In these days of growing uncertainty, there is a bright and certain hope! Do you think we’ll ever get caught up?” We were standing in the press room as brother Tim asked the question. The heady aroma of printer’s ink, coated stock, and cleaning fluid filled the place. The measured rhythm of the presses, punctuated […]
What is all the fuss about Jerusalem anyway? Is there a solution for this tortured city? I’m staying with friends in a very Jewish neighborhood in South Florida. A tabloid, the Jewish Journal, was dropped at the door and I took the liberty of glancing at it. Along with ads for kosher catering, fund-raisers for […]
The main study of one who proposes to become a rabbi is the Talmud. Let me explain: The Talmud comprises sixty books which contain all the Jewish civil canonical laws. The number of these laws is legion. One commandment of the Decalogue, “Six days shalt thou labor…but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the […]
Scopus, Olivet, Gethsemane, Calvary We pass over the Kidron Valley at the north end, where it begins, and are soon on mount Scopus, the eminence directly northeast of Jerusalem which gives perhaps the best view of the city. To this point of view Psalm 48:2 refers, “Beautiful for situation…on the sides of the north.” Titus […]
This once was holy ground—and will be again. We know from what we are told in the New Testament that the temple that Solomon reared on Moriah was a type of the Lord’s present dwelling-place, a temple that He has been building through the energy of the Holy Spirit during the last 2000 years, that […]
Almost all the great cities of the world share certain characteristics. For example, they often sit astride great waterways. New York has its Hudson; London, the Thames; Paris has the Seine; and Cairo, the Nile. But what of Jerusalem? What did the Psalmist mean when he wrote: “There is a river, the streams whereof shall […]
And the return of the glory of Jehovah. In Isaiah 39:5-7, we have a striking announcement to Hezekiah of the seventy years’ captivity among the very people whose ambassadors he had tried to impress with the importance of his kingdom and the riches of his treasures. This announcement forms the threshold of the last great […]
This veteran evangelist in the Middle East describes his first impressions. The time is 9:30 am. It is just five hours since, rubbing from my eyes the dust of the Sinai desert, I gazed from the carriage window into the gray light of dawn to see for the first time strings of camels, fat-tailed sheep, […]
I was born in 1862 at Berezna, a little town in eastern Hungary, where I was brought up in orthodox Judaism. The Jews there looked on Christianity as a phase of heathenism, for the Catholics openly exhibited their idolatrous habits, practices abhorred by the Jews because they were forbidden by Moses. Because of this, I […]