In 1 Kings 2 we read of David’s last personal words to his son Solomon: “Keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou d…
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The ecclesia in Rome, like that in Corinth, existed in an environment of great immorality, corruption and debauchery. Rome itself was legendary for its decadence and depravity. A book titled The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome1 explores why the literature they produced at the time was just s…
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Faith cometh by hearing – salvation is come to the Gentiles
In Genesis 15:12-17 Abraham is told that his seed, after suffering harsh treatment in a strange land, would emerge from that country to inherit the land that God had promised to him. But in order for this to happen, four generations woul…
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The aged Apostle John is writing this epistle around AD90 to provide guidance and comfort to those brothers and sisters that had just experienced an ecclesial split, where those that followed the Gnostic heresy had left: “They went out from us” (2:19).
The Gnostics taught that they had a supe…
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600BC?
Born
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597BC
Taken captive to Babylon in Jehoiachin’s captivity
3
539BC
Decree of Cyrus
First return under Zerubbabel
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533BC?
Birth of Esther
Death of Daniel
67
522BC
Ahasuerus (Darius the Great) becomes king
78
519BC
Ahasuerus’ great…
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What is predestination?
This is an awe-inspiring subject because it concerns the mind of God and the purpose which God had with man before He even began the work of creating the heavens and the earth, as recorded in Genesis 1. If we search the Scriptures, we will find a number of passages which tak…
It has been said that the thought is the father of the deed. This is so. No one ever robbed a bank without first thinking, “I’m going to rob a bank.” Every act, every crime, every good deed is first a thought and then a fact.
It may sound over simplified but all we have to do in order to do…
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Excavating under Jerusalem’s Old City, Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists have discovered what they think may have been a 2000-year-old city council building.1 Director of the excavation Dr Shlomit Weksler-Bdolach described the structure as one of the most magnificent public buildings fr…
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Being put to the test
Sometimes we are uncomfortable with this concept, and that is probably due to the Christian businessman’s thinking prevalent in Western society today. However, we should listen to the words of Scripture and form our opinions from the Word and not simply from our own biases o…
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It is over 75 years since the end of World War II. When the advancing allied forces liberated the German concentration camps the full horror of the Nazi’s “Final Solution” to what they called the “Jewish problem” was exposed. There was world-wide sympathy for the Jews (and others) who suff…
