TRUTH TRIUMPHANT By B.J Wilkinson CHAPTER 1 - WHAT IS THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS?......................................................................... 6 FROM THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES................................................................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER 2 – THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS IN PROPHECY................................................................ 9 HOW HER RIVALS IN RELIGION COUNTERFEITED THE PROPHECIES .............................................................................. 10 GREAT PROPHETIC TIME PERIODS................................................................................................................................. 11 THE 1260-YEAR TIME PERIOD ...................................................................................................................................... 12 CHAPTER 3 - THE APOSTOLIC ORIGINS OF THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS................................. 14 CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE JEWS .................................................................................................................................. 14 THE BEGINNINGS OF SYRIAN CHRISTIANITY ................................................................................................................. 15 THE BEGINNINGS OF CELTIC CHRISTIANITY.................................................................................................................. 17 THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK CHRISTIANITY .................................................................................................................. 18 THE BEGINNINGS OF LATIN CHRISTIANITY ................................................................................................................... 19 PETER'S EPISTLE TO THE CHURCHES.............................................................................................................................. 20 THE GOSPEL TO INDIA ................................................................................................................................................... 21 CHAPTER 4 - THE SILENT CITIES OF SYRIA ...................................................................................................... 22 HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND..................................................................................................... 22 EL-BARA AND OTHER CITIES ........................................................................................................................................ 26 WHY SILENT AND DESERTED CITIES ............................................................................................................................. 27 A CHURCH EVANGELICAL, NOT PAPAL ........................................................................................................................ 28 CHAPTER 5 – LUCIAN AND THE CHURCH IN SYRIA........................................................................................ 30 HIS BOYHOOD AND YOUTH ........................................................................................................................................... 30 INSIDIOUS TEACHINGS MET BY LUCIAN ........................................................................................................................ 32 LUCIAN'S GIFT OF THE GENUINE NEW TESTAMENT....................................................................................................... 33 REJECTION OF SPURIOUS OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS ....................................................................................................... 33 EXPOSURE OF THE ALLEGORISING THEOLOGIANS ......................................................................................................... 34 DENOUNCING TRADITION ABOVE THE BIBLE ................................................................................................................ 35 STANDING AGAINST "NO-LAW" THEORY ..................................................................................................................... 36 THEOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................ 39 QUALITY NOT QUANTITY...................................................................................................................................... 39 THE GENUINE BIBLE ............................................................................................................................................... 39 MANUSCRIPTS TRUE AND FALSE ........................................................................................................................ 39 RELATION TO THE LAW OF GOD.......................................................................................................................... 40 CHRIST OUR SUBSTITUTE AND SURETY............................................................................................................ 40 THE SABBATH........................................................................................................................................................... 40 NO UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE.................................................................................................................... 41 CHAPTER 6 – VIGILANTIUS, LEADER OF THE WALDENSES......................................................................... 42 THE STRUGGLE AGAINST MONASTICISM....................................................................................................................... 42 REVOLT AGAINST ASCETICISM AND MONASTICISM ...................................................................................................... 44 THE FORERUNNERS OF VIGILANTIUS............................................................................................................................. 44 OPPONENTS OF PAGAN PRACTICES................................................................................................................................45 WHAT CAUSED THE RUPTURE BETWEEN VIGILANTIUS AND ROME?............................................................................. 47 THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF FREE CHURCHES ............................................................................................................. 49 CHAPTER 7 - PATRICK, ORGANIZER OF THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS IN IRELAND .............. 51 CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND BEFORE PATRICK................................................................................................................ 53 PATRICK'S WORK IN IRELAND ....................................................................................................................................... 54 HIS AUTHORITY - THE BIBLE ........................................................................................................................................ 55 THE FICTITIOUS PATRICK .............................................................................................................................................. 57 WAR ON THE CELTIC CHURCH....................................................................................................................................... 58 THE CHARACTER OF PATRICK ....................................................................................................................................... 59 THE BELIEFS AND TEACHINGS OF PATRICK ................................................................................................................... 60 ENEMIES OF THE CELTIC CHURCH IN IRELAND.............................................................................................................. 63 BRIAN BORU OVERTHROWS THE DANISH SUPREMACY ................................................................................................. 64 THE RUIN OF PATRICK'S CHURCH.................................................................................................................................. 64 CHAPTER 8 - COLUMBA AND THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.......................................................................... 66 THE EDUCATION OF COLUMBA...................................................................................................................................... 67 LABORING IN IRELAND .................................................................................................................................................. 67 JOURNEYS INTO SCOTLAND........................................................................................................................................... 68 THE MISSION CENTER AT IONA ..................................................................................................................................... 69 DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND ................................................................................................................... 69 BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS AND BIBLE STUDIES .................................................................................................................... 70 THE CENTURY AFTER COLUMBA'S DEATH.................................................................................................................... 71 BATTLING AGAINST THE NORTHMEN AND THE PAPACY................................................................................................ 72 QUEEN MARGARET AND THE SCOTTISH CHURCH.........................................................................................................