The ultimate question surrounding the Lord’s weekly Sabbath is: WHOSE WORD DO I TAKE RELATIVE TO RECEIVING ETERNAL LIFE?  Concerning the question, we have two choices: God’s Scriptural Word spoken and written by “holy men of old as they were moved upon by the Holy Spirit” (2 Pet. 1:21), or man’s word spoken and written […]

The edifice is enormous.  It is so huge that the human mind has trouble contemplating it’s gargantuan vastness which covers the entire earth with its many different forms and appearances.  It contains billions of living, moving, thinking, believing, speaking  parts that are divided into hundreds of different, conflicting, contradicting, competing unites, each with its own […]

In Matthew 10:5,6 and 24:14 Jesus is preparing His disciples (followers) to become apostles (sent ones).  They were not to go to the Gentiles, nor to the cities of the Samaritans.  Rather, they were to find the lost sheep of the House of Israel and tell them the good news (Gospel) about the Kingdom of […]

History has shown that the nation of Israel was divorced from God, scattered throughout the known world with her identity unknown, lost to history, the world and to herself, but not to her od.  Later, when He would send His apostles out with the Kingdom message He, through His Holy Spirit, would direct them to […]

“God divorced His chosen people Israel, therefore they are no longer His people,” is a common refrain heard when the subject of Israel comes up.  It is true that the Lord divorced the Northern and Southern kingdoms, each in its own time frame (Jer. 3:8-11).  In her quest to rid herself of all things Israelite, […]

After 40 years of wandering in the Sinai Desert while all adults over the age of 20 died off because of their sins, the nation of Israel entered the land God had promised Abraham his descendants would inherit because of his obedience.  For many years all went well for the nation as success as its […]

Outside of Jesus of Nazareth, Abraham is the most foundational human being written about in the Holy Bible.  In that the Bible was written to, for and about Israel, and in that he is the father of the Israelites, and in that he is called “the father of the faithful” (God’s true church which “lives […]

Revelation chapter 8 begins with: “And when He had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for the space of half an hour.  And I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and to them were given seven trumpets” which they were to sound to warn the inhabitants of earth, upon whom […]

Serious students of the Holy Bible will notice that what is written is not always in chronological order.  For this reason we must study all available information concerning a particular subject to make sure that we have our information grounded in the proper subject and time context.  I believe God did this to separate church […]

In chapter 24 of Matthew’s Gospel we find Jesus telling the apostles what the final three years of this age will be like–literal hell on earth, with the final year being much worse than the preceding 2 1/2 years.  In verse 37 we find the Lord referring back to the years leading up to the […]