The Ancient Israelites were called by God to be His “light to the Gentiles” (all non-Israelite people)–isa. 42:6; 49:6. What made Israel God’s people was her agreement to obey His Ten Commandment Law (Exo. 19:5,6,8) which He then proclaimed to them audibly from atop of Mt. Sinai (20:1-17), then wrote it in stone and later […]

Were the Europeans right? Has the grand American experiment failed? In 1787 a group of Americans came together to form what came to be known as the Constitutional Convention. These men knew that they were going where no group of people had ever gone before. They were going to establish a nation based on the […]

Biblically, the world is divided into two categories of people: Israelites (God’s people–saints) and Gentiles (Satan’s people–heathen). In Isaiah 42:6 and 49:6 God commissioned the nation of Israel (Heb.–“power with God”) to be His light to the Gentile world. But before their call to serve the Lord, Israel, in accordance fulfillment of ancient prophecy, would […]

The key to the “when” question relative to the New Covenant’s entrance into the lives of God’s Very Elect saints was answered during the Last Supper when Jesus said concerning the wine, “This IS My blood of the NEW COVENANT which IS shed for many,” referring to what would take place later that day, not, […]

In Mark 14:22-24 we find Jesus of Nazareth symbolically referring to what He had said in Jeremiah 31:31 when He prophesied about a New Covenant that He would provide for His Very Elect saints in the future. In Mark 24 He is having His final meal with the disciples (soon to be apostles–“sent ones”) whom […]

In the first teaching of this series we identified the Old Covenant made on Mt. Sinai between God (the Word Who became Jesus of Nazareth-Jn. 1:1-4,14) and His people–the Nation of Israel-as He had promised Abraham He would do for his (Abraham’s) descendants. We identified a problematic situation with the Old Covenant/Testament which necessitated the […]

There is a centuries-old war taking place within professing Christendom that few church people recognize as a conflict because the religious masses have been deceived into believing that the church doctrines that have been handed down from generation to generation for almost 1900 years are of God. Just as the serpent of Eden deceived both […]

As a group, politicians are among the most powerful and influential people on earth relative to what other people do and how they live their lives. It matters not whether they are elected by the people, have inherited their positions through matriarchal ascension or by military atrocities–their words are considered important. This is also true […]

That the Lord’s Firstfruits are not in His church simply to “get saved” and “go to heaven” is made clear in the Holy Scriptures. This is brought out in Second Timothy 2:15 where the Apostle Paul tells his fellow minister Timothy that he must continue to study the Holy Scriptures in order to retain God’s […]

Generally speaking, God’s Firstfruits are those who make up His tiny “remnant” who, as Jesus declared in Matthew 7:13,14, have entered His church through Jesus Himself–the Gate/ Door (Jn. 10:7,9) of the church. Though two distinct groups of people comprise His congregation, they are alike in name only. The basic characteristics of the Firstfruits are: […]