Temporary Resurrections Before Calvary

May 1, 2015

A Shadow of Things to Come Listen to audio:  “Our friend Lazarus  is fallen asleep; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep” (John 11:11). (Quotations  are from the American Standard Version, ASV, 1901, except as noted.)  James Parkinson The Bible points us to the one great hope for the world: the resurrection  of the dead. It tells us of the vitally-important resurrection of Jesus Christ, but also of the raising of eight others from the dead. All three cases […]

News and Views

May 1, 2015

V Religious Listen to audio:  To the Catholic Church’s “seven deadly sins,” Pope Francis has added the “15 ailments of the Curia.” Francis issued a blistering indictment of the Vatican bureaucracy, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who serve him of using their Vatican careers to grab power and wealth, of living “hypocritical” double lives and forgetting that they’re supposed to be joyful men of God. — Start Tribune, 1/19/2015 While Christianity is waning in many parts of the world, in China […]

Today In Prophecy

May 1, 2015

Leadership Crisis in the World Listen to audio:  “ When  the righteous are in authority,  the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn” (Proverbs 29:2, 21st Century King James). Fifty-six  percent of respondents to the Survey on the Global Agenda agreed that the world has a leadership crisis. The major global issues of today — economic inequality and violence in the Middle East among them — have failed to be addressed effectively by most countries. As governments have grown, factional […]

Resurrection of the Faithful  Church

May 1, 2015

Received by Jesus Listen to audio:  “If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:3). David Rice Our lead text indicates that the raising of the saints to their heavenly reward was to be at the return of Jesus. The saints that died long ago rested in the peaceful sleep of death until the end of the age, awaiting their reward. Thus, when the […]