The Kingdom Come

This week's study is on the word fool and especially how it is contrasted with being a Christian. Further, how Christians should not call each other, fool per Jesus' admonition in Mt 5:22.

The text of the study was presented as follows:

This podcast discusses what a consistent application of Full/Hyperpreterism might look like. Roderick is joined by a Full/Hyperpreteristⁱ using the Internet pseudonym, "Rivers Of Eden". Rivers has used many of the common Full/Hyperpreterist teachings to conclude that God redeemed His Elect (genetic Abrahamic offspring only) in the year AD70 and no longer has any biblically expressed plan for people on earth after AD70.

The TV series, LOST aired its final episode in May 2010, ending the six year run. The ending revealed a sort of pantheistic (god is everything) sense, especially during the closing scenes where the cast is depicted gathered in a "church" wherein we see icons and other elements from a hodge-podge of religions. The "church" clearly wasn't a Christian church. But perhaps the most pointed image showing the ecumenical or pantheistic intent was a stained glass window with the symbols of six different religions. People have been searching this site to see if the issue of the LOST window is addressed, so here I'd like to address it.

Okay, time again for a little catching up with blogging. Blogging is typically just a person's rambling about their everyday life. So here I go.

I've been working over at my dad's house. His backyard is small and completely shaded. This causes the grass not to grow very well so I am putting in a cobble-stone "plaza" with surrounding shade-flower beds. He has a little bit of sun areas; one is where he has a little pond.

This series of articles will trace when and how Christianity was brought to the various nations and countries of the world. Each link will also contain links to statistical information for the nation. The nation name below will become an active link when that country's Christian history has been added.

If you have information you would like to share or if there are corrections you would like considered, please submit this information via this link: contact.

Introduction:

After we become Christians, not only do we often feel the urge to share the "unexplainable joy" (1 Pet 1:8) with others, we are actually commanded to share the Gospel [evangelize] (2 Cor 5:18-20, Rom 1:16, Philippians 1:7,17, 1 Peter 3:15).

Of course the Bible is where God's Nature and Plan is revealed but we would limit the potential if we didn't realize and acknowledge something God has done in humanity.

Whether you want to give a Bible to a student in seminary, someone who is graduating from seminary, a missionary about to go on his or her first mission, or perhaps as a gift to a retiring pastor, or even something for the book lover you know; the Apostolic Bible Polyglot is the Bible that will be sure to impress.

This Bible is a Greek Interlinear, or more accurately it is a gloss that will allow the reader to see immediately, the Greek source word above the English text. Since this Bible is based on the Septuagint for both the Old and New Testament, there is a cohesiveness and consistency which makes it an excellent Bible for word studies and lexical studies.

Below is a sample of a page:

As you can see the Bible not only has the Greek and English, but the numbers above the Greek are keyed to the AB-Strong's numbering system. This system has assigned a unique number to every word in the Bible so that the reader can identify the specific word and its root in the Lexicon.

In this week's Bible study we looked into God's Providence, which we concluded was distinguished from His Sovereignty and His Will in this way;

• God's Sovereignty = His nature.
• God's Providence = His action.
• God's Will = How or why He acts.

Those distinctions may not be exact, but they helped the group to make a distinction of what simply looks like we're saying God's control of all things.

I had the honor to attend a relative's high school graduation. It was extra special since this relative is graduating from the same high school from which my dad graduated, making them the first grandchild to graduate from the same school from which he did.

There was the expected excitement of new lives about to commence into adulthood. But I was puzzled at the Commencement Speech by some local dignitary which seemed more of a political statement than an encouragement to these young adults. Why must these people always talk about left-wing agendas? In this case, this person spoke about protecting the earth and the "green" agenda.

The more and more I thought about the various speeches offered by the dignitaries, I noticed a theme. They were all advocating that these graduates CHANGE the world.

An eschatologically packed chapter of the Bible is 2 Thessalonians 2, full of references of the "coming" of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'd like to approach the text first by seeing how many of the esteemed theologians [1] of the past have interpreted the text. We'll also attempt to exegetically unpack the text verse by verse as we go. First, let me post the entire text below, utilizing the New King James version. We'll note the significant variances between the more popular English translations; then citing the original Greek variances as needed, as we unpack the text.