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by Arthur Eedle
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…]
by Arthur Eedle
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. It was a temporary arrangement until suitable accommodation could be found. Two nights later, after the children were asleep, and my wife had gone to bed, I sat looking at the magnificent view across the harbour. [Read more…]
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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.”
by Arthur Eedle
Matthew 24:30 “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great trumpet, and they will assemble His elect.”
by Arthur Eedle
Now here is a subject which gains a considerable amount of attention in modern Christian writings. But even at a casual glance across the Internet, one comes away with the impression that all Christians are going to be whisked away out of this troubled world very soon, and then the Antichrist will take over, eventually producing this horrible period of time which the Bible calls “the great tribulation.” However, the future cannot be laid down in letters engraved in marble, as though it was already past and readily remembered. Let’s take stock of what we find in the Bible, and ask a few pertinent questions. [Read more…]
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The Prophecy of Isaiah chapter 6 is pivotal to the understanding of the progress of God’s plans in early New Testament times. We have mentioned this before, showing how the blindness, deafness, and hardness of heart predominated in Jesus’ day, and sadly, it continued afterwards during the preaching of the 12, and then the preaching of Paul. [Read more…]
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Yesterday I concluded by saying, “Having studied all these matters from Old Testament times, we are now in a position to attack the problem stated in the previous number in this series. We are presented with the problem of seeing numerous allusions to an early return of the Lord, well within the lifetimes of the apostles, knowing that it not only didn’t happen, but even after some 2,000 years, it still hasn’t happened. Why is this?” [Read more…]
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Yesterday I made the suggestion that Jesus not only didn’t know “the day nor the hour” of His return, but also that He believed it to be within the lifetime of the generation then living. Many of His sayings would confirm this, and the apostles took up the message and declared it throughout their ministry and letters. [Read more…]
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Before getting to grips with today’s topic, I should like to thank those correspondents who have kindly written to correct me on a few historical points concerning the origin and growth of Pentecostalism. It would appear that I had not done my homework sufficiently. [Read more…]
by Arthur Eedle
The word “Zionism” is inseparably linked with the name of Theodor Herzl who was born 2nd May 1860 in Budapest, Hungary, part of the old Austrian empire.
He died 3rd July 1904, Edlach, Austria at only 44 years of age. [Read more…]