From Rubin Reports Will Obama Have an Iraq Crisis? Posted: 27 Feb 2010 07:27 AM PST Thanks to all who have subscribed! Now serving subscriber 9,173, please sign up By Barry Rubin If—and I repeat, if--this story is true it is going to be a very big development that may, as they like to see in the television promos, change the Obama administration forever. According to Thomas Ricks, the former Washington Post military … [Read more...]
Muslim Followers of Jesus?
From Christianity Today Can one be a Muslim and a follower of Jesus? Tens of thousands believe so, and in this third installment of the Global Conversation, Yale University scholar Joseph Cumming describes the furious debate their example has fueled. The question of following Jesus while remaining within a practicing community of Muslims has great importance in regions where the two faiths contend. It also serves as an important example of a … [Read more...]
The American Public’s Incredibly Strong Support for Israel; Pew Gets Wrong the Amazing Results
From Rubin Reports The American Public’s Incredibly Strong Support for Israel; Pew Gets Wrong the Amazing Results Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:30 PM PST [Please subscribe for original analysis and information found nowhere else] By Barry Rubin According to the latest Pew poll, 51 percent of the American public say they sympathize more with the Israelis, while just 12% say they sympathize more with the Palestinians. (14 percent say neither; 19 … [Read more...]
Daniel 5:1-9; Belshazzar’s Feast; The Hand-writing on the Wall; See how the king affronted God, and put contempt upon Him; See how God affrighted the king, and struck a terror upon him; “That divine hand that had written the two tables for a law to His people now writes the doom of Babel and Belshazzar upon the wall”; Note, The terror of an awakened convinced conscience may justly be increased by the utter insufficiency of all creatures to give it ease or satisfaction. B.C. 538
D A N I E L. CHAPTER 5 The destruction of the kingdom of Babylon had been long and often foretold when it was at a distance; in this chapter we have it accomplished, and a prediction of it the very same night that it was accomplished. Belshazzar now reigned in Babylon; some compute he had reigned seventeen years, others but three; we have here the story of his exit and the period of his kingdom. We must know that about two years before … [Read more...]
Daniel 2:46-49; Nebuchadnezzar Honours Daniel; “Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets;” He preferred Daniel and made him a great man; God made him a great man indeed when He took him into communion with Himself, a greater man than Nebuchadnezzar could make him; but, because God had magnified him, therefore the king magnified him; Does wealth make men great? Does power make a man great? Those that helped him with their prayers shall share with him in his honours; Thus, sometimes, before God brings His people into trouble, He prepares it, that it may be easy to them. B.C. 603
Nebuchadnezzar Honours Daniel. B. C. 603. Daniel 2:46-49 46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. 47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. 48 Then the king made Daniel … [Read more...]
Daniel 2:31-45; Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream Interpreted; The Dream itself, “A Great Image;” The divine original of this dream; The undoubted certainty of the things foretold by this dream; He who makes known these things is the same that has Himself designed and determined them, and will by His providence effect them; and we are sure that His counsel shall stand, and cannot be altered, and therefore the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof sure. Note, Whatever God has made known we may depend upon. B.C. 603
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream Interpreted. B. C. 603. Daniel 2:31-45 31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 32 This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. 34 Thou sawest till that a … [Read more...]
John 21:20-25; Christ’s Conference with Peter; Conclusion of John’s Gospel; The evangelist, concluding with Amen, thereby sets to his seal, and let us set to ours, and Amen of faith, subscribing to the Gospel, that it is true, all true; and an Amen of satisfaction in what is written, as able to make us wise to salvation. Amen; so be it.
Christ's Conference with Peter; Conclusion of John's Gospel. John 21:20-25 20 Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? 21 Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? 22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. 23 Then … [Read more...]
John 21:15-19; Christ’s Discourse with Peter; Three times Christ asks Peter whether he loves Him or no; His fall had given occasion to doubt of his love; Having confirmed to him the honour of an Apostle, He now tells him of further preferment designed him–the honour of a martyr; How his martyrdom is foretold; He prefaces the notice He gives to Peter of his sufferings with a solemn asseveration; He foretells particularly that he should die a violent death, by the hands of an executioner; Those that faithfully follow Christ in grace shall certainly follow Him to glory.
Christ's Discourse with Peter. John 21:15-19 15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 … [Read more...]
John 21:1-14; Christ with His Disciples – Part 2; We have here an account of Christ’s appearance to His Disciples at the sea of Tiberias; How variously God dispenses His gifts; Some excel, as Peter and John; are very eminent in gifts and graces, and are thereby distinguished from their brethren; others are but ordinary disciples, that mind their duty, and are faithful to Him, but do nothing to make themselves remarkable; and yet both the one and the other, the eminent and the obscure, shall sit down together with Christ in glory; nay, and perhaps ‘the last shall be first.’
J O H N. CHAPTER 21 The evangelist seemed to have concluded his history with the foregoing chapter; but (as St. Paul sometimes in his epistles), new matter occurring, he begins again. He had said that there were many other signs which Jesus did for the proof of his resurrection. And in this chapter he mentions one of these many, which was Christ's appearance to some of his disciples at the sea of Tiberias, in which we have an account, I. … [Read more...]
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