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26/08/2026

Paradise Lost

In the beginning when God finished His wonderful creative work, all was announced to be “very good.” It was Paradise because all was good, and man and God were in good fellowship because no sin was present to ruin and contaminate the world and our relationship with God. When sin entered the earthly paradise it was no longer good. Man and God were no longer together and the ground was cursed and became much more difficult. Paradise was lost. Since that time God’s program has been to work with the free-will of man to arrange a restoration of relationship so that man and God can get back to Paradise together again. So, Genesis shows us Paradise lost, the New Testament shows how Jesus provided a way to be reconciled to God through faith in Jesus, and the book of Revelation pictures for us the future scene of Paradise regained in the end for the obedient children of God.

This life is a testing ground to separate those who want God and to regain perfect Paradise with Him from those who desire selfishness and sin. The gospel of Jesus calls to our hearts and shows us that God is real, God loves us and desires our reconciliation, and how to get back to Paradise. But, just as Adam and Eve were not forced to sin or reject God, neither are we. Paradise will be for the wise, and all can be wise if they will but wake up and listen. Paradise is for the wise, otherwise, we reap the consequences of our own choices. Do you want to reconcile with God and finally get back to Paradise with Him? Can we help you in your search for God?

-Terry Wane Benton (Daily Points of Light from Heaven, OneStone.com)

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08/08/2026

Anxiety

When your nerves are frayed, and you are afraid of what is going to happen in view of what you just lost, it can consume you with stress, worry, and anxiety. I believe that God helps us through things even when we cannot see any hope at the moment. I’ve been through several valleys of anxiety in my time and each time God helped me through those valleys. Reading about such anxious moments that David faced and how he affirmed the care and help of God in the Psalms showed me that anxiety was real in David, but he handled it by affirming faith in God as a “very present help in trouble”. He had to remind himself that even if the mountains are falling all around him, there is a stream of refreshment that makes glad the city of God (Psalm 45).

“God is my refuge,” he repeated over and over. And in a while the frightening storms began to subside and settle into a peaceful new day. There are many unpleasant tasks and challenges to our faith, and it is then that the quality of our faith is up for review. I have to ask myself in those moments, “do you truly trust God to see you through this? Have you been playing at faith? Is there no hardship that tests the quality of your faith?” When anxiety seems to be winning, it is time to check our faith in God.

Are there no foes for me to face? Must I not stem the flood? Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas? Sure, I must fight if I would reign! Increase my courage Lord! I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain, supported by Thy Word!

Is this how you get a grip on your anxieties? In anxiety it is always time to draw near to God and He will draw near to you! He cares for you! But, what about your TRUST in Him? Don’t we need to ramp up our trust and make it shine brighter? -TWB (Daily Points of Light from Heaven, terrywbenton.com )

02/08/2026

Are Death and Hades Gone?
Revelation 20:14

Our AD 70 friends will contend that all things in the book of Revelation were fulfilled in AD 70, including the part about “death and Hades being cast into the lake of fire.” To them, A.D. 70 is everything where everything has happened already. So, let us consider if this doctrine is so! If Death and Hades are already cast into the lake of fire (per Rev.20:14):

1. Then Death and Hades no longer exist here. If it still exists here, then it is not cast into the lake of fire already, or being cast into the lake of fire is meaningless. If nothing really changed, people are still dying, and all people were changed from mortal to immortal in AD 70, then death and Hades (the unseen realm of the dead) is still around.

2. If death is gone, then no one dies. If everyone dies physically then only spiritual death would be gone as of AD 70. Everyone dies physically, therefore only spiritual death would have been cast into the lake of fire in AD 70.

3. But if spiritual death is gone, then sin no longer causes spiritual death. If sin no longer causes spiritual death, then Jesus’ blood no longer saves us from spiritual death OR it so saves everyone automatically that no one needs saving spiritually (Universalism). In this case, the gospel will no longer save from a spiritual death situation. All are automatically always saved. Thus, a consistent Realized Eschatologist has to accept Universalism or admit that spiritual death is still here and that death and Hades were NOT cast into the lake of fire in AD 70. They may not want to accept either horn of that dilemma, but their credibility and honesty hangs in the balance.

4. It is clear that physical death did not end in AD 70. Unless they accept Universalism, spiritual death did not end in AD 70. If death (physically or spiritually) did not end in AD 70, then neither did Hades, for both were to be cast into the lake of fire at the same time. If death is still here, then so is Hades. Therefore, the whole deck of cards of the AD 70 doctrine is fallen and can never stack up as a logical and scriptural doctrine.

– Terry W. Benton (Daily Points of Light from Heaven, terrywbenton.com )

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15/06/2026

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15/06/2026

Is Your Church the Only One that is Going to Heaven?

Let us think biblically. The Bible uses the word “church” in two ways:
1) the one universal body or church, and
2) the various local churches like at Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, etc.

The one universal church is the called out, those individuals written in the Lamb’s book of life. All the saved are in that one body, and only God has the records of who is written there and who has been blotted out. All the saved are in that one church, and there is no earthly record of who is in that church. It does belong to Christ, and it is proper to refer to that church as the church of Christ among other descriptions found in the Bible. So, all the saved are in the church of Christ. It is not a denomination, and it is what the Hebrew writers referred to as “the general assembly” (Heb.12:23) and the ONE BODY (Eph.4:1-4). If you are saved at all, the Lord adds you to that church and nothing else. So, when I answer “yes” that Jesus’ church is the only one going to heaven, I mean only that biblical church composed of all who believed and complied with Jesus’ terms of pardon. I am not referring to an imaginary conglomeration of local churches. I am referring to that one church or body that is entered individually. It is composed of individuals, not whole local congregations. Jesus is the head and Savior of one church (Eph.1:18-22). I claim to be in that one church and you should too, if you are thinking correctly and biblically. That is the only church that is going to heaven.

The local church is located on the map as to where they generally meet as a local church. I am also a part of a local church. It is not the only local church and it is not proper for me to think of my local church as the only ones going to heaven. So, if you are asking me if my local church is the only ones going to heaven, I would say definitely not. No local church is “the only one going to heaven.” Clear enough?

Does a local church have to be scriptural in name, order of work and worship and organization? Yes! Are all churches scriptural? No! Is the local church I attend scriptural? Yes! If it is not, then I must try to get it to be scriptural or leave it to start a scriptural local church.

Are any denominations scriptural? No! (1 Cor.1:10). Can I join and support a church that is not scriptural in name, order, and organization? No! Can you? If you cannot say you are in the ONE universal church, then you don’t know Jesus, nor the Bible. If you cannot say that the local church you attend is scriptural in name, order, and organization, then you cannot say it is right. If it is wrong, why would you stay wrong? You need to be able to say your local church is right in being non-denominational, and even anti-denominational, that it is referred to in biblical descriptors, that it is ordered in mission and work like the early churches of the Bible, that it is ordered in assembly work and worship like the early churches of the Bible, and that it is organized like the early churches of the Bible. If it is different, it needs to go back to the standard of God’s word.

The one universal body of Christ is the only church going to heaven, and no local church is the only one going to heaven. Be clear about what you are asking, be clear about giving a biblical answer, and take away any confusion that says that all local churches are approved of God. Many local churches are not scriptural and cannot legitimately claim to be a church “of Christ.”

Be right with God by meeting His terms of pardon and you will be added to the right church (universal) and then make sure that the local church you attend is scriptural in every way. No local church ever claims to be “the only one that is going to heaven”. You don’t go to heaven as a local church. You go to heaven with the One universal body of Christ. The early church was not a denomination, and no local church was tied to a denomination. Stay away from denominations. Be right with God and strive to be biblical, true to God’s word. Follow the way that is right and that cannot be wrong. If you are doing wrong, repent and start doing right. That is the will of God!
-Terry Wane Benton

05/06/2026

By Grace You Have Been Saved

Always ask who is speaking and to whom are they speaking? Paul is writing this letter to Christians at Ephesus. When he says in Ephesians 2:5, "He made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)", he was not saying everyone in the world has been saved by grace. But certain people have been saved by grace. He is not writing to unbelievers. He is not writing to people who have not been baptized. He is writing to people who have believed and who have been baptized (Acts 19:1-6; Eph.4:5; 5:26). These are the ones who "HAVE BEEN saved by grace." All others can be saved by grace in the same way (Mark 16:15-16). Thus, a Muslim is not saved, but he can be if he will believe in Jesus as the Son of God and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38; 22:16). A person who claims to believe in Jesus but has not been "buried with Him in baptism' (Rom.6:3-6) has not been "united together with Him" nor "raised to walk in newness of life." By grace we are saved when we are united together with Him at the moment He told us. By grace God operates and cuts away our sins (Col.2:12) and He told us exactly WHEN He would perform this operation. If one does not believe God enough to comply, then they are not among those who "HAVE BEEN saved by grace." God is still waiting for such a faith that complies. Are you sure you have been saved by grace? Make it as sure as you can!
- Terry Wane Benton

23/05/2026

If I am Lost

Jesus came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10). I can be saved. It won’t be of any comfort to think “but I won’t be the only one who is lost.” The rich man woke up in torment and did not want to be joined by his brothers. To hear the groans and weeping of others in hell with me will not be comforting. It will only make it worse (Luke 16:19ff). If I am lost when Jesus came to save me, I will be lost because I was foolish (Matt.7:21ff), and misery with other foolish people will not make it better.

If I am lost and die lost, I will be lost forever (Matt.25:46). The acceptable time to be saved is in THIS life, while in the body. After death comes the judgment (Heb.9:27) of choices I made in the body (2 Cor.5:10). There will be no second chances after death.

If I am lost it will be my own fault and nobody else’s. God did not desire it. He yearned for my repentance (2 Peter 3:9). Christ suffered to give His life as a ransom for me (Matt.20:28) and I would have let Him die in vain if I did not obey the gospel (2 Cor.6:1; 2 Thess.1:7f). The Holy Spirit has been appealing to me to “come” (Rev.22:17) through the powerful testimony of the gospel (Rom.1:16).

Angels have been desiring me to repent (Luke 15:10), and the church has been trying to remind me of my responsibility to God by holding up the word (1 Tim.3:15).

Lost people in Hades do not want me to join them (Luke 16:19f), and my own better judgment tells me that I don’t want to live eternally separated from God and all that is good. So, if I don’t decide to use better judgment about today and “hear His voice” (Heb.3:13f), I will have endless, agonizing regret, with no hope to ever correct the situation. I will be tormented forever with the regret and memory that I let Jesus die for nothing and I had a great chance to come to Him but blew my opportunities for less than a mess of pottage like Esau sold his birthright (Heb.12:16).

If I am lost now, but still alive, I better not waste another moment. I must obey the gospel today (Acts 2:37-41) while I have the chance. What about you?

- Terry Wane Benton

11/05/2026

How Many Containers in the Lord’s Supper Cup?

Some division has plagued churches over the meaning and use of the word “cup” when Jesus talked about taking “this cup” as He instituted the Lord’s Supper out from the old Passover meal. Was Jesus telling His disciples to use only one container among them, and that even when they suddenly grew into 3000 and more disciples in Jerusalem on Pentecost, they were to all make sure that they all shared drinking the fruit of the vine from a single container? Was Jesus talking about the container or the content of fruit of the vine?

One Content or One Container?

First, Paul mentioned “this cup” and “drink it” (1 Cor.11:25). Was he saying to drink the content or drink the container? We never drink a container. I don’t believe it can be done. When we drink “it”, we are drinking the fruit of the vine. That fruit of the vine may be divided into several containers, but it is still one cup.

Secondly, Paul said, “drink this cup” (1 Cor.11:26). He was in Ephesus when he wrote to the Corinthian church. Were they to get the container Paul was using in Ephesus and bring it to Corinth so that they could drink from the container Paul was holding? He said drink THIS cup, not THAT cup you have in Corinth. Obviously, the church at Ephesus and the church at Corinth were drinking from the SAME cup (fruit of the vine), but not the same container.

Third, Matthew records that Jesus “took the cup…and gave IT to them” (Matt.26:27). Was THE cup a reference to the container or the content (fruit of the vine)? From Luke’s account “He took the cup….and said, ‘Take this, and divide it among yourselves” (Luke 22:17). Were they to divide a container? Break a container into pieces and give each disciple a piece of a broken container? No! They had their own containers from the Passover feast, and Jesus was telling them to divide the fruit of the vine among themselves by pouring it out into their various containers. So, “cup” is used by metonymy to mean the content, namely, the fruit of the vine.

Insisting on a single container is not what Jesus was doing. Insisting on the common drink of the fruit of the vine as the cup is clearly what Jesus was calling for, and that is how Paul could be drinking the same cup in Ephesus as the Corinthians were drinking in Corinth.

Several Cups versus One Cup

When we consider what several cups would look like in context of the Lord’s Supper, it would look more like this. Several different cups would be: water, cola, milk, coffee, tea, grape juice, apple juice, tomato juice, etc. That would be several different cups. If we divide these among ourselves, we do not partake of the same cup. However, in context of the Lord’s Supper, we do use one cup, namely, only the fruit of the vine. We can divide this among ourselves and it is always one cup. We can have brethren in Ephesus and Corinth and even across centuries to different locations still dividing among all that one cup, and it remains one cup no matter how many containers are used to divide it out. It is really a poorly thought out argument to insist that Jesus was making the container a third essential element of the Lord’s Supper. The container is only an expediency in holding the fruit of the vine. There is no symbolism in the container and there is no evidence that the disciples divided the container among themselves. They had their own individual containers and divided out the content of fruit of the vine into their individual containers.

If “the cup” means the container: 1) We must divide that one container among ourselves. Our one-cup brethren never do that. 2) We must insist that people take a chunk of wood out of “THE Table” in order to “partake of the Lord’s table” (1 Cor.10:21). If not, why not? Why would “the cup” be literal but partaking of the table would not be literal? In all my years of dealing with this issue, I have never gotten a straight answer from the brethren that insist on using one container in the Lord’s Supper. The fruit of the vine is the one cup that is shared by brethren all over the world, and there was never any significance attached to the containers used by the various disciples, and we do not allow someone to insist on one container, just one common content, the fruit of the vine. Do not be deceived! -Terry Wane Benton

03/05/2026

April 23 – 1 Chronicles 1-2
Summary
1 Chronicles 1 - This chapter traces humanity from Adam through the early patriarchs, emphasizing God’s preservation of the human line that would bring the Messiah to bless all nations. It lists the descendants of Noah’s sons, showing how the nations spread across the earth. The genealogy then moves through Abraham’s family, highlighting the chosen line through Isaac. It concludes with the descendants of Esau and the early rulers of Edom, setting the stage for Israel’s story.
1 Chronicles 2 - The genealogy focuses on the sons of Israel, especially Judah, from whom the royal line of Christ will come. It traces Judah’s descendants through several generations, including Perez and Hezron. The chapter highlights key family branches that will shape Israel’s tribal structure and leadership. It ends by identifying clans and notable figures connected to Judah, preparing for the rise of David’s lineage (through which Jesus will come).

30/04/2026

The Bible IS Evidence

The Old Testament portion is a collection of historical narrative, prophecies, and devotional and wisdom literature designed to testify of God's plan for the nation of Israel in pointing out the need for a Savior and what to expect when the Savior comes.

It tells ahead of time that the stubbornness of the Jews will lead them to reject the Stone that others would acknowledge to be their Chief Cornerstone of faith. The 39 books of the Old Testament do not compliment the Jews, and yet, they still had to acknowledge that these books were sacred messages of truth revealed by God through their various prophets. It contains rebukes that the Jews WOULD NOT have included if it was up to human wisdom and pride alone. But, it contains many things they COULD NOT have projected such as the sequence of empires to follow the Babylonian empire.

Daniel marks out the sequence way beyond his own time and even tells when the Messiah would come, when the Jews would cut off their Messiah, and that the temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed after they cut off the Messiah. Such things that they would not and could not project and it happened right on time and exactly as predicted. These 39 books were designed to be EVIDENCE from God to us.

The 27 Books of the New Testament were written to give eyewitness testimony to Jesus and to show how He alone fit the Old Testament predictions perfectly. The testimony of the witnesses are in perfect harmony with each other and with the prophetic scriptures, forming a package of 66 books of testimony to the truth of God. Read it as evidence. That is exactly what it is designed for, and we would do well to heed the light it gives in this dark world of moral depravity and cluelessness.

The case the Bible makes for God is powerful and substantial. Be wise to read it and give it a fair hearing! Your eternal destiny depends on what you do with the evidence God has presented therein.

-Terry Wane Benton