Today in History - June 16
632: Origin of Persian (Yezdegird) era (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
- Intertestamental Period I: Medo-Persia and Greece Under Alexander, by Pastor David McManus
- Esther Becomes Queen of Persia, by Rev. Dr. Roger Dean Anderson [Text: Esther 2; Deuteronomy 17:14-40]
- The Jews Living in Persia - History, by Dan Caffese
- God Preserves His People in Persia, by Pastor Carl A. Schouls [Text: Esther 6:1]
- 1963: Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israel's Prime Minister. David Ben-Gurion was Israel' first Prime Minister (Source)
Note: This is a fascinating podcast. Mr. Woodhead does take a shot at what he calls "Replacement Theology" and seems to lay some of the guilt for the Holocaust at their doorstep. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around - many who called themselves Christians chose to keep silent while Hitler murdered 6 million Jews But before you write off "Replacement Theology" why don't you listen to the following sermon on Daniel 9:20-27:
The 70 Weeks Prophecy, by Rev. John Sawtelle
For further study:
- Auschwitz: A Foreshadowing of Hell, by Rev. Ian Brown
- Darwinism Lead Directly to the Holocaust, by dr. Alan Cairns
- My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair
- The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom
- Faith & Victory in Dachau, by Jacobus Overduin
- Who Brought the Holocaust to American and the World? Planned Parenthood's 100th, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
