We have now entered a New Year, and the question in everyone’s mind, if not on his lips, is: “What will this year bring?” It is not without reason that such a question arises, for the last few years have been filled with startling events. Never before in the history of the world have things moved with such lightning speed. In the past decade, we have witnessed changes that we might have expected would take centuries to develop. Man’s inventions and cries for speed and more speed have brought...

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The Past 1. “Once in the end of the world hath He appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself” (Hebrews 9:26). He has thus appeared, and He has done the mighty work for which He came from heaven to this earth. He will never thus appear again. The cross is eternal in its issues. What He has done can never be added to nor taken from. By the sacrifice of Himself He has accomplished this most mighty work, and for His people, sin is put away, and it will be put away from the earth by vir...

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When the Lord Jesus was on earth His disciples expected Him to set up His kingdom and that they would have part with Him in it, but Jesus left them in no doubt as to what lay before Him, for He said, “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day He shall rise again” (Matthew 20:18–19). Jesus al...

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“In time past ye walked according to the course of this world” (Ephesians 2:2). “But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [whereby] the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” (Galatians 6:14). “He was in the world…and the world knew him not” (John 1:10). “The world knoweth us not, because it knew him not” (1 John 3:1). “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world” (John 17:16). “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out...

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Probably most would agree that the primary application of the 94th Psalm is to the sufferings of the Jews in the latter days. Nevertheless, the Psalm contains great principles that apply to all God’s people while passing through a world from which Christ is absent. In the course of the Psalm, we see: The wicked triumphing, The godly suffering, The blessing and consolation of the saint in and through the suffering, and The confidence of the godly that in due time the LORD, Himself, will deal...

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It was recognized by Guinness as the world’s most expensive tree and cost over $11 million. There was nothing cheap about the Christmas Tree in the lobby of the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. The bare-bones tree cost at least $10,000, but it’s what hung on the 43 ft. (13 m) high tree that gave it such incredible value. The Christmas Tree was decorated with breathtaking ornaments. Over 181 ornaments of gold and precious stones, including diamonds, pearls, emeralds and sapphires, hung from...

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Questions Who was the first shepherd? What prophet spoke about a shepherd taking out of the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear? Which epistle mentions the Lord Jesus Christ as “the Great Shepherd of the sheep”?

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