A JOURNEY TOO FAR

There are many believers who do not realize that ancient Israel had three annual feasts, annual sabbath celebrations that every male thirteen years of age and older were required to observe each and every year in Jerusalem – and only in Jerusalem.  Yet many...

WHY DID HE COME?

Speaking to a rich tax collector named Zacchaeus one day, Jesus told him, “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (See Luke 19:10). Do you really think He meant He had come to seek and save only those who were lost from that day...

WORDS OF LIFE

Jesus said, “The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they ARE LIFE!” (John 6:63). If one really and truly believes that he will be drawn to the Word of God like a moth in summer is drawn to your burning porch light. The Word of God is like the...

PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE!

Many Christians are like the young fellow who tried to solve some calculus problems before getting a grip on basic math. They try to comprehend what Paul is saying in Colossians Chapter 2 before understanding what Jesus Christ said about the Sabbath in the four gospel...

“O ISRAEL, WHERE ART THOU?” (PART 5)

A few more comments concerning the house of Israel from the prophet Amos: “O house of Israel, the virgin of Israel is fallen, she shall no more rise. She is forsaken upon her land. There is none to raise her up.” (See Amos 5:1-2). And, again,”The end...

“O ISRAEL, WHERE ART THOU?” (PART 4)

If anyone thinks God is going to commit Himself to blessing the idol worshiping, infant sacrificing, rebel descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob after they have spurned all of God’s prophets He sent to them, killing many of them and refusing to return to God...

“O ISRAEL, WHERE ART THOU?” (PART 3)

Through His prophet Hosea, God said to the house of Israel, “You are not my people, and I will not be your God” (See Hosea 1:9). It was with great reluctance God gave Israel up, removing them from His sight, no longer guiding them or leading them or...

“O ISRAEL, WHERE ART THOU?” (PART 2)

It was to Israel the Lord was speaking in Deuteronomy Chapter 28, when He warned, “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that ALL...