[Q1. Liberal Christian Scholars and the Resurrection]

I CAN ONLY ANSWER THIS QUESTION THIS WAY. THE LIBERAL SCHOLAR DO NOT BELIVE IN OUR

LORD JESUS CHRIST. THEY NEED TO READ THE BIBLE WITH FAITH WITHOUT FAITH EVERYTHING IS

UNBELIVEABLE. I COULD SIT HEAR ALL DAY AND PUT IN PEOPLE JESUS RESURRECTED,MIRACLE

HE PERFORM BUT AN UNBELIVER WOULD NO BELIVE.

[Q5. Resurrection and Ascension]

JESUS HAD TO BE CRUSIFED AND ARISE AGAIN. REMEMBER THE PRAYER IN THE GARDEN. HE WAS

RESURRECTED FOR OUR SINS IF NOT OUR WORSHIP AND BIBLE STUDIES WOULD ALL BE IN VAIN.

HIS ASCENSION IS HE SITS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THE FATHER PREPARING A PLACE FOR US.

WHEN HE ASCENED HE PROMISE TO COME BACK TO US IN LIKE MANNER. PRAISE OUR MIGHTY SAVIOUR.

[Q4. Properties of Jesus' Resurrection Body]

JESUS WAS ALIVE AND WELL. HE WALKED AND TALKED AS WE DO. HE WAS AT DIFFERENT PLACES

AT DIFFERENT TIMES. HE COULD BE TOUCH. HIS WOUNDS WERE HEALED WHERE HE WAS HUNG ON THE CROSS BLESS HIS HOLY NAME.WHEN WE LEAVE THIS WALK ON EARTH BECAUSE OF JESUS CHRIST'S

RESURRECTION WE WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

JESUS COULD DO ANYTHING HE WANTED. HE COULD BE PRESENT OR DISAPPEAR. HE TALK TO TWO STRANGERS ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS.

[Q3. The Witness of the Grave Clothes]

THEY SAW THE EMPTY TOMB AND KNEW HE HAD AROSE AS HE SAID HE WOULD. HOW AWESOME THIS MUST HAVE BEEN FOR PETER.

THE GRAVE CLOTHES WERE LAID AS IF JESUS HAD PASSED RIGHT THROUGH THEM. THE HEAD PIECE WAS STILL ROLLED UP IN THE SHAPE OF A HEAD AND RIGHT A BOUGHT THE DISTANCE FROM THE GRAVE CLOTHES.

[Q4. God My Shepherd]

GOD WAS WITH JACOB THOUGHT OUT HIS WHOLE LIFE EVEN THROUGH IN HIS OLD AGE HE COULD

SEE CLEARLY HIS DEPENDENCE UPON GOD.

HE HAS CLEARLY LED ME SINCE I HAVE COME TO KNOW HIM. HE HAS BEEN THERE FOR ME IN THE GOOD TIMES AND BAD.MY SAVIOUR HAS TRULY FED ME AND ANSWERED MANY MANY PRAYERS

I TRUST HIM COMPLETELY. HE WILL NEVER LEAD YOU WRONG IN ANY PART OF YOUR LIFE.

[Q3. Blessing and Crisis]

LIFE IS EASY WHEN WERE UPON THE MOUNTAIN BUT WHEN CRISIS COME WE FORGET WHERE THE

GOOD THINGS COME FROM.OUR FAITH IS BASED ON GOOD TIMES AND BAD WE PRAISE HIM IN ALL TIMES. IF YOUR FAITH IS STRONG YOU KNOW YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

[Q1. Retaining a 'Journeying Spirit']

THIS EARTH IS NOT OUR PERMANENT HOME. WE SHOULD LIVE OUR LIVES AS IF THIS IS OUR LAST DAYS ON EARTH. OUR FATHER IS RIGHT NOW PREPARING OUR ETERNAL HOME.

WHEN WE TO SETTLE IN OUR LIVES WE LET WORDLY THINGS GET IN OUR WAY. NOTHING ON THIS EARTH BELONGS TO US.WE ONLY GET TO USE IT FOR ASHORT TIME.NEVER PUT WORLDLY THINGS

BEFORE OUR FATHER WHO IS PREPARING ARE FINAL HOME

WE READ GOD'S WORD DAILY.WE FOLLOW HIS WORD. WE TELL OTHERS ABOUT THIS ETERNAL HOME THAT

WILL BE FOREVER

[Q4. Faith and God's Word]

GOD TOLD JACOB BEFORE TO GO AND NOT BE AFRIAD BECAUSE HE WOULD BE WITH HIM ALWAYS.

HERE AGAIN LIKE WE DO JACOB WAS AFRIAD TRYING AGAIN TO DO THINGS BEFORE WE COME TO GOD WITH IT.

FEAR NOT FOR I WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU. PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME

FAITH IS READING GOD'S WORD AND BELIVING IT AND LIVING BY IT DAILY. THERE IS A WORD

VERSE OR BOOK IN THE BIBLE THAT WILL ERASE YOUR FEARS, DEPRESSION,SICKNESS AND

WILL LIFT YOUR SPIRIT.

[Q3. Joseph's Revelation of God's Purpose]

WHEN JOSEPH'STRIED TO GET RID OF HIM GOD USED THEIR EVIL ACTIONS AGAINST THEM TO FULFIL

HIS PLAN. HE SENT JOSEPH AHEAD TO PERSERVE THEIR LIVES TO SAVE EGYPT.

JOSEPH'S KNEW GOD WAS WORKING. HE KNEW EVIL ACTION COULD BE TURN INTO GOOD. THAT IS WHY HE SAID TO HIS BROTHERS "YE THOUGHT EVIL AGAINST, BUT GOD MEANT IT UNTO GOOD" 50:24

[Q2. Jacob's Depression]

I THINK JOSEPH WAS VERY AFRAID. HE POSIBBILE THOUGHT HIS SON BENJAMIN WOULD BE TAKEN.

I DON'T THINK HE WAS THINKING STRIAGHT. HE WAS TRYING TO FIX IT HIMSELF WITHOUT

ASKING GOD FOR GUIDANCE.

[Q2. Similarities between the Resurrection Accounts]

1.THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY. ANGELS APPEARED .SOME ENTERED THE TOMB.

2.JESUS CHRIST DIED AND ROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND WALK AND TALKED TO PEOPLE BECAUSE OF

THIS WE HAVE OUR SALVATION. MY LORD AND SAVIOUR IS ALIVE.

[Q1. Differences between Resurrection Accounts]

1. IN MATTHEW IT SAID A GREAT EARTHQUAKE CAME AND AN ANGEL OF THE LORD DESCENDED FROM

HEAVEN AND ROLLED THE STONE BACK. IN MARK AND LUKE IT SAYS ONE ANGEL. IN JOHN THE STONE HAD ALREADY BEEN TAKEN AWAY.IN JOHN IT ONLY TELLS ABOUT MARY MAGDALENE IN THE OTHER GOSPELS IT MENTIONS OTHER WOMEN. EACH GOSPEL WRITER CHOSE TO HIGHLIGHT DIFFERIENT EVENTS AS THEY EXPLAINED THE SAME STORY. THIS SHOULD GIVE US CONFIDENCE THAT ALL FOUR GOSPELS ARE TRUE AND RELIABLE.

2.AS AN EYEWITTNESS TO AN EVENT EACH SEES IT BUT FOCUS ON DIFFERENT DETAILS.

3.I THINK THE IT HAS NO BEARINGS ON THE CREDIBILITY THEY WROTE THE SAME THING WITH EACH

FOCUSING ON DIFFERENT HAPPENING

[Q4. Jesus' Predictions of Death and Resurrection]

THE MORE JESUS TAUGHT THE DISCIPLES THE LESS THEY UNDERSTOOD. HIS ENEMIES HAD SEEN

MIRACLES JESUS HAD PERFORMED BUT WAS AFRIAD TO ADMIT FAITH IN HIM BECAUSE OF BEING PUT OUT OF THEIR SYNGOGUES AND LOST OF THEIR PLACES IN THE COMMUNITY. WE ALL SHOULD BE

CONCERNED ABOUT OUR ACCEPTANCE OF JESUS THAN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK.

I DO NOT THINK THAT ENEMIES OR FOLLOWERS REALLY KNEW WHAT HE MEANT BY SAYING HE WOULD

RISE. WHEN HE WAS TELLING THE DISCIPLES HE WAS THE RESURRECTION THEY DID NOT GRASP IT.

JESUS IS THE RESURRECTION.

[Q3. I Am the Resurrection and the Life]

JESUS IS THE CREATOR OF LIFE. WHOEVER BELIVES IN JESUS HAS A SPIRITUAL LIFE THAT DEATH

CANNOT TOUCH OR DIMINISH IN NO WAY.

2.I THINK 1ST THESSALONIANS 4:13-18 ANSWERS THIS VERY WELL.

[Q2. Resurrecton of the Righteousness and Unrighteous]

THE RIGHTEOUS WILL RISE AND LIVE ETERNALLY WITH JESUS CHRIST.

SOME ASK WHO IS RIGHTEOUS? I WILL TELL YOU. THE ONES WHO ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR

SAVIOUR. THE ONES WHO BELIVED HE WENT TO THE CROSS AND DIED FOR OUR SINS. THE ONE WHO

AROSE THREE DAYS LATER FROM THE DEAD AND WALKED AGAIN ON THIS EARTH. THE ONES WHO TRY TO LIVE THEIR LIVES DAILY FOR HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY.

THAT IS RIGHTEOUS.

[Q1. Job's Vision of Resurrection]

WHEN THE BOOK OF JOB WAS WRITTEN ISREAL DID NOT HAVE A WELL DEVELOPED DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION. JOB THOUGHT THAT GOD WAS PRESENTLT AGAINST HIM HE FIRMLY BELIEVED

THAT IN THE END GOD WOULD WOULD BE THERE FOR HIM. THE BELIVE WAS SO STRONG THAT JOB

WAS THE FIRST TO TALK ABOUT RESURRECTION OF THR BODY.

PROGRESSIVE REVELATION IS WHERE JOB BELIVE THAT HE WOULD FACE GOD IN THE FLESH.

[Q1. Jacob's Grief]

I THINK THIS REALLY BROKE JACOB HEART AND SPIRIT.I THINK THE SONS LOVED JACOB BUT

GAVE NO THOUGHT OF HOW MUCH IT AFFECT HIM. JACOB HIMSELF HAD DECEIVED MANY OTHERS

INCLUDING HIS FATHER. ALTHOUGH BLESSED BY GOD JACOB STILL HAD TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES

OF HIS SINS.GOD DID NOT PUNISH JACOB IMMEDIATELY FOR HIS SIN OF DECEIT BUT THE CONSEQUENCES STAYED WITH HIM THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

I THINK NO MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY COULD CONSOLE HIM. HE TURN TO BENJAMIN HIM BEING RACHEL

SON AND THE ONLY THING OF RACHEL HE HAD. I THINK JACOB LIVED THE REST OF HIS DAYS IN THIS STATE.

[Q5. Reuben's Sin]

AS THE OLDEST SON REUBEN WAS IN LINE TO RECEIVE A DOUBLE PORTION OF THE FAMILY INHERITANCE AND A PLACE OF LEADESHIP AMONG HIS PEOPLE.WHEN WE SIN WE NEED TO STOP AND THINK WHO IT WILL AFFECT JUST LIKE REUBEN SEXAL SIN HURT HIM AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY.

REUBEN WAS HONORABLE WHEN HE REFUSED TO HURT JOSEPH AS HIS BROTHERS WANTED TO DO

[Q4. God Appears Again at Bethel]

I THINK TO TELL HIM AGAIN HIS NEW NAME ISRAEL. HE BLESSED HIM AGAIN AND TOLD HIM OF ALL THE THINGS HE WOULD HAVE BECAUSE OF HIS FAITH.

TO BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND HE SHALL HAVE NATIONS ANDKINGS SHALL COME OUT OF THY LOINS. THATMEANT HE WOULD HAVE SONS AND GRANDSONS THAT WOULD BECOME KINGS

[Q3. Washing and Spiritual Renewal]

JACOB WANTED NOTHING TO DIVERT HIS FAMILY SPIRITUAL FOCUS.

THE SPIRITUAL WASHING WAS A WAY TO RID THEMSELVES OF THE IDOLS THEY HAD.THEY RID THEMSELVES OF ALL IDOLS THEY HAD EVEN THE ONES THAT WORSHIP GOD. AN IDOL DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PHYSICAL OBJECT IT IS ANYTHING WE PUT BEFORE OUR SAVIOUR.

MY SMOKING. I ASK JESUS TO TAKE IT AWAY AND HE DID, BUT I KEEP SMOKING. THERE ARE THINGS

LIKE QUILTING THAT KEEPS ME OUT OF THE WORD MORE THAN IT SHOULD BUT I TRY TO READ DAILY.

LETS ALL PRAY DAILY FOR OUR OBJECTS TO NOT GET IN THE WAY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR.

I REPENT DAILY AND BEFORE I PRAY. THIS IS A DAILY CLEANSING. SOMETIMES MY THOUGHTS ARE

NOT WHAT THEY SHOULD BE. AND I HAVE FAMILY THAT I NEED TO SPEAK JESUS CHRIST TO,AND GET

REAL DISCOURAGE WHEN I DO NOT GET THROUGH TO THEM.

[Q2. Intermarriage and Syncretism]

1. THEY WORSHIP THE IDOLS OF THE ONE THEY MARRIED.

2.THIS WOULD LED TO LEAVE THEIR RELIGION AND GO TO IDOL WORSHIP.

3.IT WAS NOT RACIAL GOD KNEW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN INTER RACIAL MARRIAGE.

THIS WAS THE REASON HE ASK TO NOT MARRIED OUTSIDE OF THEIR RACE

4.THIS SHOULD BE ADDRESS BEFORE MARRIAGE. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE COUNCILING BEFORE MARRIAGE.

IF YOU MARRY AN UNBELIVER YOU ARE YOKED TO AN UNBELIVER AND IN DOING SO YOU ARE NOT

OBEYING GOD'S WORD.IT IS AN AWFUL LIVE TO LIVE WHEN YOU LIVE WITH AN UNBELIVER.

[Q1. The Rape of Dinah]

I THINK JACOB WAS AFRIAD TO SAY ANYTHING UNTIL HE HAD TALKED TO HIS SONS. HE WAS OLD AND FRAIL AND COULD HAVE BEEN THINKING ON HOW TO HANDLE IT. WHEN HE TOLD THE SONS IT WAS TOOK OUT OF HIS HAND IT APPEARS.

HE SHOULD HAVE CONFRONTED THE RAPIST AND HIS FAMILY AND IF THERE WAS A LAW LET THEM HANDLE IT.

THE SONS WAS RIGHT IN THAT THEY WAS VERY UPSET ABOUT THE VILE THING THAT WAS DONE TO THEIR SISTER.

THEY SUFFERED CONSEQUUENES DOWN THE ROAD THEIR FATHER CURSED THEM WITH HIS DYING

BREATH AND THEIR DESCENDANT LOST THEIR PART OF THE PROMISE LAND.

WE NEVER WIN WITH EVIL FOR EVIL LEAVE THE REVENGE TO THE LORD

[Q4. The Change in Jacob]

EASU AND JACOB BOTH HAD A CHANGE OF HEART. THEY BOTH WAS VERY CONTENT WITH WHAT THEY HAD.

EASU HAD LOST THE BITTERNESS OF LOSING HIS BIRTHRIGHT AND BLESSING. JACOB WAS VERY HAPPY TO SEE ESAU WHICH PLEASED EASU.THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE HAVE A FORGIVING

HEART. WE CAN RID OURSELF OF BITTERNEES AND UNFORGIVNESS BY TAKING OUR FEELINGS TO

OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

BOWING LOW SEVEN TIMES IS THE SIGN OF RESPECT GIVEN TO A KING. JACOB WAS TAKING EVERY

PRECAUTION TO DISPEL ANY THOUGHTS OF REVENGE. I THINK EACH ONE REALIZED THAT THEIR

RELATIONSHIP WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING THEY OWNED

IN SPITE OF THE GIFTS JACOB OFFERED EASU, HE KNEW THAT THE PROMISE OF GOD WAS THERE .

HE REALLY DID NOT HAVE ANY REASON TO FEAR.WITH THIS SAID JACOB'S FAITH LED HIM TO THE

PROBLEM AND WITH FAITH ALL WAS WELL.

JACOB COULD NOT BE BOTH AND I THINK HE REALIZED THIS. YOU CAN NOT BE BOTH AND LIVING

FOR THE LORD. I THINK JACOB HUMBLED HIMSELF AND STAYED THAT WAY

[Q3. Wrestling with God]

I think it was God Jacob wrestled with God. Jacob wrestling was both physcial and spiritual. I think he did it to be blessed and was very persistent. I think God

encourages that we be persistent in all areas of our lives. The wound means that Jacob

would always have it to remind him that God will always be there with him. The same

with the limp. Jacob will always remember the night he met GOD FACE TO FACE.

[Q2. Jacob's Prayer]

Jacob realized he was about to face his brother that he had deceived and stole from some twenty years before. Had he forgot the promise

God made to him? I think Jacob got him self together and started to pray. When we run into conflict or have something to fear just stop and

pray and our God will take care of it.

FAITH Jacob let his fear get in the way of what God had promise him. We all do this at times.All we have is faith to keep going.God puts those

same angels around us in times when we are weak in faith.

PRIDE In spite of conflict between Jacob and Easu, Jacob sent gifts to try to repair damage done. Pride did not stand in the way with Jacob even though

he was fearful of Easu.

GROWTH.All of the above explains his spirtual growth stopping to pray in time of fear and needs and sending gifts to Easu trying to make amends

in spite of all conflicts between the brothers