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     Notice the picture above of a precious little girl drinking a cup of cold water to relieve her thirst. Proverbs 25:25 says As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. The good news that is so refreshing to our souls as a cup of cold water to a thirsty soul is the gospel message that Jesus Christ died on the cross of Calvary for you, was buried, and rose again. Romans 1:16 says For I am not ashamed of the gospel (good news) of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

     The word gospel is defined at 1 Corinthians 15:1 that says Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that He was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. Therefore the gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Notice that the gospel also includes the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

     People have asked Brother Bob Why do you only stress Jesus Christ crucified and not also the resurrection? My answer is this: You can't put the cart before the horse. At the cross and not at the resurrection was where the blood of Jesus Christ was shed. And to defeat and overcome the devil we must preach Jesus Christ crucified because Revelation 12:11 says we overcome the devil by the blood of the Lamb shed at the cross of Calvary and not at the resurrection. The cross of Calvary and the blood of Jesus is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever because Hebrews 13:8 says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 

     Note that if you preach Jesus Christ crucified you automatically will receive the power of the resurrection. Let me prove this to you by two bible verses. First Romans 6:5 says For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. Philippians 3:10 says That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death. You see you automatically receive the power of the resurrection when you say I am crucified with Jesus Christ by faith and see the cross of Calvary with your heart being made conformable unto His death.

     Open your bibles to 1 Corinthians 1:18 and meditate on this verse that tells us the importance of looking daily to the cross of Calvary. This verse says For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it (the cross of Calvary) is the power of God. I encourage anyone reading this bible study to daily with their hearts by faith see Jesus Christ crucified to receive power. When anyone casts their worries, fears, and problems on the cross of Calvary by faith, they can say I am crucified with Jesus Christ and thank you Jesus for destroying my problems forever at the cross of Calvary. 

     Hebrews 2:14 says Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. Lord Jesus let all who read this forevermore remember Luke 9:23 that says And He said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

     The Apostle Paul told us to preach about Jesus Christ crucified. Galatians 1:8 says But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Paul is saying twice if we do not preach Jesus Christ crucified we are cursed. After Brother Bob studied this scripture, I vowed to Jesus that I would constantly remind everyone to daily focus on Jesus Christ crucified and daily thank Jesus for dying for them at the cross of Calvary. The Apostle Paul said at 1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. Also Galatians 6:14 says But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning,

Confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel,

That Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.

     Brother Bob celebrated when he found the picture above. I must state that it is one of the most accurate and phenomenal pictures of a bible scene that I've ever looked at. Whoever drew this cartoon picture was highly anointed. The picture above is of the harlot Rahab's house that was spared from destruction in Jericho because she placed a scarlet thread outside her window. Jesus showed me that since scarlet is red, the scarlet thread represented the blood of Jesus and the Lord told Joshua, when I see the blood of Jesus over Rahab's house, destruction must pass over Rahab's house.

     Rahab feared the Lord Jesus and housed Joshua's spies and protected them. Because of Rahab's kindness, the spies made an agreement that if she placed a scarlet thread outside her window, when their leader Joshua came to destroy Jericho and saw her scarlet thread, Rahab's household would be spared and live. Joshua 2:18 says Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee. 

     The story of Rahab's rescue from destruction is at Joshua 6:22 and says But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

     The walls of Jericho were discovered and exist today. Hebrews 11:30 says By faith the walls of Jericho fell down (descended from a higher place to a lower place per Greek definition), after they were compassed about seven days. An archeologist named Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s discovered these walls of Jericho that sunk into the ground. Yes the walls of Jericho remain and exist today, proving that the bible is true and accurate. The Jericho walls did not crumble but remained and just sank into the ground. Kathleen Kenyon also discovered Rahab's house on a wall that did not sink into the ground. Joshua 2:15 tells us that Rahab's house was upon the town wall but her house on that part of the wall did not sink and exists above ground to this day, proving that the bible is true and accurate. 

     Click this link http://www.christiananswers.net/q-abr/abr-a011.html and read about how the christian archeologist Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s discovered the sunken walls of Jericho that remain and exist today in Jericho.

     Jesus showed Brother Bob that since Joshua means salvation, Jesus whose name also means salvation is coming to save the saints in the air during the rapture. Notice that trumpets were blown before Rahab was rescued to be saved with Joshua who was like Jesus. When saved saints hear the last trump of God that is God's voice, they will be saved like Rahab and caught up out of this troubled world to be with Jesus. 

     1 Thessalonians 4:16 says For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel (this is Michael who is the only archangel of the bible stated at Jude 9), and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

     Jesus showed Brother Bob that one of the sweetest sounds a saint will ever hear will be when the last trump of God sounds and the saved saints are caught up to be with Jesus in a moment and in the twinkling of an eye when we all shall be changed from mortality to immortality. It's interesting to note that Rahab was a sinful harlot prostitute that represents the true church of God because we all have sinned and come short of the glory of God but thank you Jesus for your precious blood that you shed at the cross of Calvary that saves us all from destruction.

     The next picture above is when the children of Israel placed the blood of the Lamb Jesus on their doors and were saved from the angel of death. It's a great blessing that we all can have a safe place to hide in Jesus from the troubles around us like the children of Israel above and Rahab who also trusted in the blood of Jesus. Jesus showed me that saved saints are like the children of Israel. We might hear great cries of trouble around us but if we stay by faith under the blood of Jesus, trouble and destruction must pass over us. I pray in Jesus name that everyone who will read this bible study past, present, and future will by faith daily be protected under the blood of Jesus while they remember Jesus Christ crucified.

     The story about the picture above is at Exodus 12:23 and says For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. 

     Exodus 12:29 describes the great cry the children of Israel heard outside their doors. The blood of Jesus will protect us all from any trouble around us. Exodus 12:29 says And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharoah that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. And Pharoah rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

     Now saints meditate on the following scriptures proving that the Lord Jesus is your safety place from the troubles of this world. Isaiah 26:20 says Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation (trouble) be overpast. In other words trouble must pass over you when God sees the blood of Jesus. Proverbs 18:10 says The name of the Lord (Jesus) is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

     Here's some more scriptures about how the Lord Jesus is your safety place from trouble. Psalm 27:5 says For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion (called the lair where the Lion of the Tribe of Judah who is Jesus lives): in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.  Psalm 91:4 says He shall cover thee with His feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Jesus said at John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

     Notice the picture above of a mom forgetting all her problems and rejoicing to see her beautiful baby. Like this mother, when the saved saints arrive at the glorious kingdom of God to be with Jesus forevermore, they will forget all the problems and persecutions they experienced in this world. John 16:21 says A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour has come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

     Here are two of Brother Bob's favorite verses in the Word of God that prove that the saints of Jesus will forget and not remember the persecutions and sufferings of this evil world when we see Jesus in the kingdom of God. Isaiah 65:17 says For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Revelation 21:4 says And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

     I pray in Jesus name that this bible study blesses multitudes everywhere with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.