Have Miracles Ceased?

Visits: 14 [Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1  page.] Many modern religionists claim the power to perform the same miracles and signs as those recorded in the Bible. Claiming and doing are two different things. Anyone can make claims…

Realized Eschatology and Exposition of Daniel 12

Visits: 110[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Some Preliminary Considerations To mutilate some lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43, “By how many names do we know thee? Let us count the names:” “Kingism,” “AD 70 Theology,” “Realized Eschatology,” “Preterism,” “Covenant…

Realized Eschatology and Exposition of Acts 2:29-36

Visits: 63[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction             The Bible contains numerous outstanding sermons or at least briefs thereof. The minds of Bible students immediately go to the Lord’s “Sermon on the Mount,” Peter’s Pentecost sermon, Stephen’s oration…

Exposition of Jeremiah 1:4–10

Visits: 52[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction             The time was about 1500 B.C. The chilling words of warning from Jehovah to Israel through Moses were these: But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto…

Eternal Life Is in the Son—1 John 5:9–13

Visits: 51[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction John gives the infidelity of the Gnostic heretics, which apparently constitutes the setting of John’s first epistle, one final broadside in 1 John 5. In verses 1–8, the apostle discussed some of the…

Ezekiel—Prophet of the Exile

Visits: 74[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction Four Old Testament prophets are called “major prophets,” or as some style them, “the four greater prophets:”1 Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezekiel. The lives of the last three overlap each other somewhat, but the work of…

The Church Was Not an Afterthought

Visits: 6[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles page.]             Many anti-Scriptural concepts of the church exist (e.g., denominationalism, that one can serve Jesus apart from His church [Jesus, yes—the church, no], that the church’s principal work is to supply…

The Church—Purposed of God

Visits: 9[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Long Articles page.] Introduction Is the church Jesus promised to build a “new kid on the block” in God’s eternal purpose? When Jesus announced to the apostles, “I will build my church” (Mat. 16:18),…

The “Twin Parables”—The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl of Great Price—Matthew 13:44–46

Visits: 23[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts page.] Introduction The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath,…

Micaiah, the Unheralded Prophet

Visits: 25[Note:  This MS is available in larger font on our Manuscripts  page.] Introduction Just as there are several men named “James” in the New Testament, there are several Old Testament characters named “Micaiah.” Although at least eight persons (including one woman) have this name,…