BIBLE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Bible Answers to Hard Questions
1. Why did God make the heaven and the earth?
Answer: He made them to be inhabited.
ISAIAH 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the
heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it;
he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he
formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is
none else.
2PETER 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
Governments and scientists have the same plan. The
United States and Soviet Space Agencies are exploring
planets and building space stations now.
2. Since God made them, and God is perfect, why didn't He
make them perfect?
Answer: He did make them perfect. Genesis 1:3-28 are
dealing with a re-creation of a former creation which was
finished in Genesis 1:1.
Even Satan was created perfect; not as a serpent, dragon,
or the devil, but as a Cherub named Lucifer.
ISAIAH 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to
the ground, which didst weaken the nations
EZEKIEL 28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the
day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in
thee.
3. Since God made them perfect, why aren't they perfect now?
Answer: Because something happened between Genesis 1:1
and Genesis 1:3 to the perfect physical creation.
A. A Perfect Creation.
GENESIS 1:1 IN the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.
B. Something Happened To It.
GENESIS 1:2a And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep...
C. God Had To Re-make Creation.
GENESIS 1:2b ...And the spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be
light: and there was light.
And something happened between GE 2:7 and GE 3:13 to the
spiritual creation, the first man and woman.
GENESIS 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life; and man became a living soul.
GENESIS 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman,
What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
4. Since God is perfect and loves perfection, why didn't He
prevent this "something" from happening?
Answer: Because although the material creation was
perfect, the man that God created was not perfect; he was
only sinless, not perfect.
Since only God is perfect, no being is perfect until he is
like God. Adam was made in God's image.
GENESIS 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air,
and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and
subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth.
Adam's sinlessness was not confirmed sinlessness, as
God's, for he had not yet been tested.
5. What is Sin?
Answer: Sin is an act, a nature, thought, or word against
the person of a personal God, who is Almighty. It is
anything, done, spoken, or thought contrary to God
Almighty's direct revelation concerning it. It is
rebellion.
PSALM 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and
done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be
justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou
judgest.
MICAH 6:8 He hath shown thee, O man, what is good; and
what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
6. Didn't God know Adam would flunk the test before it
occurred?
Answer: He did.
ACTS 15:18 Known unto God are all his works from the
beginning of the world.
He knew Adam would fall, and knowing this, He gave him a
freedom of will and a freedom of choice so that he could
fall if he so desired.
7. Then isn't God directly or indirectly to blame for what
took place in His creation at the start?
Answer: Yes, the Lord could have prevented Sin from
entering, and did not.
LAMANTATIONS 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High
proceedeth not evil and good?
JOB 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of
the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive
good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
8. Then isn't God responsible for Adam's sin and the mess in
which man now finds himself?
Answer: No.
JAMES 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil,
neither tempteth he any man: 14 But every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and
enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth
death.
9. Then who tempted Adam?
Answer: Eve.
GENESIS 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye
shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the
day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and
ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that
it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired
to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and
did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and
he did eat.
1TIMOTHY 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor
to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam
was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in
the transgression.
10. Who tempted Eve?
Answer: A serpent.
2CORINTHIANS 11:1 WOULD to God ye could bear with me a
little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I
am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have
espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.
11. Who tempted the Serpent, if it wasn't God Himself?
Answer: The serpent was once a Cherub. He was drawn away
by his own lust and enticed to put his own will above the
will of God.
EZEKIEL 28:12 ...Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest
up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every
precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz,
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,
the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was
prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 14
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have
set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God;
thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones
of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day
that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in
thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast
sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of
the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty,
thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay
thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
ISAIAH 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to
the ground, which didst weaken the nations 13 For thou
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I
will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides
of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds: I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be
brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
12. Since God is Eternal and knew the end from the beginning,
couldn't He have prevented the Lucifer of Isaiah 14 from
falling to the level of a serpent?
Answer: Yes. God lets a lot of things fall in order to
work out His plan.
A. God let Lucifer fall in order to give Adam a choice
as to who he would follow.
B. God let Adam fall in order to let him, and all men,
experience the abject misery of being separated from Him.
C. God let Israel fall so that the Genitles could be
saved and, in turn, provoke Israel to jealousy so they
would turn to God.
ROMANS 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they
should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke
them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the
riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the
riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 14 If
by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are
my flesh, and might save some of them. 15 For if the
casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the
dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is
also holy. and if the root be holy, so are the
branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken
off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in
among them, and with them partakest of the root and
fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the
branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,
but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches
were broken off, that I might be grafted in. 20 Well;
because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou
standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For
if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest
he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the
goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,
severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue
in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in
again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree
which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to
nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall
these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into
their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren,
that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles be come in. 26 And so all Israel shall be
saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion
the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob: 27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I
shall take away their sins. 28 As concerning the
gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as
touching the election, they are beloved for the
fathers' sakes. 29 For the gifts and calling of God
are without repentance. 30 For as ye in times past
have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy
through their unbelief: 31 Even so have these also now
not believed, that through your mercy they also may
obtain mercy. 32 For God hath concluded them all in
unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
13. Isn't God then responsible for both the man's sin and the
serpent's sin, since He allowed them both to take place?
Answer: To man's way of thinking, yes, but God states
emphatically that His ways are not man's ways.
ISAIAH 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts.
14. Since we can't understand, is it possible that Darwin and
Marx are right in their belief that there is no God,
because a God Who is so imperfect that He is responsible
for imperfection is not perfect?
Answer: No. Darwin and Marx are fools.
PSALM 14:1 THE fool hath said in his heart, There is
no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable
works, there is none that doeth good.
God remedied the entire thing and made right what was
wrong and cleared Himself of all guilt and responsibility
in the matter?
ROMANS 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every
man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be
justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when
thou art judged. 5 But if our unrighteousness commend
the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God
unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
A. At Calvary, God was in the flesh.
1TIMOTHY 3:16 And without controversy great is the
mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh,
justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached
unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received
up into glory.
B. At Calvary, Christ, God in the flesh, bore man's
guilt.
2CORINTHIANS 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for
us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
C. God both pronounced the sentence and received the
penalty.
JOHN 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
GALATIANS 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it
is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a
tree:
D. Since He then has reconciled all things to Himself by
atoning for the imperfection in all things, He is
clear; you cannot charge Him with a thing.
ROMANS 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that
repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
15. Does the Bible explain this so that we can at least try
to understand it?
Answer: Since God is perfect, then LOVE is one of His
qualities.
1JOHN 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God
is love.
This love has to be perfect love. For this love to
really be perfect love, there have to be two parties.
One party loving the same party is not love, for self-
love is not real love. God therefore creates a second
party, man.
HEBREWS 2:6 But one in a certain place testified,
saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or
the son of man, that thou visitest him?
If the man does not have a free will and a free choice,
he cannot return God's Love. A robot cannot love. The
man must have a choice.
JOSHUA 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether
the gods which your fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we
will serve the LORD.
To have a choice, there must be a third party. The
eternal triangle is completed by a Cherub who becomes a
Serpent. You can choose him, or you can choose God.
2CORINTHIANS 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath
blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them.
1KINGS 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and
said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the
LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
And the people answered him not a word.
God allows this being, the Cherub turned serpent, to appear
and tempt mankind so that man can freely choose God as an
object of love.
Adam chose his wife as an object of love rather than God,
and his wife chose knowledge over God, as do all good
intellectuals. The man falls and God redeems the man by
bearing the entire blame.
ROMANS 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in
due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely
for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for
a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God
commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then,
being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were
enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his
Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by
his life. 11 And not only so, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
received the atonement. 12 Wherefore, as by one man
sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not
imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death
reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come. 15 But not
as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if
through the offence of one many be dead, much more the
grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one
man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. 16 And not
as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the
judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift
is of many offences unto justification. 17 For if by
one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they
which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of
righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
Christ.) 18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the
righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men
unto justification of life. 19 For as by one man's
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the
obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
God took the entire blame for both the man and the
cherub. He did this sin-bearing by coming down and dying
as a man.
PHILIPPIANS 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God,
thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made
himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of
a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross.
JOHN 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made
by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto
his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many
as received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
God has already done all that is possible, all that could
be asked for, more than is required; and He has done it
through love for you and all mankind.
JOHN 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God has absolved Himself from all guilt, proving that He
is absolutely perfect and sinless. God is innocent; man
is guilty.
1PETER 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for
sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us
to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened
by the Spirit:
16. Since none of this is SCIENTIFIC, why should we believe
it?
Answer: If you do not believe it, try to find something
better. And if you do find a better solution to the
problem of sin, you had better apply it immediately;
for as surely as you breathe and read, the grave is
waiting for you. It has embraced the thinkers, the
artists, the popes, the scholars, the psychiatrists and
the physicians, and, friend, it's going to get you, too.
HEBREWS 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the judgment:
God has plans, and His plans are going to go through on
schedule no matter what any man, woman, boy, or girl
believes.
The first part of God's Plan is to populate the Heaven
and the Earth with a sinless race of people, who want to
glorify God because they love Him.
17. How can we know this is correct?
Answer: Because at this minute, men are spending
billions of dollars to get up and populate heaven with a
bunch of Christ-rejecting sinners, whose only profession
is that mankind is getting better and better, evolving
toward Godhood, and in control of its destiny.
There are two ways to do it: man's way and God's way.
ISAIAH 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Man's way is Lucifer's way. Lucifer's way is carefully
outlined.
ISAIAH 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O
Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to
the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ASCEND
into heaven, I will EXALT my throne above the stars of
God: I will SIT also upon the mount of the
congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ASCEND above the heights of the clouds:
I will be LIKE the most High. (Emphasis added.)
Man thinks his way is easy. Go up and populate the
planets and claim them for individual countries, then
bomb the enemy's planet. Instead of Intercontinental
War, man will have Interplanetary War, and then begin to
write history books on how the great sacrifice of the
founding fathers preserved freedom on Planet Americana
and was a lesson to all free planets everywhere. But the
dead will be just as dead, and just as dead in their
sins.
PROVERBS 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto
a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Man's way looks like the easy way. It is the same road
that mankind has walked since Cain murdered his brother.
Just use your brains, avoid the Bible, invent ways to get
UP, reject the Lord's Saviour, kill the enemy before he
gets you, side-step Calvary, get religious and become a
person of goodwill, do whatever seems right at the time,
ignore Genesis 1-3, rely on progress to get you to the
stars, then die. Men have been going to hell by the same
route for 5000 years.
MATTHEW 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide
is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
The trouble is, mankind has exhausted all its options and
is merely under the illusion that it has an original move
to make.
ECCLESIASTES 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that
which shall be; and that which is done is that which
shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Mankind's plan is to bring in the kingdom of heaven, but
mankind's kingdom will be no more than it has been for
the past 5000 years: a madhouse of wars, rumors of wars,
political intrigue, religious corruption, disease and
poverty, dying and death, business swindles, and dope-
addiction. That old phantom "Human Nature" will not
leave the house. The word "human" comes from the Latin
"humus" which means "rotting vegetation."
ISAIAH 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and
all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all
do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind,
have taken us away.
All of mankind's attempts and theories of the kingdom
fail to reckon with this invisible "wreck of the
Hesperus," which is part of man's essential equipment.
The Bible never fails to recognize his presence.
ROMANS 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the
gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
PSALMS 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and
all the nations that forget God.
The Bible never fails to present the only remedy for him.
GALATIANS 2:20 I am crucified with Christ:
nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in
me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live
by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave
himself for me.
COLOSSIANS 3:1 IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek
those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on
the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead,
and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye
also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore
your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence,
and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which
things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of
disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time,
when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all
these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to
another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with
his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of him that
created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian,
bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put
on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,
bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind,
meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and
forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel
against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14 And above all these things put on charity, which is
the bond of perfectness.
Man's plan is the wrong plan and God's Plan is the only
plan that will work and work right. God's principles are
contrary to man's.
LUKE 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house
justified rather than the other: for every one that
exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth
himself shall be exalted.
The way up to heaven is down on your knees.
JOHN 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made
by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto
his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many
as received him, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The way to get shot down out of the stratosphere is to go
up to populate it.
The notation by C.I. Scofield is so true.
"The world system is imposing and powerful with armies
and fleets, is often outwardly religious, scientific,
cultured, and elegant, but, seething with national and
commercial rivalries and ambitions, is upheld in any
real crisis only by armed force."
God's original plan contains none of these elements.
God's Plan was and is to populate the entire Universe
with a race of sinless people who desire to return His
love and glorify Him. This plan is flawless, without a
single crook in it. Subsequent failures are due entirely
to man's willful and stubborn determination to take
credit for his own creation, and give himself the glory
for coming to this present state after 4000 years of
fighting rats, wolves, and alligators.
Where a man moves in response to God, by faith in
accepting God's Saviour as his own, light is sure to
break immediately; and although all the answers are not
found to all the Bible verses, the light is found which
illuminates the hopeless struggle of man through the ages
as he seeks the mythical "Golden Age." It also brings
with it assurance of a heavenly home and a glorious
eternity with God.
1JOHN 5:13 These things have I written to you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know
that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on
the name of the Son of God.
1PETER 1:4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven
for you,
JOHN 14:1 LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe
in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are
many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may
be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye
know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not
whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
God has offered mankind a glorious invitation, and until
the individual accepts, he has no place in the "Kingdom."
MATTHEW 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come
from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham
and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But
the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into
outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
Until the individual accepts God's invitation, he has no
part in the "Kingdom."
MATTHEW 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his
glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he
sit upon the throne of his glory:
Until the individual accepts God's invitation, he cannot
even see the "Kingdom."
JOHN 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily,
verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto
him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter
the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5
Jesus answered Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of
the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit.
The answers are available. The PLAN is presented in the
word of God. This PLAN centers around "The Kingdom." It
is the main subject of the Bible; the conception,
development, disintegration, revival, postponement,
counterfeit, and fulfillment of this Kingdom is the THEME
of the Holy Scriptures. It runs contrary to the post-
millennial Liberal, the a-millennial Catholic, the
Darwinian Intellectual, the Idealistic Philosopher, and
the Communistic Athiest. As most Bible concepts, it is
proven to be a direct revelation from supra-human sources
by virtue of the fact that it is totally unlike anything
that human historians or histories can produce.
God has plans for mankind and for the universe which no
Pope, Church council, League, Alliance, Mandate, Decree,
Pact, Charter, or Court Decision can alter or forstall.
Once this plan is grasped, all the pieces of the puzzle
fall into the proper compartments, and even the men
opposed to the plan (including the men who don't believe
in it) find their proper places in respect to it.
LUKE 17:1 THEN said he unto the disciples, It is
impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto
him, through whom they come!
PROVERBS 16:4 The LORD hath made all things for
himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
God is not dead, nor is He washed up.
ISAIAH 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son
is given: and the govemment shall be upon his shoulder:
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and peace
there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and
upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with
judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Let the heathen rage! Let the followers of Darwin and
Huxley thumb their noses at God Almighty. Let the Pope
drink wine while the "kings of the earth" kiss his ring.
Let the scholars stomp on the word of God and try to
exterminate it. OUR GOD IS A GREAT GOD AND HIS KINGDOM
IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM.
DANIEL 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are
reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will
in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the
earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him,
What doest thou?
Man's fondest ambition for 4000 years is to be through
with war. But "OUR GOD HAS NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT."
You had best be on His side at Armageddon!