Volume 12, No.1, Feb. 2001
Joseph’s Silver Cup
The story of Joseph is one of the longest in the Old Testament (14 chapters from Genesis 37 to 50). It is a soul-searching story mixed with villainy and great character. Both hatred and love drive the story while divine providence moves to fulfill God's purpose. In the end love wins out. The beautiful part of God's plan is that love triumphs in the [...]
The Seven Spirits
In Revelation 1:4 the Apostle John wrote greetings from three entities, including the seven spirits which are before the throne of 'him which is, and which was, and which is to come.' We believe this refers to Jehovah God's throne, a throne of judgment and authority. A little later John sees 'seven golden candlesticks' (luchnia, lampstand, compare Diaglott), and 'in the midst of the [...]
Farrar on Light
Note Canon Farrar's earnest words: 'My brethren, the love that sees goodness and beauty in all human nature, helps to make goodness and to make beauty in human nature. To those who love, even a common person is a human soul, who walks in the transfiguring glory of their affection. You think someone a dull person. Why? That is because you are dull. An [...]
At Home and a Stranger
'For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: (3) If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. (4) For we [...]
Thy Watchmen Shall See Eye to Eye
'Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion'. (Isaiah 52:8) The immediate setting of this text is the promised return from captivity to Babylon. There would be symbolic watchers on the walls of Jerusalem and symbolic heralds hasting over the mountains to announce to [...]
Little Ways of Doing Good
'As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the Household of Faith'. (Galatians 6:10) The Apostle's exhortation here is very comprehensive - to do good without limitation, whether it be in word or deed. Some can be more benefited by words than by any other service we could render them. One of the great [...]