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    John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
    John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
    John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
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    John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change

    By Brian Johnston

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    One thing is certain - we live in uncertain and fast-changing times! Using the change and uncertainty that was experienced as the Year 2000 approached as an illustration, Bible teacher Brian Johnston draws from the writings of the Apostle John to provide reassurance of things that John wanted his readers to be certain about - about salvation, about Jesus Christ, and about the future!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateDec 2, 2016
    ISBN9781533723956
    John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change
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    Brian Johnston

    Born and educated in Scotland, Brian worked as a government scientist until God called him into full-time Christian ministry on behalf of the Churches of God (www.churchesofgod.info). His voice has been heard on Search For Truth radio broadcasts for over 30 years (visit www.searchfortruth.podbean.com) during which time he has been an itinerant Bible teacher throughout the UK and Canada. His evangelical and missionary work outside the UK is primarily in Belgium and The Philippines. He is married to Rosemary, with a son and daughter.

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      John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change - Brian Johnston

      Table of Contents

      John's Epistles - Certainty in the Face of Change

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      Further Reading: A Test of Commitment: 15 Challenges to Stimulate Your Devotion to Christ

      Also By Brian Johnston

      About the Author

      About the Publisher

      JOHN’S EPISTLES

      CERTAINTY IN THE FACE OF CHANGE:

      BY BRIAN JOHNSTON

      Copyright © Hayes Press 2016

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, without the written permission of Hayes Press.

      Published by:

      HAYES PRESS Publisher, Resources & Media,

      The Barn, Flaxlands

      Royal Wootton Bassett

      Swindon, SN4 8DY

      United Kingdom

      www.hayespress.org

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from are from the HOLY BIBLE, the New King James Version® (NKJV®). Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.  Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scriptures marked RV are from the Revised Version Bible (1885, Public Domain).  Scriptures marked NIV are from New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scriptures marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

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      CHAPTER ONE

      For some people the future had never seemed so uncertain. While the British public had been presented with the Millennium Dome; in Israel another project was dubbed ‘the Millennium Doom’. During the approach to the new millennium, media reports were anticipating that Israel would use computer technology to thrill millions of millennium pilgrims expected to flock to the biblical site of Armageddon, the world’s ultimate battlefield. This proposal for multimedia visitor centres using virtual reality features led cynics to snipe that the end of the world may be virtually nigh. The location in the valley of Jezreel, overlooked by the Mount of Megiddo, stands astride the old trunk route from Egypt to Syria, and has been the scene of mighty battles throughout history.

      The last book of the Bible, the Revelation given by Christ to his beloved disciple, John, is a book of awesome apocalyptic visions of the future; with Armageddon being the scene of a final battle. The writings of the apostle John are well accepted as being among the last New Testament documents to be written. They are generally accepted as being written towards the close of the first century, by which time John would have been an old man in his nineties. No doubt uncertainties abounded as the first century came to its close, much in the same way as anxieties and fears shrouded the minds of a great many people at the turn of this millennium. John’s writings were timely then for countering the views of heretics, which were gaining ground. One thing that is fascinating as you read John’s letters is that some of the unorthodox and even bizarre notions that were around then are once again in vogue after almost two thousand years.

      To read John’s letters is to enter another world altogether, a world whose characteristic marks are assurance, confidence and boldness. If even today, people around us are being swept up in a current of anxiety, it is here in John’s writings that we can fall back on a stockpile of assurances.  To read these letters again, against all the background of hype, and even panic, which surrounded the advent of the year

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