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Daily Text
Repent, and let each one of you be baptized ... Get saved from this crooked generation. -Acts 2: 38, 40, NW.
The life-seeking Jews needed to be saved from the baptism of fire that threatened the nation. Three thousand believed Peter's message that Jesus was glorified in heaven to be both Lord and Christ, and later thousands more; and they were all baptized in His name for the forgiveness of their sins and to receive the gift of the holy spirit, participating in its baptism. In course of time these followed Jesus' instructions and did not enter Jerusalem at Passover time A.D. 70. So, they did not get trapped there by the Roman legions that besieged the city, and they did not fall by famine, pestilence and the sword nor get captured and led off into exile as slaves of Rome. They were spared from a fire baptism upon that faithless nation. In this they pictured how persons with faith in God and Christ today will be spared from a like baptism shortly upon Christendom. W11/15
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WHY EVOLUTION CANNOT BE TRUE
WHEN scientists are asked "What is man?" the majority will reply that he is merely the latest and highest development in the process of evolution of life, which began many millions of years ago with a microscopic living cell that somehow spontaneously popped into existence. And multitudes of their hearers will ...
