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Daily Text
The one stronger than I am is coming, ... He will baptize you people with holy spirit and fire. -Luke 3: 16, NW.
When Jesus, glorified in heaven, poured out the holy spirit at Pentecost upon his faithful disciples on earth, țtongues as if of fire became visible and were distributed to them, and one sat upon each one of them.ț But that could not be called a 'baptism with fire', for the appearance of a flame would have had to envelop and cover their whole bodies to be a baptism in it. The apostle Peter then quoted Joel’s prophecy (2: 28-32) to show it was there being fulfilled. This prophecy shows that the fire is separate from the spirit and is associated with death and destruction, blood and smoke mist. It is evident that the fire symbolizes destruction. Beginning with the day of Pentecost the wheat class of believing Jews were baptized with holy spirit from heaven. The chaff class of rejected faithless Jews were baptized with fiery destruction in the year 70, when Jerusalem was destroyed, many perished and others were led off captive. W 11/15
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SATAN THE DEVIL
So alike has been the course of the nations which for four thousand years have successively dominated the affairs of this world that historians have advanced the theory that "history repeats itself" . The way in which world powers had their beginnings, rose to prominence as world powers, and then declined to ...
