July – August 2023
After Alexander’s death in 323BC, his generals, the Diadochi, divided up the territory he had conquered. Seleucus I Nicator secured the territory of Syria, and he proceeded to found four ‘sister cities’ in north-western Syria, one of which was Antioch on the river Orontes near the Mediterranean coast, a city named in honour of his father Antiochus.Today the city lies in southern Turkey.
2023 marked the 30th year that the Pinjarra Bible School has been held at Fairbridge Village and we were delighted to welcome a number of interstate and overseas visitors amongst the 220 people who attended and enjoyed the camp this year. Brother James Jolly from the Tea Tree Gully Ecclesia in Sou…
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It is a sad time when an ecclesia meets for the last time and this happened to the Clayton ecclesia when it met on Sunday, 2 April. The ecclesia had been in existence for nearly 70 years, firstly as the Moorabbin ecclesia and then it moved to the Melbourne suburb of Clayton and built a hall on a bl…
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Over the last weekend of March this year a good number of brothers and sisters, with a few young people, gathered together with the Boronia ecclesia at Heritage College Knox to enjoy a spiritually uplifting time with the guidance of Brother Ron Cowie of the Enfield ecclesia to the topic “Inheriti…
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From 2pm on 15 April 2023, 400 young people gathered at The Retreat at West Beach to spend eight days in fellowship around the Word of God. The program included studies, discussion groups, sports, offsite activities, and free time to spend building good bonds.
The Theme
The conference wa…
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During April of this year Brethren Alan Thompson, Carl Kempster and I spent just short of three weeks in the Solomon Islands on Bible Mission work. As the restrictions on travel due to the Covid pandemic were lifted late last year, Brethren Bob Devries and Joel Evans were able to travel to the Solo…
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We need energy to make our bodies function. Whether we are moving or thinking or even just breathing, we need energy. So, how do the cells within our body convert food molecules into molecular fuel? How do they keep pace with our energy needs if we suddenly start to exercise?
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There’s a conspiracy theory or truth, whichever way you view it, that has gained traction over the last few years called “The Great Reset”. Before you switch off, the point of this article is not to discuss whether this theory is true or not, but rather to take some spiritual lessons from something that is talked about in the world around us.
It is said that not one area of life will be untouched by the great reset plan, which aims to reform everything from government, energy and finance to food, medicine, real estate, policing and even how we interact with our fellow human beings. A global agenda to monitor and control the world through digital surveillance will create a technocracy, resulting in two tiers of people—the technocratic elite, who have all the power and rule over all the assets; and, the rest of society, who have no power, assets or say-so in anything.
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The prophecy of Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament yet provides a pertinent warning to the children of Edom. It is a prophecy of how their pride and animosity against Israel will spur them into committing crimes against their brother, and the judgments that God will consequently bring upon them.
Ezekiel 38:2 states: “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him”. Magog was one of the sons of Japheth (see Gen 10:2). The descendants of the sons of Japheth generally settled in Europe. According to Josephus, Magog can be identified with the Scythians: “Magog founded those that from him were named Magogites, but who are by the Greeks called Scythians”.[1] By the time of Ezekiel in the sixth century BC, the Scythians had migrated from the east and settled in the region to the north of the Black Sea. As a National Geographic article about the archaeological remains of the Scythians stated:
“…the Scythians for some 400 years were masters of a great stretch of the European steppe. At its height their kingdom reached from the Danube east across Ukraine, Crimea, and Russia, all the way to the Don River and the Caucasus Mountains”.[2]
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