Check Your Panoply THE FIRST HINT of present truth came through the revelation of a new expectation in Thessalonians and Corinthians, where God reveals the secret of the resurrection—that the dead in Christ as well as we, the living, shall at the same time be snatched away, together, to meet the Lord in the air…

 Check Your Panoply WE SHOULD NOT cease praising the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that we have been saved from our sins, and are being saved from sin, and that He provides us with a present salvation in the celestial spheres, as well, for otherwise we would not be able to have…

Check Your Panoply WHEN PAUL, in Ephesians 6:16, speaks of “the large shield of faith,” he uses a wonderful figure of speech which, indeed, covers all the various aspects of faith he has in mind. The apostle’s command to take up this large shield implies the necessity of exercising individual faith and broadening the realm…

Check Your Panoply PUTTING ON THE PANOPLY of God is something that cannot be accomplished without “praying on every occasion” (Eph.6:18). This signifies that the various phases (girding the loins, putting on the cuirass, etc.) should each be accompanied by such prayers and petitions, as were practiced by Paul and his associates. Before going further…

Check Your Panoply The articles in this book were originally published in our bimonthly magazine, UNSEARCHABLE RICHES, during the years 1960 through 1963. Many references therein are made to earlier volumes of our magazine, not giving the year of publication, but rather the volume number (often in Roman numerals). Most of the New Testament quotations…

Check Your Panoply WHEN WE OPEN up our printed Word of God and come to the first page of Ephesians, many of us will find it well-worn from much reading. We would probably point to the first chapter of this epistle if we were asked to show where the most precious divine declarations for us…

Check Your Panoply GRACE is a word which is often abused when it is used. A minister may preach a very good sermon on “Grace” one Sunday and the following one return to some pet subject in the “gospels” and thereby negate all he once said. When God began to gush forth grace, He introduced…

Check Your Panoply “Stand, then, girded about your loins with truth, with the cuirass of righteousness put on, and your feet sandaled with the readiness of the evangel of peace” (Eph. 6:14,15). That which pertains to the first and second part of our spiritual suit of armor, applies to the third part as well, i.e.,…

  Check Your Panoply THE WORDING “every prayer and petition,” in Ephesians 6:18, led us to observe Paul’s prayer habits closely. Such a study would be incomplete without pondering over those words of prayer which are, at the same time, the very climax of the Ephesian epistle (Eph. 3:14-21). After the presentation of the three…

Check Your Panoply THE TERM faith occurs 244 times in the whole “New Testament,” and 142 times in Paul’s writings alone. Even more striking is the fact that there are forty occurrences in Romans, exactly the same number as in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Acts together. That which the apostle explains in the first…