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Thanks Runningman for your question. The key point to get a hold of in this scripture is the idea that resurrection is something that is talking about the born again experience. It is not talking about everyone dies physically and then is resurrected physically. It is talking about people were...

Thanks Carry_Your_Name for your comments. Submerging and being a recipient of the benefits of the death and resurrection of Jesus is indeed part of the meaning, which includes being washed free from sin by Christ doing and not our own efforts. That is why I do not see a physical ceremony having...

Well, here's from a concordance: "to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe"

Thanks Runningman for your comment. I see the first resurrection meaning just that - the first resurrection. And when did that happen? Jesus was the first to be resurrected. His was the first resurrection. So, those who are saved have part in that, since it is because Jesus was first resurrected...

Thanks DavidTree for your comments. It important to keep in mind the meaning of the word itself, the word baptize, when looking at it in scripture. The word means 'to wash'. Specifically it is meaning to be washed free from the stain or penalty of sin. It is meaning forgiven in that respect. I...

Thanks Carry_Your_Name. I appreciate hearing your opinion. Since the scripture of Jesus on a white horse has a lot of potential for metaphor (parable) interpretation, could this be the same with the cloud mentioned in Acts 1? For example, Jesus has a sword coming out of his mouth in Rev 19: "out...

Thanks Carry_Your_Name. I like the Mark 14 verse you mention. What do you consider the term "clouds of heaven" to mean? Does it mean clouds like we normally see when we look up in the sky, or true believers (as in Hebrews 12's 'cloud of witnesses'), or something else?

Right. And the manner in this example was"while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. " Do you consider this to be a cloud like people see when they look up in the sky? Or do you consider the cloud to be the great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12:1. Or do you...

When Jesus "was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." do you consider this to be a cloud like people see when they look up in the sky? Or do you consider the cloud to be the great cloud of witnesses in Hebrews 12:1. Or do you consider the cloud to be something else?

Clouds seem to be associated with heaven then in Daniel 7:13 that you mention. When Jesus "was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight." do you consider this to be a cloud like people see when they look up in the sky? Or do you consider the cloud to be the great cloud of witnesses...

What does 'in like manner' mean in Acts 1:11, which reads: "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. "

Remember that there were ten virgins in the parable of the virgins, and five were saved while five were unsaved. It is the same way in your look at the woman. The woman clothed with the sun is a picture of saved persons, who are clothed with Christ. They have the moon under their feet, meaning...

Jesus comes from heaven with the gospel. That is the voice of the Archangel. Those who believe and are washed free from sin will be saved. Those who do not will not be saved. When God opens up the heart of a person to hear the gospel and to believe on him for salvation, that is when they are saved.

Since people seem interested in this I'll throw in my two cents: I think the problem lies in people's preconceived notions about what angels are. In my opinion, a strong sense of what society thinks angels are comes from the familiar Psalm 104:4 verse: "Who maketh his angels spirits; his...

Every one who is born anew by God has been given of God's Spirit. Each person will then have in their hearts the right attitude towards God, the right adoration, and the right mind, right worship and so forth, because they have of His Spirit. Christ is not divided so all persons who truly belong...

Thanks HillyBilly for your question. The 'true worshippers', meaning those who are truly saved by God for all eternity, worship in Spirit and in Truth. This is not talking about you have to go to a building that people call church and wait until the pastor invites you to a 'worship service'...

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. God the father sent him to do that because he loved those he was coming to save. It was God's action and plan to go and save such and such a person. He saved them by giving them of his own Spirit. Because they have his Spirit they then believe on him unto...

A quick check of the concordance: Baptizo I: to dip repeatedly, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk) II: to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe III: to overwhelm

The spirit part is easy to explain. Before being saved, a human has a a spirit that is separated from and does not believe in God. When God gives his own Spirit to a person who was previously in the unsaved condition that person suddenly begins to believe in God and to call upon him and even...

Here is a figurative picture where Adam is a picture of Christ: "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto...