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Death – No Gateway To Heaven

Posted in Age to Come, Death is Sleep, Doctrine, hell, Obedience to Christ, Parousia, Resurrection, Ron's Articles, Satan, truth on August 1st, 2009 17 Comments »

I love a good sermon on the biblical truth about death and what our future hope SHOULD be.  Maybe it is just my Adventist roots showing, but I do so enjoy hearing this kind of message.  It really gives purpose to WHY Jesus is coming back and better yet why we should EARNESTLY DESIRE it to happen!  I found this looking through some E.W. Bullinger materials.  I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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Death No Gateway To Heaven
 
By: Willard Smith
 

In the Christian realm today there is unscriptural teaching concerning the death of the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.  We are constantly being told by well-meaning Christians that at death, “We go to be with the Lord.”  This phrase is used especially at funerals where preachers misquote or take the Scriptures out of context to reassure the sorrowing that their loved ones are not really dead, but are really enjoying Heaven in God’s presence.  This teaching promotes belief in the lie of Satan, rather than what God told Adam and Eve when He placed them in the Garden.In Gen. 2:17 God said, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt surely die.”  In the Hebrew could read “Dying thou shalt die.”  This was a certainty.

In Gen. 3:1, Satan speaks for the first time in the scriptures.  He asks Eve (by the Figure Erotesis for emphasis), “Yea, hath God said,” or “Can it be that God hath said…?”  In Gen. 3:4, Satan’s second utterance, we read, “And the serpent said unto the woman, ‘Ye shall not surely die’… “  This is a plain contradiction of God’s Word in Gen. 2:17.  As one has said long ago, “This has become the foundation of spiritism and traditional belief as to death.”

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Demons don’t believe in The Trinity!

Posted in Messiah Jesus, Ron's Articles, Satan, The Trinity on June 6th, 2009 248 Comments »

I’ve often thought that the “incarnation” excuse of trinitarians is totally absurd. A “fully God” AND “fully man” Jesus just wouldn’t be temptable.  One of the givens about God that we know from Scripture is that he is NOT capable of being tempted (James 1:13).

Therefore if Jesus is God, then Satan has got be a total moron. Trying to tempt God (who cannot be tempted) would be a total waste of time. And I for one don’t think that if Satan is capable of deceiving the entire world (Rev 12:9), he would be stupid enough to even try to tempt God Himself.  Therefore if Satan really did tempt Jesus (and that’s what our Bibles tell us) then it would seem to me that ol’ “serpent of old” knows something the trinitarians don’t know.

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I Was Watching Satan Fall from Heaven

Posted in difficult texts, Satan, Sean's Articles on December 3rd, 2008 17 Comments »

The seventy were returning from their indigenous missionary excursion with exuberant joy. They had not only witnessed incredible events, they participated in them. Sick people were instantly healed, sinners repented, demons flew out of the possessed, and many responded to the gospel of the kingdom! As the seventy reported to Jesus these incredible events, especially the fact that even the demons were subject to his name, Jesus responded by saying:

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