Saturday, August 3, 2019

This Weekend in History - August 3 and 4 (With Relavant Sermons)

August 3rd


AD 70 - Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are extinguished (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Desire of All Nations: The True Second Temple, The Spiritual Temple, by Pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) [Text: Matthew 5:14; Haggai 2:7]
The Destruction of Jerusalem, by Joe Morecraft III [Text: Luke 21:5-38]

1852 - Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also the first American intercollegiate athletic event (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Harvard University Ditches the Puritans - From Truth and Christ to Sex Week, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
The Relevance of Physics, Cosmology, and Astronomy for Young Earth Creation, by Keith Wanser


1946 - Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

Lying to Your Children About Santa Claus: Is Lying About Evolution Worse? by Pastor Kevin Swanson (2016)

Recommended quote:
"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." - Richard Lamm, as Quoted in The Coming Economic Armageddon

August 4th

1704 - War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Colonial Wars of America and Providential Significance, by Historian Bill Potter

1873 - American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed (Source)

Recommended articles & websites:

The Trail of Tears Facts - cherokeemuseum.org
Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama Retells The Trail of Tears - cherokeehistorical.org

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

America's Sins Against the Indians, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
The Truth About Cortez and Columbus (The Systematic Destruction of America), by Pastor Kent Black
1924 - Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established (Source)

Recommended sermons and podcasts:

The Failure of Atheism in the Soviet Union, by Peter Hammond

Recommended video:

The Complete History of the USSR Set to the Music of Tetris

1944 - The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others (Source)

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)