Comments May 2014
Revised for December 2015
EXPLICIT BIBLE TRUTH
JESUS
Who is He
What is He
Why is He
ETERNAL SECURITY:
An Axiom is a Proof Text meaning the statement is accepted as factual and is quoted, cited to support other like statements made!
THE IMMUTABLE, UNCHANGEABLE GOD.
Numbers 23:19 {an Axiom}
God is not man, that HE SHOULD LIE or a son of man, that he should CHANGE HIS MIND. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Malachi 3:6 {an Axiom}
“For I, the Lord, DO NOT CHANGE; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumedâ.
ROMANS 11:29
FOR THE GIFTS AND THE CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE.
Romans 11:29 agrees with other text thruought the Bible concerning the immutable, unchangeable God and it was written to let Gentiles know that Israel is still in Godâs future plans because the Eternal God NEVER EVER reverses Himself. All prophecies of the Bible will come to pass as many have already.
Jesus Christ will rule the world from Jerusalem. At the beginning of His 1000 year reign the borders of Israel will be greatly expanded to those promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the newly added desert lands will blossom from the then added water sources, Zechariah 14:4,8 and Isaiah 41:18-19 and 35:1-2.
After the Church Rapture the topography of planet earth will be completely changed by several earthquakes and a final massive earth quake (The Big One) with the continents of planet earth being repositioned, becoming one landmass but the borders of many or some countries will still exist, Isaiah 40:3-4, Revelation 6:12-14, Revelation 16:17-21 (The Big One).
The mountains will be reduced to near sea level and the lower places, deep and shallow valleys will be raised to above sea level making the habitable earth very flat and very productive.
The BROAD PLAIN mentioned in Revelation 20:9 again suggest to us that the habitable earth will again be one landmass, see also Genesis 10:25 not to be confused with Genesis 10:5.
Israel and Egypt as well as other areas will be repositioned but the borders will still exist, Revelation 6:14, Isaiah 40:4.
Genesis 15:18-21:
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EPHESIANS 2:8:
For by grace you have been saved through faith
And that not of yourselves it is the âGIFT OF GODâ.
Ephesians chapter 2 is about Godâs IRREVOCABLE GIFT, the acceptance of the Gentiles by His GRACE through FAITH and not by our merit as personal merit does not qualify anyone accepts Jesus.
THE BOOK OF HEBREWS
{This is about Christian MATURITY}
Hebrews 5:7 In the days of his FLESH, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety, reverence, Luke 22:41-44.
Jesus Christ communicated his suffering to God the Father as it was necessary that messiah would suffer with real suffering as a man and not feigned suffering but according to prophecy. God the Father received the message due to the qualification of Christ by His Godlyness, Psalm 22.
Hebrews 5:8 Although He was already a SON, He learned obedience through what he suffered
Hebrews 5:9 and being MADE PERFECT, COMPLETE (through suffering) He became the source of eternal salvation TO ALL WHO OBEY HIM.
Godâs wrath and mercy:
The suffering of Saints is sometimes physical and sometimes mental.
2Peter 2:5 Since he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
2Peter 2:6 and since by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; with ashes He, God condemned them with a catastrophe setting an example to those intending to live ungodly.
2Peter 2:7 And He, God delivered righteous Lot who had been oppressed by the behavior of the lawless in lustfulness.
2Peter 2:8 For that righteous one, Lot living among them day after day, in seeing and in hearing, his righteous soul was tormented with their lawless deeds.
2Peter 2:9 But the Lord knows how to deliver THE GODLY OUT OF TESTING, and to keep the UNJUST FOR A DAY OF JUDGMENT, being punished.
The suffering of Jesus who KNEW NO SIN, 2Corinthians 5:21, Acts 2:24 is the MEASURE OF HIS OBEDIENCE to God His Father who indwelt Him. Had He yielded to His suffering He would have failed in His mission to save mankind.
Had He failed in His Humanity He would have survived in His Deity which is Spirit but mankind would not have survived as there would be no model of conformity to perfection, Romans 8:29.
HOWEVER; the Eternal God NEVER EVER fails so failure was never a possibility and that is why all Prophecy will come to pass, Acts 2:22-24, Numbers 23:19 see above.
Many people blame God for Evil in the world. God tolerates and controls Evil for our benefit which is leading us to MATURITY and then perfection by His âSHOW AND TELL PROCESSâ, Hebrews 5:14 see below.
All humans are exposed to Evil and Righteousness and we all choose, opt for one or the other. Evil lives off the assets of the righteous and always leads to destruction.
Jesus Christ in His humanity chose to die in obedience to God His Father rather than yield and not obtain, reach His objective!
Suicide bombers are all failures as they die IN THEIR SINS John 8:20-24 and their spirits then go to HADES in the lower parts of the Earth becoming prisoners who will be judged at the second Major Resurrection.
Does suicide condemn us? NO, we are condemned by unbelief which leads to NO repentance toward the eternal righteous God through faith in Jesus Christ, Luke 24:45-48.
Judas Iscariot, a thief who was lost and the thief at Calvary who was saved are an interesting comparison and case studies.
The Apostles and Disciples of Christ went in HARMS WAY to preach the Gospel and many were murdered by enemies of the Gospel but none of them were directed to commit suicide.
SON above is the Deity of the God-Man Jesus Christ whose natural form is spirit, John 4:24. He took upon Himself the form of a man who was Jesus, Hebrews 10:5, John 1:1,10,14 and He learned, experienced suffering through His human form who is Jesus, Philippians 2:5-8.
OBEDIENCE TO JESUS CHRIST:
Luke 24:45 Then Jesus OPENED THEIR MINDS so that they might understand the Scriptures, see also Acts 16:14, 1Corinthians 2:12-15.
Luke 24:46 He told them, “This is how it is written: the Messiah WAS TO SUFFER and RISE FROM THE DEAD on the third day,
Luke 24:47 and then REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS OF SINS is to be proclaimed IN HIS NAME to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Luke 24:48 You are WITNESSES of these things.
MELCHIZEDEK:
Hebrews 5:10 Being designated by God to be HIGH PRIEST after the order of MELCHIZEDEK.
Melchizedek was priest of the Most High God and his name means âKing of righteousnessâ who also was King of Salem meaning âKing of peaceâ.
There is no record of his birth or death meaning he is a type of the eternal KING AND PRIEST.
Melchizedek was indwelt by the Spirit of God as was Jesus who is the resurrected and permanent body of the eternal God making Jesus Christ the perpetual KING AND PRIEST.
God the Son also indwelt the Old Testament prophets, Hebrews 1:1-2. Hebrews chapter 1 concerns both the Deity and the Humanity of Jesus Christ.
Jesus was declared to be King at the end of the 69th week of Danielâs 70 week prophecy, Daniel 9:25-26 when Jesus entered Jerusalem on the first âPalm Sundayâ on the foal of a donkey, Zechariah 9:9.
After His crucifixion, resurrection and ascension He became our High Priest who lives eternally and requires no replacement.
The Aaronic, Levitical priesthood was a temporary priesthood that was given to Israel through Moses and it used the blood of innocent animals until the real sacrifice arrived who was Jesus, Hebrews 10:4-6, Genesis 22:10-14.
The name of the mountain, Genesis 22:14 was probably not Moriah, the temple mount but mount Calvary.
Melchizedek is probably the second born of Noah and he is also called Shim. Shim was indwelt by the Eternal Spirit of God as was his father Noah who was Godâs REPRESENTATIVE to the world as a preacher of righteousness with Shim taking his place, 2Peter 2:5.
The lives of Shim and Abraham overlapped by many years. Shim is also the patriarch of the Semitic people including the sons of Jacob also called Israel and the sons of Ishmael the Arabic people.
All people who are spiritually born of God receive a new name and that new name, title represents the new person and their status, Revelation 2:17.
JACOB was renamed ISRAEL and each of his names represent different aspects of his person.
Jacob is the fleshly, soulish, natural person and Israel is the spiritual person. Both types are seen in 1Corinthians 2:11-14, Genesis 32:27-28.
We also have new names as well as old names and we function by either name from time to time meaning by the person of the spirit or the person of the flesh.
At the end of our path to perfection, completion we will be known by our new name only with our old name, the fleshly minded person never to return, Revelation 2:17.
Hebrews 5:11 about this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
The Church at Laodicea, Revelation 3:14-22 was a lukewarm Church that was focused on and very