Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israelis had sown the roadside with mines (and neglected to provide any maps), the patrols seldom made better than two or three miles a day. One burly lot of Yugoslav Communists pitched their U.S. Army pup tents beside the road over which Joseph and Mary once fled with the Christ child into Egypt, and played volleyball in the freezing gale. Beside their tents they laid white-pebble signs in the sand: "Zivio Drug Tito. Zivio OUN" (Long Live Comrade Tito. Long Live...
...Christ will return and the world will end some time between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, said William Miller. So did many another European and American Bible scholar. They based their calculations mainly on Daniel 8:14 ("And he said unto me. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), taking the "days" as years and the cleansing of the sanctuary as the end of the world. William Miller, a Baptist minister of Low Hampton, N.Y., was not an educated man, but he was sincere and persuasive; when the dread year came, Millerites...
...after the "Great Disappointment," a Millerite named Hiram Edson of western New York was seized by a conviction that explained the whole sad mistake. What was meant by Daniel 8:14, he decided, was Christ's entrance into the second chamber of his sanctuary (in 1843-44) to examine the lives of all mortals living and dead, and to dispense the atonement he had paid for with his blood. This "investigative judgment," said Edson, was going on now; when it was completed, the great day of the Second Coming would dawn...
...Jesus himself; Sunday worship, they believed, was a 2nd or 3rd century innovation without Biblical authority. This became a cardinal tenet of the new post-Millerites, and by 1860 they were calling themselves Seventh-day (because they observe the Sabbath) Adventists (because they look for the imminent advent of Christ...
...open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise" (Psalms 51:15). Twenty-eight promises were made by angels, one by man to an angel, and two were made by an evil spirit to the Lord. Satan made nine, as when he promised the world to Christ "if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (to which Christ answered: "Get thee hence, Satan"). Grand total of promises...