Why did Judas betray Jesus?
Threatened by Jesus’ teachings, the Jewish leadership plotted to kill him. Judas accepted 30 pieces of silver to reveal Jesus’ location in the Garden of Gethsemane so they could arrest him. Judas’ reasons aren’t stated, and we can’t enter his mind. However, we can try to make reasonable assumptions based on the Scriptures. For [...]
Why is it necessary to learn about dispensations? How does it affect your salvation? Or walk with God? (United States)
“Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Matthew 7:22-23 Over the centuries [...]
Israel became a nation in 1948, nearly 1800 years after the deaths of all those who knew the land. How can anyone identify the exact location of Biblical cities and towns today? (Nigeria)
There are five important ways the returning people of Israel could identify locations of important places from Bible times. First, major topographical landmarks have not moved. The Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan River, the Dead Sea, the Red Sea, and the Negev Desert all remain to locate the proper place for the [...]
Is it true that when Jesus was on the cross that the priest was about to give the sacrifice with the lamb, but when the veil rent in two, the knife fell from his hand? If so is there text to prove it? (Jamaica)
There are no scriptures which record a knife falling from the priest’s hand at the moment of Jesus’ death.Jesus fulfilled the whole Law. Luke 24:44 (ESV), “Then he (Jesus) said to them, These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law [...]
How do I get my spiritual blessings to manifest into the physical world? (United States)
1 Corinthians 2:11, 14 (NKJV), “… no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. ... 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” The Apostle Paul amplifies on this marked [...]
How can I get closer to God? (Kenya)
Your question has surely been pondered by believers since the beginning of time. The first requirement is believing that God exists, then one must desire to know everything possible about God. Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that [...]