by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Many have ASSUMED that when God declared certain animals as unclean and not to be eaten by the Israelites, it was because God knew they were inherently unhealthy and would cause those who consumed them health problems. Not so fast! You put God in a very bad light when...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Jesus is derived from the ancient Greek form of the Hebrew Yeshua and Aramaic Isho. And, of course, there are several variants of even these names. And we must not forget the name Joshua, English for Yeshua. Greek has no letter “J” or “J” sound...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by Don Wiley | Mar 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...