Pastor John Hagee has a new book out about four blood moons (lunar eclipses). These align with the major Jewish feasts starting next year. Will Israel reclaim the West Bank? Will there be a change at the Temple Mount? We’ll see shortly.
Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 14, 2013
Four blood moons
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 12, 2013
Between Coronations
Between Solomon’s two coronations of 1 Chronicles 23 and 29 are some interesting things. Certainly the first coronation can’t represent Jesus’ first advent, as there was no reign, only service and death. His plaque said ‘King of the Jews’, but I don’t think that counts as a coronation, only a prophecy. It is his second coming where he is said to reign. Yet the reign has many stages to it. He says he will come as a thief. A thief? What is he intent on stealing?
Satan’s dominion. Hence the parable of the strong man:
“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.” Matthew 12:29
The Strong Man is Satan. Jesus will tie him up:
“He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.” Revelation 20:2
Yet Jesus says, “Look, he is coming with the clouds,” and “every eye will see him, even those who pierced him”; and all peoples on earth “will mourn because of him.” So shall it be! Amen.” Revelation 1:7
If he’s coming as a thief, how can every eye see him? Aren’t thieves secretive? This is why there are two ‘second comings’. First he comes secretly to tie up Satan, and raise the church from the dead. This is invisible. We cannot see the church rising because they are now spirits. After the church is complete, he will raise everyone else from the dead, starting with Israel. In this way, “all Israel will be saved.” Romans 11:26
The time between his first secret coming and his apparent coming that all eyes will see is approximately 600 years. Roughly the time between Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles scaled up to a thousand-year ‘Day’. The days of Noah represent 370 years of the raising of the church. Then another 185ish years are required to raise everyone else.
The rule of thumb in labor is that the labor of the first child is about twice as long as the second. God is giving us a hint in childbirth.
1 Chronicles 23 immediately details roles for the Levites. As the church is raised they will be giving their assignments in heaven. 1 Chronicles 24 details the preists’ assignments. 1 Chronicles 25 details the musician’s assignments. They are divided into 24 groups of twelve. Thus there is a monthly rotation of duties. This was true in ancient Israel and it will be true of heavenly Israel. There is a hint in 288. It is double 144. Two groups of 144,000 are listed in Revelation, chapters 7 and 14.
1 Chronicles 26 details the gatekeepers, treasurers, and other officials. Chapter 27 gives us army divisions. 12 groups of 24,000. Again we have 288,000. So there are a thousand soldiers for every musician. Jesus’ army is portrayed:
“I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.” Revelation 19:11-15
The church must be raised and ordered in heaven, before everyone else is brought to life on earth. Then we get the antitypical second coronation of Solomon.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 8, 2013
Solomon’s two coronations
“When David was old and full of years, he made his son Solomon king over Israel. He also gathered together all the leaders of Israel, as well as the priests and Levites. The Levites thirty years old or more were counted, and the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand.” 1 Chronicles 23:1-3
“Then they acknowledged Solomon son of David as king a second time, anointing him before the Lord to be ruler and Zadok to be priest. So Solomon sat on the throne of the Lord as king in place of his father David. He prospered and all Israel obeyed him. All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their submission to King Solomon. The Lord highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal splendor such as no king over Israel ever had before.” 1 Chronicles 29:22-25
Solomon here is a type of Christ. Jesus will be made king twice. Once secretly, known only to the priests and Levites, or the bride and bridesmaids of Christ in heaven. And a second time before all the people. This will happen after everyone has been resurrected, both in heaven and on earth, so that, “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:10-11
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 5, 2013
Immortality
Many desire immortality. Even Satan.
“How you have fallen from heaven,
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.” Isaiah 14:12-14
“but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” 2 Timothy 1:10
But death is still with us until…
“For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death. For he “has put everything under his feet.” 1 Corinthians 15:25-27
“Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death.” Revelation 20:14
Here death itself is destroyed. Then all who remain must be immortal. This occurs after the end of Jesus 1000 year reign. The purpose of this reign is to put all enemies under his feet, including death. But here’s a question: when do people become immortal?
“I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:50-54
Most assume that immediately upon resurrection to our spiritual bodies, we are made immortal. But what if immortality must wait until the Eighth Day? I’m not sure. Could some be immortal before death is destroyed? Could we be tested in heaven before we are given such awesome powers? I don’t know.
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 5, 2013
Manna
“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether or not they will walk in My instruction. On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.” So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “At evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt; and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, for He hears your grumblings against the Lord; and what are we, that you grumble against us?” Exodus 16:4-7
“The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.” Exodus 16:35
The Lord miraculously provided food from the sky for forty years for the Israelites. Think of it. No planting. No harvesting, just free food! Imagine eating the same food for forty years! It’s similar to mother’s milk. Babies drink the same boring bland thing for months, yet they grow immensely. The Lord promises something similar to persecuted Christians.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’” Revelation 2:17
This manna is more than physical food, as Jesus reminds us, “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord.” Deuteronomy 8:3
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 5, 2013
Jude
Jude is filled with great stuff. “And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.” Jude 7
Is eternal fire like the burning bush? Are the wicked like the bush that didn’t burn up though it was consumed in fire? Or is it the like the endless fire the Jews had to burn up their trash?
“Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, doubly dead, uprooted; wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.” Jude 11-13
Jude is talking about evil people who commingle with believers. They are doubly dead. That is even more than mostly dead. Is Jude referring to second death? Yes. And black darkness is more than solitary confinement with no light. It is non existence. We must persevere despite their challenges:
“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.” Jude 24-25
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | November 1, 2013
Halloween
One of the interesting things about Halloween is the fixation on death, skeletons, and zombies. Particularly skeletons and zombies that are alive. Zombies are dead bodies animated by live souls. This shows how successful Satan is. It started with his lie to Eve, “You will not surely die.” Genesis 3
Thus started the lie that our souls are immortal and that only bodies die. There was quite the controversy on this in the 1500s. From biblelight.net:
“On December 19, 1513, in connection with the eighth session of the fifth Lateran Council, Pope Leo X issued a Bull (Apostolici regimis) declaring, “We do condemn and reprobate all who assert that the intelligent soul is mortal” (Damnamus et reprobamus omnes assertentes animam intellectivam mortalem esse). This was directed against the growing “heresy” of those who denied the natural immortality of the soul, and avowed the conditional immortality of man. The Bull also decreed that “all who adhere to the like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.” The decrees of this Council, it should be noted, were all issued in the form of Bulls or constitutions (H. J. Schroeder, Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils, 1937, pp. 483, 487).
In 1516 Pietro Pomponatius, of Mantua, noted Italian professor and leader among the Averrorists (who denied the immortality of the soul), issued a
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book in opposition to this position called Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul. This was widely read, especially in the Italian universities. As a result, he was haled before the Inquisition, and his book publicly burned in Venice.
Then, on October 31, 1517, Luther posted his famous Theses on the church door in Wittenberg. In his 1520 published Defence of 41 of his propositions, Luther cited the pope’s immortality declaration, as among “those monstrous opinions to be found in the Roman dunghill of decretals” (proposition 27). In the twenty-seventh proposition of his Defence Luther said:
However, I permit the Pope to establish articles of faith for himself and for his own faithful—such are: That the bread and wine are transubstantiated in the sacrament; that the essence of God neither generates nor is generated; that the soul is the substantial form of the human body that he [the pope] is emperor of the world and king of heaven, and earthly god; that the soul is immortal; and all these endless monstrosities in the Roman dunghill of decretals—in order that such as his faith is, such may be his gospel, such also his faithful, and such his church, and that the lips may have suitable lettuce and the lid may be worthy of the dish.—Martin Luther, Assertio Omnium Articulorum M. Lutheri per Bullam Leonis X. Novissimam Damnatorum (Assertion of all the articles of M. Luther condemned by the latest Bull of Leo X), article 27, Weimar edition of Luther’s Works, vol. 7, pp. 131, 132 (a point-by-point exposition of his position, written Dec. 1, 1520, in response to requests for a fuller treatment than that given in his Adversus execrabilem Antichristi Bullam, and Wider die Bulle des Endchrists).
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | October 23, 2013
Living water
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them.” John 6:54-56
Are we supposed to eat Jesus? It is interesting that the Jewish sacrifices were to be eaten after they were offered.
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:10-14
Perhaps we are supposed to eat Jesus spiritual body and blood? The earthly sense of this is easier to see.
“On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.” Zechariah 14:8
“Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” John 7:38
“For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; ‘he will lead them to springs of living water.’ ‘And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’” Revelation 7:17
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | October 19, 2013
Meat is Murder
Ever see the bumper sticker ‘Meat is Murder’? You have to admit they have a point. But Christians define murder being between persons. Jesus even caught fish and cooked it for the disciples, and he was sinless. Yet why should the animals suffer to be our food?
After the Fall, God pronounced judgment on Adam, Eve, and Satan. Or did he? “So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.” Genesis 3:14
Cursed above the wild animals? They were cursed too? Was Satan already cursed before he entered the serpent? Was part of the animals punishment to become food for people?
“Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,”. Genesis 4:2-4
The Lord was pleased Abel killed a bird for an offering? Why? Paul says, “It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.” Hebrews 10:4. Only the blood of Christ can give us eternal life. Yet a sacrifice of a bull can keep us alive for several months (food). The key is that we need special, sinless food to keep us alive forever. The seed and genetic makeup of every person, animal, and plant has been compromised. Even Jesus, though born of perfect seed (via the Holy Spirit), was mated to an imperfect egg, and did not have perfect food. For that reason, even though he was sinless in thought and deed, he would have died for want of perfect food.
The day will come when the curse will be completely lifted, not only on people, but also on animals and plants. It is promised to us during the great Eighth Day, or the great Fifty Year Jubilee. What happens after that we do not know.
“in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:7
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Posted by: biblestudyseattle | October 18, 2013
Proverbs 14
“The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.” Proverbs 14:1
Clearly the Bride of Christ is the wise woman. Of the foolish ones, Jesus says, “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16
The wise ones are like Rahab, who saw the inevitable, and cast her life with The Lord despite having been a prostitute. No doubt she did not return to her former profession.
The unwise ones are like so many today who expect to control their husbands into submission despite this being the opposite of God’s design. They don’t realize their folly until they are divorced, if they ever figure it out.
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