WEB SITE FIGURES FOR LAST WEEK

At this time, the tracking software at our web host has failed so we are unable to provide those figures.  In recent weeks, the count of visitors has been 4,500 a week.

We are scheduled to install new visitor-count software soon with the new redesign.

PASSOVER/LORD’S SUPPER JUST OVER 3 WEEKS AWAY
The Directory for the Passover – Days of Unleavened Bread is here:

http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/passoverpaperdirectory.shtml  It contains all the information you need for the Passover/Lord’s Supper and the Days of Unleavened Bread to include instructions for the service, Unleavened Bread Recipes, leavening agents, and all kinds of papers speaking to the theology regarding the Passover/Lord’s Supper and the Days of Unleavened Bread.

FLORDIA FEAST SITE THIS YEAR IS DESTIN
Destin, Florida replaces Panama City Beach, Florida this year.  The Feast information page for Destin is now posted thought specific information, such as speaking and event schedules will be posted later, as we get closer to the Feast.  Click here for the main Feast information page. http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/tabernacleshome.shtml   The Destin Feast homepage is here: http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/Tabernacles/tabernaclesdestin.shtml   

Note: We received word to encourage all of you planning on attending to hold off making reservations till you see notation at the Tabernacles homepage as they firm up venue details.

http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/tabernacleshome.shtml    

FEAST COUNTDOWN
There are only 194 days till the Feast!!  That is just over 4,600 hours from now.  Just over
280,000 minutes or 16.8 million seconds!!  See the countdown page here.

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=9&day=23&year=2010&hour=&min=&sec=&p0=217  

MINISTERS AND SPEAKERS ON THE ROAD
A number of ministers and speakers are on the road in coming weeks and months. Get all the details at Special Announcements at the Church site:

http://www.intercontinentalcog.org/specialannouncements.shtml
        
Yakima, WA - 28-30 Mar - Passover/Lord's Supper - 1st Holy Day - Chris Cumming
Fulton, MS - 3 April - Services - Mike Garrett
Douglasville-Atlanta, GA - 3 April - Services - Clyde Crawford
Pooler-Savannah, GA - 5 April - Holy Day - Robert Nunnery
Fort Mill, SC - 17 April - Services - Robert Nunnery
Atlanta-Douglasville, GA -- 22-23 May -- Pentecost Weekend -- Jim Josephsen
Fulton, MS - 29 May - Services - Mike Garrett
Douglasville-Atlanta, GA - 19 June - Services - Tom Griffith

To have an announcement posted for guest speakers to your local area, fill out the posted form:

http://www.garnertedarmstrong.org/Forms/ministerspeakingengagement.htm            

WEEKLY BIBLE QUESTIONS – LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS

Palatial Living – Part 1 of 1

1] ] Whose palace had a hand that wrote on the wall?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a king.  Two of the letter “z” in his name.
– he made a great feast to a thousand of his lords.
– he drank wine before the thousand.
– they drank from the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God
– they praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
– fingers of a man’s hand came forth the same hour they drank wine.
–they wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s place.
– Daniel and chapters 4-6.

2] What king of Tyre sent material for David’s palace?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a king.  Begins with letter “H.”
– he was king of Tyre
– he sent messengers to David.
– he sent cedar trees and carpenters and masons.
–they built David an house.
– 2 Samuel.  Chapters 5-7.

3] Who burned the royal palace of Israel with himself inside?
Hints:
– looking for the name of the  king who did this?  Name begins with letter “Z.”
– as soon as he took the throne, he began killing people.
– he slew all the house of Baasha.
– he left neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
– in this passage you will see the name of Jehu the prophet.
– certain people came and surrounded the city.
– when this king saw that the city was taken burnt the king’s house over him with fire and died.
– 1 Kings.  Chapters 16-18

4] Who took 13 years to build his palace?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a king.  The letter “o” found three times in his name.
– he built the house of the forest of Lebanon.
– the length thereof was an hundred cubits.
– and the breadth thereof fifty cubits.
– and the height thereof thirty cubits.
– four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
– 1 Kings.  Chapters 6-8.

5] Who referred to the future Jerusalem temple as a “palace for the Lord God”?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a king.  Apparently he had a wise son. Five letters in his name.
– he prayed his son would have a perfect heart.
– he told the congregation that  God hath chosen.
– God chose this son while he was yet young and tender.
– he, this king whom you seek, said the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
– 1 Chronicles.  Last three chapters.

6] Who had a palace with marble pillars and beds of gold and silver?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a king.  Name begins with letter “A.”
– this is the king which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia.
– “over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.”
– the palace was in Shushan
– he made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace.
– in this palace were, “white, green, and blue, hangings”
– in this palace, “the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white.”
– too easy if I give you the book. Old Testament. First chapter. Verses 1-6 should do it.

The Answers to Palatial Living – Part 1 of 1

1] Belshazzar’s (Daniel 5:1-5
2] Hiram (2 Samuel 5:11)
3] Zimri (1 Kings 16:15-18)
4] Solomon (1 Kings 7:1-12
5] David (1 Chronicles 29:1
6] Ahasuerus (Esther 1:1-6)

Those who answered correctly Palatial [Palace-like] Living Part 1 of 1: John M. – Milford & Mary H. – Bob M. – Maxine & Terri W. – Frederick T. – Joy S. – Mary L. – Mark M. – Larry & Mary Ruth B. – Emmette & Jeanette M. – Trish G. – Ruth W.  – Paul P. – Linda P. – Wendy A & Denise C. – and Lois C....whew!, you made it.

This Week’s Questions – Up on the Roof – Part 1 of 1

1] When Samson pulled the building down, how many people had been sitting on the rooftop?
Hints:
– looking for an approximate number.
– it was more than 1,000.
– it was more than 2,000.
– the number included men and women.
– “Samson made sport.”
– Samson felt the pillars whereupon the house standeth.
– Try Judges and chapters 16-18.

2] Who had a vision of unclean animals while he prayed on a housetop?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a person.  The letter “e” appears twice in this name.
– he went up to pray about the 6th hour.
– he got real hungry while up there.
– he would have eaten but fell into a trance.
– there was a great sheet knit at the four corners.
– in the sheet were wild beasts, and creeping things.
– this man stated that he had never eaten anything unclean.
– Acts.  Chapters 10-12.

3] In the days of Ezra, what did some of the Jews build on their rooftops?
Hints:
– looking for what it was that was build on the rooftops.
– they found that this was written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses.
– something about the seventh month.
– “Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches.”
– besides olive were pine, myrtle and palm
– “thick trees”
– “and in the street of the water gate.”
– Nehemiah.  Chapters 8-10.

4] Who prophesied judgment on the people of Jerusalem because they burned incense to idols on their roofs?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a man?  The letter “e” appears twice in this name.
– “the houses…shall be defiled as the place of Tophet.”
– “have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.”
– “the houses of the kings of Judah.”
– this guy is a major player.
– can’t give the book but try chapter 19.

5] What king saw his nude neighbor on a rooftop?
Hints:
– looking for the name of a man.  There is a letter “I” in his name.
– he had been on his bed.
– he got out of bed and walked on his roof.
– “the daughter of Eliam.”
– 2 Samuel.  Chapters 11-13.

6] What was the ailment of the man who was let down through a roof in Capernaum so he could be healed by Jesus?
Hints:
– looking for the type of ailment.
– Jesus entered into Capernaum after some days.
– “and straightway many were gathered together”
– clearly it was crowded.  “There was no room to receive them.”
– one guy was carried or borne of four.
– they uncovered the roof.
– they let down the bed.
– Mark in the early chapters.

Have the answers? Drop me an e-mail: chriscumming@icgchurches.org       

Next time: Collapsible Buildings - Part 1 of 1

POINTS TO PONDER
Quotes on Perseverance – Part 4 of 5:

--It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein

--Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

--People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

--Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

--Saints are sinners who kept on going.

--Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.