For those readers who are not citizens of the United States of America, please bear with me over the following few postings. I must make a few statements about my beloved nation that, in due time, I will probably be making about your nation. What is going on relative to the spiritual condition of America, if it has not […]

That God allows Gentiles to be adopted into the Commonwealth of Israel and thereby to qualify for salvation was brought out during Peter’s visit with Cornelius (Acts 10:9-16,28). That Gentiles must leave their religions and embrace God’s religion in order to be saved is brought out in Romans 11:11-24 where Paul tells Gentiles that they […]

The Apostle Paul noted that he and the other apostles had been given the “ministry of reconciliation” by which God would reconcile the two Houses of Israel (2 Cor. 5:18-20), making them one House–the Commonwealth of Israel) again. During this time God would be drawing to Himself “whosoever will” seek after Him from among the Gentiles. This […]

The Lord sent the Word to earth in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth (Jn. 1:1-4,14) Who personally ministered to the Jews (tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi) living in the Promised Land whose ancestors had returned from Babylonian captivity generations earlier. His personal ministry complete, Jesus sent His apostles “… into all the world” to find […]

Israel’s refusal to obey the Ten Commandment Covenant God had with cut with them caused Him to eventually divorce them (Jer. 3:6-11) and scatter them throughout the world (Eze. 4:13;12:15). Contrary to popular church opinion, the divorce was temporary (Rom. 11:1). There would come a day when He would begin to gather them back to Himself.  This regathering […]

For over 1700 years there has been within professing Christendom a controversy involving the two covenants–one old, one new–that God made with those who are called by His name. The Old Covenant, we are told by the Scriptures, was God the Father’s written arrangement with the Children of Israel (Jacob). The New Covenant, we are told by […]

Many years ago I rented a house from a man who ran a small grocery store in the town where we were living. One day I stopped by his store for a jar of honey. For a reason I did not understand at the time he began telling me about honey, specifically the brand I had chosen. Pointing […]

Bible students will note that God’s first warning to mankind concerned touching. In Genesis 2:16,17 we find Him telling Adam that He had planted “… the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” in the center of the Garden of Eden. He then told Adam not to partake of the tree–not to so much as […]

If the past five postings have not convinced you that judging and correcting is a foundational principle of the Church of God, let me remind you that none other than the Apostle Paul, who received his gospel through revelation directly from Jesus Christ, judged men named Alexander, Hymaneus and Philetus who had turned away from […]

The Holy Bible was written to, for and about God’s people. His initial Words involved the ancient Israelites–His “church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38). The more recent edition involves the “Israel of God”–His end-time church (Gal. 6:16) made up primarily of the physical descendants of the wilderness Israelites along with a contingent of biological Gentiles. See White Fields. Within the […]