Twelve years ago Secular Humanism stood on two mutually hostile superpower legs, with the left one soon to be dealt a deadly wound. This came November 9 -- seven years to the day from the pope's "Declaration to Europe" speech from Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, as our esteemed colleague of Worldwatch fame has observed. Quoted in the PGR of the time, "The pope listed as the ills of the world 'secularized ideologies that go as far as to negate God' ... excessive importance given to economic success and materialism and hedonism ..."

Twelve years ago Secular Humanism stood on two mutually hostile superpower legs, with the left one soon to be dealt a deadly wound. This came November 9 -- seven years to the day from the pope's "Dec...

Shock and Anger! The prophetic scenario unfolds before our eyes and in season. Too bad we have no prophet. But really there're two kinds of "prophet" -- one God speaks to in vision or dream (Nm 12:6) ...

The Jewish sages saw two primary messianic types in Scripture. There is Messiah ben Judah and Messiah ben Joseph, with Judah and David the primary types of the king of Israel, and Joseph and Joshua th...

Isn’t language wonderful! Cultures are spiritual constructs negotiated over time via langauge. And isn't this true too of the Covenant? There is a time coming when “they shall teach no more every m...

When God began to legislate his Plan, the land — meaning the human heart (2 Chr 19:3; Lk 8:11-12) and the womb of Israel (Gn 2:7; Dt 7:13; Is 66:8; Ps 139:15; Pr 30:16) — was a desert and uncultivated (Targum on Gn 1:2), and the nations (תהום tehom is poetic for the nations in tumult: Ex 15:5; Is 51:10; 63:13; Ez 26:19; Jonah 2:5; Ps 77:16; 106:9; Rv 13:1; 17:15) were in darkness (Is 45:7; Jn 3:19), and the spirit of God "moved from above to protect" (word found elsewhere only in Dt 32:11 — see also Mt 23:37) the nations.

The messianic promise is from the beginning (Gn 3:15), and it is two fold just as was typed by Melchizedek. There is the priestly messiah and there is the royal messiah, the former, I submit, is the ...

Of course you’re right ― I cannot quit trying to figure it out ― why? Because we’re pretty far from having it all figured out ― that’s why! So here goes with another stab at the Covenant of the Rain...

We’ve talked a lot about Heaven and Earth — 天土 — those mysterious realms mentioned in the first verse of the Bible. We’ve seen that Heaven represents God’s government over all the nations, and that E...

Τηe fact that we count the omer (Lv 23:15 — “ye shall count”) is for some evidence for keeping Shabu'oth on a fixed day of the week. For why would you have to count it if it were on a fixed day of th...