Historical and archeological evidence reveal that the resurrection of the sun god was being celebrated by numerous societies hundreds of years before the Lord’s Messiah walked the earth among men. As it is today, the holiday was a time in which two deities were honored: the sun god and his mother. Such ancient nations as […]

For approximately 50% of professing Christendom (Protestants) the celebration of Easter is a one day affair centered around the resurrection of Tammuz, the supposed miraculously-conceived son of Nimrod and his wife Semiramis, who was also his mother. According to religious legend, Tammuz had been killed by a wild boar at age 40. Following a one […]

Each of professing Christendom’s religious observances (Easter, Christmas, the Sunday Sabbath, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Lent, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday) are of great importance to her highly diversified constituents with their hundreds of versions of the gospel (Gal. 1:6). Over the next several days I will be teaching about Easter, Lent and Good Friday by comparing […]

In Acts 16 we find the Apostles Paul and Silas in jail for preaching the Word of God. We are all familiar with the story of the earthquake that opened the cell doors, as well as the jailer’s reaction. Upon being counseled by the apostles, he asked what he must do in order to be […]

The third step in the Lord’s salvation program is sanctification. To sanctify means to set apart. To sanctify an entity is to  separate/segregate it from all that is different. In the spiritual realm, to be sanctified, which all must be, means to be set apart from those who are not of God’s family–His church. As […]

To be justified means that all of one’s past sins–transgressions of the Law (1 Jn. 3:4). One who has “nailed the Law to the cross” has rejected God’s definition of sin and has therefore not been forgiven for breaking it. Having retained (stored up) all of his past sins (Rom. 2:5), he is unable to […]

If a friend promises you a gift and tells you how to receive it, and an enemy promises you the same gift and tells you a different, much easier way to receive it, whose voice–friend or enemy–would you believe and obey? I am the voice of your Friend; the Institutional Church proclaims the voice of […]

No. Each of these aspects of the Biblically-defined Christian life is different from the other three. They are entered into at four different times and have four different meanings and requirements. They are all equally essential to the saint’s rebirth and entrance into the Kingdom of God. The salvation seeker must understand the process that, […]

This instant-in-time chronological period we commonly call “life” is in reality a means to an end. However, that “means” is of utmost importance in that while making our way through it we are in fact determining how and where we will spend the timeless period known as “eternity.” The period in which we now live […]

Gentiles (Heb.-goiim–heathen) have no part in the true Church of God and are not participants in the joint-heirship with Jesus Christ that God promises His true saints (Rom. 8:17). Those Gentiles who believe and obey Him have become spiritual Israelites who have a part in both His church and in the promises He made to […]