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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

WANDERING DAN: Biblical Roots of the Irish, Welsh and Related Peoples

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An important group of  sailors and   colonists throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic seaboard in ancient times were  the Tuatha de  Danaan. Although historians know all too little about them, these ancient “Sea Peoples” are well represented in the histories of Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Italy, Spain, the British Isles, and Denmark. Scholars have been divided through…

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CULTURE AND SKILLS OF ANCIENT BRITONS

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From  “The Drama of the Lost Disciples” Strange as it may seem, it was the enemies of ancient Britain who  wrote  at length  with  candour the  most faithful description of the early Britons, showing that they possessed an ad-mirable culture, a patriarchal re-ligion, and an epochal history that extended far beyond that of Rome. Modern…

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HOW PROPAGANDA CHANGES PERCEPTIONS AND PEOPLE

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Courtesy of: The Reformation  Society, P.O. Box 74 Newlands 7725, Cape Town, South Africa. “Then Jesus said:… ‘And  you  shall know the truth and  the  truth shall make you  free.”‘  John 8:31-32 The first  casualty in war is truth. Beware the Victor’s Version As my history teacher in  Rhodesia reminded us: Beware the victor’s version!…

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THE CAPTIVITIES

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The Plain Facts about Israel and Judah AFTER the death of Solomon, the Israel nation was divided into two kingdoms:  in the south  the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, usually called ‘the house of Judah’, were ruled over by the Davidic line of kings in Jerusalem; while in the north a series of non-Davidic dynasties…

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THE DANGERS OF NEGLECTING PRAYER AND BIBLE STUDY

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A Devotional Article The story goes that during the years of the Great Depression in America there was a foolish old farmer who tried to save money by feeding his mule on sawdust. He felt his mule was costing him far too much in oats, so he decided  to mix a little sawdust in with…

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