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Not to Mock the Branches: Israel, the Gentile Church, and the Mercy of Romans 11

Why Gentile salvation should produce humility, gratitude, and longing — not arrogance toward Israel There are verses that explain doctrine, and there are verses that shut mouths. Romans 11:11 is one of them. “Have they stumbled so as to fall beyond recovery? God forbid!” (Romans 11:11). These words fall like a hammer. The Apostle Paul will not permit the Gentile Church to write Israel out of…

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The SENTRY That God Sends | Philippians 4:6–7

There is a kind of prayer that is just anxiety wearing religious clothing. You know the kind. The words go upward but the grip never loosens. You rehearse the problem before God with the same churning you rehearsed it alone. You add “in Jesus’ name” at the end and call it faith. But the knot in your chest remains. The mind keeps circling. Nothing has actually been released. This is not what Paul…

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The PASSPORT of the HEAVENLY Jerusalem

THE HERMENEUTICAL QUILL bvthomas.com  •  Biblical Theology & Exposition The Passport of the Heavenly Jerusalem Kingdom Immigration and the Terms No One Is Preaching b.v. thomas Walk into any embassy on earth and you will feel it immediately — the weight of a jurisdiction that does not belong to the street outside. The flag on the wall, the seal above the consul’s desk, the forms in triplicate,…

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He Dwells Among Us

There are moments when fear is no longer theoretical. It becomes a physical weight—pressing on the chest, tightening the throat, clouding the mind until even ordinary responsibilities feel crushing. I recently found myself in such a moment. Governmental responsibilities demanded my attention, but inside, anxiety was rising. My heart grew heavy. My face showed it. Peace felt distant. Then…

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THE CONCENTRIC SPHERES - A Theology of History from the Nucleus to the Gentile World

A Theology of History from the Nucleus to the Gentile World B.V. Thomas — — — I. The Diagram and What It Hides In recent years voices from within Western political institutions have said openly what previous generations only whispered — that Christianity itself is the problem, and that any alternative, however dark, is preferable to the rule of Christ. Elsewhere the same spirit speaks not in…

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Two and Yet One: Understanding the Distinction Between the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit

By B.V. Thomas | The Hermeneutical Quill The Distinction That Would Not Let Me Go There are moments in the study of Scripture when your mind gets suspended on a word — a single syllable, a capitalisation, a preposition — and something within you knows, with a certainty that precedes explanation, that something is locked in there. That the Spirit placed it there deliberately. That it is not a…

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YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR

The Voice, the Years, and What God Showed Me By B.V. Thomas The Hermeneutical Quill The Garden It was late evening. The outside had grown dark, and the house was quiet in the way that only evenings can be — that particular stillness where the noise of the day has finally run out of things to say. I was strolling and praying, as I often did in those days. And as I prayed, there was one thing on my…

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AMALEK REVISITED

Why Some Battles Are Not About Your Flesh There is a particular kind of spiritual exhaustion that doesn’t announce itself. It arrives quietly, not as temptation or crisis of faith, but as a slow erosion of expectancy. The prayers are still being prayed. The Word is still being read. God has not been abandoned. And yet something is leaking — joy, boldness, clarity, the sense of forward motion —…

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What God DOES With the PLACE You SETTLED For

I did not come to this passage through study. I came to it through a season — one I am still in — where enough had collapsed around me that I found myself doing what you do when the scaffolding is gone: turning directly toward God with nothing polished to offer and no particular confidence that I understood what was happening. I was seeking the Lord for my own situation, and He led me here. To…

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The APOSTASY That Prepares the HARVEST

When Falling Away Is Not What We Thought A single verse has shaped generations of end-times teaching: “Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition” (2 Thessalonians 2:3, NKJV). Most readers hear “the great apostasy” and immediately picture Christians drifting away, churches emptying,…

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Grace SHINES on ALL — Why Not ALL Are SAVED: Humbleness, Pride, and the Line That Cannot Be CROSSED 

“Grace shines on all hearts, yet not all respond — humbleness opens the door, pride closes it.” Grace has appeared, bringing salvation for all people (Titus 2:11). The true Light gives light to everyone coming into the world (John 1:9). Christ stands at the door and knocks (Revelation 3:20). The Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Yet not all are saved. This is not a…

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No SEX in Heaven? Why That’s the BEST NEWS You’ll Ever Hear

Imagine the best sexual experience you’ve ever had—or ever dreamed of having. Multiply its intensity, intimacy, and joy a thousand times. Remove every trace of selfishness, shame, fatigue, or disappointment. Then realize: even that is a faint whisper compared to what awaits believers in the resurrected life. Yet Jesus says plainly: “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in…

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Before The DAY: What the Church Has MISSED About the GREAT APOSTASY — and Why It Changes Everything

There is a word the Apostle Paul uses exactly once to describe a cataclysmic event that must precede the return of Christ. The word is apostasia — and for centuries, the Church has read it the same way: a great falling away of believers, a mass defection from Christianity that signals the end is near. But what if that reading is wrong? What if it misses something that Paul himself, by his own…

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The FRIENDS of the Bridegroom: Understanding the Apostles’ UNIQUE ROLE in God’s Eternal Plan

Introduction: An Overlooked Distinction When John the Baptist spoke of Jesus, he said: “He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice: thus my joy is fulfilled” (John 3:29). John deliberately placed himself outside the category of the bride. He was the friend who stood with the…

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Grace Has APPEARED: Nearness, Responsibility, and the TRAGEDY of Refusal

“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.” — Titus 2:11 What if the greatest tragedy of our age is not that people cannot find God—but that God has come so near, and they still refuse Him? Scripture declares that “the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.” Not offered from afar. Not hidden behind rituals. Appeared. Light has entered history, sin…

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No More SHADOWS: Why the Church Must STOP Worshipping LIKE David

For decades, millions of Christians have sung with passion: “When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon my heart, I will dance like David danced… I will pray like David prayed… I will sing like David sang.” These lyrics stir the soul. They evoke a man after God’s own heart, leaping before the Ark, pouring out raw pleas in the Psalms. Who wouldn’t want to worship with that kind of abandon? Yet as we…

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The CHURCH on COSMIC Display: God’s Manifold Wisdom, Christ’s Inaugurated REIGN, and the High Calling of the ECCLESIA

Ephesians 3:10 is one of those verses that should stop a reader dead in their tracks: “…so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.” Through the church… to the principalities and powers? Yes. Paul means exactly what he says. The church is not primarily a human institution scrambling for relevance in a…

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