If we are bought with a price (which we are) that means we are not free to do anything we want to. I have been sick and cannot do anything but lie down and listen to the TV. I cannot concentrate on the bible and I do not feel like listening to bible teachings. I just want to do nothing but to make the time pass so I have the TV on. My question is this: am I in sin because of this? I have an enormous amount of guilt. I hurt physically and just do not want to get into the bible right now. Please do not sugar coat for me.

I recently signed up and love the emails and the site. You are so knowledgeable and helpful. You have cleared up a lot of my foggy thinking about the end times. I am wanting more scriptural support for something you wrote (and I agree with). You said that the seals and trumpets will be in the first half of the 70th week and then a long pause in the second for the Antichrist to do his worst, and then the bowls right at the end. What scriptures point to this division (specifically for each of the three judgments -seals, trumpets, bowls).

Referring to Adam and Eve you stated,”I don’t think she or her husband or her children would have sinned if they’d been left alone.” Were not the heavenly creatures created without a sin nature? Wasn’t it their free will, which is the ultimate issue, that caused them to rebel in spite of a near-perfect environment? After all, sin is rebellion against God. It seems to me that the single, most important lesson of the Bible is that without surrender to God’s perfect will ALL intelligent, created beings will eventually rebel (sin).

I accept and understand that at the moment of death your soul goes either to heaven or hell. I understand the rewards for the faithful believers in heaven. But what is the purpose of resurrecting the unbelievers bringing them up from Hell. Just to judge them and send them back to hell? Can you clarify this for me.

My question is, are the Jews saved? Are they redeemed by Christ because they are God’s chosen? Many must love God. I ask because I have a couple of Jewish friends, and am worried about this. I love them and don’t want them to go to Hell. I’ve tried witnessing, but being the normal teenagers they are, they totally rejected what I said. Will the Jews be saved after the Tribulation?

I have two questions regarding the millennium. If “the former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind” (Isa. 65:17) is spoken at end of the millennium and refers to eternity, does this mean the people of the nations will remember their loved ones and friends during the millennium? And secondly, I think Micah 4:5 is speaking about the millennium when it says, “all the nations may walk in the name of their Gods, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” I understand that all who enter the millennium will be believers, but I assume that over time they will begin to seek and follow their own “gods.” Is this correct?

In the light of these two passages it just seems that the millennium, for the nations, will not be much different than it is now. Is this correct, and will the millennium only be strikingly different for the church and Israel? I’m sure that I am missing something here, because I always thought the millennium would be different for everyone.

My parents are both past retirement age (into their late 70’s and early 80’s) and for medical reasons my mom has been forced to stop working (mostly). This is going to severely inhibit their ability to have enough income for basic necessities. I want to be able to contribute financially to my parents so that they can continue living with some dignity and honor. I currently have been tithing to our local church and God has blessed us immeasurably. However, my ability to assist my parents would most likely end up re-directing my tithe contributions from our church to my parents. What are your thoughts on this approach?

My question is how can the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus, after the seven-years of the tribulation, mark the end of the gentiles when Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Palestinians will all be alive and well during the Millennium?

I had the idea that the primary indicator of the beginning of Daniel’s 70th Week is the appearance of the AC. So, what is the difference between his “appearance,” as a powerful, or soon-to-be-powerful, political figure, and his revealing as the AC? Is he revealed when he commits the Abomination (which sets off the Great Tribulation), or is he revealed as the AC before that?

Along the same line, I always thought the 70th Week martyrs suffer because they will not accept the mark, and that is after the Abomination. If it isn’t that, what produces the persecutions that result in the martyrdom of a huge number of believers before the requirement to take the mark?

In one of your studies on the Rapture, you say that in Revelation 17:14, the Church returns with Jesus at the Second Coming because He is returning with His called, chosen and faithful followers, which can only be the Church. I can recall recently that you said that the Church will not accompany Jesus at the Second Coming because a Groom does not bring His Bride into battle. Could you clarify this?