What all good purpose can such a destructive emotion bring ?

A new lawsuit accuses the Internal Revenue Service of selectively enforcing a law intended to prevent tax-exempt, nonprofit organizations, including churches, from weighing in on politics as it seeks a ruling declaring the law unconstitutional.

National Religious Broadcasters and Intercessors for America, along with the Texas-based Sand Springs Church and First Baptist Church Waskom, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Tyler Division on Wednesday.

The lawsuit, which names the IRS and its Director Danny Werfel as defendants, begins by explaining that “The Internal Revenue Code [‘IRC’] prohibits only one class of nonprofit organizations from communicating their views about political candidates—those organized under § 501(c)(3) of the IRC.”

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I don't really want this post to be an anti-Catholic screed, but I was raised a Lutheran and have recently been approached with anti-Catholic sentiments. On another forum, I received the following, and I replied. So if it is on the "harsh" side, I wish only to represent history as I read it, and present my feelings as I've felt it...

netchaplain said:

Just wanted to share with you that Luther's primary goal was to expose Catholicism's false teachings. He was the former of Protestantism, which is the way for true teachings of Scripture. Catholicism has numerous anti-Christian teachings that needed to be brought out. There are so many false teachings in this religion that renders it non-Christian.

Teachings like "Immaculate Conception," which (if you look in the dictionary) teaches Mary was sinless, which is probably their most decadent doctrine. It has always been masquerading as a Christian religion and has many teachings that are not Christian; many do not read and study the Scriptures thereby not seeing the truth of this denomination.

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I would only differ slightly. Luther's original purpose was not anti-Catholic. But it ended up being there specifically because Catholics vehementy opposed what for Luther was explicit biblical doctrine.

Luther felt he found the key to avoiding Christian Nominalism, aka a "dead faith." To know Christ personally by faith was central to the Christian faith, and took place simply by submission to the fact Christ can do what we ourselves cannot do. We accept his Justification by his Atonement, and not by anything we can do without him.

Catholics doubled down on their opposition to Luther's complaints, in particular his concern about "Indulgences." Even worse, they were duplicitous and tried to maneuver Luther into coming into a trap where he would be burned at the stake.

Luther realized how corrupt Catholic leadership had become in his time, and perhaps wrote off all Catholics for all time at that point? He identified them as "the Antichrist."

Those who departed from this Nominal Faith, replete with "substitutes for Christ," could find regeneration in his doctrine of "Faith Only." In other words, Salvation by "Christ Only," and not by the Works and Traditions of Catholic exclusivity.

My own view of Catholicism is that it is not "the Antichrist," though some elements of it are, to me, Antichristian. As you suggest, Mary's Immaculate Conception is non-Christian and can lead some to a virtual antiChristian proposition that any non-Catholic view is corrupt and lost. That is "Antichristian."

There are a number of wrongs in the Catholic Church, the absolute authority of the Pope when he speaks "from his throne," the exclusivity of the Catholic Church, the perpetual virginity of Mary, Mary being the "Queen of Heaven," prayers to the saints, and the veneration of religious tradition as a substitute for genuine Faith, etc.

However, many churches have problems with their congregations and with their own exclusive traditions. Where do we draw the line? A "High Church" is a State Church and naturally includes believers and unbelievers in its Congregation!

I would say that Protestants did the right thing in drawing a line between them and the Catholic Church. One must reform traditions that create non-biblical guidelines to living in Faith.

I won't call all Catholics non-Christian. But I would warn them of the sectarian spirit within Catholicism, because clearly, Paul condemned that!
Randy

I find alot of people talk about God coming through for them, blessing them all which he can do but I feel enduring and preserving isn't talked about nearly enough.

How do you endure, not get mad or blame God when you don't get what you want or even need? How do you keep a good heart posture in the face of suffering whether it be death, scorn, poverty, abuse...

Can we talk about it?

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Two problems:

#1: The CIS report doesn't contain that quote
#2: Harris has not proposed any such amnesty

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If you’ve ever opened a Protestant Bible, you’ve likely noticed a major difference
from our own Catholic Bible: their Old Testament has fewer books than ours.
Well, that, and their Bible actually looks like it’s been used before instead of sitting
on a shelf for years… but that’s a different topic.
Whereas the Catholic Bible contains 73 books, the Protestant version only contains 66.
Making things even more confusing, Orthodox Bibles contain 76, 78, or even 79 books, depending
on the Tradition.
Where does this discrepancy come from, and who’s ultimately right?
This is Catholicism in Focus.
While it may seem entirely foreign to us today, there was actually a time in the Church before
the Bible existed.
For centuries, in fact, the Church was guided by the Hebrew Scriptures and a random bunch
of recently written texts that varied from place to place.
God most certainly inspired many texts throughout our history, but we weren’t exactly given
a table of contents to know which ones they were.
Which is why, for more than three centuries, there was no “official canon” of scripture
but rather, every local area had its own versions of the Bible.
Some included books that would later be removed—things like 1 Clement and the Didache—while others
originally excluded certain books we consider canonical today—such as James or Revelation.
As the Church began to develop in many different directions over this time, heretical ideas
like Arianism and Docetism forced the Church to work together beyond the local level, convening
councils and promulgating doctrine.
There was a growing desire, particularly in the West, to formalize and legally assert
the teachings of the Church.
To do so, the Church set three criteria for accepting works into the New Testament.
To be considered inspired and worthy of entry into the canon, a text must, one, be associated
with an Apostle, two, be widely circulated and prominent in liturgies, and three, contain
theology consistent with our understanding of God.
Many lists can be found dating back to as early as Marcion in the year 140, but the
earliest extent list of books as they appear in the Catholic Bible today can be found in
a letter from St. Athanasius in 367.
This list was later included at the Councils of Carthage in 397 and 419, and reasserted
1000 years later at the Council of Florence in the 15th century.
At least in the Western Church, that is more than 1600 years of consistent teaching on
the canon of scripture.
So how is there still so much discrepancy in the Christian world today?
The issue can be understood on two fronts for two very different reasons.
We’ll start with Orthodox Churches.
One thing that is often forgotten about the relationship between the Eastern and Western
Churches is that the East simply doesn’t share the same level of legalism that the
West does.
Whereas Catholics want to define and categorize everything, setting rules for everything under
the sun, the Orthodox Churches have always placed a greater emphasis on mystery.
And so, while the Council of Carthage listed the 73 books of the Bible in 397 and the Eastern
Church had no objection to this, it also didn’t treat this teaching as definitely closing
the canon either.
Particularly in Antioch, local customs continued, and texts like 3rd and 4th Maccabees, the
Prayer of Manassah, and Psalm 151— things that were not listed at Carthage—continued
to be a part of their liturgies.
For them, there is no need to make definitive distinctions between inspired and uninspired
books, as if it were a black and white issue.
Instead, they recognize a gradation of inspiration over a wide range of texts.
It’s why even today, believe it or not, there are many individual Eastern Churches
in communion with one another that have slightly variant versions of both Testaments.
It doesn’t make sense to our Western, legalistic mindset, but it is a Tradition that is as
old, if not older than our own.
This is quite different, however, from the issue with the Protestant canon of Scripture.
Rather than add to the canon of the Council of Carthage with a more ancient Tradition,
the Protestant Bible has removed from it.
To understand this, we must look to the formation of Old Testament.
For those in the ancient Greek-speaking world, Christian or Jew, the only version of the
Old Testament available was the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament compiled
during the Greek occupation of the Jews in the centuries before the birth of Christ.
It was the version of Scripture that Jesus himself would have known, and is cited by
rabbis for centuries.
But just as there is an affinity for the Latin language in the Catholic Church, so too, is
there an affinity for the Hebrew language for some Jews.
The original scriptures were written in Hebrew, not Greek, and so in the early middle ages,
there was a growing desire among Jews to recapture what was seen as the more authentic version
of the text.
Between the 6th and 10th centuries, Jewish scribes called Masoretes began compiling,
translating, and preserving their scriptures in Hebrew.
Because the books of Tobit, Judith, Baruch, Sirach, Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees
were written during the Hellenistic period, a time when Jews spoke and wrote only in Greek,
these books were never recorded in Hebrew, and thus, seen as inauthentic, and thus, removed.
When Luther came along and began studying Scripture, seeking to reform the Church to
its earliest roots, he naturally looked to the Jews of his day, believing that they had
the oldest, most authentic version of Scripture.
This was unfortunately not correct, as the Masoretic Text is actually about 1000 years
younger than the Septuagint, and so he falsely concluded that the Catholic Church must have
added inauthentic books to justify our doctrines.
And so, following medieval Jews rather than the ancient Church, when Luther and the other
Protestants issued a translation of the Bible, they removed seven books that had guided Christians
since the beginning, leaving their total at just 66.
A decision, unlike the Orthodox Churches, that signifies a distinct break from Tradition.
It’s an example of how, even though Catholics and Orthodox Christians can disagree on some
things, we’ve never really too far apart.
While we would argue that the canon was set in 397 and we have remained faithful to that
tradition for more than 1600 years, we can also recognize some truth in the plurality
of ancient canons: technically speaking, the canon was never actually promulgated at an
Ecumenical Council until Trent, and so the East has always had its own distinct and completely
valid method from ours.
The idea of REMOVING texts from the canon, however, of taking it upon oneself to revise
the local councils of one’s own Church, going against a tradition that had existed
since before the time of Christ… that’s a bit more problematic, and ultimately the
attitude that doomed the Reformation.
Who are we, especially when dealing with Scripture, to believe that we know more than our spiritual
mothers and fathers that came before us and compiled this incredible book?
God may not have given us an official list, but when Christians do the same thing for more than
1000 years… it’s probably good not to mess with it.

What does it mean to deny Jesus? Is it simply not accepting Him as your Savior? Could it be something more like the example of Peter's experience in which he denied that he knew Jesus three times (see Matthew 26:34-35; 75)? I believe either of these would certainly qualify as a denial of Jesus. But what about our actions. Can we, by our very actions, be denying Jesus? Let's take a look at what Paul has to say:

The above is Paul speaking with regard to a "rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception" and who are "teaching things they ought not to teach." He says to "rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to . . . the merely human commands of those who reject the truth." This is a group of people apparently in the church otherwise there wouldn't be much point in rebuking them so they'd be "sound in the faith." These people "claim to know God," but their actions reveal a different story. Paul says, "by their actions they deny him." Just because a person claims to know God doesn't mean that person in fact has a relationship with Him. God has revealed that our love for Him is to be manifested in our obedience to Him. Jesus says, "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. . . Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching." That's pretty simple, isn't it?

Likewise, the apostle John writes, "We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, 'I know him,' but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did." Do you know Jesus? Are you living as Jesus did?

Jude writes about people secretly slipping in among true believers. About these pretenders he says, "They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord." In this case Jude concludes that a denying of Jesus Christ is tied to those who make God's grace into a license for immorality. This is ǝpısdn uʍop World thinking on display. Paul addresses this pretender's mindset asking, "Shall we continue to sin, that grace may abound? He immediately answers his own question saying, "God forbid!"

In 2 Timothy 3, Paul describes what people will be like in the last days. He says they will be "lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." These same people, he says, will also have a "form of godliness" (2 Timothy 3:5) while at the same time they are "denying its power." The pretenders can be identified in how they reject the power of God to overcome what the flesh desires (Romans 8:5).

What do you suppose would be the opposite to denying Jesus? Jesus provides the answer: "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." To deny self is a denial of our flesh and what our flesh desires. To deny self would mean obedience to Jesus. Taking up our cross means we crucify "the flesh with its passions and desires." (Galatians 5:24) If you are living according to the Spirit you will not be in a state of denying the Spirit's power to "put to death the misdeeds of the body" so that "you will live."

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I pray this helps.

But for the grace of God go I,cyspark

Are there any video games that teach new languages?

This person was hired because the government has decided Christianity is swamped with white supremacists.



If you only need one piece of evidence the current administration is heavily wasting tax payer money and hemorrhaging money for absolutely useless and worthless government spending look no further than the fact they have an actual government position called "national faith engagement director".

This person is undoubtedly being paid well to do what exactly? Why does the government need to worry about who is a Christian and who isn't? What possible purpose could that serve our nation?

This is just yet another total waste of money and an grossly over extension of government into business that is none of theirs.

My Girlfriend&Me, British&American Education Background

We are both Chinese and have Middle Eastern blood lineage. She has no religion but would like to take part in the activities of Christianity、Judaism and Islam with me. We are in the edge of engagement. I need to visit her parents. The biggest problem is not that she is 13 years younger than me. I am not very healthy, I have psychasthenia and bipolar disorder.

If we marry it will be a great blessings to many. And also here. Wish She will find the truth of Jesus Christ (Yeshua HaMashiahch), and understand the meaning of Freedom from the perspective of Western world & Eastern Asian &Middle Eastern&Jewish.

Have a blessed week friends here.

On Aug. 19, Harley-Davidson released a vague memo that was touted as saying the company would move away from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies. Unfortunately, they did no such thing. Several legacy news outlets and mediainfluencers on the right claimed a “win” for the right in the battle over woke policies at the legendary American company.

One of those personalities was Robbie Starbuck. His proclamation of victory was shared all across the MAGA media spectrum.

If only it were true.

The only thing the memo promised was that the company would end its DEI scoring to HRC—the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates LGBT+++ “rights.” The rest of the memo was purposely vague. The company never promised to end DEI, and it certainly did not promise to back away from Environmental, Social, and Governance policies (ESG), of which DEI is a part.

To confirm my suspicions, I checked the corporate website and, sadly, all the woke policies of ESG and DEI remain. Not only is the company still supporting the Green New Deal, to remove from t Earth healthy CO2 gasses, but the company still has DEI initiatives on its website as a corporate goal: Note:

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I love reading about Legends as there is a lot of truth to most of them.

Here's one I found to be very interesting;

Immortal City​

In Biblical Hebrew, “luz/לוז” means “almond” or “almond tree.” According to ancient legend, Luz was an interesting and important place:

And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day [Judges 1:26]. It has been taught: That is the Luz in which they dye the blue [tekhelet];* that is the Luz against which Sennacherib marched without disturbing it,** against which Nebuchadnezzar marched without destroying it, and even the Angel of Death has no permission to pass through it, but when the old men there become tired of life they go outside the wall and then die.
–Babyonian Talmud, 46b

In the U.S., two-thirds of respondents say that it is important to have a leader at the national level who stands up for people with religious beliefs. Less than half of respondents believe that it is essential for their leader to have strong religious beliefs or have religious beliefs that are the same as their own.​

(RNS) — According to a new survey released Wednesday (Aug. 28) by the Pew Research Center, people around the globe favor leaders who stand up for their constituents with religious beliefs, even if the beliefs are not their own.

This survey was conducted between January and May of this year and reflects the data from nationally representative surveys of more than 53,000 respondents in 35 countries.

Residents of Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines stood out as those who most desire national leaders who stand up for people with religious beliefs. Indonesia had the highest percentage of adults (90%) who say it is very/somewhat important.


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What came right before this was Paul stating that if our minds are set on the flesh, and so we live and we walk according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit, its end is death, not life eternal with God. “For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” But the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who walk, not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (see Romans 8:1-8).

So, when this says that you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit if, in fact, the Spirit of God dwells in you, we have to read this in the full context of at least verses 1-17, and in the context of the whole of the book of Romans. For Christ is not “in us” just because we say he is. For we are not “in Christ” if we are still walking (in conduct, in practice) according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit, and if we deliberately and habitually are sinning against God and other humans, who we are supposed to love, and if we are not walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, in practice.

For what does this say next? We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if we live according to the flesh, we will die. And in Romans 6 Paul said that if sin is what we obey, we will die. But if obedience to God is what we obey, in practice, it leads to righteousness and to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. And this is the essence of the gospel message, that Jesus Christ gave his life up for us on that cross that we might die with him to sin, not just once, but daily, and that we might walk in obedience to his commands in holy and godly living.

But if by the Spirit we are putting to death the deeds of the body (flesh), then we will live. So, what is that saying to us? Same message over and over again all throughout the New Testament. It is the gospel that Jesus taught and that his NT apostles taught, but that not many seem to be teaching anymore. So many people today are teaching an altered gospel and an altered God/Christ and an altered church in order to attract the world into their gatherings and so as not to offend the ungodly with the truth of the gospel: If we die to sin and obey our Lord, we have eternal life in him.

For it is all who are being led by the Spirit who are the children of God. So, what is this saying? What does it mean to be led by the Spirit? It means that we are being guided and directed by the Holy Spirit in the way that we should go and that we are following the leading of the Holy Spirit in doing what he says we ought to do. For we are not being led by him if we are not following his lead. Thus, we cannot continue to walk according to the flesh, still yielding our lives over to the control of sin and of the flesh, and be “in Christ” and be children of God and heirs to the promise.

Now many people quote verses 16-17 independent of verses 1-15, and so they will teach anyone who makes a profession of faith in Jesus Christ that the Spirit now bears witness with their spirit that they are indeed now children of God, based upon lip service alone. But we are heirs with Christ PROVIDED (conditional upon) we suffer with him in order that we may be glorified with him. And the first way we suffer with him is via dying with him to sin in order that we might now live to his righteousness in his power. And then we suffer persecution for the sake of righteousness, like he did.

All of God’s promises have with them conditions, which we can know if we read the Scriptures in their appropriate context, and not out of context. Like so many people quote John 10:28-30 and they apply those promises across the board to all who profess the name of Jesus. But verse 27, which they leave out (why?), tells us who those promises are for. His sheep (his followers) listen to him, and he knows them, and they follow (obey) him. And they have the promise of eternal life with God, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of his or the Father’s hands.

[Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Php 2:5-11: Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 9:28; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

My Sheep

An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Based off John 10:1-30 NIV

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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I know someday I will be free
But for now, He covers me.
I know the trials never end
I've learned to take them as my friend
For each day, He covers me.

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I love this prayer filled song asking the Lord God to carry us in this world.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday reposted a lewd social media remark about Vice-President Kamala Harris, the latest in a volley of demeaning attacks by Republicans against Trump's Democratic rival.
The comment was made by another Truth Social media user, who wrote, below a picture of Harris and Trump's 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton: "Funny how (redacted sex act) impacted both their careers differently..."

The remark appears to be a reference to former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who briefly dated Harris over two decades ago. A frequent right-wing line of attack against Harris is that Brown fueled her political ascent. The Clinton jab is a reference to her husband, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s.


Comments like this are what lose him female voters, so keep those old sexist tropes rolling, my guy.

The thing is women like me (who’ve actually had stuff like this said about them) know he’s not so much defaming her as revealing something about himself and what he expects in order for his female subordinates to get ahead.

I heard in the news about a strange boom heard over New York City, then about more like events happening which were seen to be fireballs, and it seems to be happening elsewhere. Here is a description of the one heard this Friday morning in the south near Tennessee. "A bright line shooting across the night sky and the sound of an explosion is what many are describing after a suspected meteor shot across the night sky early Friday morning.

Home security cameras recorded the fireball shooting across the Tennessee and North Carolina night sky around 1:15 a.m. on Friday morning. Witness accounts show the fireball was first visible over eastern Tennesse before crossing into the skies over western North Carolina.

Appearing first as a dot streaking across the night sky, the light grows in intensity as the meteor appears to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. The bright light was followed a few moments later by an explosion-like sound."...https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/meteor-fireball-explosion-north-carolina-tennessee-mountains/275-641e82be-fed3-44c5-807e-e24cb352a13f


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Now we know of how Ellen White speaks of balls of fire falling to the earth, with at least one statement depicting an event of this sort, which speak of these calamities:

"While I was in Nashville, a scene was opened before me. A great ball of fire seemed to fall from heaven, and from it went forth flashes of light. When these flashes of light would strike a building, the building would burn like tinder. And then I heard someone say, “I knew that this was coming. These are the judgments of God that I knew were coming.” “You knew,” said another. “You were my neighbor. Why did you not tell me that these things were coming? Why did you not warn others?” [Ellen White, Manuscript 154, 1904].

There was a scene presented to me. It was the night before the Sabbath. That is when that scene was presented. I looked out of the window, and there was an immense ball of fire that came from heaven, and it fell where they were casting buildings with pillars, especially the pillars were presented to me. And it seemed as if the ball came right to the building and crushed it, and they saw that it was branching out, branching out, enlarging, and they began to cry and mourn and mourn, and wring their hands, and I thought some of our people stood by there, saying, “Well, it is just what we have been expecting; it is just what we have been talking about; it is just what we have been talking about.” “You knew it?” said the people. “You knew it, and never told us about it?” I thought there was such an agony in their face, such an agony in their appearance [Ellen White, Manuscript 152, 1904.]

As noted above, in at least one Ellen White statement cited in the video it is stated that one of these balls of fire would fall on Nashville itself:

When I was in Nashville, I had been speaking to the people, and in the night season, there was an immense ball of fire that came right from heaven and settled in Nashville. There were flames going out like arrows from that ball; houses were being consumed; houses were tottering and falling. Some of the people were standing there. “It is just as we expected,” they said, “we expected this.” Others were wringing their hands in agony and crying unto God for mercy. “You knew it,” said they, “you knew that this was coming, and never said a word to warn us!” They seemed as though they would almost tear them to pieces, to think they had never told them or given them any warning at all [Ellen White, Manuscript 188, 1905].

At least two other Ellen White statements, not cited in these videos, describe similar scenes, though without specific locations:

In the visions of the night a very impressive scene passed before me. I saw an immense ball of fire fall among some beautiful mansions, causing their instant destruction. I heard some one say, “We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we did not know that they would come so soon.” Others, with agonized voices, said, “You knew! Why then did you not tell us? We did not know.” On every side I heard similar words of reproach spoken [Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 28.].

Last night a scene was presented before me. I may never feel free to reveal all of it, but I will reveal a little.

It seemed that an immense ball of fire came down upon the world, and crushed large houses. From place to place rose the cry, “The Lord has come! The Lord has come!” Many were unprepared to meet Him, but a few were saying, “Praise the Lord!”

“Why are you praising the Lord?” inquired those upon whom was coming sudden destruction.

“Because we now see what we have been looking for.”

“If you believed that these things were coming, why did you not tell us?” was the terrible response. “We did not know about these things. Why did you leave us in ignorance? Again and again you have seen us; why did you not become acquainted with us, and tell us of the judgment to come, and that we must serve God, lest we perish? Now we are lost!” [Reflecting Christ, p. 243.].

It appears we are starting to see some of these 'balls of fires', and soon will see more. We shall see if this increases..

18-24 - what do we know about them - they are stupid.

It was actually not until 367 AD that the church father Athanasius first provided the complete listing of the 66 books belonging to the canon.

• He distinguished those from other books that were widely circulated and he noted that those 66 books were the ones, and the only ones, universally accepted.
• The point is that the formation of the canon did not come all at once like a thunderbolt, but was the product of centuries of reflection.

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Does anyone know if in some parts of the world such as switzerland if they have forced people to be chipped or you cant buy and sell ? Doesnt that mean if forced for them the mark of the beast already exists in some parts of the world ? and I thought the vaccine is not the mark of the beast because some still allowed to buy and sell but if they forbid in some places completely how do we know it was not the mark of the beast?

Tim Walz claims that he was first inspired to seek public office after being denied entry to a rally for former president George W. Bush in 2004. But contemporaneous accounts of the story cast doubt on Walz’s version of the story.

Walz claimed in an August 2020 thread on X, formerly Twitter, that he decided to run for office after he and his students “were denied entry because the students had previously volunteered for the democratic party.”


“The last sitting President to visit my hometown of Mankato, Minnesota was George W. Bush in 2004. As a high school teacher and football coach, I brought two fellow teachers’ children to the speech as an educational experience,” Walz wrote. “It was at this moment that I decided to run for office,” Walz states in his story.

But testimonies from multiple people present at the rally suggest that the Democrat’s origin story could be missing valuable context, the Washington Examiner reportedFriday.

Login to view embedded media Yesterday my friend suggested that foreign countries looking to exploit the Art of the Deal if Trump wins can buy as many digital cards as they want.
And if they use cryptocurrency they can.
Foreign countries are banned from contributions but this is a "purchase" of an intangible valueless card...or 100....or 1000.
And here I thought he was just dealing with gullible Americans.
Instead, foreign countries courting his favor can flout campaign laws.
in 2016, Egypt got a billion of our tax dollars for their $10 million donation.
Hope the FBI and CIA can stop this latest Trump scam.