Purge

Pagan Wives Put Away

Here is a list of the priests who had agreed to divorce their foreign wives and to sacrifice a ram as a sin offering (vv. 18-44). Although putting these pagan wives away was a severe solution, it appears that it only involved 113 of the approximately 29,000 families. This list of …

IllustrationStalin Orders a Purge of Christians And Bibles

In the 1920’s Stalin ordered a purge of all Bibles and believers. In Stavropol, Russia this order was carried out completely. Thousands of Bibles were taken and believers were sent to prison, where so many died for being enemies of the state. In 1994, a missionary group went to S …