History Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/LandMarks/history/ To prepare people for eternal life. Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:33:22 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.stepstolife.org/WordPress21/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Cross-from-STL-Bible-Study-Logo512-32x32.jpg History Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/LandMarks/history/ 32 32 John Knox and the Reformation of Scotland https://www.stepstolife.org/article/john-knox-and-the-reformation-of-scotland/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:33:22 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=47168 It is here that John Knox enters the picture. It would be this man in whose hands would rest the continuation and success of the Reformation in Scotland.

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]]> Eradication of Liberty https://www.stepstolife.org/article/eradication-of-liberty/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:08:06 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=46728 Under the USSR, the Russian constitution made provision for religious liberty; but it also stated that if the security of the state was at risk, then those liberties could be suspended in the name of protecting the state.

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]]> The Armada https://www.stepstolife.org/article/the-armada/ Tue, 05 May 2026 01:42:28 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=46521 The Armada numbered 130 vessels, great and small. On board were 8,000 sailors in addition to 20,000 soldiers. This group was augmented by many noblemen and gentlemen who had volunteered to serve.

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]]> Escaping the Trap https://www.stepstolife.org/article/escaping-the-trap/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:30:23 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=41529 ...that they may come to their senses and escape the snare [trap] of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.” 2 Timothy 2:24–26

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]]> Global Trends from a Prophetic Perspective https://www.stepstolife.org/article/global-trends-from-a-prophetic-perspective/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:45:50 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=30222 However, few predicted that a power like the Union of Soviet Socialist Russia (USSR) would collapse under its own weight just three years later, on January 1, 1992, and become part of history.2 Thus, a new world order emerged, a new era in which the U.S. became the global hegemon—a political, military, and economic superpower.

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]]> Guards on the Wall https://www.stepstolife.org/article/guards-on-the-wall/ Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:48:44 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=29670 I continue to ponder how the wall separating church and state will be demolished in the Western world. The destruction of this wall and this great separation is necessary for realizing all the components of the totalitarian system described in the book of Revelation.

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]]> The Calvinist Reformation https://www.stepstolife.org/article/the-calvinist-reformation/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:03:21 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=25329 This can also be seen in the approach to political liberalism. Human rights are its component. Liberalism is derived from the ideas of the Calvinist Reformation.

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]]> A New Day Dawns https://www.stepstolife.org/article/a-new-day-dawns/ Wed, 06 May 2020 22:22:30 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=20850 These three men joined together and published a paper called the Day-Dawn. It was one of a number of Adventist journals that were published following the Disappointment.

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]]> Enslaving the Souls of Men https://www.stepstolife.org/article/enslaving-the-souls-of-men/ Mon, 04 May 2020 00:48:40 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=20816 ...now as a Christian priest, now as a soldier, a mathematician, an astrologer, a Brahmin, a mandarin—under countless disguises, by a thousand arts, luring, persuading, or compelling souls into the fold of Rome.

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]]> The Rise of Sabbatarian Adventism https://www.stepstolife.org/article/the-rise-of-sabbatarian-adventism/ Mon, 04 May 2020 00:42:16 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=20814 We now turn to the second distinguishing doctrine of the Sabbatarian Adventists—their acceptance and observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.

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