Category: God

Acts 15 — Part 1

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Are Christians required to keep the Law of Moses? If someone were to ask you this question, how would you answer? If Christians are required to keep the Law of Moses, what does that mean? If they are not, what does that mean?

This very question was a thorny one for the early Church, and it led to considerable controversy. It has remained a key question among those calling themselves Christian ever since then.

Did the decision of the Church recounted in Acts 15 negate the requirement that Christians must obey God’s commandments? Are Christians free to sin with impunity, based on the results of this conference? And if not, what is the controversy about and what are the ramifications of the decision made?

Learn from the Bible the answers to these questions.

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Prophetic Significance of the Fall Festivals of God

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Billions of people down through history have lived, going about their mundane activities blind to and ignorant of the real purpose of their existence. And then they died. Human philosophical and religious ideas have failed utterly to fill the void, and so if they think about it at all, people are left simply to wonder, what is the purpose of human existence.

The festivals that God’s Word commands to be kept all have deep spiritual significance. And their significance from the standpoint of time is not only historical, but also contemporary and prophetic. In understanding the meaning of God’s festivals lies the key to understanding what few people have been privileged to know, and that is, not only why we exist, but how the purpose of our existence is being and will be fulfilled.

When we put the outline of prophetic events depicted by the commanded festivals of God, together with detailed prophecies of the Bible we get a very clear picture of the flow of God’s plan and how he is going to bring it to fruition in a step by step process.

The message presented here by Rod Reynolds focuses on the prophetic significance the fall festivals God commands to be kept.

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Beginning a New Age

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The festivals God commanded in the Bible and his Sabbaths have prophetic implications which form an outline of God’s plan for mankind. The new moon of the seventh month, is also a festival and a Sabbath, called the Feast of Trumpets. This feast has particular prophetic significance associated with the blowing of trumpets.

The Feast of Trumpets points to a time in the future when, as related in Scripture, a trumpet, or trumpets, will be blown, to signal a series of prophesied events ushering in a new age. The events portrayed in what the Feast of Trumpets signifies are to be unprecedented in world history, and will forever change the kind of world human beings will inhabit, a world inestimably better in every way.

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The Golden Lampstand

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The Bible is full of symbolic language, and references to physical symbols as well, which have deep spiritual significance, little understood by most people, even many who read the Bible and profess to be Christians.

Explored in this message presented by Rod Reynolds is the symbolism associated with the “lampstand,” in the Tabernacle and later in the Temple of God in Jerusalem, and also “lampstands” referenced in the book of Revelation and elsewhere in Scripture. These have significance for every person who is part of God’s Church, and for the world at large, that I hope will interest you, and that you will gain understanding of if you have not understood before, or reminded of if you did.

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