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The prophecy of Habakkuk has a wonderful message for believers today and will well repay careful study and contemplation. Set against the background of an impending Babylonian invasion of Judah, the prophecy reaches forward to the restoration of …
We come now to our final study – and I would like to draw a word-picture of the last coming of God’s King (Jesus Christ) to Zion, in terms of the Song. I have already demonstrated that …
“The Church’s Love for Christ” – so my Bible heads the page of the first chapter of the Song of Solomon. In previous articles I have suggested that, in the first place, the Song was a dramatically enacted allegory of …
In previous articles we have shown how the Song of Solomon may have been originally sung to celebrate the coronation of Solomon as God’s king – which was at the same time a symbolic marriage between …
Even a cursory reader of the Song of Solomon will be aware that the joy and blessings presented in the picture of the bride and bridegroom are under laid with a theme of sorrow, and sometimes of …
Now will I sing to my well-beloved A song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard In a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, And planted it with the …
This book will please very few. Atheists will be, and have been, upset or bemused by one of their own rejecting the standard line of materialist reductionism and arguing instead for the irreducibility of consciousness, intentionality and value. They will …
This book brings together a number of articles by the late Brother Tom Barling originally published in The Testimony magazine. The book is lovingly introduced by Reg Carr, who writes of Brother Barling’s “lasting legacy of Bible scholarship” of which …
Craig Evans is a distinguished New Testament scholar who has written extensively on the historical Jesus and served on the advisory board on the Gospel of Judas for the National Geographic Society. He is well placed to evaluate the various …
This collection of twenty-two essays by respected conservative archaeologists and biblical scholars, like Alan Millard and Craig Blomberg, was occasioned by the publication of God’s Word in Human Words by Kenton Sparks. In that book Sparks queries the inerrancy of …
Joel is a fascinating little book. Whilst his prophecy consists of only three chapters – a total of 73 verses – it has a very wide-ranging scope. Not only did Joel speak of momentous, earth-shattering events that were taking …
This article is the second of two in a consideration of the date of the Exodus. Typically, only two dates are considered viable: c.1440 BCE (the ‘early date’),[1] and c.1280 BCE (the ‘late date’). Arguments for these dates …
The unique style and content of John’s Gospel has generated a huge body of scholarly comment and opinion. There are innumerable commentaries and articles researching issues of language, authorship, date, and much more besides. Many eminent scholars have been …
TG Q. Why do you write books?
J. As tools for others to use in their own Bible study and preaching. Two other books of mine currently available are ‘Sleeping In The Dust‘, and ‘Rightly Dividing The Word‘.
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The Jewish scriptures are called ‘the Old Testament’ by Christians because they believe that other books are also ‘scripture’—viz., the New Testament. The implicit claim of the Christian church of the second century CE was that there had been …
Adam and Eve were given a clear command that they disobeyed. They had been told that the punishment for disobedience was death. In NT comment on the events in the Garden of Eden we have confirmed that by one …
The previous article concluded that language alone cannot establish the date of a particular book – any linguistic evidence needs to be supported by intertextual and socio-historical evidence. Our hypothesis is that Song belongs to the Hezekiah period and …
It is almost depressing to hear the laxity of speech and thoughtlessness of mind which accompanies many of our exhortations, and particularly public lectures, where the terms ‘Christian’, ‘Christian faith’, ‘Christian love’, ‘Christianity’ etc. are freely flourished by the speaker. …
Philemon was a brother in Christ. Onesimus was his slave. A contradictory situation. Employing people is one thing, and even that is subject to dangerous abuse by employer and employee; but keeping slaves is so completely alien to the Christian …
Have you a ‘good’ imagination? I don’t mean ‘good’ in opposition to ‘evil’ – though I’ll come to that later – but ‘good’ in the sense of ‘strong’. When you answer the ‘phone do you visualise the unseen speaker, even if …
The world around us goes about its affairs largely unconscious of the presence of angels in their midst. And as far as Christendom is concerned, this is so, even though belief in angels is written into its creeds. Angels …
The dictionary definition of intercessor is “one that is a peacemaker between two, someone who pleads for one, a prayer on behalf of someone.” Such a definition shows that intercession is almost if not absolutely synonymous with mediation or advocacy.
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The eye is probably the most used organ of our body during our waking hours. Not until we experience the misfortune of impaired eyesight do we appreciate the value of this little but wonderful member of our body.
When the …
That is how a mid 19th Century New Testament critic described the third gospel. I am certain that anyone who attended the very first Oxford Conference week in August 1964 must remember a striking …
In every age there are things which seem so right to men that they are called ‘self evident truths’. For example, in past ages most ‘Christians’ have been convinced that all men had immortal souls, …
Although Bro. Bernard Burt has discussed the subject of the Pope’s visit in his editorial, we feel that the whole matter is of such importance that we make no apology for raising the matter again.
John Paul has presented himself to …
The earliest reference we have to the cities of refuge is in Ex.21:12-14. These verses firstly restate the sixth commandment, and then proceed to consider the practical issue of death other than by murder. Nowadays men speak of “accidental death” …
One of the major causes of the eclipse of Pagan Rome is acknowledged to be the mismanagement of the extensive grain-growing areas of North Africa. An area which was once immensely fertile is now a waste of desert sand and …
Since he accepts the Bible as the Word of God, a Christadelphian must seek, from the pages of the Bible, guidance in living the new life in Christ Jesus. His thinking patterns must be so impregnated by the Word that …
Jesus’ discourse in the synagogue on the bread of life must have given the disciples much to think about – and to discuss among themselves. Peter had confessed that Jesus’ words were the food of eternal life; in the following …