Truth Be Told: A Blog by Pastor Bill Alderson

  “You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. “You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments .                           Exodus 20:4-6 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”                           Exodus 20:17 One of the most significant issues of the Protestant Reformation was the emphasis ...

Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or, 'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst (inside) ." And He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them. For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered th...

In physics, the fourth dimension is commonly identified with time , which, together with the three dimensions of space (length, width, height), forms a four-dimensional continuum called spacetime . This concept, central to Einstein’s theory of relativity , shows that time is not separate from space but is deeply interconnected with it. To fully describe an event in the universe, you need four coordinates : three for spatial location and one for the moment in time when it occurs. Then God [ Elohiym – God the Creator] said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea ...

Before Jesus was baptized onto the scene, John the Baptist was preaching, " Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand " (Matthew 3:2). Jesus took up this same mantle in Matthew 4:17 as he began speaking to the masses and then extended it to His disciples’ charge in Matthew 10:7, “ And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand’.” But what did this all mean? Was the Messiah ready to demonstrate his physical authority, or was there some other, more profound meaning of the kingdom of heaven? To answer this question, we need to look at His entire public ministry, particularly his response to the Jewish accusations against Him when brought to Pilate. The Pharisees ask Jesus about the kingdom of God in Luke 17:20-21, and His response is enlightening. He tells them that the kingdom cannot be recognized by physical signs that are observable, but that the kingdom is “ in your midst .” The Greek word entos literally means inside, and the kingdom of God is a r...