THE NAME IDENTIFIES
Robert Mentze, Associate Pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Escondido, California sent in the following item: Several centuries before Christ, Alexander the Great came out of Macedonia and Greece to conquer the Mediteranean world. He didn’t know it, but God was using him to prepare the way for the coming of the Messiah — for it was as a result of Alexander’s conquests that Greek was established as the lingua franca (common language) of the Grecian and even later Roman Empire. On one of his campaigns, Alexander received a message that one of his soldiers had been continually, and seriously, misbehaving and thereby shedding a bad light on the character of all the Greek troops. And what made it even worse was that this soldier’s name was also Alexander. When the commander learned this, he sent word that he wanted to talk to the errant soldier in person. When the young man arrived at the tent of Alexander the Great,…
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