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144 articles found for “Angels”

• Acts 10

  [Bible]

  Acts 10 is the chapter in which Cornelius, a Roman centurion at Caesarea, and the apostle Peter each receive a vision and then meet, after which the Holy Spirit falls on the Gentiles listening to Peter's sermon and they are baptized.

• Revelation 20

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  Revelation 20 depicts Satan bound in the bottomless pit for a thousand years while the saints reign with Christ, followed by Satan's final rebellion and defeat and the Last Judgment before the great white throne.

• Joash (Father of Gideon)

  [People]

  Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.

• Vonette Bright

  [People]

  Vonette Bright (1926–2015) was an American Christian minister and author. With her husband, Bill Bright, she founded Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) in 1951, and she led the campaign to set the U.S. National Day of Prayer permanently on the first Thursday of May.