Volume 32, No.2, May 2021
The Hour and Day and Month and Year
The Unintended Reformation to World War I “Christianity remained in the sixteenth century what it had always been — a shared way of life, not simply as an ideal but in practice, inescapably social because of Jesus’s central command: ‘Love one another as I have loved you’ (John 15:12). And the Bible was God’s word, his saving truth for human beings with implications for [...]
Two Pillars and Two Testaments
Solomon’s Temple is a symbolic representation of the glorification of the church at its completion, when the temporary and transportable Tabernacle in the Wilderness is replaced by the more permanent structure of the temple. The similar but expanded features of the temple also illustrates the progress of each member of the church throughout Gospel Age, beginning outside of God’s arrangement in the camp to [...]
The Hebrew Record
“The days of Seth were 912 years” (Genesis 5:6). The book of Genesis provides numbers for the lifespans of the 10 patriarchs from Adam through Noah, inclusively. Another record, the Sumerian King List, also supplies year numbers for a list of pre-flood leaders.[1] However, their list omits the first man, Adapa (Adam), and also the last patriarch, the Sumerian flood hero, Ziusudra (Noah of [...]