Bible Questions & Discussion PAGE 948

I had seen the scripture Proverbs 14:30 as a quote saying, " a heart at peace gives life'. I always like to ready the chapter to know more of what is said... God is so good! God bless you

Dear Mary, if you are a born-again believer in Christ, He hears your prayer. Sometimes we have to be patient and wait upon Him.

1 John 5:14-15 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

Psalm 56:3 - Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.

Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

2 Timothy 1:12 - for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

God bless you, Mary!

Revelations 11:4 speaks of two witnesses the 2 olive trees and 2 candlesticks. Zechariah 4:1-14 lets you know a olive tree is Gods people Romans 11:13:24 tells you that the original olive tree is Israel the wild olive tree is the gentiles. They both have to be graphed into the root. A candlestick is a church look at Revelations 1:20. These two groups will receive a power like never before to preach the truth to the whole world during the tribulation. They will have a warrior type power like Moses or Elijah. They will be the enemy of this world but for the first 3.5 years nobody will be able to stop them. Then they will be killed and the world will be happy but then they live again in front of people. God proves once again that he is the only God. Not everybody that says I believe will enter the kingdom of heaven. Some of these people God will say part from me I never knew you. If you read revelations chapters 2 and 3 you will see that there were and are two types of churches that God approves, the other 5 he does not.

Sorry Romans 11:13-24 the 2 olive trees

The two witnesses in revelations 11:4 are two groups during the tribulation the olive trees Zechariah 4:1-14 lets you know that the olive tree is Gods people. Romans 13-24 lets you know that it is jew and gentile one being the original olive tree and the gentile being the wild olive tree. Both has to be graphed into the root. The two candlesticks are churches you see this in revelations 1:20. These two witnesses will have power like never before during the tribulation. a WARRIOR type power like Moses and Elijah had. Because of this they will be a enemy to the world they will not comply to satans tactics and will preach the truth so the whole world can hear it. Then sometime in this 7 year tribulation they will be killed and the world will love it. But they come back to life in front of people and make them very scared God proves once again he is the only way. There will be no excuse this time, everyone gets the truth and will decide who they serve.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. This was my belief . although I did not want to make the bible conform to my beliefs I wanted evidence that I was thinking what was written in the bible.Gods will not mine..i thank each and everyone that replied.

May God richly bless each and everyone that did reply

May the Lord greatly bless you dear sister, increasing in your faith & devotion to Him - and use you as a beacon of His Light & Love to many. Matthew 5:16; 1 John 4:12.

Hi ty for response i also saw the error after it wasposted. Please forgive me.

The references are usually tiny fonts below the scripture you read from the Bible.

Please read chapter 7 in John eksample:in v. 38 He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Reference to Isaiah 12.

Good luck and price Him Jesus Christ. He is our Savior. Amen

I came across this link on the Web site about "race mixing": Link. The Bible does not forbid different ethnic groups to marry. God forbade and forbids the saved to marry the unsaved. Deuteronomy Chapter 7:3-4: "4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly."

Other verses included on the page don't even pertain to ethnic groups. They pertain to sexual immorality, heterosexual marriage, an illegitimate person, The Creation, saved people's unity in God, and a saved person's identity in Jesus Christ. You also include Acts 17:26 ("one blood"), which also has nothing to do with so-called separation of so-called races.

Your list twists scriptures to promote the lies told by Whites who that helped to justify chattel slavery, lynching of Black Americans, legalized segregation and prejudice, racism, and ethnic discrimination of Black people and persons of other ethnic groups. Also see From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery, PBS, and Laws that banned mixed marriages (May 2010), Ferris State University; You Tube video, One Race - Ken Ham Video Teaching January 19, 2022 - Ken Ham also explains the connection between evolution and racism and the curse of Canaan (not Ham); and Answers in Genesis book, One Race One Blood. You can also read the chapters online free.

It is a great disappointment to see that once again, people are using the Bible to justify the sins of pride and hatred. Which ethnic group or groups are superior to all other ethnic groups? According to Romans 3:23 and Romans 6:23 no ethnic group is superior. This list is against God's holy word and comes from the flesh and Satan. We need to read the Word of God in context and not use God's Word to justify the sins of pride, variance, and hatred ( Galatians 5:19-20 and Proverbs 16:5). 1 John 2:16; 1 Corinthians 7:39.

I have been concentrating on my relationship with God. I continue to ask Him to search me and mold me into a s"Vessel", Sanctified and set apart, to be used by Him to bring Glory to Him and to Him, ONLY, not just for what He has done but simply for who He is in my life. I had to be tested by His "Word", and through His Power, by the shedding of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus the Christ, He has responded. Daily I know that there are things of this World that are used as a Testing, of our growth in Faith. And through such that we fine tune our sight through Spiritual eyes. I see "Greater Blessings". My Prayer Life has been amped up, and He Speaks and His voice, I am amazed that's sinner like me, yet, Saved by Grace, He guides me with Wisdom and knowledge. I see the fallout of many. But to God I owe my life, so I rejoice in the fact as I have studied and Praised, John 15:16, Jesus said, I chose you, you didn't choose me! Oh how glorious were they to me. They jumped off the pages and embraced me. I just learned to love myself after all this time, God's, not mine. All things in my life, are the Plan a product of Faith and Joy as God has granted me the "Wisdom" as I have been created in His image. Those words are True, if not, God would be as Man, and lie, He knew those Words, Faith, Hope and Charity, Charity being "Love", I had to Love myself, in order to give the return to God in Spirit and Truth and to my fellowman. I can be who God says I can be, Certainly I can and will do what God says for me to do. God's Word, not Man's shall hinder me from turning back and Praising God, He brought me out. I have no reason to look back! I ask for forgiveness for many sins in thought and in deed. It has been said, "I am NOT like You", God is pleased with me and when He is not, I plead forgiveness as He has taught and with just a Word, is faithful, HE, tells me once, and I hear it twice, ( Psalm 62), exactly whether to take a step, or Be Still, Know that HE is God!!

Genesis 9:20-23 KJV

[20] And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: [21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. [22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. [23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

Ham invaded his father's privacy just like when a child opens their parents door without knocking or introducing themselves . That is the wrong that Ham did. It's against Gods law for a child to uncover their parents nakedness even in the time of Noah, it was given to be written down by Moses, but during the time of Noah, this rule was already known.

I concur with the analogy of migrants and immigrants leaving their country for a better opportunity but you are blessing another continent not the HOLY Lands. Father Abraham was the seed of ALL Nations. Jehovah said, to share the GOSPEL thru out the Earth that he may draw ALL MEN UNTO HIM. Feeding the Land Physically & Spitrtually is vital.

That's a question which many have pondered over. However, when people ask such a question, they generally begin with 'God having chosen some to belong to Him & have rejected others consigning them to suffering in Hell'. Yet, in my understanding, the start of it doesn't begin with God choosing, but with God knowing. "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God" ( 1 Peter 1:2); or, 'being a part of the elect of God because of God's foreknowledge of every person'.

We believe in an Omniscient God, that is a God Who knows all things, the complete lives of people (before their birth till the day of their death) & every event in Heaven & on Earth that may not even had a beginning as yet to us. Psalm 139:1-16 is a great Psalm showing both the omniscience & omni-presence of God & as David said in verse 6: "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it." Such knowledge is only in God's domain, not just of all things present, but also of all things before they come to pass or into being.

So when we read a verse as you shared, John 15:16, we see that Jesus chose His disciples to belong to Him & to perform His Will. But how did Jesus know whom to choose out of the great number of eligible men that lived there? Was it just a good guess on His part, though one chosen was wicked ( John 6:70)? Or maybe, the night he spent in prayer with His Father ( Luke 6:12,13), was also a night of the Father's instructions on the men to select from all those who followed Him. So we see here, that before choosing them to go out to serve, they first had to be the ones whom God knew would be responsive to His Son.

Once we understand this, then we won't see God as being an unjust God showing partiality. That those who come to Him in faith through His Son are those not being forced to do so, but are those whom God already knew of before their birth (as David did). And those who are "destined for Hell", choose to go there, God knowing the path their lives would take.

How many times in the Bible is the phrase "Brethren I would not have you be ignorant" used?

Thanks GiGi

And you're welcome.

Goodnight and God bless.

As S. Spencer has written, there's no specific Scripture to support what you seek apart from the Scriptures given about the Church being Christ's bride.

I will however add another one which maybe helpful: 1 Corinthians 7:34 (in part), "The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit...".

The woman that is spoken about here is clearly one who has never been married, but I see no reason to also include those who have been widowed & now choose to live alone without remarrying. So, to this woman, she can, without distractions of family in the home, might devote herself much more to the "things of the Lord" (i.e. prayer, fasting, Word study, ministry to others & the Church), which may have only been done piecemeal when she had other responsibilities. Clearly, she, as with the whole Church, are members of the Body of Christ, joined to Him in a much deeper way than even an earthly marriage could provide. What an earthly husband can provide now for his wife pales into the distance when compared to a child of God who fully embraces the delights of being found in Christ.

in John 15:16 it says God chooses his people or I think that's what it means. But I was wondering if God is the one who chooses his people and we are not the ones to choose Him, then does that mean the people that are not chosen, He destined them to go to hell? like they cant choose? I hope what I said makes sense, thanks!

John 15:16 - "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

From further probing, a dictionary defines 'more than a little/ not a little' as 'a large amount or to a large degree'. The example it gave is: "They had sincere respect for her, and not a little affection." "The team was more than a little unlucky to lose by just one point."

In both examples, the meaning is 'much or greatly'. It's just the way our language can be sometimes used, sadly, making it a little more complex for many readers.

Some confusion here. Some say that when we die the soul goes to God for judgement as the bible says once to die and then the judgement. That gives me the impression that the judgement comes after you die. If that is the case then the bible also says for the dead are dead and conscience of nothing but he will raise then up when he comes to the air but not his 2nd coming. The dead in Christ will rise first. And then the living will be called up. If the people are dead then and do not get raised until Christ appears in the sky, then how can their soul already be with God after they died. God made man from the dust of the ground and created a living soul. So if the soul goes to heaven up death, would this not man man immortal? Only God is immortal. There seems to be two possibilites here that I cannot get the right one. Are the soul and Body one or separate? Thanks.

You know, Paul Winter, that is a good idea. We could establish specific days of prayer on this site to pray for our nation. I am in for that. We could designate a day and time of a specific day of the month to do this, such as the First of the month, at noon and 6:00 p.m. for example, or 6:00 a.m. noon and 6:00 p.m. if we want to do a morning, afternoon, and evening time so people wo work different shifts can choose a time that fits their work schedule. So do not have a preference for day or time. But together, we can petition our Lord together for our nation and world according to the leading of the Spirit and what comes up in the news or events that occur.

Good afternoon Glenn,

I have read several theories about what happened, but the text does not say what exactly Ham did in tis event.

Some say, as you did, that Ham had relations with his mom as Noah was passed out and Canaan was conceived, referring to the many places in Scripture that talk about "uncovering a man's nakedness" referring to having relations with another man's wife.

Others have speculated that Ham did something sexual to Noah, or that Canaan did something of this sort to Noah.

Others have speculated that Ham, Canaan, or both castrated Noah and that is why Noah and his wife did not have more children for the next 300+ years.

But the common interpretation is that Ham, Canaan, or both discovered and viewed Noah naked, drunk and passed out and were disrespectful about it. Perhaps they pranked Noah in some way that would have been disgraceful to Noah.

But we really do not know for sure what was done. But Noah did know what was done upon waking. It does not say that Shem and Japheth told Noah about it. So, it must have been something that was noticeable upon waking.

Good afternoon Glenn,

I agree, that as much as we are able, we should eat healthy foods. But Scripture does not tell us that explicitly.

In generations and centuries past most people ate what ever food they could muster up depending on their level of wealth or lack of it. People starve all over our world today for lack of food. Some people can grow organic plant foods but protein sources are scarce and so they are still malnourished. Organic foods are more expensive than non-organic, and many people on tight budgets have to make choices according to what they can afford. So, I don't think it is a sin to eat any type of food. It is wise however, to limit what we know is less healthy if eaten in excess or in the absence of more healthy food that is available to a person. So, I won't pass judgment on anyone for what foods they eat or choose not to eat. Just speaking another perspective here, not criticizing your thoughts, because I do agree that our bodies do better when we eat healthy foods.

Good afternoon, Kent

I agree that the Holy Spirit is our witness to Scripture and He will guide us in our study. But I do not agree that a person does not need anyone else for Scripture says that the Holy Spirit appoints some as teachers in the body of Christ and that we are to teach one another. We are a body, we are a corporate entity, not singularly in Christ, but all believers are in Christ and are together His body. So we should remain open to learn from one another and to share our ideas about our study of Scriptures with others.

Proverbs 11:14

"Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

Colossians 1:28

"Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ."



But there are times, also, when a person will learn straight from the Spirit. Even then every person is exhorted to not quench the Spirit...and to test all things, hold fast what is good." 1 Thessalonians 5:19-21

1 John 4 "Be:1loved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God...."

We all need to be yielded to the Holy Spirit, we need Him to shape our mind and understanding. We need each other, we should avoid being solitary in our day to day walk with God. We should make an effort to fellowship with others in a variety of ways and for various purposes. Studying God's Word is one of those things and purposes we should seek to do in fellowship with other believers.

Thanks, S. Spencer. You have cited and posted Scriptures that show clearly that God is a Trinity for those who are willing to believe it. I pray that many reading your post who have not believed tis before will believe.

People worried and confused about the world around them read Ephesians 6:12 then get on their knees simultaneously with others and pray to our Lord and Savior Jesus who is in full control - always .

Our country needs to bring back days of prayer

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Thank you Mishael

Many of us in Christ have no problem that God selected out the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to be the bloodline of the covenant of faith and of the Messiah. Everyone in Christ has been blessed by this covenant. Sadly, so many refuse to come Him, and try to devise other ways to grab ahold of this covenant and many are deceived by wrong beliefs. But, we in Christ know that He is the only one way for everyone, even the Israelites.

God in His perfect and wise purpose, chose it to be this way. He could have chosen Japheth's line to bring out a chosen people, or another son of Shem. But He chose the son that was the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. People should not say this is not so, as they would be arguing with the very God they wish to be under His favor.

There are Israelites all of the world, but they may not know it or what tribe they are from since most of them did not return to the promised land after being released from captivity in Assyria. They most likely intermingled with the peoples of the regions they migrated to. Who knows, many of us may be of these lineages because of this. Those from the Judean kingdom are really the only tribes that have stuck together over the centuries. But the promise of the covenant was for all of Israel, as they were the chosen nation, not just the Jews. Yet, though of the promise, they are not exempt from needing Jesus and His salvation. He is the "door" that they all must go through to possess the kingdom of God, because the kingdom is only found in Jesus.

I agree that the land of Israel will continue to be a sore spot for the surrounding non-Jews. As Christians, we should not despise the Jews, but we also must realize that they are very misled and wrong in their approach to God. We also must realize that they are nothing like the Israelites that became a nation after the Exodus. They have added to Scripture trough the Talmud and Mishnah. There is sanctioned occultism in the Kabbalah.

Hi Alex N; So our theology does not agree, OK, but at least we agree in the kingdom, I see it as having three names; of heaven, of God, of Christ. Three manifestations 1. inwardly 2. outwardly as governments 3. New Jerusalem Finally three dispensations, #1 from the time Christ died until he the midnight hour #2 From the midnight hour, until the end of the millennium. #3 From the end of the millennium, into eternity. Yet you see the one kingdom as only coming at his second coming, also you mention Israel, as though they had something to do with the kingdom of God, but this is not so, the kingdom was taken from them in parables and given to a nation that would bring forth the fruits thereof. I struggle with your thought that we as Christians must bring forth the Holy Ghost as the man child, as I have informed you he is not the man child, the overcomer as a Christian is the man child, just compare Rev. 12:5-6 to Rev. 2:26-27 There you discover the one who rules the nations with the rod of iron are Christians who overcame, as I said earlier they are called the sons of God, being male in gender and referred unto as the man child. Once again; you refer unto the baptism of the Holy Ghost, which is a conditional promise according to John 7:37-39 for anyone who thirsts, they must go to Christ and drink, three conditions are laid upon Christians seeking this baptism, first the thirst, second coming to Christ and third drinking, although not necessarily in that order. Yet you are right about the bible stating there is only one kingdom, but this has three names, three manifestations and three dispensations, concerning that one kingdom. Please remember, the millennial kingdom and the New Jerusalem kingdom are offered unto all Christians, but not all Christians will inherit them, as you must have faith with works, meeting the conditions specified by the Lord Jesus and the apostles, to be able to enter the second and third dispensation of the kingdom.

If they were NOT a LITTLE comforted perhaps that means that they WERE a LOT comforted . That's my take on it .

Amen Mishael.

The Lord Magnified his Great name through Israel and he's not done!

Ezekiel 38:18-23.

Jeremiah 16:14-15. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

God bless.