Semper reformanda secundum verbum Dei.
I can read the Bible for knowledge or understanding.
But I want to read it to be reformed by it - always being reformed by the Word of God.
Monday, August 10, 2009
9/11
September 11, 1683, was the date when the tide of Turkish-Muslim advance into Eastern Europe was checked adn reversed. September 11, 2001, was the date of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. and the beginning of America's War on Terrorism.
Charles H. Spurgeon in "Lectures to My Students" wrote:
Salvation is a theme for which I would fain enlist every holy tongue. I am greedy after witnesses for the glorious gospel of the blessed God. O that Christ crucified were the
universal burden of men of God. Your guess at the number of the beast, your Napoleonic speculations, your conjectures concerning a personal Antichrist —forgive me, I count them but mere bones for dogs; while men are dying, and hell is filling, it seems to me the veriest drivel to be muttering about an Armageddon ... , and peeping between the folded leaves of destiny to discover the fate of Germany. Blessed are they who read and hear the words of the prophecy of the Revelation, but the like blessing has evidently not fallen on those who pretend to expound it, for generation after generation of them have been proven to be in error by the mere lapse of time, and the present race will follow to the same inglorious sepulcher.
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