We have grouped some of the common questions that we have received into this guide to help others. If you have further questions on any of these subjects, please feel free to e-mail us.
It is the church's idea of escaping God's wrath that will destroy all evil on this earth. The fooled believe the church will be taken from the wrath before God destroys the wicked. Isaiah prophesied how the Godly would be protected at Isaiah 26:20-21.
Isaiah 26:20-21
20 Come, My children, enter your chambers, and shut the door behind
you; Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the
indignation is past.
21 For behold, the Lord comes out of His place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also
disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain.
For a more in depth study on this subject, please read the lecture titled: The Rapture, Fact or Fiction.
The heavens are for the Lord and His angelic host. The earth was created as man's home. Paradise is a part of the earth we can't see with soulish eyes, but it is where we will end up.
For further information, please read the lectures: Heaven versus
Paradise,
and The
Rapture, Fact or Fiction.
It is an appointment God set to meet with man from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, the 7th day. Who wants to miss an appointment with God.
Exodus 20:8
8 Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
The observation of Sunday as a holy day was only introduced into the church about 600 years after Jesus' death and resurrection. The early church continued to observe the Sabbath as commanded at Exodus 20. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He did not change His mind about which day we were to keep holy.
For further information please read our lecture
titled: Sabbath vs. Sunday Worship.
Galatians 3:13
13 Christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us
(for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.")
As we can see from the above scripture, the cross on which Jesus hung was a curse. He took upon Himself the curse of sin which was on all humanity. So the cross is a cursed symbol. In His resurrection He overcame death, hell and the grave and made a way for mankind to be restored to the condition which He had purposed for them from the beginning. Rather than hang a reminder of the curse around our necks, we remember what He accomplished through His resurrection and focus instead on the restoration of eternal life.
Time will last until we walk into eternity as the Church Eternal. For further information on this topic please read the grouping of lectures titled: The Age to Come.
We are Hebrew because we are born through Christ, who is the Lion of Judah.
Galatians 3:26-29
26 For you
are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many
of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
28 There
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is
neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
For further information concerning this birthright, please read Foundation.
For a more in depth study on this subject, please
read the chapter in our book False Doctrines titled: Who Really is
Israel.
Ephesians 4:11
11 And He
Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists,
and some pastors and teachers,
Although the Fivefold ministry offices were lost to the church for some time, God has not changed. They have always been His plan for the Body of Christ, and are restored in this end time to fulfill their purpose. Please read the lecture series titled: The Fivefold Ministry - the Hand of God.
Should one die immediately, or very soon after this act, one would enter paradise (the heavens are the home of the Lord and His angelic host). However much of the church has been sadly misled into thinking that once they are "saved" they remain that way forever. The truth is found in Leviticus 11: 44-45.
Leviticus 11:44-45
44 For I am
the Lord your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you
shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves
with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
45 For I am the
Lord your God who brings you up out of the land of Egypt (symbolic of
the world), to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am
holy.
To further examine how the church has been misled to their peril, please read Once Saved Always Saved.
Wrong! As one can see from the scripture above at Leviticus 11, God requires us to grow and mature. This means that we allow ourselves to be changed and shaped into His image. The answer to this question is clearly found in Hebrews 10:26 and Hebrews 6:4-6.
Hebrews 10:26
26 For if we sin
willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no
longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
Hebrews 6:4-6
4 For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the
heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
5 and
have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
6
if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they
crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open
shame.
For a more in depth study on this subject, please
read the lecture titled: Holiness versus
Legalism.