Bible Text Studies Series

Revelation is not a book of gloom and doom. It is a book of hope. A book of reassurance that, no matter how bad things get in the world, God is still in control and still loves us like light shimmering in the soul. . It was written during a time when Christians were losing jobs and homes, friends and family. During a time when Christians were being imprisoned, tortured, and killed. They were laying everything on the line for Jesus. Everything! They needed hope. They needed this love letter.  . This is a history of the world before Jesus was born, especially the world of the Israelites. It is also an account of Jesus birth, ministry, and death. It ends with the final doom of Satan and the final victory of the church, the heavenly Jerusalem. After all, does not chapter 1, verse 19 state that John was to "write, therefore, what you have seen [past], what is now [present], and what will take place later [future]"? . The scriptures always interpret themselves; therefore, the author takes you through each scene with applicable background scriptures to magnify the meaning with unique clearness.  . This is God's last love letter to the world. He has done everything possible to help us escape hell, including offering his only begotten son to die in our place. We are his children. He loves us and does not want us to be hurt. He tells of the overwhelming joy he can give those who accept his Son as Lord of their life. He also tells us that, if we become Christians, he will protect us as he always protected his children in the past. This is one last reassurance. One last love letter from God. . Cast aside all the horror stories you have been told about Revelation. View it now with fresh new eyes, be awed, and be showered with God's love.

There are numerous books on the Holy Spirit, but they are based on only a few Bible verses. This study was not done to prove the author's or anyone else's pet assessment of the Holy Spirit. The study was made with the desire to forget all pre-conceived notions and opinions, and discover only God's opinion. The Bible has 592 verses on the Holy Spirit and God's Spirit. This is the only book of its kind to cover all verses. All other books take a few ideas about the Holy Spirit and elaborate on them. To make sense out of all 592 verses, they were categorized according to what you see in the table of contents in this book ~ the types of people affected by the Holy Spirit.  Within each category, are sub-categories, usually based on how the Holy Spirit connected with each person, and how each person reacted.  The same subcategory terms will sometimes appear in each category of the people the Holy Spirit affected. At first those little words may seem to have no special significance. But as you progressed through them, you will see that even little words like "within" and "upon", and "full" sometimes had big significance. All those word studies prepare you for the even more dynamic later chapters in the book. The study is based on the New King James Version of the Bible. Read through these chapters, not to prove what you already believe, but with an open mind and heart that perhaps you don't believe in enough things the Holy Spirit does, or you believe in more things than the scriptures actually teach. Let us be careful that we do not go beyond what is written (I Corinthians 4:6). Now, let us gear up for all things God's Holy Spirit does, and get ready to be amazed.

(NOTE: This book is similar to "Was Jesus God?" which was written for Readers who have never read the Bible and Muslims who are told Christians believe in three Gods.)  What does "I'm saved" mean? When I am drowning, I am not saved to the shore, I am saved from the water. In a spiritual sense, we are not saved to heaven. We are saved from something, that something being Satan. When Jesus ransomed us, he did not ransom us to heaven. He ransomed us from Satan..........It all started in the Garden of Eden when God told Adam and Eve, "The day you eat the forbidden fruit, you will die." And they did. Their spirits died and the author of Death ~ Satan ~ got us. This book takes the reader through all the things God did to get us away from Satan and back to Him, our creator and the lover of our soul. Yes, he gave us rules. Why? For the same reason, we were given rules as children to keep us from running out into the street and getting run over and killed. Why does God get angry when we break one of his rules? Not because we insulted him but because we have endangered our souls and it is breaking his heart. .The book ends with the promises of heaven. What we will be like. What heaven will be like. And how we yearn for that day when we will, at last, be home.

This book with its over 400 footnotes connecting the bride to the church can be a study book. It can also be a gift book. The Song of Songs written by King Solomon is a love story between a man and woman but overflows with the symbolism of Jesus Christ and his love for his Bride, his Church, his Ecclesia.  Come along with me now in this expansion of the greatest love story in the universe. Look over their shoulder at their love letters to each other beginning with the time he finds her in the clutches of Satan and pays the terrible ransom to free her. He takes her to their Garden and they fall even more in love. Then on to the times she wanders away and he follows her to bring her back to him. Their story ends in Revelation with Ecclesia calling to him. He replies, "I am coming soon." That, indeed, is what our Lord is called out to us today. He is coming! Soon he is coming!