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Trump says U.S. seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast

I'm not going to subscribe. What was the Port-of-Call of the tanker? Who owned it? I assume it was Venezuelan oil...?
Here is google AI answer
What tanker was seized today by the US? Where was it from and where was it going? https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/us-seizes-venezuelan-oil-tanker-00685289



The U.S. seized a sanctioned oil tanker called the Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. The operation was led by the U.S. Coast Guard, FBI, and Homeland Security Investigations.

Details of the Seizure
  • Tanker Name: The vessel was identified by officials and maritime groups as the Skipper (previously sailing under a Latin American flag where it was not properly registered).
  • Origin: The tanker was carrying Venezuelan crude oil from the state-owned oil company PDVSA. It had been previously linked to the smuggling of sanctioned Iranian oil.
  • Destination: The ship was reportedly bound for Cuba where the oil would go to Asian energy brokers.
  • Reason for Seizure: The U.S. government executed a seizure warrant because the tanker was part of an illicit oil shipping network supporting entities designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S.
  • Location: The seizure occurred in international waters off the coast of Venezuela and was conducted without incident or casualties
  • President Donald Trump confirmed the seizure, calling it the "largest one ever seized" and stating the U.S. would "keep" the oil. The move is a significant escalation of the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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Inspired texts outside the protestant canon

The Apocrypha is largely considered uninspired because its books were written during the Intertestamental Period, after the cessation of recognized prophecy, and they were never accepted into the authoritative Hebrew canon (the Tanakh) by the Jewish people, which further implies a lack of divine, prophetic authority.
Actually at the time of Christ different groups of Jews recognized different lists of books as Holy Scripture. In the second century A.D. the Pharisees limited the Hebrew Canon to Books written in Hebrew before 400 B.C. The Pharisees also rejected the Greek Septuagint, they claimed that Christians had corrupted those books. The Catholic Church chose all 73 books of the Bible, that includes the Deuterocanonicals (which you call Apocrypha) and maintain the Apostles taught from the Greek Septuagint and that Jews who rejected the Gospels, had even rejected Christ, had no authority to set the OT canon. During the Reformation Luther was able to get some, but not all of the books he wanted dropped from the 73 book canon. Protestants did keep 66 of the books chosen by the Catholic Church and also keep the order of books chosen by the Catholic Church.
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what is Calvinism answer to how God works?

I'm going to disagree with this a bit....

My anchor is Jesus, not scripture. Without His shed blood, we have nothing, so yes, He is our anchor in all things pertaining to this new Spiritual life we now have inside.
I agree. But I refer to scripture as the anchor concerning doctrine, and the results of doctrine. He does not "reveal", anything new separate or not in accordance with Scripture. We can check what he "reveals" by Scripture. He does definitely comfort, lead and cause, quite apart from our reading.
My understanding of scripture comes from the daily inner revelation of The Holy Spirit inside of me.
I agree with that. Intellectual facts notwithstanding, we get only condemnation from not walking with God, which walking and understanding is a gift of God, not of the intellect. But he uses the intellect too, both to get in one's way and blind the presumptuous, and to learn truth.
I depend upon GOD that way because I want the direct source of the truth I read on those pages, I want His understanding being given to me, so that I'm not misunderstanding passages, and thereby being deceived, as I've mentioned about so many folks on here over the years.

Scripture is a certainly a foundation in our Christian lives that we need, but we can't truly know GOD by just reading the pages about Him, hence why I advocate a day to day relationship with Him through prayer and worship.
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State leaders speak out about plans to expand the Islamic Academy of Alabama

And people overestimate how completely free of bias or prior knowledge a jury must be. The main effort is to find a jury that will only use evidence, law, and argument presented in court and to set aside any bias or prior feelings. Bench trials are also a thing.
There's yet another caveat with regards to requesting bench trials in civil cases.

In many jurisdictions, in civil cases, both parties have an enumerated right to a jury trial, which means both parties would have to agree to waive that right. Which, if there's favorable conditions due to jurisdictional advantage, why would they ever waive that to the benefit of the person they're trying to sue?
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EASY MONEY: What the Federal Reserve did Today Besides Lower their Overnight Rate.

Most might know the Federal Reserve lowered their overnight lending rate to banks to be in the 3.5 to 3.75% range. But what surprised me was that the Federal Reserve did not stop there. "Notably, the Fed announced it start buying short-term bonds, expanding its balance sheet. Short-term Treasury yields moved lower as a result."
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

So where does the Federal Reserve get those billions that it uses to buy back debt of the U.S. Government? I creates the money. So now the USA is not just lowering interest rates, it is back to basically printing money through their good friend the Federal Reserve. Now if done at the rate of growth, it may go unnoticed, but if it is starting to be 40 billion a week, then these buybacks from the Federal Reserve are likely to cause inflation. (Some theorists say this is not true, others suggest a direct link with a bit of a time lag.)

Currently the Federal Reserve has 7.4 trillion dollars of government debt on its books. As recently as a couple of months ago, they were retiring their their holdings of U.S. debt with the additional debt being financed by others. Thus, the amount of debt is not being lowered as the USA is spending 1.30 for every dollar it collects. So to avoid pain and borrow at market rates, the USA is back to EASY MONEY. The U.S. Fed suggests they will do the bond buybacks for several months, but during covid it was for years, not months and it contributed to the 9 plus percent inflation in 2022. In 2019, the assets created from money printing stood at 3.8 trillion. In 2021 they peaked at 8.8 trillion. So by this money printing both Trump and Biden were on baord and both responsible for inflation. I say this because the serious money printed started under Trump and continued until 2022.

Since june of 2022, the Federal Reserve was tightening and retiring some bonds until a couple of months ago. So Biden should get credit too for reducing inflation because the policies that reduced it were started in the middle of his term. The Fed Reserve over this three year period, got their balance sheet back to 7.4 trillion this year. If they create 40 billion a week in dollars, that pace is two trillion a year SO HERE WE GO AGAIN!.

Such money printing not only paid for your covid rebates for Americans but cash infusions are highly correlated to stock market gains. "Academic studies confirm a long-term positive relationship between the Fed's balance sheet size and future market performance. One analysis suggests an R² (a measure of correlation) of 0.8832 since 2009, indicating a strong long-term association." Source google ai.

My point in all of this is to suggest that the renewal of essentially printing money during a time when inflation is already running around 2.9 percent could create more persistent and elevated inflation. So while you are being taxed on the tariffs you also are taxed by the higher prices due in part, to excessive money printing. I will say too that Trump is going to install his own Chairman and some new Governors that will be even more dovish at lowering interest rates and printing money. IF you notice too that while the Fed lowers rates to their banking members, the mortgage rates actually climbed. A solution that worked during covid was to have the Federal Reserve buy back mortgages. So I suppose they could do that again to artificially lower mortgage rates but the markets are not setting interest rates at all when this occurs and yes such intervention causes distortions that can be harmful.

You should realize too that when inflation is 3% and your only getting 2.5% interest on your money from loaning it to the government or member banks, you are losing money while at the same time paying tax on the 2.5% gain. The USA is not there yet but she may soon be back to negative interest rates on short-term government debt and on longer debt when inflation reignites.

If you study nations that expand the money supply even more significantly, the value in some cases has gone down to nothing. For the U.S. "By Consumer Goods (CPI): According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, what cost $1 in 1913 required approximately $96 to $100 to purchase in recent years. This reflects a loss in value of about 96% to 97.5%."

So is there anyone that even cares in the U.S. government? I mean giving it more than just lip service. Saying they want interest rates at 2% but failing to make that happen since 2001. That is deception, not true concern. So I asked google AI. This is where AI currently has issues with discerning intent and motivation. The Fed says they want 2% inflation, but they won't take the action to make even that occur. In questioning google ai I asked for names, and it gave me former congressman Ron Paul. I pressed him about Senator Rand Paul and it answered. "High Stringency on Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Senator Paul has a reputation as one of the toughest votes in the U.S. Senate on spending issues. He has voted against major budget deals and debt ceiling increases because, in his view, they do not cut enough spending or address the underlying fiscal imbalance. His consistent reintroduction of legislation like the Federal Reserve Transparency Act makes him a leading figure in the push for stricter monetary discipline." Google ai.

I am not trying to make this too political, yet it is a serious economic and political issue. Inflation is theft too, and the framers were quite aware of it.

"George Washington: He observed the consequences of paper money in Rhode Island, stating in a 1787 letter that paper money "has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce – oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice". Google ai.

On the banking system - "Thomas Jefferson & James Madison: They vehemently opposed Alexander Hamilton's plan for a national bank. Their primary concerns were that such an institution would centralize power in the federal government, favor wealthy commercial elites and financiers over common farmers, and undermine state banks. Jefferson feared a financial monopoly that could adopt policies contrary to the public good. He believed the bank was unconstitutional, as the power to create a corporation was not explicitly listed in the Constitution."

So there you have it. A new round of money printing that is going world wide. The system will hold only as long as investors see value in buying government debt. Even the USA Federal Reserve cannot buy all the debt to target interest rates for loans at all intervals from 1 month to 30 years.

As always we can be dismal for a nation, yet as individuals we can prosper if we hold dear to God's principles on giving the use of money and His grace. May each of us be stay free from the love of money and fix our eyes on Jesus as the wrold's economic system is thrashing in these times. Goid bless!

Citizens are fed up with Dem-invited migrants that have disdain for US law and culture

Why do you hate America?
Sarcasm?

While I disagree with Mrs. Omer's politics and lifestyle, it's important to be truthful and avoid spreading falsehoods. Claims that Mrs. Obama married her brother are baseless, yet some conservatives continue to spread them, and it's really sad to see individuals who call themselves Christian these kind of these lies just to make political point.
No, the absurd claim about Mrs. Obama is that she is a man whose husband is gay. ^_^ Mrs. Clinton got Frazzledrip.

I dunno why some love to revel in such dreck.
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Appointed to Eternal Life - Acts 13:48

I'm not going to continue to engage you if you continue to act like you are the ultimate Greek expert while insisting on interpreting Acts 13:48 in a way that contradicts many other scriptures. Scripture is very clear that God loved the whole world enough to send His Son to die for their sins (1 John 2:1-2, John 3:16) and that He wants all people to be saved (1 Timothy 2:3-6) and commands all people everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30) so that He makes His mercy available to all people (Romans 11:30-32) because of His gracious offer of salvation to all people (Titus 2:11). Your interpretation of Acts 13:48 and your Calvinist doctrine in general contradicts all of those verses I referenced and many more.

You think that God alone chooses who will have eternal life and that man has no responsibility in the matter. If that was the case, then why does scripture say that God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked and wants them to repent before they die (Ezekiel 18:32, Ezekiel 33:11)?
There was no "acting like the ultimate Greek expert" in what I wrote. There was simply the accurate identification of a subject and its predicate in a sentence. You refuse to acknowledge the same, which means, apparently, you do not believe what Luke wrote.
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The Saving results of the Death of Christ !

The reason why they are God-taught is not left unexplained. It is embedded in the adjective itself. Again, the expression διδακτοὶ θεοῦ does not depict a teaching merely offered, capable of being accepted or refused. For that, we would expect something like οἱ διδασκόμενοι ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ("those being taught by God"), which would simply denote the ongoing activity of instruction directed toward them, without specifying its outcome.

But διδακτοὶ θεοῦ is a predicate adjective describing persons as the result of a completed divine action. It presents them as those who have already received the effect of God's instruction. The form therefore presupposes divine initiative and successful divine agency. This is not a teaching that may or may not take root; it is a teaching that achieves its intended effect.

So there's the reason: These individuals are taught because God determined that they should be. The reason they "hear and learn" is not an open question supplied from outside the text. The grammar itself provides it. They hear and learn because God has made them such. He has rendered them "God-taught."
"Short answer: Dikai over-states what the Greek grammar can prove.
The adjective διδακτοὶ θεοῦ can fit a monergistic reading, but it does not grammatically require it. It is consistent with multiple theological interpretations, and standard Greek grammar does not force the conclusion that God's teaching is automatically effectual.

Dikai asserts:

1. The adjective requires effectual, irresistible divine instruction.

2. It presupposes divine initiative that accomplishes its intended result.

3. Therefore the reason they hear/learn is because God unilaterally made them such.

These conclusions are not demanded by the grammar. They are theologically deduced, not linguistically encoded.

ChatGPT
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Ellen White on the mark of the beast for those that worship on Sunday

This is a classic example of attempting to mix the two covenants together. You being a law keeper should know that you cannot add or take away anything from the law. This means you cannot add the spiritual rest we have in Christ to the physical rest of the law. Hebrews 10:1 plainly says the law was only a shadow, not the substance or spiritual reality.
Does Heb 10:1 say the Sabbath law was a shadow or does it say something else. I am a firm believer of not adding to the Scriptures on what it does not say but allowing the Bible to interpret Itself.

Heb 10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once [a]purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, [b]O God.” He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been [c]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool. 14 For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being [d]sanctified.

The law being spoke of is animal sacrifices and offerings what Jesus was predicted to end. Dan7:27, There is nothing in the Ten Commandments about animal sacrifices. The Ten Commandments is what defines what sin is when breaking 1John3:4 James2:11 animal sacrifices was added because of sin until the Seed (Jesus came) why they were a shadow. Now forgiveness of sins is ministered through the blood of Jesus. Instead of taking an animal for a sin offering, we can go to Jesus in prayer when we sin and ask for His forgiveness, true repentance means a change of heart and a change of direction, why Jesus when He forgave said now go and sin no more.

. The new covenant is the covenant that promises everlasting life but as Jesus said, search the scriptures for in them you think you have everlasting life but these testify of me. John 5:39
The New Covenant according to God is having His laws now written in the heart and mind of the New Covenant believer's heart. Heb8:10 and only God can define His laws, which He did Exo20:6, it is His Testimony Exo31:18 and as the Scripture you posted indicated, the entire Bible is about the testimony of God through His apostles and prophets. And who has a greater testimony than God Himself. No one.


Considering the spiritual state you are in
Weird thing to say to a stranger and only God knows anyone's spiritual state so I say its best to let God be God to judge ones heart and to define His laws and Scripture.
I say continue your law keeping, because the schoolmaster may yet lead you to Christ.
Yes and once in Christ if we love Him He says keep My commandments and gives us a Helper, the Spirit of Truth so we don't have to do it alone John14:15-18
If this doesn’t happen now in your current life there is still hope for you in the second resurrection.
Everyone has to have a conversion in Christ in order to be part of the second resurrection if we are not alive when He returns
Remember, you must keep the Ten Commandments in absolute perfection, never breaking even one of them because if you do you have broken them all.
This applies to everyone, and while no one can keep God's laws on their own, through Christ all things are possible including keeping His commandments John14:15-18 Rev14:12 Rev22:14
After Jesus magnified the Ten Commandments to include the thoughts and intents of the heart it made the law even more impossible to keep than before. This means that you cannot even think of sin because your guilty of it.
I think you are reading your own doctrine into the Scriptures. No one should dwell on sinning, but if our heart is changed, the outward part would be too and the commandments would be kept.
GOD will judge all people by the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 All sin is lust and coveting by our thoughts, will you be able to control all your thoughts so as not to sin ?
Again, no one can in their own power but with God, He promises He has a people who overcomes. We can read all about this in Revelation which is the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Holding Fast to His Promises

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God’s assurance of eternal life brings a quiet peace to our innermost being. It is a promise we can rest in, knowing that our future is held securely in His hands. This certainty steadies us in seasons of uncertainty, lifts our hearts when burdens grow heavy, and reminds us that our story does not end in this world. Because Christ has overcome, we can face each day with confidence, anchored in the unchanging truth that we belong to Him now and forever.

Scripture tells us that eternal life is God’s gift—found in His Son and already given to all who believe. Jesus declared that the one who believes “has everlasting life,” a present reality rather than a distant hope. When doubts arise, they often point us toward our own failures or inconsistencies, but true assurance turns our gaze back to Christ: His sacrifice, His promise, His faithfulness.

1 John 5:11–13 (NKJV): “And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.”

This passage shows us that our assurance rests on God’s testimony. Eternal life is hope for the future beyond life as we know it here on this Earth. John writes so that believers may walk in certainty rather than doubt, grounded in what God has declared. Eternal life is not something we earn, achieve, or maintain by our own strength, it is a gift given to us by God, our Father. Jesus Himself said, “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life” (John 3:36) - present tense, a settled reality.

Romans 8:31–39 (NKJV): “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long.

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

This passage gathers every fear, accusation, and weakness we carry and answers them with the unshakeable truth of God’s love in Christ. Paul speaks from a life marked by hardship, yet his conclusion is unwavering: nothing can undo what God has done for us. God did not spare His own Son - that alone settles every question about His heart toward us. If He gave His very best, every other need will be supplied. No accusation can stand, because God justifies. No condemnation can hold, because Christ died and rose again. No circumstance can separate us from His love. The love of Christ is not fragile; it holds steady through tribulation, distress, persecution, and even death itself. Paul’s persuasion becomes our encouragement: nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. In Him, we are held. In Him, we are secure. In Him, we are more than conquerors - not because of our strength, but because of His love that never let’s go.

The Holy Spirit also plays a quiet, steady role in assurance. He bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children and heirs with Christ. His voice is not loud or dramatic but a deep, settled knowing - a peace that rises when we read the Word, pray, or simply sit before the Lord. Jesus promises that His sheep are held securely in His hand and in the Father’s hand, where no enemy, circumstance, or weakness can reach. Assurance rests on His promise, not our worthiness. Salvation is secured by God’s power, not human effort. Grace saves us, the Spirit seals us, and Christ keeps us.

Romans 8:16–17 (NKJV): “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.”

Holy Spirit reminds us again and again that we belong to the Father and that nothing can separate us from His love. God’s assurance shapes the way we live. When we know we are secure in Christ, fear loses its grip. We pray with confidence, face trials with hope, and walk in obedience not to earn salvation but because we already have it.

John 10:27–29 (NKJV): “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”

Nothing can separate believers from the love of God - not suffering, not spiritual forces, not death, not life. Eternal life is found in the Son, and whoever has the Son has life. Our lives are hidden with Christ in God - secure, protected, and awaiting full revelation when He appears. Eternal life is not something we cling to buy effort - it is something Christ holds for us. So, this week, let your heart rest. Let the assurance of your salvation quiet your thoughts, steady your steps, and fill your days with peace. You are His, and He keeps what is His.

To the Holy Spirit — thank You for guiding every word, guarding every step, and glorifying Jesus through it all. All glory, honour, praise and worship goes to God Almighty, for He alone is worthy to receive it all.

May these words echo grace, healing, and truth wherever they are read.

Acknowledgement: Testimony reference from Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ (Living Sacrifice Book Company, 1967).

Acknowledgement of Bible Scriptures: New King James Version (NKJV), Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982; Holy Bible, King James Version (KJV), Cambridge University Press, 1769: verses sourced using Bible Gateway.

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked DHS/DoD Memo Shows: LA "hasn't been perfect" but indicates what's coming "for years to come"

Just a note that there are still active National Guard in Los Angeles. And several other cities, obviously.

Still are, six months after this 'rebellion' began. The courts have been batting it back and forth, but here's the latest shot over the net.

Trump must end National Guard deployment in L.A., judge rules

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must immediately end the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, the latest legal blow to the president’s embattled efforts to police American streets with armed soldiers.

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said in his ruling that command of the remaining 300 federalized National Guard troops must return to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued the administration in June after it commandeered thousands of troops to quell protests over immigration enforcement in Los Angeles.

The order was set to take effect on Monday, though it was all but certain to be appealed to the 9th Circuit.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is weighing an almost identical challenge to the deployment in Illinois.

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There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History

As you are aware @stevevw's answers are based on a standard template, it doesn't matter what you post his responses will always be the same.
The sheer stupidity of using a template is that despite a myriad of peer reviewed articles and tests which clearly debunk Egyptians using stone softening techniques, tools producing machined surfaces etc is automatically judged as nonexistent otherwise it contradicts the template.

Tempates? Not sure what those are in this context. I thought his neurons were repeatedly firing in the same wrong way.

There are posters who get caught in loops and obsessions (mr. thalidomide comes to mind) and keep coming back to the same things even when not applicable.
This leads to @stevevw's fallacious reasoning assertion transcendental knowledge is a product of his refusal to even acknowledge the role of science and the evidence in reconstructing the world the ancients lived in.
It is so weird, since even the video in the first post is about physical evidence of civilization and settlement earlier than previously appreciated plus a bit of speculation.
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The Lord's Wrath - How will it Happen

This much prophesied, still to come, Lords Day of vengeance and wrath – will happen at the same time as an attack against Israel. Psalms 7:12-16, Psalms 83, Micah 4:11-12 People think there may be a nuclear exchange, but what is more certain is what the prophets say:
Jeremiah 50:25 The Lord opens His armoury and brings forth the weapons of His wrath, for this is His work to be done in the lands of the godless peoples. Deuteronomy 32:34-43
Isaiah 34:5 For My sword appears in heaven, it descends in judgement…….
Psalm 11:4-6 The Lord is in heaven, raining fiery coals onto the wicked. ……
Isaiah 66:15-16 See, the Lord is coming in fire, like a whirlwind. He will judge with fire, His sword will test mankind and many will be slain by Him.
Isaiah 33:10-12 Now I shall arise, says the Lord, I will exalt Myself. You will be as chaff and stubble, a wind like fire will consume you. Whole nations will be heaps of white ash, like thorns cut down and set on fire.
Psalm 144:5-6 Lord, part the heavens. Make lightning flashes far and wide.
Isaiah 30:30 Then the Lord will make His voice heard in majesty...descending in fierce anger with devouring flames of fire amid storms and hail.
Jeremiah 30:23-24 See what a scorching wind has gone out from God, a sweeping whirlwind which whirls around the heads of the wicked. The Lords fierce anger is not to be turned aside until He has fully accomplished His purposes. In Days to come you will understand.
Isaiah 29:5-6 Yet, the horde of Your enemies will crumble into dust, fly away like chaff. Suddenly in an instant punishment will come from the Lord, with storms, thunder, earthquakes and great noise and a flame of devouring fire. 2 Peter 3:7
Isaiah 9:19 The land is scorched by the Lord, the people are like fuel for the fire.
Isaiah 10:17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, its Holy One a flame, which, in one day will burn up and consume His thorns and briars.
Isaiah 30:26-30 On the Day that the Lord saves His people, the sun will shine with seven times its usual brightness and the moon will be as bright as the sun……
See; the Lord comes from afar, His anger blazing and His doom heavy. His lips are charged with wrath and His tongue is a devouring fire. His breath is like a torrent in spate. He sieves out the nations for destruction.
Isaiah 63:1-6

What these (and many other) prophecies, seem to be describing is sunspot activity.
Maybe the sun is building up to a huge Coronal Mass Ejection, something we do experience with minor CME’s. They happen very suddenly and unexpectedly, reaching earth within hours and are capable of causing enormous damage and deaths worldwide.
All electrical and communications systems, industry, transport; our modern infrastructure could be destroyed, or at least severely damaged. Armies would be back to 1800’s technology.

A CME explosion of the suns surface, as described in Isaiah 30:26, by the sun flashing 7 times brighter, would be one of unprecedented magnitude and would literally cause all the graphically Prophesied effects. For example; the moon would shine bright red as it reflects this suns explosive flash, plus a thermoluminescent reaction between the metallic oxides of the moon with the superheated Hydrogen mass, also causing our satellites to crash to the earth, like ripe figs falling.
Nuclear weaponry most definitely

Zechariah 14:12

And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the people that have fought against Jerusalem; their flesh still consume away while they stand on their feet, their eyes will consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouths.

Sounds like the immediate effects of nuclear weaponry. And I noticed that some of the newer translations use the word rot, and there is a difference in rot and being consumed away while you stand on your feet, while standing on your feet means immediate action.
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"The Meaning of Foreknew in Romans 8:29"

Hey Dan

John 10:27 would be spiritual Israel. these are already OT believers and declared righteous by promise. John 3:3,5 would be speaking of the way to become part of spiritual Israel.
And will say from. Gal. 6;16. and Gal 6:15. is coupled together where Paul. calls them. THE ISRAEL OF GOD !!

and we know from ACTS 28: 25 - 28 that Israel. was SET ASIDE and ISA 6:1-13 says SO !!

dan p
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The rise of menace as a mainstream political tool

22 people were in the back of the vehicle, and they were all made to find alternate rides home. The driver, identified in a press release by Little Rock Police as 36-year-old as Zachary Platter of Indiana, was issued a citation because of the incident.
So… they hate illegals, but drive like them?
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Isaiah 43:10 Doesn't Say that YHWH wasn't "Formed"

In Isaiah 43:10 we read:
"“You are my witnesses,” declares the Lord,​
“and my servant whom I have chosen,​
so that you may know and believe me​
and understand that I am he.​
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me."​

This doesn't exclude that the speaker from being formed. (The hebrew word used in the sentence is Yatsar.)
Which in my opinion is beautiful if the Creator himself is Formed just like humanity was according to Genesis 2:7:
"Then the Lord God formed a man from the​
dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils​
the breath of life, and the man became a living being."​
Also in this sense we are way closer to G'd as we dare to believe.
Isn't it possible that God our Father formed / spoke himself into physical existence.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God and the Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God.

In the Old Testament Yahweh and the New Testament Yeshua / Jesus is the Word of God - the spoken Word of God who has physical existence and I'm not speaking of the human form he used when he was born of woman. You see he walked and talked with Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth, Enoch, Noah. He said and ate with Abraham. He wrestled with Jacob though translation say Angels but Jacob said he has seen the Lord face to face.

Did not Jesus say our Father is Spirit / Spirit has no physical form. And he and our Father are one.
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