In this, the third of our articles, we shall have to look into God’s purposes towards peoples and nations. In the first, we saw that the 0.T. atonement was replaced by the better circumstances of Christ’s sacrifice, whereby all nations were made clean and every living human being had the individual right to come directly to God and ask for forgiveness. No longer did Israelhold the keys to the door of salvation. [Read more…]
Archives for January 1987
11. Which Temple? Which City?
In 2 Thess. 2:4 Paul refers to “the MAN OF LAWLESSNESS, who opposes and exalts himself over everything called ‘god’, or object of worship, so that he, as ‘God’, sits in the Temple of God, showing himself to be ‘God’.” [Read more…]
10. Atonement
With two important collections of verses, “Much more” & “Better”.
Here is a subject that is full of big surprises! “Ah!” says the Christian, “I know all about the Atonement . Christ died for our sins. That is the atonement, it brings us back to God. Is not the Atonement the AT-ONE-MENT? We are once again made one with God, reconciled.” These are commonly held Christian sentiments. [Read more…]
9. The Law
LAW HAS BECOME A DIRTY WORD IN THE society in which we live. Man has grown used to its disrespect. He tends to keep to a set of laws of his own making, rather than those of God’s giving. He looks upon the Old Testament as a document of historic value only. He refers to ‘the Law of Moses’, or to ‘the Jewish laws’, without realising that they were God’s own laws, written by His own hand upon tablets of stone, forming the basis of a divine covenant with a chosen people. They were only ‘the Mosaic law’ insofar as God chose Moses as His instrument in the giving of them, and they were only ‘the Israelite (not Jewish) laws’ because Israel was the name given to the people of God’s choice. [Read more…]
4. Sleep and Dreams
There has always been within man a certain fascination about sleep and dreams. Even in the earliest known literature we find writers posing questions and suggesting answers, but not until 1953 did man really begin to discover a few simple basic facts about sleep and the world of dreams. In this study we shall try to present some of the results of modern scientific research, to see how these illuminate the Biblical revelations, few as they may be. [Read more…]