James Kifer

When the prophet Malachi finished his book circa 400 B.C. the Old Testament revelation of God was complete. He apparently spoke to mankind not at all for some four centuries thereafter. In these 400 years Western Civilization grew from infancy through the glory of Greece to the grandeur of Rome. Colossal figures such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar bestrode...

To many God is a fierce, wrathful, Divine monarch whose impatience with humanity has long been demon-strated, nowhere more pointedly than in the Old Testament where He destroyed people and nations with an almost gleeful abandon. According to this version of the Almighty, His character was tempered somewhat by the coming of His Son, and He became the God of the New Testament. Such a view is a...

Is the animal kingdom, the foxes, fowls and others to which Jesus constantly referred a momentary vapor that briefly appears before vanishing at death? By examining Bible narratives this book attempts to provide scriptural answers to this question. Simply stated, does this element of God's Creation live in heaven?

As the world's population escalates the age-old problem of loneliness seems not to lessen, but rather to intensify. Especially now when a viral pandemic has battered the entire world, and populations have been locked down, effectively exiled and with a certain brutality even forced to be isolated, loneliness and its woes afflict massive numbers. It did not begin recently, though, and the Bible...