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5/6 of the Way Home? Caught in Gross Sin at the Instant of the Rapture, Then What? Does God Imagine? Does the Phrase “Time Immemorial Hold for Jehovah God? Hope in Jehovah On Which Side of Jesus Hangeth Thee? Test Your Knowledge: Ancient Jewish Literature Test Your Knowledge: The Roman Period in Palestine The Noble […]

Bible Talk   How far around the horn are the hands of the prophetic clock in this early twenty-first century? If midnight is the end of mundane time and Jesus’ return, how far along is that clock?   Discussion   God only knows, but let’s make a biblically educated guess. We know that Old Testament

Bible Talk: Suppose the Rapture was imminent, and PistoS, a stumbling believer, is presently engaged in gross sin. Then, suddenly, the Rapture occurs. Does PistoS get raptured whilst thus (grossly) sinning? Yes or no and why please with Scriptural support. Our answer: yes, PistoS gets raptured, because of the key word “believer” (John 3:15, Romans

Bible Talk Does God Imagine about this, that, or the other? Discussion No, we do not think so, because, as an omniscient Being, Jehovah God “knows.” Imagination is characteristically human. Humankind can think sequentially, and in parallel, and at random, and imagination is a link in that thought chain for us, it works at the

Bible Talk: Does the oft used “time immemorial” characterize the state of being (not the state of the Being) of Jehovah God? Here is how the Oxford Languages defines the phrase “time immemorial” “A [phrase of time] used to refer to a point of time in the past that was so long ago that people

“Hope” as a noun can mean an expectation or desire for something, an aspiration, or it can connote a feeling of trust. The verb reflects the action: to aspire, to to desire, to expect, to trust in.   We are interested in the biblical trust aspect of this word; a feeling of trust, to thus

Bible Talk   (Luke 23:39-43)   Malefactors all, we, condemned to die, a horrific death (Matthew 13:47-50). Deservedly so (Romans 3:23, 6:23). Thus the sentence of death hangs over humankind. Nailed to a cross, either side of the only Savior, thus hangs humankind. On the one side railing and hubris, defiance before God to the

Bible Talk   Hopefully our “Ancient Jewish Literature” biblical study will help answer some of these questions if the reader has little or no familiarity with ancient Jewish literature or the intertestamental period that gave rise to so much of that literature. 1.) What was the name of the translation into Greek of the Hebrew

Bible talk: (1.) What marked the onset of the Roman Period in Judea, and approximately when did that happen? (2.) Who was in power in Judea at the time of the onset of the Roman Period? Was there intrigue going on in Jerusalem at that time? Explain. (3.) What became of Judea at the onset

Bible Talk Why does Scripture refer to the Bereans of Paul’s day as “noble?” Pull up a chair and let’s have us a Bible chit-chat if you will.   Discussion The Bereans were residents of the city of Berea in Macedonia. Their story is recorded in the Book of Acts during Paul’s second missionary journey