Have you ever considered that doing daily Bible readings is not something peculiar to the Christadelphian Brotherhood of the last days? In his final words to Israel, Moses stressed the importance of daily mental stimulus from, and familiarity with the Word of Life. To parents in Israel, the mothers …
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Just below Yad Vashem, the memorial in Jerusalem to the Holocaust, is a new memorial of a different kind. It is called “The Valley of the Communities”, a stark and ugly collection of huge rooms, no roofs, the walls made of very large slabs of roughly hewn rock. The visitor is not impressed with …
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“No Way Out”
We shall consider this remarkable prophecy, consistent as it is with all that the prophets have spoken, verse by verse and phrase by phrase.
24:16–23 Worldwide Chaos and Judgment Gives Place to the Manifestation of Christ and the Saints in Jerusalem
Verse 16 (continued) “…
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Isaiah 24–27 is a section in its own right within the prophecy. It deals with the conflict between Israel (spiritual and natural) and the world, and the ultimate triumph and blessedness of Zion, when Yahweh reigns therein in glory with “his ancients”. These chapters follow a lengthy section of…
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Isaiah 24
24:7–12 The Day of Pleasure Turned Into a Nightmare of Mourning
Verses 7–12 “The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted [NE8 revellers] do sigh.
“The mirth of tabrets ceaseth [RSV timbrel is stilled], the noise of them that rejoice [RSV the jubilant]…
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Approved by his Father
At the commencement of his public ministry, Jesus made his way to the Jordan to be baptised of John the Baptist. Upon his baptism the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit descended as a dove upon him, with the accompanying words, “Thou art my beloved Son; in whom I am wel…
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“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but Yahweh shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee” Isaiah 60:2
So wrote the Spirit by Isaiah, the prophet, of t…
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“And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them; that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed” Deuteronomy 31:21
In this final article on the Song of Witness we will consider Yahweh’s judgments…
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In this article further illustrations of where the Septuagint, the best known Greek version of the Old Testament, is used in the New Testament, will be under consideration.
“And Recovering of Sight to the Blind” Luke 4:18,19
When the Lord went into the synagogue in Nazareth on the Sabbath da…
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We can learn more about the teaching of the apostles when we carefully analyse their words. The Bible has been carefully written, and the Old Testament quotations in the New Testament enable us to interpret the Old Testament, and in turn the context of the Old Testament expands and elaborates the po…
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