TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO THEM ALL – Ecclesiastes 9

Ecclesiastes 9:11 is another reason why the righteous sometimes suffer, whereas the wicked sometimes prosper and are honored.

THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS – Revelation 1

The angels then are all those members of the church who are actively engaged in carrying out God’s commands … in any or all congregations throughout the world.

OUR SUFFERINGS IN THIS PRESENT TIME – Romans 8

Such is the darkness of the epic tragedy of mankind, lost in sin, without God, and without hope in the world, until they shall turn to the Lord Jesus Christ.

WHO SHALL DELIVER ME OUT OF THE BODY OF THIS DEATH? Romans 7

This is the cry of every man who is not saved. In the large view, it is the agonizing cry of all the world, especially of the benighted populations of the pre-Christian ages.

NINEVEH THAT GREAT CITY – Jonah 1

The present day conception of God as a mild, indulgent father-image of one who loves everybody no matter what they do, and as one who will never actually punish anyone, is a gross perversion of the truth.

THERE WAS A WAR IN HEAVEN – Revelation 12

It is an amazing folly indulged by some Christian scholars who fancy they can find out all about this war from pagan mythology, such mythology itself, in all probability, having been concocted from perverted and corrupted “versions” of a truth evidently known by the early patriarchs.

ADOPTED BY A LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER – Romans 8:15

Christians are sometimes called “bondslaves” to Christ; but here their status is compared to that of children adopted by a loving father.