[Psalms 40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.Psalms 40:10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.—KJV] Luther had spokenContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Luther Before the Diet—Chapter 8, Part 4”
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The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 5
[Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.—KJV] At the news of Luther’s escape the legate was overwhelmed with surprise and anger. He had expected to receive great honor for his wisdom and firmness in dealing with this disturber of the church; but his hope wasContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 5”
The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 2
Luther was ordained a priest and was called from the cloister to a professorship in the University of Wittenberg. Here he applied himself to the study of the Scriptures in the original tongues. He began to lecture upon the Bible; and the book of Psalms, the Gospels, and the Epistles were opened to the understandingContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 1
[Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.Psalms 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. KJV] Foremost among those who were called to lead the church from the darkness of popery into the light of aContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Luther’s Separation From Rome—Chapter 7, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: Persecution in the First Centuries—Chapter 2, Part 1
[“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.“For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.“And except those days should be shortened, thereContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Persecution in the First Centuries—Chapter 2, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: The Destruction of Jerusalem—Chapter 1, Pt. 4
After the destruction of the temple, the whole city soon fell into the hands of the Romans. The leaders of the Jews forsook their impregnable towers, and Titus found them solitary. He gazed upon them with amazement, and declared that God had given them into his hands; for no engines, however powerful, could have prevailedContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The Destruction of Jerusalem—Chapter 1, Pt. 4”
The Great Controversy: The Destruction of Jerusalem—Chapter 1, Pt. 3
Signs and wonders appeared, foreboding disaster and doom. In the midst of the night an unnatural light shone over the temple and the altar. Upon the clouds at sunset were pictured chariots and men of war gathering for battle. The priests ministering by night in the sanctuary were terrified by mysterious sounds; the earth trembled,Continue reading “The Great Controversy: The Destruction of Jerusalem—Chapter 1, Pt. 3”