Jerusalem, Capital of a New World | The prophet Zechariah, who lived approximately 500 BC, gives us special light on the future of the city of Jerusalem, subject of high actuality.
This prophet wrote his visions and prophecies when the Jews had come back from the first transportation to Babylon, in order to rebuild their temple and the city of Jerusalem, which had been destroyed.
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THE SCARRED HAND | WILLIAM DIXON couldn’t believe there was a God, and he would certainly not forgive Him for taking away his young wife about two years after they were married, and his little boy had also died. Dixon felt very desolate and bitter.
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COME! | It may be, having spent the past, the best years of your life, your time, your talents, your self, in the service of sin and Satan, you now think some preparation is needed e’er you can accept this "great salvation"; that when you have turned over a new leaf, begun to read your Bible more, or to pray, or to give alms, that then you may think of coming to God, and hope to be accepted!
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THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS | In the Acts of the apostles we read how the assembly of Corinth had commenced. After having experienced in Athens with its philosophies a rather cold and despising reception, the apostle Paul had left Athens and arrived at Corinth, where he found Aquila and Priscilla, converted Jews. He worked with them in the manufacturing of tents and for some sabbaths went into the synagogue to speak about the Lord Jesus.
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The first epistle of Paul to the thessalonians | This epistle was one of the first addressed to an assembly, and the believers who belonged to that assembly had only recently been converted. The first Christian assembly in Europe having been formed in Philippi, Paul and Silas traveled to Thessalonica in Macedonia, in the North of Greece, where there was a synagogue of scattered Jews (Acts 17).
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THE CROSS AND ITS IMPORTANCE | MANY people have a natural dislike of the cross. They feel that the cross may cancel the good opinion which they have of themselves, and all the nice things which the world may offer to them. Indeed, when we seek for a measure to value the character of man, the cross clearly shows his darkness and shame. Did they not prefer Barabbas, the murderer, to the Lord of glory?
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The Pearl Beyond All Price | A splash, the ripple of the water, and then, silence, near that pier somewhere in India, where an old pearl diver just had taken his dive into the water. His friend, David Morse, sat on the pier, his eyes fixed upon the very place where the diver had disappeared. After a while he reappeared, and David Morse and his friend Rambhau, had a look at the pearls he had caught.
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