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Coffee With Jesus: Luke 24

...merely a human prophet. After this they then spent their days in the temple praising God (v.53). I hope this encourages you today to continue worshipping Jesus and praising God daily in your lives, and to keep our eyes open to see Jesus in those unexpected places.  ...

The Coming of Jesus: Revelation Fulfilled?

...ubject to humankind.… These things are believable to those who believe. And when Judas the traitor did not believe and asked, How, then, will such growth be accomplished by the Lord?, the Lord said, Those who live until those times will see.” As we saw in the previous part of this series, some of the earliest writings put the New Jerusalem and Church as being one and the same, coupled with us being the temple where God now dwells to live amongst his people, therefore leaving no room for a future, physical temple to be rebuilt. Nero fits the 666 and even the “typo” copyist error of 616 (or the Latin variant of Nero’s name), which happened early on,...

Who is the New Jerusalem?

...ne from a human point of view” if they are believers.   Through Christ, God was reconciling the world back to himself. Paul again picks up on this theme in Colossian 1:19-20, where he says that “God was pleased” to reconcile all things to himself, whether “on Earth or in Heaven” – in other words, all of Creation.   Going back to Rev 21 in verse five, this theme continues where “the one on the throne” declares: “See, I am making all things new.”   But what does “reconcile” really mean? The dictionary definition would be “the restoration of friendly relations”.   If God was now on friendly terms with “all things” in hea...

The Eighth Day

...ne from a human point of view” if they are believers. Again we see this theme in Colossians 1:19-20, where Paul writes that “God was pleased” to reconcile all things to himself, whether “on Earth or in Heaven” – in other words, all of Creation. This again is echoed in Rev 21:5, where “the one on the throne” (ie. God) declares: “See, I am making all things new.” Reconcile means “the restoration of friendly relations”, so now if God is on friendly terms with “all things” in Heaven or Earth, and has given us the “ministry of reconciliation” as “co-workers with Christ”, then this must make us think about what a new earth really...

Palm Sunday and the End Times

...ne like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven.And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him.To him was given dominion and glory and kingship,that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away,and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed. Coming on or with clouds is a metaphor often used throughout the Old Testament to signify the sovereign judgement of God coming upon a nation. If you want to understand more about this concept, see my other article: The Coming of Jesus: Coming on the clouds. When Jesus says that he is coming again, hinted at in the par...

Lent: Day 5 - Ignatius to the Ephesians

...fested in human form for the renewal of eternal life. Considering the date of this letter, this in itself is a good apologetic against more recent false claims that Jesus was only “made” divine at the Council of Nicea, when the gathered bishops and Emperor Constantine decided to alter centuries of Church doctrine and make Jesus into more than he supposedly was. This is, of course, total nonsense and even a cursory reading of Church History would dispel this notion, but the internet being what it is makes these heresies survive. Towards the end of the letter, Ignatius also gives us an overview of the gospel, and from what I understand, one of the earliest e...