Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Satan was cast out of heaven after Christ’s ascension in 33 C.E., marking the end of his role as accuser and the start of intensified earthly persecution.
The book of Enoch is non-Biblical and pseudepigraphical (what we have today is not written by Enoch). The oldest portions of the text are estimated to date from about 300 B.C.E. The book of Jude was penned by Jesus’ half-brother some 365 years later in about 65 C.E., written in Palestine.
Jesus’ command to be “perfect” calls for moral completeness and wholehearted love, not sinless flawlessness, reflecting Jehovah’s character.
Psalm 1:5 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
Psalm 1:4 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
When we consider what Jehovah Himself told Moses and what the Apostle John said, it is clear that Moses ...
Many scholars attempt to relate Paul’s reference to the third heaven to the early Jewish literature that there were stages of heaven, “even 955 heavens.” However, we certainly do not depend on early rabbinic views, as this view is not found in the Scriptures.
Psalm 1:3 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Jesus has confirmed and supplemented Natural Theology, or that which is independent of supernatural revelation. He has consummated the preliminary disclosures of His own earlier dispensations. He has discredited and condemned all teachers and teaching that reject His authority.
Psalm 1:2 Updated American Standard Version (UASV) 2 but his delight is in the law of Jehovah, and on his law he meditates day and night.
