“For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments” (Ezra 7:9,10).
BRINGING UP A GENERATION THAT KNOWS GOD
There’s no denying it: we are living in an Information Revolution. Swipe and tap, point and click – voila! We can know within milliseconds the latest transactions on Wall Street, the hottest gossip from across the globe, or the remotest facts from four thousand years ago. But while we are spending increasing hours on our electronic devices, with easier access to more information than perhaps any other generation in history, are we losing sight of the most important knowledge in the universe, the knowledge of God Himself?
WHAT ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEAR REIGN?
Before we begin the discussion on the 1,000 year reign, it is be to note that most who write on this subject show absolutely no regard for Jesus’ warning in Revelation 22:18-19. Was Jesus’ warning for the whole New Testament, or specifically for the book of Revelation? If it were for the whole New Testament, we must ask if the 27 books of the New Testament been brought together into one book at that time? Of course we don’t know, but we do know that Jesus warning certainly includes the book we call the Revelation of John.
FORGIVENESS
The scriptures are plain. How could Christians misunderstand? When Jesus was teaching his disciples how to pray, he used a phrase that not only taught them how but taught them a deeper level of understanding of points in that prayer. One such phrase was: “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” (Matthew 6:12). Then he went on to say, “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15). God made the promise that if we do not forgive men for what they do against us, he will not forgive us.
JEPHTHAH’S STRANGE VOW
And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman (Judges 11:2). The covetousness of the younger brothers for the family inheritance is obvious and stated as the reason for thrusting him out, but they may also have had the law against any illegitimate child going into the congregation of the people (Deuteronomy 23:2) in mind too.
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