Firstborn - a mysterious key to the priesthood, the Covenant and the Messiah.--Some practical pointed application.

Thomas is an exact image of ourselves. We see how he was saved from the utmost despair.

Christianity is the atonement.

Such loss at the end as this world and all its allurements that took multitudes off from God and the truth come to a miserable end.

Who would expect to hear God's word in a prison, from a slave- Yet the gospel is so close to us, we must listen to it.

The seven bowls of wrath are poured out in God's perfect judgment on all unbelief and opposition to the truth and God's people.

The influence of secular and religious powers against the Church.

Israel comes to make David king after the long and miserable rule of Saul. As someone is converted they at last seek the Lord Jesus Christ to rule their lives as they change allegiance.

Now live the Christian life says Paul. Continue daily to put off the old man and be renewed in our minds and put on the new man.

What was happening at the time of the Saviour's incarnation in the spiritual realm-