These are not the actions of people whose claims should be taken seriously.

Interesting, the cubes extending beyond the cast shadow of the frame sell the effect.

Also, I expect to see Q*bert!

Chrystal-J said:

I think you nailed it. He has become over controlling because of his fear of death. I'm trying really hard to be patient. Every time he has to go to the hospital, it's a Catholic one. He's talked with a monk and it seemed to help.

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Peace be with you. If you try to meet all of his demands, you will drive yourself crazy. If you see them as a cry for help as he approaches eternity, you can understand.

I recently lived through the death of both of my parents. Some how I am not grieving over their loss. They died in the sacraments and there was nothing more I could do

Have your Dad receive the anointing of the sick , and listen to the audio book Preparation for Death by Alphonse Liguori, one of the great doctors of the Church

If your Dad is willing, pray with him. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God
We are a communion of saints, we all need support

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Elon Musk knows full well he’ll be able to pull the right strings and remove regulations preventing him from making even more money.

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I bet he's already implanted a chip in Trump's brain to control him. And Trump agreed to the implantation because Musk told him it would cure his dementia.

Trav’ling down the highway
Of blessed peacefulness,
Walking with my Savior,
Live to His righteousness.

Trusting in His mercy,
And resting in His care,
Oh, what blessed communion
With my Lord I do share.

Believe in His promise,
And trust His ev’ry word,
List’ning as He teaches
To do as I have heard.

Love You Jesus, Savior,
You are Lord of my life.
When I follow Your ways
I give not up to strife.

Satisfy my longings,
You meet my ev’ry need,
When I walk with You, Lord,
And on Your Word I feed.

An Original Work / July 23, 2018

Postvieww said:

Just my opinion, but I see it as a battle between good and evil, yes I did say that.

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Yeah I said that earlier maybe in another thread. Fundementally it is a spiritual battle, an ideological battle about what is truth and reality and how we should order humans and society. One is about humans being the gods of our own lives and the other about putting God above all. Progressive ideology has gradually moved away from God.

Postvieww said:

One side wants preserve this nation and its freedoms as founded and one side wants change everything they have not already changed.

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It seems a contradiction that progressives who champion DEI would be all for freedoms, allowing everyone to be free regardless of race and gender and a bunch of other identities. But thats the contradiction of the ideology and its incoherence. It shoots itself in the foot.

By viewing the world through identity groups humans are divided and pitted against each other based on different worth attached to identity. Its like a self fulling prophesy. By making everything about identity such as race and gender the identities become all that is important. But that is unreal and bound to clash and cause chaos.

What ends up happening is society becomes less free and bound up in a ever increasing list of do's and dont's. What some call PC or Woke.

Whereas as you mentioned the fundemental freedoms we built free nations on was the idea of humans being made in Gods image with dignity, worth and natural inalienable rights like freedom of volition regardless of race, religion and gender ect. So identity woke politics actually denies our volition by reducing us to the sum of our identities. Thus binding us in our identities and losing the true self and individual worth.

Postvieww said:

We are becoming more like Europe and that is not a good thing. Liberalism as promoted by many politicians will only lead to the loss of freedoms and rights guaranteed by our constitution and bill of rights. Both sides claim democracy is at stake but only one side is on the right side of that issue.

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Europe is a hotpot of many cultures. But you are right that fundementally the same thing seems to be happening across many nations. I think more within Christian nations. The Islamist conflicts are for different reasons but have similarities in that theres a movement to topple governments and take power based on opposing ideology.

The climate has become heated on both sides. It seems the insistence of PC woke ideology and CC has caused an equal and opposite reaction where extreme Right wing ideology is being pushed back. Its a powder keg all over the world. If its not the middle east its within our own nations.

I remember the west use to look from afar at such terror and violence overseas. Now its growing on our doorsteps. A perfect storm of discontent. Nothing to unite us.

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Any eyes wide open person who truly looks at the facts should be able to discern which side that is, but liberal propaganda seems to have consumed way to much of our population. Trump is the only one running for President who has a shot at making this country great again.Kamala is an empty suit puppet of the left which would result in ruin for this country if elected. Just consider she is running for President without having received one primary vote. That is not democracy and she will not protect democracy and freedom.

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Yes I think many are waking up to the incohrence of Leftist ideology. Whether its too late for this round we will have to wait and see. Its strange that they go with an even more radical Leftist in Harris rather than a true moderate.

I think the minders and elites worked out that it was too late to vet anyone and just went with Harris. The problem is that she was a political appointment in the first place so not vetting her compounded the deception. It meant that a highly unqualified and deserving candidate got the job over someone more qualified and deserving.

Now their running around trying to plug the holes in the leaking ship.

I think Trump despite not being the ideal candidate is closer to protecting the basic freedoms and truths that made the west free.

Its a strange and interesting time in world politics. It now seems that its more than just politics but a clash of worldviews that is at stake. I think covid contributed to the mindset, the anxiety which makes it more personal. But playing identity politics has evolved into the metaphyical and society and the world is having breakdown and developing a identity disorder lol.

The “poor” being spoken of here are not necessarily the physically poor, for not everyone who is physically poor has the promise of the kingdom of heaven as belonging to them, and not everyone who is wealthy is excluded from the kingdom of heaven. So, we have to interpret this from a spiritual, not a physical perspective. Thus, this is speaking of those who are poor in spirit, who are humble before God, who are repentant, and who submit to Christ as Lord, and who surrender their lives to Jesus Christ.

The same applies to this next section. This is speaking of those who are spiritually hungry, who hunger and thirst after righteousness, and who hunger for God and for his word and to obey his teachings. Their desire is for the Lord and no longer for the pleasures of this sinful world. They want to know Jesus and they desire to know his will so that they can obey him and so that they no longer live in disobedience to him. They love him and so they want to do what pleases him, not what displeases him.

And continuing on that same vein, those who weep are not just those who are weeping over things going on in their personal lives. This is speaking of grieving over our sin to the point of genuine repentance so that we do not return to repeating the same sins over and over. If we truly are those who weep over sin, and not just ours only, but the sins of the world, and the sins of those who give lip service to Jesus only, the Lord will fill us with his joy. He will put smiles on our faces and he will give us the ability to even laugh.

Now, if all of the above is true of us, that we are humble, and we are repentant, and we do grieve over sin, and we hunger and thirst after righteousness, then we are blessed of God. He favors us. We are happy in him. But it also means that we will be hated and mistreated for our love for Jesus and for his word and for our walks of obedience to our Lord, and for our testimonies for him. But when we are mistreated, we are to forgive those who persecute us, and we are to treat them with kindness in return.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 6:14-15; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 18:21-22; Matthew 24:9-14; Mark 11:25; Luke 6:22-38; Luke 11:4; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 17:3-4; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; 2 Corinthians 2:5-7; Colossians 3:12-13]

Blessed are You
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Blessed Are You

An Original Work / August 29, 2012
Based off Luke 6:20-49 NIV 1984

“Blessed are you; blessed are you
Who are poor for God’s kingdom is yours.
Blessed are you; blessed are you
Who are hungry, you’ll be satisfied.
Blessed are you; blessed are you
Who weep now, for you will laugh with joy.
Blessed are you; blessed are you
when men hate and reject you because of Christ.”

“Rejoice in that; rejoice in that day
And leap for joy; great your reward.
But I tell you; but I tell you
To love those who hate you; do them good.
Pray for those who; pray for those who
Treat you wrong and say kind things of them.
Do to others; do to others as you would
Have them do; have them do to you.”

“If you love those; if you love those
Who love you, what praise is there for you?
Because Christ is; because Christ is kind,
Be merciful, just like He is.
Forgive others; forgive others
Their offense against you; be ye kind.
Hear My words and; hear My words and
Put them into practice, then you’ll be fulfilled.”

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Jesus Christ,
Who is the Son of God,
Taught the narrow way,
Not the way that’s broad.

Did not participate He
In the ways of man
But He followed God,
And He lived God’s plan.

Walked the narrow way,
Led a righteous life,
Obeyed God’s commands,
Free from sin and strife.

Shared the gospel truth,
He opposed the lies,
Called out hypocrites,
Told them they would die.

Said to follow Him
We must deny self,
Die to sin each day
And put self on shelf.

Said if we hold on
To our lives of sin
We will lose our lives
Not be forgiven.

If we die to sin
And we live to Christ
Free from sin’s dark grip,
In Him we’ll have life.

So, repent of sin,
Obey His commands,
Walk with Him in truth,
Your life in His hands.

An Original Work / August 12, 2023

P.S. If you walk the walk that Jesus walked, and if you speak the truth as he spoke the truth, the Bible teaches that you will be hated and persecuted as he was hated and persecuted, even by those closest to you.

See: [Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21]

Falling apart since 8 years old.

Parallel Scripture Passage:


So, what is this saying? It is saying that when we die with Christ to sin, when we are buried with him in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness, and so now our lives are changed, and we are no longer living in sin, but now we are living for the Lord, we are going to be rejected. Even some of our family members may disapprove of us and fight against us, so some of our strongest opposition may come from the people we live with.

For if we were living in sin and for the flesh, or if we were living worldly Christian lives, but then we repented, and so we turned to follow Jesus in obedience, and so we rejected our worldly lives to follow Jesus fully, those around us may not be okay with that. They may not be comfortable with the changes our Lord has made in our lives. For that may make them feel uncomfortable being around us because we are no longer living like them, but now we are being made into the likeness of Jesus Christ.

And this is not about being “stuck-up.” This has nothing to do with pride, or it shouldn’t. This is just the reality of the situation. Worldly people and those living in sin are just not going to feel comfortable being around us if truly our lives are surrendered to Jesus Christ and if we are no longer living like we did before we were surrendered to Christ. Unless.. our lives and our testimonies for Jesus Christ are what draw them to genuine faith in Jesus Christ, too. And we hope that that will also be part of our new reality.

Now Jesus said this so we would know what we are signing up for when we choose to follow him with our lives. For he wants us to know ahead of time the cost of following him with our lives. For he said that if anyone would come after him he must deny self and take up his cross daily (daily die to sin and to self) and follow (obey) him. But if we choose not to die to sin and not to live in obedience to our Lord, out of fear of being rejected by other humans, then we are not worthy of him, and we will not have eternal life in him.

[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]

Not Peace, But a Sword
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My Sheep

An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Based off John 10:1-18 NIV

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

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

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

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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Ugh Lord have mercy!

Is your dad able to live independently? Does he have the resources available to go to an assisted living or nursing home?

Is there anyone else who can take care of him?

Not bad. But Hulk Hogan still beats it.

As Election Day approaches, many have raised serious moral questions regarding how to vote. Sadly, in our great nation, we confront a situation in which both major political parties espouse certain agenda which are flagrantly contrary to the most fundamental tenets of the moral law, agenda against the inviolable dignity of innocent and defenseless human life, agenda against the integrity of marriage and its fruit, the family, and agenda against the free exercise of the virtue of religion. As Catholics, we should be clear that the moral law is certainly binding for us, but it is, likewise, binding for all men and women because it is written upon the human heart by God. For Catholics, as for all men and women of good will, the question is: In fulfilling our civic duty to vote, how can we be obedient to the law of God written upon our hearts in the present situation of deplorable moral and therefore cultural decline and decay.

In attempting to answer the question of how to vote in good conscience, I refer to the Pastoral Letter, “On Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good,” which, as Archbishop of Saint Louis, I published on October 1, 2004. A PDF version of the Pastoral Letter is accessible at the following link: On Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good

While I recommend the study of the Pastoral Letter, I offer the following indications for the question of how to vote with moral integrity.

Continued below.

Coming up to this election, I wonder which party will end up being the target of more terrorism.

AND I wonder which political group is going to be the most frequent perpetrators/collaborators/planners

Anyone wanna give odds?

iluvatar5150 said:

lol, Trump was a tv celebrity for something like a decade before getting elected. His real estate empire was in rough shape before that and his personal branding had mostly faded. Republican voters in 2016 didn't just listen to the star when going to the polls; they checked the box next to his name. We owe all of this to Mark Burnett.

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Well yes, he's certainly been a TV celebrity for a long time. I've always though there's been an unspoken difference between a "Movie Star" and a "TV star." Usually it seemed that movie stars were more prestigious back then, but that's gotten blurry now.
I was surprised to see he's been in quite a few films. Notably "The Little Rascals" from 1994. He was the rich kids dad and his cameo line was "You're the best son money can buy." What a charmer.

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4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.” 6 Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze[c] serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.




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Another day, another reason to complain. This time it was the manna they were complaining about, note what they said, it is worthless food. Are we like that, do we complain about our pastor? This church doesn't feed us properly, the messages are worthless food. How often we criticise and complain against God's servants!



Moses must have been fed up. God certainly was because he sent fiery serpents among them. Note that only when these serpents began to bite and devour the people, if God hadn't have acted in this way the people would have gone on and on moaning and complaining. God needs to shake us up sometimes; remember he hears all your complaining. Believe me I have a gold medal in complaining! He hears it and doesn't like it.



True repentance moves God's heart. The Children of Israel admitted their sin, - there is an answer to complaining and it lies at the foot of the cross. Another way to stop complaining is to praise God; if only the children of Israel had concentrated on what God had done for them.



God provided an answer though, a fiery serpent. What a picture of Christ. What did Jesus say of himself: ‘If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people unto myself.’ In Isaiah 45 we read these words: 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. Everyone who looks at Jesus will live. This is the great news for people who have been bitten by the serpent of sin.



Charles Spurgeon heard this verse preached on in 1853. He had his heart opened and he said that he looked to Christ and Christ alone for Salvation.



Have you looked to Jesus for Salvation?




God bless you


KK


GALATIANS 5




17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.


DUAL PERSONALITY



Ever wondered why you struggle to do something?



You want to wake up to pray at 6 am, but why is it that at 6 am you struggle to wake up? The reason can be summed up in this verse for when you get saved you receive a new heart, but your flesh remains. Your flesh has to be defeated and destroyed.
Someone said How do you defeat the flesh; you don't feed it.
If you want to wake up at 6 am, you need to sleep early. You don't need to watch TV the night before and fill your mind with rubbish.



We are in a daily war; it's going on 24/7. 365 days a year. It never stops. We see in Ephesians 6 that we have weapons. Why do we need weapons? if we aren't at war?



Paul in Romans 7 said that things he wanted to do, he didn't do and things he didn't want to he did. Surely if Paul struggled, we will also, but there is hope if we further look at Romans 7:



21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.




Look at Paul's answer in verse 25: the answer is the Lord Jesus Christ.



How do we kill the flesh? By feeding your spirit, by filling your mind with the word of God and prayer. It is also to keep looking at Christ; you remember in the first devotion, you looked at the bronze serpent. To keep on growing in the Lord and to defeat your flesh, you need to keep looking at Jesus. Keep Him and Calvary always before your eyes - Hebrews 12:1-4.




God bless you



KK

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Hello folks. Today we will be discussing a fictional space probe in the Xa'na sci-fi plot. A probe dubbed the JH-1 was built in the year 2074 by the Xa'na race in the city of Neris, Yanz to explore a nebula near a white dwarf star around 80 light-years away from planet Xanadu. This probe is slow, very slow, at a speed of only 3.46 times the speed of light. The reason for the slow speed is that in the 2060s, a probe dubbed the Zalplokad waged war on Xanadu. Now, Xa'na probes are legally limited in speed, and computing ability. However, as the JH-1 probe was not authorized to be placed into space in 2074 due to a temporary probe ban until 2083, it was promptly shut down after only travelling a few billion miles. After 2083, the JH-1's onboard computer would start up the main power systems, but due to the intense cold in outer space, the probe was deemed a loss. That means the JH-1 will be floating around in the outer Hesal system for centuries before being recovered.

The JH-1 probe is equipped with a graviton displacement drive rated to a top speed of Makarov 2.25 (3.17 billion mph or 5.1 billion km/h), and a cruising speed of Makarov 2. Using new graviton dispacement technology, the JH-1 only requires a cold fusion reactor with an output of just over 6 megawatts.

Man, this stuff is kinda boring if you ask me. Probes are not as cool as crewed missions.

Design your own probe:
So guys, if you were to design a space probe for a sci-fi setting, what type of instruments would you put on it? What type of objects in space would you want the probe explore? For myself, exploring a nebula for elements would be interesting, to see if any of the elements could be the right ingredients for a planet like Earth to form. Of course, God drove the creation of the universe.


White dwarf star info:

May he Rest In Peace

This simple design somehow managed to get completely misunderstood as some kind of method of "controlling' people when really it's just about making things convenient and then assuming people would choose convenience more often.

It's not "Passports to get across town???? Over my deAd bBody!?"

AV1611VET said:

First you say this:



Then you say this:



Which is it?

Do you understand, or not?

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What? Just because someone post's information that they have read about and considered doesn't mean their mind is now TOTALLY set. Some people have standards for their evidence.

In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, he issued a decree for the Jewish exiles to return to Jerusalem. Ezr 1:

3 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

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Cyrus authorized the Jews to rebuild the temple.
Local gentiles wanted to join in the effort but the Jews rejected them.
Ezr 4:

4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 5 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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Work on the temple halted.
Later, temple work resumed (Ezra 5:2).
Tattenai, the governor, opposed and wrote to Darius (Ezra 5:3-17).
Darius wrote back in Ezr 6:

6 “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away. 7 Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site. 8 Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.”

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Darius supported the rebuilding of the temple even financially.

9 And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail, 10 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

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Darius wanted the Jewish priests to pray for his family.

11 Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill. 12 May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”

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Darius issued a warning.
The book of Ezra wasn't in chronological order. The third opposition came in Ezr 4:

7 In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates

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some local inhabitants

wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated. 8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe

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some local officials

wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows: 9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials,

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more officials

the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

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people from other provinces

10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River. 11 (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting.

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There was a broad group of Gentiles against the rebuilding.
Artaxerxes replied:

19 I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it. 20 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid. 21 Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.

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Artaxerxes ordered the work to cease but was open to future adjustment.
In the 20th year of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah was a cupbearer to the king. Ne 20:

7 I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah, 8 and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.”

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Nehemiah wanted to finish the work of rebuilding the temple. Further, he wanted to rebuild the wall of the city of Jerusalem.

And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.

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Why did Artaxerses reverse his earlier decision?
When Artaxerses became king, his memory of his father facing the Egyptian revolt was still fresh. To play it safe, he stopped the Jerusalem temple rebuilding project. A decade later, the political wind changed. His empire was stable. He put more weight on his predecessor Darius' warning.
Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple, and Cyrus authorized its rebuilding. Then, the rebuilding work was suspended. Darius restarted the project, but it was suspended again, this time by Artaxerxes. Eventually, Artaxerxes allowed Nehemiah to finish the job. There was this up-and-down relationship between Persian kings and the Jewish God.

Fantine said:

Biden was doing better in polls because people were living with the Trump Administration's disasters.

His promoters are trying to promote a much better picture of 2016-2020 than actually occurred .

I sure wish there wasn't that adage that a person who hears a lie three times will believe it.

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The liberals media and the liberals politicians must have Americans believe that 2017-2019 was one of the very WORST years in modern America. I praise the Lord that multiple millions of Americans recognize the lies told constantly and consistently by liberals mainstream media and liberal politicians. Biden was falling in the polls across the USA because Americans understood the negative actions and impact of those actions by the Federal government under Joe Biden.

See also:

essentialsaltes said:

One of the most successful claims was disseminated by DC Weekly — a respectable-seeming internet outlet, which disinformation researchers at Clemson University traced back to domains affiliated with a former American police officer, John Mark Dougan, who has reinvented himself as a pro-Russian journalist in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

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essentialsaltes said:

Dougan, 51, who received political asylum in Moscow, is now a key player in Russia’s disinformation operations against the West.

Working from an apartment crowded with servers and other computer equipment, Dougan has built an ever-growing network of more than 160 fake websites that mimic news outlets in the United States, Britain and France.

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essentialsaltes said:

Phony 'news' portals surpass US newspaper sites, researchers say​

Those sites include a network of 167 Russian disinformation sites that NewsGuard said were linked to John Mark Dougan, a US former law enforcement officer who fled to Moscow.

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