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The Wise Shall Understand

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 []

Influencers of the Past

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

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 []

A Vision for the Appointed Time

Shower of Truth “How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1335 days” (Daniel 12: 12 NASB). — Len Griehs “A knowledge of these things, and the evidences that they are nigh, even at the door, should have a powerful influence upon all, but especially upon the consecrated children of God, who are seeking the prize of the divine nature. … But to obtain this knowledge and this strength, which God thus proposes to supply to each runner for []

The Expansion of Israel’s Borders

Recent Events “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Genesis 15:18). — Matt Kerry The Euphrates River extends in a 1,740-mile-long southeasterly arc from about 350 miles north of Israel to about 930 miles to its east. It originates in Turkey and empties into the Persian Gulf. The border of the land promised to Abraham, “from the []