Weekly Scripture 10-20-2024

Answer:

The following is found in 2 Thessalonians

___:___And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

*A solar eclipse is when the moon passes between the earth and sun causing a shadow to be cast on the earth in certain places. You cannot look at a solar eclipse with the naked eye because it will burn your retina. It is too bright. The interesting thing that most people have not even considered is the fact that if you cannot even look upon parts of God's creation like a solar eclipse with the naked eye; how much more if we were to look upon the Son? Yet the bible makes it clear that those who believe in him will see Him as He is one day in all of His splendor and there will be no wickedness that will dwell in His presence. 1 John 3:2 says: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”. We are going to have a new body; because these bodies that we have down here just won't be able to stand the test of that kind of splendor! A new body that is incorruptible as it says in 1 Cor. 15:54 “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”. The future is bright for the child of God so keep looking up to Jesus! He is coming back and when He does the wicked deeds and wicked people in this world will be destroyed by Him.

Weekly Scripture 10-13-2024

Answer: Acts 19:13

This comes from Acts:

__:__Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

*If you read the passages that come after this verse it becomes evident that this is the product of playing religion. In verse 15 of this same chapter we find that the evil spirit that was in the man that these Jews were trying to drive out said to them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?”. This is evidence that these men did not have a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus; they did not truly believe into Jesus. They were going about trying to invoke the power of Jesus, but notice that our verse says: “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.”. Paul preached the name of Jesus and drove out demons, but he never mentioned any other name. The reason was that Paul had a personal relationship with Jesus and Paul had believed and trusted in Jesus and there was no other name to mention and no other name above Jesus. The Spirit of God was dwelling inside Paul and He will indwell anyone that will surrender to Jesus. As for these men we read in verse 16 what happened to them: “And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.”. Before anyone goes out to work for God, they had better be sure of their eternal state; that they have truly believed into the Lord Jesus and trusted Him for their salvation; that means: they have a “personal relationship” with Him. The only way that we can ever do any work that is meaningful in this world, is if we do the work by the Spirit of God who indwells every true believer.