Background
Thyatira was founded as a garrison city in the time of Seleucus I, mainly because it stood in the important Lycus valley and was designed to impede the flow of enemy forces up and down the valley.
When the Roman Empire took over, it ceased to be merely a military city, though its …
Revelation 2:18-20 – Thyatira (1) Read More »
How insects fly has been a mystery to scientists for many years. How can, say, a big heavy bumblebee beat its tiny wings and fly? According to the conventional laws of aerodynamics, insects cannot fly. Studies of animal flight have attained a new level of detail over the last decade, due to a tremen…
The Coney
The Hebrew word for coney is shaphan, which means “to conceal”. In Scripture, conies are described as “a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks” (Prov 30:26; Psa 104:18). They are gregarious, and “exceeding wise” (Prov 30:24). They are described in Levi…
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“We are on our own”—this was a key message from veteran Israeli commentator Ehud Yaari regarding the consequences for Israel following an apparent US retreat from the Middle East.
Yaari was recently in Australia as a guest of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), where he…
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Background
The KJV has Pergamos (feminine form of the name). Many other translations have the neuter form, Pergamum.
In 282BC it was made the capital of the Seleucid kingdom. In 232BC the Attalid kingdom was established and under the reign of Eumenes II (197–159BC) the city was transform…
Revelation 2:12-17 – Pergamos Read More »
The Hebrew word for ostrich is renan which means “a piercing cry; a wail”. In Job 30:29, Job said of himself, “I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches” (NKJV) because he felt desolate and isolated, unable to utter anything apart from the shrill doleful noise of the ostrich.
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Without ligaments and tendons our skeletal frame would be just a pile of unconnected bones. Ligaments are elastic structures which connect bone to bone in our joints, whilst tendons are cord-like inelastic structures that connect muscles to bones. Tendons are under extreme stress when muscles pu…
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Introduction
Some people hate to do it. Some love to do it. Some go to great lengths to avoid doing it. Some do it too much. While there are many different attitudes toward work, one thing remains constant: work must be done. Since the Garden of Eden everyone has worked or depended upon someone els…
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Background
Smyrna is known today as modern Izmir; located at the south east edge of the gulf of Smyrna and situated on a long peninsula that thrusts out to the beautiful Aegean Sea. In spite of the earthquakes and other events that Smyrna suffered through the centuries, the city had prospered…
Revelation 2:8-11 – Smyrna Read More »
The main function of the muscular system is movement. Muscle is the only tissue in the body that has the ability to contract and, therefore, move other parts of the body. Without muscles, nothing would work in the body.
Muscles control posture and body position as well. They often contract to hol…
