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42 Biden Admin Officials Put on Notice by House Republicans

At least 42 Biden administration officials were sent letters by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee this month requesting testimony from a variety of White House officials.


Those letters primarily dealt with the suspected politicization of the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ), investigations into U.S. border security, and President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

How Will Anyone Trust The Georgia Runoff Results When There’s Enough Illegal Voting To Tip The Scales?

Initial data from the November 2022 general election indicates more than 25,000 Georgians may have voted illegally in the general election. And the problem appears poised to repeat itself when voters cast their ballots in the state’s runoff election for senator on Dec. 6, 2022. Absent a win by a substantial margin by either Republican challenger Herschel Walker or Democrat incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, litigation, with the potential ordering of a new election, seems likely — a scenario that would have proved disastrous to the country had control of the Senate remained in play.

Fauci Couldn’t Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID-19: Lawyers

Dr. Anthony Fauci couldn’t cite any studies that changed his mind about masking against COVID-19 during a recent deposition, according to lawyers who were in the room.


Fauci, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, was among the U.S. officials repeatedly urging people to not wear a mask early in the COVID-19 pandemic unless they were showing symptoms. Among his many public and private statements, he wrote in a Feb. 5, 2020, email that “the typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through the material.”


About two months later, Fauci and other top officials reversed course and issued widespread masking recommendations, regardless of symptoms.


Asked about the change while under oath on Nov. 23, Fauci couldn’t provide any studies, according to lawyers representing plaintiffs in a case against the federal government.

Three child sex offenders arrested trying to cross illegally into Texas over Thanksgiving week

Three child sex offenders were arrested while attempting to illegally re-enter the U.S. through Texas last week, border officials said Tuesday.


These are just the ones that they actually caught; but they were just here to do the jobs that Americans won't do.

Here’s How They Did it: Real-time Election Fraud

We take that election roll, with perhaps 15 million voters, Florida, for instance, or Texas -- compare every voter against every other voter and address, down to the cell level, and see any differences -- every day!

What do we find?

In a real-life example, this month, we found a county that changed 31,500 zip codes, yet the voter remained at the same address. Curious?

That means the voter did not change their address, continued to receive all their mail, except one item -- a ballot sent from a voter commission.

Biden administration official is on leave, charged with stealing suitcase worth over $2,000

Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, was accused of taking the luggage from baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on September 16, according to a complaint filed last month.

23% of world’s nations used force to halt religious gatherings in 2020: Pew report

Governments in nearly a quarter of the world’s nations, including the United States, used force to prevent religious gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a new Pew Research Center study says.


Twenty-three percent of world governments employed “arrests and detentions; physical assaults; damage, confiscation or raiding of private property; displacements of people from their homes; or killings” to enforce restrictions on religious gatherings in the first year of the pandemic, according to Pew’s “How COVID-19 Restrictions Affected Religious Groups Around the World in 2020” report.

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I think this is a new feature, and I really like it, as it allows a response without derailing the thread. Very Good. Thankyou.

Biden’s nonbinary head of nuclear waste admits to snatching luggage worth over $2,000 from airport

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Brinton, 35, is due in district court in Hennepin County, Minnesota, on Dec. 19 on felony theft charges that carry a five-year prison term.

Brinton’s government career may be short-lived.

An Energy Department spokesman said in a statement to The Washington Times: “Sam Brinton is on leave from DOE, and Kim Petry is performing the duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition.”

When you know 100% it's wrong but still do it

(This question is because I watched some documentary about serial killers that sexual immoral acts were a part of it)
Hi. My question is, let's say hypothetically (as a Christian or non-Christian) if the devil test you by putting a thought into your head without you knowing about it and you think it's your own thoughts, for an example to kill someone or sexually immoral while knowing 100% It's something you would not ever do (never crossed your mind earlier before the devil started attacking), but with time you start to feel as if you get a rush of adrenalin from thinking about it, but you would never do it, but still this builds up more and more, and then one day you can't hold it in, and you act upon it.
Then after doing it, you repent 100% sincerely and hate your sin.

Then on judgement day, the devil will say to God "see I tempted him, and he did it! He KNEW it was wrong, but still did it!" Key point being "He knew but still did it!"
Let's say the person committing this sin had a weakness, being a person that was easy to influence, or/and the devil knew what weak points he had and used it against him guessing the probability for the person to act upon the thought is high because of it, let's say a sexual immoral act like pedophilia, the guy being over sexual having (more than most people, or even normal urges) overactive sexual urges, the devil knew this and used that weak point to his advantage. The person (because of constant attack by putting thoughts into the head of the person in silence) could not hold it in any longer and had to act upon it, so that the devil can accuse the guy later to God.
What do you say about this question, do you think God would forgive that person?
Or does the devil have a hard case against him because the person knew full well it was wrong, but still committed it? Or do you think God would take the guy's weakness in consideration, and by that show mercy to him, or is it enough that the guy cried out to God Through Jesus and asked for forgiveness that he could not control the urges?
And what if the devil never put the thoughts into the person's head, and he did this by himself, would the probability for God to forgive him be the same or not as likely? In both cases, the person asks for forgiveness to God through Jesus, and he has been baptized and did these things after that. Just to narrow it down to what i am asking for more precisely. Thank you for answers, and please move this question to an appropriate section of the forum if this is the wrong place.

Words of Wisdom

Baruch 4:1-4 Wisdom is in the Book of God’s Commandments. All who hold fast to it will live, but those who forsake it will die. Happy are we, His people, for we know what is pleasing to our God.

Baruch 4:5-11 Take heart, My people, those who keep My Laws. Israel was sent to the heathens, but not to be destroyed. Because you ignited God’s wrath, you were handed over to the enemy. You forgot your Maker, the One who nurtured you and it caused sorrow to the Land that fostered you. She saw that disaster had come upon you. With joy I brought you up, but with tears and mourning, I watched you go into exile.

Baruch 4:17-24 But how can you be helped? Only the One who brought those disasters upon you, can deliver you. Take heart My children – cry out to the Lord. He will rescue you from the power of your enemies. As the neighbours of Zion have seen your exile, so will they soon witness the deliverance of you, which will come to you with great glory and the radiance of the Eternal.

Baruch 4:25-29 My children, endure in patience the wrath that God has brought upon you. Your enemies now have the upper hand, but you will soon see them destroyed, soon put your foot on his neck. Take heart, My people, He who afflicted you will not forget you. . You went astray, now with tenfold zeal, you must turn back and seek Him.

Baruch 4:30-35 Take heart, Land of Israel, the Lord will comfort you. Wretched will be they who mistreated you and gloated over your fall. Those who rejoiced over your downfall and ruin, they will grieve at their own desolation. I shall strip their land of the multitudes they boast of and turn their pride into mourning.\
Fire from heaven will be their doom
. [A Coronal Mass Ejection, sunstrike. Isaiah 30:26, Malachi 4:1]



Baruch 4:36-37 Jerusalem – Land of Israel, look and see the joy that is coming from all quarters, that is coming to you from the Lord. They come, the people from whom you were parted, assembling at the Word of the Holy One and rejoicing in the glory of the Lord.

Baruch 5:1-9 Jerusalem, remove your garment of mourning and put on forever the robe of righteousness, the glorious splendour of God. From Him, you will receive forever the name of Righteous City of Peace. Arise Jerusalem, look and see your people coming from West to East at the Word of the Holy One, rejoicing that God has remembered them. They went away from you on foot, but He is bringing them home to you, borne aloft in glory as on a royal throne. All the Land is regenerated by His command, so that His people may walk securely and the trees will give shade and fruit for them. He will guide Israel, His people, by the Light of His glory, in His mercy and righteousness. Ref: REB Apocrypha.



At the Second Exodus of the Israelites: all the faithful Christian peoples will be guided into their inheritance, in the same manner as the First Exodus. ‘The Light of His glory’ will be with them, as they settle into all of that area promised to Abraham. They will live in the new nation of Beulah, Isaiah 62:1-5, while the remaining prophesied events unfold, then the great and glorious Day of the Return of Jesus will come. Micah 7:15
Ref; logostelos.info

From the "probably should've put more thought into that one" files...


Actress Alyssa Milano is embroiled in another controversy after taking to Twitter to reveal she's sold her Tesla in protest at Elon Musk's purchase of the firm.

Seemingly oblivious to the irony of how she announced the news, the motormouth former Charmed star, 49, wrote: 'I gave back my Tesla. I bought the Volkswagen ev.'

'I'm not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company's products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn't seem to be a winning business model,' she added.

Over the weekend numerous Twitter users mocked her purchase of a Volkswagen by pointing out the historical association between the auto company and Nazi Germany.

VW was established as a German state-owned automobile company in 1937, while the country was under the leadership of Hitler's Nazi Party.


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Cain and Calvinism

Everybody knows Cain did not inherit eternal life.

1Jn 3:12 not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.

Jud 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.


Calvinist thinking incorrectly states, that Cain never had any hope that he was predestined for destruction, that God choose Him for destruction, but what did God say in scripture? We know God is not a liar.


Gen 4:5-7 but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire is for you, but you should rule over it."


God told Cain he had a choice, that if he did well he would be accepted. Cain had a chance at life. As do all people, all people are given a chance at life.


This choice is all throughout scripture.


Job 36:9-12 Then He tells them their work and their transgressions—That they have acted defiantly. He also opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they turn from iniquity. If they obey and serve Him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures. But if they do not obey, They shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.


John 3:15-17 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Why do we pray for our enemies?

I have been pondering this question as to why and what are we suppose to pray for when God ask us to pray for our enemies? and why? what is the purpose to be achieved? what result should we be expecting?

This has been a source of confusion and perplexity. confusion because it is unclear why and perplexity as to what is the point and what is to be achive.

It seem like nonsense,
so could some please clarify this?

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Would it be okay for a Christian to get cosmetic surgery?

I’ve always been very uncomfortable with my appearance. I don’t look like a normal person and I’ve been bullied before for some aspects of my appearance - even my own Dad called me ugly to my face. This has been very hurtful as I know he meant it and I already believed it about myself. I would not want to do anything that involves restructuring my face, but my hairline has naturally been very high and M-shaped which gives me super low self-confidence as my hair never looks nice and it looks like it belongs to someone 20 years older. If I were to get a hair transplant I know it would completely transform my confidence. This would cost around £5000.

I am very torn about this decision. I don’t like the idea of surgically augmenting appearance, however, as this only involves moving hair from the back of the head to the front of your head, it doesn’t seem very major in my opinion. Also, I do not think I am doing this out of vanity but because of such low self-confidence because of how abnormal my hair looks. I was clothes shopping two weeks ago and saw myself in the mirror in the changing rooms. It made me feel so sad looking at myself that I just went home and was very down. With one simple procedure, I would be able to have a nice hairstyle for the first time in my life and not see myself as ugly every time I see myself in the mirror.

I know I am ugly and so must every other young woman out there. Not one young woman has ever complimented my appearance (apart from clothing).

Pictures- Before and After Christ

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share something interesting. I have pictures of myself before and after receiving Christ! On the left I was an atheist and hardcore drug user, on the right it was years later after I have given my life to Christ! Pics are below:

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Scientists say giants existed

There have been threads on here before in regards to the existence of giants and the Smithsonian cover ups etc. People argued that the pictures were not real... which, in all reality, many were not. But, many were real. So were the news paper articles stating that huge skeletons had been found in the US.

People argued and argued. Now, there is actual proof that scientists at universities have done DNA work that has left them no choice but to admit that giants were real.

In the video I have posted, the one guy even admits that it was ignored because it didn't fit with the history that they wanted to present.

Tell me what you think.

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Census 2021 reveals less than half of those in England and Wales identify as Christian, down from almost 60% ten years ago.

For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christian, the Census 2021 has revealed.
The proportion of people who said they were Christian was 46.2%, down from 59.3% in the last census in 2011.
In contrast the number who said they had no religion increased to 37.2% of the population, up from a quarter.
Those identifying as Muslim rose from 4.9% in 2011 to 6.5% last year.

Biden’s disinformation czar registers as a foreign agent

It is a one-year contract that began in September, a few months after the Biden administration abandoned its plans for a Disinformation Governance Board, with Ms. Jankowicz at its head, at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Ms. Jankowicz blamed the cancellation at the time on “disinformation.”



You can't make this stuff up!

So, my three year old son prayed to the Christmas tree...

My son loves praying. He can sing the church's hymns, and recite the prayers, he even likes picking up the prayer book and he can read some of the prayers though he mostly likes mumbling a chant to be like mommy and daddy. We have him kiss the icons and identify who is on them. He goes to every liturgy that we can take him too, the Church is very much a part of life.

The other day my wife and I put up the Christmas tree, the first one he'd remember (he did have one when he was first born) and of course its exciting. Every ornament box is like a toy that needs to be unwrapped, the lights, etcetera. We celebrated by watching a bunch of Christmas cartoons about the nativity.

So, I come home from work last night and my son walks in front of the tree and he makes a posture with his hands like he is praying (two hands touching like this):
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I felt this was strange because I don't remember any cartoon where they pray like this nor do we pray like this at home (we do the sign of the cross, may rise out hands to the air outstretched). I asked him what he was doing. He said, "I'm praying." I said, "To what?" He replied, "To the Christmas tree."

This really bothered me. I suppose I understand that due to sin, man is always liable to pray to idols, the moon--you know, big shiny things. I suppose a Christmas tree is just like that. However, I felt hurt that God would have not given the grace to protect him from such a temptation after all the communing, praying, and kissing of icons. Theologically speaking, we don't do anything bad on our own but rather we act upon demonic suggestions (this is Saint Maximus). Something had to suggest to my son that the Christmas tree was worthy of worship.

I told him, "No, not the tree, you pray to the icons."

Maybe not a perfect answer I suppose. But it shows a 3 year old certainly has eternity in their hearts and we must be vigilant to direct things the right way or they can go wayward. Comments, advice, similar stories?

Questions about prayer

Does God actually talk back in prayer? I always read about people who pour out their hearts to God and who find comfort in prayer but if it remains silent from the other side than how can that be comforting?
How do you know your prayer has been answered? And how do you know the answer is yes? If you were to ask for healing and the answer would be yes then it wouldn't be too hard to notice that the answer was yes, but what about prayers that are more spiritually related? How can you know for sure that God will/has answered those prayers?
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Prayer is a covenant between you and The Eternal. When we pray to God we should make a covenant with Him. If we execute our covenant with him he will not forsake you. God is big on covenants, he never goes back on a covenant he makes. Study the Old Testament, the covenants he made have not changed. Christ did not change them either. Prayer should be a covenant, not, "this is what I want you to do for me"
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The Church accepts ideological rule of the Woke Managerial Class

Modern democratic societies are essentially governed by a managerial class. This managerial class has formed somewhat organically as a response to mass society itself... industrialization and urbanization, and the need for more and more mass organization and planning. In the past, this managerial elite were focused more on the economic and mechanistic aspects of social planning but over the course of the 20th century they have come to be managers of culture and ideology and have disciplined society into the managerial ideology through mass media and mass communications. This ruling managerial ideology, popularly understood as "political correctness", is self-evident today in virtually all major institutions. Managerial class ideology has given birth to the "religion of Woke" that we see permeating every facet of public life today. This is not a culture that was assumed democratically. Society did not vote for a world where their children have instant access to pornography, but that world was created for them. People didn't vote for the domestic culture war imposed upon their society any more than they voted on engaging in foreign wars and military interventions. Actual democracy is only permitted within the bounds set by the managerial elite. (Though truthfully, we all share responsibility in allowing this managerial system to establish itself because of the comfort and convenience it provided us. Smartphone culture and social media were just too great a thing to pass up, regardless of what it has done to the minds of children)

Anyways, with that said.... Christians are familiar with the instruction of Romans 13, to obey governments and authorities, even when they are actively persecuting the church. But obedience to state law, and participation in state-sponsored ideology are very different things, are they not? In my view, this is the fundamental problem of the modern church. We pretend we are just obeying the government, when in reality we are obeying a system of social-engineering and ideological discipline that usually has zero force of law, but definitely has social consequences.

It would be like the early disciples of Jesus, instead of only obeying the laws of the Roman government, they became intimately involved with all aspects of Roman civic culture and educating their children in Roman civic religion, educated by Rome's high priests and councils of pagan philosophers. And even surrendering to all of that, the cult of Rome would probably have far less influence over their minds than the modern managerial class does over the minds of our communities today. Our entire worldview has been completely invaded and permeated by 'postmodern thinking', and is continually managed through such mass media and communications networks.

We are in effect, willing participants in a highly organized permanent cultural revolution that is totalitarian in scope, attempting to redefine humanity itself. The church accepts and surrenders its young children to be fully disciplined by the managerial priest-class. We celebrate how great it is that our children have access to such wonderful education.

We either do not see it or we pretend not to see this managerial elite, which is in effect an entire Priest-class of Woke religion that is directing the social-planning of our society and the values our children will be discipline in as they move through different spheres of education. This ideological priesthood has no governmental authority, and yet Christians submit to them voluntarily, at most offering only private resistance, but rarely if ever as a unified church body do we even recognize the organized institutional forces arrayed against us, with the minds of our children as primary targets.

The modern church hides from it all with the cowardly pretense of "not getting involved in politics"... and this again plays back into the illusion of democracy, where we pretend not to see the managerial class doing the social engineering. We've allowed idols to fill our backyard because it made life easier. New gadgets, cheaper goods, streaming video, and our ideological priesthood was there with tickling words to assure us how much more free and liberated society was becoming as long as we just sat back and let them steer the ship into the future.

The new world order looked pretty good in the 1990s... you just had to stop being so bigoted and accept homosexuality, that's all... and today we have Drag-queen story hour for kids. And still the church refuses to organize against the wolves.
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Hi! My name is Emmanuel and I need advice;

This is long and I am going to be very blunt about the whole issue I am dealing with and my feelings so you’re warned;

Hi, My name is Emmanuel, tbh I randomly did a google search for forums for Christians to talk to. I need advice. I’m pretty sure I have a massive calling from God to “unite” the Churches around my area as an “organization” or something and let a God lead revival occur like Azusa Street and 16th Century Revival, or the Jesus Freak Movement…. But I’ve been consumed with melancholy and this…this weight that makes this life seem so mundane and things in life so, empty, vain. I feel like Solomon did in Ecclesiastes. I recognize the worth of life and everything in it but, the largest thought in my mind has been,” Whats the point?” And I find myself not even seeing the worth of “fighting” or “standing” for a people who in my observations rather be so dividied due to nonsensical things like politics, sexuality, minor issues and anything else that is so, trivial and far from God’s concern. I used to have hope, but it seems the Church as a whole rather be divided and unwilling to give up these temporary comforts in life, for God, for his plans and callings.

But even so, These callings haven’t disappeared, I even have Holy Spirit like…Its like he’s giving me ideas and more but I just…I have lost faith in the Church, all churches, Talling is so easy and so are promises but this calling of mine is bigger than me. The vision God’s been giving me is a nation shaking event or something idek the depth of it. Idek why I am even on this random post, maybe I have hope, but I dont want to hope alone and do this alone. I mean, the resources, time, to unite entire churches under the banner of God so we can do his work effectively and stop being divided….No offense but many of you will argue over basic things like clothing and other nonsense that is irrelevant to God’s heart. So Us working together? Entire Churches from all backgrounds? And yeah right……Idk, I’m a logical person and I just, I guess I need reasons to believe. I used to Hate all Christians except a minority because God showed me so much evil in Churches and how far we as a whole body, are. We are so disorganized, when our own enemy, our real enemy, is so organized against us. We were supposed to be lights in this world, lighthouse on a hill, kingdoms of light on a mountain. I dont, I cant do this alone. But whats the point? Idk. So many pastors and leaders seem to busy to even care, or try, too many stupid schedules and planning for things that should be so easy, seems like no one is willing like our ancestors were in Azusa street or Jesus Freak Movement, or those marches we’d used to do where entire Churches united to march to the state capital from other states. It seems like a pipe dream and I guess I wanted advice. I want to give up on pipe dreams and I have lost all confidence in the entire Church. I see no difference between the Pharisee’s of Jesus time and in book of Lamentations and The Church today, as always theres a remnant but apart from them, too much bs in the Church. Rejection of LGBT Christians who are treated like Lepers or Black Christians in 1901 when Christians segregation by skin color and angered God by doing that. The stupid nonsense of watering down or weighing down the Gospel, which Jesus gave us basically, the Lack of leaders and discipleship…I can go on and on but idk……To unite such a people would require a miracle, even Moses had to deal with his peoples nonsense.

But even so, I’m certain its my calling and I made a vow to God, I feel like I know the basic things I should do but all these reasons exist to not even care or try. I dont want to fight for a people who want to be divided and want to hate their own brothers. I dont want to fight for people who say they love their LGBT Brethren, or their “liberal/Conservative” brethren and only give superficial love.

Whats the point of even trying for such people? All our efforts would probably be undone in a week lol…..I used to think there existed modern day Peters or Pauls or Noahs or Enochs…but I lost that naïve belief…The lack of wisdom from our so called leaders alone, is enough reason to not even try. I guess I wanted a reason to try, that despite all these observations and wisdom I got from God, despite everything in my own fleshly mind that says to give up on His people, I guess I wanted even one genuine reason, to try. I’d have to sacrifice entire days honestly, months, weeks fasting. That’s how big God is making it seem. A nation changing movement……………it’s intimidating to think about…How many people are even willing? Idk, I doubt this’ll get any replies anyways but if you read this far then….I guess…..Ask God to give me hope, for the Church, if there’s any logical reason and any evidence it is worth it, that I wont be wasting my time for “my” people, then I guess I can do it. But for now, nah….knowing Church history, The Church would kill this movement like they killed Azusa Street and other God lead movements. Why waste my time then?

And to those who are part of the remnant though, those few who do love God and are awesome, thanks! God is proud of you. All I said is not related to you few. But my calling is like Moses gathering his people to all leave Egypt, can you imagine if he had to unite all kinds of sects and groups and ensure they all knew the day to leave Egypt lol. Thats what this calling feels like. A person said to me,” Dont carry the Burden of an old man,” because I am young. But ever since then the desire to “change the world” has become a hunger so deep, but its like, like because of the Churches failures and more, I have lost all desire to even try. I used to care but seeing the entire Church fall worse than Babylon or Juresalem and this nonsensicial fighting I see in the Church, all I can say is,” Why try” i’m not Moses, I’m can’t unite a people like Joshua or David or Solomon can. Idek.

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