Hi brothers and sisters happy Sunday
I have previous mentioned the woman that spoke to me, and how she mentioned she was influence by a angel (demon)
She posted another message to me, and this time it was a fallen angel. Well, at least it called itself Rafael and highly intellectual, and a noticeable difference from her talking. Just to say.
It started to talk about the end times, when how etc, and how it would happen and how it knew it was etc.
I didn't engage. She's apparently waiting for reply. I just skimmed it.
Now can I have your take on this? Do I respond at all, or not? And with what? I was lik, I'm not budging, I'm not having this.
But the question also is why me why now and what can be the intent of saying it at all?

After we lost one of our presbytery a few months ago to cancer now another member of our presbytery is in Georgia again with Cancer (lukemia). I don't know much about what's going on but that theyre receiving chemo in Georgia for Cancer. Will continue to update you guys as our Elder updates us. Thank you for your prayers.

It's 96 degrees here with high humidity. My church has no air conditioning. I have asthma. Would I have to go to confession if I skipped Mass this week? I can barely breathe out there.

Even the former Democratic Gov. of NY recognizes it.

I have lost my fight. My life has been a continuous spiritual attack and suffering struggle. I find my identity in Christ, but the enemy is always able to take it as I fail in obedience to God over and over. I wish I had never been born so I wouldn’t have to live in this torment of life. I’ve suffered from depression for 30 years over not being able to be the person God wants me to be. I have attempted suicide three times during this timeframe. Whatever God is trying to teach me in this blackness, I am just incapable of grasping. My foundation has collapsed and my hope is gone. The power of the Word feels dead to me.

Peace in Christ.

There is a “truth” of the gospel (the word gospel means “good news”) that is not currently being preached as it is not being understood. Although the words of the gospel are being spoken by the voices of earthly-minded men, it is being done without the Spirit of knowledge giving its true meaning.

The following is an attempt to explain the good news which is for the here-and-now rather than the “here-after” as being now universally preached by the “word of men”. The good news is not about after we “die and go to Heaven” but rather for our mortal salvation on this earth for the duration of this age.

Proverbs 11:31
(31) Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

Fearing God (keeping His commandments) is the beginning of knowledge. The only way to enter in to understand the good news is to keep His commandments when we hear something that we do not initially agree with rather than behaving in envy, strife, wrath, contentions, etc.

Proverbs 1:7
(7) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

We are to “take heed” on how we hear….for those who will hear (believing what one hears), more knowledge shall be given.

Mark 4:24-25
(24) And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
(25) For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

The world and its lust actively pass away (now) from this earth but he that does the will of God ABIDES “for ever”...that is, abides/stays into the age. The people of this world (who are conformed to this world) pass away in their mortal bodies. They perish.

The good news is not about passing away from this earth along with the rest of this world but about staying here mortally on this earth. The people of this world pass away as nothing in this current world can prevent their mortal deaths.

1 John 2:16-17
(16) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
(17) And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of God abides for ever (INTO THE AGE).

Young's Literal Translation
and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.

As it says in Proverbs 11:4, riches can not prevent our death…but the doing of His righteousness can. The “day of wrath” is the day of God’s coming judgment upon us for sin….the day of our death. It equates the "day of wrath" with "death."

NOTE: “Day of wrath” = our “death”.

Proverbs 11:4
Young's Literal Translation
Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Christ died for us in our place so that we are saved from that WRATH which comes for us through Him. The “wrath” of God is our mortal death that comes to take away from this earth. The wages of the sin is the death…the death of the mortal body.

Romans 5:8-9
(8) But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(9) Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Jesus is rescuing us from that wrath that is coming so that we can wait here on this earth for His Son from Heaven who shall redeem our mortal bodies at the “last trump”.

Notice here in 1st Thessalonians 1:10 that we who are delivered from that wrath to come are to WAIT for His Son who comes from Heaven. We wait for Him here on this earth….waiting for Him to come from Heaven. We don’t go to Heaven but wait for Him to come from there.

The “wrath” = our mortal death.

1 Thessalonians 1:10
(10) And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Jesus was raised out of the dead so that we might have His ongoing life NOW in this earth.

Jesus died for us in our place so that we may have His life now in this mortal body while we wait for Him to come and change our vile bodies to be fashioned like unto His. We pass from death unto life now in this mortal body on his earth.

Young's Literal Translation
and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead -- Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

We who hear His word and believe on Him that sent Him have an AGE-LASTING life.

Faith is an integral part of receiving the good news. We shall not come into condemnation/ judgment (mortal death)....the wrath of God... but pass from death unto life now in this mortal body.

The Greek transliterated word that is translated “everlasting” or “eternal” in most bibles is “aiōnios” which means “age-lasting”. It has a limited time duration (an “age”) and should not be translated as “eternal”.

John 5:24
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

They that believe on the Son has an “everlasting” life…that is, an AGE-LASTING life. This is a present tense wording. “Eternal life” is a now-in-the-present thing. It is not something to be had after death.

Those who believe have passed from death unto life. But those who do not believe the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him. The wrath of God = the coming death of the mortal body.

John 3:36
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting (AGE-LASTING) life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

Young's Literal Translation
he who is believing in the Son, hath life age-during; and he who is not believing the Son, shall not see life, but the wrath of God doth remain upon him.

Read Psalms 90 which deals with the wrath of God that comes upon men whose flesh withers like the grass. He turns man to destruction only to call us unto repentance as He is not willing that any should perish under His wrath.

Psalms 90:3-11
(3) Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
(4) For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
(5) Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
(6) In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
(7) For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

Consider John 3:16: Whosoever shall believe into the only begotten Son of God shall not perish (mortally die from this earth under the wrath of God) but may have “everlasting”...that is, an AGE-LASTING life.

“aiōnios”= age-lasting

(John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in (into) him should not perish, but have everlasting (“aiōnios”or age-lasting) life.

Young's Literal Translation
for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

In 2nd Corinthians 6:2, we read that Jesus gave Himself for our sins so that He might deliver us out of this present evil AGE that we are now living in.

This “age” now is where we are to have the promised “age-lasting life” (aka “eternal life”). It is about salvation/deliverance now in this present evil age where the world and its lust pass away under the judgment/wrath of God. The world is already condemned to perish under God’s wrath…the rising sun of His wrath.

2 Corinthians 6:2

For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

We are delivered out of this age (which is experiencing the wrath of God) by having an age-lasting life…continuing to mortally live in this current body to the end of this present evil age when the redemption moment of our mortal bodies happens: when this “mortal shall put on immortality”.

(Galatians 1:4) Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from (out of) this present evil “world” (AGE), according to the will of God and our Father:

Young's Literal Translation
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

The word “mortal” means “subject to death” and does not mean we have died but only liable to. The potential to die is always with us while being “mortal” and not immortal. When we put on immortality, death is completely defeated in victory for death is not a friend but an enemy to be defeated in Christ.

The just shall LIVE (the living) by our faith in Him… and will never die into the age (as Jesus stated to Martha in John 11:26).

We believe “into” Him….a goal reached as we put on His immortal life at the “last trump” moment. Until then, we mortally live by faith which keeps us living on this earth.

God is not willing that any should perish but come unto repentance....to change the mind. “Perishing” means our mortal body dies under God’s wrath. We are removed from this earth….no matter how we go: we shall “all likewise perish.” This is not “spiritual death” but our mortal body’s death…hence the word “perish”. The mortal body perishes under the rising sun of His wrath.

Luke 13:1-5
(1) There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
(2) And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
(3) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
(4) Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

The Greek transliterated word for “repent” is “metanoeō” which means to “change our minds” or to “think differently, reconsider” We must hear the truth and change our minds about what we thought and believed for His thoughts and His ways. We once thought we knew what the gospel was…but were hearing it from the word of earthly-minded men who did not have an understanding of the good news.

(5) I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

The Lord is not willing that any should perish (mortally die from this earth) but that all should come to repentance….to change the mind about these things.

2 Peter 3:9
(9) The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

How do you integrate the above statement into your theology and way of life?

Powerful testimony!

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Hello folks. How is it going? I am a Christian (recently converted to Catholicism from nondenominational in 2022), and am wondering what your favorite Bible translations are, and what your thoughts are on traditional services and attire (tefillin, tassels) in MJ compared to reform Messianic Judaism. Also, what are your thoughts on Catholicism or Protestantism? From what I know, MJs are Christians who have Jewish traditions, or Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah.

A few weeks ago I watched a Ken Burns documentary about the Shakers. I came across them in my readings on spiritualists like the Dukhobors, the historical Jesus, early Christianity and the religious imaginary's role in mysticism. I had heard of the Shakers when much younger (I remember the Shaker furniture fad occured in my early teenage years), but not in a sympathetic light (they were seen as wierd or heretical by Evangelicals), and I could not understand the Spiritualist or mystical religion they practiced.


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The Shakers came out of a religious milieu of mystical or ecstatic religion: the Quakers in England, and the Camisards in France. The Camisards were the descendants of persecuted French Protestants that fled to Manchester, in the UK. They had a charismatic or ecstatic type religion. This is the kind of religious environment that the founder of the shakers, Anne Lee, would have been exposed to. The Camisard worship involved spirited singing, prophecy, speaking in tongues, and their religion was shaped by an apocalyptic imagination.

This is a reproduction of what an early Shaker worship meeting might have been like. The building used is an actual Shaker meeting hall that has been preserved in Kentucky.


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I know someone named 'Lacey' who says she occasionally and ubrubtly hears a woman audibly speak to her things like, I best describe it as "words of knowledge". and Lacey says these things turn out true. Lacey also mentioned that one time while she was praying, a voice that sounded like her deseased aunt told her "get your things in order, youll be coming with us soon". I'm careful describing this as "words of knowledge" because I don't know if this is of God.

How do folks feel about the growing trend to dose up students with 'ADHD' medicine when they exhibit challenging behaviours, or learning difficulties in school.

Missouri attorney general to sue New York over Trump prosecutions​

Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit targets New York attorney general and Manhattan DA, who both secured Trump convictions

Bailey, a Republican politician appointed by Missouri’s governor, Mike Parson, last year, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that he would be filing a lawsuit “against the State of New York for their direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump”.

“We have to fight back against a rogue prosecutor who is trying to take a presidential candidate off the campaign trail. It sabotages Missourians’ right to a free and fair election,” he added in a subsequent message.

Well, when this gets tossed out, that should eliminate this 'lawfare' nonsense. (Who am I kidding?)

“(The) ability to work with outside groups on field work alleviates the need to have the same size staff footprint as in previous cycles, allowing us to retain a greater share of resources for advertising and paid voter contact programs than in past cycles,” a senior Trump adviser told CNN.

Of those groups, perhaps one of the most important is Turning Point Action, which is hosting Trump in Michigan on Saturday. It will be his second engagement with the organization in as many weeks. Turning Point was one of several groups that sat down with campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and James Blair during a donor retreat earlier in the year that focused on how outside groups could best assist Trump’s reelection effort.

TPA — an affiliate of Turning Point USA, the youth organization started by Trump ally Charlie Kirk — is aiming to ultimately spend $108 million on a get-out-the-vote effort in key battleground states [AZ MI WI], according to two sources familiar with the plans.

Kirk and Tyler Bowyer, TPA’s chief operating officer, created the program after Republicans faced major losses in the 2022 election.

Republican operatives described the effort as valiant but risky.

“You are placing a lot of a trust in these (outside groups), who might be hard to manage,” said one operative, who spoke on condition of anonymity to offer a candid assessment.

A former RNC official who also requested anonymity to speak candidly said, “There’s not a presence being built up, they don’t have a footprint. They have a handful of staffers in the states. … It seems that they are miscalculating how this election is going to be won.”

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Does Charlie Kirk/TPA have much experience at getting out the vote? Not really. He has a track record of one election and zero wins.

Donald Trump’s Get-Out-The-Vote Plan is Bonkers​

In 2022, the Turning Point network entered the ground game business, mainly in Arizona, where it is headquartered. As the Arizona Republic reported, “Turning Point PAC, the political action committee started by Turning Point USA, spent $494,105 during the 2022 election cycle, including the primary elections. The bulk of that, $377,201, went towards the general election races for U.S. Senate, governor, and Secretary of State in Arizona.” Turning Point’s candidates lost all of those races.

[Well, if you only spend half a million of course you're going to lose. Now Kirk will get $100 million dollars to run through his fingers. And what a plan!]

Then-Chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, gave [Kirk's get out the vote] plan the cold shoulder. Kirk launched blistering attacks on McDaniel, claiming she was a Democratic plant and urging Trump to dump her. According to Real Clear Politics, McDaniel told Trump that Kirk’s penchant for insulting African Americans, such as saying Martin Luther King, Jr. did not deserve a holiday, would hurt efforts with Black voters.

Kirk won the fight. McDaniel quit under pressure. Then Trump took Kirk’s suggestion to install his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as RNC co-chair.

“This is why he was trying to get rid of Ronna,” [a] Trump ally said. “He shouldn’t make it sound like, ‘Oh, we’re tired of losing. We don’t have an early vote program.’ He should have just said, ‘Listen, he who controls the RNC controls millions of dollars and I want to get my hands on them.’ I mean, that would have been a more honest grift.”

There has been some interesting discussion on here about Revelation 12. I would like to present a different interpretation, with some Bible verses to support it. I welcome your thoughts and criticism! Bible verses in italics from NIV.

Firstly, most of the interpretations of Revelation 12 I have seen here relate to past events from the perspective of John. However the beginning of Revelation points to it being of future events:

The revelation from Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place...
Revelation 1:1a

I believe instead that Revelation 12 relates to the events of the 1940s: the Second World War, the Holocaust, the formation of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Here is why:

She gave birth to a son, a male child, who "will rule all the nations with an iron scepter."
Revelation 12:5

This son who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter appears to be Jesus (e.g. Rev 19:15). However an underlying principle to understand the symbolism of the people and beasts in Revelation - and elsewhere in the Bible, such as Daniel, is that they represent large groups of people - empires, nations or organizations. Sometimes they can reference an individual who represents the group as its' leader. A good example to show this is Daniel's explanation to Nebuchadnezzar of his dream:

"This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.
"After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth.
Daniel 2:36-39

Nebuchadnezzar's dream was of a great statue with a head of gold, shoulders of silver and a torso of bronze. Daniel says the head of gold is Nebuchadnezzar, as king he represents his empire: Babylon. However, when he talks about the next two parts of the statue he talks about kingdoms, not their kings. The first three parts of the statue are generally understood to represent the empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia and Greece.

Using this principle, the son referred to in Revelation 12 is not Jesus Christ himself, just as the head of gold was not Nebuchadnezzar, but who they represent: Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon, so represented Babylon. Jesus Christ is king of Israel, so the son being born in Revelation 12 represents the country of Israel - born in 1948.

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.
Revelation 12:1

This is a reference to Joseph's dream:

Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. "Listen," he said, "I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Genesis 37:9

In Joseph's dream the sun and moon were his father, Jacob, and mother, Rachel, and the eleven stars were his eleven brothers. So the twelve stars in the crown of the woman represent the twelve sons of Jacob - the twelve tribes of Israel. The woman, therefore, represents the Jews who gave birth to their country, Israel.

The enormous red dragon (later called Satan) swept a third of the stars out of the sky with its' tail. We have already seen that the stars are the Jews. So this is a reference to the Holocaust, and therefore the dragon, Satan, represents Nazi Germany at this time, with the Holocaust happening at the tail end of the Nazi reign.
Later on, in verse 15, Satan makes one further attempt to fight the woman, with a river of water from his mouth. This represents the 1948 Arab-Israeli war immediately after Israel's Declaration of Independence, with the river of water being the surrounding nations unsuccessfully invading Israel.

I think it fits together and makes sense, but please let me know what you think.

There is, “of course,” zero “legitimate debate discussion” to be had over whether we are a “direct democracy.”

Not today, nor ever.

“Democracy” isn’t even mentioned anywhere in any founding document, much less a direct one.

None of the framers entertained any notions about majoritarianism or federal power that would even loosely comport the ones now embraced by the Left.

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Wasn't that part of why he why he was Crucified?

Hanging our with sinners, tax collectors, women, even non Jewish women.

Approaching the ritually unclean, lepers, pardoning the woman caught in adultery.

Treating them all with respect, even in Samaria.

This should be interesting guys , this fella is taking a group to Antarctica to prove one way or the other that the earth is either round or flat , and you can go with him if you want. Have to pay your own way though.

His conversation with Carl is here and you only need to watch the first 15 or 20 mins.
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I personally am not into this stuff but I will be looking forward to seeing their results in a few months time.
The flat earth conversations and debates are everywhere these days , so this final experiment should prove very interesting.

The final experiment web site :

The Final Experiment - Antarctica

Hi all
I'm a Christian that came out of the new age. I have always had strong spiritual experiences, and I have seen healing and demons cast. I believe in doing what he said. That goes for it all. While I believe we are always forgiven i don't believe it's a licence to sin. As he said if you love me, you keep my commands. Of course we fall but you get the point.
I am church less as I have had negative experiences, but I do visit online atm. I'm drawn to the Catholic Church, where it's sincere and historical, or maybe messianic. Sincerity means alot. Trying the best to live it. Not making excuses.
I have seen and experience the power of God. He used me. And it went, when I fell from grace, so to speak. But is there, when I make an effort. So this is how I know, we can't excuse sin.
But strive to live holy lives. Not perfect. But try.
I don't care about fitting in or TV or anything of the like. I'm quite an introvert and I like to read alot. And pets. And remain healthy. I like to coik, healthy living, I buy too many clothes, and I always help others. I value sibcerity, authenticity, honesty, and truth, and God.
I work in health care and studying psychology.
I am a deep person, and I don't like superficial.
I am 52 years old and look between 20-28. It's not fun, because you don't fit in anywhere.
I am not married and no children. I have raised others. But it wasn't my path, unless adoption is in the horizon.

Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion, responded to the idea that the high court’s previous decisions have locked judges into specific laws that were on the books at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment, Roberts said that some lower courts have “misunderstood the methodology of our recent Second Amendment cases.”

“Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others,” Roberts wrote.

“The Court and Government do not point to a single historical law revoking a citizen’s Second Amendment right based on possible interpersonal violence,” Thomas wrote. “Yet, in the interest of ensuring the Government can regulate one subset of society, today’s decision puts at risk the Second Amendment rights of many more.”

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Thomas' historicity hobby-horse was recently called out by Amy Coney Barrett.

Though Barrett acknowledged in her opinion that “tradition has a legitimate role to play in constitutional adjudication,” the Trump nominee said that “the court’s laser-like focus on the history of this single restriction misses the forest for the trees” and sought to poke holes in the history and tradition-first route taken by Thomas and the other conservative justices who agreed with his legal rationale.

Hey guys, my friend has put out an EO blog. If you're interested:

Genesis 3:

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

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Strong's Hebrew: 8609. תָּפַר (taphar) — 4 Occurrences

I don't think Adam and Eve had needles and thread at this time. They could have used the stems of the fig leaves to bind them into a makeshift covering.


Amplified Bible:

they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

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It was an ineffective covering. Then, God provided:

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.

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Putin recently visited N. Korea....during the visit, Putin and Kim exchanged gifts in this budding bromance!

Will Trump be jealous?

"....a segment aired on he state-controlled Korean Central Television. The two bonded over animals as Kim fed carrots to a horse while Putin looked on. The two also took turns to drive each other around in a Russian-built Aurus limousine. Kim, known as a keen horseman, was famously pictured riding a white stallion in Mount Paektu during snowfall in photos released by state media in 2019, flooding the internet with online jokes and memes. The horses Kim rode are symbolic for North Korea which named its economic effort to recover from the 1950-53 Korean War after the mythical winged horse Chollima. Putin has been pictured shirtless and riding a horse in photos released by Russian state media. Pungsan dogs are a breed of hunting dogs native to a region in the northern part of North Korea. Former South Korean president Moon Jae-in also received a pair of white Pungsan dogs -- named "Gomi" and "Songgang" -- from Kim in 2018 at a time when inter-Korean relations saw a breakthrough. "


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sometimes I cry when i talk to people and they tell me the trials and errors they are going through especially if the issues are relatable and have experienced them before. I feel like as a grown man I shouldn’t be like I used to be like this as a kid crying when I see disabled people or people in poverty im bout to cry thinking about it now. Im starting to think this is a bad thing but im wondering should a Godly man be like this.

A New York City pastor known as the “Bling Bishop” will spend nearly a decade behind bars for financial crimes that he has vehemently denied committing.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Monday that Bishop Lamor Whitehead was sentenced to nine years in prison for wire fraud, attempted extortion and making false statements to federal law enforcement agents.

Whitehead, pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries in Brooklyn, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $85,000 in restitution and a fine of $95,000.

“Lamor Whitehead is a con man who stole millions of dollars in a string of financial frauds and even stole from one of his own parishioners,” said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams. “He lied to federal agents, and again to the Court at this trial. Today’s sentence puts an end to Whitehead’s various schemes and reflects this Office’s commitment to bring accountability to those who abuse their positions of trust.”

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