The American family is in crisis. In the year 2,000, of the 59 million families, 56% were couples, 91% of the couples were married, 9% were unmarried, 1% were same sex, 50% were divorced, 67% were in their 2nd marriage and 74% were in their 3rd marriage. Warning: historian Edward Gibbons said the Roman Empire
After the apostles died, the direction of the local church was left under the oversight of men called bishops (also known as elders, overseers, pastors, shepherds or presbyters). Each congregation was to be supervised by a plurality of such men, not by one man called “the pastor” or “the bishop.” Teachers and preachers were also
Paul warned early Christians that after his departure a great apostasy would come, a falling away from the truth of the gospel. He told them this departure from the truth would start within the church leadership when men would “speak perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” (Acts 20:29-31). He called them “grievous wolves”
The Patriarchal age (4000 BC to 1400′ BC); is sometimes called the starlight age; the Mosaic age (1400 BC to 33″ AD), the moonlight age; and the Christian age (33 AD till the end, the sunlight age) because each period reveals increased knowledge and revelation about God and His will for mankind. , The, Christian
This week we shall review the Mosaic period, 1400 BC till the death of Christ in 33 AD. Moses received the Ten Commandments on 2 tables of stone, part of the law of God (the Law of Moses) which he later wrote for Israel in 5 books called the Pentateuch, the first five books in