This is the fourth installment on Isaiah 9 from our friend Rod MacArthur. Be sure to read the previous articles, beginning here. In this installment, Rod shares from Isaiah how God utilized the Assyrians to accomplish His divine purpose to judge the ten northern tribes for their apostasy. The significance of this is great for understanding God’s providence and history.…
Category: Old Testament Prophecies
Guest Article: Rod MacArthur On Isaiah 9f
In earlier installments,our friend Rod MacArthur has shared some wonderful thoughts on Isaiah. (Here is the beginning of his series on Isaiah) He continues that study now, as he marches through the marvelous “Messianic Prophet” of Isaiah. We appreciate Rod’s great insights, and are sure you will as well!
Guest Article: Gary DeMar Responds to Current Claims About Isaiah 17- #5
This is the last installment of an excellent response by Gary DeMar to the claims of many so-called Bible Prophecy experts that the current crisis in Syria indicates that the total destruction of that capital is imminent. We are told that this will be in fulfillment of Isaiah 17, and prove that we are in the last days, the terminal…
Guest Article: Gary DeMar Responds to Current Claims About Isaiah 17- #4
I am sharing with our visitors an excellent article by Gary DeMar of American Vision. The current political and military crisis in Syria has caused many prophecy pundits to claim that Damascus, in Syria, is about to be destroyed in fulfillment of Isaiah 17. As DeMar shows, in a powerful way, this is simply false, and is just another example…
Guest Article: Gary DeMar Responds to Current Claims About Isaiah 17- #3
Note from Don K. Preston– One of the glaring problems and inconsistencies in the modern Dispensational world is that on the one hand they tell us we must take the Bible literally. After all, “The Bible says what it means and means what it says”, right? Well, in truth, the Zionists then turn around and totally ignore what the Bible…
Guest Article: Gary DeMar Responds to Current Claims About Isaiah 17- #2
If you follow the televangelists you know that that are many, many claims being made that we are about to witness the total, and eternal destruction of Damascus, in fulfillment of Isaiah 17. This claim continues to generate fear that we are in the last days. IN truth, however, the events in Syria these days have nothing to do with…
Guest Article: Gary DeMar Responds to Current Claims About Isaiah 17
I was in the process of doing research to write and article about Isaiah 17, and the current “excitement” being generated by the televangelists about the imminent fulfillment of that prophecy, when I came across an excellent article on the American Vision Website, written by Gary DeMar. Gary has done a fine job exposing the fallacious Dispensational claims that we…
Isaiah 56, the Temple of God, and No Marrying or Giving in Marriage
The narrative of the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8 is one of, if not the best, commentaries on Jesus’ statement that in the New Creation there would be no marrying or giving in marriage. And yet, by and large, the commentators ignore the connection. I have yet to find a single commentator who makes that connection as a matter of…
The Salvation of Those In the Book of Remembrance. Guest Article by Rod MacArthur
We are thrilled to bring you another installment of Rod MacArthur’s series on Isaiah. This is great stuff, so, enjoy! Isaiah Four: The Branch and the Salvation of Those Written In the Book of Remembrance Our article on Israel’s Last Days Motifs depicted Yahweh’s judgment against her in the Last Days. But the rationale for this judgment (and, why it…
Zechariah 14 and the River of Life
ZECHARIAH 14 AND THE RIVER OF LIFE Don K. Preston D. Div. “It shall be in that day that living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea; in summer and winter it shall be” (Zechariah 14:8). To the ancient Jew living in the promised land water…