Distinguishing Things That Differ
While God Himself never changes, His methods do. He works in different ways at different times. We sometimes speak of the way God administers His affairs with man during a particular era as a dispensation. Technically, a dispensation does not...
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Indispensable Factors
Three factors are indispensable to Dispensational Theology. They clearly make Dispensational Theology distinct from Covenant Theology. Any view of Scripture which does not contain all three is not dispensational in the truest sense of the term. The first factor is the...
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
The Palestinian Authority issued a commemorative stamp in May featuring the Wye River Accords with a picture of Yasser Arafat and President Clinton signing the document. The scene is from a photograph taken at the event, held at the White...
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Portraits of the Church
The Lord Jesus Christ's opening statement concerning the Church immediately arrests our attention. It is striking: "I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Mt. 16:18). The statement clarifies at once any question...
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The House of God: In Reality
One of the descriptions the New Testament gives for the Church is that of a temple, also known as the house of God. More than just a metaphor, this allusion to the Old Testament temple is meant to stir our...
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A Reasoned Response to Y2K
In the January issue of Uplook I wrote an article in which I stated that the Y2K problem was analogous to a runaway train on a collision course with a station. Catastrophe was certain unless the train was stopped in...
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The House of God: A Metaphor
The first mention of "the house of God" occurs in Genesis 28 where we find Jacob awakening from his dream with the realization that he has been in the presence of the living God: "How dreadful (awesome) is this place!...
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Illuminating Living
It could be anticipated that the Revelation (or the Unveiling) would pull back the coverings that stand between us and the future, between us and the real world, and take us on a tour of the temple in heaven (of...
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Pillar Power
Fleeing for his life, young Jacob had travelled over the undulating road from Beersheva on the edge of the Negev. Skirting old Salem, he had made it about twelve miles further north before the sun slipped behind the hills and...
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