Despite early pledges from Texas DPS Director Steve McCraw to publicly release evidence from the Uvalde massacre, his legal team has quietly worked for more than a year to keep it a state secret.

[In addition to the families] 18 local and national news outlets – from CNN to Sinclair – ... have sued to get the public records in the case.

In court, Texas DPS insists that the records cannot be made public because it remains an open investigation. But Texas law enforcement agencies use discretion every day to publicly release evidence in open cases.

Plus, in the Uvalde situation, the shooter is dead. DPS Director Steve McCraw even admitted the physical evidence is not changing.

Last fall, a Travis County judge ordered DPS to make the data public. DPS appealed, delaying again.

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Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks, has reached a tentative deal to plead guilty on Monday to one count of violating the Espionage Act for his role in obtaining and publishing classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010, according to a court filing Monday evening.

A criminal information filed Monday evening in federal court says Assange “knowingly and unlawfully conspired” to “receive and obtain documents ... connected with the national defense” and “communicate” that information to persons not entitled to receive them.” A criminal information like the one filed Monday often signals a defendant has agreed to plead guilty. Assange will appear in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, according to the filing.

It is so vulgar and profane I cannot link to it.

Search listen and ask for yourself are these the adults in the room?

I don’t live in NY, but I would be embarrassed

From the side that supposedly hates cancel culture:

Hey you might want to have a look at this- there is a little church near where I live called Manada Gap Full Gospel fellowship, I drove by there the other day and saw the church and wanted to come, I haven't gone yet but I may come for the Wed PM service sometime soon. I looked them up on Facebook and saw some videos from the church. I found this one from their summer camp meeting, a young man gives his life to Christ and immediately gets up and preaches! He became a fireball instantly! His message is spectacular! Video is here: Login to view embedded media

In a recent fundraising email:

“I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what? I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE!” the fundraising email said.

Upon arriving to the jail in a presidential-style motorcade, Trump was booked, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot. The process took about 20 minutes and made Trump the first U.S. president in history, past or present, known to have their mug shot taken.

PARASHAH: “B’ha’alotkha” (in your setting up) NUMBERS: 8:1-12:16

We see in this parashah study, various themes. The first is “Putting up the lamps” or one could say; “going up to light the lamps”. This speaks of the golden Menorah, which was inside the Mishkan. As we know it was made of pure gold, one single piece hammered out to light the inside of the Mishkan. How they did that, making it from one piece of gold is a miracle, but we serve a God of miracles.

The menorah had seven branches, “7” is the perfect number of YHVH. Gold symbolizes purity. So, we serve a pure and holy God who sent YESHUA who is the LIGHT of the world. The seven-branch menorah had seven lamps filled with pure olive oil. The priests would light the lamps in the evening until morning light. The light of the menorah was the only source of light in the Mishkan. Outside was darkness, yet YHVH was outside in the form of a column of fire, inside, the menorah burned so that light was always there.

Numbers 8 tells us that the lamps that were part of the Menorah were facing forward ( casting their light forward, in front of the Menorah) (8:2)
That would tell us that the lamps were facing toward the Table of Shewbread, facing towards the "interior" of the Mishkan. There is some symbolism here. The Table of Shewbread had 12 loaves of unleavened bread. Yeshua is the "Bread of Life" and also the "Light of the World." Since we have HIS light inside us, it makes sense that our "light" faces the "Bread of Life", always seeking HIM, for more of HIS reflected light.

Also, the Menorah was in the "interior" of the Tabernacle. It was the "interior" source of light. Perhaps this can remind us to have our "spiritual lamps" pointed towards the interior of our being. Light reveals hidden things. We need to search our souls with God's Light to seek out areas where we have fallen short. Perhaps hidden sin in our lives. HIS WORD is the Light, as King David said; "Thy Word is a Lamp unto my feet and a Light unto my path".

Yeshua is our light, He is with us and gives us his light both day and night. We are like the branches of the Menorah; we need to stay connected to the oil to have light. Yeshua said: “Ye are the light of the world”, just like the moon has no light of its own but reflects the light of the sun. The moon up close is full of meteor craters, it is a pock-marked satellite in space, not very attractive up close, but when we look at it from Earth, we do not see the pock-marked surface, only the light that is reflected from the sun.

The same is true with all believers, we are all “pock-marked” with the stain of sin, but YHVH looks at us through the light of Yeshua and sees us as “kol kadosh” (All holy). The stain of sin is not only covered by the blood of Yeshua but also atoned for. Dealt with completely.

The Levites were offered up to YHVH for service. To honor this, there was the burnt offering and the sin offering on their behalf. There were two bulls and an offering of fine flour. The bulls speak of the strength of Adonai and the fine flour, one could say “Yeshua the Bread of Life”. Yeshua is our strength and our life, if we are going to be like the Levites, dedicated to serving HIM, then we need HIS strength.

In chapter nine, we read about the Passover, always to be celebrated by ALL believers, even if we can’t celebrate it always on the 14th day of the first month, such as the case of some who were unclean by touching a corpse. There is always provision, they could celebrate it on the 14th day of the second month. All believers celebrate the Passover (abbreviated) when we take communion, some churches do it twice a month, some celebrate it every Sunday, but no matter what the tradition is, we are reminded of HIS body and HIS blood.

When the cloud lifted, the Israelites would move, when it settled, the Israelites would stop and make camp. That is the way all believers should act, when we are led by Adonai. We should be sensitive to his calling, to his direction, sometimes we need to wait on him, wait for him to move, or move others, sometimes the waiting can be a few days, or years. We should try not to get ahead, that HE may not follow US, but US following HIM.

Chapter eleven tells us about the "complaining and murmuring" of God's people. Sounds like us at times; “grumble, grumble, grumble and groan!” “What? Manna again?” we’re tired of manna Waffles, manna bagels, fillet of Mannah, BaMannaBread, etc...

manna patties, manna tortillas, manna-shakes, etc.… Oh the stuff we had in Egypt, we miss it so much!” but…they forgot to mention that they were slaves, slaves to a tyrant. Adonai gets angry and “fires up” the people. “You want meat?” “OK, I’ll give you meat!”

Rex Humbard, a TV preacher once said; “God may give you what you want, but you may not want what you get!” We need to be satisfied with the little or the much that Adonai gives us, be it just beans and rice with tortillas, or a steak with potatoes. HE will ALWAYS supply our needs. Sometimes I think that people eat just too much. We need the physical food but we also need the spiritual food which comes from the Torah.

Chapter twelve speaks of Miriam and Aaron when they spoke against their brother Moshe.

It says, “because of the Cushite woman that Moshe married” What happened to Zipporah? Maybe she died. A Cushite is a Sudanese, a black woman. So what? In some places, there is still racial bigotry, some do not believe in “mixed racial marriages” God doesn’t have a problem with it, and there is no commandment against it. There IS a problem with mixed FAITH marriages, when one is a believer and the other isn’t! Then, there are problems with being “unequally yoked” Yet the problem addressed was that Miriam and Aaron were questioning Moshe’s authority as leader. “Hey, God speaks to us all, right? Well... back then, it was Moshe who conveyed Adonai’s words, yet Adonai placed his spirit upon 70 other tribal leaders too, this was to help Moshe “bear the burden”.

As co-workers in ministry, we must never try and do it by ourselves. The gifts of the Spirit are for all believers and are utilized to help each other out. Ministry is not a "Lone Ranger' thing. We all work together, we minister together, we worship together. Yes, there are some things we might do in private, like praying alone, and there are some "one-on-one" ministries, yet for the most part, we share the burden.

Miriam was stricken with “Tza-arat” (leprosy) she was afflicted with some kind of skin disorder for her words against her brother. Moshe prayed for her healing, the shortest prayer in the Bible; “El na r’pha na lah!” (Oh God heal her!) and seven days later, she was healed.

Let us be careful of our words that are directed towards servants of the LORD, lest we err and suffer the consequences, we may get more than just a skin rash. We should uphold our spiritual leaders and support them.

Shalom to all, Have a blessed week.

If Adam and Eve were the first 2 humans, aren’t we all related and children of incest?

Adam carried a diverse set of genes. His genome contained different alleles for different traits. The same can be said about Eve and their descendants. With this diversity, there was no health risk for Cain to marry his sister, niece, or grandniece. It was not morally wrong at that time. Later, Noah's family of eight contained the diverse human gene pool. There was no problem with Abram marrying his half-sister (Gen 20:12).

In the Bible, illegal 'incest' regulations were first codified by Moses starting in Leviticus 18:

6 No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

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By this time, within a single family unit, the siblings tended to carry similar genes, not as diverse as in Noah's time.

New American Standard Bible, Leviticus 20:

12 If there is a man who sleeps with his daughter-in-law, both of them must be put to death. They have committed incest, and have brought their own deaths upon themselves.

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Strong's Hebrew: 8397. תֶּ֫בֶל (tebel) — 2 Occurrences

Brown-Driver-Briggs:

noun [masculine] confusion, violation of nature

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English Standard Version:

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed perversion; their blood is upon them.

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Was incest okay in the Bible?

There was no special technical Hebrew term for "incest". The English word "incest" does not appear anywhere in most Bible translations. I would avoid using it in a Christian discussion.

In the beginning, marrying close relatives was okay. However, by the time of Moses, it was not.

Is incest okay today?

Incest, as defined in the criminal code in Canada, is illegal.

At least 15 police officers and a priest were killed by gunmen on Sunday in what appear to be coordinated attacks on multiple places of worship in Russia’s southernmost Dagestan province, local authorities said.

Sergey Melikov, head of the Dagestan Republic, said at least six “militants” were also killed following the attacks on churches, synagogues and police posts in the cities of Derbent and the regional capital Makhachkala, which are about 120 kilometers (75 miles) apart.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, which come three months after ISIS affiliate ISIS-K claimed an assault at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow that claimed more than 140 lives in one of Russia’s deadliest terrorist atrocities in years.

Law enforcement agencies told state-run news agency TASS that the gunmen in Dagestan were “adherents of an international terrorist organization.”

Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim region home to a small Christian and even smaller Jewish minority. Russian security forces fought an Islamist insurgency in the mountainous region in the 2000s that spilled over from neighboring Chechnya, though attacks have become rarer in recent years.

Now that we're getting mixed messages from the Trump camp. I was wondering if people would care to stake their position pre-debate. Is Biden a doddering zombie or a debater of practiced ability? Which Biden will show up Thursday? Or is he both, like some Schrödinger's Biden?

"To hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, ... to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.”

Peace in Christ.

The Greek word for “eternal” is “αἰώνιον”…transliterated “aiōnion”. “aionion” = AGE-LASTING or age-during. It should not be translated as “eternal” for it has a limited duration….an age. Most bibles have mistranslated the word into “everlasting” or “eternal.”

John 6:47 KJV
(47) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.

John 6:47
Young's Literal Translation
'Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is believing in me, hath life age-during;

The gospel is not about “dying and going to Heaven”. It is about having “eternal life”…that is, an age-lasting life… now in this earth and now in this current mortal body we are living in.

It is in this present, evil age that Jesus is delivering us out of by having an age-lasting life. This age shall not mortally destroy us as He renders death idle for us now. Salvation is now.

Galatians 1:4
Young's Literal Translation
who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

Our Savior…our Deliverer that delivers us out of this present evil age…has “abolished” death (that is, rendering it idle.) We shall NEVER mortally die into the rest of this age through His sacrifice that He made for us. He delivers us out of this present evil age by giving our mortal bodies an age-lasting life so as to never experience death. He died for us so that we do not have to.

2 Timothy 1:10
Young's Literal Translation
and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

It is about our mortal body now. We have an age-lasting life now in it. He is raising/standing us up TO (not “at”) the last day. The last day = the end of this age. We are kept mortally standing here throughout the rest of this age to the last day of it.

John 6:54
(54) Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal (AGE-LASTING) life; and I will raise him up at (TO) the last day.

Those who shall endure (stay behind) unto the end (the end of this age) shall be saved. They stay behind in this earth by being preserved mortally alive unto the end of the age.

Mat 24:13-14 KJV
(13) But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
(14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And those who mortally endure unto the end of this age (at the “last trump”) shall have their mortal bodies changed into immortal….never experiencing death at all until that moment. This mortal body (having never died) must put on immortality at the very end of this age. Until then, we LIVE BY FAITH which keeps our mortal bodies alive until then.

1Co 15:52-53 KJV
(52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
(53) For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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Continued from 1 & 2 Corinthians Sins Deception - Hebrews It! (Legal Study, Chapter 3) Pt. 13f​

Galatians 2:9,10,11,12,13,14
1 Timothy 5:20
2 Corinthians 5:16
Acts 15:1
Jude 1:3

Hebrews 3:13 But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.

Mr. Russell, the general director of the Sarasota Opera on Florida’s Gulf Coast, had expected his nonprofit organization to receive a state grant of about $70,000 once Mr. DeSantis signed a budget that state lawmakers had approved in March.

But in a move that stunned arts and culture organizations, Mr. DeSantis vetoed the entirety of their grant funding — about $32 million — on June 12, leaving them scrambling to figure out how to offset the shortfall.

For me personally, I was always staunchly egalitarian. Meaning that I do not believe that traditional gender roles (men being the leader of the household and the church in particular) are a mandate for a Christian life. Complementarians are those who do believe in traditional gender roles.


So I want to ask, for those of you who were on one side, but are now on the other? What changed your mind? What are your stories?

And regardless on whether you changed sides or not, what convictions do you have on each side? What convictions do you have about complementarianism? What convictions do you have on egalitarianism? I'd like to know.

Who has the pure sound doctrine according to you?
Protestants?

A Phoenix family is mourning the loss of their dad, who died in a freak accident Monday after he was pinned under his car when it fell on top of him.
Instead of helping, police say some people who saw what happened stole from him and took off.



This is yet another example of the sad state of humanity in the world today.

Prayer by
Elizabeth Kindelmann

The Song of Solomon did not mention God at all except possibly in (ESV) 8:

6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.

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very flame of the LORD
שַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְיָֽה׃ (šal·he·ḇeṯ·yāhhttps://biblehub.com/hebrew/3050.htm)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7957: A flare of fire

Jah or Yah (Hebrew: יָהּ‎, Yāh) was a short form of יהוה (YHWH). It was the same form as in "hallelujah".

New International Version translated it differently:

It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.

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In this case, -yah worked as an intensifying suffix. The Song of Solomon as translated by NIV does not mention God at all.

There were scholarships supporting both translations.

Douglas County Judge Christina Peterson was charged with simple battery victim against a police officer at the Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge on Peachtree Street.

Hi community,
Any and all prayers are so very appreciated.
I’m asking for prayer for protection from my sister who is threatening to evict me from my mom’s house. She asked me to move in to help her. Praying to find the money to move and survive on my own.

Or that isn't plausible?

Snopes detailed in its fact check that Trump was clear he was not calling neo-Nazis "fine people" when he made the comment at a press conference that year. "While Trump did say that there were ‘very fine people on both sides,’ he also specifically noted that he was not talking about neo-Nazis and White supremacists and said they should be 'condemned totally.' Therefore, we have rated this claim 'False,'" Snopes wrote.

Good for them! They surprised me and I hope Snopes continues to strive for the truth.

The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates among professions — with the rate among male construction workers 75% higher than men in the general population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 6,000 construction workers by suicide in 2022, an increase from 2021, according to the most recent data available. That compares to around 1,000 who died from a construction work-related injury.

“When you’re more likely to be killed by your own hands than to get killed in a jobsite accident, that’s a crisis in our industry,” said Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs and workforce for the Associated General Contractors of America. “We know pretty much what needs to happen to protect people physically. We’re figuring out how to protect people mentally.”

While construction wages are up and jobs are plentiful, those in the industry fear that the pressures on their workers’ mental health are only getting worse. A recent surge in construction projects, spurred by billions of federal dollars for infrastructure, clean energy and semiconductor projects have put increasing strain on an already stretched workforce.

As a result, workers are putting in more than 10-hour days in harsh weather conditions, facing high-pressure deadlines and having to spend months away from home living in hotels, temporary workforce housing or their vehicles. There is also the risk of workplace injuries and a higher rate of opioid misuse along with the general financial instability of hourly work.

Joe Biden’s campaign planned to bury Donald Trump in an avalanche of cash.

Instead, his allies are bracing for a slugfest without the benefit of a fatter wallet, as financial reports showed Trump outraising Biden in back-to-back months, hauling in huge sums after his 34 felony convictions and erasing Biden’s longstanding financial edge.