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Key Subject of the New
Testament Books |
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Jesus the Son
of God |
Mathew |
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Jesus is the
Savior who Meets Man's Needs. |
Mark |
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The Son of Man
in his Service among Men.
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Luke |
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The Son of God
in the Moral Glory of his Person and Life. |
John |
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work of the
Holy Spirit |
Acts |
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Righteousness; How Man can be Justified
before God. |
Romans |
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Church Order
and Discipline. Our Relations to Each Other
in the Church. |
1 Corinthians |
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Christian
Ministry and Superiority over Circumstances.
Our Relation to the World. |
2
Corinthians |
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Christian
Blessing and Liberty contrasted in the Law. |
Galatians |
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Christ the Measure of Christian Standing and
Blessing. |
Ephesians |
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Christian Experience. In the Face of Christ.
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Philippians |
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The Church's Glories and Fullness in Christ
her Head. |
Colossians |
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Christ coming to and for the Church, and her
Eternal Blessedness. |
1 Thessalonians |
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Christ coming with His Saints. The Eternal
Judgment of Unbelievers. |
2 Thessalonians |
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Church Order according to God. |
1 Timothy |
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Church Disorder and the Individual Pathway. |
2 Timothy |
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Christian Qualification for the Ministry and
Godly Conduct. |
Titus |
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Christian Love. |
Philemon. |
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Jesus Christ is the substance of the
ceremonial law. |
Hebrews |
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The Common Sense of Christianity, or
Christian Morality in and out of the Church. |
James |
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God's Righteous Government in Relation to
Saints. |
1 Peter |
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God's Righteous Judgment upon the Public
Christian Profession. |
2 Peter |
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Christ the Eternal Life and Power of
Communion with God. |
1 John |
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Christ and the Truth the Safeguard against
Heresy. |
2 John |
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Christian Hospitality to the Saints and
especially to Gods servants. |
3 John |
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Apostasy traced down to the Last Days. |
Jude |
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Christ Assuming the Government of the World |
Revelation |
Bible
66 books.. The Bible is actually a collection
of books - the word of God, some long, some short.
This book of books is the world’s all-time best
seller and the world’s most translated book.
The Old Testament has…
39 books
929 chapters
23,214 verses
593,493 words
Longest book:
Psalms
Shortest book: Obadiah (3rd shortest book
in the Bible)
The
New Testament has…
27 books
260 chapters
7,959 verses
181,253 words
Longest book: Acts
Shortest book in the Bible: 3 John (fewest number of
words / 2 John has more words, but one fewer
verses.)
5 history books (Acts and the Gospels:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
21 letters (epistles)
1 book of prophecy (Revelation)
hat is water Baptism
The New Testament
Church
The new Testament church is
all born again or saved people from the time Christ
started His Church (Mt.
16:18;
Eph. 2:19-21)
to the future rapture of this Church from earth to
heaven.
Old Testament Saints
Old Testament Saints are the
saved of all past ages from Abel to the
establishment of the New Testament Church at the
first coming of Christ to the earth (Mt.
16:16;
Heb. 11:1-40;
Acts 7:38)
Rapture
Rapture is not the Second
Coming of Christ, the rapture is a distinct and
separate coming of the Lord with at least seven
years between the two comings out of heaven. The
word “rapture” simply means “to transport from one
place to another.” The scriptural expressions
equated with rapture are “caught up” (1
Th. 4:17;
2 Cor. 12:4).
Explanation of Genesis 3:15
Genesis 3:15 is God's
announcement of judgment against Satan after he
deceived Eve to sin (Gen. 3:1-6). It is the first
recorded prophecy of the Messiah in the Bible. In
it, God assures Satan that one of the woman's
offspring would destroy the work and power of Satan.
"and I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." Gen 3:15.
The enmity between Satan and the seed of woman is
the presence of sin in the world. The "seed" of
woman is Jesus Christ (read Galatians 4:4). The seed
of woman in Gen. 3:15 (Christ) would land a death
blow to the head (authority) of the serpent. Jesus
Christ, the fulfillment of this prophecy, came to
"destroy the work of the devil" (1 John. 3:8), which
He did through His death on the cross and His
resurrection from the dead (Heb. 2:14-15; Rom.
1:1-4; 4:24-25). His sufferings are described as
"bruising his heel" in Gen. 3:15.
Jesus had brothers and
sisters.
Mary and Joseph did have children, they were Jesus'
half-brothers and-sisters. Matthew 13:56 reads:
"Isn't His mother's name Mary, and aren't His
brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas? Aren't all
His sisters with us?" So we know He had 4 brothers
and at least 3 sisters (if there had been only 2,
the word 'both' would have been used instead of
'all') and they were alive when Jesus was.
Matthew 12:46 also refers to Jesus' mother and
brothers: "While Jesus was still talking to the
crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside,
wanting to speak to him." We must also presume that
Joseph was already dead when Jesus was crucified.
Joseph is never mentioned during Jesus' ministry;
and when he was being crucified, Jesus asked John to
look after Mary as if she were his own mother (John
19:26,27) At that time, none of Jesus' family
believed in Him. Yet afterwards some did believe.
Millennium
This term means one thousand years. It will be the
first one thousand years of innumerable thousands of
years of all future eternity wherein Christ will
reign on earth with God the Father, God the Holy
Spirit, and all the redeemed and spirit beings who
now cooperate with God to put down rebellion in
earth (1 Cor. 15:24-28; Mt. 25:31-46; Lk.
1:32-33;Dan. 2:44-45; 7:9-14, 18, 22, 27; Zech. 14;
Ezek. 38-39; Isa. 9:6-7, Rev. 11:15; 20:1-10;
22:4-5).
The Future Tribulation
During the first 3½ years, Antichrist will be rising
to power over the ten kingdoms inside the old Roman
Empire boundary lines, and during the last 3½ years,
he will rule the whole ten kingdoms. The last 3½
years the great tribulation because of being the
worst time of trouble on earth that has ever been or
will be (Dan. 9:27; 12:1, 7; Mt. 24:15-31; Jer.
30;Rev. 7:14; 12:1–19:21, Isa. 66:7-8)
The 144,000
This special
company of Jews are those in the new nation of
Israel who will miss the rapture of the Church but
will get saved after it, in the first 3½ years of
Daniel’s 70th Week. They will be sealed for
protection from the seven trumpet judgments (Rev.
7:1-8; 9:4).
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