Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
The Advent Christian Church is an evangelical denomination which grew out of the teachings of William Miller. Adherents to Miller's teachings became known as Millerites.
The Philippian slave girl made her living by soothsaying for her masters. She earned them great gain. She also was possessed with a spirit of divination. When Paul commanded this spirit of divination out of her it left. That stopped their ability to earn money as a soothsayer for her masters. What happened to this damsel once she had been made clean is not known? It does give us pause to think what we do when we have been made…