DEPARTMENT OF BIBLE AND SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS

 

Declarations and Dealings of Deity

from His Word and to the World

 Vol. II

 

 

 

 

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson

 

 

Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.

November 2013

 

ISBN 97809875948-7-7

 

 

PREFACE

as for Vol. I
 

This volume is entitled - Department of Bible and Spiritual Affairs.

Thus a government Department may attend to sundries, or great things, and it is all in its compass as defined. So in Bible affairs, for those of a particularity called the work of the Lord in terms of the word of the Lord, its meaning, message, demands, offers and applications, its teachings and its truth which, though overall and projecting over all and indeed protecting much, is still so often so rejected by so many, that it is made almost to appear like an  unsubstantial segment: there are matters arising which need attention.

In this volume, the content is not so much a project, as a repository for things arising for the saving action, teaching and blessed work of the Lord, and for His kingdom biblically defined. And how is it defined ? this is in terms of the Lord Jesus Christ who is its Head, and only entry, its Lord and not its icon but its saviour, for whom and by whose work His salvation has come to be freely available to repentance and the reception of His gift of redemption, through His death, and empowerment through His death-vanquishing life. Attention to these matters may vary from literally world-shattering items, to the smallest of widow's mites.

In the constitution of this Department, you find words such as those of Romans 10:9, I Corinthians 15:42ff., 57ff., Philippians 2:7-11, Ephesians 1:19-23, 2:1-16, 3:14-21, Colossians 1:16-19, Hebrews 1:1-3, 2:1-3, 9:12-28, 11:1-3, I Timothy 4:1-6, Acts 4:11-12, 20:25-32, Matthew 28:19-20.

As in any Department, the topics in view are many and manifold, varying from faith as in James, Hebrews and Paul, to the Westminster Confession in a changing Church, the predictions of Isaiah 9, the Darwin-Hitler tie-up, a Letter to a  Grandchild, and on to the teaching of Habakkuk and the nature of suffering and a simple approach to  Christian Apologetics. 

 

 

CHAPTER 1

 

ISRAEL, ZION

JEWRY, GENTILES

AND GOD

 

A BRILLIANT B'NAI BRITH COMPOSITION

THAT STILL NEEDS A CORE

News 468

The Australian, October 29, 2013

 

CHAPTER 2

 

 The Faith Equation

 

Luke 18

 

CHAPTER 3

THE PORTENT OF TIMES AND THE PORTAL TO ETERNITY

Ecclesiastes Ch. 3 with 7

 

CHAPTER FOUR

 

ALL THE TIME FOR ALL TIME

IS THE NATURE OF SPIRITUAL LOVE AND TRUTH

 

 

CHAPTER FIVE

 

GOD HAS BEEN THERE ALL THE TIME, BEFORE TIME,

AND WHEN HE CALLS TIME! HE IS STILL THERE

but where are you ?
 

 

CHAPTER SIX

 

CONFUSION, THE KING:

THE CAUSES AND THE CONSEQUENCES

 

 

 

CHAPTER SEVEN

 

CONFUSION, THE KING:

- THIS TIME NOT IN UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE

BUT OF LIFE:

CHRIST THE CONQUEROR

 

PROVERBS 30:4-14

in Preparation, Sequence, Survey and Conclusion

 

 

CHAPTER EIGHT

 

THE HIDDEN GOD, THE HIDEOUS CARICATURE,
THE SPIRITUAL NEO-HOLOCAUST

and the GENERATION OF GRACE

 

 

CHAPTER NINE

 

ISAIAH 29-33 IS A GLORIOUSLY TENDER,

INVASIVELY JUDGMENTAL

PREPARATION FOR THE MESSIAH

WITH A FIGURATIVE WONDER FOR THE THINGS TO COME

ADDED LIKE BACON TO MUSHROOMS ON A COLD MORNING

 

 

CHAPTER TEN

MEASURES IN THE MILLENIUM

THE PARTICULARITIES OF THE MILLENIUM

The millenium is near the last state; we need to begin with the first and then see it in perspective.

 

CHAPTER ELEVEN

 

THINGS THAT PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT OF DOING, 

OR WERE ABOUT TO DO,

BUT GOD ...

3 CATEGORIES, 9 TYPES, 

11 CASES

 

EPILOGUE

 

THINGS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN BEEN CAUGHT

LIKE INSECTS IN A VENOMOUS SPIDER'S WEB

 

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1,

DEPARTMENT OF BIBLE

AND SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS, VOLUME 2

 

ESCAPADES WITH THE WORD OF GOD

ARE NOT ESCAPES FROM ITS RULE

BUT ECCENTRICITIES AT BEST

AND WOE AT WORST