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…

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…

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…

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…

This past summer, my family and I visited the full-size replica of Noah’s Ark that was completed in July, 2016 in the hills of Williamstown, Kentucky. Branded the “Ark Encounter,” it is built to biblical proportions, 510 feet in length, 85 feet wide, and 51 feet in height. You would need to see it in…

It is a widely popular view today that the word, ‘Gentile,’ in our English Bible translations can only refer to non-Israelites, yet the facts prove conclusively otherwise. The following information from leading Bible reference works proves that this word refers instead to ‘nations,’ representing sometimes the dispersed house of Israel, sometimes non-Israelites, and sometimes both,…

London’s famed British Museum hosted a special exhibit this summer that was both fascinating and instructive. Labeled, “Treasures of Heaven,” it showcased the largest and most valuable collection of Roman Catholic relics and reliquaries probably ever assembled in Britain. Not personally being of the Romanist denomination myself, it might have seemed to be a waste…

Ezekiel gave us one of his most memorable prophecies in chapter 37, verses 1 to 14, popularly known as “the valley of dry bones.” Early theologian, St. Jerome, said, “This passage is very famous.” Modern Christian scholar, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, declared, “This may be the best-known section of the Book of Ezekiel.” He added…

A remark in a recent video sermon by an American Anglo-Israel advocate was unsettling. He made a statement in an off-hand way that “Christians are still under the Old Covenant because the New Covenant is not here yet.” This is quite apparently a source of confusion for some believers today. Perhaps he and his little…

It is probably safe to say that the average Christian’s knowledge of the Biblical book of Isaiah is limited to only a short passage or two. One of these is the famous prophecy of the future glory of the millennial city of Jerusalem found in chapter 2, verses 2 through 4: “And it shall come…