Author: Bob Vermaat

“And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.” (Lev. 26:12) In the narrative of the Bible we find many direct promises made by God and of course innumerable prophecies throughout the Old and New Testaments depicting the intentions that God has in store for His people in the latter days. In this essay, I would like to look primarily at the promises of God as made to the Patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in reverse order. In Gen. 35 we read these words which God spoke to Jacob-Israel, “And God...

One of our readers recently sent an email to the Association asking several questions and asked us to elaborate on these things that were troubling his mind. This reader had in fact six questions, and they are in the order that he asked them as follows. (1) When I read my Bible, I don’t understand what I am reading, what am I doing wrong? (2) How in this busy world with a business to run can I make time to read or study the Bible? (3) What Bible should I use? (4) Should I read in the morning or...

“His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion is from generation to generation.” (Dan. 4:3) There are often questions asked about the Kingdom of God here on Earth, simply because people are uncertain and confused about the conditions of God’s Earthly realm. The most often asked questions are “who will be in the Kingdom” and “what will be the condition of that Kingdom”. We know from Scripture that Christ will sit on the Throne of His Father David, and that His government and peace will increase without end (Isa. 9:7), and that we shall reign with Him in...

A friend of mine recently asked me, how should we or how do we look at the Millennium? Now that is not a light or easy question seeing that throughout the church age until this present time there have been varying views on this subject. Millennium is of course the term depicting the thousand-year reign of our Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Days. There are three basic views on this subject and they are Post-Millennialism, A-Millennialism and Pre-Millennialism. Post-Millennialists hold that Christ will return at the end of a Millennium. They believe that the world will be Christianized...