606BCNebuchadnezzar invades Judah and takes first captives to Babylon600BC?Birth of Haggai?586BCNebuchadnezzar completes destruction of JerusalemFinal captives taken to Babylon555BC?Birth of Zechariah?536BCDecree of CyrusFirst return under ZerubbabelIddo, Zechariah’s grandfather, returns with exi…
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We’ve all heard the saying about being up a creek without a paddle. It refers to being caught in a predicament with no resources with which to extricate ourselves. But even with a paddle, the paddle has to be used, and used properly, before the goal is reached.
Think of your life as a ri…
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In 1881, Eliezer Ben Yehuda[1] began creating a Hebrew dictionary for the modern Jewish state. As a young man, Ben Yehuda “realized that Jews could never have any country of their own, or any national entity, unless they had a common language”.[2] Today, his work continues at the Acad…
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The righteous will not beg
Into this consideration, God interjects a contrast that we do well to take note of in this day and age when we are constantly encouraged to strive to accumulate more (Psa 37:16-19):
“A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. For …
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In the special creation of Eve, a very deliberate detail is recorded. Eve’s creation was noticeably different from Adam and the animals. A rib was taken, establishing in Adam a special sympathy: “bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh” (Gen 2:23). Why a rib? God meant there to be a side-by-sid…
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We all have many competing options for how to spend our Saturday afternoons, but very few would be more important to the overall direction of our lives than attending the annual Prophecy Day. In the Olivet Prophecy, our Lord urgently exhorted us at the end of the age to ‘watch…and pray always�…
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The Bible commands us to gather together for worship. “Forsake not the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching” it says in Hebrews 10:25. But what if you just don’t enjoy being there? What if yo…
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Since 1982, the Pinetown Ecclesia has been involved in the organising and running of a Summer Bible School in South Africa, which is held at the end of December each year. We have been fortunate to secure speakers from oversees on many occasions, which has added tremendous value to those attending,…
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About 2000 years ago, on a spring day in Galilee, thousands of people were gathered together in a desert place to hear the words of one man; to feel his healing touch on their illnesses and to watch in amazement as the lame walked, the deaf heard and the dumb spake. It was on this hillside in Galil…
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A recent study in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface reports on “A feedback control principle common to several biological and engineered systems”. The researchers, Jonathan Y. Suen and Saket Navlakha, show how harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) use a feedback control algo…
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