PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 6 ******* One of the defects of human nature is to look down on others so that we feel better about ourselves. The treatment of females in Africa, the Mideast, and Asia is obviously deplorable. But do Western men, at least in part, look down upon the developing nations’ …
DANIEL 12, Part I ******* In Daniel 10, as Daniel was resting next to the Hiddekel River, symbolic of the Word of God, absolute Purity or the Christ appeared to Daniel, and he was introduced to another angel, Michael (explained in the previous Blog 43). Daniel 12 presents the last four of Daniel’s prophecies pertaining …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 5 ******* If we are to accept the masculine and feminine nature of God as discussed in Chapters 2, 3, and 5, then the degree to which a society or culture grasps the nature of Deity can be measured in part by the degree to which that society or …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 4 ******* Human nature resists change. This resistance to change is perhaps one of humanity’s greatest weaknesses. Furthermore, one of the great ironies of humanity is that erroneous beliefs are often prolonged by superstitions, by misunderstandings, and, sometimes, by arrogance embodied in human institutions that claim to be the …
Michael in the Old and New Testament ******* Daniel being the only writer in the Old Testament to mention Gabriel, he is also the only one to speak of Michael. Daniel, next to the River Hiddekel (in Daniel 10:4-10), is introduced to Michael (verse 13). Then Michael was mentioned once more, in Daniel 12. Daniel …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 3 ******* Not everyone is like Alabama’s former Governor George Wallace, who first stood for segregation, even standing up to the Federal Government, but who later accepted integration, even becoming a champion of jobs for blacks. With knowledge running to and fro at an ever-increasing rate, with communications uniting …
Gabriel in the Old Testament In the Old Testament, the angel Gabriel is mentioned only in Daniel. In Daniel 8, Gabriel is first introduced after the vision or prophecy of the sanctuary for the latter days, when the small voice of Purity lifted off the Ulai River (waters of purity) and commanded Gabriel to explain …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 2 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Spiritual Harmony – Waters and Music, Part II ******* Daniel took leave temporally to rest on the shores of the Hiddekel River. When this author went with his wife to a concert in which a guitarist played and sang a song, he felt an awakening that gave him the answer he had been seeking about …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Epilogue, Part 1 ******* Outside the spiritual realm, perhaps the one major constant of our modern age is change. This change awakens new truths in our thought. We then synthesize them with the proven ones of the past to bring humanity closer to Truth. With this process, humanity becomes less shackled. …
Spiritual Harmony – Waters and Music, Part I ******* Daniel for a time had been praying about the conclusion of Jeremiah’s prophecy of seventy years until the Jews could return to their own land to rebuild Jerusalem and its temple. Daniel was in his nineties and knows that, when the time came, he would not …
Paul’s Teachings about Women, Part 7 ******* Specific women mentioned in Acts: Lydia, Damaris, Euodias, and Syntyche ******* Specific women mentioned in Romans: Priscilla, Aquila, and Phebe ******* When it comes to reading about women in the New Testament, one cannot always take as gospel the words on the printed page because they may be …
Gender Equality References, Part III ******* Humans in the tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must reflect the divine in a gender-equality society, the qualities of both masculine and feminine equally valued in each individual. A few years ago, an attorney friend sent an email with an attached article about so many …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 6 ******* In addition, as we can see from the many examples at the end of this chapter, Paul named many women who were leaders in his churches. He even honored a married couple, Priscilla and Aquilla, mentioning her name first, a sign that she probably was the greater …
GENDER EQUALITY REFERENCES, Part II ******* The Tabernacle of God with men in the latter days must live gender-equal ideals among humankind. Jesus demonstrated how to live a life reflecting equality of the sexes. Some religious convictions result in unconditional acceptance of false ideas from scholastic theology, which is a mixture of pagan philosophy and …
ST. PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 5 ******* Paul wrote, “There is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). But we must also acknowledge the challenge Paul had in building a Church from two cultures, Hebrew and Greek, both of which were based on hard-core dominance by men. …
GENDER EQUALITY REFERENCES, Part I ******* John in Revelation 9:21, “Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” If in the divine, both the bride-wife and the Lamb are righteousness or purity, then they both are equated or the same. Thus, humans in the Tabernacle of God with men in the latter …
DANIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE MESSIAH Part III (Daniel 9) ******* Recall, there are three types of days in the Bible: (1) a literal day, (2) a spiritual day, as in the first chapter of Genesis, and (3) a symbolic or prophetic day. Perhaps the most important of all the codes to understanding the apocalyptical portions …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Part 3 ******* To get a clear picture of Paul’s thought, let’s start with a passage that did not get mistranslated: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The message …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, PART 1 ******* The Apostolic Church began with a continuation of Christ Jesus’ exoneration of women. Men and women prayed together, as when they prayed “with one accord” to be led of God in choosing a replacement for Judas, the traitor (Acts 1:14+). “Multitudes both of men and women” were accepted …
TIME REFERENCE ******* Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. (Revelation 1:3) ******* There are of course many TIME references in Breakthrough Analysis of Daniel’s Prophecies but there are a few references when there …
GOD is MIND ******* In his lengthy poem Paradise Lost (1667), John Milton wrote these lines: The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. (Book I, lines 254 and 255) If Milton is correct, perhaps then that salvation comes by exchanging the mortal …
GOD is LOVE. ******* Could not the Almighty, who changed time by making the sun and moon stand still (Joshua 10:13), interrupt any individual’s timeline at any point, before or after that person’s passing, to exercise His grace as the One too pure “to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” (Habakkuk 1:13), to …
GOD is SOUL. Chapter XIV in the study of Daniel 10: Since the God of the Mountains is reported to have established the Garden of Eden in eastern Eden near the source of the Euphrates and Hiddekel rivers, then the question arises as to whether these rivers represent not only the …