Can you help understand the roles of the old and new testament prophets? I have searched your site over and over, yet I am still not completely grasping the concepts. I ask this because recently my pastor has asked some of us who have the gift of prophecy to listen to the Holy Spirit and if He gives promptings, visions, dreams, etc about him and the church we are at liberty to share this with him and allow him (my pastor) to judge those and make a decision. However, in the group I am the only one who believes that the office of prophet is no longer used outside of Christ. (Hebrews 1:2)

I would really like your help in understanding the roles of the prophets of the old testament and the ones of the new and please clarify the five fold ministry gifts to me. I really appreciate your help.

Recently, I read something I can’t seem to figure out. In 2Ch 11:20 it says, “And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.” Also in 2Ch 13:2 it says,He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.” What I don’t understand is who is the mother of Abijah, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel or Maachah the daughter of Absalom?

I was wondering what you thought about Obama choosing Rahm Emanuel for his Chief of Staff. I know you do not think Obama is the Anti-Christ, but I thought it was was strange that he chose an Israeli to be in his Cabinet. I know during the first years of tribulation that the Anti-Christ brings peace to Israel and that they think of him as a God send.

I am not eager to challenge you, as I see God has given you much wisdom and insight into Scripture, which I am grateful you share with so many. However your response to the question regarding married or not was bewildering, and I’m not sure Biblical.

You make a point of saying we are to honor our legal authorities on all points unless is causes us to deny Christ. And yet you would help justify someone’s marital status based on their motives and level of commitment and not what even the law would recognize. And more importantly, did not Jesus himself even make a distinction to the woman at the well as her being with a man, and yet He refused to acknowledge the man as her husband because they were not indeed married?

Surely God does not love anyone less because of certain choices made, but I think He says His expectation is for us to be above reproach, particularly if we already know right from wrong. And shouldn’t our motive for obedience to God and what He might be asking always be “for His sake”?

On a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the highest) what do you think is the likelihood of the rapture happening on or before Israel will be Age 63 or in approximately the next 2.5 years. Mathew says this generation will not pass away before all be fulfilled. As you can tell I have subtracted 7 years from 70. Thanks.

I hear preachers and teachers say that God may forgive divorced people and bless their second marriage if they do “certain” things but I can’t find this in the Bible. I know you have to repent and then get out of the sin. If you do not have to get out of the sin then why should homosexuals, liars, thieves, idolaters and murders stop their acts of sin if they confess and repent? I believe you have to remove yourself from the sin in order for it to be true repentance. I can steal and then ask God to forgive me but if I still continue in the sin how have I repented?

The Bible says that a man who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery and that no adulterer will enter into heaven. I can’t understand how He can forgive the sin of a second marriage when they continue in their adultery and then allow these people into heaven.

In one of your answers you wrote “But although the Son has limited Himself, the Father has not.” My question is, which ones are the limited attributes of Jesus? (I mean, which ones are the divine attributes,that weren’t limited before His incarnation,but now they are?)

I understand that there will be Christians coming to faith after the church is removed from the earth in the rapture. If the church (and therefore the Holy Spirit) is removed from the earth, how can one come to faith in Christ when the Holy Spirit testifies to Jesus as Savior? Does their coming to faith in Christ come as a result of what they’ve seen come to pass and/or God’s removing the scales from their eyes?

There is something I am very confused about with second marriages. It seems clear to me God hates divorce (which makes it a sin) and the Bible clearly states that a man who divorces his wife and takes another commits adultery.

I do believe God can not contradict himself so this states to me that after the ceremony is performed that he holds you to better or worse, rich or poor till death do you part. So why all the buts and ands and continuations of this very important commandment? Yes it is hard to swallow and of course people fall away but that does not change the command.

God said no adulterer will enter into heaven. I do not see where he forgives what to me is a sin for the second marriage and then allows these people into heaven. If marriage represent Christ and the church I just don’t see how God would sanction a second marriage. It just does not make since to me. What am I missing? I appreciate your hard work and in helping us find answers to difficult questions.

I am a member of an online forum. Since the election there are some who have posted their fears of Mr. Obama and you can guess how they have been attacked. I would like for you to show me how you would answer someone who has taken scripture (it is clear they do not understand what they are using) and twisted it’s meaning.