This teaching [the booklet Twelve Keys to Answered Prayer] is absolutely life changing. It’s scary because for as long as I’ve been a Christian, I’ve been doing praying wrong, and if not for this teaching I would be still lost. It was after midnight and I couldn’t sleep. I was thinking to myself about the questions of how to pray or how do we know if we are praying right. That’s when I stumbled on this booklet.
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Just what is the unpardonable sin?

Question: In Matthew 12:31–32, Jesus spoke of an unpardonable sin. What is this sin, and why can it not be forgiven?

Answer: The thought of being cut off from God forever is horrible to contemplate. Yet many sincere people have misunderstood this matter and are needlessly worried.

Our world is changing faster than you can read this magazine. What will be the end? The surprising answer is that we are advancing toward a world at peace! But let’s not get ahead of the near future. The time just ahead is not going to be pretty. A new dark age is coming prior to that peaceful age.

Recent decades have witnessed the global resurgence of militant Islam. This modern eruption is surprising to scholars, especially those who assume that as societies modernize and become more secular, religion will gradually fade away. However, Islam is now the fastest-growing religion in the world, and within that faith, an Islamist revival is driven by zealous believers determined to reverse the course of history.