Old Testament
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Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman… Ezekiel 33:2-9 BEING A WATCHMAN – A TREMENDOUS JOY, A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITYI think it’s very…
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Bible authors try to communicate deep spiritual truths to us by using very common illustrations of life; familiar things like a ‘sower’, ‘vine’, a ‘fig tree’, a ‘vineyard and its workers, and many more that will try to show us an analogous relationship to spiritual truths. The 33rd chapter of Ezekiel uses a very common…
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In their book entitled “How To Read The Bible For All It’s Worth”, the authors make a statement in there, and it shocked me when I first read it. I think it’s true that 95% of the Old Testament prophecies have already been fulfilled in the Incarnation. Only 5% of Old Testament prophecies are future.…
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More often than not, one’s presuppositions determine his interpretation of the book of Revelation, and i must admit i am as biased and guilty of that as anyone else, though pushing one’s bias to be the standard for everyone else is the height of arrogance. I think there is a key principle that is crucial…
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Chapters 38 and 39 of the Book of Ezekiel depict God’s final defeat of evil among the nations which gets personified by a ruler who’s named Gog from the land of Magog. Now this name is derived from a genealogy of ancient kingdoms and lands from Genesis chapter 10. And it referred to powerful nations…