March 30, 2013 Regardless of how much it hurts, how much it seems like the wrong thing to do, love requires that you let your neighbor make his or her own mistakes, even when those mistakes will cost your neighbor his or her life. Without your neighbor having the option to keep the commandments, your neighbor will keep the commandments (if he or she does) for a wrong reason; for it isn't keeping the commandments that truly matters. It is having love for your neighbor and/or brother, with the commandments forming a codification of love.

March 23, 2013 According to Scripture, the fate of rebelling Israelites is not positive: those individuals who know the will of God but who steadfast refuse to do those things that are pleasing to God will be punished by God through other men as the House of Israel was taken captive by Assyria and the House of Judah was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar and the Chaldeans; therefore Christians in the Western world can expect to be punished by God bringing unbelievers against them, and this might already be happening … how can a "Christian" nation support gay marriage or abortions on demand? No Christian nation can—and America's President Obama assured the world that the United States of America was not a Christian nation, a reality he has set about confirming day-by-day.

March 16, 2013 As American teenagers of two decades ago used the word when they wanted to convey the concept that something was "really good," thereby reversing the traditional meaning assigned to , a radical cleric can assign vowel pointing to the consonant clusters of key Qur'an passages that will justifiably support his form of Islam, and will do so without allegedly perverting the text: the Qur'an will say exactly what he says it does, but not without the vowel pointing he uses. Therefore, God can in a manner of re-vocalization transform Islam from a religion of peace to an instrument of war that is analogous to Nebuchadnezzar and his army.

March 9, 2013 This concept has significance when it comes to the "Book of Life" for fully alphabetized names, and for those names written in a Semitic "Book of Remembrance." … And if John records his vision with the type of linguistic precision endtime disciples have come to expect in modern documents, then there is a Lamb's book of life (Rev 13:8; 21:27), and an additional Book of Life that has been kept from the foundation of the world (Rev 17:8), with this latter Book of Life probably being Malachi's Book of Remembrance.

March 2, 2013 Both those who professed Christ who though not born of God but who strived to walk in this world as Jesus walked as well as the non-Christian who without knowledge of God lived a godly life will have their names read by God in the White Throne Judgment and will have meaning assigned to their names, meaning that gives to them eternal life.

February 23, 2013 If a person wants to actually remember how post-Resurrection Matthew differs from Mark and how both differ from John, the person will write out the endings, realize that they differ, don't initially be put off by their differences, and deconstruct the post-Resurrection differences to see what is will be revealed. Intentional difference serves to subtly reveal what isn't to be known to everyone. Endtime disciples need to understand the difference between intentionality and the simple recording of an event because the event happened in such & such way.

February 16, 2013 Paul couldn't imagine a Second Passover liberation of Israel that would have "Israel" filled with spirit so that Sin and Death would be "pushed" out of the fleshly members of disciples. The concept was beyond him, and beyond anyone who was born-into and educated in the traditions of Judaism. In all probability, comprehending that a Second Passover liberation of Israel was promised by the prophets was only available to a person who wasn't reared as a circumcised Jew.

February 9, 2013 Earthly Jerusalem has importance for outwardly circumcised Israelites that live outwardly by the Law, but it is heavenly Jerusalem that has importance for the "Israel" that is circumcised-of-heart. And in the distinction between earthly Jerusalem and heavenly Jerusalem is the difference between the Passover sacraments being the annual slaughter of a bleating lamb and the sacrifice of the Lamb of God at Calvary. Seder services are inherently unscriptural and mock both Moses and the Lord.

February 2, 2013 The nation of Israel that left Egypt and that did not enter the Promised Land because of its unbelief was the intended lamb of God through being the firstborn son of the Lord (Ex 4:22). Do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God. But they rebelled against me and were not willing to listen to me. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt.

January 26, 2013 To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

January 19, 2013 Christ is the Head of the Church as the husband is the head of his wife; so the biologically male disciple whose inner self is a son of God will "marry" Christ as His Bride when glorified, thereby turning gender roles upside-down. And it is in this gender confusion that angels first appear to the women to tell them that Jesus has risen from the dead.

January 12, 2013 It is the glorified Christ that gives heavenly life (received from God) to the disciple. Thus, spiritually, Christ Jesus serves as the Woman, represented physically by women, not by men who function in marriage as God the Father functions in heaven.

January 5, 2013 The concept of heart knowledge will permit a person, a Christian, to fellowship with others, to share meals, but not to believe the same things that others of the assembly believe; for the person with heart knowledge has superior knowledge (greater understanding) than even the person speaking from the pulpit has, or so this person believes.

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