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Christ also from God. Yet God was always with Him and did not leave Him alone. Think of the New Jerusalem in a similar light. And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him. (John 8:29)

There is a subjective side of these things. He is made "the head over all things to the church." The expression "to the church" is like saying there is enormous electrical power in the power plant to the city. The problem of free flowing transmission is not with Christ. If there is a problem...

Okay, to the matter of the throne of Christ. His throne is "the throne of God and of the Lamb" in eternity. And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. (Rev. 22:1) And the throne of God...

It is late and I would rather write maybe tomorrow. But one thing has to be said. The SIGN of a 1500 mile high cube hovering over the earth is not literal. This is a sign. Like the lampstand, lamb, lion, seven eyes, glassy sea, four horsemen, dragon, beasts, palm branches, etc. are signs...

I am glad you gave that testimony. I also knew a woman who was ten years a JW and received Jesus as Lord. With prayer God can have the same mercy on them as He had on us.

They are the "sheep" nations transferred from the time of the great tribulation into the millennium. (Matthew 25:34-40) I believe that they are also certian offspring of the "sheep" born during the millennium who do not partake of the last rebellion. (Rev. 20:8,9) The sons of God are to...

Yes. There are saved nations living in the light of the New Jerusalem. That is not the main point. But it is a point. And let's examine sample renderings in English and the Greek. You quoted KIng James which I included among a few other translations. καὶ περιπατήσουσι τὰ ἔθνη διὰ τοῦ φωτὸς...

He will do that and more. He will dispense the life of His Son into many sons so that He is "the Firstborn among many brothers" (Rom. 8:29) The King is set upon God's holy hill of Zion and also infused into all the members of His bride which is His Body. He is "the head over all...

You clearly and boldly tell them up front in no uncertain terms that your God is the man Jesus Christ. If they continue to talk you simply ask them "Did you hear what I said?" And repeat it again boldly but with love - "I said my God is the man Jesus Christ." That is all you have to make...

Thus says Jehovah, / Heaven is My throne, / And the earth the footstool for My feet. / Where then is the house that you will build for Me, / And where is the place of My rest? For all these things My hand has made, / And so all these things have come into being, declares Jehovah. / But to this...

So the last great truth in the sixty-six books of the Bible for you is that the earth is God's footstool? You love so much Isaiah 66:1 so much that it governs everything else. It seems that "the earth is my footstool" should be the last sentence in the Bible. This is a touchy obsession which...

If I recall when we previously talked about the millennial kinghdom and the eternal age of the new heaven and new earth, there were elements of this rational which necessitated that we Chrstians don't believe NT saints will reign with Christ on the earth. For reasons that I do not understand...

We've conversed about this before. I remember pretty well. I would discuss it again. But you have to define exactly what you mean by these words: below above highest under over Otherwise if we do not come to an agreement as to how we are using these words we might be just talking past...

There is no contradiction. Jude 24 is saying the same thing without the married couple language. The Apostle Paul was one with God. The apostle's heart is one with the heart of God. As we all should be. But we have the mind of Christ. ( 1 Cor. 2:16b) For we are not able to do...

Don't shy away from what it says. For I am JEALOUS over you with a JEALOUSY OF GOD. . . . for I BETROTHED you to one HUSBAND to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. The word picture is unmistakably about a divine romantic jealousy, betroval of a wife to a husband...