The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

Jesus spoke this parable to show what the kingdom of heaven will be like when the end of the age comes. In the parable, the king sends his servants out to gather the wedding guests to the wedding feast. But those invited refused to come, some because they were too busy with their own worldly pursuits and some because they were positively hostile toward the king. So the king commands his servants to go out and invite anyone they find, and many come and fill the wedding hall. But the king sees one man without wedding clothes, and he sends him away. Jesus concludes by saying that many are called/invited to the kingdom, but only those who have been “chosen” and have received Christ will come. Those who try to come without the covering of the blood of Christ for their sins are inadequately clothed and will be sent into “outer darkness,” (v. 13) i.e., hell.  Many people hear the call of God which comes through His revelation of Himself through two things—the creation and the conscie...

No one was present as observer when life began, and neither model of origins can be reproduced in laboratory experiments. There is much evidence that Creation is a correct understanding of origins, but the belief that Creation took place in six literal days is based primarily on Scripture. Here are some evidence from Scripture to support this view: 1) The Hebrew word "yom" The Hebrew word for day,  yom,  as in English, is used both for a literal, twenty-four-hour day and also for an indefinite period of time, such as in the expression “ For the day of the  Lord  is at hand ” (Joel 1:15). However, the word,  yom,  always means a twenty-four-hour literal day when it is used with a numeral—day one, day two, first day, second day, etc. There are no exceptions to this rule. In the Genesis Creation account,  yom  is used with a numeral, indicating that it intends the reader to understand that these are literal days of twenty-four hours. 2)...