Are You Practicing Pure Religion? - Ronald D Kelly - March 1983

Ronald D Kelly

This article is for widows and about widows. But it lS also for everyone else, because everyone needs to know how to better fulfill a vitally important responsibility. Almost 2,000 years ago a very old woman, a widow well past 100 years of age, became an encouraging example for all generations that would follow. Her name was Anna. Let's read about her in Luke 2:36-38: "Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And coming in that instant she gave thanks to the Lord, and spoke of Him to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem." - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library