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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believe that the two witnesses will be two prophets who are raised up to the Jews in the modern nation of Israel, [17] [18] possibly two members of their Quorum of the Twelve or their First Presidency, who are considered to be prophets by the church. These two prophets will represent both the ...
There are more than 500,000 Catholics in Saudi Arabia. Most of them are expatriate Filipinos who work there, but are not Saudi Arabian citizens. [11][12] As of 2008, about 90% of the roughly 1.2 million Filipinos are Christians. [13] In the same year there were also Christians from Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Spain, Australia, Italy ...
The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus 's life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament. [1][2] The "lost years of Jesus" concept is usually encountered in esoteric literature (where it at times ...
John Wroe (1782–1863, founder of the Christian Israelite Church) Bernhard Müller (1788–1834, founder of an offshoot from the Harmony Society, that would later start the Germantown Colony) Helena Ekblom (1790–1859, Swedish preacher who was put in an asylum for refusing to comply with the Church of Sweden's doctrines)
In the August 8, 1844, conference, Young had emphasized that no single man could replace Smith as prophet. Young subsequently used the Times and Seasons newspaper to announce to the church, "You no longer have a prophet, but you have apostles." Strang, by contrast, announced that there was, indeed, a new Mormon prophet to succeed Smith.
t. e. In Abrahamic religions, the Messianic Age (Hebrew: יְמוֹת הַמָשִׁיחַ) is the future period of time on Earth in which the messiah will reign and bring universal peace and brotherhood, without any evil. Many believe that there will be such an age; some refer to it as the consummate "kingdom of God" or the "world to come".
Elisha (/ əˈlaɪʃə /; [1] Hebrew: אֱלִישָׁע, Modern: ʼElīšaʻ, Tiberian: ʼĔlīšāʻ, 'My God is salvation' or 'God is my salvation'; Koine Greek: Ἐλισ [σ]αῖος Elis [s]aîos or Ἐλισαιέ Elisaié; Latin: Eliseus) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a Jewish prophet and a wonder-worker. His name is commonly ...
Book of Joel. The Book of Joel is a Jewish prophetic text containing a series of "divine announcements". The first line attributes authorship to "Joel the son of Pethuel". [1] It forms part of the Book of the twelve minor prophets or the Nevi'im ("Prophets") in the Hebrew Bible, and is a book in its own right in the Christian Old Testament.