In Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 28 we are told that God placed the archangel Lucifer on an earthly throne. He was to rule over the earth by administering God’s government. The Lord had assigned a number of angels to assist him. But Lucifer sinned, along with one third of the angels assigned to him (Rev. […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 6)
The Lord has a variety of angels that perform a variety of jobs for Him. In Revelation 1:4,16,20; 2:1,8,12,18; 3:1,7,14 we find that some of them have been assigned to oversee the operations of His church. Some travel throughout the earth to check on what is going on and to report back to Him (Rev. […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 5)
Why did God create angels? Generally speaking the answer is found in Hebrews 1:14: “Are not all angels ministering spirits, sent forth to minister in the service of those who will inherit salvation?” Question: Who are those who will inherit salvation? Answer: Man, who, as we are told in the second chapter of Hebrews is […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 4)
To the average human being, the spirit world is an enigma. Questions abound concerning the spirit world, beginning with the question: Is there a spirit world? Do angels exist? If so, what are they? Where did they come from? How did they come into being? What do they do? Is Satan real? If so, when […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 3)
God did not create evil. Satan is evil. So from whence came Satan the devil? As stated in the first posting in this series, many people, including church people, do not believe in the existence of an actual being called Satan and the devil. Nevertheless, the Bible those same church people possess and claim to […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 2)
Upon coming alive in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve saw only beauty and bounty–everything they would ever need or want had been provided, courtesy of their Creator. Added to this was the fact that they had been created in the physical and spiritual exactness of the Creator of the entire universe. In human […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be (cont. 1)
As stated in the previous posting, many people, some of them church people, do not believe that the Biblical personage whom God calls “Satan” and “the devil” is an actual living entity who possesses the powers and abilities God proclaims him to have. But as is the case with all other things spiritual, the number […]
Satan: To Be Or Not To Be
In spite of being mentioned some 60 times in the Bible, many professing Christians do not believe that God’s primary enemy exists. I recently heard that approximately half of the ministers in one of the world’s top (in terms of numbers) church systems do not believe in a literal being whom the Lord calls Satan […]
The Church And The Separation Syndrome (cont. 5)
Does God separate the sinner from His sins if the sinner is a church member, having performed the prescribed religious ritual, made a public profession of faith, been baptized, attends church, etc? To answer the question we will examine the situation in which the five foolish virgins (church members) of Matthew 25 fame found themselves. […]
The Church And The Separation Syndrome (cont. 4)
Several Scriptures have been used to prove that God does not separate the churched sinner from his sins if he continues to sin. In her on-going quest to do as she pleases and reap the rewards of obedience to God the Counterfeit Church–Catholicism/Protestantism–claims that once one has “taken Jesus as his personal Savior” the Lord […]
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