” referring to those who are taken. Jesus responds by saying, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.” Thus Jesus again explains that those who are taken will be destroyed as is symbolized by the gathering of vultures seeking to consume the dead. Therefore, we can...
There is almost no surviving evidence of any apocalyptic terrors from the period. The little that survives is not directly related to 1000, but to dates such as 968, 1010 and 1033. Therefore we should not be surprised to find 1000 was a "year like any other" in which the normal train ...
The point is that, somehow, we need to square how an apparent punishment of death is proportionate to the wrongdoing of lying. To answer this question, we need to know how bad killing is. The Badness of Killing and the Value of Humans Death is bad. I won’t get into a debate on th...
There is nothing biblically to indicate that marriage with female slaves was prohibited, or that the children of female slaves were automatically slaves. Finally it will be argued that it was actually the concubine, the pilegesh, who was the “other” - who, outside the dependence continuum,...
Daniel provides the names of two angels, but there are a vast number of them. Why did God create these spirit beings? What does the Bible say about angels? About the Author Chris Moen Chris Moen currently serves as associate pastor of the combined Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, Michigan, congr...
The extent of Jacob’s ambition is illustrated when we read that he struggled in the womb with his twin brother Esau by grabbing his heel.[3]By this, his original nameYa-akov-’el( = May the god El protect) was supplanted by the nickname ‘Akev( = “heel”), referring to the repu...
The extent of Jacob’s ambition is illustrated when we read that he struggled in the womb with his twin brother Esau by grabbing his heel.[iv]By this, his original nameYa-akov-’el( = May the god El protect) was supplanted by the nickname ‘Akev( = “heel”), referring to the rep...
How will God use all of this to bring greater glory to His house? How can we keep unity and peace in these conflicting times? What is Satan’s main attack against us now? Blessings, Doug Addison DougAddison.com Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a...
Calvin appears to have treated this use of the law with the law abstracted as from the covenant of grace. Hesselink,Calvin’s Concept of the Law, 157–158, 188. However, Hesselink notes later that even here Calvin imported covenantal overtones into the law by sometimes referring to is as ...