matthew-24:6-15

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up… Ecclesiasties 3:1-3 A time for every purpose under h... Read More

Scripture Reading -- St. Matthew 24:3-13, Revelation 2:1-7 Are you a church member? If so, what, in your opinion, is the greatest danger confronting the Church today? To bring the matter a little closer, what is the greatest danger facing your own denomination? And still a bit closer and more person... Read More

Suggested Scripture -- St. Matthew 24 Jesus was asked three questions by his disciples: 1. When shall the temple be destroyed? 2. what shall be the sign of Thy coming? 3. What shall be the sign of the end of the world? Permit me to suggest that you read the answers which are recorded in the 24th cha... Read More

THE connecting link between the past and the future, between the fulfilled and the unfulfilled in prophecy, will be found in the Gospel of St. Matthew. The chief Messianic promises are grouped in two great classes, connected respectively with the names of David and of Abraham, and the New Testament ... Read More

THE conclusions arrived at in the preceding chapter suggest a striking parallel between Daniel's earlier visions and the prophecy of the seventy weeks. History contains no record of events to satisfy the predicted course of the seventieth week. The Apocalypse was not even written when that period ou... Read More

NARROWNESS of interpretation is the bane of apocalyptic study. "The words of this prophecy," "Things which must shortly come to pass'" such is the Divine description of the Book of the Revelation and of its contents. No one, therefore, is justified in denying to any portion of it a future applicatio... Read More

REV. SOLOMON APPLE was born in Guilford county, North Carolina, January 2,1813, and died in Caswell county, March 4, 1901, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. He began preaching in the year 1833, being licensed by the General Meeting at Kedar (Mt. Auburn), in Warren county, when he was about twenty... Read More

Aleph 1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord Psalm 118:1. As much as t... Read More

1. ...With my voice have I cried unto the Lord Psalm 141:1. It were enough to say, with voice: not for nothing perhaps has my been added. For many cry unto the Lord, not with their own voice, but with the voice of their body. Let the inner man then, in whom Christ has begun to dwell by faith, Ephesi... Read More

A psalm to David himself, on the remembrance of the Sabbath. 1. What does this recollection of the Sabbath mean? What is this Sabbath? For it is with groaning that he calls it to recollection. You have both heard already when the Psalm was read, and you will now hear it when we shall go over it, how... Read More