Let us pick up the Biblical narrative in Genesis 28:13,14 where we are told that God has chosen the descendants of Jacob, whose name God had changed to “Israel,” meaning “power with God,” to be his chosen people among all of the people of the earth.  We find God speaking to him: “I am the […]

The word “continuum” denotes the seamless continuation of one entity into the following entity just as one day evolves into the next day without a hitch.  In the Biblical sense the word describes the continuous historical flow from Malachi to Matthew where there should be no division.  Matthew is simply the continuation of Malachi.  Simply […]

Within the Institutional (Catholic/Protestant) Church System, what separates sheep from goats? wheat from tares? good fish from bad fish? good fruit trees from bad fruit trees, etc?  Put another way, what separates spiritual Israelites (true converts) from spiritual Gentiles (false converts)?  The answer is OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S LAW.  Though this Truth is made abundantly clear […]

“I came only for the lost sheep of the House of Israel.”  So said Jesus of Nazareth.  This is a Truth believed by only a minutely few of those who claim Him as their Savior.  In fact, the church masses claim that He lied when making that statement found in Matthew 15:24, just as He […]

I have a few questions relative to the title of this series.  But first, a quote from Jesus Christ concerning His dealing those within professing Christendom on Judgment Day.  In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus said: “Not every one who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven (God’s true church during this age); […]

In the previous postings we have found that the Lord does indeed have different types of love which He extends toward his most prized creation–mankind.  General love (my term) is that which He awards every human being ever born simply because they are His creations.  The other type of love (agape) is the love one […]

Does God love the saint and the sinner equally?  Does God have degrees of love?  Are there moral conditions that prompt God to love one person more, or in a different way, than another person?  These questions have been asked by church people for generations.  Answers to those questions are as varied as the questions […]

Before delving into this series let us be reminded of the definitions of two words that are often confused when spiritual matters are being discussed.  Those words are “world” and “earth.”  The word “earth” means the suspended ball of dirt, rock, water, etc. suspended in space by the power of God.  “World,” on the other […]

In Matthew 13 we find Jesus proclaiming the “mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven” (vs 11) to “great multitudes” of people who have followed Him out of Capernaum and down to the Sea of Galilee where He had gotten into a boat and pushed out a short distance from the shore.  The people had gathered […]

The Kingdom of Heaven is the Church of God, which is the name God gave His true church.  The title is proclaimed by His writers 8 times in the New Testament.  His church system is also referred to a the “churches of Christ” so as to show that Christ is the Head of His Father’s […]