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If They Say, "Come With Us"SJL, Thank you for your time in response. Mine was not a wolf in sheep's clothing but my own father, who knew the real Truth. Yet, I am still...
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1 Jn 2:3, 3:23 & 5:4-5 commandments parsed
Invariably people like to add there own contextual application to 1 Jn 2:3, 3:23 & 5:4-5. I.E. the 10 commandments.
Originally scripture wasn't written via chapter & verse, that's added later by translators. Taking one verse out of context...
Heb 6:4-6 context is not about losing salvation.
To begin with; here are just 7 of many scriptures. That make it abundantly clear that salvation is eternal. (Jn 3:16 & 6:47; Jn 10:27-29; Rom 8:35; 38-39 & 10:9-13; Phil 1:6)
Some background: 1st who is the book written to? Hebrews. The main...
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Matt 24:13 "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved".
Scripture Study Tips
When dissecting any verse of scripture. Ask yourself, of whom, to whom, with what words, what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what is written...
Hanukkah 2024 starts at nightfall on Dec 25
Hanukkah begins at nightfall on Dec 25, 2024. Is when the first candle is lit. The final candles are lit on Fri Jan 1 & the holiday ends at nightfall on Jan 2, 2025.
The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem
Leading up to...
Jesus referenced the Son of man (every mention KJB translators capitalize Son, showing deity) over 80 times in the 4 gospels.
Jesus referenced the Son of man's coming/return 9 times & 4 of those times, Jesus say's, you will SEE the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great glory...
Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
This verse clearly says from ALL the tribes of the children of Israel/Jacob.
Rev 7:5-8 confirms 12,000 x 12 tribes - 144,000.
Gen...
The 1st physical/temporal old covenant Tabernacle (blueprints are given to Moses Ex chapters 25-31 & 35-40) for building the Tabernacle. It was a glimpse of the heavenly Tabernacle.
Ex 25:40 See that you make them [exactly] after their pattern which was shown to you on the mountain. (Also see...
Matt 9:16-17 Old cloth/old covenant - New cloth/new/covenant (17) new wineskins/new covenant. Don't mis um! (Also see: Mk 2:21-22, Lk 5:36-17)
Rev 3:
15 I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot!
16 So, because you are lukewarm & neither hot nor...
1 Jn 3:4 Sin is a transgression of Gods Law:
Ok, all have broken God's law (Rom 3:23).
No one can say he isn't a sinner until some means is provided (not to take away the law) but to remove the sin, which is the transgression of the law.
Faith placed in Jesus's sin payment & resurrection...
Grace = God's unmerited/unearned/undeserved favor has a name.
Jn 3:16 God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life
(MY NOTE: God sent His Son Jesus the Christ: Believers in Christ death/sin payment &...
Rightly dividing the word of truth: where the OT and NT dividing line is.
Christ is the NT testator (Heb 9:16,17. Jesus dies, OT Holy of Holies veil tears in 1/2. Three days later He's resurrected & 50 days later (Pentecost) Jesus sends His New Covenant/testament baptism (Acts 2:4) via His...
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: Save, Saving - [ A-1,Verb,G4982, sozo ]
(b) of the spiritual and eternal salvation granted immediately by God to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, e.g., Acts 2:47, RV "(those that) were being saved;" Acts 16:31; Romans 8:24, RV...
KJV Dictionary Definition: JUSTIFICATION; In theology, remission of sin and absolution from guilt and punishment; or an act of free grace by which God pardons the sinner and accepts him as righteous, on account of the atonement of Christ.
(MY PARSING of KJ dictionary: ABSOLUTION from GUILT &...
KJV Dictionary SANCTIFICA'TION definition: The act of making holy, the act of consecrating or of setting apart for a sacred purpose.
(MY NOTE: To sanctify, something is to set it apart for sacred purpose/work. It's Christ that sanctifes us void of any action on our part beyond faith)
Eternal...
Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
(MY NOTE: Predestined to what? To the ADOPTION by Jesus Christ to himself)
Rom 8:29
For those ""God foreknew"" he also predestined to be conformed to the image...
These are 2 separate events. 1st, Believers only, meet Christ in the air. 2nd, The Lord's feet (physically) touch Mt Olive & His saints/believers are already with Him.
Day of the Lord - Verse highlights
Isa 2:12 Man humbled, Isa 13:4-6 Battle, indignation, destruction
Jer 46:10 Vengeance, the...
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words: Dispensation [ 1,,G3622, oikonomia ]
primarily signifies the management of a household or of household affairs" (oikos, "a house," nomos, "a law"); then the management or administration of the property of others, and so "a stewardship," Luke...
Eph 1 & 2 written to believers/those spiritually sealed (2 Cor 1:22, 5:5, Eph 1:14, 4:30, 2 Timothy 1:14)
Eph 2:
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
(MY NOTE: Belief/faith in Christ has quickened = made you SPIRITUALLY alive)
5 Even when we were dead in sins...
God chose Israel to be a Nation of Priests (Ex 19:6) to teach ALL the world the ways of the Lord.
Rom :3
1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
(MY NOTE: God chose Israel...