Forerunner: Preparing Christians for the Kingdom of God



This Is Not God's World! (September 1994)

September 1994
Volume 3, Number 8


'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh
This Is Not God's World

In several places in Scripture, God urges His people to come out of this world. Because He is the earth's and humanity's Creator, we may struggle with this command. But the world of which He speaks consists of society's anti-God religious, psychological, and philosophical systems whose beginnings reside in the Adversary, Satan the Devil. John Ritenbaugh suggests we thoroughly evaluate how much of this world still influences us.

Prophecy Watch
Nebuchadnezzar's Image (Part Three):
'Belly and Thighs of Bronze'

by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Richard Ritenbaugh describes how the Greek Empire under Alexander the Great and his successors fulfills the imagery in Daniel 2.

Weeds!
by Mike Ford

Anyone who has traveled around the American Southeast has driven past kudzu-covered trees, fields, and telephone poles - or anything not fast enough to move out of its way! Drawing an analogy between the invasive, fast-growing kudzu and the thorns in the Parable of the Sower, Mike Ford shows how we must "weed out" detrimental habits that choke our lives and hinder us from producing godly fruit.

The Cancerous Calendar Controversy
by John W. Ritenbaugh

An exhaustive explanation of the Church of the Great God's belief concerning the Hebrew Calendar and its fitness for our use in the church of God. It also discusses observation versus calculation, new moons and postponements.