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A very easy way to come to grips with the biblical teaching on revival is to approach it from the standpoint of cycles of history. In your imagination, picture a very long line that begins with the creation of man in the book of Genesis and continues on until the end of the present age, sometimes in... Read More

John Stuart, Provost of Aye, another correspondent of Rutherford (Letter XXIX), was told that a ship of his, bound from Rochelle to Aye, had been captured by the Turks. The rumour proved incorrect, for at length it arrived in the roads. Kennedy, an intimate friend of Stuart, was so overjoyed that he... Read More

GOD'S HOLY DWELLING PLACE "And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show THEE, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." (Exodus 25. 8, 9). GOD having redeemed the people of Israel out... Read More

CURTAINS OF THE TABERNACLE (Exodus 26. 1-6). Verse 1 " Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of cunning work shalt thou make THEM." HAVING considered the principal vessels of the sanctuary, we now come to the ... Read More

THE HANGINGS Exodus 27. 9. Verse 9. "For the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine-twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side." THE FINE LINEN IS the righteousness of saints" (Rev. 19. 8). "I counsel thee to buy of Me white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed," ... Read More

Christians habitually weep and pray over beautiful truth, only to draw back from that same truth when it comes to the difficult job of putting it into practice! Actually, the average church simply does not dare to check its practices against biblical precepts. It tolerates things that are diametrica... Read More

The Church in the first century made a powerful impact upon the world as the early Christians spread the gospel across cultural, racial and national boundaries. By the time the apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Colossians, he could declare, "All over the world this gospel is producing fruit and g... Read More

"He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich He hath sent empty away" (Luke 1:53). Our unchanging God is not forcing His blessings on those who are already satisfied. If we want God we can have God! But if we are rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing (Rev. 3:14-22), we... Read More

God never changes (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8). His ways are not our ways (Isa. 55:8-9). Earthly parents shield their children from severe testings. Not so the Lord. It is sadly true that many Christian parents spoil their children – yield to their pleadings, their insistences – for things which the parent... Read More

Edited from a message delivered at the "Heart-Cry for Revival" Conference near Asheville, North Carolina, May 23-27, 2000. The Lord gave me an assignment to pray for revival when I was very young, and for over fifty years now God has held that assignment upon me. It hasn’t always been encouraging, b... Read More