Q&A: What Is The “Great Mystery” Of Ephesians 5:32?

Question: What is Paul talking about when he says “this is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church“? Answer: Paul had just been speaking of the married life of Spirit-filled believers as illustrating the affection of Christ towards His church. What he is saying, however, goes deeper than any mere analogy….

Preterism & The Problem Of Evil

Man needs to be saved not only from SIN, but from his SINS. This will require a change in his very nature. It is through Christ’s work on the cross alone that this salvation is effected. Although “salvation” is an all-inclusive word that embraces every redemptive process from regeneration to eventual glorification, the end result…

Hope’s Anchor

     In my last article, I talked about the typology of Noah’s Ark, and mentioned how that once a person is regenerated, he/she enters into safety with Christ, Who is the antitype of the Ark.  True Christians know that once this happens, the entire sphere of one’s daily life shifts from earth to heaven.  No longer…

The Basis of Our Expectation

   When most Christians think about the parousia of Christ, at which time both the dead and living in Christ are to be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thess. 4: 16-17), they think of it as an imminent expectation.  That is, the rapture and resurrection of believers…

Studies In The Apocalypse (Part 22– Rev. 6: 7- 6: 8)

(6: 7) “And when He had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.”    This fourth seal continues the train of events played out under the first three.  It shows what will happen once the wars and famines have spread.  In this self–satisfied age of ours, and…

Studies In The Apocalypse (Part 9– Rev. 2: 8- 2: 11)

 (2: 8) “And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna, write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;”  As we’ll see in this epistle, the conditions of the church of Smyrna are those current during the 70th week of Daniel.  Like the epistle to the Ephesians, there is little…

“This Generation”–The Gateway To Hymeneusville

  Despite the wide proliferation of heresies on the internet, the children of God may still protect themselves with the sword of truth.  Yes, I thank the Lord that the Bible is still effective in combating false views and erroneous systems of doctrine.     Perhaps one of the most vocal heresies of today is that…