God purposed to make the occasion of speaking His Law a scene of awful grandeur, in keeping with its exalted character. The people were to be impressed that everything connected with the service of God must be regarded with the greatest reverence. The Lord said to Moses: “Go unto the people and sanctify them today […]
The Roman Emperor Constantine had a problem—how to maintain unity across his far-flung empire. Despite centuries of persecution, Christianity was still growing. Admittedly, Christians were peaceable citizens who worked an honest day and paid their taxes. Who wouldn’t want an empire filled with such good people? But the pagans feared that the growing Christian population […]
“Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come! Give your hearts to Jesus, He is coming soon!” In 1843, this proclamation was heard throughout Europe, but it did not come from the lips of gray-haired men trained in theological seminaries. It came from the lips of little children. […]
Fairest among the cities of the Jordan Valley was Sodom. Here was the home of the palm tree, the olive, and the vine, and flowers shed their fragrance throughout the year. The treasures of the East adorned her palaces, and the caravans of the desert brought their stores of precious things to supply her marts […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]