2024 Issues

Preaching Christ

July 1, 2024

The Timing of Jesus’ Sacrifice “Faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes by the preaching of Christ” (Romans 10:17, RSV). — Bill Dutka The timing of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, and when the benefit of this sacrifice came to Jewish believers, and later to Gentile believers, seems meaningful. The holy Spirit came to Jewish disciples at Pentecost, as recorded in Acts 2:1-16. The disciples “were filled with the holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, […]

A Dew From Jehovah

July 1, 2024

A Long History, in Brief “The Remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from Jehovah, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of man” (Micah 5:7). — David Rice Micah the prophet was a younger contemporary of Isaiah. Sometimes in the book of Micah we have close similarities with the writings of Isaiah, on occasion in almost identical language, evidently Micah borrowing from his elder’s prophecies. […]

News and Views

July 1, 2024

Religious The Kremlin-controlled Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) reportedly directed all its clergy to change their liturgy to include pro-war prayers in support of Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine. A Russian Telegram channel with insider sources within the ROC MP amplified on March 31 a document dated March 29, in which Head of the ROC MP Affairs, Metropolitan Gregoriy of Voskresensk, instructed clergy to read a prayer — the “Prayer for Holy Rus” — on a daily basis during […]

Today in Prophecy

July 1, 2024

Protests Against Israel “And I went back and saw all the oppression that is done under the sun: the tears of the oppressed who have one to console them, and from the hand of their violent oppressors there is none to console them” (Ecclesiastes 4:1, Alter translation). The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects free expression of beliefs, limited only by governmental right to regulate when, where and how a protest may operate. Throughout its history, Americans have protested against oppression. […]

Him Whom They Pierced

July 1, 2024

Four Wars “I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born” Zechariah 12:10, ASV). Our text is a common one, well known among Bible Students. The text is still pending fulfillment, […]