Luke 24 / John 20 Jesus the Jewish Messiah fulfilling prophecies from the Jewish Bible. Why resurrection makes all the difference. Why Jesus said ‘It is finished’ on the cross. Why Joseph of Arimathea had to take the body of Jesus and bury it in his tomb. The first day of the week, Passover and the Feast of First Fruits. Mary Magdalene – what was she looking for and what did she find? What did...
So, God promises that the Jewish people will be scattered to the nations and that, at the end of days, they’re going to be brought back to their own land. It’s interesting that the word for ‘gather’ is the Hebrew word kabetz which is the root of today’s Hebrew noun ‘kibbutz’. One of the ways in which Jewish people were gathered to the land of Israel was the kibbutz movement through...
In verse 9 it says that 9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;1 Thessalonians 4.9 If you go out, our neighbours, some of them are Jewish and we have to say they know what persecution is. Throughout history, whether it is western Europe or in Russia, everywhere they have been persecuted...
Praise God we can get the message out to all the people. This message about the coming of Jesus is a remarkable event which is recorded here in the scriptures in which Jesus was fulfilling a large number of prophecies and prophetic types from the Old Testament that reinforced the fact that He truly is the Messiah once sent by God. If you look at the Gospel of John, you can work out that the date...
“God took him” Find out about the Rapture and the Great Tribulation through this series of 13 articles and videos Enoch and Elijah: two people who have the unique experience of being taken out of this world to be with the Lord without seeing death. In Genesis 5 it says of every name listed ‘and he died.’ But it does Not say that of Enoch. certainty what happens after death...
34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 36 Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her...
Supposing you come to a fork in the road, and you don’t know where to go. You don’t know which way to go, and you find that there’s a dead man lying there on one side and there’s a living man standing there on the other side. Which one are you going to ask the way? I think you’re going to ask the living person, aren’t you? Now, there are plenty of dead people...
Let’s close by looking at this passage in Thessalonians again. In Thessalonians Paul speaks about the time when Jesus is going to return. And, into this bleak scenario I’ve just spoken about, he offers some hope. At some point, in the not-too-distant future, Jesus is going to return. The first stage of His coming is going to be the removal or the taking of the believing church to be with...
If you go to Ephesians chapter 4 verse 17 it gives us a detailed description of this attitude. It says, 17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of...
5 Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Colossians 4.5-6