Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Today in History - September 18

  A special thanks to Wikipedia.org for following historical information. The sermons I have chosen from Sermonaudio.com

AD 53Trajan, Roman emperor was born

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  1. Persecution from Trajan to Diocletian, by Matt Marino
  2. Eusebius: Christians and Jews in the Time of Trajan, by Jeff Riddle

1759French and Indian War: The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec are signed.

Recommended sermons and podcasts: The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

1960Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

  1. I Feel Like Communism is Better - Millennial Worldviews (Podcast), by Pastor Kevin Swanson
  2. Cuba, Castro, and Communism (Podcast), by Dr. Peter Hammond 
  3. How to Destroy a Nation: America vs the Soviet Union, by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2012)
  4. Recommended sermon: The Cold War, by Rev. Roger Higginson [Text: Matthew 24:12: "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."]
Recommended reading: 95 Years Ago, The USSR Was Formed. Let's Look at the Numbers - dailycaller.com

Excerpt from this article: "According to “The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression,” a text considered the standard recollection of the USSR’s atrocities, 20 million perished as a result of Stalin’s targeted killings, forced labor, famine, and collectivization. These numbers were confirmed by a major Soviet newspaper in 1989...An estimate cited by the libertarian magazine Reason puts the total number of people killed because of communism from 1900 to 2000 at a staggering 94 million — making it by far the bloodiest ideology in recent history."
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For further study...None Dare Call it Conspiracy, by Gary Allen (1971) 

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