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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
USED IN BIBLE CLASS: ABRAHAMIC COVENANT - The unconditional covenant (agreement, disposition) between God as party of the first part in favor of Abraham and his progeny as the party of the second part is the Abrahamic covenant. This is a justice covenant from the justice of God. Unconditional means there are no strings attached. ADAM'S ORIGINAL SIN - Disobedience to God's mandate in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the forbidden fruit resulting in spiritual death. Consequently, Adam's corrupt nature (SEE SIN NATURE) and spiritual death were passed to all mankind (SEE SPIRITUAL DEATH). ADJUSTMENT TO THE JUSTICE OF GOD - Divine grace is administered through the essence of God. Ultimately, all blessing or discipline from God to us must be filtered through His justice. As goes the justice of God, so goes blessing or cursing to us. ADOPTION - The Biblical connotation of adoption. which is based on the Roman aristocratic function of adoption in the time when the New Testament was written, is not the same as our twentieth century practice. In Scripture adoption means to be recognized by God as an adult son positionally at salvation (and an adult son experientially at maturity). The Latin ADOPTIA is the exact equivalent of the Greek HUIOTHESIA, meaning to adopt as an adult son. Imputations at salvation are made as part of the ceremony of recognizing that we now have a plan and purpose in life. All believers become adopted as sons at salvation. Being in union with Christ, we are joint-heirs with Christ, and are therefore adopted at the moment of salvation, Gal 3:26. A FORTIORI - A Fortiori is a Latin phrase meaning "with stronger reason." It is a system of logic using comparison. It is a conclusion compared with some other conclusion or recognized fact, as inferred to be even more certain or inescapable than the two conclusions it combines. AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY - The point at which a person becomes conscious of God and able to understand the Gospel. See God consciousness. AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST - The believer as a personal representative for the Lord Jesus Christ on earth. AMBASSADORSHIP - An ambassador is a high ranking minister of state or of royalty sent to another state to represent his sovereign or country. By analogy we are spiritual aristocracy as members of the royal family of God, and Christ is the King who has sent us into a foreign country, the cosmic world. ANGELIC CONFLICT - The angelic conflict is the result of prehistoric creatures being in opposition to God, which began with the fall of Satan, and continued until all angelic creatures had made a decision for or against God. It refers to two trials of Satan and fallen angels, one in prehistoric times, the other during human history. ANGELOLOGY - The study of both elect and fallen angels. ANTHROPOPATHISMS - An anthropopathism ascribes a human characteristic to God; a characteristic such as human emotions and human thoughts which God doesn't actually possess and one which is not actually a divine attribute. The purpose of an anthropopathism is to explain a divine policy to man in terms of man's frame of reference. ANTHOPOMORPHISM - Through language of accommodation the Bible ascribes to God human physical characteristics He does not actually possess so man may comprehend His divine policy, character, and function on man's own finite level of understanding. ANTI-SEMITISM - Anti-Semitism is a person, a group, an organization, or a nation who is hostile to the Jews. APOSTASY - The falling away from the faith or system of belief arrived at through the inculcation of Bible doctrine, 2Th 2:3. AREA OF STRENGTH - The area of the sin nature which generates human good or dead works. (See HUMAN GOOD) AREA OF WEAKNESS - The area of the sin nature which tempts the believer to personal sin. Temptation becomes sin only when the volition acquiesces to temptation. ASCENSION AND SESSION - The ascension is that doctrine of Christology pertaining to the transfer of our Lord's true humanity from planet earth to the third heaven in a resurrection body. The session is that doctrine of Christology pertaining to the glorification of our Lord's humanity at the right hand of the Father. These definitions presume your understanding of the Hypostatic Union. ATTRIBUTES OF GOD - The individual qualities or characteristics which are intrinsic to the essence of God (see Essence of God). BAPTISM OF FIRE - The baptism of fire is defined as the judgement of the Tribulational unbelievers at the Second Advent. They are removed from the earth and placed in fire for 1000 years until the Last Judgment. Both Jews and Gentiles who are Tribulational unbelievers are involved in the Second Advent judgement. This judgment results in the Millennium beginning with believers only. Mt 3:11-12; Luk 3:16. BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - A ministry of the Holy Spirit at the moment of salvation whereby the Church Age believer is placed into union with Christ, making that person a member of the body of Christ. BLOOD OF CHRIST - While our Lord did some bleeding on the cross, He didn't bleed to death, nor does His literal human blood have anything to do with the phrase found throughout the New Testament, "the blood of Christ." Even Greek lexicons recognize this principle when defining the word HAIMA, the Greek word for blood. The Arndt and Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon, p.22, under HAIMA in the paragraph describing the figurative use of the blood of Christ, says, "blood and life as an expiatory sacrifice; especially the blood of Jesus as the means of expiation." The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by Gerhardt Kittel, Vol I, p.175, "the ideas which the New Testament links with the blood of Christ, since the latter (New Testament), is simply a pregnant verbal symbol of the saving work of Christ." Since the symbolism of the blood is death, two categories of death experienced by Christ on the cross will be examined in this doctrine. His somatic death refers to what happened to His literal blood; His spiritual death refers to what happened to His figurative blood. The somatic death of Christ looks forward to the resurrection, whereas the spiritual death of Christ looks back to our sins and spiritual death. It is His figurative blood that has to do with salvation. BLACKOUT OF THE SOUL - Blackout of the soul is the status of the believer with negative volition to doctrine, which results in his involvement with the cosmic system. BODY OF CHRIST - The phrase "body of Christ" is used to designate all Church Age believers in their relationship with Jesus Christ. In fact, each person of the Trinity is related to the "body of Christ." BOOK OF LIFE -
The book of life is one thing in time and something different in eternity.
Basically it is a registry containing the names of every member of the human
race in time. In eternity it is the registry of all believers. When a person
dies as an unbeliever, his name is removed from the book of life. Therefore, in
eternity only the names of believers are in the book of life, Phil 4:3; Rev
3:5, 13:8, 17:8, CANONICITY - Refers to the book of the Bible which were divinely inspired and officially recognized as the Holy Scripture. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - Capital punishment is the maximum use of jurisprudence under the laws of divine establishment. Capital punishment must be preceded by trial authorized from the judicial function of government. There must be an objective judge who can look clearly at true evidence; heresy and prejudice are rejected. When evidence points to a crime truly committed, there must be punishment such that the criminal suffers in dying, and others must see this for the purpose of restraint. CARNALITY - The
state of being out of fellowship with God because of unconfessed sin in the
life. The sin nature controls the life of the believer who "grieves"
and "quenches" the Holy Spirit (Eph CHAIN-SINNING - The result of allowing a past grievance or sin to generate further sins. As one or more sins build on previous sins a destructive sequence unfolds. CHRISTIAN ACTIVISM - There is a tremendous emphasis among evangelical Christians today to enter into activism, to practice social and political engineering. This arrogance manifests the fact that most Christians don't have a clue about the Christian way of life. Christian involvement in vigorous and often illegal activity to achieve political goals is another manifestation of this arrogance. Christians stick their nose into other people's business. Christians intrude into the privacy of other people. Christians violate the constitutional rights of other people. Christians destroy property, e.g., abortion clinics. CHRISTIAN DEGENERACY - Degeneracy is the decline to false or inferior standards, accompanied by loss of integrity and sinking into the subnormal status of fragmentation and reversionism. Degeneracy is the process of passing from the higher to the lower; to decline progressively. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - Actions of arrogance perpetuated against the laws of divine establishment. These principles of law are set up by God for the protection, orderly function, survival and perpetuation of the human race during the period of the angelic conflict. CLIENT NATION - A client nation is a national entity under the principle of divine institution #4, and is responsible for custodianship of the word of God, Bible doctrine. COMMON GRACE - General blessings from God to all mankind including: the benefits of the natural bounties which sustain all life on earth, the restraint of sin by the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit's function as a human spirit (lost at the fall of Adam) so the spiritual information of Gospel is comprehensible to the unbeliever. CONFESS - The mandate to every believer to simply name, cite, admit, or acknowledge sins in privacy to God the Father (1Jo 1:9). COSMIC ONE - Consists of grieving the Spirit. In Cosmic one the believer becomes involved with sin or preoccupation with self causing the believer to sin hence exit the pre-designed plan of God (PPOG). Once in cosmic one the believer only need rebound (1Jo 1:9) to get back in fellowship with God! COSMIC TWO - Consists of quenching the Spirit. This is man's exit from the pre-designed plan of God by way of antagonism toward God and the plan of God. Cosmic two entails more than sin per se in that it moves into evil. Evil is more than sin, it is a system of thought based on disputes, rejection and contradiction to the Word of God. Evil attempts to frustrate the grace policy of God. This "human" viewpoint takes more than mere rebound to re-enter fellowship with God, it requires recovery as well! recovery being the cleansing of the mind through consistent inculcation of the accurate teaching of the Word of God! COSMIC SYSTEM - Involves both cosmic one and cosmic two entails the over all objective of Satan in using mankind to prove his superiority over God. The cosmic system is the devil's multifaceted policy for achieving his goal by way of human viewpoint projected through the world system. COVENANTS - A
compact or agreement between two parties binding them mutually to an
undertaking on each other's behalf. Theologically it is used on behalf of
relations between God and man and denotes a gracious under taking on God's part
for the benefit and blessing of mankind. It is specifically designed for those
who by faith receive the promises of God and commit themselves to the
obligations which this undertaking involves. CURRENT POSITIONAL TRUTH - Current positional truth is identification with Christ as He is seated at the right hand of the Father in His resurrection, ascension, and session. Identification with His spiritual death means rejection of good and evil. Identification with His spiritual death means rejection of good and evil. Identification with His physical death means separation from good and evil. Identification with his burial means divorce from good and evil. DEITY OF JESUS CHRIST - Jesus Christ is eternal God. As a member of the Trinity, He always existed. There never was a time when He did not exist. He is coequal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, Col 1:15. In eternity past, Jesus Christ had the same essence as the Father and Spirit. In time He had the same functions of deity, but also became true humanity. Therefore, He is unique. DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - Trinity passages reveal the coequality, co-eternity, and co-infinity of God the Holy Spirit with God the Son and God the Father, 2Co 13:14; Acts 5:3-4; Mt 28:19; Acts 2:38. DEMON INFLUENCE - Demon influence is deionization of the soul and personality of the believer or unbeliever living in the cosmic system. There are degrees of demon influence. It depends on how long you reside in the cosmic system without the use of rebound. Demon influence is thought transference of demon doctrine to the believer or unbeliever in the cosmic system. DEMON POSSESSION - Demon possession is defined as demon invasion of the body of the unbeliever only. Generally, this occurs through the phallic cult or some form of way-out religion. In contrast, demon influence is the demon invasion of the soul with Satanic thought. Satanic thought isn't expressed in terms of evil, but in terms of improving this world, doing nice things for your fellow man, and supporting crusades. It is false thinking comprising the policy and principles by which Satan operates. DICHOTOMOUS - Unregenerate mankind consists of two component parts: body and soul. DISPENSATIONS - A dispensation is a period of time in human history expressed in terms of divine revelation. The inerrancy of the Word of God is the source for looking at history from the divine viewpoint. Therefore, dispensation is a technical theological term used primarily by the apostle Paul in the presentation of the mystery doctrine of this Church Age. Dispensations are divine categories of human history; therefore, both the divine outline and the divine interpretation of human history. There are many interpretations of history, but the only accurate interpretation is dispensational, i.e., divine. Dispensations are the vehicle by which believers living at a specific time in history can orient to God's will, plan, and purpose for their lives. God's plan is not the same for every dispensation. In fact, the plan is quite different in each dispensation. The most difficult and subtle plan to learn by a believer is the Church Age or protocol plan of God. Old Testament believers were under the ritual plan of God. Our Lord Jesus Christ was under the incarnation plan of God. A dispensation is defined traditionally as a period of time during which a particular revelation of God's mind and God's will is operative, and during which man is tested as to his obedience to that specific manifestation of God's will, purpose, and plan. The believer's orientation to both time and to human history is virtually necessary for understanding God's plan and God's purpose. DIVINE DECREE - God's eternal, holy, wise, and sovereign purpose, comprehending at once all things that ever were or will be in their causes, courses, conditions successions, and relations, and determining their certain futurition. DIVINE DISCIPLINE - Divine discipline is the sum total of punitive action taken by the justice of God in grace to correct, to punish, to encourage, to train, and to motivate the believer's free will toward the protocol plan of God. Therefore, divine discipline is distinguished from divine judgment, in that discipline is for believers only, but judgment is directed toward all categories of the human race and angels under certain circumstances. DIVINE DYNASPHERE - The palace or the sphere in where lies divine assets and privileges that God has given to each Church age believer. Hence divine dynasphere can be equated to the PPOG, or predestination noted in the Bible. DIVINE ESSENCE - Essence is derived from the Attic Greek adjective OUSIA. The Doric Greek used a similar word ESSIA. The Latin word for essence, ESSE, came from the Doric Greek. OUSIA and ESSIA mean that which is one's own, a substance that belongs to one person, substance, being, the inner nature, the qualities or attributes of a person, that which is one's own. Essence is defined as the basic constituent of a thing, the intrinsic nature of something. Essence is defined as that in being which underlies all outward manifestations and is both permanent and unchangeable; it is the existence or actual being. Essence implies both being and identity. Essence refers to the qualities or attributes of God, attributes which have always existed. DIVINE ESTABLISHMENT - God has ordained certain laws for the survival and freedom of the human race during the course of human history. Anarchy exists when segments of nations ignore these laws. The laws of divine establishment provide the freedom to fulfill the divine plan as ordained in the divine decrees under many types of government. The laws of divine establishment are designed and directed toward both believer and unbeliever. They operate from the fall of man to the second advent, as well as in the Millennium with some modification in compatibility with perfect environment. DIVINE GOOD - Agathos in the Greek, is Christian service or deeds performed by the believer who is filled with the Holy Spirit. It is only such deeds that are accepted by God. All else accomplished apart from the filling of the Spirit is human good and worthless to God! DIVINE VIEWPOINT - Once the believer accepts the finished work of Christ on the Cross, he is to renovate his thinking through the inculcation of Bible doctrine. We are to acquire the mind of Christ and operate in the plan of God. In this way we are functioning in life with divine viewpoint, or the thinking of God. DYING GRACE - Dying grace is defined as the death of the mature believer. It is the experience of physical death under special provision of grace, whereby the believer involved experiences both blessing and happiness while dying. Dying grace can occur regardless of the amount of pain and suffering while dying. There could be maximum happiness and soul stimulation. EDIFICATION COMPLEX OF THE SOUL - The edification complex of the soul is technical nomenclature found in the epistles of the New Testament for the attainment of spiritual maturity. EFFICACIOUS GRACE - A specific ministry of the Holy Spirit whereby the faith of a spiritually dead person is acknowledged and made effective for salvation. Without the work of the Holy Spirit the volition of an unbeliever could never result in eternal life. ELECTION - Election is the expression of the sovereign will of God in eternity past before the universe existed and before mankind lived on the earth. Election is the sovereign right of God over His creation. Election is Biblical term which is applied to the believer only in the Church Age. EPISTEMOLOGICAL REHABILITATION - Pertains to the perception, metabolization and application of Bible doctrine. ESCROW - An escrow is a written agreement entered into by three parties, the obligor, the obligee, and the depositary, for the transfer of certain benefits. The sealed agreement of the obligor, generally accompanied by the deed, bond, or chattel to be conveyed, is made contingent on some future happening or on the performance of some act by the obligee, and is delivered to the depositary and held by him pending the occurrence of that event or the performance of the required act by the obligee. When the event has taken place or the obligee has performed the specified act, the depository delivers to him the agreement and the discretion, but must follow strictly the terms of the agreement as it concerns the other two parties. There is an eternal escrow and there are three parties in that escrow. The obligor is God the Father, who has placed Himself under legal obligation in eternity past to provide two categories of special and unusual blessings, both temporal and eternal, for the obligee, the believer who fulfills the protocol plan of God. The depositary or custodian is God the Son. In eternity past, both categories of blessings were deposited with our Lord Jesus Christ in escrow, pending the obligee's future advance to spiritual maturity. The obligee is the Church Age believer. ESCROW BLESSINGS - Escrow blessings are infinitely superior to all other categories of divine blessings for both time and eternity. There are no set of circumstances that can hinder the conveyance of your escrow blessings in time. You will receive your escrow blessings as a mature believer even though the rest of the nation is falling around you. Escrow blessings is a metaphor designed to explain the ultimate blessings available to every Christian in time and eternity. A metaphor is the application of a phrase or a concept to an object or concept it does not literally denote in order to suggest a comparison. ESSENCE OF GOD - The nature or essential being of the person of God. ETERNAL LIFE - (1) The attribute of God that describes His absolute existence outside the boundaries of time. (2) An everlasting relationship with God reserved in heaven for every person the moment they express faith in Jesus Christ. ETERNAL SECURITY - At the moment of salvation God imputes His absolute righteousness to every believer and declares him righteous or justified, Rom 3:21-28. If God excluded from eternal salvation anyone who possesses God's own righteousness, He would have to deny Himself and contradict His own pronouncement of justification. Therefore, our salvation is as strong as the essence of God Himself! EVANGELISM - To spread the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead according to the Scripture, and that as the reigning Lord He now offers the forgiveness of sins and the liberating gift of the Spirit and eternal life to all who would simply believe on Him! EVIDENCE TESTING - Evidence testing is Satan's cross-examination of every witness presented by God in the historical trial of all fallen angels. In human history, man's thoughts, motives, decisions, and actions are entered as evidence, exhibits, precedents, and arguments in Satan's appeal trial. Every believer who attains maturity is an argument or witness for the prosecution against Satan. Evidence testing, then, is Satan's cross-examination of every witness presented by God. EVIL - Evil is the policy of Satan as the ruler of this world. Evil is the modus operandi of Satan from the time of his fall throughout the angelic revolution and down to the point when he became the ruler of the world. Evil is Satan's failure to produce a system of good in mankind and society by which he administers the rulership of this world. Satan cannot restrain sin, and he parlays human good into sin and evil. EXPIATION - That aspect of Christ's work on the cross that canceled the debt for the penalty of sin. The penalty of sin is spiritual death. FAITH - A non-meritorious system of perception based on confidence and trust in the authority and veracity of God. FAITH--REST DRILL - The faith-rest drill is one of the ten problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God for the Church. The ten problem solving devices include: rebound technique, the filling of the Holy Spirit, the faith-rest drill, grace orientation, doctrinal orientation, personal love for God the Father, impersonal love for all mankind, sharing the perfect happiness of God, having a personal sense of destiny, and occupation with the person of Jesus Christ. There are three categories related to the faith-rest drill: faith mechanics, faith functions, and faith execution. The faith-rest drill is that problem solving device used by believers in all dispensations for carrying and using the shield of faith. FILLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - An absolute status commanded to every church Age believer for the purpose of divine empowerment for the Christian life. This condition may be lost through sinning but is regained through naming of sins to God the Father. Spirituality or the filling of the Holy Spirit links salvation adjustment to the justice of God to maturity adjustment to the justice of God. To make it from salvation to maturity requires the filling of the Holy Spirit and the daily intake of Bible doctrine. We already have perfect righteousness judicially imputed at salvation. At the moment of salvation, the Holy Spirit indwells the body of the believer. Because the body is the headquarters of the old sin nature, the Holy Spirit sets up His headquarters in the body for counteraction. The battlefield is the soul. This counteraction is spearheaded by the filling of the Holy Spirit. FIVE CYCLES OF DISCIPLINE - God administers discipline to His client nation just as He does to any of His disobedient children. He does this in five stages or cycles of discipline as found in Lev 26. 1) Loss of health, decline of agricultural prosperity, terror, fear and death in combat, loss of personal freedoms due to negative volition toward Bible doctrine, Lev 26:14-17. 2) Economic recession and depression, increased personal and individual discipline for continued negative attitude in spite of the first warning, Lev 26:18-20. 3) Violence and breakdown of law and order; cities broken up, Lev 26:21-22. 4) Military conquest and/ or foreign occupation, scarcity of good (reduced to one-tenth of the normal supply), the breaking up of families, Lev 26:23-26. 5) Destruction of a nation due to maximum rejection of Biblical principles, Lev 26:27-39. FLAWS - Distinction must be made between genetic and environmental handicaps and flaws. Genetic flaws are the weaknesses with which we are born because of the old sin nature in the cell structure of the body. Environmental flaws are those which we acquire. In genetic handicaps and flaws, human volition is simply not involved. In environmental handicaps or flaws, human volition is involved. Genetic flaws often manifest themselves through impulsive actions. However, volition sometimes does become involved with genetic handicaps and flaws under certain pressures. FLOT - F.L.O.T. (as used in Flot Line) is a military acronym for the FORWARD LINE OF TROOPS. The Church Age believer must know when to use offensive action and when to use defensive action in the Christian way of life. Against Satan and all fallen angels, the divine commands usually call for defensive action. Offensive action related to the angelic conflict is also related to the execution of the protocol plan of God for the Church, because all angelic creatures, including demons or fallen angels, are watching every Church Age believer putting on the full armor from God. FOREKNOWLEDGE - Is an aspect of God's omniscience in which all things, past, present, future and eternal, material, intellectual and spiritual, and actual are known by Him! His foreknowledge simultaneously knows every situation as well as every actual decision made by all His people! FORTY THINGS - In this dispensation only, God has provided forty things for the believer at the moment of faith in Christ. These are grace gifts from God at salvation. You receive these forty things at the very moment of salvation before you have had a chance to do anything! Therefore, you obviously receive these things by grace; you don't earn or deserve them. FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - That which God the Holy Spirit produces in the life of the believer. Gal 5:22-23, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS - Recognition of the existence of a Supreme Being. This desire is placed, by God, in the soul of every human being, whether it's acted upon is up to man's free will. GODLINESS - Godliness is derived from the Greek word EUSEBEIA, which connotes duty and responsibility of the royal priesthood to God under operation grace. The Greek word THEOSEBEIA means reverence to God or occupation with Christ. GOSPEL - The Greek noun, EUAGGELION, is a compound substative. EU means good; AGGELOS means a messenger, an envoy, one who brings the news. It is also used for angels as messengers of God, but not here. So the word "Gospel" actually means "good news." God's good news to mankind, to unbelievers, is called the Gospel. Hence, sins are not the issue, but the good news of Jesus Christ's substitutionary spiritual death on the cross and His subsequent resurrection. GRACE - God's free gift of unmerited favor; all that God is free to do for mankind on the basis of the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Mankind through his own work can never accomplish or achieve the notice or favor of God. GRACE APPARATUS PERCEPTION (GAP) - The divine provisions for spiritual growth whereby every believer can understand every doctrine, regardless of education or human IQ. GRACE ORIENTATION - Is being oriented to the grace policy of God through the inculcation of Bible doctrine under genuine humility and the teaching ministry of God the H.S. Grace orientation does not judge others and always offers other believers privacy while minding one's own business! Grace orientation offers to others the very grace that God offers to you! GREAT POWER EXPERIMENT - Is the period of the incarnation of Christ in which the humanity of Christ set the precedence for the utilization of the divine power of God the Holy Spirit in living the Christian way of life. And every Church age believer can operate under the very same power that withstood the humanity of Christ! It was in the great power experiment of the Hypostatic union (i.e., Christ incarnate) that Christ proved this power valid and feasible to each Church age believer! GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT (GWTJ) - Is the final judgment for unbelievers only. It is here that all their good and evil will be evaluated and receive just condemnation. Condemnation since they rejected the person of the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior and judgment because all the "good" deeds they performed were conducted in human power rather than in the power of the Holy Spirit. And since unbelievers cannot be filled with the Spirit they cannot produce divine good. Rev. 20:12-15. HADES OR SHEOL - The Hebrew word SHEOL originally meant in post-Biblical Hebrew the deep parts of the sea. But both Sheol and the Greek word Hades are used to refer to anything that is subterranean and large. Therefore, the are used for the vast subterranean place of the departed dead of the human race and abode of certain fallen angels. Both Sheol and Hades are mistranslated "hell" which adds to the confusion. HADES is used from classical times and before the under-world and the realm of the dead. Sheol is something used for the grave, as in Gen 37:35, 42:38; 1 Sam 2:6 and other passages. HEART - The Biblical nouns for heart always refers to the right lobe of the soul. The Hebrew LEBH and the Greek KARDIA are both translated "heart." Both are used outside the Bible for the literal heart, but never anatomically in the Bible. HEATHEN - Anyone who does not believe in Jesus Christ for salvation. Heathenism is the apostasy of the unbeliever in three stages of negative volition, described in 2Pe 2. Heathenism is the story of the unbeliever rejecting the Gospel. The word "heathen" comes from the Gothic word HAITHI, which means open country, people who lived out in the country. The Gothic word is equivalent to the Latin PAGANUS and the Greek ETHNE, which means Gentiles or nations. Heathenism is also synonymous with the Hebrew word GOI meaning Gentiles. HEIRSHIP -
Heirship is based on sonship. You must be a son before you can become an heir.
In Gal 4:1, TEKNON means a son under authority. HUIOS means an adult son in Joh
HELL - see HADES HISTORICAL TRENDS - Even though history is the record of man's thoughts, decisions, actions and motivations, it is Jesus Christ who controls history. This is the first dispensation in which Jesus Christ controls history. This is the first dispensation in which Jesus Christ controls history from His Hypostatic Union. There are two sources of judgment in history: the sovereign decisions of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the erroneous decisions of mankind. HOPE - Hope is absolute confidence, total assurance, as well as comfort. It is comfort in relationship to future things. Confidence about future things results in comfort. The source of hope is perception of doctrine. Hope is not ignorance, uncertainty, or oscillation. HUMAN GOOD - Good deeds produced by the sin nature. The believer with unconfessed sin in his life is not spiritual but carnal (controlled by the sin nature). The good deeds of a carnal Christian are indistinguishable from good deeds performed by an unbeliever. Human good must never be confused with morality or the legitimate production of the believer. Human good is the production of the believer in the cosmic system. Therefore, human good is not valid in God's eyes. Human good is the production of evil. Human good is the result of function inside the cosmic system. It is often a reaction, e.g., helping someone because you dislike a person who wasn't helping that person, or showing someone how much better you are by your Christian production. People often given because they are unhappy. The believer performing human good can be motivated by any one of the gates of cosmic one or cosmic two. HUMAN SPIRIT - The immaterial part of mankind designed by God to understand, to store, and to utilize Bible doctrine or spiritual phenomena. The human spirit receives spiritual information which the Holy Spirit converts into gnosis (knowledge). The human spirit, acquired at the moment of salvation, is the home for eternal life. HUMILITY - Is the antithesis of Arrogance! Without humility there can be no reception of truth! And without reception of truth there can be no spiritual growth hence no spiritual life. HYPOSTATIC I.C.E. - Isagogics: To fully understand the plan of God for one's life, the Bible must be interpreted with the frame work of isagogics which is the historical setting. Categorical: The Bible must be studied through the scrutiny of the particular doctrine as recorded throughout the Scripture, line upon line, verse upon verse, category upon category. Hence Scripture must be used to interpret Scripture. No scripture can stand alone. Exegesis: The Bible should be studied in the original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek), with full context of the selected verse or verses, paying strict attention to grammar, syntax, and the etymology of the words form the original languages! IDOLATRY - Anyone or anything which takes a higher position in one's life above one's personal love for God manifested by the intake of His Word. Idolatry points to an inordinate attachment or an extreme devotion to something or someone standing in priority over that of the believer's personal love for God! Exo 20:3-5. INHERITANCE - See "heirship" INORDINATE COMPETITION - Is the lust to exalt oneself over that of the decent regard for others and for God's will. It consists of self-promotion even to the harm of others! IMMANENCE - A theological term used to describe God as ubiquitous and pervasive in His creation, in history, in all the affairs of mankind. IMMUTABILITY - The attribute of God that describes His inability to change; He is not susceptible to or capable of change. He is absolute, un-alterable stability. IMPECCABILITY OF CHRIST - Impeccability is that doctrine of Christology which recognizes the fact that during the entire course of the dispensation of the hypostatic union and forever, our Lord Jesus Christ did not sin though He was tempted in His humanity and the temptations were real. IMPERSONAL LOVE - Is a virtue love which emphasis the character of the subject (you) rather than the object being loved. Impersonal love emphasizes something in you rather than emphasizing something in the object of your love. A great example of impersonal love comes from God the Father in that when we were all yet sinners He loved us through the giving of His only begotten Son. IMPRECATORY PRAYER - This is a prayer in which justice is demanded for some form of persecution, antagonism, or hostility directed toward the one involved. IMPUTATION - The judicial act of crediting a debit or credit to someone's account. The condemnation of Adam's original sin is given to each person at birth. God's eternal life is credited to each person at the moment of faith in Jesus Christ. Imputation is the function of the justice of God directed toward mankind and related to the plan of God for mankind. Imputation functions as an act of condemnation or blessing from the Integrity of God to mankind. Therefore imputation may be defined as the action of the justice of God whereby either condemnation or blessing is assigned, ascribed, attributed, super-imposed or superinduced to another being; therefore to impute over and above that which already exists. The plan of God advances with each imputation. Every imputation is an advance on a previous imputation. INCARNATION - The expanse of time Jesus Christ, the second Person of the Trinity, dwelt on earth in hypostatic union. The account of His life is recorded in the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (see Hypostatic union). INDWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT - A permanent status acquired at the moment of salvation by Church Age believers which transforms their bodies into temples for the simultaneous indwelling of Jesus Christ (see Shekinah Glory). INSPIRATION - God the Holy Spirit so supernaturally directed the human writers of Scripture, that without waving their human intelligence, individuality, literary style, personal feelings or any other human factor, His own complete and coherent message to man was recorded in perfect accuracy in the original languages of Scripture, the very words bearing the authority of divine authorship. This is called verbal plenary inspiration of the Scripture. INTEGRITY - Is that characteristic which operates in impersonal love and functions under the royal family honor code. INTEGRITY OF GOD - The combination of the divine attributes of righteousness and justice to form God's holiness; the totality of divine perfection. INTERCALATION - Intercalation means insertion. The Jewish dispensation was interrupted by the insertion of a new dispensation. The strategic victory of Jesus Christ at the cross, resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of the Father immediately demanded that the Jewish Age be interrupted, and that a new dispensation be inserted. INVISIBLE ASSETS - Are those divine assets provided by God the Father in eternity past for the execution of the PPOG in the believers life. It is our invisible assets which we need to utilize to make our calling and election sure! INVISIBLE HERO - The purpose of the great power experiment of the Church Age is to manufacture invisible heros. The invisible hero is the product of Bible doctrine. The invisible hero advances to spiritual maturity. He executes the protocol plan of God. He spends enough time inside the plan of God and under the ministry of whomever is his right pastor to learn the principles of the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - The Judgment Seat of Christ, the evaluation of all Church Age believers. "Judgment" can mean two things: condemnation and evaluation. In this context, it refers to evaluation. The Judgment Seat of Christ is a technical, theological term used to designate the evaluation of the royal family of God at the end of the Church Age after the rapture or resurrection of the Church. It is the evaluation of what use we made of logistical grace provision, the divine dynasphere, problem solving devices, and divine power. The evaluation is determined on the basis of the execution of the protocol plan of God or the failure to do so. The purpose of the evaluation is to determine gain or loss of escrow blessings (reward) for eternity. Gain comes from the exploitation, positive volition and advance in the protocol plan of God. Loss comes from cosmic living, from failure to execute the Christian way of life as God's game plan for the Church Age. It also means your escrow blessings remain on deposit forever as a memorial to lost opportunity. JUSTICE - The attribute of God that describes His infinite fairness in blessing, reward, judgement, and condemnation. JUSTIFICATION - The judicial act of God that imputes His righteousness to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ and declares them righteous. Justification means an act of vindication. This is a judicial act of vindication, because we are born under condemnation, being spiritually dead. Therefore, justification is an official judicial act which occurs every time anyone believes in Christ. The justice of God acts on our behalf pronouncing us justified, which means, having a relationship with God forever, having the perfect righteousness of God imputed to us. Justification means that God recognizes that He has given us His perfect righteousness. Therefore, this is technically called justification. Justification is the judicial act by God, whereby He recognizes we have His perfect righteousness. JURISPRUDENCE - Juris prudence refers to the body or system or laws, or the science of law. A court is defined as a place where justice is administered; a place where the function of Juris prudence is designed to determine innocence or guilt. Under the concept of freedom, a person should be considered innocent until proven guilty. KENOSIS - During the incarnation, our Lord voluntarily restricted the independent use of His divine attributes, which includes His omnipotence. He did this in compliance with the Father's plan for the strategic victory of the angelic conflict. For the plan for the incarnation not only called for the judgment of our sins, the provision of eternal salvation for all members of the human race, but simultaneously for the strategic victory of the angelic conflict. Therefore, the Lord Jesus Christ voluntarily took on Himself true humanity in order to redeem mankind from sin, in order to propitiate God the Father, and to reconcile mankind to God. LAPSARIANISM - Of all the decrees in eternity past, five are related to the purpose of God in election, so that lapsarianism deals with the logical order of these 5 decrees. Lapsarianism, from the word "lapse," refers to the fact that man is a fallen being. Under lapsarianism the 5 decrees of eternity past are related to the purpose of God in election. The five concepts of lapsarianism are often called the 5 elective decrees. Lapsarianism, then, deals with the order of the 5 elective decrees. It deals with the logical rather than with the chronological order of the decrees. By logical is meant that although the entire decree is one thought in the mind of God, the principle of cause and effect is involved. LAST JUDGEMENT -
The unbeliever's separation from God for all eternity; also called the Second
Death, LEGALISM - Mankind's futile attempt to gain salvation, spirituality, or the approbation of God through human effort. LIFE BEYOND GNOSIS - Gnosis being doctrinal information learned but not believed or metabolized. Once the doctrinal information is believed or metabolized it is converted into epignosis in the right lobe of the brain thereby becoming wisdom. It is by such wisdom that the "life beyond gnosis" is executed! Hence this life is put into operation by the metabolization of B.D.! LOGISTICAL GRACE - God's complete provision of every physical and spiritual need for every believer regardless of their spiritual status. Logistical grace keeps the believer alive, provides access to Bible doctrine, and enables him to grow spiritually in the devil's world. LOVE - God's attitude of esteem and regard toward Himself and His concern, mercy, and benevolence toward His created beings. MEDIATORSHIP - A mediator removes disagreement and estrangement between two parties. Both parties are antagonistic to each other and the mediator brings them to a common goal or unity. The mediator must be agreed to by both parties, for he interposes between two parties as the equal of each. By so doing, reconciliation is established and a contract is made. To accomplish this, God the Father must be propitiated and man must be reconciled to God. Therefore the mediator must redeem man to accomplish this. The Hypostatic Union qualifies Jesus Christ as the mediator between God and man. The mechanics are found in 1Ti 2:5-6, "For you see, there is one God in essence, one mediator between God and man." MENTAL ATTITUDE - Mental attitude is the function of human thought. The life of every believer is determined experientially by two principles: what he thinks and what he decides. What you really are as a person is what you really think, not what you appear to be on the surface, not the way you are dressed or groomed, but what goes on inside the invisible you, which is your soul. You are not always what you appear to be on the surface. Some people can hide their thoughts and some cannot. People can hide their thoughts and become adept at the practice of hypocrisy. MENTORSHIP OF HOLY SPIRIT - This is the doctrine of God the Holy Spirit as the mentor or Paraclete-helper of all believers. MERCY - Mercy is rooted in God and experienced in relation to God, from Whom it may be acquired as a Christian virtue and exercised in relation to follow human beings. These are virtues of lovingkindness, graciousness, and compassion. MESSIAH - Literally
means "the Anointed One" in Hebrew, parallel to "Christ" in
Greek, indicating Jesus' offices of prophet, priest, and king to METABOLIZED DOCTRINE - This consists of taking the accurate doctrine already perceived in the left lobe and believing it. It is in believing said truth that it is metabolized and brought over to the right lobe as epignosis doctrine ready for application! METABOLISM, SPIRITUAL - Metabolism is defined as the sum total process in the building up of protoplasm and its destruction incidental to life. In other words, it is the chemical changes in the living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities. New material is assimilated to repair waste material in living cells. METAMORPHISMS - Metamorphism is an English noun derived from a Biblical Greek word, the verb METAMORPHOO, which means to change or to transform. This verb is used of our Lord's transformation on the Mount of Transfiguration in Mt 17:2. The English noun metamorphism is described as a striking or radical change of form or structure or substance. It is also defined as a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances. MILLENNIUM - The thousand year reign of Christ on earth from His second advent to the end of human history, prophesied throughout the O.T. and in Rev 20. MOMENTUM TESTING - Momentum testing exercises the believer's spiritual autonomy through people testing, thought testing, system testing and disaster testing. MORALITY - Morality is right conduct and excellence in the practice and function of the laws of divine establishment. It pertains to the character, conduct, ethics, motivations, and integrity related to the laws of divine establishment. It is the doctrine of duties and responsibilities toward establishment principles. MORNING STAR -
One of the names of the Lord Jesus Christ, MOSAIC LAW -
Alegal system that established policy for ethical, spiritual, and civic life
within the Old Testament nation of MYSTERY DOCTRINE - The word "mystery" refers to the doctrine for the great power experiment of the Church Age, called the mystery because it was never revealed in Old Testament times. NECROMANCY - Necromancy is a system of divination or a device for providing information, generally, future information. Necromancy is that system of divination that allegedly contacts the dead for information. The word is formed by combining the two Greek words, NEKROS meaning dead,and MANTEIA meaning divination, to mean divination by contacting the dead, or seeking information from the spirits of dead persons. NEGATIVE VOLITION - Negative volition is refusal of Bible doctrine. It is divided into two categories. Primary negative negative volition is refusal to assemble for Bible teaching, the rejection of your right pastor and his authority. Secondary negative volition is refusal to transfer doctrine from the left lobe to the right lobe. Basically, this is rejection of the message. NEW SPECIES (NEW CREATION) - The Church came from the perpetuation of the great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union into the Church Age, demanding a new spiritual species for the utilization of all divine power. The new spiritual species originates from regeneration and the mechanics of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. NEW COVENANT TO THE CHURCH - This New Covenant to the Church is a spiritual legacy to the royal family of God and authorizes the royal priesthood. The New Covenant applies only to those who are born again. Hence, the New Covenant is God's grace disposition to the royal family in time and eternity. OCCUPATION WITH CHRIST - Occupation with Christ is one of three problem solving devices related to virtue-love. Occupation with Christ is the maximum function of post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation; i.e., learning doctrine on a daily basis so that you advance to spiritual adulthood. This is the only way to execute God's plan, God's purpose, and God's will for your life. Occupation with Christ is defined as personal love for God the Son caused by post-salvation epistemological rehabilitation, which manifests the fact that the mystery doctrine of the Church Age has been and continues to be the #1 priority in your life. OLD SIN NATURE - Biblical documentation of the sin nature is found in Rom 5:12. "Therefore, just as through one man [Adam], sin [the sin nature] entered into the world, and [spiritual] death through [the] sin [nature], so [spiritual] death spread to the entire human race because all sinned [when Adam sinned]." The old sin nature is Adam's trend after the Fall in action. Immediately after Adam sinned, two things occurred simultaneously. He had a new trend historically. He had spiritual death. OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD - The Latin term omnipotence is taken from the Greek word PANTOKRATOR, and means all-powerful or almighty. It has the connotation of "ruler of all things;" therefore, the eternal supreme power. Omnipotence is the theological term to describe the unlimited, infinite and eternal power of the three persons of the Trinity. OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD - Literally means "ever-where present" and describes God's attribute of eternal and simultaneous presence in every place. God is not subject to the limitations of space. OMNISCIENCE OF GOD - Omniscience means "all-knowing" hence this describes God's attribute of complete knowledge of all things, including His foreknowledge. OPERATION FOOTSTOOL
- The termination of the strategic victory of the angelic conflict by which the
Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth to establish His kingdom and to remove Satan
and all fallen angels. It constitutes the point at which Satan loses the
rulership of the world to TLJC, Psa 110:1; Eph 1:22; Heb PALESTINIAN COVENANT
- This is an unconditional or grace covenant. There areno strings attached. It
is not based on human merit, but on the perfect essence of God. God gives on
the basis of who and what He is, not who and what we are. This covenant is the
sovereign disposition of God, whereby God establishes an unconditional or
declarative compact first with Abram and then with PARABLE - A short, fictitious narrative which illustrates a principle of Bible doctrine. PERSONAL SENSE OF DESTINY - God's meaning, purpose, and definition for the believer's life which becomes stronger as he progresses through the three stages of spiritual adulthood. PIVOT - The pivot is defined as the accumulation of mature believers living in a client nation or under civil government in a specific geographical location. While a pivot is composed primarily of mature believers, it may also include those positive believers whose momentum has carried them into spiritual adulthood. Technically, the pivot may include all believers who have fulfilled the principle of virtue first as their priority in the plan of God. Believers in the pivot stand out in contrast to believers living in the cosmic system, whose arrogance from motivational arrogance results in self-righteous, crusader arrogance. PLEROO - To fill up a deficiency. At salvation we are deficient of doctrine. To fully possess. The believer must be fully possessed by the Holy Spirit and Bible doctrine before he can be fully possessed by the blessings of maturity. To fully influence. The believer is fully influenced by Bible doctrine so that he can have capacity for blessing. to fill with a certain quality. Doctrine is the highest quality with which the believer can be filled. PLEROMA - Complete in itself. Complete in quota. Complete in quality. Complete in duration. POSITIONAL TRUTH - Positional truth is equivalent to positional sanctification. It is composed of retroactive positional truth and current positional truth. Positional truth is our relationship with Christ in the Church Age. It refers to the Church Age believer in union with Christ. It is the key to understanding the Church Age and the royal family. It is the basis for distinguishing between Christianity and religion. It is one of God's reasons for interrupting the Age of Israel. It can be defined as God the Holy Spirit at salvation entering us into union with Christ. POST SALVATION
EXPERIENCE - Is the life of the believer after salvation called spiritual
growth, 2Pe PORTFOLIO OF INVISIBLE ASSETS - The portfolio of invisible assets connotes the grace work of God the Father on your behalf in eternity past. God the Father found the way for His justice to provide perfect fantastic blessing through His righteousness without any compromise of His essence. In your portfolio of invisible assets God provided everything necessary for the function in life, dying, eternity, growing in grace, and the execution and fulfillment of the protocol plan of God. The portfolio of invisible assets provides everything necessary for you to have a fantastic life through receiving your escrow blessings which glorify God. If you do not have a fantastic life, it's your own fault, never God's. All you need is positive volition, and God will direct you to the place where you can get the information. POSITIONAL TRUTH - The Church age believer in Christ is positionally superior to all angels, including the chief fallen angel, Satan, Heb 1:4, 13-14; 2:9-11. It is in our position in Christ that we are to view our selves since that is how God sees us! We are not to dwell on our condition! PPOG - Pre-designed Plan of God, see "predestination". PREDESTINATION - Predestination is one of the two computer assets in your portfolio of invisible assets; the other is election. Predestination is the provision of the sovereignty of God for you in eternity past to execute God's plan, purpose, and will for your life. Predestination is the work of God the Father in eternity past on behalf of every Church Age believer to execute God's plan, purpose, and will for his life. Therefore, predestination is the grace provision of God the Father for the royal family. Predestination is the provision of the sovereignty of God for the execution of the protocol plan of God. Predestination includes equal privilege and equal opportunity for the fulfillment of God's plan and purpose for your life in the Church Age. PREVENTATIVE SUFFERING - Preventative suffering has two categories: punitive preventative suffering and providential preventative suffering. Preventative suffering is defined as short-termed suffering from the sovereignty of God for the benefit of the believer. PRIVACY - Privacy is a state of being apart from the observation and company of others. It IS the innate right of the human race to seclusion. It is that principle of freedom whereby an individual of the human race has the right to retire from the company of others, remaining in seclusion from the knowledge or observation of others. Privacy, property, and life are the basic concepts of happiness and freedom. PRODIGAL - A reckless and extravagantly wasteful person. PROPITIATION - That aspect of the saving work of God through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross whereby the justice and righteousness of God are satisfied concerning the sins of mankind. PROBLEM SOLVING DEVICES - The problem solving devices include the rebound technique, the filling of the Spirit, the faith-rest drill, grace orientation, doctrinal orientation, a personal sense of destiny, personal love for God the Father, impersonal love for all mankind, +H or sharing the happiness of God, and occupation with Christ as the priority solution to life. PROTOCOL PLAN OF GOD - God has a plan for your life. The name of that plan is protocol. The policy of that plan is grace. The precedence for the grace policy of God comes from the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union. Protocol is a rigid, long-established code and procedure, prescribing complete deference to superior rank and authority, followed by strict adherence to due order and precedence, coupled with precisely correct procedure. PUBLIC LIE - The public lie is the hate propaganda fomented by arrogant and ambitious believers who lust form power and approbation. The public lie to discredit the teaching of Bible doctrine and those who communicate it. PSEUDO SPIRITUALITY - False spirituality based on man's system of rules or based on Satan's system of religion. Both being antithetical to the true spirituality of Christianity found in God's Word. RAPTURE - The resurrection or removal of all believers from the earth at the end of the present age, the Church Age. All believers who died during the Church Age and all believers alive at that time will be resurrected. REBOUND - The method of restoring the believer's fellowship with God through confessing personal sin privately to God the Father (1Jo 1:9); the means of going from carnality to spirituality. See SPIRITUALITY a. Restoration of fellowship. b. Recovery of the filling of the Holy Spirit. c. Reentry into the divine dynasphere. d. Recovery from cosmic influence, i.e., grieving the Holy Spirit in cosmic one, and quenching the Holy Spirit in cosmic two. RECONCILIATION -
The removal of the natural antagonism between God and man through the work of
Christ on the cross. Reconciliation removes the insurmountable barrier of
personal sin, the penalty of sin. man's position in Adam, physical birth, God's
perfect character, and man's relative righteousness (Rom. RECOVERY - After involvement in sin and evil the believer rebounds (1Jo 1:9) and then recovers the spiritual life by way of consistent perception and metabolization of accurate Bible doctrine! REDEMPTION - The saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross whereby all humanity is bought from the slave market of sin in which they were born and delivered to the freedom of grace. The unbeliever is redeemed when he is born again by faith alone in Christ alone. REGENERATION - The theological term for spiritual birth, or being "born again;" the imputation of eternal life at the moment anyone believes in Jesus Christ for eternal salvation. A regenerate person passes from spiritual death to spiritual life. RELATIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS - Man's righteousness is adequate only in comparison or relative to other humans, but is totally inadequate when compared to God's absolute or perfect righteousness. RELIGION - A system whereby man by his own efforts and merits attempts to gain salvation or the approbation of God. Christianity is a relationship with Jesus Christ, by grace through faith. REPENTANCE - The Greek transitive verb METANOEO means to change one's thinking, or to change the mind. The cognate noun METANOIA, Rom 2:4, means a change of mind, a conversion, a turning away. Doctrinal viewpoint changes every bit of human viewpoint you've learned. All of us repented at the moment of salvation. Repentance connotes a decision based on mentality, not emotion. It is rational. RESURRECTION - A theological term that means to be physically raised from the dead and to receive an immortal body just like that received by Jesus Christ upon His resurrection. Resurrection is in contrast to resuscitation, in which a dead person is restored alive to his mortal body but subsequently dies again. RETROACTIVE POSITIONAL TRUTH - Retroactive positional truth is different from current positional truth. In retroactive positional truth, we reject and are separated from good and evil, and divorced from the old sin nature. While identification with Christ in His physical death and burial connotes breaking the power of the old sin nature, it still doesn't give us anything new. When God takes away the old (by retroactive positional truth), He substitutes the new (by current positional truth). REVELATION - The Greek word APOKALUPSIS. meaning revelation, is defined as God making known to man what is otherwise unknowable. God has to reveal Himself to us. A material universe demands a Creator. Man is the object of that creation. Therefore, communication from the Creator to mankind is to be expected. So the noun APOKALUPSIS implies unveiling, disclosure by God Himself regarding things previously unknown and things that cannot be explained. REVERSE TRENDS OF HISTORY - The plan of God for the Church age reverses the trend of history. this happens only where some form of leadership determines the course of history in the Church age. But behind every great man there is a pivot of mature believers. The course of history in the Church age is determined by the attitude of the believer toward Bible doctrine. No great person or leader or group can make decisions based on honor and virtue without the backing of that pivot of mature believers. REVERSIONISM - Reversionism is an act of reversing or turning in the opposite way, or a state of being so turned. As believers we were designed to execute the protocol plan of God. But in reversionism we turn the other way and cannot be distinguished from our pre-salvation status. We are believers thinking human viewpoint. Reversionism is the act of reverting to a former state, habit, belief, or practice of post- salvation sinning. Reversionism is a reversal of your priorities, your attitudes, your affections, the object of your personal love accompanied by the destruction of your impersonal love, and the change of your modus operandi and personality. REVOLUTION - Is the forcible overthrow of an established government or a political system by the people governed. Revolution is the overthrow by violence of duly constituted authority, resulting in a fundamental change in political organization, constitution, or government and violence done to its leadership. RIGHTEOUSNESS - The attribute of God that describes the absolute perfection of His character and Person. ROYAL FAMILY OF GOD - A term derived from biblical nomenclature, such as "sons of God," & describes the familial relationship between God and the believer. Every believer is related to the kingly lineage of Jesus Christ through the new birth. (Synonyms: the Church & the body of Christ). ROYAL FAMILY HONOR CODE - The royal family honor code is a system of spiritual integrity mandated by God and revealed by the mystery doctrine of the Church Age. The royal family honor code relates to personal integrity in relationship to other persons. In that sense, the honor code is a supplement to impersonal love for all believers and other pertinent problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God. ROYAL PRIESTHOOD - All believers in the Church age are royal priests and represent themselves before God. SABBATH - The seventh day of the week (Saturday) in which God ceased from His work of restoration and declared the day blessed and holy, Gen 2:1-3. Adhered to in Mosaic Law. SALVATION - The saving of mankind from the power and effects of sin by way of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the Cross. SANCTIFICATION - To be set apart to God. There are three phases of sanctification: 1. Positional Sanctification - every believer receives the imputed righteousness of God at the moment of salvation; 2. Experiential Sanctification - every believer has the unique opportunity to grow spiritually and attain a progressive righteousness during his lifetime; and 3. Ultimate Sanctification - every believer will receive perfect righteousness in eternity. SCAR TISSUE OF THE SOUL - Scar tissue of the soul, also known as hardness of the heart, is the result of prolonged residence and function inside the cosmic system. SEALING MINISTRY OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT - Sealing is the Holy Spirit's signature guarantee of three
things. 1. The guarantee of eternal salvation, Eph 4:30. 2. The guarantee of
eternal security, Eph 4:30. 3. The guarantee of our portfolio of invisible
assets, Eph SECOND ADVENT - There are two advents of Jesus Christ depicted in the Word of God. The First Advent begins with the virgin birth and concludes with the resurrection, ascension and session. During the First Advent, Jesus Christ in Hypostatic Union accomplishes the strategic victory of the angelic conflict and the salvation of the human race. This strategic victory gives Him battlefield royalty. He must have a royal family to go with this royalty. Therefore, there is the need for the Church. The Second Advent is designed to reveal Him as both battlefield royalty and Jewish royalty. He returns to earth in resurrection body and Hypostatic Union. SELECTION - Selection is a technical term related to the divine imputation of human life at the point of physical birth. God is the inventor of human life, just as He is the creator. At the moment of physical birth, God imputes human life to the format soul, at which point the individual becomes alive. That is selection. SHEKINAH GLORY -
As the visible manifestation of God's glory, the Second Person of the Trinity
dwelt with SIN - Any mental, verbal, or overt activity that violates the character and standards of God. SIN NATURE - An integral part of every human being which resides in the cell structure of the human body. The sin nature was acquired originally by Adam at his Fall and is subsequently passed down genetically to all mankind through copulation. The result is both spiritual death and total depravity of all humanity, except Jesus Christ. Because of the virgin birth, Jesus Christ was born without a sin nature. SIN UNTO DEATH - The sin unto death is maximum punishment from God. It is fair, painful and terminates in physical death. SLANDER - The spreading of the public lie, or any form of verbal vilification of the doctrinal communicator or doctrinal believer for the purpose of advancing an evil cause. SLAVE MARKET OF SIN - The spiritually dead human race born in bondage to sin. SLAVE MENTALITY - Is that mentality which is opposite of that of God's. The slave mentality is interested in security regardless of where it comes from. This type of thinking does not accept the responsibility which comes by way of true spirituality before God. Hence the believer involved in the slave mentality is a prime target for satanic deception! SOTERIOLOGY - The theological discipline of the saving work of Jesus Christ. SOVEREIGNTY - The attribute of God that describes His supreme authority and rule over all He creates. SPIRITUAL AUTONOMY - Spiritual autonomy is a continuation of contentment or +H (sharing the happiness of God) as a major problem solving device. SPIRITUAL CHAMPION - Is the spiritual mature believer who advances through evidence testing and glorifies God thereby becoming a champion in the spiritual realm! SPIRITUAL DEATH - Separation from God at physical birth; imputation of the penalty of Adam's original sin to the genetically formed sin nature. SPIRITUAL SELF-ESTEEM - Spiritual self-esteem is the foundation for the stability of the Christian life. Therefore, spiritual self-esteem is the believer's dependence on God's grace provision for stabilizing self and integrating self into the protocol plan of God. SPIRITUAL GIFTS - The Greek noun CHARISMA for spiritual gifts is based on the word CHARIS, or grace. All spiritual gifts are a matter of grace! No gift is given based on God's foreknown merit of the believer. CHARISMA is
primarily a Pauline expression, through it occurs once in 1Pe SPIRITUAL MATURITY - The mature believer is defined as a member of the royal family of God who executes the protocol plan of God of the Church Age. SPIRITUAL WARFARE - Our warfare in the Christian life is neither physical nor fleshly; it is invisible and spiritual! We are to use our God-given assets (B.D., filling of the Spirit, etc) to battle the forces and deceit of the great Deceiver, Lucifer. B.D. resident in the believer's soul is the only weapon capable of withstanding the incessant barrage of attacks from our great adversary the devil! SPIRITUALITY - The absolute status of fellowship with God through the use of rebound and resulting filling of the Holy Spirit. SOUL STRUCTURE - SEE Edification Complex SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD - The sovereignty of God is His eternal, infinite, and perfect divine volition. The sovereignty of God is His eternal and infinite will expressed in the divine decrees, manifest in the comprehensive divine interpretation of history called dispensations, and the unique plan regarding the Church Age. SUPERGRACE - Supergrace is the highest adult stage of the spiritual life in the royal family of God. Supergrace is maximum glorification of Jesus Christ. Supergrace is the status of spiritual maturity while ultrasupergrace is maximum growth and blessing attended by maximum suffering, which only intensifies the blessing. Supergrace is where the normal function of the royal priesthood and the production of divine good begin. SUPREME COURT OF HEAVEN - The appeal trial of Satan and his fallen angels which is taken place in heaven in which we are witnesses for the Prosecution, God the Father! SURPASSING GRACE - Eph 2:7, "that in the approaching ages, He might demonstrate His surpassing grace riches in generosity toward us in Christ Jesus." Surpassing grace is the optimum in spiritual achievement. It is the maximum place of blessing and reward, and the ultimate in glorifying Jesus Christ. Surpassing connotes something beyond supergrace and beyond time. TABOO - A prohibition arbitrarily imposed by a religious or social group. Taboos are not the basis for assessing sin. TETRAGRAMMATION - Literally means "four letters" and refers to the word JHWH, translated Jehovah or Yahweh. This proper name for God or Lord in the Old Testament is used when referring to either one or all members of the Trinity. THEOPHANY - A theophany is a manifestation of the person and work of Jesus Christ in His preincarnate state. This is a theological category for the appearances of Jesus Christ before the First Advent. TOTAL DEPRAVITY - There is nothing in fallen man which God can find pleasure in or accept, hence our flesh is totally depraved in God's sight! TONGUES - The
gift of tongues was a temporary spiritual gift; so temporary that it was the
first one to be discontinued in August of 70 A.D. when TRANSCENDENCE - A theological term used to describe God as independent of and beyond the spatial limits of the created universe. No particular place can contain Him. TREE OF LIFE - IS
associated with perfect life and environment in the Garden, as well as the
perpetuation of right relationship with God in the Garden, Gen 2:9; TRICHOTOMOUS - Regenerate mankind consists of three component parts: body, soul, and spirit. TRINITY - A technical theological word that designates God as one in essence but three coequal, coinfinite, and coeternal Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. TRIPLE COMPOUND DISCIPLINE - Consists of first of all divine discipline for the sin committed, secondly a double portion of discipline for judging another believer and thirdly the discipline is then compounded to the third degree when the believer also receives the discipline for the other believer's sin that he judged. Hence this nosey believer receives triple the amount of discipline! TRIUMPHAL PROCESSION - The third heaven was where the triumphal procession of our Lord terminated. Our Lord's triumph proceeded through billions and billions of light years of space in the second heaven or stellar universe. The triumphal procession terminated with the Father's command to "sit down . ." Only the true humanity of Christ actually sat down. TYPOLOGY - From
the Greek word for form or pattern, which in biblical times denoted both the
original model or the prototype and the copy that resulted. In the N.T. the
latter was labeled the anti-type, and this was especially used in two
decisions: (1) The correspondence between two historical situations like the
flood and baptism (1Pe ULTRA-SUPERGRACE - Ultra-supergrace is the most advance stage of spiritual maturity related to time, history, and the angelic conflict. Once the believer breaks the maturity barrier through the daily metabolization of doctrine, he moves into three different spheres of maturity. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - SEE Impersonal love UNLIMITED ATONEMENT
- The judgement of Christ on the cross for the sins of the entire human race
(1Jo 2:2; 2Co UNPARDONABLE SIN -
This is the one sin Jesus Christ could not and did not die for on the cross,
Joh VERACITY - The attribute of God that describes Him as absolute truth. VIRGIN BIRTH -
Since the old nature is passed down from the man in copulation, the seed for
the formation of the body of TLJC was implanted in virgin Mary by way of the
power of the Holy Spirit, hence God is the father of Jesus Christ and Mary was
the mother. Mat VOLITION - The
decision-maker of the soul. Mankind's free will to make one's own decisions. VOLITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY - This is the most common and the first cause for human suffering in general, and is also a specific cause for believers. Our emphasis here is on believers only. Every human being must take the responsibility for his own decisions and his own actions in life. You must understand that you can never blame others or your misery, your unhappiness, and your suffering. You take full responsibility yourself, based on your own wrong decisions related to your associations, your activities, your motives, your functions in life. WITNESSING - Fulfilling the divine commandment for believers to communicate God's plan of salvation to unbelievers on a personal basis. The communication of the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the unbeliever on a personal basis, known as personal evangelism. Witnessing therefore is the responsibility of every believer. But the believer is responsible only to communicate the accurate information concerning the finished work of TLJC on the Cross...the believer is not responsible to make anyone accept the information! |
