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The Fold Is a Place, Not a People — Rightly Dividing the Other Sheep of John 10:16
Posted by Edward Cross on September 6, 2026
Who are the other sheep of John 10:16? The dispute turns on a word neither side had stopped to define. Scripture uses fold of a place — something built, entered, left or become — and never once of a people. Define the word and the sentence reads itself: Israel's own scattered, brought back to one fold under one shepherd.
Why They Fight OSAS — The Self-Righteousness Beneath the Objection
Posted by Edward Cross on August 30, 2026
Opposition to once saved, always saved seldom turns on the verses it quotes. This article traces the objection to its root — a righteousness a man built himself, and the distance from other men that grace erases — then divides the passages. Israel's salvation is an inheritance received at the end; the Body's was handed over at the beginning.
Reviving the Wrong Program: The Campus Revival and the Gospel It Masquerades
Posted by Edward Cross on August 12, 2026
A revival is being proclaimed across the nation's campuses — crowds, conversions, and a call to reclaim the nation for God. But the renewal of a nation is not the gospel of grace, a faith with no shared creed is not the faith once delivered, and a summons back to Sinai revives the wrong program. A look at what the campus revival actually revives.
Thou Shalt Know Hereafter: What Peter Would Learn from the Foot Washing
Posted by Edward Cross on August 11, 2026
When Jesus told Peter he would know hereafter, what would Peter come to understand? Rightly divided, the foot washing belongs to Israel's kingdom program — leadership training for the twelve, grasped after Pentecost, not the Pauline mystery. It also shows why foot washing is no ordinance for the Body, and why we take our humility from Paul.
Rightly Dividing Pleading the Blood
Posted by Edward Cross on July 10, 2026
Believers are told to plead the blood over their homes, their children, their fears, even their thoughts. But where did the practice come from, and does Scripture, rightly divided, command it in any dispensation? A study of the blood across Passover, Israels program, and the mystery revealed to Paul.
Roman Catholicism Follows Neither Christ, Peter, nor Paul: The Church That Claims All Three and Keeps None
Posted by Edward Cross on July 2, 2026
Rome claims to follow Christ, Peter, and Paul — and by right division it follows none of the three. A stand-alone study of the papacy, the Mass, Mary, purgatory, confession, and tradition, showing that Rome, the Eastern churches, and Rome's Reformation daughters share one ancient error: works added to the finished work of Christ.
The Book of Matthew Wrongly Divided
Posted by Edward Cross on July 2, 2026
Matthew stands at the seam of right division. Peter Ruckman hands much of it back to Israel — the Sermon on the Mount, the Disciples' Prayer, conditional forgiveness — then pours the Body of Christ back in through his method of spiritual application. How a book gets wrongly divided even by a man who can see where its parts belong.
The Pearl of Great Price — What Is the Kingdom Worth?
Posted by Edward Cross on July 1, 2026
Popular readings make the pearl of great price into salvation, or Christ, or the Body of Christ. But the parable names its own subject — the kingdom of heaven — and presses its surpassing worth on the generation to whom it was offered. A study in rightly dividing the mysteries of the kingdom.
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