They say you can't go home again, but Louisa Banks is determined to try. Intent on caring for her brother's two teenagers while he is away in jail, she returns to the family farm in West Virginia. It is a difficult homecoming, made worse by crash and burn memories and self-induced poverty. Still she perseveres, and eventually becomes involved in small town politics and a militant Ganga grower who moonlights as a writer. This explosive combination pushes her to her limits and yet results in self-discovery and a new direction. Hers is a story that boomerangs back on itself and meets the reader head on.
"There's a war coming to the body of Christ." You might say, we've been in a war. Yes, you're right. We've been a war against the powers of darkness since the beginning of time. But I submit to you we're about to experience a war we've never seen before-a war that will rise within the ranks of the army of the Lord Jesus Christ. This war will be fought believer against believer. It sounds like a major spiritual paradox, but it is very real, and it's coming. There will be men and women of God who will rise up against one another in a manner that has never been seen or heard of in our modern time. This war will come because of one simple reason-change.
In essence, this book enlightens you about the true church which Adonai had intended when He had decided to create Adam and Eve. It explains the fall of His church, how it had declined from spiritual to carnal. The church must overcome the "death cycle." There is also a "living cycle," when we do all things to the glory of the living Christ to attain unto that spiritual being He had intended for His church. There is a secret spiritual warfare of which the Lord had warned us that we must walk in the spirit, His Spirit, that we may discern the things of the spirit. We do have an enemy which dwells in the darkness of this world, the same who fought against Eve in mind through deception, the same which beguiled Sataniel, who was to rule this universe after the fall of Adam and Eve. When He came down to search out the kingdom, what did He encounter? But on the secret coming of Christ with Eve to fight against the enemy to regain Sataniel and the angels which were subdued and to remove the works of "the one" which works in darkness from her children; then shall the Lord appear. Even so, He is already here with the second Eve, fighting for her son, also whom the enemy wishes to claim as his possession.
The End of the Anglo-Saxon Age and the Coming of the Anti-Christ describes the history of the earth as illuminated in the Bible, particularly the last quarter-millenium and Revelation. There will be about 6,000 years of earth's history before Daniel's final or seventieth week of seven biblical years and then Christ's millennial Sabbath. Each thousand year period roughly corresponds with a day of creation. At the end of the sixth millennial day--i.e. the last 250 years--man came forth as represented by the Anglo-Saxon nations who are the descendants of the two sons of Joseph, who had God's birthright blessings, which would be enormous. Jacob prophesied that his younger grandson would become a multitude of nations, followed by the older grandson becoming a great nation. During this time, Britain became Great, producing Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Britain had a vibrant Christian population beginning in the late 1780s, and America's beginnings were clearly Christian. No two nations have ever been blessed so much. When evolution finally supplanted the God of the Bible, Britain lost her Empire. God then raised up America until she, too, followed Britain's downward path. According to the Bible, the Anglo-Saxons must return to Israel. Hence, the standard of living in both America and Britain must soon rapidly decline, and, at the same time, Israel must become a much more desirable destination; Israel must destroy its surrounding enemies, which the Bible details. However, these great victories only set up the 1,260-day Great Tribulation, ending with Christ's return.
Two Bible verses in 2 Thessalonians (2:3-4) crush a popular falsehood that places the souls of many Christians in grave peril. “Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction...” (NIV) Among many Christian teachers, why are these verses and their context ignored? Why is truth being replaced by fiction? In chapters such as “Contempt,” “Not Until,” and “Depraved” the stage is set for the most unheralded future event in the world, the Coming Great Delusion. God’s people will not escape this test. In a verse-by-verse study that acknowledges Scripture as the only source for truth, “Thrown to the Ground” prepares the Lord's people for a love and loyalty trial that many are destined to fail. There will be no escape from Antichrist's global power. Only a love for truth will save us. Everyone who claims they have faith in God and believes in Christ will be tried by the fire. Preparation is key! Now is the time for action. Every saint and sinner needs to know what to do. We all need “Thrown to the Ground” before "the day of evil," then it is too late.
In A Glimpse of the Coming King, author Richard J. “Dick” Hill explores what the Word of God teaches about the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. He invites believers to consider many biblical passages that predicted Christ’s first coming and then those that describe His second coming. The Bible student can look to the prophetic words of the Bible and get a glimpse of our coming King and reflect on how He will return–triumphant and victorious, ushering in a new epoch on this earth. This will be the time when the King of this entire universe, the Lord Jesus Christ, will return to this earth and be crowned King over all His created order. This small planet, so seemingly unimportant, will become the center of God’s amazing plan for this universe. By preparing spiritually now and studying the prophetic Word of God, we will treasure this magnificent kingdom and delight in the coming days of the King.
Era by era, from the writings of the classical Christian epoch up to East of Eden and Amadeus, from Philo to Finnegans Wake, Ricardo Quinones examines the contexts of a master metaphor of our culture. This brilliant work is the first comprehensive book on the Cain and Abel story. "Ricardo Quinones takes us on a grand tour of Western civilization in his admirable book, which reveals the riches of the Cain-Abel story as it develops from its Biblical origin to Citizen Kane and Michel Tournier. This is cultural history and literary criticism of the first order, finely written, formidably but gracefully erudite, and illustrating the capacity of Judeo-Christian culture and the modernity emerging from it constantly to criticize the darker side of its own foundations and realizations."--Joseph Frank "Ricardo J. Quinones skips Biblical and Talmudic exegesis to follow Cain and Abel through later centuries, from classical times to the present. What he uncovers sheds light on important shifts of consciousness and behavior in European and American culture. . . . Quinones writes with true eloquence and conviction. . . ."--James Finn Cotter, The Hudson Review "Quinones's study of how [the] three Cains were transformed by Romanticism and Modernism into a sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always necessary archetype of the modern world is literary and cultural analytic history at its very best."--Choice Ricardo J. Quinones is Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of English and Comparative Literatures, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California. He is the author of The Renaissance Discovery of Time (Harvard), Dante Alighieri (Twayne), and Mapping Literary Modernism: Time and Development (Princeton). Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
This inaugural volume in the John Phillips Bible Characters series provides a rich exposition of the lives of twenty-seven significant--and sometimes overlooked--people in the Old Testament. An excellent resource for pastors and teachers.
