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Are We Ready To Enter The Promised Land?
by Richard T. Ritenbaugh
In Numbers 13, God said to Moses: Numbers 13:2 "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a leader among them." Numbers 13:17-20
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Fully Accepting God's Sovereignty (Part One)
by John W. RitenbaughThere is a condition, a major responsibility, that every Christian absolutely must meet after he has become a Christian through belief in Jesus Christ as his Savior. This responsibility is clearly stated in Hebrews 10:35-38: Therefore do n
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Do We Remember Who We Are?
by John O. Reid (1930-2016)Back when many of us were called, it all seemed so simple. Our big tests were keeping the Sabbath and holy days, attending church, and making sure that we tithed and gave offerings as best we could with a right attitude. Looking back on …
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Ezekiel 20:10-13
(10) "Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. (11) And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them.' (12) Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. (13) Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, 'which, if a man does, he shall live by them'; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Verse 24 gives a concluding statement as to why Israel was taken into captivity. There are two possibilities regarding Israel's Sabbath breaking. 1) Israel completely rejected God's Sabbath for another day. This possibility exists due …
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Has Humanity Reached Total Depravity? (Part One)
by Richard T. RitenbaughJust before the Noachian Flood, God declares His assessment of the moral state of humanity, and He pulls no punches: "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5). A commentator, James Burton Coffman, writes, "It would be difficult to devise a sentence that would any more effectively portray the corruption of humanity than does Genesis 6:5." To put it in a few words, God informs us that mankind at the time was totally depraved. This verse is a purposeful contrast to His …
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Why Hebrews Was Written (Part Seven)
The author of Hebrews tells us in his own words at the end of his highly instructive but largely ignored treatise why he concludes as he …
A theme cutting across almost all the curses deserves highlighting: They all, except for perhaps the last one, focus on hidden or secret …
Haggai received the last two prophecies on the same day. Haggai 2:10 and 20 identify that day as the twenty-fourth day of the ninth …
For generations, outraged or marginalized citizens of the world have occasionally resorted to some form of civil disobedience to air …
If a person thinks of something often enough, he will come to the point where he cannot stop thinking about it. His thoughts become …