Biblical commentator and pastor John Macarthur writes, " The emphasis is on how to maintain a church with an effective testimony in proper response to sound eschatology and obedience to the truth.

John Macarthur and other officers were importing sheep and beginning to grow wool.

The Supreme Commander of operations was the United States General Douglas Macarthur, with Australian General Thomas Blamey taking a direct role in planning and operations being essentially directed by staff at New Guinea Force headquarters in Port Moresby.

The Governor of New South Wales, William Bligh, was deposed by the New South Wales Corps under the command of Major George Johnston, working closely with John Macarthur, on 26 January 1808, 20 years to the day after Arthur Phillip founded European settlement in Australia.

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.

However, not long after, he also received addresses from the free and freed settlers of Sydney and the Hawkesbury River region, with a total of 369 signatures, many made only with a cross, complaining that Macarthur did not represent them, as they blamed him for withholding sheep so as to raise the price of mutton.

Macarthur had arrived with the New South Wales Corps in 1790 as a lieutenant, and by 1805 he had substantial farming and commercial interests in the colony.

Bligh stopped Macarthur from cheaply distributing large quantities of rum into the Corps.

Macarthur and Bligh were also engaged in other disagreements, including a conflict over landing regulations.

Bligh had the Judge-Advocate, Richard Atkins, issue an order for John Macarthur to appear on the matter of the bond on the 15th of December 1807.

Macarthur disobeyed the order and was arrested and bailed to appear for trial at the next sitting of the Sydney Criminal Court on 25 January 1808.

Macarthur objected to Atkins being fit to sit in judgement of him because he was his debtor and inveterate enemy.

On the morning of 26 January 1808 Bligh again ordered that Macarthur be arrested and also ordered the return of court papers, which were now in the hands of officers of the Corps.

The Corps responded with a request for a new Judge-Advocate and the release of Macarthur on bail.

Johnston, instead, had gone to the jail and issued an order releasing Macarthur, who then drafted a petition calling for Johnston to arrest Bligh and take charge of the colony.

Johnston appointed Charles Grimes, the Surveyor-General, as Judge-Advocate and ordered Macarthur and the six officers be tried ; they were found not guilty.

Macarthur was then appointed as Colonial Secretary and effectively ran the business affairs of the colony.

Foveaux arrived in July and took over the colony, which annoyed Macarthur.

Paterson sent Johnston and Macarthur to England for trial, and confined Bligh to the barracks until he signed a contract agreeing to return to England.

Bligh was to be reinstated for 24 hours, then recalled to England, Johnston sent to England for court martial, and Macarthur tried in Sydney.

Governor Macquarie reinstated all the officials who had been sacked by Johnston and Macarthur and cancelled all land and stock grants that had been made since Bligh's deposition, though to calm things down he made grants that he thought appropriate and prevented any revenge.

Having informally heard arguments from both sides, the government authorities in England were not impressed by either Macarthur and Johnston's accusations against Bligh, or by Bligh's ill-tempered letters accusing key figures in the colony of unacceptable conduct.

Macarthur was not tried but was refused permission to return to NSW until 1817, since he would not admit his wrongdoing.

It is popular belief that the autocratic Bligh was removed because he threatened the huge profits that were being made from trading in spirits by the officers of the NSW Corps and by businessmen such as John Macarthur.

Paul Williams writes that some modern Theravada meditation masters in Thailand are popularly regarded as bodhisattvas.

In his letter to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes, " The Lord himself will descend from heaven ... and the dead in Christ will rise first .” But he adds that “ we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air ." Th.

This is an obscure prophecy, but in combination with other passages, it has been interpreted to mean that the " prince who is to come " will make a seven-year covenant with Israel that will allow the rebuilding of the temple and the reinstitution of sacrifices, but “ in the middle of the week ,” he will break the agreement and set up an idol of himself in the temple and force people to worship it — the “ abomination of desolation .” Paul writes:

Paul writes from Ephesus that " Christ our Pascha has been sacrificed for us ," although the Ephesian Christians were not the first to hear that Exodus 12 spoke about the death of Jesus.

In the Epistle to the Romans Paul writes from the point of view of the demonstration of the righteousness of God — his covenant faithfulness and saving justice — in the gospel ; the author of Ephesians writes from the perspective of union with Christ, who is the head of the true church.

In the conclusion of the epistle ( 6: 11 ), Paul writes, " Ye see how large a letter I have written with mine own hand.

The following arguments have been based on the content: ( 1 ) It is perceived to be theologically incompatible with Paul's other epistles: elsewhere Paul attributed Jesus's death to the " rulers of this age " ( 1 Cor 2: 8 ) rather than to the Jews, and elsewhere Paul writes that the Jews have not been abandoned by God for " all Israel will be saved " ( Rom 11: 26 ); According to 1 Thes 1: 10, the wrath of God is still to come, it is not something that has already shown itself ( 2 ) There were no extensive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the first Jewish war ( 3 ) The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes.

2: 1, 3 ) where Paul writes of journeying to Jerusalem with Barnabas, accompanied by Titus.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Paul writes on behalf of Onesimus, Philemon's slave.

In, Paul writes to " mark those who cause divisions contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them.

Paul writes in ( Galatians Chapter 2 ):

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

Instead, Paul writes that Jesus " appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve ".

Paul Barnett writes that this creedal formula, and others, were variants of the " one basic early tradition that Paul " received " in Damascus from Ananias in about 34 " after his conversion.

# Paul writes 1 Corinthians in his first year from Ephesus ( 1 Corinthians 16: 8 ).

# Paul writes the " warning letter ", from his second year at Ephesus.

# Paul writes the " letter of tears ".

# Paul writes 2 Corinthians, indicating his desire to visit the Corinthian church a third time ( 2 Cor 12: 14, 2 Cor 13: 1 ).

Bruce Metzger writes, " Paul calls attention to his signature, which was added by his own hand as a token of genuineness to every letter of his ( 3: 17 ).

Paul Waldau writes that the overriding of animals ' interests was traditionally justified by arguing that they existed for human use ; Aristotle made this claim in the 4th century BCE, as did Cicero in the 1st century CE.