Why was this to be?

Answer

"And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to
the time of the end." Verse 35.

What test should therefore be applied to every professed teacher of truth?
Whose workmanship is the Christian?
In view of God's great love to us, what ought we to do?
What did the devout Simeon say when he saw the child Jesus?
What question did the disciples then ask?
3. Through what experience was the church to pass, and what was to develop in the church, before Christ's second coming?
Of whom does the Bible teach that God is a rewarder?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle