tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-142240592024-03-12T21:18:46.936-07:00Russell Earl Kelly, Ph. D.This blog contains all subjects which are important to me.Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-91050367158435122162024-02-15T10:51:00.000-08:002024-02-15T10:51:04.700-08:00<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">AN ARMINIAN EXPLAINS
CALVINIST TERMINOLOGY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">By Russell E Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">February 15, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1.</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">TOTAL DEPRAVITY:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Isa 53:6 All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD
hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 3:11 There is none
that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Westminster Confession</span></i><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: “Man, by his fall into a state of
sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying
salvation, so as a natural man, being altogether averse from good, and dead in
sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare
himself thereunto<i>.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This is the Calvinists’ foundational
doctrine. They emphasize it as if nobody else agrees with them. The sinner is
dead, blind and deaf to the things of God. His will is in bondage to his evil
nature. He cannot choose good over evil and does not seek God. <i>Charts Christian
Theology and Doctrine</i>, H. Wayne House, Zondervan, 1992, page 99. House is a
Calvinist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #40464b; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There is much agreement
among Baptists, Evangelicals, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians and Reformed
concerning total deravity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not disputed
in this document.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Almost the entire
disagreement between Calvinists and Arminians revolves around the definitions
of “foreknowledge” and “the elect.” Calvinists believe that God has
“foreknowledge” because of His sovereignty and because He has caused sinners to
believe apart from personal faith. Arminians believe that God has
“foreknowledge” because He knows “the end from the beginning” (Isa 46:10) and
elects those whom He knows will freely choose to believe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that
“the elect” are “individuals” whom God has specifically predestined to be saved
before creation. Arminians teach that God gave up some of His sovereignty when
He gave both the angels and mankind (Adam and Eve) free will. Arminians believe
that “the elect” are the “category” of persons who God foreknows will freely
choose to believe in Christ. Every major difference is related to these two
biblical words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 13:48; John 1:13;
Romans 8:28-30; 9:25-26; Eph 1:4, 5; 1 Peter 1:2; James 1:18<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">THE CALVINIST DOCTRINE
OF UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">God’s choice of certain
individuals to salvation before the foundation of the world rested solely in
His own sovereign will. His choice of particular sinners was not based on any
foreseen response or obedience on their part such as repentance, etc. On the
contrary, God sends grace and gives faith and repentance to each individual He
selects. These acts are the result, not the cause, of God’s choice. Those whom
God sovereignly elects, He brings through the power of the Spirit to a willing
acceptance of Christ. Thus, God’s choice of the sinner, not the sinner’s choice
of Christ, is the ultimate cause of salvation. <i>House</i>, ibid, page 99.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMNIAN’S REPLY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acts 13:48 as many as were ordained
(appointed) to eternal life believed<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Gentiles were “ordained”
because God foresaw that they would believe (Rom 8:29). God told them earlier
“for unto you is peached the forgiveness of sins” and “by him all that believe
are justified” (13:38-39). Such would be unnecessary if God had already
regenerated them as Calvinists teach. Preaching would be unnecessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">B.</span></i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <i>John 1:13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In context, God sent John,
a preacher-prophet, to point out His light of Jesus (v6) to stir up faith (v7).
Jesus’ light was in every man (v9). Those who continuously believed on Jesus
received authority from God to become sons of God (v12). God chose them to have
authority because He foresaw that they would continuously believe on Christ
(v13). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">C.</span></i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Rom 8:28 And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according
to his purpose.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 8:29 For whom he did
foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 8:30 Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Verse 28 describes the
“called” as those who “continuously love” God (see the participle). This is
extremely important. Veres 29 tells us that God predestinated those He
“foreknew.” Arminians use verse 29 to teach that foreknowledge is future
knowledge of man’s freewill faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame
before him in love:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Eph 1:5 Having
predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">It is the “will of God”
to “choose” these whom He foreknows will “continuously believe” (John 6:40). None
of the texts prove the Calvinist definition of the elect being “individuals”
rather than the “category” of those who chose to love God and believe in
Christ. The Calvinist teaching that regeneration does not involve man does not
fit here; God predestined believers to be holy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that
willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 9:18 Therefore hath
he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">While these texts appear
imposing, John 6:40 explains how they work, “And this is the will of him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have
everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you, and
peace, be multiplied.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Again, the Calvinist
view that foreknowledge did not involve man is refuted. God’s foreknowledge
included sanctification of the Spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with
the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This contradicts
Calvinist doctrine because it involves the “word” in regeneration. Their
initial doctrine only involved the sovereignty of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Conclusion: The strongest point of Calvinism
is their own non-biblical definition of the identity of the elect and the
definition of foreknowledge. These are also its weakest points. The “elect” are
not individuals, but are the “category” of those God foresees will chose to
continuously love Him (Romans 8:28-29).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LIMITED ATONEMENT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mt 1:21; 20:28; 26:28;
Jn 10:11, 15; Acts 13:48; 20:28; Rom 8:32-34; Eph 5:25-27; Heb 2:17; 9:15, 28;
Rev 5:9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">CALVINISM: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Christ’s redeeming work
was intended to save only specific elect individuals and actually secured
salvation for them. In addition to putting away the sins of His people,
Christ’s redemption secured everything necessary for their salvation, including
faith which unites them to Him. The gift of faith is infallibly applied by the
Spirit to all for whom Christ died, therefore, guaranteeing their salvation. <i>House</i>,
ibid, page 100.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Examples of how
Calvinists interpret the Bible:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son,
and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their
sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In context, “save his
people” only refers to Israelites. In Calvinist context, it means “only the
elect from all nations.” In Arminian context, it means “whosoever chooses” to
freely have faith (believe) in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to
be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Matt 26:28 For this is
my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of
sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In Calvinist context,
“many” means only elect individuals. In Arminian context, “many” means
“whosoever freely chooses to have faith (believe).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good
shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists limit “sheep”
to elect individuals who are not aware when God causes them to be “born again,”
or regenerated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">D. Acts 20:28 Take heed
therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost
hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his own blood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists interpret “flock,” “church” and “purchased” as
references only to elect “individuals.” Arminians interpret them as the
“category” of believers who compose the elect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">E. Rom 8:32 He that
spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with
him also freely give us all things?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists interpret
“us” as only a reference to elect individuals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">…..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMINIAN REPLY: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Again, the strong point
of this doctrine is the Calvinists’ own definition and interpretation of what
they think it means. It is also the weak point of the doctrine with no texts
which clearly and literally teach their limited atonement. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">While reading these
texts, remember that Calvinists teach that God’s first act was to cause (force,
compel) the elected sinner to become regenerated, or born again, apart from
faith or free will. Outside of Calvinism, almost every major denomination
teaches that Christ died for all sins of all men for all time (Heb 9:26) AND
that God would like to redeem all mankind, but does not force free will. Even
though the price has already been paid, each individual must accept God’s offer
through faith in order to be saved (Eph 2:8). Adding “and has already been
regenerated as an elect individual” to the above texts is absolutely ludicrous
and illogical. It mocks God’s literal interpretation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists erroneously teach
that Jesus did not die on the crosse to provide a means of redemption for all
mankind. They teach that Jesus only died for the preselected predestined
specifically chosen individuals whom they erroneously define as the “elect.”
This is very wrong and makes God a respecter of persons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Limited atonement” changes God’s inspired
“whosoever will” to “whosoever cannot.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians admit that
God’s sovereign special election allows for the preselection of national Israel
(which, they teach, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God later replaced
with the church) (Ex 19:5-6) and persons like Abraham (Gen 12:1-4), Samuel (1
Sam 1:20), Jesus (Isa 42:1) and Paul (Gal 1:15). However, because God is not a
respecter of persons (Rom 2:10-11), the vast majority of believers all have an
equal opportunity of being saved (John 1:9; Rom 2:14-16).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The following texts
teach that Christ died for all and wants all to be saved. Calvinists ignore
these and portray God as a jokester only pretending to offer salvation to all.
For them, “God so loved the world” is not sincere and is not true. The commands
are meaningless if God only compels certain individuals to be the elect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mt 28:19</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them
…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Mk 16:15</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Lk 24:47</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">And that repentance and remission of sins should be
preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 3:16 whosoever
believeth should have everlasting life<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 17:30 …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>now commandeth all men everywhere to repent<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 3:22 Even the
righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all
them that believe: for there is no difference:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 5:18 Therefore as by
the offence of one judgment came upon <u>all men</u> to condemnation; even so
by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon <u>all men</u> unto
justification of life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 8:28 And we know
that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are
the called according to his purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 Tim 2:4</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Who will have all men to be saved …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Titus 2:11 grace that
brings salvation has appeared to all men<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb 2:9</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jesus … by the grace of God <u>should taste death for
every man.</u><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb 9:26 For then must
he often have suffered since the foundation of the <u>world</u> (cosmos) but
now once in the end of the <u>world</u> (ages) hath he appeared to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 Pet 3:18 Christ once
suffered, the just for the unjust<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">2 Pet 3:9</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Lord … is <u>not willing that any should perish</u>,
but that all should come to repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">] Jn 2:2 And he is the
propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">4. IRRESTIBLE GRACE: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 6:44 No man can
come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him
up at the last day.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“In addition to the
outward general call to salvation, which is made to everyone who hears the
Gospel, the Holy Spirit extends to the elect a special inward call that
inevitably brings them to salvation. The external call (which is made to all
without distinction), can be, and often is, rejected whereas the internal call
(which is made only to the elect) cannot be rejected; it always results in
conversion. By means of the special call, the Spirit irresistibly draws sinners
to Christ. He is not limited in His work of applying salvation to man’s will,
nor is he dependent upon man’s cooperation for success. The Spirit graciously <u>causes</u>
the elect sinner to cooperate, to believe, to repent, to come freely and
willingly to Christ. God’s grace, therefore, is invincible. It never fails to
result in the salvation of those to whom it is extended.” <i>House,</i> ibid,
page 100.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that,
after the unregenerate have been supernaturally regenerated without their
knowledge or participation, God gives them irresistible faith and “causes” them
to accept Jesus, repent, become justified and have initial sanctification.
Since God changes their will from natural to spiritual, the elect must obey
God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMINIAN REPLIES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">While Calvinists place
“unconditional election” first because it does not involve faith, it means the
same thing as “irresistible grace.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The vast majority of
Christian denominations totally reject this as heresy. (1) The Bible says that
grace is always resistible. Again, the strong (and weak) point is Calvinism’s
own definition of “the elect.” (2) John 6:44 does not exclude free will
rejection of God’s call. (3) Their so-called “outward general call” is a farce;
their depiction of God is insincere and a respecter of persons in offering
salvation to those He does not intend to save. (4) If the “special call” is
“irresistible,” then it is not a “call” at all, but a “compulsion.” (5) If the
Spirit causes the will to be changed after God forces the unregenerate to be
born again, then God is merely reprogramming His robots. (6) Although the Bible
is over-running with the necessity of “faith” (believing), faith does not really
exist in Calvinism because God begins by forcing a new birth which cannot fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians totally reject
this doctrine. Calvinists do not provide any clear literal texts which prove
that the elect cannot resist God’s grace. It makes no sense to teach that,
following regeneration and the new birth, God requires anything from man, who
is nothing more than a programmed robot mindlessly obeying His Creator. Even John
6:44 says nothing about irresistible grace. In the third verse following (John
6:47), the requirement for having everlasting life is continuously believing in
Christ (see the participle). This contradicts the man-not-involved formula for
regeneration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In John 8:31 Jesus told
the Jews who already had a perfect faith (see the participle) to “continue” in
order “to be His disciples indeed.” The Bible is full of these examples ignored
by Calvinists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">See the section on ”Free
Will.” There are at least 48 texts which could be interpreted as examples of
falling from grace. If even one of them is correct, the doctrines of
irresistible grace and eternal security fall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“All who are chosen by
God, redeemed by Christ, and given faith by the Spirit are eternally saved.
They are kept in faith by the power of Almighty God and thus persevere to the
end.” <i>House</i>, ibid, page 100. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that, those
whom God has specifically and individually chosen before the foundation of the
world have been elected solely by His sovereign will to salvation apart from
their own knowledge or involvement. These can neither totally<sup> </sup>nor
finally fall away from the state of grace; but shall certainly persevere
therein to the end, and be eternally saved. Some have added that this </span><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">does not mean that a person who is truly saved
will never lose faith or backslide at any time. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">CALVINIST TEXTS FOR
PERSEVERANCE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 10:28-29 “Neither
shall any pluck them out of my hand.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Plucking is from the
outside. The texts do not prevent free-will removal of self from God’s hand because
of disbelief (Mt 10:33; 24:13).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 17:11,24 Father, keep
them that they may be one.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">If the elect were already
“kept” and could not fall, this prayer would be unnecessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 17:24 “I will that …
they be with me.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Because God has created
man with free choice, His “will” is not “His “command.” God is also not willing
that any perish (2 Pet 3:9).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 8:38-39 “Nothing can
separate us from the love of God.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">This is true because the
“us” in Romans 8 refers to Paul’s friends who are continuous believers in
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Eph 1:13, 4:30</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sealed with the Spirit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">True believers were “being
sealed” only after they “heard the word of truth,” “trusted in Christ” and “had
continuously believed” [participle]. Those who do not continue believing in
Christ are not being sealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Phil 1:6 “He which hath
begun, will perform.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">God begins “performing”
His will and calls those He foreknows will continuously love Him and believe in
Him (John 6:40; Rom 8:28-29).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 Thess. 3:3 “No man
should be moved by these afflictions; appointed.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Should” is conditional
subjunctive which means some could be moved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb. 7:25 “He is able to
save them that come to God.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Come” is a participle and
means “continuously come.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb. 10:14 “Perfected
forever those who are sanctified.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Greek is “are being
sanctified.” As long as believers are continuously believing, they continuously
stand perfected before God by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb. 13:20-21 “May the God
of peace make you perfect to do His good will.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">If God has done this
already, the prayer is meaningless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 Pet 1:5 “Who are kept by
the power of God through faith.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">As long as man’s faith is
continuous, God keeps the believer (Jn 1:12; 3:16; Rom 1:16). </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Might” is a
conditional subjunctive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 Peter 1:9 “Receiving the
end of <u>your faith</u>, even the salvation of your souls.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Compare Matthew 24:13 and
10:33.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 1:15
“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This challenge
makes no sense if man cannot fall from grace; God would keep him holy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 1:17
“And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according
to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">True believers
do continuously call on the Father. If God only calls a special elect, He would
be a respecter of persons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 1:22
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure
heart fervently.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God should not
have to command His very elect to “love one another” unless they could fall
from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">2 Pet. 1:10 “Make your
calling and election sure; never fall.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Fall from what?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 John 2:19 “If they had
been of us, they would have continued.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Only continuous believers
have righteousness by faith (Rom 3:22).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 John 3:9 “Born of God
does not sin, cannot sin.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Literal or habitual? Even
Calvinists unexplainably sin after being born again with a new nature.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMINIAN VIEW:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">See the section on
“Falling From Grace.” There are at least 48 texts which could be interpreted as
examples of falling from grace. If even one of them is correct, the doctrines
of irresistible grace and eternal security fall. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FAITH: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The “new birth” and
“righteousness by faith” are essentially terms for the same change in a
sinner’s nature from one opposing God to one sharing God’s holiness by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Continuous faith, or
believing (the Greek participle) causes the sinner to become equally as
righteous (good) or justified (innocent of sin) as God. That is the deep
meaning of texts like Romans 3:22, “Even the righteousness of God which is by
faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">God Himself was on trial
for forgiving Old Testament sins which had not been paid for by the historical
death of Christ. Christ’s death both allowed God to declare His own
righteousness, but also to legally justify the sinner --- to declare him
innocent of all his sins. “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through
faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past. To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be
just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Rom 3:25, 26). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Therefore, we conclude
that a man is justified by faith. … Seeing it is one God, which shall justify
the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith” (Rom 3:28, 30).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Because the Calvinist
begins by God regenerating the elect apart from faith, these texts have little
or no impact in the theological discussion. He ignores the huge roll of faith
in salvation and teaches that God saved selected sinners apart from faith
through compelled regeneration. Such explanation mocks the entire plan of
salvation and, especially the Gospel message. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Abraham’s faith, not
God’s so-called predestined new birth, was “counted unto him for righteousness”
(Gen 15:6; Rom 4:3; Gal 3:6). Removing Abraham’s free will from this formula
makes God insincere. God chose to make Abraham “the father of all them that
believe” and “the heir of the world” --- not Himself (Rom 4:11). Five chapters
before Romans 9:15-16, God made it clear that His grace is appropriated by
man’s faith, “Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end
the promise might be sure to all the seed” (Rom 4:16). If God is true (and He
is), peace with God is the result of our legal innocence before Him by faith in
Jeus Christ (Rom 5:1).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Because believers have
been justified by Christ’s blood, “we will also be saved <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">from the wrath of God”
(Rom 5:9 1:16-18). This is the same reason Calvinists teach that God
regenerated sinful man, but without the faith component.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Romans 9:30 teaches that
the Gentiles “have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is
of faith.” They did not attain it because of God’s pre-creation regeneration
apart from faith; they attained it by faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Romans 10:1 reads “Brethren,
my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”
If Paul had believed the Calvinist interpretation, his prayer would be that
Israelite individuals would be among God’s special election. His prayer would
have been that they had been salved already.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Romans 10:9-10 disagrees
with the Calvinist interpretation. The formula for being saved there is “If
thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine
heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” The formula
is not, “God will regenerate you without your knowledge. Romans 10:13 requires
calling “upon the name of the Lord” in order to be saved.” Romans 10:14-17
requires hearing the preaching of the Gospel in order to be saved. Romans 10:16
teaches that justification is by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Galatians continues the
true doctrine of salvation involving man’s free-will faith (believing). In 3:2,
14 and 22, the Spirit is received through “the hearing of faith” and not
because God first regenerated the sinner without his knowledge. Galatians 3:26
sums it up, “Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. There is
no mention of a pre-<a name="m"></a>creation new birth requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ephesians 2:8 is used by
both sides of the salvation controversy, “<i>For by grace are ye saved through
faith; it is the gift of God.” </i>It is difficult for an Arminian to
understand how a Calvinist can use a text which includes faith to justify God’s
initial regeneration of the sinner apart from faith. If such is the result of
God’s sovereign will, John 6:40 makes it clear that God’s will allows for foreknowledge
of who will continuously believe. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ephesians 3:17 clearly
teaches that “Christ dwells in your hearts by faith”; He does not dwell in our
hearts because God forced the new birth upon us apart from faith. First Peter
1:5 says we “are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Heb 11:6 “But without
faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe
that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has
already decided that He will regenerate man without his knowledge and He forces
man to please Him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">CONCLUSION: Calvinists err
by overemphasizing their own definition of the elect (13x) and election (6X)
while under-stressing the importance of faith (245x) and believing (270x). In
reality, if their view of election is true, there is no need for compelled
faith. They do not include main’s faith (belief) in the initial plan of
salvation when God causes (compels) the totally depraved un-regenerate sinner
to seek after Him and become regenerate, or born again. Ephesians 2:8 belongs
to an event following regeneration. They teach that fallen man cannot respond
to God’s call until after becoming born again. Faith itself is a gift of God
compelled (they say) upon the newly elect <i>after</i> they have become born
again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians teach that all
of the initial salvation process is simultaneous: (1) the Holy Spirit
supernaturally pricks the heart of the totally depraved sinner (Jn 14:26; 16:8,
9, 13, 14), (2) the Holy Spirit convicts the awakened-heart to seek God, (3)
the Holy Spirit offers God’s gift of faith (believing) (Eph 2:8), (4) the
convicted sinner hears the call of God and chooses to love God (Rom 8:28), (5)
the convicted sinner returns God’s gift of faith (Rom 3:22) and (6) God wills
that the convicted sinner be born again (Jn 6:40). Like human birth, all of
this is one event. Although, it is still God’s sovereign decision whether or
not to accept man’s counteroffer of faith, God is faithful to His promises to
save the believing ones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FALLING FROM GRACE: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Matt 5:29 And if thy
right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is
profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Matt 5:30 And if thy
right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body
should be cast into hell.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Matthew 5:29-30 must be
addressed to the righteous because the wicked were destined to hell already.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">2 Peter 2:20 For if
after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of
the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and
overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">2 Pet 2:21 For it had
been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after
they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In order for verse 21 to
be true, verse 20 must refer to the truly righteous.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There are at least 48
texts which could be interpreted as examples of falling from grace. Most are
very powerful and easy to understand. If even one of them is correct, the
doctrines of irresistible grace, perseverance of the saints and eternal
security fall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Ex 32:32, 33; Eze 3:20;
18:24 Mt 5:13, <u>27-29</u>; 6:15; 10:33; Lk 8:13; 9:62; 13:8; Jn <u>15:2-6</u>;
1 Cor 3:17; 8:10-12<u>; 9:27</u>; 1 Cor 10:1-12; Gal 3:1-4; <u>5:1, 4, 19, 21</u>,
24; 1 Tim <u>1:18-19</u>; <u>4:1-2</u>; 2 Tim 2:12; 4:10; Heb 3:12, 18,19; 4:1,
6, 11; <u>6:4-6</u>; 10:26; 10:38-39; 12:8, 13-15, 17; James 5:12; 1 Pet 5:8-9;
2 Pet 2:1, <u>20-22</u>; 3:17; 2 John 8-9; Jude 5-6; Rev 2:4-5; 3:2, 4, 5,
16-17).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FREE WILL/RESISTIBLE GRACE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that,
because of the sovereignty of God, man has no real free will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After God regenerates fallen man, his will is
only “free” to obey God. Why the regenerated elect still with a new spiritual
nature disobey God and sin is beyond this discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Many non-Calvinists
agree that fallen man is so depraved that he has no free will and does not seek
God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">GOD CREATED ANGELS AND
ADAM AND EVE WITH FREE WILL..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Eze 28:15 Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Isa 14:12 How art thou
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the
ground, which didst weaken the nations!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jude 6 And the angels
which kept not their first estate , but left their own habitation, he hath
reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great
day. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Unfallen angels walked
fully in the knowledge and glory of God as sinless beings (Eze 28:15). Since
they could choose to rebel, they evidently had free will. They sinned, fell
from grace and cannot be redeemed (Isa 14:12). This is a very good example of beings
who wholly loved God falling from His grace; it contradicts Calvinist doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">GOD’S GRACE CAN BE
RESISTED BY THE ELECT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Gen 3:6 And when the
woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinist doctrine is
wrong because the Bible is full of examples of God’s especial election with new
natures seriously resisting His grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Abraham was a
special-elected man of God. He resisted God and lied to Pharoah about his wife
(Genesis 12).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Balaam was a true
prophet of the LORD (Yahweh). He began by obeying Yahweh and became a false
prophet (Numbers 22 all).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">King David was an
anointed special-election prophet-king of Yahweh. He resisted God’s will and
murdered Uriah the Hittite to marry his wife, Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">THE HOLY SPIRIT STIRS
THE UNREGENETATE TO BE SAVED:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Matt 11:28 Come unto me,
all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“All ye that labor and
are heavy laden” is a description of all humanity, not just a few individuals.
Jesus did not lie. Also, this makes no sense if the elect have already been
regenerated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In John 3:16 and scores
of other texts, God’s commands make no sense if they are not directed to those
having free will. “Believe,” “choose,” “abide,” “remain,” “seek,” “stand fast,”
“endure” and “continue” do not fit Calvinist theology where God removes free
will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">If the “natural” man has
been completely replaced with the born-again regenerated “spiritual” man, the
Calvinist “elect” should be sinless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 1:9 That was the
true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:14 For
when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in
the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:15 Which
shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one
another;)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:16 In
the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my
gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Calvinists’ teaching
that God’s universal call of the gospel is insincere because God never intended
to save those and because He does not equally “cause” them to be regenerated. God
is a respecter of persons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">They also teach that a different
kind of special calling is only to specific elect individuals --- God
“savingly” loves only the elect. This Calvinist doctrine is wholly dependent
upon their unbiblical definition of “the elect” as those God saves apart from
their knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMINIAN VIEW: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">With their
interpretation of the universal call, Calvinists make God into an insincere
jokester commanding saving faith that is not actually available. The many texts
which state that God wants to save everybody are ignored and make no sense
whatsoever (2 Pet 3:9). Again, according to Romans 8:28, the “elect” is the “category”
of those who freely choose to continuously love God (see the participle).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HOLY SPIRIT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 16:8 And when he is
come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 16:9 Of sin,
because they believe not on me;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 16:13 Howbeit when
he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 2:37 Now when they
heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the
rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 5:20 Moreover the
law entered, that the offence might abound . But where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">First, God supernaturally
and sovereignly initiates salvation by making enough grace through faith
available for man to be saved (Rom 5:20; Eph 2:8). Second, the Holy Spirit supernaturally
stirs the heart and conscience of the unregenerate (John 16:8). Third, the
unregenerate sinner asks “What shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). Fourth, he accepts
God’s offer of salvation by faith (believing). Fifth, God chooses to accept
man’s faith response and, sixth, the sinner is instantly born again with a new
nature (John 1:12; 3:16; Rom 1:16). This is far superior to the Calvinist
teaching that man is regenerated apart from any faith response.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NEW BIRTH/REGENETATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 1:13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 2:37 Now when they
heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the
rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 2:38 Then Peter
said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 2:39 For the
promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even
as many as the Lord our God shall call.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">1 John 5:1 Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth
him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">“Regeneration” is the
preferred Calvinist word for the “new birth,” or “being born again.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that
God supernaturally initiates salvation by regenerating (making born again,
replacing natural with spiritual) unregenerate sinners. He does this without
the knowledge or participation of the sinner. “Whosoever” can only believe
because he has already been born again. God’s sovereign pre-selection to
regeneration is the only acceptable explanation. Therefore, man’s faith
(belief) is not involved in the new birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians teach that (1)
Jesus’ disciples preach the Word (Acts 2:1-36). (2) The Holy Spirit
supernaturally pricks the hearts of the un-regenerate (2:37). (3) Convicted
un-regenerate sinners ask “What shall le do?” (2:37). (4) God’s answer to the
convicted un-regenerate is<i>, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for [because of] the remission of sins, and ye shall
receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. (</i>5)<i> ” </i>God regenerates the
repentant believer and the Holy Spirit now resides within the believer. (6) The
promise is also extended to all others who similarly believe. These actions are
almost simultaneous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians disagree
because scores of texts teach that “continuous believing” (faith) must be somehow
included in being “born again.” They reverse the order: because God foreknows the
sinner will continuously believe, He sovereignly causes him/her to be “born
again.” Although faith does not compel God to save, faith accepts God’s offer
and is the conduit, or vehicle of the action. The is the sequence of God’s will
(John 6:40) and allows for free will “faith” (believing) (Eph 2:8).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PREACHING:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 10:14 How then shall
they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 10:15 And how shall
they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet
of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists make a
mockery of the clear literal teaching of God’s Word. These texts clearly teach
that sinners must hear the gospel from preaching in order to call upon God in
order to be saved. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since (they teach) these
events follow God compelling the sinner to be regenerated, these texts become
meaningless. Therefore, God’s call to salvation using preachers is to those who
have already been saved. Thus, Romans 10:14-15 make no sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PREVENIENT GRACE: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists criticize the
Arminian usage of the term “prevenient grace” because it is not found in God’s
Word. It literally means grace that “pre-cedes,” or “comes before” regeneration
and is a theological term for the supernatural pre-salvation prodding of the
un-regenerate’s heart by the Holy Spirit (John 16:8-9). Yet, while “prevenient”
is not a biblical term, neither is “irresistible,” “compelling” or “casual” grace.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Although Calvinists want
others to think that their own view is the only logical one, both views explain
how God initially and supernaturally reaches the totally depraved unregenerate
who do not seek God. Free Will Baptist theologian Robert Picirilli points out
in his book, <i>Grace, Faith and Free Will</i> that all aspects of initial
salvation are simultaneous. If this is not also true in Calvinism, the lack of
faith in the initial salvation process presents a serious problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">14..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RESPECTER OF PERSONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:10 But glory,
honor, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to
the Gentile:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:11 For there is no
respect of persons with God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:12 For as many as
have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have
sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:13(For not the
hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be
justified.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:14 For when the
Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 2:15 Which shew the
work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness,
and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Eph 3:3-6 mystery,
Gentiles fellow heirs<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that
God has pre-selected and pre-determined which specific individuals will be
saved before the creation of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Arminians teach that the
Calvinist teachings makes God a respecter of persons; some are saved and others
spend eternity in hell without an opportunity to be saved. The Calvinist view
mocks man with God’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>insincere promises.
Romans 1:16 “… the gospel of Christ: for is the power of God unto salvation to
everyone that (continuously) believeth.” Matt 11:28 “Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” A loving God would not
promise salvation to all mankind if they have no choice. It would be a waste of
time and words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SALVATION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If salvation is unconditional through the
sovereign decree of God, it cannot include man’s faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It the atonement is limited and applied only
to individuals by the Holy Spirit, it can only be a work of grace and not
faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the only way for depraved man to be saved
is through an act of God wherein He regenerates fallen man without his
knowledge, there is no need for faith. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If election is not by faith, neither is
salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If regeneration is not by faith, neither is
salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Grace, Faith, Free Will</span></i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, Robert Picirilli, page
171. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In a theological sense,
election, regeneration, being born again, imputed righteousness, justification,
redemption and initial sanctification are synonymous and simultaneous. The Holy
Spirit enters and indwells the believer at the instant one is born again, or
regenerated. At the same instant, the Holy Spirit imputes
righteousness/justification to the believer and he/she is as holy and innocent
of sin as God --- by faith. At the same instant, the believer has been redeemed
by Christ and is in a state of sanctification. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SOVEREIGNTY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 1:13 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">John 15:16 ye have not
chosen me; I have chosen you and ordained; fruit<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 9:15 For he saith to
Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion
on whom I will have compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 9:16 So then it is
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth
mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">By creating man with
free will, God has relinquished part of His sovereignty … at least temporarily.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">17.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists teach that,
because of total depravity, “Whosoever cannot believe” unless miraculously
called by God to be one of the elect. Therefore, “the one believing” is only
believing because God has “caused” grace and faith to be received.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">ONE ARMINIAN REPLY: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">It is wrong to imply that
God is insincere and to assume that His inspired Word is not to be literally understood.
The literal reading means that God really did love the world and sent Jesus to
provide redemption. Peter 3:9 shouts over and over that “God is … not willing
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” A loving
personal God does not “want” any to perish and suffer in hell! Also, John 3:16
contains conditional subjunctive elements --- “should” instead of “would” ---
which means that some believers might not continue to believe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">18.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DANIEL 2:34, 44<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Dan 2:34 Thou sawest
till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his
feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Dan 2:35 … and the stone
that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Dan 2:44 And in the days
of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be
destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks
are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city … <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists erroneously
interpret the stone in Daniel 2 to represent the beginning of the Church in the
early first century. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Correct
Interpretation: (1) Daniel is about Isael, not the Church (9:24). (2) The stone
hit the image on its feet 2:34). (3) The stone grew and filled the whole earth
(2:35). (4) This will begin to occur during the days of the weak confederated
10-king Roman Empire (2:44).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The Calvinist Error: (1)
The 10-part weaker confederated Roman Empire did not exist in the first century
A. D. (2) The Western Roman Empire did not peak until the time of Marcus
Aurelius around A. D. 180. (3) The Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople did
fall until 1453 A. D. (4) The 10-king revived empire will exist in the last
days during the time of Antichrist (Daniel 7:24; Revelation 17:12). (5) The
stone does not represent the beginning of the Church; it represents the second
coming of Christ and the literal coming Messianic Age on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">19.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ISREAL:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jer 31:35 Thus saith the
LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon
and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves
thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Jer 31:36 If those
ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also
shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Acts 1:6 When they
therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at
this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rom 11:2 God hath not
cast away his people which he foreknew.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rev 7:4 And I heard the
number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty
and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Rev 21:12 And had a wall
great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names
written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of
Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There are scores of
unconditional promises to national Israel in God’s Word. In Jeremiah 31:35-36
God promised that, as long as the moon and stars exist, so will Israel exist as
a nation before Him. The fate of Israel was the last great question to Jesus
before He ascended (Acts 1:6).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Calvinists are seriously
wrong on prophecy. They ignore God’s unconditional promises to national Israel,
replace them with themselves, and call themselves “spiritual Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-56546236430267980852023-10-30T07:20:00.000-07:002023-10-30T07:20:12.202-07:00ARGUMENTS AGAINST SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARGUMENTS
AGINST<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">russkellyphd@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">October
30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">TABLE
OF CONTENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. “BEAR THE
INIQUITY” MEANS “TOB BEAR THE PUNISHMENT, OR PENALTY, OF UNATDONED SIN. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. FOR
PRIESTS, “BEAR THE INIQUITY” MEANS TO BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY AND MINISTRY OF
REMOVING SIN THROUGH BLOOD SACRIFICES.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SACRIFICIAL BLOOD WASHES AWAY SINS, PLUS MUCH
MORE. IT DOES NOT DEFILE. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS MOST HOLY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>IDENTICAL RITUALS CANNOT PERFORM OPPOSITE
FUNCTIONS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. WILLFUL
SINS AND JUDGES ARE IGNORED IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7. GOD IS
OMNISCIENT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE CENTURIES TO READ BOOKS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8. THE SDA
INTERPRETATION OF DANIEL 8:9-14 MAKES JESUS THE ANTI-CHRIST WHO DEFILES GOD’S
MOST HOLY PLACE. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ATONED SIN NEVER PASSED THE DOORWAY OF THE
SANCTUARY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10. THE
EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND LAND WERE DEFILED BY UNATONED AND UNFORGIVEN SIN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED ON THE
DAY OF ATONEMENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GOD DOES NOT REQUIRE EVERY SIN TO HAVE BEEN
CONFESED IN ORDER TO SAVE. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13. GOD WOULD
NEVER ALLOW SATAN INTO HIS MOST HOLY PLACE.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WILLIAM MILLER WAS A FALSE PROPHET. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ELLEN G WHITE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARGUMEN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">TS
AGINST <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">russkellyphd@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">October
30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since any of
the following biblical arguments would destroy the necessity for Seventh-day
Adventists to exist, a detailed answer to each one of the points below is
hereby requested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148537327"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“BEAR THE INIQUITY” MEANS “TO BEAR THE
PUNISHMENT, OR PENALTY, OF UNATONED SIN. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148537327;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148537327;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The very most
important doctrine of Seventh-day Adventism is that priests and Jesus Christ
carried sins into the sanctuary and defiled it. If “bare the iniquity” does not
mean “carry sins into the sanctuary,” there is no reason for the SDA church to
exist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are two extremely
different meanings for “bear the iniquity” in God’s Word. By far the most
common meaning of “bearing the iniquity,” refers to unatoned and unforgiven sins.
The guilty “bear” the punishment, or penalty, of their own sins and iniquities
and they pay the price for their own sins. In their effort to prove that
priests bear sins into the sanctuary to defile it, Seventh-day Adventists
ignore this definition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Exodus
28:43 and Numbers 18:32, “bare iniquity” cannot possibly mean “carry sins into
the sanctuary.” The penalty for sin was death for ministering priests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num 18:32
[eating the most holy heave offering] And ye shall <u>bear no sin by reason of
it</u>, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: <u>neither shall ye pollute
the holy things</u> of the children of Israel, lest ye die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Numbers 18:32
specifically teaches that priests who correctly eat the heave offering as God
directed “bear no sin by reason of it.” Priests who deviated from God’s
specific instructions were to “die” for “polluting the holy things.” Yet SDAs
teach that priests defile the sanctuary every time they minister the
forgiveness of sins and carry sins into the sanctuary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The following
is a partial listing of biblical texts illustrating “bear the iniquity” in its
primary usage. This list includes both presumptuous willful sins handled by the
judges and sins of omission, ignorance or accident which were ministered by the
priests in the sanctuary. (Lev 5:1, 17; 7:18; 17:16; 19:8; 19:20; 20:17; 22:8,
9; 24:15; Num 5:31; 9:13; 14:33-35; 15:30-31; 30:14-15; Eze 18:20; 23:49; Mic
7:9).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus fell
into this category. Jesus died vicariously (for others) as a sinner and not as
a priest. Jesus died once for all time for all sins (Heb 9:24). Jesus was THE literal
sin-bearer (2 Cor 5:21). And those who want redemption must come to Him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Isa 53:6 All
we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Cor 5:21 For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. Also 1
Cor 5:3; 11:27-30; Gal 1:4; Heb 12:8; 1 Jn 2:2; 3:5; 4:10; Rev 1:5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus died as
a sinner and non-priestly sin-bearer. He washed away <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our sins at the foot of the cross. He did not
carry sins into the Most Holy Place of the universe to defile it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148537691"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2.
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FOR PRIESTS, “BEAR THE INIQUITY”
MEANS TO BEAR THE RESPONSIBILITY AND MINISTRY OF REMOVING SIN VIA BLOOD SACRIFICES.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148537691;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In all of
Seventh-day Adventist theology, its single most-damning doctrine is that
priests and Jesus Himself, literally “bear iniquity” inside of the sanctuary
and defile it. Seventh-day Adventism stands or falls upon its ability to prove
this doctrine from the Word of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This second, far
less common, biblical definition of “bearing the iniquity” only refers to
priests. For priests <u>“bearing iniquity” means bearing the responsibility of
ensuring that sin is properly atoned through their sacrificial ministry.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ex 28:38 And
it [HOLINESS TO THE LORD] shall be upon Aaron's forehead, <u>that Aaron may
bear the iniquity of the holy things</u>, which the children of Israel shall <u>hallow</u>
in all their <u>holy gifts</u>; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that
they may be accepted before the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Contrast
Exodus 28:38 with 28:43: “And they [britches] shall be upon Aaron, and upon his
sons … <u>that they bear not iniquity, and die </u>…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is obvious
that Exodus 28:38 and 28:43 reflect the two very different definitions for
“bearing iniquity.” This fact must be taken into consideration by Seventh-day
Adventists. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev 10:17
Wherefore have ye not eaten <u>the sin offering</u> in the holy place, seeing <u>it
is most holy</u>, and God hath given it you to <u>bear the iniquity</u> of the
congregation, to make atonement for them before the LORD?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num 18:1 Thou
and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall <u>bear the iniquity</u> of
the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your
priesthood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num 18:2 … but
thou and thy sons with thee shall <u>minister</u> before the tabernacle of
witness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Commenting on
Numbers 18, the <i>Matthew Henry Commentary</i> says, “That both the priests
and Levites should <u>bear the iniquity</u> of the sanctuary; <u>that is, if
the sanctuary were profaned by the intrusion of strangers, or persons in their
uncleanness</u>, the blame should lie upon the Levites and priests, who ought
to have kept them off. Though the sinner that thrust in presumptuously should
die in his iniquity, yet his blood should be required at the hands of the
watchmen.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matthew Henry</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
continues, Or, it may be taken more generally: "If any of the duties or
offices of the sanctuary be neglected, if any service be not done in its season
or not according to the law, if anything be lost or misplaced in the removal of
the sanctuary, you shall be <u>accountable</u> for it, and answer it at your
peril." … “That the priests should themselves <u>bear the iniqu</u>ity of
the priesthood; that is<u>, if they either neglected any part of their work or <b>permitted
any other persons to invad</b>e</u> their office, and take their work out of
their hands, they should bear the <u>blame</u> of it.” “That both priests and
Levites must carefully watch against the profanation of sacred things.” Nothing
is said about literally carrying sin into the sanctuary to defile it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventists justify their very existence by their one-of-a-kind interpretation
that priests literally “bear sins” into the sanctuary and defile it with atoned
sins of believers (placed there by Jesus Himself).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, whenever
the phrase, “bear the iniquity” refers to priests, the correct lesser
interpretation of “sin bearer” is “one <u>who has the responsibility, or
ministry, of taking away sin </u>via blood sacrifices.” The sacrifice itself is
the real “sin bearer” of the first definition, not the priests (Heb 9:24; 2 Cor
5:21). It is the priests’ responsibility to ensure that the sacrifice was
ministered correctly!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148537823"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148537823;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SACRIFICIAL
BLOOD WASHES AWAY SINS, PLUS MUCH MORE. IT DOESS NOT DEFILE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148537823;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
the Old Testament<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Exodus
12:13, God taught Israel that the blood of an innocent sacrifice would cause
Him to “<u>pass over sin</u>.” In Leviticus the priests’ daily ministry insured
that the sacrificial ritual procedure was followed exactly as God had
instructed. At the moment a sacrifice for a minor sin of ignorance, omission or
accidental sin died at the entrance of the sanctuary --- “the priest shall make
an <u>atonement </u>for them, and it shall be <u>forgiven</u>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Total
forgiveness was granted the moment the sacrifice died. This same formula is
found in Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18; 6:7; 19:22 and Num
15:25, 28. In Lev 8:15 sacrificial blood had three functions: it purified and
sanctified the altar and made reconciliation upon it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
the New Testament<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The following New
Testament texts include many other functions performed by the sacrificial blood
of Jesus Christ. There is no hint that the same blood also transferred atoned sins
of the forgiven beyond the foot of the cross into God’s Most Holy Place (as
Seventh-day Adventism teaches).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Acts 20:28 Christ has “<u>purchased</u>” believers with “His own blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rom 3:25 “through faith in the blood to declare his righteousness for
the <u>remission</u> of sins that are past”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rom 5:9 “being now <u>justified</u> by his blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>1 Cor 6:11 “And such were some of you: but ye are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>washed</u>, but ye are <u>sanctified</u>,
but ye are <u>justified</u> in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of
our God.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">E.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1
Cor 11:25 “the <u>new testament</u> in my blood”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eph 1:7 “In whom we have r<u>edemption</u>
through his blood, <u>the forgiveness of sins</u>, according to the riches of
his grace.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Col 1:14 “In whom we have <u>redemption</u>
through his blood, even the <u>forgiveness</u> of sins.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">H.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heb
9:14 “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without spot to God, <u>purge your conscience </u>from dead
works to serve the living God?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heb 9:22 “without shedding of blood
is no <u>remission.</u>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Peter 1:18 “Forasmuch as ye know
that ye were not <u>redeemed</u> with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Peter 1:19 “But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb <u>without blemish and without spot.”</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">L.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, who is
the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the
kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and <u>washed </u>us from our sins
in his own blood.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Beyond all of
the good things sacrificial blood accomplishes, there is no biblical text which
teaches that Christ’s blood also defiles the heavenly sanctuary. In view of the
preceding texts (and many others), the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine that
Jesus’ blood defiled (and is still defiling) the heavenly sanctuary with the
atoned sins of believers is horrendous. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>THE
ENTIRE SANCTUARY TEACHES THE GLORIOUS MOST HOLINESS OF GOD. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By teaching
that the earthly and, especially, the heavenly sanctuaries were defiled,
Seventh-day Adventists make a mockery of the very holiness of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Exodus 28:38,
with HOLINESS TO THE LORD on his forehead, Aaron was to “<u>bear the iniquity</u>
of the holy things which the children of Israel shall <u>hallow</u> in all
their <u>holy gifts</u>. In 28:41, the priests were anointed, consecrated and
sanctified to minister <u>to God</u>. Again, In Exodus 29:1 God said the priests
were “hallowed to minister <u>unto me</u>” “at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.” The priests primarily ministered in all of their holiness “to
God, to me” and not to the people. They were reconciling the sinful people to
God --- not defiling God’s Most Holy Place. And they were not dong so with
blood which defiled the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Exodus 29:37,
after 7 days of ritual to purify and sanctify the altar, God said the altar “shall
be an altar <u>most holy</u>: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.” Lev
6:18 and 6:26 repeat this. This is the very opposite of SDA theology which
teaches that the atoned sins of believers defile the sanctuary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Exodus 29:42-44
God said “at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: I
will meet you, to speak there unto thee. And there I will meet with the
children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be <u>sanctified by my glory</u>. And
I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will
sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister <u>to me</u> in the priest's
office.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since God’s
Most Holy Place, is WHERE HE IS, the doorway of the tabernacle where the
sacrifice died, is equally Most Holy --- it is not a place where defilement
begins. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All offerings
unto God became most holy and could only be offered by most holy priests. See
Lev 6:25; 10:17 and Num 18:8-9. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Leviticus
16:13 the High Priest on the Day of Atonement would die if the incense did not
obscure the mercy seat. In Isaiah 6:3-5, while in the temple, the prophet,
Isaiah, was greatly shaken while seeing the smoke of God’s Presence. And, in
Second Thessalonians 2:8 the wicked will be destroyed “with the brightness of [Christ’s]
coming.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Such is the
awesome holiness of God! Yet, in their attempt to prove that the sanctuary can
be defiled by atoned sin, Seventh-day Adventists totally ignore the extreme
holiness of the sanctuary. When the sacrifice died as a sin offering at the
entrance of the sanctuary, the payment for the confessed sin was complete and
the sin itself was exterminated. The ministering “most holy” priest collected
the “most holy” blood of the now “most holy” sin offering and either placed it
on the “most holy” altar or ate portions of the “most holy” sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">No Christian
should teach that the blood of Christ defiles! It is pure blasphemy to blame
Christ’s blood for defiling God’s throne.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148569497"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5.
IDENTICAL RITUALS CANNOT PERFORM OPPOSITE FUNCTIONS. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569497;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569497;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventists teach that the same blood of Jesus which daily washes away sin also daily
defiles the Most Holy Place of the universe (G421).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Throughout the
year ordinary believers, Levites and priests confessed their revealed sins of omission,
ignorance and accidental sins before the ministering priests at the door of the
sanctuary. On the Day of Atonement, at the end of the religious year, residual (remaining)
unconfessed sins of omission of the entire congregation were all confessed at
one time as a nation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Both rituals were
identical!!! Yet SDAs teach that the daily sacrifices defiled the sanctuary
while the yearly sacrifices cleansed it. This is contrary to common sense. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. WILLFUL
SINS AND JUDGES ARE IGNORED IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST THEOLOGY.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ps 89:14
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go
before thy face.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SDAs say very
little about Israel’s judges and judicial system which ministered the vast
majority of Israel’s sins --- presumptuous willful sins. Since priests only
ministered minor sins of omission, ignorance or accidental sins, only those
sins would be atoned and recorded in God’s books. See Leviticus 4:2, 13, 22,
27; 5:15, 18 and Num 15:27-29 for sins of ignorance, omission and accident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Deliberate sins
were expiated, eliminated or paid for by punishment and required no priestly
atonement. They were very much the majority of sins. Yet there is no great
discussion of these in SDA theology. See Exodus 21:24; 22:18, 20; 30:21; 31:14;
Leviticus 7:21, 25-27; 10 all; 18 all; 20 all; 24:16, 20 and Deut 19:21. The
guilty persons “bore their own iniquity. Also, see Numbers 5:31; 30:15; Ezekiel
18:20. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There never has
been sacrifices which man can provide for willful sin. The judicial system
punished willful sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:26 “For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
presumptuous sinner was, and still is, at the mercy of God, the judge to punish
that sin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:28 “But
a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hebrews who
confessed their presumptuous sins to the judges were not prescribed sacrifices;
instead, they were punished as the judges determined. Punished sins do not
require the double payment of a sacrifice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 12:6 For
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 12:7 If ye
endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom
the father chasteneth not?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 12:8 But
if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards,
and not sons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148538253"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7.
GOD IS OMNISCIENT AND DOES NOT REQUIRE CENTURIES TO READ BOOKS. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148538253;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Isa 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my
pleasure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God does not
require hundreds of years to read books in heaven. <span style="background: white; color: #111111;">God is perfect in knowledge (Job 37:16). His understanding is
infinite (Ps 139:6; 147:5; Isa 55:8-9; Rom 11:39). God “knows all things” </span><strong><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(John 21:17; 1
John 3:20). <o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When discussing Christ’s need to read books in heaven,
Seventh-day Adventists simply ignore the above texts. These texts destroy the
SDA teaching that Jesus cannot return until He completes reading books in
heaven to determine whom to save. Otherwise, SDAs teach that God is Omniscient.
While elaborating on prophecy in great detail, this one fact makes the SDA
doctrine of Christ reading books in heaven totally unnecessary.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148538308"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8.
THE SDA INTERPRETATION OF DANIEL 8:9-14 MAKES JESUS THE LITTLE-HORN ANTI-CHRIST
WHO DEFILES GOD’S MOST HOLY PLACE. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148538308;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although Ellen
G. White and SDAs avoid interpreting Daniel 8:9-14 as a unit, they do make the
following clear: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Daniel 8:9-10 WHO: pagan Rome is the little
horn Antichrist. HOW: pagan Rome defiled the earthly sanctuary in A.D. 70 by
destroying it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Daniel 8:11-12 WHO: papal Rome is the little
horn Antichrist. HOW: papal Rome defiled the sanctuary by replacing it with the
confessional. For further information on pagan and papal Rome, see <i>The
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary,</i> “little horn” and “abomination,”
1960. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Daniel 8:13-14 WHO: Seventh-day Adventists
depict Jesus Christ as the great hero. HOW: Jesus began cleansing the heavenly
sanctuary in 1844.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Daniel 8:13-14 WHO: Jesus Himself is the worst
little horn Antichrist. HOW: Jesus has been (and is still continually) defiling
the sanctuary in heaven by placing the atoned sins of the saints there. Therefore,
Jesus is the worst of the three little horn powers seen in Daniel 8:9-14. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC421
“As anciently the sins of the people were by faith placed upon the sin offering
and through its blood transferred in figure, to the earthly sanctuary, so in
the new covenant the sins of the repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and <u>transferred
in fact to the heavenly sanctuary.</u>”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shocking,
but absolutely true, when SDAs teach that Jesus carried (and is still carrying)
atoned sins into the heavenly sanctuary, they inadvertently make Jesus the Anti-Christ
of Daniel 8. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ATONED SIN NEVER PASSED THE DOORWAY OF THE
SANCTUARY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventist doctrine ignores the extreme holiness of the earthly sanctuary and,
especially, the heavenly sanctuary. While the following examples were forbidden
and carried severe punishments, they faintly compare to teaching that priests
literally carried sin into the sanctuary to defile it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eating leaven during Passover resulted in
death (Ex 12:19; 34:25; Lev 10:12). If eating leaven was punished by death, how
much worse would be the punishment of carrying sin into the sanctuary to defile
it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leaven, a symbol of sin, was not to enter
the sanctuary (Lev 2:11). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can actual
sin enter the sanctuary while a symbol of sin cannot? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Non-Levites who entered the holy areas of
the sanctuary were put to death (Lev 22:3). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unclean priests were put to death (Lev
23:17; Ex 28:43; Num 18:32). This makes no sense if priests routinely carried
sin into the sanctuary through sacrificial blood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All of the sacrifices and offerings were
“most holy” (Lev 6:17, 25; 7:1; Num 18:7-10). Offerings could not be “most
holy” if they were carrying sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These facts
all contradict the SDA interpretation of atoned sin defiling the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148569666"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10.
THE EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND LAND WERE DEFILED BY UNATONED AND UNFORGIVEN SIN.<a name="n"></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">QUESTION:
How was the sanctuary defiled?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ANSWER:
God does not allow His heavenly sanctuary to be defiled. The earthly sanctuary
was defiled by unatoned sins and by merely being located “in the midst” of a
sinful people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev
15:31, those who remain unclean die “<u>when they defile my tabernacle that is
among them</u>.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev
16:16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in
all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, <u>that
remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.<o:p></o:p></u></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev
16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month,
on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at
all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among
you:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev
16:30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num
5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper,
and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num
5:3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them;
that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num
19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth
not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD …<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num
35:34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell:
for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569666;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Day of
Atonement was a yearly residual cleansing of “that which remains,” in other
words, unatoned sins (Lev 16:16). These were the left-over accidental, unintentional
sins of omission which had not been confessed and atoned through the daily
sacrifices of the year. They did not include the great majority of presumptive
sins nor previously confessed and atoned sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Commenting on
Numbers 18:1-5, <i>The Wycliffe Bible Commentary</i> says, “Since there was
always the possibility of the sanctuary's being defiled by someone unwittingly,
the holy place itself and the altar had to be cleansed (Ex 29:36-37; Lev
16:20).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventists stand alone on the reason they give for the yearly cleansing of the
sanctuary --- to remove the previously atoned sins of the saints which had
defiled it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From my book, <i>Exposing
Seventh-day Adventism</i>, page 64: <i>Unger’s Bible Dictionary, Day of
Atonement</i>, says, “Even with the most scrupulous observance of the
prescribed ordinances, many sins and defilements would still remain
unacknowledged and, therefore, without expiation. This want was met by a
yearly, general and perfect expiation of all the sins and uncleanness that had
remained un-atoned for and uncleaned in the course of the year (Lev 16:33).” <i>The
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</i> adds “The atonement takes place
for the sanctuary which has been defiled by the contamination of the
Israelites.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Israel was to “afflict your souls” for residual
unintentional and accidental sin which had not been confessed already (Lev 16:29,
31; 23:27, 32; 29:7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Lev 20:3, those who give their children to
Molech defile God’s sanctuary and holy name. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Num 19:20 the man that shall be unclean
and not purify himself shall be cut off from among the congregation, <u>because
he hath defiled the sanctuary</u> of the LORD.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In Numbers 35:34, shedding innocent blood
defiles God’s land. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">E.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Referring to the Christian’s body, 1 Cor
3:17 says the believer’s body is the temple of God and God will destroy any man
who defiles it. <u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As long as
Seventh-day Adventists do not accept this truth, they cannot understand how and
why the sanctuary was defiled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148569789"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE ENTIRE SANCTUARY WAS CLEANSED ON
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC421
“For eighteen centuries the work of ministration continued in the first
apartment of the sanctuary.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
biblical truth is that, if one part of the sanctuary became defiled, all of it would
be defiled. For example, desecration of the great altar by Antiochus Epiphanes
IV in 168 B. C. required the entire sanctuary to be cleansed in 165 B. C. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569789;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev 16:18 And
he shall go out unto <u>the altar that is before the LORD</u>, and make an atonement
for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the
goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev 16:20 And <u>when
he hath made an end </u>of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of
the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lev 16:33 “And
he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an
atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he
shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the
congregation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except for a brief reference in <i>The Great
Controversy</i>, pages 418-419, SDAs totally ignore the biblical fact that defiling
the Most Holy Place with the atoned sins of believers would also defile the
entire sanctuary --- including the Holy Place where Jesus supposedly ministered
for 1800+ years. Seventh-day Adventists place Jesus’ ministry inside a defiled
Holy Place before entering the even-more defiled Most Holy Place. It is wrong
to stress the necessary cleansing of the Most Holy Place and ignore the
remainder of the sanctuary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12. GOD DOES
NOT REQUIRE EVERY SIN TO BE CONFESSED IN ORDER TO SAVE. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 1:9 “If
we confess our [known] sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our [known] sins,
and to cleanse us from all [other] unrighteousness.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
Almost nobody dies immediately after confessing sins. Instead, most die with
unconfessed sins. Roman Catholics explain minor sins after using the
confessional with Purgatory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However, God
knows the future and our hearts. In First John 1:9, God has promised believers
that He will go beyond forgiving known sins and “cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Most
Seventh-day Adventists do not realize that Ellen G. White taught that only
believers who have died with every sin confessed will be saved. In <i>The Great
Controversy</i>, <i>Facing Life’s Record</i>, details this requirement. The
horrific quotations below are softened among many great-sounding statements of
hope. However, the obvious conclusion is that she believes very few will be
saved --- not even Seventh-day Adventists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC483: “Every name is mentioned, every case closely investigated.
Names are accepted, names rejected. When any have sins remaining upon the books
of record, unrepented of and unforgiven, their names will be blotted out of the
book of life, and the record of their good deeds will be erased from the book
of God's remembrance.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC484: “Jesus does
not excuse their sins, but shows their penitence and faith.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC486: “Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not
be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness
against the sinner in the day of God.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC487: … “Words once spoken, deeds once done, can never be
recalled. … Our acts, our words, even our most secret motives, all have their
weight in deciding our destiny for weal or woe. Though they may be forgotten by
us, they will bear their testimony to justify or condemn.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One cannot
imagine the impact the above words will have upon the average Seventh-day
Adventist who reads them for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148569865"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13.
GOD WOULD NEVER ALLOW SATAN INTO HIS MOST HOLY PLACE.<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569865;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569865;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet Ellen G.
White taught that Satan is alongside Jesus in the Most Holy Place accusing
believers while Jesus is examining the books of heaven. Satan is not
omni-present like God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gc484 “While
Jesus is pleading for the subjects of His grace, Satan accuses them before God
as transgressors.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk148569963"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WILLIAM MILLER WAS A FALSE PROPHET. <o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569963;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk148569963;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Miller taught
that Daniel 8:14 predicted:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus would return between 1843-1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">B. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The 2300 days were 2300 years ending in
1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">C. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The sanctuary was earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">D. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Earth would be destroyed by fire in 1843 or
1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">E. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Churches which disagreed with him (Babylon)
fell in the summer of 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventists teach that William Miller (1) was a true prophet, (2) his “judgment”
message from Revelation 14:7 referred to their explanation of the investigative
judgment and (3) that God guided William Miller supernaturally in his doctrine.
Ellen G. White devoted five chapters to Miller in <i>The Great Controversy</i>
in defense of him and his prophecies (chapters 18-22).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Because of
their refusal to reject Miller and return to their former churches (as Miller
did), their resulting SDA theology is among the very worst among Christianity.
A total rejection of both William Miller and Ellen G. White would be required
for Seventh-day Adventism to be accepted as a legitimate Christian
denomination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ELLEN G WHITE WAS A FALSE PROPHET WHO
FOLLOWED A FALSE PROPHET.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This author
(Russell E Kelly) has catalogued and commented on hundreds of EGW quotes from her
most important book, <i>The Great Controversy</i>. Although the first 316 of
694 pages contain many admitted quotations from historians, she claims “Through
the illumination of the Holy Spirit, the scenes of the long-continued conflict
between good and evil have been opened to the writer of these pages” (x). “I
have been bidden to make known to others that which has been revealed” (xi).
Copies of the hundreds of EGW errors from GC will be sent free via email upon
request. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At least until
the final disappointment of October 22, 1844, Ellen G. White was a devote
disciple of the famous false prophet, William Miller. Living through Miller’s
height of popularity, she taught the same false signs of the soon second coming
of Christ to earth in 1844. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellen G. White
was wrong on almost every doctrine she endorsed. By accepting her writings as
inspired, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is locked into a false theology and
cannot extricate itself without denying its acceptance of Ellen G. White as a
prophetess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Russell Earl
Kelly, PHD<br />
1211 Bluefield Ave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-46796978380422854062023-08-26T08:28:00.003-07:002023-09-16T12:20:00.083-07:00WHO CHANGED THE SABBATH?<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who
Changed the Sabbath, Russell Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God
changed it eight (8) times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seventh-day
Adventists changed it eighteen (18) times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
original article appeared in <i>Proclamation Magazine</i>, Spring 2017, Vol 18,
Issue 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Edited
September 16, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventism
claims—indeed, Ellen White declared in her book <i>The Great Controversy</i>—that
the pope of Rome changed the seventh-day Sabbath to Sunday. This claim,
however, is a straw-man argument. In reality, both God and the Seventh-day
Adventist Church have changed His Sabbath Law many times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE
ORIGINAL CREATION SABBATH:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
original Sabbath of creation was not a 24-hour day of the week. After God had
finished creating various kinds of life, He rested from His creation and only
inter-species’ changes have since occurred. God is still resting from His
original creation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Thus,
the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh
day God completed His work which he had done, and He rested on the seventh day
from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created
and made. This is the account of the heavens and earth when they were created,
in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven” (Genesis 2:1-3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GOD
CHANGED THE SABBATH EIGHT TIMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Exodus 16:23-29. God Himself made the 1st
change of His creation Sabbath. While the original blessed Sabbath was an
indefinite time, without the “evening” and “morning” formula defining its
boundaries, the Bible specifically states that the first six (6) days all had
boundaries of “evening and morning” (Gen. 1:5-31). However, the inspired word
does not state this formula for the seventh day—an omission which demands the
question, “Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is an obvious break between Genesis 1:31 and 2:1. The word “day” in Genesis 2:2
refers to the seventh day, but in 2:4 the word “day” does not refer to a
24-hour period. Adventists claim that “days preceded by numbers are always
24-hour days.” Nowhere, however, is this principle confirmed as fact in
Scripture. Adventists do not interpret the one-day Day of Atonement as a
24-hour day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
thousands of years, there is no mention of a Sabbath-day rest between creation
week and Exodus 16. Even if one had been instituted, it had been lost to
history. In Exodus God taught national Israel which day of the week was the
Sabbath and no corporate worship was involved. God changed the Sabbath from an
indefinite time period to a 24-hour day of the week only for national Israel to
refrain from work and remain in their family tents. No corporate worship was
involved.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:23 And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, <u>To
morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath </u>unto the LORD: bake that which ye
will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over
lay up for you to be kept until the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
1624 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink,
neither was there any worm therein.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:25 And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD:
to day ye shall not find it in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but <u>on the seventh day, which is the
sabbath</u>, in it there shall be none.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:27 And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the
seventh day for to gather, and they found none.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:28 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments
and my laws?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
16:29 See, for that <u>the LORD hath given you the sabbath,</u> therefore he
giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his
place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.
Exodus 20:8-10. God changed the Sabbath a
2nd time and made the 24-hour day a memorial of His creation rest only for
national Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
Mount Sinai, God changed the Sabbath from merely a family rest day in tents to
a “holy rest” day for people and animals within Israel’s gates. He made the
24-hour day a memorial of His timeless creation rest. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Exodus
20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus
20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus
20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus
20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath
day, and hallowed it.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.
Exodus 23:32/Deuteronomy 7:2. God
changed the Sabbath a 3rd time when He commanded Israel not to share its
covenant (including the Sabbath) with other nations. This removed any option they previously had to
share it beyond their own gates.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God’s
law to Israel prohibited the Hebrews from sharing their covenant with the Gentiles.
Moreover, they were to show them no mercy in war. This prohibition was not
removed until Jesus inaugurated the new covenant in Matthew 28:19-20.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus
23:32: “You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Deuteronomy
7:2: And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them,
then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and
show no favor to them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.
Exodus 31:15. God changed the Sabbath a
4th time when He added the death penalty for Israelites who violated the
Sabbath. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Exodus
31:15 establishes the judgment of death for Sabbath-breaking. This penalty is
part of Sabbath law originating with the Ten Commandments. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For
six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete
rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely
be put to death” (Exodus 31:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. Exodus 31:17. God changed the Sabbath a 5th time when He
made the Sabbath a “sign” of national Israel’s unique covenant relationship.
Others were excluded.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“It
is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the LORD
made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was
refreshed.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Sabbath for Israel is very clear in Exodus 16:23; 20:2, 8-11; 31:13-17, and in
Deuteronomy 5:1-3, 12-15. It cannot be an eternal moral principle unless it is
discernible by all mankind through nature and conscience as demonstrated in
Romans 2:14. In fact, the weekly seventh-day Sabbath was not observed by Gentiles
and only came via special revelation to national Israel (see Rom. 1:18-20;
2:14-16; Jn. 1:9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.
Leviticus 23; Numbers 28-29. God changed the sabbath a 6<sup>th</sup> time when
He lessened the importance of the 7<sup>th</sup> day by creating more important
Sabbaths requiring many more sacrifices. Common sense reveals that more
important Sabbaths required more sacrifices. See especially the Day of
Atonement requirements in Numbers 29:12-38. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Weekly:
2 additional lambs (Nm 28:9-10); new
moon additional 2 bulls, 1 ram, 7 lambs, 1 goat (Num 28:11-15); Passover: additional
14 bulls, 7 rams, 49 lambs, 7 goats (Num 28:16-22); Feast of Weeks: see Num
28:26-31; Day of Atonement: see Num 29:1-11; Feast of Booths: additional 70
bulls, 15 rams, 105 lambs, 7 goats (Num 29:12-38).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15. God changed the
Sabbath a 7th time when He made the Sabbath a memorial of rest from Egyptian
slavery. This change of the Ten Commandments is ignored by almost all. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You
shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your
God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore,
the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day” (Deut 5:12-15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. Romans 3:21-28. God Himself changed the Sabbath an 8th time
when He ended the letter of the Law for Hebrews at Calvary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of God;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just,
and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by
the law of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds
of the law.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every
jot and title of the whole Law ended when Christ fulfilled the righteous
requirements of the Law (Rom 3:21-27 compare Matt 5:17-20). Romans 10:4 says
“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that
believeth.” Galatians 3:19 says “the law was added because of transgressions
until the seed should come.” Galatians 3:25 says “the law was our schoolmaster
to bring us to Christ.” Galatians 3:26 says “after that faith is come, we are
no longer under a schoolmaster.” In Ephesians 2:15 God reconciled Jews and
Gentiles by changing the Law. “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even
the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of
twain one new man, so making peace.” Colossians 2:14 adds “Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross.” Matthew 27:57 records “The
veil in the temple ripped from top to bottom.” Finally, Romans 8:2 says “For
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of
sin and death.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…………………………………………………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS CHANGED THE SABBATH EIGHTEEN TIMES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.
Exodus 23:32/Deuteronomy 7:2. Seventh-day Adventists change God’s law by
teaching that the Sabbath should be observed by all nations. In Exodus 23:32
and Deuteronomy 7:2, God commanded Israel not to share its covenant with other
nations. See “God changed the Sabbath
-3.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.
Exodus 31:15. Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath a 2nd time by refusing
to obey God and put Sabbath-breakers to death in their own jurisdiction. Yet no
attempt has ever been made to enforce this law in SDA communities. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For
six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of
complete rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall
surely be put to death” (Exodus 31:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Exodus 31:17. Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath a
3rd time by including themselves and other non-Israelites under God’s
guidelines for Sabbath-keeping. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Exodus 31:17, God clearly limited Sabbath-keeping to national Israel as a
unique covenant sign only for Israel. Contrary to what Adventism teaches, the
Sabbath is never called a “seal.” Ignoring Exodus 31:13-17, Seventh-day
Adventists (not God) have changed the Sabbath from a unique cultic covenant
sign only for national Israel into an eternal, moral principle required for all
mankind. This change is serious; the Sabbath cannot be both a sign unique to
Israel and also a requirement for all mankind. See “God changed the Sabbath-5.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. Leviticus 23; Numbers 19. Seventh-day
Adventists change the Sabbath a 4<sup>th</sup> time when they ignore the far more
important seasonal sabbaths which require far more animal sacrifices. See “God
changed the Sabbath -6.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.
Deuteronomy 5:12-16. Seventh-day
Adventists change the Sabbath a 5th time when they fail to adopt God’s new
reason for Sabbath rest and change of the Ten Commandments. It is now because
of rest from Egyptian slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
“minor” point lessens the emphasis of Exodus 20 on the Sabbath as a memorial of
creation. See “God changed the Sabbath
-7.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. Isaiah 66:23. Seventh-day Adventists change
the Sabbath a 6th time with their interpretation of Isaiah 66:23. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And
it shall be from new moon to new moon and from sabbath to sabbath, all mankind
will come to bow down before Me,” says the LORD (Isaiah 66:23).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
teaching that Isaiah 66:23 proves that the weekly Sabbath will be kept
throughout eternity, Seventh-day Adventists err by not teaching the same about
the new moon Sabbaths. Furthermore, they ignore the context of Isaiah 66 which
is specifically addressing God’s fulfillment of His promises to national Israel
during Messiah’s future literal reign on earth. Since SDAs teach that there
will be no literal Messianic reign on earth, the text does not fit into their
last-day-events scenario of Satan on a desolate planet.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Furthermore,
the prepositions “from” and “to” in 66:23 define a range of time. For example,
if we say we will be out of town from Saturday to next Saturday, we mean we
will be gone for at least a week. “From new moon to new moon” and “from sabbath
to sabbath” means “every day of the lunar month” and “every day of the week”.
If (as Adventists insist) 66:23 proves that the weekly Sabbath will be observed
throughout eternity, it logically must also prove that the monthly new moon
Sabbaths will also be kept—but Adventists do not teach the continuation of the
new moon feasts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. Matthew 5:17-20. Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath a 7th
time with their interpretation of Matthew 5:17-19. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventists
cite Matthew 5:17-19 to teach that the Ten Commandments are in force as a
covenant for all mankind; therefore, they argue, so is the Sabbath day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do
not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to
abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass
away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is
accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and
teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven;
but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of
heaven” (Mt 5:17-20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using
Matthew 5:17-19 to support weekly Sabbath observance, however, changes the
meaning of God’s word and is self-defeating. The texts literally teach that we
are either under all of the 615 commandments of the Law or none of them. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
fact, verses 20-48 include examples from the whole law of commandments (verses
21-30), judgments (verses 31-42) and statutes (verses 43-47), not simply the
Decalogue. In other words, the entire law stands or is fulfilled as a whole,
and God determines when “all is accomplished.” Therefore, verses 17-19 cannot
be used to argue the continuation of the Sabbath. Adventism admits that “the
ceremonial law” ended at the cross, but they insist that this passage in
Matthew refers specifically to the Ten Commandments, thus twisting the meaning
of the words Jesus spoke.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.
Matthew 19:16-21. Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath an 8<sup>th</sup> time
when they use Matthew 19:16-21 to prove that Sabbath-keeping is essential for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing
shall I do, that I may have eternal life?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but
one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt
not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth
up: what lack I yet?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
encounter between Jesus and the rich young ruler occurred before Calvary when
Jews were under the full jurisdiction of the Mosaic Law. Although Jesus did not
mention the Sabbath, obedience to the entire Mosaic Law, not merely to the Ten
Commandments, is in view here. Jesus’ answer was to test whether of not the
rich young ruler loved God. Proof that one was a true Hebrew was exhibited by
obedience to all of the law and not merely the Sabbath.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
19:21 When the rich young ruler said he kept all the laws, Jesus said unto him,
“If thou wilt be perfect , go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor,
and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus
was saying to this young man that even careful law-keeping [including
Sabbath-keeping] could not qualify him to enter into life. Jesus highlighted
his lie. Unless he was willing to give up what he loved the most and follow
Jesus, he really did not love God or man. This passage is not teaching that
keeping the Sabbath is an implicit salvation requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is also important to note that Jesus commanded His Jewish disciples, before
Calvary, to obey the Mosaic law in Matthew 5:23-24 and 8:4. However, He never
commanded Gentiles whom He had healed to observe the Mosaic law or the Sabbath.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.
Matthew 22:36-40. Seventh-day Adventists
change the Sabbath commandment a 9<sup>th</sup> time when they make the Ten
Commandments more important than God’s other commandments. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
22:36 Master, <u>which is the great commandment in the law</u>?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt <u>love</u> the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. (Deuteronomy 6:5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
22:38 This is the first and great commandment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt <u>love</u> thy neighbour as
thyself. (Lev 19:18)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt
22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is ext<a name="b"></a>remely important to note that Jesus did not quote the Ten
Commandments here; instead, He quoted Leviticus 19:18 and Deuteronomy 6:5. When
referring to “Law,” Jesus included both the ceremonial worship statutes and the
civil judicial judgments. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unlike
Seventh-day Adventists, no Hebrew subdivided the Mosaic Law into three
divisions (Ten Commandments, ceremonial worship ordinances and civil judicial judgments)
for the purpose of discarding one or both of the non-Ten Commandment
categories. The letter of the Law was an indivisible whole. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ironically,
the Adventists have made Saturday one of their busiest days of the week. In
addition, their Sabbath rest which forbids “secular work” (medical work is
allowed) forces non-Adventists to work harder to take up their slack.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.
Matthew 24:20. Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath law
a 10th time with their interpretation of Matthew 24:20 by removing it from its prophetic
biblical context.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“But
pray that your flight will not be in the winter, or on a Sabbath.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventists
make end-time prophecy all about themselves being able to stand before God
without a mediator. National Israel is not part of SDA eschatology.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However,
this passage is a prophecy about the future destruction of Jerusalem. The
Sabbath is prominent because last-day Hebrews will place themselves back under
all of the 615 commandments of the Law. None will be able to flee easily
because of their own imposed Sabbath restrictions. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus
was not making a statement about a Sabbath requirement that is universal.
Rather, Jesus was specifically referring to the earthly city of Jerusalem and
saying that, if “the abomination of desolation” (v. 15) came on Sabbath, the
gates would be locked, and people would be unable to flee. Since Adventists
teach that their own church is now the true spiritual Israel, the context of
the Jerusalem temple in Matthew 24 is out of sinc with their theology.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.
Mark 2:27-28. Seventh-day Adventist
change the Sabbath an 11<sup>th</sup> time when they interpret Mark 2:27-28 (Matthew
12:8) as applying to all mankind. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The
Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. So, the Son of Man is
Lord even of the Sabbath” (Mk 2:27-28).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the
sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six
days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God
had previously given the Sabbath solely to national Israel as its special old
covenant sign (Exodus 31:13-17; Ezekiel 20:12, 20) and commanded them not to
share their covenant (Ex 23:32; Deut 7:2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
context, the “man” of Mark 2:27-28 is the Hebrew man under the jurisdiction of
the Mosaic Law. The seventh-day Sabbath was made for the Hebrew man who is
under the Sabbath-keeping law (Ex 20:1-2; 31:17; Deut 5:1). Again, as discussed earlier, it is impossible
for the Sabbath day to be, at the same time, “for all mankind” and also to be a
unique sign of the God’s old covenant solely with national Israel as stated in
Exodus 31:13-17. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12.
Acts 13:42-44. Seventh-day Adventists
change the Sabbath a 12<sup>th</sup> time when they cite Acts 13:42-44 to prove
that Paul always observed the Sabbath.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
did not first enter Jewish synagogues because he carefully observed the Sabbath
commandment for Hebrews. Instead, as a Jewish rabbi, Paul took advantage of the
open pulpit afforded Jewish rabbis. In addition to Paul’s burden for his own,
his decision was common sense. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And
by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses” (Acts 13:39).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventists
quote verses 42-44 to prove that Paul did not change the worship day when only
Gentiles asked him to continue. Those were God-fearing Gentiles who had already
accepted the Sabbath. Being rejected by the Jews, Paul turned to the Gentiles on
other days after Acts 13:46.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
followed his pattern of going first to the Jews in each new city he entered.
Consistently, after the Jews would throw him out of the synagogues, he went to
the Gentiles, and he did not preach to them on Sabbaths exclusively. He
preached every day of the week (Acts 16:5; 17:17; 19:9). It is amazing how
conveniently Adventists forget to point out that all of their Sabbath-day
illustrations involving Paul intended to validate Sabbath sacredness actually
end with Paul’s going to the Gentiles and preaching to them daily. Clearly no
sacred day is in view in any of these accounts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13.
Acts 15:19-20. Seventh-day Adventists
change the Sabbath commandment a 13<sup>th</sup> time when they twist Acts 15
to include Sabbath-keeping.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Acts 15:1-5 Paul was opposed by Christian Pharisees who wanted Gentile<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">converts
to observe all the Mosaic Law, including circumcision and Sabbath-keeping. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
Acts 15:10 Peter rebuked the Christian-Pharisees in Jerusalem, “Now therefore
why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke
which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Peter
was referring to the entire law. Furthermore, Peter had witnessed how God saved
Gentiles by faith alone who had not observed the Mosaic Law (Acts 10) and he
realized that salvation by faith alone—not the law— also saved the Jews. He
knew that the Pharisees’ insistence on circumcision and Sabbath-keeping had
lost its value.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts
15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that <u>we trouble not them</u>, which from
among the Gentiles are turned to God:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts
15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols,
and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James,
the leader of the church in Jerusalem, was still confused at this point in
time. In an unwise compromise, he confirmed that the church in Jerusalem had no
intention of expecting its Gentile converts to observe the Mosaic Law,
including Sabbath-keeping (Acts 15:13-29). In fact, he said such a requirement
would be “unsettling [or subverting] your souls” (v. 24). Finally, these
“necessary things” laid upon Gentile Christians did not include Sabbath-keeping
(Acts 15:20, 28). Seventh-day Adventists twist these texts out of context.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14. Romans 3:21-28. Seventh-day Adventists change
the Sabbath a 14<sup>th</sup> time when they ignore Romans 3:21-28 and retain
the Sabbath for all mankind. See “God changed the Sabbath -8.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. Romans 14:5.
Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath a 15<sup>th</sup> time by
twisting the very obvious Sabbath-day reference in Romans 14:5 into ceremonial
sabbaths. Pauls’ disdain for holy days
after Calvary in Galatians 4:10-11 and Colossians 2:16-17. In Galatians the sequence is clearly from
weekly, to monthly, to seasonal to yearly; in Colossians the sequence is
clearly from seasonal, to monthly to weekly Sabbaths. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“One
person regards one day above another; another regards every day alike. Each
person must be fully convinced in his own mind” (Rom 14:5).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal
4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal
4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col
2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an
holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul
never taught that Sunday replaced the Saturday Sabbath. Instead, he taught that
there were no longer any holy days; all days were equal opportunities to preach
the gospel. In fact, in Galatians 4:10-11 he opposed any holy day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Again,
the Adventist’s challenge to “Sunday-keepers” to find the text where the
Sabbath was changed to Sunday is a straw-man argument. Rather, it was fulfilled
in Christ. He has taken the place of the shadows of sacred days (Col 2:16-17).
Even though the Catholics claim to have changed the Sabbath, it was God who
changed the seventh day from a holy day to merely one more day of which every
one is alike. In honor of the resurrection of Christ, most Christians have
freely chosen to worship on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16.
Revelation 9:4. Seventh-day Adventists
changed the Sabbath a 16<sup>th</sup> time when the change the New Covenant
seal of God from the Holy Spirit to the Sabbath Day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rev
9:4 And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not
the seal of God in their foreheads.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eph
1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel
of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with
that holy Spirit of promise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventtists
teach that the seal in Revelation 9:4 is the Sabbath. In fact, the Sabbath is
never called a “seal” in the Bible. Yet Adventists ignore the two things which
are called seals—circumcision and the Holy Spirit. Circumcision was the seal of
the Abrahamic covenant (Gen. 17), and that seal was replaced for the church by
the indwelling Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13; 2 Cor. 1:22). The Bible clearly teaches
that believers in the Lord Jesus and His finished work are sealed with the Holy
Spirit who is a guarantee of believers’ security.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17.
Seventh-day Adventists change the Sabbath a 17th time when they twist the word
of God to make it appear that the entire early church worshiped on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">History
affirms that only the Eastern Roman Empire worshiped on Saturday for several
centuries. They did so, moreover, because they misunderstood the law and its
lack of application to the church (Acts 21:20-21). However, God’s word affirms
that Gentiles in the East were not required to worship on Saturday because the
law was not required of Gentile believers (Acts 15:28; 21:25; Gal 4:10-11).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventists
do not want others to know that Christians in the Western Roman Empire (before
the Catholic Church existed) very early worshiped on Sunday. Most church
historians except Adventists state this fact correctly. Although Catholics
claim to have changed the Sabbath, they distort the truth that Constantine made
the decision apart from pressure from the Western papacy. Still unbaptized,
Constantine did not institute Sunday as a day off to obey the papacy; rather,
he declared Sunday a legal holiday to bring unity to his empire.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adventists
have often invited discussion by asking, “Who changed the Sabbath?” Their
answer to that question has historically been, “The pope.” We have seen,
however, that Sabbath laws and applications have changed many times. God
Himself expanded and explained Sabbath law throughout the history of Israel.
The Lord Jesus revealed the truth of His superiority over the Sabbath, and the
New Testament writers explained how Jesus Himself fulfilled the law—including
the Sabbath. In the new covenant, the Holy Spirit replaces the law as the rule
of godly living in the lives of believers (2 Cor. 3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Finally,
Adventists themselves have changed the biblical account of Sabbath. They have
twisted the words of the New Testament to retain the Sabbath as a mandate for
Christians. This misuse of Scripture, however, suppresses the truth and places
adherents back under bondage to the law. In the words of Paul:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You
have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you
have fallen from grace (Gal. 5:4).” †<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russell
Kelly, has a Minor in Chinese Mandarin from Yale University (1963), a B.A. from
Southern Adventist University (1972), and a PhD from Covington Theological
Seminary (2000). A former Adventist pastor, he has written on many subjects
including Adventism, tithing and the resurrection. His writings can be found at
internet book stores and www.tithing-russkelly.com. You may email him at russkellyphd@yahoo.com.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-35178715156825643382023-08-01T08:33:00.000-07:002023-08-01T08:33:08.149-07:00ANSWERNG CALVINISM<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ANSWERING
CALVINISM; russkellyphd@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Russell Earl Kelly,
PHD, 706-401-1276, August 1, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rather than
divide this study into categories, I implore the reader to very carefully and
prayerfully digest each text one at a time and catalog it. Forget the jargon
and non-biblical terms of theologians and attempt to discover the will of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CONCERNING
GREEK PARTICIPLES: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In order to be
honest to God’s Word, the tremendous number of participles inspired in God’s
Word must be interpreted aS continuous actions. Because of this common
omission, this author is convinced that salvation is not the result of either
predestination or a one-time profession of faith --- it is conditional.
Ignoring the true meaning behind most “eth” and “es” verbs damages our
spiritual growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I place much
emphasis on Greek participles because God did. Yet these gems of inspiration
have been lost in the true meaning of “eth” and “es” words. As participles, God
intended them to be understood as continuing action and not one-time
professions of faith. This discovery has radically changed my life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…………………………………………………………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">JOHN 6:40 A PEARL
OFGREAT PRICE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:40 And <u>this
is the will of him that sent me</u>, that every one which is <u>continually
seeing</u> (participle) the Son, and <u>is continually believing</u>
(participle) on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the
last day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like scores of other verses with
particiles, this verse teaches conditional salvation. It is the will of the
Father to give to the Son those whom He foreknows will <u>continuously see</u>
(participle) the Son and <u>continuously believe</u> on Him (participle).
Compare John 5:21; Romans 4:24 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Josh 24:15 And
if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, <u>choose you this day whom ye will
serve</u>; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other
side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as
for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The choice to serve God, or not to serve
God, was given to every Israelite. If no choice existed, this would make no
sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ezekiel 33:11…
I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but <u>that the wicked turn from
his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways. </u>…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God pleads with every wicked person to turn
from his evil way and live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matthew 11:28 Come
unto me, <u>all ye that labor and are heavy laden</u>, and I will give you
rest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus offered salvation rest to every
person. He would not have offered it if it were not available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mark 16:16 He
that <u>continuously believeth</u> (participle) and is baptized shall be saved;
but he that <u>continuously believeth not</u> (participle) shall be damned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While initial faith justifies,
continual faith maintains justification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 1:9 That
was the true Light<u>, which lighteth every man</u> that cometh into the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There remains some of the image of God in
fallen man. .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 1:12 But
as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sons of God,
even to them that <u>continuously believe</u> (participle) on his name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The participle means that believers must
continue believing in order to continually have the power to be Sons of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 3:15 That
<u>whosoever continuously believeth</u> (participle) in him should not perish,
but have eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only continual believers are promised
eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 3:16 For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that <u>whosoever
continually believes</u> (participle) in him <u>should</u> not perish, but have
everlasting life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those quoting these verses usually omit the
participle. One must continually believe in order to continually have
everlasting life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, the subjunctive
“should” implies that not all will continue believing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 3:17 For
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but <u>that the world
through him might be saved</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus’ mission was to die in order that
every person in the world might be saved. Such is the love of God for sinful
man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 3:18 He
that <u>continuously believeth</u> (participle) on him is not condemned: but he
that <u>continuously believeth not</u> (participle) is condemned already,
because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The participle means that only
continuous believers are not condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 3:36 He that <u>continuously believeth</u>
(participle) on the Son is having (present tense) everlasting life: and he that
continuously believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God
abideth on him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Having everlasting life in dependent
upon continuous believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 5:21 For
as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son <u>quickeneth
whom he will.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And it is the Father’s will to quicken
those who continuously believe (John 6:40).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that <u>continuously heareth</u> (participle)
my word, and <u>continuously believeth</u> (participle) on him that sent me, is
having (present tense) everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation;
but is passed from death unto life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, “is having everlasting life” depends
upon the believer continuing to hear God’s word and continuing to believe. God
knows who they are by foreknowledge. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">john 6:35 And
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that <u>continuously cometh</u>
(participle) to me shall never hunger; and he that <u>continuously believeth</u>
(participle) on me shall never thirst.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:37 All
that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that <u>continuously cometh</u>
(participle) to me I will in no wise cast out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The verse is true when the conditions are
met.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:39 And <u>this
is the Father's will</u> which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me
I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Father has given to the Son all those
who continuously believe (John 6:40).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:44 No
man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will
raise him up at the last day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Father only draws those whom He
foreknows will continuously believe on the Son (Jn 6:40).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:45 …
And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath <u>heard</u>,
and <u>hath learned</u> of the Father, <u>is coming</u> (present tense) unto
me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:47
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that <u>continuously believeth</u> (participle)
on me is having everlasting life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:54
Whoso continuously eating (participle) my flesh, and continuously drinking
(participle) my blood, is having eternal life; and I will raise him up at the
last day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If God forces this spiritual action, the
texts have no meaning at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:56 He
that is <u>continually eating</u> [participle] my flesh, and is <u>continually
drinking</u> [participle] my blood, is <u>continually dwelling</u> [participle]
in me, and I in him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Greek participles teach
conditional salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:64 But
there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who
they were that believed not, and who should betray him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Foreknowledge, not predestination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 6:65 And
he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it
were given unto him of my Father.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, the Father gave to the Son those
whom He foreknew would continuously believe on Him. Continuous believers are
elected to be saved. Thus, election is conditional and faith is the condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 7:38 He
that <u>continuously believeth (</u>participle) on me, as the scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of running-living (participle) water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Continuously running living water is a good
illustration for those who continuously believe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 8:31 Then
said Jesus to those Jews which <u>continuously believed</u> (past participle) on
him, <u>If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dwell on this text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 10:25
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 10:26 But
ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Calvinists teach that they did not believe
because God had not predestined them to be saved. Arminians teach that they did
not believe because of their own free will choice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 10:27 My
sheep are hearing my voice, and I know them, and they are following me:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus’ sheep are continually hearing (present
tense) His voice and are continuously following (present tense) Him. When they
cease following Him, they cease being His sheep. All verbs are present tense.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 10:28 And
I am giving (present tense) unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish
(subjunctive), neither shall any man pluck (future) them out of my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus is <u>continuously giving</u> eternal
life to those who are <u>continuously hearing</u> His voice and <u>continuously
following</u> Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The verb actions are
inter-dependent. As in Romans 8:38, 39, it is certainly true that God will not
allow those who are continuously hearing His voice and are continuously
following Him to be plucked out of His hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 10:29 My
Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck
them out of my Father's hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tthe Father “gave to Jesus” those whom He
foreknew would continuously believe on Him (John 3:16; 6:40) and continuously
love Him (Rom 8:28).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 11:25
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that <u>continuously
believeth</u> (participle) in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 11:26 And
whosoever <u>is still living</u> (participle) and <u>is still believing</u> (participle)
in me shall never die. Believest thou this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 12:44
Jesus cried and said, He that <u>continuously believeth</u> [participle] on me,
<u>continuously believeth</u> not [participle] on me, but on him that sent me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jn 12:45 And
he that <u>continuously seeth</u> me seeth him that sent me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jn 12:46 I am
come a light into the world, that whosoever <u>continuously believeth</u> [participle]
on me should not [subjunctive] abide in darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The abundant use of present active
participles must be correctly interpreted as “continuous” actions. This very
strongly teaches that salvation is neither a one-time profession of faith nor a
predetermined calling which does not require free will. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jn 12:47 And
if any man is hearing my words, and is not believing, I judge him not: for I came
not to judge the world, but to save the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus’ mission was to save every person in
the world.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:2
Every branch in me that <u>continuously beareth</u> [participle] not fruit he
taketh away …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Does “taken away” refer to death, or
falling from grace?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:3 Now
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:4 <u>Abide</u>
in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide
in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:5 I am
the vine, ye are the branches: He that <u>continuously abideth</u> [participle]
in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can
do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This kind of exhortation is totally
meaningless if it were not possible to cease abiding in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:6 If a
man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men
gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since “burned” is a strong implication of
either the fires of Hades or Gehenna, the texts most likely teach that one can
fall from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 16:8 And
when he is come, <u>he will reprove the world of sin</u>, and of righteousness,
and of judgment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 16:9 Of
sin, because they believe not on me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Holy Spirit (1) reproves the world of
the sinfulness of sin and (2) convicts sinners of the need of righteousness in
Christ. This would not be necessary if God had predestined individuals to
salvation before they were born. Salvation is available for all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 17:11 And
now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee.
Holy Father, <u>keep through thine own name</u> those whom thou hast given me,
that they may be one, as we are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus was praying for His believing
disciples who could conceivably cease believing and fall from grace. Again, the
request makes no sense if it were not possible to fall from grace. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jn 17:12 While
I was with them in the world, <u>I kept them in thy name</u>: those that thou
gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that
the scripture might be fulfilled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Father gave to the Son those whom He
foreknew would continuously believe in Christ (John 6:40). Only the one whom
God foreknew would not continuously believe in Hm would be lost.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 20:29
Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:
blessed are they that have not seen, and yet <u>“having believed [aorist] and
continue believing</u>” [participle].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 20:31 But
these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God; and that <u>continuously believing</u> [participle] ye might have [subjunctive]
life through his name. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If individual salvation were a
pre-determined choice of God not involving man’s free will choice, there would
be no need to write anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 2:44 “<u>All
who had believed [aorist] and continued believing</u>” [participle] were all
together and had all things common.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 4:32 And
the multitude of “<u>the ones who had believed [aorist] and continued
believing” [participle]</u> were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any
of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had
all things common.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a turning point in the entire
Bible. Peter realized that God loved all his create humans equally, wanted all
to be saved and wanted all to hear his preaching. Salvation is available for
all. Calvinist election and predestination make God a respecter of persons. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 11:21 And
the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number “<u>who had believed
[aorist] and continued believing</u>” [participle] turned to the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 13:12
Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the
doctrine of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A conditional free will choice was
made after hearing the gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 13:39 And
by him “<u>all <b>continuously </b>believing”</u> [present participle] “<u>are
being justified</u>” [present passive] from all things, from which ye could not
be justified by the law of Moses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Justification by faith is conditional to
those who continue believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Acts 18:27 And
when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the
disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, “the ones <u>who had believed
[perfect] and continued believing” [participle]</u> helped him much through
grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:16 For I
am not ashamed of <u>the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God</u> unto
salvation <u>to every one</u> <u>that continuously believeth [participle]</u>;
to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s will to predestine and call to
salvation everyone who freely continuously believes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:18 … men,
who hold the truth in unrighteousness;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Total depravity does not totally erase the
image of God. Even the unbelievers are described as “holding the truth in unrighteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:19 that
which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto
them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Though totally depraved, the unrighteous
still know enough of God’s truth to know they are sinners and deserve His
wrath.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:20 …
invisible things … are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Though totally depraved, unbelievers know
God exists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:21 … when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became
vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:23 … changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:24
Wherefore God also gave them up …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God gave up unbelievers because they used
free will to reject Him … not because He predetermined not to elect them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:25 Who
changed the truth of God into a lie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:26 … God
gave them up … even women …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:27 … also
the men<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:28 … did
not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over … reprobate mind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:29, 30 haters
of God, disobedient to parents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:31
Without understanding … without natural affection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 1:32 <u>Who
knowing the judgment of Go</u>d, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (also
3:10-19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having foreknowledge of who would reject
Him, God gave them up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:11 For
there is no respect of persons with God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Calvinist doctrines of election and
predestination makes God a respecter of persons. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:14 For
when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in
the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 2:15 Which
shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and their thoughts the mean while <u>accusing or else excusing</u> one
another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All who have a conscience may be excused
and saved by continuous believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***Rom 3:22
Even <u>the righteousness of God</u> <u>which is by faith of Jesus Christ</u>
unto all and upon all them that <u>continuously believe</u> [participle]: for
there is no difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The righteousness of God is only upon those
who continuously believe. It is not upon those who make a one-time profession
of faith and stop believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 3:24 Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s gracious will that those who
have continuous faith in Jesus Christ be justified through the redemption that
is in Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 3:25 Whom
God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare
his righteousness for the <u>remission of sins</u> that are past, through the
forbearance of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 6:40.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s will that the payment for sin
(the remission) be accomplished through faith (continuous believing) in
Christ’s blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 6:40.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***Rom 3:26 <u>To
declare</u>, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and <u>the
justifier of him which is continuously believing</u> [participle] in Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s will to declare His own
righteousness and to justify those who <u>continuously believe</u> in Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Romans 4:3
Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. (Gen 15:6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was God’s will to save Abraham because
He believed God (continuous faith faith). By Omniscient foreknowledge, God knew
Abraham would be faithful and continuously believe. This would have been a good
opportunity to teach predestination --- that God caused Abraham to believe God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">***Rom 4:5 But “to
the one not working” [participle], <span style="color: red;">but to “<u>the one
continuously believing” </u>[participle] on “the one continuously justifying”
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God’s grants righteousness by faith to the
ones continuously believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 4:11 And he
received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of “<u>all
the ones continuously believing</u>” [present participle], though they be not
circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God only imputes righteousness to those continuously
believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Romans 4:13
For <u>the promise</u>, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Romans 4:16
Therefore it <u>[the promise made by God to Abraham] is of faith,</u> that it
might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to
that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of
Abraham; who is the father of us all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s gracious will that everybody be
saved the same way, through faith. The promise made to Abraham was not because
of predestination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 4:24 But
for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, “<u>to the ones continuously
believing</u>” [present participle<u>]</u> on him that raised up Jesus our Lord
from the dead.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Paul identified with those who are
continuously believing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 5:18
Therefore as by the offence of one [Adam] judgment came upon all men to
condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one [Christ] <u>the free gift
came upon all men</u> unto justification of life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 5:19 For
as by one man's disobedience [Adam] many were made sinners, so by the obedience
of one [Christ] shall many be made righteous. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God willed it that all men might be saved
through Christ’s substitution, but His will is not irresistible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:1 There
is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who “are <u>continuously
walking</u>” [present participle] not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God does not condemn those who are
continuously walling after the Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:28 And
we know that all things work together for good <u>to them that love God</u>, <u>to
them who are the called</u> according to his purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who are called according to God’s
purpose are those who continuously love God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Oikamen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>de <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hoti <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We know<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">tois <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>agapoosin</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>toon theon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to the ones <u>continuously loving</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the God,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">panta<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sunergei<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eis<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>agathon <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">all things<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He works together<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>good<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">tois<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>kata<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prostheisin kleetois<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ousin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">to the ones <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>according to purpose<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>called<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the most important text in God’s
Word which clearly defines “the called.” While Romans 8:29-30 are quoted to
support the Calvinist viewpoint, Romans 8:28 is not. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Romans 8:28 has two equal parallel
phrases beginning “to the ones.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. “Loving” and “being” are present tense
participles meaning “continuously loving” and “continuously being” called.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3. “Those continuously loving” are those
“continuously being” called.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4. The free will act of continuously loving
precedes God’s call.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5. The order of salvation in 8:28 is: (1)
free will loving God, (2) God’s calling, (3) foreknowledge and (4)
predestination. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. The order of salvation in 8:29 is: (1)
foreknowledge, (2) predestination and (3) calling. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7. Since God, in His Omniscience, foreknows
the future, He predestines those whom He foreknows will “continuously love Him”
to be called and saved. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8. “Continuously loving” makes salvation conditional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:29 For
whom he did <u>foreknow</u>, he also did <u>predestinate</u> to be conformed to
the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called,
them he also <u>justified</u>: and whom he justified, them he also <u>glorified</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Foreknowledge” is the dividing word
between Calvinists and Arminians. Calvinists teach that God knows the future <u>because</u>
He is sovereign and <u>causes</u> everything to occur before it occurs.
Arminians teach that God knows the future because He <u>exists in all time</u>,
including the future. Arminians teach that, knowing the choices free will
mankind will make allows Him to guide His own will. God works the circumstances
of a believer’s life for good. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:35 <u>Who
</u>shall separate <u>us </u>from the love of Christ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since this is an
important text for both Calvinists and Eternal Security advocates, a thorough
study is required. The question is “Who is ‘us?” Does it refer to predestined
believers or to those who have only made a one-time profession of faith?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:1 Paul is referring to “them which are
in Christ Jesus, who are continuously walking (participle) not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:4 “us” refers to those “who are waling
(participle) not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:5 “us” refers to “they that are after
the Spirit the things of the Spirit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:6 “us” refers to they who are “spiritually
minded.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:9 “us” refers to those in whom “the
Spirt of God dwells.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:14 “us” are being “led by the Spirit
of God, they are the sons of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:15 “us” as newborn babes, call God “Abba,
Father.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:16 “us” are those in whom the “Spirit
itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:17 “us” are Christians who are
prepared to “suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:19 us” cannot wait to see God; “the
earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons
of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:23 “us” are “we” who “ourselves groan
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:25 “us” are those who “patiently hope
for that we see not.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:26-27 “us” are those whom the Spirit
perfects our prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:28 “us” are those whom God calls because
they continuously love God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:30 “us” who are “called, justified and
glorified.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:33-34 “us” are those who cannot be
charged with anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:35 “us” are those who cannot be “separate
from the love of Christ.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 8:37 “us” are “more than conquerors
through him that loved us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things
present, nor things to come,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Romans 9,
as in 2:28-29, Paul anticipates and answers objections from Jewish Christians
living in Rome. Is God unrighteous for rejecting Israel? No. God never promised
that all Israelites would be saved, but only spiritual Israelites (whom He
foreknew would remain faithful).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Romans 9:1-4
[Prayer for natural Israelites.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:6 … For
they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:7
Neither, because they are the [physical] seed of Abraham, are they all
children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:8 That
is, They which are the children <u>of the flesh</u>, these are not the children
of God: but <u>the children of the promise are counted for the seed.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As in Romans 2:28, 29, true Israelites have
always only been spiritual Israelites, and not those of the flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:11(For
the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the
<u>purpose of God according to election</u> might stand, not of works, but <u>of
him that calleth</u>;)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was never the purpose of God to fulfill
the promised spiritual blessings of Abraham upon all the literal physical seed
of Abraham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:13 Jacob
have I loved, but Esau have I hated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Being Omniscient with foreknowledge, God
knew that Jacob would eventually continuously love, believe and serve Him (Rom
8:28), God elected Jacob instead to Esau. God did not “hate” Esau concerning
salvation; this was an election to receive, or not receive the promises made to
Abraham. Esau was greatly blessed and did not accept gifts from Jacob (Gen
33;1; 36:1-7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:15 For
he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I will have compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God is not a respecter of persons (Rom
2:11). The justification of Jacob over Esau was due to God’s foreknowledge. Esau
died a very wealthy and very blessed man (Gen 37:1-7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:16 So
then <u>it is not of him that willeth</u>, nor of him that runneth, but of God
that sheweth mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While it is true that the sinner cannot
“will,” or choose, to be saved, it is also true that the sinner can yield to
the convicting power of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26; 16:8,9), believe in Christ
and continue believing in Christ. John 6:39-40 and Romans 8:28 are key to
understanding Romans 9:16. It is God’s will to shew mercy to those who freely
chose to continuously love Him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:18
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he
hardeneth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In context, the mercy of God towards Jacob
and away from Esau related to the birthright promises; God chose whom He would
bless and be merciful towards. The Calvinist explanation of these texts depicts
God as a respecter of person. The word, “sovereign,” does not mean that God
created mankind as robots without free will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:19 Thou [Jewish
Christian] wilt say then unto me, “Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath
resisted his will?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The objection of the Jewish Christians was
anticipated. The reply is “If we cannot resist God’s will, how can God condemn
us?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:20 [The
answer] Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing
formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As with Job, God does answer the question.
God merely replies, “Who are you to question Me?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:21 Hath
not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto
honour, and another unto dishonour?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, as with Job, God’s reply is “Do I
not, as the Creator, have power to do as I choose?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Contrary to the teachings of Calvinism, God
is <u>not</u> asserting that He actually <i>does</i> exercise His sovereignty
over His creation and <i><u>causes</u></i> everything to happen!!! He can do so
if He so if and when He chooses. However, in His gracious mercy, God wills to
predestine and elect those who freely choose to continuously believe in Him to
salvation (John 6:40; Rom 8:28).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:22 What
if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with
much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Still answering the Jewish Christians’
objections, God has been patient (longsuffering) with the disobedient nation of
Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:23 And
that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which
he had afore prepared unto glory,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:24 Even
us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God has (temporarily) discarded national
Israel and (temporarily) replaced it with the Church comprised of both Jews and
Gentiles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:25 As he
saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and
her beloved, which was not beloved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:26 And
it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye <u>are
not my people</u>; there shall they be called <u>the children of the living God</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:27
Esaias also crieth <u>concerning Israel,</u> Though the number of the children
of Israel be as the sand of the sea, <u>a remnant shall be saved</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This should not be a surprise; the prophets
taught it. National Israel rejected Jesus as its Messiah and God (temporarily)
replaced national Israel with the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">KEY
CONCLUSIONS TO CHAPTER NINE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:30 What
shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:31 But
Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the
law of righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:32 <u>Wherefore?
Because they sought it not by faith</u>, but as it were by the works of the
law. For they stumbled at that stumbling-stone;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the conclusion of chapter 9. God
knew through His Omniscience and foreknowledge that national Israel would
eventually reject its Messiah and the Church would accept Him. Rather than
stressing God’s sovereignty, it stresses righteousness by faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 9:33 As it
is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and rock of offence: and <u>whosoever
continuously believeth (participle) on him shall not be ashamed.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Instead of ending the chapter with a strong
emphasis on election, predestination or sovereignty, Paul ends it with
universal appeal for “whosoever continuously believes in Him to be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The decree to save or damn particular
persons was based on God’s foreknowledge of their faith or unbelief. God elects
and rejects whom He pleases. God rejected Israel because Israel rejected
salvation by faith (9:30). God has not rejected believing Israelites. The
present rejection of Israel opens the door for Gentiles and is not final. The
purpose of 9:30+ is to show that the sovereign God, who saves and damns who He
pleases, is pleased to save believers. When God saves believers, He is choosing
whom He will. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:4 For
Christ is the end [GOAL] of the law for righteousness to “<u>all <b>continuously
</b>believing,” [present participle].</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The participles never cease in God’s
inspired Word. Salvation is conditional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:10 For
with the heart “righteousness is <u>continuously being believed</u> <u>upon”
[present passive]</u> …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:11 For
the scripture saith, “<u>every one continuously believing” [present participle]</u>
“shall not be ashamed.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:12 For
there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over
all is rich unto all that call upon him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God is not a respecter of persons. While
Israel was His chosen nation, He held them to a greater degree of accountabliy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:13 For <u>the
ones continuously calling</u> (participle) upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Both Jew and Gentiles had the same standard
of salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Romans 2:14-15.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:1 I say
then, <u>Hath God cast away his people? God forbid.</u> For I also am an
Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:2 God
hath not cast away his people which he <u>foreknew</u>. …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:5 Even
so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election
of grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This seriously disagrees with Reformed
Theology which teaches that the church is spiritual Israel which has permanently
replaced national Israel as God’s chosen nation. Since God foreknew and
predestined national Israel to be His chosen nation, why has He replaced it
with the Church? Chapter 11 proves that God has not discarded national Israel
but will reconstitute it with believing Israelites. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:6 And
if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:7 What
then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath
obtained it, and the rest were blinded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:8 (According
as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, <u>eyes that they
should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.</u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The remainder of the chapter proves that
God has not permanently (in the first century) rejected Israel, but believing
Israelites will again be grafted in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:11 I
say then, <u>Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather
through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles</u>, for to provoke them
to jealousy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God foreknew that national Israel would
reject its Messiah and the church age would follow. He also foreknew that the
Church was temporary and would be removed before God finished His plans for
national Israel (Dan 9:24-27).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:12 Now
if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the
riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:15 For
if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the
receiving of them be, but life from the dead?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:16 For
if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so
are the branches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:17 And
if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert
graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the
olive tree;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:18
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,
but the root thee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:19 Thou
wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">National Israel comprised of believing
Israelites will attain its fulness after the church has been removed during the
Millennium (Rev 20).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:20
Well; <u>because of unbelief they were broken off</u>, and <u>thou standest by
faith</u>. Be not highminded, but fear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Israel did not fall because of
predestination. Israel fell because of unbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:21 For
if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:22
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,
severity; but toward thee, goodness, <u>if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is possible to fall from grace. If
believers do not continue in God’s goodness, they will be cut off.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:23 And
they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is
able to graff them in again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unbelieving Israelites can be grafted in if
the consistently believe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:24 For
if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert
graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,
which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:25 For
I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to
Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:26 And
so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion
the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:27 For this
is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:28 As
concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the
election, <u>they are beloved</u> for the fathers' sakes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It has always been God’s plan of salvation
to save those who freely chose to continuously love God and believe the gospel
Rom 8:28; 1:16).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:29 For <u>the
gifts and calling of God are without repentance.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God’s gifts and calling of believers in
national Israel has not, and will not, change. He keeps His promises. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 11:30 For
as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through
their unbelief:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom 10:31 Even
so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may
obtain mercy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The roles have been reversed. Instead of
believing Israelites taking the gospel to unbelieving Gentiles, now believing
Gentiles are to take the gospel to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Cor 1:17 For
Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Cor 1:18 For
the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us
which <u>are continuously being saved</u> [present passive participle] it is
the power of God<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If election and predestination were
predetermined by God apart from the free will of mankind, the preaching of the
gospel would not be necessary. Salvation is an ongoing present process to those
who are presently consistently believing in Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Cor 1:21 For
after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that <u>continuously believe</u>
[present active participle].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Only those who persevere by
continuing to believe will be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Cor 1:23 But
we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks
foolishness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Preaching “Christ crucified” convicts
unbelievers and draws them to Christ to be saved. It is unnecessary if
predestination were true.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Cor 4:4 In
whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to Reformed Theology, God Himself
has blinded unbelievers. Why does the Bible tell us that Satan has? Did God
give Lucifer free will, or is God the cause of unbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Cor 5:14 For
the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if <u>one died
for all</u>, then were all dead:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Cor 5:15 And
that <u>he died for all</u>, that they which live should not henceforth live
unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christ died for every person who has
ever lived.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Cor 5:19 To
wit, that God was in Christ, <u>reconciling the world unto himself</u>, not
imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christ’s atonement was sufficient to
save every person who ever lived.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Galatians 3:22
But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of
Jesus Christ might be given to <u>“the ones <b>continuously </b>believing”
[present participle]. <o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God wants to save everybody, but does not
force the will. (2 Pet 3:9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:26 For ye are
all the <u>children of God by faith</u> in Christ Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not by predestination. (John 6:40;
Rom 10:28).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ephesians 1:4 According
as he hath <u>chosen </u>us in him <u>before the foundation of the world</u>,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Similar to the “us” of Romans 8:35-38, the
“us” are “the apostle Paul, the saints at Ephesus and the faithful in Christ
Jesus.” (1:1) Was Paul “chosen by the will of God” because God “caused” him to
be saved, or because God, in His Omniscience, <u>foreknew </u>that Paul would
faithfully serve him?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:5 Having
<u>predestinate</u>d us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to
himself, according to the good pleasure <u>of his will,<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Romans 8:28-29, it is the will of God to
elect and predestine those who continuously love God. This text is very
similar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:6 To the
praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us <u>accepted in the
beloved</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The elect (those who choose to continuously
love God, are predestined to praise the glory of His grace. They are described
as “accepted in the beloved.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:7 In
whom we have <u>redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins,
according to the riches of his grace;<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:8
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everything the believer has is because of
Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:9 Having
made known unto us the mystery of his will, <u>according to his good pleasure</u>
which he hath <u>purposed in himself</u>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:10 That
in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all
things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in
him:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Similar to Romans 9:30, Jews, Gentiles and
even heaven itself is united by the blood of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:11 In
whom also we have obtained <u>an inheritance</u>, being <u>predestinated according
to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will</u>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:12 That
we should be to the praise of his glory, <u>who first trusted in Christ.<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Similar to Romans 8:28-29, it was God’s
will that “those who first trusted in Christ” also have an inheritance in
heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:13 In
whom ye also <u>trusted</u>, after that ye <u>heard and kept on hearing</u>
[past active participle] the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in
whom also after that ye <u>believed and kept on believing [past active participle],</u>
ye <u>were being sealed [past passive</u>] with that holy Spirit of promise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:14 Which
is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession,
unto the praise of his glory. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Literally, “After believers have heard and
keep on hearing and have believed and keep on believing, they are being saved
and sealed.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God may act unconditionally or on the basis
of conditions He sovereignly establishes. God’s plan of salvation is wholly
gracious --- of grace and from grace. Faith (which comes by hearing (Rom 10:17)
is the condition for experiencing salvation. The decree in eternity was one to
administer salvation conditionally by faith. In Ephesians 1 faith is
presupposed for predestination. For no one but a believer is predestinated
through adoption through Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eph 1:19 And
what is the exceeding greatness of his power <u>“to the one continually
believing” [participle]</u> according to the working of his mighty power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Phil 3:9 And
be found in him, <u>“not continuously having”</u> mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but <u>(continuously having)</u> that which is through the faith
of Christ, the righteousness which is of God <u>by faith.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Thess 2:13
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the
word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as
it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in <u>“the ones
continuously believing” [present participle].<o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The word of God works in those who are
continuously believing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Thess 1:10
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in <u>“all
the ones who have believed [aorist] and continue believing” [participle]</u> in
that day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God will be admired by the one who have
continuously believed when Jesus returns. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Timothy 2:3
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***1 Timothy
2:4 <u>Who will have all men to be saved</u>, and to come unto the knowledge of
the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is God’s will to save all men, but He
does not force His will; it is resistible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Tim 2:5 For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Calvinistic predestination removes the need
for a mediator because mankind has no free will choice concerning salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">**1 Tim 2:6 Who
gave himself <u>a ransom for all</u>, to be testified in due time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christ’s atonement was sufficient
for every person who ever lived.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="mm"></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***Titus 2:11
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation <u>hath appeared to all men.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Every person who ever lived is given
sufficient grace to be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 2:9 But we
see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should <u>taste
death for every man.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Christ’s atonement was sufficient
for every person ever born.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were <u>once enlightened</u>, and <u>have
tasted of the heavenly gift</u>, and <u>were made partakers of the Holy Ghost</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 6:5 And <u>have
tasted the good word of God</u>, <u>and the powers of the world to come</u>,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb
6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open sham.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only an incredible twisting of the
Scriptures denies that this is a description of a true believer who turns and
denies the gospel and Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 11:6 But
without <u>faith</u> it is impossible to please him: for <u>“the one
continuously coming” [participle</u>] to God must <u>“be continuously
believing”</u> <u>[present tense</u>] that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
“<u>the ones continuously seeking” [participle]</u> him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Peter 1:1 Peter
… to the … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Pet 1:2 <u>Elect</u>
according to the <u>foreknowledge of God</u> the Father, through sanctification
of the Spirit, <u>unto obedience</u> and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Calvinists teach that the elect are those
whom God has forced His will upon and predestined. Arminians teach that the
elect are those whom God foreknows will continuously believe and persevere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***2 Peter
2:20 For if <u>after</u> they have <u>escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ</u>, they are <u>again
entangled</u> therein, <u>and overcome</u>, <u>the latter end is worse with
them than the beginning</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Pet 2:21 <u>For
it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than,
after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Pet 2:22 But
it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to
his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These texts prove that it is
possible to resist grace and fall from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***2 Peter 3:9
<u>The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God is not willing that any should perish,
but His will can be resisted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 2:2 And
he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also <u>for the
sins of the whole world</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus’ death was sufficient to save
every person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 5:1 <u>“The
one continuously believing</u>” [present participle] that Jesus is the Christ <u>is
born of God:</u> and <u>every one that continuously loveth</u> [present
participle] him that begat <u>loveth </u>him also that is begotten of him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only those who continuously believe and
continuously love Him are born of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 5:5 Who
is he that is <u>continually overcoming [present participle</u>] the world, but
<u>“the one <b>continuously </b>believing” [present participle]</u> that Jesus
is the Son of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only those who continuously believe are
continuously overcoming the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 5:10 “<u>The
one continuously believing” [present participle]</u> on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: “<u>the one not continuously believing” [present
participle]</u> God hath made him a liar; because he “has not believed”
[aorist] the record that God gave of his Son.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who continuously believe have an
inner witness that they are saved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto <u>“the ones continuously believing”
[participle</u>] on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye “are
having “eternal life, and that ye “may” (not “will”) believe [subjunctive] on
the name of the Son of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only the ones continuously believing now
they are Sons of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rev 3:5 He
that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I <u>will not
blot out his name out of the book of life</u>, but I will confess his name
before my Father, and before his angels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is possible to fall from grace. A name
must already be in the book of life in order to be blotted out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rev 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : <u>if any man hear my voice, and open
the door</u>, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salvation
is available to any person.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reader’s Note:
Most of the following individual statements are from <i>Grace, Faith and Free
Will</i>, by Robert L. Picirilli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FREE WILL: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CALVINISM: NO
FREE WILL: The Spirit graciously <u>causes</u> the pre-elected sinner to
cooperate, to believe, to repent, to come freely and willingly to Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARMINIANISM: God
has determined to save those who through the grace of the Holy Spirit shall
believe and shall persevere to the end. (PIC13). John 6:40<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">TOTAL
DEPRAVITY: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Man has no
saving grace of himself; concerning salvation, he cannot think, will or do
anything to be saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
involved concerning salvation is by grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">IRRESISTABLE
GRACE:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CALVINISM:
Since God is Sovereign, He <u>causes </u>everything to happen. If He could be
resisted, He would not be Sovereign. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARMINIANISM: Grace
can be resisted. Sin exists because Satan successfully resisted God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ARMINIANISM: God’s
<u>foreknowledge</u> allows Him to be both Sovereign and Omniscient. Being
Sovereign does not mean God created robots who cannot choose to freely love
Him. Love does not exist unless freely given and God is love! Sovereign kings
on earth have not controlled the thoughts of their subjects. God created
mankind with freewill but His foreknowledge allows Him to know which choices
man will make all still allows Him to fulfill His purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fallen man is
not capable of any good to justify himself. Fallen man continues in some of the
image of God and receives common grace and general revelation, but is always
falling short.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">All future
events are in accord with God’s overall plan and purpose; nothing ever happens
that is outside His knowledge, control or thwarts His ultimate plan. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God really
does know which way man will choose.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God has
unconditionally decreed to administer salvation conditionally.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sin originates
in the free exercise of the will of the creature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God decreed to
justify believers in, or through Christ. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Faith is the
condition for election. If salvation is by faith, election is by faith. If
salvation is conditional, election is conditional.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As believers
alone are saved, believers alone are predestined to salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The individual
faith (or unbelief), while truly contingent and free, is certain. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Election and
reprobation are parallel opposites. Election is gracious and eternal founded in
Christ, and conditional and personal in application. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sin is the
sole meritorious cause for God’s wrath and condemnation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Reprobation is
just and eternal punishment for sin and conditional and personal in application.
The Bible teaches salvation by faith rather than salvation by unconditional
election. The Bible condemns the dammed not merely for their sins, but for
rejecting Christ’s redemptive work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Christ died to
provide salvation for al, a provision that is effective only when applied to
those who believe PIC100<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By His
redemptive work, salvation was made accessible to all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God’s will
that all people make their own free choice takes precedence over His will that
all be saved. We might call this a distinction between His absolute will and
his conditional will. PIC112 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Calvinist
has problems making the universal call sound real since they do not accept it
as forceful. To them, “will not” means “cannot.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC117<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Man’s will is
no longer naturally free to choose God apart from the supernatural work of the
Spirit of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC149<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Arminius held
with total depravity in respect to the need for grace. PIC150<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For Calvinists
regeneration solves the problem of depravity; for the Arminian, prevenient
grace solves the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC153<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For Arminius,
prevenient grace precedes actual regeneration and, except when finally
resisted, invariable leads on to regeneration. PIC153<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pre-regenerating
grace means that the Spirit of God overcomes man’s inability by a direct work
on the heart, a work that is adequate to enable the unregenerate person to
understand the truth of the gospel, to desire God, and to exercise saving
faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC154<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Drawing faith of John 6:44.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When used in
its fullest sense, salvation is election. If election is not by faith, then
neither is salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC169<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Final
salvation is for those who persevere in believing. The intercessory prayers of
Jesus are for believers. Jn 17:11, 12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>PIC190<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The continuing
work of the Holy Spirit is conditional on continuing faith. PIC191<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>FALLING FROM GRACE TEXTS: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(1) Exe 32:32,
33), (3) Eze 3:20; 18:24, (4) Matt 5:13, (5) Matt 5:27, (6 Matt 6:15), (7) Matt
10:33, (8) Luke 8:13, (9) Luke 9:52, (10) Luke 13:8, (11) John 15:1-6, (12) 1
Cor 3:17, (13) 1 Cor 8:10, (14) 1 Cor 9:27, (15) 1 Cor 10:1-4, (16) Gal 3:1,
(17) Gal 5:1, (18) Gal 5:4, 19) Gal 5:19,21), (20) Gal 5:24, (21) 1 Tim
1:18-20, (22) 1 Tim 4:1-2, (23) 1 Tim 2:12, (24) 1 Tim 4:10, (25) Heb 3:12,
(26) Heb 3:18, (27) Heb 4:1, (28) Heb 4:6, (29) Heb 4:11, (30) Heb 6:4-6, (31)
Heb 10:38-39, (32) Heb 12:8, (33) Heb 12:13, (34) Heb 12:14, (35) Heb 12:15,
(36) Heb 12:17, (37) Js 5:12, (38) 1 Pet 5:8-9, (39) 2 Pet 2:1, (40) 2 Pet
2:20-22, (41) 2 Pet 3:17, (42) 2 John 8-9, (43) Jude 5, (44) Jude 6, (45) Rev
2:4-5, (46) Rev 3:2, (47) Rev 3:5, (48) Rev 3:16-17<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CALVINISTS
TEACH THAT NOT ALL HAVE REVELATION: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They quote Matthew
13:11 it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, <u>but
to them it is not given</u>” but do quote Jesus’ explanation in 13:15 “because
their heart is gross, their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
closed.” Neither do they quote John 9:39, “And Jesus said, For judgment I am
come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which
see might be made blind.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ETERNAL SECURITY TEXTS:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jn 10:28; Jn 3:36; 4:4; 5:24; 6:54 PIC195<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God will not
fail to keep any promise. PIC194<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CALVINISM: Faith
is a part of the work of salvation wrought for the elect rather than a
condition the individual must meet in order to be saved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Berkoff PIC146<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since election
is unconditional (and must be for God to be sovereign, it follows that
salvation -- in the broadest sense of the word – rests in the decree of God and
not on the individual’s faith. PIC169<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">ince the
atonement was intended to save only the elect and is applied efficaciously to
them by the gracious work of the Holy Spirit, it follows that salvation –still
in the broadest sense—is by atonement and grace rather than by faith. PIC169<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The seed of
faith is implanted in man in regeneration … It is only after God has implanted
the seed of faith in the heart that man can exercise faith. PIC170<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Limited
atonement is required by the fact that saving faith is a gift of God given only
to the elect. The atonement also secures the fulfillment of the conditions that
must met in order to obtain salvation. Rom 2:4; Gal 3:13,14; Eph 1:3,4; 2:8;
Phil 1:29; 2 Ti 3:5, 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PIC96<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">he doctrine of
limited atonement is implied in and logically necessary to the Reformed
teaching about unconditional salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-91234201123235332152023-07-28T15:30:00.003-07:002023-09-23T15:52:00.909-07:00Exposing the Seventh-day Adventist Doctrine of Salvation<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTISTS’ PLAN OF SALVATION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Russell Earl
Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="mailto:russkellyphd@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">russkellyphd@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">September 23,
2023<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Born-Again Experience<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like most
conservative Christians, Seventh-day Adventists believe in being born again by
personal confession of sins and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Soul-Sleep:
Annihilation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Seventh-day
Adventists believe in soul-sleep, rather annihilationism. The “soul” is the
person; it ceases to exist at death and is re-created at the resurrection of
all the dead for the Great White Throne judgment in Revelation 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Conditional
Atonement <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Like
Arminians, Seventh-day Adventists believe that true believers still possess
free will and can choose to stop believing, fall into habitual sin and fall
from grace. They teach that the atonement was not complete at Calvary
(GC4210-421). Arminians believe that names can be blotted out of the book of
life (Ex 32:32-33; Deut 29:20; Rev 3:5). The SDA “condition” is literal
sinlessness” (GC486-487).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Daniel
8:14<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The scripture
which above all others had been both the foundation and the central part of the
advent faith was the declaration, “Unto two thousand three hundred days, then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed, Daniel 8:14.’” (GC409)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The unique SDA
interpretation of Daniel 8:14 intertwines their plan of salvation, books in
heaven, the cleansing of the sanctuary and the investigative judgment. Together,
they are the same doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Plan of Salvation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who have
accepted Christ have been conditionally saved by continued faith. They will
only remain saved as long as they continue to confess, repent of and renounce
every sin. John 8:31 “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If
ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.” However, for
Seventh-day Adventists, this means reaching sinless perfection. Read The Great
Controversy, by Ellen G. White, Conflict Series, chapter 28, pages 479-491,
especially 486-487.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Books of Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Unlike most
Arminians who teach a possible, but rare, fall into habitual sin, SDAs teach
that unconfessed and unrepented sin will cause one to fall from grace, almost
always after death. Names will be blotted out only after Jesus has researched
that professed believer in the books of heaven. Unless sinless, those who have
already died have no assurance of salvation (GC486-487).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to
Ellen G. White it is almost impossible for anybody to be saved. “Our acts, our
words, even our most secret motives, all have their weight in deciding our
destiny for well or for woe. <u>Though they may be forgotten by us, they will
bear their testimony to justify or condemn</u>” (GC482, 486-487). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sacrificial
Blood Defiles God’s Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SDAs teach
that the sacrificial blood does not wash away sin at the entrance to the
sanctuary when the sacrifice dies and sheds its blood. They teach that the
blood of the sacrifice subsequently defiled both the sanctuary on earth and in
heaven itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“A substitute
was accepted in the sinner’s stead; but the sin was not cancelled by the blood
of the victim. </span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A means was provided by which
it was transferred to the sanctuary. By the offering of blood, the sinner
acknowledged the authority of the law, confessed his guilt in transgression,
and expressed his desire for pardon through faith in a Redeemer to come; <u>but
he was not yet entirely released from the condemnation of the law”</u> (GC420).
“For eighteen centuries (until 1844) … the blood of Christ pleaded in behalf of
penitent believers, secured their pardon and acceptance with the Father, yet
their sins still remained upon the books of record” (GC421).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus’
Sacrificial Blood Carries <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sins
into the Sanctuary and Continues Defiling it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“As anciently
the sins of the people were by faith placed upon the sin offering and through
its blood transferred in figure to the earthly sanctuary, so in the new
covenant the sins of the repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and
transferred in fact to the heavenly sanctuary” (GC421). Jesus is a greater
defiler than pagan Rome or papal Rome in Daniel 8:9-14.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Cleansing of the Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Extremely
unique to Seventh-day Adventism is its cultic doctrine of the cleansing of the
sanctuary in heaven. They teach that the confessed, forgiven and forsaken sins
of believers have been brought into the heavenly sanctuary and have defiled
God’s dwelling place (GC421). In the New Covenant, Jesus is the High Priest who
is still carrying atoned sins into the heavenly sanctuary to defile it (GC421).
And, by linking Daniel 8:14 with Leviticus 16’s Day of Atonement, Jesus must
cleanse the sanctuary before His second coming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Investigative Judgment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When the
heavenly sanctuary has been cleansed from its defiling atoned sins of God’s
people, the plan of salvation can be completed and Jesus will return as King of
Kings. Beginning with the first to die, and, with Satan at His side, Jesus
began reading the books of heaven on October 22, 1844, the SDA end of Daniel’s
2300 day-years of prophecy. Jesus meticulously reads every recorded deed and
thought to determine if the person died with every sin confessed and forsaken.
Names are blotted out of the book of life. This investigation has already
lasted 179 years. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Jesus does
not forgive their sins, but <u>shows their penitence</u> and faith, claiming
for them forgiveness” (GC484). “Sins that have not been repented of and
forsaken will not be pardoned and blotted out of the record” (GC486). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Without
a Mediator at Second Coming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those
living when Jesus returns, the SDA doctrine of salvation will become clear. Believers
will not be able to repent and receive forgiveness after Jesus leaves heaven as
king. Since Jesus will cease His priestly ministry (SDAs teach) and will put on
His King of Kings garment, no sin committed afterwards can be mediated and
believers must have achieved a state of sinless perfection. They will appear
before Christ without a mediator (GC425).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………….………………<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SOME ERRORS OF
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. SACRIFICIAL BLOOD DEFILES: The most
disagreeable doctrine concerns the SDA teaching that the sacrificial blood
carried by Old Testament priests and Jesus carries sin into the sanctuary and
defiles it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First,
sacrificial blood washes away sins (Rev 1:5;
7:14). It cleanses and brings total forgiveness; it does not defile. Exodus 12:13
“When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” Acts 20:28 Christ has “<u>purchased</u>”
believers with “His own blood.” Rom 3:25 “through faith in the blood to declare
his righteousness for the <u>remission</u> of sins that are past.” Rom 5:9
“being now <u>justified</u> by his blood.” 1 Cor 11:25 “the <u>new testament</u>
in my blood.” Col 1:14 “In whom we have <u>redemption</u> through his blood,
even the <u>forgiveness</u> of sins.” Heb 9:14 “How much more shall the blood
of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, <u>purge
your conscience </u>from dead works to serve the living God?” “Heb 9:22 “without
shedding of blood is no <u>remission</u>.” 1 Peter 1:19 “But with the precious
blood of Christ, as of a lamb <u>without blemish and without spot</u>.” 1 John
1:9 “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to <u>forgive</u> us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 Peter 1:19 “But with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb <u>without blemish and without spot.”</u> Rev 1:5 “<u>washed</u> us from our sins in his
own blood.” Rev 5:9 thou “hast <u>redeemed</u> us to God by thy blood.” Rev
7:14 “<u>washed</u> their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The blood of
the sin and trespass offering is always called “most holy.” In Exodus 24:4-8
sacrificial blood made holy both the covenant and the people. In Exodus 20:20-21,
Leviticus 8:14-15 and 30:9 the sacrificial blood made the priests and their
garments holy and prepared the altar for use. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When the
sacrifice died as a sin offering at the entrance of the sanctuary, the payment
for the confessed sin was complete and the sin itself was exterminated. The
ministering “most holy” priest collected the “most holy” blood of the now “most
holy” sin and trespass offering and either placed it on the ‘most holy” altar
or ate portions of the “most holy” sacrifice (Ex 29:37; 30:26-29; Lev 6:17-18,
25-27; 12:8; Num 18:9).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Read the
verses above again and the underlined words. No Christian should teach that the
blood of Christ defiles! The Passover blood allowed God to pass over sins.
Without blemish or spot, Christ’s precious blood provides forgiveness,
justification, our purchase price, remission of sins, redemption, washes away
sin and cleanses believers. It is pure blaspheme to blame Christ’s blood for defiling
God’s throne.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. GOD IS NOT
OMNISCIENT: It has already taken 179 years (1844 to 2023) for Christ to examine
the books of heaven and finally blot out previously atoned sin --- and He is
still defiling God’s throne every time he ministers to believers!!! By teaching
that God does not know who will be saved in the future, SDAs deny the
Omniscience of God concerning the final state of believers. The necessity of the
Investigate Judgment means they do not believe that God has foreknowledge of everything
in the future. See Isaiah 46:10).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3. SACRIFICIAL
BLOOD BOTH CLEANS AND DEFILLES: SDAs teach that the identical ritual of
confessing sins over a sacrifice daily throughout the year and yearly on the
Day of Atonement have opposite effects. The daily brings partial atonement and
defiles the sanctuary while the yearly cleanses the sanctuary. Yet, the Day of
Atonement sacrifice includes 10 days of intense soul-searching for unconfessed
sins (Lev 23:27-34; Rev 7:14). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4. ATONED SIN DOES NOT PASS THE DOORWAY: Sins
did not enter the sanctuary through the sacrificial system;</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
they were always washed away at the entrance where the sacrifice was offered
and its blood was shed. See Lev 1:3; 3:2; 4:4, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Beginning in
Leviticus 4:20 “a sin offering … and the priest shall make an atonement for
them, and it shall be forgiven them.” “Atonement” occurs 49 times in Leviticus.
The blood of the sacrificial sin offering made aa full atonement for those sins
confessed over it. It was not a partial
atonement. God does not require double payment for the same sins. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Those who
entered the sanctuary grounds with any uncleanness were cut off (Lev 22:3).
Unclean priests were put to death (Ex 12:19; 23:18; 29:44-45; 34:25; Lev 2:11;
6:17; 10:12; 23:17). All of the offerings were “most holy” (Lev 6:17, 25; 7:1;
Num 18:7-10). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5. JESUS, AS ANTICHRIST DEFILES: SDAs make Jesus
the Antichrist who is responsible for bringing sins into the heavenly sanctuary
to defile it. While pagan Rome only destroyed the earthly sanctuary (Dan 8:9-10
per SDAs) and papal Rome only replaced it with the confessional (Daniel 8:11-12
per SDA theology), Jesus Himself personally brought atoned sins of believers into
the heavenly sanctuary and defiled it Dan 8:13-14). This is utter confusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. WITHOUT A
MEDIATOR: God knows the end from the beginning and is just. He will not cast
out life-long believers for minor unconfessed sins. First John 1:9 promises
that God goes beyond forgiving known sins to “<u>cleanse us from all
unrighteousness</u>” --- that includes forgotten unconfessed sins. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The SDA plan
of salvation requires Jesus to first read the books in heaven in order to
determine who died with every sin repented and forsaken (GC483-484). First John
1:9 is not quoted in <i>The Great Controversy </i>which teaches that<i> </i>God
does not forgive<i> </i>forgotten and unconfessed sins. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7. DANIEL
8:9-14: SDAs fail to interpret Daniel
8:9-14 as a whole. They fail to see that their interpretation makes Jesus
Himself the Antichrist responsible to bringing sins into the sanctuary and
defiling it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8. THE PURPOSE
OF SACRIFICIAL BLOOD BEING CARRIED INTO THE SANCTUARY: It recorded the payment
for sins (Jer 17:1); it was evidence that the price had been paid. .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9. HOW THE
SANCTUARY WAS DEFILED: The earthly sanctuary was defiled by its location “in
the midst” of a sinful people (Lev 16:16). Lev 15:31 “Thus shall ye separate
the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their
uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.” Num 19:20 “But
the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be
cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of
the LORD: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is
unclean.” See also Lev 18:28; 20:3; Num 5:2-3; 19:13; 35:34; Eze 2:62.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> 10. ENTIRE SANCTUARY REQUIRED CLEANSING: SDAs
do not teach that the entire earthly sanctuary required periodic cleansing
because of its location in the midst of a sinful people. It is wrong to stress
the necessary cleansing of the Most Holy Place and ignore the remainder of the
sanctuary (Lev 16:16-20).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11. LEVITICUS
16 AND DANIEL 8:14 CONTRAST: SDAs fail to see a disconnect between Leviticus
16’s one-day, Day of Atonement to 179+ years and ignore the two different Hebrew
words used for “cleansing” in Leviticus 16 (taheer) and in Daniel “tsadaq”
(righteous).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13. SATAN IN
THE MOST HOLY PLACE: SDAs teach that Satan is alongside Jesus in the Most Holy
Place accusing believers while Jesus is examining the books of heaven (GC484). Satan
is not omni-present like God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14. SINS OF
IGNORANCE: SDAs say very little about Israel’s judges and judicial system. In
reality the priests only ministered minor sins of ignorance or accident and
only those sins would be recorded in God’s book of remembrance. See Leviticus
11, 13,, 14, 15, 19; Num 5. Presumptuous sins and willful sins were handled by
the judges and would not be recorded in the books inside the Most Holy Place. See
Exodus 21:24; 22:18, 20; 30:21; 31:14; Leviticus 7:21, 25-27; 10 all; 18 all; 20
all; 24:16, 20; Deut 19:21. The guilty persons “bore their own iniquity. See
Numbers 5:31; 30:15; Ezekiel 18:20. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">15. WILLIAM
MILLER WAS A FARLSE PROPHET: Jesus did not return to earth in 1844, earth did
not burn up in 1844 and those who rejected his message were not Babylon. SDAs refuse
to admit that William Miller was a false prophet and call his message the first
angel’s message of Revelation 14. Miller’s “judgment” message was the second
coming of Christ to destroy earth by fire in 1844. They also teach that the
second angel’s message of Revelation 14 occurred in the summer of 1844. Today,
SDAs teach nothing in common with William Miller who admitted error and
returned to his local church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> A CONDENSED SUMMARY OF ELLEN G. WHITE’S FALSE
TEACHINGS:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………………………..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pages are from
<i>The Great Con</i>troversy, Confllict Series, Volume 5, 1888, 1907, 1911,
1939, 1950. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC305, 306,
333: [An earthquake in 1755, a dark day in 1780 and a star shower in 1833 were
signs of the soon coming of Christ.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC324, 336,
339, 351: [William Miller was a true prophet who prophesied of the
Investigative Judgment.]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC334-335: The
1840 fall of the Ottoman Empire fulfilled Revelation 9.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC335: William
Miller possessed the wisdom of heaven. His thorough knowledge of the Scripture
enabled him to refute error and expose falsehood.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC351-352: As
Jesus’ disciples were mistaken about the kingdom being at hand, early
Adventists were mistaken about the second coming. … Both fulfilled the will of
God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC354: God
accomplished His own beneficent purpose in permitting the [false] warning of
the judgment to be given just as it was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">**GC373-374: God’s
hand covered a mistake in the reckoning of the prophetic periods. (SC from
spring 1844 to October 22, 1844)<o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC379: The
first angel’s message of Revelation 14 … was designed to separate the professed
people of God. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Correction: In
other words, those who rejected Miller should have stayed with him. Miller’s
message was false; his “judgment” was earth destroyed by fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC379-380: The
unscriptural hope of a temporal millennium was abandoned. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Correction: Miller’s
view of a destroyed earth would also destroy the later SDA view of Satan on a
desolate earth 1000 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC380: The
message [Miller’s] which God had sent for the testing and purification of the
church … In refusing the warning of the first angel [Miller] they rejected the means which
heaven had provided for their restoration. … Here was the cause of …
backsliding … in 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC389: The
second angel’s message of Revelation 14 was first preached in the summer of
1844. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CORRECTION: Miller
preached “Babylon is fallen” when most of his followers returned to their own
churches. See GC391.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC401: Of all
the great religious movements since the days of the apostles, none have been more
free from human imperfection and the wiles of Satan than was that of the summer
of 1844. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CORRECTION: This
refers to a time when Adventists were still preaching the end of earth by fire
in October 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC405: Miller
fulfilled prophecy …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC405-406: The
ablest of their opponents had not succeeded in overthrowing their system of
prophetic interpretation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">***GC410: But
God had led His people in the great advent movement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">GC417: “… the
sanctuary to which it (Dan 8:14) refers must be the sanctuary of the new
covenant. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CORRECTION: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a fundamental error which completely ignores the context
of Daniel 8:1-13 and, especially, the question it answers from Daniel 8:13. It
also demands that 2300 “evenings and mornings) could only be interpreted as
prophetic years rather than literal days or even 1150 literal days. The
sanctuary of the new covenant was inaugurated when Christ ascended to the right
hand of the Father and began ministering there as a high priest and was the
entire sanctuary --- not just one room. <u>The one “day” Day of Atonement
lasted one “day.”</u> When SDAs claim that Christ has been ministering in the holy
place of the heavenly sanctuary since his ascension, they inadvertently admit
that he inaugurated the entire sanctuary at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">***GC417: “Is there anything in heaven to be cleansed? … <u>It was
therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be
purified with these [the blood of animals]; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these" (Hebrews 9:22, 23), even the precious
blood of Christ. </u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Hebrews 9:22,23 refers to an inauguration ceremony,
not the Day of Atonement. Actually, there were three different times that the
earthly sanctuary/Temple was “cleansed”: (1) its inauguration, (2) its
re-dedication/restoration after being defiled and (3) Day of Atonement. EGW and
SDAs confuse the actual “restoration” cleansing required from Daniel 8:11-12
with the Day of Atonement cleansing of Leviticus 16. SDAs create their own
confusion by disconnecting 8:9-13 from 8:14. The Hebrew word for “cleansed” in
Daniel 8:14 (tsadaq) is never associated with the Day of Atonement cleansing in
Leviticus 16 (taheer).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: The “cleansing” described in Hebrews 9:13-14 is neither
the second (re-dedication), nor the third (Day of Atonement) which required sin
to be confessed over the sacrifices. Rather, it was the first (inauguration) of
both the old and new covenants which did not require sin to be confessed
over the sacrifices (Exodus 24:3-8).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC417-418: But how could there be sin connected with the
sanctuary, either in heaven or upon the earth?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: <u>Fundamental error</u>. Atoned sin never entered
either sanctuary. The sin ceased to exist the moment the sacrifice died (Ex
12:13; Lev 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13, 16, 18. EGW keeps repeating Hebrews 9:22
but does not apply it to the moment the sacrificial blood was shed. Every
aspect of both sanctuaries reflected the sinless holiness of God. The two
sanctuaries are vastly different because the earthly sanctuary was located in
the middle of millions of sinners, whereas the heavenly sanctuary is not, and
could not possibly contain sin which cannot abide in the Presence of God. See
chapter 11 of my book, Exposing Seventh-day Adventism. Willful sins were
punished by judges. There was no sacrifice prescribed for willful sins (Ex 21:
17, 23-25; 31 14; Lev 20 2; 24:16).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: The ministration of the earthly sanctuary consisted of two
divisions; the priests ministered daily in the holy place, while <u>once a year</u>
the high priest performed a special work of atonement in the most holy, for the
cleansing of the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Atonement and cleansing were performed every day of
the year. Atonement was pronounced after every sacrifice. The entire sanctuary
was cleansed before it entered service (Ex 29:36; 2 Chron 29:15), lepers'
houses (Lev 14:49), Levites (Numb 8:6) and, especially, individual sins (Ps
51:2). Since there was such a great importance placed upon clean and unclean, it
is wrong to limit cleansing to the residual cleansing of the Day of Atonement
(Lev 10:10). Also, "the special work of atonement in the most holy"
is really "the special work of atonement which began in the most holy and
spread to include the entire sanctuary; this fact really annuls the SDA
interpretation. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418 Day by day the repentant sinner brought his offerings to the
door of the tabernacle, placing his hand upon the victim's head, confessed his
sin, thus in figure <u>transferring</u> them from himself to the innocent
sacrifice. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: At the door of the tabernacle the blood of the perfect
sinless substitute sacrifice (Jesus Christ) atoned for and washed away the sin
at the instant He died. Christ "did not know sin" before or at
Calvary. God the Father (not the sinner) "made Him to be sin for us"
(2 Cor 5:21) --- He legally imputed sin to Christ. Christ did not become a
sinner; He was affected by sin but not infected by it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: The animal was then slain. "Without shedding of
blood," says the apostle, there no remission of sin. The life of the flesh
is in the blood." Hebrews 9:22; Leviticus 17:11. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">COMMENT: Yes, yes, yes. Remission of sin occurred the moment the
sacrifice died as the blood was shed on a daily basis. Again, the instant
the Substitute died, its blood atoned for and washed away the sin. The sin
itself did not enter into and defile the sacrificial blood, the priest or the
sanctuary!!! Everything and every person in the sanctuary must maintain
holiness at all times in order for the sanctuary to function properly. Words
such as "<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">A</span>nd the priest
shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them" occur
over 40 times in Leviticus alone. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: <u>The blood representing the forfeited life whose guilt
the victim bore</u>, was carried by the priest into the holy place, and
sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing the law that the
sinner had transgressed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: "No! No! No!" A thousand times
"No!" <i>The blood, representing the holy, perfect, sinless, life of
the Substitute sacrifice</i>, was evidence (the receipt) that the perfect
redemption price had been paid!!! The blood recorded the finished atonement and
redemption. Jeremiah 17:1 reads "The sin of Judah is written with a pen of
iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their
heart, and upon the horns of your altars.” At least in this quotation, EGW
correctly identifies “the holy place” and “the veil.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: By this ceremony <i>the sin was, through the blood,
transferred in figure to the sanctuary</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Again, No, no, no. THIS IS A GREAT FUNDAMENTAL ERROR: Although EGW
once softens the language to "record of sins," her declaration that
"sin [itself] was transferred [by Jesus Himself] through the blood"
is predominant. God would never allow the Most Holy Place to be defiled; such
would stop the entire sanctuary service. Records do not defile.</span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> As will be seen soon in following statements, beginning here,
Seventh-day Adventism makes its greatest error!!! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: In some cases the blood was not taken into the holy place,
but the flesh was to be eaten by the priest, as Moses directed the sons of
Aaron saying “God has given it unto you <u>to bear the iniquity</u> of the
congregation.” Leviticus 10:17. Both ceremonies alike symbolized the<i> <u>transfer
of the sin from the penitent to the sanctuary</u></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is the greatest error of the SDA view of the
sanctuary. Sacrificial blood "atones," "cleans” and “washes
away” sin! (Ex 29:36; Lev 12:8; 14:20, 53; 16:30; Numb 8:21). Sacrificial blood
does not “transfer” sin from the sinner to the sanctuary. No sin entered the
sanctuary through the atonement ritual! Sacrificial blood never “defiles”
anything! Everything about the priest, his physical body, his clothing, his
anointing, and his deportment within the sanctuary, must be holy and without
blemish! Everything about the sacrificial animal must also be “most holy” or it
would be rejected! When any part of the sanctuary was defiled, such as with
Antiochus Epiphanes in 168 B. C., the entire ritual immediately ceased. The SDA
doctrine insults the holiness of God and turns the Most Holy Place of the
entire universe into the most defiled place with the accumulated atoned sins of
every believer since Adam! (See Ex 33:22, 23; Lev 16:13; Isa 6:3-5; Lev
6:25-27; Numb 18: 9; Lev 4:20; 5:6; 6:7; 7:6; Heb 9:13, 14). It is
contradictory to teach that everything about the sanctuary was either holy or
most holy while teaching that the priests routinely defiled it through their
daily ministry of blood. The priests merely bore the responsibility of
mediating sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Lost in this discussion is the indirect and
inadvertent admission by SDAs that Jesus is the WHO, the Source, the ONE who
DEFILES the sanctuary by literally bringing the sins of believers into it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418: Such was the work that went on day by day throughout the
year. <i>The sins of Israel were thus transferred to the sanctuary, and a
special work became necessary for their removal.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is EGW and SDA cultic doctrine at its
contradictory worst. It forces them to teach that the daily sacrifices
(representing Jesus as priest, sacrifice and His blood) “defiled” the sanctuary
while the identical yearly Day of Atonement sacrifice “cleansed” it. However,
SDAs dare not equate the word “transfer” with “defile.” Neither would they ever
blame Jesus for defiling the sanctuary even though it is clearly what they
teach! The Bible does not teach that the purpose of the Day of Atonement was to
remove previously forgiven sins which had been placed there via sacrificial
atonement blood! It was only for residual sin (Lev 16:29, 31; 23; 27, 32).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC418-419: God commanded that an atonement be made <u>for each of
the sacred apartments</u>. "He shall make an atonement <u>for the holy
place</u> because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of
their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do <u>for the
tabernacle</u> of the congregation that <i>remaineth</i> among them <u>in the
midst of their uncleanness.</u>' An atonement was also to be made for the altar
"to cleanse it and hallow it <u>from the uncleanness of the children of
Israel</u>." Leviticus 16:16, 19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: There is a serious problem here for SDAs. While EGW
admits that the entire sanctuary was cleansed on the Day of Atonement, both she
and other SDAs tend to ignore this statement. It means that Jesus was
ministering in a defiled holy place until 1844. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC419: Once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, the [high]
priest entered the most holy place for the cleansing of the sanctuary. The work
there performed <u>completed the yearly round of ministration</u>. On the Day
of Atonement two kids of the goats were brought to the door of the tabernacle,
and lots were cast upon them, "one for the Lord and the other lot for the
scapegoat." Verse 8. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: (1) No mention is made of the high priest's personal
sin offering because Jesus had no sin and such is not patterning fulfillment
(16:3, 6). (2) Neither is mention made that <u>both goats</u> from the congregation
were for <u>one sin-offering</u> (16:5) as this disagrees with the SDA
interpretation of the scapegoat at Satan. (3) Again, no mention is made that
the entire sanctuary was cleansed on the Day of Atonement. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC419: The goat upon which fell the lot for the Lord was to be
slain as a sin offering for the people. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: When both goats were presented before the LORD for <u>one</u>
sin offerings (Lev 16:5, 7), both goats became most holy (Num 18:9). Both goats
were equal because the lot could have fallen on either (16:8). The first goat
would immediately die for the LORD (16:8, 9); the second goat became a living
sacrifice to carry the memory of sins away (16:10; Heb 8:12). Compare Leviticus
14:54. Both goats were types of Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC419: And the priest was to bring his blood <u>within the veil</u>
and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat and before the mercy seat. The blood was
also to be sprinkled upon the altar of incense which was before the veil.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: EGW has no problem interpreting "within the
veil" correctly here compared to pages 420-421. Also, she fails to point
out that the entire sanctuary was cleansed on the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:16).
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC419: "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of
the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of
Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the
head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not
inhabited. Verses 21, 22. The scapegoat came no more into the camp of Israel,
and the man who led him away was <u>required to wash himself</u> and his
clothing with water before returning to the camp.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Far from being a reference to Satan, "presented
alive before the LORD" ensures that the scapegoat is a holy living
sacrifice "to make an atonement with him" (16:10; Num 18:9). The high
priest literally placed both his hands upon both goats. If the scapegoat had represented
Satan, he would have been defiled. The fact that neither the high priest nor
the man who led the goat out were required to offer sin offerings after their
tasks proves that they were not handling sin (16:24, 26). Both only had to wash
with water.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gc419-420: The whole ceremony was designed to impress the
Israelites with the holiness of God and His abhorrence of sin and, further to <u>show
them that they could not come in contact with sin without becoming polluted</u>.
Every man was required to <u>afflict his soul</u> while the work of atonement
was going forward. All business was to be laid aside, and the whole
congregation of Israel were to spend the day in solemn humiliation before God,
with prayer, fasting and deep searching of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Again, notice that neither the high priest nor the
person handling the scapegoat were required to offer a sin offering for
becoming defiled. The one-day Day of Atonement was symbolic of one final
Judgment Day in which God would once-for-all time deal with sin (Heb 10:1-14).
Israelites afflicted their souls to reveal any <u>residual un-confessed and
un-atoned sins from the previous year</u>. Since SDAs cannot cease doing
business every day for over 178 years, the prophetic symbolism is lost (Lev
16:29, 31; 23:27, 32).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: Important truths concerning the atonement are taught by the
typical service. A substitute was accepted in the sinner's behalf.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">COMMENT: Ellen G. White has changed from saying "the blood
represents the forfeited life of the victim" to the correct saying "a
substitute was accepted in the sinner's behalf."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: … <i>but the sin was not canceled by the blood of the
victim.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is insane unbiblical theology! In other words,
"the perfect sinless blood of Jesus Christ was unable to completely atone
for and wash away sin when first confessed." Then why keep repeating
Hebrews 9:22 “without the shedding of blood is no remission”? When the
sacrificial blood was shed daily <u>at the entrance to the sanctuary</u>,
remission occurred. The phrase “and the priest shall make an atonement for
them, and it shall be forgiven” occurs in Leviticus 4:20, 26, 31, 35; 5:10, 13,
16, 18; 6:7; 19:22). Indeed, the sin was canceled because the debt had been
fully paid. The <u>responsibility</u> for the atonement sin was transferred ---
not the sin itself. There is no mention of the transfer of sin into the
sanctuary in the Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: A means was thus provided by which it was <i>transferred to
the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GREAT ERROR: Here is born the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of
the Investigative Judgment to remove atoned sins which have defiled the
heavenly sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GREAT ERROR: (1) Pagan Rome literally defiled the literal sanctuary
with its army in A. D. 70 per the SDA interpretation of Daniel 8:9-10. (2)
Papal Rome spiritually defiled the sanctuary with its theology and confessional
in A. D.121t5 per the SDA interpretation of Daniel 8:10-12. (3) Jesus Himself
becomes the worst defiler by transferring atoned sins of believers into the
heavenly sanctuary per the SDA interpretation of Daniel 8:14. Therefore, Jesus
is the Anti-Christ little horn of Daniel 8. Although they must strongly deny
such obvious consequence and blame the sins of believers, in context, “transfer
sin” and “defile” mean the same thing! The WHO is Jesus and the HOW is “using
the sins of the saints.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: By the offering of blood the sinner acknowledged the
authority of the law, confessed his guilt in transgression, and expressed his
desire for pardon through faith in a Redeemer to come;<i> but he was not yet
entirely released from the condemnation of the law</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is another example of SDA theology at its worst.
Ellen G. White failed to grasp that the sinner was offering the perfect sinless
blood of Jesus Christ which certainly released the sinner from the condemnation
of the law. The perfect sacrifice had been brought and accepted; Jesus’
life-blood had been shed; the atonement-redemption price had been fully paid,
and the priest had announced “it shall be forgiven” (Lev 4:26, 31, 35; 5:10,
13, 16, 18; 6:7; 19:22). Yet EGW erroneously says that the sinner was “not yet
entirely released from the condemnation of the law.” Thus, none can be in heaven
and none can have assurance of salvation until their records had been
scrutinized sometime after 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: On the Day of Atonement the high priest, having taken an
offering from the congregation, went into the most holy place with the blood of
this offering, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, directly over the law<i>
to make satisfaction for its claims</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> CORRECTION: No, no, no. “To show that satisfaction had been
made and accepted the moment the sacrificial offering died.” This compares to
when Christ uttered from the cross, “It is finished.” Like every other daily,
weekly and seasonal sin offering, the meaning was <b><u>to prove that
satisfaction had already been made</u>! This was a most holy spotless sin
offering which had been presented before the LORD (Lev 16:5, 7; Numb 18:9) and
the residual sins of the congregation (which had remained to be confessed) had
been confessed over it (Lev 16:29, 31; 23:27, 32). Again, satisfaction was made
the instant the sin offering died (Ex 12:13). Its blood was brought into the
Most Holy Place as <u>proof, or evidence</u>, that the payment had already been
made (Jer 17:1). Since God does not require double atonement for the same sins,
the Day of Atonement ritual was not a second redemption for sins covered by the
daily ministration. Rather, it was a final residual cleansing of all remaining
“un-atoned” sinfulness of Israel. Atoned sins are the only ones which do not
defile! (See Lev 15:31; 18:28; Numb 5:2, 3; 19:13; 35:34; compare Lev 16:16-20,
30).<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: If confessed and atoned DAILY sins defiled the
sanctuary, so also would confessed</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> and atoned YEARLY sins defile it. This
means that, while Jesus has been removing sins from the heavenly sanctuary
since 1844, He has also been daily transferring sins to it and daily defiling
it by daily forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: Then, in his character of mediator, <i>he [the high priest]
took the sins upon himself and bore them from the sanctuary</i>. [to place upon
the scapegoat]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: The cost of forgiven sins had been paid. As occurred
daily, the high priest now removed the record of forgiven sins from the
sanctuary to the scapegoat. If the high priest had touched sin, he would have
been instantly defiled, unfit to serve and would require another sin offering
for cleansing. The Bible does not state
that the high priest on the Day of Atonement removed sins from the Most Holy
Place. Exactly as in daily sin offerings, the residual sins of all Israel had
been atoned and washed away the instant the LORD's goat died at the doorway (Ex
12:13; Heb 9:22). The record of all atoned sins was removed from the entire
sanctuary --- beginning with the Most Holy Place. Read Leviticus 16:16. Compare
with the last phrase of 1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: Placing his hands upon the head of the scapegoat, he
confessed over him <i>all these sins</i>,<i> thus in figure transferring them
from himself to the goat</i>. The goat then bore them away, and they were
regarded as forever separated from the people.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Atoned sins never made it past the doorway where the
sacrifice died! And the high priest certainly did not carry “sins” inside the
sanctuary because he would have been defiled and unclean! The scapegoat, the
equal second half of the ONE most holy sin offering from the people (16:7),
presented a visual demonstration to Israel that even their residual sins were
forever removed. “All these sins” refers, not to previously confessed and
atoned sin, but to the residual general sinfulness of Israel. See Lev 16:16-20,
30. It is noteworthy that neither the high priest nor person who handled the
second goat was considered defiled afterwards. Since the New Covenant sanctuary
in heaven is not located “in the midst of a sinful people,” then it does not
require a later corresponding Day of Atonement ritual. The cleansing described
in Hebrews 9 is comparable, not to the Day of Atonement, but to the
inauguration to begin the new ministry. Compare Exodus 24:4-8 and 29 with
Hebrews 9:17-22.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: Such was the service performed "unto the example and
shadow of heavenly things." And what was done in type in the ministration
of the earthly sanctuary is done in reality in the ministration of the heavenly
sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: How much “example” was actually performed in the heavenly
sanctuary (Hebrews 8:5)? Almost every text in Hebrews 8 and 9 is contrast, not
fulfillment. Hebrews 9:9 says the old ritual was “a figure for the time then
present.” It seems that SDAs only want to keep the Day of Atonement and even then,
they do not make it a whole year as per their guiding principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: The "real" heavenly sanctuary already
existed during Old Testament times. Did Christ mediate sins since Adam and Eve
in it? Was there a yearly Day of Atonement every year in the heavenly sanctuary?
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Since Jesus is both priest and sacrifice, SDAs
inadvertently make Jesus the guilty defiler of the sanctuary transferring sin
to it. Their theology has Jesus bearing His own “sin-laden” blood into the
sanctuary and defiling it. This is very obviously wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC420: The ministration of the priest throughout the year in the
first apartment of the sanctuary, <i>“within the veil” </i>which formed the
door and separated the holy place from the outer court, represents the work of
ministration upon which Christ entered at His ascension.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is goofy theology laughed at by all Bible
scholars outside Adventism. It was invented as a weak attempt to justify the
1844 false interpretation where Christ, for the first time since His death, entered
the Most Holy Place in haven over 1800 years after Calvary. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: So did Christ plead His blood before the Father in behalf
of sinners, and present before Him also with the precious fragrance of His own
righteousness the prayers of penitent believers. Such was the work of
ministration in the first apartment of the sanctuary in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">COMMENT: This is the first time Ellen G. White has referred to the
priest as Christ and to the blood as His blood. It has previously been
"the blood represented the forfeited life of the sinner" (GC418).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: Thither [only into the holy place] the faith of Christ's
disciples followed Him as He ascended from their sight. Here their hopes
centered, "which hope we have," said Paul, "as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail;
whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest
forever.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Again, EGW teaches that “within the veil” only refers
to the veil between the outer courtyard and first compartment. No other church denomination
has dared offer such a different explanation of where Jesus ascended.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own
blood he entered in <i>once into the holy place</i>, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.” Hebrews 6:19, 20; 9:12.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Compare GC414-415. SDAs are the only group who teach
that Christ only ministered in the Holy Place (instead of the Most Holy Place)
from his ascension until 1844. EGW takes the reference to “within the veil”
from Hebrews 6:19 and changes it into the outer veil instead of the inner veil.
However, with one exception (Heb. 9:3), five of six references to “veil” in the
New Testament refer to the veil between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place
--- not to the curtain separating the Holy Place from the courtyard (Mt 27:51;
Mk 15:38; Lk 23:45). Also, the phrase, “within the veil (vail)” occurs six (6)
times in the Old Testament and <i>always</i> refers to the Most Holy Place,
particularly on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16. See Ex 26:33; Lev 16:2,
12, 15; Nu 18:7. The phrase, “without the veil (vail)” occurs four (4) times in
the Old Testament and always refers to the Most Holy Place. See Ex 26:35;
27:21; 40:22; Lev 24:3. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The “holy place” from Hebrews 9:12 (except for SDAs) is
universally understood by Greek scholars and Bible translators as referring to
the Most Holy Place (NKJV and NIV) of “heaven itself” (9:24). Again, the
context of Hebrews 9:12 is that of inauguration of the New Covenant and not
that of the Day of Atonement. Compare 9:18-21 with Moses’ inauguration in
Exodus 24:3-8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: For eighteen centuries this work of ministration continued
[only] <i>in the first apartment </i>of the sanctuary [the holy place]. The
blood of Christ, pleaded in behalf of penitent believers, secured their pardon
and acceptance with the Father, <i>yet their SINS still remained upon the books
of record</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRETION: This is an SDA oddity. While the Father and the Law are
located inside the Most Holy Place, Christ was not there until 1844. While
“pardon and acceptance” had been “secured,” they really were not because a
reversal might occur when Jesus read the books. No Bible texts validate that the
atoned sins themselves literally “remain on the books of record.” While it is
true that Arminian Methodists believe one can fall from grace, they attribute
the fall to unconfessed sins following an initial justification experience.
However, here SDAs refer to previously confessed and atoned sins still on the
books of heaven. Ps 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me,
and I shall be whiter than snow. Ps 103:12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: As in the typical service there was a work of atonement at
the close of the year …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: The “work of atonement” at the end of the year did not
involve previously confessed and atoned sins. Rather, it involved yet
unconfessed and yet unforgiven residual sins. It compared to a seasonal
house-cleaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: <i>This is the service which began when the 2300 days
ended.</i> At that time, as foretold by Daniel the prophet [GC479; Dan. 7:9,
10], our High Priest <i>entered the most holy</i>, to perform the last division
of His solemn work --- to cleanse the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: To SDAs in 1844, this sounded like Jesus might return soon.
It has taken Ellen G. White 421 pages to justify the existence of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church following the false prophecy of 1844 by William
Miller. Yet it has already taken an Omniscient God over 178 years to research
the books of heaven to determine who shall finally be saved. In reality, the
"one-day" Day of Atonement prophesied Christ's "one-day"
act of once-for-all-time redemption at Calvary (Heb 9:24-26). The First and
Second Angels’ Messages (“from God” EGW earlier wrote) preached by Miller have
now been completely rejected by SDAs and replaced by the much worse false
doctrine of the Investigative Judgment. Daniel 8:14 is now the cornerstone of
Seventh-day Adventism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421: As anciently the SINS of the people were placed by faith
upon the sin offering and through its blood <i>transferred</i>, in figure, to
the earthly sanctuary, so in the New Covenant the SINS of the repentant are by
faith placed upon Christ and <i>transferred, in fact, to the heavenly sanctuary</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Both examples are wrong! The sins were washed away by
the blood of the innocent sacrifice at the moment the sacrifice died. Here is
positive proof that SDAs teach that Jesus Christ Himself is personally
responsible for transferring sins to the heavenly sanctuary and defiling it! It
is absolutely incredible that<u> </u>SDAs make Jesus Christ, the sinless
Substitute and Sacrifice, into the Anti-Christ responsible for carrying sins
into the heavenly sanctuary and defiling the Most Holy Place in heaven! “Yes,”
they say, the very same atoning and purifying blood of Jesus Christ is also <i><u>defiling</u></i><u>
blood</u> which carries SIN into the holiest place in the Universe and pollutes
it! Therefore, the worst offender is not the "little horn" but Jesus
Christ Himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC421-422: And as the typical cleansing of the earthly was
accomplished by the removal of the SINS by which it had been polluted [by
Jesus], so the actual cleansing of the heavenly is to be accomplished by the
removal, or blotting out, of the SINS which are there recorded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: This is speaking of blotting out sins which have
already been forgiven an atoned. At this point EGW does say “sins which are
there <u>recorded</u>.” However, all of her other quotations plainly say “sins”
which have “defiled” heaven. Mere “records” of sins would not defile, yet,
according to EGW, heaven is defiled by atoned sins of believers which were
carried there by Jesus through His blood. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC422: But before this can be accomplished, there must be<i> an
examination of the books of record</i> to determine who, through repentance and
faith in Christ, are entitled to the benefits of his atonement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Notice “to determine.” This cancels the previous
statement that “pardon and acceptance” is already secured
(GC421). Otherwise, there would be no reason to examine the lives of the
faithful. And, by extension, it also means that nobody is in heaven yet because
nobody can claim to have been fully saved before 1844.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC422: It was seen also that, while the sin offering pointed to
Christ as a sacrifice and the high priest represented Christ as a mediator, the
scapegoat typified Satan, the author of sin, upon whom the SINS of the truly
penitent will finally be placed. When the high priest, <u>by virtue of the
blood of the sin offering</u>, removed the SINS from the sanctuary, he placed
THEM upon the scapegoat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: How can the blood of the sin offering “remove” sins
when the blood of the sin offering “placed” sins there?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC422: When Christ, by virtue of His own blood, removes the SINS
of His people from the heavenly sanctuary at the close of His ministration, He
will place THEM upon Satan, who, in the execution of the judgment, must bear
the final penalty.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: Again, SDAs
dare not admit they teach that “Christ, by virtue of His own blood, PLACED the
SINS of His people INTO the heavenly sanctuary.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC422: The scapegoat was sent away into a land not inhabited,
never to come again into the congregation of Israel. So will Satan be forever
banished from the presence of God and His people, and he will be blotted from
existence in the final destruction of sin and sinners. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: As a final review: (1) Both goats were chosen by the
congregation as ONE sin offering (Lev 16:5). (2) When sacrificial animals were
"presented before the LORD" they became "most holy" (Lev
16:7; Nu 18:9). (3) The scapegoat was presented as a living sin offering
similar to Leviticus 14:53. And (4) if the high priest and goat-handler had
contacted sin, they would have been required to bring a sin offering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GC423: <u>The subject of the sanctuary was the key which unlocked
the mystery of the disappointment of 1844.</u> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CORRECTION: It was the excuse for not admitting Miller’s error. It
was a greater error to explain a lesser error. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">CONCLUSION: This is just a
very small sample of EGW errors catalogued on my web site, Exposing Seventh-day
Adventism. As a theologian, I get dizzy reading the utter absurdity and
nonsense found in <i>The Great Controversy</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Russell Earl Kelly, PHD.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Author of Exposing Seventh-day Adventism<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">1211 Bluefield Ave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Elizabethton, Tn 37643<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="mailto:russkellyphd@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">russkellyphd@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">706-401-1276<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-61011118885994805652023-03-28T12:38:00.000-07:002023-03-28T12:38:13.662-07:00In Defense of the Friday Crucifixion Theory<p>N DEFENSE OF THE FRIDAY CRUCIFIXION THEORY</p><div class="post-header"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="n"></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Note: If you disagree, don’t simply tell me I am wrong. Please write me a detailed rebuttal and cover every point as I would do with your article.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Only once, in Mathew 12:40, the Bible records Jesus saying that He would be resurrected after “three days and three nights.” So the cry goes out “if this is not literally true, then Jesus is a liar. Absolutely no other explanation can be accepted.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">However, Matthew alone subsequently records SEVEN TIMES Jesus’ words that He would be resurrected “in three days” (26:61; 27:40), “after three days” (27:63) and “the third day) (16:21; 17:23; 20:19; 27:64).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why, why, why do not these same people cry out saying the same words about these texts? --- “if these are not literally true, then Jesus is a liar”???</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">When Mark, Luke and John are added to Matthew’s list, a total of 17 (SEVENTEEN) statements of Jesus read “in three days; after three days” and/ or “the third day.” That 17:1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every word is inspired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, rather than reconcile all 18 references, those who insist on Matthew 12:40 (by their actions) teach that the 17 other quotations of Jesus are wrong.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="mso-cellspacing: 0in; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background: rgb(242, 235, 201); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Book</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(242, 235, 201); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">“<i>In three days</i>”</span></b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(242, 235, 201); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">“<i>After three days</i>”</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(242, 235, 201); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">“<i>The third day</i>”</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Matthew</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">26:61</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">27:40</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">27:63</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"> (</span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">12:40</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"> & 3 nights)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">16:21</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">17:23</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">20:19</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">27:64</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Mark</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">14:58</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"> (within)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">8:31</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">9:31</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">10:34</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Luke</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><br /></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><br /></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">9:22</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">18:33</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">; </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">24:7</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">21</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">46</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td></tr><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">John</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.wednesdaycrucifixion.com/inclusive-reckoning.html#1"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none;">2:19-21</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><br /></td><td style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); border: none; padding: 1.5pt;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">It is obvious from the above chart that “in three days,” “after three days,” “the third day” and even “three days and three nights” are all equivalent.” Matthew uses all four phrases for the same period. Mark. Luke and John have 10 (TEN) phrases among them and do not repeat Mathew 12:40 even once. The interval from Friday afternoon to Sunday morning is three days and three nights, by inclusive reckoning.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INCLUSIVE RECKONING: The common mode of counting employed in the Bible is shown to have been inclusive reckoning, that is, counting both the first and the last unit of time in calculating an interval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following commentaries agree with the inclusive majority reckoning position: Adam Clarke; Barnes Notes; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mathew Henry; and The Bible Knowledge Commentary. The Wycliffe Bible Commentary takes the 72-hour position and Wilmington’s King James Bible Commentary is neutral.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA: [This should not be ignored.] “<i>A short time in the morning of the seventh day is counted as the seventh day; circumcision takes place on the eighth day, even though, of the first day only a few minutes after the birth of the child, these being counted as one day.</i>” Vol. 4, p. 475.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Scores of contradictions would appear in both Old and New Testament if this principle were ignored –especially with the kings’ list of accession and regnal years in Kings and Chronicles.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>EGYPT, GREECE AND ROME: Inclusive reckoning was also used generally by other ancient nations.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">(1) An EGYPTIAN inscription recording the death of a priestess on the 4th day of the 12th month relates that her successor arrived on the 15th, “when 12 days had elapsed.” Today, we would say that when 12 days had elapsed after the 4th, the date would be the 16th.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">(2) The GREEKS followed the same inclusive method. They called the Olympiad, or the four-year period between the Olympic Games, a <i>pentaeteris</i> (five-year period), and used other similar numerical terms.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">(3) The ROMANS also, in common usage, reckoned inclusively; they had <i>nundinae</i> (from <i>nonus</i>, ninth), or market days, every ninth day, inclusive, actually every eight days, as indicated on ancient calendars by the letters, A through H.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">(4) TODAY our current musical OCTAVE (8) is actually only 7 notes long since the 7<sup>th</sup> note of one octave is the first note of the next octave.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">SOME BIBLICAL EXAMPLES OF INCLUSIVE RECKONING:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">5.</span><span style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt; mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Genesis 17:12 A Hebrew boy was circumcised when “eight days old”, that is, “in the eighth day” (Levites 12:3).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">Luke 1:59; 2:21 Similarly Luke speaks of circumcision “on the eighth day” or “when eight days were accomplished”. Evidently “when eight days were accomplished” does not mean eight full days from the date of birth, but eight inclusive.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I KINGS 12:5, 12; 2 CHRONILE3S 10:5, 12 When, at the death of Solomon, Rehoboam was petitioned to lighten the tax burden, he told the people to depart “for three days” (1 Kings 12:5) and then return for his decision “after three days” (2 Chronicles 10:5). They came “the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day” (1 Kings 12:12; cf. 2 Chronicles 10:12).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">7. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 KINGS 14: 2, 17, 23<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jeroboam II of Israel succeeded his father Jehoash in the 15th year of Amaziah of Judah (2 Kings 14:23), and Amaziah “lived after the death of Jehoash … of Israel fifteen years” (2 Kings 14:17). A modern reader would mentally add 15 to 15, reaching Amaziah’s 30th year, yet Amaziah reigned only 29 years (verse 2). Inclusive reckoning is again the most logical explanation, since 15 years, inclusive, from the 15th year is the 29th, in which he evidently died.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Kings 18:9-10. The siege of Samaria lasted from the fourth to the sixth year of Hezekiah, which is equated with the seventh to the ninth year of Hoshea, and yet the city is said to have been taken “at the end of three years.” In modern usage we would say two years, by straight subtraction. Obviously the Bible writer reckoned inclusively (years four, five, and six totaling three years).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ESTHER 4:16; 5:1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esther asked the Jews of Shushan to fast, and by implication, to pray, for her before she went in to the king unbidden, and then she approached the king “on the third day” (Esther 4:16; 5:1). Obviously a period of “three days” ended on the third day, not after the completion of the three days, as we would reckon it.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">10.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">JOHN 20:26</b> “And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">“After eight days” – not “seven days later” or “a week later”—means “the following first day of the week. This extremely evident use of inclusive reckoning is attested by the all eight commentaries at my disposal – including Wycliffe which supports the 72-hour theory: Adam Clarke; Barnes Notes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jamieson, Fausset and Brown; Matthew Henry; The Bible Knowledge Commentary; Wiersbe’s Bible Exposition Commentary; and Wilmington’s King James Bible Commentary.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #443333; font-size: 12pt;">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>HEBREW CALENDAR: WIKIPEDIA</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Hebrew lunar year is about eleven days shorter than the solar cycle and uses their own 19-year cycle to bring it into line with the solar cycle, with additional months every two or three years, for a total of seven times per 19 years. Even with this, the average Hebrew calendar year is longer by about 6 minutes and 40 seconds than the current mean </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year" title="Tropical year"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt;">tropical year</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">, so that every 216 years the Hebrew calendar will fall a day behind the current mean solar year; and about every 231 years it will fall a day behind the Gregorian calendar year. When to add extra months was based on observation of natural agriculture-related events.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">The system was gradually displaced by the mathematical rules used today. The principles and rules were fully codified by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides" title="Maimonides"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt;">Maimonides</span></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;"> in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishneh_Torah" title="Mishneh Torah"><i><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt;">Mishneh Torah</span></i></a><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;"> in the 12th century. Maimonides' work also replaced counting "years since the destruction of the Temple" with the modern creation-era </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Mundi" title="Anno Mundi"><i><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="color: #995500; font-size: 12pt;">Anno Mundi</span></i></a><i><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">12.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A CHART OF THE 72-HOUR THEORY:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">According to BeyndToday.tv, this is the sequence of events for the 72-hour crucifixion theory. It is true that Jewish months began at the first sighting of the new moon. While this did not affect the day of the week or the weekly Sabbath, it did affect the timing of all non-weekly holy days such as Passover, Firstfruits and The Day of Atonement. Passover always fell on the 14<sup>th</sup> day of the first month determined by the new moon and was always on a full moon. Since non-weekly holy days did not normally fall on the weekly Sabbath (one to seven chance), they were called High Sabbaths. Historically the Passover which followed Jesus’ crucifixion coincidentally also fell on the weekly Sabbath. However, the 72-hour-crucifixion theorists teach that Jesus was crucified in the middle of the week on a Wednesday and the Passover which followed was a Thursday High Sabbath.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">______________________________________________________</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">WEDNESDAY:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(1) Jesus was placed on a cross at the 3<sup>rd</sup> hour of the day at 9 AM (Mark 15:25); darkness covered the earth between the 6<sup>th</sup> and 9<sup>th</sup> hours between 12PM and 3PM; He died at the 9<sup>th</sup> hour at 3PM on Wednesday, the preparation day for the High Passover Sabbath (Mt 27:45-46; Mk 15:33-34; Lk 23:44; Jn 19:14).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(2) Joseph bought linen and wrapped Jesus’ body (Mk 15:46; Mt 27:59; Lk 23:53; Jn 19:40).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(3) The women observed Joseph’s entombment (Mt 27:61; Mk 15:47; Lk 23:55). .</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">THURSDAY:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(4) PASSOVER, the 14<sup>th</sup> day of the first month, is determined by the first sighting of the new moon. Since it must be on a full moon, the odds are one in seven that it will fall on the weekly Sabbath day (Ex 12:1-6).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(5) “And they [the women] returned … (Luke 23:56a)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The 72-hour-theorists teach that there are 5 (FIVE) days and two Sabbaths involved in Luke 23:56 and 24:1. They returned home Wednesday before sunset</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(6) [and rested Thursday during the High Passover Sabbath] (no texts!).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">FRIDAY:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(7) “… and bought and prepared spices and ointments” Luke 23:56b [on Friday following Thursday Passover] (no texts)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(8) [and did nothing else all day Friday] (no texts)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">SATURDAY; WEEKLY SABBATH:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(9) “… and rested [a second] Sabbath day [that week] according to the commandment” (Luke 23:56c).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(10) Jesus arises on the weekly Sabbath just before sunset exactly 72 hours after he was buried on Wednesday.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">______________________________________________________</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">SUNDAY:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(10) The women come to anoint the body which is gone.<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">PROBLEMS WITH THE CHART:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(1) There is no proof that “preparation day” does not refer to the day before the weekly Sabbath in Mt 27:62; Mk 16:42; Lk 23:54 and John 19:14, 31, 42. One must reason in reverse in order to force the texts to refer to Wednesday rather than Friday. Neither Matthew, Mark, Luke, nor John mention or allude to more than one Sabbath.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(2) The fact that Joseph bought linen late on the day before the Sabbath proves that stores stayed open until the last moment. Sunset dates for Easter allowed for at least four hours of daylight before sunset.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(3) A plain simple literal reading of Matthew, Mark. Luke and John reveals that the women intended to anoint the body at the earliest possible time.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(4) Literal conservative Christians almost always reason from God’s Word outward and reject scientific methodology. Yet here some get their “proof” from a Naval Observatory. Even then they disagree about the exact year of Christ’s crucifixion. The odds are that sometime between 30 and 33 AD Passover fell on the weekly Sabbath.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(5) Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all say that the women rested on the Sabbath. None say that they rested TWICE that week as is taught by the 72-hour theorists.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(6)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is fabrication to force God’s Word to agree with the 72-hour theory. The Bible does not tell us “when” the women bought their spices. Since there were about 4 hours between Christ’s death and sunset, there was time to buy them (as Joseph had done in Mark 15:46) before sundown on Friday.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(7) This is a very weak point in the 72-hour theory. If the women had bought their spices at the earliest opportunity on Friday following a Thursday High Sabbath Passover, they would have certainly gone directly to the tomb on that Friday to anoint the body. <u>They would not have wasted all day Friday.</u></span><u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(8) This is another very weak point in the 72-hour theory. A very careful reading of the last two chapters of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John reveals nothing about a mid-week Thursday Sabbath, two preparation days, two Sabbath days and the women resting twice before finally reaching the tomb to anoint it.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">(10) Common sense should alert the Bible student of error in logic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes no sense to teach that the women would not go to the tomb after buying spices on Friday after a Thursday High Sabbath, yet they rush at the very earliest possible moment 3 ½ days after a Wednesday crucifixion to anoint the body on the following first day of the week. Why the great rush when there was no rush the preceding Friday?</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">12.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>COMPARING MATTHEW, MARK AND LUKE</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Matthew 27:57 to 28:1</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Matt 27:57-61 “When the even was come”<br />Joseph “took the body, wrapped it, and placed it in his own tomb” while the women watched 27:57-61). “Now the next day” (Saturday) the soldiers guarded the tomb (Mt 27:62-66). “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week (Matt 28:1).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">……………….</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mark 15:42 to 16:2</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mk 15:42-47 only adds that Joseph “bought fine linen.” The next verse, 16:1-2 says “And when the sabbath was past” the women came on “the first day of the week.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">…………….</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Luke 23:54 to 24:1 reads “the preparation day” of “the Sabbath” (23:54). “The women returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment” (23:56). They returned “the first day of the week, very early in the morning.”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>72-hour theorists must conclude that either:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">A. Jesus told the truth in Mt 12:40 and lied 17 other times.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">B. Jesus lied in Mt 12:40 and told the truth 17 times.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All 18 references are to the same time using inclusive reckoning as was common to Jews.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“BeondToday.tv” errs when he says that the women bought spices on a Friday following a Thursday High Sabbath. This makes no sense. After buying spices they had the almost all of Friday to go to the tomb to anoint the body; thus it would have been unnecessary to rest during the weekly Sabbath!!! Think this through.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">15. The argument that the women must have waited until Friday morning to buy spices has no biblical validity.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>All agree that Jesus died around 3PM. Passover is always a full moon.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Passover (Easter) Sunset in Jerusalem this year is between 6:55 and 7:16. (Washington, GA is 6:43 PM, Wednesday, March 23, 2016).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Therefore there was between 3 hours and 55 minutes to 4 hours and 16 minutes before sunset for Joseph to purchase the linen shroud and the women to purchase spices after Christ died.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">D. According to Mark 15:45-46, after Joseph of Arimathea had received permission from Pilate to have the body, he “bought” the “fine linen,” removed and wrapped the body. This must have occurred Friday before sunset.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">E. According to Mark 16:1 the women “had bought sweet spices”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 72-hour advocates state categorically that the women could only have bought their spices on Friday following a Thursday High Sabbath. This is not true. Like Joseph of Arimathea, they still had time to buy spices after seeing the tomb and before sunset Friday. As previously mentioned, if the 72-hour theory is correct, the women had all day Friday to anoint the body and would not have needed to do so on the first day of the week.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">16.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vallowe very seriously errs when he uses Daniel 9:27’s “in the midst of the week” to argue that it pointed to Wednesday as the day of crucifixion. This is horribly wrong!!! “Week” and “weeks” in 9:24-27 (6 times) are “weeks OF YEARS” --- not days of the week. Even worse, the reference in 9:27 is to ANTICHRIST, not Christ!!! “In the midst of the week” is 3 1/2 YEARS after ANTICHRIST makes his covenant with Israel in the last days. Vallowe is evidently not dispensational.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">17.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vallowe makes another error when he uses Leviticus 23:10-11 to argue that Christ arose on Sunday as the “firstfruits” of Pentecost –the 50th day after the second High Sabbath of Passover.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This argument has no relevance to the 72-hour resurrection theory.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This argument counters “BeyondToday’s” weekly Sabbath resurrection argument.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Passover Sabbath could fall on any day of the week – a full moon depending upon which day the New Moon began the New Month.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Traditional interpretation (which I agree with) teaches that Christ was crucified on Friday when High Sabbath was also a weekly Sabbath.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">18.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vallowe errs when he categorically states that Jewish days are from 6 AM until 6 PM. In reality, even today Jewish days begin at sunrise and sunset which change every day.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">19.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vallowe greatly errs when he states that Jewish months are 28 days long. In reality, their months have always begun at the first sighting of the new moon and ends with no moon at all to be seen. Lunar months are 29.53<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>days long, or 29 ½ days long. Thus each Jewish year is 11.5+ days shorter than a solar year. Because of this Jews add extra days 7 times every 19 years to keep current. [In 2016 there are Adar I and Adar II beginning the year.] Yet Vallowe plays games with “28” to reach 1512 years from the Exodus (when most scholars only guess at the correct date).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">CONCLUSION: It is far easier to reconcile “three days and three nights” using inclusive reckoning than to ignore the 13 texts which state that Jesus would rise again on the third day itself (and not “after the third day”).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THIS IS HOW THE 72-HOUR CRUCIFIXION THEORY INERPRETS Luke 23:56:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And the women “returned” home Wednesday before sunset …</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and rested Thursday the High Sabbath Passover day</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“and prepared spieces and ointments”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>two days later on Friday</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and did absolutely nothing the remainder of that Friday</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">E.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“and rested the [weekly] Sabath</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">F.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>but rushed to anoint the body following the weekly Sabbath</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">THE SIMPLE TRUTH IS:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">A.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[FRIDAY] They “returned and prepared spices and ointments” Friday evening before sunset</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">B.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[SATURDAY] “and rested the weekly sabbath day according to the commandment</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">C.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>[SUNDAY] “and upon the first day of the week” rushed to anoint the body.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Thus fulfilling 17 times Jesus promised to rise “the third day,” “on the third day” and “after three days.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">russkellyphd@yahoo.com</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">See my book of plays: From Gethsemane to Ascension: An Ultimate Harmony of the Gospels</span></div>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-21301966480363596992023-03-28T12:13:00.000-07:002023-03-28T12:13:22.207-07:00FALLING FROM GRACE: 48 VERSES<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">FALLING
FROM GRACE</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The following
forty-eight (48) texts are examples of how and why believers can fall from
grace. While a few may be questionable, the majority clearly teach that
believers can indeed fall from grace. Since it only takes one example to
destroy the doctrine of eternal security, 2<sup>nd</sup> Peter 2:20-22 is the
best example.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ex 32:32 Yet now, if thou wilt forgive
their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast
written.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God’s plan of salvation is the same in both
testaments. Evidently Moses did not believe in eternal security. Otherwise, he
would not have asked God to remove his name from the book of life. Since
everybody’s name would be in the book of the physically living, Moses was not
referring to physical death.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Ex 32:33 And the LORD said unto Moses,
Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The name must be in the believers’ book of
life in order to be blotted out. Only God (Jesus Christ) can be responsible and
die for every sinner (Heb 9:26).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eze 3:20;
18:24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eze 3:20
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit
iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou
hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness
which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at
thine hand.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eze 18:24 But
when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth
iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man
doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be
mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath
sinned, in them shall he die.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The “righteous” are believers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When these believers “turn away from
righteousness, commit iniquity, and do according to all the abominations that
the wicked man does,” “he shall die in his sin and his righteousness which he
hath done shall not be remembered.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matt 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth:
but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is
thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot
of men.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since unbelievers have no “savor” to lose,
the text must be referring to real believers. “Ye” believers are the salt of
the earth. When believers “lose their savor,” they become “good for nothing,”
are “cast out” and are “trodden under foot.” That is a description of one who
has fallen from grace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matt 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said
by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matt 5:28 But
I say unto you, That “every one continuously looking upon” [participle] a woman
to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matt 5:29 And
if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is
profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell (Gehenna, the lake of fire).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Matt 5:30 And
if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is
profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy
whole body should be cast into hell (Gehenna, the lake of fire).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since unbelievers are already destined for
hell, Jesus must have been speaking to believers. In order to prevent offending
body parts from causing the whole body to go to hell (Gehenna), the believer
must remove them. In context, this includes castration. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matt 6:15 if [ean: probable] ye
continuously forgive not men their trespasses [present tense], neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is addressed to believers. It is part
of the disciples’ prayer. When believers/disciples continuously fail to forgive
each other, they will either receive lesser rewards in heaven, or they will
fall from grace if non-forgiveness of sins become extreme and habitual. The
latter is far more logical.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Matt 10:33 But whosoever shall deny [past
tense subjunctive] me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which
is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Whosoever” refers to both current
believers and those who never believed. A literal interpretation and
application of this verse leaves no room for debate. If one who has made a
sincere profession of faith in Christ as Lord and Savior, afterwards stops
continuously believing and denies Christ and His gospel, Christ will deny him
before His Father and the believer will fall from grace. This is not eternal
security doctrine.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Luke 8:13 They
on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and
these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Only true believers “receive the word with
joy” and “for a while believe.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No
man, “having put his hand to the plough and continuously looking back” [past participle]
is fit for the kingdom of God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The two participles must be interpreted as
continuous action. The same believer who changes from continuously believing to
continuously looking back is not fit for the kingdom of God. He has fallen from
grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Luke 13:8 … I shall dig about it, and dung
it:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Luke 13:9 And
if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The fig tree represents believing Hebrews
who later habitually fail to produce fruit. Exactly as in John 15:1-6, they
will fall from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>John 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father
is the husbandman.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:2
Every branch in me that “is not bearing” fruit he taketh away: and every branch
“the one (continuously) bearing” [participle] fruit, he purgeth it, that it may
bring forth more fruit.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:3 Now
ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:4
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
“is continuously abiding” in the vine; no more can ye, except ye “are
continuously abiding” in me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:5 I am
the vine, ye are the branches: “the one (continuously) abiding” [present active
participle] in me, and I in him, the same “is bearing” much fruit: for without
me ye can do nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John 15:6 If [ean:
probable] a man “does not continuously abide” in me, he is cast forth as a
branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and
they are burned.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These verses are quoted by all Arminians to
prove that believers can fall from grace. They do not describe mildly
disobedient believers who are merely being disciplined by God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Cor 3:17 If [ei: factually] any man “is
continually defiling” [present] the temple of God (the believer’s body), him
shall [future] God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God will “destroy” the believer who
continually “defiles” (destroys) his/her own body. “Destroy” appears twice in the
Greek. This is much stronger than mere discipline. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Cor 8:10 For if any man see thee which
hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of
him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Cor 8:11 And
through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Cor 8:12 But when
ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against
Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KJV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Believers with knowledge can “sin against weak
believers (the brethren),” “wound their weak conscience” and cause them to
“perish.” This is illogical if it is only referring to physical death.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">14.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Cor 9:27 But I keep under my body, and
bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to
others, I myself should be a castaway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A “castaway” is not a crewmember who is merely
being punished. A castaway is one who has been completely rejected, disowned
and left to perish.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Cor 10:1 - 4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Every person who left Egypt with Moses had
been saved. They were all under the cloud, all passed through the sea (10:1),
all were baptized (10:2), all ate the same spiritual food (10:3) and all drank
of Christ (10:4).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Cor 10:5 -12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But God was not pleased with many of them
and they were overthrown (10:5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
lusted (10:6), worshiped idols (10:7), fornicated (10:7), tempted Christ, were
destroyed (10:9) and murmured and were destroyed (10:10). “Wherefore <u>let him
that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall</u> (10:12).” See Jude 5 also.
Again, this is illogical unless it refers to falling from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath
bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:2 This only
would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of faith?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:3 Are ye so
foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:4 Have ye
suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This refers to believers who had “received
the Spirit” (3:2). Those former believers had since become “bewitched” and had
stopped obeying the truth (3:1). The only literal logical explanation for “in
vain” is falling from grace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gal 5:1 “Stand fast” therefore in the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KJV</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When a “freed” believer is once again
yoked, that believer is no longer “standing fast” and is no longer “free.” He
has fallen from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gal 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto
you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KJV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Speaking to the same former believers
of 3:1 who had “since become bewitched” and “yoked” of 5:1, Paul says “Christ
is become “of no effect “to you.” They had ceased believing in righteousness by
faith and had turned to good works to be saved (5:2-3). Interpreted literally
in context, verse 4 clearly states that they had fallen from grace as the only
path to salvation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gal 5:19, 21 Now the works of the flesh are
manifest (5:19-21a). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 5:21b … they
which do such things [habitually] shall not inherit the kingdom of God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul is still speaking to former believers
whom Christ had made “free” (5:1). Former believers who subsequently habitually
sin literally “shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gal 5:24 And they that are Christ's have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KJV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is contrary to what the eternal
security doctrine teaches. The doctrine knows nothing of believers crucifying
the flesh after justification.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk124374616"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">21.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Tim 1:18 … believers … war a good
warfare;<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1
Tim 1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away
concerning faith have made shipwreck:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1
Tim 1:19 “Continuously having” [present participle] faith, and a good
conscience; which “some having continuously put away” [participle] faith have
made shipwreck:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1
Tim 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan,
that they may learn not to blaspheme.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">While
some believers are “continuously holding faith (believing)” [participle] and a
good conscience, other believers “have continuously put away faith” (stopped
believing) and have become “shipwreck.” “Shipwreck” means banishment --- spiritual
life stops. Paul delivered two of the latter group “unto Satan.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124374616;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">22.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>1 Tim 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Tim 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot
iron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>KJV<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Some shall depart from the faith” refers
to believers who were once in the faith. Their consciences have become </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">seared
with a hot iron must refer to believers who have fallen from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">**23.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Tim 2:12 If we suffer (and we shall suffer),
we shall also reign with him: if we deny him (and some will deny Him), he also
will deny us.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk124375102"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124375102;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We”
refers to believers like Paul himself. Literally, those believers who later
deny Christ will be denied by Him and fall from grace. See Matthew 10:33.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124375102;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124375102;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">24.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Tim 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Paul’s long-time companion, Demas,
abandoned him. This means he had probably stopped believing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">**25.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest an evil
heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interpret this literally. It means exactly
what it says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">26.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 3:18 And to whom sware he that they
should not enter into his rest, but to them that “continuously believed not” [aorist
participle]?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 3:19 So we
see that they could not enter in because of unbelief (no faith, stopped
believing).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">See 1 Cor 10:1-10 for more context. These
are former believers, not unbelievers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">27.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 4:1 Let us fear, lest, a promise being
left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Us” are fellow believers. Since true
believers who cannot fall from grace should have nothing to fear, this text is
illogical for the eternal security doctrine. Again, see 1 Cor 10:1-10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">28.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 4:6 Seeing therefore it “remains” that
some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in
because of unbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody who left Egypt with Moses had
believed and had been saved by the Passover Lamb. However most (over age 20)
must have subsequently fallen from grace. They did not enter into Canaan, a
symbol of heaven. Also see 1 Cor 10:1 -10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">29.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Again, interpret literally. The eternal
security doctrine does not teach that believers can fall from grace. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">30.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 6:4-6 For it is impossible for those
who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made
partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the
powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put
him to an open shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A literal interpretation teaches once-saved-then-lost-always-lost.
A saved person who falls away and denies Christ cannot be saved a second time.
See Matthew 10:33 and 2 Timothy 2:12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">31. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 10:38-39 Now the just shall live by
faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we
are not of them who “are continuously drawing back” [participle] unto
perdition; but of “them that continuously believe” [participle] to the saving
[present tense] of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“God has no pleasure” in those who “draw
back” unto “perdition” means He will not save them. This text must refer to
believers “drawing back” because unbelievers are already destined for
perdition. The participles are noteworthy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">32.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 12:8 But if ye “are” without
chastisement, whereof all [true believers] are partakers, then are ye bastards,
and not sons.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a warning to believers to “consider
Christ” “lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds” (12: 3). Those believers
have not resisted unto blood as Christ had (12: 4). Next, they changed. “You
have forgotten that God called you sons” and promised to discipline His
children (12: 5-7). Therefore, in context, verse 8 means “if you are no longer
being disciplined, you have fallen from grace and are now bastards.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">33.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 12:13 And make straight paths for your
feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be
healed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Believers who are not “making straight
paths for their feet” risk becoming lame and being “turned out of the way.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">34.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men and
holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As discussed previously, the chapter is
addressed to believers. “Holiness” refers to continued believing which produces
sanctification. Those believers who do not “follow peace and holiness with all
men” <a name="_Hlk124424105">literally shall not see the Lord. The instructions
are meaningless if one cannot fall from grace.<o:p></o:p></a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">35.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man
fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you,
and thereby many be defiled. KJV<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb
12:15 “overseeing” (taking care) lest “anyone is continually falling” [present
participle] “away from” the grace of God [and] lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Believers
who are not “taking care” of their spiritual lives risk “falling short of the
grace of God” and becoming “defiled.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424105;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">36.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Heb 12:17 For ye know how that afterward,
when he [Esau] would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found
no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears. See Malachi
1:3-4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Esau probably fell from grace when he
stopped believing God’s promises and gave up his birthright. The Bible says he
was “rejected” and “found no place for repentance.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk124424352"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">37.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">James
5:12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither
by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay,
nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rom
8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” When the “brethren” “fall into
condemnation,” they have fallen from grace.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">38.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1
Pet 5:8-9 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring
lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the
faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that
are in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If
eternal security were true, there would be no reason to tell believers to “be
sober, be vigilant” and “resist steadfast” because the devil seeks to “devour”
them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">39.
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Pet 2:1 … there shall be
false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many
true believers who have been “bought” by the Lord will become “false teachers”
and “deny” the Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">40.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Peter 2:20 For if [ei] after they [the
unjust from 2:9] “having continually escaped” [participle] pollutions of the
world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than
the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2
Peter 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2
Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog
is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing
in the mire.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Interpreted
literally, these are the strongest texts in God’s Word which teach that true
believers can subsequently fall from grace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(1)
They began as lost and unjust (2:20). <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(2)
They escaped being lost by becoming saved (2:20). <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(3)
They were “entangled again” and “overcome” (2:20). <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(4)
The latter end is worse than the beginning” (2:20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(5)
It would be better to have never been born than to turn back (2:21).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This
is radically different from eternal security theology which states that
once-saved, one cannot fall from grace. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">41.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 Pet 3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing
ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error
of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Beloved”
believers are warned to “beware” “lest you be led away” and “fall from your
steadfastness.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">42.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2 John 8-9 Look to yourselves, that we
lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and “abideth not continuously” [participle] in the
doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that “continuously abideth” [participle] in
the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Believers
have to be “in the doctrine” in order to be warned to “abide” in it. Believers
who do not “continuously abide in the doctrine of Christ “do not have God.”
That is very clear! It does not allow believers to remain saved who later deny
Christ and stop believing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">43.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jude 5 I will therefore put you in
remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved
[participle] the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed “the ones
not believing” [participle].<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According
to this text, all those who left Egypt had been saved by believing in the
sacrificial blood of the Passover lamb. Many (if not most) who stopped
believing were later “destroyed.” They did not enter Canaan (a type of heaven).
See 1 Cor 10:1-10.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">44.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their
first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
fallen angels who had been created as sinless beings willfully sinned with full
knowledge of sin’s consequences. They fell without any hope of restitution.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">45.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rev
2:4-5 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy
first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do
the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy
candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many
had “fallen” away from God and “left thy first love,” but not completely.
However, they risked falling completely and having their candlestick removed
from the presence of God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">46.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rev 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the
things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works
perfect before God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rev
3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments;
and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124424352;"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most believers in Sardis had fallen
from grace. Only “a few” “remained” “who had not defiled their garments.” And
only those “few” will “walk with Christ in white.” See 3:5 and white garments
of imputed righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">47. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rev 3:5 “To the overcoming one”
[participle], the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot
out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my
Father and before his angels.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The true believer already has his name
in the Book of Life. The threat to remove it is meaningless if such an event
cannot occur.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">48.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rev 3:16-17 So
then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out
of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing; and</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and
naked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">God threatened
to “spew the lukewarm believer out of His mouth.” He “needs nothing” and does
know that he is “wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked.”</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-67367105475399528832022-12-24T14:36:00.004-08:002022-12-31T14:25:12.753-08:00THE GREAT PROBLEM OF MALACHI 3:10<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">THE
GREAT PROBLEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">OF MALACHI
3:10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">By
Russell Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Revised,
December 31, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">THE PROBLEM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Today all of the
explanations of Malachi 3:10 in all Bible commentaries make God into a cruel
tyrant. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Why? They all teach that the
sin of the people of Judah in Malachi 3:10 was not bringing the whole food tithe
to the one temple storehouse in Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Something is very seriously
wrong with this explanation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Name your state, province or
capital city. Now, pretend that your religion is national like Judah’s and
commands all of your members to “bring all of the food tithe into the one storehouse
at the capital city.” How would you like it if your church members had to do
that? And, how would you like it if your church leaders who needed the tithe
for food had to travel to the capital city every time they were hungry?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The obvious answer is
“Nobody would tolerate such command!” However, that is exactly what the
commentary theologians and tithe-teaching pastors tell us that God commanded
the people of Judea! In fact, most emphasize on that explanation of “all” in
Malachi 3:10! <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Yet, this is absolutely
contrary to both logic and the teaching of God’s Word!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If you were an Old Testament
Levite-priest under King Solomon, you lived in one of 13 cities inside Judah. However,
if you were an ordinary Levite before Israel’s civil war (930 B. C.), you lived
in one of 35 non-priestly Levite cities in the remainder of Israel (Josh 21).
The northern-most city of Dan was 99 miles from Jerusalem, Jericho is 23 miles away
up and down a steep mountain and the southern city of Beersheba is 69 miles from
Jerusalem. Only a cruel God would command that kind of travel for food.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">SOLVING
THE PROBLEM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Leviticus 27:30-34 the holy tithe was only
food from inside God’s holy land of Israel. It was only the tenth of the crops
and clean domestic animals. Although money was common, the holy tithe was
always only food from inside holy Israel, God’s special property. The holy
tithe was neither the “best” nor the “first” …. it was the “tenth”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">B. Numbers 18:20-28 is the
exact wording of the tithing statute, or ordinance. The holy tithe was to
replace land inheritance and wealth for worker-Levites and priest-Levites for
their service in the temple. The priest-Levites only received the best one
tenth of the whole tithe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">C. In Numbers 35 and Joshua
20-21, before the civil war of 930 B. C., there were portions of 48 cities
scattered among the other tribes for the Levites to live. Common sense should include
these facts in an explanation of Malachi 3:10; the citizens of the tribes would
bring the first whole Levitical tithe to the Levitical cities within their own
tribes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First Kings 6 describes the storage rooms of Solomon’s
temple. Since there are no huge storerooms described for “all” the tithe of Solomon’s
prosperous Israel, the first whole Levitical tithe must have been brought by
the people to the Levitical cities. This affects a proper interpretation of
Malachi 3:10.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">E. Second Chronicles 31
(circa 720 B. C.) is crucial for understanding Malachi 3:10. While beginning a
revival after years of pagan worship in Judah, in 31:4 King Hezekiah mistakenly
commanded the people to bring the tithes to Jerusalem. In 31:5-7 the people
brought so much that there was no storage space and they “laid them by heaps”
in the streets of Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In 31:8-9 King Hezekiah
realized that something was wrong. Why were there heaps of food rotting in the
streets of Jerusalem? He questioned the priests and Levites.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This was Solomon’s temple
over 250 years later! It still contained no storage facilities for all the
tithes of the nation! In 31:11-12 the king commanded that “limited” storage
facilities be constructed (in Solomon’s temple). These would be the forerunners
of chambers in Zerubbabel’s temple as seen in Nehemiah 13:5. They were quite
small, or “limited”, because they only held the tithe for one course of priests
and Levites for one week at a time. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">In 31:13-21 the
answer to the problem of Malachi 3:10 is found. The events which followed
adding limited tithe chambers to Solomon’s temple are extremely important! Notice
that the overflow of the heaps was re-distributed to the cities where the
priests and Levites lived! This is logical. This is common sense. This is where
the tithes should have been brought from the beginning. The temple was not
enlarged to hold “the whole tithe” of the nation! Only a very small portion of
the first whole Levitical tithe was later re-supplied to the temple for the
weekly course of Levites and priests. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The remainder of chapter 31
is extremely important. It explains why Hezekiah’s commandment to bring all
tithes to Jerusalem was wrong --- it belonged in the Levitical cities.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">F. Nehemiah 10:35-39 are the
best verses in the Bible which prove that the people brought the first
Levitical tithe to the cities where the Levites and priests lived. When the
“you” of Malachi 1:6-14; 2:1 -9, 13-17 and all of chapters 3 and 4 is
understood to refer only to the dishonest priests of Judah, Malachi 3:10 is logical.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Notice the difference
between 10:29-37a and 10:37b-39. In 10:29-37a the people of Judah swore an oath
to bring the first-fruits and firstborn “unto the priests that minister” “unto
the chambers of the house of our God.” These were the duplicated chambers first
added to Solomon’s temple 250 years after it was built.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nehemiah 10:37a-39 is the
key to understanding Malachi 3:10. Verse 37b states “and we should bring … the
tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the
tithes in all the cities of our tillage.” Again, of utmost importance for
understanding Malachi 3:10, the tithes (not the first-fruits or firstborn) were
brought to the cities of Judah where the Levites and priests needed them for
food!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Read Nehemiah 10:38-39 with the
context of Numbers 18:25-28. After 930 B. C. the only Levitical cities
remaining of the original 48 were 13 priests’ cities in Judah. When the priests
and Levites travelled every 24<sup>th</sup> week to minister in the temple, the
Levites carried the priests’ share (one per cent) to the temple for them. This
is the only portion of the tithe brought to the temple and it was brought (not
by the people as many mis-interpret Malachi 3:10) but by the Levites per verse
39.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">G. Nehemiah 13:4-12 proves
conclusively that “all” of the tithe of the people, or the “whole” tithe was
never intended to be brought to the temple in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">While governor Nehemiah was
away (13:6), the high priest Eliashib emptied the large storeroom which
partially held tithes and moved his pagan friend into it 13:4-5). This is a
crucial text for understanding Malachi 3:10. This one room only contained the
Levites’ portion of the tithe. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In addition to the Levites’
portion of the tithes, that singular chamber also held “food offerings,
frankincense, vessels and wine” (13:5). Notice in 13:10 that only the Levites
(not the priests) had returned to their fields for something to eat. All of the
priests had been involved in the theft of the Levites’ portion of the tithe. Since
that chamber could not possibly hold “all” the tithe described in 2 Chronicles
31 as “heaps” in the streets of Jerusalem, then “all” the tithe in Malachi 3:10
must only refer to that portion of the Levites’ tithe which the priests under
Eliashib had removed!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Since verse 5 does not
include the daily food tithes for the weekly rotation of the priests, those must
have been kept elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nehemiah 13:12-13 reflects
an emergency restocking. It does not negate 10:37a-38 and does not refer to the
whole tithe because it is clear in Second Chronicles 31:6 that there were not
enough storage facilities for the tithes. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nehemiah 13 is probably the
context of Malachi 3:8-10. In Nehemiah 13:28-30 Nehemiah cleansed both the
priests and Levites.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">H. Malachi 3:6-10 has been
misinterpreted by Bible teachers. This is due to a failure to link the
preceding texts from First Kings 6, Second Chronicles 31, Nehemiah 10, Nehemiah
10 and 13 and Malachi 1:6; 2:1 to 3:5 and logic.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Please study the following
comments carefully. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any logical explanation
from readers will be much appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Malachi 3:6’s “sons of Jacob” is a
reference only to the Levitical priests. Since 10 of the 12 tribes had been
lost, the text cannot refer to all 12 tribes. Priests are legitimate “sons of
Jacob.” See the same reference in Nehemiah 13:28.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The persons being addressed as “you” in
3:6 remain the priests from 1:6-14; 2:1-9 and 2:13 to the end of Malachi. Therefore,
God is consistent in continuing to rebuke the priests for stealing the tithe in
1:6-14 and Nehemiah 13:5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In Malachi 3:8 “robbed me in tithes and
offerings” adds to 1:6-14 where the priests robbed God in impure sacrifices. It
is also a reference to Nehemiah 13:5-10 where the priests had removed the Levites’
tithes from the storeroom and caused the Levites to return to their fields. The
priests were not complaining and had their tithe food. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In Malachi 3:9 “the whole nation” can
also read “the whole nation <u>of you</u> (priests) as translated in the NAS,
RSV and NIV. Every priest had obeyed their high priest, Eliashib, and was
involved in the robbery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to
1:14 and Numbers 18:25-28, the Levites had given the priests the best of their
herds.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Most important, in Malachi 3:10 “all the
tithe” is only a reference to all the tithes <i><u>which had been removed by
the priests in Nehemiah 13:5</u></i>. God was commanding the priests to return
all the tithe they had robbed from Him which had caused the Levites to return
to their fields (Neh 13:10).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.5in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Conclusion: Studied together, all of First
Kings 6, all of Second Chronicles 31, Nehemiah 10:37a-38 and Nehemiah 13:4-12 prove
that Malachi 3:10’s “storehouse” was, at the most, two large rooms combined.
Almost 300 years earlier, King Hezekiah realized that Solomon’s temple had no
storage facilities for the “whole tithe” of the much-smaller nation of Judah (2
Chronicles 31:1-19). Therefore, common sense teaches that “all the tithe”
cannot possibly refer to all of the tithe of all of the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Second
Chronicles 31 clearly teaches that Solomon’s temple had no facilities to hold
the whole tithe of the whole nation. King Hezekiah correctly returned the vast
majority to the cities where the priests and Levites required the tithes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Nehemiah
10:37b-38 is correct --- the people were always commanded to bring the tithe to
the Levitical cities. In turn the Levites brought the very small portions of
the priests’ tithe to the temple for their one-week rotation. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">If
every Levite and priest ministered in the temple every 24<sup>th</sup> week (4%
of the time) and the wives and younger children stayed home (2% of the total),
only 2% of the Levites and priests needed tithes at the temple at any one time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.75in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">God
never commanded anybody other than dishonest priests in Malachi’s time to
“bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Russell
Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">russkellyphd@yahoo.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-52573742180092988832022-08-22T11:51:00.002-07:002022-08-22T11:51:31.520-07:00Symbols Around the Throne of God<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SYMBOLS
AROUND THE THONE OF GOD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Russell
Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Augusts
22, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ezekiel 1:4-10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5 four living creatures had the likeness of a
man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6 And every one had four faces, and every one
had four wings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7 feet like calves<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8 hands of a man under their wings <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10 each had four faces<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Ezekiel is on the south side facing north)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SOUTH: a man (nearest Ezekiel facing north)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">EAST: a lion on the right side facing east<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WEST: An ox on the left side facing west<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NORH: an eagle (facing away to the north)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Revelation 4:4-10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4:4 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>24
elders around the throne (church)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4:6 round about the throne, were four beasts <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John is to the East facing
West. The Temple opened to the East and worshippers entered facing West. The
shewbread was on the North on John’s right side.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7 LION facing East nearest John<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CALF facing West farthest away from John<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MAN facing South to John’s left<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">EAGLE facing North to John’s right<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NUMBERS 2 ISRAEL AROUND THE TABERNACLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Num 2:1-3:5<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2 Every man of the children of Israel shall
pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3 JUDAH: EAST, 5 ISSACHAR, 7 ZEBULUN <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10 REUBEN: SOUTH; 12 SIMEON; 14 GAD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">……………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">17 LEVITES WITH THE TABERNACLE<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 EPHRAIM: WEST, 20 MANASSEH, 22 BENJAMIN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">25 DAN: NORTH, 27 ASHER, 29 NAPHTALI<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In Isaiah 14:13 heaven is
described as the “sides of the north” and Psalm 48:2 describes Mount Zion as
the “sides of the north.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…………………………………<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">REVELATION 21:12-13<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12 And had a wall great and high, and had
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which
are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13 On the east three gates; on the north
three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…..<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The symbolism is hard to ignore. The heavenly
New Jerusalem will have 12 gates aligned exactly as the 12 tribes of Israel
camped around the Tabernacle in the wilderness in Numbers 2. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">…………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The standards, or flags, did not necessarily
match the blessings of Jacob in Genesis 49 nor the blessings of Moses in
Deuteronomy 33. Judah’s lion flag was consistent with the blessing. Reuben’s man
flag was based on the meaning of his name and not water. Ephraim’s calf flag
was not related to the blessing of a fruitful bough described by Jacob. And Dan’s
eagle flag differed from Jacob’s reference to a snake and Moses’ reference to a
lion’s whelp (Deu 33:22).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">………………………………………………………………………….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLISM:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">LION: EAST: JUDAH: MATTHEW: Jesus is King of
Kings<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MAN: SOUTH: REUBEN: LUKE: Jesus is the Son of
Man<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">OX: WEST: EPHRAIM: MARK: Jesus is the Servant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">EAGLE: NORTH: DAN: JOHN: Jesus is the Son of
God<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-42118200384439125242022-08-22T08:24:00.003-07:002023-03-28T12:07:46.315-07:00A NEW WAY TO STUDY GOD'S WORD<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PARTICIPLES:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A
BETTER WAY TO STUDY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">AND<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">UNDERSTAND
THE NEW TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By:
Russell Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">March
17, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Participles. What are they? When do we use
them in English? Does God use them in the Greek New Testament? How important
are they?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Look it up. “Participles” are verb-nouns we
use in English to denote continuous non-stop action. We formerly called them “gerunds”
many years ago in English class. To my great surprise, God uses them quite
often --- much more than we do --- in the Greek New Testament. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For example, “believeth” and “believes” are
almost always participles which should be translated “believing.” They signify
continuous action; they do not signify one-time action and that is very
important in God’s Word. God inspired participles of almost every verb in the
New Testament. He inspired over 85 participles for “believeth” and “believes”
alone. He must be disappointed that English translators only left the “ing” meaning
in five (5) of the 85 occurrences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What difference does that make? Much indeed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, instead of “whosoever believeth”
in John 3:16, it should read “the (one) continuously believing” in Him should
have everlasting life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This real meaning
of participles is found in 45 of the most important “believe” texts in God’s
Word.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The (one or ones) continuously believing”
in Jesus Christ are “the ones continuously having” (another participle):
everlasting life, justification by faith, imputed righteousness, spiritual
peace, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sonship with God, righteousness
and every other major salvation promise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-41334417483478341942022-07-24T18:08:00.002-07:002022-07-24T18:08:37.004-07:00The Plot of Top Gun is 3rd Generation<p> The plot of Top Gun, Maverick, is its 3rd usage. The first was a WWII war movie about the British Mosquito bomber. (see Mosquito Squadron). The second was Star Wars' first movie. All three involve an impossible bombing run down a low-level slot beneath enemy guns to hit a difficult target and end with a vertical climb. The wooden Mosquito bomber set the standard. </p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-80857413701343129602022-07-21T11:47:00.004-07:002022-07-21T11:48:52.815-07:00ESCHATOLOGY: LAST DAY EVENTS<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ESCHATOLOGY; LAST DAY EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RUSSELL EARL
KELLY, PHD</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">July 9, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TABLE OF CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>REVELATION 20 AND MILLENNIAL VIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DANIEL 2; FOCUS ON THE TEN TOES (2:41-45)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DANIEL 7; FOCUS ON THE TEN HORNS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DANIEL 8 A TYPE OF ANTICHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DANIEL 9 FOCUS ON 9:26-27; 70 WEEKS OF
YEARS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES TO ISRAEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CHURCH AGE AND THE RAPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>VIEWS OF THE SECOND COMING<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST (BEMA)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TRIBULATION, FIRST HALF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>TRIBULATION, SECOND HALF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>SECOND COMING IN GLORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>INTERLUDE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>MILLENNIUM; 1000-YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST ON
EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT; REVELATION 20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>ETERNITY; REVELATION 21-22<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ESCHATOLOGY: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">REVELATION 20 AND
MILLENNIUM VIEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only
Revelation 20 specifically states the exact 1000-year (millennial) reign of
Christ on Earth. No other major theological term is repeated as often in
sequence – 6 times in 6 straight verses (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A.
In verses 1-3, the devil will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit for
1000 years. This is “Abaddon” (Rev 9:11 ‘doom’), “Apollyon” (Grk).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B.
In verse 3, life and sin on Earth will continue without Satan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C.
In verse 4, living believers and resurrected martyrs will reign with Christ on Earth
for 1000 years. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D.
In verses 4-6 the first resurrection is of believers. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E.
In verses 7-8 Satan will be loosed for a season and will gather living
unbelievers and resurrected unbelievers from Hades for one final battle. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F.
In verse 9, Satan’s army will be destroyed by fire. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">G.
In verse 10, the devil will be cast into the lake of fire (Gehenna) where
previously the beast and false prophet will have been cast (Rev 19:20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">H.
In verse 11, a great white throne will be seen in outer space. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I.
In verses 12-13 the unbelieving dead from the sea, death and Hades will be
proven deserving of the second death according to their works. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">J.
In verse 14, all unbelievers will be cast into the lake of fie (Gehenna).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
Bible study course is designed to answer the question of whether or not
Revelation 20:1-14 should be totally ignored, interpreted as the Church Age or
interpreted literally in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VIEWS OF LAST-DAY
EVENTS <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(ES-CHA-TO-LO-GY)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">K.
AMILLENNIALISM: (no literal future millennium)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Church has replaced national Israel as God’s chosen people.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Church is now “spiritual Israel.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) God’s promises to national Israel
must be spiritually re-interpreted and re-applied to Christians. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) Good and evil will exist together
until Jesus returns. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) The Church will go through great
tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) Deceased Christians are currently
in heaven with Christ, reigning with him. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(7) Christ’s return will be the end of
life on Earth as we know it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(8) Christ will bring with him the
resurrection of the dead, the final judgment, and the re-creation of the new
heavens and the new earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">……………………………<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">PRETERISM: Christ returned spiritually
in A. D. 70 per Matthew 24.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">L.
POST-MILLENNIALISM: The Church Age is the Millennium.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) The Church has permanently replaced
national Israel as God’schosen people. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 107%; margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2)
The Church is now “spiritual Israel.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Life on earth will improve until
Christ returns. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) God’s promises to national Israel
must be spiritually re-interpreted and re-applied to the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) The Church Age is the spiritual
reign of Christ on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) Christ’s return will immediately
result in final judgment and the eternal state. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(7) This doctrine lost favor after
World War I.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">M.
DISPENSATIONAL PREMILLENNIALISM: (the literal millennium is future)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) God’s promises to national Israel
are both literal and eventually unconditional concerning<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>end-time events.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) The Church is not “spiritual
Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) God’s promises to national Israel
and the Church are very different.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) The Church Age is a mystery not
seen by Old Testament prophets. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) The Church is a parenthetical
insertion between the 69<sup>th</sup> and 70<sup>th</sup> week of God’s final
dealing with national Israel (Dan 9:26-27).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) When the last member of the
“mystery body of Christ” has been born-again, Jesus will return for His saints
to “catch up” (Latin: rapture) His body (Acts 15:14; 1 Thes 4:17; 1 Cor
15:51-54).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(7) 7 years of great tribulation will
precede the second coming of Christ with His saints in glory (Rev 6-19).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(8) Christ will literally rule on Earth
for 1000 years (Rev 20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ESCHATOLOGY: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DANIEL 2:32-47<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DANIEL 2 is the foundation of last day
prophecy. Key to this study are verses 40-44. Jesus accepted Daniel as a
prophet (Mt 24:15; 26:64).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A<a name="m"></a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE HEAD OF GOLD: BABYLON; 610-539 B. C.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:32a This image's head was of fine
gold, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:38 … <u>Thou
art this head of gold</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>BREAST AND ARMS OF SILVER: (MEDIA-PERSIA, 539-330 B.C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:32b … his breast and his arms of
silver, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:39a And
after thee shall arise another kingdom <u>inferior</u> to thee, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>BELLY AND THIGHS OF BRASS: GREECE (330 B.C. – 64 B. C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:32c… his belly and his thighs of
brass,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:39b … and
another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear <u>rule over all the earth</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>LEGS OF IRON: ROME (146 B.C. – 476)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:33a His legs of iron, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:40 And the
fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces
and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in
pieces and bruise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">……….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CHURCH AGE: (32 – REMOVAL). Since the
fourth kingdom Roman Empire did not dissolve into a confederation of 10
nations, there is an obvious gap between verses 40 and 41. Compare Isaiah
61:1-2 c.f. Luke 4:18-19; Daniel 9:26 c.f. 27; Ephesians 2:9-10; 3:4-6; 1 Peter
1:10-12; 2:9-10.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">……….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>FEET AND TOES OF IRON AND CLAY (MODERN EUROPE)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daniel 2:41-44 is an unfulfilled
prophecy of the second coming of Christ in glory to restore national Israel.
After Western Rome disintegrated in 475 A. D., modern Europe began coming into
existence for over 1000 years. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:33b … his feet part of iron and part
of clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:41 And
whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron,
the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the
iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:42 And as
the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall
be partly strong, and partly broken.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:43 And
whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves
with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is
not mixed with clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:44 <u>And
in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which
shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people,
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms</u>, and it shall
stand for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rev 17:12
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no
kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">**Most
important, 2:44 says that God’s kingdom will not be established until after the
former Roman Empire has been reassembled into a weak confederacy. History
reveals that Europe has been semi-week and semi-strong for many centuries
already. Therefore, this sign of Christ’s return in glory is already present.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>STONE STRIKES THE IMAGE ON ITS FEET DUING A WEAK CONFEDERACY AND
DESTROYS IT. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Contrary to what many teach, the
“stone” is not the Church at Christ’s first coming. First, Daniel is not about
the Church. Second, the Roman Empire was not in a weakened state in A. D. 33.
Third, the Roman Empire did not peak until A. D. 180.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was
cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron
and clay, and brake them to pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:45a
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without
hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver,
and the gold; <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>FORMER KINGDOMS DISAPPEAR<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:35a Then was the iron, the clay, the
brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the
chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no
place was found for them: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>STONE FILLS THE WHOLE EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:35b … and the stone that smote the
image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Note: This cannot refer to the Church. The
kingdom of God will spread to the entire earth after Christ’s second coming in
glory.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>UNCONDITIONAL PROPHECY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2:45b … the great God hath made known
to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and <u>the dream is certain, and
the interpretation thereof sure.</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">DANEL 7<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Daniel
7 adds to chapter 2. It introduces the Antichrist who will enter last-day
history following some kind of crisis in the revived confederacy of Western
Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">HISTORICAL
ACCURACY: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:1
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions
of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the
matters. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:2
<u>Daniel spake and said</u>, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the
four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:3
And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.
LION OF BABYLON (610-539 B. C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:4
The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings
thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon
the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BEAR OF MEDIA-lPERSIA (539-330 B. C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:5
And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on
one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and
they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Media
arose first; Persia dominated; overthrew 3 kingdoms]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>LEOPARD OF GREECE (330-164 B. C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:6
After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of
it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given
to it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Alexander’s generals of Greece, Macedonia,
Seleucid (Syria), Egypt]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.
DRAGON OF ROME (146 B. C. TO A. D. 476)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:7a
After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was
diverse from all the beasts that were before it; … (7:19)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be
the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and
shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">……….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CHURCH
AGE GAP (A. D. 32 TO REMOVAL); Dan 2:44-45; 9:26-27; Isa 61:1-2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">……….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>TEN HORNS OF ROME (future, <u>Rev 17:12)<o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Again,
the original Roman Empire did not disintegrate into 10 weaker nations and
Revelation 17:12 confirms it is future.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:7b
… and it had ten horns. (7:20)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3 that the
time of Antichrist was yet future.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>LITTLE HORN (future; Rev 17:12, 20)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Antichrist
will replace and/or control 3 of the 10 kingdoms. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:8
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little
horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots:
and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking
great things.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war
with the saints, and prevailed against them;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:24 … and another shall rise after them; and
he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:25 And he shall speak great words against
the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to
change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until <u>a time
and times and the dividing of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u>Compare
(9:26-27; 12:11-12; Rev 11:2-3; 12:6, 7, 14; 13:5.<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GOD’S JUDGMENT OF THE HORNS; TRIBULATION
(Revelation 13-19)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:9
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit,
whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool:
his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:10
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands
ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the
judgment was set, and the books were opened.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:11
I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I
beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the
burning flame.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:26 But the judgment shall sit, and they
shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>DESTRUCTION OF MAN’S KINGDOMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:12
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet
their lives were prolonged for a season and time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SON OF MAN REIGNS FOREVER; Mt 24:30; 26:62-66<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:13
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, <u>one like the Son of man came with
the clouds</u> of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him
near before him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:14
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people,
nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be
destroyed.<u> <o:p></o:p></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:18
But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
for ever, even for ever and ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:22 Until the Ancient of days came, and
judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the
saints possessed the kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people
of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and
all dominions shall serve and obey him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><a name="BM_1_"></a><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">DANIEL 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Daniel
8 is important for Bible prophecy because Jesus twice quoted Daniel’s
antichrist as a type of the last day antichrist (Mt 24:15; 26:64).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">HISTORICAL
ACCURACY: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:1
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me,
even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:2
And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan
in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I
was by the river of Ulai.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RAM OF MEDIA-PERSIA (539 B. C. TO B. C. 330)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:3
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river
a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than
the other, and the higher came up last.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:4
I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts
might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his
hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:20 The ram which thou sawest having two
horns are the kings of <u>Media and Persia</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GOAT OF GREECE (B. C. 330 TO B. C. 64)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:5a
And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of
the whole earth, and touched not the ground …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:21a And the rough goat is the king of
Grecia … <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF GREECE (356 – 323 B.
C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:5b
… and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:6
And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had there seen standing
before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:7
And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against
him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the
ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon
him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:8a
8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great
horn was broken …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:21b …and the great horn that is between his
eyes is the first king.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>GREECE, MACEDONIA, SELEUCID SYRIA, EGYPT (323
– 64 B. C.)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:8b
… and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:22 Now that being broken, whereas four
stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his
power.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ANTIOCHUS IV EPIPHANES (B. C. 175 – B. C.
164)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:9
And out of one of them came forth a <u>little horn,</u> which waxed exceeding
great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:10
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the
host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:11
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily
sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:12
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of
transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and
prospered.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:13
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint
which spake, <u>How long</u> shall be the vision concerning the daily
sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and
the host to be trodden under foot?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:14
And he said unto me, Unto <u>two thousand and three hundred days</u>; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:23 And <u>in the latter time of their
kingdom</u>, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce
countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not
by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and
practice, and shall <u>destroy the mighty and the holy people</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:25 And through his policy also he shall
cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart,
and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the <u>Prince
of princes</u>; but <u>he shall be broken without hand. </u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Compare Daniel 2:45.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:26 And the vision of the evening and the
morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall
be for many days.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:17
… Understand, O son of man: for at the time of the end shall be the vision.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:18
Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the
ground: but he touched me, and set me upright.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:19
And he said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the
indignation: for at the time appointed the end shall be.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Note:
While portions of chapters 8 and 9 may have a primary reference to Antiochus
Epiphanes, Jesus made it clear that their final applicatyin refers to a future
antichrist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compare 8:19 and 8:26 with
Matthew 24:15 and 26:54 also quoted in Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DANIEL 9:24-27<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daniel 9:24-27 is one of the Bible’s best examples of fulfilled
prophecy which proves the existence of God. U<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using known Hebrew calendar adjustments, it reaches forward to a<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">prophesied event recorded in Nehemiah, chapter two and correctly
extends forward to the exact year of Christ’s crucifixion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A 490 period of
prophetic weeks of years is introduced: 7 x 70 = 490.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dan 9:24a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>Seventy weeks</u>
are determined upon <u>thy people</u> and upon <u>thy holy city</u> …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The 490 years of prophetic time only
refers to national Israel (thy people) and Jerusalem (thy holy city) – not the
church.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daniel 9:24b …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) “to finish the transgression<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to make an end of sins<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to make reconciliation for iniquity<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to bring in everlasting righteousness<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to seal up the vision and prophecy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to anoint the most Holy”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Six things will be accomplished within
the period of the “490”weeks of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prophetic years. Although sin persists during
the Millennium, most see these being fulfilled concerning Israel either at
Calvary or during the 7-year Great Tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dan 9:25a Know
therefore and understand that, from the going forth of the <u>commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nehemiah 2:8 And a letter [from the
Persian king] unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me
timber to make beams for the <u>gate</u>s of the palace which appertained to
the house, and for <u>the wall of the city</u>, and for the house that I shall
enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon
me [B. C. 445-444].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Compare Ezra
1:1-4 and 7 [B. C. 539].<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dan 9:25b … unto the <u>Messiah</u>
the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the <u>street</u>
shall be built again, and the <u>wall</u>, even in troublous times.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7 weeks + 62 (threescore and two
weeks)= 69 x 7 weeks of years = 483 prophetic years would reach “unto the time
of Messiah the Prince.” <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using the decree of Nehemiah 2 to begin
at B. C. 445-444 and subtracting it from 483 yields 38-39 A. D. (to when one
year is added to allow for no year “0”). Although this should be close
enough to prove that God’s hand was in the prophecy, the prophecy is even more
precise.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 1894 Sir Robert Anderson wrote <i>The
Coming Prince</i>. He argued that Hebrews used a calendar of 360 days with
twelve 30-day months. He then multiplied 483 years times 360 days to conclude
that 173,880 prophetic day of years were involved. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[483 x 360 = 173,880 prophetic years]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Prophetic days of years are converted
into literal years by dividing 173,880 by 365.25.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(173,880 / 365.25 yields 476 years plus
a few days.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Nehemiah 2’s date of 445-444 B. C.
is subtracted from 476 years, the result is A. D. 31-32 --- the best historical
dates for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This proves God’s Word is inspired.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[476 – 445-444 B. C. = A. D. 31-32]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HEBREW CALENDARS: Jews knew from
surrounding nations that a solar year was 365 ¼ days long. Therefore, Hebrews
were forced to add extra days to their calendar in order to keep the Passover
lined up with the third full moon of the new year. Because the lunar cycle
alternated 29- and 30-day months, they also added an extra month 4 times every
11 years and later 7 times every 19 years. This would give them 365 ¼ days year.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark 1:15 and Galatians 4:4w-5 suggest
that the Jews may have already made similar calculations and expected the
Messiah soon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark 1:15 And saying, <u>The time is
fulfilled</u>, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the
gospel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 4:4 But when <u>the fulness of the
time</u> was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dan 9:26a And after
threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a name="mm"></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MESSIAH WILL DIE AFTER THE 69<sup>TH</sup>
WEEK (483<sup>RD</sup> YEAR): The prophecy says that Messiah will be “cut
off” “after” the 69 weeks had been fulfilled (7 + 62). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dan 9:26b … and the
people of the <u>prince </u>that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the
war desolations are determined.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JERUSALEM AND TEMPLE DESTROYED IN
70 A. D.: Almost everybody agrees that 9:26b refers to pagan Rome, Titus
Vespasian and the destruction of the Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A. D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">…..<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE SEQUENCE REQUIRES A
TIME GAP: The sequence of events is extremely important. The literal biblical
order is:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) The 69<sup>th</sup> week ends (Dan
9:25).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) Messiah will be cut off after the
69<sup>th</sup> week ends (Dan 9:26a).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Jerusalem and the temple will be
destroyed in A. D. 70 (Dan 9:26b).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) The 70<sup>th</sup> week will begin
after A. D. 70 A. D. (Dan 9:27).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a) “He” in 9:27 refers to the nearest
antecedent “Prince” of 9:26, a type of anti-Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">b) “He” (Anti-Christ will make and
break a future 7-year covenant with Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">c) it is noteworthy that God does not
break covenants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) The Most Holy will anointed at the
end of the 70<sup>th</sup> week (9:24). This probably refers to the Millennial
temple.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OUT OF SEQUENCE ERROR:
Those who teach that the 70 weeks were Israel’s last chance to accept its
Messiah end the entire 70-week period with the events immediately surrounding
Calvary between 30-34 A. D. They then teach that 9:26b is an out-of-sequence
parenthetical description of the events of 70 A. D. They then teach that
national Israel is henceforth completely out of the scope of biblical prophecy
and the Church has replaced it as “spiritual” Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) The 69<sup>th</sup> week ends (Dan
9:25).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) Messiah is cut off; Christ is
crucified (Dan 9:26a).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Jerusalem and the temple are
destroyed in 70 A. D. (Dan 9:26b).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) Point #3 is out of sequence;
the 70<sup>th</sup> week concerns Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a) “He” in 9:27 is Jesus beginning 7
last years of ministry to Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">b) “He” in 9:27 is Jesus who desolates
the Temple by his death.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) The interpretation that the Church
has replaced national Israel is wrong for many reasons: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a) Scores of God’s unconditional
promises to Israel as a nation have not been fulfilled. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">b) There are too many differences
between national Israel and the Church to blend them into one. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">c) The prophecies of Daniel 2 and 7
concerned nations which ruled Israel and there are no grounds for a change to a
spiritual nation. A<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">d) Daniel 9:24 does not allow for a
change from national Israel to the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">e) The Church began over 150 years
before the Roman Empire peaked. There was no disintegration into 10 kingdoms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">f) Revelation 17:12 says the 10
kingdoms are not yet.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">UNCONDITIONAL PROMISES
TO ISRAEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The following texts all unconditionally promise that God will never
abandon national Israel as His chosen nation. These are just a small portion of
available texts. Although the timing of the fulfillment is conditional, the
inevitable fulfillment is unconditional. This fact is THE major dividing-point
between amillennialists, post-millennialists and premillennialists
(dispensationalists). Israel is very much still a major part of future prophecy
and the last days. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GEN 13:15 … all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed forever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 SAMUEL 7:16 [To DAVID] And thine house and thy kingdom shall be
established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AMOS 9:12 Israel shall rule all nations. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AMOS 9:15 Israel will “no more be pulled up out of its land”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 2:2 [JERUSALEM TEMPLE] And it shall come to pass in the last
days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow
unto it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 2:3 [GENTILES WORSHIP IN THE TEMPLE] And many people shall go
and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 11:6 ANIMALS will be tame and live together on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 24:23 the LORD will rule from Jerusalem, Zion<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 49:16 God will not forget Israel; it is graven on His palms.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISA 54:3 Israel’s seed will inherit the land of the Gentiles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ISAIAH 60-66 MESSIANIC REIGN ON EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MICAH 4:1 In the last days God will establish his throne in
Jerusalem and other nations will come to it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MIC 4:2 JERUSALEM is the focus of worship in the last days.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MIC 4:7 YAHWEH will rule from Jerusalem forever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MIC 5:5-7 When last-day Assyria invades Israel, 7 shepherds will
defend it and conquer them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JOEL 3:1-14 After the scattered of Israel return, God will gather
all nations.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JOEL 3:20 “Judah shall dwell forever and Jerusalem from generation
to generation.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JEREMIAH 14: 7, 21 Do not forsake us “for thy name’s sake;
remember your covenant with us.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JER 23:5 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise
unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall
execute judgment and justice in the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JER 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR
RIGHTEOUSNESS.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JER 30:3 For, lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will bring
again the captivity of <u>my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD: and I
will cause them to return to the land that</u> I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JER 30:11 God will never “make a full end” of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JER 31:31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make
a new covenant with the <u>house</u> of Israel, and with the <u>house </u>of
Judah. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[JER 31:31-34 is quoted in Hebrews 8:8-13 as the New Covenant.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">*JER 31:35-36 God’s covenant with the houses of Israel and Judah
is as sure as the existence of the sun, moon and stars. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 16:60-62 God will remember His covenant with Israel and will
again establish them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 20:44 God deals with Israel “for my name’s sale” (because of
His unconditional promises) and not because of its actions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 36:22 Therefore say unto <u>the house of Israel</u>, Thus
saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for
mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye
went.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 36:25-26 Cleanse Israel and give them a new heart.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they
all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe
my statutes, and do them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EZE 37:25 And they shall <u>dwell in the land that I have given
unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt</u>; and they shall
dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for
ever: and my servant David shall be their prince <u>forever</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DAN 2:44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom, which shall <u>never be destroyed</u>: and the kingdom shall
not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these
kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DAN 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given <u>to the people of the saints</u>
of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions
shall serve and obey him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DAN 9:17-19 [Daniel’s prayer for people of Jerusalem.] not for our
sakes but for your name’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 10:6-12 Judah and Ephraim to be restored.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they
shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is
in bitterness for his firstborn.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 13:1 [Israel will accept Jesus of David as Messiah.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 14:3 YAHWEH will intervene for Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 14:4 YAHWEH will stand upon the Mount of Olives and split it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 14:8 Living waters will flow from Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 14:9 YAHWEH will be king of all the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ZECH 14:16 The remnant of the Gentiles will worship in Jerusalem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">MATT
23:39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed
is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ACTS
1:6-7 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord,
wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? And he said unto
them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath
put in his own power.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">REVELATION
7 [12,000 from each tribe of Israel plus an innumerable multitude of others<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">REVELATION
21:12 And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates
twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of <u>the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE CHURCH AGE AND
RAPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Alongside
the biblical teaching that national Israel is still very much in God’s plans
for the future is the biblical teaching that the Church is quite different from
national Israel and has different promises and a different prophetic timeline
for its removal. There are simply too many differences between God’s promises
to national Israel and God’s promises to the Church to ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AN UNGRASPED MYSTERY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gen
12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Isa
60:3 (1-7) And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Zech
14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the
King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mal
1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my
name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be
offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the
heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A MYSTERY HIDDEN TO OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Israel
is a nation; the Church is the mystery body of Christ (Eph 5:23; Col 1:18). The
prophets did not understand that God would someday include Gentiles in all of
His blessings). The Church Age is between the 69<sup>th</sup> and 70<sup>th</sup>
week of God’s plan for national Israel. When the Church is complete, Christ
will “catch it up” to heaven and finish His plan for Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
PETER 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Pet 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Pet 1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was
in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should follow.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Pet 1:12 Unto whom <u>it was revealed, that not unto themselves</u>, but unto
us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that
have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;
which things the angels desire to look into.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans
11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this <u>mystery</u>,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; <u>that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans
16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and
the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the <u>mystery</u>,
which was kept secret since the world began,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Romans
16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets,
according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations
for the obedience of faith.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">EPHESIANS
1:9 Having made known unto us <u>the mystery of his will</u>, according to his
good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Eph
1:10 <u>That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather
together in one all things in Christ</u>, both which are in heaven, and which
are on earth; even in him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>[Ephesians 2 all] [Col 2 all]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">EPHESIANS
3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the <u>mystery</u>
of Christ)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">EPHESIANS
3:5 <u>Which in other ages was not made known</u> unto the sons of men, as it
is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">EPHESINS
3:6 <u>That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs</u>, and of the same body, and
partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel ...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">EPHESIANS
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the
church: and he is the saviour of the body.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">COLOSSIANS
1:18 Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning,
the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE CHURCH WILL BE KEPT FROM WRATH, ISRAEL
WILL NOT.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THESSALONIANS 1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the
dead, even Jesus, which <u>delivered us from the wrath to come</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THESSALONIANS 5:9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath , but to obtain
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">REVELATION
3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, <u>I also will keep thee
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world</u>, to try
them that dwell upon the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE CHURCH WILL BE CAUGHT UP (Latin: RAPTURED)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THESSALONIANS 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have
no hope.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THES 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God <u>bring</u> with him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THES 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord <u>shall not prevent</u> them
which are asleep.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THES 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and <u>the dead in Christ
shall rise first</u>:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
THES 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be <u>caught up [Latin:
rapture] </u>together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
CORINTHIANS 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be
changed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E. COMPARING THE RAPTURE AND THE SECOND COMING IN GLORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) RAPTURE:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meets believers in the air. 1 Thes 4:15-17;
Acts 1:9-11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) SECOND COMING: Meets Israel on
earth, Zech 14:4-5; Rev 19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) RAPTURE: Christ does not touch
earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acts 1:11<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) SECOND COMING: Christ comes to stay
for 1000 years. Rev 20; Mal 3:2-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) RAPTURE: For the church. 1 Thes
4:15-17; 1 Cor 15:51-55<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) SECOND COMING: For Israel and
tribulation saints. Rev 19; Mal 3:2-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) RAPTURE: To keep promises to the
church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jn 14:1-3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) SECOND COMING: To keep promises to
Israel through OT prophets.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) RAPTURE: “With” souls of saints to
get bodies. 1 Thess 4:14-18<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) SECOND COMING: "With: saints
and angelic armies. Rev 19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) RAPTURE: “Church” an O.T. “mystery”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rom 16:25; Eph 5:32<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) SECOND COMING: Natural Israel not a
mystery; always God's nation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(7) RAPTURE: Kept from final wrath of
great tribulation. 1 Thes 1:10; 5:9; Rev 3:10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(7) SECOND COMING: Except for the
144,000. All o<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thers suffer the great
tribulation. Rev 6-18<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(8) RAPTURE: IMMINENT: At any time: no
prophecy yet to be fulfilled.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(8) SECOND COMING: After last day
apostasy, revelation of antichrist, and many prophecies fulfilled. Eze
36:31-33.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.
REJECTING THE MID-TRIBUATION RAPTURE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The theory ignores the difference between
God’s promises to the Church and His promises to Israel. The 7-year tribulation
period is specifically for Israel and Jerusalem (Dan 9:24).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 7 churches are prominent in Revelation 2
and 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Church is seen in heaven in
chapters 4 and 5 (5:8-10). It is not seen in chapters 6-18. Christ will come
with His saints in Revelation 19:14.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) The worldwide effects of the 7 seals are
part of the wrath of God, or the <i>Day of the Lord</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has promised that the church will be kept
from wrath (1 Thes 1:10; 5:9 and Rev 3:10).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) While the 144,000 Hebrews will be
protected from the wrath of God (Rev 7:3-8), the great multitude of others will
not be protected from the wrath of God (Rev 7:9-17). “They have come out of
great tribulation” (Rev 7:14). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>8. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">VIEWS OF THE SECOND
COMING (A REVIEW)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>POST-MILLENNIAL: The church age is the
millennium. Life will get better and better until Christ returns.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AMILLENNIAL: There is no millennium. Good and
evil will exist together. The church will go through a time of great
tribulation before Christ returns.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PRETERISM:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Second Coming of Christ was spiritual in A. D. 70 when pagan Rome
destroyed the Jerusalem Temple. The resurrection is a spiritual event.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PRE-MILLENNIAL: The 1000-year millennial
reign of Christ on Earth is future and literal. The Church Age will end with
the catching up (rapture).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) POST-TRIBULATION RAPTURE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the end of 7-year great tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) MID-TRIBULATION RAPTURE: Rev 11 witnesses
are a type<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the middle of the 7-year great
tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) PARTIAL-RAPTURE; Heb 9:28<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Only active Christians will be taken out of
wrath.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Before the 7-year great tribulation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1 Th 1:10; 5:9; Rev 3:10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE BEMA: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">JUDGMENT SEAT OF
CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
<i>Bema</i> is the judgment seat of the righteous. It does not determine
whether or not one has been saved (John 3:16-19). It determines the eternal
degrees of rewards of the righteous. Many believe it will take place in heaven
during the 7-year tribulation on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rom 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand
before <u>the judgment seat of Christ</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 Cor 5:10 For we must all appear before <u>the
judgment seat of Christ</u>; that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1 Cor 3:12 Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work
of what sort it is.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall
receive a reward.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">1
Cor 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he
himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>CROWNS (WREATHS; STE-PHA-NOS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CROWN OF VICTORY; 1 COR 9:25<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CROWN OF LIFE; REV 2:10<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CROWN OF GLORY; 1 PET 5:2-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; 2 TIM 4:8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">CROWN OF REJOICING; 2 THESS 2:19-20`<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">TRIBULATION: FIRST HALF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.
There will be a falling away from true faith after the Church is removed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">…..<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Tim 3:1 This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Tim 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Tim 3:3 Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.
The pause between the 69<sup>th</sup> and 70<sup>th</sup> week between Daniel
9:26 and 9:27 ends with the removal of the mystery body of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince
that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.
The Holy Spirit’s function as a “withholding” power to protect the Church ends,
but His function of convicting and indwelling remains.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth
that he might be revealed in his time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity doth
already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be
revealed …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The iron Roman Empire has been revived as a
weak union of iron and clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 2:41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and
toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but
there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the
iron mixed with miry clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 2:42 And as the toes of the feet were
part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and
partly broken.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed
with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they
shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The weak revived Roman Empire initially will
have ten rulers (Dan 7:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night
visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong
exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and
stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts
that were before it; and it had ten horns.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first eleven chapters of Revelation cover
the first 3 ½ yeas (42 months, 1260 days) of the 70 week of Daniel 9:27.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">G.
The whole house of Israel is un-armed and at peace – dwelling in unwalled villages.
Compare Ezekiel 38:11.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A false worldwide worship system will emerge.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Already formed in Revelation 13, 17-18.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Worldwide disorder will follow the removal
of the Church.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) 1<sup>st</sup> seal: rider on white horse
conquers; Rev 6:2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) 2<sup>nd</sup> seal: rider on red horse
brings war; Rev 6:3-4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) 3<sup>rd</sup> seal: rider on black horse
brings famine; Rev 6:5-6<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) 4<sup>th</sup> seal: rider on pale horse
brings death; Rev 6:7-8<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5) 5<sup>th</sup> seal: martyrs ask for
revenge; Rev 6:9-11<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6) 6<sup>th</sup> seal: earthquake; signs in
heavens; rulers cry out; Rev 6:12-17<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J.
Crisis will result in an antichrist person taking control of the confederacy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 7:24 And the ten horns out of this
kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and
he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since Israel has been re-born as a nation
since 1948, the stage is set for fulfillment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ezek 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man,
these bones are the whole house of Israel …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">L.
Antichrist will make a 7-year covenant with Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>144,000 Israelites and an innumerable
multitude of others will be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rev 7:1-8; 144,000 Hebrews are sealed and
immune from suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rev 7:9-17 a great multitude is saved out of
all nations. These will suffer and many will die during the tribulation time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">N.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great upheavals of nature from 7 seals will
kill much human, animal, sea and vegetable life on Earth. Only the 144,000 are
immune.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">O.
The 7<sup>th</sup> seal contains 7 trumpet plagues (Rev 8:2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) The prayers of saints will be answered
(Rev 8:3-4).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) The 1st trumpet will bring hail and blood
to kill 1/3 trees and all grass (Rev 8:7)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) The 2<sup>nd</sup> trumpet will have a
burning mountain destroy 1/3 sea life and ships (Rev 8:8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) The 3<sup>rd</sup> trumpet will have a
star named Wormwood poison 1/3 fresh water and kill many men (Rev 8:10-11).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5) The 4<sup>th</sup> trumpet will darken
1/3 sun, moon and stars (Rev 8:12).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6) The 5<sup>th</sup> trumpet will release
scorpion-like beasts from the bottomless pit to torment those without the seal
of God for 5 months. [Includes Christians] Rev 8:1-11). First woe.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(7) The 6<sup>th</sup> trumpet will allow 200
million from across Euphrates to kill 1/3 men [including Christians] (Rev
9:12-21).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q.
A little book of secrets is eaten (Rev 10). Compare Daniel 8:26; 11:45 to 12:4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">R.
A new temple will have been built. Gentiles will control Jerusalem for 42
months --- but not the temple (Rev 11:1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">S.
Two witnesses will preach in Jerusalem during the first 1260 days (Rev 11:6).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">11.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">TRIBULATION: SECOND
HALF <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 12 is a cosmic overview of the
entire conflict between God and Satan ending with Israel fleeing and hiding for
3 ½ times, 42 months or 1260 days (12:14).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerusalem will become a burden to all nations
(Zech 12:1-2; 14:1-2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The final 3 ½ years of the great tribulation
will begin when the two witnesses of Revelation 11 are killed and resurrected
(11:4-13). This may trigger Antichrist to break his 7-year covenant.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rev 11:11 And after three days and an half
the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet;
and great fear fell upon them which saw them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rev 11:12 And they heard a great voice from
heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a
cloud; and their enemies beheld them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rev 11:13 And the same hour was there <u>a
great earthquake</u>, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the
earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted,
and gave glory to the God of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.
In the middle of his 7-year covenant with Israel, Antichrist will break the
covenant and will sit as God in the temple.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations
he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like Antiochus IV of Daniel 8:9-14,
Antichrist will occupy the temple and demand to be worshipped as God. This will
be the second greater fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Matt 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the
abomination of desolation, spoken of by <u>Daniel </u>the prophet, stand in the
holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except there come <u>a falling away first</u>,
and <u>that man of sin be revealed</u>, the son of perdition;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 Thes 2:4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself
above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that <u>he as God
sitteth in the temple of God</u>, shewing himself that he is God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel will flee to the wilderness (Rev
12:14-16).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Matt 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea
flee into the mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">G.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 13 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Covers 3 ½ years of Antichrist’s rise to power using a false prophet and
false religious system to control Earth and commerce. It ends with Christians
awaiting a death sentence. Like Daniel 7, he will have 7 heads and 10 horns.
Also like Daniel 7,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he will have
features of a lion, bear, leopard and dragon (Rev 13:1-2). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) A powerful false prophet will perform
false miracles to deceive the world. The mark of obedience to Antichrist is 666
(Rev 13:11-18).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">H.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 14 covers the fates of the 144,000
Israelites, God’s final call to unbelievers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and ends with God’s wrath on the invading armies at Armageddon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) Jesus will be seen standing upon Mount
Zion with the 144,000 in safety (14:1-5)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) God will give unbelievers one last chance
to be saved or spend eternity in torment with those who worshipped the beast
(14:6-11).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) Tribulation martyrs will be seen in
heaven (14:12; 15:1-3). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) Many more martyrs are yet to come (14:13).
Compare 18:4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5) Reaping of the final wrath of God will
begin (14:14-19).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6) Chapter 14 ends in the Battle of
Armageddon with blood to the horses’ bridles outside the city (14:20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 15 adds details to the wrath of
God first seen in 14:13.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) The tribulation martyrs are seen in
heaven (15:2-4). Compare 18:4. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">[None can be saved afterwards; living
Christians are still on Earth.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Temple scene in heaven (15:1, 5-8).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J.
Revelation 16 covers the 7 vials of wrath will only be poured out on those with
the mark of the beast (16:1).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first vial will cause a terrible sore (16:2; Zech 14:12).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The second vial will cause sea life to die (16:3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The third vial will cause fresh water life to die. The angelS declare
God to be righteous for His judgment (16:4-7).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fourth vial will cause the Sun to scorch (16:8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The fifth vial will cause painful darkness on the seat of the beast
(16:10-11).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sixth angel will cause unclean spirits like demons to cause the
Euphrates’ River to dry up and cause the beasts’ allies to gather for the
Battle of Armageddon (16:12-16). See 14:20.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(7) The seventh vial (16:7-21) will cause:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">a.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It
is done” (16:17). Compare 18:4). Salvation time has ended.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">b.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>demons will gather the kings of the east and of the whole world to a
place called Armageddon (Joel 3:1-10; Eze 38-39; Zech 12:2b; 14:1-2a; Rev
16:13-16).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">c. the greatest earthquake ever will split
Antichrist’s city into three parts and destroy the cities of the nations. Every
island and mountain will be leveled (Rev 16:16-19).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">d.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Babylon will split into three parts (16:19)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">e.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
cities of the nations fell (16:19)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">f.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
great plague of hailstones will fall upon men and they will blaspheme God (Rev
16:21).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">g.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Half of Jerusalem will fall and (half) its citizens will be removed
(Zech 14:2b).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ARMAGEDDON BEGINS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>h.
all islands and mountains disappeared (16:20)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>i.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>exceeding great hailstones (16:21)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelation 17-18 describes Antichrist’s false
church system during the tribulation period and its destruction at
approximately the same time as the Battle of Armageddon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(1) It will be a Earth-wide church-state
organization (17:2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(2) The Antichrist beast will support the
false church (17:3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(3) The false church will be called “Babylon
the Great” (17:4-5, 18).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(4) The false church will be directly
responsible for martyring the saints (17:7; Dan 7:25).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(5) The Antichrist beast will be Satan
himself (17:8).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(6) The 7 heads of the beast are 7 mountains
on which the woman sits (17:9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(7) 7 kings: 5 fallen, 1 is, 1 yet to come, 8<sup>th</sup>
is of the 7 (17:10-11).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">?Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia,
Greece/Rome/Rome resurrected?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(8) <u>10 kings not yet</u>; beast gives
power one hour (17:12-14).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(9) 10 kings destroy the whore (17:15-16).
All others mourns for her (18:9-24).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(10) This is all God’s plan (17:17).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(11) An angel proclaims “Babylon is fallen”
--- fulfilling 14:8 (18:1-3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(12) A last call will be heard to “Come out
of her, my people” (18:4). Compare 15:2-4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">RETURN OF CHRIST IN
GLORY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus, the stone cut out without hands, will
return in the time period when the Roman Empire will be loosely reunited by
Antichrist (Dan 2:44-45; 7:20-24).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.
The 10 horns of Daniel 7 (toes of Daniel 2) are still future when the book of
Revelation was written (Rev 17:12-14).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus will return when Israel is back in its
land. This began to be fulfilled in 1948 (Eze 36:18; Mt 24:14-31). Ezekiel is
addressed to the whole house of Israel --- not just Judah.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus will return in glory with all His
saints and angels and is seen by all (Rev 19:11-15). This event will probably
last several months according to Zechariah 12-14 and Daniel 2:44-45.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.
Jesus will return while all nations are invading Israel and besieging Jerusalem
(Rev 16:14; Zech 14:1-4).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.
Jesus will literally stand upon Mount Zion. The mountain will split east to
west with a great valley between (Zech 14:4).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">G.
The Israelites will flee to the valley for protection (Zech 14:5).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This
is the middle of the Day of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">H.
The enemy will go mad and its horses will go blind (Zech 12:4; 14:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I.
The people of Jerusalem will regather and fight back (Zech 12:5-6).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J.
Jesus will destroy all unbelievers (Mal 4:1; Zech 12:7-9; 2 Thes 2:8; Rev
19:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">K.
The invading soldiers will have their flesh melt away (Zech 14:12; Rev 16:2).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">L.
The invading soldiers will also begin fighting each other (Zech 14:12).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">M.
Antichrist and his false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire (Gehenna)
(Rev 19:19-20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">N.
The remainder of Antichrist’s army and worshippers will be slain by Christ (Rev
19:21). Jesus will fight against His enemies with pestilence, fire, brimstone
and hailstone (Eze 38:22).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">INTERLDE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">BETWEEN THE SECOND
COMING <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">IN GLORY AND THE
MILLENNIUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>War booty will make Jerusalem rich (Zech
14:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judah and Jerusalem will accept Christ as
their Messiah. They will “look upon Him whom they have pierced” and mourn for
Him as a firstborn (Zech 12:10). There will be great mourning (Zech 12:11-14;
13:1-6).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.
A period of cleanup will follow the second coming of Christ in glory (Eze
39:9-14; Rev 19:17-18).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">14.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE MILLENNIUM,
THOUSAND-YEAR <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">REIGN OF MESSIAH ON
EARTH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only born-again Christians will enter the
Millennium as un-resurrected saints (Rev 19:19-21). These are the survivors of
the great tribulation, Antichrist and God’s wrath. Since many of their subsequent
children will not be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.
The Lord will be king over all Earth (Zech 14:9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be no mountains (Zech 14:10; Rev
16:15).).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerusalem will be the center of world-wide
worship (Isa 2:2-4; 11:1-12; Micah 4:2-3; 5:1-9; Zech 14:16-21).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit
for 1000 years (Rev 20:1-3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Israel will fully return from being
scattered (Jer 23:3-6; Deu 30:2-3; Amos 9:11-15; Hos 14:4-9; Rom 11:26).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">G.
The tribulation martyrs will reign with Christ (Rev 20:4).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">H.
The 12 apostles will rule the 12 tribes of Israel (Mt 19:28).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I.
Gentile Christians will rule the remainder of Earth under the direction of
Jerusalem (I Cor 6:2). [The first resurrection has several phases and is for
the righteous only.]<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J.
The land of Israel will be extremely fruitful (Joel 3:18-21; Isaiah 60-66 all).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">K.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A memorial temple will be built (Eze 40-43).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">L.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Animals and snakes will not be harmful (Isa
11:6-9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There will be no weapons during the 1000
years (Isa 2:4; Joel 3:10; Mic 4:3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">N.
Messiah will rule with a rod of iron (Isa 60:12; Ps 2:9; Dan 2:44-45; 7:14, 18,
27; Rev 19:15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">O.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s glory will replace the glory of the sun
and moon and there will be no night (in Jerusalem) (Isa 60:19-20).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">P.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All Hebrews will be priests in the memorial
temple (Isa 61:6; Ex 19:5-6).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Q.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of the 1000 years Satan will be
loosed and gather the wicked from all nations to attack Jerusalem (Rev
20:7-9a).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">R.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will destroy the wicked (Rev 20:9b).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan will be cast into the lake of fire
(Gehenna) (Rev 20:10).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE GREAT WHITE
THRONE JUDGMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The judgment verdict of unbelievers occurs
when they reject the gospel (John 3:16-18; 16:8-9).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The final judgment declaration of unbelievers
will occur in outer space (Rev 20:11a).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earth and its atmosphere will disappear (Rev
20:11b).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bodies and souls of all unbelievers
constitute the second resurrection (John 5:29; Rev 20:6, 12, 13).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">E.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unbelievers will be judged according to their
words because they rejected Christ and their names were not found in the book
of life (John 3:16-18; Rev 20:12-15).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death and Hell (Hades) will be cast into the
lake of fire (Gehenna) (Rev 20:14).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">16.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">ETERNITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will create a new heaven and a new earth
with no oceans (Rev 21:1).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">B.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A new Jerusalem will descend to the new
Earth. God will dwell with mankind in all His glory (Rev 21:2-3).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eternity (Rev 21-22).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Russell
Earl Kelly, PHD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">706-401-1276<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-85425721578227748542022-03-14T17:15:00.000-07:002022-03-14T17:15:16.642-07:00Russ Kelly Rebuts The Daily Leader on Tithing<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Rebuttal to The Daily Leader, Trust God and Tithe, Mar
13, 2022</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: Quotes Malachi 3:8-9</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: Does not quote Malachi 3:10 which describes the tithe
as FOOD. This is dishonest. There are 16 descriptions of tithe in the Bible and
all limit them to FOOD from inside God’s holy land of Israel primarily for
Levites and priests.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: … we are cursed because of our disobedience…</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: Isn’t Galatians 3:10-13 in your Bible? “We” Gentile
Christians never were under the curse of the Law and Hebrew Christians are not
either.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: … tithing is not simply about money — it’s about
faith </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: True holy biblical tithes were never money. Also, it
was law, not faith. Be honest with God’s Word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: ... The poor should tithe and trust God to increase
their blessing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: The poor should give priority to taking care of
essential<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>needs for food and care of
their families. 1 Tim 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for
those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: The rich should tithe willingly </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: The rich should give sacrificially per 2 Cor 8:12-14.
Nobody tithes today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">DL: Malachi 3:8-12 contains the only place in Scripture
where God gives us permission to “try” Him. …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">RK: Malachi is addressed to Old Testament Israel under
the Law. Teach Numbers 18:20-28. Those who received tithes were not allowed to
amass wealth (v20) or own or inherit property. Why do you ignore that?</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">By Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell China we
will immediately stop buying from it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">2. Immediately stop buying from China the moment it invades Taiwan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">3. Anticipate this in our economy and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>plan ahead to purchase electronic
items<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>elsewhere before the need arises.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">4. Expect companies like Walmart, Target and Dollar Tree
to go out of business because so much of their products come from China.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">S. Expect companies in silicon valley to suffer if they
do not plan ahead to make products in friendly countries.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">6. Anticipate the need to have medicine made elsewhere.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">7. Stop treating China as if it is our friend. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">For: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Tucker Carlson. Neal Cavuto <br /></span></p>
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</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seventh-day
Adventists Teach That Jesus </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is
the Anti-Christ Little Horn Who Defiled the Sanctuary in Heaven</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By
Russell Earl Kelly, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">September
6, 2021 (end printing)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In their effort to
explain their Seventh-day Adventist Investigative Judgment interpretation of
Daniel 8:14, the most bizarre consequence inadvertently equates the actions of
Jesus Christ as worse than those of the Anti-Christ little horn in 8:9-12.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seventh-day Adventists
repeated William Miller’s faulty principles of interpretation by disconnecting
Daniel 8:9-12 from 8:14. Re-connecting the context reveals their greatest
error.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HERE’S
HOW THEY DO IT</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STEP ONE: Seventh-Day
Adventists teach that pagan Rome (the WHO), the little horn of Daniel 8:9-10
defiled the literal sanctuary on earth by destroying it in A. D. 70 (the HOW)
with its army (the WHAT).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to the SDA
interpretation of Daniel 8:9-10, the “prince of the host” who was “cast down”
was Jesus Christ” and God’s literal earthly “sanctuary was cast down” by pagan
Rome. Pagan Rome’s destruction of the Temple is called “desolations” in Daniel
9:26. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STEP TWO: Seventh-Day
Adventists very extensively teach that papal Rome (the WHO), the little horn of
Daniel 8:11-12 “cast down” and defiled the heavenly sanctuary (the WHAT) using
its theology and the confessional to replace Christ’s ministry in heaven (the
HOW). This is the most time-consuming portion of SDA evangelists when preaching
on the necessary cleansing of the sanctuary in Daniel 8. According to the SDA
interpretation of Daniel 7:25; 8:11-13; 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10 and Revelation
13:1-9, the little horn of pagan Rome merged into the little horn of papal
Rome. Papal Rome’s defilement of the sanctuary is called the “transgression of
desolation” in Daniel 8:13 and the “overspreading of abominations” in Daniel
9:27. The sanctuary has very definitely been defiled and very definitely
requires cleansing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VALIDATING
SDA DOCUMENTS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The little horn of
chapter eight ‘takes away the daily sacrifice and casts down the ‘place of his
sanctuary’ (v11) [papal Rome], but after a period called ‘two thousand and
three hundred days’ (v14), the sanctuary is ‘cleansed” (KJV) or ‘restored to
its rightful state” [by Jesus] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(The
Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary</i>, 1960, “little horn,” page 656).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The two systems [pagan and papal Rome] are mutually exclusive,
since the setting up of the abomination of desolation is accompanied by the
trampling down of the sanctuary (8:13) and by the taking away of the ‘daily’
(11:31; 12:11). This substitute system of worship is abominable, or detestable,
because it stands in implacable opposition to that of the true God. <i>It
desolates the sanctuary by replacing its services with its own.</i> This turn
of events naturally appalls worshipers of the true God. In the symbolic
prophecy of Daniel 8, it is the power represented by the “little horn” that
terminates the worship of the true God in His sanctuary and institutes a false
system of worship in its place (8:9-12). At the end of “two thousand and three
hundred days” the sanctuary was to be cleansed (v 14) by the restoration of the
worship of the true God” (<i>The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Dictionary,</i>
1960, “<i>abomination</i>,” p7).</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Notice that the “two systems” are pagan and papal Rome. Jesus’
defilement of the literal sanctuary using atoned sins is not mentioned. Notice
also that the “restoration of true worship” appears to be a reference to all
SDA doctrines rather than removing atoned sins from the sanctuary.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE PIVOTAL TEXT</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dan 8:13 How long
shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of
desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First, if Daniel 8:13
belongs to 8:9-12, then 8:14 must remain a discussion of the sanctuary which
was defiled by the little horn of 8:9-12 and 8:14 concerns a cleansing of a
sanctuary defiled by the little horn. Second, if 8:13 only belongs to 8:14, then
8:14 is a complete disconnect from 8:9-12 and the sanctuary and cleansing of
8:14 have nothing in common with the little horn of 8:9-12. This is the SDA
application. Third, if 8:13 connects 8:9-12 with 8:14 (as logic dictates) then
8:9-14 is a complete unit and all of it concerns the cleansing of a sanctuary
defiled by the little horn. Fourth, if the defiling of the sanctuary in 8:9-12
has no relevance to the cleansing from defilement in 8:14, the discussion of
8:9-12 has no purpose.</span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A
FALSE DOCTRINAL FOUNDATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STEP THREE:
Seventh-day Adventists make exceedingly great proclamation that Jesus Christ is
the wonderful hero who first entered the heavenly Most Holy Place in 1844 to
begin cleaning the heavenly sanctuary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The SDA
transformation from 8:9-12 to 8:14 is incredible, bizarre and totally
illogical. First, instead of the sanctuary being defiled by pagan and papal
Rome who persecuted believers in 8:9-12, SDAs make an “about face” 180 degree
turn and blame the defilement on the atoned sins of believers in 8:14! See
GC17-422 later.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“WHO brought the
atoned sins of believers into the heavenly sanctuary to defile it?”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
This one simple question destroys SDA logic, the Investigative Judgment and the
reason for the existence of Seventh-day Adventism. Since the (SDA) defilement
of 8:14 is literal and has already taken over 170 years to complete, Jesus
Himself MUST be a far worse defiler of the sanctuary than pagan and papal Rome
combined! Like it or not, admit it or not, Seventh-day Adventists inadvertently
teach that Jesus Christ is the WHO, the worst of three defilers of the
sanctuary in Daniel 8:9-14. SDAs teach that Jesus (the WHO) carried
(transferred) atoned sins into the heavenly sanctuary (the WHAT) and defiled it
by sprinkling His blood before the Most Holy Place (the HOW). That is SDA
theology at its very worst. The “transgression of desolation” against the
“sanctuary” in 8:13 must be the context of the question asked in Daniel 8:13
which is answered in 8:14. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a name="m"></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore, the
greatest “truth” of Seventh-day Adventism is actually its greatest error. This
error was caused by completely separating Daniel 8:14 from its context. While
most SDAs know WHAT and HOW (SDAs teach) the heavenly sanctuary was defiled,
they have ignored the extremely obvious WHO of Jesus Christ. Jesus is made hero
cleansing the sanctuary, but not villain for defiling it with His same time
sacrificial blood.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE
EVIDENCE FROM ELLEN G. WHITE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The SDA Bible Commentary, The SDA Bible Dictionary</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and SDA evangelists
go into great detail describing<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>the
terrible deeds of the pagan and papal Roman little horns who defiled the
sanctuary in Daniel 8:9-12. Next, they even more vigorously hide the fact that
the defiler of Daniel 8:14 must be worse because he literally and physically
defiled heaven itself, the very sanctuary of God. .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The most respected
and deliberately mass-distributed SDA publication is Ellen G. White’s, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Controversy. </i>Yet, in 719 pages
their prophetess does not quote or reference Daniel 8:9-13.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Although she refers to the papal little horn of Daniel 7:25 four
times, not a word is said about the little horn of Daniel 8:9-13 defiling the
heavenly sanctuary and thus requiring it to be cleansed from the little horn’s
defilement. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I urge all
Seventh-day Adventists to carefully read every word of chapter 23 in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Controversy, What is the
sanctuary?</i>, pages 409-422. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC418: … The blood, representing the forfeited life
of the sinner, whose guilt the victim bore, was carried by the priest into the
holy place, and sprinkled before the veil, behind which was the ark containing
the law that the sinner had transgressed. <i>By this ceremony the sin was,
through the blood, <u>transferred</u> in figure to the sanctuary.</i> … Both
ceremonies alike symbolized the<i> <u>transfer of the sin from the penitent to
the sanctuary</u></i>.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) Sacrificial blood
does NOT represent the “forfeited life of the sinner”; it represents the
substitute life of the sacrifice (Jesus Christ). (2) Sacrificial blood washes
away sins; it does NOT symbolize the transference of SIN “from the penitent to
the sanctuary.” Rather it records the fact that full atonement has been made by
the perfect sinless sacrifice (Jesus Christ). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) The phrases
“carried by the priest,” “by this ceremony the sin was through the blood
transferred in figure to the sanctuary” and “transfer of the sin from the penitent
to the sanctuary” should prove SDAs teach that Jesus defiled the heavenly
sanctuary even worse than pagan or papal Rome. And the SDA Jesus qualifies to
be called the Anti-Christ little horn who defiled the sanctuary in heaven which
He has been cleaning since 1844. According to SDAs, Christ blood simultaneously
defiles and cleans.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC419: Such was the work that went on day by day
throughout the year. <i>The sins of Israel were thus transferred to the
sanctuary, and a special work became necessary for their removal.</i> God
commanded that an atonement be made for <i>each </i>of the sacred apartments. …</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) If atoned
redeemed forgiven sins of believers defile the sanctuary daily, then the
heavenly sanctuary has been defiled since Adam was forgiven in Genesis 4:21 and
is still being defiled every time a believer is forgiven even today. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) The Day of
Atonement ended a year-end final cleansing of confessed residual sins (Lev
23:24-32). Confessed sins were washed away when the blood of the sacrifice was
shed (Lev 4:20). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) SDA theology
denies that the Holy Place and the remainder of the sanctuary were also defiled
and required cleansing on the one-day Day of Atonement because Jesus had been
in the Holy Place before 1844 and because it is still defiled by current forgiven
sins (their theory) (Lev 16:20). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) The sentence “The
sins of Israel were thus transferred to the sanctuary” proves that SDAs make
Jesus a greater defiler of the heavenly sanctuary than pagan or papal Rome and
a worse Anti-Christ little horn.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC420: A substitute was accepted in the sinner</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: "WP TypographicSymbols";"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s behalf, <i>but the sin was not canceled by the
blood of the victim.</i> A means was thus provided by which <i>it was <u>transferred
to the sanctuary</u></i>. … On the Day of Atonement, the high priest, having
taken an offering from the congregation, went into the most holy place with the
blood of this offering, and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, directly over the
law<i> to make satisfaction for its claims</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) Here Ellen G.
White correctly calls the sacrifice a Substitute; previously she erroneously
said it represented the forfeited life of the sinner. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) It is wrong to
teach that the Christ’s blood does not entirely cancel sin; the one price had
been paid at Calvary and a life had been given. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Like the daily
offerings, the Day of Atonement “offering from the congregation” contained the
confessed residual sins of the nation (Lev 23:29). Therefore, if the daily
offerings defiled the sanctuary, so would the yearly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) The sentence “A
means was thus provided by which it was transferred to the sanctuary” refers to
the “means,” Jesus Christ, via His sinless (yet sin-carrying) blood. E. G. W.
and SDAs dare not say that Jesus is the “means,” the “who” by whom the heavenly
sanctuary was defiled. Such admission would destroy Seventh-day Adventism.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC421: As anciently the sins of the people were
placed by faith upon the sin offering and through its blood <i><u>transferred</u></i><u>,</u>
in figure, to the earthly sanctuary, so <u>in the new covenant the sins of the
repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and <i>transferred, in fact,<b> to
the heavenly sanctuary</b></i></u><b>. </b></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) Again, sin did
not go beyond the door of the tabernacle where the sacrificial victim died.
Only unatoned sins defile. Sacrificial blood “records” that the payment for sin
had been made (Ex 12:13; Jer 17:1; Lev 4:20). (2) The phrase “in the new
covenant the sins of the repentant are by faith placed upon Christ and <u>transferred
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in fact</i> to the heavenly sanctuary</u>”
clearly teaches that Jesus is even today (long after 1844), still defiling the
heavenly sanctuary while He is unable as Omniscient God to complete its
cleansing quickly. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Much more than
mere records of sins, E. G. W. makes it absolutely clear the sins ‘in fact’ are
still defiling the heavenly sanctuary. (4) The combined abominations of
desolation by the little horn of pagan and papal Rome do not compare to the
defilement of Jesus Himself. .</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC421: For eighteen centuries this work of
ministration continued in the first apartment of the sanctuary</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> [the
holy place]<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. The blood of Christ,
pleaded in behalf of penitent believers, secured their pardon and acceptance
with the Father, <i>yet their sins still remained upon the books of record</i>.
… there is a work of atonement<i> for the removal of SIN from the sanctuary.
This is the service which began when the 2300 days ended.</i> …</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) SDAs do not discuss when the first compartment
was cleansed to allow Christ to minister there. If part of the sanctuary was
defiled, all of it was defiled. In Leviticus 16 the Most Holy Place was
cleansed before the Holy Place; SDAs reverse the sequence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) The blood of Christ does not (at the same time)
both “secure pardon” and defile the sanctuary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) Records of sin do not defile. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4) If the work of atonement was “the removal of sin
from the sanctuary,” Daniel 8:9-13 makes no sense if the sanctuary was not
being cleaned from its defilement by the un-atoned sins of pagan and papal
Rome. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(5) Whether for dedication, re-dedication or Day of
Atonement cleansing, each only lasted one day as Daniel 8:14 teaches – not
“begin to be cleansed” as SDAs teach. Even their “day-for-a-year principle
would only extend to one year --- 1844-1845. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(6) The phrase “there is a work of atonement for the
removal of sin from the sanctuary” credits Jesus with beginning to cleanse the
sanctuary but He is never credited with defiling it.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">GC421-422: And as the typical cleansing of the
earthly was accomplished by the removal of the sins by which it had been
polluted, so the actual cleansing of the heavenly is to be accomplished by the
removal, or blotting out, of the sins which are there recorded. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is utter folly to think that God would allow the
Most Holy Place in the universe to be defiled. The entire Investigative
Judgment doctrine is the result of fatalistic clinging to William Miller’s
false prophecy that Daniel 8:14 pointed to some great event in 1844. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Only unatoned sin
defiles. “Defile” is the same as “casting down” in the context of Daniel
8:9-12. In Exodus 31:14 one who did not keep the Sabbath “defiled” it and was
put to death. In Leviticus 21 priests who touched dead relatives were defiled
and unfit to serve. In Numbers 19:13, 20-21 those who refused to purify
themselves defiled the tabernacle, or sanctuary. In Nehemiah 13:29 those who
marred unbelievers defiled the priesthood. In Revelation 21:27 nothing that
defiles will enter heaven. Run away from any church which teaches that Jesus
has defiled heaven with the atoned sins of believers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Russell Earl Kelly,
PHD</span></p>
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Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-45465870966874693922021-07-11T14:27:00.004-07:002022-09-10T06:57:05.506-07:00REBUTTAL TO STEPHEN J COLE BY RUSELL E KELLY<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">REBUTTAL
TO STEPHEN J COLE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God,
Money and You, December 1993</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BY
RUSSELL EARL KELLY, PHD, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is a real slick sermon on tithing. The preacher pretends to be preaching
against tithing, but he is really preaching more than tithing. He probably
broke his arm patting himself on the back for being so slick.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.
He never defines the words “holy tithe” from God’s Word. However, beginning at Leviticus
27:30-34 and 15 later texts, the CONTENTS of the holy tithe were always only
FOOD from INSIDE ISRAEL miraculously increased by the hand of God and not man.
Until God’s definition is used, the entire discussion is a moot total man-made
waste of time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2.
He says “tithing is the bare minimum.” That is a lie and is not biblical. Holy
tithes were only commanded to Hebrews under the Law and lived inside God’s holy
land of Israel. If a Hebrew did no live inside Israel or earn his livelihood
off the land, he was not required to tithe. Also, as Jesus, Paul and Peter did
not qualify as tithe-payers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3.
The question is asked, “If not 10 percent, how much should I give?” At one
point near the end of the sermon, author correctly replies that we should give sacrificially,
generously, to the best of our ability after essential household necessities
have been met. I would include First Timothy 5:8.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tithing is not the New Testament standard for
giving: generous sacrificial giving is the standard, not tithing. For many,
sacrificial giving might be more than 10%; however, for many sacrificial giving
is far less than 10%.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.
“Believers are not under the Law.” In fact, Gentiles never were under the Law.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.
Tithing is not an eternal moral principle. Eternal moral principles apply to
every Hebrew and also every person. They are known by the conscience or through
nature (Rom 1:18-20; 2:14-16). Tithing is neither.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.
Tithing was not repeated under the terms of the New Covenant by the Holy
Spirit. It is not a post-Calvary New Covenant doctrine.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.
He incorrectly says “The tithe was <u>commended for every Israelite</u> to fund
national worship and help the poor.” This is wrong. It was only commanded from
food producers who lived inside Israel. And those who received tithes were not
allowed to own or inherit property inside Israel or to amass wealth. This part of
tithing is totally ignored today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.We
are told “Jesus mentions scribes and Pharisees who tithe ..., but he never
commanded his disciples to tithe.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
was only true because the Law was in full effect before Calvary. He commanded
His disciples to tithe to the Jewish worship system and not to Himself or to
His Apostles (Mt 23:1-24).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.
He says that “Tithing was not mentioned by the early church fathers.” That is
simply not true. See David’s Croteau’s writings. However, their version of
tithing was not accepted for almost 800 years. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11.
He wrote “It leads to the notion <u>that 10 percent is God’s money</u> and 90
percent is my money. In reality, 100 percent is God’s money.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here
is where the slick trickery starts to unfold. The author began by saying that
tithing is a bare minimum. He also began by failing to correctly define what a
holy tithe was in God’s Word. He defines “tithe” as “ten per cent of one’s
total income before taxes” and builds the lie upon his unbiblical false definition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12.
“Grace giving does not mean that you give every now and then, hit and miss, but
it is planned and systematic (1 Cor 16:2; 9:7).”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Those
two texts teach giving “as God has prospered you” and “not under compulsion.”
The giver gives to the best of his/her ability.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13.
“God’s grace should motivate us to excel far more than the minimum under the
law (1 Cor. 15:10).”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First,
First Corinthians 15:10 is not about giving. Second, if there were a text which
supported his claim, he would have quoted it. Third, he cannot justify this
with his comments that the Law had three tithes of 22%. Does grace teach 22%
giving minimum?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14.
“<u>God deserves the best,</u> not just what is convenient.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Although
this sounds good, it is not biblical. Read Leviticus 27:30-34. The tithe of the
herd was NOT the best --- it was merely the tenth!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The priests offered the BEST 1% of the total
tithe in Numbers 18:25-28.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15.
“He deserves first place.” Again, although this sounds good, it is not
biblical. God did not require the best of the land or herd.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16.
“Grace giving is based on God’s example in Christ (2 Cor 8:9).”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why
stop at verse 9? Read and include 8:14-16. “Equality giving” means that some
give more and others give less. This chapter is not about tithing; it is about
freewill sacrificial giving.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17.
“All that we are and have belongs to God, not just a tenth.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
slick pretense is over. After all the arguments against tithing, Stephen J.
Cole DOES teach tithing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18.
He quotes First Corinthians 8:1-12 and not 8:14-16 which disagree with his
conclusions.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCLUSION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stephen
J. Cole teaches that God cannot accept less than 10%; he wants everybody to give more
than 10%. First, his definition of the “holy tithe” is unbiblical. Second,
contrary to God’s requirement for O.T. tithe-recipients, he probably owns
property and has a savings account (Num 18:20, 15-28).</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WHY I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">By Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">July 4, 2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On approximately July 2<sup>nd</sup> I watched a TV <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>interview of two students from Georgetown
University in Washington, D. C. They were asked if they were proud to be an American.
They both answered “no,” and one replied “What is there to be proud of?”</span></p>
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following reasons are “off the top of my head” and I am sure there are many
more reasons to be proud to be an Americn.</span></p>
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to rise to become wealthy.</span></p>
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to rise to become an influential politician, congressman or president.</span></p>
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to debate our differences in public and to join and support peaceful groups
which oppose our government.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In most states
we have freedom to legally purchase a firearm to protect ourselves and our
families. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike many
countries, we have a Social Security and Medicaid which help those who are
elderly and unable to work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Veterans can
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have
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few moving out of our country.</span></p>
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Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-8285304496106289412021-05-27T08:55:00.000-07:002021-05-27T08:55:39.289-07:00<p>RUSS KELLY REBUTS WILLIAM BARCLEY ON TITHING</p><p>MAY 27, 2021 <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">The Bible
Commands Christians to Tithe </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 28, 2017 |
<a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/profile/william-barcley/"><span style="color: blue;">William Barcley </span></a>/ check for full article</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
My argument, in a nutshell, is this: The requirement to tithe preceded the
Mosaic law, was codified in it with ceremonial aspects added, and was affirmed
by Jesus as binding on his followers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Tithing before the Law was from unclean pagan goods which were not holy tithes.
Tithing during the laws was always only food from inside God’s holy land. It
was limited to Hebrews living inside that holy land. There is no such thing as
tithing after Calvary. Matthew 23:23 is during the law. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
[Genesis 14 (Abram) and 28 (Jacob) are validated by Genesis 26:5.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Not everything Abram did was in obedience to a command from God. For example, using
Gen 26:5 to justify tithing is wrong because it could also justify his lie to
Pharoah in Genesis 12. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biblical
definition of a “holy tithe” does not fit Gen 14 or 28.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Gen 4, firstfrut and firstborn.] </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Scripture nowhere EQUATES “firstborn,” “firstfruit” with “tithe.” They are
always distinctly different. Both were only food from inside God’s holy land.
One tree out of many thousands in Gen 4 does not constitute a tithe. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
Some have suggested Jacob was offering a one-time tithe in <a href="https://www.esv.org/Genesis%2028/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #72abbf;">Genesis 28</span></a>. But as John Currid <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Vol-Study-Commentary-Epsc/dp/1783970103/?tag=thegospcoal-20"><span style="color: blue;">observes</span></a>, the verb “to tithe” describes
frequent, multiple actions. Jacob appears to be “making a lifetime commitment
to Yahweh in the matter of tithing.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
We cannot elevate John Currid’s opinion to the level of Scripture. The Bible
has a huge “if” which means that Jacob was bargaining with God – telling God
the sequence.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
Why does Moses record these events? …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Why does Moses, Nehemiah, Malachi and Jesus not uses Gen 14 and 26 ass examples
of holy tithing? --- they were from unholy pagan sources.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
… Yet far from revealing discontinuity, Hebrews leaves the impression that
Christians will also tithe to their eternal high priest.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Hebrews 7 teaches certain discontinuity. (1) Messiah will be “after the ORDER
of Melchizedek” – a non-Hebrew king-priests. (2) Messiah will not be from
Aaron. (3) His coming will forces a NECESSARY CHANGE OF THE LAW (V12). And (4)
that “change” will be the “disannulling of the commandment going before” of tithing
from 7:5.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
When we come to the law, it becomes clear that the tithe is God’s standard for
giving. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Read Lev 27:30-34 and Num 18:20-28. The “standard” only applied to
food-producers living inside holy Israel!!! It did not apply carpenters such as
Jesus! It did not apply to tent-makers such as Paul! It did not apply to any
outside Israel. It did not apply to Gentiles. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
Under the Mosaic law, there appear to be three tithes …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
They all had things in common: they could not own or inherit God’s holy land
and could not amass wealth (Num 18:20-28). Yet today many “tithe recipients”
own much land and are wealthy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
SABBATH and TITHING</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
Natural law and conscience teach both worship and giving. Neither tell us which
day to worship or how much to give. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
Mal 3:8-10</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
The worst God-robbers of Malachi were the minsters:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Neh 13:5-10. Follow the “you” from
Malachi 1:6-14; 2:1-17; 3 all. Every priest in the nation was stealing from
God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WB:
Matt 23;23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RK:
The context is “matters of the law” before Calvary. Jesus was not commanding
his disciples to tithe to support He and His apostles. Although ignored, the
priests were still not allowed to own property in Israel or amass wealth (Num 18:20-28).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
befuddles me that a Reform pastor would force tithing on those whom he believes
have been predestined by God to obey.</span></p>
Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-66697349428807261662021-05-07T16:56:00.003-07:002021-05-07T16:56:30.644-07:00The Mass and Transubstantiation<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">THE MASS AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a style="mso-comment-date: 20210505T1108; mso-comment-reference: V_1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">R</span></a><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a class="msocomanchor" href="#_msocom_1" id="_anchor_1" name="_msoanchor_1">[V1]</a><span style="mso-special-character: comment;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">oman
Catholics teach that eating the bread at mass is literally eating the flesh and
drinking the blood of Jesus Christ. This infusion of grace (sacrament) is
essential for salvation. The mystery of the mass requires that Jesus be
crucified again every time mass is said. See John 6:35-71. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1. Most Protestants very strongly disagree and call this
cannibalism. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2. In John 3:5-16, salvation was by being “born again” of
the Spirit.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3. In John 4:14, salvation was by drinking of the water symbolizing
faith in Jesus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">4. In John 5:24, salvation was by personal faith in Jesus.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">5. In John 6:35, 40 and 47 salvation is by coming to
Jesus and believing on Him. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. When Jesus said in John 6:48 “I am that bread of
life,” He was not speaking of literal bread, but of God’s only channel of
salvation. In the same Gospel of John, Jesus also says “I am” a lamb (John
1:29), door (Jn 10:9), shepherd (Jn 10:11), road (John 14:6) and vine (Jn
15:1). John the Baptist called Him the “lamb of God” (Jn 1:29) and John calls
him “the lion of the tribe of Judah” (Rev 5:5). Yet Roman Catholics only insist
on literally interpreting Jesus’ reference to Himself as literal bread” to be
literally eaten. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither do Roman
Catholics literally interpret Matthew 16:23 and teach that Jesus taught that
the Apostle Peter was literally Satan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6. In John 6:50-56 “eating Jesus” means to accept His
vicarious death for all sin and accept Him as one’s personal Lord and Savior.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">7. In John 6:57 Jesus compares His own “living by the
Father” to believers’ “eating me.” Just as Jesus lived by obeying the will of
the Father, even so believers are to live by believing in Him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">8. In John 6:58 Jesus contrasts eating His spiritual
words with eating physical bread under Moses. It is clear that He was not
speaking of literal physical eating, but of spiritual obedience. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">9. In John 6:63 Jesus sums up his dialog with “the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">10. In John 6:70, 71 Jesus again spoke figuratively when
He said that Judas Iscariot “was a devil.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">11. Matthew 26:26-29and First Corinthians 11:24-30 are the
two best references to communion in the Bible. In Matthew 26:26 , Jesus summed
up the meaning by saying “But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of
this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my
Father's kingdom.” And, in First Corinthians 11:</span> <span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">24-26 He says And
when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body,
which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner
also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as
often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death
till he come.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In neither reference does
Jesus link communion with a essential part of salvation. “Do this in
remembrance of me” focuses on His return, not salvation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="b"></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">12. The Bible says that Jesus was
sacrificed once for all time and for all sin (past, present, future). God’s
Word does not justify repeating Christ’s sacrifice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 9:25 Nor yet that he
should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place
every year with blood of others;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 9:26 For then must he
often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end
of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 9:28 So Christ was once
offered to bear the sins of many …</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:1 For the law having
a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make
the comers thereunto perfect.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:2 For then would they
not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should
have had no more conscience of sins.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:10 By the which will
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:12 But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:14 For by one
offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Heb 10:18 Now where
remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">13. All believers, with the same order of Aaron as high
priests, now enter into the very presence of God without the necessity of any
other mediator. There is no biblical example or biblical command for believers
to confess their sins to a mediator.</span></p>
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Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-32063205227555470622020-12-31T14:38:00.007-08:002021-01-04T12:03:50.411-08:00WHAT KIND OF BAPTISM IS ESSENTIAL FOR SALVATION?<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL WHO SEEK GOD’S
LOVE AND GUIDANCE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHAT KIND OF BAPTISM IS ESSENTIAL FOR
SALVATION?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Edited
December 31, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">INTRODUCTION:
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Christianity
is severely split over the doctrine of baptism. Three major denominations teach
that baptism by water is essential for salvation (Roman Catholics, Anglicans (Episcopalians),
Lutherans and the Church of Christ). Roman Catholics, Episcopalians and
Lutherans baptize infants while the Church of Christ only baptizes those old
enough to make a conscious choice. Almost all other denominations do not teach
that water baptism is essential for salvation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Roman
Catholics, Episcopalians and Lutherans also add church sacraments to baptism as
essential for salvation. Their answer to the question “What must I do to be
saved?” (Acts 126:30) is “Be baptized and participate in the sacramental
communion.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Protestant churches answer the question
quite differently. The Church of Christ teaches that salvation-baptism must be
performed in their own churches. Some charismatic churches teach that speaking
in tongues is essential for salvation. Seventh-day Adventists teach that those
worshipping on Sunday when Jesus returns will not be saved. And the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints requires its own temple ritual and baptism.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having written the above, the doctrine of predestinationaist makes
all of this irrelevant or moot because the answer to the question, “What must I
do to be saved?” is “NOTHING” --- neither baptism nor the sacraments (per
Church Fathers Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas). That means t</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">he baptism argument is
moot or totally irrelevant. Why? Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans,
Presbyterians, Reform and many Baptists also teach that man has no free will concerning
his ultimate salvation because God predestinates who will be saved or lost.
Therefore, a Roman Catholic cannot choose to be baptized or to partake of the
sacraments because he/she has no free-will in these matters (Romans 8:28 their
interpretation). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am a Baptist, but not a
predestinationist. This article is from the viewpoint of most Baptists. For me,
“What must I do to be saved?” is answered with “Believe (have true faith) in
Jesus Christ as one’s personal Lord and Savior” is the only essential necessity
for salvation.” Afterwards, one who has been saved should be baptized as a
public confession of an inner renewal (Mt 10:32). Some of the texts Baptists emphasize
are: Genesis 15:6; Exodus 12:13; Matthew 28:19-20; John 3:16; 4:14; 5:24;
11:25; Romans 3:21-24; 5:1; 8:1; 10:9-10, 13; Galatians 2:16 and Philippians 3:9.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a name="h"></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I. MATTHEW 3:11a: John
the Baptist's baptism was an old covenant ritual which followed repentance in
preparation for the soon-arriving Messiah. It only applied to Hebrews who had
already been justified by the Passover lamb. It was not a New Covenant
post-Calvary baptism and has no relevance to Christian baptism (Heb 6:2). It
did not provide justification or salvation. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 3:11 I indeed
baptize you with water unto repentance …</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">II. MATTHEW 3:11. IMPORTANT: John the
Baptist said that Jesus' baptism would <u>not be with water</u>, but with fire
and the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. The Holy Spirit enters and indwells
believers the moment they accept Him as personal Lord and Savior.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B. Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit
and was on the heads of believers at Pentecost (Acts 2:3). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C. No literal water was used at
Pentecost (Acts 1:5). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D. This is quoted in all 4 Gospels --
plus 4 times.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 3:11 I indeed baptize you with
water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose
shoes I am not worthy to bear: <u>he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost</u>,
and with fire:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark 1:8 I indeed have baptized you
with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 3:16, I indeed baptize you with
water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not
worthy to unloose<u>: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost</u> and with
fire:</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 1:33 … he that sent me to baptize
with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit
descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which <u>baptizeth with the
Holy Ghost</u>.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 1:5 For John truly baptized with
water; but <u>ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost</u> not many days hence.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">III. MATTHEW 3:14-15. Jesus' Baptism is
His Righteousness for Believers.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. Jesus did not need to be baptized
unto repentance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B. Nothing man can do can be used as
his own righteousness to justify him before God (Isa 64:6; Rom 3:10).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C. The only righteousness which is
acceptable is Christ’s righteousness imputed to man (Rom 4:22-24).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D. Jesus' baptism (not the believer's)
is part of His imputed sinless righteousness for which believers are accepted
as sinless --- along with all of His law-keeping (2 Cor 5:21).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 3:14 But John forbad him, saying,
I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 3:15 And Jesus answering said unto
him, Suffer (permit) it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness.
Then he suffered him.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IV. MATTHEW 10:32. Baptism is a public
confession of an inner renewal which has previously occurred. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 10:32 Whosoever
therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father
which is in heaven.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V. MATTHEW 28:19-20. Jesus commanded
believers to be baptized AFTER they had become disciples (been saved or
justified). The correct sequence is: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. Make disciples, witness
[justification]; salvation; essential</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B. Baptize those old enough to profess faith;
after salvation</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C. Teach Christian doctrines; after
salvation and baptism</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D. The sequence is NOT (as most
churches teach): </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">baptize infants, teach catechism and
make church members</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 28:19 Go ye therefore, and <u>teach
[make disciples of]</u> all nations, <u>baptizing</u> them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matt 28:20 <u>Teaching </u>them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you
alway, even unto the end of the world. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VI. MARK 16:15-16. This is probably the strongest verse in the
Bible to support the interpretation that baptism is essential for salvation.
Verse 15 parallels Matthew 28:19 which reads differently. Oddly, verse 16 does
not read “believeth not and is not baptized.” In order to be consistent with
the remainder of Scripture, baptism is the proof of real faith (belief); one
who is truly saved will obey, profess his/her faith and be bapdtized.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye
into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. [compare Matt
28:19]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VII. Luke 23:43 There is only one plan of salvation found in the
Bible. God did not have different paths to salvation in the Old and New
Testaments. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. NOAH: Those of Noah’s time were
saved by faith and were dry in the baptism of the flood (1 Pet 23:20-21).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B. ABRAHAM was saved (justified) by
grace through faith alone. He was not baptized and did not receive church
sacraments (Gen 15;6).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C. PASSOVER: Those of the Exodus were
saved by faith in the Passover Lamb (Exodus 12:13).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D. RED SEA: When Israel was baptized in
the Red Sea and cloud, they had already been saved at Passover and did not get
wet (1 Cor 10:2).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E. FORGIVENESS: Those under the Law
were saved by faith in the sacrificial lamb without any baptism or receiving
church sacraments (Lev 4:20).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F. There is no biblical instance of
anybody being saved because of water baptism. There is only one plan of
salvation in the Bible, not two.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Luke 23:43 And Jesus
said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in
paradise.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gen 15:6 And he
believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ex 12:13 And the
blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see
the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Cor 10:2 And were
all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VIII. JOHN 3:3,4. What is this verse discussing? Baptism, or
something else?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nicodemus understood Jesus to be referring to a second physical
birth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:3 Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How
can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his
mother's womb, and be born?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IX. JOHN 3:5. This is the controversial verse. Roman Catholics,
Episcopalians and Lutherans interpret it as only a reference to water baptism
which is both essential for salvation and also brings the Holy Spirit. Almost
every other denomination interprets it as, first, a reference to physical water-birth
and also, second, to a spiritual birth. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:5 … Except a man be born of
water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">X. JOHN 3:6. This verse strongly agrees with the majority of
Protestant interpreters. Jesus is speaking of two very different births.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:6 That which is born of the
flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XI. JOHN 3:15-18. Nothing more is said about water or baptism.
“Whosoever believeth” appears in 3:15 and 3:16. “Believeth” and “is baptized”
does not occur in John. “Baptism” is not associated with salvation afterwards
by John.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:15 That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have eternal life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 3:16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jn 3:17 For God sent not his Son into
the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jn 3:18 He that believeth on him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XII. ACTS 2:38. God did not change, or amend, His plan of
salvation after Calvary. God did not “add” the requirements of water baptism
and partaking sacraments. Like John 3:5, Acts 2:38 is a controversial text in
Christianity. Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans and the Church of
Christ interpret <u>“for”</u> to mean <u>“in order that”</u> – men and women
are to “repent and be baptized” “in order that” you may receive “the remission
of sins.” Baptism is the vehicle which brings the remission of sins and the
Holy Spirit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Almost every other denomination interprets “for” in Acts 2:38 to
mean “because of.” The sentence should read “Repent” “and” “be baptized every
one of you <u>because of</u> the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the book of Acts, the “gift of the Holy Spirit” appeared at
different times. In chapter 2 He fell on the Apostles disciples in the upper
room apart from any baptism. In Acts 8:17-18 Paul received the Holy Spirit
before being baptized. In Acts 10:44 Cornelius’ household received the Holy
Spirit while Peter was speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, it is wrong to teach that baptism brings the anointing of the
Holy Spirit in all cases. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 2:38. Repent, and be baptized
every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ <u>for the remission of sins</u>,
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly
received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them
about three thousand souls.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XIII. ACTS 8:12. In this
verse baptism follows saving faith. “When they believed …. they were baptized.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:12 But <u>when they [Samaritans]
believed</u> Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the
name of Jesus Christ, <u>they were baptized</u>, both men and women.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XIV. ACTS 8:14-17. In
these verses, the Samaritans from verse 12 did not receive the Holy Spirit
following salvation after Philip’s preaching. Instead, they only received Him
after Peter and John had prayed for them. Why? Perhaps God was showing the
superior calling of the Apostles as compared to the deacon. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Samaritans had doubted the Apostles' authority until this
time. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:14 Now when the apostles which
were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had <u>received the word of God,</u> they
sent unto them Peter and John:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:15 Who, when they were come
down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen
upon none of them: only they <u>were </u>baptized in the name of the Lord
Jesus.)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:17 Then laid they their hands on
them, and they received the Holy Ghost.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XV. ACTS 8:36-38. The Ethiopian eunuch was baptized by Philip
AFTER he believed unto salvation. He was clearly baptized BECAUSE he had
already believed. Again, only persons old enough to profess faith are baptized.
It is also important to note that he must have been immersed because both went
into the water. If sprinkling or pouring were appropriate, a water bag would
have sufficed.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:36 And as they went on their
way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; <u>what
doth hinder me to be baptized? </u>Acts 8:37 And Philip said, <u>If thou
believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God</u>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 8:38 And he commanded the chariot
to stand still: and they went down both <u>into the water</u>, both Philip and
the eunuch; and he baptized him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XVI. ACTS 9:3-6. It is very likely that Paul was converted (saved)
the moment he acknowledged Jesus as "Lord."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:3 And as he [Saul/Paul]
journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a
light from heaven:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and
heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:5 And he said, <u>Who art thou,
Lord?</u> And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for
thee to kick against the pricks.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:6 And he trembling and
astonished said, <u>Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?</u> And the Lord said
unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must
do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XVII. ACTS 9:17-18. PAUL: The Apostle Paul "received his
sight and was filled with the Holy Ghost" when Ananias placed hands upon
him ---- not after he was baptized. This is contrary to Roman Catholic
teaching.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:17 And Ananias went his way, and
entered into the house; and <u>putting his hands on him</u> [Paul] said,
Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou
camest, hath sent me, <u>that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled
with the Holy Ghost.</u></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 9:18 And immediately there fell
from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and
arose, and was baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XVIII. ACTS 10:44-48. CORNELIUS: The entire household of Gentile
Cornelius was saved and received the Holy Ghost BEFORE they were baptized.
Therefore, baptism by water is not essential for salvation.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spake these
words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision
which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the
Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 10:46 For they heard them speak
with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 10:47 Can any man forbid <u>water</u>,
that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well
as we?</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 10:48 And he commanded them to be
baptized in the name of the Lord. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XIX. ACTS 11:16. This is the SIXTH (6<sup>TH</sup>) repetition of
this quote. How many verses are quoted six times in Scripture??? Yet more
emphasis seems to be given to water than to the Holy Spirit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 11:16 Then remembered I the word
of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XX. ACTS 16:14. LYDIA: It is highly probable that Lydia was saved
when “the Lord opened her heart” BEFPRE she was baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named
Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard
us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were
spoken of Paul.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXI. ACTS 16:30-34. PHILIPPIAN JAILER: Here is the question asked
by a Roman soldier, “What must I do to be saved?” and the answer is <u>“Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”</u> He believed and was then
baptized.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:30 And [the Philippian jailer]
brought them [Paul and Silas] out [of the prison], and said, Sirs, <u>what must
I do to be saved?</u></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:31 And they said, <u>Believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved</u>, and thy house.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:32 And they spake unto him the
word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:33 And he took them the same
hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and <u>was baptized</u>, he and
all his, straightway.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 16:34 And when he had brought them
into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with
all his house.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXII. ACTS 19:3-6. JOHN’S FOLLOWERS: This sequence is really
different. These followers of John the Baptist first believed, secondly, were
baptized and third, received the Holy Spirit only AFTER Paul had laid hands
upon them. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 19:3 And he said unto them, Unto
what then were ye baptized? And they said, <u>Unto John's baptism</u>.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 19:4 Then said Paul, John verily
baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they
should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 19:5 When they heard this, they
were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 19:6 And when Paul had laid his
hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and
prophesied.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXIII. ACTS 22:16. Paul is quoting Ananias. The original sequence
in Acts 9:17-18 was (1) be saved (believe), (2) receive the Holy Ghost and (3)
be baptized. Acts 22:16 depicts the entire event as one action. However,
it is clear by comparing all texts that the washing away of sins comes by the
baptism by the Holy Ghost when one is saved apart from water.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the
Lord.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of 11 references to baptism in Acts, 9
are clear that belief (justification) precedes baptism. Acts 2:38 removes baptism
"for the remission of sins" by interpreting "for" as
"because." And 22:14-16 can be explained by Ananias explaining Acts
9:17-18 differently from Paul.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Acts
2:38 At Pentecost Peter taught repentance precedes baptism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Acts
2:41 At Pentecost receiving the word [justification] preceded baptism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Acts
8:12 Simon believed Philip's preaching and was baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. Acts
8:14-17 The Samaritans received the word, were baptized and then received the
Holy Spirit after the laying on of hands.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. Acts
8:36-38 The Ethiopian eunuch believed before being baptized by immersion.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. Acts
9:3-6, 17-18 When Paul was converted, he first believed, secondly received the
putting on of hands, thirdly received the Holy Spirit and afterwards was
baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7. Acts
10:44-46 Cornelius and his household first believed, second received the Holy
Ghost and were afterwards baptized. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8. Acts
11:16 s the sixth quotation that Jesus' baptism is with spirit, not water.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9. Acts
16:14-16 Lydia believed and was baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. Acts 16:30-34 The
Philippian jailer believed and was baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10. Acts 19:3-6
John's disciples were re-baptized correctly, received the laying on of hands
and afterwards received the Holy Ghost.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11. Acts 22:14-16
Thirty years after his conversion in Acts 9:17-18, Paul quotes Ananias who
unified the event.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXIV. ROMANS 6:1-12 -- the Baptism
chapter.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A. This is the most important and most
detailed chapter in the Bible concerning Christian baptism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B. Since chapter 6 follows chapters
3-5, it is clear that justification and salvation precede baptism (5:1).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">C. Again, it is not our baptism which
becomes righteousness for us, but Christ's (Mt 3:15).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">D. Baptism is a pictorial reminder that
believers have already been crucified spiritually in/with Christ, buried
in/with Christ and resurrected in/with Christ (Col 3:3-4; 1 Cor 1:30; Rom
8:30).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E. Knowing that we are already
spiritually living in the glory of Christ's resurrection, we are commanded to
"reckon" ourselves such for sanctification (6:11-12). </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F. Immersion is the only biblical form
of New Covenant baptism because it is the only form which pictures a total
death, burial and resurrection of the believer in Christ.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall
we continue in sin, that grace may abound?</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that
are dead to sin, live any longer therein?</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us
as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:4 Therefore we are buried with
him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by
the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:5 For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection:</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man
is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed
from sin.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him:</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:9 Knowing that Christ being
raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:10 For in that he died, he died
unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also
yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ
our Lord.</span></i><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rom 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in
your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXV. FIRST CORINTHIANS 12:13. ONE BAPTISM: The Holy Spirit
baptizes the believer spiritually. Much of Christianity has this backwards;
they teach that the water brings the Holy Spirit. This is another reference to
John the Baptist's declaration that Jesus would baptize with the Spirit. Spiritual
baptism occurs the instant one accepts Christ as his/her personal Savior and is
born again. The Spirit enters His new home, the believer's body (John 4:14; 1
Cor 3:16-17; 6:19-20).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Cor 12:13 For by
one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit
(from John 4:14).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXVI. GALATIANS 3:26-27. FAITH: First, sinners are saved
(justified, born again) by “faith in Christ” – “For ye are all the children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus”; that is when one “puts on Christ.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul’s words in 2:16 are crucial -- “Knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ." Such is the context of 3:27 – “For as many of you as
have been baptized into Christ have [previously] put on Christ” – that is why
you were baptized.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:26 For ye are all the children of
God by faith in Christ Jesus.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have
been baptized into Christ have [previously] put on Christ.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXVII. Ephesians 4:5 ONE BAPISM: First,
Christ is Lord; second, salvation is by faith in Christ as Lord; third, baptism
because one has faith in Christ as Lord. Since baptism pictures a professed
believer's choice to be buried with Christ, immersion is the only proper mode
of baptism taught in God's Word for Christians. "One baptism"
disproves the argument that believers could fall from grace and would require
re-baptism. Regardless of one's denomination, baptism by immersion in any
Christian church should suffice for all Christian churches. Extreme exceptions
may exist.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Eph 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one
baptism.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXVIII. Colossians 2:10-14 CIRCUMCISION: Circumcision and Baptism.
"In him" and "in whom" (2:10-11) refers to justification by
faith. In 2:11-12, circumcision is given an entirely new meaning after
Calvary. Instead of being a sign of the Old Covenant between God and
Israel, it is now a constant reminder that one has been born again (justified)
spiritually and now wholly identified with Jesus Christ in His life, death,
burial and resurrection. It is “without hands” and is spiritual; it is not a
physical thing or physical baptism. It is spiritual and occurs the instant one
accepts Christ as his/her personal Savior. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Apostle Paul had
been instantly spiritually slain, buried and resurrected in Christ as we read
in Acts 9:3-6. After Jesus said “I m Jesus whom thou persecutest,” Paul replied
“Lord, what will Thou have me to do?” This was before he was baptized.
Likewise, in the story of Nicodemus from John 3:3-18, no baptism is mentioned.
Also, with the Samaritan women at the well, Jesus told her to take one drink
(of faith in Him) and she would be saved; no baptism is mentioned. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him,
which is the head of all principality and power:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col 2:11 In whom also ye are
circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism,
wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God,
who hath raised him from the dead.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your
sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him,
having forgiven you all trespasses;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nailing it to his cross;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">XXIX. FIRST PETER 3:20c-21. Just as
Noah and his family had been saved from the flood while staying dry, the Bible
calls their deliverance "baptism."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The “eight souls” who were “saved by water” remained dry (3:20c).
It is very clear from these verses that <u>“baptism which doth also now saves
us"</u> is NOT that of literal water (3:21a)! Instead, the baptism which
doth also now save us” is <u>"the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ</u>" (3:21b). It is not water at all!
Rather, it is spiritual baptism which occurs the moment one accepts Christ as
his/her personal Lord and Savior (3:21b; John 4:14).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Pet 3:20c … eight souls were saved by
water.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Pet 3:21a. … <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the like figure whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us … </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1 Pet 3:21b … (not the putting away of
the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:russkellyphd@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">russkellyphd@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Russkellyphd.blogspot.com</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">December 26, 2020</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Either admit that the Democrats outsmarted us, or provide the
evidence of fraud.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Peter Navarro’s, <i>The Immaculate Deceptio</i>n, has
accusations of enough voting fraud in six states to overturn the election
(Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Why hasn’t this overturn happened? Are not the states required
to keep and store evidence from their elections? Cannot these states be
petitioned to allow audits of the votes? Would not this evidence prove the
facts once-and-for-all-time?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am very confused and cannot understand why the courts have
not seen the evidence or refuse to see the evidence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Turn me loose in the vote storerooms. If there are 100,000-200,000
unfolded mail-in ballots, I am my friends will find them. If there are printed
lists of illegal voters as alleged, I am my friends will find them. Why isn’t SOMEBODY
doing this already?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please help me understand this.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mal 3:10 “Bring ye <u>all the tithes</u> into the
storehouse, <u>that there may be meat [food]</u> in mine house, and prove me
now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not <u>open you the windows of
heaven</u>, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. The text itself says to “bring all the tithes,”<br />
or “the whole tithe” into the storehouse.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. Therefore, “all the tithe” or “the whole tithe” must
include everything referenced in the word, “tithe.”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Modern tithe-teachers ignore the biblical definition of
the holy tithe as only food from inside Israel (Lev 27:30-34; Num 18:20-28).</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. Current tithe-teachers change God’s Word and redefine
holy tithes as money and non-food increase. This is contrary to God’s Word.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5. Malachi 3:10 clearly limits “all the tithe” or “the whole
tithe” for FOOD – “that there may be meat/food in my house.” Its blessing is rain
(the windows of heaven) to grow food.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. Although money was very common even in Genesis, money was
NEVER included in any of the 16 texts which describe the contents of the holy
tithe.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7. Holy Spirit post-Calvary giving is sacrificial. For some
that is less than 10%; for others it is far more (2 Cor 8:12-16).</p>
Russell Earl Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08503861082402192378noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14224059.post-26730132113234176852020-12-17T18:15:00.000-08:002020-12-17T18:15:41.671-08:00<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE 2020 ELECTION CONTROVERSY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By Russell Earl Kelly, PHD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">December 17, 2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President Trump and most Republicans have accused the
Democrats of fraud and stealing the presidential election in 2020. The electoral
results would have been different if Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin (or
Michigan) and Arizona (or Nevada) had voted for Trump. Those are exactly the swing
states in which most of the election fraud allegedly occurred. This was
especially true in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Detroit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How did Democrats win the election? On the one hand, most
state constitutional election laws require signatures from mail-in requests to
match original voting registration signatures. On the other hand, signatures
for both mail-in requests and on return ballot envelopes must match original
registration signatures. This was not done in the controversial swing states. First,
for many months and by spending many millions of dollars, Democrats convinced
key governors, secretaries of state and local legislators to unconstitutionally
replace state constitutional laws requiring verification of mail-in ballots. Second,
they managed to have the envelopes of mail-in ballots with verifying signatures
destroyed. Third, they mixed the illegal mail-in ballots with good ballots
which destroyed the evidence. Fourth, they nullified eyewitness affidavit
testimonies because the evidence could not be produced. This forced the courts
to declare “no standing” because of “no evidence.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ARGUMENTS OPPOSING BIDEN’S ELECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>DEMOCRAT
VOTES<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>INCREASE/DECREASE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1988<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>41,809,485
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1992<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>44,909,689
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>3.0
million</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1996<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>47,400,125
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>2.5
million </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>50,999,997<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>3.0 million<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2004<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>59,028,109
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>8.0 million</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>69,495.516
Obama<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>10 million</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2012 65,918,507<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Obama<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-3.5 million<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2016<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>65,853,677<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> Clinton <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>0
million<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2020<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>81,283,495<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>15
million </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. NATION-WIDE: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Joe Biden received 81,283,495 votes and Donald Trump
received 74,223,755. Remarkably, Biden received 15+ million more than Hillary
Clinton in 2016 (65,853,677). And, even more remarkably, Biden received almost
12 million more votes than Barack Obama received in 2008. It was the greatest
single increase of Democrat votes in history!!! This was from a man who showed
little enthusiasm and had almost no campaign. These facts make the election
questionable. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 2;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2A. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>STATES: OHIO AND
FLORIDA: </span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Biden
will be the first president in 60 years (since Kennedy in 1960) to lose Ohio
and Florida while winning the election. Despite media-slanted national polling giving
Biden a late pre-election lead in both states, Biden lost Ohio by eight points
and Florida by more than three. This defies logical explanation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2B.
STATES: GEORGIA: RUN-OFF:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Biden
received 2,473,633 votes but failed to gain enough down-ballot votes to prevent
a Senate run-off for two Democratic candidates. If Biden voters had logically also
voted for its two Democratic Senate candidates, both would have won and no
run-offs would be necessary. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2C.
STATES: GEORGIA; VIDEO: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Built-in
building video exists which proves that over 30,000 votes were counted after
observes were told to leave. This is vital because Trump only lost by 12-14,000
votes. This is very suspicious.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">2D.
STATES: GEORGIA: UNFOLDED MAIL-INS: </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Observers
identified thousands of unfolded mail-in ballots. It is impossible to place a
mail-in ballot inside an envelope without folding and creasing it.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">2E.
STATES: GEORGIA COURT RECOUNT DOCUMENT:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Court
Listen</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">er; Wood v Raffensberger,
E N. Zeher Affidavit, Document 6, Affidavit 5 (of 20), November 17, 2020. Many
saw Trump ballots given to Biden at 4 tables. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2F. STATES:
GEORGIA: The Amistad Project has sworn affidavits of 204,000 fraudulent ballots.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2G.
STATES: PENNSYLVANIA: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">TRUCK DRIVER: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On December
1, 2020, Jesse Morgan, a subcontractor tractor-trailer truck driver for the U.
S. Postal Service, testified in a legal affidavit. He said that, on October 21<sup>st</sup>,
two weeks before election day, he crossed three state lines and drove 144,000 -
288,000 completed ballots from Bethpage, N. Y. to Lancaster, Pa. Morgan
testified seeing 24 large boxes of ballots loaded onto his truck. The envelopes
had completed ballots. He claims that employees of the U. S. Post Office were
involved. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This
story was corroborated by Phill Kline, a former Kansas attorney general and
other eyewitness testimony. Since the ballots have been mixed with other
ballots, the courts have rejected the claim because no evidence remains. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">2H. STATES:
PENNSYLVANIA: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pennsylvania
is one of the swing states which illegally changed its state constitution to
allow non-validation of mail-in ballots. This was done contrary to the legal
actions of its state constitution.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">2I.
STATES: PENNSYLVANIA: MISSING VOTES: From the <i>Independent Sentinel</i>: On
November 25, 2020 at a Republican senator hearing in Pennsylvania led by Rudy
Giuliani, a video witness testified that he saw one batch of 57,000 votes for
Biden and only 3000 for Trump. And, in highly Republican Delaware County,
Pennsylvania, 50,000 votes held on 47 USB cards are missing.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">2J.
STATES: PENNSYLVAANIA: LATE-ARRIVING BALLOTS: Ballots arriving after election
day were counted. In Pennsylvania 23,000 absentee ballots have
impossible-to-determine postal return dates and another 80,000 have seriously
questionable return dates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2K. STATES:
PENNSYLVANIA: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Amistad
Project has sworn affidavits of fraud in another 121,000 votes in Pennsylvania.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2L.
STATES: ARIZONA:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Amistad
Project has sworn affidavits of 300,000 fraudulent ballots in Arizona.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2M.
STATES: MICHIGAN: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Amistad
Project has sworn affidavits of similar fraud of 548,000 ballots in Michigan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3A.
COUNTIES: BELLWEATHER: There are 19 counties which have predicted the
presidential winner for the past 40 years. Biden won only one of those 19
counties. This has never happened before! Trump’s margin of victory in 18
counties averaged over 16 points. Something is wrong here. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3B.
COUNTIES: BELLWEATHER: In a larger list of bellwether counties that have
correctly picked the president since 2000, Trump won 51 of 58 by an average of
15 points. The other seven went to Biden by around four points. In Georgia,
Democrats only won 29 of 159 counties. Nationwide, </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Biden only won 524 counties, as opposed to the 873
counties Obama won in 2008.</span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This cannot
be explained logically with in un-enthusiastic Biden. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3C.
COUNTIES: ANTRIM COUNTY, MICHIGAN. On December 14, 2020, Judge, Kevin Elsenheimer
allowed the previously-prohibited forensic results of a Dominion voting machine
server to be made public. They showed a 68% error rate from 15,676 events. (The
Federal Election Commission only allows a .0008% rate.) Two days after the
election county officials reported that the county should have gone to Trump
instead of Biden. They blamed built-in errors in the Dominion system. It is
logical to assume this was not an isolated incident among Dominion machines.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">3D.
COUNTIES: WAYNE COUNTY, MICHIGAN: Affidavit by Russell Ramsland of the Allied
Security Operations Group. This is the most populated county with Detroit. On
November 19, 2020 GetawayPundit.com reported that 53 straight batches of
ballots were all split exactly 50.5% for Biden to 49.95% for Trump. The sheet
with the 50.05 vs 49.95% algorithm is displayed on the Internet. (3) There were
431,994 excess ballots identified. (4) After counting stopped at 2 A. M. a
series of impossible spikes were noticed. (5) 384,733 ballot spikes occurred in
2 hours and 38 minutes. This is physically impossible because it is beyond the
capabilities of the machines used. (6) 46 of 47 Dominion machines reported 98%
of eligible voters had voted and many reported a 100% turnout. (7) The Dominion
machines counted 74,119 more than their capacity to count. (8) The (Dominion)
user’s guide tells how to manipulate the machine to select a winner in chapter
11, setting 11.2.2. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4.
CITIES: Except for four critical swing state major cites controlled by
Democrats (Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia), Biden received LESS
votes than Hillary Clinton from 2016. These four were the huge exceptions.
Biden also received less minority votes in large cities except those same four
cities. This cannot be explained logically.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5.
SENATE: Prior to the election biased media polls predicted that Democrats would
win enough seats to easily control the Senate. Since Biden won the presidential
race with such an overwhelming margin (6-7 million), this cannot be explained
logically. Common sense down-ballot voting would have given Democrats all
available Senate and House seats. At best they could win 2 run-off races in
Georgia and control the Senate via the Vice-President’s vote.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6.
HOUSE: Again, prior to the election, biased media polls predicted Democrats
would win a large increase of House seats. Common sense down-ballot voting
should have accomplished this during a presidential-election year. Against all
odds, Democrats gained no House seats, lost all 27 disputed seats and have a
very small majority. Again, since Biden won the presidential race with such an
overwhelming margin (6-7 million), this simply cannot be explained logically.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7.
LOCAL RACES: While Biden easily won the presidential election, strangely he did
not draw other elected officials with him. Republican governors lost no
available governor seats; they held seven and gained one (Montana). Republicans
added legislative veto power in Louisiana and Wisconsin. And Republicans gained
control of the state legislature in New Hampshire. On December 11<sup> </sup>Biden
admitted “They beat the living hell out of us.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These kinds of victories are inexplicable in
contrast with Biden’s huge win.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">8.
NO DOWN-BALLOT INFLUENCE:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While
Biden received an historic 81 million votes for president, he failed to pull
other Democrats up to victory alongside him. Donald Trump is the ONLY incumbent
president in U.S. history to lose his re-election while his own party gained
seats in the House of Representatives. Republicans won all 27 toss-up House
seats. This cannot be explained logically. If Democratic voters had bothered
voting for other-than president, Democrats should have easily gained the
Senate, increased their lead in the House and prevented a run-off in Georgia!
This lack is highly suspicious.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9.
PRIMARY VOTE: While primary vote totals have been remarkably accurate in
predicting general election winners, such did not occur in the 2020
presidential election. While Biden received record LOW primary votes, President
Trump received an incredible 94 per cent. In our nation’s history, in over 200
years, <u>no incumbent who has received 75 percent of the total primary vote
has EVER lost re-election</u> -- the fourth highest of all time. This cannot be
explained logically.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">BLACK VOTERS: Except for Atlanta,
Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, Trump earned the highest share of all
minority votes for a Republican in 60 years since Nixon in 1960. Except for
those four cities, Trump increased his share of black votes by 50% since 2016. Nationally,
Joe Biden’s black support fell well below 90 percent (87%), the level below
which Democratic presidential candidates usually lose. It is strange that the
consistency only deviated in four swing-state cities.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HISPANIC VOTERS: Trump increased his share of
the national Hispanic vote to 35 percent. Previously, with 60 percent or less
of the national Hispanic vote, it was considered arithmetically impossible for
a Democratic presidential candidate to win Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and New
Mexico. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">12. ELECTORAL
COLLEGE: Since 1852 only Richard Nixon in 1960 lost the electoral college after
winning Florida, Ohio and Iowa. In 2020, all four had huge wins for Trump after
late media-biased polls pointed to Biden. It is a fact that the winner of the
electoral college would change if only four of the contested states changed.
Again, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin (or Michigan) and Arizona (or Nevada)
all had suspicious un-verified mail-in vote counts. This fact is very difficult
to understand. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><u><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></u></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">13. NO OBSERVERS:
Late on election night, with Trump comfortably ahead, many swing states stopped
counting ballots. In most cases, observers were removed from the counting
facilities and illegal counting generally continued without the observers. This
is validated by scores of persons who signed affidavits. It is illegal and
election officials should be prosecuted.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">14. ABNORMAL
VOTE COUNTS: In swing states statistically abnormal vote counts were the new
normal when counting resumed. They were unusually large in size (hundreds of
thousands) and had an unusually high (90 percent and above) Biden-to-Trump
ratio. This is illogical.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">15. QUESTIONABLE
RETURN DATES: Thousands of late-arriving ballots were counted. In Pennsylvania,
23,000 absentee ballots have impossible postal return dates and another 86,000
have such extraordinary return dates that they raise serious questions</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">16. LOW
ABSSENTEE BALLOT REJECTIONS: Higher absentee-ballots always result in higher
rejection rates. In 2020 this inexplicitly did not happen. There were historically
low absentee ballot rejection rates despite the massive expansion of mail
voting. One analyst said ‘If the states simply imposed the same absentee ballot
rejection rate as recent cycles, then Trump wins the election’</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">17 COUNT
SPIKES: When counting resumed, large spikes of pro-Biden votes became the norm
for the remainder of the counting process.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">18. DESTROYED
ENVELOPES: The destruction of mail-in ballot return envelopes made it
impossible to match signatures. The evidence was gone.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">19. BOB
BARR AND THE F. B. I.: </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">u. S.
Attorney General Bob Barr and the F. B. I. have been investigating Hunter Biden
and the whole Biden family since 2018. The F. B. I. has confiscated two of
Hunters computers and are openly announcing he is under investigation. They
have said nothing during the impeachment trial of President Trump. If they had earlier
released this, many voters would not have supported Biden.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">20. TWO
RULES: Several swing states un-constitutionally allowed two different voter verification
rules. While signatures of in-person voters must match their original registration
signatures, a far different standard was applied to mail-in voters. First, the
signature of the mail-in request was not matched to the original registration.
Second, the signature on the return envelop was destroyed and could not be
verified. This lack of evidence caused the courts to reject claims of false
ballots. There were enough of this type of ballot to change the election totals
in the swing states.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">21. ENTHUSIASM
GAP: Biden won while consistently having low enthusiasm either at rallies or in
the polls. This is difficult to explain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">22. BIASED
MEDIA: It is far evident that the media in the United States is biased for
Democrats and against Republicans. This bias affects votes because both sides
of controversies are not being revealed. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Google, Facebook
and Twitter often censor opposing viewpoints. The best examples of this are the
stories around Russia and Hunter Biden.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">23. DOMINION
VOTING MACHINES:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">MICHIGAN
(see above): The error rate of 16 Dominion voting machines in Detroit (Antrim
County) was 68.05%. These cards were sent for secondary scrutiny because the
machines were evidently erroneous.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NEVADA: The
error rate of Dominion voting machines in Las Vegas (Clark County) was almost
70%. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">**ERIC
COOMER: ANTIFA: </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">noqreport.com/2020/11/18/<b>dominion</b>-executive...
Rabid anti-Trumper and self-identified Antifa member Dr. Eric Coomer, the
current vice president of U.S. engineering at <b>Dominion</b> Voting Systems,
admitted on social media to rigging voting <b>machines</b> in order to prevent
President Trump from winning reelection. </span><span style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
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