WHAT IS NEW

EARLIER ITEMS NOW SEPARATE IN THIS LIST

This is an old version. For the latest one click here. 

1) Three Anzas and the Answer is now published. As noted it starts with allegory, but it proceeds in history direct. A short description follows.

Man is adept at breaching beauty, lusting for non-truth, building sand-castles and
watching the tide come in, with a fatal fascination, an intrigued hypnosis, it would almost seem, to destroy them.

One of the latest exemplars is found in Europe in the clamour on its Constitution, and its consequences; but they started with Eve. Thrust by the 'must' of necessity, pathologically triumphant in his fallen heart, he inherits the must of decay, the vitiation wrought by vainglory. There is, as there has always been, one answer, rather more obvious than this, that 2 plus 2 equals 4. As man dives for cover at the incoming waves, it does not seem to occur to him that it is time he built up on higher ground, with the upper air serene about him.

This is still available, and though the world follow its woes with passion,
it is well to leave it to its devices, rescuing whom one may, warning all,
awaiting the call of the Christ whose worth is infinite, whose day is eternal,
whose love is practical, whose passion wise.

2) Recent news items are now available, for which see NEWS. One given in considerable depth concerns the EU Constitution, and this relates closely to biblical prophecy. See EU.

3) The crucial fact that God IS as He says is contemplated with relish, in Ch. 6 of the new volume.

4) Visits to this site are reported as having risen

from 620 or so daily for June

to an adjusted rate of around 700 daily for all of July.

While they vary, this is a welcome trend, since the truth given by the Bible, manifest in Christ, clear in His written word, is of incalculable value to man, the greatest of blessings from God, unchanging these millenia. When you find that Christ IS that truth, that He came in love, then His remedy and His realisation alike are as delightful as I Peter 1:7-8 declares them to be, and as sure for each recipient as in I Peter 1:5!

For the authentic, there is no comparison, and there is none like Him, nothing like His word and nothing resembling His salvation.

5) There is a new boy at Swift Witness, dealing with a crucial subject ... freedom, man, God and His will. What is man ? how does he operate ? How does he relate to God ? How CAN he ?

This is No. 19 in that list. You may care to look at the other items here.

6) There is a new volume in preparation,

          Outrageous Outages, Awesome Inputs and the Courage of Christ.

For the available chapters, click here.

2003 Late May

2003 Easter

- April May

2003 April

2003 March

2003 February

2003 January

2002 December

2002 November

2002 October

2002 September

2002 AUGUST

2002 JULY

2002 JUNE

2002 May

2002 April

2002 March

2002 February
 

2002 January
 

Late 2000 and

2001

IN 8 Parts

For PART IV, including the Cambridge Awards,
click HERE.

Part V , August 15, 2001,
contains a further Cambridge announcement
and leads to new items for September, October 2001
to September 2002, continuing down,
month by month for what is NEW!

PART VII includes some American Biographical Institute inclusions in further Biographical Volumes, and PART VIII one more from the IBC of Cambridge. These which have all been accepted,
have also all been freely made available, while many awards or inclusions

whether for attainment or humanitarian service,

which would not have been free, one has declined
for a number of spiritual reasons.

Part IX provides fascinating aspects of culture spiritual counter-culture, and its biblical and logical evaluation. 
 
 

PART I

2000

1. Dave Hunt hunts Calvinism, but there is
more to it than that.

(August 2000)

2. NEWS, FACTS and FORECASTS

New news section, published.

SEE BULLETIN 1 for far more detail.

3. BULLETIN 2 is now out. Check it here.
For BULLETIN 3 and 4, follow the links.

4. Two new books are now published also, by November 2000.

The 28th. - Things Old and New ... Love with Mercy has Acted

Multiculturalism and sophistry, God's critics, sedition by sects and other
aspects of old novelties in new clothes,
with no small touch of Australiana

THE EMPHASIS IS ON OLD THINGS, NEW FORMS, ONE UNALTERED TRUTH

Published October 2000 with ISBN 0 9578 146 5 8

The 29th. - It Bubbles, It Howls ... He Calls

The Middle East is in wrath and ruin
    The Midlands of Mankind are in turmoil
    The Mind of God is in writing for our purposes
    The Solution is Salvation in Christ
    the Lord
    whose are all lands,
    literal and metaphorical,
    rational and spiritual,
    and whose is all truth.

    Alternatives: ZERO
This volume was published in November, 2000
ISBN 0 9578146 6 6
 
 

PART II EARLY 2001

5. A further volume, DIVINE AGENDA has been published, January 2001.
Here the varied contemporary expressions of the thousands of years old forecasts of God in the Bible are considered as they dynamically unfold.

News is becoming, if possible, more of a saga of scriptural superintendence!
He says, it happens!

He has long ago said, it happens now.

He knows what He has doing and does not change.

For individual lives, He is just as proficient, understanding, and in Christ, undertaking.

We have just begun.

5 more books have been published so far this year.

Galloping Events - The End of the Race and the Face of the King, 2001

Little Things - the incomparable Christ has made wonders even in what seem ... little things

Pall of Smoke, and Diamond of Joy
Considerations of Contrasts, Complementarity and Beauty

With Heart and Soul, Mind and Strength

Licence for Liberty

These also are new this year.

You may even want to visit the one still in preparation, with some 6 chapters done:

ANCIENT WORDS: MODERN DEEDS  !

You are most welcome to discuss issues arising, as you search for or rejoice in the truth.
 
 

PART III  - JUNE 2001

• Ancient Words : Modern Deeds
• is a new work published this month.

As its title suggests, it considers the impact of the past on the present, when the past in view is the word of God. Principles and events alike are aligned to the issuance of understanding.

In addition, a new section in Action Kit provides instant access to various SURVEYS with some indication of their individual contents. These include the fields of politics, physics, nature, unity movements of various kinds, past and present, historical overview, commencements, termini, ancient and modern glory, doctrine in its systematic streamlining, a very wonder in dynamics.
 
 

PART IV - JULY 2001

I

INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL CENTRE OF CAMBRIDGE AWARDS

The Board of World Wide Web Witness Inc.  praises God

for the following notable developments in Cambridge, England.

Relative to the published works of Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson, featured on this our Christian apologetics and missionary site, the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge has taken three steps.

We are advised that the Board of the IBC has:

1) included his name in the following biographical volumes:

2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century

2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century

      due for publication and despatch to libraries towards the end of this year.

and                                           

2) declared him an

International Man of the Year.

(See also Section V below for further developments in this field.)

We trust these things will forward the impact of this work, designed to bring blessing to many, and that it may help open their eyes in obedience to His command (I Peter 3:15); and through His word lead on to Him. We thank God for His faithfulness in our enablement as a team for His service and congratulate the one who has received these awards.

Robert Donaldson is emphatic that not merely as a doctrinal fact, but as a fact of experience, the power, grace and wisdom for these productions has been a provision of the Lord, whose Christ lives, and for whose sake they are provided. If, he declares, there is any honour, it is His who has stirred, led and helped so that the writing has been in itself, a blessed experience in companionship with Him whom he serves.

The URL remains: http://webwitness.org.au
email: team@webwitness.org.au

Other family members of the board have provided very substantial help at the technical level, or in domestic maintenance, so that this has now for many years been a real team effort both from Matthew Donaldson and Margaret to whom much thanks is due for dedicated labours.
 
 

II

Several chapters are now available in the 37th work,

BEAUTY OF HOLINESS

Glorious Light Amid Uncomprehending Darkness
 
 

PART  V
August 2001- April 2002

Beauty of Holiness has now been published, and so too has OUR 38TH VOLUME:

THE PITTER-PATTER OF PROPHETIC FEET

Prophecy: A Light in a Dark Place
This World: A Place in a Dark Light

It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls ... Ch. 9 has also been extended, as has Ch. 10, End-note 1, which concerns ZIONISM, RACISM AND HUMAN RACISM and is topical in terms of the UN, at present.

For Cloning: see News  153, and 166 .

For an addition to Bible Translations, Ch. 9 of The Kingdom of Heaven, concerning Psalm 22:30, see the end of that file, the last case.

Further extensions have been made to some of the Indexes.

The International Biographical Centre at Cambridge, England has now further announced that
Robert E. Donaldson, the author featured on this site in exposition of and defence of the Christian faith, is included in the forthcoming Ist Edition of their work:

WHO's WHO IN THE 21st CENTURY.

For this, as heretofore with the other features, we thank and praise the Lord, for whose glory all this is intended, and by whose help alone it is able to be produced. May it be a blessing for many, in the love of Christ, and the beauty of His truth.

THE LORD IS THE ONE IN ALL CENTURIES, AND MADE CENTURIES, TIME AND SPACE: IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT HE BE FOUND
 

It is important to realise continually that the reason why the reason for the faith is certain, its testimony indefeasible, is this, that its basis is  God Himself, to whom it points, directs and impels. It is because He is immutable, immovable, unimpugnable, illustrious and good that the epistemological, logical, metaphysical, physical, moral, aesthetic, linguistic, cosmological, aetiological, methodological - scientific and other, the vitality and the validity have but one resting place, one source and one end. Just as many in Christ's day sought to find refuge not direction in the scriptures, failing to follow them to Him who had given them, along with life, their historical and national, their mankind manual, as He attested as seen in John 5:39-40,  so some may instead seek to find substitute for spirituality in the testimony of reason to righteousness, logic to the Lord.

Reason however does but lead to His word and His word requires ACTION.

In neither case in itself,  therefore is there rest, not because either fails, for reason can but attest the truth, being established in this way for man in God's image; and it will not suffer such violation, while the word of God manifests its splendour on a daily basis in all dimensions, directing the universe in life as it directed life into it, and made it for it at the first.

No, it is because the testimony of our construction and our functionalities on the one hand, and of His word to us on the other, the one refusing to be alienated except by irrationality, the other except by rejection of rebellious will, are from what He has done. He made us, so that our best efforts fail to justify departure; and He gave His word, which being truth, stands beyond all testimony and banishes all complaint, except that of stark rebellion, aloof and alone like darkness in a universe of light, hiding in some insalubrious corner. The time is near when such privacy will be removed and the light manifest, all will be composed spiritually, each part in its place.

It is now therefore time to seek the Lord, and according to His word, by His Son sent for the purpose, to find Him (Isaiah 55). It is living in the living God which is crucial: there is not other, and He is definitive of Himself both in His written and His living word. There is no other way, God or truth, no other hope, nothing hallowed. It is Jesus Christ or nothing (John 14:6, Galatians 1), the Lord's Christ or woe; and finding Him, like life as a child in the outset, is something which is His gift.

His word is given that He may be found, and His Son has been sent that the cost is covered for all who come (John 3:16). The way is won, the job is done: it needs to be entered, and with the transmutation of life which then occurs (John 3, Titus 3:5ff.), followed faithfully. HE is faithful.

Indeed, as He gives His power, illumination and enablement to write, as here, reason for the faith, and to answer challenge, so He gives to those who serve Him, what is needed (Psalm 145:18-19); and as He disposes to service so He is disposed and dynamic to enable it.

HE is the LORD!

 

SEPTEMBER 2001

In the field of unity and unison, dating and commencement, creation and maintenance, you may wish to check

That Magnificent Rock Ch. 7, Part E which has had
an updating in terms of *4.

This is well equipped with correlatives and parallel studies as references.

A new work has now been published, the 39th in the IN PRAISE OF CHRIST JESUS series:

DAWN OF LIGHT,
THE GENTLE UNFOLDING OF LIGHT
UNTOUCHED, UNTARNISHED AND PURE

Especially on the topic of FRUIT and FAITH, which comes first, why and how is it related to the beautiful reality of Christian assurance, see The Pitter-Patter of Prophetic Feet Ch. 8, Light of Dawn Ch. 1 and Lord of Life Ch. 7.
 

October 2001

Just published:

LORD OF LIFE

The Lord is the Light of my Life

         unphased, unfazed and unfading
          above time, beyond time, in time
          always

NOW PUBLISHED in 17 chapters:

Red Alert, Grey Day
                     and the Bright Light Coming

This brings more, after Lord of Life, on recent events, ancient words, dramatic developments, their spiritual significance and the direction of world history, among spiritual excavations into meaning, with special reference to Romans 5, and assessment of excursions into the meaningless as an antidote for past ones: not to be desired, but being wrought anyway. Such is this world, pointed at disaster, and hurrying itself along.

Also note: News 57 which deals with aspects of creation, is amplified.

NEWS continues to have Biblically interesting developments in the current crises.
 

In Preparation:

More Marvels from the Majesty and Mind of the Almighty
Extensive Preface and Ch. 1 available
 

NOVEMBER 2001

Detailed exposure of the Moslem 'faith' in More Marvels ... Ch. 4 especially.

Ch. 5 sweeps you to the End of the Age, with Joel, Acts, Romans, Habakkuk, Isaiah, Micah, Deuteronomy and Ezekiel, while looking at some of its relevant symptoms in the light of the forecasts of Revelation 6.

News items abound, as the world rotates into what could look like a desired oblivion!
It is not, however, available.

 Mini-morals for mini-man are considered also in Ch. 5, *3.

Further Bible translation work appears in Bible Translation *4.
 

January 2002

More Marvels ... is now finished

Also added are two further volumes:

Deliverance from Disorientation

Much on Daniel, which does not move,
and on the world, which does,
but only under divine surveillance, to that celestial conclusion
which is most apt, and clear

Published January, 2002
 
 

Highway of Holiness, Path of Peace, Way of Truth

Here we examine motivation, purity of heart, reward and reality; and then proceed to a compilation with some extension of the works on this site on the prophecy and prophet, Daniel.

His impact is far vaster than many realise, his attestation of things divine bearing imprint of amazing conspectus and clarity, testable, verifiable, verified, inspiring, humble, hallowed, not hollowed, proceeding from God, for God and bringing with it, many hearts of joy on their way. The prophetic book of Daniel in its entirety is now given a substantial survey, with much detail.

Published January 2002

This brings the available material to around 5 million words and 44 volumes,
200 pages of various indexes, allowing and calling for intensive Bible study and correlation of these data with other sources and resources, so that the simple fact that there is nothing on earth like it, indeed the word of the living God, just as there is nothing like the Lord of glory who came Himself, might readily sink into the depths of heart and mind.

February 2002

Published this month, Sparkling Life in Jesus Christ.

This is a volume of sharp clarity, dealing with issues from the Biblical Canon, to World Politics, from Cloning to the Millenium, Creation, Man as purposive, and the Clarity of the Bible. Its message is constantly this, that if you want more than mere effectuality, but certainly not less, if you want not a dim flicker but sparkling light, it is to be found in one place only, the word of God, living and written, on display and without rational competitor, or alternative testable revelation for man. It deals with man as he is, leaves nothing out, puts nothing in, and exposes him, vulnerable as he is, to the light which also has "healing in its wings", when it is received. That light is Christ, immutable, immiscible, unrelinquishable to those who know Him, irresistible to logic, the rock which crushes what rejects it, and needs it as all men do (Matthew 21:44), but is a secure ground for those who find in Him the truth.

Also, remember the NEWS from Christian perspective, constantly building.

Older numbers are available through the hyperlink at the head of this file.

Further: Late February: Tribal Testimony to God in SMR pp. 1026ff. has been substantially extended, with considerable assessment of some missionary methods, including some in Australia. The latter appears especially in pp. 1031Aff..
 
 

MARCH 2002

THE IMPREGNABLE TOWER is now published. It has fascinating material, consecutively considered, on the Messiah in Zechariah, and many recent developments.

The Bible Study site has been extended, both in index and in what is available, so that now substantial consecutive work has been done on Daniel, Revelation, Isaiah, Zechariah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, for example. In the case of Zechariah, it is a specialised work highly relevant to Christian Apologetics, on The Messiah in Zechariah. This is in itself a coverage of 60 pages, proceeding chapter by chapter.

Cascade of Truth, Torrent of Mercy, the 47th. volume, has now been commenced, and at this time, the Preface which is considerable, and Ch. 1 are available.
 

APRIL 2002

Cascade of Truth, Torrent of Mercy has just been published.

With much on the Middle East, Current News, Prophecy and Predestination in a personal sense as well as doctrinal, this gives you something like an aerial view, your airplane cruising not far above the tree tops as the end of the Age comes like a magnificent promontory to the gaze. For this new work, click HERE.

 

PART VI

MAY 2002

Three new volumes have now been published, this month.

1) Red Heart, Dead Heart and Pure Heart

Topics ?

Conspicuous confusions, profusions of prolixity and cordons of righteousness: they do not agree, but all are present. The world is setting on its business of severance from God at prodigious pace, but the connection is ineradicable, indefeasible, ultimate and righteous, and thus the effort is not only not feasible, but delinquent, abasing to man who is seeking to exalt himself, and fatal. There is however a far better way, far more clearly delineated, more conspicous in its attestation, coherent in its affirmation, which alone stands, and standing acts.

It includes "Homage to Perfection" and the apologetic significance of Psalm 73. Haggai's "Desire of the Nations" is also surveyed. The current political confusion on Israel is also a major focus, in several chapters.

2) Regal Rays from Revelation

Published May 2002
ISBN  0-9580787-3-4

In this volume, the Book of Revelation is given focus, materials on this site being collected in order of Chapter, to give a series on this prophecy of John. More material is added, and the work commences with some scrutiny of the Middle East imbroglio. Various aspects of divine revelation cohere in this conspectus of considerations of the power, work and will of God, both in history and in writing.
 

MAY-JUNE:

3) Trust God, Mate! Forget about 'Fate' ...

Published May-June 2002 ISBN 0-9580787-5-0

This work specialises on the decline from trust to 'fate', that fortuitous or banal concept which evacuates from the divine realities, and sadly faces the consequences, unaware that it is in fact a deviation from responsibility, a departure from God which induces the illusion of 'fate'. Nor is it entirely without background, when the Lord is mocked by such penury of logic, and projection of evil into inane philosophic concepts. Like chaff is the wicked blown (Psalm 1), whilst the Lord KNOWS the way of the righteous; and who IS righteous, but the one to whom the gift of God in Christ is applied, donating the truth, covering sin and clothing with a righteousness far from merely academic: it is brilliant with the dew of truth, happy with the life of God.

What more ?  NEWS is usually NEW ?  Keep up to date. See News Items for the latest, many in the past few weeks.

JUNE

BIBLE STUDY

This has been extended for reference purposes, both by addition of elements and because of new work now on the Web, at this site. For example, a typical study associated with a look at RUTH is now available.

Various further official recognitions of the works on this site have been received from biographical or cultural sources dealing with these matters, and while this has been encouraging, it has not been felt appropriate to receive these. If there be any honour, it is Christ's, whose most manifest help has made the author feel more like a servant than a performer! Praise to His name...

LATEST PUBLICATION, JUNE 2002 : SECULAR MYTHS AND SACRED TRUTH

This has in it, much news, and biblical criteria and perspective beyond this, giving it meaning.

Here, amid current news, is the evacuation of secular myths in favour of sacred truth.

Naturalism and other fancies are replaced with reality, the hollowness of humanism with the holiness of deity, and the landscape changes.

It looks and is far more wholesome not to say beautiful, without the pock marks of adventurous, dazzling meteorites, which leave holes and dirt. Its past, present and future meaning is then apparent in that far greater adventure, the history of man in the word and works of God Himself.

Meanwhile, you may want to ponder the

EIGHT ACHES IN TENDER PARTS
OF THE BODY OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE,

the anti-scientific aversions of science falsely so-called.
This is certainly an area of infectious pathology for our time! If so, view here
 

PART VII

JULY  2002

BEAUTY FOR ASHES

continues, as the latest work being prepared for publication, and now is at its 8th Chapter. In Ch. 3 in particular, there is more which can wisely be integrated with the work on naturalism above, namely Secular Myth or Sacred Truth Chs.  7,  8, and Epilogue.

The American Biographical Institute has again sent to us, advising of their persistent desire to include the name of Robert E. Donaldson, the author whose works appear on this site, in their forthcoming publication,

Great Minds of the 21st Century.

It has been decided to accept this inclusion, for the reasons noted at the relevant site and one trusts that many will be stirred to look to Him without whom this world is but a perishing garment, graced with beauty, but sick with sin and wearing out. In Him is peace and beauty and power and joy, and reality and truth and blessing. As to Him, He is meek and lowly in heart, and there is no other way for man.

Advice from the ABI relative to similar inclusion of the same author in the forthcoming edition of

500 Leaders of Influence,

has also been received.

The mind of course which really matters is that of the Lord, and the influence that is vital, is His own. From Him comes the strength and aid necessary for these works! He is indeed a solver of riddles and a translator of truth to the heart of man, that he might see.
 

AUGUST

New book just published, August 2, 2002
Earth Spasm, Conscience Chasm: and the Renewal of life

This is a varied volume, in which the clashes of fiction with fact, delusion with faith, reality with pretence, virtue with vice figure; and it has its historical study, intensively in I and II Kings with special reference to Elijah and Elisha, their words and ministries. These are taken in a survey of scope in the mighty works of the Lord, their significance, their consummation and the perspective of divine intervention in natural affairs.

The concept of Nature is examined, and the supernatural is seen in terms of scientific method, in the actualities of creation, as in the Bible itself.

This is a volume of oversight and insight emphasis.

 

PART VIII

SEPTEMBER 2002
 
 1) NEW BOOK   The 54^th volume has just been published. It is called:

Christ Jesus: the Wisdom of God and the Power of God

History time!

The power and the wisdom of God is too much forgotten in the slime-covered chains of naturalism. Those who break free are at times in danger of forgetting the simple fact that GOD HAS POWER,

that it is available for His mission and purposes,

that it is not another way of seeking pleasure but of securing performance in His love for His mission, church and word,

in order that men, women and children may find Him,  and in Him that resource, recourse, resourcefulness, wit and wonder that the waterfall merely suggests, the mountains intimate in their beautiful massiveness and space recalls in its majesty and grandeur.

He has made these. It is vital to know Him, and hence time in this volume is given to history, focussing Kings and Chronicles, and beyond, as well as more recent times, again featuring the testimony of Jesus Christ whether on earth, or in the whole panoply of the divine revelation. The exemplification of the principles and precepts which God has revealed is a delight in historical survey, which also helps relate prophecies to the prophets concerned, as well  as the God who gave them!

2) New Biographical Work.

The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge has written to ask permission to feature once more our author, Rev.  Dr.  Robert E. Donaldson, this time in their work,

Dictionary of International Biography, in its 30^th edition, due early 2003.

Permission is given, and it is hoped that this free incorporation will help our work to bring even more to Christ, more to strengthening, revival and joy in the Lord, more to an exuberant love of the truth; and as always, it is our thrust that HE be acknowledged, for in very truth, it is Christ’s strength and inspiration which has led to these publications which make up most of our site at WWWW.

October 2002

This month a new work that may interest many has been published. Its title,

Calibrating Myths, Machining Dreams and Keeping Faith, is given at this site, but you may see a description here. The shorter description comes second in this reference, so if you are hurried, look for FURTHER INTRODUCTION. Many correlations and references occur, and here is an opportunity to collate many fields.

 

November 2002

We are proceeding with Gracious Goodness and This World in Disorder.

SO far, at Nov. 5, it has 5 chapters, including study of Psalm 82-83, and an intensive survey with exposition of Genesis 1, on the one hand,  and Genesis 2-4, on the other, with extension to Genesis 11 and application throughout prophets to the Messiah. This is correlative to A Spiritual Potpourri Ch. 9 and The Biblical Workman Ch. 7,  and read with them, gives a composite cover of beginnings, relative to the  end.

 

Under Bible Study, you will find many more items on  beginnings

New Material on Domestic Relations is to be found at Ch. 3 of this new work, and a contemporary survey at Ch. 4, which has much to do with Israel, without by any means being limited to it…

Why not survey the new book, even though it has not yet been completed, at this site ?

 

December 2002

Gracious Goodness and This World in Disorder is  now published.

Already a fascinating topic,

No Thanks, Angst! Truth’s Alive, Resurrected and Written

has also been published, this month. Would you like to open this ?

Considerable exposition of biblical passages is to be found in this volume as we see the governance of the word of God. The whole modern phenomenon of angst, in strong accord with the astonishingly majestic, extraordinarily direct and wholly reliable predictions of the book of the Lord. How incisive His ways and how verified His word, which sits like the spiritual sun in its glory, shining and revealing, in light dazzling without the softening glory of the Son, leaving nothing to itself, exposing all things.

In this volume also, there is opportunity to trace the reply to a questing soul, and to ponder how elegantly sufficient is the work of God, how clear His word, how alive His salvation, like riding in a boat on the waves, with the fresh keen salt of reality and the wonder of the disappearing blue, which yet is there in the distance, after the droll indifference of this dreamy world.

Meanwhile we praise the Lord for His goodness in the news that Rev Dr Robert Donaldson, whose books are here published, is scheduled for inclusion in another of the biographical works of the International Biographical Centre, in Cambridge, England.

Its name:

One Thousand Great Intellectuals.

Such help has been provided for these works that it is good such events as these may assist people to find the Author of Ourselves! for in all things is He reliable, faithful and good beyond all measure. He needs to be KNOWN!

January 2003

Dastardly Dynamics,

Delirious Daubs,

Wandering Woes,

Bleary Theories

and

IMMOVABLE FAITH

Is now published,  the 58^th on this site, and you may be interested in this nest of the topical, the current, the newsworthy, the blend of the ancient and the modern, the scriptural and the contemporary, and the application of the former in the domain of the latter.

It includes further discussion, relayed with anonymity, from web contact.

Notice too that there are now around

250 pages of various indexes (scriptural, to show on what pages a given verse may be found, topical with numerous sub-topics to facilitate finding what you seek,  and glossary. The glossary itself has nearly

70 additional pages, contactable either from the hyperlinks on the pages themselves, where applicable, or from the glossary index,  to let you know which words or terms are given treatment in the various glossaries, and where terms may be defined, or at  times concise coverages encapsulated for stimulus and aid to thought.

These are all available from the Home page, but are added here to facilitate excursion.

The Indexes include four major ones:

TOPICAL, Main Trilogy
BIBLICAL, Main Trilogy
TOPICAL, The Rest
BIBLICAL, The Rest

The Alphabetical Glossary for the trilogy is also available.

For a new Sermon, incorporating a New Year Message – this one on I Corinthians 15, that steadfast core chapter that combines summary, argumentation and inspiration, with glory – see THE SITE (for sermons). This sermon appears as the last in the list.

Of interest is the advice from International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, that Rev. Dr. Robert Donaldson has been judged worthy of their award:

The Who’s Who Award for Achievement 2002.

We thank God for this, as it may amplify our audience; but the whole objective is one, to find people for Christ, who are lost, and to fortify, refresh and bring blessing to those who are already found, while glorifying God, in the name of Jesus Christ, the ONLY DOOR, Himself integral to the very house, the Son of the living God.

It is also pleasing to note that there appear, on estimate, now to be several hundred thousand visits of various kinds, made to our site annually. Since Christ is the truth, this is ground for further praise to God who makes all things work together for good for those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose, which in Christ is wonderful.

If you have not as yet found Him, try to door (John 10:9,27-28). If you have, then rejoice, for His coming draws near (Answers to Questions Ch. 5); and though no one knows when, this we know, BE PREPARD!

NEW YEAR GREETINGS:

Get spiritual perspective based on the Bible, its application in history and in life! For this see the January 1, 2003 upload

There’s a War on, and It’s not in Iraq!

Look behind and in front, and consider what time is for …

February 2003

The 59th volume on this site, on Biblical Christian Apologetics has been published, late in January. It is entitled,

To Know God,

the Power of Christ’s Resurrection and the Fellowship of His Sufferings.

In this work, the title delineates the topic, always keeping Christ in focus, without whom is no good thing that lasts, for He who is equal with God and from eternity, alone can bring to it in peace. In this volume, Job is given substantial treatment with special emphasis on suffering - in 3 chapters, as is the unity of the faith over the ages. The book of Acts is also summoned to attest these things, within its first 12 chapters, whilst Daniel too comes to the bar; and the trilogy of knowing your God, receiving and using His power for His purposes and the value and victory of sufferings in His company is focussed constantly.

The 60^th volume is also published this month, namely:

Great Execrations, Great Enervations, Greater Grace

Diversity in the current contemporary period, intensity in scriptural applications, and investigation of the theme make of this a pathway to thought, challenge to faith to expand and appeal to those who do not yet know their Creator as the meaning of life, the purpose of destiny and the Lover of His people, to review their needless omission, lest it become reckless as well.

The last chapter on JOEL and ROBOTS also allows the presentation of the GREATER GRACE of God. Technology is an (advancing) instrument of man; GRACE is an infinite disposition of God. It is witheringly easy to miss it! (cf. Matthew 7:15, 21), but flourishingly peaceable to receive it.

Meanwhile, we have just been advised of the inclusion of Rev. Dr. Robert Donaldson who has authored these books, in another planned publication of the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England,

“One Thousand Great Scholars”,

the proof for the publisher being now returned.

For this, we give thanks to God, if it should help any to read the testimony of reason and truth, to Christ Jesus here presented, to the Lord, and only Saviour, without whom the world is approaching a darkness worse than physical, the less endurable for those who prefer it to its Maker and Saviour, because it is a needless suffering and a pointless end. He did not come that we should go, but that we should come – to Him!

March 2003

A new volume is now under construction, and earlier chapters may be consulted. Its name is –

Of the Earth, Earthy or Celestial in Christ, and it early provides exposition in Christian Apologetic perspective, of I Corinthians 15. Moving into recent News, in Biblical perspective, this volume keeps to the theme of the massive available wonder of that splendid and delightful person, Jesus Christ, who as God has shown us the heights of sublimity in man’s format, and on the other hand, the clinging clay which many seem to want to carry about on their boots, several inches thick, wondering perhaps while walking is so difficult.

Also, new facility has been provided for chapters of volumes, so that if you happen to come to one direct, you may at once from the top of the file, take a link to the Home Page, or to the Contents Page of the Volume in which your chapter is to be found, or to this your present site,
What is new ? This matter is now being refined.

Meanwhile, an update is being undertaken, as many of the files, constructed in one Browser system, need adjustment for the other, to come nearer to the original architectural  and typographical intention.

APRIL 2003

A new volume has just been published (March).

It is one that now forms some 462 pages constituting a Companion Volume to that of Predestination and Freewill (1964).  As the disparity in the dates of these two works indicates (over 38 years), there has been a long time for much more on this topic to be written, and some of this the author has brought into one  format, and the whole composed, connected and given more completion.

This compilation, then, made available for April 2003, is rendered from various of the published works on this topic earlier provided on this site, with addition and development where this seems apt, allowing the reader to visit topic-wise, in different dimensions with comparative ease.

In yet greater scope, we see the ebullience of these concepts of predestination and will from the Bible, their integration in themselves and their application to reality so broad, so efficient, that the source of this biblical revelation is once again attested in the marvels of coverage which it provides, leaving nothing out, embracing everything, but not with clammy arms: rather with an integrity both personal and unchangeable.

Note that the Exordium found in the hyperlink below, along with the contents, is of particular significance in this case, covering allied concepts and issues in overview.

The new work is titled MARVELS OF PREDESTINATION and the WAYS OF WILL.

MAY 2003

1) FIRST STAGE OF MAY

A new work has come into flower at Easter, this year. Its name ?

Of the Earth, Earthy, or Celestial in Christ.

An extract from the Preface, a little extended, will suffice to indicate its nature.

I Corinthians 15 has some wonderful contrasts: the first man, Adam, the ultimate man, Christ the Lord. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

 

Now we are finding the funding of nearly everything imaginable that is earthy, worldly, carnal, rapacious, insolent and demanding; and hearing nearly everything that is raucous, obtuse and insurgent, from bin Laden to Communism, from Islamic submission requirements of those subordinated to these false lords, to the arrant yabber, deemed funny for some reason, of cartoons which reduce man to a motivated, moulded relic of a meaning no longer to be found.

 

The celestial is abused, its name debased whether in the slaughter of people in shopping malls because somebody called ‘Allah’ allegedly wants it, to the devising of means of allowing what destroys to become the lord of what builds. And what sort of destruction would that be ? That is what the Bible has long called Apollyon, the devil, whose varied functions include accusing the brethren (normally falsely), contesting righteousness, inducing fear of death, alienating from God, inducing to love the means of life more than life (‘Mammon’), tempting and corrupting. He can come dressed in flowing white robes which do nothing for his heart, but much for those whom he dupes, surrounded with flowing verbiage, elevating himself or his false prophets to the heavens, while his ways are earthy.

 

These two courses, those of the bacteria and those of the body, those of the creation and those of the desecration, they continue parallel for a time, until the judgment. In biblical words, these are the wheat and the tares of Christ’s parable in Matthew13:24ff., which grow up together until the harvest, by which time … they are readily recognised.

 

For the Easter Message associated with this, please use this hyperlink.

 

In this work, contemporary events, biblical exposition and in all, application for Christian Apologetics abound. In particular, thought is given to the possibility that a freed Iraq will ostensibly with democratic power, opt for Islam with suppression of all opposition. It could include the normal (but principially abnormal) horrors such as amputation of hands for theft, subjugation of women in an incredible macho riot and the like, as is sometimes found in Islamic settings. Thus minority groups could be gobbled up, and the tyranny of a mere majority become, not the essential thrust of the State, but a new dictatorship of intolerance and arbitrary irrationalism (cf. More Marvels ... Ch. 4), as horrendous as Saddam Hussein.

News this morning, Easter Saturday, on ABC News Radio, indicates the arrival of a Sunni Mullah, who had apparently not found it fitting to be in Baghdad earlier, with a message for an Islamic State, which could readily amount to a new tyranny. In this new volume on our site, Number 62, this possibility was raised before the inflammatory message just heard; and it could be so because the US conception that democracy is liberty is not adequate. Democracy, unless seen in a setting of restraint, can mean tyranny as even Plato showed in his Republic. The protection of minority liberty of speech, and from persecution with physical power against truth on the basis of a religious foray could make Iraq MORE dangerous, like North Korea, than it was, Just as Islam, Communism and Romanism, as often shown on this site, are three contestants for world rule, and there is only one world, and none is correct in method or message, all touting omnipotence that (mercifully) is not so, and demonstrably not so, apart from all else, one can expect OPPORTUNITY as Iraq may seem to those pushing for this kind of power, to turn readily to IMPORTUNITY, as they try to grab it.

It must be made clear, if the US is to use wisdom at all in this affair, that the concept of liberty which she embraces is not FORCE ALL TO DO WHAT MOST WANT to the exclusion of liberty to think and speak otherwise, so that future generations may likewise possess the same determinative power, and some one generation does not in a merely human way, though of course with great fanfare, seize the reins to deny all others.

Christ does not WANT this world on its own terms, for His kingdom is not of this world. WHEN HE COMES, as He soon will (Answers to Questions Ch. 5), the generation by GOD of the human race will lead to the generation FOR God of the rule OF God, AS God. That is the only other option, which this world has made it most clear for two millenia, it does not want. Sin is like that. It wants itself. It will get it: in that doom of forsaken because forsaking personality which is appalling to conceive because here justice, judgment and truth will mingle.

In the love of Christ, however, we can hope for liberty to preach the Gospel alone rational, alone scientifically confirmed by scientific method, alone logically viable, alone divinely authorised, alone constantly confirmed, alone personally represented with divine power and alone exhibited in millenia of always fulfilled prophecy, alone meeting the logical requirements of validity... to preach it in Iraq, lest American lives were lost merely to enable tyranny to bloom on the blood caked soil, again, in its dark flowers.

22) SECOND STAGE OF MAY