February 2003

Praying for Pay

Now, Religion in the News, a report and comment on religious trends and events being covered by the media.This week’s item is from the LATimes.com , January 1, 2003, with a headline:Prayer ladies for hire, dateline, Manila.The come to Kiapo church to pray to the black Nazarene, a dark wooden...Read more

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Will Christians Have to Fight the Antichrist's Army?

Tom: Thanks, Gary.You’re listening to Search the Scriptures Daily, a program in which we encourage everyone who desires to know God’s truth to look to God’s Word for all that is essential for salvation and living one’s life in a way that is pleasing to him.Now Dave, before we get...Read more

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Cry Out For Liberty

February 1, 2003

God promised that the Messiah, who would redeem mankind from Satan’s power and sin’s penalty, would be a virgin-born Jew ( Gen:3:15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel...Read more

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TBC Notes - Sorting the Mail

February 1, 2003

Sorting the Mail We are thrilled to hear from you, and we enjoy reading your comments, even criticisms (they're helpful too!). Regretfully, however, we don't have the staff or the time to reply to every letter we receive. When questions are asked to which we feel a response might be...Read more

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News Alert

February 1, 2003

WorldNetDaily.com, 1/14/03 : An Israeli documentary in 1998 showed how Palestinian children are taught to hate Jews, to glorify jihad, violence, death and child martyrdom. A “Sesame Street”-like children’s program called the “Children’s Club” showed very young children singing songs about wanting to become “suicide warriors” and to take up...Read more

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Question: You have said that on Nisan 1...Nehemiah received authorization to rebuild Jerusalem and that, in keeping with Gabriel’s promise (Dn 9:25), 483 years later to the day, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey.

February 1, 2003

Question: You have said that on Nisan 1 in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, Nehemiah received authorization to rebuild Jerusalem and that, in keeping with Gabriel’s promise (Dn 9:25), 483 years later to the day, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the donkey. That should have been...Read more

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Question: I recently discovered that friends have become part of a growing group of professing Christians who sincerely believe that the so-called “white races” are the ten lost tribes. How can I convince them otherwise?

February 1, 2003

Question: I recently discovered that friends have become part of a growing group of professing Christians who sincerely believe that the so-called “white races” are the ten lost tribes. How can I convince them otherwise? Answer: This is a revival of the old “British- Israel ” myth based upon the...Read more

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Question: All of us can make a mistake, but I have a real problem when someone takes the time to politely write to you and supply documentation pointing out a factual error in your materials, and yet you go on repeating the same errors.

February 1, 2003

Question: I wrote to you to point out that you were in error in saying that in 1948 the Arabs broadcast orders to the Palestinians that they should flee their homeland. I sent you documentation showing no such broadcasts ever took place....Since that time, you have released a video entitled...Read more

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Quotable

February 1, 2003

The spread of the churches [early 17 th century] in Austria and the surrounding States was marvelous; the accounts of the numbers put to death and of their sufferings are terrible, yet there never failed to be men willing to take up the dangerous work of evangelists and elders....While some...Read more