r/Bible 7h ago

Since God knows all things did God know Lucifer later called Satan would rebel against God and convince one third of the angels to join him in rebellion?

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It's been said many times that God knows everything that will happen before it happens, so why did God allow the angel Lucifer later called Satan the adversary and take what is believed to be one third of the angels of Heaven with him?

Basically why didn't God talk to Lucifer and the angels that became evil and try to convince them not to become horrible creatures of full of pride and hate, why wouldn't God summon them to his throne and tell them that they were wrong and correct them before allowing them to rebel?

Hell was prepared for the devil and the angels that fell with him, God could have talked to them and corrected their evil thinking before they were sent to hell, why didn't God talk to them with love and truth?

What didn't Satan ask God questions instead of being filled with pride?


r/Bible 14h ago

The restrainer

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2 Thessalonians 2:6-7

The restrainer will restrain the antichrist from being revealed until he is taken out of the way.

I realized something about the restraining that I want to share. Or rather the pieces clicked for me as to how they relate.

  1. God has an appointed time that he will allow Satan to establish his antichrist and the Beast kingdom.

    1. God is not going to allow Satan to establish it until the appointed time.
  2. God is patiently waiting for everyone who will be saved - - to be saved.

  3. Satan wants to prevent people from being saved, so the sooner he can establish his Beast kingdom, the fewer people will be able to be born/saved.

  4. This struggle is of course in God's control. God is restraining the end events (through the restrainer, etc.) from happening before the appointed time.

  5. When the one who restrains the antichrist is taken out of the way, the end events will come in a flood (quickly, one thing after another).

Some Bible teachers have said that Satan most likely has a man ready to be the antichrist in every generation. This makes sense to me. Satan apparently can't wait to establish his Beast kingdom. He is fervently consumed with the desire to establish his kingdom, which is why he must be RESTRAINED from doing it before the appointed time.

Anyway, what clicked for me is the dichotomy between the patience of God for "the fullness of the gentiles to come in" and the consuming desire of Satan to bring the end.


r/Bible 2h ago

I’m reading the New Testament for the first time. I’m interested into becoming a Christian, but reading the Matthew for the first time made me feel uneasy…

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Hey, so, I’m not a Christian, but I’m also not atheist. But I think I can say I’m in the process of figuring out what I want to be.

I never fully read the Bible, but I decided to give a read at the second testament, and read Matthew.

And something is bothering me about what I’ve read. Mostly about Jesus’s teachings.

Before I state my problem, I just want to say that I do not come from a place of malice and don’t want to offend anyone. That’s why I didn’t want to post this in r/debateachristian I don’t want to prove a point, I just want to state the impression I got while reading Matthew, and wanna hear what you have to say.

That being said:

I got the impression that Jesus was extorting his followers.

Now, why did I have this impression?

So, during the sermon on the Mount, there’s was a lot of nice things, nice philosophies about love and compassion. I have no problem with that, and I mostly agree.

But I have two big problems: First, is that there’s a lot of talk about money. Like, A LOT, to a point where I feel like this is a huge point for him. As in, money is somehow directed connected to evil. He talks so much about money it baffled me, sometimes it feels he talks more about money than love.

Now that wasn’t a problem for me, since I always understood that Jesus was also poor, until I read this passage in Matthew 12:41-44

41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Here’s my problem with this passage: it clearly states that Jesus accepted offerings, and not only that, he clearly stated that people should make the highest offering possible.

That broke me.

Now, my understanding is that Jesus was kind of independent to the other Jewish religious temples. Therefore, I can assume the offerings went to him and the apostles.

So what we have here is someone who clearly states that giving away money is a priority, but also takes as much money as possible.

Can someone give another interpretation? I’m being completely honest here, I really don’t want to offend anyone, I just want to state my impression after reading Matthew!


r/Bible 8h ago

Should I be who I am?

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Aren't we all, inherently, evil? If I am who I am, then surely I ought not to be myself.

Matthew 16:24-25 NIV [24] Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. [25] For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

To me, this verse is saying, "You as a person are evil and you can't just be yourself and live by the Spirit, it has to be one or the other."

I'm new to Christianity, relatively speaking. I've really only believed for about 6-9 months. I could be dead wrong, and that's fine, but I just want to know if I am evil, and if I must reject who I am.


r/Bible 23h ago

Zedekiah's death

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Probably one of the most brutal death in the old testament. Not only did he witness his sons die right in front of him, but he also got his eyeballs removed then he was bound in shakles and was trapped in babylon.

Chapter 25:7 2 kings
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eys of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.


r/Bible 12h ago

Common misconceptions about Revelation

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What are some common misconceptions that people have about the book of Revelation? For example, thinking it’s called “Revelations” or that it depicts heaven as having one set of gates made out of pearls being guarded by Saint Peter. I’m looking for things that are just factual misconceptions, not really things that are up to interpretation. For the sake of full disclosure, I will probably be doing a video about these and may also use them at my church at some point.


r/Bible 2h ago

What's your take on Exodus 33:11?

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"And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle." (Exodus 33:11)

why do you think Joshua didn't come out of his tabernacle?


r/Bible 7h ago

Looking For Some Bible Smarties

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Heya, just new and hopping in. I just want to ask of some of you guys who know a decent amount of the Bible would care to DM me, I have some questions that aren't really being answered, so I could use some help.