When does God’s year begin?  What day must His people acknowledge (not celebrate) as the Biblical beginning of the new year?  Before we allow Him to answer for Himself, a little history is in order.  Let us return to the time when the children of Israel find themselves in a land not their own.  For […]

Though the annual holiday has long passed, I will take the liberty of writing about it for the sake of those who might be planning to celebrate it next year.  Like most people my age (I will be 80 in April), I participated in New Year’s festivities in days of yore.  On January 1 businesses […]

The term “gas light” comes from the world of entertainment.  However, what entertainers do in the physical realm is often aa reflection of what has been taking place in the spiritual realm for some time.  As I have pointed out on several occasions, as goes the church, so goes the society.  What becomes an established […]

The Biblical words “you,” “ye,” “you-ward,” “yourselves,” “your,” “yours,” etc. number in the hundreds and are found throughout God’s Word.  The question all honest Truth-seekers MUST ask themselves is: Do those words and the statements in which they are found apply to me personally, now, in this situation, in this life?  The answer is: IT […]

In the previous series we learned about a Samaritan (heathen–Gentile–“dog”) woman with whom Jesus had a interesting conversation.  I explained that the Samaritans had been taken from their homeland following a war with the Assyrians who had moved them to the northern part of the Promised Land, called Samaria, where ten of the tribes of […]

In John 4:23,24 Jesus makes a statement that must be understood in order to inherit salvation.  He states that, because God is a spirit, true saints must worship Him “in spirit and in Truth” (vs 24).  In the previous verse He said that God seeks those who will worship Him “in Spirit and in Truth.”  […]

In the 4th chapter of John’s gospel we read about an incident in the life of Jesus that has significance for anyone desiring to live eternally with Him in the Kingdom of God.  Jesus and His disciples had left Cana of Galilee where He had performed His first miracle by turning water into wine.  From […]

Love, love, love–that’s what Valentine’s Day is all about, or so we are told.  As a child some of my fondest school activities involved those little sugar hearts and those cute cards from classmates (you had to send a card to each one).  I grew up believing that, because it had a “St.” (saint) prefix, […]

Recently as I was thinking about the past election the Lord reminded me of my own words and the Biblical Truths behind them.  I have said that He places men into political leadership over all nations, including those that are called Christian nations, and that He places in power over the nations the “basest” (worst) […]

With the removal of God’s present day saints (holy ones) to their place of safety called “her (God’s church) place” located in a “wilderness” (Rev. 12:6,14), the Great Tribulation will begin.  But before that time the “Beast” (government–Rev. 17:3,7,12,13,17) and the “False Prophet” (Rev. 16:13; 19:20), empowered by the dragon/Satan (Rev. 13:2,4,5,7,12,; 17:12) will have […]