Biblical Subjects
JESUS WAS A DISPENSATIONALIST
DISPENSATIONALISTS teach that God’s administration of mankind changed at various periods of time since the world began: that there are seven dispensations and that before Jesus died and rose again the world was administered by God through the nation of Israel in the Age of Law which began when Israel came out of Egypt about 1500BC.
UNIQUE ISRAEL
THE NATION of Israel began its long history in the land of Egypt where they were made slaves of Pharaoh. After 215 years in Egypt God sent Moses to deliver them and when Pharaoh refused to let them go God judged the land of Egypt. No other nation had seen such judgments devastate a nation as had happened to Egypt compelling them to let Israel go.
SO GREAT SALVATION
THE SALVATION of the souls of men and women is central to the whole purpose and plan of God. In the foreknowledge of God the plan was devised to provide a way back to God after Adam sinned and death was passed upon all men as a consequence.
COVETOUSNESS
Covetousness is the last of the Ten Commandments and might be considered by many to be one of the minor sins, not to be compared with the worship of idols, murder or adultry yet the Bible states that “whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all” (James2:10).
The Peril of Spiritualizing Scripture
WHEN WE READ a book we endeavour to understand what the author intended by the words he uses and the manner in which he expresses them. In this way we learn the message the author sought to convey.
What Happened at Calvary?
“And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left” (Luke23:33)
Life Wasn’t Meant to be Easy
WHEN AN AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN coined the phrase, Life wasn’t meant to be easy, I suspect David stood up in heaven and shouted, Amen and Amen!
The Theme of Isaiah’s Prophecy
ISAIAH PROPHESIED in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Chapters 1 to 6 were written during the period when Uzziah and Jotham jointly reigned. Uzziah was a leper during the closing years of his reign and his son Jotham reigned as co-regent.
Sennacherib Should Have Known!
WHEN SENNACHERIB THE KING OF ASSYRIA came against Jerusalem he boasted that the Lord God of Israel could not deliver the city from his army. He listed many cities he had already conquered and said that their gods had not been able to deliver the city from his army
The Family of God
THERE IS A VAST DIFFERENCE between believers in the Old Testament and believers in the New Testament. Both are called “saints” but Old Testament saints were saved under the Old Covenant that God made with Israel on Mount Sinai. New Testament saints ...
The Cost of Compromise
“Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab” (2Chron.18:1). Ahab was the son of Omri who reigned over the northern ten tribes of Israel that separated from Judah when Rehoboam was king in Judah. Rehoboam was the ...
Who Was David’s Mother?
by John R Ecob DD What did David mean when he said in his great prayer of confession that “in sin did my mother conceive me”? If you ask the Catholic he may say that it refers to the doctrine of original sin: that every one of us has original sin such that...