Did you ever question why the Lord said to a fig tree, having no figs, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter forever”, when it was in the Spring time and not the harvest time of figs? (Mark 11:13-14). I did until My wife and I planted a fig tree and saw its very unusual habit of fruit bearing. It then became apparent and I saw the meaning of Jesus’ symbolic action and its application to the nation and to…..
Adam and Eve, our first parents, upon seeing their nakedness after eating the forbidden fruit, hide from The Lord God. They make little aprons sewn of fig leaves to cover their private parts. The fig leaves were no comfort in God’s presence. And soon they will be of no comfort in anybodies presence because fig leaves soon dry, crumble, and fall away. In God’s presence, our first parents admit their nakedness. This is a foreshadow of the failure of our…..
The sacrifices of certain animals as proscribed in the Old Testament were a prophecy of Christ’s work, crucified on the cross, for our eternal salvation from sin, and everlasting life. Fulfilled in Him, an animal sacrifice now would be a sacrilege; however, they have great prophetic teaching of what Christ did and does. We are familiar with the Bible account of the Passover sacrifice of a lamb. Likely, most of us who have attended church know of the truth, “Christ…..
There is a spectacular day ahead. It is called the”day of Christ.” At that day, fellow believer, it can be said of you as the Angels said to the women who came to anoint the body of Christ, “He is not here, He is risen”. At that day the same Spirit that convicted you of sin, converted you to Christ, sanctified you to His service, and dwells within you as His temple will bring you forth with a new body…..
“Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away” (Song of Sol. 2:10). In the beautiful poetry, Song of Sol. 2:4-17, the resurrection and glorious change of our bodies who are Christ’s and our meeting Him in the air is compared to an elopement. Then comes the marriage feast followed by the glory of ruling the world with our Lord, the King of Kings, Jesus Christ. And looking at these verses of Scripture we can see something of that…..
From my experience, the unbeliever thinks, if about it at all, that Christ died for the good people. It is an eye opener when we show such a one, from the Word of God, “to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth, the UNGODLY, his faith is counted for righteousness” (Rom.4:5). And when we do share the truth to a person, God grant it sticks in such a person’s mind like a cocklebur in a dog’s ear……
The Law, the prophets, the rituals, the preaching of Jesus, the preaching of His apostles, the preaching of Luther and the Reformers, the preaching of the many during the golden age of bible preaching in the nineteenth century, and a few today all tell the same way to eternal life: Grace through faith in the Gospel (Rom. 1:16). Because, humanly speaking, of the world empire of the Victorian age ( Queen Victoria herself being a devout Bible believer), the world…..
The first man and woman, Adam and Eve our ancestors, sinned by eating the forbidden fruit: the knowledge of good and evil. And, like people today, they hid from God. The Lord came, seeking them (Gen.3:8). When Adam and Eve hear the voice of the Lord walking in the garden, it is none other than the Son of God, Jesus, the Lord of Glory. His call leading to life instead of death; death brought on themselves by their own sin……
God’s special messenger, Paul, exhorts you and me, “Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened” ( 1Cor. 5:7-8). Remember, the word leaven in the Bible represents evil. As to this exhortation, it seems a contradiction, does it not? The apostle Paul tells us to purge out the old leaven and then telling us the reason: because we are unleavened. However, it is not a contradiction. Here is why. The moment we…..
Although light be everywhere, the blind person does not benefit from it.The light of the Gospel, (Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose the third day according the scriptures) has gone out in the English speaking world as the sun shining on a clear day, but the spiritually blind still grope in the darkness of unbelief. The tragedy is that unbelief is intentional. As to following Christ, “They all…..