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The Olive Tree analogy is in regard to "bearing fruit", or "service" under the Abrahamic Covenant. At the time when the nation of Israel was bearing fruit the Lord called them an Olive Tree: "The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great...

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Those who exist in "time" are constrained by time. They cannot go back in time and they cannot go forward in time. In fact, they cannot even know things which will happen in the future. In this verse the Scriptures speak of the "foreknowledge" of God: "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the...

Let us look at this prophecy: "Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into...

Today one of the chief spokesmen for the Reformed view is Dr. R.C. Sproul and his following statement asserts that the LORD chose only some men for salvation: "From all eternity God decided to save some members of the human race and to let the rest of the human race perish. God made a...

The church at Rome teaches that no one attains salvation except through Mary: "Since faith is the foundation, the source, of the gifts of God by which man is raised above the order of nature and is endowed with the dispositions requisite for life eternal, we are in justice bound to recognize...

Opinions please! When will this prophecy be fulfilled?: "For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off...

This verse tells us how people acquire "faith": "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Ro.10:17). Of course a person must first hear the gospel in order to believe it. And no one receives "faith" until they believe the gospel. This is made plain when we examine how...

Here we can see that at the time when John the Baptist began His ministry it was said that the kingdom was "at hand": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (eggizō)" (Mt.3:1-2). The meaning of...

On another thread Mr. Religion said the following: Here is what I said in response and so far he hasn't responded: Paul and those with him certainly saw a "cause and effect" relationship between "faith" and "salvation," as witnessed by how they answered this question: "And brought them out...

Here we read that the LORD GOD said that "the man has become like one of Us": "Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil..." (Gen.3:22). The man Adam became like One of the Godhead, and it is not difficult to determine the identity of that...

Let us look at this verse, a verse which the anti-trinitarians quote often in their effort to try to prove that the Lord Jesus is not God: "But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him" (1...

Here we can see that at the time when John the Baptist began His ministry it was said that the kingdom was "at hand": "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (eggizō)" (Mt.3:1-2). The meaning of...

Here we see a plurality in the Godhead: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image" (Gen1:26,27). Here God is spoken of as being a plurality. This is a case of a "compound unity," a concept which is spoken of here: "For this cause...

Here we read that the "messenger" of Jehovah's "presence" saved Israel: "The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His...

Let us look how Paul used the term "son of..." when speaking to a sorcerer named Elymas: "O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord?" (Acts 13:10). Of course Paul was not saying that...

Here we see Paul speak about the "good news" of grace: "But now the righteousness of God without law is made known, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no...

The church in Philadelphia has been given this promise: "Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth" (Rev.3:10). This is a promise that this church would not enter...

Let us look at these two verses: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;Who gave himself a ransom for (hyper) all, to be testified in due time" (1 Tim.2:6). "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life...

Let us look at these two verses: "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;Who gave himself a ransom for (hyper) all, to be testified in due time" (1 Tim.2:6). "Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life...