Did God Deceive Abraham?

A most unfortunate state of affairs within Christian teaching today is the almost total ignorance of the many wonderful, foundational, and far-reaching prophecies given to the patriarch Abraham. Yet even on those rare occasions when ministers do consider the individual provisions of the Abrahamic Covenant, these magnificent promises are discounted, especially by our critics. In…

A Presaging of the Second Coming?

Pompeii, Italy The recent special exhibition, “Pompeii,” at the British Museum in London, England, vividly portrayed the spectacular volcanic eruption that buried that city in 79 A.D. Actually two prominent Roman cities, Pompeii and Herculaneum, were both so quickly destroyed that an unknown number (perhaps thousands) of people and animals were instantly incinerated where they…