After the reign of the Emperor Julian, and his successor Jovian who reigned but five months, the Empire became again divided between Valentinian and Valens. Then the Church Catholick, in the Epistle to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea, is reprehended as lukewarm, andthreatned to be spe...
3His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: 4and for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. 5And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6He is not here: for he ...
But when I became a modern music consumer, I skewed away from musical levity. The first CD I got was Limp Bizkit’s “Significant Other.” The second was Powerman 5000. Part of me feels the need to defend this, but whatever, I was like 12 years old. I was young, kinda angry, and...
It is much easier for Satan to deceive one than two. This is one of the reasons God gave marriage. God knew that it would be better to have two so the one could help the other to avoid temptation. When Adam and Eve were separated Satan was able to bring this world into sin. What ...
An angel called out to the whole earth, “Who is able to open the scroll and break its seals?” And all creation was silent. So John weeps loudly. What’s so bad about not knowing the things that are to come? Our time is so foolish that it pretends it doesn’t care, even though...
5. The supply of manna came daily, and faith had to be exercised on the providence of God, that each day would bring its appointed provision; if they attempted to hoard for the morrow, their store became a mass of corruption. In like manner must the child of God pray for his soul ev...
The spirit of the new situation is now “right,” and the young man speaks as only an angel or benevolent supernatural messenger could: he tells the women Jesus is risen, instructs them of his whereabouts, and where the disciples are to find him in Galilee; he even knows that Jesus has...
“My metaphor will remind some of you of the famous picture in which Retzsch has depicted Satan playing at chess with man for his soul. Substitute for the mocking fiend in that picture a calm, strong angel who is playing for love, as we say, and would rather lose than win--and I sh...
can never fully know the exceeding greatness of his love that became a Surety for it; he that cannot measure the greatness of the curse [which] he lay under, can never measure the love of his Deliverer; and he that never could fully estimate the misery of his bondage, can never f...
’ He said, ‘Put me anywhere in the operation, right at the back. But include me in this operation.’ And so Aboo al-Muslim went and took part in this operation and even though he was right at the very back, the course of the fighting changed so that the back became the front ...