CNN host Dana Bash marveled Friday at how former President Trump is leading against President Biden on most key issues in Michigan, most notably on the Israel-Gaza war.

Bash spoke about polling conducted in Michigan and Pennsylvania showing Trump leading in the Great Lakes State and the presumptive candidates tied in the Keystone State.

She said that if Trump wins both, Biden cannot afford to lose any other swing states, such as "Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, or Nebraska’s second congressional district, or he will not win the White House."
The news host went on to express shock that "abortion and democracy" are "the only two issues" where Biden has an advantage in both states.
"Then you look at other issues: U.S and world affairs, economy, immigration, Israel/Gaza, Trump has an advantage and it's actually- if you look at the Israel-Gaza question, the fact that Trump has a 20-point advantage in Michigan. I mean, the world is upside down," she said.

CNN political director David Chalian argued that Trump’s advantage may not be enthusiasm for his policy, but the dissatisfaction of Michigan's large population of Muslims and Arab Americans with Biden's position on Israel.

Chalian said, "But I think that finding probably explains a lot of Joe Biden's troubles in Michigan right now as well. I mean, it's obviously an issue that we saw in the primary where the uncommitted vote against him, we see young voters, independents, people who have been affiliated with this, calling for a ceasefire movement, very frustrated with the president and his policies, and so that's clearly partly at play here in Michigan."

My mom has been experiencing respiratory issues again. Now it is that she feels mucus is coming up and it does not come out. It got really bad tonight and I called her primary care physician’s doctor on call. He basically told me that this was very dangerous and I needed to take her in. (My mother is not the most cooperative in these things). Finally talked her into it and we are in ER now. Prayers appreciated.

Well, not exactly. God plays his part, John 1:

13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

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John 15:

16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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1 Peter 1:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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John 6:

44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

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For our part, we need to repent.

Salvation is initiated by God alone?

Not exactly, to be more precise, being born again is initiated by God alone.

Allowing themselves to be caught by Russian police was not a good thing to do! "One suspect, Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, had a heavily bandaged ear. Russian media reported Saturday that one of the suspects had his ear cut off during interrogation." - 3 of 4 suspects charged in Russia concert hall attack admit guilt during court hearing

Ever since I was little ive had this weird thing, where I would be doing something random, like literally anything, and this voice in my head would suddenly say "do that X amount more times or Y(bad thing) will happen". And I would be forced to go do it again. It may be five times, may be 10. Sometimes it would take quite awhile. When I was young I used to think it was God, but now im noticing that this is not a common way with how God talks to people. So is it God? Idk.

But the production of EV batteries requires a massive amount of electricity, usually produced by generators that burn fossil fuels. The manufacturing of EVs produces at least 60 percent more carbon emissions than that of gas-powered cars. EVs start their lives with carbon debt.

The extra weight of heavy batteries also quickly wears down an EV’s tires as it drives, which means they aren’t "emissions free." In fact, one study found that electric cars emitted about a quarter more particulate matter than hybrid vehicles thanks to the added weight.
Administration activists aren’t just wrong about the environmental benefits of EVs. They’re also wrong about their performance. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg claimed that "we see the superiority of EVs in terms of performance, not just in terms of climate."

But we all heard about EVs malfunctioning this winter. Freezing temperatures — and hot temperatures — drain batteries and reduce driving range, leaving stranded drivers helpless. Even in normal weather, EVs have been plagued with glitches. A Consumer Reports survey even found that new EVs have 79 percent more problems than internal-combustion cars.

These performance problems create safety issues as well. In January, the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility at my alma mater, the University of Nebraska, conducted EV crash tests. They found that EVs have 20 to 50 percent more impact when crashing into a roadside barrier. The extra weight on an EV means that when accidents occur, the damage is greater than a comparable gas car.

Super Bowl champion kicker Harrison Butker of the Kansas City Chiefs wasn't afraid to let his views be known in a recent sit-down with EWTN News for a wide-ranging interview last week that hit on some hot-button topics.

In addition to discussing his team's victory over the San Francisco 49ers in last month's Super Bowl, Butker, a member of the Catholic fraternal order Knights of Columbus, outlined the vital role faith and family play in ensuring the health of society as a whole.

He also touched on abortion, fatherhood and his strong opposition to a Catholic church hosting a funeral for a trans-identified activist.

Deepfake Kari Lake video shows coming chaos of AI in elections​

in Arizona, a key swing state in the 2024 contest, the top elections official used deepfakes of himself in a training exercise to prepare staff for the onslaught of falsehoods to come. The exercise inspired Stephenson and his colleagues at the Arizona Agenda, whose daily newsletter seeks to explain complex political stories to an audience of some 10,000 subscribers.

They brainstormed ideas for about a week and enlisted the help of a tech-savvy friend. On Friday, Stephenson published the piece, which included three deepfake clips of Lake.

It begins with a ploy, telling readers that Lake — a hard-right candidate whom the Arizona Agenda has pilloried in the past — had decided to record a testimonial about how much she enjoys the outlet. But the video quickly pivots to the giveaway punchline.

“Subscribe to the Arizona Agenda for hard-hitting real news,” the fake Lake says to the camera, before adding: “And a preview of the terrifying artificial intelligence coming your way in the next election, like this video, which is an AI deepfake the Arizona Agenda made to show you just how good this technology is getting.”

By Saturday, the videos had generated tens of thousands of views — and one very unhappy response from the real Lake, whose campaign attorneys sent the Arizona Agenda a cease-and-desist letter.

This is from The Marrow of Modern Divinity, (1645 & 1718 Edward Fisher & Thomas Boston) pgs 260-261 and addresses something that our modern society has almost completely abandoned for wanton lusts and the actual promotion of adultery and fornication by various means in media, ads, education, and music, Oh, and some apostate and backslidden churches too.

[EVANGELISTA, a Minister of the Gospel. NOMIST, a Legalist. ANTINOMISTA, an Antinomian. NEOPHYTUS, a Young Christian.]
In this portion only Evangelista & Nomist are speaking:

"COMMANDMENT VII.
Evan. Well, then, I pray you, consider that in the seventh commandment there is a negative part expressed in these words, "Thou shalt not commit adultery"; that is, though shalt not think, will, speak, or do anything whereby thine own chastity or the chastity of others, may be hurt or hindered. And an affirmative part included in these words, "But thou shalt every way, and by all good means, preserve and keep the same."

Neo. I pray you, sir, begin with the negative part, and first tell us what is that inward uncleanness that is forbidden in this commandment.

Evan. That we may not be guilty of the inward uncleanness of the heart, in this commandment are forbidden all filthy imaginations, unchaste thoughts, and inward desires and motions of the heart to uncleanness, (Matt 5:28, Col 3:5); with all causes and occasions of stirring up and nourishing of these in the heart.

Neo. And what are the causes and occasions of stirring up and nourishing these things in the heart which we are to avoid?

Evan. That we may not stir up and nourish inward uncleanness in our hearts, is forbidden in this commandment gluttony, or excess in eating and pampering of the belly with meats, (Jer 5:8); and so also is drunkenness, or excess in drinking, (Prov 23:30,31,33); and so also is idleness, (2 Sam 11:12); and so also is the wearing of lascivious, garish, and new fangled attire, (Prov 7:10, 1 Tim 2:9); and so also is keeping company with lascivious, wanton, and fleshly persons, (Gen 39:10); and so also is immodest, unchaste, and filthy speaking, (Eph 4:29); and so also is idle and curious looking of men on women, or women on men, (Gen 6:2, 39:7); and so also is the beholding of love matters, and light behaviour of men and women represented in stage plays, (Eze 23:14, Eph 5:3,4); and so also is immoderate and wanton dancing of men and women together, (Job 21:11,12, Mark 6:21,22); and so also is wanton kissing and embracing, with all unchaste touching and dalliance, (Prov 7:13).

[Note: Today we must include media such as television, movies, the internet, and games that depict such lewdness, as well as the printed page and photographs: not just obvious pournagraffy, but other printed material with scantily dressed people, that use allurement to draw ones attention, which Evan does mention below]

Neo. And what is that outward actual uncleanness which is forbidden in this commandment?

Evan. The actual uncleanness forbidden in this commandment is fornication, which is a fleshly defilement of the body, committed between man and woman, being both of them single and unmarried persons, (1 Cor 10:8); and so also is adultery, which is a defilement of the body, committed between man and woman, being either one or both of them married persons, or at least contracted, (1 Cor 6:9,18, Hosea 13:4).

Neo. I pray you, sir, proceed to the affirmative part, and tell us what the Lord requires in this commandment.

Evan. The Lord in this commandment requires purity of heart, (1 Thess 4:5); and he also requires speeches savouring of sobriety and chastity, (Col 4:6, Gen 4:1); and he also requires that we keep our eyes from beholding vanity and lustful objects, (Psa 119:37, Job 31:1); and he also requires that we be temperate in our diet, in our sleep, and in our recreations, (Luke 21:34); and he also requires that we possess our vessels in holiness and honour, (1 Thess 4:9); and if we have not the gift of chastity, he requires that we take the benefit of holy marriage, (1 Cor 7:29); and that the man and wife do in that estate render due benevolence each towards the other, (1 Cor 7:5). Thus have I also endeavoured to satisfy your desires concerning the seventh commandment; and now, neighbour Nomologista, I pray you tell me whether you think you keep it perfectly or no.

Nom. Sir, I thank the Lord I am free from actual uncleanness, so that I am neither fornicator nor adulterer.

Evan. Well, but though you be free from the outward act, yet if you have had in your heart filthy imaginations, unchaste thoughts, or inward desires, or motions of the heart to uncleanness, you have notwithstanding transgressed this commandment; or if you have been guilty of gluttony, or drunkenness, or idleness, or delight to keep company with lascivious and wanton persons, or have with your tongue uttered any unchaste or corrupt communication, or have been a frequenter of stage plays, or have used immoderate dancing with women, or have used wanton dalliance with kissing and embracing, then have you broken this commandment.

[Today we often do not think of courting or "dating" as a breaking of this Commandment as long as the overt sexual act is not performed. However, kissing and embracing most certainly does stir passions and try the limits of one's resolve, and often a couple who has resolved to save themselves for marriage fail in this area, because they allowed more than a simple kiss and hug. I've been there/done that, and had to confess and repent of such doings.
I will share a little personal testimony on this. Back in 2002 I was involved in an online romance with a girl in Vietnam. I asked her what was allowable in her culture (secular/Buddhist) while courting. She explained we needed to be chaperoned and not alone, or if alone be in a public place. Holding hands was Ok. One light kiss was Ok and a very brief hug. Absolutely nothing beyond that. Brought to mind Luke 16:8 "the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light"]
I did not even agree with her at the time, and eventually met someone from another state in America, and unfortunately we did not follow this Commandment prior to marriage. That too had to be repented of.
This is an extremely volatile subject, even for Christians. Not many practice the true Gospel way of holiness in this regard.]

"Foreign Minister Israel Katz summoned the Turkish ambassador after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to "send [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to Allah" in a post on X on Friday.

"I instructed Israel’s Foreign Ministry officials to summon the Turkish deputy ambassador to Israel for a serious reprimand, following Erdogan’s attack on Prime Minister Netanyahu and his threats to send Netanyahu to Allah, and to convey a clear message to Erdogan,” Katz wrote. “You who support the burning of babies, murderers, rapists, and the mutilation of corpses by Hamas criminals, are the last one who can speak about God.

“There is no God who will listen to those who support the atrocities and crimes against humanity committed by your barbaric Hamas friends. Be quiet and ashamed!” he continued."

Ezekiel 38 coalition coming together once more: Tubal: Turkey

https://wapo.st/3xaFh5Z

Lawmakers in mostly conservative states are pushing a coordinated effort to bring chaplains into public schools, aided by a new, legislation-crafting network that aims to address policy issues “from a biblical world view” and by a consortium whose promotional materials say chaplains are a way to convert millions to Christianity.

“We are reclaiming religious freedom in this country,” said Jason Rapert, a former Arkansas state senator and the president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers, which he founded in 2019 to craft model legislation, according to the group’s site. Its mission is “to bring federal, state and local lawmakers together in support of clear biblical principles … to address major policy concerns from a biblical world view,” the site says.

Heather Weaver, senior staff attorney at the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief, called allowing chaplains into public schools “a constitutional time bomb. It definitely would be a much more direct route to promoting religion to students and evangelizing them than we’ve seen in the past.” she said.

Some experts on church-state relations say the pushback may reflect Americans’ complex and inconsistent relationship with the role Christianity should play in a pluralistic country. Polls show a majority of Americans say that the government should enforce church-state separation and oppose the government ever declaring an official U.S. religion. Yet, in a 2022 Pew Research poll, a strong minority, 45 percent, said the country “should be a Christian nation.”

John 5:30 (NKJV)
“I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

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In these words are put forth the ultimate denial of own will, which, we as believer’s are to emulate…. For as Christ said; ‘not my will but the Father’s’, the believer is to say; ‘not my will but Christ’s’…. For when one obeys what the will of the peace of Christ in one’s heart speaks, to that degree will their judgments be according to the will of God…. For giving up one’s own will for the expression of righteousness is the call set before all of fallen humanity…. For this is the end of all endeavors, that the will to righteousness would overcome the will to own will….

For this is being led by the Spirit of Christ which has come to make its abode in all those that would be willing to receive Him, which being the end of all things is also the beginning of all things… For this obedience to this peace, is obedience to the new life that is being brought to life in one, this being, where all the old things have passed away and all things become new….This, that new voice of peace that speaks forth righteousness is the voice of Christ in one which is to direct one to the right or left…. For this peace being listened to, is the end of one life and the beginning of another…

Which all sounds fine and dandy, but the how escapes many believer’s….

We, as believer’s are called to faith, faith being that that looks away from itself to something or someone stronger than itself…. Our being crucified with Christ is that stronger that we are called to look towards… For believing that one has died with Christ and raised to a new life in Him is the faith that will see this come to fruition in one’s life….

For it is seeing oneself as the failure that one is that humbles one’s heart before God…. For it is the will to righteousness in the face of failure that lays open all of the heart before God… It is then the Son of righteousness shines forth in the heart and the heart grabs unto ‘it is no longer I that live but Christ that lives in me’….

And thus the will to righteousness has its accomplishment where the end has met the beginning, time goes into eternity and thus the restoration of all things…..


Unto Him be our all, Not me

Why did God make Ostriches?
So humans could eat Ostriches in the desert.

Ostriches can live in the desert.
Should there be more Ostrich farms?

I told my Elder the other day that I felt like giving up. Giving up on holiness, on my Christian walk, and on winning the race. I can't help it, I just can't. I can't help but feel like I'm not living the life that Jesus wants me to live. Of course, from a Calvinist position this is completely incompatible with the Bible that teaches us that God leads us throughout iur lives. However it FEELS like I'm not doing what God wants me to be doing. Our Pastor recommended a book to us that he's going to give to us when we get to church on Sunday morning that I'm looking forward to read but I just feel like, everything is so distant right now.

We haven't been able to attend Church ever since my wife got her job, I haven't been praying as often as I probably should, I don't love God as much as I should because if I did I'd never sin against him ever again, and I only really read the Bible when I feel like it which is maybe once a month tops.

Don't get me wrong, I do have a rock hard faith that has whethered every storm and it will weather this one as well proving, that God keeps those who are meant to be saved, saved. My issue isn't salvation it's living the Christian life as I should be. It's that I desire and want to live a Godly life and I don't want to live my life the way I want, I want to live my life the way God wants. And honestly, this is a good thing so idk why I'm depressed and why I'm feeling this way. Can anybody give me any advice regarding this? Because, I haven't grown as a Christian in quite some time. In fact, I'm slowly going away from Christianity and I definitely don't want that.

Praise & Thank Jesus Christ for freeing the Nigerian students who were kidnapped in the north-western town of Kuriga earlier this month, and for ensuring that they were Unharmed:

Did Mythological creatures exist ?

I have reason to believe they did.

According to the book of Jasher which is mentioned in the Bible - Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18; and 2 Timothy 3:8 it states this;

Jasher 61:15 -- Zepho kills beast, half man and half animal, "from the middle upward it resembled a man, and from the middle downward it resembled an animal.

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I reckon before the flood (in the days of Noah) the masses were more advanced than we gave them credit for.

For this reason I believe they had the technical knowledge on how to manipulate DNA hence all these mythological creatures we hear about like the Centaur .

What do you all think ?

“When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. Matthew 24:37

They are doing the very same thing today.

I have written a free 300K+ word e-book (PDF) entitled An Emergency Exposition of Revelation 11, subtitled as Apocalyptic Events in the 21st Century, starting in the present third decade (Interpreted using Reformation & 17th Century English Puritan Principles).

It is largely an update on the interpretations of John Gill (in the 1700s) and Thomas Goodwin (in the 1600s), and accordingly uses the Reformation’s historicist eschatological model and stands as a necessary eleventh hour antidote to the ruinous, and very grievous, misconceptions Christians today possess concerning the Antichrist, the supposed Rapture, an imminent Second Advent, etc.

The book’s core theses are:

• We are, as of 2024, on the eve of the killing of the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, and that slaying will be, as Thomas Goodwin described it, a civic gagging of the Lord’s faithful ministries in the West at the hands of the scarlet coloured beast from the bottomless pit of Rev 17, which is the same beast as in Rev 11.
  
  
• The scarlet coloured beast represents the third, final, and most depraved phase of Daniel 7’s fourth beast system; the first of those three phases was the Great Red Dragon of Rev 12 (Pagan Roman Empire), the second was the Beast from the Sea of Revelation 13 (European civilisation with an apostate Christian veneer), and the third "that was, is not and yet is" being the West as a bloc under final-phase Marxist (aka Globalist) control.
  
  
• We are at the close of the Sardian church era, contrary to the view of many that we are somehow in a Laodicean state (despite there having been no Philadelphian era behind us).
  
  
• The coming silencing of the Lord’s public witness in the West will be part of a twofold chastening on Sardis for failing or refusing to adhere to, and look back at, the “morning star” early step towards the Kingdom’s golden age that was the Reformation. In particular, the charge from Christ in Rev 3 is lack of watchfulness; Sardis has forsaken the Reformation gains in the form of worship (despising the Regulative Principle), in its eschatology (embracing Futurism), in its lack of filial love among the brethren (paying lip service to it or fixating on legalism at its expense), among other issues.
  
  
• The other element of the chastening will come in the form of the great difficulty Christians will experience in trying to conduct commerce, travel, receive healthcare, etc., caused by their just refusal to express state-backed views on the woke agenda, which will become enshrined in a social credit system around late 2025 onwards.
  
  
• The social credit system will be the superlative system of the Mark, which saw historical prototypes in Popish efforts at excluding believers in the past from commerce, for which reason the Mark and the Image of the Beast are introduced under the Beast from the Sea’s tenure in Rev 13.
  
  
• The Mark is, contrary to futurist interpretations, not an implanted microchip or quantum tattoo, but rather is something the ungodly inflict upon themselves at the urging of the False Prophet (“the beast from the earth” of Rev 13), and, being organically tied to the Image of the Beast, consists of any expression of allegiance to that Image and compliance with its evil demands.
  
  
• The False Prophet is an umbrella term for all who informally advance the narrative of the Beast system in any of its latter two phases (i.e. nominally Christian western civilisation and secular, atheistic, tyrannical, final-phase Marxist conditions); accordingly, it consists of apostate clergy, godless educators, experts, authors, scientists, musicians, actors, sports stars, and anyone else used to synthesise “organic” movements that the beast system can then “react to” through the formulation of evil laws.
  
  
• The Image of the Beast is thus a product of the work of the False Prophet in stirring up the masses to create new objects of worship, as it were, and in the final, to-be-short-lived scarlet phase of the beast system, those demanding, angry, threatening objects of worship consisting of all the sacred cows of the Left: LGBT, Critical Race Theory, feminism, and perhaps also the neo-Paganism that is climate-hysteria-driven enviro-kult.
  
  
• The number of the beast is a linguistic hieroglyph for nothing less than a class of man, styled in Rev 13 as “a man”, that is, a caste, whom I refer to as “the hidden man”, or the Lateinos, and is none other than the hyper rich elites of the West who exercise real power behind the facade of democracy. This corrects the Reformers’ and English Puritans’ mistake in bundling the entirety of the Beast system from Rev 13 onwards into the singularity of the Papacy; rather, the evil beasts of Daniel and Revelation are oligarch-owned ungodly blocs or empires, as distinct from the Papacy, which is but the Little Horn, the definitive Antichrist.
  
  
• The chastening on Sardis will endure for a literal 3.5 years commencing at an indeterminate date in 2025, hence this is an emergency exposition; however, it must be acknowledged that warnings such as this will, prophetically, be ignored by the vast majority of believers until Christ repeats His message to Sardis in Revelation 16:15, on the eve of Armageddon, at which point Sardis will repent en masse in readiness for transitioning into Philadelphia.
  
  
• 2025 is the operative year for the slaying of the Two Witnesses as it falls 1,260 years after AD 765, when the Little Horn that is the Papacy reached its apotheosis as the Antichrist, in that the Donation of Pepin from AD 754-756 finally came into meaningful being with the defeat of the recalcitrant Lombards, facilitating the first realisation of the Pope’s claims of temporal supremacy in addition to his ecclesiastical claims of supremacy.
  
  
• As with Gill and others, I take the Seven Last Plagues of Revelation 16 to commence during the 3.5 years in which the Lord’s public witness lies silent in the West, and that those plagues are directed at the ungodly of the world, styled as “the earth” in the West and “the sea” in the East, and culminating between mid 2028 and mid 2029 with a last minute heeding of Christ’s command to Sardis and an end to the slain condition of the Two Witnesses.
  
  
• The restoration of the Two Witnesses I take to consist of the reaction of the Lord’s faithful few public ministries to the Jewish Epiphany on the eve of the Armageddon event, which is contemporaneous with Joel 3’s prophecy and which opens with the events of Ezekiel 38-39.
  
  
• Further, I take the restoration to occur specifically in the US rather than in my country (the UK), contrary to the views of the old writers, who predicted it would be Britain or even France.
  
  
• The ascent to “heaven” of the resurrected Two Witnesses in Rev 11:11 I take, as did Gill et al, to be the elevation to a place within government of the Lord’s faithful public ministries, triggering a “great earthquake” that will, in fact, be a political earthquake severing the US from the rest of the West and leading to a three-way split among the other western nations, just as global war with the East begins.
  
  
• During this political earthquake, all those behind the beast system in the US will be promptly arrested and publicly executed as the seven thousand slain in Rev 11:13.
  
  
• This will mark the saints of the most High beginning to take the Kingdom, in accordance with Daniel 7:18,22 and will entail the wholesale destruction of all western political power as it dashes in pieces of the feet and toes of iron and clay of Daniel 2’s image, and grows until it eventually fills the whole earth, a process I interpret from Daniel 12 to be completed at the end of the present century.
  
  
• I concur with Gill, and thereby stand against some / most modern Reformed notions, in affirming that the golden age of the Kingdom is not one and the same as the Millennium, but rather precedes it and constitutes “the brightness of His coming”.
  
  
• I further concur with Gill in asserting that the golden age, which he calls “Christ’s spiritual reign”, is one and the same as the Philadelphian church state, but unlike Gill, I assert that the Jews shall return to the Messianic fold right at the start of the Philadelphian age, rather than later within its early decades.

Aside from those core points, the book also expounds Revelation 1-10 and resolves some issues the old writers were unable to, due to their position on the prophetic timelines:

• The hour, day, month, year symbol of Revelation 9:15.
  
  
• The content of the seven thunderings of Revelation 10, that John was forbidden to write, and an explanation for why they were to be hidden, and their relevance to the present time in which we live (hint: their obscuration marks God's displeasure with the church transcendent's widespread abandonment of historicism from the mid 1800s until now).
  
  
• The exact meaning of each of the 7 last plagues of Rev 16, with projected (speculated) timings.
  
  
• The exact year in which the Papacy and its Romish Antichurch are removed from this world (interpretation rather than speculated timing).
  
  
• The proper identification and projected timing of the Gog-Magog event of Ezekiel 38-39, its relation to Revelation 16, its spiritually transformative aftermath, and the great destruction it heralds for the ungodly in both the East and the West during the “great hail” of Rev 16, which is the same as the “fire” of Ezekiel 39:6.

If you are interested in seeing this book, please get in touch with me and I can send you a link to the PDF. I would ideally like to add an Appendix on Matthew 24 (having for now outsourced that to John Gill's commentary!), but apart from that, I consider the book to be largely complete. I know that, at over 300K words, it’s something of a “weighty tome”, but deep subjects require extensive exposition and observation. One of the gross sins of Sardis is its failure to study, to be watchful...

I must point out, though, that from Rev 3:1-5 it is plain that almost nobody will heed warnings such as this on time for the coming chastening. I therefore regard the book as being something that might gather dust until the appointed time of Sardis’ awakening in 2028/29, when believers will have been totally disenfranchised with all the dead-ends of futurism and finally receptive to materials such as the theses of my book, and all just as the world will be standing on the precipice of the terrible war that all our leaders in the West are now openly predicting is coming in the next few years.

I believe that one of Satan’s greatest weapons against us is his lies and deceptions. And I am speaking here of those of us who have surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ to do his will, who have died to sin, and who are living to God. Through the use of lies and deceptions, Satan’s objective is to get us to be afraid and to doubt God. As well, he wants us to question God’s sovereignty over our lives, his many promises to us, and his awesome grace, mercy, forgiveness, provisions, spiritual blessings, his unending love, and his continued presence with us. So, his goal, for one, is to get us to be afraid, to get our eyes off of Jesus, and to get us to look at our circumstances instead.

I believe this is why there are so many encouragements in the Scriptures to not be afraid; to not fret; to not worry, but to put our trust and hope in God, and in God alone. As well, we are reminded much in the Scriptures of all God’s provisions, protection, guidance, hope, counsel, encouragement, and blessings. Although he may not always protect us physically or even emotionally from persecution, sickness, injury, and/or betrayal, etc., he promises to always be with us - to comfort, encourage, guide, direct, and to teach us the way in which we should go.

So, we never have to be afraid, because our God will give us all we need to make it through every circumstance. He will carry us through, and he will bring us safely home to glory.

Give Me Courage, Lord

An Original Work / November 13, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures

Do not let your hearts grow weary,
For your work will be rewarded.
Be strong; let your hearts take courage.
Do not fear, but wait on Jesus.

Be strong and very courageous,
For your God will go before you.
Do not fear. He will not leave you.
Wait for Him. He’ll not forsake you.

Be careful to do what He says.
Do not turn away from your Lord.
Take courage! You’ll be His witness,
For God will guide and protect you.

So we are always encouraged.
We walk by faith and not vision.
We make it our aim to please Him,
So in Christ, we glorify Him.

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I guess the days of true holiness Pentecostal & Apostolic Pentecostal is waning?

- From "What We Believe" on an Apostolic Pentecostal churches site.

"In holiness of heart and spirit as the Bible standard for believers. (Hebrews 12:14)
Salvation is through Christ alone. Having a Personal relationship with him. (John 3:16)

That a person's sexual orientation in no way disqualifies he/she from fellowship in the kingdom of God. All people are welcome to be part of HIS church and believe in these tenets of faith regardless of being heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, trans-gender, intersexed or any other orientation that a person was born with. "Let whosoever will, come......" (John 3:15-17; Rev. 22:17) "

Did they cut Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6, and other portions of scripture from their Bibles? What a paradox and tangled web of darkness! They believe in holiness, which is separation from the world and sin, yet a few lines down contradict it mightily!
Oh no...wait, it gets worse (I'll leave locations & names out)

Meet the Pastor:
"He resides ............. with his husband"

You know why this gives me goosebumps? Because America has become Sodom & Gomorrah. These are mainline churches that once were known for TRUE holiness, even radical separation and holiness, often accused of legalism. This is SICK! This is real abomination. Jesus must come soon. Jesus must judge this iniquity, and He shall. When He moves, it will be with shocking swiftness, and shaking as this world has not seen since the calamitous flood, or the destruction of Sodom, but on a larger scale, or the tower of Babel....

How much longer, O LORD? Shall they mock Thy Holy Word and Law? Shall the Almighty LORD of Hosts not visit for these things? He shall surely visit with swift destruction: suddenly, and the wicked who do wickedly shall not have time, for the time of repentance unto salvation is NOW!

The word speaks on scorpions an demons.
I'd like to hear your views on this.
I have scorpions and have been stung many times.
Do i have demons because i have scorpions?

A Christian artist in the U.K. is suing a local council after being banned from her own exhibition and reported to the police for saying that it is harmful for children to try to change their sex.

Victoria Culf was told by Watford Borough Council representatives that police were investigating her for comments she made that were critical of transgender ideology, according to the Christian Legal Centre.

"They were told that a 'non-crime hate incident' had been recorded against Mrs. Culf's name without her knowledge," the organization explained.
The incident surrounded a conversation initiated with Culf by a council employee while she was setting up an exhibition at the Watford Museum.

Make your selection.

From my sisters' pastor:
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If I have faith in God but God is not number one in my life will I go to heaven? If I have faith but God's not number one but I actually really believe will I still go to heaven? The answer is you will not - only those who have God as number one in their life go to heaven. If God is number two in your life you will not go to heaven though you believe. If he's number three or four you will not go to heaven though you believe.

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What do Christians think?

I'm got voices that speak through me and I hear them in my head and through my voice box
They say things like fxxk and I'm the blackan drug spirit
I need help pls

In the NT, Jesus ate the Paschal lamb before he was crucified. Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.

This year, the spring equinox falls on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. Christians celebrate Easter on the first Sunday after the full Moon on or after the spring equinox, which will be Sunday, March 31, 2024.

On the other hand, the Jewish celebration of Passover begins on the evening of Monday, April 22, 2024. The date of the festival is in accordance with the first full moon in the Hebrew calendar month, Nissan.

How can Easter come before Passover in 2024?

The Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar designed to keep the vernal equinox close to March 21st, with variations of no more than a few days. The Hebrew calendar is not calibrated on the equinox.