Bible Study Seattle

The Great Pyramid of Giza stands out as the last remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Even today with all our fancy technology people can’t figure out how it was built. Is God trying to tell us something? Maybe we’re not so high and mighty with all our technology after all. In some circles, technology is the new Golden Calf, our savior. The pyramid shows the plan of God’s salvation by inch measurements of its passages. We are currently chronologically in the ante-chamber leading to the King’s chamber. The world thinks the Great Pyramid is just a monumental burial monument. It is not. It is God’s verification of his plan of salvation during his 7,000-year day of rest.

Will Ezekiel’s Temple be in operation at the battle of Armageddon?

“Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.” Daniel 11:31

Will this happen at Ezekiel’s Temple? Will it have to be rebuilt after the battle of Armageddon? Will a different Temple be in use on the eve of the battle of Armageddon? There’s no way to know till it happens.

“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22

“Patience can persuade a prince,
    and soft speech can break bones.” Proverbs 25:15

“Finishing is better than starting.
    Patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8

“Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12

What is happening in heaven right now? Assuming Jesus has been placed on the throne (only visible to the church), one of his first orders of business is raising the saints:

“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16

Solomon took the first half of his reign building the Temple. “At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his own palace,” 2 Chronicles 8:1

“Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”  The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?”  But He was speaking about the temple of His body.” John 2:19-21

Three days is understood to mean 3,000 years according to Psalm 90.

“And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by people, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.  For this is contained in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a choice stone, a precious cornerstone,
And the one who believes in Him will not be put to shame.” This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for unbelievers. “A stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief cornerstone,” 1 Peter 2:4-7

Jesus is currently building the Temple in heaven out of raised Christians. This will likely take several centuries.

Will Jesus walk the earth again? “Yet as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
And at the last, He will take His stand on the earth.
Even after my skin is destroyed,
Yet from my flesh I will see God,” Job 19:25-26

Will Jesus lead the troops that throw an human Satan into the lake of fire? Will David lead the troops?

“And My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd; and they will walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes and follow them.” Ezekiel 37:24

“Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
Those who see you will stare at you,
They will closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’ Isaiah 14:15-17

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.  For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-13

The opposite of love is hate or narcissism. It is impatient, controlling, envious, boastful, proud, self-seeking, sarcastic, angry, and malicious. It keeps every record of wrong and plots revenge. Hate always fails.

Will the population in their first life shrink dramatically as the second born are increasing miraculously as happened in Egypt? Will the last of the first lifers die at Armageddon as Pharaoh’s entire army died in the Red Sea?