5.6 The Word, Our food ………………..
The Word, Our food It is the spirit that quickens; the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. {John 6:63} As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, even he shall live by me. {John Read More…
7.7 The Victor …………………
Jesus’s second coming. There is a sense of expectancy throughout the prophetic books of the Old Testament describing the coming of the Lord Messiah to reign on this earth. Every Jewish child was taught about the messiah to come. He was to be the glorious and mighty ruler over the whole earth, ruling with a Read More…
7.5 The mark, the number, the sealed.
{13:16} And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: {13:17} And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. {13:18} Read More…
7.4 The Beast was, & is not, the 8th.
The Beast of Revelation 17 (&13) (continuation of post 7.2, a mid-2023 interpretation) Not many interpretations address a clue given by the angel, who advises John in V7 that he will ‘tell him the mystery of the woman’ and the mystery of the Beast carrying the woman. Previously I had tried to understand Rev13 beast first before moving Read More…
7.1 The Witnesses
Revelation 11 describes the ministry of the two witnesses. In reading this chapter it seems clear that they operate out of Jerusalem. In addition, the reference to them as the “two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the Lord of the earth” give their ministry a distinctly Jewish flavour. Will their ministry specifically Read More…
4.2 Corruption of the Gospel
The corruption of the gospel: Do you believe the gospel is under attack? Are there people who consciously attempt to undermine or corrupt the message of salvation? If the apostles were warning the church against a corrupted gospel in the first century (1&2 Timothy, Titus and Jude), can we expect this to continue today? It Read More…
4.4 Science and Evolution*
Statistics and the Origin of Life A 2009 New Scientist article stated: There is no doubt that the common ancestor (the first life form) possessed DNA, RNA and proteins, a universal genetic code, ribosomes (the protein-building factories), ATP and a proton-powered enzyme for making ATP. The detailed mechanisms for reading off DNA and converting genes Read More…
5.0 Preparation as overcomers ………………
‘PREPARE YE THE WAY’ The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord! make his paths straight. every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;………………….6 And all flesh shall Read More…