Good News Magazine: September - October 1997

Table of Contents

14 minutes
Do you believe in the return of Jesus Christ? Should you believe in it? What difference does it make?
1 minute
Now one can know the day or hour Christ will return (MATT 24:36). Why?
14 minutes
Many churches understand and teach that Jesus Christ will return. Far fewer know why He will return and what will happen when He arrives.
3 minutes
Belief in the imminent return of Jesus Christ and the dawn of a new age has existed since the days of the apostles. Nearly 1,000 years ago an...
18 minutes
Since the days of the apostles, people have predicted Jesus Christ's return. Does Bible prophecy indicate when this long-awaited event will at last...
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Valley of Jezreel in Israel.
11 minutes
What is the biblical Armageddon? Does it signal the end of the world? When and where will it take place?
2 minutes
Many battles have taken place in Megiddo, the place where the armies will gather in the end times.
4 minutes
Peter, Paul, all the other apostles and the entire early christian church kept God's Holy Days. They had good reason to
1 minute
The Hong Kong handover is being interpreted in at least two ways.
1 minute
Even after the recent loss of Hong Kong, Britain still bears residual responsibility for 180,000 people in its remaining dependent territories.
2 minutes
With the recent death of French underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau, the environment has lost one of its greatest champions.
1 minute
Even if AIDS or HIV infections are not considered, the United States leads all other nations in the rate of sexually transmissible diseases, according...
2 minutes
Health researchers are studying something they hoped they would never see, a deadly staph bacterium that can resist every drug in science's infection...
1 minute
The impact on children of divorce is cumulative and long-lasting, according to psychologist Judith Wallerstein, author of a quarter-century research...
1 minute
An article in a major newsweekly characterized South Africa as emerging from "a post-apartheid slump with a high-growth budget and Olympian hopes."
1 minute
America has the highest rate of childhood murders and suicide of the world's 26 wealthiest nations, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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Illustration of Gideon squeezing the dew out of piece of wool.
10 minutes
Gideon's example proves to us that, through the faithfulness of a few, many can be delivered and become conquerors. With God the outcome doesn't...
12 minutes
During this period of more than 300 years, God periodically raised up judges to rescue and rule over Israel as the Israelites struggled with...
2 minutes
An archaeological find from the 19th century clearly establishes Israel as a nation inhabiting Palestine in the 13th century BC.