Mitch Chase provides another lesson in understanding the New Testament by the Old in his latest article, “Out of Egypt I Called My Son.” By comparing Matthew 2:15 with Hosea 11:1, he explains typological fulfillments of prophecy—that is, a type being fulfilled in an antitype. When you read books about …
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.” —Revelation 16:13 Revelation 16 contains the seven bowl judgments, what the King James Version called “the vials of …
In his August 2, 2023, article, “Acts 2 & the Tongues Controversy,” Shane Rosenthal explores what Luke actually says in reporting on the astounding miracle of language on that first Pentecost in ad 31. What occurred that day does not support what the Pentecostal movement claims. . . . in …
In “So Typical,” Mitch Case presents the basics of typology: type-antitype. The Old Testament contains many types that are often fulfilled in Christ or will be fulfilled in the closing stages of this present world. Welcome to the subject of typology. The word “type” refers to an impression or shape …
I wrote this essay, “Nonsense and Senselessness,” for the August 21, 2009, CGG Weekly. “The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in …
CGG Weekly first published this essay as “Prophecy’s Place” on February 7, 2003. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part.” —I Corinthians 13:9 Bible students know that Scripture is about thirty percent prophecy, and preachers have cautioned that prophecy should take no more than the equivalent percentage …
The following is an edited snip from a sermon, “Habakkuk,” that I gave on October 2, 1997. “The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.” —Habakkuk 1:1 Habakkuk provides a very simple introduction. He does not write, “In the tenth year, in the tenth month of the reign of a certain …
This essay, “The True Gospel (Part Four),” was sent into the world as a CGG Weekly essay on August 24, 2001. “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand.” —Mark 1:15a Many church of God members recall Herbert W. Armstrong frequently turning to Mark 1:14-15 to …
