Author: Pastor Jory Brooks

“A faithful witness will not deceive, but a false witness uttereth deceitful things.” (Proverbs 14:5) In 1894 a staunch British-Israel advocate, Rev. Leonard Hills, received an invitation to a public debate, but it was suddenly called off; his reverend opponent had dutifully studied the relevant Scriptures to prepare for the challenge, and in so doing converted to B.I.! (Banner of Israel xviii:489) This was an example of a faithful witness. Unfortunately, most of our critics do little or no actual research into our teachings, instead reading some small booklet or article by an opponent and passing the information off...

Famous early American English language scholar, Noah Webster, provided this excellent definition of the word “allegory” in his first edition of “An American Dictionary of the English Language,” published in 1828: “A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The principal subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker, by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject. Allegory is in words what hieroglyphics are in painting. We have a fine example...

One of the favorite themes of many of our modern ministers is “the prosperity gospel.” This term usually implies that a “love offering” sent to their ministry will result in an outpouring of money and other material blessings to the giver. Another popular term for this is “seed-faith money” – bundle it over to their ministry and God will bless you with bundles of money in return. Worldly ministers measure prosperity by worldly wealth. Mammon (Greek, mamonas, the personification and deification of wealth) has become the highest good. This worship of mammon leads to the despising of God’s law...

In an interesting tract, a reformed scholar laments the fact that so many of our young people are losing interest in the Bible. Yet, it is perhaps understandable that, with the modern focus on “relevance,” young people today do indeed lose interest in something which they are told has little direct application to them, being written for and about another people called, “Israel.” The author proceeds to construct an argument by saying that we are outsiders who, as gentiles, dwell in the tents of Shem in a sense by adopting Christianity, a ‘Jewish religion.’ He gives the Israel promises...

We read a wonderful passage in the book of Luke chapter two which is popularly known as the “Nunc Dimittis,” taken from the opening words in the Latin translation of these verses. This prayerful hymn, sometimes called the prophecy of Simeon, has been set to music by a number of different composers, which you can enjoy hearing on YouTube and other websites. Luke records these words: “And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him....