For nearly two thousand years, Christians have debated the meaning of one of the most mysterious chapters in the Bible: Revelation chapter 20. What is the “thousand years”? When is Satan bound? What is the “first resurrection”? And what exactly is the great white throne judgment? Long before denominational traditions, the earliest Christians were already […]
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Partial preterists differ from full preterists in that they do not say everything in the Bible has already been fulfilled. They typically hold that Armageddon was fulfilled in AD 70, but also maintain that the final resurrection and final judgment are still future. This video is the first in a series explaining the partial preterist […]
When the Bible speaks about death, it does so in a way that can seem, at first, almost paradoxical. Some passages speak as though death has already been dealt with decisively, while others just as clearly place its end in the future. Rather than forcing one set of statements to override the other, it is […]
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Matthew 11:11
Truly I say to you, among those born of women, there has not been raised up anyone greater than John the Baptist, but a lesser person in the Kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is. How is it that a lesser person in the Kingdom is greater than John? Jehovah’s Witnesses are taught […]
During the 2021 annual meeting, in a talk entitled: “Are You There?” governing body member Geoffrey Jackson explains a doctrinal adjustment to the understanding of Jesus words in John 5:28,29: Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come […]
I really enjoy watching action movies but sometimes my critical thinking gets the better of me. While visiting a science laboratory a young man is bitten by a deadly super spider. His senses are enhanced and he even gains a new one that enables him to sense impending danger. Soon, he is swinging from the […]
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Did Jesus Raise Himself?
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” But he was speaking about the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, […]
Jesus said to them: “The children of this system of things marry and are given in marriage, 35 but those who have been counted worthy of gaining that system of things and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. 36 In fact, neither can they die anymore, for they are like the […]
Jesus spoke of performing the resurrection at the last day: And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. (John 6:39 ESV) For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks […]
And I have hope toward God, which hope these men also look forward to, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. (Acts 24:15) With the creation of the first human pair, the only mention of death was a punishment for disobedience. Adam was told that if he […]