Psa. 18:2, "The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;..." (KJV) I have opined before of those who insist that all of the Bible must be taken literally. Surely it is evident that the poetry used in Psalms 18:2 is a literary device to express the idea of God's strength, shelter, and …
Continue reading Frequent Mistakes – Part V: Roses are red, Violets are blue….
When God was angry with a people or nation, He would send a prophet to warn them to repent before He would send judgment upon them. The language of prophesy contained certain elements and structure that repeated no matter which nation or country the prophet was sent to warn. Let's examine some of these elements. …
Part I of this series established the background and time period of Revelation as the first century A.D., the generation which Christ said would not pass until all was fulfilled. (Matt. 22:36, 24:34) Therefore, the events of Revelation "which must shortly come to pass" and which were "at hand" all occurred in that same century …
Continue reading The Signs of Revelation – Part II: Codes and Symbols of Nature
We have a perspective problem. Many people think nothing of taking the words that Christ spoke to His disciples in the first century AD out of time and place, and making them applicable to some future event and generation. Matt. 10:23, "... Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son …
"37 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they …
Continue reading The Valley of Dry Bones, a Picture for the Children of God
Many Christians are disadvantaged in that we are not well grounded in the Old Testament scriptures. We have been taught for so many generations that as we are now under the new covenant of Christ, that the old covenant is then no longer relevant. This leads many to assume that there is no need to …
Shredding The Veil 