BIBLE CLASS

By Robert Arthur The New Testament promises and assures the Christians of so many rewards, including the various crowns which the Lord Jesus Christ will put on heads of the faithfuls.  It is with the Christian to fight and wrestle to receive this crown as according to the instructions given by the Lord. The Word of God, the New Testament has fully furnished us with the description of these glorious crowns and how we can receive them. A. DESCRIBED AS: 1. Crown of Righteousness...2 Tim 4:8 2. Crown of Life...Rev 2:10 3. Imperishable Crown....1 Cor 9:25 4. Crown of Glory....1 Pet 5:4 5. Crown of Victory....2 Tim 2:5      B. OBTAINED BY: 1. Control the body....1 Cor 9:24-27 2. Faithful to death....Rev 2:8-10 3. Holdfast your possession..Rev 3:10-11 4. Patience....Jam 1:12 5. Forge ahead....Phil 3:13-14 6. Uphold rules of the game...2 Tim 2:3-6 C. EXAMPLES OF: 1. Jesus Christ .. Heb 2:9 2. Paul ... 2 Tim 4:7-8             ...

By Robert Arthur There are many religious groups and sects especially the Jehovah’s Witnesses who believe the  144,000 people  who are mentioned in the Book of Revelation chapters 7 and 14 are special   and  super human beings who are elevated to upper class people of God who will be in Heaven, whereas the rest of His chosen ones remain on this earth at judgment. Jehovah’s Witnesses attack the inerrant word of God by making such a dubious and treacherous separation in the word of God which does not exist anywhere in the New Testament and the Bible at large. 2 Pet 3:15-16, 2 Tim 3:5-9 The Apostle John said that what he was shown by the angel of the Lord were  ‘ signs or symbols ’ about many of the things that are past, present and will shortly take place [future]. Rev 1:1, 19 A  ‘sign’  is a picture [image] or a mark with meaning. In other words it is a figure of something which has special meaning representing an...