Who never saw death, and yet died? To be dead without having seen death seems absurd. Yet the question is not as foolish as it seems. Are there really persons who have died, although their dying hour has not arrived? You are of the number if you have put on Christ. It is to you […]
Few accounts in the Bible have been more misunderstood than this one (2 Ki. 2:23-25), due to the rendering “little children” in v. 23 (kjv). It should be translated “youths” or “young men,” the word in the singular being used of Joseph at 17 (Gen. 37:2, “lad”). Bethel was the home of Jeroboam’s “calf” and […]
A better script could not have been written by the best of dramatists. A solitary prophet of the Lord, roughly-clad and seemingly unknown, explodes on the stage of history and fearlessly declares before wicked King Ahab and his courtiers: “No more rain until I say!” (see 1 Ki. 17:1). Then, led by God, he withdraws […]
Is it not singular that the story of four leprous men should be inserted in the Book of the Kings of Israel? No; not for the Bible. If you were to take out of the Scriptures all the stories that have to do with the poor and afflicted, what a small book the Bible would […]
In 2 Kings 6, Israel’s inveterate enemy, the king of Syria, had planned by wicked stealth to destroy them. But Elisha, God’s prophet, forewarned Israel’s king of the evil devices of his adversary so that the nation was delivered. Then Elisha seemed to retire into the obscurity of one of those many seasons of quiet […]
“But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren…” These few words, recorded in 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ff, reveal the heart of the Apostle Paul for the believers at Thessalonica. As he began his discussion about Christ’s return, the resurrection of those who had died in Christ, and the rapture of the church, he […]
The day dawned wet and raw. I felt as limp as the gray flannel sky. I was leaving for meetings and didn’t feel either willing to leave home or prepared to go. And I felt I deserved to feel miserable, and to inflict it on those around me. Somehow I said my goodbyes and boarded […]
In the first seven chapters of this letter the person of the Son of God displaces all else–the Man in the glory of God. In the next three chapters we are introduced to the place where He serves as our High Priest–the sanctuary of glory. In the last three chapters it is the path that […]
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds (lit. ages) were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (Heb. […]