Ancient Jewish Betrothal and Wedding Custom

  While there were many different cultures throughout the world in Bible times, the Bible itself mostly follows God’s chosen people, the Israelite’s, through the coming of the Messiah. Therefore, this article will focus on Jewish marriage customs. Marriages...

The Call has gone out!

“Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet Him” [Matt 25:6]  I am sure others have heard this call to readiness. The ears of my heart tingle and so I proclaim what makes this so. I do not try and convince but to convict. In ancient Israel as the bridegroom would return...

The Foreknowledge of God

The Foreknowledge of God What Controversies have been engendered by this subject in the past! But what truth of Holy Scripture is there which has not been the occasion of theological and ecclesiastical battles? The deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His atoning death,...

The Essential Nature of God

The Essential Nature of God 1. The Knowledge of God. The possibility of knowing God has been denied on several grounds. But while it is true that man can never fully comprehend God, it does not follow that he can have no knowledge of Him at all. He can know Him only...

Heresies

    Heresies We have seen that the devil is never quite so subtle, and never quite so successful, as when he succeeds in persuading people that he does not exist at all! That, as we have suggested, was his supreme masterpiece, and it is certainly a part of...