Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - October 1981

Good News Staff

Why was King David not stoned for committing adultery with Bath-sheba? I do not understand Matthew 24:40-41. What does it mean "one shall be taken, and the other left"? Taken where? In John 9:3, Jesus told His disciples that the blindness of a particular man resulted from neither his sins nor the sins of his parents. Was this man predestined to be blind from birth? Since the soul is not immortal, would you explain the appearing of Samuel to Saul after Samuel's death? Why are Matthew, Mark, Luke and John called "the four gospels"? Does Malachi 4:5-6 mean that the prophet Elijah will reappear on earth before Christ's Second Coming? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library