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 ...

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 well ...

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 ...