For several blogs I have been focusing on Paul’s “Man of Lawlessness” prophecy. Most recently I concentrated on his exalting himself to be worshiped. But now we must note that Nero (“The Man of Lawlessness”) not only seeks worship, but openly “opposes” (2 Thess. 2:4) God by persecuting persecuting believers. He even begins the persecution by [...]
Full Story »World magazine — Majed El Shafie grew up a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt. After his conversion to Christianity as a young man, he was arrested and tortured. He will describe his torture in graphic detail, but he can’t eat anything after talking about it. He was sentenced to death by hanging and put under house [...]
Full Story »Gatestone Institute (4/25/12) — The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, one of the Islamic world’s highest religious authorities, declared that it is “necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.” The war on Christianity and its adherents in the Muslim world rages on. In March alone, Saudi Arabia’s highest Islamic legal authority decreed that [...]
Full Story »Christianity Today (4/23/2012) — Religious freedom for Christians in Egypt (Copts) and other religious minorities hangs in the balance as Egyptian voters prepare to select a new president starting May 23. This is the first open presidential election in a generation. If voters favor a hardline Islamist as president, existing religious freedoms are at greater [...]
Full Story »Christian Response Alerts(4/24/12) — Eleven religious organizations like Campus Crusade for Christ, Christian Legal Society, InterVarsity and other groups at Vanderbilt University are facing a serious dilemma. The university has decided to enforce an “all comers” policy for all campus organizations – including religious ones. This means that any student – regardless of his beliefs [...]
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Robert Strimple is a Reformed scholar and former professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Escondido, California. He is a strong advocate of amillennialism who deems postmillennialism to be a skewed eschatological system. Strimple commits an error in theological argumentation that is commonly witnessed in amillennial circles. I believe that he either overstates his case, or [...]
Full Story »CBN (4/18/2012) — On April 18, 2007, three Christians were bound to their chairs, tortured, and stabbed repeatedly at a Bible print shop in Malatya — their throats slit. Five years have now passed since the Malatya murders, an incident that was perhaps the most tragic and brutal murder of Christians in modern-day Turkey. Today, [...]
Full Story »BosNewsLife (4/14/12). Despite international condemnation a Mennonite pastor remained behind bars Saturday, April 14, after a Vietnamese court sentenced him to 11 years imprisonment for allegedly creating division between the Communist government and its people. Nguyen Cong Chinh, 43, had been writing and spreading materials that slandered authorities,communicated with “reactionary groups” and incited ethnic minorities [...]
Full Story »Islamic extremists in India attacked a Christian prayer meeting in West Bengal state, beating a 65-year-old widow and other women less than a month after they helped drive a young woman out of her home and village for her faith. Islamists in Nutangram, Murshidabad district forced their way into the home of Gaffar Shaike on [...]
Full Story »In a rare victory, a Christian who sued the police in Lhasa for criminally detaining him for a month, forcing him to write a guarantee before releasing him, and confiscating church and personal items won compensation in an out-of-court settlement on Thursday. A hearing was scheduled for Friday in the suit filed by Song Kuanxin, [...]
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KINGDOM LEAVENThe Parable of the Leaven reads: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid i...
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