Douglas Jacoby Podcast

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Harsh treatment of women, children, and the vulnerable in OT times: infanticide, abortion, disrespect of women. Divorce was easy and favored the man. Worse, abandoned women could be "reclaimed" by their husbands. In the Middle Assyrian laws, a woman abandoned could remarry, but only after a 5-year wait. The 1st century world of the Rom...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. This podcast is an adaption of a draft chapter from my book, What’s the Truth about Heaven and Hell? Sorting Out the Confusion about the Afterlife. The universally familiar NDE/OOB sequence: A sense of well-being Disembodiment A tunnel leading to light Visions of persons, events, and objects Interactions with other beings, human or div...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scriptures Where the word antichrist appears: 1 John 2:18 1 John 2:22 1 John 4:3 2 John 7 Passages that do not mention antichrist but which are popularly understood to refer to him: 2 Thessalonians 2 Appears to be a Roman emperor, one with the arrogance of Caligula, Nero, or Domitian. Stands as a warning for all generations. No mention...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. For further study: Read the original two-article series I wrote in London (1986). Click on Armageddon! Read a paper on Matthew 24 and the Destruction of Jerusalem I wrote at Duke University (1980). Click  here . See also John Clayton's article The 2012 Mayan Demise of Earth . If you'd like to learn a lot more, you might want to order R...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. What exactly is the battle of Armageddon? Is there going to be a literal battle, as Revelation 16 seems to indicate? And how can we prepare for this awful battle at the end of time? 1. Around 95 AD, the clear and present challenge to the Christian faith is emperor worship. Domitian is the first emperor to demand it in his lifetime. The...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Order of events, popular Christianity: Second coming Rapture Tribulation (for unbelievers) Order of events in New Testament: Tribulation (throughout our lives as believers) Second coming General resurrection + rapture Judgment Day Eternal destiny: heaven or hell Etymology Rapture < Latin rapire , translating Greek harpadzomai (snatch)...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Hinduism has taught reincarnation for many thousands of years. Sikhism, which derives from Hinduism and Islam, also accepts reincarnation (many passages in the Granth teach this doctrine). The Chandogya Upanishad 5.10.8 reads, “... those who are of pleasant conduct here—the prospect is, indeed, that they will enter a pleasant womb, eit...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Note: If you are not familiar with the early Christian doctrine of the intermediate state of the dead, please listen to the podcast "What Happens After We Die?" This podcast assumes some familiarity with the biblical teaching that the dead proceed to Hades, a sort of waiting place before the second coming, the general resurrection, and...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scriptures cited: 1 Corinthians 3:15, Hebrews 9:27 Luke 10:12, 12:28 1 Peter 3:22 John 4:34 Genesis 2:15, 1:16,28 Hebrews 4:9 Philippians 3:21 Matthew 22:30 Matt 19:21, Mark 10:21, Luke 12:33, 18:22 Romans 14:10,12 Matthew 25:21 For further study: Here is the link to my paper on Terminal Punishment . For more about "levels" of reward,...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scriptures cited: Genesis 1:31 1 Corinthians 15:1-7, 47-52 Philippians 3:20-21 1 John 3:2 Luke 24:39 John 21:12, 20:19 1 Corinthians 15:20, 35-37, 42-44, 58 See also Acts 24:15 Further study: Be sure to listen to the related podcasts in this series on The Rapture & the Tribulation, What Happens After We Die?, and Thoughts on Heaven & H...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scriptures cited in this podcast: Luke 23:39-43 John 20:16-17 Philippians 2:9-11 John 14:1-3 John 3:13 Acts 2:34 Further: The audio series, What Happens After We Die? contains 3 hours of material, comprising 4 lessons: After Death: Have We Got it all Wrong? In Their Own Words: What the Early Christians Taught How Can This Be? Problems...

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For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Excerpt You are listening to just part of a book on evangelism. It's called Till the Nets are Full (formerly Shining Like Stars) . This podcast is an adaptation of chapter 2, "The Mission." This may be found in Part I of the book, "Light of the World." Important note: When it comes to true Christians, we must distinguish mission and pu...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Scriptures referred to: James 3:1 Deuteronomy 17:18-20 1 Timothy 4:8-16

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Six Ways to Build a Healthy Culture (15 minutes). TRUST Rom 15:14—confident in church to handle issues of church. I myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another. APPEAL Philemon 1-25—a study in gracious persuasion RESPECT (or “Stop pu...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Inappropriate control, 4-6 4) Abuse of authority Leaders have authority, but not to create their own rules, or in the language of Jeremiah, “to rule by their own authority” (Jer 5:30-31). "Giving up everything" is not unlimited, but should be interpreted in the light of apostolic teaching, as found in the epistles and in Acts. Again, w...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Inappropriate forms of control, 1-3 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. The purpose of this podcast is to foster a Christian leadership culture. This is an important study for anyone in leadership, or considering it. Please listen to this podcast (18 minutes) and share it with others whom you may be able to influence. Key Greek verb:  katakurieuein  (to lord it over, dominate, domineer, wield authority, et...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Here I share some of my own thoughts about elders (overseers) and church leadership. I do not speak for a congregation or denomination. These are simply my own reflections on this important subject. Passages considered in the lesson (28 minutes): Acts 13:1-4; 14:23; 15:1-35; 20:17-38. Soon after churches were intentionally planted, tea...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. 108 power-packed verses! Chapter 1 introduces the 12 themes of chapters 2-5. James is practical. James covers a whole range of everyday life issues: how we respond to pain and suffering, dealing with conflict, how our speech can help or harm, dealing with poverty and wealth, even how we should think about planning for the future. We ne...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. James was martyred in AD 62. Prophet, Peacemaker, Martyr Martyrs and confessors in the early church James’s execution Thrown from pinnacle and beaten over the head (Jos. 2.23.12). “If a priest performed the temple service while unclean… the young priests take him out of the temple court and split his skull with clubs” (Sanh. 81b). Resp...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. Acts 15 Last time: James was a prophet (fiery hot). But he was also a peacemaker. The Jew-Gentile Controversy (Acts 15:1, 5) was the most contentious issue in the 1st century. The Judaizers held that to be truly spiritual—or (in this case) even to be saved—a man must be circumcised. Circumcision entailed following the terms of the old...

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. James is a “pillar of the church” (Gal 2:9), brother of the Lord, and highly respected leader. But he also speaks prophetically—his tongue dipped in the white-hot fire of God’s justice and righteous indignation. Try to feel the strength, the conviction, the vehemence of his words (ten selections from the NAB, adapted and abbreviated)....

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website. The final four reflections: James the Prophet James the Peacemaker James the Martyr Series conclusion (and my personal takeaways)