Weekly Newsletter

Paul and Silas’ missionary experience with the Jews in the synagogue at Berea reveals a telling contrast between the early saints who searched the scriptures daily to determine what God was saying in his Word and those who remained content to listen to the brethren’s preaching: “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in […]

A dear friend received three signs of the end-time from Elder Neal A. Maxwell before his death more than twenty years ago, which I cite here with my friend’s permission: First, there will occur division in the nation followed by division in the church. Second, a power in the Middle East will gain the capacity

The era of righteousness and peace that followed Jesus’ visit to the Nephites forms a type of Jesus’ universal millennial reign. The organization of the church that he instituted among the Nephites foreshadows the millennial organization of the kingdom of God on the earth. In that sense, the “gospel of the kingdom” that would be

Just as in Jewish tradition the best man at a wedding blows the shofar or trumpet to herald the bridegroom’s arrival, so God’s end-time servant personifies the “trumpet” and “ensign” that heralds the coming of Jehovah and rallies God’s people to gather together for the marriage feast. Isaiah 18:3 All you who live in the

When, at Joshua’s command, “the sun stood still” and the Israelites slew the Amorites for an entire day, we might ask if the sun actually stood still or if another, unseen phenomenon was at work: “Then spoke Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the people of Israel, and

When Isaiah says, “Turn away, depart; touch nothing defiled as you leave [Babylon]. Come out of her and be pure, you who bear Jehovah’s vessels. But you shall not leave in haste or go in flight: Jehovah will go before you, the God of Israel behind you” (Isaiah 52:11–12), what is his definition of “pure”

The “cause of truth” (Isaiah 42:3), the “God of truth” (Isaiah 65:16), and doing all things “in truth” (Isaiah 48:1)—these all emphasize the need to be truth-based in order to please God and accomplish anything good in his eyes. And what can bring us closer to his truth in this journey through life than our

Isaiah’s mention of “ordinances” doesn’t leave us wondering very long about which ones he is speaking of. Imagery of temple ordinances appears throughout his book. Says he, “The path of the righteous is straight; you pave an undeviating course for the upright. In the very passage of your ordinances we anticipate you, O Jehovah; the

If the Ephraimite Gentiles will be “as much mistaken” about Jesus’ second coming as the Jews were about his first (JD, 8:115), it will be because they assume Jesus’ second coming will vary from scriptural patterns of the past. That is, there will occur no traumatic events like those at his first coming to the

When Isaiah says, “They are not a discerning people. Therefore their Maker shows them no mercy; he who formed them favors them not” (Isaiah 27:11), he is speaking of the aftermath of God’s people’s addictions to idols or the things of this world. Inevitably—with or without their knowing—opportunistic forces step into the vacuum created by

Israel’s ongoing assault by enemies surrounding it—Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthies—and America’s providing it with ordinance to defend itself, resonates with Zechariah’s prophecy that says, “I have bent Judah for me and filled the bow with Ephraim.” In that day, “his arrows will go forth as the lightning” and he will “subdue with sling stones” (Zechariah

When the Lord says, “The ox knows its owner, the ass its master’s stall, but Israel does not know; my people are insensible: (Isaiah 1:3), what does he mean? And when he also says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says Jehovah. But as the heavens are higher than