The Genesis account of Creation is not unique. Many ancient peoples, such as the Sumerians, the Karens in Burma, and the Miao tribes of Southern China, possess fragments of this story. This shouldn’t surprise us because the Creation story was related by Noah and his sons to post-Flood generations. China has perhaps the most detailed […]

For a time, the descendants of Noah continued to dwell among the mountains where the ark had rested. As their numbers increased, apostasy soon led to division. Those who desired to forget their Creator and to cast off the restraint of His law felt a constant annoyance from the example of their God-fearing associates, and […]

AS GIVEN BY GOD
Exodus 20:3–17

I
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

II
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not […]

Imagine attending a baptismal service at a church that practices baptism by immersion. Surprisingly, when the pastor calls the candidates forward, you notice the devil standing in line in a baptismal gown! As shocking as it seems, something like this really happened in history! It started a long time ago when God’s favorite angel rebelled […]

How can we be absolutely sure our seventh day (Saturday) is still God’s holy Sabbath? Could the calendar have been changed?
Most languages of the world still call Saturday the Sabbath. In Italian it is called Sábato, in Spanish Sábado, in Portuguese Sabádo, in French Samedi, in German Samstag, in Russian Subbota and in Polish […]

Records of Christians who observed the seventh-day Sabbath are irrefutable. Beginning with the New Testament and the apostles in Asia Minor, these accounts move across the silk route to China and India, then down through the Dark Ages in Scotland and Ireland. Transferred to the New World by faithful Sabbath-keeping Protestants, the light of God’s […]

It was a glorious spring morning in the Italian Alps. Warm winds had finally melted their impenetrable snowy fortresses. Foaming, singing water rushed down the streams. Over the passes from France came an army of 10,000 French soldiers. Up the valley of the Chisone came 12,000 Piedmontese soldiers to join them. Marshal Nicolas de Catinat, […]

In the summer of 1843, in Sweden, a little girl, only five years of age, who had never learned to read or sing, sang a long Lutheran hymn correctly in a most solemn manner. And then with great power she proclaimed, “The hour of His judgment is come.” She then instructed her family to get […]

“These people have put on Christianity, not like a garment, but like their flesh and blood. Men who do not dread fetters, nor fear torments, nor care for their property, and, what is worst of all, who choose death rather than life—who can stand against them?”1 So declared a Zoroastrian high priest to a fifth-century […]

Since historian Edward Gibbon wrote The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, some have compared ancient Rome with the United States of America. They see portentous parallels between conditions that prevailed during Rome’s collapse and conditions prevailing currently. It has been said that those who do not learn from the past are doomed to […]