Laodicea, Her Authority, Organization, and Destiny

Laodicea, Her Authority, Organization, and Destiny
Author: Vernon C. Sparks
Publisher: Digital Inspiration
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-01-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

—Protestant Reformation's Final Movement / God's End Time Church— In Revelation 3:14-21, God’s end time church is named Laodicea. In those verses, His remnant people are described as having the tendency to evaluate their spiritual condition, and work, at a much higher quality than is Christ’s judgment of it. He states that the Laodicean church, though entrusted with the knowledge of His last warning messages for the world are spiritually “wretched,” “miserable,” “poor,” “blind,” and “naked.” (verse 17). Matthew 25:1-13 is the parable of the ten virgins waiting to attend a wedding feast. In this account Jesus is also describing His remnant people. Christ’s story says that “while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.” (verse 5). This present volume is a Bible and Spirit of Prophecy study regarding the form of, and reasons why, Christ brought His end time people into a highly organized movement. It also describes how Christ’s ordained methods of operating His organization tend to be abused, and even ignored. It explains how His people tend to operate Christ’s publishing, educational, health, and even ministerial work more in harmony with the wisdom and wishes of man and the world than with the clear directives of the Lord whom we claim to be serving. But, all is not gloom and doom. There is counsel as to how to revive from the Laodicean condition. This present volume goes into detail as to what Christ will do to awaken His people. It presents the inspired explanations as to how His remnant will be “shaken” into the condition necessary for Him to be able to pour out upon them the Latter Rain to empower and equip them to give the Loud Cry and thus finish His work upon this earth. Entire chapters are dedicated to the divine instructions regarding the importance of not running ahead of, but cooperating with, Christ in these important dealings with His people. Table of Contents 1—The Church That Knowest Not 2—Messages to Laodicea 3—Lessons From the Apostolic Church 4—Lessons From Early Adventism 5—Purposes and Scope of Church Organization 6—Authority in God’s Church 7—God’s Plan Misused 8—God’s Plan Misused—Part 2 9—Supportive Ministries 10—Supportive Ministries—Part 2 11—Man’s Responses to Apostasy 12—The Remnant Church’s Response to Apostasy 13—The Role of Leadership in Revival and Reformation 14—The Shaking of Adventism—Phase One 15—The Shaking of Adventism—Phase Two 16—The Shaking of Adventism—Phase Three 17—When God’s Two Churches Become One 18—Running Ahead of the Lord 19—Holding Up the Hands of the Prophet 20—By Every Word 21—A Theocracy Still 22—When God Takes the Reins Appendix A—Should There Be a General Conference President? Appendix B—The Right Man in the Right Place Appendix C—Should There Be a World General Conference? Appendix D—The Laodicean Church Appendix E—Order and Organization Appendix F—How to Deal with Wrongs in the Church Appendix G—Apostasy Appendix H—Lessons From Josiah’s Reign Appendix I—Lessons From the Apostasy at Sinai Appendix J—Lessons From the Church in the Wilderness

Occupied Vicksburg

Occupied Vicksburg
Author: Bradley R. Clampitt
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2016-10-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807163406

During the Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi, assumed almost mythic importance in the minds of Americans: northerners and southerners, soldier and civilian. The city occupied a strategic and commanding position atop rocky cliffs above the Mississippi River, from which it controlled the great waterway. As a result, Federal forces expended enormous effort, expense, and troops in many attempts to capture Vicksburg. The immense struggle for this southern bastion ultimately heightened its importance beyond its physical and strategic value. Its psychological significance elevated the town’s status to one of the war’s most important locations. Vicksburg’s defiance dismayed northerners and delighted Confederates, who saw command of the river as a badge of honor. Finally, after a six-week siege that involved intense military and civilian suffering amid heavy artillery bombardment, Union forces captured the “Gibraltar of the Confederacy,” ending the bloody campaign. While many historians have told the story of the fall of Vicksburg, Bradley R. Clampitt is the first to offer a comprehensive examination of life there after its capture by the United States military. In the war-ravaged town, indiscriminate hardships befell soldiers and civilians alike during the last two years of the conflict and immediately after its end. In Occupied Vicksburg, Clampitt shows that following the Confederate withdrawal, Federal forces confronted myriad challenges in the city including filth, disease, and a never-ending stream of black and white refugees. Union leaders also responded to the pressures of newly free people and persistent guerrilla violence in the surrounding countryside. Detailing the trials of blacks, whites, northerners, and southerners, Occupied Vicksburg stands as a significant contribution to Civil War studies, adding to our understanding of military events and the home front. Clampitt’s astute research provides insight into the very nature of the war and enhances existing scholarship on the experiences of common people during America’s most cataclysmic event.

Biennial Report

Biennial Report
Author: Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 840
Release: 1891
Genre:
ISBN:

The Third Delight

The Third Delight
Author: Rui Yang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-10-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317794680

Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.