Sodom and Gomorrah have at last been found. Or should I say, they have at last been RECOGNISED, because they have been lying undisturbed for thousands of years, unrecognised. I have written about this recently, based on the exciting Video produced by Jonathan Gray. Someone wrote to him saying, “How can you say that bricks and stone have been turned to ash? That never happens.” He replied, quite correctly I feel, that when a volcano explodes, literally millions of tons of VOLCANIC ASH spew out, known as TUFA. Nobody doubts that. And it is the result of intense heat on rocks. What happened at Sodom is the result of intense heat – “the Lord rained on Sodom fire and brimstone.” The word “ash” is used in the Bible to describe the result, and that is exactly what Wyatt and Gray found. It is a fitting testimony to the accuracy of holy writ. [Read more…]
80a. “A Precious Cornerstone”
Part 1. THE LORD JESUS IS THE CORNER STONE
There can be no doubt at all as to the identity of the CORNER STONE presented in the Old Testament prophets, and enhanced by the exposition of the Apostles in the New Testament. [Read more…]
80b. Nature’s Hidden Model
Part 2. SCIENCE YIELDS A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PYRAMID
It really is quite amazing how much spiritual truth is displayed in nature. But this has been God’s own way. In Romans 1 we read, “The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that mankind is without excuse.” Simple things like the Pansy. It used to be called the “Trinity Flower”, and a cursory glance at it will reveal why. It’s a shame that the old name has been abandoned for a word that has attracted rather negative connotations these days. [Read more…]
80c. Further Secrets Revealed
Part 3. MAINLY ABOUT NUMBERS
In Part Two I mentioned in passing that the final tally of the Elements was 118, and that this number was important. Now is the time to say why. But before doing so, I should like to point out that some scientists suggest the (as yet, theoretical) possibility of a FOURTH slab of Elements, after number 118, and as this would contain the square of TEN, it would amount to another HUNDRED elements. [Read more…]
81. Toils and Burdens
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matt.11:28-30.
Countless souls have derived great blessing and comfort from these words from our Lord’s mouth. [Read more…]
82. The Sabbath Day and Sunday
AN EXAMINATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC POSITION
Certain documents of the Roman Catholic Church have come into my possession, parts of which I should like to share with my readers, and leave them to reach their own conclusions. Although these evidences are not recent, they represent the unbending, unchanging stand of the Roman Church, and may therefore be looked upon as a timeless challenge to Protestantism. [Read more…]
83. The “Jewish Sabbath”
AN EXAMINATION OF OUR LORD’S ATTITIDE
In this second paper on the Sabbath we shall investigate those passages which reveal our Lord’s attitude towards the Sabbath Day. It is well known that the Jews had compassed the Sabbath about with numerous ADDITIONAL laws. So complex had the issue become that instead of the Sabbath being a day of delight and relaxation, of family enjoyment, and worship in the Synagogue, it had degenerated into a strait-jacket of negativism, a 24-hour minefield of prohibitions, each of which could cause a Jewish man-in-the-street to become a “sinner” or even “cast out” from among the people, “excommunicated” by the Sanhedrin. [Read more…]
83a. About “Jots and Tittles”
Rather than have an overburden of information in the last P.T. I have sensed the necessity of presenting some factual material here in an Appendix, which can be passed over by those who don’t wish to delve any deeper into these matters of present concern. First of all I should like to refer to the Hebrew text of Exodus 20:8-11, which is the FOURTH COMMANDMENT, concerning the Sabbath Day. In P.T.83 I said that there were no less than TWENTY occurrences of the little letter YOD in the text. I was correct – there are certainly NOT less than twenty – in fact on testing it again I found that I had missed THREE of them! How easy it is to miss this tiny letter. When the Lord said that “not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until all are fulfilled” He had 23 cogent reasons for not disturbing the Sabbath Law! Looking at it from this point of view, should we not shudder at the thought of transferring the Sabbath to another day? [Read more…]
84. About the Sabbath Day and Sunday
INTRODUCTION. We have investigated our Lord’s attitude towards the Mosaic Laws and found Him to be very forceful in requiring their continuance, and their observation. “Whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matt.5:19) [Read more…]
85. Contempt
What a horrible word. Contempt. Even the sound of the word brings to mind something of its “feel”. Have you ever heard someone say, “I have only utter contempt for him”? What does it conjure up? An attitude of scorn, of a haughty superciliousness, a withering, sneering, disrespectful, depreciating sort of mental condition that smacks of superiority in the mind of the one who speaks. None of us like to see this in action. It offends us. We roundly judge the perpetrator of such ill usage and unloving manner. [Read more…]
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