The Feast of the Open Book

(Copyright) by Dwight Fleming (Oroville, California)  The Feast of Tabernacles is a joyous time of year.  It is a time of bounty and celebration for the blessings of God.  After the harvest, families would travel together to Jerusalem to celebrate and thank God similar to what we do today at Thanksgiving. Because the seven-day celebration was connected to a harvest, it was also known as the Feast of Ingathering (See Exodus 23:16; 34:22). There is another name for the Feast of Tabernacles that has developed over the centuries.  Near the end of Moses life, he gave a final instruction.  Notice: “So Moses wrote […]

The Book(s) of Life

(Copyright) by Nathaniel Burson (Big Sandy, Texas)  This is another one of those questions that explains the inner workings of reality and salvation on a level that is quite astounding. We tend to take the things we see in scripture at face value and assign anything we don’t understand to “the awesome power of God”. But the more you study the Bible and get to know the mind of God, you see that each of these things functions according to a set of laws; and each of them follows a pattern, and an exact scientific process. Matthew 10:29 Are not two […]

Hammer and Tickle’ by Ben Lewis, book review (a great book!)

Part 1(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)   “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell, “1984” The truth is forbidden now; it is expelled and cancelled.All doors and windows are closed to it now,But anecdotes go out amongst the people,Finding their way to the soul thru the eyes and the ears.The jokes may not reach our grandkids,But future historians will dig thru the archives, Comparing “great men” with our trail of anger, laughter, and tears. -paraphrased from “Impatience,” written in 1955 by a survivor of Siberian exile […]