Author: Bob Vermaat

“For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” (1Cor. 15:21-22) Just recently as I was doing a word search through the NT in preparation for my article on the questions about the names of God. I came across the acclamation of Jesus on the Cross as recorded in both Matt. 27:45 and Mark 15:34, where Jesus cried out, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” meaning my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? We have all read these...

“And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and He said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hast sent me unto you.” (Ex. 3:14) Recently, during some Bible study sessions, someone posed some questions that are worth looking at in some more detail and depth. The questions being (1) What is the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the Trinity of Triune God? (2) What is the name of God that Jesus manifested to the disciples? (3) Is God the Father a fire? So, let us start with the first...

“Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant; I have formed thee; thou art my servant, O Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten by me. I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, like a cloud, thy sins; return unto me; for I have redeemed thee!” (Isa. 44:21, 22) Well, here we are in the year of our Lord, 2018, and humanly speaking we can be glad that the year 2017 is behind us. It was a year of much trouble, mayhem and uncertainty, a year of natural disasters in the form of...

In my last article I talked about the prophecy in Ezekiel 17:22 about the young twigs being cut from a tall cedar, the tall cedar being King Zedekiah and the young twigs being his offspring. Since the young twig is to be a tender one, we determined it to mean that it had to be daughters of King Zedekiah. Now, under normal circumstances, the succession of that Kingship of throne would have gone to a son, but since all of Zedekiah’s sons were killed by the Babylonians, this right to the throne was thus passed on the daughter(s) in...