Answers to Bible Questions for February.

From: Good News for Young and Old: Volume 17 (1875)

1. Archangels are never mentioned; the Archangel only twice (1 Thess. 4:16¹⁶For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (1 Thessalonians 4:16); Jude 9⁹Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. (Jude 9)).

2. “The first day” (Gen. 1:5⁵And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:5)).

3. To repent. “God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30³⁰And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)). Paul taught the Jews and Greeks publicly, and from house to house, repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 20:21²¹Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21)).

4. “The fourth day” (Gen. 1. 19).

5. Before the fall (Gen. 2:3³And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (Genesis 2:3)).

6. The children of Israel (Ex. 31:12-18¹²And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹³Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. ¹⁴Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. ¹⁸And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:12‑18)).

7. “Whosoever” is mentioned twelve times in connection with receiving pardon and eternal life through faith in Christ; twice as being born of God; three times respecting believers confessing Christ before men; twice those who exalt themselves shall be abased; twice as receiving believers in the name of Christ; twice that those who believe in Christ should live a life of self denial; twice that those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Besides the foregoing, “whosoever” occurs in thirty-one other places in various connections, making in all fifty-six times in the New Testament.

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