What is the significance of holy communion to the believer?
The last supper was the only event that Jesus asked his followers to annually celebrate: "The Lord Jesus took a loaf and after thanking God he broke it, saying, 'This means my body broken for you. Do this in memory of me.' In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup [...]
Please explain Matthew 27:52,53, – …the earth shook, and the rocks were split, the tombs also were opened…saints…raised…and appeared to many.?
Reading the accounts together in Matthew 27:45-51, Mark 15:33-39, Luke 23:46-49 and John 19:25-30, this world-changing event is one of the most dramatic we will ever hear or read. The first question this scene raises is, why did God send an earthquake? In the Scriptures, an earthquake is used to describe social upheaval. For example, Joel [...]
Can you explain Matthew 27:51, – …the curtain of the temple was torn in two?
“And lo! the veil of the temple was rent in two parts, from the highest to the lowest”, Matthew 27:51. The curtain or veil separated the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place (Exodus 26:31-33) and its tearing represented the end of the Temple arrangement and its figurative worship. The veil was Jesus’ flesh as [...]
Please explain what will happen to the Old Testament men of faith and to Israel in the Kingdom?
The overcomers previous to Pentecost, the faithful ancient worthies, will be “princes in all the earth” (Psalm 45:16). These were tried in the past and were approved of God, “having obtained a good report” (Hebrews 11:2,39,40). It will be unnecessary that their restitution out of death and into life should be a gradual work. Their [...]
In the 1000 year kingdom of Jesus in the earth, how will both the saved with glorious bodies and sinners with fleshly bodies live together?
There is to be an order in Christ's work of life-giving. Every man who receives life will belong to one or another of these orders (1 Corinthians 15:22, 23). God divides the salvation of mankind into two parts--the faithful Church, the “firstfuits”, having part in the “first resurrection” (James 1:18; Revelation 14:4; Revelation 20:6) who [...]
Since God knows the future, why did God put the forbidden tree in the garden? He knew it would ultimately bring sin, death, and sorrow into the world because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve.
God placed the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden not as a trap, but as a deliberate teaching tool designed to help Adam and Eve develop moral character, free will and wholehearted devotion to Him. Scripture shows that God desires worship that flows from genuine love and understanding—“true [...]