Ezekiel 8:3. Ezekiel is confronted with the “seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy…” Just what was that? (see also v. 8) The Babylonians had only begun their conquest, so whatever it was in the Temple...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Joseph Franklin Rutherford. President, 1917-1942 Joseph Franklin Rutherford (November 8, 1869 – January 8, 1942) was raised by a Baptist farm family in Missouri. He was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Ezekiel 1:1-2. What is different about the setting of the book of Ezekiel? In Isaiah and Jeremiah, destruction is imminent, and repentance is still possible. But in Ezekiel, some of the punishment has already taken place. The carrying away of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
... continued from blog of 12-15 And so it begins It was in 1881, as we chronicled earlier,that he becameco-founder, with Mr. Conley, of the Watch Tower Tract Society. Many “tracts” followed. His first serious publication was called...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
1. Jeremiah 35. What point does God make of the obedience of the Rechabites? Simply: Look, Israel, here are men who will obey men. But you will not obey God! The Lord also promised to bless this family from that day on. Obedience is a good thing....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Charles Taze Russell. President, 1884-1916 Charles Taze Russell was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1852. His parents were devout Presbyterians. Dad owned several men’s furnishing stores in Pittsburgh, where the family moved early in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jeremiah 30. Is there a difference in this restoration prophecy from others in the book so far? Yes, the clues are all there. Like Isaiah, Jeremiah sees the problem as beginning with Babylon, but ending with Jesus on the Throne of David ruling...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
William Henry Conley. President, 1881-1884 Strangely enough, the first elected President of the organization that would become the Jehovah’s Witnesses, was not exclusively a “Witness” at all. William Henry Conley was a resident...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jeremiah 22:10-12, What trip to Egypt is the Lord talking about here? It’s been a while since we read through II Kings, but in the 23rd chapter of that book, we’re told the incident of which Jeremiah is speaking. Josiah, the righteous...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
There were giants in the land in the 19th century. Good guys and bad guys. Among the former we could include Moody and Sankey, Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor, Fanny Crosby, David Livingstone. Aimee Semple McPherson began in those days too. The entire...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
