Jacob and Esau and the Seed of Abraham
November 16th, 2010 | Eschatology | No Comment
The Seed of Abraham Part Two
God further clarified that the fleshly descendants of Abraham were not the seed of Abraham by choosing Jacob over Esau through whom the promise would be fulfilled? If all the fleshly descendants of Abraham were entitled to the promise God could not have chosen Jacob and rejected Esau. Yet, the text says of the twins, (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls), it ...
The Law of Moses in 2 Corinthians 3
July 29th, 2010 | Fulfilled Prophecy | No Comment
The Law of Moses in 2 Corinthians 3
No discussion on the fulfillment of eschatology should omit the study of the Law of Moses in 2 Corinthians 3. It is such a rich text on the background of Israel's experience under Torah, the events of Sinai and their application to a then present transition. In most Amillennial studies, the law of Moses ends at the cross, is completely fulfilled then, with nothing to be heard of it from that time forward.
This is the view of most. In their defense of that position, texts from John 19:30, Eph. 2:15, and Col. 2:14 ...
Are Only 144,000 Going to Heaven?
March 28th, 2009 | Eschatology | 15 Comments
Eschatology
At our potluck for our church group last
night we had some interesting discussions
with our teenagers about money and
responsibility.
Are Only 144,000 Going to Heaven?, was a
question asked that was as much out of place
in that conversation as it is in this paragraph.
After we finished some good food and a lively
discussion, we had a ten minute devotional.
Everything went well, but at the end of the
discussion, one of the members, a really nice
lady said she was called “Miss Goody-Two-Shoes” by a coworker.
Her coworker told her to chill and stop being such a good person
because only 144,000 people were going to heaven. She said, her minister, (a ...
End of the World, Have Heaven and Earth Passed? Pa...
March 10th, 2009 | Eschatology | 1 Comment
This third segment on Eschatology – Have
heaven and earth passed?, is part of an
agglomeration of about seven posts we
made on this topic.
All of this information is only part of the
picture in the study of the passing of the
Old Covenant.
Here, we look into the New Testament
expressions of Christ and the Apostles to
note how they applied these texts from
the Old Covenant.
To begin, let us consider what should be a rather easy very to grasp.
Yet it’s meaning creates quite a disagreement among interpreters. The former two lessons on this topic are indispensable to get the full meaning of what we say here.
Eschatology – Heaven and ...
Eschatology, -Have Heaven and Earth Passed?-Part 5...
March 10th, 2009 | Day of the Lord | No Comment
As we continue this study, Have Heaven
Heaven and Earth Passed?, Part 2, the reader
is urged to consider part 1 of this triad.
We established the non-destruction of the
material heaven and earth per part one.
Here, we further examine the use of language
describing the end of the Old Covenant World.
The Psalmist takes up the question of the
non-permanent status of the Jewish world.
In Psalms 102:25–27, David, spoke not of the end of the planet for reasons stated in segment one of this study, (See Have Heaven and Earth Passed, Part 1) but of the end of the Jewish age or covenantal world.
This text demonstrates God’s figurative manner of describing the end of ...
