I am a Christian Pastor(Reformed Baptist) and I have been puzzled about the blatant exegesis that we often involve ourselves in. I especially think about the belief that the Unclean Food Lists of the OT have been nullified. Now the basis for this declaration is cited as being from Mark 7: 19 and Acts 11:5-11. Looking at these passages closely I find that the first (Mark) is concerned with Ritual defilement and I find that when our Lord declared all foods clean, he was referring to the fact that no food can defile you spiritually- thus the explanation that it enters the body through the mouth and then is excreted. The other reference in Acts was to declare to Peter, a Jewish Christian, that he was not to refuse the good news to the Gentiles (who did come to him with a request to preach the good news to them after that vision!!) as God had chosen to reveal His salvation even to them.

Now how can we in good Christian conscience twist these texts to say that we can eat anything and everything?

Thanks again for all your wonderful insights, may the Lord bless you.

Something has been bugging me lately about the whole Gog/Magog war, the treaty and the anti-Christ.

Ezekiel 38:23 “I will magnify Myself, sanctify Myself, and make Myself known in the sight of many nations; and they will know that I am the LORD.”‘ Ezekiel 39:21-22 “And I will set My glory among the nations; and all the nations will see My judgment which I have executed and My hand which I have laid on them. And the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God from that day onward.”

So if the whole world and Israel knows that God delivered Israel from her enemies why would they sign a treaty with the anti-Christ?

In Revelation 6 at the breaking of the first 4 seals the horsemen are ushered in by the living creatures (I can only assume they’re the same creatures from chapter 4) I have heard it taught that the animals the creatures resembled were symbolic of the tribes of Israel (specifically the 4 that camped to the immediate north, east, south and west of the tabernacle) If that’s not right, then I guess that blows my question right out of the water right there, but if that’s true, would there be any relevance to the relationship between the creature that calls out its specific horseman and that horseman’s “mission”? i.e. would there be a reason that the lion-type creature (Judah) would usher in Anti-christ?

Can you tell me any thing about the Salt covenant? Was there a reason for/ or a lesson in Lot’s wife being turned into a pillar of salt? I can’t find much about it that I understand. No one seems to know about it. Look forward to your articles on the Bible. I learn much from them.

I found your article Seven major signs of the Second Coming – Thank You very helpful– Be careful however to not set dates- Jesus himself said he did not know. Yes, current events point to His coming soon — I pray that He will !!

If Babylon must be rebuilt to the point that is has the clout required to satisfy the descriptions given in Revelation 18 like “Was there ever a city like this great city?”, how can the Rapture be imminent? What is the minimum possible time for Babylon to be built from its present status to that of a major political and economic center? Could it be done in less than the seven year time required for the Tribulation? Or is the Rapture not imminent?

We know that the Antichrist is introduced in Revelation 13. Then who is the rider on the white horse in Revelation 6? And who are the other three? Are the four riders of the apocalypse an overview of the Tribulation, and then broken down in phases later in the book?

In Mark 14:51 at the arrest of Jesus in Gethsemane, there was a “certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body ,and the young men laid hold on him: and he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.” In all my years, I do not remember reading this portion before, nor hearing anyone address this…why is it there and what does it mean?

Greetings to you and thank you as always for your wonderful effort toward the Kingdom.

I have read that Satan, unlike God, can’t be in multiple places at the same time. So if I am under attack by spiritual warfare in one part of the world and somewhere else in the world other people are being “attacked”, who/what is doing the attacking. I thought that the angels who fell with him were chained and placed in the underworld. Who then are the demons who are in league with Satan?

Thank you kindly for being an obedient servant of the Lord. Your site is a blessing to visit every day and learn from.

Here are a few questions I’d really like to know the answer to. First, where did Noah live when he built the ark? Secondly, the Bible teaches us there were 4 Great Rivers from Genesis. The earth was greatly changed due to the global flood and the releasing of the great fountains of the deep. How do we know the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that are named today are the ones mentioned in Genesis? How was it possible for Noah and/or his sons to recognize them after such a global change? Lastly, if those are the two original rivers, why not name the other two found in Genesis? Why should their names not be used? Or, did this have something to do with the confusion in languages from Babel?

I hope your gift in explaining things simple and easy to understand can also be used with these questions. I adore Genesis and I try to always be ready with an answer if someone asks me.