Chugley's Chatter

Co-Co, the coconut-throwing chimpanzee schoolmaster taught his students to strive to understand the essence of any work of literature – most especially THE WORD OF THE GOD OF KING SOLOMON. He would throw his coconuts with unerring accuracy at any student who could not apprehend the underlying thesis of any book and articulate it concisely and succinctly. Co-Co would always illustrate how to pierce the heart of a book. He argued that The Book of Daniel is, in essence, the answer to two questions: King Nebuchadnezzar: ‘What shall come to pass hereafter?’ (2:29) Daniel, The King’s Captive: ‘What shall befall…

Read More Read More

Last week, in our study of selected scriptures in ‘The Writings of Daniel’, we examined The Babylonian Kingdom – ‘The Head of Gold’ (Daniel 2:38b) in King Nebuchadnezzar’s Image. This week, we are focusing on ‘The Breast and Arms of Silver’ of Nebuchadnezzar’s Image (Daniel 2:32). This subsequent kingdom was The conqueror of The Babylonian Kingdom (539 B,C,E.), The Kingdom of The Medes and The Persians. The Medo-Persian Empire was ruled initially for two years by Darius The Mede, Cyaxares II, and then by Cyrus The Persian and his descendants. The mighty Median kingdom’s last king was Cyaxares II, Darius…

Read More Read More

The Neo-Babylonian Empire Last week, we observed that the royal princes Daniel, Hananiah, MIshael & Azariah’s tragic captivity in Babylon had been prophesied by the prophet, Isaiah, in the year 714 B.C.E. , their ancestor, King Hezekiah, ‘s extraordinary Fourteenth Year. In 714 B.C.E. the Assyrian Empire ruled the world but as our learned teacher, Co-Co, always used to stress, ‘THE LORD WHO SITTETH UPON THE CIRCLE OF THE EARTH bringeth The Princes to Nothing’ (Isaiah 40:22 & 23). The mighty Sennacherib, King of Assyria, (as Isaiah had prophesied in Hezekiah’s Fourteenth Year,) lost One Hundred and Fourscore and Five…

Read More Read More

‘The Visit of The Queen of Sheba to Solomon’ Edward Poynter (1890) Ever since King Solomon brought ‘apes and peacocks’ (I Kings 10:22b) to His wondrous court, all chimpanzees ( a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa) have been schooled rigorously in the history of the great king’s land. The most famous of the teachers of the chimpanzees was a stern scholar named ‘Co-Co’. (The chimpanzees called him by that name because he threw coconuts at any young, inattentive student with unerring accuracy.) When Co-Co taught us it was not enough to have…

Read More Read More

The Six-Fold Work of Redemption: To Finish The Transgression ‘That by means of Death, For The Redemption of The Transgressions, That were under The First Testament, They, which are called, might receive The Promise of Eternal Inheritance’ (Hebrews 9:15). To Make An End Of Sins ‘When HE had by HIMSELF purged Our Sins’ (Hebrews 1:3b). To Make Reconciliation For Iniquity ‘That HE might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in Things Pertaining to GOD, To Make Reconciliation for The Sins of The People’ (Hebrews 2:17b). To Bring in Everlasting Righteousness ‘But, unto THE SON HE saith, “‘THY THRONE, O…

Read More Read More