Is Numerology Any Way Related To The Truth Of The Bible?

What Does The Bible Say About Numerology?

Question: What does the Bible say about Numerology? Is it any way related to the truth of the Bible? Please do explain it for me and thank you.

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Numerology does mean, 'the branch of knowledge that deals with the occult significance of numbers.'

Wikipedia gives a more clearer definition of numerology when it says, "Numerology is any belief in the divine or mystical relationship between a number and one or more coinciding events. It is also the study of the numerical value of the letters in words, names, and ideas. It is often associated with the paranormal, alongside astrology and similar divinatory arts. Despite the long history of numerological ideas, the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c. 1907."

Thus we see numerology more as occultic and not Biblical as the God of the Bible has always claimed to speak for himself through His Word and the Spirit and not through anyother means except this (Rev 3:2; Isa 55:11; 48:16-17).

One of the uses of the study of numerology is using numbers to interpret a person’s character or their divine future. The Bible speaks against this practice by clearly saying, that any human is created in the likeness of God and therefore to try to predict his character and to try to categorize him is to dispute against the very truth of the likeness of God in humans which God has pronounced over him (Jam 3:8-9; Gen 1:26-27).

Therefore first and foremost, God has commanded his people not to "practices divination or sorcery, interpret omens, engage in witchcraft, or cast spells, or become a medium or learn to consult the dead" and those whose disobey these above commandments become detestable abomination who deserve the severe dislike of the Lord and therefore will come under severe chastisement of the Lord (Deut 18:9-14; Heb 12:5-7). Thus the bottom line is, when it comes to numerology for a Christian the Lord our God has not permitted us to do so and there we should choose to put a full stop and never continue to put a comma.

Numerology because it is used specifically to interpret a person’s character or their divine future, it will come under the category of divination which God has forbidden his people from practicing or partaking.

In Zechariah 10:2 the Bible says: “The idols speak deceit, diviners see visions that lie; they tell dreams that are false, they give comfort in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep oppressed for lack of a shepherd.” In other words, numerology can mislead the people of God away from the true shepherd Jesus Christ and can make them to wander like a oppressed sheep under the hand of hirelings and butchers who are false prophets and pagan priests (Psa 23:1; John 10:11-12; 1 Peter 5:4, 6-7). These deceived people of God will wander as wanderers without comfort because of not being vigilant and sober, that has made their adversary the devil to walk in to the house of their body and keep them under fear and unbelief to make their lives fruitless for the Lord, and therefore they will never be able to resist him in faith and overcome the plans of the enemy of their soul (1 Peter 5:8-9). What a pitiable state? May God have mercy on us all.       

Is there Numerology in the Bible?

Numerology cannot be found in the Bible, but numbers in the Bible can often be taken literally or symbolically when there is a context or a pattern of usage found or repeated to it, as they are also sometimes used as symbols. Many scholars have used numerology to see patterns and codes in the Bible. But no where the Bible has ever encouraged to see it in that way except to take it authoritatively to "make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right" (2 Tim 3:16) and nothing more should ever be added to what has been revealed in the Scriptures or taken out of it to make it fit our own misguided teachings (Rev 22:18-19). Therefore adding special significance to numbers except to take it literally is to try to read in to it our own imagination to fit in to it and it should be completely avoided as it can deceive us from focussing on to the Lord Jesus Christ who only has got our future in his hands.

When we start looking for numerical patterns, the best anyone can do is to guess which can make us go offtrack from obeying the authoritative Word of God. So it is better to obey the word of God and then get revelation from the Lord out of it to be a obedient disciple and student, rather than guessing something and becoming a conspiracy theorist.

You may then be asking me, so that means do you say that there is no Biblical Numerology at all?

No I do not say that because as I have already discussed that there are certain numbers which signify certain things used in the same type of pattern, symbolism and repeated usage of both the numbers and symbols which brings meaning or a structure through which we can better understand Scripture with better intent and reality. I do not want to stop anyone from looking in to the Scripture in a deeper way to better understand it, but all I emphasize and say is that it should not be used to predict and play the part which God is the one and only one who is worthy of playing by predicting it for His Glory.

For example, The number one is used frequently throughout the Bible. Most notably, it refers to God Himself as being the “one true God” with only one of Him (Deut 6:4). Two is the symbol of unity in the Bible (Gen 1:27; Matt 6:7). The Bible uses the number six to indicate imperfection, while the number seven is considered the perfect number. Four indicates completeness and integrity. Of the 12 tribes of Israel, Jesus’ lineage is traced back to Judah, the fourth tribe. There are four major writing prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. There are four horsemen of the Apocalypse. There are 4 angels standing ready at the four corners of Earth. There are four Gospels, four living beasts in Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation. We can keep on going like this. But let us stop here, but you can personally do a great Biblical research regarding it to find more for yourself.

These symbolism may be used by a mature prophet to speak in to the lives of believers prophetically for edification, comfort and admonition (1 Cor 14:3, 31-32), but it should not be used apart from the inspiration to mechanically tell about someone soulishly to predict events, character of a person, future life or happenings based on their date of birth, car number, house number, etc...

Let us always be alert to keep the enemy away from entering in to our lives through superstition and tradition which will make us become powerless againt living a godly life for the Glory of God.

Much Blessings...

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Can We Celebrate Halloween Or Not?

Is It Possible For Christians To Celebrate Halloween Without Compromising Their Faith?

Question: Some Christians celebrate Halloween simply by dressing up in a costume and having fun, seeing it as innocent and harmless. Other Christians are equally convinced that Halloween is a satanic holiday established to worship evil spirits and promote darkness and wickedness. So, who is right? Is it possible for Christians to celebrate Halloween without compromising their faith?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus Christ's wonderful name!

What is Halloween Day & Why is it celebrated?

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated each year on October 31, and Halloween 2020 occurs on Saturday, October 31. It originated with the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.

Who invented Halloween?

Halloween has its roots in the ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, which was celebrated on the night of October 31. The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, believed that the dead returned to earth on Samhain.

Why do people who celebrate Halloween carve pumpkins? In other words, why Carved Pumpkins are a Symbol of Halloween?

The tradition of carving faces into vegetables dates to the Celts. As part of their autumnal celebration, they wanted to light the way to their homes for the good spirits, so they carved faces into vegetables such as turnips and squash.

Now that we know what is halloween in a gist, let us see what the Bible has to say regarding it?

We know that it is a pagan belief that has always believed superstition, a irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck. As for the Bible, we do not believe in luck either good or bad, because the God of the Bible has said, "all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Rom 8:28), which means God has the power to turn the good things as well as the bad things that happen in our life and turn it in to something of eternal good for our lives and living. Luck don't stand a chance before God.

These superstitious belief has the power to make our mind get darkened when we are already a child of God and it can take our focus away from God and weaken our faith drastically.

As the Bible says, "Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." 1 Pet 5:8, NLT), we ought to be cautious when it comes to superstition or tradition, because through it the enemy can negate the power of God and can have a open door to come in to our life and bring fear through which he might be able to control us. Our fight is not against flesh and blood, or else the scare tatics to ward off evil spirit can be understandable, but as the Bible reveals that it is against, "the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." (Eph 6:12).

So when someone dresses up in a scary way to ward of evil spirits, one thing the demons and hordes of evil spirits in the world will do well is that they will all laugh and mock all those who do such stuff, and those very evil spirits who work along with Satan may even get in to the hearts and minds of both children and adults through making evil seem less bad than they are through the Halloween activities of trick-or-treating (or the related guising and souling), attending Halloween costume parties, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, divination games, playing pranks, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, as well as watching horror films.

These are the very things that God has prohibited the Israelites from participating when he commanded them, " 9 "When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, be very careful not to imitate the detestable customs of the nations living there. 10 For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft, 11 or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. It is because the other nations have done these detestable things that the LORD your God will drive them out ahead of you. 13 But you must be blameless before the LORD your God. 14 The nations you are about to displace consult sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but the LORD your God forbids you to do such things."" (Deut 18:9-14).

The land we as the children of God inherit in the New Testament is the redeemed born again soul full of the light of heaven filled in to it and ready to wage war against the enemy from there on to see victory in every areas of our lives as overcomers. The Lord does not wants his children to be conformed to the world in their soul and mind, but want them to become transformed in to his character and nature through the renewing of their minds for the Glory of God! The giants of the kingdom of darkness wants to influence our soul in such a way, that it wants us to become conformed to the world system of thinking and become bounded to the things the Lord our God has forbidden us to do. By making us become like that, Satan can makes our life in the Kingdom become ineffective and meaningless.

In other words, because the Lord wants his people to be blameless before Him, the above activities are those which makes his people to become defiled and do the very detestable things that God hates. Now can you see why during Halloween's day activities the haunted becomes attractions, stories becomes scary to make us become fearful, horror films that entertains but creates a phobic fear through which evil spirits can control our mind, divination games that takes people to depth of evil, playing pranks to again brings sudden fear, speaking with the dead spirit the deception of darkness which deceives, inviting good luck spirits in to homes which seem good but are insidiously evil, etc....

Because of these activities the Lord who has promised never to leave not forsake his children, will have to chastise his children and will bring his heavy hand of correction in their lives (Deut 23:14; Exo 33:5, 7; 1 Peter 5:6; Heb 12:6-7). Usually in America, the media and hollywood has taken control of the nation and this insidious activies have been increasingly planned and done for decades, so that now it has become a fashion to take part in Halloween as a family and even try enjoying the activities which are against God. Schools are promoting it and why cringe when young children shoot one another and hate each other. Adults are enjoying what God hates, and how can good things of God's blessing be expected for a nation like America which has been so blessed by God in every way to take leadership among nations of the world, and in fact it is exporting its evil to instead of being a beacon of light in spreading the Gospel to the other nations around the world, which has been nearing its peak in this 21st century like never before?

Let us all repent of it and turn away from such evil activities to stay active in fellowship with pure hearted people of God to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ together with a pure heart which carries great reward for eternity ahead (2 Tim 2:22). Saints of God, make sure that you and your family stay protected within the Biblical boundaries of God's powerful protection of His Word and His Spirit, as the defilement of Halloween will not ward off evil spirit, but will only make the Spirit of God to get grieved to make Him become silent when his children take part in it because of spiritual blindness, lethargy and rebellion in their heart caused by the world system of thinking. May God protect the true children of God from being deceived by such pagan and evil festivals of deception and darkness. Amen!

Let me be crystal clear about this matter, we should not even partake Halloween, lest we even celebrate it. It is totally not possible for anyone to either partake or celebrate without compromising their Christian faith (2 Cor 6:14-18).

Much Blessings....

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Where Are We Standing In The End Of End Times Biblically?

When Will The Antichrist Come And The Rapture Happen For The Church Believers?

Question: Where are we standing in the end of end times Biblically? When will the Antichrist come and when will the Rapture happen for the Church believers?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

We all know that we are in the end times, but according to the Bible the end times or "last days" has started with the introduction of Jesus Christ in to the world which has divided the world time in to AD which means 'in the year of the Lord' or from the year of the Lord' s birth and BC which means 'before Christ'.

Exactly two thousand years ago on the day of Pentecost, Peter the apostle shouted out to all people from everywhere in the world who came to Jerusalem to worship God saying, "17 'In the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out My Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. 18 In those days I will pour out My Spirit even on My servantsmen and women alikeand they will prophesy. 19 And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke. 20 The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and glorious day of the LORD arrives. 21 But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.'" (Acts 2:17-21).

The word 'end times' is a contemporary word that is synonymous with 'last days'. If we take what "last days" as the day Peter the apostle started to prophesy in the Bible, then we must delve in to the prophecy a little deeper to understand what he has really spoken about. God has promised to pour out His Spirit upon all the people of the world who will believe and receive it, the outcome of the outpouring will cause prophecy, dreams and visions from the Lord according to the specific age groups. Chosen men and women of God will also receive the outpouring of the Spirit which will cause them to prophecy.

Have the above outpouring of the Spirit has been happening for the past two thousand years?

Not only it has been happening, but it has been increasing steadily likenever before in the last and this present new century.

In Those Last Days UFO Scare? 

So God starts a new phase in the end times saying, "In those days", thus when we see specific mighty men and women of God rising in the 19th and 20th Century like never before in the centuries behind, carrying the Gospel in to all the world to make an impact with signs, wonders and miracles accompanying them, we know this is not coming to an end instead it is going to increase further in to the next phase where God promised, "And I will cause wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and clouds of smoke." Does this wonders in heaven means, God is going to show something unique in the heavens apart from the ususal to convince that we are hitting the end of last days or last of the last days? Yes, supernatural wonders of God in the heavens will be the open manifestation of the spirits operating from the heavenly realm being shown openly to the world that does not want to obey God but will never mind getting deceived. Thus we can see what the world is very much interested in, the UFO's abbreviated as Unidentified Flying Objects, a mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no orthodox scientific explanation can be found, often supposed to be a vehicle carrying extraterrestrials, which is also called as flying saucers piloted by aliens who are evil spirits, foo fighters.

UFO's and fallen angelic beings will manifest openly in the heavens with lying wonders in these last of the last days and end of the end times (2 Cor 11:14). It is indeed a deceptive vehicle of the last days where Satan himself will reveal himself to be a angel of light to people who will believe him, and will reveal himself like never before with "the coming of the lawless one" who will be doing everything "according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders" (2 Thess 2:9). In other words, it is indeed God's promise that UFO sightings will increase from the heavens above, which people will consider to be wonders of God but in fact will be a Satanic "lying wonder" which God will allow to test those on earth and seperate those who have love for the truth from those who do not, and thus it will cause the signs of God to be loosened on earth below, which will cause "blood and fire and clouds of smoke".

In other words, when deep darkness shall come upon the earth and thick darkness of evil deception upon the people, but for people of God the glory of the Lord will alight upon them through a never before seen outpouring upon all the flesh that will seek God wholeheartedly (Isa 60:1-2). All who will come to believe the Gospel by calling upon the name of the Lord Jesus will become saved in an instant (Rom 10:13). 

Blood, Fire And Clouds Of Smoke? Are These The Supernatural Sign On Earth?

Following a war in which as few as 100 of the smallest nuclear weapons are used in modern cities, urban firestorms would build for hours, producing millions of tonnes of black, sooty smoke. The name "blood moon" is also sometimes used for a Moon that appears reddish because of dust, smoke or haze in the sky. The soot from fires after a nuclear war would block sunlight from reaching Earth. So after a nuclear fallout, naturally the sun will become dark and the Moon will turn blood red.

We know that the only thing that has been kept silent from destroying the whole earth, is the nuclear bomb that just devastated a couple of cities in Japan during Second World War that brought United Nations Organisations to form a world peace and keep the world safe from destroying each other. We know that the blood shed through the fire that blasts the mushrooming clouds of smoke is a sign that God has allowed only in these end of end times, and all the leaders of the world in all the nations know that once someone starts to use a Nuclear Bomb, then it will be the end of the world because it will be a huge catastrophe that will be hard for the world to recover from.

But as of today, if someone could get the technology to prevent the enemies from firing the Nuclear and at the same time if they are able to use the Nuclear as a blackmail to those who will not submit to his agenda of a one world, then we know that such a person could only be the Antichrist who will be able to keep the world under the One World Government umbrella.

Ofcourse, blood shed like never before just like as in Noahic days is a sign that is happening around us through terrorism that is causing the whole world to become Nationalistic and Patriotic in electing leaders of the same taste (Gen 6:11; Luke 17:26). But at the same time, religious hate is increasing so much, that the world is getting ready to break from the 70 years of peace through United Nations Organisation. Some through deception have been placing themselves in a place of dictatorship as the Lord Himself has allowed in His soverignty to get the world ready for the regime of one world "peace and saftey" (1 Thess 5:3), these have been trying to take over the world of people and nations through their deceptive talk which divides people rather than uniting them even within the nation. In the midst of all the public unrest, the gospel fo the good news of Jesus Christ will be preached in all the nations of the world, and then Jesus predicted the start of "the end of the end times" (Matt 24:14).

Thus the period where Jesus says, ""Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand)" will be the starting time of 'The Great Tribulation' which will be the end (Matt 24:15).

For the Antichrist to enter the temple of the end time and start the 'abomination of desolation', first of all the Jews will need to have the temple in place for it to happen. Until then, the saga of peace and saftey will drive the world to become unified, but only through deception of the Nuclear Blackmail this could be possible. So even the world body (i.e.) UNO itself could let loose the dictators to fight each other for the world to come together under One Umberlla of a One World Government.

The End Will Start From The Third Temple Of The Jews?

According to Jesus the very act of Antichrist entering the temple of the Jews and seating himself in it claiming himself to be god of the world will be the starting time of the end, and in three and half years from that time onwards, the day of Jesus Christ will come to take the world and rule it for a thousand years with a iron rod along with the Church from the New Heaven and New Earth (2 Thess 2:3-4).

The nation of Israel will be God's time piece for us to watch the end of the world unfold step by step before our eyes. Just when the Great Tribulation will start to spread from Jerusalem temple at the time of the 'abomination of desolation' to the ends of the earth through Antichrist, at that moment of time the Rapture of the Church will first happen and the world on earth will be left without Christians present in it, but the lukewarm and namesake and nominal religious christians will begin to realize that they have been deceived by the flood of filth from the world, they will stand for the Lord and many will become martyrs for the Lord (Rev 3:10; 12:15-17; 13:10).

We are almost there, now there are negotitations that are going to start for the third temple of the Jews to be built in Jerusalem through the President Trump. The world is going to enter in to the cocoon of the 'Peace and Saftey' saga that is going to take place for the three and half years, in which Antichrist will establish himself as the undisputable leader of the whole world.

I believe that the Antichrist will come as the leader of the European Union with the support of the Mystery Babylon of Rome which will unify the world religion and cause the world leader to prosper in his pursuit of a one world governance (Dan 9:27). The Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE was the decisive event of the First Jewish–Roman War, in which the Roman army captured the city of Jerusalem and destroyed both the city and its Temple. The Arch of Titus, celebrating the Roman sack of Jerusalem and the Temple, still stands in Rome. So "the people of the prince" Antichrist who is to come who destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the sanctuary is none other than the Roman forces of the first century A.D.

The 7 years peace and saftey deal that will make the nation of Israel to build the third temple will be done only with the major hand of the influence of Antichrist. You can almost hear about another deal that is being pushed by the American government of Trump, to cause peace and saftey to happen in Israel, and therefore to the whole world, as it is being closely watched by all the prophecy experts around the world of what it will bring?

But I can assure you according to the Word of God, without a major deal done by the European Union negotiations, Trump will be failing to find the peace between the nation of Israel and Palestinians. In other words, someone who will rise as the executive peace man between the world of Muslims and Christians from the European Union will only be able to make a deal between Israel and Palestine to give them both a piece of Jerusalem and cause them both to live side by side in autonomy when God has clearly spoken against nations dividing Jerusalem in His Word (Zech 12:3; Joel 3:1-2; Gen 17:8; 15:18). For that to happen, the European Union must be able to supercede and influence the United Nations Organisations over United States Of America.

This is where in the present Scenario of Trump's America First will play a major role in influening the UN permanent council member's of France, Russia and China to come together as one to prevail over the US and its newly married ally the Great Britain which has divorced itself from the EU already.

What will happen to the present leader of the world, the United States Of America, you can read it in the following post I have titled as, 'Is The U.S. Discovered In The Bible?'.

So what are you coming to say about the nuclear fallout, you may be asking, as for now the 'Peace and Saftey' saga of the United Nations Organisations will prevail over the voice of all other nations until the 'abomniation of desolation', after which the Rapture of the Church will happen. Once this is over and done, the 'Great Tribulation' will increase in intensity all over the world through Antichrist taking over the world forcefully through bloodshed, and at that time the nuclear fallout will happen in such a way that the sun will become dark and the moon will become blood red through him using nuclear weapons upon the nations that will oppose his rulership. Thank God this nuclear blackmail of Antichrist will soon end with coming of the Lord Jesus to reign on the earth for a thousand years along with the Church (Matt 24:29-31; Zech 13:8; Rev 6:8). Praise the Lord!

So Whats-Up Finally??? 

Few year or years or maximum a decade can clearly tell where we will be standing in the end of end times and when the end will start. As we have discussed earlier, things are boiling up among the nations of the world, and the pressure to build the third temple is already up, and President Trump is in to it full swing to make this happen. But before trying to break in to this deal, he is trying to make sure the second term comes for him to fulfill his promises that He will be making, might be in his runupto election in the guise of peace in the middle east, or even he might go to the extent to break the bottle neck of the Milleniums using his genius even before that, trying to remove the roadblock to peace which is dividing the city of Jerusalem and building the third temple in the temple mount of Israel. For one to get done, the other will have to be negotiated. Means, in trying to build the third temple and forward the agenda of the Jews on the temple mount, he might give up certain portion of Jerusalem City to the Palestenians to let them go with it as the capital of their nation of Palestine.

In fact I believe Trump knowing this as the fact, has played in to the mind of the Arab world and Palestine in declaring Jerusalem as the undivided eternal capital of the nation of Israel. So from a position of strength, he will be trying to defend and cause a breakthrough to come in building the third temple for the Jews and the nation of Israel.

So President Trump may be trying his best, but as I have earlier said about the executive EU Antichrist, with out this Antichrist leader of Europe negotiating with the Arabs, the world will not agree to a lasting peace which Trump is trying to bring, but at the most Trump may be able to make a breakthrough in the peace deal up to a certain extant no matter how much forward he might take the deal to. May be even if Trump builds the temple, only the Antichrist will be the one who could make a world deal of 'Peace and Security' on behalf of all nations with Israel for 7 years after it, to open up the Jewish temple to the world as a unfying place where all could meet in unison of mind and heart to worship the god of Universe as they will call him yet as through sacrifice.

Let us as Christians know that the time for the Church is running out day by day, because the spirit of Antichrist is spreading in all the world causing a direct religious persecution to rise against it like never before, but we must not stop preaching the gospel to all nations and people groups by all means and methods, because once these above things start day by day we will be moving towards the day of Rapture of all the saints of the Church (Matt 24:14-15). The 'peace and saftey' agenda will be a very deceitful period for the falling away to happen in the Church (1 Thess 5:1-6; 2 Thess 2:3), after which the taking up of the Church will happen just after the 'abomination of desolation' when the Antichrist will break the covenant made and will sit in the temple to declare himself as god and then try to take control of the whole world from there (2 Thess 2:1-8).

Lawlessness through pornography, violence unleased through religious hate, murders for adulterous jealousy, same sex marriage, abortion of babies, live-in relationship without marriage, self-love promotion through masturbation, religion without repentance, etc...will be the order of the day before the day of Rapture, Jesus has warned all of the born-again Christians to be watchful and prayerful to overcome the flood of the water of Satan which is drowning the world with its power of sin. Those who obey Jesus will become a partaker of his nature and will be partaker in the Rapture too as a reward for their obedience towards a repentant life (2 Peter 1:3-4; Luke 21:36). Those who will be left behind and come to realize their folly of a lukewarm and namesake nominal Christian life will wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb through faith and will take the route of martyrdom to come out of the Great Tribulation straight in to heaven where God and the Lamb will be residing in glory and honor and power (Rev 7:14; 13:8-10). Hallelujah! Glory To God!

We can almost hear the footsteps of Jesus Christ near the door of heaven and the Trumpet sound of the arch angels along with him! Maranatha. Come Lord Jesus! O Lord Come!


Much Blessings....

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If God's Word Is In The Bible, And Jesus Is The Living Word, Where I Should Draw The Line From Not Worshiping The Bible?

How To Reply To Someone Who Says That We Should Not Worship The Bible?

Question: I have heard men sometimes say that we should not worship the Bible. But, I think, God's Word is in the Bible. And Jesus is the living Word of God. So please help me wrap my mind around this, means to understand it more clearly. How to I reply to someone who says that we should not worship the Bible?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

What is the Word of God?

The Bible answers this question in the following way,

"The whole Bible was given to us by inspiration from God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives; it straightens us out and helps us do what is right." (2 Tim 3:16, NLT).

"For no prophecy recorded in Scripture was ever thought up by the prophet himself. It was the Holy Spirit within these godly men who gave them true messages from God [by breathing His Word through them]." (2 Pet 1:20-21, NLT).

In short, whatever inspired directly by God written to His people through any appointed messenger of His have become the Word of God.

In fact, from Adam to Moses, after the fall of our forefather Adam in to sin which made sin spread to all humans from birth on wards, Adam himself who taught the people of faith the way to God through sacrifice which God had taught to him in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:21; 4:5-7, 16), became a type or shadow of the redeemer Jesus Christ who is the last Adam who had been expected to teach the knowledge of salvation and rescue the whole humanity who believe, from the clutches of sin and death to make them serve God acceptably for eternity ahead (Rom 5:14, 12; 1 Cor 15:45; Heb 9:14).

So from Adam on wards there was a traditional Word of God that was passed on through the word of mouth confession to the people of faith, through approaching God within the prescribed and commanded way through clean animal sacrifice (Gen 7:8-9), which they faithfully carried on (Rom 10:10). In fact, as we have seen above, the people of faith looked forward to the Messiah's coming to redeem them from sin and released their tangible faith by sacrificing calves and goats and birds (Isa 53:4-5; Heb 9:7-10, 12-13, 14), during the days of Jesus they looked with their eyes upon the salvation of the Lord in the flesh which is Christ Jesus (Luke 2:20), after Christ has ascended in to heaven, we as the people of faith have looked backward to our Messiah Jesus who brings the light of revelation from the Word of God to our hearts for the past two thousand years (Luke 2:32; 1 Peter 2:24).

Cain left the Presence of God and brought on earth a violent and godless generation all over the earth, their daughters who were very beautiful became a test of faith for the people of faith as they began to intermarry and act against the will of God to become rebels against God (Gen 6:1-4). Slowly the Spirit directed people whose thinking were holy began to become corrupted like the ungodly people, that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and therefore the wickedness of man was great in the earth (Gen 6:3, 5). This pushed God to become so saddened by the fact that even the people of faith have become corrupted with all the godless humans who had multiplied, thus he came to the point where he felt saddened and grieved in his heart by the man [(i.e.) the rebellion of Adam through which all humans rebelled] who was made on earth by Him (Gen 6:6).

Among all the humans on earth, God found his man and showed grace in his eyes, and that was Noah and his family who obeyed him (Gen 6:8; 1 Peter 3:20-21; Heb 11:7). Through the sons of Noah, again God chose one of his sons named Shem and led him to become a people of faith (Gen 9:26). Thus through that line of Shem, God again chose a single man named as Abraham and started to lead him to become separate to walk in faith and become the people of faith through whom He had planned to bring the Messiah Jesus Christ to the world that had been sinking in sin and lawlessness (Gen 12:1; Heb 11:8).

Thus the people of God became synonymous with the name Abraham the man of faith forever and ever, and also he has become a model to approach God in the right way and become pleasing to Him (Gal 3:7; Rom 4:16). What was the Word of God at that time? It was first the word of the mouth from the ancestors tradition which would have got shared through the word of mouth, must have pushed Abraham to make sacrifice and approach God in humility before him, after which the revelation of the Word of God through vision must have been received by Him to which he had obeyed to become a father of faith for all succeeding generations (Acts 7:1-4).

It must not have been hard for Abraham to hear about the procedure of animal sacrifice to be heard from the Patriachs themselves, because God had taught Adam the sacrifice of faith in the Garden of Eden, He lived for 930 years and died, if someone of his descendant had heard from him and they had lived for a long time, atleast within the next person of faith alive in the succeeding generation who lived for a long long time of several centuries together, would have passed on the Word of God through mouth to Abraham the father of faith regarding the right way to approach God through the clean animal sacrifice of faith.

The Bible is meticulous in recording the ages of the patriarchs from Adam to Abraham. It states how old each was when his first child, or the child in the Messianic/covenant line, was born, how long each lived after that, and/or how old each was when he died. Hence, by simple arithmetic, the Year of the World (in Latin Anno Mundi, so usually abbreviated to ‘AM’) that each patriarch was born, lived and died can be easily and accurately reckoned, and any possibility of a ‘gap’ is thereby eliminated from these Genesis lists. Thus Adam, who was created on the sixth day of the first year, and died AM 930, could have talked with his descendants all the way down to Noah’s father, Lamech, who was born AM 874. And Noah’s son, Shem, born AM 1558 and died AM 2158, could have talked with his descendants all the way down to and including Abraham (born AM 2008).

So through the Word of the mouth the tradition of Abraham's descendants passed on and must have also had written records in Hebrew along with it through inspiration (Exo 1:1-7; 4:24-26; 5:3; 6:1-8, 13 (i.e. command - Forward Vision)).

Thus from there Moses carried the Word of God with him and as a result of it, the law of the first five books of Moses were passed on to the Israelites from God through angelic agency to him (John 1:17; Gal 3:19). Usually we think that the law of Moses was the first book of the Bible, but even before that the Book of Job must have been present as the period of tradition in it suggests the time of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or Joseph the great patriarchs of the Bible, and must have been passed on to the people of faith and then to Moses to become added to the inspired book of the Bible the Word of God (Job 1:1). 'Iyyob' which is Job in Hebrew means the 'Persecuted One.'

After Moses what was the Word of God, whatever God inspired to the people of God which was the nation of Israel and instructed for them to walk in righteousness became the Word of God. The Word of God began to be given to the Israelites mainly through Prophets, but also the priests and kings and even laymen were also sometimes used to give the Word of God (Num 12:6-8; Jer 7:25; 35:15; Deut 13:1-18). Thus the law and the prophets ended with John the Baptist who became the last prophet of the Old Testament times (Luke 16:16; Matt 11:12-13).

The people of God who carried the faith got so corrupted at the time when Jesus came, that they became great hypocrites who believed that studying the Scripture gave them eternal life to conveniently forget that those very Scriptures were the ones which spoke about Jesus the Messiah, they did this because they did not want to come to Jesus to get saved as humility was needed and they continued to live in their pride (John 5:39-40).

Jesus Himself even after his resurrection have to teach and rebuke his disciples to make them understand that all that the Word of God spoke was, about Him and only Him, and that he had come alive according to it to give salvation to his people who believed him in faith (Luke 24:25-27, 44-45, 46-47).

Now that the Lord has raised his foundational apostles in the first century AD, the whole of the New Testament came in to existence within the next seventy years after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Again Satan tried to make the inspired Word get diluted with his lies, but then God raised great men of God who used the Canon scale to measure and separate the inspired from the uninspired, and to authoritatively declare to the Church what Books of the New Testament they should be using as the Word of God.

The word is a collection of inspired Books written and canonized by humans through the help of God which we call as the Bible. The following verse of Jesus in which He said, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63), he was speaking not about the Holy Spirit but about the humans spirit which can only receive the Rhema voice or word of God within them, the flesh cannot receive anything from God. So it should not be misinterpreted as life is in the printed Scripture, but rather in just the person of Jesus Christ the Word of God who speaks in the present time to your spirit from heaven through the Scripture and gives life eternal to our soul if we choose to hear Him because he has no errors at all as the God of all creation (Heb 12:24-25; John 8:46).

If Jesus Himself with humility was not ready to argue with Satan except say "...it is written", which released the mighty weapon of the Rhema fired up by the Spirit of God which then become the Sword of the Word of God to destroy the enemies lies and deceit, then automatically it shows that the all humans who believe in the infallibility of Scripture can only uphold its value and experience its power because of humility in their lives, which will only defeat Satan and his demons, and continue to keep them be victorious over the spiritual enemies of their soul for the Glory of God. Because the Jews searched the Scripture without accepting Jesus as their Messiah, they were not able to receive the life of God which gives light to understand the Scripture through Jesus Christ (John 1:4; 8:12; Luke 1:77; 24:45; Isa 49:6), but they instead received death by the letter that was mistaken to hold eternal life without the Spirit quickening it (John 5:39-40; 2 Cor 3:6, 7, 9; Rom 6:23; 7:13). In other words, the Word without the Spirit will dry us up to death, the Spirit without the Word will blow us up to death. The balance always remains whether we search the Scripture to find the truth and at the same time are prayerful enough to hear through it from God in our spirit to use it as the Sword of the Spirit against the lies of the enemy and ground ourselves in the truth by faith and patience which brings heavenly reward to us for now and for eternity ahead (Acts 17:11; 11:16; Heb 10:35-36; Eph 6:17).

Now the Word of God in the flesh is Jesus Christ, He was in the beginning was God and was with God, but now has become the only and only Mediator between all humans and God forever, after he has risen from the dead to live forever at the right hand of God to judge the world in God's time for sin and righteousness on earth and in heaven along with the cloud of witnesses who lived for Him by faith (John 1:1-3; 1 Tim 2:3-5, 6-7; Acts 26:23; Acts 27:30-31; Mark 14:62; Heb 12:1). In the thigh of Jesus Christ and on his robe will be written, "KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS", and He will forever will be called 'The Word of God' (Rev 19:16, 13).

If someone is not born again and if they call themselves as Christians, even though they might even go to Church, even if they will have the Bible laid at the head side near the pillow to drive demons away or use those words in the paper to be rolled up inside a small metal sheet and tie them above the biceps or around their wrist or waist believing wrongfully that it will drive the devil away and bring good luck just like as the pagans do with talismans, it will mean nothing to them except the superstitious belief present without real faith in them, which brings no life of the power of the Word of God in to operation in their lives and situations (Mark 7:9, 13; 1 Thess 2:13). So a born again person will love to read and even kiss the Word of God understanding it as he reads with heavenly joy because of his love for JESUS, but will no way worship the Scripture. Yes God's word is in the printed Bible, that is why we revere whatever is written in it and not just the physical Book. For example, there is a temple in south India where they received the Bible given to them by missionaries and have kept it inside the temple's most holy place to revere and worship it without ever opening it to read what it says, it is indeed an absolute idolatry like any other type which God abhors and commands against doing it.

Now through the Scripture with the help of the Holy Spirit, we are coming to know Jesus the Christ who is the living Word of God who is in heaven through it more and more, as we continue to seek God and read expecting God to speak to us through it, and then God opens up our understanding and we start to hear the voice of God through the Word of God in our spirit guiding us as we seek Him diligently through doing his word (Heb 11:6; Jam 1:22).

As we start to get more acquainted to the Word of God, the Holy Spirit will write the Word of God in our heart through which we will be able to continue to communicate with God and worship Him in spirit and in truth for the Glory of God now and forever in eternity ahead (Heb 10:16; John 4:23-24; Jer 31:33; Ezek 36:26-27; Isa 59:21)! Hallelujah!

You can reply confidently to someone who says that, 'We should not worship the Scripture?', saying, 'Neither we are told not to worship apart from the Scripture?' (John 17:17) and therefore keep the balance to experience the personality and nature of Jesus Christ within us and partake in it daily by obeying and following Him spiritually through the new man by rejecting the old man which is our sin nature (2 Peter 1:4).

When a matchstick is fired up to light a candle, the darkness around flees to make us see where we are and who we are, the same happens when we allow the Holy Spirit to quicken the Scripture, it gives us spiritual light immediately within our darkened soul to understand who Jesus is and what He can do for us when we believe. Only believe and all things are possible with Jesus day in and day out!

Much Blessings....

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Is The Holy Spirit Just A Emanation Of God The Father?

How Can One Believe Jesus As Lord And Ever Say He Was Just A Servant Of God And Only A Man?

Question: I believe Jesus as Lord but also believe he was just a man and a servant of God, Father God in heaven is the one God and Creator of all the universe. Holy Spirit also is some one who is just a emanation of God the Father. What do you think?

Answer: Greetings in Jesus wonderful name!

Please prove these seven following statements as otherwise through the Scripture if you believe what you think is right, and also if you think you are saved as a Christian and have become a child of God.

1) If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, no man can be saved (Rom 10:13).

2) If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, then the Father Himself need not call him as God (Heb 1:8).

3) If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, then why should apostle John call Him as the Word who created the earth and the heaven in the beginning of time (John 1:1-5), and also Paul called him as the one who created the world and all that is in it (Col 1:16).

4) If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, then He could not forgive sins of humans (Matt 9:3-4, 5-6; Mark 2:7; Luke 5:21). If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, then the Father need not call him as my beloved Son which makes Him equal to the Father (Matt 3:17; Php 2:6).

5) If JESUS CHRIST is not GOD, He could not call God as Father which without doubt makes Him equal with God (John 5:18). We call God as Father through Jesus Christ and not apart from Him and like Him (Eph 1:6; Col 1:13-14, 15), so do not mix the two and get confused of the Divinity of Jesus Christ (John 8:42; 20:17).

6) JESUS CHRIST being GOD left his heavenly glory and have to become a man so that we could become children of God (John 17:5; Php 2:6-8). Therefore after His death, he again regained all the glory which He left in heaven (Php 2:9-11).

7) JESUS CHRIST being GOD never ceased from being God, and if he had he could not be God at all as God cannot cease from being a God because of His nature (Jam 1:13). So when Jesus became a man, in the person of his spirit (Isa 9:6), he was still God but chose to use none of that power in being obedient to the Father God in heaven by His own will, and he did it so that he could live a sinless life of obedience through suffering and thus bringing salvation to all mankind and bring them all back to God in friendship which was lost by our forefather Adam in the Garden of Eden because of his disobedience to Him (Matt 4:1-11; John 10:17-18; Heb 10:8-10; 2:10-11; 5:7-8).

Jesus Christ was the one and only person on earth who was fully human and fully God 100% of time, all else on earth who boast to be god are actually men whose breath is in their nostrils by the mercy and grace of God (1 Tim 2:5, 3; Isa 2:22). Of course Jesus Christ as the perfect model of a servant of God, because he had no sin and also did no sin which God hates and that which causes a great impenetrable gulf between them (Luke 16:26; 1 Peter 2:22; 2 Cor 5:21).

Jesus is called the Son of God in many places in the New Testament (Matthew 27:54; Mark 1:1; John 1:49; 3:18; 2 Corinthians 1:19, etc.). But Jesus is also called the servant of God in Acts 3:26, "For you first, God raised up His Servant, and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.” So how can Jesus be both the Son of God and the servant of God?

When Jesus is called the Son of God according to the Scripture, it means he was claiming equality with God without ever revealing who He was or taking authority as a Creator over his creation (John 5:18; Php 2:6), but as a obedient servant of God in being a example to his creation so that they can follow him willingly and be restored of their rightful authority as the sons of God which was lost by our forefather Adam in the garden of Eden (Php 2:8).

In other words, the hidden appearance of God as a man is Jesus Christ in the flesh, once the realization of the pact He has made in the eternity past with God the Father was remembered and reminded, he did not consider as robbery to be equal with God as he was in the form of God within his spirit as the Son of God was given from heaven to humanity (Php 2:5-6; Isa 9:6). Thus the Son of God in the spirit was God, the soul was the Mediator between God and Humans who came in to existence and was experiencing the Divine within and the Human from without (Eph 2:14-18), thus becoming a bond servant of God on behalf of God and Humans in one body humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death which is even the death of the Cross (Php 2:5-8).

Thus as such, under The Law, he came to serve those who are lost by being an example to them and dying for them, just as Jesus himself explained about the servant part by saying, "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many." (Matt. 20:28).

Jesus had and has two natures, both divine in his spirit and human from the flesh (Col. 2:9), was made under The Law (Gal. 4:4), and for a while when he was alive on earth was lower than the angels (Heb. 2:9), but was restored back to be both perfect God and perfect human which is higher than all created things both humans and angels (Php 2:9-11).

The Holy Spirit is not just a emanation of God, but rather God Himself who know each and everything that only God knows (1 Cor 2:11). The Spirit of God was present at and involved in the creation (Genesis 1:2; Psalm 33:6). The Holy Spirit moved the prophets of God with the words of God (2 Peter 1:21). The bodies of those in Christ are described as temples of God because the Holy Spirit is in us (1 Corinthians 6:19). Jesus was clear that to be “born again,” to become a Christian, one must be born “of the Spirit” (John 3:5).

One of the most convincing statements in the Bible about the Holy Spirit being God is found in Acts 5. When Ananias lied about the price of a piece of property, Peter said that Satan had filled Ananias’s heart to “lie to the Holy Spirit” (Acts 5:3) and concluded by saying that Ananias had “lied to God” (verse 4). Peter’s words equate the Holy Spirit with God; he spoke as if the Spirit and God were one and the same. Thus we come to understand from the Scripture that the Holy Spirit is a unique person within the Trinity, in which the other two unique persons are the Father God and Jesus Christ the Son of God. They are one God who are three in persons.

That is, the Bible describes the Holy Spirit as a person, not a mere force. He can be grieved (Ephesians 4:30). He has a will (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). He uses His mind to search the deep things of God (1 Corinthians 2:10). And He has fellowship with believers (2 Corinthians 13:14). Clearly, the Spirit is a person, just as the Father and the Son are persons.

Just because of your lack of understanding about Jesus or the Holy Spirit cannot make them any less than who they are really as one God. The three members of the Trinity show up, together yet distinct, at Jesus’ baptism. As Jesus comes up from the water, the Spirit descends on Him like a dove while the voice of the Father is heard from heaven saying that He is pleased with His beloved Son who was on earth (Mark 1:10–11) and Jesus reiterated the same when he told after his resurrection to give baptism to his new followers and disciples to provide them a seal of heavenly citizenship spiritually in the name of Trinity and not just his name (Matt 28:19-20). I think that you need to adjust and align your thinking according to the Word of God revealed in the Scriptures, and not try to change it the way you believe wrongly.

If Jesus Christ is ever your Lord (1 Cor 12:3), He must be your God the Savior too (1 Tim 2:3), otherwise He cannot become your God and neither can the Father in heaven can become your God too (Matt 6:9; 1 John 2:23; 5:12). Then you must humble yourself as a sinner in need of the Savior before God the Father to become born again to gain the understanding of Jesus as both God and man (John 3:3). Anyone who just calls Jesus as Lord, Lord without ever knowing fully what it means to call Him as Lord and do the will of God will end up in hell fire just as it has been revealed by Jesus in the Bible, so it is better to turn to Jesus whole heartedly and do the commandments of God to know Jesus as your true Lord and Savior before it becomes too late in hell (Matt 7:21-29).

Trinity cannot be divided to become separate deities, and three separate god because of the lack of your understanding regarding the truth to wrongly believe that the Father God in heaven is the one God and Creator of all the universe without the structure of the Trinity behind him. Even the Jehovah Witness cult has been misled with the same problem of making Jesus to be just a man and servant of God and even a arch-angel like Michael or Gabriel, but nothing can be so far away from the truth as this is. So be beware of the last day deception and stand only in the truth of the Bible.

Much Blessings...

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