God’s Tear Bottle
Because of David's courageous defeat of the Philistine giant, Goliath, the shepherd boy of Bethlehem became a hero in Israel. King Saul "set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people" ...
Editor’s Choices
Our Tears in Heaven
Who Is In Control?
Alexander the Great: An Amazing Example of Prophecy and Providence
Due to their progressive apostasy from God, the kingdom of Judah was eventually subjugated by the Babylonian empire. According to a prophecy given by Jeremiah, they were destined to spend seventy years of captivity in that distant land (cf. Jer. ...
When the Right is Price
The Christian and Bribery
You don't have to search very long to find cases of bribery in American politics. From the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s to the Gulf Oil and Exxon bribes of the 1960s to the Abscam corruption of the 1970s ...
A “Loaded” Question
Young Jesus Asks a Question
Three times each year all Hebrew males were required to appear before the Lord in the great festivals of the Jewish religion (Ex. 23:14-17; 34:23; Deut.16:16). These festivals were: Passover (Lev. 23:5); Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22); and Tabernacles (Lev. 23:34-43). The ...
Messiah's Providential Homeland
Your Land, O Immanuel
There should be no doubt in the mind of serious Bible students that the land known as Palestine was providentially prepared by God for the coming of his Son and the redemptive plan Jesus would implement. The prophet Isaiah described ...