Volume 29, No.3, Aug. 2018
Rachel Weeping for her Children
“Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramoth, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not” (Jeremiah 31:15). “The moral is that self-sacrifice ensures life, a paradox which is exemplified by Jewish history” (Soncino Jewish Commentary notes on Ezekiel 16:16). Some of the richest promises for Israel’s restoration are recorded [...]
Making Peace
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9). What is a peacemaker? There is difference between peacemaker, and a peacekeeper. A peacekeeper wants to keep things quiet — a peacemaker is not as much concerned about quiet, as about ultimate peace. Blessed are the peacemakers. Jesus was a peacemaker. In Romans 5:1 Paul said that we are [...]
Enoch
“And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:23, 24). Though Enoch lived for the remarkable length of 365 years, by the standards of his day his lifespan was relatively brief. His father Jared would live for 962 years, and Enoch’s son Methuselah would live [...]