Bible Questions and Answers

Was EW Bullinger the first person to discover the last words of Christ’s triumphant cry “for this purpose was I spared”?

Is Christ really coming back some day?

Hi, Is it possible that Elijah was an exception to the rule where true believers will be resurrected at the return of Christ? I know that John 3:13 states that “And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven,” but I also know that God is sovereign, and He can make exceptions to the rule, according to His plan and purpose. Therefore, could there be some Christians and some saved people from this life who are in Glory now – but generally speaking, the mass exodus is going to be when the Lord descends from Heaven, since the scripture in Hebrews 11:5 (KJV) states: “By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.” There are Bible commentaries, such as Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary at: http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/11-5.htm that mentions Elijah was changed from mortal to immortal. It states: “translated—(Ge 5:22, 24). Implying a sudden removal (the same Greek as in Ga 1:6) from mortality without death to immortality: such a CHANGE as shall pass over the living at Christ’s coming” (1Co 15:51, 52). Matthew Poole’s Commentary states: “was taken by God, Genesis 5:24. The apostle keeps to the Septuagint translation of the text. He was miraculously changed in his body from a mortal to an immortal state, and this without any separation of his soul from it. God, out of an extraordinary grace and favour to him, dispensed with the common sentence passed on the human seed in Adam, as he did many ages after this to Elijah. He died not: all the rest of the fathers of the church, Genesis 5:5,8,27, the longest liver of them, died.” “And was not found; he was not, Genesis 5:24, neither among men, nor in their sepulchres, as others were, but had changed his habitation and society. If any went to seek him, as others did Elijah he was far out of their finding, 2 Kings 2:17.” “Because God had translated him; for God had taken him to himself in heaven, the place of his residence, and in the very act changed his body into a spiritual, powerful, glorious, and incorruptible one; as all ours, who are true believers, shall be at last, 1 Corinthians 15:51 1 Thessalonians 4:15; and so made fit for the place to which he was taken, made like an angel in person, and to be with those spirits in company; now did he fully see and enjoy him whom by faith he walked with beneath.” Albert Barnes notes on the whole Bible states for the scripture in 2 Kings 2:11: “Elijah went up … – No honest exegesis can explain this passage in any other sense than as teaching the translation of Elijah, who was taken from the earth, like Enoch Genesis 5:24, without dying.” Could it be that the letter was not written by the prophet Elijah to Jehoram at the time of its delivery, but composed years before reaching Jehoram? Do we have an exact year when it was written? Or was there an error on the part of the transcriber, where the name Elijah was used, instead of Elisha, in the scripture: 2 Chronicles 21:12, as Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary states: 12-15. “there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet—That prophet’s translation having taken place in the reign of Jehoshaphat [2Ki 2:11, 12], we must conclude that the name of Elijah has, by the error of a transcriber, been put for that of Elisha.” Matthew Poole’s commentary states: “There came a writing to him from Elijah.” Question. “How could this be, when Elijah was rapt up to heaven in Jehoshaphat’s time, 2 Kings 2:3,11.” Answer. Either, 1. “This was Elisha, or some other prophet called Elijah, because he acted in the spirit and power of Elijah, for which cause John the Baptist also is so called. Or rather, 2. This was really written by Elijah, who by the Spirit did clearly foresee and foretell the reign and acts of Jehoram, (as others did of Josiah, 1 Kings 13:2, and Isaiah of Cyrus, Isaiah 45:3, long before they were born,) and in consideration thereof left this prophecy with Elisha, to be delivered in due time by him, or some other person in his name, and as from his mouth.” I look forward to your reply, Kind regards, Emily

How do you get born again? What exactly does it mean anyway?

If everything that was created God called good including the created 7th day which he called holy. And if God never changes and God is forever and his son Jesus is the same yesterday today and tomorrow and the ten commandments are sealed into Ark of the Covenant in Heaven, then did God create a new day of worship on Sunday just because of the cross? Why do most all Sunday Christians have a problem keeping all of God’s ten commandments? It is not rocket science. God’s created day of worship is good enough for me because I still love Jesus for His sacrifice on the cross. However, because it is on God’s day of worship it has more of a special meaning because I am not putting Jesus higher than God on the 7th day or Sabbath. So why do Sunday keepers disagree on the created 7th day as being holy? Are they going against God in what He had intended for us. God knows what is best not man. Is this not being disobedient to God?