2 Thessalonians 2:1-4 from the Greek.  “Now we request you, brethren, by the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him, that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor disturbed, neither through a spirit nor through an epistle purporting to come from us, [saying] that the Day of the Lord has come. Let not anyone deceive you in any way, because [that day will not come] unless the Apostasy comes first, and the Man of Lawlessness is revealed, the Son of Destruction, who sets himself against, and exalts himself over, everything called Divine, or object of worship, so as to sit in the Temple of God declaring himself to be God.”

The Day of the Lord is here defined by Paul as the time when the Lord returns, and when the saints are gathered together to Him. That is a useful definition to begin with, and effectively disposes of some loose exposition found in modern theological texts. [Read more…]

(A vision received by Arthur on 5th Sept. 1974)

The Crown Agents in London had appointed me to teach in the King George V School, Kowloon, Hong Kong as from the beginning of the autumn term 1974. We flew out there and landed on September 3rd, and were given a suite of rooms on the 8th floor of the Hong Kong Hotel. [Read more…]

Imagine a convex lens, a “burning glass” as some call it. On the left of this glass draw a set of parallel lines, depicting rays of light entering the lens. As these rays travel through the lens, they are refracted to come to a focus, the “burning point.”  The rays on the right hand side look somewhat like a sharpened pencil, with the focus like the tip of the pencil lead. This “pencil of rays” is what we must now “focus” on. [Read more…]