March – April 2020
The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting recently released a report saying: “We are living through an era of intense turbulence, disillusionment and bewilderment. Deepening geopolitical tensions are transforming international relations, and political tribalism is revealing deep fissures wit…
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We concluded our previous article by noting that unconditional faith in God’s promises enabled Abraham to be accounted as righteous before God: “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Gal 3:6). We know this is because Abraham exhibited total faith…
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Jeremiah: The Reluctant Firebrand (Part 1)
[table id=BabylonianCaptivityTheEcclesiaInExile4_1 /]Imagine, for a moment, a Jerusalem Bible Class in around 610BC. Maybe it’s even a special weekend. The room is very full and some of the people in it will be world famous in the next …
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Structure
What is the structure of this song of Moses in Exodus 15? One suggested structure could be a chiastic structure, one that has reflected ideas around a central point, as follows:
V1 Introduction
A: v2-3 Desire of a personal relationship with God
B: v4-5 De…
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Thessaloniki (AV Thessalonica) was located at the intersection of two major Roman roads, one leading from Italy eastward (Egnatian Way) and the other from the Danube to the Aegean. Its location combined with its natural port facilities made it a prominent city. In 168BC it became the capit…
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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Christ has informed us as to who the real enemy of the Truth is. It is a message which only Christ’s true servants can hear and receive (Rev 1:1-3). In Revelation 13 we have depicted the rise of a system of blasphemy which makes war against the saints. So powerful was this system that �…
Take no thought for your life
This discussion is fairly comfortable while it remains theoretical. However, Christ doesn’t leave it there. He challenges us to put that which we know to be right into practice in the mundane things of daily life. He said, “Therefore I say unto you, Take no …
Only two chapters separate the events of creation from the days of the flood and, yet, the period covers 1656 years. Forty-two of the verses contained in chapters 4 and 5 consist of the genealogy of Adam. New Testament teaching says, “Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written f…
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After almost fifty years I revisited Israel in 2019. One of the most striking things I noticed was the growth of new Christian tourist sites, based on traditional or newly discovered locations. Tourism is a significant contributor to the economy of Israel and it appears that the Israeli gove…
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