Articles for the Issue –

Assembly Testimony in Cuba

By ASHLEY MILNE Surrey, British Columbia, Canada The following is a brief history of the start of the work of the Lord in Cuba together with the current status of the assembly testimony in this country.…

Balaam – Part 3: Numbers 22. 36 to 23.12

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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 ele…

‘So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee’, John 4. 46 The Arab village of Kafr Cana (or Kefr Kenna) in the Lower Galilee is identified in Christian tradition as Cana of the Galilee. It was officially r…

Editorial – ‘The Lord shut him in’, Gen. 7. 16.

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It is nearly twelve months since, here in the United Kingdom, society was ‘put into lockdown’. How we live our lives has changed in so many ways. For some they have had to deal with bereavement, for oth…

Sandy Jack

Editorial

Henry Alford, biblical scholar and polymath (1810-1871)

Henry Alford was born in the city of London on 10 October 1810. Sadly, his mother died giving birth to him, and so he spent much of his formative years living with relations in Somerset. His father, who…

Brian Clatworthy

History

His Head

Many of us may recall from our past that, in many children’s Bible story books, the Lord was depicted as having a halo above His head. In later life we came to appreciate that this was never the case. T…

John Tinkler

Interpersonal responsibilities – ‘mutual deference’ Colossians 3. 18 – 4. 6 – Part 12

The apostle has just shown the need for a responsible, transformed life as a result of having ‘put off the old man’, v. 9, and having ‘put on the new man’, v. 10. Following application to the believer’s…

William Banks

Interpersonal Responsibilities

Old Testament Women Who Appear in the New Testament

Rachel

‘May God make you like Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah’. This blessing, pronounced over Jewish girl seven today, shows us the importance in the Jewish faith of these four women, known in Jewish traditio…

Ian Rees

Proverbs

Introduction Scholars have debated what mashal, the Hebrew word rendered ‘proverb’ in the Old Testament means. Observation tells us that a proverb is a pithy maxim, often of a metaphorical nature, to ex…

Warren Henderson

Question Time – Who were the Pharisees and why do they feature so much in the New Testament?

Question Who were the Pharisees and why do they feature so much in the New Testament? Answer In my late teens I recall reading through the Gospels for the first time. One thing that struck me was that i…

Frank Proudlock

Question Time

South Africa

By RODNEY BROWN Bellville, South Africa Evangelical missionary work in South Africa goes back to 1737 when George Schmidt, a Moravian missionary, came to the country. He settled in a town now known as G…

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The Forgiveness of Sins

References are from the NKJV unless stated On the page of scripture, God has employed many graphic word pictures to convey to His people the complete removal of their sins. Ponder afresh today a few bet…

Malcolm Horlock

The Gospel of Mark – Part 13

As we continue our studies in chapter 4, these verses provide further teaching by parable – something that was commenced in chapter 3 verse 23. The parables in private,vv. 21-34 Within this third sect…

John Bennett

The Gospel of Mark

The Son – His Second Coming – Part 8

The Apostle Paul, when writing in 1 Corinthians chapter 16 verse 22, says, ‘If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha’. This is a word of warning against such that love no…

The tabernacle was built at Mount Sinai, according to a detailed pattern given by commandment to Moses.2 A team of highly skilled and committed craftsmen, led by Bezaleel, completed it in about six mont…

Jeremy Gibson

The Tabernacle

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The Text of Scripture

A Little History In AD 1453 the fall of Constantinople to the twenty-one-year-old Sultan Mehmed of the Ottoman Empire brought an end to the Byzantine (i.e., Eastern Roman) Empire which had stood for 1,0…

Andrew Wilson

The Twelve Tribes of Israel – Ephraim and Manasseh

In the introduction to this series we explained how it was that Ephraim and Manasseh came to feature in the twelve tribes of Israel. Revisiting that introduction at this point is recommended, Precious S…

Lloyd Stock

The Twelve Tribes of Israel

Things That Concern Us Philippians – Part 2

Your furtherance [continuance, advancement, profit], 1. 25 The apostle is expressing a deep, heart-felt desire for the saints at Philippi for their spiritual progress. Thus, his confidence is a convicti…

Fred Whitelock

Things That Concern Us Philippians

What does the Bible tell us about the future? – Part 9 – Israel – The final days of the tribulation and the two witnesses

The previous part of this study considered the 144,000. A great wonder appears in heaven and, in Revelation chapter 12 verses 1 and 2, we have a woman in celestial purpose. Another wonder occurs in vers…

Norman Mellish

What Does the Bible Tell Us About the Future?

Contemporary Issues

Word for Today – Telos

teleo (To bring to a close, to finish)telos (End, termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be)telones (A tax-gatherer) We often use the word ‘end’ and its associated words to describe the idea …

Brian Clatworthy

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Book Reviews in this Issue

Golden Thread Series — Alan Jenkins

518 pages, Paperback. Published by Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd, Link House, 140 The Broadway, Tolworth, Surrey, KT6 7HT. ISBN-13:978-1-839750-55-7. This book is evidence of a great deal of time spe…

Why there really is a God: and what you need to know about Him – Andrew Wilson

482 pages, Paperback or eBook. Published by Believer’s Publications, Australia. Available on Amazon. ISBN-13:978-0-994397-75-1. Books written to oppose and refute the doctrine of atheism are not in sh…