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Hastie Lake Beach
This blog site is a teaching and publishing ministry of the Disciples Global Network designed to provide you with detailed studies on how God has fulfilled His Word in Jesus Christ. The goal is to understand each one in its literary and historical contexts. The theological center of the Bible is Jesus; especially, what God accomplished in his Death and Resurrection. In him, all the promises of God find their meaning.

The Apostle Paul declared that the forms of this age are, already, in the process of passing away because of the death of Jesus and his bodily resurrection. All things have become new; nothing can ever be the same. This includes the identity of the people of God and the opening of His covenant community to ALL nations. Even now, the “age to come" has commenced and is making inroads wherever the Gospel of the Kingdom is proclaimed. The promised “new creation" began in the resurrection of Jesus, the "firstborn of the dead."

Often, a popular interpretation begins with a misunderstood text, perhaps over a verb tense or noun case, then assumes multiple incarnations as it propagates in popular preaching. The first principle of interpretation must be to respect a text as it was written. The interpretive process begins with understanding what the original author intended to communicate to the original audience of a very real historical situation.

All our posts are free and not copyrighted - Anyone may copy, reuse, and distribute them as he or she wishes. If you are interested in supporting this work, please follow the links to PayPal.me or our Patreon page. Also, you can donate on Paypal using my email address - bear7755@gmail.com. Please feel free to visit our new Community Page at VK.com.

Contact Information:
     David R. Maas - DISCIPLES GLOBAL NETWORK

E-mail:
     bear7755@gmail.com
     david.maas@yandex.com
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Location:
     Near the Town of Coupeville on Whidbey Island, Washington
     Town of Coupeville

Other Sites:
  • Disciples Global Network - (disciplesglobal.org) - Studies on the Kingdom of God, Jesus, and the meaning of discipleship.
  • Studies on Revelation and Daniel - (revelationanswers.org) - Systematic studies on the books of Revelation and Daniel with a stress on how Revelation applies passages from Daniel.
  • End-time Insights - (endtime-insights.org) - Detailed studies on End-Time prophecies from the Bible
  • The Disciples Digital Library - (discipleslibrary.blogspot.com) - A compendium of studies and other study materials on the Bible.
  • My Prophetic Reflections - (prophetic-reflections.blogspot.com) - My Spiritual journey, Observations, and Prophetic Ramblings.
Deception Pass, Whidbey Island
Deception Pass, Whidbey Island


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