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10921 | What is Love of Christ? | Rev 12:11 | DocTrinsograce | 171377 | ||
"Love shows the true character of a man, according to the object which he loves more than anything else: for as is the love, so is the man. According to his love, so might you confidently designate the man. If he is a lover of honor, he is an ambitious man; a lover of pleasure, a sensual man; and if he chiefly love the world, he is a covetous man. If a man loves righteousness, he is a religious man; if the things above, a heavenly-minded man; and if he love Christ with a pre-eminent love, he is a sincere man: "Rightly do they love you," Song of Songs 1:4. If Christ has our love, He has our all; and Christ never has what He deserves from us, till He has our love. True love withholds nothing from Christ, when it is sincerely set upon Him. If we actually love Him, He will have our time, and He will have our service, and He will have the use of all our resources, and gifts, and graces; indeed, then He shall have our possessions, freedom, and our very lives, whenever He calls for them. In the same way, when God loves any of us, He will withhold nothing from us that is good for us. He does not hold back His own only begotten Son, Romans 8:32. When Christ loves us, He gives us everything we need -- His merits to justify us, His Spirit to sanctify us, His grace to adorn us, and His glory to crown us. Therefore, when any of us love Christ sincerely, we lay everything down at His feet, and give up all to be at His command and service." --Thomas Doolittle (1630-1707) |
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10922 | Our Holy Weapon | Rev 12:11 | DocTrinsograce | 181902 | ||
"Some, I fear, use the precious blood of Christ only as a quietus to their consciences. They say to themselves, 'He made atonement for sin, therefore let me take my rest.' This is doing a grievous wrong to the great sacrifice… A man who wants the blood of Jesus for nothing but the mean and selfish reason, that after having been forgiven through it he may say, 'Soul, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry: hear sermons, enjoy the hope of eternal felicity, and do nothing' -- such a man blasphemes the precious blood, and makes it an unholy thing. We are to use the glorious mystery of atoning blood as our chief means of overcoming sin and Satan: its power is for holiness. See how the text puts it: 'They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb': these saints used the doctrine of atonement not as a pillow to rest their weariness, but as a weapon to subdue their sin. O my brothers, to some of us atonement by blood is our battle-axe and weapon of war, by which we conquer in our struggle for purity and godliness -- a struggle in which we have continued now these many years. By the atoning blood we withstand corruption within and temptation without. This is that weapon which nothing can resist." --Charles H. Spurgeon | ||||||
10923 | The scriptures and U.S. Mid East Policy | Rev 12:12 | DocTrinsograce | 137836 | ||
Dear Pastor, I don't think it is wrong, unless it takes the focus off of Christ. Fortunately, all of these things are in His hands. As Christ puts it in Revelation 2:10 (LITV), "Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw you into prison, so that you may be tried; and you will have affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life." The trying of our faith is to be expected (1 Peter 1:7). Nevertheless we are to rejoice, knowing that it is for just a short time. In Him, Doc |
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10924 | Satan's flood. Want some info. | Rev 12:15 | DocTrinsograce | 219582 | ||
Dear orinvee, Welcome to the forum! I just wanted to point out that the question you were responding to was past over seven years ago. That was Taratoon's first and last post. I doubt you will get an answer. In Him, Doc |
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10925 | deadly wound healed? | Rev 13:3 | DocTrinsograce | 240378 | ||
Hi, MzVicki... John Trapp (1601-1669) thought it occurred in 1378 AD; John Gill (1690-1771) thought it occurred in 476 AD; Robert Jamieson (1802-1880) thought it occurred sometime subsequent to 1870 AD; then there are all our contemporary prophecy mongers (1970-) who think it is yet to occur. Affixing apocalyptic prophetic particulars to specific historic events, while appealing to man's speculative curiosity, seems fraught with difficulties. If there is no agreement from one end of the eschatological spectrum to the other, I am doubtful that anyone in our forum will be able to provide a better answer. Furthermore, since our forum is rooted in the authority of Scripture, we would not want to provide a basis from which the less prudent of our members might be tempted to render an answer more definitive answer than that provided by the Word (cf Deuteronomy 4:2 and Luke 17:1-4). In Him, Doc |
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10926 | Who is the persecuted woman in Rev 12:13 | Rev 13:12 | DocTrinsograce | 226670 | ||
Hi, John1968... Welcome to the forum! Here is the comments of another Bible scholar with a slightly differing perspective: "The Church becomes the harlot: the world's political power, the Antichristian beast; the world's wisdom and civilization, the false prophet. Christ's three offices are thus perverted: the first beast is the false kingship; the harlot, the false priesthood; the second beast, the false prophet. The beast is the bodily, the false prophet the intellectual, the harlot the spiritual power of Antichristianity. The Old-Testament Church stood under the power of the beast, the heathen world power: the Middle-Ages Church under that of the harlot: in modern times the false prophet predominates. But in the last days all these God-opposed powers which have succeeded each other shall co-operate, and raise each other to the most terrible and intense power of their nature: the false prophet causes men to worship the beast, and the beast carries the harlot. These three forms of apostasy are reducible to two: the apostate Church and the apostate world, pseudo-Christianity and Antichristianity, the harlot and the beast; for the false prophet is also a beast; and the two beasts, as different manifestations of the same beast-like principle, stand in contradistinction to the harlot, and are finally judged together, whereas separate judgment falls on the harlot." --Dr. C. A. Auberlen (1824-1864) In Him, Doc |
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10927 | Explain the mark in Rev 13 | Rev 13:15 | DocTrinsograce | 128478 | ||
I don't really have a lot to add to what many others will tell you. However, just to add a bit of balance. There is nothing that can be done in the flesh that will insure your acceptance of God any more than there is anything that can be done in the flesh that will insure your damnation. The body is flesh, the soul is spirit. Please don't freak out that you might have "accidently taken the mark of the beast." Most of the stuff about 666 is just superstitious palaver based on a couple of out of context verses. | ||||||
10928 | What does 666 mean? | Rev 13:18 | DocTrinsograce | 145576 | ||
Hi, Sparkle... Your seeing the number in a lots of places is just a trick of your brain's attempt at pattern recognition and simple coincidence. As to whether the number is metaphorical or otherwise, that will depend on who you talk to and their particular eschatological perspective. Above, however, is the verse in which the number appears. In Him, Doc |
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10929 | Building a Christian library | Rev 13:18 | DocTrinsograce | 150029 | ||
Hi, Maude... Before you can build a good library, you should understand what is available, how to use it, with a focus on what you are intending to do. I would highly recommend "How to Read the Bible for all Its Worth" by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart. They will give you direction to make additional decisions about other Biblcal tools. You will find that many of those tools are available on-line. It is truly amazing just how much is out there. Start with Fee and Stuart, though. You will be very glad that you did! In Him, Doc |
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10930 | what is the meaning of the number 666? | Rev 13:18 | DocTrinsograce | 238095 | ||
Hi, byHisGrace... Dr. Kim Riddlebarger gives an interesting discussion of this question here: http://kimriddlebarger.squarespace.com/the-mark-of-the-beast/ In Him, Doc |
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10931 | True Worship | Rev 14:7 | DocTrinsograce | 240073 | ||
"Every true minister of the Gospel is a watchman, as well as a pastor, and all Christians are bound to defend truth and purity, to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, and to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, When men act on other principles, Christianity is but a name, a 'salt that has lost its savour.' Still men trifle with religion. Amidst hollow professions some would, in a bad sense, make 'the best of both worlds,' and instead of coming into collision with sin and ungodliness, they would fain [rather] run quietly on opposite rails so as to avoid collision. Even true Christians sometimes seek to anticipate the rest of heaven by resting unlawfully here. The wise as well as the foolish virgins sometimes 'slumber and sleep,' forgetting the solemn warning, 'Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers of the false prophets." --Dr. James Begg (1875) from his work, "Anarchy in Worship" | ||||||
10932 | who will drink the cup with god? | Rev 14:10 | DocTrinsograce | 125402 | ||
Specificly (relative to this phrase), "those who worship the beast (see verse 9). In general, however, God pours out His wrath on: (1) the fallen angels and those who follow them (Rev 19:20), and (2) Christ Himself in His atonement (2 Cor 5:21) in our stead. | ||||||
10933 | Ignoring a Decision to Capitalize | Rev 14:16 | DocTrinsograce | 149489 | ||
Hi, brother Mark! Albert Barnes states that it is Christ because of Revelation 14:14 where it uses the phrase "like unto the Son of man." This is the same phrase used to identify Jesus in Revelation 1:13. In Him, Doc |
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10934 | why should we fear god | Rev 15:4 | DocTrinsograce | 235609 | ||
Dear Braiden, To just list a few things: Because God is holy (Isaiah 6:3), because He is judge (Psalm 98:9), because He is angry with the wicked every day (Psalm 7:11), because the standard by which He will judge is perfect holiness (Romans 2:16), because He will not excuse the guilty (Exodus 34:7), because our very best is like filthy rags before Him (Isaiah 64:6). In Him, Doc |
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10935 | Define wine, please? | Rev 17:2 | DocTrinsograce | 204304 | ||
Tim is one of the only members of our forum -- to my knowledge -- who is able to read Greek. Consequently, he is able to render assistance to us directly from NT Greek texts. | ||||||
10936 | Judaism, Babylon the Great of Rev 17? | Rev 17:5 | DocTrinsograce | 179798 | ||
Dear Grace, This is a sort of convention on the forum that if you are responding to a post in an existing thread, then mark it as a note. The person you are replying to will be notified. This allows the front page to contain only new questions, while freeing us to continue to interact within the context of a given thread. Just thought you'd like to know. :-) In Him, Doc |
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10937 | Calvin's Letter to Men Facing Martyrdom | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243229 | ||
"My very dear brethren, hitherto I have put off writing to you, fearing that if the letter fell into bad hands, it might give fresh occasion to the enemy to afflict you. And besides, I had been informed how that God wrought so powerfully in you by His grace, that you stood in no great need of my letters. However, we have not forgotten you, neither I nor all the brethren hereabouts, as to whatever we have been able to do for you. As soon as you were taken, we heard of it, and knew how it had come to pass. We took care that help might be sent you with all speed, and are now waiting the result. Those who have influence with the prince in whose power God has put your lives, are faithfully exerting themselves on your behalf, but we do not yet know how far they have succeeded in their suit. Meanwhile, all the children of God pray for you as they are bound to do, not only on account of the mutual compassion which ought to exist between members of the same body, but because they know well that you labour for them, in maintaining the cause of their salvation. We hope, come what may, that God of His goodness will give a happy issue to your captivity, so that we shall have reason to rejoice. You see to what He has called you; doubt not, therefore, that according as He employs you, He will give you strength to fulfil His work, for He has promised this, and we know by experience that He has never failed those who allow themselves to be governed by Him. Even now you have proof of this in yourselves, for He has shown His power, by giving you so much constancy in withstanding the first assaults. Be confident, therefore, that He will not leave the work of His hand imperfect. You know what Scripture sets before us, to encourage us to fight for the cause of the Son of God; meditate upon what you have both heard and seen formerly on this head, so as to put it in practice. For all that I could say would be of little service to you, were it not drawn from this fountain. And truly we have need of a much more firm support than that of men, to make us victorious over such strong enemies as the devil, death, and the world; but the firmness which is in Christ Jesus is sufficient for this, and all else that might shake us were we not established in Him. Knowing, then, in whom ye have believed, manifest what authority He deserves to have over you. "As I hope to write to you again, I shall not at present lengthen my letter. I shall only reply briefly to the point which brother Bernard has asked me to solve. Concerning vows, we must hold to this rule, that it is not lawful to vow to God anything but what He approves. Now the fact is, that monastic vows tend only to corrupt His service. As for the second question, we must hold that it is devilish presumption for a man to vow beyond the measure of his vocation. Now, the Scripture declares, both in the nineteenth of St. Matthew and in the seventh of the First to the Corinthians, that the gift of continence is a special grace. It follows, then, that those who put themselves in the position and under the necessity of renouncing marriage for the whole of their life, cannot be acquitted of rashness, and that by so doing they tempt God. The question might very easily be spun out to a greater length, by stating that we ought to consider, first, who HE is to whom we vow; secondly, the nature of that vow; and thirdly, the party making the vow. For God is too great a Master for us to trifle with, and man is bound to consider his own capabilities; for to present a sacrifice without obedience, is nothing but thorough pollution. However, this one point may suffice you to prove to them that the gift of continence is a special gift, and in such-wise special, that for the most part it is only for a season. So that he who possessed it for thirty years, like Isaac, may not do so for the remainder of his life. Hence you may conclude, that the monks, in binding themselves never to marry, attempt without faith to promise what is not given to them. As for their poverty, it is quite the reverse of that which our Lord enjoined upon his followers." End of Part 1 |
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10938 | Calvin's Letter Part 2 | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243230 | ||
"Concerning the nature of a glorified body, true it is, that the qualities thereof are changed, but not entirely. For we must distinguish between the qualities which proceed from the corruption of sin, and those which belong to and are inseparable from the nature of the body. St. Paul, in the third chapter of the Epistle to the Philippians, says that our vile or weak body shall be made like to the glorious body of Christ. By this humble expression or Tapinosis, he points out which of the qualities that we at present bear about with us in our bodies are to be changed; those, namely, which are of the corruptible and fading nature of this world. And on this subject St. Augustine says, in the Epistle to Dardanus, which in number is the 57th, “He shall come again in the same form and substance of the flesh, to which certainly he gave immortality; he hath not taken away the nature. In this form he must not be supposed to be everywhere diffused.†This argument he follows out at greater length, showing that the body of Christ is contained within its own dimensions. And in fact our glorified bodies will not be ubiquitous, although they will have that likeness of which St. Paul speaks. As for the passage of the Apocalypse, the words are these in the fifth chapter: “And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing,and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.†Now you see that it is a childish cavil to apply this to souls in purgatory; for St. John, by the figure which is called Prosopopœia, rather conveys that even the fishes blessed God. And in regard to the passages of the Doctors, refer your people to the 27th Epistle of St. Augustine, To Boniface, where he states, towards the end, that the sacraments have a certain similitude of those things which they represent. From whence it comes to pass, that after some fashion the sacrament of the body of Christ may be the body of Christ. Item, that which he treats of in the third book, Of Christian Doctrine, where he says, among other things in the fifth chapter, “Such is the completely miserable bondage of the soul in conceiving of the signs in place of the things signified, and never lifting up the eye of the understanding above the corporeal creature to breathe eternal light.†Item, in the ninth chapter. -- 'The believer knows by experience, and understands [agnoscit] to what the mystery of baptism, and the celebration of the body and blood of the Lord, may be referred, so that the soul can offer religious worship, not in the bondage of the flesh, but rather in the liberty of the spirit. So to follow the literal sense, and in suchwise to conceive of the signs instead of the things sealed or signified by them, is a slavish weakness; that mere symbols should be so unprofitably interpreted, is the result of vague error; I do not heap up quotations, because these will be quite enough for your purpose. In conclusion, I beseech our good Lord that He would be pleased to make you feel in every way the worth of His protection of His own, to fill you with His Holy Spirit, who gives you prudence and virtue, and brings you peace, joy, and contentment; and may the name of our Lord Jesus be glorified by you to the edification of His Church! From Geneva, this 10th of June 1552, John Calvin |
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10939 | Calvin's Letter to Men Facing Martyrdom | Rev 17:6 | DocTrinsograce | 243233 | ||
Hi, Ed... Servatus beliefs are still recognizable in your Oneness Pentecostals, Russellites, Mormons, Unitarians, and others etc. He denied that Christ was the eternal Son of God; he is still well known as one of the most significant figures of Non-Trinitarianism. When the Romanists couldn't get hold of him, they burned him in effigy. His views on Baptism were unique to all parties. Torquemada would probably not have been so kind to him. (Now there was a fellow that would take some real inventiveness to make so pure of intention and teaching as Servetus.) I am surprised that people in our forum would take an elevated view of Servetus' doctrine. Well, Lockman is kind to let us have our say about our doctrines so tolerantly. You know, probably Servetus would have been ignored, had he not insisted on drawing attention to himself. It is still a mystery why he showed up there. Anyway, Geneva didn't look at things in a kindly way. Just as when we deal severely with a man who steals lives, they agreed with the early churches assertion that no less kindness ought to be dispensed to those who steal souls. Nowadays we would be in agreement that any slander of God, His Word, or His children, will be a matter that God Himself will inevitably settle. So, enjoy a researched explanation of the events in mid 16th century in France, below. (Sorry, I couldn't find anything right away that was an historic account without the ad hominem abusive.) In Him, Doc PS I wonder how historians will treat the stuff that Mbewe talked about in post #243228 in another 400 years? Will they bash the perpetrators? Or be kind and considerate of their unstable and unlearned ways? If Servatus causes gnashing of teeth, what will all those who have lost lives in those groups in Africa. Let us pray that God will have mercy. http://reformed-theology.org/html/issue02/c_vs_s.htm I read yours... You owe it to me to read mine... Our forum must allow for tolerance. Even tolerance for Reformed Baptists. |
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10940 | Who is the Sixth King of REV 17:10 | Rev 17:10 | DocTrinsograce | 190614 | ||
The Geneva Translation Notes (1599) read: "The beginning of these kings or emperors is almost the same as the beginning of the Church of Christ ... from the 25th year after the passion of Christ, at which time the temple and church of the Jews was overthrown. In this year it came to pass by the providence of God, that that saying 'The beast was, and is not' was fulfilled before the destruction of the Jews immediately following, came to pass. That was 809 years from the building of the city of Rome at which time John counted the emperors who had been, when he wrote these things, and foretells two others next to come: and with this purpose, that when this particular prediction of things to come should take effect, the truth of all other predictions in the Church, might be the more confirmed. God in ancient times mentioned this sign in the Law and Jeremiah confirmed it in (Deuteronomy 18:1-22; Jeremiah 28:8). "Whose names are these: the first, Servius Sulpitius Galba, who was the seventh emperor of the people of Rome, the second Marcus Salvius Otho, the third Avlus Vitellius, the fourth, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the fifth, Titus Vespasianus his son, of his own name. "Flavius Domitian, son of the first Vespasian. For in the latter end of his days John wrote these things, as witnesses Irenaus; Lib. 5 adversus hareses. "Nerua, The empire being now translated from the family of Flavius. This man reigned only one year, four months and nine days, as the history writers tell. " Whereas the more contemporary Jamieson, Fausset and Brown assert: "...the first five of the seven are fallen (a word applicable not to forms of government passing away, but to the fall of once powerful empires: Egypt, Eze. 29:1-30:26; Assyria and Nineveh, Nah. 3:1-19; Babylon, Revelation 18:2; Jeremiah 50:1-51:64; Medo-Persia, Daniel 8:3-7, 8:20-22; 10:13; 11:2; Greece, Daniel 11:4). Rome was 'the one' existing in John's days. 'Kings' is the Scripture phrase for kingdoms, because these kingdoms are generally represented in character by some one prominent head, as Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, Medo-Persia by Cyrus, Greece by Alexander, etc. "[The other not yet come is] the Germanic-Slavonic empire beginning and continuing in its beast-like, that is, HEATHEN Antichristian character for only 'a short space.' The time when it is said of it, 'it is not' (Revelation 17:11), is the time during which it is 'wounded to death,' and has the 'deadly wound' (Revelation 13:3). The external Christianization of the migrating hordes from the North which descended on Rome, is the wound to the beast answering to the earth swallowing up the flood (heathen tribes) sent by the dragon, Satan, to drown the woman, the Church. The emphasis palpably is on 'a short space,' which therefore comes first in the Greek, not on 'he must continue,' as if his continuance for some [considerable] time were implied... The time of external Christianization (while the beast's wound continues) has lasted for centuries, ever since Constantine. Rome and the Greek Church have partially healed the wound by image worship." |
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