The Scriptures speak of the wild ass which inhabits mountain steppes and semi-desert plains (Job 24:5). These animals are known today as onagers. They are reddish-brown or yellowish-brown in colour and have a broad dorsal stripe on the middle of the back. Unlike donkeys, onagers have never been dome…
This is the title of an op-ed article written by Michael Bociurkiw who is a global affairs analyst and a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He wrote this:
“With mass protests erupting in Belarus over a disputed presidential election on Sunday, after wh…
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Background
Laodicea was situated in the Lycos Valley in the province of Phrygia and was founded by Antiochus II (261–246BC) of Syria, who named it for his wife Laodike, and who populated it with Syrians and Jews who were transplanted from Babylonia.
The ruins of the city show it to have be…
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In December 2016, Current Biology published an article about some amazing discoveries they made after studying the noses of zebrafish!
They wrote: “Our data showed for the first time how the motile cilia decorating the nose pit act as a very powerful water turbine and generate strong and robust…
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Background
Name of city = “brotherly love”. In 189BC the city came into the possession of the king of Pergamon, Eumenes, and was named after his brother, Attalus II (159-138BC), whose truth and loyalty won him the title, Philadelphus.
Though military fortifications were not neglected at …
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In ancient times, the land of Israel was heavily forested. In Joshua’s day, the hills in Israel’s heartland (the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh) were called “the wood country” because of the extensive forests (Josh 17:15,18). Absalom was killed in the trans-Jordanian oak forest of Ephraim (2…
There is a great deal of difference between the pasturelands which did not have enough water to grow crops, but still had enough grass to feed the animals, and the “great and terrible wilderness” of Sinai. Yet the same Hebrew word is used to describe both types of terrain. What links these two…
2:21 – And I gave her space
– Gk chronos – time; season
to repent of her fornication;
– the Lord continually seeks repentance (v5, 16, 22; 3:3, 19) – he used the work of the Apostle John in his letters to warn these false teachers
and she repented not.
– Jezebel knew of t…
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The Venus flytrap is indigenous to the swampy regions of Carolina in the USA. It lives in nutrient-poor soil and depends on capturing insects to make up for the deficiency of certain elements in its habitat.
The plant has an elaborate system to trap and digest insects, which other plants – apart …
Christ has informed us as to who the real enemy of the Truth is. It is a message which only Christ’s true servants can hear and receive (Rev 1:1-3). In Revelation 13 we have depicted the rise of a system of blasphemy which makes war against the saints. So powerful was this system that “all that …
