Daniel 7-12 contain visions of Daniel that are apocalyptic. What is apocalyptic literature? Apocalypse is a Greek word meaning revelation, and apocalyptic as an adjective describes the genre of literature that contains visionary or revelatory experiences. Although such writings have been known from ancient times (texts like Daniel, and the Revelation of John),Continue Reading

Signs of the Times “Our loving Heavenly Father and His Son, Jehovah, with a knowledge of the end from the beginning, opened the heavens and a new dispensation to offset the calamities that They knew would come. The Apostle Paul described the forthcoming calamities as “perilous times.” For me, thisContinue Reading

Major Michael Duncan Jones U.S. Army Afghanistan, September 2004–February 2005 In addition to serving as brigade flight surgeon on Bagram Air Base, I also worked in the base hospital’s emergency room and as the physician for the detainee facility. There were roughly six hundred prisoners in that holding facility. SomeContinue Reading

Here to Serve Sergeant Terry Chang U.S. Army Reserve Afghanistan, February 2006–March 2008 I decided to go back into the army for a silly reason by most sane people’s standards—I wanted to experience war, and I wanted to go to Afghanistan to help people. The unit I was to go withContinue Reading

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jared Kimber U.S. Army, Blackhawk Pilot Iraq, three deployments During my second deployment to Iraq, we were stationed in Kirkuk. As pilots of medical-evacuation helicopters, we have to be ready to pick up wounded soldiers and bring them to the hospital at any hour of theContinue Reading

Amanda Barnes Smith Amanda Barnes Smith 1809-1886 Amanda Smith, a woman of great faith and a survivor of the Haun’s Mill massacre, was born Feb. 22, 1809, in the town of Becket, Beckshire county, Mass., daughter of Ezekiel and Fannie Barnes. While she was but a young girl she movedContinue Reading

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history Dinesh D’Souza NOVEMBER 21, 2006 Accessed from the Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1121/p09s01-coop.html  on 11/8/2016 RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. — In recent months, a spate of atheist books have argued that religion represents, as “End of Faith” author Sam HarrisContinue Reading

I read this today and had to post: Tolkien and Lewis’ recourse was to draw us back to the heroic tradition: a mode of thought tempered by the realities of combat and fortified by belief in a God of justice and mercy. Perhaps the character of Faramir, the Captain ofContinue Reading

See also: When is war ever justified? Manhood of Church called into Armed Services God is at the helm When Is War Justified? The “war chapters” in Alma cover some basic principles when it comes to war, when Christians are “justified” in entering a war, and the attitudes and motivesContinue Reading

The whole world is in the midst of a war that seems the worst of all time. This Church is a worldwide Church. Its devoted members are in both camps. They are the innocent war instrumentalities of their warring sovereignties. On each side they believe they are fighting for home,Continue Reading