Author: Shalem John

In February 2009, 22-year-old Kenneth Echiche and a friend were picking cashew fruit from a tree near their small village of Ukwortung in Cross River State, Nigeria. As his friend used a stick to shake the yellow fruit from the tree, one slipped through Echiche’s outstretched hands. He’s still not sure how it happened, but he remembers the caustic juice squirted into his eye, causing a burning sensation. “I did nothing about it because I felt it was something minor,” Echiche said.Three months later, his vision blurred. Unable to afford a hospital visit, his parents tried herbal remedies such as…

This is the fate of Israel, as pronounced by the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirit of man within him: 2 “I will make Jerusalem and Judah like a cup of poison to all the nearby nations that send their armies to surround Jerusalem. 3 Jerusalem will be a heavy stone burdening the world. And though all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed. 4 In that day,” says the Lord, “I will bewilder the armies drawn up against…

At that time a Fountain will be opened to the people of Israel and Jerusalem, a Fountain to cleanse them from all their sins and uncleanness.” 2 And the Lord of Hosts declares, “In that day I will get rid of every vestige of idol worship throughout the land, so that even the names of the idols will be forgotten. All false prophets and fortune-tellers will be wiped out, 3 And if anyone begins false prophecy again, his own father and mother will slay him! ‘You must die,’ they will tell him, ‘for you are prophesying lies in the name…