Volume 1: You Are My Beloved Son
For a variety of reasons which might include using natural wisdom, a desire for sensationalism, needing to get 'man' back in control, or whatever, the human race comes up with weird, clever, mystical, ordinary, 'insights' concerning Jesus Christ: who he 'really' was, how he 'really' lived, where he 'really' came from, what he 'really' taught and did! So, here is a light volume which aims to put the focus back on the Jesus Christ revealed in the canon of Scripture - of whom 'a voice came from heaven which said, "You are My beloved Son"' (Luke 3: 22).^ Top
Volume 2: I And My Father Are One
When I was in Ireland someone said to me in a voice confident with learned
intellectual certainty, “Of course, Jesus in the Holy Bible never claimed to be God.”
My immediate thought was, wait a minute, Jesus did say, “Most assuredly, I say to
you, before Abraham was, I AM.”(John 8: 58): this being His name that the LORD told
to Moses (which therefore meant that Jesus was claiming to actually be JEHOVAH!).
With more time later to look, this light volume is dedicated to considering the question
‘does Jesus claim that He is God?’.^ Top
Volume 3: I Am The Lord - That Is My Name
Part 1 – The LORD of hosts, the Ancient of Days, seems largely to have lost His
position of power, authority, dominion and glory in these ‘enlightened’ days,
especially in western cultures which tend to view God as being somewhat like
Charlton Heston wearing a long grey Hollywood beard – and probably considered just
as relevant to daily life!
Since the idea of having any ‘fear’ of the LORD (that is awe, respect, reverence of His
holy name) has generally become redundant in our societies where man is ‘god’ and
(imagined) master of his or her own destiny, together of course with the plethora of
gods featured in the variety of ‘world religions’ which exist, this light volume (1 of 2) is
intended to be a reminder of Old Testament revelations regarding the character and
nature of the one true God who is LORD in Holy Scriptures.^ Top
Volume 4: I Am The Lord - That Is My Name
Part 2 – New Testament Scriptures continue to reveal the nature and character of God, including His extraordinary mercy, grace and love for humanity, as well as the judgement He will bring upon all who reject the salvation offered through the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Despite all we think of ourselves, Scripture makes it clear that, these are the ‘last days’, with the age of the Gentiles running out its course absolutely according to God’s plan. Comparing this light volume (volume 2) on an equivalent page number basis with its parallel companion volume 1 gives an indication of the integrity, unity and totality of the Holy Bible: Old Testament prophecies and inspirations becoming fulfilled or explained in New Testament revelations.^ Top
Volume 5: All Power In Heaven and On Earth
Wrapped in grave clothes, the brutalized and crucified dead body (confirmed by 'expert' Roman soldiers) of Jesus Christ was laid in the unused cave tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, its entrance then being sealed with a heavy stone. Three days later (as prophesied in Holy Scriptures) Christ's dead physical body could not be found, despite desperate temple guards having been present. Risen from the dead and in a glorified body, Jesus Christ subsequently met with His disciples to tell them that, not only was His restored life an eternal life, but God the Father had given Him, "All power and all authority in heaven and on earth" (which is 'a lot of power' I once heard someone remark). This volume explores Jesus Christ's sevenfold expression of power - of which His redemptive power must be the centrepiece and pinnacle of God's mercy and grace towards the human race.^ Top
Volume 6: Come And Let Us Walk in the Light of the LORD
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These two volumes contain Scripture texts in English and Hebrew (with covers and formatting as appropriate for English or Hebrew use). The LORD God of the Holy Bible made an unbreakable covenant with Abraham, that from him would come a nation who would be God’s own people. This nation, Israel, was intended by God to be a holy people, a people who walked in faith with the LORD, a people who revered God and lived according to the Law and commandments that He gave to the Jews through Moses – an example to the whole world of existence in continuous daily fellowship with the one true and living God. Of course, Israel failed and continues to fail to do this. Israel even rejected, and crucified, their promised Messiah, and still largely denies that Jesus Christ is God’s Anointed. The story of Israel reflects the story of mankind itself: Old and New Testament pages deliver both God’s appraisal and God’s judgement. But, in the latter days when Messiah returns, ‘out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.’ (Isaiah 2: 3). Israel will then walk again in the light of the LORD.^ Top
Volume 7: The Sun of Righteousness (Part 1)
God the Creator made a perfect world: in it He made man and woman with the potential to be perfect also. But, with very little persuasion, they disobeyed their Maker, choosing rather to rebel in sinful pride against the LORD – and the whole human race continues to suffer the consequences of inevitably following in their footsteps. The Holy Scriptures make it clear who has been, and still is running the present world and its systems: however the LORD, the Most High God actually so loved mankind that He provided a Saviour to redeem us from the bleak iniquity of our sins – His own beloved Son, Christ the Lord.^ Top
Volume 8: The Sun of Righteousness (Part 2)
The apostles who followed Jesus of Nazareth, and Saul of Tarsus (Paul)
who met Him on the Damascus road, finally understood the good news – that by God’s
grace we are saved from eternal death through faith in the finished work on the cross
of the Son Christ Jesus. These all gave their lives as Christ’s witnesses, knowing they
had been redeemed to eternal life by His shed blood. Now this whole fallen world
awaits the return of God the Son, who will rule in righteousness for a thousand years –
until He sanctifies a people for whom He will make all things new and everlasting.
Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus!^ Top
Volume 9: Blessed Is He
Part 1 – The first of two companions, this volume considering the One who ‘cometh in the name of the LORD’ according to Holy Scriptures. These identify Him as a blessing to the world: seen long before His birth by Old Testament prophets, claimed by Jesus of Nazareth, explained by New Testament apostles, finally revealed by the glorified Christ.^ Top
Volume 10: For He Cometh
Part 2 – The second companion, this volume considering now the One who Holy Scriptures say is ‘coming to judge the earth’. Again, the whole canon of Scripture refers to God’s righteous Judge – Jesus of Nazareth claimed that He would return suddenly,‘as a thief in the night’, to bring the LORD’S judgement upon mankind’s apathetic disinterest, or outright hostility, towards the Saviour of the world.^ Top
Volume 11: Whoever Denies ME Before Men
Christ (Heb. Messiah, God’s Anointed One) – God the Son – stepped out of eternity, set aside His glory and majesty, humbled Himself to become a Man obedient to death (even though He was without sin and spotless) to pay the price required by God the Father to buy humanity out of its bondage to sin. While this time of grace lasts, whoever believes in the Son’s work of atonement has a way, the only way acceptable to the Father, to come into God’s presence washed clean of sin by His Son’s precious blood, and clothed in His Son’s perfect righteousness. Now the Son says to us all, “But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.” Each of us must choose – and the choice made will determine how and where the eternal soul of each of us will spend eternity!
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Volume 12: He Who Has The Son, Has The Life
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” God has given to each one of His higher creations the personal choice of where and how their immortal soul will spend eternity – either ‘alive’ in the light with Him or ‘dead’ in darkness and always separated from Him. God has chosen to provide one way to come into His presence, one way only to receive His light of everlasting life: Scripture states simply, ‘God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.’^ Top
Volume 13: Messiah - Who Is He (Vol 1)
Primarily concerned with Old Testament (Heb. Tanakh) revelations of this mysterious figure about whom the prophets wrote – yet could not understand. The same Anointed One from God was to come into the world as a Servant, but would also rule the nations with a rod of iron! He would save and redeem a holy people, but would also condemn multitudes to destruction! This One was Eternal God, yet He would be born of a woman to die as God’s sacrificial Lamb.^ Top
Volume 14: Messiah - Who Is He (Vol 2)
The New Testament (Heb. B’rit Hadashah) pulls aside the veil to reveal Messiah (Gk. Christ) clothed in humanity as Jesus of Nazareth at His first coming into the world – not with glory and power, but humbly as a an obedient Son, totally committed to the Father’s work of providing forgiveness for human sin and the means for reconciliation with God. As He left the world having accomplished redemption, raised back to life by the Father’s power, the promise of His return – His second coming – was confirmed. Then it will be with absolute power to judge the ungodly who reject Him, and finally to establish God’s eternal kingdom in a new heaven and a new earth which He Himself will create.^ Top
Volume 15: And The Slain Of The Lord Shall Be Many
Both the Old and New Testaments speak clearly of God’s righteous judgment against iniquitous humanity, and of His abiding wrath against mankind’s rebellion and love of sin. The LORD judged Israel severely for its spiritual unfaithfulness, but He then also brought His anger against its attackers for bringing reproach on His holy name. The Lord, Christ the Lamb, who is revealed in the last book of the Holy Bible comes wearing garments stained with the blood of many battles, with the greatest – Armageddon – used to cleanse the world and restore it to God.^ Top
Volume 16: Before They Spring Forth
The Scriptures contain numerous prophecies foretelling future events as determined by God’s plan for mankind and for the world. Many Old Testament prophecies refer specifically to the coming Messiah (Christ) and to His life, death and purpose. Others concern God’s responses to our behaviour in the world, and to the very future of the world itself. Since the odds are staggering against multiple prophecies being fulfilled ‘by chance’, especially by one person, this volume considers 50 prophetic writings from many centuries before Jesus Christ’s birth in terms of actual events that subsequently transpired according to historical record.^ Top
Volume 17: I Am He
When Moses asked God His name he was told to tell the children of Israel “ ‘I AM’ has sent me to you”, thus revealing God’s covenant name as the eternally existent One. Old Testament prophets foretold a Messiah who would be ‘God-With-Us’, that the Eternal One Himself would be born of a virgin in the small town of Bethlehem – and the ‘I AM’ entered the world as Jesus of Nazareth. This Jesus, the Christ, showed the extraordinary meaning of the name ‘I AM’ in a number of profound claims including, ‘…before Abraham was, I AM.’ Jesus Christ was last seen by the world nailed to a Roman cross in abject humiliation, but His apostle John saw the exalted Christ, ‘I AM’ the Almighty, prepared for His second coming to bring the fury of the wrath of God on the world of sinful mankind.^ Top
Volume 18: The Foolishness Of God
God’s ‘foolishness’ is only foolish to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to those who are being saved by the preaching of the cross – because the ‘foolishness’ of God is wiser than men. And God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise; and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.^ Top
Volume 19: Days Of Completion
The Scripture (Genesis) tells us that God created the heavens, the earth and all its inhabitants in a ‘first’ seven days, and that everything made had the potential to be perfect. However, one small test of obedience to our Maker’s will revealed both human and angelic rebellion – plunging the whole creation into corruption. Despite this, the Almighty already had a plan in place to redeem His creation and humanity with it, through the dispensation and fulfilment of a ‘second’ series of seven days that ultimately will bring about the consummation of all things.^ Top
Volume 20: In Righteousness He Judges
The LORD has spoken through the prophets of Holy Scripture to confirm that His promises to the world and its peoples are true, and will be accomplished. Jesus Christ, the Son of God will judge the nation Israel, and He will judge all the Gentile nations – and His judgments will be righteous, true and final. The Father gave His beloved Son to die for the sins of the world. His Son’s shed blood is the only acceptable propitiation to the Father for human sin – and only those who accept God’s gift of grace to stand before Him clothed in the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ will escape the judgment of God’s wrath against human sin.^ Top
Volume 21: Witness of the Light
NOTE: Some decorative fonts and illuminated pages have been used in this volume that may require extra study – hopefully enjoyable! Chapter one of John’s Gospel tells us that there was a man (John the Baptist) sent by God to bear witness of the Light – that is the Light of God Himself come into the world as its Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus of Nazareth. So Scripture was fulfilled, and the voice of one crying in the wilderness was heard. Throughout the Holy Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, this true Light of God is both promised and revealed.^ Top
Volume 22: THY WORD IS TRUTH
Beginning with the first man and woman, humanity consistently disobeys God’s holy law and rebels against our Maker – and we’re promised that ‘the wages of sin is death’. Yet God’s grace offers the whole human race forgiveness and redemption through the Son, Jesus Christ, who came into the world to ‘call sinners to repentance.’ But God’s patience is not endless and the time of His judgment of sin will come – His word promises it!^ Top
Volume 23: SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL
The Creator gave Adam and Eve authority, rule and dominion over His creation, but they wilfully and rebelliously handed that authority to the ‘Serpent of old’ and enabled him to become the ‘ruler of this age’. However, God’s plan to take back the world and the whole created order through the power of His Son, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is revealed in the Book of Revelation, when all things and all humanity will be judged!^ Top
Volume 24: HALLOWED BE THY NAME
Throughout the Scriptures men and woman have recognized and rejoiced in God’s great power, mercy and awesome glory – and expressed their joy and worship to the Lord in ‘doxologies’ (hymns and psalms of praise to God). Praise, wonder and rejoicing culminates when Christ redeems creation and restores it to the Father – then dismisses the old corrupted order so as to create the new!^ Top
Volume 25: CALL HIS NAME IMMAN'UEL
The Holy Bible is the story of one person – the second person of the Trinity. It is He who stepped down from eternity and into the world as Jesus of Nazareth (God-with-Us) to save His people from their bondage to sin and death and to bring us back into relationship with the Father God of eternity. Scripture abounds with the many names, titles and descriptions that the Father has chosen to confer onto His only Beloved, so as to reveal His Son – Jesus Christ the Lord.^ Top
Volume 26: ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM
The LORD God of Scripture is One – He is one being, there is no other God. Yet the Holy Bible reveals God as one being in the three persons of Father, Son and Holy Spirit (difficult to comprehend isn’t it!). Indeed, the Holy Bible claims to be inspired by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God is identified (Genesis chapter 1) as God’s instrument of creation – this Word, the Creator Himself, having been ‘made flesh and dwelt among us’ (John chapter 1) as Jesus of Nazareth the Lord and Christ (Messiah).^ Top
