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January 1997

Question: Deuteronomy 7:3-11 forbids the Jews to marry people from other nations (Gentiles). How could Jesus, then, “the king of the Jews” who came “to fulfill the law,” possibly marry the “church” which is made up of Gentiles?

January 1, 1997
Question: For years I have been taught and believed that the Church is “the bride of Christ,” based upon Ephesians:5:23-32 [23] For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. [24] Therefore as...Read more
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Question: Could you make some comment on this year being the seventieth year of Jubilee: 70 x 50 = 3,500 years. I know there is a Jubilee every 50 years and this year is the seventieth one. Does that have any significance for prophecy today?

January 1, 1997
Question: Could you make some comment on this year being the seventieth year of Jubilee: 70 x 50 = 3,500 years. I know there is a Jubilee every 50 years and this year is the seventieth one. Does that have any significance for prophecy today? Response: The counting of years...Read more
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Question: Does Antichrist come out of the tribe of Dan? Would we know where the tribe of Dan is located today?

January 1, 1997
Question: Does Antichrist come out of the tribe of Dan? Would we know where the tribe of Dan is located today? Response: No scripture states that Antichrist will be of the tribe of Dan. Nor can anyone today know who is from which tribe other than for those whose names...Read more
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Question: I must admit to you that I’m still not 100-percent convinced of a pretrib rapture....There is one portion of Scripture that I am unable to avoid and have a difficult time reconciling to pretrib interpretation....Please help....

January 1, 1997
Question: I must admit to you that I’m still not 100-percent convinced of a pretrib rapture....There is one portion of Scripture that I am unable to avoid and have a difficult time reconciling to pretrib interpretation. It is 2 Thessalonians:2:1-3 [1] Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of...Read more
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January 1, 1997
What is faith? It is the assurance that the thing which God has said in His Word is true, and that God will act according to what He has said in His Word. This assurance, this reliance on God’s Word, this confidence is FAITH.... I get letters from so many...Read more
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Political/Social Activism?

January 1, 1997
I received a heart-rending letter recently. A man wrote, "I cannot adequately describe the shock, horror, dismay, anger, grief...which flooded into my soul [upon witnessing an abortion in the film Assignment Life ]. I could scarcely begin to comprehend the moral magnitude and awful implications of legal mass elective infanticide,...Read more
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