Evelyn and I watched the Steven Spielberg movie, Munich, a couple of months ago. It is the story of Israel's attempt to take revenge of the assassinations by the Muslims who killed 11 members of the Israeli wrestling team during the 1972 …
“The handwriting is on the wall” is a cliché describing a situation where all the evidence points to an imminent climactic event. The saying originated when God judged the Babylonian Empire and found it wanting (Daniel 5). Babylon …
From early times, a staff or scepter has indicated secular or religious authority. Scepters were used in Egypt as early as the fifteenth century BC and in Cyprus as early as the twelfth century BC. Among the early Greeks, the scepter was …

(13) “I was watching in the night visions,
And behold, One like the Son of Man,
Coming with the clouds of heaven!
He came to the Ancient of Days,
And they brought Him near before Him.
(14) Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom,
That all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion,
Which shall not pass away,
And His kingdom the one
Which shall not be destroyed.
The opening phrase, “I was watching in the night visions,” indicates a separate vision and marks the beginning of an inset within the vision. Then, the prophet exactly describes what Christ said at His trial about the Son of …
About six millennia ago, two systems, two ways of living, briefly competed in the Garden of Eden when the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, chose to disbelieve God and go their own way. The Noachian Flood occurred roughly 1,650 years later. More than a hundred years later, another event confirmed our first parents’ choice for the post-Flood world. Paul states plainly in Romans 8:7, “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.” By the time of the Flood, this carnal mind produced a society where “every intent of the thoughts of …
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