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R. Catchpole

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Introduction The title of the book is taken from the person whose experience it records. That Job was a historical figure is confirmed by later references to him in the scriptures. Ezekiel makes refer…

R. Catchpole

2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

Exposition

As his custom was

If you were to make a list of the things that you habitually do, and the places you regularly visit, any who subsequently read it would be able to glean certain facts about you. Such a list would not …

R. Catchpole

2011 Volume 66 Issue 1

Exposition

Balaam – Part 7: Numbers 23. 27 – 24. 9

As we mentioned in the last article, Israel’s influence will yet be worldwide, as a channel of blessing to others, ‘And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the …

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2022 Volume 77 Issue 1

Study

Balaam – Part 1: Numbers 22. 1-38

The chapter opens with the children of Israel pitched in the plains of Moab, east of the River Jordan, over against Jericho. The wilderness journey is concluded, the next movement is to cross the Jord…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2020 Volume 75 Issue 3

Exposition

Balaam – Part 2: Numbers 22. 36 to 23.12

When Balak sent for Balaam to come and curse the children of Israel, God clearly stated, ‘Thou shalt not go with them; thou shall not curse the people: for they are blessed’, Num. 22. 12. Nothing coul…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2020 Volume 75 Issue 4

Exposition

Balaam – Part 3: Numbers 22. 36 to 23.12

God has separated them ‘For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations’, 23. 9.1 They were an e…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2021 Volume 76 Issue 1

Exposition

Balaam – Part 4: Numbers 23. 13-26

Just as Balak was not a man to accept the answer ‘no’ when he first sent messengers to Balaam, neither was he a man to give up at the first disappointment. Balaam’s failure to curse the children of Is…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2021 Volume 76 Issue 2

Exposition

Balaam – Part 5: Numbers 23. 13-26

But still there is more: c. The divine power, v. 22 ‘God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn’. In Numbers chapter 22 verse 5, Balak described them as a…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2021 Volume 76 Issue 3

Study

Balaam – Part 6: Numbers 23. 27- 24. 9

Balaam’s first two attempts to curse the children of Israel had been totally unsuccessful. Each time the Lord intervened and, instead of a curse, Balaam pronounced a blessing. In the first parable, Ba…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2021 Volume 76 Issue 4

Study

Balaam – Part 8: Numbers 24. 15-25

Following Balaam’s third attempt to curse the children of Israel, Balak, in his frustration and anger, dismissed him saying, ‘flee thou to thy place’, Num. 24. 11. Although Balak wanted to hear no mor…

R. Catchpole

Balaam

2022 Volume 77 Issue 2

Study

Exodus

1. Introduction The book of Exodus is a sequel to Genesis as well as being a fitting introduction to the teaching of the books of Leviticus and Numbers. The opening word ‘Now’, could equally be transl…

R. Catchpole

2016 Volume 71 Issue 2

Exposition

Genesis

Introduction This book has been rightly called ‘The seed plot of the Bible’. Here we have recorded the origin of the universe, the creation of man, the institution of marriage, the entrance of sin, th…

R. Catchpole

2016 Volume 71 Issue 1

Exposition

Introduction to the Messianic Psalms – Part 1

Amongst the various groupings that expositors tend to divide the psalms into according to their literary content and character, the sixteen that are referred to as the ‘Messianic Psalms’ are perhaps a…

R. Catchpole

Introduction to the Messianic Psalms

2017 Volume 72 Issue 1

Exposition

Introduction to the Messianic Psalms – Part 2

Editor’s Comment: Please note that this article is Part 2 of an introduction to these Psalms. Part 1 was published in the February issue of the magazine. The Messianic Psalms in the ministry of Christ…

R. Catchpole

Introduction to the Messianic Psalms

2017 Volume 72 Issue 2

Exposition

Smoking, Sex

As in cases of alcohol and drug taking, tremendous pressure is imposed on young people to begin smoking cigarettes and thus advertise themselves as mature, strong, rebellious, or simply able to fit in…

R. Catchpole

1994 Volume 45 Issue 4

Contemporary Issues

The Eternal State

It is noticeable how few passages in the Bible give details concerning the eternal state, or, as it is called in scripture, ‘the day of God’. The absence of such information is perhaps of some signifi…

R. Catchpole

2014 Volume 69 Issue 2

Contemporary Issues

The Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Some six times in the New Testament, reference is made to ‘the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ’.1 In each verse, a two-fold relationship is in view; His ‘God’ and His ‘Father’, and we need to …

R. Catchpole

The Father

2022 Volume 77 Issue 3

Study

The Hand of God

Have you ever considered the varied ways in which we make use of our hands? We use them to feed ourselves, to minister to our needs, but likewise we might employ them to give a comforting touch or ste…

R. Catchpole

Anthropomorphisms

2022 Volume 77 Issue 4

Study

The Holy Spirit and Christ

No careful reader of the Gospels could fail to appreciate that when the Lord Jesus was here, manifest in flesh, He experienced in an unprecedented way the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. As the…

R. Catchpole

2017 Volume 72 Issue 3

Exposition

The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 24

The 24th Psalm can be considered in at least three ways. Historically Viewed thus, it is generally accepted that it can be connected to the joyful occasion when David brought the ark of the covenant f…

R. Catchpole

The Messianic Psalms

2018 Volume 73 Issue 1

Exposition

The Messianic Psalms – Psalm 72

Speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul asserted, ‘He must reign’, 1 Cor. 15. 25. Although denied by a-millennialists, the One whom men rejected and crucified at His first coming is appoin…

R. Catchpole

The Messianic Psalms

2020 Volume 75 Issue 1

Exposition

The Seeds of Division

In the view of the witness that the scriptures give to the “glory and greatness of Solomon and his kingdom, it perhaps seems strange that when he died his ‘house’ was far from strong. It seems that Re…

R. Catchpole

1994 Volume 45 Issue 2

Contemporary Issues

The Sovereignty of God over the Nations

Speaking of the sovereignty of God in respect of the nations the Bible says, His ‘dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation … he doeth according to his will…

R. Catchpole

2013 Volume 68 Issue 3

Contemporary Issues

The Widow of Serepta

This notable widow is directly mentioned in two passages in the word of God: 1 Kings chapter 17 verses 8 to 24, part of the record concerning the ministry of the prophet Elijah; and by the Lord Jesus …

R. Catchpole

Old Testament Women Who Appear in the New Testament

2022 Volume 77 Issue 1

Study

What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 5 – The Marriage and Marriage Supper of the Lamb

The direct reference to these two subjects comes in the closing book of the Bible and connected with events that are a precursor to the fulfilment of God’s prophetic programme, Rev. 19. 7-9. The bride…

R. Catchpole

What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?

2019 Volume 74 Issue 4

A Word for Today

What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 7 – ‘The re-emergence of Israel’

As early as the 8th century, the prophet Hosea said, ‘the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an e…

R. Catchpole

What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?

2020 Volume 75 Issue 2

Devotional

Book Reviews by this Author

A Faith that endures – Brian Croft

Paperback, 112pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. Price £5.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-292-1. This is another of the Day One ‘Reflections’ series, and is sub-titled ‘…

R. Catchpole

2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

A Tender plant from the dry ground – Timothy Cross

Paperback, 144pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £5.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-314-0. This book is part of the Day One ‘Reflections’ series and is sub-ti…

R. Catchpole

2014 Volume 69 Issue 1

Esther: God’s Invisible Hand – Helen Clarke

Paperback, 128pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £5.00 ISBN 978-1-84625-204-4. The biographical details of the author indicate she became a Christia…

R. Catchpole

2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

Hints and signs of the coming King (Author: Kurt Strassner)

Paperback, 110pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. Price £5.00 ISBN 978-1-84625-208-2. This book is sub-titled ‘Pictures of Jesus in the Old Testament’. It comp…

R. Catchpole

2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

History Today – James Montgomery Paul S. Taylor

Paperback, 134pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £7.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-209-9. James Montgomery was the author of some 400 hymns, among the best kn…

R. Catchpole

2012 Volume 67 Issue 1

Men in God’s Service – N. John Jeyanandam

Paperback, 288pp. Published by Moriah Ministries, Post Box No. 2540, 51-57, East Park Road, Shenoy Nagar, Chennai, India 6000 030 Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £10.00, ISBN 978-81-90760…

R. Catchpole

2012 Volume 67 Issue 4

The Song of Zechariah – Timothy Cross

Paperback, 106pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. Price £5.99. ISBN 978-1926765-64-8. In the preface, Timothy Cross describes the song of Ze…

R. Catchpole

2014 Volume 69 Issue 3

The Structural Principles of the Bible – F. E. Marsh

Paperback, 440pp. Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RL. Price: £10.99 SBN 978-1-904064-57-2. This book is part of Ritchie’s ‘Classic Reprint Series’ and is sub-titled Ho…

R. Catchpole

2011 Volume 66 Issue 4

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