Biblical Subjects
What Happens When Jesus Comes
By Joh n Ecob D.D. The prophet Daniel has indicated that there will be a period of 75 days following the return of the Lord Jesus to earth in which certain events will take place. In chapters 7 and 9 of his prophecy he indicates that the Tribulation will...
Fruit in Old Age
By John Ecob The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon...THEY SHALL STILL BRING FORTH FRUIT IN OLD AGE; THEY SHALL BE FAT AND FLOURISHING: to shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no...
The Question the Jews Couldn’t Answer
By John Ecob D.D. What think ye of Christ? whose son is He? (Matthew 22:42). At the end of the Lord’s ministry on earth He came to Jerusalem for the Passover Feast. He arrived at Bethany on the Friday afternoon and stayed at the house of Mary, Martha and...
The “Sons of God” were Giants! – Genesis 6:4
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose... There were giants in the earth...
Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins
by John R Ecob DD Often the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins are seen as the Lord coming for His Bride, the Church, at the Rapture but I have a concern about that interpretation. There is not one mention of the Bride in the parable and you...
Watch: Jesus’ Message to Israel
by John R Ecob DD Seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of...
Nebuchadnezzar, “My Servant”
by John R Ecob DD And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him. And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the...
The Bottomless Pit
John R.Ecob D.D. Life after death is a great mystery to mankind and pagans have invented theories to explain what happens to the soul when the body fails. Atheists think we die like animals with no future existence beyond the grave. Eastern religions teach...
The Gospel of the Kingdom
John R. Ecob DD To rightly divide the Word of Truth one must recognize the dispensations of Law and Grace. The Age of Law finished in Acts chapter 1 and the Age of the Church began in Acts chapter 2. The Church age will finish when the Church is Raptured and...
The Beauty of Bethlehem
In the days of Jesus, Bethlehem would have been a beautiful place as it is in the Hill country of Judea. It is 2550 feet above sea level and is between 5-6 miles from the city of Jerusalem. Today Bethlehem is not so beautiful. A number of years ago I...
Cessation of the Sign Gifts
John R. Ecob D.D. The early church was blessed with gifts of the Spirit that were supernatural and therefore were called sign gifts. These included the gift of prophecy and the gift of languages called tongues. In the Old Testament God spoke to Israel by His...
86,400 Seconds
by Vince Wall No matter who we are, rich or poor we are all given something in common that we can spend. Each of us has been given the gift of time. One author wrote, Time is a strange commodity we can’t save it, retrieve it, relive it, stretch it, borrow...