Bible Influence On Everyday Speech

Check out the following article about common-day phrases that originated in the Bible. A few of my favorites like 'the writing is on the wall' and 'eye for an eye' are missing. But still very good piece:

Click here for the Merriam Webster Article

The purpose of this whole thing...

So what's the purpose of this blog? I hope to be able to research various confusing topics for more clarity; clarity for myself and clarity for friends. I doubt if many people will see page but if you were referred here or stumbled here by accident, welcome!

Here you will find two different types of writings:

1) Bible Direct: This type of writing will contain a modern day question or comment with Bible passages that support or oppose the established position. This type of writing should have extremely little to no commentary whatsoever. The point is to find direct Bible support not to establish a podium for spewing weak and opinion-aided doctrine. That podium will be established with the next type. :)

2) Commentary: This type of writing could be my own fluff or it could be my own explanations or criticisms of YOUR fluff or biblical passages, studies, apologetic writings, etc.


Disclaimer: The [non-scriptural] views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the author and may not represent God or Church congregations or TV evangelists or Conspiracy Theorists. The author is not a prophet, nor Apostle, nor Elder, nor inspirational speaker, nor faith healer, nor bartender who gives you a kind word of advice when you're at your most vulnerable. He''s just an ordinary bloke, hence the name Bible Bloke. Read at your own risk!

For Newbies and Non-ies (FNN)

This series of writings will address the basics of our way of life. These writings are addressed to new believers and non-believers but anyone could benefit from studying topics such as faith, religion, morality, church and many other concepts.

Just because they are the basics does not mean they are widely understood and agreed upon.

- BB

Rapture Verses (A Study)

I took all the biblical references mentioned in Chuck Missler’s Learn the Bible in 24-hours supplement and looked them up. I made notes whenever something caught my eye.

John 14:1-3
1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God[a]; trust also in me. 2In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Notes: We will be with him in a place prepared by him in his Father’s house (heaven). This is often misunderstood to mean that we will have houses in heaven.

1 Cor 15:51-53
51Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.

Notes: Mystery is something that was not previously disclosed (Not in OT explicitly). We will be changed instantly into an imperishable, incorruptible body. No judgment of good or bad here, believers instantly, in a flash, receive perfect body.

1 Cor 1:7-8 7
Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. 8He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Notes: Not sure if this is for the rapture or not. Perhaps it is because the rapture is the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thess 4:13-18
13Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. 14We believe that Jesus died and rose again and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15According to the Lord's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left till the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18Therefore encourage each other with these words.

Notes: Interesting. I never read or understood that grieving should be different for believers who fall asleep. In this passage Jesus does not come to the ground, he only comes to the clouds and we come up to meet him. There is a trump and a call from the archangel but this is not one of the final trumps. The dead will rise but only the dead in Christ, not the dead before Christ nor the unrighteous. Finally, we are supposed to encourage each other with these words. If we all understand it the same then these words ARE very encouraging.

1 Cor 16:22
22If anyone does not love the Lord—a curse be on him. Come, O Lord[b]!

Notes: Not sure why Chuck listed this verse but Come, O Lord seems to be that encouragement of rapture that Paul spoke of.

Rom 8:18-25
18I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. 22We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Notes: Great analogy of all of mankind groaning in expectation to be made free from Decay as the Sons of God (angels) are. For we who are firstfruits of the Spirit we will be adopted as sons of God and our bodies will be made incorruptible. Also love how hope in something we already have is no hope at all.

Phil 3:20-21
20But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

Notes: This little verse is glue. This verse explains HOW we will be changed and it also explains what that new body will be like. It will be like Christ’s body and Christ will be the one who makes the change.

Col 3:4
4When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Notes: This is verse could be for rapture or for 2nd Coming of Christ. When Christ appears in the clouds we will be with him in glory, true. When Christ appears on the earth in his glory to the whole world we will be with him in glory, that’s true too. This verse supports both.

1 Thess 1:10
10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.

Notes: “Rescues us from the coming wrath”…again, mention of escape from the Great Tribulation.

1 Thess 2:19
19For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you?


1 Thess 5:9
9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.


1 Thess 5:23
23May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


2 Thess 2:1-12
1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers, 2not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord has already come. 3Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for (that day will not come) until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 5Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the work of Satan displayed in all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs and wonders, 10and in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Notes: I expanded Chuck’s reference to include all the way to verse 12 because this clearly explains how things will unfold and what will happen to those people who are not on the side of the Lord.

1 Tim 6:14
14to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,


2 Tim 4:1
1In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge:

Notes: His “appearing” and his “kingdom” are separate things.

Titus 2:13
13while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,


Heb 9:28
28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.


James 5:7-9
7Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains. 8You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. 9Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!


1 Peter 1:7, 13
7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 13Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.


1 John 2:28-3:2
28And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him. 3:1How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears,[a]we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.


Jude 21
21Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.


Rev 2:25
25Only hold on to what you have until I come.


Rev 3:10
10Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world to test those who live on the earth.

Notes: The final implicit mention of the rapture in the Bible comes from Yeshua himself. He even explains that the he will KEEP US FROM the hour of trial that is coming to test those who live on the earth. AMEN.