Hear the Seven last words of Jesus when He was crucified in the cross of Calvary.
March 30, 2014, last Sunday of the month.
God bless you all.
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HOLY PLACE CHURCH 966 N. Grand Ave., Grand Avenue Plaza, Covina, CA, 91724 Tel. #(626) 818-5730 or (626) 278-3554
3/06/2014
2/10/2014
Schedule Of Activities
a. Tuesday and
Thursday 2:00-5:00pm
i. Office Hours
b. Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday, and Friday 9:00pm-3:00am
i. Overnight Prayer, Bible Study, Prayer and Worship
c. Wednesday, 7:00-9:00pm
i. Prayer and Praise/Worship Service
d. Sunday 8:00-11:00am (Sunday Service)
e. Sunday 2:00-2:45pm (Sunday School)
f. Sunday 3:00-6:00pm (Afternoon Praise/Worship)
11/13/2013
10/03/2013
WHY WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 3 6BC
Christmas Festival was named after Christ Jesus the true Messiah, connected with the ceremonial mass, in celebration of Jesus birth. December 25 is referred to in documents as Christmas day in AD 354 for the first time. Under the Roman Emperor Justinian, it was recognized as an official holiday. An old Roman festival played a major part in the choice of this particular day. December 25 in ancient Rome was the "Dies Natalis Invicti," “the birth of the unconquered Sun," and at the same time, the day of the winter solstice, and in Rome the last days of Saturnalia. These Festivities degenerated into a week of unbridled carnival, therefore a time when the Christians could feel most safe from the persecution. All over the world, the solstice is connected with rebirth, so it made sense for the early Christians to tag on their own ersatz birth celebration to one that was already around.
It is wrong for us to say that Christ Jesus was born on 1st AD (Anno Domini) for there was a big discrepancy when Ussher the author of "The Annals of the World" retraced backs the date. One of the factors that he missed the true date was that there is a huge difference in Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, and the Jewish calendar. And Christmas is actually a cleaned up version of old Pagan festivities.
For a start, there is no evidence that Christ was born at Christmas. At Christmas time in Bethlehem is in the grip of frost, and no cattle have been in the fields in that temperature. This fact is borne out by a remark in the Talmud to the effect that in that neighborhood the flocks were put out to grass in March and brought in again at the beginning of November. When Jesus was born, "there were in the same country shepherd abiding in the field, keeping watch over the flock by night." Luke 2:8.
Adam Clarke has written, "as the shepherd had not yet brought home their flocks, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, not even in January or the month of February, on these very ground the nativity in winter time should be given up.
Nor would the Romans have ordered a census in the winter, the most difficult time of the year for travel. There were no records to indicate that the middle of winter was the time of the taxing.
A more logical time of the year would have been the fall season, at the end of the harvest. If this was the case, it would have been the season of the Feast of the Trumpets, the Feast of Tabernacles, and it all began after the Feast of Atonement, in the Jewish month of Tishri or Etanim falls on the month of October;( 3 feast in a row almost a month of celebration, Leviticus 23:22-24 and Deuteronomy 16:13 where held in Jerusalem which could explain why Mary and Joseph Luke 2:4-10, there was no room in the inn even as far as the town of Bethlehem which is only 5 miles from Jerusalem.)
According to the great historian of their days, Flavius Josephus, Jerusalem was normally a city of 120,000 inhabitants. But the series of Festivities sometimes bring as many people to offer sacrifice and to observed it to 2,000,000 Jews would gather.
It is wrong for us to say that Christ Jesus was born on 1st AD (Anno Domini) for there was a big discrepancy when Ussher the author of "The Annals of the World" retraced backs the date. One of the factors that he missed the true date was that there is a huge difference in Gregorian calendar, Julian calendar, and the Jewish calendar. And Christmas is actually a cleaned up version of old Pagan festivities.
For a start, there is no evidence that Christ was born at Christmas. At Christmas time in Bethlehem is in the grip of frost, and no cattle have been in the fields in that temperature. This fact is borne out by a remark in the Talmud to the effect that in that neighborhood the flocks were put out to grass in March and brought in again at the beginning of November. When Jesus was born, "there were in the same country shepherd abiding in the field, keeping watch over the flock by night." Luke 2:8.
Adam Clarke has written, "as the shepherd had not yet brought home their flocks, consequently, our Lord was not born on the 25th of December, not even in January or the month of February, on these very ground the nativity in winter time should be given up.
Nor would the Romans have ordered a census in the winter, the most difficult time of the year for travel. There were no records to indicate that the middle of winter was the time of the taxing.
A more logical time of the year would have been the fall season, at the end of the harvest. If this was the case, it would have been the season of the Feast of the Trumpets, the Feast of Tabernacles, and it all began after the Feast of Atonement, in the Jewish month of Tishri or Etanim falls on the month of October;( 3 feast in a row almost a month of celebration, Leviticus 23:22-24 and Deuteronomy 16:13 where held in Jerusalem which could explain why Mary and Joseph Luke 2:4-10, there was no room in the inn even as far as the town of Bethlehem which is only 5 miles from Jerusalem.)
According to the great historian of their days, Flavius Josephus, Jerusalem was normally a city of 120,000 inhabitants. But the series of Festivities sometimes bring as many people to offer sacrifice and to observed it to 2,000,000 Jews would gather.
9/14/2013
5/18/2013
Church Blessing
CALENDAR EVENT
MAY 26, 2013-SUNDAY
A VERY JOYOUS EVENT-CHURCH BLESSING
8AM
PLEASE COME AND JOIN US!!!
MAY 26, 2013-SUNDAY
A VERY JOYOUS EVENT-CHURCH BLESSING
8AM
PLEASE COME AND JOIN US!!!
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