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“The Powers That Be” And Other Sayings From The Bible

27th August 2023 Going Postal 6158 Comments

After reading DJM’s fascinating article on words and phrases in the English language that originate from the Bard of Avon it set me wondering on the phrases and sayings we use that have their origin [more…]

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Jesus and the End Times – Matthew Chapter 24

23rd May 2021 1642again 2371 Comments

Eschatology is the study of End Times prophecy, particularly Christian prophecy, and it is fair to say that there is a fascination with End Times prophecy in the general culture even among those who would [more…]

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Book Review: A Test of Time Series by David Rohl

28th March 2021 1642again 2364 Comments

Book Review – A Test of Time Volumes 1, 2 & 3 by David Rohl Just occasionally, a piece of historical scholarship comes along that challenges the foundations of our understanding of a period of [more…]

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Christmas Gifts

28th December 2020 Going Postal 3554 Comments

“Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child, and when [more…]

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Disintermediation

9th February 2020 1642again 2455 Comments

My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]

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The Old Testament Prophets in Retrospect

19th January 2020 1642again 2122 Comments

The Major Old Testament Prophets – Making Sense of Them We have now reviewed in some detail the major Old Testament Prophets: Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, the ostensibly minor prophet Jonah, and [more…]

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Ezekiel the Mystical Prophet Part 2 – the Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones

28th April 2019 1642again 2438 Comments

I wrote these articles at the prompting of Goodnight Vienna who became very interested in the Old Testament prophets at the end of her life, and the pair on Ezekiel were the last ones she [more…]

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Ezekiel – The Mystical Prophet Part 1

21st April 2019 1642again 2217 Comments

The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel is regarded as one of the three major prophetic books of the Old Testament, behind Isaiah and Jeremiah.  After a period in the middle 20th century when scholars tended to [more…]

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Isaiah Part 2 – Prophecies of the Christ

28th October 2018 1642again 4090 Comments

This is the second half, well final third perhaps, of the previous article about Isaiah published a few weeks ago and in this autumnal season as we start looking forward to Advent and then Christmas, [more…]

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