Do You Pray For The Kingdom to Come?
February 24th, 2009 | Armageddon | 1 Comment
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As a third grade student, we had devotionals
in our public school classroom everyone
morning which involved the class singing
in unison what is typically known as the Lord’s
prayer, See Matt 6:9–13.
I later learned that this is the prayer that
the Lord taught his disciples to pray. In that
sense, it would more aptly be described as
the disciples prayer. See Lk 11:1ff.
However, after studying the prayer, I
discovered that I could not conscientiously
pray that prayer as Jesus taught his disciples
to pray it. Why is that?
Well, it’s because it is a prayer of the
coming of the kingdom. In that prayer, Jesus taught ...
Is 1 Corinthians 15 Israel’s Resurrection?
December 24th, 2008 | Eschatology | No Comment
Much controversy exists over the
resurrection of the dead. It is often
denied that the 1 Corinthians 15 has
anything to do with Israel.
Is1 Corinthians 15 Israel’s resurrection?
Many see Jesus’ death on the cross as
God’s last word to Israel.
Those who do are very tight-lipped
about anything that speaks of Israel
beyond the cross, (AD. 30).
These are usually found in the Amillennialist camps. The cross becomes their line of demarcation. From that point forward, everything is all about Christians.
On the other hand, there are Dispensationalists who see everything in the scripture after the cross as related to national Israel.
They believe the church is simply a parenthetical “spiritual annoyance” until ...