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Malcolm C. Davis
Articles by this Author
‘Go ye into the whole World’ – But how?
1. The Role of New Testament Missionaries New Testament missionaries stand in a long line of God’s spokesmen ever since the fall of mankind into sin and the subsequent promise of a coming Saviour in G…
Malcolm C. Davis
2008 Volume 63 Issue 4
Exposition
An Overview of Esther
Introduction The Book of Esther takes its name from its principal character, Esther, a young orphaned Jewess who had been brought up by her older cousin, Mordecai. The name Esther is Persian, and mean…
Malcolm C. Davis
2020 Volume 75 Issue 2
Exposition
An Overview of Nehemiah
Introduction The Book of Nehemiah is named after its main character and its opening words. In Old Testament canonical lists, it has been classified as a historical book. It is the natural sequel to th…
Malcolm C. Davis
2020 Volume 75 Issue 1
Exposition
An Overview of the Book of Ezra
Introduction Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther complete the historical books which form the earlier part of the Old Testament. They follow the books of Chronicles, which rehearse the history of the mediatori…
Malcolm C. Davis
2019 Volume 74 Issue 4
Exposition
Christ and John the Baptist
The following article is an expository study of the relationship between Christ and His forerunner, John the Baptist, with the devotional aim of helping believers today to appreciate John’s godly char…
Malcolm C. Davis
1989 Volume 40 Issue 2
Exposition
Christ and the Apostle Philip
Philip the Apostle is named in various lists of the apostles of Christ usually next to Bartholomew; compare Malt. 10. 3; Mark 3. 18; Luke 6. 14; Acts 1. 13. He should be carefully distinguished from b…
Malcolm C. Davis
Christ and the Apostle Philip
1992 Volume 43 Issue 1
Exposition
Divine Guidance
The aim of this article is to establish how we as believers today can know the guidance of God in our lives in matters both great and small. Examples in Scripture Genesis 24 and Acts 16 record remarka…
Malcolm C. Davis
1994 Volume 45 Issue 5
Contemporary Issues
Ezra and Nehemiah
THE PROBLEMS OF THE RESTORATIONThese kinds of problems are common in our days also. They can be analysed as arising either from outside the returning Jews or from within their own company. The problem…
Malcolm C. Davis
Servants in Restoration
1999 Volume 54 Issue 3
Exposition
Facing the Future – Part 1
This article considers from scripture the various mind frames in which we often view the future, varying from complete hopelessness, through deep interest, to joyful expectancy. Whatever our current s…
Malcolm C. Davis
Facing the Future
2011 Volume 66 Issue 2
Contemporary Issues
Facing the Future – Part 2
5. ‘With Joy Unspeakable’ This is the victorious outlook of the persecuted Christian. The apostle Peter in his First Epistle says much concerning the subject of Christian suffering, especially undeser…
Malcolm C. Davis
Facing the Future
2011 Volume 66 Issue 3
Contemporary Issues
Facing the Future – Part 3
(iv) The Prevailing General Fear of Approaching Catastrophe There is apparent increase in the number and scale of various natural disasters, the rise, in recent decades, of world terrorism, and the ec…
Malcolm C. Davis
Facing the Future
2011 Volume 66 Issue 4
Contemporary Issues
Forgiving because forgiven
The All-Pervasiveness of the Subject ‘To err is human: to forgive divine’, ALEXANDER POPE. So runs the ancient maxim. Certainly, because we are members of a fallen race, we need constantly to be forgi…
Malcolm C. Davis
2010 Volume 65 Issue 1
Exposition
God’s Dwelling-place with Men through the Ages
First of all, we need to consider the reason why God requires a dwelling-place with men. For God is Spirit and omnipresent, and therefore in ideal conditions needs no special dwelling-place within His…
Malcolm C. Davis
1997 Volume 52 Issue 4
Devotional
Introduction to Paul’s First Missionary Journey
The risen Lord’s great commission Soon after the Lord Jesus rose from among the dead, triumphant over all His foes, He told His disciples to go to a mountain in Galilee where He would meet them …
Malcolm C. Davis
Paul’s Missionary Journeys
2021 Volume 76 Issue 3
Study
Is Scripture Literal?
When considering the correct interpretation of any part of Scripture, it is of great importance to understand whether its true meaning is according to the literal sense of the words used or only accor…
Malcolm C. Davis
1983 Volume 34 Issue 1
Study
Lessons for Today
The record of Paul’s first missionary journey is found in Acts chapters 13 and 14. From it may be taken many valuable lessons for missionaries implementing the Lord’s great commission down the centuri…
Malcolm C. Davis
Paul’s Missionary Journeys
2021 Volume 76 Issue 4
Study
New and Old Testament Believers Compared
As NEW TESTAMENT BELIEVERS living in the age of God’s sovereign grace in Christ and the presence on earth of (he Holy Spirit, we are far more privileged, and therefore more responsible to God, than be…
Malcolm C. Davis
1988 Volume 39 Issue 5
Exposition
Philip the Apostle and Christ
Turning on, therefore, to John 12. 20-26, where we next read of Philip, we find that here, having been proved by his Lord, Philip is also The Seeker Taught by Him five days before the Passover and the…
Malcolm C. Davis
Christ and the Apostle Philip
1992 Volume 43 Issue 2
Exposition
Possessions: Hindrance or Help?
Those of us who live as Christian believers in the Western world need to come to terms with the affluent society and materialistic culture in which we find ourselves today. Despite all its evident adv…
Malcolm C. Davis
2007 Volume 62 Issue 4
Exposition
Premillennial or Amillennial – Does it Matter?
1. The Question Explained This question concerns two different kinds of interpretation of the Scriptures which predict the second coming of Christ. ‘Premillennial’ is a theological term which derives …
Malcolm C. Davis
1983 Volume 34 Issue 3
Exposition
Principles of Powerful Prayer in the Book of Acts
Its Nature and Purpose Prayer is always an expression of our complete dependence on God, and often also of our urgent need for help and deliverance. But the primary purpose of prayer is to bring our l…
Malcolm C. Davis
2010 Volume 65 Issue 3
Exposition
Priorities in Spiritual Life
Just as a natural child will express his or her natural life, so a true child of God will express his spiritual life. Furthermore, just as, when a natural child develops to years of understanding and …
Malcolm C. Davis
1981 Volume 32 Issue 4
Exposition
Servants in Restoration
The following articles are a study of the complementary roles and characters of Ezra and Nehemiah in the history of the restoration of the Jews from exile in Babylon to Jerusalem, as recorded in the b…
Malcolm C. Davis
Servants in Restoration
1999 Volume 54 Issue 2
Study
Son of … Mary
It has been well said that our Lord Jesus Christ, in His earthly life and ministry, was as much a man as us, but not such a man as us, in every way unique and transcendent. As the natural son of Mary,…
Malcolm C. Davis
Son of…
2021 Volume 76 Issue 4
Devotional
Suffering
Suffering of one kind or another is something that we all experience, but do not ever fully understand. The aim of this paper is to study the various kinds of suffering and its agents, to suggest vari…
Malcolm C. Davis
1986 Volume 37 Issue 3
Exposition
The Answer to Disunity
In many New Testament assemblies throughout the world there has often existed a problem of internal disunity stemming not from clear doctrinal differences but from purely natural and temperamental dif…
Malcolm C. Davis
1994 Volume 45 Issue 1
Contemporary Issues
The Christian and the Law of God
The aim of this paper is to clarify the teaching of Scripture on the subject of the law of God, and in particular to explain the relationship of Christian believers living in the New Testament era of …
Malcolm C. Davis
1987 Volume 38 Issue 5
Exposition
The Christian and the World
THIS ARTICLE HAS THE PRACTICAL AIM of giving believers today clear principles to follow in everyday contacts with the world around us. But, first, in order to set our practice upon a sound doctrinal b…
Malcolm C. Davis
1990 Volume 41 Issue 5
Devotional
The Covenants of Scripture
The doctrine of the covenants in Scripture runs parallel to that of the dispensations, but emphasises a different aspect of the Lord’s dealings with mankind. For, whereas in the dispensations of God w…
Malcolm C. Davis
1993 Volume 44 Issue 3
A Word for Today
The Ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament
The importance of the subject Many believers today do not fully understand that the ministry of God’s Holy Spirit in Old Testament times was in many ways somewhat different from His ministry in the pr…
Malcolm C. Davis
2017 Volume 72 Issue 1
Exposition
The Practical Effects of Prophetic Interpretation
Is the study of prophecy purely academic and impractical? First of all, there is a very limited sense in which this is partly true. We cannot be sure exactly how some prophetic passages in scripture w…
Malcolm C. Davis
2014 Volume 69 Issue 3
Exposition
The Sovereignty of God and Israel
Israel’s National Election When the God of glory called Abraham to leave Ur of the Chaldees to travel to a land which He would later show him, He intended to form from him a chosen nation, Israel. Nat…
Malcolm C. Davis
2012 Volume 67 Issue 2
Contemporary Issues
The Transcendence of God
1. The Meaning of God’s Transcendence The dictionary definition of ‘transcendent’ is ‘excelling’ or ‘surpassing human experience’, and, as applied to God, ‘existing apart from, not subject to the limi…
Malcolm C. Davis
1984 Volume 35 Issue 3
Devotional
Their Finest Hour – Daniel
Praying for the Restoration of Israel Daniel, whose name means ‘God is my Judge’, had many fine hours, despite being a captive servant of the Babylonian and Medo-Persian kings for most of his life. Co…
Malcolm C. Davis
Their Finest Hour
2016 Volume 71 Issue 1
Testimony
What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 4 – Israel – The persecution of the nation
Introduction The nation of Israel has often been the victim of the most bitter persecution ever since they became a nation in Egypt under the Pharaohs after the time of Joseph’s administration there. …
Malcolm C. Davis
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
2020 Volume 75 Issue 3
A Word for Today
What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 4 – Israel – What is the nation’s role in the 1,000-year reign of Christ?
The Old Testament prophecies are full of references to Israel’s regathering from all parts of the world and to their full restoration to the Lord under the New Covenant. These events will immediately …
Malcolm C. Davis
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
2021 Volume 76 Issue 2
Contemporary Issues
What does the Bible tell us about the future? The final rebellion – Part 11
What will happen? The prediction of the final tragic rebellion of Satan and mankind against God is recorded in Revelation chapter 20 verses 7 to 10. Immediately after the completion of Christ’s …
Malcolm C. Davis
What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?
2021 Volume 76 Issue 3
Prophecy
Book Reviews by this Author
Prove it How you can know and show that the Bible is God’s word – Paul McCauley
Paperback, 270 pages, Published by Decapolis Press (an Imprint of Precious Seed), 19 Alfreton Road, Pinxton, NG16 6JZ, UK. Available in the Precious Seed shop ISBN: 978-1-871642-87-2. This further b…
Malcolm C. Davis
2017 Volume 72 Issue 1
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