Author: Shalem John

One night during the first year of Belshazzar’s reign over the Babylonian empire, Daniel had a dream and he wrote it down. This is his description of what he saw: 2 In my dream I saw a great storm on a mighty ocean, with strong winds blowing from every direction. 3 Then four huge animals came up out of the water, each different from the other. And as I watched, its wings were pulled off so that it 4 The first was like a lion, but it had eagle’s wings! could no longer fly, and it was left standing on…

In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, I had In other dream similar to the first. 2 This time I was at Susa, the capital, in the province of Elam, standing beside the Ulai River. 3 As I was looking around, I saw a ram with two long horns standing on the river bank; and as I watched, one of these horns began to grow, so that it was longer than the other. 4 The ram butted everything out of its way and no one could stand against it or help its victims. It did as it…

The teachings on the baptism of the Holy Spirit has produced much controversy in the modern churches. Let us study the view that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the placement of believers into the body of Christ According to this view, a believer is baptised with the Holy Spirit at conversion. In baptism, he is placed into the invisible body of Christ – the Church by the Holy Spirit. This view considers that there is no need to have an outside sign for this baptism. A new convert is joined with the body of Christ when he is…