Volume 28, No.1, Feb. 2017
Laodicea, The Indifferent Church
“As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me” (Revelation 3:19‑20). There is no city whose spirit and nature are more difficult to describe than Laodicea. [...]
Prophecies Against Rome Addressed to Tyre
TIRAS, THE ETRUSCANS, ROME The list of first‑generation nations from Japheth ends with Tiras. Their homeland was at the west and southwest of the Black Sea, where Romanians today call it Thracia, and in English we slur it to Thrace. Its capital was called Troy, or Troas, and the people were called Trojans. Like other seafaring nations, these people established colonies on faraway shores, [...]
David’s Mighty Men
“These be the names of the mighty men whom David had ... thirty and seven in all” (2 Samuel 23:8, 39). Saul, David, and Solomon, the first three kings of Israel, conspicuously each reigned the same number of years, 40 in each case. Forty is a symbol in Scriptures of trial or testing, and in this case reflects that the reigns of these three [...]