What think ye of Jesus Christ? Who do ye say that Jesus is? All Christadelphians would agree that developing the mind of Christ is essential: “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil 2:5). We often hear about developing a relationship with our Lord, but what does that actu…
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Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther and Job
The Exiles Return by Michael Ashton
Nehemiah: Let Us Rise Up and Build by Ron Abel
Of Hearts and Minds by Dennis Gillett includes a chapter on “Ezra the Scribe – a Temple Builder”
Prayer: Studies in Principle and Practice by Melva Purkis and Cyril T…
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Background
Name of city = “brotherly love”. In 189BC the city came into the possession of the king of Pergamon, Eumenes, and was named after his brother, Attalus II (159-138BC), whose truth and loyalty won him the title, Philadelphus.
Though military fortifications were not neglect…
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2:21 – And I gave her space
– Gk chronos – time; season
to repent of her fornication;
– the Lord continually seeks repentance (v5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19) – he used the work of the Apostle John in his letters to warn these false teachers
and she repented not.
– Jezebel k…
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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, thoug…
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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 pro…
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1:14 – His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; (ie purest white)
–head = Christ; hair = multitude ‘at one’ with the head
–wool: saints are the sheep of his pasture
–white: justified and washed (Isa 1:18)
and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
–eye = intelli…
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An Announcement
In v4 God expressed Himself in the language of manifestation as One who manifested Himself in the past, is manifesting Himself in the present and will do so in the future, through His omniscient and almighty power and wisdom.
Now the identity of the manifestation is fur…
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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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City of Great Interest
Istanbul or Constantinople is a city of great interest to us, with a key role in prophecy. Richard Fidler’s history starts and ends with the fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453, a date etched in the minds of those who have understood the “hour and day and month an…
