One of Satan’s most effective weapons with which he keeps church people under his power is Biblical ignorance.  He accomplishes this by hiding God’s “fine print” (90% of the Bible) from them.  Like the pickpocket who draws his victim’s attention away from his pocket while lifting his wallet, Satan draws his victim’s attention to God’s […]

The first verse in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus is directly tied to Christ’s warning in Matthew 24:4,5.  When asked what would be the sign of His imminent return to earth, Jesus issued a stern warning: “Beware lest any man deceive you, for many will come in My name, proclaiming that […]

In the second chapter of the book written by the Prophet Joel we find God telling him to write this: “And it will come to pass afterward that I (God) will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh ….” (vs 28).  The prophet wrote his book between 795 and 755 B.C.  Some 800 years […]

In Hebrews 8:6 the Apostle Paul, who received his Gospel directly from Jesus Christ through revelation from the Holy Spirit (Gal. 1:12), proclaims that He (Jesus) is the mediator of the New Covenant that He made with the House of Israel and the House of Judah.  What Paul does not mention here but is made […]

The Old Covenant served as a marriage agreement between God and the 12 tribes of Israel–the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob.  God would serve as a husband to them and therefore provide for the nation.  He promised to make sure their every material need was met.  They would multiply greatly; their cattle and […]

“For finding fault with THEM ….”  With these words the Lord declared the future eradication of the Old Covenant and the implementation of a New Covenant because the Israelites–God’s chosen people (“them”)–refused to fulfill their part of it (Heb. 8:9).  If, as we are told repeatedly, the fault was with the Law, then the Law […]

The Old Covenant, established by God through Abraham concerned his descendants–the 12 tribes of Israel.  The covenant revolved around obedience to God’s Law which He condensed into Ten Commandments, wrote them in stone and protected them from those who would change them.  In Jeremiah 31 He declared that a time would come when He would […]

Under the Old Covenant God made with Israel, in order to be His people they had to obey the Law which He etched in stone then secured it so that devious men could not take hammer and chisel in hand and change it.  Some 4000 years later He came to earth as a human being […]

God (The Word) has made a monumental covenant with Abraham, one which promises that his descendants would become 1) a company of nations (the British Commonwealth/Empire), 2) a single great nation (the United States of America) and 3) the Savior of mankind (Jesus of Nazareth).  But many generations and many twists and turns would pass […]

One can only imagine what the two Members of the Godhead (God and the Word Who became Jesus Christ) were feeling when they decided to make man.  And not simply to make him, but to make him in Their own (physical) image and their own (spiritual) likeness.  Like the angels before him, man had to […]