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BOOK REVIEW: Four Views on Hell 2nd edition

...orrow the prophetic theme of the divine presence serving as the source of the sinner’s destruction on the Day of the Lord.”18 Parry astutely adds that in 2 Thess 1:6 “ ‘pay back’ implies some proportioning of punishment to the suffering inflicted on the church. This counts against everlasting punishment.”19 At this point, Burk offers an illustration to suggest that ‘destruction’ (olethros in 2 Thess 1:9) means ‘ruin or loss’: “If I were to say that my car was destroyed in a crash last week, no one hears that to mean that the car ceases to exist. They understand it to mean that the car was completely ruined and lost to me as a result of...

The Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

... … The prophetic Spirit also agrees with our statements. “The Lord,” it says, “made me, the beginning of His ways to His works.” [Prov 8:22]– Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians, 10.3 For “the Lord who created the earth by His power,” as Jeremiah says, “has raised up the world by His wisdom;” [Jeremiah 10:12] for wisdom, which is His word, raises us up to the truth, who have fallen prostrate before idols, and is itself the first resurrection from our fall.– Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen, ch. 8 For He is termed Wisdom, according to the expression of Solomon … He is also styled First-born, as the apostle has decla...

Support Israel? OK, which Israel?

...mselves a prophetic critique of Israel?    Let me say it another way: the nation of Israel in the Middle East which we know of today, is not the same Israel of the New Covenant. So who is Israel then, according to the New Testament? In a word: Jesus. Galatians 3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many; but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ. That promise to Abraham of his offspring blessing the earth was not speaking of the Jewish people as a whole, but their culmination in being the lineage to which the Messiah would come! It'...

The Coming of Jesus: Revelation Fulfilled?

...Testament prophetic writings. Not only that, but the believer’s it was addressed to were expected to understand this letter just by it being read to them in their churches, as we can see from Rev 1:3 – Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.   And so, we must try to interpret it in the same manner that the original audience would have understood it, with all of the historical circumstances and context that they were living in and through. It might also be worth noting here, more for informations sake than anything, that Revelation was, at on...

The next 50 years

...The next fifty years in this country (the UK), and the U.S. — the West in general especially really — is going to be very interesting for society; for the Church. Mainly for the Church. Society is going through a major shift, almost on a global scale. A great divide is coming and will hit the Church over issues of sexuality and marriage. More so than it might already seem. A great divide is coming Only one side will come out of it as the dominant "winner". The other, to reside in obscurity in the annals of embarrassing history. Everything is being done under the guise of "love" — almost as if to try and shame the Church into looking as though it...

Immanuel, God with us

...le on the prophetic fulfilment of Bethlehem too, for your spiritual nourishment: Bethlehem: House of Bread. Enjoy!   John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.   Have a good Christmas ...