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101 | Can we enter the Kingdom now? | Matt 6:33 | Tamara Brewington | 204123 | ||
Trying to retrace your steps here... Jesus was preaching all over the place that the kingdom of God is at hand. What He meant by that is that He was the ruler of the kingdom of God and that the kingdom was present with them in their here and now. A little history is in order here. Point one, people were getting saved while Jesus was walking around by repenting of their sins to God and believing that Jesus was God(Jews understood that Son of Man meant the Messiah and that the Son of God meant equality with God the Father as Jesus being also God)and they were entering directly into the kingdom of God. Point two, Jesus told Pilate that His kingdom was not on earth, that means it was a spiritual kingdom. Point three, therefore whoever gets saved is entering a spiritual kindgom. Point four, where Jesus says seek first His kingdom and all these things will be added unto you He was referring back to Mathew 6:24 where He talks about serving not serving two masters and wants believers to be devoted to God and unbelievers to come to God. Point five, seek first to be saved and to enter into Jesus spiritual kingdom is the point of Mathew 6:33 and if you do that all your needs that would have come from serving wealth will be added to you because you forsook wealth and chose God. Point five, this is one way to walk in faith, there are so many ways in which we are to walk in faith it would be too long to go into here. Point six, obeying God can't get you into the kingdom because that would be following the law. But if you meant seeking salvation (the kingdom), then yes that could be called one of several types of how to walk in faith. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
102 | Age of accountability? | Is 7:16 | Tamara Brewington | 204084 | ||
This seems to be answered but I wanted to put my two cents in. I believe that whenever a child becomes aware they are a sinner is qualifying as their own age of accountability. My son reached his at age 7 and the pastor was careful to test his statement that at 7 he was saying he knew for sure that he was a sinner who needed salvation and that he was asking Jesus for forgiveness of sins. This testing process took three whole months and included my son walking up to me and saying, Mom, I need to know Romes 10, God is telling me I need Romes 10. So we got down on the couch and I read Romans 10 to him and when I got to the part that say, if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart He died and was raised on the third day, you will be saved, he jumped up off the couch and said, that's it, that's it, that's what I need! The a month later he comes to me and says, Mom, God says I need John 3. So we got on the couch again and read John 3, and when we got to the part that says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life, my son jumped off the couch again and said, that's what I am looking for Mom, I want to get saved! I told the pastor all this, he had been praying how to discern if my son was really taking Jesus for his savior with a true knowledge of what it all means. So he kept taking my son up to the pastor's office and talking with him over the space of those three months. At the end he decided my son knew what he was saying and my son got down on his knees at home without me leading him and asked for forgivness and was baptized at 7 years old and was given full rights as a believer in Christ. It all started one day when the altar call came and he tried to move past me in the pew to get out and go forward and I told him he had to wait to go to the bathroom and he said, "Mom, let me by I need to go to the front becuase I need to get saved". There are no scriptures in the Bible telling you what the age of accountability is. Denominations differ and many say 12 is the age, some say it is 16. But I warn you, God will do whatever He wants to do and if He wants to call someone earlier He will. You have to be willing to be open to whatever God is doing and test that child, you and your pastor, test that child, find out if they know what they are talking about. Be careful, the Bible says in Mathew 19:14, "Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these". God Bless, Tamara |
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103 | holy spirit | Gen 1:2 | Tamara Brewington | 204082 | ||
Genesis 1:2, where the spirit of God was hovering over the water, second reference Genesis 1:26 God speaks to the other parts of Himself. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
104 | Clarification? | Rom 6:3 | Tamara Brewington | 204081 | ||
Hi this is Tamara, kinda jumping in here as I saw this in unaswered questions... Were you trying to reply back to someone? I kept getting confused and didn't put note, try to remember to put note, when replying to folks, your note even though it probably got to the right party ended up in unaswered questions. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
105 | Pentacost | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 204080 | ||
This is Tamara, try to remember, as I kept getting it wrong myself, to post things like this as a note, rather than a question, or else it ends up turning up in unaswered questions. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
106 | Horn means king? Hour is 60 minutes? | Rev 17:12 | Tamara Brewington | 204079 | ||
I missed this one when I was answering you the other day... This one is ineed referring to a period of time longer than an hour, there are probably a few more like this in Revelation that I inadvertantly missed. I think when it comes to weeks and years in Revelation you can take that at face value. But where Revelation says in one chapter that something take a specific amount of time and then in another gives a hour we should take that to mean for a while, but look back to the other references in Revelation for specific weeks and years. This is because Revelation has a tendency to repeat itself, first it will describe something before it supposedly hapens and then it has a tendecy to take you to a place where it is supposedly actual taking place. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
107 | Great star? | Rev 8:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204049 | ||
This is a different star, this star in Revelation 8:10 is probably going to be a meteor and not Satan the fallen angel. The purpose of this star is not to go take a key and open up the bottomless pit to let demons out as in Revelation 9:1. The purpose of this star is to destroy a third of rivers and springs and the men who drink of these waters will die. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
108 | Angel of the Abyss? | Rev 9:11 | Tamara Brewington | 204048 | ||
Most commentators see the falling star in Revelation 9:1 as being Satan. The angel of the abyss in 9:11 is Satan because he is the king over the demons who were locked in the pit. Satan has a spiritual kingdom of demons of which he is king and is called the angel of the abyss. He is given the key to where some of the demons are locked and he lets them out to torment for five months. We call him Satan, in Greek he was called Apollyon, in Hebrew he was calle Abaddon. Isn't it interesting how God will use Satan to do the 5th trumpet judgment? God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
109 | Five months? | Rev 9:10 | Tamara Brewington | 204047 | ||
When the Bible makes plain sense seek no other sense or it becomes nonsense. The locusts, commentators say are demons with stingers and they have the power to hurt and torment for 5 literal months, but not to kill, that is how long the effect of one sting will last. Five months means literaly five months, take numbers literaly in Revelations, just like other numerical prophecies came true in the Bible, so it will when Revelation comes true. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
110 | Biblical laws governing trees | Gen 1:28 | Tamara Brewington | 204027 | ||
Try looking at Genesis the first chapter where it talks about man making the earth to be in subjection to himself and and having dominion over the earth. And try Genesis 2 where God tells Adam to dress the gareden and keep it and not to eat of the tree of good and evil. I don't know of any other Biblical laws governing trees in the Bible other than Leviticus 19:23 where it says to count the fruit of the newly planted trees as forbidden for three years. Try this, go to www.blueletterbible.com and use the search engine there and type in trees, that is how I found the Leviticus text for you. God Bless, Tamara |
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111 | When and where was the Pentecost? | Acts 2:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203983 | ||
Dear Sam, Penetcost took place in Jerusalem in a house, probably a big house, because Acts 1:12-15 says there were over 120 person gathered who were waiting. Then Acts 2:1-12 says they were still gathered in a house when the Holy Spirit fell. To add to that what happened was loud because they had to be heard outside as the text says that men hearing the sound came a crowd from outside came together where they were 120 or so were gathered inside. It is possible the whole shebang moved outside but the text doesn't say, but 120 plus is a whole lot to have in somebodies house in the first place and then that men from every nation under heaven showed up, well you get the idea... God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
112 | Solomon's judgment of Adonijah and Joab | 1 Kin 2:13 | Tamara Brewington | 203958 | ||
Ok Carlos, here goes... From looking closely at the text we can see that Solomon sees himself as having fulfilled the prophecy of David to ascend to the throne made in II Samuel 7:12-16. Most commentators see this as Solomon assuming he is the only one who has his kingdom established by God, and as the one who gets the throne that will be established forever, because of I Kings 2:24. The parellel comes in I kings 2 when we see that the Lord was giving David a double prophecy. The proof is in two verses; 13 where it says that God will establish his throne forever - meaning Jesus the Messiah who will live and rule forever and 14 where it says that whoever God establishes on the throne if he sins God will chasten him. And since the we know that Jesus the Messiah can't sin, we know that David's son has to be the one in question on the throne. However, the text in I kings 2:13-34 is not a reference to a picture of the Messiah's judgment in the person and action of Solomon. There are elements in the history found in scripture of parallels that can be drawn between Jesus and Solomon though, but none of them involve judgment. The first parallel you already see, that Jesus was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David and that Solomon was of the line of David and would be established on the throne of David. The next one is that Jesus was going to build the final tabernacle being His body crucified and resurrected as the place for all to worship and Solomon was going to build a tabernacle as a place for all to worship. The next one is that when Jesus went up the mountain and was transfigured the presence of God was there in a cloud as He was speaking to Moses and Elijah about raising the last tabernacle and when Solomon finished building the tabernacle the presence of God was present in a cloud that filled it up. The next one is that when Jesus judged matters of the people He used the wisdom of God and Solomon was given a wisdom from God which was unparalleled by any until Jesus came down. There are no parallels in the first commands of Solomon as it pertains to his reign as being the archetype of the new kingdom. Some would say there was because he apparently used a kind of wisdowm in executing a rival and Solomon's reign was later characterized by wisdom or because he destroyed his rival to the throne. But the wisdom he was later to receive from God goes beyond the sort of self preservation that is displayed in this passage and also does not point to either the specific judgment of the Messiah that if they don't receive His word they are doomed or the general judgments of the Messiah using wisdom to judge matters and it does not make contact with the Messiah eventually judging Satan, the Anti-Christ, or the False Prophet in Revelation. When you look for parallels, types, shadows of events and people in the Bible pay close attention to the circumstances because that will give the big clue as to if a text applies to the idea you might have. God bless, Tamara | ||||||
113 | gifts of Spirit in Heaven | 1 Cor 12:1 | Tamara Brewington | 203922 | ||
According to some the gifts will cease except for faith, hope, love. See I Corinthians 13:8-13. This theory states that the perfect will come when Jesus comes back and puts us in a state of perfection and that all the gifts except those three will pass away. Another theory is that the believers who are glorified and changed at the rapture will be coming back to earth to rule with Christ and will be still using the gifts. But they says that even though they will know fully all things as soon as Christ knows them I Corinthians 13:12(which would kind of negate the need to have the gifts?). God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
114 | Panteles in Heb.7:25 means???? | Heb 7:25 | Tamara Brewington | 203921 | ||
I assume that NASV is the New American Standard Version and that by that you meant the New American Standard Bible. The word in the Greek is indeed uttermost, the translators simply chose to use the words forever or complete to make it be in the standard English usage of today. However, the word forever conotes to the uttermost because forever is as far as the reality of salvation can reach. Complete is used because the reality of salvation to the uttermost is complete in scope. What more uttermost could there be than that salvation is forever or complete? However, the first meanings of the words in Greek are full ended and entire. So then salvation is full ended and entire as it is to the uttermost. Imagine if salvation were limited by space,time or human work? Then it would not be full ended, entire and to the uttermost. How far does salvation reach, till tomorrow, till we sin too much or of a nature to gross? No the nature of salvation is that it is complete and forever, to the uttermost. The meaning is not appreciably changed by the use of any of the three words in question. God Bless, Tamara | ||||||
115 | Can we pray to Jesus? | John 14:14 | Tamara Brewington | 203879 | ||
The answer is yes we are to prays to Jesus as well as to Father God. See in John 14:14 where it says, "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it". | ||||||
116 | When was Revelations written. | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203840 | ||
Revelation not Revelations there is only one Revelation not several, that is first. Next, Johnn wrote Revelation about 95 AD, after the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in 70 AD to the seven churchs listed in chapters 2,3. He was giving them prophetic warning of what would happen directly to their churchs in chapters 2,3, the rest of Revelation was referring to the distant future, contrary to some commentary. The warning contained in the rest of the book apply to the distant future. Some commentaries like to see Revelation as a duoble prophecy like some that occured in the OT, but it's not that. Their reason is that because Rome did fall they see the great harlot of Babylon as being both Rome then and Rome now. The other theory these theologians have that dove tails with this idea that it is mostly about Rome as a world power falling twice is because of the rise to power of the Catholic church through the centuries and they see this as the world wide political and religious machine that the great harlot Babylon represents because in chapter 17 this is talking about the destruction of the religious Babylon world system and chapter 18 is talking about the destruction of the economic Babylon world system which are both run by the Anti-Christ and then both ancient Rome and the Catholic church are seen by them as being the Anti-Christ. They see the Anti-Christ as being Ceasar of ancient Rome and the Pope of modern Catholicism. This overlooks that not enough of the prophey ever came true in the time of Ceasar when Rome fell and that the Anti-Christ must fulfill certain prophecies that have not yet come to pass, like dying for real and raising from the dead by the power of Satan, like the False Prophet arising and doing miracles in order to testify of the Anti-Christ by making an idol that speaks, like the absence seen in Revelation of the church no longer being spoken of as being on the earth after chapter 3, like smome of the seals of judgment falling to earth. But these commenators get around this by saying it has not yet occured to the Pope and the Catholic church that they have risen to this height of power and that the judgment has not yet fallen down to earth. The predictions are more about the destruction of the entire world before and during the rule of the Anti-Christ who is a real person and the False Prophet who is a real person and about the desctruction of the religious and economic system they will create and rule over and it is also about the desctruction of whichever actual city that the Anti-Christ rules from and about the destruction of all the unbelievers in chapter 19 than it is about the destruction of Israel. Israel has yet to rise to power as the Bible predicts it will in Revelation and then the Anti-Christ will desacrate a new temple that will have been built there. A lot of people see Israel as well on its way to having been risen to power already, but they miss the fact that God has not yet called all the Jews back to Israel in the way the Bible described it. People don't like to hear this neither Christians who are in favor of Israel at present nor Jews who revere their holy land. But the fact is Israel is going to be re-set up by the Anti-Christ and given back as a false gesture to the Jews who will flock to the holy land enmass in a way we have not yet seen. And it won't be accomplished by taking Palestine by force from the Palestinians. The destruction of Israel will be accomplished by the Anti-Christ who is the one who will turn on them and pour out his wrath because the Jews will refuse to worship him and he will defile their newly built temple. And this is why the Israel we see now is not the Israel that will come to power, the Anti-Christ is not yet on the scene and the temple has not been rebuilt yet. | ||||||
117 | which apostle in the bible payed rent | 2 Timothy | Tamara Brewington | 203793 | ||
Paul supposedly rented a room at Rome during an imprisonment there. But you wil not find that in your Bible because it is not there. Theologians have deduced that this was so perhaps based on Eusubius who wrote about Paul and commentators are pretty much in agreement that this is a fact. You won't find this in Josephus either, both Eusubius and Josephus were historians at the time. Which is how we know how the aposltes died. | ||||||
118 | how can i learn to pray out lound | Matt 6:9 | Tamara Brewington | 203774 | ||
Try the end of the Psalms and try the 23 Psalm and try the Lord's prayer from the New Testament, but most of all you have to pray in your heart to be led by the Holy Spirit how to pray! Romans 8:26! Try this technique; have in mind a definite thing to be praying about, start off by praising God for all the good things you can think of He has done, then name the thing you are praying about and present it to God, literaly say, I am presenting this to you God and I lay it on your altar of grace, then start talking about all the things that you know need to happen on earth concernin the thing you are praying about, then ask God to use His power to make the thing come true, end with thanks giving to God! The model I have given you comes from studying the parts of the Lord's prayer, remember the disciples were asking Jesus to teach them how to pray, the instructions are in the formula of that prayer! God bless! | ||||||
119 | hai friends...... | NT general | Tamara Brewington | 203773 | ||
The act of confession to Priests in the Catholic Church stems from the doctrine of the Catholic church that the power to remit sins comes from Peter and the Apostles. The scripute they base this on is John 20:22,23 where Jesus has risen from the dead and breathed the Holy Spirit on the apostles and told them to go out and that if they forgave the sins of people they would be forgiven and that if the retained the sins of any they would not be forgiven. NO ONE ELSE in scripture was given permission to do this only the apostles. But the Catholic churh has decided based on that the aposltes layed hands on people in order to anoint them for offices in the church in all of Acts that the actual power Peter had as an apostle is being transferred down from hand to hand since the first century to forgive or retain sins, although God never said anyone else had, or would have the permission and power to do this. This is a Catholic doctrine based purely on churh beliefs and tradition and became a doctrine because it was practiced and not because the scriptures say to do it. James 5:16 says for believers to confess their sins to one another in order to be healed of afflictions, it does not say to confess to the apostles per say, but is referring to the elders who come to pray over the sick. But the Catholic church sees this verse as talking about priests anointing the sick instead of elders and therefore say it means that you should confess your sins to the priest. The first century church which should be our model had no priests but elders and deacons, pastor/ teachers and so on, but priests were an invention of the Catholic church traditions and do not come from scripture. There is only one high priest in the Bible and everyone who also believes is a priest according to the Bible. Here, look and see; I Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. So you see we are all priests offering spiritual sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ. See here in, I John 2:1 where it says that if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We don't have to go to anyone else to be forgiven, just to Jesus. There is only one high priest in heaven and on earth; see Hebrews 3:1 where it says that Jesus is the Apostle and high priest of our confession. So there is one high priest and the rest of the saved are all priests to God through Jesus Christ. The problem becomes are you going to believe the Catholic church doctrines for salvation above the word and blood of Jesus? The Catholic church teaches that if you don't believe in the authority of the pope and the Catholic church and their traditions you won't be saved. The Bible teaches that all you need to do to be saved is to Believe in Jesus; Acts 13:31 Believe in the Lord Jesus and be saved... Romans 10:9,10 where it says to confess that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that he died and was raised on the third day and you will be saved. The Catholic church has added tradition and said you can only get saved through Jesus plus... The work of the apostles and the type of power they had is confined to the first century and was not transferred hand to hand, you don't see any priest performing miracles or introducing whole groups types of converts like Jews, Gentiles, Samaritans, those who only had the repentance of John, or founding new churches to entire communities who never heard of Jesus do you? Think long and hard about another thing that is not in the Bible; Jesus said not to perform repetitious prayers(like the rosary) because they will not be heard, God said do not make an image of anyting in heaven or on the earth and worship it (like the statues and icons), Jesus said the only way to the Father is through Him and the apostles said Jesus is the only advocate (not Mary), the original language of the Greek in which the Bible was written said that Mary after she gave birth to Jesus had children by Joseph, it says Jesus had brothers and sisters by Mary, the Bible does not teach that Mary ascened into heaven, that is not in there; these are things that the Catholic church teaches that are not in anyone's Bible no matter what version you use you won't be finding them, it is the tradition of men who believe things that aren't true based off their traditions... | ||||||
120 | Satan in prison for 1,000 years? | Revelation | Tamara Brewington | 203772 | ||
This is a future event that has not happened yet, it happens after Christ comes back to rule the earth for a 1,000 years Millenial Kingdom after defeating the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet in Revelation 19-21. Nothing in Revelation has happened yet except chapters 2,3, contrary to popular belief, all we know is that we are seeing wars and rumors of wars, like Jesus said we would. However, the apostles thought they were near the end too for the same reason people do now. You can't even believe that Satan has been locked up yet, just look around... He is still on the job... | ||||||
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