Eternal Security

Eph 1:13 says: In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise. The word for "sealed" is σφραγίζω (sphragizo) which "signifies ownership and the full security carried by the backing (full authority) of the owner. "Sealing" in the ancient world served as a "legal signature" which guaranteed the promise (contents) of what was sealed." (Helps Word Studies).

By the sealing ministry of God the Holy Spirit, God has guaranteed our eternal secrity. Furthermore both the Father and the Son participate in the guarantee in John 10:28-29. In this passage it says we shall "never ever" perish. In the Greek this is οὐ μὴ ἀπόλωνται (ou me apolontai). οὐ (ou) and μὴ (me) are two different words for "not" meaning "never ever" and ἀπόλωνται (apolontai) is from ἀπόλλυμι (apolummi) which is the exact same word used in John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish (ἀπόλλυμι (apolummi), but have eternal life.

There is punishment for turning away from God once saved, but this does NOT include loss of salavtion. This is also made clear in the parables and metaphors of scripture. In the parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) the wayward son never ceased being the Father's son. Once a son, always a son. Also, as believers, we are said to be "born again" (John 3:3). It is impossible to be "unborn." Being born signifies a one-time event that cannot be undone.

The Pre-trib Rapture in Daniel 9

 

The period of time known as the Tribulation is the last week of Israel's seventy weeks or 490 years (Dan 9:24). Dan 9:26-27 states that the 69th week ended when Jesus was "cut off" i.e., crucified,  and the 70th week begins when the covenant is signed with Anitchrist. The period where we are now is an intercalation between the 69th and 70th week belonging to the Church not Israel. The 70th week belongs to Israel not the Church. Thus the Church is raptured before the 70th week begins.

Flexibility in Preaching the Gospel

I received the following request on youtube:

Would you, as a gesture of friendship and in the interest of a discussion in good faith, edit your profile so that it does not reflect your aggressiveness towards Allah, the Quraan and the Muslims? Thank you. 

My profile reads as follows:

 I believe strongly that Islam is modern day Nazism--where Der Führer has been replaced by Allah. My approach to combat this false religion of Islam is to show that it is logically impossible.

We must show Muslims, that when the Bible and the Quran are compared via unemotional and honest academic examination, the Quran, which adduces the Bible as evidence of its validity (Surah 10:94), cannot stand. Thus, the only intellectually honest reaction to the Quran is to reject it, and Islam with it as the Bible calls them accursed:

"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed! As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!" Gal 1:8-9

My response is that I will pray about it since my goal on the internet is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to excercise my spiritual gift of teaching (Eph 4:11). If the above statement prevents this goal, then it should be changed per 1 Corinthians 9:

 19For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. 20To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law; 21to those who are without law, as without law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might win those who are without law. 22To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some. 23I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it. 1 Cor 9:19-23

Bible Believers should NEVER be Unitarian Hypermonotheists!!!

Bible Believers should NEVER be Unitarian Hypermonotheists. The error of this false doctrine is demonstrable in a myriad of ways from the Bible. However, one strong indirect proof is that the Quran directly affirms Unitarian Hypermonotheism. The Quran dogmatically states:

Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: (Surah 4:171).

Thus if you deny the Trinity, you are worshipping the Muslim God Allah.

ישוע הוא יהוה Jesus IS Yahweh

The following verses, taken together, prove that Jesus IS Yahweh:

A. These will wage war against the LAMB, and the LAMB will overcome them, because HE IS LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS Rev 17:14

B. The next day he saw JESUS coming to him and said, "Behold, the LAMB of God who takes away the sin of the world! John 1:29

C. For the LORD YOUR GOD (יהוה אלהיכם Yahweh Eloheichem) is the GOD OF GODS and the LORD OF LORDS Deut 10:17

This is a simple application of the transitive property of mathematics which states:

if A=B, and B=C, then A=C

Since , the Lamb is the Lord of Lords, and Jesus is the Lamb, then Jesus is the Lord of Lords and also everything else in the three verses: King of Kings, God of Gods and...

the Lord God (יהוה אלהים Yahweh Elohim)

Does 1 Chronicles 16:30 teach a Flat Earth?

Evolutionists claim that 1 Chronicles 16:30 teaches that the earth is flat. Let's drill down and the verse and see what it says:

חילו מלפניו כל־הארץ אף־תכון תבל בל־תמוט

Tremble before Him, all the earth; Indeed, the world (תבל - tebel: a poetic word meaning the inhabited world) is firmly established, it will not be moved (shaken, overthrown). 1 Chronicles 16:30

The conxtext (1 Chron 16:8-36), shows that this is a psalm of thanksgiving thanking God for all his provisions, one of which is a world in which we can live that is stable, it cannot be moved, shaken, or overthrown. God has established a fixed order (cf Jer 31:35-36), He is fully in control.

This verse certainly says nothing about the earth being flat. Silly Evolutionists.

Summary of the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Position

Theology is just a filing cabinet with which to organize the Biblical Data. Any theological position that does not fit the Biblical Data must either be revised or discarded. The Pre-Tribulational Rapture position is the only one that fits the Biblical Data. Here is the essence of how it coordinates the Biblical data:

Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people (the Jews) and your holy city (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place Dan 9:24

Sixty nine of these weeks have passed (7 + 62):

So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince (Jesus Christ) there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; Dan 9:25

Thus one week still remains. This "week" is a seven year period belonging to the JEWS (your people--Dan 9:24). The interventing period (the Church Age) between the 69th and 70th week is a GENTILE period in the "Times of the Gentiles":

and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Luke 21:24

The Gentile Church Age ends abruptly with the Rapture and then Daniel's 70th Jewish week occurs. You can see this timetable clearly reflected in the book of Revelation. The Greek word for Church (ἐκκλησία - ekklesia) is mentioned numerous times in the first three chapters of Revelation. Then, suddenly, at the very end of chapter three, the Church (ἐκκλησία - ekklesia) is not mentioned again until the very end of Revelation, Chapter 22 verse 16.

This is because the Church is gone, raptured. Chapters 2 and 3 of Revelation describe the "Seven Churches." Seven is the Biblical number of completion--these two chapters summarize the entire Church Age which ends at Rev 3:22--it is completed--the number seven:

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches Rev 3:22

Rev 4:1 then reads:

After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here...

This is directly parallel to 1 Thess 4:16

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God,

The "voice" of both verses is the same voice. The "shout" in 1 Thess 4:16 is "Come up here" in Rev 4:1--the "like a trumpet " in Rev 4:1 is the "trumpet of God" of 1 Thess 4:16. This is the Rapture of the Church.

The Church does not return to the Earthly scene until Rev 19:14:

And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses

The Church is part of these armies.

Rev 22:16 is the summary statement to the Church:

I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

Thus Jesus is commanding us in the Church Age to take a very very close look at the Book of Revelation, and when we do, we see that the Church is raptured prior to the start of the Tribulation, and  does not go through the horrible judgements described in Chapter 4 and following.