Volume 27, No.3, Aug. 2016
Feeding the Multitudes
“You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread? Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up? Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up? How is it that you do not understand that [...]
Prophetic Events Closing Zechariah
The closing three chapters of Zechariah narrate the sequence of prophetic events that take Israel and mankind from blindness into Kingdom blessings. In 12:1-9 we find the deliverance of Judah and Jerusalem and the judgment of the nations; 12:10-14 links this future deliverance to recognizing the Messiah by a faithful portion of the Jewish people; 13:1 speaks of opening the wonderful fountain of grace [...]
Hezekiah’s Seal
“And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and ... seal unto it” (Nehemiah 9:38). Israeli archaeologists have discovered a mark from the seal of biblical King Hezekiah, who helped build Jerusalem into an ancient metropolis. The circular inscription, on a piece of clay less than a centimeter (0.4 inches) long, may very well have been made by the [...]