cariot, was either the son or brother of James according to Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13. Judas is also called Thaddaeus, Matthew 10:3 and Mark 3:18. So there you have the two views. I think prob ably the first is the better of the two and that would make Matthew, James the less, and Judas, not Iscariot, bro thers. THE BAD EXAMPLE A Message to Fathers He whipped his boy for lying. And his cheeks were flaming red, And of course there's no denying There was truth in what he said — That a liar's always hated. But the little fellow knew, That his father often stated Many things that were untrue. He caught the youngster cheating And he sent him up to bed, And it's useless now repeating All the bitter things he said. He talked of honor loudly. As a lesson to be learned, And forgot he boasted proudly Of the cunning tricks he'd turned. He heard the youngster swearing And he punished him again — He'd have no boy as daring As to utter words profane. Yet the youngster could have told him. Poor misguided little elf, That it seemed unfair to scold him When he often cursed, himself. All in vain is splendid preaching. And the noble things we say, All our talk is wasted teaching If we do not lead the way. We can never, by reviewing All the sermons on the shelves, Keep the younger hands from doing What we often do ourselves. — Author unknown Q . "W e would like to know whether Acts 19:3 to chapter 4 is speaking of water regeneration, and is the water sufficient for forgiveness of sins?” A. Acts 19:3 reads in this way, “And he said unto them, into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John’s baptism. And Paul said, John baptized 18
Questions (continued) the millennium if he is to be bound during that 1,000 years?” A. Satan will not gather the crowd of followers during the millennium. We read in the Revelation, chapter 20, vers es 7 through 8: “And when the thou sand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog to gather them together to do battle: the number of which is as the sand of the sea.” In verse 9 we read how Satan and his followers went up on the breadth of the earth and compassed the camp of the saints about, and God sent down fire from heaven and destroyed them. Verse 10 tells us that the Devil was cast into the lake of fire to be tormented day and night for ever and ever. The Battle of Armageddon takes place at the end of the Tribulation and the beginning of the millennium and the battle about which you enquire takes place at the end of the millen nium. Q . Palo Alto, California — “Were Mat thew and James the less and Judas, not Iscariot, brothers?” A. Yes, there was a Judas, who was not Iscariot, mentioned in John 14:22. And now we will deal with your question. Well, some have identified Matthew’s father Alpheus as the father of James the less and that would make these men brothers. I think that that has the better argument. There is an argument against it and the argument appears to be based on the fact that Matthew and James are not joined in the lists of apostles as are other pairs of brothers. I do not know that that is a very strong argument, especially when having studied many different types of literature we come to know that writers often change for a variety of reasons — one of them being stylistic. In the interest of your further study will you note that this Judas, not Is
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