Bible Questions & Discussion PAGE 79

  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 10.

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 3)

    Home, Not-so-sweet Home

    On May 14, 1948, Israel declared itself an independent nation once again. Israel's Proclamation of Independence stated: "We extend our hand to all neighboring States and their peoples in an offer of peace...and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land...placing our trust in the Almighty...." That olive branch was trampled by the regular armies of at least five Arab nations attacking Israeli settlers in what they described as a war of extermination. That to exterminate Israel is required by Islam (no Arab map shows Israel's existence) makes real peace in the Middle East impossible--but political correctness won't admit it.

    More than 800,000 Jews fled from Muslim lands to Israel for refuge, leaving behind virtually everything they had possessed. This was almost double the number of Arab refugees who fled from Israel during the war of independence. Yet these Jewish refugees who fled persecution and slaughter are ignored in the media. For example, in 1948 there were about 265,000 Jews in Morocco, today there are about 5,000. There were about 140,000 Jews in Algeria, while today there are none. There were about 135,000 in Iraq, 75,000 in Egypt, and 30,000 in Syria, with only about 100 remaining in each of these countries.

    See Part 11.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 9.

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 3)

    Muhammad also declared, as recorded in the Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith, "The last day will not come until the Muslims confront the Jews and the Muslims destroy them. In that day Allah will give a voice to the rocks and the trees and they will cry out, 'Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me. Come and kill him!'" This is not an obscure teaching from Muhammad, but the very foundation of Islam, taught to Muslims through the centuries from their earliest years.

    As a result, ever since the Muslim conquest of the Middle East, Jews have suffered in Muslim countries from inhumane treatment and periodic bursts of violence that left many of them dead or seriously wounded. Take only one country, Morocco, as an example of what occurred everywhere under Islam. Jews were forced to live in ghettos called mellahs. One historian writes that rape, looting, burning of synagogues, destruction of Torah scrolls and murder were "so frequent that it is impossible to list them." As only one instance of many, in Fez, in A.D. 1032, about 6,000 Jews were murdered and many more "robbed of their women and property." In 1066, after Islam took over Spain, the Jews of Granada were massacred--and that fate periodically overtook those who would not bow to Islam.

    The fierce persecution of 1640, in which even women and children were murdered, was called the "al-Khada." Under Muslims, Jews suffered "such repression, restriction and humiliation as to exceed anything in Europe." Continuing that tradition, although there were no Jews in his country and none are allowed to enter to this day, Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud said, "for a Muslim to kill a Jew...ensures him an immediate entry into Heaven...." Diabolical motivation indeed!

    See Part 10.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 8.

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 3)

    Dave Hunt

    His Legacy Lives On

    In obedience to Muhammad, successor and father-in-law, Abu Bakr, and loyal Muslim warriors killed about 70,000 Arabs, former Muslims, in the "Wars of Apostasy." Thus Arabia was forced back into Islam once again.

    Thereafter, under Abu Bakr and succeeding caliphs, Islam spread swiftly by the sword from France all the way to China--"defensive" wars, of course. Millions were killed by the conquering Muslim armies. There is no way to "explain" away today's suicide bombers and other Muslim terrorists as a handful of extremists. This is Islam as Muhammad and his successors established and practiced it from the beginning and down through the centuries. Historians describe the conquest of India as "the bloodiest story in history." There Muslims killed more Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs than Hitler killed Jews. The Taj Mahal was built by a Muslim mogul with 20,000 slave laborers.

    Foundational to Islam is the declaration Muhammad made: "Allah has commanded me to fight against all people until all people confess that Allah is the true god and Muhammad is his prophet." The entire world is divided by Islam into Dar al-Islam (the house of peace) and Dar al-Harb (the house of war). There is perpetual Jihad by Islam against Dar al-Harb. There can never be "peace" until Islam has subjected the entire world to Allah. Verses advocating fighting to take over the world for Islam (of which there are more than 100) include the following: 2:190-193, 210, 224; 4:74-76, 89, 101; 5:36, 54; 8:12, 17, 59-60, 65; 9:5, 14, 29, 41, 123; 47:4, etc.

    See Part 9.
  • Jordyn - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Brother Jesse:

    The message to YOU is everything that is written in his word.

    You will either believe the message or not believe the message.

    The writers of the NEW Testament never used the words that describes God and God's saints in the Old Testament.

    Do you believe the angel of the Lord was Christ.

    If so, and you were resurrected with Christ as ONE FLESH, why wouldn't you be an angel.

    Most things are symbols, not literal little creatures with with six wings and eyes on every side.

    God Bless YOU!
  • Jordyn - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Brother Giannis:

    The whole gospel of the Kingdom of God revolves around the death and resurrection of Christ.

    The Old Testament saints and the New Testament saint were all resurrected with Christ ..... first resurrection .....

    It all happened 2000 years ago, but we, not yet born when this event happened, are BORN GAIN by the words of GOD.

    He tells us what happened.

    Now there are TWO types of people, believers .... first resurrection ..... and non believers ..... the second resurrection

    The wages of SIN (unbelief) is DEATH.

    The GIFT of BELIEVING is eternal LIFE.

    At Christ resurrection, all flesh died on the cross with Christ, ONLY Christ arose, the only one with eternal life.

    All men arose a New Creation with Christ joint heirs of eternal life, TWO became ONE, a MARRIAGE, flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone, we became the wife of Christ, ONE FLESH.

    Those who believe they were made one IN CHRIST, have already died, never to see dead again, they are just harvested ONE by ONE, not collectively, as man teaches.

    If you make everything revolve around the death and resurrection of Christ, it becomes easier to understand the prophecies and REVELATION.

    Most people don't spend enough time studying Mosses and the prophets.

    Remember Jesus told the Pharisees, who knew the Old scriptures inside out, they failed at understanding their meaning.

    It is no different today, unless you let the spirit of truth teach you, and that means repenting of the doctrines taught by man, you will have to go through the second death at the second resurrection and judgement.

    God Bless YOU.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hello brother Jordyn,

    Okay, so I have a few questions. First, what was the message? Second, if God gave the message to an angel, what did the angel do with the message? And thirdly, I know that ANGELOS can also mean messenger. So, if I (me personally) am the angel of the church (as you say), why in all of John's writings, the gospel of John, 1, 2, & 3rd John, and Revelation, John never uses the word ANGELOS for human messengers?
  • Giannis - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hello Jordyn.

    You asked "What if the rapture is a doctrine of man, and not the truth of scripture? God's word cannot contradict itself."

    What makes you think that the rapture is a doctrine of man?
  • Giannis - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hello Jesse, Spencer

    Thanks for your comments, this is my understaning as well.

    GBU
  • Giannis - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hello Ronald.

    Firstly you are right about the no, of resurrections, two of them.

    On the other hand in Rev it seems that the saints are resurrected before Jesus starts descenting to earth. In Thess they are ressurrected as Jesus comes to earth and we meet with Him in the air. Also in my previous posts I underlined the different conditions of the world in the rappture and in the 2nd coming. They don't seem to match at all. They are completely different.

    Today I remembered what Paul said about the Istaelites at the end. Rom 11:25, "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." We know that the Israelites will accept Jesus during the great tribulation. If the rapture is the same event as the 2nd coming there seems to be a timing problem, because the verse says after all of the gentiles will be saved.

    Last, in your opinion who are the people that are called into the marriage supper of the Lamb?

    GBU
  • Richard H Priday - In Reply - 5 months ago
    I am a bit limited on time here; but the story of Saul trying to kill David 21 times (quite often attempting to impale him against a wall) and the love/hate sort of emotion he had toward David is a classic illustration of such an issue. Surely we could say the actions of Judas Iscariot and the Antichrist fit in there as well; in fact the final end of the unregenerate in Revelation truly is insane; attempting to fight God as seen in Psalm 2 and Revelation 19.

    God would cause enemies to fight after each other as well as elicit fear among them. God also is going to send strong delusion in the last days; so God Himself can allow this to happen. Ultimately; of course it is the spiritual entities of devils that affect men; as seen today with those afflicting pain on themselves or committing suicide; many behaviors which are identical to those in cults in the scriptures as well as today. We see this with the worshippers of Dagon I believe when they were trying to get their "god" to do something during the prophetic challenge of Elijah (and or with Baal). Child sacrifice would be considered insane too; although in today's society we have made it a social or human rights issue instead.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Thanks Gigi.

    More on this once I finish my chores.

    God bless.
  • Ronald Whittemore - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hi Jesse,

    Thanks, there is much darkness in the world that many in the churches today do not even believe exists, to them, it is like Hollywood productions and not in real life. Some are used without even knowing they are being used but many since they are not a threat are left alone, to walk blindly to what is all around them, unknowingly being engulfed in the lusts of the world following the huge congregations having itching ears. It is the wide road to destruction.

    There is a rude awakening in the future that most will fail to flee and be overtaken by ''the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world''.

    Thanks again, God bless,

    RLW
  • Astrawind - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Thank you for taking the time to explain that. God bless you.
  • GiGi - In Reply - 5 months ago
    S. Spencer

    Thanks for posting this information. We do need to know the truth concerning the land God promised to Israel, the Israelites, and also understand the history of the Arabs and people in Palestine in order to understand their hatred for the Jews, and their desire to re-write the history of the descendants of Abrahan with Ishmael as the chosen heir of the covenant. Ishmael resented being replaced by Isaac as the heir of promise and his descendants have always wished to have that status. Also, Ishmael's descendants are a mixture of the people of Esau, Canaanites, and non-semitic peoples of the Arabian peninsula. Also, Most Arabs are not descended from Abraham, but some are descended from Abraham's sons from Keturah which settled the Arabian peninsula. They have created an untrue and misleading history for themselves in order to justify their overtaking of the lands of the Levant for Islam. They came in in the 7th century to take control of the Levant from the countries that controlled it then, which were not Arabs, but the Byzantine empire.

    It is sad that so many Muslims believe all of this. In this time of history one can find out the correct information online now. So I do hope and pray that many Muslims and sympathizers will go online and discover the truth for themselves. I pray more-so that in doing so will realize that they have believed lies concerning the Levant, Islamic history, and especially the deception of the Islamic faith as put forth in the Quaran and the leaders of this false, evil religion.

    AS believer, I think we should stand with Israel and not Islamic people. This is more spiritual in nature than many realize. It is more about hatred for the true God of Scriptures and the people that follow Him through knowing Scriptures and believing what it says. They want what Jews and Christians have from the God but do not want to serve Him. They instead choose to serve the idol that Muhammed promoted in his disjointed books. Sad it is.
  • S Spencer - 5 months ago
    Here's what was edited from the text from part 3.

    There are no such people as Palestinians.

    Its early inhabitants is shown here in Genesis 15:18-21.

    For some reason, the site won't let me post the names.

    Dave Hunt.

    God bless
  • Oseas - 5 months ago
    Be prepared for another terrible flood, as follow: Revelation 12:14-17:

    15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a FLOOD after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

    16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the FLOOD which the dragon cast out of his mouth.( See Revelation 13:11 combined with Revelation 16:13-15. And Get ready)

    17 And the Dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of GOD, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.(that is the Spirit of prophecy- Revelation 19:10)

    14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle (by allegory, the OLD and New Testaments- Revelation 11:3), that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent(the red Dragon). ---> (By the way, JESUS said for the Devil: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of GOD". The Word is GOD- John 1:1. The Words that came from the MOUTH of GOD are written in the Bible, you know?)

    Was Satan, the MAN of sin, son of perdition, born?(2Thes.2:3-4) Yes, he was, of course, decades ago.

    (baptistboard.co - (Baptist Christian Forums )

    Get ready, yeah, get ready
  • Jordyn - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Brother Jesse:

    Revelation 2:1 Unto the ANGEL of the church ....write ....

    Revelation 2:8 Unto the ANGEL of the church ..... write.....

    Revelation 2:12 Unto the ANGEL of the church ..... write .....

    Revelation 2:18 Unto the ANGEL of the church ....write .....

    Revelation 3:1 Unto the ANGEL of the church ..... write ......

    Revelation 3:7 Unto the ANGEL of the church.... write ....

    Revelation 3:14 Unto the ANGEL of the church ..... write ......

    The word says the message is to the angel of the church, just as relevant for today as then, the word is for ALL AGES.

    YOU are the angel (messenger) of the church, and the church is Christ, and YOU and Christ were made ONE flesh at his resurrection.

    God Bless YOU!
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 7

    "Palestine" ?

    Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and their families lived for more than 300 years in the land of Canaan, which God had promised to them and to their descendants. (Arabs never lived there in any numbers until after the seventh-century A.D. Muslim invasion of Israel.) Jacob and his family temporarily moved to Egypt because of a famine in Canaan, but remained there 400 years and became the slaves of the Egyptians, then were brought back to conquer Canaan as God had foretold, establishing them as the heirs of God's promises to Abraham ( Gen 15:13-14).

    Thereafter Canaan was known as the land of Israel, which it is called 31 times in Scripture. Its kings ruled from Jerusalem over a vast empire stretching from the Sinai to the Euphrates, until they were conquered by the Babylonians around 600 B.C. and scattered to many nations, as God had warned. Thus, for 300 years before Egypt and about 1,000 years thereafter--a total of 1,300 years--the Jews dwelled in their own land, the land of Israel. It is an insult to the God of Israel and to His chosen people to call Israel "Palestine"! Please don't encourage this lie!

    Ishmael's descendants never lived in Canaan. Most of them settled in the Arabian Peninsula. It would not be until the seventh century, through the Islamic invasions, that Arabs would come in any significant numbers into the land of Israel, which in A.D. 135 the Roman conquerors (after rebuilding Jerusalem as a pagan city dedicated to Jupiter) had angrily renamed Provincia Syria-Palestina after Israel's ancient enemies, the Philistines.

    Tomorrow I will post

    "The Islamic Threat To Israel" (Part 2)

    Dave Hunt.

    Good night and God bless.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 6.

    "Palestine"?

    Ishmael was born after Abraham had lived in Hebron for ten years. Fourteen years later, Isaac was born in Hebron to Abraham and his wife, Sarah. Ishmael mocked Isaac, and Sarah banished him and his mother, Hagar ( Gen 21:10-20). From that time onward, Ishmael was no longer part of Abraham's household but lived far away "in the wilderness of Paran" (21:21). Indeed, God did not consider him to be Abraham's son! God told Abraham: "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest and offer him [as] a burnt-offering" ( Gen 22:1-2).

    Thirty-seven years after giving birth to Isaac, at the age of 127, Sarah died (23:1). Abraham was still in Hebron of Canaan, where he had lived more than 70 years. He purchased the cave of Macpelah from Ephron the Hittite (23:1-20) and there he buried Sarah. Thirty-eight years later, at the age of 175, Abraham died and was buried in Macpelah next to Sarah. After Abraham's death, Isaac continued to live in Hebron in the land of Canaan another 110 years. One by one, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah all died and were buried in the family tomb, the cave of Macpelah--but not Ishmael. No Arab or Muslim was ever buried there.

    David was first crowned king in Hebron and ruled there over Judah 712 years before moving his throne to Jerusalem. Hebron is of great significance to the Jews. Yet Muslims built a mosque at Macpelah, claim the burial place of Jewish patriarchs as their own, forbid access to Jews, have periodically slaughtered and expelled Jews from Hebron, and desire to make it Jew-free today. They also claim that Jerusalem and the entire land of Israel have always belonged to them, that no Jews ever lived there, and that the Israelis are occupying Arab land! Incredibly, the world accepts this lie as the basis for forcing upon Israel a fraudulent "peace" in the Middle East.

    See Part 7
  • Jesse - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Ronald,

    Nicely put!
  • S Spencer - 5 months ago
    Part 5

    "Palestine"?

    Even had there been a land of Palestine and "Palestinians," the Arabs could not possibly be descended from them. They claim descent from Ishmael, who was certainly not a "Palestinian." His father, Abraham, was from Ur of the Chaldees, and his mother, Hagar, was an Egyptian. Neither of them was one of the "original inhabitants of Canaan," nor even remotely related to such a people. The land was already settled when Abraham with his wife, Sarah, and her maid, Hagar, arrived there.

    Furthermore, as late as the 1950s Arabs refused to be called Palestinians. To the British Peel Commission in 1937, a local Arab leader testified, "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented." Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian, testified to an Anglo-American Committee of inquiry in 1946, "There is no such thing as Palestine in history--absolutely not!" To the UN Security Council in 1956, Ahmed Shukairy declared, "It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." Eight years later, in 1964, Shukairy became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. No "Palestinian," like Arafat, he was born in Cairo.

    Abraham settled in Hebron in the land of Canaan ( Gen 13:18; 23:2, 19; 35:27; 37:14, etc.). Everyone knows where Hebron and Canaan were located then and now--nowhere near Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Yet the Qur'an and Islam claim that Abraham and Ishmael together built the Ka'aba. This is pure fabrication-as is the claim in the Qur'an that a Samaritan built the golden calf in the wilderness, 700 years before Samaritans even existed.

    See Part 6.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Jordyn,

    I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you on this one.

    May God bless you also brother!
  • S Spencer - 5 months ago
    Part 4.

    The land to which God brought Abraham (at this time called Abram), and which He gave to him and to his heirs, was called "Canaan" ( Gen 12:5, 6-8; 13:7-17, etc.). There was no such land as Palestine and no such people as Palestinians. ( Gen 15:19-21). God never promised anything called "Palestine" to Abraham and to his heirs. The only land He promised was Canaan: "And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God ( Gen 17:8); Be ye mindful always the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac; And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance" ( 1 Chr 16:15-19).

    See Part 5
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 3.

    "Palestine"?

    In spite of such Qur'anic passages, Islam claims that "Palestine" belongs to the Arab descendants of Ishmael. This is the basis of the hatred Muslims have toward Israel and of their determination to exterminate its people and to possess all of Israel for themselves. In fact, "Palestine" is not mentioned once in the Qur'an--very strange, considering the importance Muslims attach to it today.

    That spurious claim is further "legitimized" through a people who today call themselves "Palestinians." They claim descent from the "original Palestinians" and that, therefore, the entire land of "Palestine" is theirs, but is being unlawfully occupied by Jews. They demand all of this land as their possession. Such a claim is fraudulent for many well-established reasons.

    "I will have to portion this out so I can find out what is not allowed in the text. Sorry".

    See Part 4
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Bare with me, Apparently I have to do some editing on part 3.
  • Ronald Whittemore - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Hi Astrawind,

    If I may, you said you are focusing more on your faith which is great, praise God. Your question are angel numbers real? I will add are witches real, are demons real are mediums, horoscopes, etc. The answer is yes, but we are not supposed to deal with them. Angel numbers are a part of numerology, they may appear in the most ordinary places, these digits usually grab our attention, and even if for only a moment they evoke a sense of wonder, like sugar to an ant.

    The danger is they can open doors to things that at first seem good and harmless but are like drugs, harmless at first but when the fangs sink in, it's over.

    Leviticus 19:31 Leviticus 20:27 1 Chronicles 10:13 Micah 5:12 Acts 19:18-19 Galatians 5:20 Revelation 21:8.

    These are just a few verses you can find many more. If we put our faith outside of God, we are on dangerous ground. Numerology goes way back. The Babylonian Cube, it was a system of worship using numbers adding 1+2+3+ up to 36 = 666. they had it on an amulet they wore to protect them. It would be hard to explain it in this short reply.

    There are things in this world that look as pretty and sweet as cotton candy but are more ravenous than you can imagine, Believe me.

    I hope this helps and that you don't take it as coming from a fruitcake, but it is out of love, dark things are out there that you do not want to come across.

    God bless you.

    RLW
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 2b

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 1)

    By Dave Hunt.

    This never happened to the Arabs, but only to the Jews, who, during this isolation, did not intermarry with non-Jews but became an identifiable ethnic group, were led en masse into the Promised Land, and we know who their descendants are today. In contrast, Ishmael's descendants intermarried at least with Midianites (Jdg 8:1, 12, 22, 24) and with those of Esau ( Gn 28:9) who, in turn, intermarried with Hittites (26:34).

    In the beginning, the Qur'an called Jews and Christians the "people of the book" and honored much of the Bible as inspired of the true God. When Muhammad turned against these people, however, the tone of the Qur'an changed. The claim is made today that the Bible was perverted in order to make it seem that the Jews were the heirs. Of course, we have Bible manuscripts both before and after Muhammad, and they are identical. In fact, the Qur'an itself repeatedly declares that the Jews are Allah's chosen people to whom he gave the Promised Land:

    "We made a covenant of old with the Children of Israel" (Surah 5:70); "We brought the Children of Israel across the [Red] sea, and Pharaoh with his hosts pursued them and we verily did allot unto the Children of Israel a fixed abode" (10:91, 94); "[Pharaoh] wished to scare them from the land, but we drowned him and those with him [in the Red Sea] all together. And we said unto the Children of Israel dwell in the land" (17:103-104); "we delivered the Children of Israel from Pharaoh. We chose them, purposely, above all creatures (44:30-32); we favored them above all peoples" (45:16); "Remember Allah's favor to you. He gave you what he gave no other of his creatures. O my people, go into the Holy Land which Allah hath ordained for you" (95:20-21), etc.

    See Part 3.
  • S Spencer - In Reply - 5 months ago
    Part 2a

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 1)

    By Dave Hunt.

    The God of Ishmael?

    The God of the Bible is called "the God of Israel" 203 times. Never is He called the God of any other people--and certainly never is He called the God of Ishmael or of the Arabs. He further declares, "I AM the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations" ( Ex 3:13-16). Twelve times this name is given to God. Christ argued the resurrection of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (and thus of all believers) from this title, declaring that "God is not the God of the dead but of the living" ( Mt 22:31-32).

    The entire land of Canaan (which became Israel) was promised to Abraham and to his seed for ever ( Gen 12:7; 13:15, 17:19; Ex 6:8; Lev 25:23). Who can claim to be this "seed"? Islam teaches that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, who was the "son of promise" and was offered by Abraham upon the altar. Ishmael was the firstborn, and thus the Arabs, who claim descent from him, are adamant that they--not the Jews--are the rightful heirs to God's promise of the land of Canaan. Of course, Ishmael was not the son God promised, but the product of Abraham's and Sarah's unbelief. Instead of being born to Sarah, Abraham's wife, his mother was Hagar, Sarah's maid.

    The Bible makes it very clear in many ways that the promised son was Isaac and that he and his descendants were the rightful heirs to God's promises to Abraham. Apparently content with Ishmael whom he loved, Abraham desired no other son ( Gen 17:15-18). But God insisted that He would give Abraham a son through his wife, Sarah, that his name would be Isaac, and that he would be the heir to the promises and to the land (17:19-21). Furthermore, the true heirs to the promises would be slaves in a foreign land for 400 years ( Gen 15:13).

    See Part 2b
  • S Spencer - 5 months ago
    Part 1.

    The Islamic Threat To Israel (Part 1)

    By Dave Hunt

    That vicious anti-Semitism would pursue the Jews worldwide throughout history is one of many prophecies about Israel ( Dt 28:37; Neh 1:8; 2 Ch 7:20; Jer 24:9; 25:11; 29:18-19; 44:8; Amos 9:9, etc.) that God points to as proof that He is the one true God, that the Bible is His Word, and that the Jews are His chosen people (Is 42:8-9; 43:10; 46:9-10; 48:5, etc.). From a human point of view, there is no rational ground for such persistent, widespread anti-Semitism; yet this prophecy has come true with a vengeance. The only explanation is found in the Bible: the Jews are God's chosen people and under His judgment for their rebellion against Him ( Dt 28:15-68; 29:24-28; 30:17-20, etc.).

    There is a further obvious reason for this universal anti-Semitism: hatred of Jews and Israel is inspired of Satan because his only hope to escape eternal doom is to destroy them. This he must do to save himself from God's wrath. Had Satan been able to destroy the Jews before Christ came, he would have prevented the birth of the Messiah, the salvation of mankind, and his own defeat through the sacrifice of the Son of God for mankind's sins. Moreover, for promising a Messiah and a salvation that never came, God would have been proved a liar and thus could not righteously have punished Satan.

    Of course, the Messiah came and defeated Satan, "tasting death for every man" ( Heb 2:9) and bearing "our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Pt 2:24). Countless multitudes have been redeemed and will spend eternity in the Father's house of "many mansions" because of having received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. But Christ's defeat of Satan through His death and resurrection did not end the battle between God and Satan for the hearts, minds, and eternal destiny of mankind. That battle continues to rage--and Israel is at its center.

    See Part 2.
  • Richard H Priday - 5 months ago
    Part One: The love of God. Creation and salvation

    Psalm 51:10 states "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Christ states that man must be born of water and the Spirit ( John 3:5) which refers either to physical birth first then spiritual; or the baptism associated with God granting repentance and someone being "born again."

    The Lord created man in the image of God; both male and female according to Genesis 1:27. Man was given all he needed to live a blissful existence as long as he remained in communion with God; he was given authority over all creation and asked to tend the garden. God's love; however already looked to the needed redemption of man foreseeing his fall; and thus Christ's sacrifice was planned before time began to bring this plan to effect and destroy Satan's temporary usurping of rulership on earth ( Gen. 3:15).

    Therefore; Jesus became as the second Adam. (see 1 Cor. 15:47-49 for further details). To put to death the old man expresses the ultimate love; for it is the natural state of the unredeemed soul that can never escape itself in eternal hell. The world and its lusts are temporary; but He has put eternity in the hearts of man. ( Ecclesiastes 3:11). He has promised that He will never leave nor forsake us ( Deut. 31:6; Heb. 13:5). He acts as high priest ever interceding for us ( Rom. 8:34; Heb. 14:15-16; etal).

    Along with eternal salvation; God accomplishes His will in our lives; and shows His love by chastising all those He loves. ( Heb. 12:6-7 and other verses). The Lord will lose none of His sheep or His elect as they will hear His voice ( John 10:1-4). Thus the work has been done on our behalf; we can do nothing to add to it or merit any favor. Thus our response should be to love Him accordingly and not to focus on what He can do for us in this life; but to seek that His will is done on earth as in heaven.

    The process of sanctification and glorification will be reviewed in future posts.


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