There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; Hebrews 4:9. God has provided a Sabbath, and some must enter into it. Those to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief; therefore, that Sabbath remains for the people of God. David sang of it; but he had to touch the…
Read MoreYou, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light. Psalm 18:28. It may be that my soul sits in darkness; and if this be of a spiritual kind, no human power can bring me light. Blessed be God! He can enlighten my darkness and at once light my candle. Even though…
Read MoreFrom the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations. Numbers 23:9. Who would wish to dwell among the nations and to be numbered with them? Why, even the professing church is such that to follow…
Read More“If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have showed us all these thing.” Judges 13:23. This is a sort of promise deduced by logic. It is an inference fairly drawn from ascertained facts. It was not…
Read MoreSwarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. Ezekiel 47:9. The living waters, in the prophet’s vision, flowed into the Dead Sea and carried life with them,…
Read More“For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.” Amos 9:9. The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries…
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