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How do you feel living in the book of revelations?

With wars breaking out everywhere, the economy getting increasingly worse and the elite being outed as being actual pedophile satanists it is very obvious that these are the end times and the people making illuminati exposed videos and the likes were right lol

Back then it felt kind of scary but now I stopped caring so I'm just waiting now

One Million Moms urges Christians to boycott Bad Bunny’s ‘Queer Icons’ Super Bowl halftime show

The only regret I have being a member of the church is that my fellow saints are notorious for butting heads with Hollywood. It grieves me. I don't see why we all can't just be friends? :sorry:
Hollywood is only friends with the far left. The amusing thing is that among the far left, friendship runs about as thin as friendship among the revolutionaries of the First French Republic, and they are not above cheering as their own take the ride in the tumbrel. That being the case, there is no point in seeking friendship with those who openly despise you and your beliefs and who seek your destruction. We are told to pray for our enemies, not to cozy up to them.
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US Factory Boom Disproportionately Favors Poorer Counties

Did you miss where they built this entire auto line while the Government was giving seven and a half LARGE in subsides?
Big Beautiful Bill got rid of them.
Demand dries up.
Plant closes.
This is “winning” for some reason.
Let's see...

1, Government mandates that people will use electrics and uses tax money to force people to do so.
2. Most people didn't want electrics and vote with their wallet.
3. Government changes and ends spending tax money on what people don't want.
4. There is an outcry from those who no longer get the tax money.

So yes, no longer taking money out of peoples' pocket for what they neither use nor want and which has questionable value is indeed winning.
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Another look at the moon landing.

But the distant lamp posts are not disappearing over the horizon, are they? They just appear smaller than the nearer ones. When the sun sets, it doesn't get smaller and smaller, but rather, it gradually disappears, so that half way through a sunset, we see only half of the sun, not the whole sun but getting smaller. Look at the distant lamp posts in your picture. They still appear as whole lamp posts, but smaller than the nearer ones.
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We must do the commandments in 1John 3:20-24 to bear fruit

Well, I'm sure not going to interpret that in some wooden fashion as if Paul was meaning to state more than the goal or purpose and hope for the young man. Or maybe Paul had some specific foreknowledge about that individual but either way there are far too many passages in Scripture warning believers that anyone doing such things will not enter heaven, or warning that there's no repentance for those who've tasted of the heavenly gift and then rejected it, or for those who've escaped the pollution of the world by the knowledge of Chrsit and then returned to their pigsty- to think that believers are somehow forced to ultimately obey or are immunized from turning back away from God. But:

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." Rev 14-15
I didn't think with your doctrine that you could explain that event. You do not believe the you man was saved at the time Paul wrote the epistle.

Acts 18:9 Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to hurt you; for I have many people in this city." 11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. NKJV

Above is what Jesus told Paul when he first started the church in Corinth. God had many people in that city. The church had many true believers.

Acts 15:23-29

23 They wrote this, letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia:
Greetings.
24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, "You must be circumcised and keep the law" — to whom we gave no such commandment — 25 it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell. NKJV


I have included the letter that the Jerusalem council sent to the Churches informing them they did not have to be circumcised. I included this letter so you could see that the church was established after the council informed the churches of the things they wanted them to do. Paul would have told the Corinthian Church of what the council expected of the churches when he established the church.

In addition to them not being circumcised they included a list of items from the law that they wanted the Churches to observe. Please note that the council said the Church would do well if they kept themselves from those things. They wanted the Church to avoid eating meat sacrificed to idols, avoid eating blood, avoid eating meat from strangled animals and abstain from sexual immorality.

These are thing the Jews found offensive. I know that you will believe that the churches had to obey in order to prove they were saved. But the fact that the council told them to abstain from doing those things means God does not enable and make true believers do those things in order to be justified.

1 Corinthians 1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, 5 that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, 6 even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, 7 so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. NKJV


I have included the above to once again say that Paul was writing to true believers who were called by God. They were called because they were of the elect. In addition, Paul states the church was well gifted with the gifts supplied by the Holy Spirit to ensure the church thrive and glorify God.

Now ask yourself just why did God, who had supplied the gifts to ensure the church would grow and thrive, let the church act as it did? Because God wanted to provide His church, later churches, with a bible to help us understand and interpret a correct doctrine. Just like the OT helps us understand what we are to do, so also the events in Corinth. The Corinthian epistles are important to help us understand and form correct doctrine.

I think your doctrine is a doctrine of death. You had better start to believe and try to understand what Paul wrote in the epistles. God does not force us to obey. God let's each of us determine just how we will glorify God and how many crowns we are to earn. The greater our effort to glorify God, the more God will trust to do important work in heaven.
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Can only a Milky-way type of galaxy hold life at this age of the universe?

You haven't made the observation of the thing you think is happening, and no one has. Your presuppositions about the trajectories of stars in spiral galaxies are not reflected in actual observations of spiral galaxies.
And humanity has not lived long enough to make the observations you claim. No to mention the attempt to observe from our viewpoint in the thick of the galaxy itself.

People are so duped by science fiction posing as science, it's pathetic.
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Another look at the moon landing.

The sun does not rise or set, it travels the sky doing it's circuit & it is due to our perspective & the distance it is at that we see the sun rise & set.
Not that again! Perspective, as has been explained umpteen times before, makes things appear smaller the greater the distance they are from the observer. Perspective does NOT make things appear to vanish below the horizon.
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Another look at the moon landing.

The globe earth is confirmed with every sunrise and sunset. I've been working early lately so I've seen quite a few of the former.

The sun does not rise or set, it travels the sky doing it's circuit & it is due to our perspective & the distance it is at that we see the sun rise & set.

We've been over this before.
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US Factory Boom Disproportionately Favors Poorer Counties

Did you miss where they built this entire auto line while the Government was giving seven and a half LARGE in subsides?
Big Beautiful Bill got rid of them.
Demand dries up.
Plant closes.
This is “winning” for some reason.

Owning the Libs is a type of winning.
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God's Promises Have Conditions

“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39 NASB1995)

To whom are these words spoken? To those who are in Christ Jesus by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing (see Ephesians 2:8-10). And who are they? They are all who no longer walk (in conduct, in practice) according to (in agreement and in cooperation with) the flesh, but who walk (in practice, in lifestyle) according to (in submission, surrender and obedience to) the Spirit of God (See Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

“For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God” (Romans 8:7-8 NASB1995)
“So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.” (Romans 8:12-14 NASB1995)

So, if we want to claim Romans 8:38-39 as our promise from God, then we must be those whose lives are surrendered to the will of God, who have died to sin, who are still dying to sin daily, and who are walking (in conduct, in practice, yet not necessarily in absolute perfection) in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, by the grace of God, in the power of God, and by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ which denies self, dies daily to sin, and obeys our Lord and his commands as a matter of life practice.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

So, please take this to heart. We should not and cannot, in truth, claim the promises of God for his people if we are still living in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord in willful disobedience to him and to his commands, as a matter of life practice, the dog always returning to his vomit.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Broken Cord

An Original Work / August 29, 2018
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love


Your bond is broken with your Lord and Savior
And your testimony is separate from Him.
Your words not matching your actions today.
Repent of your sin and bow down and pray.
Live what you testify in truth always.

Purity’s lacking in your life and witness,
For you profess one thing, but other you do.
Not moral, spiritual. Still of the flesh.
Not living in truth to what you confess.
Lying about it puts you in a mess.

Living a lie is your practice, ‘tis true of you.
Masquerade righteousness – none of it true.
Your heart is not given to your Lord God.
Because of how you live, you are a fraud.
Turn from your sin and give your life to God.

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An Original Work / February 18, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

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