Do You See What I See

The thousand years during which Christ is to rule the world is popularly known as the millennium. As to where it belongs in the program of God, the discredited postmillennial view placed it before the physical return of Christ to the earth. The amillennial view rejects the literal meaning of the Bible text. The premillennial … Read more

The first sacred music on record is found in Job 38:7, where the morning stars sang together at the creation of the material universe. The earliest recorded singing by men appears in Ex. 15:1, when the people of Israel rejoiced over their salvation from Egypt. A number of remarkable facts are revealed concerning sacred music. … Read more

Scripture condemns such occult practices as spiritism, divination, and astrology, Lev. 19:31; Deut. 18:9-12. The Bible warns against the occult, describing it as an unseen world of wicked spirits called “hairy ones,” Lev. 17:7, Heb.; “destroyers,” Deut. 32:17; Heb.; and demons throughout the NT, wrongly translated “devils.” An innumerable horde of these unclean bodiless spirits … Read more

Praise is an expression of approval or admiration; thanksgiving expresses gratitude. The two are linked in worship, 1 Chr. 23:30. When the trumpeters and singers united in praising and thanking the Lord at the dedication of Solomon’s temple, the glory of the Lord filled the house of God, 2 Chr. 5:13, 14. Praise always glorifies … Read more

This difficult doctrine must be distinguished from heresy, which is simply a belief in false doctrine. Apostasy is a deliberate turning away from revealed truth after it has been tentatively received. There are a number of Bible descriptions of it. It is a claim that men know God which is denied by their actions, Tit. … Read more