THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part VIII ******* Question: Can the kingdom of heaven be manifested here on earth? If so, what implications follow concerning the requirements for resurrection also needed to enter the kingdom of heaven? Answer: In Jesus’ day, people looked for a manifestation of the kingdom of God or heaven here …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part VII ******* Question: What is meant where the writer of Daniel penned just before presenting his last four prophecies pertaining to the Second Advent: “And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life…” Daniel 12:2? Answer Continues: Returning to …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part VI ******* Question: What is meant where the writer of Daniel penned just before presenting his last four prophecies pertaining to the Second Advent: “And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life…” Daniel 12:2? Answer: By examining what …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part V ******* Question: Consider Daniel’s prophecy in his Chapter 7 where the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands falls and crushes the feet of the giant image representing the four world temporal powers, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. After the smiting Stone falls, “one like the …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part IV ******* Question: Consider Daniel’s prophecy in his Chapter 7 where the Stone cut out of the mountain without hands falls and crushes the feet of the giant image representing the four world temporal powers, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. After the smiting Stone falls, “one like the …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part III ******* Question: Why might some have rewritten the history concerning the reason the Phocas column was erected in the ruins of the Roman Forum in A.D. 608? ******* Answer: As explained in detail in Chapter XII of this book, the Emperor Phocas made a decree in A.D. …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part II ******* Question: Why is the phrase “the end of the world” used when Jesus’ disciples reportedly asked him in Matthew, “Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world?” (24:3) Answer: The writer of …
THE TIME OF THE END QUESTIONS, Part 1 ******* Question: What is meant by two phrases in the twelfth chapter of Daniel: “the time of the end” and “the end of the days”? ******* Answer: Some Christians, not familiar with prophetic interpretation or the Hebrew prophetically coded system, have thought that these coded phrases refer …
Influence of Daniel on Revelation, Part IV ******* Womanhood Introduced ******* As one further explores the influence of Daniel on John, perhaps a few clues will emerge to help answer some of these momentous concerns. Just as in Revelation 11, John combined the prophecies of Zechariah and Moses with Daniel’s dates for the Second Advent, …
Influence of Daniel on Revelation, Part III ******* One Like the Son of Man ******* So, John apparently saw Daniel’s “one like the Son of man” as two beings as he did with Moses’ “a Prophet” as two prophets. Certainly, Jesus referred to himself as the son of man (Matthew 9:6), and John called him …
Influence of Daniel on Revelation, Part I ******* It might be worthwhile to examine how Daniel’s dates influenced the apostle John when he was writing Revelation. Five of Daniel’s seven prophecies pertaining to the Second Advent particularly correlate to Revelation. Two are obvious; one other is mentioned by some biblical scholars and are discussed in …
PAUL’S TEACHINGS ABOUT WOMEN, Epilogue, Part 7 ******* The Law of Truth: Truth pounds error; any person or institution embracing the error also receives the pounding and eventually joins the dust carried away in the wind. To avoid the pounding, one must let go of the error. Denying the error and declaring the truth make …
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 …