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Antifa activist charged with cyberstalking, threatening ICE officers in Minnesota

A self-proclaimed member of the far-left domestic terrorist group Antifa has been charged with cyberstalking and threatening U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Authorities arrested 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Kyle Wagner on Thursday, with the antifa member being accused of threatening the lives of ICE agents in Minnesota.

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Ugh! That’s terrifying!
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Our Lady of Lourdes

I visited Lourdes back in 1998. It was awesome!

Today I watched, "My Name Is Bernadette," on Tubi. It was in French but excellent and showed the scenes when
Bernadette worked serving the ill at the convent in Nevers, where she herself died.

Bernadette's humility always impressed me.
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HOW TO PROGRESS FROM DEBATE TO DIALOGUE USING THE SOCRATIC METHOD

I think we all need the skills since our culture is in the midst of a mental health crisis.
It’s always been that way. As society becomes more aware of aspects of the human condition we shine a light on what was formerly hidden or pushed to the margins of society.
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DOJ investigates Baltimore over racially segregated equity meetings

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into the Baltimore City Health Department over alleged racially segregated employee meetings. The sessions were conducted as part of publicly funded equity training efforts and separated staff into white-only and people-of-color-only groups.

In a letter to Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott, DOJ officials said they had “reasonable cause” to believe the department may be engaged in employment practices that violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The inquiry will examine whether BCHD’s racial affinity groups and training sessions constitute unlawful segregation or classification based on race, color, or national origin.

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TikTok video leads to arrest of alleged human smuggler charging $100 per immigrant

A TikTok video has led immigration authorities to a suspect accused of smuggling illegal immigrants, with the man admitting that he had previously transported 10 undocumented individuals.

On Monday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas announced that Victor Eduardo De La Fuente is among the 242 new immigration cases filed by federal prosecutors from Jan. 30 to Feb. 5.

The attorney's office disclosed that charges have been brought against human smugglers and illegal aliens whose past convictions include child sexual assault, violent crimes, driving while intoxicated and multiple prior removals.

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Bridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada

Thank you for providing the name of at least one of the bridges.
The new, Canadian financed bridge is the Gordie Howe International Bridge and the older bridge is the Ambassador Bridge.
Poor billionaire.
Matthew Moroun is a Detroit-based trucking magnate whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, for decades. He met on Monday with Mr. Lutnick in Washington, according to two officials briefed on the meeting who requested anonymity to discuss a private conversation.​
The new bridge has been under construction for several years now. A bit late to start complaining about it now that hundreds of millions of dollars have already been spent and it's nearing completion. He should have complained during the first Trump administration if he wanted to complain.
He complained last term as well.


The Moroun family had previously called on Mr. Trump to halt the construction of the bridge — which, once opened, would compete with the Ambassador Bridge for the more than $300 million in daily cross-border trade.

Mr. Trump on Monday suggested in a post that the United States might seek to acquire “at least one half” of the new bridge and take a cut of the tolls.

In his first term, Mr. Trump had promoted the Gordie Howe Bridge in a joint statement with Canadian officials as a symbol of the countries’ deep ties and as “a vital economic link between our two countries.”​
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Water Baptism vs Spiritual Baptism

1 Corinthians 12: 13. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”

Galatians 3: 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.”

Romans 6: 3. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
And IT. is easy for me , because in each case the Greek for WATER // HYDOR. is NOT in. the GREEK TEXT.

When anyone checks Acts 1:5 you will see that WATER BAPTISM by John CHANGES to HOLY SPIRIT BAPTISM. and

its is in AORIST TENSE , means the PASTS TENSE and is gone forever !!

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Spiritual Israel + End times

I've been going back and forth on this topic for a few years now and I'm not sure how to rectify some stuff when it comes to end-time prophecy. I'd love to hear some arguments for and against or even going in a weird direction...

1. 144,000
  • 12 tribes are listed and the ones that had idolatry issues are excluded. This gives the idea that the 12 tribes listed are the purified ones essentially, so as a "whole" status.
  • They are called first fruits (Which using the farming term, they would be the first saved/protected during the trib before the rest of the harvest comes in)
Now, it makes sense to me that the church as a group would be considered apart of the 144,000 due to:
  • Us being grafted in
  • Ethnicity was done away with (there is neither jew nor gentile)
  • The only ones who are saved are saved through Christ
  • If only ethnic Jews are considered part of the 144,000, then you're essentially saying no gentile could be a "first fruit"
  • If this is only ethnic Jews, then you're saying God is going back to favor ethnicity over spiritual wholeness and Pauls analogies no longer apply
  • If this is only ethnic Jews then the idea that there is a 2 class system emerges where God favors ethnic Jews over gentiles.
2. So the fact that 144,000 incorporates everyone within God's tree makes sense apart from 1 problem...
  • What tribe are the gentiles apart of?
So how do you rectify the two, or cant you?

Side note:
I don't subscribe to the idea that the "church" just doesn't exist in the trib because that's essentially saying you're tossing out the entire new testament. People are going to be saved during this time period, they just might not live through it. So if the "church" represents the new covenant of people turning to Christ, then it will always be around.
I had some other thoughts about this. Hope this helps.

The key about the first fruits being defiled is something that belonging to God (that being the first fruits) being assigned as belonging to someone else. As it is written, the wife belongs to the husband and and the husband belongs to the wife.

Paul mentioned being a first fruit, and spoke of "it is better if they remain as I am" (not married) so this aspect of revelation may already be fulfilled. Not the 12 apostles, but perhaps these 144000 are among the apostles that Paul mentions in his letters that are not among the 12.

If you are reading this in a futurist light then it would involve people unmarried who are dedicated to God as first fruits, possibly first born. Though Child Dedications are common nowadays, the tradition of first fruit or first born rights is not. And with being born again being more important, than who was born first initially .. not sure if that would be a sound basis for theology. . .

So not sure what the futurist version of that would look like.
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Attempting to Reset

Bible (God's words) studies do not dilute the power of God's word. Scriptures (God's Words) are used in the studies I read. Being given some explanations or frame of reference does change or weaken the Scriptures that are studied.

I do not believe that one part, section, or group of books of the Bible contain a higher manifestation of God's power than another. However, if I were to claim that, I would choose the words in the Gospels printed in red that were spoken by Jesus himself, over words written by apostles after He died.
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Ivy League Influencer: Why This Catholic Scholar Is Trying to Save Higher Ed

As the new provost of Dartmouth, Santiago Schnell is bringing a Catholic vision of higher ed to the heart of elite academia.

As a world-renowned mathematical biologist and a devoted Catholic, Santiago Schnell had something of a dream job at the University of Notre Dame. There, as dean of the College of Science, he played a leading role in forming the next generation of Catholic scientists, while pursuing fruitful collaborations with theologians and participating in the campus’ rich sacramental life.

But when Sian Leah Beilock, the president of Dartmouth College and an emerging leader of higher-ed reform, asked the Venezuelan-born scholar to join her as the Ivy League institute’s provost, Schnell accepted the offer.

Not for prestige, but for a purpose.

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The World Order Established In Abraham's Seed

Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him,
whose names have not been written in the Book of Life
of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

What does “the foundation of the World” mean
in terms of “on earth as it is in heaven”.


John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me
may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory
which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

Ephesians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will.

1 Peter 1:
20
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you
21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead
and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Patient Advocate on Passage of New York Assisted-Suicide Bill: ‘Reexamine Your Consciences’

The Catholic bishops had urged Hochul not to pass the bill, saying that it undermined her own work on anti-suicide programs.

In spite of opposition from Catholic bishops and patient advocate groups, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Feb. 6 signed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the Empire State.

Assisted suicide is already legal in California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C.

Hochul, a Catholic, had already announced she would sign the bill once “guardrails” were added — specifically, laws to allow faith-based hospice providers to opt out of offering assisted suicide.

The Catholic bishops had urged Hochul not to pass the bill, saying that it undermined her own work on anti-suicide programs.

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Dominican Father Gregory Pine Addresses Theology of Speech and ‘Training the Tongue’

New book is practical guide — grounded in thought of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.

In his new book, Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech (Emmaus Road), Dominican Father Gregory Pine freely admits that ever since he can remember he has struggled to achieve “purity of speech.”

With disarming candor, Father Pine recounts his own past verbal missteps: a white lie he told to avoid blame, a wounding remark he made out of a desire to seem clever, the time he talked disparagingly about a friend, his overzealous correction of others, and the “rough-and-tumble” banter he was slow to realize might be offensive to those outside the East Coast suburb where he grew up.

Knowing that the author, a professor of dogmatic and moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., has stumbled in these ways makes it easier for readers to take stock of their own sins of speech. Yet Training the Tongue isn’t simply a jeremiad against “bad talk.” Rather, it is practical guide — grounded in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas — that invites readers to reflect on how their words shape their interior lives.

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