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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

AN ANCIENT ANSWER TO AN AGE-OLD QUESTION:

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EVIDENCE OF LOST ISRAEL IN EARLY ANNALS W HERE is lost Israel? Bible readers throughout the Christian centuries have pondered the fate of the ten tribes of the House of Israel who vanished into Assyrian exile in the 7th century, B.C. There is no shortage of modern ideas concerning their fate, but the real answer…

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THE SABBATH

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THE statement regarding the seventh day, Gen. 2:2,3 was written by Moses 2500 years after the event (1) and was doubtless put in as a reason for instituting the Sabbath after the exodus. There is no record of its observance during the 2500 years and certainly none during the captivity in Egypt, as the Book…

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THE GLORY OF BENJAMIN

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BENJAMIN had a rather poor start in life. The story is briefly told in Genesis 35:16-18: “And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed and she had hard labour. And it came to pass when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said…

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PARABLES OF THE KINGDOM:THE MERCHANT & THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE

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I always find it interesting to see how people put a heading to some of these parables. You notice it is always called the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price and as we will see as we go into it, I don’t think that is the right name for it at all. The pearl…

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NEWSLETTER, JANUARY 2008

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IT is with deep gratitude that I write this letter here at the beginning of the New Year to you. It lies open before us to be written by our Heavenly Father as He planned from the beginning. It is written down for our benefit in His Word. We only have to ask the Holy…

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