THE ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST – Easter 2023
In Acts 1:9-12 a cloud obscured the actual “going up” of Jesus; and, as the holy angels announced the ascension in connection with that disappearance, their word identifies that event as the ascension.
Category: Earth
The Establishment of the church of JESUS CHRIST Upon This Earth.
The mode was IMMERSION, and baptism normally coincided with the reception of the Holy Spirit.
I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
This metaphor reveals Jesus as God.
THE MARVEL OF GOD’S CREATION
And God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:11-13
THE DANGER OF JUDGING OTHERS – PART 1
Judging the conduct of other Christians is a subject of such universal concern within the church that the collateral scriptures applicable to this question should be remembered here.
THE TEMPLE IN HEAVEN + THE SUPERIORITY OF OUR HIGH PRIEST
It is our conviction that such language is used by the Holy Spirit in order to bring down to the level of human comprehension those heavenly realities which are not capable of any complete finite understanding, and that the eloquent words used in the sacred text are accommodated to man’s weakness and limitations, and that the marvelous realities thus described are fantastically beyond the total human knowledge of them, the very power and ability of language itself, as a means of communication, being helpless to transmit anything more than a typical or suggestive outline of the things that are in the heavens.
THE NEW AND BETTER COVENANT – Part 2
This ten commandments covenant, the first and old covenant, is the one in view by the author of Hebrews is evident and becomes certain in the light of his mention of “the tables of the covenant” being placed within the ark of the covenant (Hebrews 9:4).
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