In Isaiah 28:9-13 we find the Lord’s Rules For Bible Study laid out plainly–twice. Read these instructions from the Lord carefully. Notice the first words: “To whom can God teach knowledge?” Isaiah then goes into detail as to how Scripture-loving Truth-seekers approach anything relating to God’s Word which is His will in printed form. Jesus […]

Beginning in verse five Paul tells Titus to go to the areas where new home churches were being formed and there appoint leaders who would teach the people the ways of the Lord. Note that in the early church, pastors were not voted into office by the laity. Early on God sent His apostles to […]

The Apostle Paul’s letter to his fellow minister summarizes God’s commanded walk (lifestyle) for those whom He has called, appointed and anointed to do His ministerial work, as well as those who follow their example and live according to their God-directed instructions. This short epistle is as good as it gets relative to God’s instructions […]

The “IF” factor literally dictates the “walk” (life-style) of those whom the Lord calls “My people who are called by My name.” In the series by that name (key word–Called) and its follow-up series titled Who Are God’s People? (Key word–People), the reader will learn that the group, called “the church,” is made up of […]

Many years ago, before the Lord had revealed His whole Truth to me, I found myself in a “multi-faith” meeting in which people from “all faiths” had come together to convince ourselves and each other that we were all serving the same God were all the apples of His eye. I had just entered the […]

In First Corinthians 11:1 the Apostle Paul, whom the Lord chose to write much of the New Testament, tells us to FOLLOW HIM AS HE FOLLOWED CHRIST from whom He received the Gospel by revelation (Gal. 1:12) over a three year period while he was in the rural areas of Arabia (Gal. 1:18). Afterward, he […]

As stated previously, most Old Testament prophecy is focused on “the latter days,” meaning the past 2000 years of mankind’s history. Most of that prophecy involves “the end of the end times” as those years are called in the book of Daniel. During the final years the church’s final era she is prophesied to exhibit […]

The decline and fall of man began with the first man–Adam. The rebellion against God that he began, a later generation used to affect self-destruction. Refusing to hear what Noah, a “preacher of righteousness” put forth, mankind grew so sinful that God had to kill every human being on earth except Noah and his family, […]

In part 1 of this series I referenced Edward Gibbon’s book in which he writes about the fall of the Roman Empire. In his book he explains why that great empire totally disappeared from the part of the world it once ruled. According to Gibbon, the two main reasons for the kingdom’s demise were the […]

As goes the general character of the institutional church, so goes the general character of the nation. As goes a nation’s character, so goes her standing with God. As goes her spiritual standing, so goes her standing in the world. Since she came to international prominence during the early 1800’s, America has been the trend-setter […]