“And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). “DNA” is our shorthand for the complex set of inherited instructions used by every living organism on earth. No living cell is without its own unique DNA. For each one of us, our mother and father both contribute DNA that provides instructions for the color of our [...]

“Behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar, and Ifell on my face.”(Ezekiel 3.-23) PROLOGUE In each of us is a deeply-felt need to relate to God-the ultimate reality -through the same conscious senses that make the rest of our world real. God lives in a completely different dimensionality and “no man hath [...]

“Hast thou given the horse his strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Cans't thou make him afraid as the grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver [...]

Islam, Orthodoxy, and Catholicism in Prophecy The third church, the third seal, and the third trumpet together weave a tapestry that shows the challenges God’s people have met and triumphed over through Christ. Yet, their historic importance is relevant to our day, for a star called “Wormwood” and the church in Pergamos directly relate to the challenge of terrorism and warfare in Afghanistan that [...]

"Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us" (Corinthians 5:7). FOUR QUESTIONS Considerations about the Memorial observance were treated in February 1996, when four questions were answered.1 (1) Since Bible Students link the celebration of Memorial to the Passover observance and use the Jewish calendar to [...]

"Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north" (Psalms 48:2). King Hezekiah was surrounded "like a bird in a cage." 1 Jerusalem was besieged by the armies of Assyria led by king Sennacherib in the 7th century BC as recorded in Isaiah chapters 36, 37. To bolster morale within the city, the sons of [...]

“Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramoth, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not” (Jeremiah 31:15). “The moral is that self-sacrifice ensures life, a paradox which is exemplified by Jewish history” (Soncino Jewish Commentary notes on Ezekiel 16:16). Some of the richest promises for Israel’s restoration are recorded [...]

"I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. Then said I, 0 my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these be. And the man [...]

"In the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert" (Isaiah 35:6). In the biblical narrative, the word yuval (Strong 2988) which appears three times in the Bible seems to have lost its original nuance and it is recognized as meaning a stream of some kind.1 In modern Hebrew, it refers to a perennial stream, and so it has generally been understood [...]

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was born in Lincolnshire on Christmas day nearly two months premature, and posthumous to his father. In the superstition of the day, all three of these circumstances were considered to portend a child of exceptional abilities, and so he was. He was born in the last year a witch was publicly burned at the stake in England. When he went to [...]

“To the angel of the church of Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges” (Revelation 2:12). When we look at our brethren’s trials throughout the Gospel Age it truly is a cause for reflection, encouragement, and thanksgiving for their faithfulness. While the golden candlestick representing the church is beaten from one piece of solid gold, Revelation consistently [...]

“The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah” (Zephaniah 1:1). Frequently, we might pass over the opening lines of a book in the Bible that list lineages of the prophet. In Zephaniah it is unusual [...]

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched - this we proclaim concerning the Word of Life .” 1 John 1:1, NIV TEN POST-RESURRECTION APPEARANCES The Bible records ten1 post-resurrection appearances of Jesus during the forty days following that most blessed Sunday.2 This is significant [...]

PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC But today, why is there such a difference between Western Christendom looking to Rome and Eastern Christendom looking to Constantinople? There are a multitude of reasons to be sure. But what opened the door to commerce in Western Christendom was the challenge for Papacy that came with the unbridled neopaganism of the Renaissance and then the counterbalancing nearly fatal crisis of [...]

We owe a debt of gratitude to the clear explanation presented by Pastor Russell in The Atonement between God and Man (Study III). This study elucidates the confusing subject of "only begotten." In the Englishman's Greek Concordance we also find an invaluable study tool (now available keyed to Strong's Concordance), which shows the nine biblical uses of "monogenees." This is the single Greek word [...]

Historians frequently focus on those characters who both shape and are the products of their times. Luther was one such man who stood up against the prevailing religious oppression and bombast of his time and found that society was prepared to heed his message. John Hus (1369-1415 AD) a century earlier than Luther came to Bohemia preaching the same message of reform and zeal, [...]

(Addendum to the article "Development of the Trinity," November 2010 issue) When Jesus Became God: the Struggle to Define Christianity in the Last Days of Rome. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999; Harvest paperback, 2000. Paris: Editions Decouverte, 2001. The account of our Lord's life and the developments in the church during apostolic times are well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during [...]