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Or perhaps better to describe the fall of Satan from heaven as God defeated Satan by the blood and and Satan lost his power in the realm of those who have God on the throne in their hearts.

Thanks Marilyn for your question. When the Bible says to let Christ dwell in your hearts, he lives in our hearts by his Spirit. When the Bible says that Jesus is a messenger, an angel, or an archangel it is using that terminology. I suppose you could say that the messenger, Christ, lives in the...

Thanks Marilyn for your comment. The term 'angel' means messenger. Jesus is the chief messenger and his disciples are messengers as well. They have the gospel. Remember how Jesus comes with the voice of the archangel in Thes 4. That's because he comes with his own voice, the gospel, which is the...

The phrase 'third heaven' is widely misunderstood and engenders diagrams like this above if you read the term as a surface text in the Bible. Actually, the Bible refers to the true believers using the term 'third': "And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts...

Thanks Runningman. I enjoyed the conclusion you reached and agree with the conclusion, which is that Christ is in believers. We know that this happens by his Spirit, and not by sticking a physical body into our bodies. People used to see Jesus as a physical person walking around, but "Wherefore...

For a person who is born again: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. " In my experience, I was not aware of God in...

The law that Jesus spoke of as coming to fulfill is the Bible. When you read the Bible it is written by inspiration of God in parable form. That is why Psalm 78 says "Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable " That is why...

Isaiah gives a bit of a definition of fasting that is different from what has been mentioned so far. In it, we read: "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?" It seems...

Thanks Runningman. The term Gentiles is not always used to mean believers. We agree on that. For example, 1 Peter 4:3 or Rev 11:2. At those times it is used to mean the unsaved, the heathen. However, in Romans chapter 2, God is simply showing that having the written law is not the issue to be...

Gentiles are definitely highlighted as being believers, right in the same book of Romans in Chapter 15: "And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name. And again he saith, Rejoice, ye...

Thanks Runningman. The 'house of Israel' mentioned in the Jeremiah verse is talking about all believers who are saved. It is the same Israel mentioned in Romans 11: "And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness...

With the Lord for one thing: "to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" This verse shows that the true believers will forever be with the Lord. It also mentions the air. To my mind, the term "air" is a parable word for the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of heaven is...

"And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. " 'Make to yourselves friends' means to share the gospel so that others will become saved and will become our 'friends', since they have...

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Thanks Magenta for your response. Can you show me the scripture you are talking about here? Post the exact scripture for example.

Thanks Mem for this question. Most all indoctrinated believers have been taught early on by general concensus that Adam was the bad guy who doomed mankind to death and so Christ was sent to save some of the human race from this bad thing that Adam did. However, it is hard to reconcile this view...

I don't know what you are defining numerology as. But if you ask the question, "do numbers have meaning in the Bible?", I think the answer is yes. The sabbath is the seventh day and on that day the law pointed to the believers not doing any work. Yet Jesus came and claimed that his father and he...

It would be easy to read the following verse: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." as saying that every human being died thanks to Adam and every human being will be saved thanks to Christ. However, the word "all" is referring to saved persons, not to all humans...

The Bible is written in parable form (Psalm 78:1-2, Mark 4:34) and if you read the Bible as a surface text you will not understand it and strange doctrines may ensue. For example, consider what the Bible says about someone who is saved: "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken...