Colour scheme
By colouring down the border of your margin in just 5 colours through most of Revelation you can quickly see what type of chapter you are reading:
Blue–for Visions kingdom or the kingdom-community
Green–for Seals (Judgments on Pagan Rome)
Yellow…
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We often take our hearing for granted. Whether it is the calming sound of the waves as they collapse upon the shore, or the delightful strains of a gentle symphony, hearing just seems to happen and with little effort on our part!
But behind all of this lies a mechanism that is tremendously …
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Lev 11:13,19—And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls… the lapwing
The Hebrew word translated ‘lapwing’ is dukiphath and nearly all biblical naturalists and commentators agree that it refers to the hoopoe—so called because of the ‘hoop’ sound o…
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Jordan occupies a unique position in Biblical prophecy. In Daniel 11:41 Russia, as the king of the north, will sweep through the Middle East and many countries will be overthrown. One country, however, that will escape this invasion will be Jordan—a country described as “Edom, and Moab…
“Israel ranked 8th most powerful country in the world”
Israel desperately wants to be accepted by the world community as it seeks to integrate itself into international life. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s “presence on the world stage,” acknowledged by US New…
He that formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9)
The human eye is a very complex sensory organ with many parts working together to give us sight. The eyelids and lashes protect the eye from exposure to too much light, dust, dirt, bacteria, or other foreign objects. A film of tears…
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The cedar tree is the prince of the trees in the alpine forest and everyone who has seen these noble trees recognises their majestic imagery in the prophets. The Hebrew word ‘erez’ is derived from the idea of being ‘firm’—a reference to the tenacity of its root system. Hosea …
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The quotation from Psalm 94 at the head of this article is very clear; God formed the eye.
There is no suggestion that God allowed an eye to evolve, or that He introduced its complexities through a series of evolutionary gradations. God sees, and He has made man to see too.
The…
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There is a species of animal mentioned once in the Scriptures as the “pygarg.” The Hebrew name is “dishon” which the Jewish Bible leaves untranslated, whilst the Septuagint translates it by “pugargos”, or pygarg. The Greek word means “white-crouped” whilst the Hebrew word c…
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As worshippers of the living God, it seems only right that we should appreciate the beauties and wonders of His Creation around us,” writes Brother David Burges on page 134 of his 202-page book Wonders of Creation — The Works of the Divine Designer published by The Testimony in 2017. He…
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