Thank you, I really enjoy and appreciate your questions and answers programs. May God's love spread across many countries as a result of your program. Come quickly Lord Jesus. Thanks and God bless all.
Thank you so much for your answer. I do not need to understand everything in the Bible. I have faith. I love Jesus. But as parents our worst nightmare is to loose a child. God will loose millions of His children, because they will not follow Him. That is hard to think about. One day we will get all the answers… God bless you. And me. Love from Norway
Just watching this and I know 144,000 isn't something we should be about concerned about as Ellen White says for study, but to strive to be another them. She says in Chapter 1 Early Writings, here's the quote". Soon we [see appendix.] heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming. The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake." number. I believe this too and that they are within the great multitude. There are other issues as from my studies the only difference between them is they sing the sing off Moses while the great multitude don't plus not sure if there a difference between The Great Tribulation and Tribulation.
It’s actually a good question. Why did God make us? We presumably had no choice in the matter. But perhaps we can say, over and above what John and Eric have said, that we so appreciate this gift of life from God, that we’d rather have it than be without it, unless we are suicidal. Therefore AS all of us appreciate this sniff of life, we can say that God gave it to us because He knew we would want it. However we must add that the real reason why God made us is for us to get our ticket into everlasting life.
God obviously knew that the outcome of creating mankind would result in an imperfect world, including unjustified suffering, caused by fallen angels. But as He elects to go ahead with the creation plan anyway, knowing full well that all this is to take place, inclusive of His own suffering on the cross, we must therefore conclude that God deems it worth it. And if God deems it worth it, it must be worth more than we realise. To obtain the achievement of obtaining sons and daughters of Himself, as great as that seems to us, must be greater, perhaps infinitely greater to Him than we can realise. Otherwise why does God do it? Why did He make us? Surely He would have been better off not making mankind than having us in this imperfect world along with his suffering on the cross. But God knows best. Better than we do. Maybe the pleasure He gets from giving us what we are yet to get, is such, that from His perspective it’s all worth it. 1 Corinthians 2:9 King James Version 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
About the Trinity, we don't believe as the catholic church does. They believe in one being that can manifest HIMSELF as The Father, or Christ, or the HOLY SPIRIT. However, we believe in 3 distinct persons that have one purpose, the same qualities, same goal, that work together, and their name is GOD.
Thank you for your question, Cathy. In 2 Peter 2:4, we find that "God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment." The Greek word that Peter uses for 'hell' is tartaroō, which is a reference to where the Greeks thought the wicked dead went, and punishment was meted out to them. It would be similar to the Gehenna of the Jews. But in this reference, Peter is not giving credibility to either of these non-biblical teachings. Rather, he is simply referring to the place of abode to which the evil angels are restricted until the day of judgment. In other words, out of heaven. Satan and his angels may well have been cast out of heaven sometime before the creation of this world. It is possible that Satan tried to entice other worlds (Heb. 1:1-2) but ultimately our world was the one where he found a foothold. Why Adam and Eve fell when others did not is not explained in the Bible. God would have given all His created beings the ability to choose right and wrong and, unfortunately for us, our first parents made a poor choice. What remains is for us to cling to Jesus so we can be on the right side of things when this great struggle between good and evil comes to an end.
Thank you, I really enjoy and appreciate your questions and answers programs. May God's love spread across many countries as a result of your program. Come quickly Lord Jesus. Thanks and God bless all.
Love this program! God bless your ministry 🙏🏾❤️
Thank you so much for your answer. I do not need to understand everything in the Bible. I have faith. I love Jesus. But as parents our worst nightmare is to loose a child. God will loose millions of His children, because they will not follow Him. That is hard to think about. One day we will get all the answers… God bless you. And me. Love from Norway
Love this program thank you both 🎉 25:38
There couldn't be a clearer answer on the 144,000. That was a brilliant answer. Thank you very much!
Just watching this and I know 144,000 isn't something we should be about concerned about as Ellen White says for study, but to strive to be another them. She says in Chapter 1 Early Writings, here's the quote". Soon we [see appendix.] heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus’ coming. The living saints, 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder and an earthquake." number. I believe this too and that they are within the great multitude. There are other issues as from my studies the only difference between them is they sing the sing off Moses while the great multitude don't plus not sure if there a difference between The Great Tribulation and Tribulation.
Didn't she say a 144000 in number what could that be if not literal where else in the Bible it numbers people and it's not literal?
It’s actually a good question. Why did God make us?
We presumably had no choice in the matter. But perhaps we can say, over and above what John and Eric have said, that we so appreciate this gift of life from God, that we’d rather have it than be without it, unless we are suicidal.
Therefore AS all of us appreciate this sniff of life, we can say that God gave it to us because He knew we would want it.
However we must add that the real reason why God made us is for us to get our ticket into everlasting life.
Thank you for Line Upon Line.
Thank you Pastors 🙏🙏
God obviously knew that the outcome of creating mankind would result in an imperfect world, including unjustified suffering, caused by fallen angels.
But as He elects to go ahead with the creation plan anyway, knowing full well that all this is to take place, inclusive of His own suffering on the cross, we must therefore conclude that God deems it worth it.
And if God deems it worth it, it must be worth more than we realise. To obtain the achievement of obtaining sons and daughters of Himself, as great as that seems to us, must be greater, perhaps infinitely greater to Him than we can realise.
Otherwise why does God do it? Why did He make us? Surely He would have been better off not making mankind than having us in this imperfect world along with his suffering on the cross.
But God knows best.
Better than we do.
Maybe the pleasure He gets from giving us what we are yet to get, is such, that from His perspective it’s all worth it.
1 Corinthians 2:9
King James Version
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
About the Trinity, we don't believe as the catholic church does. They believe in one being that can manifest HIMSELF as The Father, or Christ, or the HOLY SPIRIT. However, we believe in 3 distinct persons that have one purpose, the same qualities, same goal, that work together, and their name is GOD.
But why did other worlds not sin, and only our world did. Why was satan not cast down into another world? From the Bible certainly😊
Thank you for your question, Cathy. In 2 Peter 2:4, we find that "God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment." The Greek word that Peter uses for 'hell' is tartaroō, which is a reference to where the Greeks thought the wicked dead went, and punishment was meted out to them. It would be similar to the Gehenna of the Jews. But in this reference, Peter is not giving credibility to either of these non-biblical teachings. Rather, he is simply referring to the place of abode to which the evil angels are restricted until the day of judgment. In other words, out of heaven. Satan and his angels may well have been cast out of heaven sometime before the creation of this world. It is possible that Satan tried to entice other worlds (Heb. 1:1-2) but ultimately our world was the one where he found a foothold. Why Adam and Eve fell when others did not is not explained in the Bible. God would have given all His created beings the ability to choose right and wrong and, unfortunately for us, our first parents made a poor choice. What remains is for us to cling to Jesus so we can be on the right side of things when this great struggle between good and evil comes to an end.