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Rev. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. That Awesome Breakfast At the Galilean Seashore (vss. 9-12) We may confidently affirm that this was in really no sense of the word a sacramental meal, though it was a very special heaven-sent breakfast on earth. Surely, it was different in nature from any common breaking of the fast. Literally the Greek text reads “come and break your fast” (deute haristeesate). The Greek term hariston properly is: the first meal. It is a meal in the early morning before the work of day. The term for supper is quite different in...

Rev. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. The threefold “Simon, Simon, Son of Jonas”—continued Perhaps it might be beneficial to the reader that at this point we stop and consider briefly the terms wherewith Jesus designates His church to Simon. Such a study often gives opportunity to unfold some more of the riches of the words of life of Jesus. To each of these questions we will now turn our attention. In the question to Simon, Christ reminds him of his self-confident boasting! He had stated very boldly that “if all be offended in thee this...

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Chapter XXII The Mystery of the Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 “IT IS FINISHED” TO THE UTTERMOST—con’t. It is really quite noteworthy that the Hebrew infinitivelecallee = to shut, restrain, finish is translated with the Aorist infinitive in the Septuagint. The Piel degree in the Hebrew suggests that this transgression was finished very, very much! The Aorist infinitive expresses completed action, pointedly completed action. The great transgression which was perpetrated by the one man in Adam, and as this passed on as sin and guilt and corruption to all men,...

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Chapter XXIII The Mystery of the Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 Full and complete redemption in the Messiah (Dan. 9:24) 

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches.   Chapter XXIV The Mystery of the Seventy Weeks in Daniel 9 THE HOLY OF HOLIES ANOINTED (Daniel 9:24b) The anointed Messiah came to anoint the “Most Holy”! There can be little doubt that the term for “Most Holy” in the Hebrew text should be better translated “holy of holies.” In Old Testament language this refers to the part of the tabernacle which was behind the second vail (Heb. 9:3). The writer to the Hebrews explains this as follows: “For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein...

Chapter X  We must say just a word yet about the prophetical prediction of God concerning Israel when they stood at the nether part of Mount Sinai, after coming from Egypt’s cruel and tyrannical bondage. 

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. The Covenant Made Strong (continued—Daniel 9:27) And this “end” shall be “as with a flood.” The suggestion is that God will perform a very final and cataclysmic judgment upon the earthly city and theocracy of Israel, just as in the days of Noah. It will be a sudden and final destruction. Even as in the days of Noah, when God destroyed the wicked with the waters of the flood, so shall it be when God sends the Roman legions to surround the city; then shall the earthly temple...

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. The Hope of Heaven and Earth. Jehovah-God Speaks to Fallen Adam. (Genesis 3:17) “and God said to Adam.” God is addressing Adam here in Paradise as the Covenant God of Adam. Really He is speaking here as the same God of glory Who spoke to Abraham, the father of all believers, much later. When Moses pens these words in Gen. 3:17 he is with Israel in the wilderness; Israel is then dwelling in their tents about the tabernacle which was made after the pattern of the heaven tabernacle. God had...

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. It was with mingled sorrow and joy that we received the tidings that Rev. Clinton Elliott, the oldest minister in our Jamaican church, had been taken home to glory. He must have been alone at home and walking in his backyard, when the angels came to carry him home to glory in their chariot. We sorrow that a friend, a dear brother and affectionate colleague, was taken from our presence here on earth. He even addressed me in his letters with the familiar “dear brother George.” Now he...

The “Kingdom-Unchanged” Fulfilled in the New Testament Strange and unbelievable as it may sound in the ears of the Reformed believer who believes all the Scriptures, it is nonetheless a fact that Dispensationalism teaches that the Kingdom, spoken of in the prophecies of the Old Testament, is in its very essence a Jewish National kingdom. In this kingdom the Gentile Christians do not share!