Question Card Popcorn Session 2
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Turn to Philippians 2:7-8.
Popcorn session: doesn’t mean you grab your popcorn; it means we have several questions that we are going to go though one after another.
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Question: Did Jesus ever get hurt besides when people persecuted him?
In other words, did Jesus suffer the normal consequences of living in a sin-cursed world?
Jesus Himself was both fully divine and fully human. He experienced every aspect of the human life experience, from birth to death, but without sin.
Read Philippians 2:7-8.
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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Jesus had human flesh just like ours, but without sin. Here’s how that affected His human experience:
He would get hungry
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Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
He would get tired
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Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
So did Jesus ever get hurt? Did He suffer the consequences of living in a sin-cursed world? Since He had a human body, and since He would get hungry and tired, it is safe to conclude that throughout His life, He could suffer physical pain just as every other human could suffer.
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Question: Can people in heaven see us on earth?
Turn to and read Hebrews 12:1.
Witness: someone who can affirm with confidence what he himself has seen or heard. Where have you heard this before? Same word is found in Acts 1:8.
This cloud of witnesses is the heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11. Some commentators say that they witness - they watch - us as spectators. This may be possible, but we don’t know for certain. The word “witness” does suggest the idea of spectator.
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Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
It may be possible, but it seems more in keeping with the context that they are witnesses to the value of living by faith. They did it. They lived it. And now their lives stand as a testimony to us that living by faith is the best life to live because it pleases God!
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Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
The rich man in hell knew that he had five brethren on earth, but the text doesn’t say he could see them. He only knew that they were not where he was - in hell. He asked Abraham to send someone to preach to them, but it doesn’t indicate that he could observe such a circumstance taking place.
Whether or not people in heaven can look down and see us, we are not running our race for them. We are not hoping for their approval or listening for their applause. - https://www.gotquestions.org/heaven-look-down.html
Hebrews 12:2 tells us to keep our focus where it belongs:
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Question: Information on the False Prophet and the Antichrist.
The Antichrist is referred to at least 30 different ways in Scripture. There is much revealed about him since he is Satan’s ultimate imitation of God’s plan. He is Satan’s counterpart of our Savior. Just as the Bible reveals God to be a Tri-unity, so Satan attempts to imitate this reality of God for himself.
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God the Father - Satan
God the Son - the Antichrist
God the Holy Spirit - the False Prophet
What is the Antichrist? In summary, the Antichrist is the end-times false messiah who seeks…world domination so that he can destroy Israel and all followers of Jesus Christ. - https://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-antichrist.html
It seems that the Antichrist will be a man that is supernaturally empowered by Satan to function as a false messiah. He is the first beast identified in Revelation 13.
The False Prophet is Satan’s counterpart to the Holy Spirit. He is the second beast identified in Revelation 13. Whoever or whatever this being is, he will direct worship to the Antichrist in imitation of the Holy Spirit who directs worship to Jesus Christ. He will use “miraculous signs and wonders, including fire from heaven, to establish [their] credibility” and to cause mankind to worship the Antichrist. - https://www.gotquestions.org/false-prophet.html
When Christ returns at the Second Coming, the Antichrist will lead the armies of the world in a great battle against Christ and will be utterly defeated (Revelation 19:17-21). This is called the battle of Armageddon. The Bible suggests that the Antichrist and the False Prophet will be the first ones thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20).
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For further study:
Things to Come - J. Dwight Pentecost
Revelation: Walvoord Commentary Series - John Walvoord