As early as the fifth century churches were being dedicated to Mary in Constantinople and the term “Theotokos”, God Bearer, Mother of God, was introduced at the Council of Ephesus in 431. After the sixth century, more and more icons of various aspects of the Blessed Mother were seen, ...
Let’s notice something here. Everyone who has ever lived and died stand before God and are judged out of the Book of Life. Let’s also notice that this is taking place where God’s throne is located, the heavenly sanctuary. There is an investigation and decisions are being made based o...
What does the binding of Satan mean? Revelation chapter 20 verses one thru three mentions the binding of Satan. These passages are about Satan being bound at the beginning of “the one-thousand-year reign of Christ.” Here’s the scripture in Revelation chapter 20: ...
pretend to be, and what they indeed are, there is worry and stress about being found out and lying to themselves and others to cover up the gap. They partially
and this himself being interposed between God and life, it vanished even as a beam by the intervening of any gross body between it and the sun. Now man's light and life being thus eclipsed and cut off, the Lord is pleased to let all fulness dwell in his Son Jesus Christ, and the ...
“I’m okay with Jesus being a great teacher and even somehow a heavenly revealer,” a man once said to me, “but I’m just not into this whole notion of Jesus being God. I have a hard time with that one.” Sound familiar? Have you ever heard this? Maybe even said it yourself?
that eulogy was that when Carly was in 2ndgrade, she became a Christian and was baptized. Unknown to her parents, she took her baptism certificate to school for show and tell. She stood in front of her entire class and showed the class her certificate and told them about being baptized....
38 Jesus said, “You have no idea what you’re asking. Are you capable of drinking the cup I drink, of being baptized in the baptism I’m about to be plunged into?” 39-40 “Sure,” they said. “Why not?” Jesus said, “Come to think of it, you will drink the cup I drink...
Christ's disciples baptized (not Christ himself, John 4:2) with water unto repentance and remission; but even up to the day of Pentecost there is no hint of this process being more than stimulus to that repentance which is the gift of God, and to the consequent pardon which was the ...
“When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, andhe saw the Spirit of Goddescending like a dove, and lighting upon him:“ Matthew 3:16 A dove represents anointing of the Holy Spirit. ...