I am reworking my book on the Covenant of God and hope to republish it in the near future. Here is the forward to it:


FORWARD

In the pages which follow, I offer to Orthodox Christians material which I hope will be helpful in your evangelization effort if you should find yourself someday in conversation with person who holds deeply to Calvinism and Covenant Theology. Most likely, this will be a member of a conservative Presbyterian organization such as the PCA or OPC.

There are many as different methods of evangelization as there are people. What might well be used of the Holy Spirit to bring the Gospel home to the heart of one individual might well turn another one off. Indeed, conversion stories I have read are filled with different experiences of how people came to Christ in different manners, through different approaches, and using different means. I hope this book will provide for my Orthodox brothers and sisters another tool in their efforts to evangelize and share the fullness of the Christian faith, which is the Orthodox faith, the faith of the Early Church.

I have found that for most Christians, bringing the Covenant of God into a theological conversation results in raised eyebrows and a look of confusion. Only in the Presbyterian Church in America did I encounter people such as Scott Hahn, for whom the covenant and its principles eventually led to his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. A few years later, my study of these principles, explained in Ray Sutton’s book, THAT YOU MAY PROSPER - Dominion by Covenant, led me to enter the Byzantine Catholic Church in April of 2001.

Unfortunately, at that time I misapplied one of the five working principles of a covenant relationship, one which Scott Hahn also missed. I think this came from my familiarity with the Western churches of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism and the manner in which they approach Christianity. Over the last several decades, a growing number of Evangelicals and Protestants have discovered the beauty and fullness of the ancient Orthodox faith.

In the Orthodox faith, a theologian is one who prays, and one who prays is a theologian. Theology is not approached in the same manner as it is in the West, as an exercise of mental acuity, clever dissertations on God, and intellectual exercises done in regard to Bible passages, often clouded by the prejudice and judgment of the one reading the text. It is instead, coming to know Christ/God through prayer, ascetic exercise, and the silence of the heart before God, or heyschasm. It is to experience God, not just to talk about the ideas your own mind or your own understanding of the Bible have formulated about Him.

I am newly chrismated into the Orthodox faith, and while Eastern Catholicism tries to be Orthodox, it is not at all the same. In entering the Orthodox Church, I made up my mind to sit down, shut up, listen, and learn. As such, I shouldn’t even be writing this book, but there is a problem I need to address. After my conversion from Protestantism, I wrote and published the initial draft of this book, with the goal of sharing with friends and others the covenant principles which had led me to enter into communion with the Roman Catholic Church through Eastern Catholicism. This book is available on the open market; therefore, it needs to be revised and republished in order correct the error I made in the discussing Sutton’s second principle of covenant – hierarchy.

Hierarchy is the principle of covenant headship. As you will see discussed later on, Christ is the New Adam, who is the human covenant head over the Church – not the Patriarch of Rome.

Everyone,

I'm a patriotic American monarchist finding it hard to feel at home in my country, especially now during the Biden administration. When you're a counter-revolutionary like me, it may be hard for you to approve of the American Revolution. I'm not a political junkie since I hate politics, but I enjoy political philosophy. So I'd love to hear your thoughts on this article. Don't worry. I won't run for office when anyone expects me to be a hypocrite.


God bless,
Bill

History has shown humanity some good men, mere men, not God incarnate, but just men (and women) who have been gentle, honest, generous, willing to die for what is right yet never willing to kill or harm. If you knew of such a man or women would you mourn their passing?

In July of 2020 I had a dream. In this dream I could see in the distance 3 smoke stacks. Closer I saw 3 business, office type buildings.
As I looked, I saw the 3 smokestacks crumble and fall over. Then the 3 buildings crumbled and fell over.
The first thing that came to my mind was that in 3 "units" of time the productivity of the nation would crash down, and the economic structures (possibly wall street and the banks) would also crash. We first looked for 3 months and all was well. We are now looking at three years, meaning early summer of this year.
Many years ago I had a series of dreams where I saw future Presidential Administrations represented by houses. One of these houses represented President Jimmy Carter. Years later it was presented to me that after a period (valley of decision) and confusion, the land would fall into darkness, tribulation, and trouble. If I understand the process of these dreams, the death of this former President is a sign of the impending troubles.
Today it was announced that President Carter has entered home hospice care. IOWs, the President has been sent home to die.
We are watching these events. And the coming summer.

It looks like the works of Roald Dahl are getting a make-over:

To maximize shareholder value, some banks have also adopted ESG investing practices that evaluate companies on how well they are managing relevant risks including climate risk and governance practices as compared to their peers.


Because of Texas’ large oil and gas industry, some Texas lawmakers have chosen to interpret this as an attack on the state, rather than a shift in the priorities and preferences of a functioning market. In 2021, legislators introduced Senate Bill 13, which banned banks that had divested from the oil and gas sector from participating in public finance markets in the state. A similar bill, Senate Bill 19, banned state and local governments from contracting with lenders that are limiting business in the firearms industry. Both laws took effect in September 2021.

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Statement on President Carter’s Health​

Feb. 18, 2023
ATLANTA (Feb. 18, 2023) — After a series of short hospital stays, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention. He has the full support of his family and his medical team. The Carter family asks for privacy during this time and is grateful for the concern shown by his many admirers.

Been struggling recently.
Please pray and leave any prayer requests you may have yourselves in the comments so they may be addressed as well.

May The LORD Bless You and Keep You All


Shalom Aleichem

I am in a group at church where we read a passage from the Bible every week and talk about it and how it relates to our life. The pastor picks the passage - it's often the one we'll read in church the following Sunday. This has been a good experience. The passages are often insightful and beautiful.

Since I have never read the entire Bible, this year I decided to do one of those programs where you read the whole bible in a year. I hoped it would bring me closer to God.

I'm afraid it had the opposite effect.

I read the book of Job and most of Genesis and then I quit reading. Unlike the New Testament verses we read in my church group, some of the stuff I'm reading in the Old Testament is deeply disturbing. The verses that bother me the most are Genesis 19:1-8. It's the passage where Lot offers to let a mob of Sodomites rape his daughters.

My pastor explained to me that it was another time and another culture, but that's not helping me. I assume God gave us the Bible because He wants us to read it. Why would God want me to read about Sodomites trying to rape angels and Lot offering his daughters to them?!?

I have heard people say that the Bible is God's love letter to us. I was not prepared for how horrible some parts of the Old Testament are.

Also, I know that Jesus uses parables in the New Testament, but parts of the Old Testament seem to be fictional but they aren't presented as so. It made me wonder how we can tell which parts of the Bible are true and which are not. Since so much about what we know about God comes from the Bible, this experience has shaken me a bit.

Is there a way to know which parts of the Bible are trustworthy and worth reading? Why do you think the story about Lot and Sodom is in the Bible at all?

Ok so I upgraded my internet the other day from 500mb/s to 1 gb/s yet when I run a speed test im still getting my old 500 mb/s speeds. I've called Spectrum and they told me that there's no reason I shouldn't be getting 1 gb speeds. My router is fine, my modem is shooting out 1 gb speeds (customer service pinged my modem and it is pumping out the correct speeds) I've checked my routers options and they're all fine there's nothing wrong. Yet I'm not getting the internet im paying for. I'm at my witts end and about to call Spectrum again and just get my jnternet back to 500 mbit.

“For two years, the transparency and accountability that you promised to obsessively uphold during your inauguration has been nowhere to be found. The incompetence and failure within your administration cannot continue to be ignored when Americans’ health and safety are at risk. I hope you will change course in order to uphold your so-far-unmet promise to the American people by requesting the immediate resignation of Secretary Buttigieg,” he said.
You just can't believe that a federal agency in charge of disasters is not interested in helping people in dire need. I wonder whether it's because Ohio voted for Trump in 2020.

I am having doubts about this. Here is an article. Did God Hate Esau?
Read this article.

A giant cat has gotten so big it is now 4.27 feet long, the average height of a nine-year-old (1.3m).

The enormous Maine Coon has often been mistaken for a dog, leaving many people stunned.

Owner Natalie Bowman adopted Finn in 2017, when he was just three and half months old.

The cat’s stupendous size makes him an expensive pet to maintain.

Finn gets fed three or four times a day and Natalie spends $150 a month on his food.

The 32-year-old often walks Finn through their neighborhood on a leash, and he has now become a local celebrity.

“It’s really funny, they think he’s a dog, and then when they get closer they say oh my god it’s a cat and they love him.”

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Psalms 101:1-3 ESV


God is love and God is holy and righteous and pure, so love is holy and righteous and pure, if it comes from God. And justice is fairness, uprightness, righteousness, honesty, and integrity, and God is all these things in his character. And if we are in Christ, by God-given faith in him, then we are to take on the character of Christ, and we are to walk in his ways and in his truth. And so we are to be people of God who are honest and upright and morally pure and who walk in righteousness and holiness to the glory and praise of God.

And with regard to the word “blameless”, it means to be without blame. So, if we are in Christ, by God-given faith in him, and so we are walking (in practice, in conduct) according to the Spirit, and not according to the flesh, and if by the Spirit we are daily dying to sin and we are denying self and we are walking in obedience to our Lord, in practice, then we are without blame. But if we make a profession of faith in Christ and then we continue in deliberate and habitual sin, we are not blameless. For the Scriptures teach that living such a life will result in not entering into the kingdom of heaven.

Now, to walk with integrity of heart within our houses involves us being people, in character, who are honest, upright, and reliable (faithful), who honor God with our lives. And we are people who are who we say we are no matter where we are or who we are with. We are not one person out in public in front of an audience and then different when we are home in our comfort zone, and/or when we are alone with no one else looking. We are consistent in who we are and in what we practice day in and day out. We are not double-minded and we are not a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

We, as followers of Jesus, are not to set before our eyes anything that is worthless. And worthless is what is pure rubbish, junk, good for nothing, useless, ungodly, wicked, and destructive to our souls. For when we set before our eyes such things, we are also taking these things into our minds and hearts, so it is like garbage in and garbage out. For what we take into our minds and into our hearts influences our character, our attitudes, and our behaviors. But just the act of viewing such things, depending on what it is, can be a sinful and immoral act, such as in viewing pornography.

And so many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are filling their minds and hearts with such things because they are not guarding their minds and hearts against what is sinful and worthless and against what is pure garbage and what is immoral. But it isn’t just the content, though that is huge, but it is time spent on these things, too, that can be wasteful and useless and which may be sinful and against God, depending on the content. And that is time that could be better spent obeying and serving the Lord in doing his will for our lives and in doing things which are helpful to others.

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; 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 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

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I Surrender All

Hymn lyrics by Judson W. Van De Venter, 1896
Music by Winfield S. Weeden, 1896

… Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee. (Mark 10:28)

All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me, Jesus, take me now.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
Truly know that Thou art mine.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power,
Let Thy blessing fall on me.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Now I feel the sacred flame;
Oh, the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory, to His Name!

I surrender all,
I surrender all;
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

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About Wooyoung’s birth chart

I found Wooyoung’s birth chart on tumblr

[https://at.tumblr.com/rainy-astrolo...z-birth-chart-analysis-wooyoung/vv8ngoadjcve).

And I came across this: Mars Capricorn in 4th is a hardworking and protective placement. Mars Capricorn is exalted, so Woo definitely takes his work and responsibilities seriously. He may have felt responsible for his family at a young age (as most Capricorn in 4th house ppl do...) and matured earlier than most people. Mars in 4th makes him very protective of those he considers family (if i recall correctly, he said he would bite whoever upset Seonghwa lol. And honestly I can see it happening. He is not hesitant to call out whoever hurts ATEEZ). Do not mess with his loved ones.


I try my best to be respectful and friendly to his loved ones

people who are the kindest are the scariest. Wooyoung is scary when he’s angry. Wooyoung extremely loyal and takes no crap

When I meet Ateez in person maybe at Kcon in VIP, I’ll make sure to behave and be the friendliest and kindest person I can be in front of Wooyoung and for him.

What do you think?

A group of researchers has suggested the terms 'male' and 'female' should not be used in science because they assume sex is binary.

The recommendation is one of many made by the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Language Project, which includes scientists in the United States and Canada. Instead, they say more inclusive terminology like "sperm-producing" and "egg-producing" should be encouraged.

The term 'survival of the fittest' could also be considered offensive to people with disabilities, scientists have argued in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Terms like "invasive" or "non-native species" have "xenophobic, anti-immigrant and militaristic" connotations, they claim, and suggest inclusive alternatives like “newly-arrived” or “nuisance species”.

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There is a saying "give them an inch they take a yard". What was only suppose to be limited to social sphere has infected and starting to destroy the intellectual sphere. Wokeness is more of a religion at this point. There are taboo words and subjects that people cannot question. In comes the old blasphemy & less majeste dressed as progressiveness.

I now live in a world where authoritarian nations like China and Russia teach proper science and free democratic nations teach pseudo science. No wonder the younger generations of the west especially North America is no where near the top ten smartest people on earth. America is 20 and Canada is 16. With what is transpiring in the west I doubt North America nations will be in the top 20 for long.


Feelings should never interfere with truths. Unfortunately in the west wokeness is the new state religion. And like any state religion there is always a form of doctrinal supremacy enforced. You're all doing great ruining the future generations.

Cyclone Freddy looks like a very powerful storm!

I think I’ve hit it a few times by accident. It sort of pops in and out of every page you go to.

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Anyone been getting this as well?

The churches I visit normally keep their eschatology simple with a statement such as...

"We believe in the premillennial second coming of Jesus. First, to resurrect the righteous dead and to catch away the living saints to Him in the air. Second, to reign on the earth a thousand years."

And a chat on my views on eschatology with a preacher of that view will normally result in a simple, "Looking for Jesus" reply along with a smile. To get any heavier in Revelation is never fruitful so I rarely bring it up outside Christian web forums. Even on Christian forums the chats normally end up unproductive and one makes more enemies as it is rare to find Christians who have studied Revelation, church history and have arrived at the same conclusions. Folks will get angry at you for disagreeing with them and one creates more enemies than friends, To make a long story short a detailed view of Revelation often comes across as ego, as the Apostle says...

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. - 1 Corinthians 8:1

Spirituality... But I believe that a key to true spirituality is in the looking for the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ...

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. - 1 John 3:2-3

11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; - Titus 2

1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - Hebrews 12

A good man will continue to look unto Jesus and that hope to "see him as he is" is a sanctifying hope. A man heavily into eschatology seldom comes across as a charitable soul.

What do you think about the Salvation Army use of uniforms? What about other Christian sects that have a dress code?
Does clothing matter?

In Romans 9:1-18 Paul says: But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Jacob; nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but: “Through Isaac your descendants will be named.” That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants.

In verses 1–5 he expresses his grief over the lostness of his kinsmen, the Jewish people. He says in verse 3, “I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” And what receives the emphasis in verses 4–5 is not that Israelites are Paul’s kinsmen but that they are God’s kinsmen. It says: They are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants. So the crisis in verses 1–5 is not only a personal one for Paul, it is a theological one all of us whose eternity hangs on God’s faithfulness. The crisis created in verses 1–5 is that ethnic Israel is God’s chosen, covenant people, and that most of them seem to be accursed and cut off from Christ and from salvation. Has God been faithful to his promises? If not, what are we hoping for?


We must keep in mind that this is the crisis Paul is dealing with. Israel is God’s chosen people and most of them are perishing, cut off from the Savior, Jesus Christ. And the reason it is a crisis for you, and not just for Jews, is that, if God’s promises to Israel do not hold true, then there is no reason to think his promises to you will hold true. The rock solid security of God’s Christian elect in Romans 8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies!. This security that we exult in, at the heart of our faith, is worthless if God proves unfaithful to his covenant people. If God does not keep his promises to Israel, will he keep the promises he makes to us Christians?

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. That is Paul’s assertion against the crisis described in verses 1–5. Yes, it is true that many in the covenant people are accursed and cut off from Christ, and yes it is true that God chose Israel and made a covenant with her and gave her promises, but, no, it is not true that the word of God has failed. That is Paul’s assertion.

But everything else through this chapter, and indeed almost everything through the next three chapters, is an argument or a support for this assertion. And so keep in mind as we see in this chapter that some of the clearest and most forceful statements in the Bible about unconditional election and the sovereignty of God in salvation are made here to prove God’s faithfulness to his promises.


Now then, what is Paul’s argument in support of God’s faithfulness? How can he say that the word of God has not failed even though many Israelites are accursed and cut off from Christ? He states his answer three times in verses 6–9 and gives two Old Testament quotations to support it.

First, in verse 6b he says, For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel. In other words, Paul’s argument is that the promises of God always hold true for the true Israel, the spiritual Israel, but not all ethnic Israel is true Israel. The fact is: there is an Israel of God, His saving promises are made to them, the ‘set apart people’ and these promises have never failed.

Second, in verse 7a he says it a little differently, but makes the same point: Nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants. In other words, he is distinguishing here between two kinds of “children” – there are all of Abraham’s descendants, and there is a group within that number whom he calls here “the children,” or we could say, “the true children” since the others are physical children also. The truth is that the promises of God hold true for the true children of Abraham but not for every descendant of Abraham. So in verse 6 he says that not all Israel is Israel, and in verse 7 he says that not all the children of Abraham are God’s children. The word of God has not failed, because it was meant for the true Israel, the true Spiritual children, and it has never failed any of them.

Third, in verse 8 Paul states the argument a third time in more general terms without naming Israel or Abraham so that we see the principle involved. That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

This, he says again, is why the word of God has not failed –why the promises of God have not failed – even though many of Israelites according to the flesh are accursed and cut off from Christ. It’s because the promises are for the children of promise – the children of God – and not every child of Israelite flesh is a child of promise.

And when he then says that these “children of God” are “children of promise,” he means that they have their spiritual position not because of their physical connections, but because of God’s effective promise. The promise produced the position.

Now we need to look at Paul’s Old Testament support for this. But first remember that we have seen three different statements of Paul as to why the word of God to Israel has not failed:

Verse 6b: They are not all Israel who are descended from Israel.

Verse 7a: Nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants.

Verse 8: It is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants.

That is why the word of God has not failed even though so many Israelites are lost and cut off from Christ. They were not true Israelites. They were not true children of Abraham. They were children of the flesh but not children of promise, that is, children of God.

Where does Paul find the idea that the promise of God is not simply for every Israelite, but for those who are children of promise? And what does that mean – children of promise?

Paul gives two illustrations in verses 6–9 and in verses 10–13: The children of Abraham and Sarah and the children of Isaac and Rebecca. After Paul says: Nor are they true children because they are Abraham’s descendants, he quotes Genesis 21:12 Through Isaac your descendants will be named. Even though you have an older son, Ishmael, he will not be the heir of the promise.

Then Paul quotes Malachi 1:2-3…Jacob I love and Esau I hate….

So, again, it is God’s choice that dictates the line of the Promise.
I make the promise, God says. And I bring it to pass. My promises are not predictions of what may come about with your help. My promises are declarations of what I intend to bring about by my sovereign power. I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.

So what is a child of promise, a child of God? A child of promise is the recipient of God’s saving grace, not because of ethnic origin or physical birth, or of any human action, only because of God’s sovereign Word. The birth of Isaac is a picture of how every child of God spiritually comes into being. The decisive work is God’s work. Not Abraham’s and not Isaac’s and not ours. Only God’s choice. John 15:16

What then is the answer to the crisis of verses 1–5: Has the word of God failed because many Jews are accursed and cut off from Christ? Have the promises of God come to naught? The answer is no.

The reason Paul gives three times is that the promise of God itself accomplishes its purpose, and that purpose is to gain for Himself a righteous holy people, who will live in all of the holy Land as His witnesses, Isaiah 43:10 and be the Light to the nations, Isaiah 49:8, as He always intended.

Ezekiel 20:38 says how God will take the ethnic Israelites out of the nations where they now live, judge them and only the righteous, joined by every other true Christian believer, will enter the holy Land. Isaiah 35:1-10

The way God brings into being His true Israel is, finally by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, as the true Seed of Abraham, the Son of David, and, in the deepest sense, Israel Himself. And now every person, Jew or Gentile, who trusts in Christ, is united to him and becomes part of God’s true Israel in Christ. And that Israel includes people from every tribe, race, nation and language. Isaiah 66:18b, 1 Peter 2:9-10, Revelation 7:9

Ref: John Piper

One verse does not establish a fact. One phrase within a verse does not establish anything. Other verses always back up anything that we are to accept as a fact! There is only one exception to this rule. Some verses teach about God's sovereignty and can stand alone, 2Chron 20:6, Psalm 115:3, Psalm 135:6, Ecc 3:19, Dan 4:35, Job 13:13, and Is 14:24. But, the doctrine of God's sovereignty is also shown through many other verses, showing that in Scripture, other verses are always used to establish doctrines, or are found as a part of the Jewish culture and history.
English translations are not accurate word-for-word translations of Scripture. No two English translations are exact duplicates of each other. There are English translations that have added verses not found in any original text and other English translations that have removed words and verses from original texts. And others that have changed the original text. Anything found in the New Testament can always be referenced by the same or similar teaching in the Old.

In English translations, 2Pet 2:5 states that Noah was a "preacher of righteousness." You have to ask yourself, "Why is that said?" Why is that part of the verse, and to what Old Testament passage or example is Peter referring? Nowhere in the Old Testament do we see Noah "preaching" to anybody! In all of Scripture, there is only one example of "preaching righteousness," Psalm 40:9. How many hundreds of years between Noah and the Psalms being written? No other person is called a "preacher of righteousness. This phrase is only found once in English translations. I'll say it again, just because something is said in a translation doesn't mean it is true or found in the original Scripture. "Preaching righteousness" is not a theme or practice in Scripture.
There were no "preachers" in Noah's day. The English word "preacher" isn't used until the book of Ecclesiastes, and even there, the word is an incorrect translation of the Hebrew word qoheleth. The practice of "preaching" is not found in Scripture until we reach the Gospels. Preaching is teaching/proclaiming Scripture. There was no Scripture, God's written word, in the days of Noah.

We don't see Jehovah commanding Noah to "preach" anything. Noah wasn't a prophet foretelling the coming disaster. Let's look at what Scripture says.

Gen 6:5-7 "...And the LORD said I will destroy man...from the face of the earth..."

Pretty simple, Jehovah said He was going to destroy man, all of mankind.

Gen 6:8-9 But Noah found Grace in the eyes of the LORD. Noah was a just man, blameless among the people, and he walked with God.

Gen 6:13 And God told Noah, "The end of all flesh is come before me...behold I will destroy them with the earth."

Gen 6:17 "...And I will bring a flood upon the earth to destroy all flesh...everything in the earth shall die."

Gen 6:18 But with you, Noah, I will establish my covenant. And you, your wife, your sons, and their wives will go into the ark.

When Jehovah gave Noah instructions for building the ark, He didn't mention having extra space for anyone on the earth who would repent and go into the ark. Jehovah was specific about the number of people who would enter the ark. He didn't add, "and anybody who repents." We see three times Jehovah where He stated that He was going to destroy all people on the earth.
From the end of chapter 6, until Noah enters the ark, 100-120 years pass. To build the massive ark, using only hand tools, would have taken long days of constant work. As far as we know, Noah only had his three sons to help him. When would Noah have had any time to walk around the people "preaching righteousness?" Righteousness means to live right and do the right things. How would preaching righteousness have helped people Jehovah clearly stated He was going to destroy? Preaching righteousness does not mean preaching repentance. Preaching righteousness would have nothing to do with warning people about the coming flood. Where do you see Noah spending time preaching? Jehovah had told Noah three times He was going to destroy all people. Why would Noah waste any time on a lost cause? If Noah had "preached repentance," doesn't it make sense that Peter would have said that Noah was a "preacher of repentance?" If the Old Testament showed Noah being a "preacher of righteousness," I wouldn't be doing this study. I base what I study and believe on what I find in Scripture, not a tradition of man, not popular Evangelical teaching.
Let me debunk another lie. Where do we see Noah being mocked by people? We don't see Noah having even one conversation with another person while he built the ark. It would have been impossible to keep other people from being aware of the ark being built due to its size and the time frame. How is it that we don't see any interference with the construction? I have no doubt God kept the wicked, violent people from being able to see the ark. Knowing people, there is no doubt that evil people would have burned up the ark if they had seen it or even killed Noah and his family. In Mat 24:37-39, Jesus said the people on the earth were unaware of the coming flood.

Gen 7:1 Jehovah instructs Noah and his house to enter the ark.

Gen 7:4 Jehovah repeats that He is going to destroy all people in the flood.

Gen 7:16 God shuts the door.

Some may think that the flood was some gradual rising of the water. Gen 7:11 describes a great onslaught of water from the ground and the sky. The amount of water was so great that all of the people and animals on the face of the earth were underwater in minutes, instantly drowned, like a tsunami. There wouldn't have been any time for people to try and climb up on anything to escape the "slowly rising water." The flood caught them completely off guard.

This wasn't the only time Jehovah sent sudden destruction upon people without warning. When He drowned Pharoah's army, Sodom and Gomorrah, and when the walls of Jericho came crashing down. We know that Noah was righteous in Jehovah's eyes, Gen 7:1, Eze 14:14, 20. There are three possible reasons why we find the phrase "a preacher of righteousness" in 2Pet 2:5:

1 At some point, a person making a copy of a Greek text added the phrase. Others then copied the altered copy, and it was accepted as a part of the original text over time. This is what I believe happened. Since there is no reference to a "preacher of righteousness" anywhere in Scripture, it would make sense if Peter had written "a righteous man," which would have referenced the Old Testament.

2 There are a number of extrabiblical writings that state that Noah preached to people. Perhaps Peter was aware of this and decided to include it. But, extrabiblical literature was not included in the Canon for a reason.

3 It's possible that Peter used the phrase as a metaphor for describing how Noah was a preacher of righteousness by how he lived his life.

Rep. Erin Healy's tweet was bombarded with social science literature.

PIERRE, South Dakota (LifeSiteNews) — A Democrat lawmaker in South Dakota is under fire for declaring it “dangerous” and “un-American” to believe that children should have both a mother and a father.

On Monday, State Rep. Erin Healy tweeted, “Extremist group Family Heritage Alliance said this morning that the safest place for kids are in families that have a married mom and dad. What a dangerous and un-American belief,” apparently in reaction to comments against an unsuccessful bill to remove sex-specific language from South Dakota’s legal definition of marriage.

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How does one wire Electric Motors? I have tried in the past and caused fires. I only wire them outside so I can walk away and pretend, I did not start another fire.