Archives for May 2022

Matiate – a place of refuge for Christians?

Archaeologists have reported making an amazing discovery in southeastern Turkey. Under the current city of Midyat, they discovered a massive underground city which could be the largest such find in the world. 

Occupying seventy-four acres or more, researchers to date have explored forty-nine rooms, including tunnels, places of worship, artifacts, wells, artwork, and storage areas. Archaeologists believe they have only excavated three percent of the total size of the city. It is estimated that at least 60-70,000 people lived there. 

Cursed but with a Glorious Promise

The earth was cursed by God because of the disobedience of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3:17). The comprehensiveness of this curse is stated by the apostle Paul: 

For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption… For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now (Romans 8:20-22).

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The Shroud of Turin, thought by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ (Matthew 27:59) is a rectangular sheet (about 14 x 4 feet) which depicts the image of a crucified man. Reddish-brown stains are found on the cloth, correlating with the wounds in the biblical description of the crucifixion of Jesus. The faint, brownish image of both the front and back view is a “negative” that has defied explanation as to its formation. There is no means known to counterfeit such an image on cloth. Is this image that of the Lord? 

Police in Wilmington, Delaware, had it easy in solving a December, 2021, bank robbery. A man walked into a local Wells Fargo with a note demanding cash.