Think Outside the Boxes

While Daniel was praying, the angel Gabriel came to him with a prophecy. Gabriel, to start said, "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." Daniel recorded the full prophecy in his book at Daniel 9:24-27. Gabriel said. "Seventy weeks are determined..." He was not speaking of a literal 70 weeks because we know the Messiah did appear during the Persian Empire's rule. It is a prophetic 70 weeks. According to the Bible, the prophetic standard is "each day for a year....

According to the King James Version as recorded at Luke 23:43, Jesus said to the evildoer, "Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Was Jesus promising the evildoer he would be in paradise with him that particular day? From appearances, that would seem to be the case. However, appearances can be deceiving. If this version of the original scripture were true, it would imply Jesus was in paradise immediately after his death. If that were true, why would he need to be resurrected? However, other scriptures say otherwise. The King James Version, as well as other versions of the holy scriptures, have mistakenly placed the comma in Jesus' statement in regard to the word "today" in the wrong place. The translator's mistake was a result of the false belief they held concerning the idea people go to heaven after death. A false idea influenced by the mistaken doctrine of the immortal soul. (Ezekiel 18:4,20) (Ecclesiastes 9:5,10) (Psalm 146:3...

Nowhere in the Old Testament Scriptures does it speak of people personally going to the heavens where God resides. The stories of Enoch and Elijah ascending into the heavens where the person of God resides have been falsely represented. The word heaven, in the Old and New Testament Scriptures, refers to everything from the ground up. The scriptures refer to birds as flying in the heavens, the breathable atmosphere around the earth. (Revelation 7:19) (Genesis 1:7,8) The sun, the moon, and the stars are referred to as being in the heavens, space outside the earth's atmosphere. (Genesis 1:16,17) (Isaiah 13:10) The first mention of a person ascending to the heaven where God resides is in the New Testament Scriptures, and that individual was Jesus Christ. He himself made that point clear when he said, "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven." (John 3:13) Heaven was where Jesus was from, and heaven was where he returned. "No man hath ascen...

You have to ask the obvious and necessary question concerning what has come to be called Christianity: Why are there so many different Christian denominations that disagree with one another when Jesus and his apostles gave us one truth? They all claim to believe in the book of truth inspired by God—the Bible. Yet Jesus himself answered that question for us and explained what would go wrong. “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up th...

Many religious legends and fables have been concocted through the centuries. Their purpose was to legitimize the grand lie that became a new religion during the reign of Constantine, when Christian names were attached to pagan celebrations and beliefs. As for the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, the Shroud of Turin, and the Cross, none of these objects are physically used or mentioned in the New Testament after the original events in which they were involved—and two of them never existed. The Ark of the Covenant disappeared before Babylon conquered Jerusalem and destroyed its temple. When the Babylonians ransacked the temple prior to burning it, the Ark was nowhere to be found. Is it possible that God disposed of it to prevent misuse if it were captured or idolized inappropriately? One thing is certain: Jeremiah declared that the Ark’s relevance would no longer be consequential once the original temple was gone. It had served its purpose. The prophet Jeremiah wrote the following ab...