All Articles For Deuteronomy

John A. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. It is interesting and important to take note of the fact that Elimelech, Naomi, and their sons left the promised land to go to Moab in the days when the judges ruled the Israelites. This is interesting and significant because it reveals that their departure from the promised land—which was a type and shadow of the coming Kingdom of Heaven—took place in the days when the Israelites had no spiritual leaders to warn them, counsel them and rebuke them when they walked in sin. They had for a...

Jason L. Kortering is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Grandville, Michigan. We are in the process of outlining the first discourse of Moses recorded in the book of Deuteronomy (Deut. 1:1-4:43). We continue our outlining in Deut. 2:1. Moses has recalled Jehovah’s faithfulness in dealing with them in their initial stay in the wilderness. Moses describes how God cared for them in their departure from Kadesh Barnea and that they bypassed Mt. Seir, since that country was given to Esau for a possession. They could buy meat and water from them, but not engage in battle (Deut. 2:1-7). They...

Rev. Koole is pastor of Faith Protestant Reformed Church in Jenison, Michigan. That the family structure in twentieth century America is in a state of crisis is denied by no one. It is not only the moral majority and the conservative political activists that sound the warning, but the major news weeklies have addressed the issue as well. They acknowledge that the family structure has changed dramatically over the past half century, and they are forced to concede that, however “enlightened” those who applaud the changes may claim to be, the results are troubling. With chagrin they admit some re-evaluation...

Rev. VanBaren is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Hudsonville, Michigan. Read Philippians 2:1-11 The church at Philippi was surely one of the favorites of the apostle Paul. He had labored there under great duress. He had been imprisoned in the city for healing of the demon-possessed fortunetelling slave girl. But here also he had the joy of observing the first converts: Lydia the seller of purple, and the jailor. In the first chapter, and again in the fourth, Paul has fine words in commending the church. In Philippians 1:3, he expresses thanks to God for “every remembrance” of them....

Herman C. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. In our last article in which we discussed in vitrofertilization (IVF) we made passing reference to the fact that it was possible that many children conceived in a test tube were being used for experimental purposes. We did not want to say too much about this because little is known concerning this; those who engage in such practices do so in great secrecy, and instances are hard to document. Recently, however, I received an article from aStandard Bearer reader in England which speaks of this very...

Jason L. Kortering is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Grandville, Michigan. In the book of Deuteronomy, we do not have additional laws given by Moses. Rather we have a review of the instructions which God gave the people at Mt. Sinai, for the people who were about to enter the land of Canaan. The book is divided into four parts: the first discourse of Moses (Deut. 1:1-4:43), the second discourse of Moses (Deut. 4:44-26:19), the third discourse of Moses (Deut. 27:1-30:20), and the last words of Moses, including the record of his death (Deut. 31:1-34:12). With our outlining,...

Whence is the world? To this question there are, fundamentally, but two possible kinds of answers: the answer of faith and the answer of unbelief, the answer of revelation and the answer of human philosophy, the answer of the Creator Himself and the answer of the mere creature standing in rebellion against the Creator. We need not be surprised, therefore, that unbelief invents its own theories of the beginning of the world, and that today the philosophy of evolutionism, the philosophy of a beginning without God, is more widely held and taught than ever before. True, this theory may have...

Mr. John Clarke is an Ulster Presbyterian, a son of the Scottish Covenanters. He and his family are members of the Reformed Covenant Fellowship of Larne, Northern Ireland, which is requesting a missionary from the PRC. Samuel Rutherford was the leading theologian in Scotland during the first half of the 17th century. To most of us he is probably best known by his letters, said by Spurgeon to be “the nearest thing to inspiration which can be found in all the writings of mere men.” But this is not his only work. He wrote extensively against Arminianism and as a...

Ronald L. Cammenga is pastor of the Protestant Reformed Church of Loveland, Colorado. Last time we cited the three Scripture passages that are often appealed to by those who teach the right of the “innocent party” to remarry: Deuteronomy 24:1, 2; I Timothy 3:2, 12; and Matthew 19:9. In this article we want to take a closer look at these passages and see that they do not in fact support this position. First of all, this is true of Deuteronomy 24:1, 2. The statement at the end of verse 2, “she may go and be another man’s wife,” is incorrectly understood when it is interpreted as...

John A. Heys is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Man, being an earthly creature, depends upon the creation wherein God placed him after making him out of the dust of the ground. And although Jesus said to Satan, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God”, man does need bread for his earthly life. He may not try and cannot live by bread alone; but keep bread from him, and he is going to die. It is not strange, then, when there is a shortage of bread...