Our title may lead one to think that we are about to embark on the theme of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, to use its full name. But this is not the case. However, we shall need to refer to the FGBMFI along the way. What is the FULL GOSPEL? And why has this expression arisen in the last 30 years or so? And does it suggest that beforehand people were NOT preaching a FULL gospel? [Read more…]
31. God’s Pleasure
Thou art worthy 0 Lord to receive glory and honour and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created. Rev. 4:11
There is a certain grandeur about these words that cannot be matched by any further comment from us. It is sufficient that the 24 elders in heaven said them after hearing the ascription of praise uttered by the 4 Cherubim. But it is well for us to ponder the significance of these words, and ask ourselves what God’s plan of creation is all about. I shall not write as an authority, or as a learned man, but as one who desires to express my thoughts, and confess my own smallness and inadequacy, and above all to reflect the praise brought by the elders in heaven. [Read more…]
27. A God of Justice
Readers of the Bible often find what they call “examples of (seeming) divine injustice”. Many Christians are likewise perplexed when reading certain portions of the Scriptures, but would recoil from using such language of their Lord. In this case the attitude is usually one of “sweeping it under the carpet out of sight.”!! In this essay we shall address ourselves to one such area of conflict that sticks out like a sore thumb to many who read the Bible. We refer to the apparently capricious nature of God’s dealings with certain nations and peoples. [Read more…]
23. Jesus the Firstborn
JESUS, FIRSTBORN OF EVERY CREATURE
How often have we, as the Church of Jesus Christ, been guilty of neglecting the Old Testament. But Paul declared that all these things were written of olden times for our instruction. And in another place he spoke of the advantage of the Jew, that ‘unto him were committed the oracles of God.’ We ourselves have had to apologize to the Lord for not taking His teaching seriously enough. And this article shows one example of how important truth can be lost thereby, because the Lord has brought to our notice the meaning of the firstborn and the firstfruit, and we believe that many who read this article will find the outcome mentally explosive – so much so that they may have to think again all the foundations of their faith. [Read more…]
20. Every Knee shall Bow
[To the reader – this paper is an open reply to a letter on the subject of the extent of God’s forgiveness and love to His creation. It covers many of the queries that arise in the minds of those who have been tutored into believing that God has some fiendish everlasting torture chamber, called the Lake of Fire, reserved for most of mankind.]
Dearly beloved brother in Christ, Greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour. [Read more…]
1a. Why settle for half the gospel?
(About the origin of The Prophetic Telegraph. It was on 8th June 1986 that I was sitting in the lounge reading the local newspaper, when my 17 year old daughter Esther said, “Daddy, what’s that you’re reading? Is it The Prophetic Telegraph?” Turning to the back page, where she was looking, I saw the title in Old English characters – The Property Telegraph. We all laughed. But as the day wore on the thought came to me that I should use her title in a series of articles based on my Biblical research and the talks I was giving in our Home Church. That is how it all started, and initially the articles were sent out by post, but later, as computing became widely used, they were sent by email, and now on my Website as well. And so I still retain the title.)
It is commonly understood and generally accepted that large chunks of original truth were lost in the dark ages that followed the first century A.D. Precious jewels of knowledge vouchsafed to mankind by our Saviour, and later by His apostles through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, were thrown to the ground and trampled underfoot by human agencies acting under the influence of dark cosmic intelligences. But men were not generally even aware that they were being used as the tools of Satan in this respect. [Read more…]