Many believe that God does not work in the lives of believers in the dispensation of the mystery. I believe that He does, but we can not be certain of when He does because we live in a dispensation that is absent of signs. Does that mean that because we cannot be certain of when He […]

We know that Christ will reign in the millennium from such scriptures as Ps. 2:8-9, “Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance. And the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a […]

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE MID-ACTS POSITION The mid-Acts position is that the dispensation of the mystery began at Acts 7,9, or 13.  I believe that the dispensation of the mystery began after Acts 28.  Does it really make any difference as to when the dispensation of the mystery began?  I believe that it does.  Without […]

We read in Rev. 21:1, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away….”. This verse tells us that the present earth and heaven that will one day be replaced by the new heaven and new earth is the first heaven and earth. But we read in Genesis one […]

INTRODUCTION When considering the equality of Jews and Gentiles there are  three questions that could be asked. 1) At what point did persons of the nations  become equal with persons of Israel? 2)   At what point did believing Gentiles, not as persons but as Gentiles, become equal with Jewish believers?3) At what point was there no difference between Jews […]

We read in Eph. 3:9 of Paul’s commission to “….. make all men see what is the fellowship (should be “dispensation”) of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God..….”. I believe that the mystery that had been hid in God had never been revealed in the Word of God until Paul […]

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? Most of us have been to funerals where we have heard that the one who died, if saved, is with the Lord. The implication is, of course, that the person is not dead, but in a different state and “alive” with the Lord in heaven. I cannot disagree that this is […]

I believe that the church will be resurrected at Christ’s phaneroo as described in Col. 3:4. That passage reads, “When Christ Who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear (Gr. “phaneroo”) with Him in glory”. The question is however, when will that take place in relation to the Lord’s return? This paper is a study of […]

What is reconciliation? We read in the Appendix 196 of the Companion Bible the following: “The word ‘reconcile’ which our translators adopted from the Vulgate, is simply the transliteration of the Latin reconcile, to bring together again, to reunite or reconnect”. Obviously, if there is a reconnecting, there was at one time a relationship of some kind […]

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day (“the day of Christ” vs. 2, i.e. His second coming, ) shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or […]

The Comforter is spoken of in the following passages: Jn. 14:16-18, “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; and […]

The geocentric theory states that the earth is at the center of the universe and that the sun revolves around the earth. I am not a scientist and will therefore not discuss the science of this theory.  But this paper will discuss every scripture I could find that is quoted to prove that the Bible […]

I believe that the church began after the end of the Acts period when Israel was set aside as God’s chosen people. (For the Scriptural evidence of that belief please see the paper When Did The Church Begin?.) It is clear that the church did indeed have a beginning. Whether one believes it began at Acts […]

We read in Acts 6:5 that Stephen was “a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost and wisdom”. In verse 9 of that chapter we read that “…there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, […]