2 Peter 1:

2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

3 as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,

through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,

4 by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises,

that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature,

having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

There is a common false teaching that there is nothing we can do to live a blameless life,

but to live by faith, trusting in the "finished work of the Cross". Consider today the

blatantly unscriptural nature of this teaching. We must obey the Holy Spirit for us

to "grow in grace, and the knowledge of (the intimate experience, not" knowing about")

our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Continuing with Peter in our walk in the Spirit.

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,

6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.

8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful

in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness,

and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.

I find the shortsighted abound on Christian forums, laying stumbling blocks,

and challenging us with a "do nothing lest you be guilty of trying to earn salvation".

The "finished work" is a work in progress for us of the faith, and in the fellowship.

Philippians

1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,

4 always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy,

5 for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now,

6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work

in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,

but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

14 Do all things without complaining and disputing,

15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault

in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ

that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly,

that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works.

These things are good and profitable to men.

2 Peter 3:

17 You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall

from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked.

18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/12/donald-admits-he-still-has-a-gun-despite-felony-convictions/

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked most of a law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that strictly limited transgender health care for adults and banned it completely for children.

“Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate,” Hinkle wrote. “The ban is unconstitutional.”

A growing number of states have been outlawing gender-transition care for minors. But Florida’s law was the first to limit care for adults.

DeSantis’s press secretary Jeremy Redfern said the state will appeal the decision.

In his decision, Hinkle, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, cited statements from DeSantis and Republican legislators about “mutilating our children” but said the state presented no evidence that such surgeries have ever happened in Florida.

The judge also said the “frenzied rhetoric” from Tallahassee — including a lawmaker who “loudly referred to transgender witnesses at a committee hearing on a related bill as ‘mutants’ and ‘demons’” — was “direct evidence of that member’s animus.”

A magistrate judge at the Rocky River Municipal Court observed that Ellis seemingly became unresponsive during her hearing and ordered her to be held for a mental health evaluation, according to records obtained by Fox 8. Hagan, however, released Ellis back into the community on May 31. . .
Hagan revealed he would not have acted differently, even now, knowing that Ellis is charged with aggravated murder for the toddler’s death.

This example illustrates the difference between the woke approach to crime and the conservative (common sense) approach to crime. Conservatives insist there should be serious thought given to protecting society. When you vote for a liberal judge or politician this is what you get.

Right now America’s economic-growth rate is the envy of the world. From the end of 2019 to the end of 2023, U.S. GDP grew by 8.2 percent—nearly twice as fast as Canada’s, three times as fast as the European Union’s, and more than eight times as fast as the United Kingdom’s.

“It’s hard to think of a time when the U.S. economy has diverged so fundamentally from its peers,” Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told me. Over the past year, some of the world’s biggest economies, including those of Japan and Germany, have fallen into recession, complete with mass layoffs and angry street protests. In the U.S., however, the post-pandemic recession never arrived. The economy just keeps growing.
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Price increases on their own, however, can’t tell us if the cost of living has gone up. What really matters is the relationship between how expensive things are and how much money people have to spend on them. As Vox’s Eric Levitz recently pointed out, prices have increased by 1,400 percent since 1947; that doesn’t mean Americans have less buying power today than at a time when a third of the country didn’t have running water and 40 percent lived in poverty. That’s largely because incomes have increased by 2,400 percent over the same stretch. If prices go up but people’s incomes go up faster, then the cost of living decreases. And that is exactly what has happened in the U.S. over the past five years.

It took some time. When inflation was at its worst, in late 2021 and 2022, prices were rising too fast for workers’ pay to keep up. Over the course of 2023, however, the rate of inflation plummeted while wages kept rising. According to calculations by the economist Arindrajit Dube, prices rose about 20 percent from the beginning of the pandemic to the end of 2023—but the median worker’s hourly wages had increased by more than 26 percent. In other words, a dollar in 2024 might not go as far as a dollar in 2019, but today the average worker has so many more dollars that they can afford a higher quality of life.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/us-economy-excellent/678630/

June 12, 2024:

The Dow surges 300 points and the S&P 500 hits a record high as inflation cools ​

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other stock indexes rose sharply after markets opened Wednesday, as the latest Consumer Price Index data showed inflation cooling. The CPI rose 3.3% year-over-year in May, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, lower than the 3.4% expected increase.

With inflation slowing more than expected last month, investors are hopeful that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates soon. The inflation report was released shortly before the Fed is expected to announce its latest interest-rate decision and economic forecasts for the year. That announcement is set for 2 p.m., with Fed Chair Jerome Powell scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m.

New World Translation, John 1:

1 In the beginning the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god.

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The above translation had little justification grammatically or theologically.

ESV:

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Stephanus Textus Receptus 1550:

καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος

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The Greek definite article is not in there. The anarthrous noun does not always imply an English indefinite article. In fact, on Biblehub, 39 versions translated as "and the Word was God"; 3 as "and God was the Word"; 0 used "a god". Translators overwhelmingly favored no indefinite article. NWT is the only exception that I know of.

What would the Greek look like if you translated John 1:1b to “and the word was a god”?

To explicitly refer to some (one) god, I would write:
καὶ ἕνας θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.

There is no indefinite article in Koine. G1520-εἷς can sometimes function similarly to an indefinite article in some contexts.

During an appearance on "MSNBC Reports" following the younger Biden's conviction on federal charges regarding him buying and owning a firearm while addicted to drugs, the legal expert praised the president for not getting in the way of his Department of Justice’s prosecution of his own son.
"You have a president of the United States who is living embodiment of the rule of law," Weissmann told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart.

Of course he said that. Now that Hunter has been convicted our system of law must be completely fair.

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Biden said in a mocking tone, "How much have you heard this phrase, ‘the blood of liberty … washes those' – give me a break."

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Yeah, right, Joe. That's exactly what Thomas Jefferson said. Word for word.

Come along now; we have some warm milk and cookies for you, and then it's time for your nap.

Pathetic.

My husband and I enjoy watching nature videos, and every time that I watch one of these nature videos, I am utterly amazed at God’s handiwork in how he created such a vast array of creatures on this earth and how intricately he designed each and every one of them with regard to physical appearance and personalities and habits and nature, and with regard to how they interact with the other creatures on the earth, too.

Now, many of these videos are not created by God-fearing humans, and so they give the credit to something called “mother nature,” as though nature created itself, which is impossible. But through God’s creation he reveals himself to all of humanity so that we are without excuse if we choose to reject God and to go our own way, instead. For God’s invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.

[Romans 1:18-23; cf. John 1:1-3; Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25]

And when I go for walks or we go for a drive, I love to look at all that God created, from the creatures on the ground, to those in the air, and to the trees standing tall with full leaves on them now, to the grass on the ground and the flowers which are blooming, etc. And I love looking at the clouds in the sky and how they form different shapes, and I love sunrises and sunsets and seeing a full moon on a dark night. And I see God in all of his created works, and I am amazed, and I worship God, but not his created works.

But there are people on this earth, some of them professing Christians, who serve and who worship God’s created works instead of worshiping and serving God who created all of us. And the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against those who, in all their ungodliness and unrighteousness, suppress the truth that can be known about God as seen through his created works. And they do not honor God as God, but they exchange the glory of God for the idols of this world which they create in their own minds.

And so God gives them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, because they exchange the truth about God for a lie and they worship and serve the created rather than the creator. And so they engage themselves in all sorts of evil practices, including sexual immorality, homosexuality, malice, murder, deceit, gossip, slander, disobedience, foolishness, faithlessness and heartlessness. And, though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them, but they give approval to those who practice them (see Romans 1:18-32).

But Jesus said that if anyone would come after him, he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for the sake of Jesus we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, we will gain eternal life with God. For it is not those who give lip service to the Lord who have eternal life, but it is those who are doing (obeying) the will of God (Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; 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 Peter 1:15; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

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"Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea." - Isaiah 26:20 - 27:1

Yahweh will come in judgement. That is very clear from this passage. But to His people He offers protection. That is also very clear from the first verse. When the indignation be over past, those who are His elect shall come forth from the place whence they have been hidden.

This may well be the meaning of Luke 21:36, "Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." But can we safely say this means the rapture, and that we will be taken up as 1 Thessalonians 4 declares?

We do have Revelation 12:14-17,
"And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."

Some say this woman is Israel, some say the church, some say both, and some say it's Mary. It has a threefold meaning, in that Mary who is a daughter of Israel brings forth a man child, who is Jesus. But from there on it is Israel specifically, and by extension the body of Christ, "the remnant of her seed" who are blessed with faithful Abraham, "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise" (Galatians 3:21) Point I'd like to bring out here is that these are all protected upon earth, ie: "and the earth helped the woman," and it does not indicate a snatching away here at this point.

Now when the verse says the earth shall no more cover her slain, we see this also in Revelation 14:19-20, "And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs."

And in 19:17-21,
"And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh."

In Isaiah 27:1 we see the LORD has a sore, and great, and strong sword, with which He punishes the serpent that is in the sea. Here I believe He is speaking not of a sea monster or physical reptilian creature, but of the great dragon, the same as is mentioned in Revelation 12:9, "the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."

That word for sore there means hard, severe, fierce; and it is also a great sword, and a strong sword. We see Jesus in Revelation 19:15, "And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God."

With this sword Jesus Christ, who is the fullness of Yahweh, shall smite the serpent, the old serpent, the devil; and He shall smite the nations, and then, " many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." (Daniel 12:2-3)

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — Prior to the second anniversary of a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn its prior abortion precedent, pro-life activists said much of their work remains to be done.

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, told OSV News in a June 10 interview “we realized quickly we have a challenge on our hands,” pointing to losses at the ballot box after the Dobbs ruling, with more such contests on the horizon.

“So after two years, there is still reason to celebrate because we know God’s grace is more powerful than all this, but also, we have to embrace the challenge that faces us,” he said.

The impact of the Dobbs decision​

The Supreme Court issued its historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, a little over a month after Politico published a leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in the case. The leak caused a public firestorm before the court issued its official ruling and is seen as the most significant breach of the court’s confidentiality in its history.

The Dobbs case involved a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks, in which the state directly challenged the high court’s previous abortion-related precedents in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). The Supreme Court ultimately overturned its own prior rulings, undoing nearly a half-century of its own precedent on the issue and returning it to legislatures.

While Roe and its ensuing precedents were in place, states were generally barred from restricting abortion prior to viability, or the point at which a child could survive outside the womb. When Roewas issued in 1973, fetal viability was considered to be 28 weeks gestation, but current estimates are generally considered to be 23-24 weeks, with some estimates as low as 22 weeks as medical technology continues to improve. After the Dobbs ruling, states across the country quickly moved to either restrict or expand access to abortion.

While supporters often described Roe as settled law, opponents argued the court in 1973 improperly legalized abortion nationwide, a matter opponents said should have been left to legislators in Congress or state governments. Many, including the Catholic Church, opposed the ruling on moral grounds that the practice takes the life of an unborn child. Opponents of the ruling challenged it for decades, both in courts and in the public square, such as the national March for Life held annually in Washington.

Pro-life movement’s efforts and public response​

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Exodus 21:

32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

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A slave was worth 30 shekels of silver.

Matthew 26:

14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:

Thirty shekels was the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32); a fact which gives force to our Lord’s words, Matthew 20:28, “The Son of man came … to minister (to be a slave), and to give his life a ransom for many.”

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Barnes:

Thirty pieces of silver - Mark and Luke do not mention the sum. They say that they promised him "money" - in the original, "silver." In Matthew, in the original, it is thirty "silvers, or silverlings." This was the price "of a slave" (see Exodus 21:32)

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Pulpit Commentary:

This was the legal price of a slave gored by an ox (Exodus 21:32), and must have been considered by the traitor but a poor reward for his crime. He found the rulers as covetous as himself, and disposed to treat both him and his Master with the utmost contempt. Christ had taken upon him the form of a bondservant, and was here reckoned as such. The transaction had been typically shadowed forth when another Judas sold his brother Joseph for twenty pieces of silver (Genesis 37:27, 28);

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Why was Judas equated with an "Ox" by this very passage?

I don't think Judas = ox here. That would be straining the symbolism.

The far right’s election gains rattle EU’s traditional powers, leading Macron to call snap polls​

Pentecost 2024 begins at sundown on Tues June 11th, and concludes at nightfall on Thurs June 15h 2024. (Hebrew calendar, Sivan 6th-7th 5782)

1st Pentecost:
Moses gives the Torah/Commandments at Mt Sinai & the Nation of Israel is born (Ex 19:1-22,23)

At the 1st post resurrection Pentecost:
Christ sends (Matt 3:11, Acts 2:4) His new covenant saving/eternally sealing (2 Cor 1:22, 5:5, Eph 1:13-14, 4:30, 2 Tim 1:14.) indwelling Holy Spirit & the NT/Christian Church is born!

Names: Pentecost (Greek) Shavuot (Hebrew) Festival of Harvest (Ex 23:16), Festival of Weeks (Ex 34:22, Lev 23:15-22, Deut 16:16, 2 Chron 8:13, Num 28:26)

Acts 2:
1 (A) When the day of Pentecost was fully come
4 (A) they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
(NOTE: Right here the new covenant begins: Jesus baptized (Matt 3:11, Jn 1:33, Acts 2:4, Rom 8:9-11) believers with His salvation sealing. forever indwelling (Jn 14:16) Holy Spirit.

When we believe/place our faith in Christ's sin atoning death (sins required wage PAID), burial (proof Christ died) & resurrection (Father God's receipt, sins required payment received & accepted. (See 1 Cor 15:1-4, Rom 10:9, Eph 1:13).

The new COVENANT is realized with a SPIRITUAL SEALING. (2 Cor 1:22, 5:5, Eph 1:13-14, 4:30, 2 Tim 1:14.)

Christ alone can baptize (Matt 3:11, Acts 2:4, 1:5, 2:38, 4:31, Jn 3:5, 1 Pet 3:21, 1 Cor 6:19, 12:13, Rom 8:9-11) the believer with his salvation/sealing indwelling Holy Spirit.

Early Pentecost traditions:

BOOK OF RUTH
For 3500 yrs the Book of Ruth has been read every Pentecost. The story of Boaz a Kinsman Redeemer. A shadow of Christ & his Bride/Church. Boaz a wealthy landowner of the tribe of Judah, takes Ruth, a gentile, for his wife.

Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: ""spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid"" for thou art a near kinsman.
(NOTE: Spread therefore thy skirt (TALITH) over thine hand maid: This verse is a marriage proposal. When a Jewish man married a woman, he threw the end of his skirt (TALITH) over her head, covering her, to signify that she was now under his covering/protection. When we say yes to Christ, he seals us with his Holy Spirit of covering/protection)

Rabbinic traditions:

DECORATING THE BRIDE:
Another shadow on Pentecost: A time spent tradition called ""decorating the bride"". (The Church is the Bride of Christ) Jews stayed up all night studying Scripture (tikkun). In the hope that they will receive a special blessing. They believe that God will favorably answer prayer by briefly opening up the heavens and supply a blessing. Sounds like Thes 4:16 to me! Christ is coming soon for his Bride/Church.

FESTIVAL WITHOUT A DATE
Pentecost was also referred to as "the festival without a date." Originally this Feast didn’t have a fixed date. It was calculated by the new moon, when crops began to bloom prior to Passover & a seven week countdown. With leap months the actual calendar day/date was quite flexible. After the destruction of the Temple the 6th of Sivan became a fixed date. They simply count 50 days after (Nisan 16) firstfruits.

JUDGING THE FRUIT OF TREES:
There is a belief in Jewish tradition that trees are judged by God (The fig tree).

Paul gives a picture of the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ. 2 Cor 5:10. The fruit of one’s works will be judged & rewarded. No judgment for sin here, Christ was judged & paid for ALL the believers sins on the cross. (Col 1:14 & Rom 4:7).

Those that reject God's grace & remain in unbelief until life's end/death. Will find themselves at the White Throne Judgment Seat where every jot & title of the law's judgments for sin will have to be paid. Ending in eternal separation (2 Thes 1:9) from their Creator.

OT physical food harvest feasts foreshadow the NT Spiritual soul resurrection harvests.

OT Passover Barley harvest w/firstfruit wave offering (Lev 23:9-10). NT Christ' firstfruit resurrection (1 Cor 15:20) & (Matt 27:52,53) where many witness souls resurrected/harvested after Christ'.

OT Main harvest (wheat) on Pentecost. NT a spiritual resurrection/soul harvest is coming on a future Pentecost (1 Thes 4:16-17). I pray this Pentecost, Lord come!

The United States Department of Justice has indicted a surgeon who blew the whistle on a Texas hospital secretly performing trans surgeries and gender medicalization of minors.

Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, who leaked evidence of the body-mutilating procedures to journalist Christopher Rufo, was indicted earlier this week on four felony counts of allegedly violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Haim is scheduled to appear in court on June 17, the National Review reported Thursday, with his legal team reportedly being unaware of the full nature of the charges.

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There was and still is two camps of thinking about the 2020 election , one camp believes Biden won fair and square , and the other camp believes the election was stolen and Trump got ripped off.

And I too was a member of one of those camps until I saw this vid about 3 or 4 weeks ago , It's Lt colonel Riccardo Bosi now leader of the Australia one party , pro Trump and good buddy with Mike Flynn speaking at a pub in Woy Woy.

He tells a different story , saying that what happened with the election was all part of Trumps plan to catch the bad guys.
He explains it all in this vid , but you will only need to go 10 or 15 mins into it and you can stop at the point where they sing happy birthday to someone , the rest is unimportant.

AustraliaOne Party - Woy Woy, NSW Presentation (7 April 2024)

It’s a “big news story,” Johnson admitted. “The Wall Street Journal reporters interviewed, I think, around 50 people — Republicans and Democrats — about the president’s mental acumen,” he reiterated, “and … it was quite obvious to everyone that he’s not on his A-game. I’ll say that charitably. And they quoted an exchange that he and I had in the Oval Office, just the two of us. There were several people who talked about that.”

The speaker explained that he didn’t provide comment to the WSJ, but on Saturday’s show, he confirmed that the report was accurate. “… When we were talking about his executive order on LNG exports, and he intimated to me that he didn’t quite understand what he signed — that he didn’t know that he paused exports. And that’s had a terrible effect on the country, our security, our economy. And it’s fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine, because Europe has to get their gas from him instead of from us. And the president tried to argue with me and tell me that he didn’t do that, when clearly he did. That was a subject of the article.”

Now, months later, people are trying to dismiss Johnson’s account. “And I’ve said if anybody disputes the account of that, I will submit to a polygraph, because I know exactly how that conversation went down, and I’m telling the truth about it. I take no pleasure in that because we’re projecting weakness on the world stage. This president is not thinking.”

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Why is Christianity declining both in membership and in clergy? Even the more conservative branches of Christianity such as Orthodoxy and the more conservative branches of Catholicism and Protestantism is declining although not as rapidly as the more liberal and heretical branches. Although Islam (prelest that combines Moon paganism with heretical forms of Christianity), which like Mormonism and Judaism is a cheap imitations of Christianity, is not declining.

The nation’s former top prosecutor is weighing in on the landmark Trump conviction, predicting the trial’s verdict will be overruled on appeal. Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr explained in an interview this week that he “wasn’t particularly surprised” that former President Donald Trump, under whom Barr served, was convicted last week in a Manhattan trial.

“I said from the very start that this was an abomination, and I actually was surprised that they went ahead with the case, because there really was nothing there,” Barr added. “There was no crime there and they never were able to really articulate it until after the defense rested its case, so I thought the whole thing was a travesty.”

“I wasn’t surprised by the verdict because the way the case was conducted, there was never really any discipline on trying to make the prosecutor establish what the elements of the crime were and what evidence he had to do it,” Barr explained. “It was just assumed from the beginning that there was some kind of Federal Election Campaign violation, which there wasn’t.”

“I think this is ‘Exhibit Number One’ of the dual system of justice that is becoming more and more evident,” the former AG noted, referring to the political motivations behind the Trump prosecution. “What does this do to our body politic? What does this do to our country?” he asked. Barr also predicted, “This case is going to be overruled because there are just multiple errors and violations of constitutional rights. … This will eventually be overruled after the election.” He continued, “But what happens if there’s a close election and Biden squeaks through and then the case is overruled? Half the country is going to feel that this was a stolen election. And again, this is a grave injustice and disservice to the country.”

Ex-Miss America-turned-GOP House candidate is pushing abortion as a conservative issue​

Miss America 2018 Cara Mund is vying to become North Dakota's first female member in the U.S. House of Representatives by running on a unique platform: she's is a pro-choice, anti-Trump Republican.

"As a conservative, I support limited government, and all of you [debate opponents] wanna be in spaces that the government should not be. The government should not be in your bedroom, they should not be in your doctors appointments," she said at the debate.

she is part of a crowded Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by Rep. Kelly Armstrong, who is running for the state's executive seat after Gov. Doug Burgum dropped out of the presidential race and announced he would not run for reelection as governor.

In 2022, she ran for the state's only congressional seat as an independent. The Independent reported that she was motivated by the leaked Dobbs decisionsignaling the end to the right to an abortion. Mund lost with 37.6% of the voteagainst incumbent Armstrong.

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