This Week's Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 'Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.' After the salutation of verses one and two, the apostle sets before the reader a litany of 'items,' if you will, 'items' that are so solemn, gracious, and remarkable, that it is extremely difficult to know what terms to make use of in describing them unto our mind...

This Week's Focus Passage: Ephesians 1:4 'Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world.' After the salutation of verses one and two, the apostle sets before the reader a litany of 'items,' if you will, 'items' that are so solemn, gracious, and remarkable, that it is extremely difficult to know what terms to make use of in describing them unto our mind...

This Week's Focus Passage: 2 Samuel 24:1 'and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.' We read in 2 Samuel 24:1, basically, that the Lord moved David against his own people, saying, 'Go, number Israel and Judah.' But do we not read elsewhere that 'Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel,' 1 Chronicles 21:1? Well, then,...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 110 'Jehovah saith unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand.' Psalm, the one-hundred and tenth, is that Older Testament chapter, or verse, or passage, which has been cited on more occasions, in the Newer Testament, than any other portion from the Older Testament. As a particular example of that reality, we turn to the passage, found in ...

This Week's Focus Passage: Psalm 102:12 'Thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide forever; Thy memorial name unto all generations.' On five occasions, each being in the older Testament, with four in the book of Psalms, is the term 'memorial name,' or 'holy memorial name,' used, while it is made use of just once in Hosea 12:5, where we read,Even Jehovah, the God of hosts;Jehovah is h...