How shall we understand the words of Jesus, "Let the dead bury their dead"? (Matthew 8:21,22)
When our first parent, father Adam, disobeyed the divine command, the death sentence passed upon him. Therefore, from the Creator's standpoint in a legal sense, he was dead although the dying process took over 900 years. The death sentence was finalized when Adam passed into the tomb. Our entire race was involved with Adam in this death sentence, "As by [...]
What does this mean: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; but their works follow with them?" Revelation 14:13. How can the dead continue their works when there is no consciousness, wisdom or knowledge in the grave? Ecclesiastes 9:10
Addressing the members of the church of Christ, the followers of the Lord Jesus, the apostle says "Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). From the Divine viewpoint, so far as the earthly existence is concerned, these are reckoned dead, and alive as new creatures in Christ. It [...]
Please give the Scripture evidence for the statement that the seventh creative "day" is a period of 7,000 years. Harmonize with the fourth commandment.
Genesis chapters 1 and 2 outline God’s grand act of creation. Chapter 1 divides God’s creative process into six distinct phases which the scriptures refer to as “days.” At the conclusion of many of these phases, God declared the progress of creation during that “day” as “good.” The main achievement of the sixth “day” was [...]
Were there two works of creation as narrated in the first and second chapters of Genesis, (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2) or are these simply two accounts of the same works of creation?
The first and second chapters of the book of Genesis are wrongly divided. There are two descriptions of the work of creation. The division of the chapters should show this and be in harmony. The first account is recorded in Genesis chapter 1 through Genesis chapter 2:3, and the second account begins with Genesis 2:4.Genesis 1:1-2:3 [...]
Were the six days of creation literal days of 24 hours each?
The Bible refers to other "days" which are not 24-hour periods. For example, we read of a forty-year day in Hebrews 3:8,9, "the day of temptation in the wilderness." We are given the scriptural statement that "One day with the Lord is as a thousand years" (2 Peter 3:8)/ A year is sometimes spoken of as [...]
What do we understand by the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation 7 and Revelation 14?
For more than 16 centuries, God dealt exclusively with the Jewish nation. They were favored above every other nation in the earth. The Lord told them on one occasion that He recognized them only of all the families of the earth (Amos 3:2). The Israelites were informed that if faithful to the Lord, and obedient [...]