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Way overthought, in my opinion. I do appreciate the confusion--I've had it for a long time, too. But I've come to the conclusion that ritualistic religion is the culprit, and not the Scriptures. The organized church made such a big thing out of ceremonies and sacraments like baptism that it...

Good question. My personal belief is that Satan had already rebelled against God's exclusive authority in heaven, producing a kind of knowledge called "evil." It was an autonomous knowledge, belonging to Satan alone, distinct from the knowledge that comes from God alone. Since Satan was given...

Yea, I'm been suffering this depressing reality for some time now. The bottom line, for me, is that not only does a minority of corrupt Americans rule, but the vast majority of the American public is gullible and lean towards all kinds of freedoms that God never intended to give us. There is a...

That's actually a really good question. There are good times and bad times. And there are better and worse times. The bad and worse times come when a nation turns against God after having known Him. Or they can happen in pagan nations for those who are believers. The thing to know is that when...

I agree with those who think this is naïve. Your heart may be in the right place, because we were told to "love our enemies," and to be consistent in love whether among friends or enemies. But even God, in His impartial love for all, is intolerant of sin, when it is in full-scale rebellion...

The idea of early and latter rains were just part of the harvest cycle. Many saints have thought that it prefigured a larger redemptive program in God's plan for Israel and for the Church. Israel certainly went through several stages of restoration before Christ came. And likewise, the Church...

Totally agree. God's name Yahweh, however you pronounce it, is intended to distinguish Him from all inferior gods, actually to the exclusion of all so-called gods. The tendency today is towards "inclusion," as you say. I've just recently experienced this as I was expelled, temporarily, from a...

Yes, the rebellious, apostate Jews were and are as bad as Jesus said they were, as bad as Paul said they are. I've dealt with a few of these nasty kinds of Jews over the last few years. I know. And yet, the Jewish People are a model displaying God's grace. In forgiving them, and in allowing a...

God's response to Moses' inquiry about His name may indicate that Moses was indulging in an earthly request that does not completely rise to the level of Deity. Moses is the one asking the question, and God is indulging him and his need to identify who He is to those who may question His...

Not sure what you mean by this? Physical Death in the Garden of Eden was God putting Man under a curse. The future was unresolved until Christ's atoning death enabled resurrection from the dead for those who choose the life of Christ over their own autonomous existence. I'm sure Man's eternal...

Exo 3.15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ “This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. Exo 6.3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac...

Depends on what you mean by "miss the Rapture?" If you are talking about a Pretrib Rapture that lukewarm Christians "miss," then I think you're in bad territory. There isn't any such scenario, that I know of, in the Scriptures. Jesus is coming once, to save and to judge. But those people who...

I read a lot of this subject with interest. Some of it, however, is just language. The critical element in the "name" of God does not appear to be a matter of getting the name technically correct. After all, when we transliterate into another language, sometimes the name changes. And if the...

Yea, I kind of like how you put this. Religion seems more of a legal relationship, in which there is a covenant agreement. I do this for you, and you do this for me. Of course, we know how that kind of agreement worked out for Israel under the Old Covenant. Many in Israel didn't fulfill their...

Cuba doesn't fit into the "balance of power" among the world's greatest nations. To outfit every little nation as though an outpost of a distant superpower is an effort at intimidation and manipulation. Ukraine isn't a Cuba, but a fairly large nation, deserving of self-protection when...

It would inconsistent of God to make people fight in the OT and not in the NT. I do understand that the OT and NT are different dispensations, or ages. However, it was the same Divine Spirit operating in both, the same Divine character, and God does not change. Only the representations of His...

Sounds good except I don't know about the part where we will be "in the highest part of God's great kingdom." We, His people, are rather small in God's Kingdom, and though we relate to the Most High God, I doubt we will reign in any way close to the way He reigns? ;) But thanks!

That appears to be a form of dualism, in which one becomes the transient pattern, and the other becomes the eternal reality. While there is certainly some truth in that I think there is also a danger in this, if we don't properly understand it. Israel was a pattern for the future Church, but the...

Your history of Ukraine doesn't go very deep. They've apparently been a distinct people for a long time and enjoyed a measure of independence long before the Soviet Union. Russia apparently viewed them as "lesser Russians." If Russia gave them independence, they had already had it in the...

I don't correlate the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse with the entities you are using-I just see them as angelic punishments upon a disobedient, rebellious world in the endtimes--actually, in the entire NT era. Whether they line up with specific kingdoms I just don't know. But the issue of "how to...