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After decades of study, the author presents many under-considered aspects the Biblical Doctrine of the Resurrections from the Dead and Eternal Judgment as identified in Hebrews chapter 6. This 96 page 8-1/2 by 11 booklet considers the personal resurrections of the Saints and the Rest of the Dead referred to in Revelation 20, who are to be brought back to life after the Millennial Age. Its primary focus is the under-considered personal Resurrections as they apply to all humanity, of all ages, not that of Jesus Christ, which is adequately covered by traditional Christianity. Explained is why there needs to be more than one resurrection and why they are separated by a thousand years. Many less used passages of Scripture are taken under consideration, including the very words of Christ where He relates a period of time in which ancient peoples will rise together and 'condemn' other resurrected societies for their non-responsiveness to Salvation's availability. More importantly, the booklet addresses the questions regarding those who died, never having been afforded a legitimate opportunity for Salvation and what happens to them as it regards their Eternal Destiny.
“Understanding the Millennial KINGDOM of God” If it weren't for our religions, we might be better able to understand the Bible! Countless pas-sages are rendered confusing or unfathomable due to ideas of men injected into the Theological thought-stream, borrowing from pre-existing religious beliefs, particularly Gnostic and Mithraic Cults, as well as other Theological errors that are 'home grown' within the bounds of what is considered "Orthodox Religion". This 76-page booklet takes a long hard (and perhaps unsettling) look into one of the most deeply rooted fundamental beliefs in all of christianty. This due to it being one of the major obstacles to understanding the very Core Doctrines brought to mankind with and by the Ministry of Christ. He came preaching "the Gospel of the Kingdom of God", yet our religions have wonderfully misconstrued exactly what that kingdom really entails. It was not to be this evil generation, though its future populace would be living among them, despised and rejected as was He. But perhaps the greater message set forth within the account of Christ's Millennial Kingdom is that it will provide the opportunity denied to the masses of humanity that died, never having had an opportunity for salvation, AND then what happens after that! It's a story no serious, thoughtful disciple of our LORD should neglect.
How Many Beings are in the GODHEAD? (Is Jesus God?) The Longest running Controversy in Judaeo - Christian Religion is the matter of the Full Identity of Jesus Christ. The Premise of His also being God Divides Judaic Theology from Christian Theology as does No Other Issue. These many items presented herein offer many concise reasons why the Church of God accepts Christ's Personal Divinity and His Pre-Incarnate Existence. If God had intended we conceive of Him as a Single Being, WHY are there so many unequivocal statements that affirm His Son as being God also? The Controversy did not originate in the New Testament Era. The seeds of Misunderstanding and Theological Conflict were planted back in earliest times. What was the Major Contention that Christ had with Jewish Theology that ultimately led to His being sentenced to a most extreme death sentence? More than 40 Substantial and Inter-Supporting Reasons Acknowledge Jesus' Eternal Divinity! If you are in any way unsure of what position to take or how to defend your understanding on this important matter, be sure to arm yourself thoroughly with the Truth of God's Word. The comprehensive information provided in this Booklet will provide you with a Base of Understanding and a confidence in which to stand.
Author Robert Macdonald, in this 36-page booklet, presents his multi-year investigative quest to explain God's Annual Festivals to his children and grandchildren in a sensible and understandable way . These 'neglected' observances present an educational framework for more fully understanding the overall Plan of God as it involves all of humanity. Traditional Christianity is largely remiss in investigating their lessons, though they remained a part of the worship system of the Early New Testament Church through at least that first generation. Spring Holydays illustrate the essential components of personal salvaton, while the Fall Holydays illustrate how the opportunity for Salvation will eventually be brought to all who ever lived. We see the world being called to observe the Feast of Tabernacles annually in places such as Zachariah 14 in that era after Christ's return to rule the whole Earth with equity and justice. We see the Apostle Paul observing Pentecost on more than one occasion, a day which is the culmination of the Spring Holydays, fully dependent upon the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread for its 50-day count. In 1st Corinthians 5:7 and 11:23 we see him instructing a gentile Corinthian Church in how to properly keep the New Testament Passover and Unleavened Bread long after the Church had left the Synagogue.
A Twenty Four page booklet, full size and nearly full color (this is a large download file) with ten Black & White photos, twenty-eight Full Color photos, gleaned from various internet sources, that presents many pages of detailed narrative of the recent findings of what is accepted by the Turkish Government as being the true Ark remains! The locale has since been designated by them as Noah's Ark National Park. The site is just across the valley from what is known today as "Mount Ararat", a name of fairly recent assignment, but well within "the mountains of Ararat" as Genesis 8:4 identifies.
Available here by download (PDF), or in printed version by mail upon request. .
This booklet presents the amazing story of the interest that developed in the Ark Site resulting from a 1959 high-altitude mapping exercise by the Turkish government. It relates the story of the earthquake that occurred on the day Israel became an independent state in May of 1948 that first brought the site to the attention of local villagers.
Further research in the 1980's, from information found in reliable ancient sources, brought us the discovery of two Necropolises (ancient burial cities) in the vicinity, mentioned by both Josephus and in the Epic of Gilgamesh. An abundance of ossuary jars (burial urns) all over that locale bear evidence that ancient peoples (prior to the time of Abraham) well knew of the Ark landing site and made pilgrimages from all over to bury their dead near their renowned ancestor. (Keep in mind that Noah remained alive for 350 years after the Flood, and died some two-years before Abraham was born. His son Shem (being born 98 years before it occurred) lived on for another 150 years after Abraham was born! Abraham had more than a century to come to know Shem, and his son and true heir Isaac had nearly half a century! Why we'd think that the Ark site was not known to the Patriarchs is patently unexplainable.).
The cover photo visibly presents the curiosity of a crowned figure lying within the perfect hull shape that gave its name (Uzengili = meaning something like 'little bogeyman') to the tiny local village on the hill above it. This photo was from before the 1979 earthquake that caused the site to 'self-excavate', with the soils around the hull dropping away some twenty feet. A thin spear-shaped outcropping of rock, jutting into the figure in repose with a heart shaped rock protruding approximately where a heart would be, marking the end of the spear outcrop, poses profound prophetic considerations of a future 'Savior' of humanity being speared in the heart. Further, an artifact discovered in the 1800's in ancient mounds in Ohio, closely replicates this same figure, within a small version of similar ancient burial crypts, common in the Ark area, with the Ten Commandments carved into its rim, suggests ancient peoples who came to the North American continent millennia ago had an awareness of the Ark site.
The booklet also considers the Great Mount Ararat itself, the favored area of speculative focus of many dedicated Ark hunters, and the serious improbabilities of it being a reasonable landing site. Stories of it being in 'glacial ice' are also evaluated for their impracticality.
Remains of the "covering", many huge nearby anchor stones and semi-petrified metal fittings that litter the site fill out the evidence of this being the true remains of the 4,300-year old Ark.
A companion booklet, not available on-line, which documents the Necropolises of Naxuan and Seron may be requested.
God’s Holy Spirit: the Divine Nature
is a 56-page, 11-chapter booklet that takes a fresh look into the limitless Power that gives existence to all things.
While the material Universe is our most tangible reality, there is also a Spirit World, created of and by the omnipresent Spirit of God!
While the modern theologian considers the Nature of God under conceptualizations developed sixteen centuries ago, we find what was intended to be a unifying consensus, to be a powerfully divisive factor.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:” (Rom. 1:16-20)
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F o r e w o r d
Many who strive to understand the profound nature of the Creator of the Universe find themselves confounded by those Orthodox Doctrines put forth in the early centuries of the Christian era. Even those who profess to know of these matters admit that the Trinitarian Doctrine, as set forth today, is an “unexplainable Mystery” of unfathomable proportions! This booklet is designed to acquaint the sincere seeker of Truth and Understanding with information not related in typical church denominations. Many questions are passed by with the presumption that those who occupy pulpits understand such matters and are adequately informed and do accurately represent the Truth of Gods’ Word. Most rest comfortably, taking the position that we need not attempt to resolve the difficulties ourselves, as our esteemed theologians have those matters well covered.
Most disciples of Christ are not aware that the Trinitarian View, as presented in the modern era, IS NOT the same belief system as was originally put forth beginning in the late third and fourth centuries. The Trinitarian View developed over time. Clearly, we must understand that the Early New Testament Church was not aware of a ‘Trinitarian understanding’, particularly the conceptualization of Gods’ Holy Spirit as a “third Person” in the Godhead. The early Church’s articulation regarding such matters focused on the two-Beings: the Father and the Son. As their non-awareness of such a teaching, for at least the first 300 years, was no impediment to attaining a full and genuine conversion, why then do modern religious denominations deem belief in the Trinity as “essential to ones’ salvation” and it being a prerequisite to fellowship?
We will see that the ‘understanding’ of the Nature of God developed over time. What we’re presented with in the modern era bears little actual resemblance to the original teachings of the early New Testament Church.
We will see that the existence of the material universe is a projection of the creative and sustaining Power of Gods’ Spirit. ‘In Him we live and move and have our being…’ as Acts 17:28-29 explains. Do we fathom this profound declaration?
While some take an ‘anti-Trinitarian’ position, it is the intent here to present a ‘non-Trinitarian’ view, equipping the reader with answers to give to the traditionalists. This booklet will step away from conventional explanations and acquaint the reader with a broader set of considerations. Gods’ Spirit functions as the means of existence of all things, material and non-material. It accounts for the existence of the vast universe and all that is in it, not only its existence, but its continuing sustenance. We will also consider life and consciousness, as we possess these qualities, as manifestations of the Spirit of God. Not only physical life, but a higher level of living interaction with and by that sustaining Spirit Power, which opens to us the prospect of being re-generated into His own progeny, character reproductions of Himself, with the promise of fully entering the Spirit dimension in due time. This mortal may put on immortality, provided that certain conditions are met! That it is intended we become “Partakers of the Divine Nature”! (2nd Peter 1:4)
Additional Study Aids
- Millennial Kingdom on Earth
- Daniel and Revelation provide complementary details of what is ahead in the World Tomorrow.
- biblegateway.com
- The Bible Gateway is a tool for reading and researching scripture online -- all in the language or translation of your choice! LINK
- Pharaohs and Kings, by David M. Rohl, ISBN: 0-517-70315-7
- (This book is in some local libraries.) From his youth, David Rohl was fascinated with Egyptian Archaeology. Disturbed with what proved to be deliberate misaligned chronology, making it appear that Biblical history didn’t correlate to Egyptian history, he sought better answers than are set forth by the ‘accepted’ Egyptologists.
- The Day Behemoth and Leviathan Died, by David A. Deal, ISBN: 0-933677-01-1
- This book de-bunks basic evolutionary premises, showing the evidence of massive catastrophic events in recent millennia, continental drift, drastic climate changes as well as a section on the Noah's Ark site findings. David is the one who discovered the ancient necropolis cities (Nauxuan and Seron) at the Ark site! He has another interesting book: Discovery of Ancient America, which shows Israelitish presence on this continent in the years BC. Many early North American names and words are derived from ancient Hebrew! He gives the Strong's word numbers showing how many 'modern' words and names were anciently derived!
- A four book series by Steven Collins www.bibleblessings.net , Origins and Empire of Ancient Israel; Israel's Lost Empire ; Parthia: The Forgotten Ancient Superpower; and Israel's Tribes Today.
- These four were originally published in abbreviated form in The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel…Found. This first book is a good starter, but may be out of print. The four book set is much more informative. Steve was formerly a WCG member, but had a passion for this subject that preceded that association, left it for much the same reasons many of us had to, (rank apostacy) and he went much more deeply into it than the Churches of God of various affiliation ever did. Many of them exhibiting rather average talents.
- Fossilized Customs, by Lew White. ISBN 0-9584353-6-7,
- revealing the Pagan Sources of Popular Customs: A revealing review of the many customs and beliefs that permeate our society from a ‘messianic’ viewpoint. Copies of this book are available from the author thru Torah Zone Productions, 2303 Watterson Trail, Louisville, KY 40299 or www.fossilizedcustoms.com (Reminiscent of, but more thorough than Ralph Woodrow’s book: BABYLON Mystery Religion.)
- The Christian Passover, by Fred R. Coulter, ISBN: 0-967547-0-3
- Available from the Christian Biblical Church of God LINK, York Publishing, P.O.Box 1038, Hollister, CA 95024. Fred, a minister who saw need to separate from the WCG atmosphere in the late seventies, has since then authored several important research books, not the least of which is A Harmony of the Gospels, ISBN: 0-9675479-1-1.
- Primitive Christianity in Crisis, by Alan Knight. ISBN 0-9679332-0-X
- also available from the author: A.R.K.Research, 3629 206th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036 This one is priceless in its perspective on how Gnostic beliefs infiltrated the theology of the New Testament Church, absorbing just enough to render its teachings ineffectual. The protestant reformation reintroduced a lot of those same toxic concepts.
- Spirit of Antichrist, by Alan Knight. ISBN 978-0-9679332-1-4
- also available from the author: A.R.K.Research, 3629 206th Place SW, Lynnwood, WA 98036 Provides dramatic new understanding of the prophecies of the book of Revelation