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THE ENSIGN MESSAGE

LETTER TO TIBERIUS CAESAR FROM PONTIUS PILATE

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(The original of this letter is in the library of Rome. An authenticated copy is in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.) A young man appeared in Galilee preaching with humble unction, a new law in the Name of the God that had sent Him. At first I was apprehensive that His design was…

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THE COMING OF THE LORD

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THESE days are filled with national and individual apprehension, and in the word of the Lord Jesus we observe ‘Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.’ (Luke 21:26) We who are aware of the Bible which…

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KEEP YOUR EYES UPON JESUS!

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Excerpted from a sermon delivered at Orange Street Congregational Church, 11 July 1998 by the Rev. Ken Kemble of the United States ‘Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run…

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CHRISTIANS FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL…THE BLOOD RIVER BATTLE

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THE Great Trek or Afrikaner exodus from British rule in the Cape, started in 1835 and culminated in the founding of the Boer Republic. The following story by South African author Dirk van der Merwe was copied in Richard Hoskins newsletter, Issue No. 144, September 1986. C.A. Venter, an Afrikaner historian says: ‘The major reason…

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OUR SCYTHIAN ANCESTORS

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WITHIN half a century of the House of Israel going into exile, the Scythians were mentioned for the first time in any historical document. These documents, which date from the reign of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (681-669 B.C.), were recovered from the archives of Nineveh and are now in the British Museum. They reveal that…

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