I hear Christians referred to a lot as New Testament Christians, but what does that actually mean? Christians didn’t exist prior to the New Testament, before the New Testament there were no Christians, Christians only came into existance after Christ came to earth, prior to that there were no Christians, or I guess you could [...]

I’m a Seventh Day Adventist, not a Jehovah’s Witness, Mormon or anything else, yet so many people don’t seem to know the difference. That’s fine, I’m happy to explain what I believe. It just frustrates me a bit when I’m having a conversation with someone and I get told something along the lines of “So [...]

Over the past few weeks, I’ve setup a couple of new blogs. What’s that? I hardly update this one or http://matthewbrown.net.au as it is? I know, I know, I have lots of things to put on them and no time to do it! The two new blogs are both for very good reasons though! Show [...]

The concept of the rapture is an interesting one. It is Biblically based, but the popularised concept in the “Left Behind” series, isn’t really Biblically correct at all. If anything, it’s backwards. I’ve been studying this a bit, and the key things to the rapture concept seem to me to be, the saved will be [...]

Recently I’ve been listening to a series of prophecy seminars presented by Pr David Asscherick. They’re quite interesting studies, I just thought I would share a few verses with you though that he pointed out which compare the characters of Christ and Satan, so clearly. Have a look at Isaiah 14:12-14: 12How art thou fallen [...]

I came across these videos of Matthew Gamble’s sermons at the 2008 Brisbane Big Camp, they are well worth watching, I suggest in order. I’ve put them into play lists for each sermon to make it a bit easier. Enjoy! Friday Night Saturday Morning Sunday Night Monday Night

Deuteronomy I found to be an extremely emotional and moving book, looking at how far the Israelites have come since leaving Horeb, reiterating and reinforcing the law, and ending with Moses’ death. It consists of a number of heartfelt speeches given to the Israelites by Moses, and it gives some insight into some things I [...]

Numbers is quite interesting, like Leviticus it delves a lot into the laws outlined, but rather than just listing and explaining them, it uses situations that arise in the Israelites journey to show the laws and how they affect the people of Israel. There were a few sections in it that I found quite interesting, [...]

I found Numbers a really interesting book to read, it elaborates on and explains the law established in Leviticus with real examples. It also provides general information and statistics on the people of Israel, which I thought was interesting too. The first chapter of Numbers is entirely a census that God told Moses to take [...]

This section of Leviticus continues on from the first 12 chapters in explaining the law and elaborating on it. There are many interesting laws through here, but there were a couple of things I noticed in particular. The first is that Leviticus 18:22 is the first reference in the law that homosexuality is wrong. Sodom [...]