The Gospel Of Repentance

  The English word Bible comes from the Latin Biblia which means book or books. The Bible is actually a library of books – 66 books to be exact. There are 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. The timeline of all the books covers over 3500 years of human history. The Old Testament covers the majority of this time frame, whereas the New Testament covers about 100 years only.   The first book Genesis covers about 2200 years of human history – more than the other 65 books combined. The Bible was written over a period of about 1500 years written by around 40 different authors. Why was the Bible written? The Bible was written as God’s personal revelation to mankind. I think of it as a very large collection of love letters. God wanted us to learn about and develop a relationship with Him based on love and obedience. God decided of His own free will to use man as His instruments to record His revelation. It is important to remember that the words man wrote a...

  Prophecy Against the Prince of Tyre   The idea that Lucifer was the worship leader in heaven comes from Ezekiel 28. It reads, The word of the Lord came to me; “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God, Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas, yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god – you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you; by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth.   Therefore, thus says the Lord God; because you make your heart like the heart of a god, therefore, behold I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defi...