Volume 20, No.3, Aug. 2009
Joshua’s Request
"Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon" (Joshua 10:12). Abstract. Much has been written through the centuries about these scriptures found in Joshua 10:12-14. Some of the explanations of Joshua's request defy the very laws of the universe established by God. God uses His universal laws to accomplish things but does not go against these laws. With [...]
Rooted in Deep Waters
"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 [...]
Tyre and Sidon, Unrestrained Capitalism (Continued from previous issue)
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 [...]