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End of the World: Key Events That Will Lead to Earth’s Final Hour
There is much speculation regarding the end of the world. Is there a Mark of the Beast? If so, when will the Mark of the Beast be Enforced? When will Probation close for mankind? When will God’s people be delivered? When is the Parousia, the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? What is the Great Controversy?…
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Battle of Armageddon: The Final Conflict Between Good and Evil
Religion is a practical saving energy, a principal wholly from God, a personal experience of God’s renewing power upon the soul. The most bitter opposers of truth today are found among those who profess to be its defenders. We live in a time where one will hear and not understand, seeing one will not see and not perceive;…
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Papacy in the Last Days: Its Role in End-Time Prophecy
Very slowly, at first in stealth and silence, and then more openly, increasing in strength, and gaining control of the minds of men, the “Mystery of Iniquity” carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work. Almost imperceptively, the customs of heathenism found their way into the early Christian Church. The spirit of compromise and conformity was…
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Love vs Selfishness: The Ongoing Battle Within Every Heart
Our sinful behavior, our selfishness does not make us sinners, but only proves what we are by human nature. Our very nature condemns us to death from our very birth. Romans 5: 12 – 18, Ephesians 2 :1-3. Clearly, the New Testament presents sin as both a verb (an action statement) as well as a noun (stating…
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Four Angels: Understanding the Final Messages of Revelation
Revelation symbolically depicts the mission of God’s church as four angels flying over the earth proclaiming vital end time messages. The First Angel The first angel’s message is the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ, opening people’s minds to God’s unconditional, unmerited love as the only way of salvation and the only premise for true worship. “I saw another…
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Gospel to All Nations: God’s Global Mission Before the End
Jesus explained that the proclamation of the gospel— the good news of God’s saving grace— as a “witness” to “all nations” is the pivotal factor of earth’s final events. Once that happens then the end will come. Everyone will have decided for or against Christ. The apostle Paul defined the gospel of Christ as “righteousness by faith” empowered…
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Loud Cry: God’s Final Call to the World Before the End
The true beauty of God’s character will go global. John saw “an angel coming down from heaven having great authority and the earth was illuminated with his glory. And he cried mightily with a loud voice saying Babylon the great is fallen is fallen”. The proclamation of the gospel in the context of the three angels’…
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Millennium: A Thousand Years of Peace, Judgment, and Renewal
At the second coming of Jesus, the Millennium begins. With the saints in heaven and the wicked dead on earth, Satan and his demonic hosts are bound in isolation to a desolate planet in complete ruins. With nobody to tempt and deceive, the devil and all his fallen angels are left alone to contemplate their…
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Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Hope, Glory, and Final Redemption
As the suffering, struggling children of God flee from the rage of the wicked and wrestle in their hearts to be assured of God’s favor, suddenly, an unusual cloud approaches the earth, small at first, but increasing in size until it fills the whole sky. The followers of Jesus recognize this as their Savior returning to earth…
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Jacob’s Trouble: A Time of Testing Before Christ’s Return
God’s people enter an experience of deep spiritual heart- searching and self- examination, tightening their grip on God’s grace, and not their own good works, as their only hope. Each one sees their life of sin and feels their unworthiness before God, but the Holy Spirit impresses upon them a sense of God’s acceptance and love. Their…
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New Heaven and Earth: God’s Promise of Eternal Restoration
As the earth is cleansed by fire, the saints abide safely in the city of God, the New Jerusalem. The trauma of the whole ordeal, including the destruction of the wicked, is so overwhelming that the righteous are weeping. But God, who is perfect with empathetic love, “will wipe away every tear from their eyes”…
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New Jerusalem: When Heaven Descends and Evil Ends
At the conclusion of the Millennium, the New Jerusalem, and inhabited by the righteous of all ages, descends to the earth. The wicked of all ages are resurrected. Satan picks up where he left off before the second coming of Christ. He deceives the wicked with the promise that under his leadership, they can take…
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Song of Moses: A Hymn of Deliverance and God’s Faithfulness
Lessons from the ancient Israelites can be learned. Had Israel continued in faith and gone on singing and had not once stopped to murmur, they would have speedily reached Zion, the city whose Builder and Maker is God. When the redeemed of the Lord do at last stand on Mount Zion, having the harps of…
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Word of God: Finding Life, Power, and Truth in Scripture
The Jews found it difficult to believe the words of Christ, that He would give them Himself to eat. They said, “How can this man give us flesh to eat?” Jesus repeated the statement still more emphatically and then said: “It is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak unto…
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Mercy and Justice: How God Balances Grace with Righteousness
Through Jesus, God’s mercy was manifested to men; but mercy does not set aside justice. The law reveals the attributes of God’s character, and not a jot or a tittle of it could be changed to meet in his fallen condition. God did not change His law, but He sacrificed Himself, in Christ, for man’s redemption. “God…
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Moses Strikes the Rock: A Lesson on Faith and Living Water
If we believe the Word, we may know that we drink as directly from Christ as did the Israelites in the wilderness. He made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water. In Him all things consist. The water which we drink, coming forth from the ground, is as truly from Him…
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Sinai and Calvary: The Riven Rock of Law and Grace
When God spoke the law from Sinai, that living stream of water, which gushed forth from the smitten rock in Horeb, was still flowing. If it had ceased to flow, the Israelites would have been in as bad condition as before, for it was their only water supply, their only hope of life. It was from…
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Spiritual Growth: Building on the Foundation of God’s Government
The ten commandments on the two tables of stone were in the ark, under the mercy seat, showing that the law of God is the basis of His throne and government. “The Lord reigns; Let the earth rejoice let the multitude of isles be glad thereat. Clouds and darkness are round about Him; righteousness and judgment…
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What Does In Christ Mean? Living in Union with Jesus
The key phrase that runs throughout Paul’s epistles some 64 times is the recurring phrase, the central theme of Paul’s theology, which is the expression “in Christ” or “in Christ Jesus”. This phrase is sometimes expressed by other synonymous phrases such as in Him, by Him, through Him, in the Beloved, together with Him, etc. If these…
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Promises of God: Seven Things He Will Do for His Children
An everlasting covenant was made with Abraham and his descendants. It was a covenant of faith. The covenant of God with Abraham assured to him and his seed the righteousness of the law by faith. Not by works but by faith. The covenant was so ample in its scope that it embraced all nations, even…
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God’s Compassion: Embracing the Covenant of Peace
God designed that the children of Israel, and we also, should learn that the law is infinitely above the reach of all human effort, and to make it plain that, since the keeping of the commandments is essential to the salvation which He has promised, He himself will fulfill the law in us. “Hear, O…
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The Temple Veil: Its Meaning and the Shadow It Revealed
“And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4: 3,4 Let us reflect back to the experience of Moses and the…
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Carnal Christians: The Divide Between Spirit and Flesh
The New Testament divides Christians into two camps: spiritual and carnal. Paul wrote to the Christians at Corinth; “I, brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as to babes in Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:1. Notice that Paul doesn’t refer to these carnal Christians as the unconverted, but as babes in Christ. Babies as you…
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The Work of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives: Guiding and Transforming
Pray that the mighty energies of the Holy Spirit, with all their quickening, recuperative, and transforming power, may fall like an electric shock on the palsy-stricken soul, causing every nerve to thrill with new life, restoring the whole man from his dead, earthly, sensual state to spiritual soundness. You will thus become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped…