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Hebrews 11:1,2,13-16,33-40
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [2] For by it the elders obtained a good report.
[13] These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth [14] For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. [15] And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. [16] But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
[33] Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, [34] Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong, received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: [36] And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment [37] They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; [38] (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. [39] And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: [40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Revelation 16:15,16
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. [16] And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

Revelation 11:15,18
And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever. [18] And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Revelation 3:18-22
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. [19] As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. [20] Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. [21] To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. [22] He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

THE WORD “EIS,” TRANSLATED AS “FOR” IN ACTS 2:38, IS USED TO SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE REMISSION OF SINS AND BAPTISM. ONE IS SAID TO BE IMMERSED “IN REGARD TO” SOMETHING THAT HAS ALREADY OCCURRED, THE REMISSION OF SINS BECAUSE OF REPENTANCE.

IN THE KJV OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, “EIS” IS TRANSLATED AS:
AGAINST (25 TIMES)
THAT (30 TIMES)
AMONG (16 TIMES)
ON (57 TIMES)
AT (20 TIMES)
TO (282 TIMES)
FOR (91 TIMES)
TOWARD (32 TIMES)
IN (131 TIMES)
UNTO (208 TIMES)
INTO (571 TIMES)
UPON (25 TIMES)

REMISSION OF SINS IS A STATE OR CONDITION. ONE IS ONLY TO IMMERSE UPON, IN, OR IN REGARD TO, THAT STATE OR CONDITION.

ACTS 2:38
REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST IN REGARD TO THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST.

SUPPOSE THAT YOU WERE TO SAY TO A GROUP OF MEN STANDING ON TOP OF A 50 STORY BUILDING; JUMP YE, AND BE SMILING EVERY ONE OF YE IN THE NAME OF HAPPINESS FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF JOY, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF A SMASHED BODY. WOULD THEY RECEIVE THE SMASHED BODIES BECAUSE THEY “SMILED IN THE NAME OF HAPPINESS FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF JOY,” OR SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY JUMPED? THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE SMASHED BODIES NO MATTER WHAT THEY DID AFTER THEY JUMPED. WE RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST NO MATTER WHAT WE DO AFTER WE REPENT BY PLACING OUR FAITH IN THE ONE OF WHOM PETER TESTIFIED.

Acts 10:42-45
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

DID THEY RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BECAUSE THEY REPENTED, OR BECAUSE THEY WERE BAPTIZED, OR BECAUSE THEY DID BOTH?

Acts 10:47-48
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Matthew 3:1-2 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Acts 20:20-21
And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

THIS GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS RECEIVED THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST WITHOUT BEING BAPTIZED. IN ALL HONESTY, WHAT DOES THE SPIRIT OF GOD DESIRE FOR ALL MEN TO DO ?

Job 5:17-18
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Proverbs 3:11-14 11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

1 Corinthians 11:28-32
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

2 Corinthians 2:6-8
Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
7 So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

James 1:18-27
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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December 19, 2017

The doctrines of the Word, after the completion of the New Testament, were quite sufficient to understand the truth concerning salvation of the soul, security of the believer, baptism, the church, the Lord’s Supper, and other elements of the faith. Of course, everything in the Bible is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and certainly that is also true with prophecy, but the truth of it consists of an unveiling of what it means with the passage of time, and the unfulfilled portions of it become clearer as the first parts are actually fulfilled. The statement, “Jesus is coming back one day in the future” is doctrinal truth. But the statement, “Jesus is likely to return before 2020 is opinion.” The word translated as “revelation” means “to uncover,” “to unveil,” “to expose.” When some famous icon is slowly unveiled, the surer a person will be of its identification before the last tiny bit of it is exposed to view. The same is generally true with Bible prophecy. As God exposes more of the truth by fulfilled prophetic events, the better we can understand how the other pieces of the puzzle will fit, based on that which has just been fulfilled. So, in some cases where I goofed on what a prophecy meant when I saw it actually come to pass, I went back and put it in the right part of the puzzle, and it made me see much more clearly why I was wrong, and how some other parts would now properly fit. As we draw closer to the end of Daniel’s prophecies of the events of the end of the Age of the Gentiles, it is not only the time of man’s fantastic increase in scientific expertise that has expanded, but his understanding of the correct interpretation of prophetic Scriptures as his knowledge is enhanced by the fulfillment of it. I am of the opinion that the words, once “closed up and sealed till the time of the end,” are presently being opened and unsealed in the day to day activities occurring in the Middle East.

Daniel 12:4-9
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [5] Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. [6] And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? [7] And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. [8] And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? [9] And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.

Daniel 12:7
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.