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More On Finding Gog (Jack Kelley Q&As)
Q. Does Vladimir Putin have the credentials to be the Gog of Magog?
A. The three appearances of Gog in the Bible (Amos 7:1 LXX, Ezekiel 38-39, and Rev. 20:8) span several thousand years. For this reason I see him as a supernatural figure, perhaps Satan’s counterpart to Michael. Therefore I don’t believe he is a natural man.
Maybe Mr. Putin is acting under his influence. If so, that could make him the current human face of Gog, if you will, just like the King of Tyre was the human face of Satan in Ezekiel 28:11-19. You can read more about this in my study entitled “Finding Gog“
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Jealousy And Politics In The New Jerusalem?
Q. Some thoughts came into my mind yesterday. If millions of raptured believers live in New Jerusalem, is it possible for human friction, jealousy and politics to abound in New Jerusalem. I was thinking particularly about the Bema rewards that our Lord will give each one of us at His Judgment Seat after the rapture. Will believers become unhappy or jealous because they received less rewards than others? Will believers play politics (just like office politics and even church politics on earth) when they work for the Lord throughout eternity. I know it sounds silly because there will be no sin in God’s special enclave, but I can’t imagine that a billion people living in New Jerusalem (presumably an enclosed space) will not have friction or start playing politics.
A. Not only will there be no sin in the New Jerusalem, but its inhabitants will no longer have a sin nature and will be totally submitted to God’s will. The negative emotions you mention are associated with a fallen people and will be a thing of the past. God hasn’t gone to all this trouble for us just to create another failed human society, especially one that has eternal life.
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More On Angels Mating With Humans
Q. Recently a subject came up about the sex of angels in our bible study. They said according to Jesus after we get to heaven we would be like the angels neither marrying or being given in marriage. This led them to say that angels are “sexless”. However in Genesis we see the fallen angels comingling with humans with the Nephlim resulting. Any angel in scripture has a male name, so is there an answer?
A. The idea that since angels don’t marry they are are sexless, and therefore when we’re in heaven we’ll be sexless because we won’t be marrying is merely a human assumption. The truth is we just don’t know.
We do know that Genesis 6:1-4 clearly describes angels (sons of God) and humans (daughters of men) intermarrying and having offspring called nephilim. So the question is, how did they do that? In Jude 1:6 we get the answer. It says these angels kept not their first estate (the Greek word means beginning or origin) and left their own habitation (this Greek word refers to the dwelling place of their spirit). It means these angels ceased being the entity they originally were created to be and became a different entity.
Putting 2 and 2 together we can see that they left their heavenly bodies and took on human bodies, something angels have the capability of doing in order to become visible to mankind.
(In Judges 13 the parents of Samson repeatedly referred to the angel of the Lord as a “man of God”. Hebrew 13:2 tells us some people who have been kind to strangers have actually entertained angels without knowing it.)
Having human bodies gave them the ability to have sex with human women. This was an act that so angered the Lord that He rounded them up and put them in chains to be held for judgment (Jude 1:6, 2 Peter 2:4).
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Q. Does Vladimir Putin have the credentials to be the Gog of Magog?
A. The three appearances of Gog in the Bible (Amos 7:1 LXX, Ezekiel 38-39, and Rev. 20:8) span several thousand years. For this reason I see him as a supernatural figure, perhaps Satan’s counterpart to Michael. Therefore I don’t believe he is a natural man.
Maybe Mr. Putin is acting under his influence. If so, that could make him the current human face of Gog, if you will, just like the King of Tyre was the human face of Satan in Ezekiel 28:11-19. You can read more about this in my study entitled “Finding Gog“
gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/finding-gog-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gracethrufaith+%28GraceThruFaith%29
Jealousy And Politics In The New Jerusalem?
Q. Some thoughts came into my mind yesterday. If millions of raptured believers live in New Jerusalem, is it possible for human friction, jealousy and politics to abound in New Jerusalem. I was thinking particularly about the Bema rewards that our Lord will give each one of us at His Judgment Seat after the rapture. Will believers become unhappy or jealous because they received less rewards than others? Will believers play politics (just like office politics and even church politics on earth) when they work for the Lord throughout eternity. I know it sounds silly because there will be no sin in God’s special enclave, but I can’t imagine that a billion people living in New Jerusalem (presumably an enclosed space) will not have friction or start playing politics.
A. Not only will there be no sin in the New Jerusalem, but its inhabitants will no longer have a sin nature and will be totally submitted to God’s will. The negative emotions you mention are associated with a fallen people and will be a thing of the past. God hasn’t gone to all this trouble for us just to create another failed human society, especially one that has eternal life.
gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/jealousy-politics-new-jerusalem/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gracethrufaith+%28GraceThruFaith%29
More On Angels Mating With Humans
Q. Recently a subject came up about the sex of angels in our bible study. They said according to Jesus after we get to heaven we would be like the angels neither marrying or being given in marriage. This led them to say that angels are “sexless”. However in Genesis we see the fallen angels comingling with humans with the Nephlim resulting. Any angel in scripture has a male name, so is there an answer?
A. The idea that since angels don’t marry they are are sexless, and therefore when we’re in heaven we’ll be sexless because we won’t be marrying is merely a human assumption. The truth is we just don’t know.
We do know that Genesis 6:1-4 clearly describes angels (sons of God) and humans (daughters of men) intermarrying and having offspring called nephilim. So the question is, how did they do that? In Jude 1:6 we get the answer. It says these angels kept not their first estate (the Greek word means beginning or origin) and left their own habitation (this Greek word refers to the dwelling place of their spirit). It means these angels ceased being the entity they originally were created to be and became a different entity.
Putting 2 and 2 together we can see that they left their heavenly bodies and took on human bodies, something angels have the capability of doing in order to become visible to mankind.
(In Judges 13 the parents of Samson repeatedly referred to the angel of the Lord as a “man of God”. Hebrew 13:2 tells us some people who have been kind to strangers have actually entertained angels without knowing it.)
Having human bodies gave them the ability to have sex with human women. This was an act that so angered the Lord that He rounded them up and put them in chains to be held for judgment (Jude 1:6, 2 Peter 2:4).
gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/angels-mating-humans-2/#more-45200
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