An MBA graduate's thoughts from a place of prayer, study and waiting on God…
Revelation 17:12-14, 16-17 Read Revelation 17:12–15 along with Revelation 16:14–16. What do you learn from these texts about the “ten kings”? Different interpretations have been offered regarding the identities of the ten kings. However, Revelation does not tell us who they are. All we can derive from the text is that they are a short-lived … Continue reading The Judgment of Babylon
Can a son bear the sins of the father or vice versa? No, every man for himself. What of a wicked person, how is he saved? If he turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all God’s commandments and does what is lawful and right, none of his sins will be remembered against him. 🙌🏾 What of the righteous person who later sins? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered because of his unfaithfulness. But aren’t we now under the new covenant, no longer under the “law”? Aren’t we now saved by grace through faith in God alone?! All these works...🙄 So can’t we expect to make it to heaven by just believing in Jesus even if we aren’t 100% in obedience to His commandments? 🤷🏾♂️😒
Eating pork and other unclean meats displeases God and is considered in judgement: “those who feast on pork and rats and other detestable meats will come to a terrible end i.e. destroyed together, says the Lord.” (Is 66:15-17; Is 65:2-4). God says those who do things in which He doesn’t delight will be destroyed (Is 66:4). 🙀😭 The guidance for clean and unclean foods is in Lev 11 and Deut 14. Even before God chose the Jews, man knew what foods were clean and unclean, as seen in Noah knowing which animals were clean and unclean for the ark. Gen 7:2