Posted by: thaishin | August 26, 2016

The deaf will hear

Isaiah 29

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.  -kjv

18 In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.    -niv

18 On that day the deaf will hear the words of a document, and out of a deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.    -hcsb

Heard from Karl & June on the morning of Aug 17, 2016 on moody radio chicago that bible translators are almost done with translations of languages that have written form and they are moving onto languages that exists only in oral form including sign language translations for the deaf. The interview was done with Morgan Jackson from faith comes by hearing ministry.

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Posted by: thaishin | August 19, 2016

More about prophecies

Isaiah 42

9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.  -kjv

9 See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”  -niv

9 The past events have indeed happened. Now I declare new events; I announce them to you before they occur.”          -hcsb

Question from moody radio listener on 13 Aug 2016:

How do we tell when reading through the major and minor prophets, many of whom are contemporaries of each other, that the prophecy has been fulfilled or the prophecy has yet to occur in the end times?

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik:

I am looking at Isaiah. What Isaiah 42:9 seems to say is past events have indeed happened. Then he says: now I declare new events; I announce them to you before they occur. This is the point in Isaiah: it’s that God says I will give prophecies, short term prophecies will happen so that you will be confident of the long term prophecies that follow. That’s one thing to remember: that there are short term prophecies and there are long term prophecies. The short term ones are to help us understand that we have confidence in the long term ones. The second thing is to look for certain key phrases. Very often when something says “in that day”, the prophet is saying in the end of days. Not always but generally so. Sometimes the prophecy happen partially. Well, if it did not happen fully, then you can look forward to a future day that it will happen. So, what you want is complete and thorough fulfillment of prophecy before you say it’s fulfilled.

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Posted by: thaishin | August 8, 2016

What does this generation refers to?

Question on moody radio open line on Aug 7, 2016:

What does “this generation” in Luke 21:32 refers to?

Luke 21

32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.  -kjv

32 “Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.  -niv

32 I assure you: This generation will certainly not pass away until all things take place.  -hcsb

Answer from Dr Rydelnik:

If you look at the context, it’s talking about the people who see the signs of the Son of Man coming and then it uses the parable of the fig tree. When the fig tree puts out leaves,  when you see these things you know that summer is already near. In the same way, when you see these things, the generation during the tribulation period, you know that Son of Man and the kingdom of God is near and so the generation you are talking about is the generation living through the tribulation and they will see the signs and they know that the Son of Man is coming.

This post was published on Aug 12, 2016

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Posted by: thaishin | August 5, 2016

Was she a human sacrifice?

Judges 11

30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands, 31 Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord‘s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.  -kjv

30 And Jephthah made a vow to theLord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.”  -niv

30 Jephthah made this vow to theLord: “If You will hand over the Ammonites to me, 31 whatever comes out of the doors of my house to greet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.”  -hcsb

Question on openline moody radio July 30, 2016

Did Jephthah killed his daughter?

Answer from Dr Rydelnik:

Well, some people think so but I do not. In Judges 11, the story of Jephthah, it says that he would offer the first thing that greets him if the Lord gives him victory. So, he makes this vow. He’s given the victory and so who came out but his daughter who came out to meet him with tambourine and dancing. She was his only child and he had no other son or daughter besides her. When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No, not my daughter. You have devastated me! You have brought me great misery. I have given my word to the Lord and cannot take it back”. Then, she responds by saying,” Do to me as you have said and she asked for this one thing: Let me wander 2 months through the mountain with my friends and mourn my virginity.” In other words, don’t turn me over to whatever you want to do. You think that she would be mourning for her life if she’s going to be a sacrifice but she’s mourning for her virginity. And then she did that and she mourned for her virginity for 2 months. As you read the text, at the end of 2 months, she returned to her father and he kept the vow he made about her. You think that he killed her but the text says she never had sexual relations with a man. The point is that she would never marry and the sacrifice was that he was going to turn her to the tabernacle service. One of the things that you see in various psalms is that young women functions in the tabernacle worship dancing and singing praise to the Lord using tambourines just as she was doing here at the beginning of the story. So, that’s what she did. She would probably go to serve in the tabernacle, never married and this one daughter never had an heir.

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Posted by: thaishin | July 28, 2016

The gospel in 25 words or less

The gospel is found in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8

Here’s what we must believe to become the child of God in less than  25 words:

“The wrong we do separates us from God. Christ died, paying our penalty for sins and rose again, proving He’s God. Trust in Him”

Heard from openline, moody radio on 23 July 2016.

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Posted by: thaishin | July 19, 2016

Reminder: The earth will be burned up

2 Peter 3

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.  -kjv

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare  -niv

10 But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief;[a] on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.[b]  -hcsb

 

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Posted by: thaishin | June 30, 2016

God’s thoughts and ways far exceeds our thoughts and ways

Isaiah 55

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. -kjv

8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. 9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.  -niv

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. 9 “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  -hcsb

Observations and comments:

  1. To see evidence in the action of God, we have to wait for God’s timing to work through us in God’s way, with no part of the initiation of the action coming from our own will.

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Posted by: thaishin | May 22, 2016

The case for christians to go to court

Acts 16

37 But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.  -kjv

37 But Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now do they want to get rid of us quietly? No! Let them come themselves and escort us out.”  -niv

37 But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, although we are Roman citizens, and threw us in jail. And now are they going to smuggle us out secretly? Certainly not! On the contrary, let them come themselves and escort us out!”  -hcsb

Context:

Paul cast out the fortune-telling demon in a slave girl and the owner of the slave girl lost money because of that incident. The owner of the slave girl accused Paul and Silas of disorderly behavior and rebelling against the Romans. The mob attacked Paul and Silas and the magistrate threw them into jail. Later, Paul and Silas were released from jail and the magistrate wanted to settle the case quietly.

Application:

In this case, Paul used the law for his defense. In the same way, christians should go to court to defend their rights to exercise their religion if the law of the land are still on their side.

Heard this from Moody Presents – Dr Paul Nyquist on May 22, 2016.

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Posted by: thaishin | May 11, 2016

Can a christian lose his salvation?

Passages supporting the notion that a christian cannot lose his salvation:

John 6

37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.  -kjv

Romans 8

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  -kjv

Philippians 1

6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:  -kjv

Heard this from “In the market with Janet Parshall” on May 9, 2016 when Dr Sam Storms answered the question: Can a christian lose his salvation?

 

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Posted by: thaishin | May 5, 2016

Is the bible sexist?

Question from a listener on moody radio openline on April 30, 2016:

I love Jesus dearly and I really want to believe that the Lord loves women as well as men but it seems that in the bible men are put in a higher stands with regards to God, male pronouns are always used unless women are specifically addressed. If God is no respecter of any persons, why is he/him is used instead of she/her?

Answer from Dr Michael Rydelnik:

I think this is a function of language to be honest. Language always has used the male as the generic use for a person and then specified male or female. Here’s the example I will give, it’s in the creation, it says that God made man in his image, he made them male and female. So, we used to talk about mankind and now we talk about humanity. Mankind was a generic term for humanity and encompasses both male and female. That was how language was used. What happens is that as time goes on and we come into the modern era and the rise of feminism. People are looking at language and they want to change how we use language. The whole idea of Mr/Ms/Mrs, so what do we get? A nonmarried term Ms and was shocking to avoid whether a person is married or non-married. That was considered sexist and people started calling people Ms. There’s other things going today and they are trying to make things  indistinguishable. However, the language of the bible itself is just using man in a generic way. So when it says blessed is the man, it means blessed is the person and we have to not try to impose our own cultural sensitivities from today onto the scriptures. The bible is  really affirming and it says in the creation narrative that women are made in the image of God. That grants women full and equal status to man. Women are elevated, you look at the proverbs 31, this was an oppressed society, the woman of valor described there, she’s got a business, she’s taking care of her family, she’s serving God, she’s the phenomenal woman and she’s become the role model, not just for women but for men as well. Do not confuse gender neutral language which is part of our culture as somehow the fact that the bible does not use gender neutral language, which because it uses the man in the generic sense to represent humanity, do not take it automatically to mean that the bible is demeaning to women. It’s just the way the language was used and the bible use the language of the time it was written.

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