The 105th Psalm is almost certainly from the pen of David, for the first 15 verses are the same as in David’s song of praise in 1 Chronicles 16:8-22. The king was full of thankfulness at the return of the ark to Jerusalem, his capital city. Yet Psalm 105 is not about the great event of that day: D…
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It is commonly accepted that the Apostle John outlived the other apostles and the general picture is that this occurred in the last years of the first century.
We are fortunate to have many details of the Apostle John’s life and activities for, apart from the five chapters of his first …
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One hundred years ago the British Government issued a document which would change the face of Middle East politics for ever. On 2 November 1917 the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community in Britain and annou…
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When Emperor Hadrian was mopping up the remnants of Jewish inhabitants of Judea, his soldiers came across Rabbi Akiba, the 120 year old rabbinical sage who had in fact orchestrated the war against Rome and anointed bar Kokhba to be the Messiah in Judah who would deliver them from their subjugation. …
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This article focuses on the beautiful way in which the righteousness of God and the love of God is so wonderfully balanced in the atoning work of God’s Son. It also seeks to highlight the importance of this work by outlining some of our own Christadelphian writings on the subject so that we can be…
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The book of Revelation was given to the apostle John by the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the last word to his believers unto his coming in glory as King of kings and Lord of lords. So it must be important. God gave it to him and Christ sent it by means of his own angel in the last years of John, the las…
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In the brief summary of Abraham’s death, recorded in Genesis 25:5–10, it is stated that both Isaac and Ishmael were present at the funeral (v9). Yet the record specifically states, “And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac”. It is quite evident that Abraham loved both his sons but he resp…
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In the previous articles in this series we have looked at the subject of the disciple’s relationship to the State in the Old Testament, followed by the comments of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then the conduct of the apostles in Acts. This article reviews the teachings in the epistles of the apostle…
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This title is taken from the Apostle Paul’s description of “that man of sin”, “the son of perdition”. He would arise after the apostolic period when Christianity was eclipsed by paganism. His ‘revelation’ was therefore in the time of Emperor Constantine. In a series of civil wars Const…
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“If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you” John 15:19
In this article we continue our theme by putting together the passages in which the Lord Jesus Christ made comment upo…
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