4611 The Shut Door When the disciples locked the doors, Christ knew He was sure of a welcome. He could not get their ear because of the din and confusion that came through the open doors. Closing the door to the world is opening the door to the Master. Don’t be afraid of shutting the … Continue reading “PRAYER—DEVOTIONS”
PRAYER
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. —Rev. 8:4 4514 Make Me An Intercessor Make me an Intercessor, One who can really pray, One of the Lord’s Remembrancers By night as well as day. Make me an Intercessor, In … Continue reading “PRAYER”
POVERTY
See: Poor.
PORNOGRAPHY
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. —Jude 7 4507 Startling Facts Over 19 million sex magazines are sold in the United States every week. Peepshow emporiums … Continue reading “PORNOGRAPHY”
POPULATION EXPLOSION
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! —Isaiah 17:12 4483 The Doubling Population It took from Creation to 1850 to reach 1 billion people. Since the population of the … Continue reading “POPULATION EXPLOSION”
POOR
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabbath. —James 5:4 4470 Producers Of Great Men They tell us that, in the history of man, … Continue reading “POOR”
POLLUTION, WATER
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man; and every living soul died in the sea … And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. —Rev. 16:3, 4 4461 Water Pollution … Continue reading “POLLUTION, WATER”
POLLUTION, NOISE
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: And there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. —Rev. 8:5 4446 The Decibel Since 1950 the noise level in the United States alone has doubled every ten years. A decibel is an … Continue reading “POLLUTION, NOISE”
POLLUTION, AIR
A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. —Joel 2:2 4436 Danger Of Air … Continue reading “POLLUTION, AIR”
POLLUTION
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. —Revelation 9:2 4427 Polluting Air And Sea Pollutants are the residues of things we used and threw … Continue reading “POLLUTION”