Volume 29, No.4, Nov. 2018
Woe to the Spoiler
Isaiah 33-35 Bible Students have long appreciated the poetic and prophetic beauty of the 35th chapter of Isaiah. It is the chapter that speaks of the desert blossoming as the rose, the lame man leaping as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb singing. It describes the glories of restitution, resurrection, the highway of holiness, and the ransomed of the Lord returning from [...]
Hands of the Living God
The Apostle Paul in writing to the Hebrews resorted to figurative language when he referred to “the hands of the living God.” “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Hebrews 10:31). As we ponder this expression, we wonder what prompted Paul to make this statement. The experience he had in the city of Athens, recorded in Acts [...]
Sennacherib’s Cylinder
“He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it” (Isaiah 37:33). Sennacherib’s Cylinder is a six-sided clay tablet discovered by Colonial Robert Taylor in 1830. It was found in the ruins at Nineveh, capital city of the Assyrian Empire. Taylor’s cylinder is presently found in the British Museum. Two [...]