He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV
28
Sep
2026
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I am a born again christian who loves the Lord and I am taking bible classes online
I am a born again christian who loves the Lord and I am taking bible classes online
28
Sep
2026
Genesis 5:1-32 Number Endings in Genesis 5
“When I read Genesis 5, the numbers appear mythical. I don’t mean in length, but the actual, statistical likelihood that there are ten zeros in the list and many fives. In fact, almost everything follows a zero. Adam lived 800 years after his son. Noah had his children at 500 years old, and the flood started when Noah was 600 years old, and he lived 350 years after the flood. Enoch was taken after 300 years. There is no deviation or variation. It’s like the author was either unable to do math, or made it too simple, or was just making it up—thus all the zeros. Can you help with this issue?”
27
Sep
2026
The Nations Are Moving Into Position
Jesus said in Luke 21:28, “And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” Jesus did not tell us to be terrified; He told us to look up. Bible prophecy was not given to make believers afraid. It was given to make believers alert. It reminds us that history is not random, nations are not moving outside the knowledge of God, armies are not gathering beyond His control, and political leaders are not changing the future in ways God never expected. God already knows the end. Isaiah 46:9–10 records the Lord saying, “I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,” and then declaring that He is “declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done.” God does not guess about tomorrow. He declared the end from the beginning. That should give us both urgency and confidence: urgency because the world is not standing still, and confidence because God has not lost control.
27
Sep
2026
Genesis 4:17 – Where Did Cain Get His Wife? 4
This seems to be the favorite question of unbelievers who doubt the absolute veracity of God’s Word.
25
Sep
2026
Present Possession
“And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” Romans 8:23
25
Sep
2026
Genesis 4:17 – Cain & Cain’s Wife
Gen 4:1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
24
Sep
2026
Chuck Swindoll’s Unbiblical Grace
Since the 1990s we have been warning that Chuck Swindoll is one of the fathers of what has more recently been called “cultural liberalism.” Swindoll’s grace is an invitation for believers to participate in the wicked pop culture in a largely non-critical fashion. His doctrine of “grace” opens the door to secular rock, Christian rock, dancing, drinking, mini-skirts, bikinis, petting, fornication, unisex fashion, marijuana, cursing, R-rated movies, violent occult video games, pornography, unfiltered social media, etc.
24
Sep
2026
Genesis 4:17 – Where did Cain get his wife?
If there were only two people on Earth: Adam and Eve, then for the human race to “fill the Earth” at one point there must have been a brother and sister who would marry. This is not a perverse establishment by God since in that time there would have been no laws and problems with brother and sister marrying. This eventually changed certainly, but in the beginning there was nothing morally incorrect with that just like in the time of Abraham there was nothing wrong with his marrying his half-sister (Genesis 20:12), which marriage God blessed (Genesis 17:16), but later those kinds of marriages were restricted in the Law of Moses (Lev. 20:19).
22
Sep
2026
Born Again and Joined to Christ
When a person believes in Jesus Christ, something happens far deeper than a change in behavior. Salvation is not merely the decision to improve our lives. It is not the beginning of a religious self-improvement program. It is a new birth.
22
Sep
2026
Genesis 4:17 – Inconsistencies About Incest?
On more than one list of “Bible discrepancies” is the allegation that Bible writers erred in their teachings about incest. In Leviticus 18:6-30, 20:11-12, and Deuteronomy 27:20-23, one learns that sexual relations between close family members is sinful and punishable by death: “None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, to uncover his nakedness” (Leviticus 18:6). Other passages, however, indicate that God tolerated incest among His people, and even blessed those involved in such relationships. Abraham married Sarah, his half-sister (Genesis 20:12; cf. Genesis 17:15-16; 22:17), while Abraham’s son, Isaac, married Rebekah, his second cousin (Genesis 22:20-23; 24:4,15), and Jacob, Abraham’s grandson, married his first cousins, Rachel and Leah (Genesis 24:29; 29:15-30). Even Moses’ father, Amram, “took for himself Jachebed, his father’s sister, as wife” (Exodus 6:20, emp. added; cf. Leviticus 20:19). Critics claim that such passages are contradictory. Were Bible writers really inconsistent when they addressed the subject of incest?
21
Sep
2026
Reflections on a Rainbow
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
(Genesis 9:14)
21
Sep
2026
Genesis 4:16 – The Land Of Nod
After Cain killed Abel and was declared a “fugitive and vagabond” by God (Genesis 4:12), the Bible says that he “went out from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod” (4:16). It was in this land that “Cain knew his wife” (4:17), and it was here that his son, Enoch, was born.
18
Sep
2026
Has Your Great-Great-Grandfather Been Born Yet?
Has your great-great-grandfather been born yet? If he hasn’t, he’s not your great-great-grandfather! This might seem like a silly question. But when it comes to the claimed evolutionary fossil evidence for man’s evolution, our claimed great-great-grandfather has turned up in the wrong period of history. A re -dating of Homo erectus fossil skulls discovered in 1931 and 1933 has placed these supposed “human evolutionary ancestors” squarely in human history. This dating is supported by the geological setting in which they were found. In fact, two excavation sites right next to each other together yielded both modern human and Homo erectus remains!
18
Sep
2026
Genesis 14:14-15 – Does Genesis 4 Indicate that God Specifically Created Others Besides Adam and Eve?
If Adam and Eve were the only human beings that God miraculously created, where did all of the people come from who were of great concern to Cain? After God sentenced the murderous Cain to be “a fugitive and a vagabond” on the Earth (Genesis 4:12), recall that Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is greater than I can bear” (4:13). Cain then said: “Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me” (4:14, emp. added). God then responded to Cain, saying, “Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him seven-fold.” So, “the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him” (4:15, emp. added). Do the references to “anyone” and “whoever” in these verses suggest that God specially created others besides Adam and Eve?
17
Sep
2026
This Flower is a Real Stinker
Dung beetles may not be a very pleasant subject, but after all, someone has to do the housekeeping. So God created what man has classified into 30,000 species of dung beetle. Many will form their finds into a ball about the size of a croquet ball and roll it home for the wife and kids. Others tunnel beneath a find and set up housekeeping there.