There are many videos on Youtube criticising ministries that don't dot all the Is and cross all the Ts in their doctrine. For example, a well known healing evangelist who in later years had a vision of a 90ft Jesus telling him to raise the finance to build a hospital in his city. Yet this evangelist has preached the Gospel involving Jesus dying on the Cross for us. Another one is a new deceased world-wide evangelist who was well known for preaching the Gospel and winning thousands to Christ, and yet he was on friendly terms with the pope, Mormon and Muslim leaders. And a 19th Century pastor and evangelist whose sermons have blessed multitudes of people from then until now, but was a mason. As a result of the faults and failings of these preachers, they are condemned as false teachers. But is this condemnation fair? I don't think so.

The Scripture says that we have the treasure in earthen vessels, and that we have partial knowledge and those who prophesy do it partially. Also, there were OT saints who had grievous faults (Moses having fits of anger, David committing adultery and murder, Solomon marrying pagan wives, Samson having affairs with different women; yet all these were seen by God as having good hearts, One king of Israel is reported as being right with God in his heart, but not all his actions were right.

There is a major difference between a preacher or pastor whose heart is right with God, and whose desire is to glorify God but through his faults and failings sometimes gets it wrong and makes a hash of things; and the man or woman whose heart is not right with God, who is self seeking, greedy for money, and a deliberate heretic. I think we are going to have some surprises at the judgment, where the preachers we think are false turn out to be true, and those we think are true turn out to be false. How are we to know? God looks on the heart. We have seen in church history that both Arminians, who believe we can be saved today and lost tomorrow, and Calvinists who believe in once saved always saved, had very successful soul winning ministries because they preached the Gospel of Christ.

The trouble is that we tend, because of our sinful nature, to mark our own faults with a road marker, and the faults of others with a drafting pencil. When we look at a ministry those who are perfectionists, see the glass as half empty instead of half full.

A good indication is what Paul said: "If anyone comes preaching another gospel than the one we preached to you, let him be accursed." When the disciples complained about someone casting out demons who was not part of their own party, Jesus said, "Leave them alone because who is for us is not against us." Paul spoke of those who preached the Gospel out of envy and jealousy, but at least they preached the Gospel so they shouldn't be rejected as false and heretical.

So the test of a ministry is not whether they have faults or failings, but whether they are preaching the Gospel of Christ - Jesus and Him crucified and risen again., or if they are preaching another gospel and presenting another Jesus not of the Jesus of the Bible. For example, Post-Modern Liberalists don't believe in an historical Jesus, nor do they see God as a real person, but as a concept. They are preaching a gospel, not as Paul preached it, and therefore they are false and Paul said that if they come teaching a doctrine that is contrary to the doctrine of Christ, then they should be totally rejected, not greeted, or welcomed into our homes, otherwise we are being partakers of their heresies.

But a healing evangelist who preached the Gospel, did what he could to get sick people healed, but had continual battles with alcoholism, should be condemn and reject him because of his struggle with the flesh, a struggle that we all have? Or the other healing evangelist who had a gluttony problem that eventually caused his death, and yet he faithfully preached the Gospel, do we condemn him as well?

According to the Biblical evidence and church history, we see that God has used very imperfect vessels to bring the Gospel to the unconverted. This is the miracle, that vessels with sometimes serious faults and failings can bring many to Christ. This shows that it is the Song and not the singer.

Attorney who secretly slipped abortion pills in wife’s drink 7 times because pregnancy would ‘ruin his plans’ sentenced to 6 months​

A 39-year-old attorney in Texas will spend less than six months behind bars after admitting to sneaking abortion-inducing drugs into his soon-to-be ex-wife’s beverages for weeks after learning about her pregnancy.

Mason Herring had previously pleaded guilty to one count of assault of a pregnant person and one count of injury to a child under age 15. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office dismissed one count of assault — forcing an individual to have an abortion.

[I guess it's fortunate for him that this was before the Dobbs decision.]

In the wake of additional allegations against its founder Mike Bickle, the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC) cut off the livestream feed for the 24-7 prayer room that has defined its movement.

On Thursday night, the display read, “IHOPKC is entering a season of prayer and repentance.” The day before, the Kansas City Star ran a story on a woman who said Bickle abused her as a 14-year-old in the ’80s, when she was his family’s babysitter and he was a pastor in St. Louis.

IHOPKC released a statement condemning Bickle’s “predatory and abusive” actions, standing by his victims, and apologizing for its initial response of allowing him to defend himself when accusations surfaced last fall.

As various individuals from different perspectives have tried so hard to let me know, I'm not in with the status quo with how I perceive and evaluate the world. in which we live. Apparently, and according to others, I have a few major deficiencies in my mental logic circuits. This is the evaluation I've been given by more than one person because I refuse to instantly and completely jump on board with the currently favored political, religious (or irreligious), and/or scientific angle of entry that I am expected to conform to in order to be considered 'sane.'

Or maybe I'm discordant with what others expect of me because my own existential starting point isn't and has never been (and can't be) the same one that they have found themselves starting with. We all begin our experiences and our appraisals of the world in which we live at different places and what a few folks don't seem to realize is that their chosen criterion by which to measure aspects of the Reality isn't necessarily the 'sure, absolute' thing that they've assume their criterion to be. It also just might be that their criterion (or criteria if there's more than one) for what constitutes knowledge isn't quite as clear, simple, straightforward, objective or as well defined idea as they'd like to think it is.

And in essential accordance with the topics and statements made in the following video, here's why I disagree and am at odds with my critics ...

3 Paradoxes That Will Change the Way You Think About Everything​

State can set some rules about elections.

... and why aren't they standing?

Prompted by the last two thread titles:

How would an 82 year old Biden govern as president?

Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity​

On May 27, 2021, Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that ground penetrating radar (GPR) technology had located the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School located in British Columbia, Canada.

The news was readily accepted and publicly grieved by every society figurehead and institution.

On May 28, The New York Times ran with the headline, ‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada.’

Three days following the press conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued an apology for those “whose lives were taken” at Kamloops. He ordered Canadian flags to be flown at half-mast and they would remain lowered for nearly six months, raised a few days before Nov. 11, only to be lowered again for Remembrance Day.

Pope Francis spoke of “the shocking discovery of the remains of 215 children” in his June 6 Angelus address.

Taking their lead from the Pope, church communities quickly reacted. In the following weeks, many congregations set out 215 pairs of child-size shoes on their front steps.

Between the half-mast flags and the little shoes, Canada was covered that summer by a pall of grief that extended from sea to sea to sea.

The grief quickly turned to anger. A wave of church burnings and vandalisms ensued. The violence continues to this day. According to the media outlet True North, some 96 churches have been burned, damaged or desecrated in the last two and a half years. As recently as December, two Alberta churches were burned to the ground. Trudeau noted that though burning churches was wrong, the anger was “real and … fully understandable, given the shameful history that we are all becoming more and more aware of.”

However, it seems that the high tide of collective guilt has finally started to pull out and the retreat has left behind the detritus of what some now say was a “moral panic.”

The incremental shift in public sentiment is in part due the absence of bodies.

To date no excavations have taken place in Kamloops, despite the federal government allocating CAN $7.9 million for the task in August 2021.

Continued below.

Netanyahu has rejected Hamas’ demands for a hostage deal, which includes an end to the war and the release of hundreds of veteran Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences in Israel for deadly attacks carried out as part of the long-running conflict. Netanyahu dismissed Hamas’ demands as delusional, even as Blinken said he believes continued negotiations, through mediators Egypt and Qatar, are possible.
Once again Netanyahu takes the time to evacuate civilians.

Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist, won his long-standing legal battle against two right-wing bloggers who claimed that he manipulated data in his research and compared him to convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky, a major victory for the outspoken researcher.

A jury in a civil trial in Washington on Thursday found that the two writers, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn, defamed and injured the researcher in a pair of blog posts published in 2012, and awarded him more than $1 million.

The verdict is a dozen years in the making for the climatologist, who for decades has been a target of right-wing critics over his famous “hockey stick” graph.

Simberg was found liable for statements that compared Mann to Sandusky but was cleared on other statements criticizing Mann’s scientific work.

During closing arguments, Steyn, a radio and TV personality who spoke for himself during much of the trial, said he still “stand{s} on the truth of every word I wrote about Michael Mann, his fraudulent hockey stick and the corrupt investigative process at Penn State.”

Hi,

Today I sat down and started writing a book on predestination vs free will, called The Way and Free Will. If you have time have a read and let me know if it is lacking any content you would like to see. It can be found at The Way and Free Will in its current version.

Wonder if this will be entered into VAERS as adverse vaccine reaction?

Now I don't want to make this too deep, but ever since I became a full believer in Jesus I've seen roadblocks being removed, previous ambitions being lifted off me etc. And before I became a believer I could see how the world was turning like something major was being built up to, it's something I've seen for many years. As I see it now from the perspective of a believer is that we are in the the season which has been prophesied, the end of days.

And it's kinda funny to me because it has been a running joke of christians saying we are in the season in like forever...

And it has gotten me to be complacent with where I am at, in terms of building myself a stronger worldly foundation. And that's not good if I'm wrong because there are areas which should be improved. Being OK with where I'am at because the tide will come at this night (very soon) to wash away my sandcastle anyway so I keep my focus on more important things.

I just want some input / advice on this, it is a concern of mine.

At the end of the book of John, it tells us who the author of this book is. It tells us that the "one whom Jesus loved" was the one who wrote the book of John. It says:
"Peter turned around and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them—the one who also had leaned back on His chest at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who is betraying You?” So Peter, upon seeing him, said to Jesus, “Lord, and what about this man?” Jesus said to him, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!” Therefore this account went out among the brothers, that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, “If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?” This is the disciple who is testifying about these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true." John 21:20-24
So, we know that whoever was known to be the one whom Jesus loved the most was the author of the book of John.
Now if we look through the book of John it mentions "the one whom Jesus loved" several times. The first time this phrase is used was with Lazurus when he was sick and about to die. It says, "Now a certain man was sick: Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So, the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick." John 11:3
Then, when Lazurus died, it says in John 11:35-36 that Jesus wept and that the Jews were so amazed that they said, "See how He loved him!" It is even said with an exclamation mark to show how much the Jews stressed this point. Jesus loved Lazarus a lot.
Then a little further on in John 13:23, we see the disciple whom Jesus loved again. In this text, it does not mention any names but one of the disciples is leaning on Jesus' bosom. This disciple was loved by Jesus. "Lying back on Jesus’ chest was one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved". This person who leaned on Jesus' breast is confirmed to be the author of the book of John as previously mentioned in John 21:20-24.

There are other verses too that mention the author of the book of John. That is, "the one that Jesus loved." There is John 19:26, John 20:2-8 and John 21:7.

My question is, how do we know that it was John who wrote this book when if we read it, the evidence says it was Lazurus?

Now I am going to tell you a story before I get into this passage of Scripture for today because it relates to what this passage of Scripture is teaching. I am a participant in social media, specifically the one called Facebook, which is a social media internet site. If you are unfamiliar with what that is, it is a place on the internet where people can gather together and interact with one another in a social setting. Now this is not a Christian site, but from what I have experienced, it is also not anti-Christian (in America). So right now I have the freedom to share my daily devotions on that site.

Now Facebook has many sub-groups which are special interest groups that you can join and where you can also socialize and interact with other people who may not be your friends but who are people who share common interests with you, which may or may not be Christian, per se, but not anti-Christian. For example, I have joined several of these groups as a way to connect with other people who have common interests and experiences. And one of those groups is for people who graduated from the same high school that I did, which was Akron (Ohio, USA) East High (I graduated in 1968).

The name of the man who started this group is Bob. And a few weeks back Bob started something new which he calls “weekly wins.” And this is a place where people can share something positive that happened to them during the week that encouraged them, and thus it serves also as an encouragement to others. And again, this is not a Christian group, per se, but it is not anti-Christian, which is nice. And so these weekly wins may cover a vast array of subjects, but are usually just simple things that happen in people’s lives which serve to encourage them even in small ways.

Now, I find that particularly encouraging. I really enjoy reading people’s “weekly wins,” even some of the simplest ones of all. I think I enjoy them the most because of the simplicity of them. And sometimes it literally brings me to happy tears just reading their “weekly wins.” And so this is one of the highlights of my week now. Why? Because we, as human beings, Christian and non-Christian alike, need encouragement. And I don’t mean all just pats on the back, either, but sometimes we need to be encouraged away from the bad stuff and to do what is good and right and just and kind and loving.

Anyway, another thing that Bob has initiated is that weekly he makes it a point to thank certain people for their participation in the group for that week, and he encourages us to do likewise, i.e. to thank other people for their participation. I like that, as well, for it is encouraging other people.

When I got on the internet this morning my passage of Scripture for today was on the subject of being thankful for other people. And I had to smile! Now, in context, the passage is speaking of Christian to Christian and in specific context of their walks of faith in Jesus Christ. And this is something that Christians should be doing with other Christians if they are aware of their walks of faith. But we should also be doing the kind of encouragement that is regarded as exhortation which involves encouraging people away from things which are bad/evil and toward what is good/righteous.

But we should be people who are in the practice of encouraging all people, and who are thanking them when they share something that is good or when they do something that is good, for we all need encouragement. Now we should not encourage anything that is anti-Christian or that goes against our moral values or that is something that in good conscience that we cannot support. But when we see kindness, love, generosity, helpfulness, etc. taking place in people’s lives toward other people, we should encourage that. We should even be thankful for those who urge others away from what is evil.

So, anyway, the Lord was impressing it upon my heart this morning that we need to be people who make it our practice to encourage other people and who thank them for their kindness, even if it is not towards us, but if it is towards someone else. For all human beings need to be encouraged in some way or another, but according to our own consciences and what we believe we can encourage them in or be thankful for. For this needs to be sincere from our hearts and not fake. We have enough fakery in the world. We need more people who are real and honest.

So, yes, Christian to Christian we need to be encouraging what we can see ourselves if it is something that doesn’t go against the Scriptures or that doesn’t go against our moral values, etc. We need to be encouraging others in their walks of faith and obedience to the Lord so that they do not get discouraged and disheartened. And we need to be urging one another away from all that is evil and toward all that is good in the eyes of God. And we need to be thanking one another for our contributions to the encouragement of the body of Christ which includes urgings and exhortations, too.

But be people who make it your practice to be encouragers and those who thank others for what they do that is good, and to all people, not just to other Christians. For we all need encouragement and we all need to hear someone say, “Thank you,” from time to time. But we should not do what we do to get the praise of humans, but we should do what we do that is good regardless of whether or not we are acknowledged at all by other humans, and even if others are mean and hateful towards us. But we should make it our practice to thank others for the good that they do. And that’s the point!

But we should never neglect to thank the Lord and to give him the glory and the honor and the praise for what he has done and for what he is doing in and through our lives, as his followers, and for his glory and praise. We should always give credit where credit is due and not take the credit for ourselves for what we know God is doing and has done in our lives to make us into the people of God that he created us to be. “And if I gain any praise let it go to Calvary” (taken from the song “My Tribute” by Andrae Crouch).

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Give thanks with a grateful heart
Give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His Son

And now let the weak say, "I am strong"
Let the poor say, "I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us"

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I mean specifically the church leaders. Church is a place we fellowship, but I would like to remain silent or remain skeptical on investing advice and career advice. These people gave lousy advice.

An egg carton's expiration date is not as reliable as it seems. Here's how to tell if eggs are fresh.

Chances are you almost always have eggs in your fridge. Whether baked, scrambled or poached, they’re one of the most versatile items on the grocery list. You might think the best way to pick a carton is by checking the grade, size and expiration date—but there’s a secret behind how long eggs can sit out, how to store eggs and a more efficient way to tell how fresh your eggs are.

Interested? Keep reading.

How to decode your egg carton​

On the side of your egg carton, right by (or below) the “Sell by” date, you’ll see a three-digit code. No, it’s not an arbitrary serial number; it’s the Julian date, your fail-safe guide to fresh eggs.

Ranging from 001 to 365, the Julian date represents the day the eggs were packaged. Each code corresponds to a day in the year, so 001 would be Jan. 1 and 365 would represent Dec. 31. Once the eggs are packaged, they’ll keep in your fridge for four to five weeks. Psst:Here’s how long your other grocery staples will last.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, eggs can be sold for up to 30 days after they were packaged. So even if they’re in stock and not expired, they might be weeks old. Eew! (If all this is making you wonder why egg yolks are different colors, we have the answer.)

So why does it matter?​

Continued below.

I've been reading in this book, published 1611 though this is the 1842 edition:

THE PRACTICE OF PIETY; DIRECTING A CHRISTIAN HOW TO WALK THAT HE MAY PLEASE GOD. Lewis Bayley (1575-1631)​

Very deep theology, especially on the Trinity & the names of God, so far. Also learned this book was largely responsible for the conversion of John Bunyan, who wrote Pilgrims Progress. I'll quote a little here, & give link to the full eBook:

TO THE DEVOUT READER.​

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I had not purposed to enlarge the last Edition, save that the importunity of many devoutly disposed prevailed with me to add some points, and to amplify others. To satisfy whose godly requests I have done my best endeavour, and withal finished all that I intend in this argument. If thou shalt hereby reap any more profit, give God the more praise; and remember him in thy prayers who hath vowed both his life and his labours to further thy salvation as his own.

Farewell in the Lord Jesus,

Lewis Bayly.

Whoever thou art that lookest into this book, never undertake to read it, unless thou first resolvest to become from thine heart an unfeigned Practitioner of Piety. Yet read it, and that speedily, lest, before thou hast read it over, God, by some unexpected death, cut thee off for thine inveterate impiety.

The Practice of Piety consists—

First, In knowing the essence of God, and that in respect of, (I.) The diverse manner of being therein, which are three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (II.) The Attributes thereof; which are either Nominal or Real,—(1.) Absolute, as, Simpleness, Infiniteness,—(2.) Relative, as, Life, Understanding, Will, Power, Majesty.

Second, In knowing thy own self, in respect of thy state of Corruption and Renovation.

Third, In glorifying God aright, (I.) By thy life, in dedicating thyself devoutly to serve him,—both privately, in thine own person; and publicly, with thy family, every day; and with the Church, on the Sabbath-day;—and extraordinarily, by fasting and by feasting. (II.) By thy death, in dying in the Lord, and for the Lord.

Unless that a man doth truly know God, he neither can nor will worship him aright: for how can a man love him whom he knoweth not? and who will worship him whose help a man thinks he needeth not? and how shall a man seek remedy by grace, who never understood his misery by nature? Therefore, saith the Apostle, “He that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him,” Heb. xi. 6.

And forasmuch as there can be no true piety without the knowledge of God; nor any good practice without the knowledge of a man’s own self; we will therefore lay down the knowledge of God’s majesty, and man’s misery, as the first and chiefest grounds of the Practice of Piety.

A PLAIN DESCRIPTION OF THE ESSENCE
AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD,​

OUT OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE,​

SO FAR AS EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST COMPETENTLY KNOW, AND
NECESSARILY BELIEVE, THAT WILL BE SAVES.

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Although no creature can define what God is, because he is incomprehensible (Psal. cxliii. 3) and dwelling in inaccessible light (1 Tim. vi. 16); yet it has pleased his majesty to reveal himself to us in his word, so far as our weak capacity can best conceive him. Thus:

God is that one spiritual and infinitely perfect essence, whose being is of himself eternally (Deut. i. 4; iv. 35; xxxii. 39; vi. 4; Isa. xlv. 5–8; 1 Cor. viii. 4; Eph. iv. 5, 6; 1 Tim. ii. 5; John iv. 24; 2 Cor. iii. 17; 1 Kings viii. 17; Psal. cxlvii. 5; Deut. xxxii. 4; Exod. iii. 14; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Acts xvii. 25; Rom. xi. 36.)

In the Divine Essence we are to consider two things: First, The diverse manner of being therein; secondly, The attributes thereof.

The diverse manner of being therein, are called Persons (Heb. i. 3.)

A person is a distinct subsistence of the whole Godhead (John i. 1; v. 31, 37; xiv. 16; Col. ii. 9; John xiv. 9.)

There are Three Divine Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost (Gen. i. 26; iii. 22; xi. 7; Exod. xx. 2; Hos. i. 4, 7; Isa. lxiii. 9, 10; Zech. iii. 2; Hag. ii. 5, 6; 1 John v. 7; Matt. iii. 16, 17; xxviii. 19; John xiv. 26; 2 Cor. xiii. 13.) These three persons are 4not three several substances, but three distinct subsistences; or three diverse manner of beings, of one and the same substance and divine essence. So that a person in the Godhead is an individual Understanding and incommunicable subsistence, living of itself, and not sustained by another.

In the unity of the Godhead there is a plurality which is not accidental (Gen. i. 26; iii. 22; xi. 7; Isa. vi. 8), for God is a most pure act, and admits no accidents; nor essential, for God is one essence only—but personal."

Here's the link to the book. It's already spoken volumes to me and I'm only about 1/3 way through.

Lewis Bayly: Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. - Christian Classics Ethereal Library

ccel.org

Please pray in Jesus' name that God will give me justice and legal protection from my adversary.

For the first time in over four decades, Peruvian diving petrels have four active natural nests on Chañaral Island after a dedicated conservation group cleared the island of a deadly invasive species.

This unique Chilean ecosystem has seen a resurgence in its seabird population following the successful removal of rabbits in 2017—and last year, the partners announced the first seabird chick born on the island in over 40 years.

The achievement is the result of a collaborative effort between Chile’s National Forestry Corporation (CONAF), Laboratorio de Ecología y Diversidad de Aves Marinas from the Universidad Católica del Norte, and one of the most serially successful wildlife organizations on Earth—Island Conservation.

Continued below.

I was asked what the gospel is recently, and wanted to share here.

The gospel is the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. It is an everlasting gospel that is for all people of all nations starting with Adam and Eve until the end of time.

Sin separated man from God Isa 59:2 and sin is the transgression of God's law 1 John 3:4 the Ten Commandments Romans 7:7

Part of the gospel message our salvation from the condemnation of sin. Romans 6:23 Mat 1:21

If there was no law, there would be no condemnation as the wages of sin (breaking God's law) is death Romans 6:23- this is the condemnation. If there was no condemnation, there would be no need for a Savior as we would all be immortal- (the first lie that made Eve fall- one of the same tactics the devil uses today- we can break God's law and live) so God's law is a vital part of the gospel, because we are not saved in our sins- we are saved from sin.

God's law shows us how to worship Him. The first 4 commandments is how we are to love God.

Exodus 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying:
2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 “You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor [b]serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

God is the one who saves us from the bondage of sin. The 4th commandment or Sabbath commandment is the only commandment that points to the Author of His law and shows that He is the Creator and Authority of everything- King of Kings Lords of Lords and who the devil has been trying to take the place of Isa 14:14 so no wonder the 4th commandment is attacked so much. It has God's seal of authority.

If someone wrote down a set of laws but didn't sign who they came from it would be meaningless. If the President of the Unities States wrote a set of laws and signed it, then its valid. A set of laws that has no signature, no author is meaningless. The Sabbath has the seal of God's law. It contains who is the Author: Lord thy God. His Title- Creator and Territory : Heaven and Earth

The everlasting gospel points us back to the Sabbath commandment- the only place that has His seal.

Revelation 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people— 7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.”

Exo 20: 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.

God said the Sabbath was the sign that He is our God

Eze 20:20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

Also notice this.... “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come;

There will be a judgement and there has to be a standard of judgement. We don't have to guess- scripture tell us.

This has almost verbatim the same language.

Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.
14 For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.

What are we judged on?

James 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty

The Ten Commandments will be what we are judged on breaking one we break them all. The Ten Commandments was written by the finger of God Exo 31:18 this is His work Exo 32:16 His righteousness Psa 119:172 and Truth Psa 119:151 and reflects His perfect character that we are to take on. His law is perfect for converting the soul Psa 19:7, Removing even one jot or tittle from His law removes His mercy as all Ten Commandments sits under His mercy seat they way He wrote and spoke and the earthy temple was a copy of God's heavenly Temple Heb 8:1-5 where lies the Ten Commandments Rev 11:19

At the end we will either take on His character (image) and receive His seal Isaiah 8:16 or we will make an image to the beast and his mark. It all comes down to the authority of who we worship. Do we worship God, the Creator of heaven and earth and all that is in them and follow His laws by His authority or follow man and worship in vain keeping the commandments of man over the commandments of God. Mar 7:7-13 Mat 15:3-14

Scripture tells us how we avoid it the mark.

Rev 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

And the antidote the next verse

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

A beast is a kingdom- meaning a governing power Daniel 7:23 and we are told the beast has a mark that one will receive or will receive the seal of God. It comes down to the authority of our worship. The Sabbath is the commandment that shows the authority of God - the God the Creator who made heaven and earth. The beast would have to have something contrary to God's Sabbath commandment. Do we see that happening in scripture and in history?

In Daniel 7:25 we are told this beast power would change times and laws. The only commandment that is both a time and a law is the Sabbath commandment. It is a law (4th commandment) and a time- every seventh day Sabbath Exo 20:10

Do we see this in history. Yes, Rome admits to this change. They admit it didn't come from scripture but their own authority that is above the bible. They claim it is their mark of their authority.

If Protestants would follow the Bible, they would worship God on the Sabbath Day. In keeping the Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic Church.
—Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, replying for the Cardinal, in a letter dated February 10, 1920.

Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change was her act. And the act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters.
—C. F. Thomas, Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons, in answer to a letter regarding the change of the Sabbath, November 11, 1895.

Deny the authority of the Church and you have no adequate or reasonable explanation or justification for the substitution of Sunday for Saturday in the Third - Protestant Fourth - Commandment of God... The Church is above the Bible, and this transference of Sabbath observance is proof of that fact.'
—Catholic Record, September 1, 1923.

Which it all comes down to. Do we worship God on His authority and keep His commandments or keep the commandments of man and worship in vain?

Who is our allegiance to? Do we worship God in Truth and Spirit and keep His commandments written by His own finger or obey the commandments of man. We will all have to answer this question one day.

"(Mollie)Hemingway diagnosed the deterioration of U.S. elections and Americans’ trust in the voting process as the result of “lengthy election seasons.”

“The situation is so absurd that we have presidential and gubernatorial debates weeks after some people have already voted,” Hemingway noted.

Mail-in voting specifically, Hemingway said, forces the crux of voting to begin months before Election Day."

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Two soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army’s elite Old Guard were arrested and charged with stealing pride flags from a home in Arlington, Virginia, and neighbors have rallied to support the targeted couple.

Last week, police arrested 20-year-old Matthew Henshaw, a solider assigned to the Old Guard, and charged him with three counts of bias-motivated unlawful entry and three counts of petit larceny. Police also charged 23-year-old Joseph Digregorio with one count of petit larceny.

השם יהוה נאמר

Going to Messianic services, and Biblical Hebrew language class for over a year (August 2022 - October 2023) I found there were many ways to pronounce YAHWEH יהוה : YAHWEH, YAHVEH, YAHOEH, Yod Hey Wah Hey JEHOVAH, etc. Now there is no "J" in Hebrew, and the English language didn't have "J" till 1524. rather, English used "I" which is interchangeable with the Y sound. The top pronunciation on Google when asked how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton is "Ye-Ho-Wah." Most scholars agree on "Yahweh" - pronounced "Yah-Way"

So, I began to seek יהוה in prayer, and after some time over days into weeks, the Spirit said "breathe." So I did lay there and breathe slowly in and out, and listened to the sound thereof, which was something like "Yaaaah-oooo-eh" or "Yehueh" but drawn out. "Yeh...." inhalation, "Ooooeh," - exhalation.

For the Ruach HaQodesh רואח הקדש is the Spirit Holy who gives breath, and is the breath of God, by which we know He created every star, and all the host of heaven by Psalm 33:6 "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."
Now, that revelation came about sometimes in October or November of 2023, and behold, today, February 8, 2024, I was reading a 1611 work by Lewis Bayly (1575-1631) "The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk that He May Please God," and I did read this, "Of the first sort is the name Jehovah (Exod. xv.3), or rather Jehueh, which signifieth the eternal being of himself..."
Drop the "J" - replace with the original "Y" and you have "Yehueh" - EXACTLY what I'd deduced from breathing at the prompting of the Spirit!

And the word of a 15th century Puritan preacher who was also chaplain to King James still surely speaks even 412 or 413 years later.
Another little piece of trivia I learned researching this, was that Bayly's book "The Practice of Piety" was also responsible for John Bunyans conversion: same Bunyan who wrote "The Pilgrims Promise."

Radical conversion in prison...

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