Many have speculated as to the causes of Alexander’s death. Was it malaria, poisoning or perhaps just physical and emotional exhaustion? Whatever the case may be, the histories agree that Alexander began to suffer a fever which he couldn’t shake, after which he died towards evening on the tenth of June, 323 B.C. “Most of [...]
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As Incarnations of Christ’s redemptive love, we are to be salt and light in the very midst of the world. We are always to be at the very center of things. Darrell L. Guder declares: “This Good news is rooted in God’s self-disclosure as loving, saving, reconciling and redeeming. The incarnation of Jesus is the climax [...]
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And as I was considering, behold, an he-goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground. (Dan. 8:15) The prophet is said to have beheld the great he-goat coming “from the west over the face of the whole earth,” and also “touching not the ground,” reminiscent of [...]
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In Daniel Chapter 7, Daniel sees a vision of four beasts rising out of the sea of nations. The first beast is a lion with the wings of an eagle. The second is a ferocious bear with three ribs in its mouth,[1] its right side rising up higher than the other. The third beast is [...]
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Even a cursory glance at the contents of Daniel’s prophetic book reveals the supremacy of Jehovah over all Gentile world powers. The fact of God’s absolute sovereignty is stressed throughout the book in order to reveal to all peoples that history is HIStory. I will now introduce you to Three Code Keys designed to make [...]
“For I myself believe that there was at that time no race of mankind, no city, no single individual, to which the name of Alexander had not reached.” Arrian Alexander’s reign began in June 336 B.C., with the death of his father Philip II of Macedon. Over a period of twenty-three years, Alexander’s father single-handedly [...]
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“I will turn aside and see this great sight.” Exodus 3:3 Moses was a man of many passions. He was so sympathetic to the needs of his people that he spent his powers killing an Egyptian then burying him in the sand. (Exhausting work!) Yet this was not the kind of power God wanted Moses to represent. R.H. [...]
“And she made him sleep upon her knees…and he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” (Judges 16:19,20). Samson, the great judge of Israel, slept a costly sleep. His story and example [...]
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Sin, in any form, is an abomination to God. Sin stains the conscience, betrays sacred associations, ruins our moral influence in the world, and defiles all that is holy. John Bunyan rightly says, “Sin is the dare of God’s justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, [...]
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Jacob was a ‘passive aggressive,’ ‘controller’. Do you try to control people and things so that situations will work out the way you want them to? Jacob wasted decades of ‘nervous energy’ worrying about the fulfillment of a promise that was already his! Are you exhausting yourself in stress and anxiety trying to ‘earn’ a [...]
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