Not a Mere Place
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...
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North by Northwest
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...
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The Temple Site
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...
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Jerusalem’s “Ichabod” Period
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...
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There It Is!
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...
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A Description of the Talmud
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...
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The City of the Name
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...
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Job Openings
What kind of person would even think of responding to an ad like this? Only the best. Major investment firm seeks motivated individuals who are desiring “a good work.”1 Such will be called on to make a major investment themselves.2 Previous...
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Local Church Discipline
The Lord uses both the rod and staff. So should we. One of the saddest moments in the life of any assembly must be when discipline of a public nature is required. Thankfully, these occasions are few in number, but when...
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