Are the righteous people going to live in heaven or on earth forever?
When we pray the Lord's prayer, we ask for God's kingdom to come and for His will to be done on earth as it is done in heaven. This tells us there are two salvations - one on earth and one in heaven (Matthew 6:10, Luke 11:2). When we read the Beatitudes in Matthew 5, we [...]
In Exodus 32:14, God said He repented when He was going to destroy Israel. If God knows all things, why does He change His mind and repent?
“But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.” Psalm 86:15 (NKJV)God is omniscient, knowing the end of a matter at its beginning. He knows what passions and thoughts drive a man’s decisions. But as a wise God, at creation, He gave man a free will. Then [...]
Why did God call Himself, "I AM THAT I AM"?
God wanted to assure Moses and Israel that God would become what they would need Him to become. In using the words “I AM THAT I AM,” God used an expression to reveal to Moses a promise and pledge found in His name. Throughout the Old Testament in the original Hebrew, God is known [...]
Luke 17:22-37 (excluding verse 25). Is it about Christ's second coming or the rapture?
In Luke 17:20-37, Jesus answers the Pharisees’ question on “when the kingdom of God should come.” Rather than addressing the time feature, Jesus chooses to focus his response on the manner of his second coming.The Scriptures seem to present the topic of the second coming from two different perspectives, which at a first glance may [...]
Abraham and some other great men in the Bible married their relatives, right?
Leviticus 18:1-19 (NIV): “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them…You must not do as they do in Egypt…You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God…’ ‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. [...]
What is the daily sacrifice and the abomination that makes desolate in Daniel 11:31?
Daniel 11:31, “And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate.” Jesus refers to this in Matthew 24:15-16, “When you see the abomination of desolation, spoken by Daniel the prophet, stand in the [...]