There are celestial beings who are constantly in God’s presence. One type of these beings is called thecherubim. The vision many of us have today when we hear the word “cherub” is a chubby little two-year-old
When we seize this reality, we understand that the air we breathe is celestial. The ground we tread is sacred. The light we enjoy is divine. Could the rustling in the trees even be the whisper of angel wings? That’s touching on romanticism, but as the Bible itself says, [We] have ...
Or this: According to a standard Mormon theological work, Doctrines of Salvation, one finds this definition: "By fullness of the gospel is meant all the ordinances and principles that pertain to the exaltation of the celestial kingdom" (vol. 1, p. 160).That's an official Mormon statement ...
broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth every where. The only house I had been the owner of before, if I except a ...
The Bible also references a Blood Moon in Acts 2:20 and Revelation 6:12. In the latter, the verse says, “And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” ...
The question now becomes, “What was the nature of the celestial phenomenon that the Magi saw and interpreted as a sign of a newborn Jewish King?” Matthew says that it was a “star.” But is that what it was? Well, the term “star” meant a variety of different things at that tim...
Prophecy now marches on 53 years, to the night of November 13, 1833, when stars fell over America in the most gigantic display of celestial fireworks ever seen by the eye of man. Eye-witnesses of the falling stars describe with vivid words that never-to-be-forgotten night when the whole...
Behold, you have heard about all that the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands that they have conquered, and so, how can you be delivered?New American BibleYou, certainly, have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands: they put them under the ban!
Unless you have been living under a rock these past few years, it’s impossible not to notice the growing trend of lab grown diamonds seemingly taking over the jewelry industry.
The Bible has much to say about that (see, e.g., Ps 137). But that is not the message that Stephen spoke to his audience. Stephen reminds us that, as painful as it can be to migrate, God’s people are migrants and God migrates with us, sanctifying our deserts.[43] On this ...