Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: November–December 2020
In Genesis 1:11, 12, there is a divinely-ordained law declaring that everything which
possessed life should bring forth after its kind: Like is to bring forth like.
Within that law, the power of reproduction is ordained in the seed, a “seeding yielding
seed.” This principle was not altered at the fall of man; life within the seed is to bring
forth after its kind.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: November–December 2020
Luke 2:7 states, “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling
clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” Ancient
tradition places the birthplace of our Lord in a cave, for caves were used as stables in most
countries with rocky terrain. The Greek word for inn is kataluma, denoting the
simplest of inns. It is similar to a Syrian khan—a refuge from thieves, a shelter
from the heat and dust, a place where a man and his beasts may lodge, where a trader may sell
his wares, and a pilgrim may slake his thirst. However, in such inns the visitor had to do
everything for himself.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: September–October 2000
One of history’s great conspiracies is found in the story of the birth of Christ. In
Matthew 2 when the Magi came to Jerusalem, they had an audience with Herod, the
Roman-appointed King of the Jews. They inquired of where the Christ-child should be born.
When the Sanhedrin gave the prophecy of Micah to him, Herod proceeded to speak kindly to the
Magi saying, “Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him,
bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also” (Matt. 2:8). Herod claimed a
desire to worship the baby born king, convincing the Magi that his motive was sincere.
Because of his guile, they knew not the conspiracy he cleverly had plotted against the
Christ-child. They did not read his evil heart. Nevertheless, through a dream God warned the
Magi to go home another way.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: September–October 2000
To know through Scripture where we are in history is a great strength to the heart. While
this is the greatest hour to be a Christian, it is also the most difficult hour to be a
Christian. Every Christian throughout history has been divinely appointed to live proving
God’s grace in his unique generation. We are to live this Christian life with and for the
Saviour to His glory. At the same time, we are called upon by God’s grace in our appointed
generation to be light to this world and salt to this earth. Being a light to
our generation is not simply sharing the Gospel in evangelism; we are to be a light against
sin, error, and the apostasy. Accompanying light is salt; we must be a restrainer of all evil
and wrong against God.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: September–October 2000
American history will mark the year 2020 as its most crucial year yet. This year has seen
state powers manifesting mandates that literally have altered the living of its citizens,
even boldly attacking many churches through heavy fines or closings (comfortably ignored by
the media). These mandates also extended to closing or limiting attendance to small
businesses in many states. Some governors confined travel and even dictated what could or
could not be purchased. With all their mandates, still well over one thousand cities were
subjected to burnings, riots, and destruction from so-called “peaceful demonstrations” by
Marxist organizations (and financially sponsored by billionaires who sympathize with
America’s overthrow).
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: July–August 2020
Presently our country is experiencing the radical powers of not only the Antifa and Black
Lives Matter movements but also the political beasts of the Washington swamp with its social
media cohorts. Their overwhelming forceful, demonically energized anger against America and
its Constitution is found throughout the boisterous political spectrum of liberalism; all are
seeking a complete overthrow of the America we once knew. Today, in America we are in the
throes of a revolutionary movement of “cancel culture.” The current Covid-19 pandemic has
been politically manipulated to catapult our nation into a sweeping and aggressive movement
to destroy and redefine this once-honored country.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: July–August 2020
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, our beloved country has experienced a silent,
growing revolution in American culture that has evolved this year into an explosive,
oppressive, and intentionally harmful culture that is being forced upon America and its
citizens. This cultural revolution has surpassed the turbulent cultural wars of the 1960s.
Though this cultural revolution began as a slow, hidden (but radical) change promoted through
our government, it has now entered a nightmare of terroristic evil that is bringing about the
birth of a new America. This new ideological culture has taken place in the hearts and minds
of a growing segment of our nation.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: July–August 2020
The article “Preparing for Our Appointed Times” first appeared in a Straightway edition
in 2000 (rpt. 2013). Reflecting upon this article, we believe another reprint of its message
would be most appropriate in the light of the present distress. The year 2020 is the product
of the gathering momentum of previous years, and we are amazed how pertinent our burden from
2000 is for today. May the Lord bless its truth for this hour in history as we witness the
worsening of our government’s Deep State intrusion into areas of the Christian life that
only God should control.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: May–June 2020
These are the sobering words penned by the prophet Daniel describing the feet and toes of the
image of a man that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream. Depicting a series of world empires, the
feet and toes of this image reveal the last world empire that culminates man’s final
attempt to control all humanity. This dream was interpreted to the Babylonian king in
response to his disturbing thoughts concerning what would follow his reign. Clearly, the
dream was sent to him by the God of heaven, Who condescended to unveil to him what the
unfolding of governmental history would be in the coming years after his rule. Yea, the
revelatory dream disclosed the entire scope in God’s providence of the “times of the
Gentiles.” Nevertheless, the dream culminated with Christ’s kingdom destroying the image
of man and filling the entire earth as the final chapter of earth’s history.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: May–June 2020
Several secular authors of the twentieth century became alarmed at the direction the United
States of America was heading. Although they contributed no spiritual insight, they foresaw a
path of choices and directives that would bring the West to the precipice of destruction. As
secularists, they had insight into the final overthrow of personal freedoms and liberties
that would bring a sad end to the Western world.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: May–June 2020
Fear has been the major weapon of compelling force wielded by governments during these recent
months of 2020. The human mind instinctively seeks relief from fear and especially the
growing angst of the unseen and unknown. When crises come, Christians naturally seek
consolation from Scripture and through prayer and faith in God. But if we place our faith in
natural hopes or dwell upon that which is creating fear, we become totally unrealistic,
irrational, and unfaithful to God. This can produce reactions that drive us away from God and
His Word.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: March–April 2020
Because Christ directs our attention to the days of Noah and Lot, we must draw from the
insights of those times for our own season in history. In reflecting upon Genesis chapters 6
and 19, we carefully observe the parallelism of those days with our days. The growing intense
violence and wickedness found in Genesis 6 are clearly like our day. The aggressive and
expanding rise of sodomy (in the powers of homosexuality and lesbianism) has also evilly
pervaded our society (Gen. 19).
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: March–April 2020
We have yet to see how the world will look after this global lockdown; what increasing
similarities will now emerge among world governments. Only God knows the truth behind all
that we have experienced since the world entered this confrontation with an unseen virus. He
alone knows what is real and what is part of “the Lie.” Yet, we must continue to trust
that “the earth is the LORD’S and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein” (Ps. 24:1). Our Sovereign God is still in absolute control of it all.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: March–April 2020
Fear is one of the great powers that potentially can obsess and control our thought life. The
concept of fear begins in the mind as one’s thought life observes and reacts to
circumstances of life. Fear may even arise by musing on circumstances that may not exist at
the present time; however, these circumstances may have been real in the past or potentially
may become real in the future. Fear is a mental feeling or an emotion prompted by a thought.
A person who fears something does not want it to happen; knowing its inevitability, he dreads
the darkness and pain surrounding the contemplation of it. The fear response comes from
sensing danger that may surround a coming circumstance. Perhaps in the natural understanding,
fear is the body’s way of protecting itself from confronting situations that may be
dangerous.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: January–February 2020
We have come to a most crucial hour in the history of the world that has overwhelmingly
pressed upon humanity an unprecedented global panic. This consciousness now borders on mass
hysteria fed by both the news media and the politicization of the liberal faction of
government and “deep-state” powers. Transcending just a single nation, this consciousness
is affecting all of humanity. We have been catapulted into a global aggressive takeover. What
does this mean for the Christian? How should we then live as we face the world’s mandate
regarding the coronavirus known as COVID-19?
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: January–February 2020
Since the Fall, man has been in the night season of history; we Christians with anticipation
are awaiting the coming day. There is a scriptural sense in which we as Christians are of the
day (Rom. 13:11–14). This “day” is also found in the scriptural context of the second
coming of Christ for His saints (2 Pet. 1:20) as well as in the context of Christ setting up
His kingdom. Thus, though we are children of the day, we anticipate the dawning of the Day of
Christ in history.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: January–February 2020
In global crises, the world places its faith in its governments without the consciousness of
God. Even in our present viral crisis, irrespective of the means or methods of this pandemic,
God sovereignly is in full control of all events. When mankind is not conscious of God in
these events, then there will be no true hope. In contrast, the biblical Christian is a person with hope, no matter how difficult life becomes either in his personal life or its relationship to global life on earth.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: October–December 2019
In order to discern his age, the Christian must possess five realities of life. First, he
must be born again. The reason many professing people do not see what is happening in our day
is simply that they are not born again. Jesus stated in John 3 that except a man be born
again he can neither enter nor see the kingdom of God (vv. 5, 3). The new birth provides (for
the first time) spiritual sight for one to see his age.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: October–December 2019
God has divinely appointed our lives to be lived in the most crucial hour of human history:
the time of the coming of two men. First there is the coming of the God-Man, the Lord Jesus
Christ for a Rapture of His people, and then there is the coming of the Antichrist. Two
different groups of people in the earth are awaiting the arrival of these two men. There is a
remnant that is looking for the coming of Christ in the darkest hour of history, the darkest
spiritual hour of the Institutional Church. There is also the world that is looking for the
coming of Antichrist to bring all of the world governments under one federation and to rid
the world of the clutter of religion. The generation before and at the coming of Jesus Christ
for His saints will see the battle against the world and the Christian apostasy at its
hottest, the deception at its greatest, and the compromises of the Church at their most
prolific in history. Likewise the generation before the coming of Antichrist will be most
crucial in its preparation of the world for him.
Dr. H. T. Spence | Publication Date: October–December 2019
When Christ came to earth He came through the Jewish line. The Bible emphatically declares
Him to be the seed of Abraham and from David’s loins. His divine appointment by the Heavenly
Father was that He would come to earth as a Jew and spend His life among the Jews of
Palestine. He declared that salvation was of the Jew.