Articles in this Issue
One common problem in church life today involves people trying to read their church traditions back into the Bible (often by picking an isolated proof-text) instead of starting with scripture and follow…
Just over a mile east of Jerusalem is Bethany, on the road to Jericho.1 Today, according to secular sources, the town is ‘locally called in Arabic Al-Eizariya or al-Aizariya … The name al-Eizariya refer…
[Quotations taken from the New King James Bible]
I was struck, some time ago, by the line of a hymn: ‘the Saviour rose no more to die’.1
That expression, ‘dies no more’, immediately puts the resurrectio…
‘O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people’, Ps. 105. 1
I am no musician. However, I am told that in western music a chord needs at least three notes and, if…
In 2 Kings chapter 6 verses 1 to 23 we notice God’s power manifested in two distinctive scenarios. In the first miracle, verses 1 to 7, Elisha shows that God’s power extends past the extraordinary and t…
Every sin against a holy God is truly a great sin. Simply put, every sin has two basic evils, as Jeremiah states, ‘For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living wa…
Just as the month July was named to honour the first of the Roman Caesars, namely Julius, likewise the succeeding month, August, was chosen to honour his blood nephew and adoptive son, Caesar Augustus. …
Around the cross itself, we have four classes of people: the soldiers; the religious people; the criminals; and the passers-by. These four classes of people each make some derogatory remarks about our L…
‘In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up’, Isa. 6. 1. When we stop and think, the vision that Isaiah saw in the opening of the sixth chapter of hi…
Ezekiel is a varied prophecy
This book is famous for visions.1However, it would be wrong to characterize Ezekiel as a ‘one trick pony’. Ezekiel contains much more: poetry, parable, allegory, drama, symb…
[All quotations are from the New King James Bible unless otherwise stated]
Some received the benefit of His care and thoughtfulness
Consider the disciples during the incident at Caesarea Philippi, when …
Nehemiah 6. 1-16
Jerusalem’s wall was almost complete, ‘there was no breach left therein’, but not yet secure - ‘at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates’, v. 1. The enemies of God’s peopl…
1. When teaching in the temple at Jerusalem, the Lord Jesus said to the Jews, ‘Ye are from beneath; I am from above … I am not of this world’, John 8. 23. The prophet Micah prophesied that the Messiah w…
‘Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into . . . the Red sea’, Exod. 15. 4
These words form part of the song of ‘Moses and the children of Israel … [which they sang] unto the Lord’, v. 1. It was…
QUESTION
Why did the Lord Jesus refer to the Syrophoenician woman as a ‘dog’?
ANSWER
Someone has wryly remarked, ‘the more I see of people, the more I like my dog’. Although spoken in jest, the words hi…
In our previous article we saw that the Holy Spirit is not a force but a member of the Godhead. We mentioned some of the names given to the Holy Spirit and considered the promise and the coming of the H…
Hosea
Hosea was active as a prophet during the mid to late eighth century BC, close to the times of both Isaiah and Micah. His prophecy is essentially directed at the Northern Kingdom of Israel, but he …
Matthew is the gospel of the sovereign Son. Christ announces, articulates, and anticipates His kingdom. This first mountain scene of Matthew presents the principles of the kingdom, Matt. 5-7. By the sea…
