Bible Verses to Help You Think for Yourself. Question What You are Being Told. The Obvious is Being Obscured

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1 Bible Verses to Help You Think for Yourself Question What You are Being Told The Obvious is Being Obscured The verses are from the New American Standard Bible (NASB) Bold and underlined emphasis added. Verses / sentences in all CAPITALS are also found in the Old Testament. (OT) = Old Testament (NT) = New Testament Contents What is the Bible About?... The Kingdom Now... Does God Leave His Word Open to Interpretation?... Did God Choose Any One People Over Any Other?... God Loves Everyone...?... We Are All Equal...?... 8 Mixed Marriages / Adultery... 8 Good is Evil / Evil is Good:... With Whom Did God Make a New Covenant?... Those Who Will Not Enter the Kingdom:... No Idols, No Buildings - We are the Temple:... The Great Commission / So, You Want to be a Missionary... When Will / Did Jesus Return?... The Rapture... 1 Who is the Antichrist?... 1 In Defense of Paul... 1 There are Thousands of Religions / Faiths. Which One is Right for You?... 1 Genealogy Chart

2 What is the Bible About? The Bible is about the unfolding plan and purpose of God to establish and manifest His kingdom in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their physical descendants. The Kingdom Now The reign and rule of Jesus Christ through His covenant people. (His covenant people are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their physical descendants.) Who are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Their Physical Descendants See the genealogy chart on the last page. Does God Leave His Word Open to Interpretation? Peter 1:0 (NT) But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, Peter :1 (NT) as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. Revelation :18-19 (NT) (Specific to the book of Revelation) 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. Did God Choose Any One People Over Any Other? Throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament, Genesis through Revelation, what people, other than the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob / Israel, does God acknowledge as his? NOTE: Along with the verses below, look at the genealogy chart on the last page to understand who Israel and the Israelites are and who the Jews actually are. Jews and Israelites are not one in the same. If you are looking for truth do not ignore the genealogies in the Bible. Genesis 1:-, 1 (OT) "I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly." Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, "As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a multitude of nations. "No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. "I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you. "I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. 1 But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year.

3 Genesis :-1 (OT) God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He called him Israel. God also said to him, "I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you. 1 "The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you." Exodus :1 (OT) God, furthermore, said to Moses, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations. Exodus 19:- (OT) Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the sons of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself. 'Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel." Exodus 9:- "I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. "They shall know that I am the LORD their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am the LORD their God. Deut. : (OT) "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Deut. 8:1 (OT) "Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 1 Kings :1 (OT) "I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel." 1 Kings 8:- (OT) that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and to the supplication of Your people Israel, to listen to them whenever they call to You. "For You have separated them from all the peoples of the earth as Your inheritance, as You spoke through Moses Your servant, when You brought our fathers forth from Egypt, O Lord GOD." Kings 1:1 (OT) Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets. 1 Chronicles 1:1 (OT) O seed of Israel His servant, Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones! Psalm : (OT) You who fear the LORD, praise Him; All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him, And stand in awe of Him, all you descendants of Israel.

4 Psalms :8- (OT) 8 He has remembered His covenant forever, The word which He commanded to a thousand generations, 9 The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac. Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant, Psalms 1:-1 (OT) He smote many nations And slew mighty kings, Sihon, king of the Amorites, And Og, king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan; 1 And He gave their land as a heritage, A heritage to Israel His people. Psalms 1:19-0 (OT) 19 He declares His words to Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances to Israel. 0 He has not dealt thus with any nation; And as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Praise the LORD! Isaiah :0- (OT) 0 Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. 1 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. Isaiah :-1 (OT) Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand The remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, And from the islands of the sea. 1 And He will lift up a standard for the nations And assemble the banished ones of Israel, And will gather the dispersed of Judah From the four corners of the earth. Isaiah :1- (OT) 1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel, "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you. "For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. "Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life. Isaiah :1 (OT) Israel has been saved by the LORD With an everlasting salvation; You will not be put to shame or humiliated To all eternity. Isaiah :, (OT) "Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other. "In the LORD all the offspring of Israel Will be justified and will glory." Isaiah :- (OT) "Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been borne by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb; Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you. Isaiah 8:-1, 1 (OT) For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another. 1 Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;

5 1 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, I am the LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go. Jeremiah :18 (OT) "In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance. Jeremiah 1:1 (OT) At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people. Jeremiah 1: (OT) For thus says the LORD, "Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, And shout among the chief of the nations; Proclaim, give praise and say, 'O LORD, save Your people, The remnant of Israel.' Jeremiah 1:1- (OT) (Also stated in Hebrews 8:8-1 (NT) 1 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Ezekiel :1- (OT) 1 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. Hosea 1: (OT) Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered. And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, it shall be said to them, Children of the living God. Amos :1- (OT) 1 Hear this word which the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the entire family which He brought up from the land of Egypt: "You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." Zachariah 8:1 (OT) 'It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.' Malachi :- (OT) "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. "From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you," says the LORD of hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?' (New Testament) Matthew : (NT) 'AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH; FOR OUT OF YOU SHALL COME FORTH A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.'"

6 Matthew 1: (NT) Jesus is speaking But He answered and said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matthew 19:-8 (NT) (The Disciples Reward) Then Peter said to Him, Behold, we have left everything and followed You; what then will there be for us? 8 And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew :1- (NT) 1 But regarding the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God: I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB? He is not the God of the dead but of the living. Luke 1:- (NT) "He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end." Luke 1:8 (NT) "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, For He has visited us and accomplished redemption for His people, John :1-1 (NT) 1 even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 1 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will hear My voice; and they will become one flock with one shepherd. Note: The sheep are the two tribes of the southern house of Judah. The other sheep are the disbursed ten tribes of the northern house of Israel. The one flock is the reunited twelve tribes of the house of Jacob / Israel. Acts :- (NT) Opening his mouth, Peter said: I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him. The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all) Romans 9:-8 (NT) But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel; nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendants, but: "THROUGH ISAAC YOUR DESCENDANTS WILL BE NAMED." 8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants. Romans :- (NT) and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB." "THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS." 1 Corinthians :1-1 (NT) (Paul to the Israelites in Corinth) 1 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 1 If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are. Ephesians :1-1 (NT) Paul to the church in Ephesus 1 remember that you were at that time separate from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 1 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 1 Peter :9 (NT) But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

7 Revalation : (NT) And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: Revelation 1:9-1 (NT) 9 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper. 1 It had a great and high wall, with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names were written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel. God Loves Everyone...? Exodus : & 8-0 (OT) "For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them. 8 "I will send hornets ahead of you so that they will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites before you. 9 "I will not drive them out before you in a single year, that the land may not become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you. 0 "I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land. 1 Samuel 1:- (OT) Thus says the LORD of hosts, I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt. Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. Deuteronomy :1- (OT) 1 "When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. "Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. "For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. "But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire. "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. Psalms 1:-1 (OT) He smote many nations And slew mighty kings, Sihon, king of the Amorites, And Og, king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan; 1 And He gave their land as a heritage, A heritage to Israel His people. Isaiah : (OT) "Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

8 Malachi 1:- (OT) I have loved you, says the LORD. But you say, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob s brother? declares the LORD. Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness. Though Edom says, We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins ; thus says the LORD of hosts, They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the wicked territory, and the people toward whom the LORD is indignant forever. Romans 9:1 (NT) Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." We Are All Equal...? We are equal in the eyes of God, but God did not make us equal in our abilities. Romans 1:-8,1 (NT) For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching; 8 or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. 1 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation. 1 Corinth 1:0- (NT) 0 But now there are many members, but one body. 1 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you ; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary; and those members of the body which we deem less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable, whereas our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that member which lacked, so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Mixed Marriages / Adultery The Bible draws an analogy between the husband-wife relationship and God's relationship with Israel. Just as a man and woman become husband and wife through the marriage covenant, so God and Israel became husband and wife through the establishment of a covenant. God married Israel. Therefore, as a husbands and wives commit adultery, so do God s chosen, Israel, commit adultery by worshipping other gods and mixing with people of other races and who are not of God s chosen people. Deut. : (OT) "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 8

9 Deut. :1- (OT) 1 When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. "Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons. "For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. Joshua :9-1 (OT) 9 "For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. "One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. "So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God. 1 "For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 1 know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. Ezra 9& all (OT) Excerpts 9:1-1 Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites. "For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness." Excerpts : "So now let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law. Excerpts :- Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel. "Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives." Nehemiah 1: (OT) So when they heard the law, they excluded all foreigners from Israel. Ezekiel :-9 (OT) (Oholah and Oholibah are the northern and southern houses of Israel) Moreover, the LORD said to me, Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations. For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food. 8 Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths. 9 For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house. Note: In the case of God s chosen people, race mixing is a sin because adultery is a sin. 9

10 Good is Evil / Evil is Good: Isaiah :0- (OT) 0 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 1 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight! Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine And valiant men in mixing strong drink, Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right! Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Thess. :-1 (OT) For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, 1 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness. With Whom Did God Make a New Covenant? Ask your church / religious leaders that question. Most can t answer it. The answer is not hidden or vague. You will also notice that it is limited to a specific people. Jeremiah 1:1- (OT) repeated in Hebrews 8:8- (NT) 1 Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know the LORD, for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the LORD, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. Those Who Will Not Enter the Kingdom: Unless they stop doing the offensive acts and repent. Leviticus 18: (OT) 'You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. Deut. : (OT) "A woman shall not wear man's clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. 1 Corinth. :9- (NT) 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians :19-1 (NT) 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 0 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 1 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

11 Kings 1:1 (OT) Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets. No Idols, No Buildings - We are the Temple: 1 Corinthians :1 (NT) Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Corinthians :1 (NT) Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Ephesians :0- (NT) 0 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 1 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit. The Great Commission / So, You Want to be a Missionary To whom is Jesus sending his disciples? It is clearly not to everyone on the planet. Jeremiah 1:1-1 (OT) 1 but, As the LORD lives, who brought up the sons of Israel from the land of the north and from all the countries where He had banished them. For I will restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers. 1 Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks. Matthew :- (NT) These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Romans 1:- (NT) Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; When Will / Did Jesus Return? Question: Where is there any indication that the second coming might not occur during the lifetime of the ones Jesus was actually talking to at the time, let alone not for thousands of years? Romans 1:- (NT) Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret for long ages past, but now is manifested, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, has been made known to all the nations, leading to obedience of faith; According to the Bible

12 Matthew :1-1 (NT) 1 THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED. 1 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew :- (NT) but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew : (NT) "But whenever they persecute you in one city, flee to the next; for truly I say to you, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes. Matthew 1:-8 (NT) "For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS. 8 "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." Matthew :- (NT) so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. "Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Note the word generation. From Abraham until the Messiah was approx. 000 years. The Bible says that generations passed during that time. (Matthew 1:1 (NT) So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.) Question: What generation has not yet passed away in the 000+ years since the Messiah? Mark 9:1 (NT) And Jesus was saying to them, "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power." Luke 1:0 (NT) "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. Luke 1: (NT) because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all things take place. James :8-9 (NT) 8 You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door. 1 John :18 (NT) Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. Revelation 1:1 (NT) The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, Revelation 1: (NT) Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near. 1

13 Revelation 1: (NT) BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen. ( all the tribes = all the tribes of Israel) Revelation :-1 (NT) Because you have kept the word of My perseverance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. 'I am coming quickly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 1 'He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. Revelation :- (NT) And he said to me, "These words are faithful and true"; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show to His bond-servants the things which must soon take place. And behold, I am coming quickly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book." Consider the next two verses. If it was only 00 years (approx.) between Daniel s vision and John s vision about the end time, why are we still waiting over,000 years after the time is near? Daniel 1:9 (OT) He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for these words are concealed and sealed up until the end time. Revelation : (NT) And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near. The Rapture Isaiah :- (OT) "Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, And gather you from the west. "I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' Bring My sons from afar And My daughters from the ends of the earth, Everyone who is called by My name, And whom I have created for My glory, Whom I have formed, even whom I have made." Ezekiel :1- (OT) 1 "Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms. Matt. :9-1 (NT) 9 "But immediately after the tribulation of those days THE SUN WILL BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON WILL NOT GIVE ITS LIGHT, AND THE STARS WILL FALL from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 0 "And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. 1 "And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Note: -- In verse 9, The the powers of the heavens are the high places, governments, places of authority, etc. which included the Sadducees and the Pharisees who were shaken and did fall. People confuse heavens with Heaven. -- Verse 1 is about the return of Israel from captivity. Not a rapture. 1

14 Who is the Antichrist? 1 John :18 (NT) Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. 1 John : (NT) Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 1 John : (NT) and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. John 1: (NT) For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. In Defense of Paul 1 Timothy 1:1-1 (NT) Paul speaking 1 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has strengthened me, because He considered me faithful, putting me into service, 1 even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor. Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; Peter :1-1 (NT) 1 and regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, 1 as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. There are Thousands of Religions / Faiths. Which One is Right for You? Ephesians :-, 1 (NT) There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. 1 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 1

15 Genealogy Chart *Genesis :- The sons of Japheth were Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras. The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah. (Most of today s Jews are Ashkenazi. Which makes it impossible for them to be God s chosen) **Genesis :- (The key verses are shown) These are the records of the generations of Shem Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. (Genesis 1: No longer shall your name be called Abram, But your name shall be Abraham; For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.) ***Genesis : God said to him, Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name. Thus He called him Israel. (Only descendants of Jacob / Israel can be Israelites.) ****Matthew 1:1-1 (The key verses are shown) 1 The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers. 1 Jacob was the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, by whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah. 1