Consider this situation. Two men have a debt, each one on a note of a million dollars. They are not eligible for bankruptcy. They are about to lose their homes and their all to the creditors. Along comes a benefactor. He deposits a million dollars in each debtor’s bank account One debtor gladly uses it to pay off his million dollar note. The other debtor claims to be one “who pays his own debts’ and refuses the gift. “I will…..
The last Words of Jesus in the book of Matthew are what is called The Great Commission, “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world’ (Matt.28:19-20). This was a unique event on a certain mountain in Galilee. It is the…..
The Passover celebrated each Spring by our Jewish friends goes back some 3510 years ago while suffering slavery in Egypt. The Lord brought a judgement that caused the Egyptians to release the Israelite (Jewish) people with such a great feeling that the Egyptians gave them great riches in animals and treasures of all kinds. It is called Passover because the Lord passed over the dwellings of those who followed His promise to escape the death of the first born by…..
Matt:10:1-42 (v.23) text selection based on Uniform Series KJV This account has to do with Christ”s ministry to the Jews: offering them as a nation the kingdom of heaven. It also goes beyond in prophesy to the time of the great tribulation (death, war, starvation,sickness, religious persecution) on earth after the church has been taken out of the world in what is called the rapture, some days before the second coming of Christ to earth in judgement. Jesus calls His…..
Jesus, after His baptism in water and his victory over Satan in the wilderness, began preaching in the small towns of Israel. His message: Repent, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (the kingdom of heaven is the government under Christ of mankind). First, here is what the word repentance in the Scripture means. In the Old Testament the word, appearing only a few times, means “to turn”. In the New Testament the word translated from the Greek means to…..
“Jesus of Nazareth is coming.” The word was out in the city of Jericho and many surrounded Jesus. They had heard of his miracle working power and he spoke with power. “Was he the promised Messiah?” The city of Jericho was under a curse from the time it was destroyed by Joshua and the army of Israel when first they crossed the Jordan river.(Josh.6:26) And the people of Jericho were under a curse which means disowned by God because they…..