For six thousand years, Satan’s work of rebellion has “made the earth to tremble.” He has “made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof.” And he “opened not the house of his prisoners.” For six thousand years his prison house has received God’s people, and he would have held them captive forever;Continue reading “The Great Controversy: Desolation of the Earth—Chapter 41, Part 3”
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The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2
It is a law both of the intellectual and the spiritual nature that by beholding we become changed. The mind gradually adapts itself to the subjects upon which it is allowed to dwell. It becomes assimilated to that which it is accustomed to love and reverence. Man will never rise higher than his standard ofContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 2”
The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1
The ministration of holy angels, as presented in the Scriptures, is a truth most comforting and precious to every follower of Christ. But the Bible teaching upon this point has been obscured and perverted by the errors of popular theology. The doctrine of natural immortality, first borrowed from the pagan philosophy, and in the darknessContinue reading “The Great Controversy: Can Our Dead Speak to Us?—Chapter 34, Part 1”
The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 5
It is an undeniable fact that the hope of immortal blessedness at death has led to a widespread neglect of the Bible doctrine of the resurrection. This tendency was remarked by Dr. Adam Clarke, who said: “The doctrine of the resurrection appears to have been thought of much more consequence among the primitive Christians thanContinue reading “The Great Controversy: The First Great Deception—Chapter 33, Part 5”
The Raising of Lazarus: Why Jesus Wept
“When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,“And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. “Jesus wept” (John 11:33-35, KJV). On His journey to Bethany, Jesus, according to His custom, ministered to theContinue reading “The Raising of Lazarus: Why Jesus Wept”
When you feel like dying…
“But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.And as he lay and slept under aContinue reading “When you feel like dying…”