Does God have a “mark” that His true saints “wear”– a sign that distinguishes His disciples from Satan’s disciples who use the same Rule Book, the same words, the same symbols, etc. as do His (God’s) followers? Is there one “sign” of ownership that identifies one group as real and the other group as counterfeit? […]

In part one of this series I wrote about the Biblically proven fact that during the height of the Roman Empire’s power a purge took place within the empire that was instigated by the Roman Catholic Church. The purge was directed toward those who would not obey the church’s orthodoxy, who chose to obey the […]

The Holy Scriptures tell of two times in man’s history when the true people of God die in great numbers at the hands of God’s enemies. One mass martyrdom took place during the Middle Ages, the other is prophesied to take place in our lifetime. We will study both martyrdoms because, though they take place […]

The answer to that question determines how the salvation seeker relates to the One Who has the power to award the seeker what he seeks or to withhold it. Incredibly, there are thousands, possibly tens of thousands of self-professing Christians who agree with Charles Darwin relative to the origin of mankind and everything else on […]

One cancer cell, if left untreated, will spread throughout the surrounding tissue, destroying its host as it increases in size and destructive power. If left alone, cancer will continue to grow until it eventually affects the host’s death. What is true in the physical realm is also true in the spiritual realm. In a previous […]

Recently Pope Francis told half of professing Christendom that the Ten Commandments were out of date and should not be used as the standard for Christian behavior. He is now telling his followers, which include more Protestants every day, that they must determine their own values and decide for themselves what is good and what […]

Can something be so terrible, so incredibly bad that the majority of people simply cannot believe that it exists? Could a spiritual virus be so horrible and so deadly that it defies the imagination, yet the vast majority of people have it, watch it and live in it without recognizing it? The answer to both […]

In this posting we will study God’s Word relative the manifested return of His Son to the earth and what will take place afterward. We will come to know the identity of those He will bring with Him from heaven, as well as those who will rise from the earth to meet Him in the […]

In the previous posting we began studying what Jesus Christ tell us about the persecution of His true saints by those close to them. Let us return to Matthew chapter 10 where, in verse 22, He reminds us that in order to attain eternal life, we must endure persecution until the end of life. The […]

Throughout recorded history man has consistently spoken about “peace, peace” when there was no peace (Jer. 6:14; 8:11,15). In the first postings of this series we will examine man’s quest for peace in terms of nations being at peace with each other, groups within the nations living peacefully with each, etc. In the latter postings […]