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“I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.” When Jesus said that to Peter in Matthew 16:18, He was referring to the work He came to accomplish on the cross by His Father’s will. Before the fall, Adam had fellowship with God, and God gave Adam dominion over His […]

God created Adam “a living soul”. Christ became a “quickening spirit”. The first Adam was from the Earth. The second Adam, Christ, was from Heaven. Thus we read in the Scriptures. Adam was created to fall. Christ was born to redeem the elect of God. Adam believed the voice of Satan; Christ came to destroy the

God created man. In the beginning, after He finished the heavens and the earth, God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”… (Gen. 1:26) He created Adam perfect. We read in Ecclesiastes 7:29, “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”

After the fall, God cursed Satan, man, woman and the Earth. We can read this account in Genesis 3. The curse was so terrible that the whole perspective of man changed. Adam’s fall brought death to all mankind. Before the fall, Adam was perfect. He had free will, was able to live forever because he

God created man in the Garden of Eden. He created man upright (Ecc. 7:29), but he fell through the deception of Satan. Man was in the Garden enjoying God’s company. He was free to walk around, to enjoy the fruits of the Earth, and God had given him the task of taking care of the

In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. God had the purpose of forming this special creation for His Glory and His pleasure. He says that in a number of places, but very specifically in Hebrews 1:1-2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers

Christ went to Hades to redeem the Old Testament saints from hades and to deliver the New Testament saint from the power of the devil. That is the reason why He exclaimed in Psalm 16:10 “For thou will not leave my soul in hell (Sheol)…” and also: “For great is thy mercy toward me: and

Once, a well-intentioned preacher held a baby in his arms and told his congregation, “God would never send a beautiful child like this to hell. What kind of a God is that?”, he asked. Well, that’s the God of the Bible. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. This preacher had (maybe) good

Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, had twelve sons. Joseph and Benjamin were among them. Jacob favored them even above the others, because they were the sons of Rachel, who was the love of Jacob’s life. This sibling rivalry ended up with Joseph being sold to the Egyptians. In the meantime, Joseph’s brothers made

The first time Sheol is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis 37:35. There we read, “For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning” These words came from the mouth of Jacob, who was lamenting the (he thought) death of his son, Joseph. In this context, the word “grave” is actually