ARI'EL INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL STUDIES: ISSUE 18

ARI'EL INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL STUDIES

ISSUE 18

This 250-page+ issue is a Special Edition containing messages and discussions and various subjects, including:

• WHAT CLASSIC COKE (COCA-COLA) CAN TEACH US ABOUT OUR PRE-SUPPOSITIONAL AND PREJUDICIAL DOCTRINAL BIASES
• TRULY STUDYING A DOCTRINAL SUBJECT IN THE BIBLE
• RULES FOR RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH THAT SUBJECTIVE “SPIRITUAL” REVELATION MUST NEVER ATTEMPT TO OVERWRITE
• WHAT IS THE EKKLESIA: “THE CHURCH”?
• CAN AN INCOMPLETE BODY (UNRESTORED CHURCH) PRODUCE THE HIGHEST PRODUCT OF BRIDE MEMBERS?
• THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS: The past falling away and the future restoration of the church and the question of whether the church is still in the wilderness
• THE “CULT” OF CHRIST VERSUS THE CARNAL CULTS OF TRIBAL IDENTITY AND INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY
• THE MARK OF THE BEAST
• THE BOOK OF LIFE: THE RECORD OF THOSE WHO WILL RECEIVE A FUTURE RESURRECTION
• WHAT DOES THE VEIL BETWEEN THE HOLY PLACE AND THE HOLIEST OF ALL SYMBOLIZE? AND IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE, WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO PASS THROUGH THE VEIL INTO THE HOLIEST AND REMAIN THERE ETERNALLY?
• SOME KEY INSIGHTS IN EZEKIEL 18 ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE SOUL
• ARE THE SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR IN REVELATION 6 CONSCIOUS, ACTIVE OVERCOMERS UNDER A LITERAL ALTAR OR IS THAT INSTEAD NOT LITERAL BUT IS A POETIC/SYMBOLIC DEPICTION INTENDED TO CONVEY THAT GOD IS AWARE OF THE DEATHS OF HIS PEOPLE AND OF THE NEED FOR RECIPROCAL JUSTICE?
• WAS JOHN CORRECT WHEN HE STATED THAT NO MAN HAD ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AT THE TIME OF HIS WRITING OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN? AND HOW DOES THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IMPACT THE BELIEF THAT BELIEVERS (OR JUST OVERCOMERS) SUPPOSEDLY GO TO HEAVEN UPON THEIR DEATHS?
• ONE SINGLE TRUMPET CALL THAT IS THE SINGLE LAST TRUMP (prior to the Marriage Supper) AT WHICH WE (who are Bride members) WILL ALL BE CHANGED AT ONE SINGLE POINT IN TIME
• TWO CONTROVERSIAL BIBLE PASSAGES ON THE AFTERLIFE
• THE HOPE OF THE RESURRECTION
• REVELATION 14:11
• THE THIEF ON THE CROSS: WHEN WILL HE BE IN PARADISE, AND WHEN WAS OR WILL HE BE RESURRECTED IF HE IS NOT PRESENTLY THERE?
• REVELATION 14:11
• IF THE SOULS OF THE FAITHFUL (OVERCOMERS) MOVE OUT ALIVE (AS LIVING SOULS) AT THE MOMENT OF THEIR PHYSICAL DEATHS, THEN WHY DO A NUMBER OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES SEEM TO STATE THAT THE SOULS OF BELIEVERS WILL FACE DEATH?
• WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT THE SOUL
• WHAT IS A “LIVING SOUL”?
• TWO KEY ISSUES OF THE “SOUL” AND “SLEEP” AFTER DEATH THAT MUST BE CORRECTLY UNDERSTOOD AND ADDRESSED IN ORDER TO COME TO THE CORRECT CONCLUSION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO MAN AT HIS DEATH
• CAN SOMEONE BE SIMULTANEOUSLY ASLEEP/SLEEPING AND AWAKE AND ACTIVE: IF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED AS OVERCOMERS ARE AWAKE AND ACTIVE IN HEAVEN, WHY ARE THEY DESCRIBED AS BEING PRESENTLY ASLEEP?
• TO SLEEP OR NOT TO SLEEP (in death), THAT IS THE QUESTION OR TO SLEEP (in death), PERCHANCE TO WAKE (in the resurrection)
• TO BE RAISED OR NOT TO BE RAISED, THAT IS THE QUESTION – OR PERHAPS THE REAL QUESTION IS WHETHER WE ARE TO BE RAISED TO LIFE (FROM THE DEAD) OR TO BE RAISED TO A POSITION WHEN WE HAVE NEVER DIED?
• MATTHEW 22:31-32 AND LUKE 20:37-38
• ACTS 12:13-15 AND PETER’S “ANGEL”
• WAS JOHN TALKING TO A BRIDE MEMBER IN REVELATION 19 AND REVELATION 22 OR TO A CELESTIAL ANGEL?
• DOES THE BIBLE DEFINE THE LENGTH OF TIME BETWEEN THE FIRST AND SECOND RESURRECTIONS, AND HOW LONG IS THE PERIOD BETWEEN THOSE TWO RESURRECTIONS?
• CAN SOMEONE BE “ALIVE” TO GOD WITHOUT BEING PHYSICALLY ALIVE AND CAN GOD GIVE SOMEONE (THE PROMISE OF) ETERNAL LIFE PRIOR TO THEM FULLY POSSESSING ETERNAL LIFE?
• THERE IS NO BRIDE UNTIL THE MARRIAGE SUPPER
• JOHN 14:1-3