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It is often emphasized within the church of Jesus Christ that truth is eternal. Rightly so. We were reminded of this when our thoughts turned to the second psalm and, looking up, thought on the devastating war in Europe. Surely truth is eternal. This second psalm fits even now. The heathen rage in Europe and the people imagine a vain thing. This second psalm has a threefold application. It certainly refers historically to David, vis. Acts 4:25ff. It also refers to his Anti-type, the Lord Jesus Christ, vis. Acts 4:25ff.; 13:38; Heb. 1:5; 5:5. But it also refers to the...

The matter last dealt with in the immediately preceding article is the instructions concerning the order of the tribes when on the march. Five other occurrences took place at Sinai before the people of Israel were ordered to break up camp. They are: (1) The making of the silver trumpets; (2) The offering of the princes; (3) The consecration of the Levites; (4) The second keeping of the Passover; (5) The cleansing of the camp. As to the trumpets, according to the instructions respecting them, found at Num. 10:2, their number was 2. Their substance was silver and they were...

If a man walking in the spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and corn; he shall even be the prophet of this people. Micah 2:11. Many such men there were in Judah, men prophesying of corn and wine, of earthly prosperity and sensual enjoyment when they should have been predicting judgment and doom. So they were lying. Their prophesying, as they did, characterized them as men who walked after vanity and deceit, thus in the spirit of falsehood. Yet in their prophesying they were apparently in line with at least parts of Micah’s...

The Historical Division. Chapter 1-4 inclusive. Jehoiakim’s Captivity. Chapter 1:1, 2. In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon unto Jerusalem and besieged it. The Lord gave the king into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which were carried into the land of Shinar and placed in the house of the god of the conquerors, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Chapter 1:3. Ashpenaz, a master of the eunuchs, receives orders to present to the king a select number of the children of Israel fit to stand in the...

As to the purification of the Levites, it took place in three acts, a) First they were sprinkled with “water of sin”—water mixed with ashes of the red heifer—and purified. Then the hair of their body was sheared in token of their putting off the flesh that they might be new creature. And as the garment shares in the uncleanness of the body, they were also commanded to wash their clothes, b) These transactions are followed by the consecration sacrifices. Two bullocks were led to the altar. Then Moses brought the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel...

Under “Voices in the Church”, a sort of open forum, in The Banner of Jan. 31, 1941, a certain “M.J.” serves a certain Mr. Groeneveld, who has a rather sickly view of “tithing”, with an answer that is so thoroughly sound and Reformed from beginning to end, that we cannot refrain from quoting it here in its entirety, rejoicing as we do in the fact that even among the readers of The Banner there are men that see the truth so clearly as does Mr. “M. J.” RESPONSE TO “TITHER” “Dear Mr. Groeneveld: Having read your article, “Another Tither Testifies”,...

Precisely one year, two months and nineteen days had elapsed since the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt. Then on the twentieth day of the second month the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle in taken that the will of God was to the effect that His people should now break up camp and journey onward. Simultaneously the priests blew the alarms according as they had been instructed and the tribes bestirred themselves. At the head went the banner of the camp of the sons of Judah, comprehending their tribes, as did also the banners that followed....

Nebuchadnezzar now made a huge image of gold. Assembling all the officials of his realm before it, he instructed them to prostrate themselves and worship at the first sound of the music. Anyone refusing would be cast into that very image converted into a fiery furnace. The king was informed that Daniel and his three friends had disobeyed. Sent for they are given one more opportunity to comply. They assure the king however that they will not worship him. The king in a fit of anger orders them bound and cast into the furnace heated so intensely or heated seven...

Having been compelled to seal the mouth of the den of lions, into which Daniel had been cast, the king, with a heavy heart returned to his palace, which by his order is converted into a house of gloom. He refrained from calling for his musicians. The solitude of death filled the palace. The king retired to sleep but sleep went from him. Early dawn found him at the den. Against hope, and with a lamentable voice he cried out his inquiry into the darkness of the den whether Daniel’s God had been able to deliver him from the lions....

Why don’t you write about the Classis Meetings anymore, some of our people asked me? And honestly, I did not know what to answer. For no reason at all, we no longer wrote about our Classical meetings, since we became (as churches) East and West. Besides, we did not consider our writings on that particular point of great import. But, we thought, perhaps this time, for I do not make any promises as to the future, we better have a few lines on our last Classical meeting. On the 5th of March we came together as Classis in our Sioux...