(1) I was born and raised in the first Pentecostal church in Canada. I was born with congenital glaucoma in my right eye. My distraught parents were impressed by a famous faith healer named William Branham, who held healing crusades around North America. What set him apart was his clairvoyance. Before he laid hands on people, he accurately described one of their recent past experiences in awesome detail and he did the same for my parents. Mom and Dad were poor, but they spent their savings on a trip to Elgin, Illinois to bring me to a Branham crusade there. When I (age 3) finally made it onto the stage, Branham looked at my introductory note that said, "blind in the right eye," and shouted, "This boy is blind!" He then laid hands on my eyes and waved them in front of me. When I blinked, he yelled, "This little boy has been cured of blindness!" The huge crowd went wild but my parents were sick. Of course I blinked because I could see out of my good eye. This fraud devastated and disillusioned my parents. All this attention to getting me healed made me feel like they regretted my birth and ultimately created a deep desire in me to justify being born! It also sowed the seeds of a lifelong determination to discover whether miracles and divine healing were ever real and whether the Bible was trustworthy. God used those events to shape my calling in life.

"Iran has continued to produce highly enriched uranium at a pace of roughly one nuclear weapon’s worth a month over the past three months despite talks between Washington and Tehran on a new nuclear deal, the United Nations atomic agency said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report circulated to member states that Iran had grown its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium to 408.6 kilograms from 274.8 kilograms in early February, an increase of around 50%. The Wall Street Journal viewed a copy of the report.

That means Iran has enough highly enriched uranium for roughly 10 nuclear weapons"

Daniel's 70 weeks of years.


Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city,To finish the transgression,To make an end of sins,To make reconciliation for iniquity,To bring in everlasting righteousness,To seal up vision and prophecy,And to anoint the Most Holy. 25 "Know therefore and understand,That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince,There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times. 26 "And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself;And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood,And till the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week;But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate,Even until the consummation, which is determined,Is poured out on the desolate." NKJV

70 weeks were determined for Daniels people. From the command to restore Jerusalem to the Messiah there are 7 weeks and 62 weeks or a total of 69 weeks of years. That is 483 years.

Two items to make note of first: God started His count from the end of time to the then present time. The second item to note: God told Daniel that He was dealing with his, Daniel's, people. Just who are Daniel's people? As we know Daniel is a member of both natural and true Israel. The end times are known in the OT as the time of Jacobs trouble. Jacob is Israel prior to his receiving the promises. Therefore, the last week of years deals with both true Israel and Jacob, natural Israel, whom God has blinded.

Romans 11:25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; 27 For this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins." NKJV

True Israel at the time of the end times are those in Jesus. Included in Jesus are the fulness of the Gentiles scattered throughout the world. God is dealing with those that He blinded, who are still considered Jacob. So just who is God sending out to gather Jacob at the end times?

Ezekiel 37:19 say to them, 'Thus says the Lord God: "Surely I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand."' 20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes. NKJV

The stick of Joseph is in the hand of Ephraim and he will be united to the stick of Judah. Judah is the scattered tribes of Judah after the temple was destroyed by the Romans 60 years after Jesus was crucified. Ephraim is the descendants of the lost tribes scattered after the northern kingdom was scattered. They are the fulness of the gentiles.

Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: NKJV

The stick of Joseph is in the hand of Ephraim. Ephraim, known as the fulness of the gentiles, will join the two sticks together, They are the 144,000 sealed to witness. The people of Daniel are all contained in the stick of Ephraim and the stick of Judah. God will deal with both in the last week of years. He will perfect true Israel and unite it with those of Judah who will have the blinders removed during the last week of years.

The Holy city, Jerusalem, is back in the nation of Israel since 1967, Israel's seven day war.

The first item of note in Daniels 70 weeks was that God started His count from the end of the seventy weeks back. This will help to determine the following scripture.

Daniel 12:11 "And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. NKJV

From the time the daily sacrifice and the desolation is set up will be 1290 days. From the start of the seven weeks to the abomination of desolation is 1230 days or 30 days prior to the mid point. Blessed is the Christian who is waiting for Jesus to come who is still around 1185 days after the start of the tribulation.

Revelation 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them." NKJV

Daniel's prophecy of the last week said “Blessed are those who wait for the Lord and comes to the 1335 days. I say the 2 blessing mark the same time. So those who come to the 1185th day from the start of the tribulation (calculated from 1260 times 2 minus 1335). The blessing in Revelation came preceding:

Revelation 14:14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. NKJV

The blessing in Revelation comes to those who die in the Lord from immediately preceded the reaping of the harvest of the earth to the rapture. And just who does God harvest first?

Matthew 13:27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' 28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' 29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn."'" NKJV

At the time of the harvest God gathers the tares first and burns them. The Christians who die after the reaping of the tares will be blessed. The tares go at 1185 days after the start of the tribulation. Any Christians who die from 1185 days and to the rapture at 1230 days when the abomination of desolation is set up will be blessed. And why are they blessed?

Matthew 13:43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! NKJV

What a time for witnessing!!!!

I have numerous oak trees on my property. The one visible from my bedroom window is a candidate for the English Ivy. I thought I had destroyed them all last winter but I still see a good bit of it. To destroy this ivy all you need do is cut the vine at the base of the tree. The effects are immediate and remind me of of the "True Vine" parable spoken in John (except that the English Ivy does not produce fruit)...

1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. - John 15

Cutting the vine and seeing how quickly it dies keeps me in mind of the importance of remaining in Christ. If we remain connected to the true vine we will produce fruit. If, for whatever reason, we become severed from the vine the effects are immediate. In which I would believe that prayer and time with God things of great importance. Here is a photo of the severed ivy vine, in which was only like a half inch thick.

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Barron and Commonweal are fighting over Vatican II. The joke is that they’re both on the same team.​

Leave it to Commonweal, the progressive Catholic magazine that has spent decades softening, reinterpreting, and relativizing doctrine, to suddenly pretend Vatican II means something concrete. In a recent article, they accuse Bishop Robert Barron of leading the charge to “bury” the Council, citing his critique of “beige Catholicism” as evidence of a dangerous new right-wing current.

It’s almost touching. The people who helped engineer the collapse of the Church now feel threatened by the man who spent his entire career canonizing their revolution with better fonts.

Barron, of course, was outraged. In a video that manages to be both defensive and performatively wounded, he reassures us that Vatican II has been the “lodestar” of his intellectual life. He’s spent decades publishing commentaries, hosting dialogues, and building an entire Word on Fire media empire whose chief purpose is to sell the Council to an audience that never asked for it. And now someone dares to suggest he’s not loyal enough?

It’s a little like Robespierre complaining that the mob is getting out of hand.

The Strange Optics of Mutual Accusation​

Continued below.

Is it sinful to visit Salem and tour all the Haloweenie/witchy stuff in the fall? I’ve kind of wanted to go but realistically, after my dud of a beach vacation due to my anxiety, it probably wouldn’t happen anyway. I wouldn’t want to drive all the way from the Midwest and flying is even more daunting.

ICE raids South Park’s Buona Forchetta, draws angry crowd outside popular restaurant​

Usually Buona Forchetta has customers waiting out front, lined up to enter the popular Beech Street restaurant.

Instead, after an hour-and-15 minute operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the jittery crowd wasn’t waiting for Italian food.

On the street, on the sidewalks, large and small groups talked about what had just happened. It was a crowd of curious, mad, disappointed people joined by television crews with cameras.

Both the main restaurant and their smaller place next door were raided and witnesses said when the contingent of officers attempted to remove two employees, they encountered a hostile response.

How hostile? ICE officers tossed two flash bangs to back the crowd off. Black remnants of the bangs remained visible on the pavement outside the restaurant.

[The manager] said there were about 20-25 officers who “surrounded the building and then came inside” pushing him against the wall and handcuffing him. [and other employees as they checked ID. The two arrested had no ID, per the manager.]

Pray That The Lord sends His Might Angels to protect Taiwan against any form and/or shape of aggression and/or attacks:

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Hebrews 8:13
very simple
its not

New International Version
By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.

New Living Translation
When God speaks of a “new” covenant, it means he has made the first one obsolete. It is now out of date and will soon disappear.

English Standard Version
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Berean Standard Bible
By speaking of a new covenant, He has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Berean Literal Bible
In saying, "new," He has made obsolete the first; and that which is growing old and aging is near vanishing.

King James Bible
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

New King James Version
In that He says, “ A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

New American Standard Bible
When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is about to disappear.

Venting.

Not necessarily asking for advice. If you have any, go ahead, but I'm not requesting it. Just getting this off my chest.

It's a cliche that older people have to rely on younger people to navigate modern technology, BUT:

1. I am only one year younger than my husband is. Both of us are in our early 60's.
2. His nephew, late 20's, hates technology as much as he does.
3. Of course it's technology's fault. It's never that they don't know how; it's that technology is bad and worthless.
4. I may not know how to do something either, but he's just as capable of watching a YouTube video to learn it as I am.

In fact, that's what he's doing right now. He's watching a video to learn how to change the cabin air filters in our cars. How come he can do that when it comes to cars, but not when it has something to do with computers or phones? (Speaking of phones, we'd still be using a landline if he'd had his way. Now that his employers require him to have a cell phone, that's what made him finally break down and get one.)

Just in the past few minutes, he required my help sending an email using his phone. Apparently he'd never done that before. He's learned how to send one by computer, but sending it by phone seems to be a new one on him. He was getting frustrated because the message kept disappearing, not in his Sent folder or anything, and he'd had to start all over again. Problem? He was closing it out without hitting Send, which I explained to him is the paper airplane-looking symbol. I walked him through it, and the email got sent.

Which reminded him, he said, our brand new printer is not connected to the computer properly. When he tried to use it, he encountered the word "Offline." Problem? The printer was not turned on. In fairness, it is a model we've never had before, and we're not familiar with it. I myself had to investigate exactly how to turn it on. I couldn't find the on/off switch. That turned out to be because there is no on/off switch. It's a little dimple in the corner of the casing, not labeled, and the same color the casing is. Admittedly, it is hard to see. I had to use Google and YouTube to find this out. But surely HE could have done that much just as easily as I could! He goes to me by default becasue he thinks I know SO much about technology, and I'm some kind of computer whiz, but in reality, I'm no more savvy than he is. I merely know how to find out.

I think what annoys me most is that it's technology's fault when he or his nephew don't understand it. The problem is not that they don't know what they're doing; it's that technology itself is bad and worthless, and we were better off when we did everything manually. That would be like a new driver, who isn't controlling the vehicle very well, blaming the invention of cars, and wanting to go back to the days of horse and buggy. Or someone struggling to learn to play the guitar, and thinking the problem is that something must be wrong with this guitar. (Proverb: It's a poor musician who blames the instrument.) No personal resposibility whatsoever. I think even "I don't know how to use technology" would be better than, "Grumble, grumble, this darn technology."

OK. Done venting.

Carrico discussed the directive in an interview with Florida’s Voice, saying, “The Office of General Counsel of the, that was appointed by the Democratic mayor, sent a letter to the sheriff or email to the sheriff today telling him, do not enforce the state illegal immigration law and do not enforce the local illegal immigration law that we’ve been on this show talking about.”

The two-tiered justice system.

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Does it bother you at all?

Is it that easy for us too ? , or is John Macarthur correct in saying millions of Christians will go to hell after they die , and then gives his reasons.
No need to watch the entire vid if you don't wish to , 5 or 10 should give you the drift.

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Hi everyone, I had a tech idea for missionaries- they make something called a solar generator, it is a rechargeable battery power bank that connects to a solar array, you can set the array out in the sun and it wil charge the battery and then you can use it to power anything, a cell phone, laptop, video projection equipment, anything. This would be just the ticket for a missionary doing work in an extreme remote area such as the amazon rainforest or the African bush! I know of some missionaries that like to go into remote villages and play the Jesus film and then invite the villagers to give their lives to Christ, they could use one of these to power video projection equipment and they would have unlimited access to power through the sun! This way they would not have to haul around a gas generator! These range in price from $150 to several thousand dollars, if I ever came into some money I might buy one of these and mail it off to some missionaries that I know! There is a whole long list of these on Amazon, if you want to have a look link is below:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=solar+ge...lar+generator,lawngarden,105&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

The DOJ has announced that a government employee was arrested on Thursday for trying to share classified information with agents of a foreign government because he did not “agree or align with the values” of the Trump administration.

Nathan Vilas Laatsch, a 28-year-old IT specialist working for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) since 2019, was arrested this week in Virginia, the DOJ announced. Laatsch works for the DIA’s Insider Threat Division, where he holds a Top Secret security clearance.

Court documents reveal Laatsch allegedly sent an email to a to an officer or agent of a foreign government, saying he did not “agree or align with the values” of the Trump administration and was therefore “willing to share classified information,” including “completed intelligence products, some unprocessed intelligence, and other assorted classified documentation,” the DOJ said.

In March, the FBI received a tip regarding the email and began communicating with the 28-year-old, posing as a foreign government official.

Laatsch then began transcribing classified information to a notepad at his desk, repeatedly exfiltrated the information from his workspace over a three-day period, before confirming to the FBI agent — whom he believed to be a foreign government official — that he was ready to transmit the information, the DOJ claimed.

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The evangelical Christian lawyer who led the defense team in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial is accused of trying to cover up the murder of one of his organization’s employees by a New York City gang that preyed on gay men, after which he and his adult son allegedly tampered with evidence and impeded the police investigation into the 2022 killing.

In a $20 million-plus lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court and obtained by The Independent, Linda Clary Umberger claims attorney Jay Sekulow and his son, Jordan, not only misled the cops about her son’s murder, but also blocked her from collecting an insurance payout she had hoped to receive following his death.

Clary Umberger's suit paints the Sekulows’ alleged actions as an attempt to conceal the fact that they had hired a gay man to establish a local base for their faith-based legal nonprofit, the American Center for Law and Justice, in a sumptuous townhouse near Central Park.

On Thursday, attorney Michael Bowe, who represents Jay and Jordan Sekulow, denied the allegations in Clary Umberger’s complaint.

On the night of May 27, 2022, [son John] Umberger and some friends went out to a Midtown Manhattan gay bar called The Q, where two men, Jacob Barroso and Jayqwan Hamilton drugged him with lidocaine and fentanyl-laced cocaine and led him back to the ACLJ townhouse. [He died there of the drugs and was days later discovered by ACLJ employees.]

Clary Umberger alleges in her suit that the ACLJ townhouse “lacked security,” without cameras inside or outside, or security personnel on-site.

[The suit] says Jordan “insisted” there had been “no foul play” and told her that her son had died of natural causes. Yet, the complaint contends, he began telling ACLJ personnel that John had died “of a self-induced ‘overdose.’”

What’s more, Clary Umberger alleges that the Sekulows’ or their employee “cleaned up” the crime scene before calling police to report her son’s death [and the] misleading assertion also led NYPD detectives to initially treat Umberger’s death as a non-criminal matter.

[The perps have been convicted in the deaths of Umberger and another gay man and sentenced to decades in prison.]

Obviously this all has to be viewed through the lens of "claims in a lawsuit".

It should be noted at the half way point of the 90 deals in 90 days ( <--- Trump team own words) there has not been ONE trade deal solidified.

Not one. Not one country.

The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against Harvard University — and looking for new ways to bring the storied institution to heel.

The White House convened officials from nearly a dozen agencies on Wednesday to brainstorm additional punitive measures, according to one administration official and a second person familiar with the meeting, who were granted anonymity to share details. The administration official said that forthcoming actions are expected from the State, Treasury, Health and Human Services and Justice departments, among others, and could happen as early as next month.

The Culture Wars heat up!

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ICE officials ousted amid demands for more immigrant arrests​

The ousted officials are Kenneth Genalo, ICE's enforcement and removal director [retiring], and Robert Hammer, the Department of Homeland Security's investigations director [shuffled elsewhere] who has handled particularly complex cases involving criminal immigrants.

The changes come a week after top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that ICE seek to arrest 3,000 people a day — triple what agents were arresting in the early days of the administration.

Agents did bring in 1,600 the day before the leadership changes — a substantial rise but not close to Miller and Noem's goal, people familiar with the agency's internal data said.

• Earlier this year Noem reassigned ICE's director and deputy director.
• They were replaced with ICE veteran Todd Lyons and Madison Sheehan, who was previously a political staffer of Noem's. Some insiders believe Lyons' job might also be at risk now.

This insistence on quantity over quality is why we're seeing sick children (even citizens) kicked out of the country.
The FBI is turning its eyes away from domestic terrorism and reassigning agents to immigration duties.
The new budget looks like it will have billions in additional spending to pay to house all these people.

Another source:


They are literally making stuff up to justify their policies.

Citing “people familiar with his activity,” The New York Times reports that the tech mogul has been consuming ketamine sometimes daily, often mixing it with other drugs. His usage allegedly increased as he took on a more active political role—first as a prominent supporter of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, and later as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)...
Musk also allegedly uses Ecstasy, psychedelic mushrooms, and weight loss drugs, and travels with a daily medication box that holds about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.

In a 2024 interview with Don Lemon, Musk acknowledged that he uses ket9amine as a prescribed treatment for negative moods, but denied that he indulged in the drug.

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The buck should stop with the president, who gave him sweeping powers with no accountability. (I guess he didn't become a federal employee because he couldn't pass the drug tests.) If only we could undo all the damage he's done before 2029.