Volume 18, No.1, Feb. 2007
The Letter to Smyrna (Revelation 2:8-10)
THE TITLES OF CHRIST IN REVELATION In the book of the Revelation, Christ reveals himself to the Church according to their moral condition, and the title which Christ assumes in addressing each church anticipates what is vital and with moral significance to them. For example, in the writing to Pergamos we read, "By the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith [...]
Messenger of Millennial Hope (By Charles F. Redeker)
Pastoral Bible Institute, 1425 Lachman Lane, Pacific Palisades, California 90272, USA • Published November, 2006 Ninety years ago the founder of the Bible Students, Pastor Charles Taze Russell, died. The organization he established became fragmented and subject to strong personalities who felt they knew how to best continue his legacy. These differences between the groups who trace their roots to the Pastor's ministry continue [...]
Days of Daniel
A popular account of the Allenby campaign by Owen Wister, The Romance of the Last Crusade - with Allenby to Jerusalem, points to the interest in the apparent fulfillment of Biblical prophecy with the conquest coming in 1917.1 First, it is necessary to point out that for the hopes of the Lord's people comprising the true church, the interpretation of the Days of Daniel [...]
The Liberation of Jerusalem, 1917
"I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD ... [they will] return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and ... shall possess it" (Jeremiah 30:3). On December 9th the city of Jerusalem surrendered to the British Third Army under General Sir Edmund Allenby. So important was this victory in World War I that news [...]