You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ~ John 15:14

Old Testament Jerusalem was the capital city of God's people in ancient times. As such, it served as the center of government, religion, culture, business, learning, arts, international trade, tourism, and diplomacy, etc. And it also served as a foreshadow of the greater, New Testament capital City of God's people today, "the Heavenly Jerusalem." In Bible…

There is a way which seems right to man, but it leads to extinction. The foundation of Evolution Theory is the principle of Natural Selection: the superior breed will out-perform, and therefore out-produce and eventually outnumber, the inferior of a given species. In this competition the inferior find themselves closer to extinction. Among human beings,…

  Bible  Commentary Intro   In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The subject of this section is introduced: the beginning of the Sky and the Land. What follows are details as to how it happened. There is no way to insert any kind of gap of time between and because of   "For in six…

Its interesting to find how often that the people least interested in hearing preachers are the very ones who most like to preach. More precisely, many of the people least interested in Christian morality are the ones most interested in spreading their own morality, a Christless morality. Christless moralists were essentially what the Scribes &…

Galatians 1:8-9  KJV 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. 9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let…

Matthew 23:15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees ["Rabbis"], hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. KJV Matthew 23:15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and…

Matthew 23:1-7 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and…

2Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 2Thess 2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.   In its original 1st Century context, this passage was refering to the soon-to-appear Man of Sin.  Nonetheless, there…

Romans 13 says that governments are instituted by God to reward good and punish evil. But God still defines what ‘ good’ is and what ‘ evil’ is. There are not different definitions of good and evil for Government as for everyone else. The New Testament defines what is good and what is evil for…

From:   http://www.loveyourenemies.org/sword.html Then Jesus asked them, "When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?" "Nothing," they answered. He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. It is written:…