What is Halloween? What do Druids and saints have to do with it? Does the Bible endorse Halloween? When did people start to observe it? Should Christians celebrate it? It seems like more reasons are given by some Protestants and Catholics each year to observe it. In this video, Dr. Thiel gives 17 reasons that have been given to celebrate Halloween and debunks each of them from the Bible.
Holy Day Plan of Salvation
Did God have a plan of salvation before the foundation of the world? Was the moon made to make God's Holy Days? What about common holidays? Did the apostles and early followers of Jesus keep the biblical Holy Days? Are they listed one place in the Bible? What are they? What to they mean? Does God have a plan of salvation that will result in most who ever lived being saved?
China in 2017
The Work per HWA and the Bible
What should be the work of the most faithful Christian church be doing? What should be the priority for Christians? What did Jesus tell the Philadelphia portion of the Church of God? What did Herbert W. Armstrong teach? What does the New Testament teach? What is the open door? Does proclamation include reaching Gentiles?
LGD: Does God have a plan to offer salvation to everyone?
Jesus spoke on that 'last great day of the Feast' in John 7:36-37. Does this have any connection with the 'great white throne judgment in Revelation 20? Does the Bible teach that God will offer salvation to all that ever lived? For those not receiving a true offer in this age, will they have an opportunity during the 'age to come'?
The Team of The First Resurrection Saints
Is Your Destiny Deification?
Is the teaching of deification a new or cultic idea? Does the Bible teach it? Did early Christians teach it? Did Greco-Roman saints teach it? Did Martin Luther teach it? What about Ignatius and Theophilus of Antioch? Does it have anything to do with the family of God or the Kingdom of God? Are humans intended to rule the universe?
Mission of the Remnant of the Philadelphia Church Era
Jesus gave a message to the Philadelphia portion of the Church of God in Revelation 3. On December 17, 1983, the late Herbert W. Armstrong gave a sermon titled, "The Mission of the Philadelphia Church Era." In that sermon, he went over the mission of the Philadelphian portion of the Church of God as well as 18 truths he believed that God had him restore that the Sardis era no longer had. In this sermon, Dr. Thiel goes provides quotes from Herbert Armstrong's sermon, as well as each of the 18 truths.
6000 Years: When will God's Kingdom Come?
Did early Christians believe that Jesus would return 6000 years after Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden? if so, have we reached that 6000 years? If not, approximately what year is it? Are the Jews correct that it is 5778 anno mundi? If not, why is their counting off? What about the Seder Olam and 'conventional chronology'? What about Archbishop James Ussher?
Should Christians keep the Feast of Tabernacles?
Is the annual Feast of Tabernacles something that Christians should observe? Did Jesus and the Apostle Paul keep it? Can it only be kept in Jerusalem? What do the Bible and Jewish sources teach? Did early Christians keep this festival in the second and later centuries? What did Methodius of Olympus teach? What does the Feast of Tabernacles represent?