One of the lessons to be learned in their sojourn in a distant land was that they were to be God’s ambassadors to spread true religion throughout the earth.

Although staunchly liberal in his views, he has had some significant accomplishments for the cause of Christ in the political realm.

When is “the day” that will see the fulfillment of his prophecies? Biblical commentators are not agreed on this.

It is interesting that biblical commentaries cannot decide whether Oriental nations are Japhetic or Hamitic, and some even claim the Japanese are Semitic!

The British royal family has been traced in an unbroken line back to King David of Israel, and the throne is sacrosanct by divine decree. God’s divine promises cannot be abrogated by man.

What is this fullness of the “Gentiles” (Greek: ethnos=nations) that would herald a redeemed Israel accepting their Messiah? Young’s Literal Translation renders it, “till the fulness of the nations may come in.”

The Bible compares the wicked to a lion: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” (1 Peter 5:8) 

It is both interesting and significant that for centuries the original homeland of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples was also said to be in what is now Armenia.

The word “gate” here is singular in the King James Version, which might lead some to suggest that only one limited gate or conquest is in view.

As you might have already suspected, spring and fall, flowers and fruit, were a metonymy or metaphor, a stand-in for the Holy Days that were honored and celebrated at those times of the year.