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This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  Heaven is not our final home; it’s the intermediate state between physical death and future glorification, which is pictured in the third and final act of ancient Jewish wedding ceremonies. Nissuin We’ve examined the shiddukhin, or…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 15: Assembly of the Firstborn: Hebrews 12:23. Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering, to the assembly…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  In the previous post, we looked at the contract that plays a vital role in a Jewish wedding. Now, we see how Jesus illustrates the erusin in his parable of the ten virgins. In the parable of the ten virgins, Jesus compares the kingdom…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 14: Coworkers in the Book of Life: Philippians 4:3. In the previous post, we began to explore Paul’s reference to the book of life in Philippians 4:3. Here, we complete our study of this…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  In the last post, we began to look at the ancient Jewish wedding as a parable for God’s work of redemption in Christ. We continue this study now. After the shiddukhim, the second element of ancient Jewish weddings is engagement, or…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 14: Coworkers in the Book of Life: Philippians 4:3. I urge Euodia and I urge Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I also ask you, true partner, to help these women who have contended for the gospel at…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  Few events are more jubilant than a Jewish wedding. In Hebrew, it’s described as a simcha, or “joyous occasion.” As we think about the return of Jesus, it may help stir our passions to consider the details of an ancient Jewish wedding,…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 13: Your Names Are Written in Heaven. In the previous post, we began to look at the record in Luke 10 of Jesus sending out 72 disciples, followed by their triumphant return, and Jesus’ curious…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  Old Testament scholar Sandra Richter writes: [E]verything that lies in between Eden’s gate and the New Jerusalem, the bulk of our Bibles, is in essence a huge rescue plan. In fact, we could summarize the plot line of the Bible into one…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 13: Your Names Are Written in Heaven: Luke 10:20. The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.” He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  In the midst of John’s blissful vision of the new heavens and earth, he records these simple but profound words: “and there will no longer be any curse” (Rev. 22:3). What’s the curse to which John refers? And who or what causes the curse…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from the beginning of Section III: The Book of Life in the New Testament. This post begins excerpts from Section III of The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed. Our focus in…

This is the last in a series of articles on what the Bible says about UFOs and aliens. Read Part 1 – Are There Aliens Among Us?; Part 2 – Who Are These Guys?; Part 3 – UFOs and Alien Theories; Part 4 – What the Bible Says about Alien Encounters; Part 5 – Alien Encounters in Scripture. The 2002 sci-fi thriller “Signs” features one family’s encounters with aliens, whose global invasion of Earth…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 12: Rosh Hashanah and the Book of Life. Rosh Hashanah is one of the seven major feasts of Israel, occurring on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month of the Jewish lunar calendar – September or…

This is another in a series of excerpts from What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus, released by High Street Press and available at Amazon.  In the previous posts (Part 1; Part 2), we explored some key features of New Jerusalem. We continue this study now. New Jerusalem lacks a temple, stellar lights, a closing time, and anything unclean (Rev. 21:22-27). After a detailed…

This is another in a series of excerpts from The Book of Life: What the Bible Says about God’s Registry of the Redeemed from High Street Press and available at Amazon. This except comes from Chapter 11: A Book of Remembrance: Malachi 3:16. In the previous post, we began to examine Malachi’s reference to “a book of remembrance.” We complete our study of Malachi 3:16 in this post. At that time…

This is the fifth in a series of articles on what the Bible says about UFOs and aliens. Read part 1 … part 2 … part 3 … part 4 Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods has sold more than 45 million copies since its release in the late 1960s. In his book and subsequent movies, von Daniken argues that the Ark of the Covenant was, in fact, a radio transmitter that enabled Moses to communicate with…