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"Overeager staffer" posts video to Trump's personal Truth Social account predicting “the creation of a unified Reich” if he wins in 2024

"Overeager staffer" posts video to Trump's personal Truth Social account predicting “the creation of a unified Reich”
A video posted to Donald Trump’s social media platform featured references to “the creation of a unified Reich” along with hypothetical news headlines should the former president win the election in 2024.

In the 30-second video posted Monday, which was deleted from his Truth Social account Tuesday morning, mock-up headlines and newspaper clippings envisioned media coverage after a potential Trump victory.

Under a black-and-white photo of Trump, one all-caps headline states: “What’s next for America?” with text underneath that reads: “Strength significantly increased by the creation of a unified Reich.”

The video appears to feature parts of a sentence referring to a “unified Reich” three times alongside text saying Trump “puts America first” or “Law & order restored.”

In a statement, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the video was not produced by the campaign and that it was posted while Trump was in court in New York on Monday for his ongoing hush money trial. The video, she said, “was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word.”

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ETA:
Posters have indicated the juxtaposition may be incidental. Without more info on the creator/creation of the video, I may just have to Emily Litella this one.

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Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” debuts at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, draws decent reviews and Trump campaign lawsuit

“We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign communications director, said in a statement to The Times. “This ‘film’ is pure malicious defamation, should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store[.] t belongs in a dumpster fire.”

[Fortunately, director Ali Abbasi knows his subject.]

“Everybody talks about him suing a lot of people,” he said Tuesday at the film’s Cannes press conference, to laughter and applause from many in the room. “They don’t talk about his success rate, though.”

“This is really not a movie about Donald Trump,” he said, calling the notion of a partisan divide between conservative and liberal elites in the U.S. “a fantasy.” “This is a movie about a system and the way the system works, and the way the system is built and the way the power runs through the system.”

Written by former journalist Gabe Sherman, “The Apprentice” tracks Trump’s rise to prominence in 1970s and 1980s New York, where, under [Roy] Cohn’s wing, he develops the ruthlessness that will make him a power broker and media darling.

(A Canadian, Danish and Irish co-production, “The Apprentice” has not yet sold for U.S. distribution.)

At this instant, 67% fresh on rottentomatoes

Worried still about revelations

I keep worrying that daydreaming is adding to revelations or that breathing is adding to revelations or that anything I say is adding to revelations. I feel worried I will sin and feel disconnected from God. Every time I try to read particular verses in the Bible that seem to disprove these thoughts I feel I cannot understand them and quickly forget what I read. I will read a word over and over until it makes no sense to me trying to make sure I understand it but I can't.

Folly to Those Who are Perishing

“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
“’I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.’
“Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:18-25 ESV)

First of all, this is not teaching that the message of the gospel of Christ is folly or that it is foolishness or that it is weak and powerless. But it is saying that to those who do not accept the truth of the gospel, to them the message is foolishness. And it is foolishness to them because the message of the cross is that, by faith in Jesus Christ, we must deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord Jesus in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, in daily practice (Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14).

So to those who do not want to deny self, and who do not want to die to their sins, and who do not want to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ and to come under his authority and rule over their lives, the message of the cross, i.e. the message of the gospel of Christ is foolishness. For they want to hold on to their own lives. They want to be in control over their own decisions and choices. And they want to live their lives according to their own pleasure and desires, and not according to the will of God.

And so many of them will reject the gospel message altogether and will not even consider any kind of confession of Christ as Lord and Savior. But then there are others who want to believe in Jesus because they think it is going to get them a free ride into heaven when they die and that they will escape hell if they just make a profession of faith in him. And so they will accept or they will participate in creating an altered and diluted gospel message which cuts out repentance and submission and obedience to the Lord Jesus.

So, although they may consider themselves to be wise in their own eyes, in the eyes of the Lord their wisdom is folly, and he is destroying and he will destroy all wisdom that is earthly and that is not of him and that is contrary to him and to the teachings of his word and of his gospel message. Obviously that kind of earthly wisdom has not yet been totally destroyed which is why we have so many false teachings and teachers today that so many people are believing in place of believing in the truth of the gospel.

But the Lord is presently destroying the lies through his servants and messengers who are taking the truth of the gospel to the people, and who are refuting the lies of the enemy and all these “gospel” messages which are diluted and altered in order to appease human flesh and to not offend the people of the world. For they don’t want to offend the world because they are trying to attract the world to their gatherings. And so they are modifying the gospel to make it more appealing and acceptable to human flesh.

So, please know what the truth of the gospel of Christ is so that you don’t end up believing the lies and end up in hell and not in heaven, and so that you live the Christian life that God has for you to live and not the selfish life that your flesh wants you to live. But the only way that you can be sure that you are hearing the truth is if you study the Scriptures for yourselves, where possible, but you must study them IN CONTEXT. For many false teachings stem from Scriptures taught outside of context.

For example, Ephesians 2:8-9 is being taught absent of verse 10. And so many people, thus, are teaching that as Christians we don’t have to do any works at all. And many are teaching that we do not have to obey the Lord, either. But verse 10 says that we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared in advance that we should walk in them. And Titus 2:11-14 teaches us that God’s grace trains us to renounce ungodliness and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives.

And many are teaching John 10:28-30 absent of verse 27 which tells us who verses 28-30 apply to. For verse 27 says that Jesus’ sheep listen to him, he knows them, and they follow (obey) him. And they have eternal life, and they will never perish, and none of them can be snatched out of the Lord’s hands. So this is not a general promise to all who make a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, but is only for those followers of Christ who are listening to the Lord and who are following him in obedience, in life practice.

So, please be people of God who study the Scriptures in full context, and who do so prayerfully, willing to obey the Lord in every way. Please don’t accept the wisdom of this world in place of the wisdom of God. And please don’t accept teachings that are taken out of context and taught against what they teach if taught in context. Please surrender your lives to the Lord Jesus, and follow him wherever he leads you in doing all that he commands you to do. And then be his witnesses in sharing the truth with others.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

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Myopic

An Original Work / August 19, 2013
Based off 2 Peter 1:3-11


Jesus has given ev’rything
Needed for life and godliness.
His great and precious promises
Free us from our sin and distress.

Add to your faith His goodness;
Knowledge; patience; godliness;
Brotherly love and mutual affection;
Kindness and unselfishness.

If you possess these qualities,
Growing in your maturity,
They will keep you from vanity.
You will bear fruit effectually.

Nonetheless, if you lack them;
Forget you’ve been cleansed from sin,
Nearsighted are you; you can’t see Jesus.
You have closed your heart to Him.

Therefore, beloved, confirm, then,
Your calling and your election.
Do this by showing diligence:
Obey your Lord; be repentant.

Practice all these qualities
God provided on a tree.
He died for our sins so we’d be given
Life with Him eternally.

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No Divisions Among You

“I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, ‘I follow Paul,’ or ‘I follow Apollos,’ or ‘I follow Cephas,’ or ‘I follow Christ.’
“Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. (I did baptize also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else.) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Corinthians 1:10-18 ESV)

In today’s vernacular, this could be like saying, “I am a Baptist,” or “I am a Methodist,” or “I am a Lutheran,” or “I am a Catholic,” or “I am Pentecostal,” or “I am a Presbyterian,” etc. Or, it can be like, “I follow Rick Warren,” or “I follow Billy Graham,” or “I follow Max Lucado,” or “I follow John MacArthur,” or “I follow Steven Furtick,” or “I follow Joel Osteen,” etc. Or, it can be like, “I am an Arminian,” or “I am a Calvinist.” For what it all comes down to is being followers of man over being followers of God, of Christ Jesus. It comes down to identifying more with a human being than with Jesus Christ.

Years ago I recall some people coming to my front door (back when I lived in a house, and not in an apartment) and asking me what religion I was. I told them that I was a Christian. But that is not the answer that they wanted. So they tried to get me to say that I was a Baptist or a Methodist or a Lutheran or a Presbyterian, etc. But I just kept answering back to them that I was a Christian. So then they were trying to tie that in with a particular church denomination, for they just couldn’t understand that I identified as a follower of Christ alone and not as a follower of any man or church denomination.

Now, I am well aware that Paul’s list of men were all men of God who followed Jesus Christ with their lives. At least, that is my understanding. But my lists include some men and/or church denominations and/or church theologies who/which are or were false teachers and teachings or they are or were those who diluted and/or altered the message of the gospel to make it more appealing to human flesh. And I include them in these lists because the greater danger here is not just in being man followers but followers of false theologies or church doctrines and teachings regarding Christ’s gospel.

But the bottom line here, in reality, is that we are not to be followers of men (or women), nor should we be followers of church denominations and their particular theologies, some of which, or many of which are now succumbing to the flesh of man and to marketing schemes for how to attract the people of the world to their “Christian” gatherings. But we are to be followers of Jesus Christ and those who study the Scriptures for ourselves (IN CONTEXT) under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, and who are willing to change our belief systems if we find them to not agree with the Scriptures.

For if we are truly followers of Jesus Christ then we should be able to be united together with other followers of Christ, and we should not be divided by church doctrines and theologies and denominations and affiliations, etc. And we should all be those who are paying close attention to what we are being taught and who are testing whatever we hear and read against the teachings of the Scriptures, in their full context. For so many false teachings stem from Scriptures taught outside their context and made to say what they do not say if taught in the appropriate biblical context.

Now I began teaching the Scriptures at the age of 16 and I am now 74. I had a period of time where I was not teaching, so I probably have taught for 50 years. And I have learned a lot over those years, and I had to unlearn some things I was taught wrongly, too. And I am still learning and growing in my understanding of what the Scriptures teach. But I was teaching a ladies’ Bible study and I was teaching what the Scriptures taught, but some ladies objected because that is not what their pastor taught them. But even though they could see what the Scriptures said, they chose their pastor.

And this is what I am seeing on a much larger scale today as so many people calling themselves “Christians” (followers of Christ) are really followers of man, and they will choose to listen to what men are telling them rather than to listen to what the Scriptures themselves are teaching, if read and understood in their appropriate context. And many of them will absolutely rebel at the thought that what they are being taught may not be the truth (or the whole truth) and that they may be being led astray by lies, instead. And if you try to show them the truth, they may hate you for it.

So, what is the point of all of this? We are not to be followers of man, and that includes being followers of church denominations and particular church theologies which may or may not be true to the Scriptures. But our lives are to be surrendered to Jesus Christ alone, and we are to be students of the Scriptures who study them for ourselves (IN CONTEXT), and who rely on the Holy Spirit to lead us to all truth. Can we use Bible helps? Absolutely! But we should not let Bible helps replace the Holy Spirit or the pure word of God. But we must trust in the Lord to guide us into all truth – His truth!!

But by doing that we must be willing to receive from the Lord that we may have gotten some things wrong. And we must be open to being corrected and to changing our beliefs if the Lord shows us through his word that what we had been taught is not what the Scriptures teach. And we must cease being followers of man and instead be followers of Christ alone. And we must cease raising up man to God status and to think that any man (or woman) is infallible (without error). For not one of us is without error, and we won’t be complete until Jesus returns and takes us to be with him.

For the gospel of our salvation that Jesus taught and that his NT apostles taught is that, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, and not godliness and righteousness, and not obedience to our Lord, then regardless of what our lips profess, we will NOT inherit eternal life with God.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

So, please take this to heart. Please believe what these Scriptures teach, and please study them in their full context. Then please follow Jesus in obedience to his commands and live holy lives, pleasing to him, because you love him.

My Heart’s Desire

An Original Work / June 29, 2013
Based off Romans 10:1-21; Luke 9:23-26; Ephesians 4:17-24


Loved Ones, Oh, my heart’s desire
Is that you might come to Jesus.
Many appear zealous for God,
But they do not trust in Him.
They have not submitted to the One
Who saved them from their sins;
Not forsaken their sins,
Nor have they obeyed their King.

The word of the Lord is near you:
The word of faith we’re proclaiming:
That you must confess your faith
In Jesus as your Lord and King:
Believe in Him as your Lord,
And follow Him where’er He leads.
Share the gospel; be a witness,
And meet others’ needs.

Beautiful are the feet of those
Who bring the good news of Jesus:
Anyone who would come to Him
Must deny himself today;
Die to sin and self, and
Let the Spirit transform you in heart;
Put on your new self in Jesus,
Yielding to the cross.

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Dancing Sinful

Do we in this modern age find dancing offensive? If we have the Holy Spirit of the living God abiding in us, we should have an abhorrence to all things of the world, the flesh, and the devil. I'm not talking about the jumping and leaping for joy type dancing described in Scripture that is for rejoicing at something God has done, or just praising His majesty and glory. Big difference, total difference.

As a believer in Jesus Christ I have always had an aversion to dancing when I was strong in the faith. It was when I compromised that I would then think it's ok, no harm done. But it is lascivious in nature, especially the slithering slinky seductive dances of women with their alluring eyes and sensual body motions. I find this grotesque and must flee far from it, or avert my eyes if it happens to show on a screen.

Men are no different in some of the dances they do. Just as seductive and slinky, to the point of being effeminate. Repulsive.

I came across this by Benjamin Franklin; not the politician, but the preacher,

"Galatians v. 19: "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Here we have all awful catalogue of works of the flesh, and the list is not complete, for the Apostle adds to the list the words, "and such like." What is the decree of God in regard to those who do such things?" It is that "they shall not inherit the kingdom of God." "Such things" are not, then, to be trifled with; nor is the doing of them of small moment, seeing that it excludes from the kingdom of God.

The things in this list are not things difficult to determine beyond all doubt. They are works of the flesh, and manifest. They are matters clearly wrong. In this catalogue we find "revelings." The original word, komos, and the English word, revelings, includes dancing. The authorities are well agreed about it; that it embraces feasting, loud talking, music, and dancing. It is not dancing, as an expression of thanksgiving and gratitude, or in joy, in view of some signal victory or special favor from the Lord, or as a religious exercise of any sort; but dancing for amusement, pleasure, hilarity--for the sake of the dance, the, love of it, or in devotion to it. This is the dance that is reveling, and that excludes from the kingdom of God. It is a work of the flesh, and to be shunned by the children of God, as they shun witchcraft, adultery, idolatry, or murder.

The question is not whether there are not degrees in it; whether it is all to be put down alike or not. There are degrees in drunkenness, many degrees in it, but they are only degrees in the same thing. It is drunkenness, whether there is much or little of it. It is the same thing in kind, though not the same in degree. A man so drunk that he can not walk is certainly a degree further than one who is so drunk that he only staggers, but can walk. There are degrees in stealing; but then it is stealing to take one dollar without liberty, as certainly as it is to take a thousand--the same thing in kind, though not the same in degree. But he is the greater simpleton, and thinks the least of his honor, who will get drunk at all, though in the smallest degree. Drunkenness is a work of the flesh, and sin, no matter how small the degree of it, and excludes from the kingdom of God. We are not to divide drunkenness into several kinds, and then assume that Christians may participate in one kind and not in another. They are not to participate in drunkenness at all. If they do, they sin, and should be called to account.

There are degrees in adultery. He who commits adultery only a few times does not reach the same degree in it that he does who practices it regularly for twenty years; but it is adultery, sin, a work of the flesh, and there stands the law of the great King before him, that "they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Hatred is a work of the flesh, no matter whether it reaches, a greater or less degree, and may not be indulged at all. The same is true of reveling, no matter whether in a greater or smaller degree--it is still reveling, and may not be indulged. Any dancing, for pleasure, amusement, or entertainment; for the sake of the dance itself, for the love of it, and in devotion to it, is reveling, no matter how small the degree, and should be utterly repudiated. We want no philosophers, speculating on the degrees Christians may go into sin. We are on dangerous ground the moment we attempt to speculate on the degrees we may go into sin. The only safe doctrine is to keep as far from it as possible.

We can not divide the works of the flesh into different kinds, some of which may be practiced by Christians, and some of which may not be practiced by Christians. When the Apostle closes this terrible list, he adds, "and such like." This includes not only the things enumerated, but all of that kind. None included in the list can be left out, and all others of the same kind are to be included in the catalogue. It is frequently said of dancing, or reveling, and it is to be remembered that all dancing for amusement, for pleasure, for the love of it, or for the sake of dancing, is reveling, is no worse than some plays and performances, about which nothing is said. But that is a poor compliment to dancing, that it is no worse than something else that is wrong. All these other things are included in the words, "and such like;" and after making the catalogue long and fearful, in order to be sure and embrace them all, he adds, "and such like," and then pronounces that "they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." Notice, he does not say, "they who do these things," but they who do such things." There is no escape from this language.

We have a solemn charge from the Apostle to "Give no offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God." Dancing is offensive; not to ignorant, prejudiced and weak people, but to the best informed, the most pious and devout. If there were nothing else against it, that would stamp it with the seal of condemnation. It is under ban, not only in the view of pious persons, but all classes. No one, in the Church or out of it, regards it as any credit to dance, or to be a good dancer. The view of the masses generally is, that people of the world, young and thoughtless people, may dance; the lovers of pleasure, of amusement and entertainments; the irreligious may dance."

The full message can be read here: Benjamin Franklin - Dancing

Now some might say, he lived during the 1800s, so that's just some old fashioned preaching over 150 years ago. Well, there are Christians today that know and preach that dancing is sinful. The exceptions are dancing in your own home alone for exercise, or dancing with your wife or husband alone in your home, but not with other people. Oh I recall being married and going to a couple of bars where there was dancing. They wanted to switch partners so I ended up dancing with my wife's cousin. Another time it was with a girl my wife worked at, and we were all pressed up on each other. It was licentiousness and the fruit was lust, and adultery of the heart, for the girl was married and her husband not even at that New Years party! And why did I go to a bar anyways and drink alcohol and dance? I had backslidden and compromised.
Any time I danced it was usually to some form of rock n roll, and it was lascivious. I wanted to impress girls, and I was drawn in by the way the girls danced around me. If it wasn't sensual, it became violent: stomping, slamming, smashing bottles. That is not the behavior of any Christian, and is not the type of activity Christ calls us to.

Here is some more contemporary preaching against dancing, this from Gospel Broadcasting Network, part of the Church of Christ.
"The truth about modern dancing is that it can create lust and lead to temptation, is often the very definition of the sinful behavior called “Lasciviousness.” Modern dancing between two people who are not married encourages sexual desires and intimate caressing that belongs only in marriage.

In the Book of Galatians, it says, “the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness…and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” (Galatians 5:19-21).

Avoid the temptation of partaking in sensual dancing, and instead involve yourself in activities that promote righteous thought and pure actions that lead to glorying God. Paul writes, “finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy–meditate on these things.” (Philippians 4:8)."

The Truth About Dancing – Gospel Broadcasting Network
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Claiming Glory For Yourself

Judges 7:

1 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the well of Harod,
so that the camp of the Midianites was on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
2 And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands,
lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3 Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once
from Mount Gilead.’ ” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

“claim glory for itself” =[6286] pa-ar​


With the Lord, less is more.
Post scriptures to support this, if applicable.
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Why is the Covenant Theology Subform closed?

Before everyone starts screaming at me and insulting me, in saying "where have you been!? This has already been answered! Heretic!", Life hasnt been the best to me, I've had some pretty difficult times, and I haven't been able to keep up with this these forums at all... A simple explanation would be fine, and after that, the moderators can close and delete this thread.
so, my question: why is it closed?

Mexican Cartels wiped out competition in USA fentanyl market


A lot of disturbing information in this article from newsnationnow.com
Is the DEA and US law enforcement doing enough to oppose the drug cartels? What more can, or should, our American government and law enforcement do against the threat posed by the Mexican fentanyl drug cartels?

White House has "corrected" transcripts from Biden's public comments at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024

White House communications staff has had to correct President Joe Biden’s public remarks at least 148 times since the beginning of 2024, a review of official White House transcripts shows.
The White House releases an official transcript anytime the president gives a speech or takes questions. Communications staff frequently correct, add to or alter Biden’s official remarks in order to either bring them into compliance with official White House policy or, in some cases, reality, a Daily Caller analysis showed. In several cases, official statements had to be changed to convey the exact opposite of what Biden actually said.
Through 118 statements, speeches and chats with reporters spanning from Jan. 1 to April 24, the White House has officially updated its transcript with corrections to what the president said out loud at least 148 times.
Some of the modifications include corrections to names, dates and titles of organizations. Others change verbs and modify the meaning of the president’s statement entirely. Words that the president didn’t say, but should’ve, according to the White House staff, have also been added to the transcripts.

Biden Says He Was Still VP During 'The Pandemic' and Obama Sent Him to ‘Fix It’

Speaking at a dinner for the NAACP in Detroit, Michigan, Biden went on a tangent proclaiming he was on the ground in the state to help out, at the request of former President Barack Obama.
“And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic,” Biden said. It was unclear which pandemic Biden was referring to, or if he instead meant the Great Recession.
Ah, the article says perhaps Joe was referring to the Great Recession. Was that a kind of pandemic? I hadn't realized. Expect the newscasters at the debate to be just as objective.
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I Must Ditch T-Mobile

I bought a phone last month and T Mobile was the cheapest and only one of 2 available in my area. But I was reading a sermon on a Christian website and noted an ad to look at some girls photos that were "very revealing." Awhile later a similar ad appeared with another woman, same sort of enticing bait. I've been on that same website on desktop and there are no ads.

So I entered "T-Mobile Woke" into Google and was met with the epitome of abomination! Besides all this there are telemarketers calling me, it won't let me on Facebook, saying it's a security risk and someone is trying to steal my info, along with other legitimate sites. I can't sign in to CF from the phone. I think I need to return it to Walmart and look for something else. I can't consciously pay $50 a month that a portion knowingly goes to a godless agenda. The lustful ads in the middle of a written sermon were what tipped me off something was a miss.

The following is right from their own website!


"Creating a connected world is at the heart of what we do, and we couldn’t do it without a culture of equity, respect, and inclusion. When we bring our experiences together, we forge communities that thrive.

We're stronger when we embrace diversity.

Investing in a more inclusive society.

We’ll continue to provide funding for impactful programs needed to navigate—and thrive—in our connected world.

"While T-Mobile recognizes that support at the national level is important and continues through partnerships with GLSEN, Happy Hippies and HRC to improve the quality of life of at-risk LGBTQIA+ community members, it’s vital to show that there is power in every single voice. Spotlighting how individuals can make an impact shows that Pride is Power.

The anti-transgender legislation making news of late is more than just a headline for the people interviewed in this spotlight. Everyone featured says that telling their story is an actionable item in the ways they want to celebrate Pride this year. It is how they are being advocates for their community, making an impact. From Seattle to Wichita to Memphis and Colorado Springs, their stories include gender-affirming treatments that they say T-Mobile’s health benefits made possible, or changing chosen names on work badges and pronouns with co-workers. They’re experiences that help shape T-Mobile’s own advocacy practices that now include things such as a thorough transition guide and employee handbook of policies designed to create a better experience for co-workers across the company who come out as trans at work.

“Our Pride Employee Resource Group (ERG) is a place where our employees can bring their ideas about how to make our workplace better for all,” says Jen Palmer (She/Her), senior director of T-Mobile’s Technology Project Management Office and the chair of the Pride ERG. “We take great pride in consistently looking at new ways to improve experiences. Whether it’s encouraging all to add their pronouns to badges and email signatures, or recommending inclusive language on our restroom signage, or looking at our own internal systems and fixing issues that may pop up when a colleague changes their name. As we hear from our employees, we also continually evaluate our benefits to ensure they meet the unique needs of the LGBTQIA+ community."

The growth of the Seed

As you know, there are four kinds of people in this world.

Those who hear the word, but do not understand it, so that another philosophy will take over.

Those who hear the word, understand maybe a part of it, but not enough to overcome "persecution", as their faith is shallow.

Those who hear the word, who understand it a little was well, but do not overcome the worries of life and the temptation of riches, maybe not because they had a shallow faith just to fit in, but because they deceive themselves (outdone by conquering plants).

Then there are those who hear the word, and understand it to the extent, that it may produce fruit.

I am still perplexed how people get baptised, but then fail to understand the rest of the Bible, clearly, not even the baptism has been understood!

I even met a priest, who didn't believe in God. So you could even be a priest, probably studied the word for a few years in college, and still fall for another philososphy.

But granted, I will tell you, despite having read the Bible for 14 years, I was not revealed the Man of Sin until recently.

Let no man deceive you by any means, for that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,​
who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth as God in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.​

Brethren, you know what the Temple of God is. Shall we hasten his coming?

Can we make the Seed grow faster?

The Mark of the Beast Is ‘Active Even Now,’ Pastor Matt Chandler Says

Texas Pastor Matt Chandler of The Village Church in Flower Mound recently shared why he believes the “mark of the beast,” as mentioned in the Bible in Revelation 13, is “active even now.” In a video posted to Instagram, Chandler spoke on the mark of the best and that people his age view it as a credit card, a phone, or a chip embedded in people’s hands. In his view, however, Chandler says that perspective is “to miss the point that’s being made” in Revelation.

“The perfect number is number seven, and so if seven is complete, six is incomplete,” he explained. “We also know that the number three means complete. And so 666, the mark of the beast, is really to show that the work of the enemy is completely—three sixes—incomplete. And so this is, really, what the enemy produces: complete incompleteness.”

The mark of the beast “is not Elon Musk putting something in our brains or something like that,” Chandler continued, noting the number 666 on people’s foreheads represents “ideological belief,” and the number on people’s hands depicts “the practice of that ideological belief.”
Chandler went on to contend that the mark of the beast is currently active in society.
“I think the way you’re even seeing this today,” he said, “is there are certain, especially in the business community now, ideological beliefs you must have in order to participate in the economy. And I think we’re going to see this get worse.”

Continued below.

God sends them a strong delusion. Is God a deceiver?

God sent a spirit to lie to King Ahab (1K 22:22).

Isa 44:

18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand. 19 No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, “Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?” 20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
Some people have hardened their hearts. Their deluded heart lies to them and they believe in lies.

Isa 45:

7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.
Ultimately, God does everything.

Romans 1:

28 Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
God gave these people up to their deluded heart and depraved mind.

2 Thessalonians 2:

9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing
Satan plays his part. He does the actual deception. He is the deceiver.

because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
These people are responsible for refusing to love God.

11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false
Why does God do that?

12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
It is God's judgment on these stubborn unbelievers.

God sends them a strong delusion. Really?

Yes. Horizontally, they stubbornly refuse to believe in the truth. Vertically, God judges them by sending them a strong delusion as the last resort in the ultimate sense. God permits Satan to lie to their heart and mind. All these are true.

Is God a deceiver?

No, God is not a deceiver in the sense that he habitually deceives people. On the contrary, God always tells the truth, but the wicked refuse to believe. Satan is the deceiver.

Is God being deceitful?

I would say no as well.

Did God send Satan to deceive these people?

Not exactly. It is Satan's nature to deceive people. God did not have to order him to do it.

Followers of mainstream Christianity and their eternal destination

Hello,

Where do followers of mainstream Christianity go when they die? Heaven or hell? The Bible seems to say both.

Heaven. Because:

Ephesians 2:8, ''For by grace are you saved through faith...''

Matthew 5:19. ''Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven...''


Hell. Because:

Matthew 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ ''And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’'

Romans 2:13, ''for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.''

2 Peter 3:16-17, ''as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled men and fall from your own steadfastness''.

So, where do they end up? Heaven or hell?


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Peru Declares Transgender People Mentally Ill

This is in contradiction of the World Health Organization.

Cohen - the convicted perjurer - admitted liar is now an admitted thief


NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen testified on Monday that he stole money from Trump's company, an admission that could chip away at his credibility as a star witness at the former U.S. president's hush money trial.​
Questioned by Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche, Cohen acknowledged stealing from the Trump Organization by including a reimbursement to a technology company in his bonus package and pocketing most of the money.​
"So you stole from the Trump Organization, right?" Blanche asked.​
"Yes sir," Cohen, 57, testified.​
Cohen said he paid roughly $20,000 of the $50,000 that Trump's company owed to the tech company in cash, handing it off in a brown paper bag at his office. He said he kept the rest. He was reimbursed $100,000 total by the Trump Organization for that payment.​
Cohen is the final and most important witness for New York prosecutors as they seek to convince a jury that Trump broke the law by covering up a $130,000 payment that bought the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election.​
But as a convicted felon and admitted liar, Cohen is a problematic witness. Prosecutors have buttressed his testimony with documentary evidence, while Trump's lawyers have sought to undermine Cohen's credibility through his cross-examination.​
Yeah - this isn't a political attack at all -
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Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer, is threatening to investigate insurance companies that leave the state. Patronis blames “wokeness” for the moves, not rampant lawsuits or climate change.
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"It's all those woke hurricanes!"

Bless your heart, Jimmy.

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