“Ye shall keep my sabbaths…Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.” Leviticus 26:2, 4 One nation that strives to keep the Sabbath day holy is Tonga.  Sabbath observance is such a focus in Tonga that it is included in the Tongan [...]

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.” Exodus 20:8-10 Keeping the Sabbath Day holy is as important now as it was in Moses’ day. While most Olympians compete on Sunday, there are a courageous few Olympians who’ve refused to compete on Sunday.  Meet four Olympians who [...]

“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.  And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas.” Genesis 1:9-10 This verse in the book of Genesis seems to suggest the continents used to be gathered together into one land mass.  Since the “waters [...]

  “And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.  And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die” Deuteronomy 21:20-21 Though people probably won’t harass you for being a glutton (as they [...]

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them” Exodus 20:3-5 The devotion North Koreans show their president is akin to worship. [...]

“And [Potiphar's wife] caught [Joseph] by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.” Genesis 39:12 In our day we are encompassed about by immoral media that can destroy us.  Like Joseph we need to prevent immoral temptations from coming and make a plan to run away when [...]

“And the [donkey] said unto Balaam, Am not I thine [donkey], upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee?.” Numbers 22:30 Balaam’s donkey isn’t the only talking animal we know. There have been birds, cats, dogs, seals and elephants known to make language-like sounds.  Monkeys can [...]