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THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THE CURE FOR ALL SICKNESS’.

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THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, THE CURE FOR ALL SICKNESS’.

By Ken Blue

RESURRECTION

  1. THOSE WHO PROFESS TO BE CHRISTIANS MUST BELIEVE IN CHRIST’S BODILY RESURRECTION-
  2. PAUL PREACHED CHRIST’S BODILY RESURRECTION-
  3. IF JESUS WAS NOT RESURRECTED BODILY, PREACHING, AND FAITH ARE VAIN-
  4. IF JESUS WAS NOT RESURRECTED, THEY WERE STILL UNDER THE CURSE OF SIN-
  5. IF JESUS WAS NOT RESURRECTED, THE DEAD IN CHRIST ARE PERISHED-
  6. IF WE HAVE HOPE IN THIS LIFE ONLY, WE ARE MOST MISERABLE AND HOPELESS-
  7. HOWEVER, CHRIST IS RISEN AND WE HAVE A SURE HOPE IN HIM-

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?  But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:  And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.  Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.  For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:  And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.  Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.” 1 Corinthians 15:12-19. “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”  (1 Corinthians 15:19 KJV.)

“GIVE NONE OFFENCE, NEITHER TO THE JEWS, THE GENTILES, THE CHURCH OF GOD:” 

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“GIVE NONE OFFENCE, NEITHER TO THE JEWS NOR TO THE GENTILES, NOR TO THE CHURCH OF GOD:”  (1 Corinthians 10:32).

By Ken Blue
CHURCH OF GOD

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES RIGHTLY UNTIL WE UNDERSTAND HOW TO DIVIDE THEM RIGHTLY. FAILURE OF THIS RULE OF BIBLE INTERPRETATION HAS LED TO ALL KINDS CONFUSION AND MISAPPLICATION OF GOD’S WORD. THE FOLLOWING VERSE IS NOT UNDERSTOOD OR IT IS IGNORED TO THE SHAME OF MANY COMMENTATORS.

“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.” 2 Timothy 2:15-16.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:32 REVEALS A DIVISION, NOT OF TIME, OR EVENTS, OR PLACES, BUT OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE. THESE CONSIST OF THE JEWS, THE GENTILES (NON JEWS OR THE CHURCH), OR THE CHURCH OF GOD. EACH OF THESE MUST BE DEALT WITH SEPARATELY AND IN THEIR PROPER CONTEXT. THIS, WITHOUT A DOUBT, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION. THE SECOND RULE IS TO TAKE ALL SCRIPTURE LITERAL AS FAR AS THE CONTEXT WILL ALLOW. IN OTHER WORDS, DO NOT MAKE THE FIGURATIVE LITERAL, OR THE LITERAL, A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

 

WHY GOD HAD ISRAEL DESTROY THE INHABITANTS OF CANAAN

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WHY GOD HAD ISRAEL TO DESTROY THE INHABITANTS OF CANAAN, AND TAKE THE LAND.

Ken Blue

DO YOU QUESTION WHY GOD HAD ISRAEL TO DESTROY THE INHABITANTS OF CANAAN, AND TAKE THE LAND? READ AND WONDER NO MORE.

  1. THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH SODOMITES-
  2. THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH BESTIALITY-
  3. THE LAND WAS DEFILED AND MADE IT SICK-
  4. THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH THE PERVERTED GIANTS-
  5. THE LAND WOULD VOMIT ISRAEL OUT IF THEY FOLLOWED THE SINS OF THE    OCCUPANTS-

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.  Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.  Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:  And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.  Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:  (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)  That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.  For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.  Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.” Leviticus 18:22-30.

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).

 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.