Tag: war
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Jerusalem – a City Stirred Up
Then the whole city was provoked… Acts of the Apostles 21:30 NASB20 CROWD REACTIONS with violence, retribution and vengeance, WAR between two opposing forces where some claim PEACE while others besiege it with competing claims of war and tolerance… Nothing is new under the sun, most especially in Israel ! Jerusalem, Jerusalem! ~ In the…
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and fear fell upon them all – Phobias from the enemy
FEAR descends upon us without warning when we least expect it. This is what has just happened in places distant from our secure homes and times more near these last days. Acts of the Apostles 19: TODAY we return to Ephesus in the first century of our Lord and then quickly jump forward to fearful…
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Confidence in Troubled Times – Psalm 94
(from times Before Christ) You give them relief from troubled times until a pit is dug to capture the wicked. Psalm 94:3 New Living Translation Confidence in troubled times (even Before Christ) WE THE PEOPLE of every nation have heard it before. ‘NO CONFIDENCE’ Today’s Short Take on Scripture for ASH WEDNESDAY in the year…
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Acts 8:1 Syria – Strategic Map into all of the world
Our cover photo may look like an intelligence map for a modern military operation in Syria. That’s right. War in Syria is hardly anything new under the sun. So you ask, what does this have to do with a first century Syria of the Roman Empire and Jesus’ great commission? Some text on Talk of…
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for by strength shall no man prevail
Refugees have no strength Do you recognize the caution from 1 Samuel 2:9b? The attached summer rerun is repetitious as war and suffering. It noted Iraq. Since then Syria or any number of countries in Africa or Asia or South and Central America could have been our examples. Today we have finally ‘ended’ a 20…
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Apocalypse 5 – the Beginning of The End
AWE of things unseen uncovered, creatures of Heaven hardly imagined and devastations of earth unimaginable! This is what the Lord Jesus Christ reveals [ἀποκάλυψις – apokalypsis] to the Apostle John. Excepts from Revelation 4: The Throne Room of Heaven .. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come…
