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HOW THE SCRIPTURES CAME TO MEN

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HOW MAN RECEIVED THE SCRIPTURE

By Ken Blue

  1. THE SCRIPTURES CONTRASTED AGAINST THE WRITINGS OF THE HEATHEN-
  2. THE VOICE OF GOD FROM THE HOLY MOUNTAIN-
  3. THE SCRIPTURES FROM HOLY MEN-
  4. THE SCRIPTURES CAME BY THE WILL OF GOD, FROM HEAVEN, NOT OF MEN-
  5. THE SCRIPTURES ALONE GIVE TRUE LIGHT-
  6. THE SCRIPTURES ARE NOT THE PRODUCT OF MEN-
  7. THE SCRIPTURES WERE OF MEN WHO WERE MOVED ALONG BY THE HOLY SPIRIT-
  8. THE SCRIPTURES ARE THE ONLY PROTECTION AGAINST DAMNABLE HERESIES-
  9. THE SCRIPTURES EXALT THE PERSON OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST-

“For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.  For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.  And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Peter 1:16-21. “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as 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.  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.” 2 Peter 2:1-2.

 

DID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY ONE-THIRD OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE THE TRIBULATION?

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DID YOU KNOW THAT ONLY ONE-THIRD OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL WILL SURVIVE THE TRIBULATION?

The Tribulation

1. JUDGMENT WILL FALL ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST-

2.    JUDGMENT NEXT FALLS ON THE APOSTLES OF CHRIST-

3.    JUDGMENT WILL FALL ON THE NATION OF ISRAEL-

4.    JUDGMENT WILL DESTROY TWO-THIRDS OF ISRAEL

5.    JUDGMENT WILL REFINE AND PURIFY THE ONE-THIRD-

6.    JUDGMENT WILL BRING THE ONE-THIRD TO REPENTANCE-

7. JUDGMENT WILL BRING ABOUT A NEW BIRTH TO ISRAEL-

8     JUDGMENT WILL REFINE AND PURIFY THE ONE-THIRD-

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.  And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.  And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.” Zechariah 13:7-9.

“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” Daniel 12:10 .

Two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. Two parts of Israel will be destroyed in the future great tribulation, leaving only one part to be preserved alive to fight against Antichrist and make up the nation that will be born again in a day at the second coming of Christ (Zech. 13:8-9; 14:14; Rom. 11:25-29).

NO ZOMBIES!

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NO ZOMBIES!

By Ken Blue

There is no proof that there will be a 40 day waiting period between the resurrection of the saints and the rapture. The charge for you to disprove the argument is like challenging you to PROVE that Peter did not kill his mother-in-law. You may not believe it, but there is no way you can PROVE he did not. That is the spider-web the zombie doctrine is built on.

              Also, there are too many “ifs” and “maybes” in the argument. In addition, the use of Lot and Noah has no place or reference to the church of this dispensation. Those verses speak of the days of Israel. In that day, their coming Tribulation. In the day of the second coming, not the rapture (Lk. 17:34-37; Mt. 24:27-31; 25:31-46; Rev. 19:11-21).

              The argument that zombies will spend 40 days witnessing may be appealing…The fact that the dead in Christ rise first, is not proof that there will be 40 days before the rapture. The only answer to that challenge, by the creator of this false doctrine, is, “I will be as critical of your answer as you are of mine.” What kind of proof it that?

              Lastly, the argument that these zombies will spend those 40 days witnessing to the lost may be appealing, but that is not what the Apostles spent their time doing. See, “When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” Acts 1:6. One may conveniently overlook the fact that they were required to WAIT 40 days for the witnessing power of the Holy Spirit.

              Thus, belief in a zombie doctrine is a stretch of an imagination gone wild and an attempt to be novel and sensational. It may be novel, but it is not sensational. Neither is it validated by any Scripture, Nor should one give this novelty a serious thought.

 LAWS BEFORE SINAI.

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LAWS BEFORE SINAI.

The existence of Laws in the book of Genesis and Exodus is evident, though there is no formal record of their delivery.  Cp. Ex. 18:16.  Doubtless some were made known to mankind, as such, by God, e.g. 

  • The Law of the Sabbath (Gen. 2:3).
  • The days noted in connection with the flood are all sabbaths except one, Gen. 8:5.  See note on gen. 8:10, 12, 14. 
  • The law of the place to worship (Gen. 4:3, 4, 16). 
  • The law of offerings (Gen. 4:4)

But, side by side with these special Divine communications, the Babylonian laws were codified in the age of Abraham.  In A.D. 1901, the Code of Amraphel (Khammurabi), Gen. 14:1, was discovered in Susa by M. J. de Morgan.  The latest date for this code is 2139 B.C.  Eight hundred years before Moses, these laws governed the peoples from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, and from Persia to the Mediterranean, and were in force throughout Canaan.

This discovery overthrew the two main pillars of the “higher critics”, one of which was that such writing was unknown before Moses; the other, that a legal code was impossible before the Jewish kings. Hence, we have now before us both codes; and are in a position to answer Jehovah’s question in Deut. 4:8, “What nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?”

Khammurabi calls his laws the “judgments of righteousness”, but some of them, at least, are both unrighteous and unequal.

PURGATORY

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PURGATORY–AN INVENTION OF RELIGION
by Ken Blue
purgatoryIt is said that this is a place where men must go after death to purge their sins, but purgatory is totally an invention of man’s religion. The word purgatory comes from the word purge, and the Bible says that Christ “by Himself purged our sins” without any help from us (Heb. 1:3). The Lord told the dying thief, “Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). This is significant, since the inspired Word of God calls this man a thief, and it was his own testimony to the other thief that “we receive the due reward of our deeds” (v. 41). That is, he was admitting he had not been framed or misjudged but had indeed committed crimes worthy of the death penalty. If there was a Purgatory, this man would have gone there, yet we have the Lord’s word on it that he did not. If anyone needed to go to Purgatory, it was the carnal Corinthians! Yet Paul told even these sinful believers that they could be “confident” that “to be absent from the body” is “to be present with the Lord” (II Cor. 5:8). R. K.