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Not One Stone

When the typical modern Bible reader comes across such language as, "stars falling from heaven, heaven and earth passing away, the sun and moon going dark, the elements melting, the heavens being shaken," they naturally think of this material universe coming to an end.
However, many are surprised to learn that this Apocalyptic Language is used by Jesus and His Apostles, not to describe the end of the world as we know it, but the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple in AD 70. There is a vast amount of prophecy which this event fulfills. This type of language is not new with Jesus and His Apostles, but is borrowed from the language of the OT Prophets.

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The reader will learn the difference between the Coming of the Son of man, and the Second Coming of Christ

Learn what was the concept of the Parousia, from the Apostles' point of view.

Learn how to understand this language of the OT Prophets.

Learn how this type of language is used to describe the many different judgments, called the "Day of the Lord".

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Creating the Israel of God

Before the foundation of the world, before light and darkness were divided, before the man and woman walked in the garden, God conceived a body of humanity, holy and blameless, chosen in Christ. [Eph. 1:4] This body would be called the Israel of God, which He predetermined would be adopted into His household through a spiritual birth, in His Son. [Eph. 1:5; Jn. 1:13, 3:5]

As part of bringing this plan into reality, God promised land and seed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He fulfilled these promises in their children. It took both the Sinai Covenant and the New Covenant to fulfill these promises. The Sinai Covenant was a shadow of the “good things to come” in the New Covenant through the Messiah. The Sinai Covenant was to continue until the Promised Messiah should come. [Gal. 3:19]
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The Only Sign Given

When someone points out that Friday afternoon to Sunday morning is not three days and three nights, many will be quick to make their parrot-like remark, “Don’t you know that the Jews counted any part of a day, as a whole day?”

After reading the evidence inside, that tired and worn-out answer will no longer be usable.

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Most are unware that during the week of Passover, there are always two days counted as a sabbath.

Smoking Gun Evidence from Ante-Nicean documents, that the tradition was a Tuesday night Passover was held.

The women who followed Jesus play a key role in the chronology of the three days and nights.

The Sign of the Prophet Jonah explained as Jesus intended it to be understood.

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The Determined Time

Would it interest you to know, that God gave Israel a prophecy that told them exactly when the Messiah would come. When the Messiah came, He told them as clear as day, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” The time fulfilled was the Sixty-nine weeks of years from the commandment to return and rebuild Jerusalem unto the Messiah.

God told Daniel in the prophecy of the Seventy Weeks, that He had set a determined time to deal with “thy people and thy city.” This determined time was a period marked off out of Israel’s history, with a beginning and an end, lasting 490 years, without interruption, or gaps.
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Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
Well, Yes and No

Where Jesus went and What He did during the three days and nights that transpired between His death on the cross and His resurrection, is not a matter of simple curiosity, but of Biblical integrity.

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A look at the 4 different words translated as “Hell”, and which ones are associated with Jesus’ descent into the lower parts of the earth

A fresh look at Isaiah 52:14, which sheds light upon Paul’s teachings of Christ’s “emptying Himself” and His “becoming poor, for our sakes.”

An alternative view to 1 Peter 3:18-20, which makes much more sense that the two conventional views held.

Exposing the Word of Faith doctrine that Jesus went into the fiery torments of hell to accomplish man’s salvation.

Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He descended into the lower parts of the earth, and led captivity captive. Who or what were these captives?

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Ask Of Me

A Perspective on the relationship of Ps. 2:8,
And the Apostles’ Question Found in Acts 1:6

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By Larry M. Wishon

How the Kingdom will be restored

Then, Jesus went on to explain to them how the Kingdom would be restored to Israel. He told them,
But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Acts 1:8

In stating the above, Jesus is sharing the plan for HOW the Kingdom would be restored to Israel. It will be restored by the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is actually stated in another way in the messianic psalm, Psalm 2.

The first part of the psalm, deals with the rebellion of the nations.

Psalm 2
1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

A Worldwide Conspiracy?

There is much talk about conspiracy theories in today’s society. In truth, there is only One Grand Conspiracy. All others, at their root, can be traced back to this one as their foundation. This Grand Conspiracy is stated in Psalm2:2. It says that the, “kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed”

The phrase, “take counsel together”, paints a picture of a group of world leaders who are sitting in counsel with each other, to conspire “against the LORD, and against his anointed.” According to the Word Of God, there is a conspiracy among the leaders of the nations, to thwart the rule of God and His Messiah [cf.w/Luke 19:14]. If you have eyes to see, you will find this resistance very prominent. Every law or governmental policy that seeks to resist or destroy the plan and purpose of God for mankind, is an expression of this conspiracy. This conspiracy is evidenced in the fact that governments seek to destroy God’s order of creation, in marriage, family, and human dignity and human identity, of being male and female.

What is the Lord’s response to this declaration of rebellion by the kings and rulers of the nations?

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. He laughs, then is angered. He proclaims,
6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

This statement is meant to convey that no matter the extent of the rebellion of the nations, it cannot have a negative effect upon the rule of God over His creation. He speaks to the nations, saying, “Even though you will not submit to the rule of My King and Anointed One, I have already installed Him on the holy hill of Zion.” The Lord continues, speaking to His Anointed One,

7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

In Acts 13:32-34, Paul connects the “this day” to the resurrection of Jesus. Paul repeats this declaration of Jesus being declared, or proclaimed the Son of God, by the resurrection from the dead, in Romans 1:4. The resurrection from the dead does not make Jesus the Son of God, but demonstrates that this is who He has been all the while. The resurrection is God’s validation of the redemptive work of Christ on the cross. The resurrection is the scarlet thread turning white.

It is after this declaration of Jesus being validated as the Son of God by the resurrection from the dead, that His Father states,

8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

All the Son must do, is ask, and God shall,

give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and The uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

In making this offer to the Son, the Promised Seed of Abraham, God is fulfilling His promise of seed and land. It would be short sighted to think that the fulfillment of this promise was restricted to the children of Israel/Jacob, and to the Promised Land of Canaan. God’s vision for the fulfillment of this promise was much grander than that. He gave a peak of the vastness that this promise of seed and land encompasses. This is why Paul states in Romans 4:13,

For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

Paul plainly states that Abraham and his Seed, should be heirs of the world. How did God give Abraham a glimpse of this far reaching promise? When giving this promise to Abraham, the Lord told him, “. . . in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” [Gen 12:3]. That is a scope of world wide reach.

Not One Stone

What's Inside:

Creating the Israel of God

The Only Sign Given

What's Inside

The Determined Time

Did Jesus Descend Into Hell? Well, Yes and No