The subject we have today is also a basic doctrine. It is amazing because it is so basic and simple for us to understand but the world is in darkness over it and it is causing them a great deal of ignorance, to say the very least. Even …
Was Jesus three days and three nights in the grave, as He said in Matthew 12:40? Can you figure three days and three nights between sunset "Good Friday" and sunrise Easter Sunday? IT IS COMMONLY supposed today that Jesus was crucified on …
As we saw in Part One, the seventh day of the week—the Sabbath—was set apart at creation as being blessed, sanctified, and holy. It was given to Israel prior to the Old Covenant, and confirmed within a separate perpetual covenant. It was …

(28) A lying tongue hates those who are crushed by it,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.
Clearly, lying is an act of hatred. It is so bad that it can bring ruin to those it is used against, and like a boomerang, it will return to destroy those who employ it. Here is a good maxim to live by: Never believe anything bad about …
This time of the year provides the setting for the time of Jesus of Nazareth's death in Jerusalem as the Lamb of God "slain from the foundation of the world" (Revelation 13:8; see John 1:29). Through the intervening centuries, zealous yet misguided believers have attempted to pin the blame for His death on various parties, particularly upon the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judea at the time (Matthew 27:2; Luke 3:1). Though both of these were instrumental in Jesus' condemnation and execution, their guilt is substantially no greater than anyone else's before or since because …
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