SEE THIS WEEK'S UPDATE

EDITORIAL
Please Take It Personally!

by Norbert Link

As mentioned above, due to our annual ministerial and Church conference in Colorado in early March, the publication of our weekly Updates will be discontinued for two weeks. The next issue will be published on March 18.

This gives all of us more time to concentrate on the very important issues which we need to discuss and decide upon--including our growing Internet activities; the publication of new booklets in 2010; clarifications on doctrinal issues pertaining to the "king of the South"; the future of the "spirit in man" for unpardonable sinners in the third resurrection; the use of an anointed cloth in regard to demons; today's application of certain Old Testament laws; and perhaps most importantly, combating Laodicean attitudes in this last era of the Church of God....

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QUESTION AND ANSWER

In reading some comments by the Apostle Paul in the book of Romans, it appears that Paul might not have understood that most Israelites who are not called to salvation in this day and age will be called in the Second Resurrection and will then be given their opportunity to inherit eternal life. Is this impression of Paul's lack of understanding correct?

It is not. Paul clearly understood and taught that there is a Second Resurrection for all those who were never called to salvation in this life. This will include the multitude of the past and present houses of Israel and Judah, as well as the multitude of non-Israelite nations--the "Gentiles." Paul knew that today, only very few --the "firstfruits" (compare Romans 8:23)--will be called to salvation and the pre-millennial First Resurrection to eternal life. Paul knew that the Second Resurrection will not be to eternal life, but to a physical temporary existence, but with the potential to qualify for eternal life....

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WORLD NEWS HEADLINES

This Week in the News

This issue focuses heavily on events in Europe.

We begin this section by reporting on the collapse of the Dutch government, which was mainly caused by disagreements on how to proceed in Afghanistan. The highly unpopular Afghan war might force other individual European governments to either withdraw their troops or to risk political defeat. At the same time, the EU--as a unified entity--is getting more and more involved, politically and militarily, in countries such as Afghanistan....

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