When Israel signs a seven-year peace treaty with a man that the world regards as a man of peace, the false peace maker, then at this point, the world (as we know it) has SEVEN YEARS until THE END of our age.
The Christian is not part of Israel. Although we are saved by the same God of Israel, we have our promises met and fulfilled in Jesus Christ. As Israel is an earthly people, we who love the Lord Jesus today are a heavenly people.
Josiah, The Boy King Part 1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. (2 Chronicles 34:1) And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father,…
Hebrews 1:13 Thy Footstool But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand,until I make thine enemies thy footstool? Sin blinds The darkness of sin blinds the eyes, it stops the ears; therefore, man refuses to see, or to hear the grace of…
We are a chosen generation, before the foundation of the earth we were known in Christ. We are a royal priesthood that we may offer up to God praise and glory which is the fruit of our lips. We are a nation that is unseen by man, and yet surrounded and unified by the Holy Spirit of God. We answer to the righteousness and the Holiness of God Almighty; yet, to the world we are truly a peculiar people.
Psalm 22, Part IV But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. (Psalm 22:19) Be not far from me, here is another appeal to God the Father. The loneliness of the cross is weighing heavy upon the Lord Jesus Christ, what…
Psalm 22, Part III But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. (Psalm 22:9) The Divine Son now reflects on His birth. We remember the Divine conception when the angel declared to Mary, “the Holy…
A Nest Among Thorns This article was originally published in 1985. For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the…