The Holy Bible is divided into two covenants: the Old Testament and the New Testament. They represent the evolution of God's purpose in dealing with His chosen people. Jesus brought in a higher order built upon better promises. The Old Testament contains a wealth of types and shadows that serve as a foundation for the New. When we delve into the subject, we discover that even the numerical values in the Old Testament speak a language of their own. It is to this language that we now turn ou...

The Protestant Movement has been lulled to sleep by a new form of eschatology completely foreign to that of the Reformation Fathers. Ironically, it is the very same form of eschatology launched by the Jesuits to counter the Reformation doctrine of Antichrist. The spread of this prophetic doctrine was due, to a great degree, to an Anglican preacher, John Nelson Darby), who resigned his curacy in the liberal Irish Anglican Church to promote his views of Bible prophecy. It is strange how quic...

A collection of short essays and teachings on several topics. Includes some material never expanded or completed in full book form by the author.

Not only was Israel's tabernacle itself an oracle, even its history was an oracle. The loss of the Ark of the Covenant, a symbol of God's presence, from out of the Tabernacle of Moses, was descriptive of the history of Israel. The ark of God was never returned to the Mosaic Tabernacle, but found a new home on Mount Zion under a new tent that David pitched. The Tabernacle of David is therefore a symbol of a new era and a universal pattern for God's House: the Church, as opposed to the old s...

The month Tishri had historically been used as the first month of the Hebrew Year. That changed when God commanded Moses to make the 1st Passover the first month of their year. It was at the 1st Passover when Israel left Egypt that the saga of sacred feast days began. The Feast of Passover celebrated the anniversary of Israel's deliverance from Egypt. The Feast of Pentecost marked the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai some 50 days after the crossing of the Red Sea. But the two tablets of st...

I have sought to understand the spiritual intent of the Abrahamic Covenant that began with the physical, but ended with the spiritual. We do not see the physical and the spiritual walking hand in hand, but first the physical, and then the spiritual. There was a definite transition that took place between the physical and the spiritual. Using this principle throughout our studies we shall better understand that some of the promises made to Abraham were fulfilled on the physical plane, while...

"It is my purpose in this study to prove the reliability of Gabriel's statement to Daniel that states, "Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophecy and to anoint a most holy place" (Daniel 9:24 RSV). These are things that I hope to deal with in this study, and it is my hope that readers, whether Jew or Gentil...

The idea of "the Christ" is highly controversial as to whom, or what, constitutes the "Christ" whose shadow can be seen in ancient literature and in the Great Pyramid itself. Are the Jews right in their belief in the coming of a political Messiah that will restore Israel to primacy over the nations and the setting up of international law based on the Talmud? Or are the Christians correct in their concept that the "Christ" has already come in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and the "Christ"...

One of the most interesting figures in Hebrew history is Joseph, the second youngest son of Jacob. He was pampered by his father to such a degree that it drew the ire of his brothers who plotted to kill him. But the whole purpose of the story was to show the preservation of Israel. In a prophecy given by Jacob over the two sons of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, Ephraim was given the preference over Manasseh even though he was the first-born (Genesis 48:19). So the divine blessing that reste...

Perhaps the greatest question fascinating our generation is the idea that there are other civilizations on other planets that are able to sustain life, even on a level higher than our own. The Bible says nothing about life on other planets. But the Bible is very explicit that extraterrestrial creatures do exist and are an integral part of the whole creation of the universe.

Was Christ sent just to the House of Israel? What does the Bible mean when it says: "He came unto His own, and his own received Him not" (John 1:11)? To what extent did Christ's parables apply just to the House of Israel, and no one else? Why did Christ tell His disciples: "Go not in the way of the Gentiles…."? What did Jesus mean, as he wept over Jerusalem, "Your house is left unto you desolate"?Richard O. Govier (1928-2018) was a Protestant pastor and missionary and travelled the...

The harvest of the earth is at the root of God's purpose for mankind, and humanity is the "field" into which God is planting the "seeds" of His Kingdom. Many of Christ's parables dealt with the sowing of seed and the harvest that could be expected. It should not be surprising, therefore, that the Feasts of Israel should be linked to the rainy seasons in Palestine if they were to be symbols of God's Harvest. Rain has everything to do with the planting and the maturing of seed. When it came ...