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WHY DID JESUS LET LAZARUS DIE?

September 22, 2021UncategorizedChrist, dead, death, die later, eternal life, Faith, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Haste, Heaven, heavenly, higher purpose, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus close freinds, Jesus raises Lasarus, John, Lazarus, Lazarus sisters, Maratha, mary, Mary and Martha, Matthew, miraculously, Old Testament, physical death, raised Lazarus, separation, Sin, sinned, sinnerabarkley8

No one knows. Jesus’ reasons for delay are not explained here. We can only surmise that a higher purpose-higher than saving people from physical death-caused Jesus not to go with immediate haste to His friend’s side. That purpose was surely the one that Jesus had come to fulfill: saving people from spiritual death, that is, from eternal separation from His loving heavenly Father.

Though Lazarus was raised miraculously, he did die later. So did Mary and Martha, the disciples, and all of Jesus’ closet friends. Jesus did not come to spare His loved ones the experience of physical death but to show them the path to eternal life.

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IS HEAVEN’S POPULATION LIMITED TO 144,000

September 20, 2021Uncategorized144000, Christ, cult, daughters of God, elders, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, heavens population, hundred, Jehovah's witnesses cult, jesus, Jim Jones, Jones Town, Literal head count, literalism, Matthew, multiplied by one thousand, Nation, nations, new testament, Old Testament, population, revelation, Son's of God, sum, symbol, symbolic, taught, thousandabarkley8

The number cannot be taken literally. Even the literalism formerly taught by the Jehovah’s Witnesses cult (prior to its own growth spurt) has been revised. If not a literal head count, the number must be symbolic, and likely meant to point to the completion of God’s work of salvation among all the nations.

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SCRIPTURES OF THE DAY (DANIEL 7:15-28)

September 17, 2021Uncategorizedappearance, arise, broke in pieces, bronze, consume, Daniel, Daniel's vision, Daniel's visions interpreted, destory, devour, dominion, dream, earth, fellows, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, head, Heaven, hell, horn, jesus, Jesus Christ, kingdom, kingdom of heaven, law, lion's den, most High, nails, new testament, obey, obey Him, Old Testament, saints, visionsabarkley8

¹⁵I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

¹⁶I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

¹⁷These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

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DOESN’T THE BIBLE PROMISE HAPPINESS TO ALL WHO FOLLOW CHRIST?

August 11, 2021Uncategorized1 Peter, 2 peter, biblical promies, Christ, exceeding joy, Faith, glory, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, greatly rejoice, happiness, happy, Heaven, heaviness, jesus, Jesus Christ, joy, Matthew, new testament, Old Testament, overcomer, redeeming, revelaed, season, seeks, standard, sufferings, temptations, versesabarkley8

Not happiness, but joy. It also promises trouble, as these verses testify. The hard reality of the Bible’s message is that life breeds trouble and Christians are not exempt. In fact, Christians should expect more trouble, as the adversary seeks to derail faith and upset biblical promises.

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A VISIT TO HEAVEN

July 20, 2021Uncategorized740 BC, Christ, coal, coals, day of Atonement, dies, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, Isaiah, jesus, Jesus Christ, Jewish, jews, king uzziah, Matthew, national annual, new testament, Old Testament, priests, ritual, Sin, sinned, survived, tongs, visit, Yom Kippurabarkley8

In a terrifying vision, Isaiah finds himself standing in heaven’s throne room in the presence of God. The time is 740 BC, the year King Uzziah dies.

“It’s all over!” Isaiah says. “I am doomed, for I am a sinful man” (Isaiah 6:5). He knows God is holy and that sin can’t survive in God’s presence.

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NAME OF GOD (WORD)

July 1, 2021Uncategorized1 john, 2 John, bear record, blood, Christ, creation of the world, description, devil, eternal, evil, Genesis, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Heaven, humans, jesus, Jesus Christ, John, John writings, language, Lord, Matthew, names of God, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, Revelations, speak, trinity, word, world, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. 9 And I say unto youabarkley8

John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The prologue of John’s Gospel (John 1:1-18), of which this verse is a part, focuses on Jesus as the eternal Son, who existed with God the Father before the creation of the World.

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VISIONS OF SUFFERING (6:1-19: 10)

June 4, 2021Uncategorized7 seals, Angels, antichrist, apocolyps, archangel Michael, child, death, devastation, died, dragon, earth's rivers, earth-shaking, fire, fire on earth, God's Judgment, Heaven, hell, Jesus Christ, John, locusts, poisoned, rivers, Satan, Satan allies, sea, series, seven seals, sound of trumpet, suffering, symbol, the end times, the last days, unbelivers, vision of suffering, warabarkley8

This is the longest section of the book of Revelation. It describes the visions of John regarding a series of catastrophic events that God would use to judge the earth before the end of the age and the triumphant second coming of Christ.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 “THE COMFORT OF CHRIST’S COMING”)

May 14, 2021Uncategorized1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, archangel, asleep, brethren, Christ coming, clouds, comfort, dead, dead in Christ, death, descend, died, Heaven, hope, ignorant, Jesus died, Lord, rise first, rose, scriptue of the day, shout, sleep, sorrow, theologians, theological, theologically, theology, trumpabarkley8

¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (ACTS 1:9-26 JESUS ASCENDS TO HEAVEN, THE UPPER ROOM PRAYER MEETING, MATTHIAS CHOSEN)

May 7, 2021UncategorizedAceldama, Alphaeus, andrew, apostleship, apparel, baptism, Barsabas, Bartholomew, bowels, brother of James, Disciples, dwell, eleven apostles, field of blood, filled, galilee, Heaven, Holy Ghost, James, Jerusalem, John, Joseph, journey, Judas, Justus, manner, mary, Matthew, Matthias, number, Olivet, peter, philip, resurrection, Sabbath, scripture of the day, Simon Zelotes, Thomas, together, tongues, transgression, womenabarkley8

⁹And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

¹⁰And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

¹¹Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

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IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD?

April 19, 2021bible customs, bible customs and curiosities, bible studies, bible study, bible times, Christ, Christian, christian studies, Christian study, christianity, christians, Church, curiosities, customs, death, Faith, forgive, Forgivness, God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, God the Son, Holy Bible, jesus, Jesus Christ, King James Holy Bible, Lord, new testament, NIV, Old Testament, OT, Paul, sunday, the church, theology, Uncategorizedacts, arrogant, Bible, christians, dignity, Equal, forgives, friendship, genuine, God, Heaven, Holy Bible, Jesus Christ, Man, Men, name, only, only way, people, pluralistic era, Pray, prayer, praying, respect, saved, space, teach, teaches, traditions, Way, witness, women, worshipabarkley8

In our eclectic, pluralistic era, it may sound arrogant to claim that God forgives sins by one way only, and that one person only-Jesus-speaks the truth about God. How can Christians be so exclusive?

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