Volume 20, No.2, May 2009
Two Trees
"Who in his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree" (1 Peter 2:24). In studying the teachings of the Old Testament, we learn from them, sometimes by way of contrast, and sometimes by way of comparison. A striking illustration of this fact is found in Genesis 2:9, "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every [...]
Double Numbers
"Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men?" (Luke 13:4) EIGHTEEN IN SCRIPTURE One way to emphasize a point is by repetition. In Scripture, there are some conspicuous cases of the repetition of numbers that seem to indicate there is a spiritual point in them. One example occurs in Luke [...]
Tyre and Sidon, Unrestrained Capitalism
"Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot" (Isaiah 23:15). Isaiah speaks of a period not quite two centuries future to his own day when the harlot song of Tyre would follow a period of seventy years when it would be forgotten. While in their own tongue [...]