Biblical Studies
Four Hundred & Thirty Years
by Pastor Don Elmore
May 12, 2013
Scripture Reading: Exodus 12:40-41
Have you ever wondered what these two verses mean in Exodus 12:40-41? It seems that Israel was 430 years in Egypt; however, it took a while before I learned that Israel wasn't in Egypt that long. Below is a table that will explain the timing.
Abraham's Family
by Pastor Don Elmore
April 21, 2013
Scripture Reading: Romans 9:6-8
Romans 9:6-8 “Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”
Series of newspaper articles on six million Jews
To properly understand today's Scripture reading, one has to be able to understand the family of Abraham. Who was it who eventually became the wife of Almighty God?
Race Mixing is Not Christian
by Pastor Mark Downey
April 14, 2013
Scripture Reading: Nehemiah 10:28-30
Christian Identity has restored one of the most prevalent issues found in the Word of God and that is the subject of race. However, in an attempt to bring forward the righteous corrections of faulty teachings, it is somewhat like revisionist historians dealing with the holocaust industry. Christian Identity does not enjoy the glut monopoly of merchandising information as does the establishment religions and media, although we do have a gift of discernment and an unwavering love for truth wherever it may lead. What we have been told about race in the Bible has been an unmitigated fraud to destroy us. What the Bible actually says about race will preserve us. We are like David standing up against Goliath having a wealth of encyclopedic facts to sanction the mixing of the races. This has been accomplished over a long period of time by contaminating the historical record and the Bible itself with disinformation.
The Fulfillment of the Law
by Everett Ramsay, DD
From the book: Commentary of the New Testament
Matthew 5:17-20:
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Jesus Christ made it plain that He did not come to alter or eliminate the law. He came to fulfill the law, especially that which is related to the covenant of Abraham. The ceremonial law was not removed or done away. It was fulfilled in Christ. The law is still there.
History Repeats
by Pastor Don Elmore
February 3, 2013
Scripture Reading: Exodus 1:1-7
Seventy people came into Egypt and in a short time, around two centuries, they were over two million in population. The blessings that the Abrahamic covenant had outlined had been fulfilled right from the beginning. But something happened that brought about the curses….
But let us leave the Israelites in Egypt and let us look at what is happening to their descendants over 3500 years later. About six weeks ago we had a mass shooting at New Town, Connecticut Elementary School. But did it actually happen the way that the government said it did? There are many unanswered questions.
The Curse of Canaan
by Pastor Don Elmore
January 20, 2013
Scripture Reading: Genesis 4:8-12
Cain was the first person born of Eve and the Bible says that he was cursed of GOD. Eve, at first, had twin boys, Cain and Abel; two sons but each had different fathers.
We just read of God’s punishment to Cain of his murder of his brother. He was cursed; can’t farm so he has to be a fugitive and a vagabond. So, the first two children born to Eve—one was cursed and the other was dead. It wasn’t a very good start.
The Bible gives the partial genealogy of Cain in chapter 4:17-24 of the book of Genesis. The son of Cain was Enoch; Enoch’s son was Irad; Irad’s son was Mehujael; Mehujael’s son was Methusael; and Methusael’s son was Lamech. Lamech had two wives. With his wife Adah his sons were Jabal and Jubal; with his other wife Zullah his son was Tubal-cain and his sister was Naamah. Jabal lived in tents and had cattle. Jubal was a musician: a player of the harp and organ. Tubal-cain was an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron; a metal smith.
None of Cain’s children were farmers; they had to invent other jobs for themselves. They were dependent on others for their food.
Judeo-Christianity
by Pastor Don Elmore
February 12, 2012
Scripture reading: I Thessalonians 2:14-16
Have you ever wondered about the hyphenated words: “Judeo-Christian” or “Judeo-Christianity?” Can you find these terms in the Bible? Does it mean that Christianity owes its existence to Judaism? That Christianity came out or is a splinter group of Judaism. Was Jesus Christ a Jew? Were the Apostles Jews? Were the early churches Jews? Isn’t that what is implied by the hyphen?
Whom Did God Choose?
by Pastor Don Elmore
January 15, 2012
Scripture Reading: Joshua 24:31
In the Answers in Genesis booklet, “How Can I Become a Child of God?” they divided the small booklet into several divisions. For example, it starts out with the topic Creation, followed by Corruption, Confusion, Christ, Cross and the Consummation and then two pages entitled the same as the booklet. They make the same basic divisions in their museum.
In the page titled, Confusion, it makes two very big assumptions:
“Noah’s children and grandchildren disobeyed God after the Flood. God caused them to scatter from the Tower of Babel all over the earth by confusing their language. From these families:
- All the people groups of the world have come.
- But no matter where we live or what shade of skin color we have, we are all part of Adam and Eve’s family.
We are all disobedient to God. We all deserve to be separated from God forever. So we all need to be restored to a right relationship with God—to become part of God’s family” (labeling the two points are not in their booklet).
Then follows the quoting of Genesis 11:9 “Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the earth.” On the latter half of the page is a picture of a young black boy with a young white boy.
That is the entire chapter on Confusion. It assumes that the flood that occurred at this time was world-wide and destroyed all life except the 8 people of Noah and his family. But the fact that there are more languages than pure races doesn’t bother them at all. In fact, according to Answers in Genesis, Adam and Eve were mid-brown in their pigmentation; so Noah and his three sons were the same: mid-brown.
According to their beliefs, all people groups (that is the two words that they use instead of the word, races) are descended from Noah and his three sons. Every one of every race is all descended from Noah and from Adam. So, all races were mid-brown from Adam to Noah until God scattered them from the Tower of Babel by confusing their language. They all left and went with the people of the same language to different parts of the earth which produced the new races of the black, white, and yellow people of the world. This change into different races, however, only lasted for a couple of hundred years, according to them, as it doesn’t happen anymore—there is no scripture given for this!
There is no history that can verify this position either.
Joshua 4: The Two Twelve Stone Memorials
by Pastor Don Elmore
January 1, 2012
Scripture Reading: Joshua 3:1-7
Today we have a lesson that most of the Judeo-Christian churches would tell its congregations that it is about other people; that it is NOT about them—it’s about the Jews. But I will tell you just the opposite. This is a story about our great-great-great-great? - grandparents and how their GOD kept His Word to them and also to us. It is a marvelous historical happening that I hope will increase your faith in God; for our God is the same one who they had, who acts in the same way that He acted in this saga.
This is a true story; not a myth or some fancy story line. Everything in this tale is true—and there were monuments built to keep this saga in the mind of the children to tell them about what happened and to keep the story alive. It is a small part of the fascinating historical event of Israel’s journey to the Promised Land.
The "Two Nations"
By Pastor Don Elmore
December 4, 2011
We are living in very deceptive times. The Bible says that almost the entire world will be deceived by the evil seed. Almost everything in this age is an illusion. Our money, our holidays, our institutions and even ourselves are images of examples of what the Bible talked about what would happen in the end of this age.
For example, our big holiday of Christmas is a big illusion. In the Friday, December 2, 2011, Cincinnati Enquirer, in its “Faith Matters” column,The Creation Museum, the product of Answers in Genesis 1-11, begins this weekend with a “preview of events for its annual Christmas celebrations with the events opening to the public next weekend. The museum has an extensive Christmas program, including Christmas Town, a combination of live nativity and dramas. The museum exhibits and “The Christmas Star” planetarium program each have admission and tickets. Admission after 5 p.m. on Christmas Town nights is $5. The Garden of Lights includes 60,000 Christmas lights, and the Christmas Town includes a reenactment of first-century Bethlehem and a marketplace with gifts and souvenirs. The outdoor Christmas Town and Garden of Lights are free through the season; with the town open 6 to 8 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16, 17, 26, 27, 30 and 31.”
The word “Christmas” is not even mentioned once in the Bible; so much for sola scriptura! Christ’s mass was forbidden to be celebrated by many Protestants and before them the churches who were separate from and never a part of the Universal (Catholic) Church. One wonders as he hears of Black Friday and Cyber Monday how insane the season has become. It is like the letter to the editor that appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on November 29th:
