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    Millennial Considerations

    Thanks Stephen Mendes, for stating your ideas. The literal approach that you take is the one taken by (what seems to me) the vast majority of persons looking to understand the Bible. At first thought, it does seem like the most intuitive way the Bible should be written. I would be happy enough...
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    Question

    If a person is a true believer, then God is their father. They have a spirit that cries out to him Abba, Father. Also, Jesus taught his true believers to pray: 'Our father who art in heaven'. You honor your father (one of the ten commandments) by honoring him in what you do. The Bible has an...
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    I Have A Stupid Dilemma

    Tell God about it is the best thing and ask him for help. 1 Peter 5:7: "Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you." I once was working two hard jobs and my body couldn't take the hours. I needed the income though and had a family. I told God about it and right away everything worked...
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    Who are the "two witnesses" in Revelation 11:3-6 ?

    The two witnesses are those who are true believers, so this means more than a literal two persons. The true believers receive power to share the gospel. Luke 24:49: "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from...
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    Question about Gift of Prophecy

    "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" You are right that the Bible (scripture) has been completed. However...
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    Question about Gift of Prophecy

    People often think prophesying or prophecy means predicting that some future event will happen. Prophecy does have its future fulfillment component because the gospel has a future aspect included in it, but prophecy is really about sharing the gospel, which is the word of God (The testimony of...
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    Can satan make war while bound in the pit?

    Thanks for asking DavidPT. Basically, what is happening in the book of Revelation is that we see the congregations of the church age have the Holy Spirit and believers are witnessing the gospel in the congregations, but the congregations begin to fall away from the true gospel and to reject the...
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    Can satan make war while bound in the pit?

    "And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal...
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    Some advice please

    You don't have to be rock solid. Let Jesus be the rock and you just be you. Tell Jesus all the things on your mind, just like you would tell us, or a best friend. Don't worry if the Bible doesn't seem to make a lot of sense at first. God sees when anyone is honestly presenting themselves before...
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    Which other verses contain the gospel succinctly?

    The gospel is the entire Bible.
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    The 144,000

    Thanks for your question/opinion. Do you think that the 5 saved virgins in the parable of the virgins in Matthew (Matthew 25) are all women who never had sex? Most likely you do not, since you probably realize that these virgins are pictures of those true believers, both male and female, married...
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    Six Day Creation? No Way!

    Thanks TOL for your point. I believe that the Bible says that it is written as a parable, according to those rules of interpretation, as can be found in Mark 4. The law of God, the Bible, is called a parable in Psalm 78: "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my...
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    What's the deal with the constant repeating of 3, 7, 12, 40?

    Thanks Dirk1540 for asking this question. Each time God uses a number in the Bible (the Holy Spirit is the author of the Bible so it is God using the number!) he is emphasizing something in the story. Consider the number 7 that you mention. The seventh day is the sabbath and the sabbath...
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    Is God the Lord of Armies?

    (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) AND AGAIN Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
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    How often do you read Leviticus?

    People who see Leviticus as only a surface text (my guess is that this is you) see the surface text of Leviticus as a series of outmoded and irrelevant instructions, most of which seem to have little to do with modern society or with one's modern life. If those persons looking at the surface...
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    Hypothesis on the Identity of the Tree of Life

    I am happy that you see that the Tree of Life is Christ. The Bible uses trees to describe persons, and the person of life is Christ. That is why the Tree of Life is "in the midst". In the midst is Christ's position in relation to his people in the Bible. The Bible is written in parable form...
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    Bartimaeus: Healed on the way into or out of Jericho?

    "Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out." is one scripture that springs to mind. The thing to keep in mind, in my opinion, is that Jericho is a picture of the congregations of the church age and maybe also of the congregations of Old Testament...
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    Why did God allow the people of Israel to kill people when it's a sin?

    Thanks Jesus4Ever for your question. First of all, the verse apparently says: Thou shalt not murder. Nevertheless, people often wonder about how God could allow such things as killing in the Old Testament. To understand, you have to consider how the people of God operate in the New Testament. We...
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    Are there 3 heavens?

    I think what has happened with the three heavens idea, is that people originally read about Paul being caught up to the third heaven, and they figured, well, then obviously there are three heavens. So they came up with what they think the Bible must mean by that (atmosphere, space, and beyond)...
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    The heavens declare the glory of God;

    Thanks JoeP222w, for your interest in the subject. The term heavens in the Bible is the plural of heaven and is about the same in meaning. Heaven, the Bible says, is God's throne. Wherever God, who is a Spirit, is on the throne, so to speak, in people's hearts, we could say that that is heaven...