2025 Issues

The Wise Shall Understand

July 1, 2025

Albury Conferences “Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand” (Daniel 12:10). — Owen Kindig In June 1826, a group of about forty interested Christians, hosted by Henry Drummond, gathered in the English countryside at Drummond’s estate in Albury. They had come on foot, horseback, and by carriage or farm wagon. The few reference books and Bibles they had carried would absorb their […]

News and Views

July 1, 2025

Religious The Anti-Defamation League states that the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high in 2024, noting that 58% of the 9,354 incidents were related to Israel, particularly through chants, speeches, and signs at rallies protesting Israeli policies. The report indicated that this is the first time in 46 years of tracking Israel-related incidents — 5,422 in 2024 — that Israel comprised more than half of the total. — AP, 5/22/2025 In many countries, a fifth or […]

Today in Prophecy

July 1, 2025

Death of a Pope “Let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of lawlessness be revealed, the son of perdition, he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called a god or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as a god. Remember ye not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And […]

Influencers of the Past

July 1, 2025

Paving the Way “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Daniel 12:4 ASV). — James Sochaki Pastor Russell wrote of the United States, “In no other country could the blessed harvest message — the plan of the ages and its times and seasons and privileges — have been so untrammeled in its proclamation and so widely and freely heralded. […]

William Penn

July 1, 2025

Seeds of Truth “I know your works: Behold! I have set an open door in your sight which no one has the power to shut because you have a little power and have kept my word” (Revelation 3:8 to the Church in Philadelphia, Sinaiticus Codex reading). — Richard Doctor “A world totally new, demands a new political science” (Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835). The administrative capital building for the newly formed colony of Pennsylvania was the centerpiece of the Delaware […]