It's good to hear that.

wing2000 said:

Will Donald get a ticket?

"At 6′3″, Trump has a BMI of 29.7, just under the 30.0 threshold for obesity. "

Trump’s Doctors Sneak Weight Reveal Into Shady Medical Report

The double-digits gain was tucked away in the late-night release.

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A few years ago and I'd been enjoying the good life and had put on quite a few kilos. Had a check up with my doc and stood on the scales. 'Yeah, I know' I said. 'Really need to do something about that'.

'No' he said. 'Your weight's fine. It's just that you're 2 feet too short'.

Summary Acts 28:17-22

So Paul had been in prison for awhile because the Jews were accusing him falsely of something he did not do. Eventually he appealed to Caesar and then he went on a long trip to get to Rome. When Paul got to Rome he called the leaders of the Jews together, with whom he shared his story and his predicament. So, they scheduled a day and time to meet with him.

Acts 28:23-29 NKJV


And so he spoke to them about Jesus Christ from the law of Moses and the Prophets. Some were persuaded, and some disbelieved. And then Paul quoted them the words of Isaiah the Prophet, as quoted above. And he was letting them know that this was talking about them. For so many of them, although they had been taught about Jesus from the Old Testament, and Jesus Christ, when he was on this earth, had taught them the truth of who he was, and why he came, and of God’s requirement that they deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus, they refused to believe that their Messiah had come.

And the words of Isaiah can and do apply to many people today who profess faith in the one true God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – but who deny him by their actions, in practice. And many of them do indeed claim ignorance for things they truly are not ignorant of, because they don’t want to obey them. They don’t want to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ, to his control, to deny self, die to sin, and obey the Lord in practice. And so they pretend ignorance. But they will be judged by God and he will say, “I never knew you. Depart from me!”

So, please understand that the gospel of Christ is not an invitation to just profess him as Lord and to believe in his death and resurrection. It is not to just say some words in a prayer repeated after someone else who then proclaims you are now a child of God and you are guaranteed heaven as your eternal destiny. It is to die with Christ to sin and to be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of our Lord in walks of surrender to his will, in obedience to his commands, in living holy lives pleasing to God – all in the power of God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; 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 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; 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]

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Based off Luke 9:22-25
An Original Work / February 21, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Jesus, Son of God,
Died for us on a cross.

Anyone who would come to Him
Must deny himself and follow.
He must take up his cross daily;
Die to sin and self each day.

Father, God above,
Loved us so: gave His Son.

If you want to save your old life;
Keep on sinning, follow your ways,
You will lose your life forever;
Hope of heaven gone away.

Spirit of our God
Gives us life in God’s Son.

Nonetheless, if you die to self;
Forsake your sin; follow Jesus,
You will live with God in heaven,
And forever praise His name!

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Sir Joseph said:

I'm really dissappointed to hear that since Testify To Love is the first song on my 3 album Christian music favorites collection. I can't or won't change that, but will try to ignore the source of an otherwise great song. Admittedly, I've got several Elton John favorites also in my collection and maybe even one Ty Herndon. I'm more repulsed by homosexuality than most but I don't let it stop me from appreciating their good work or treating the individuals with repect when I meet one.

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I don't like the cultural move to force normalization and acceptance of LGBTQ values on the US (and the world), but homosexuals are just sinners, like everyone else. The only difference is there is a group of activists dedicated to denying that homosexual behavior is sinful. But I can appreciate Elton John's skill in crafting and performing a song - besides which, in his case a heterosexual actually writes most of his lyrics.

I wouldn't throw someone out of a Christian band if they were struggling with homosexuality, but I probably would if they were trying to hold it up as normal, God-approved Christian behavior.

Trogdor the Burninator said:

I'll be honest, while there's quite a few things that worry me about this attack, the marking of the aircraft that was involved isn't one of them. I can't find a picture of the plane from any link in those pages, but beyond a few hundred feet, you aren't going to see who's air force it's from anyway.

I'll take a guess and say they had a coast guard or SIGNIT aircraft doing surveillance, and calling in the strike from something else at longer range, which is hardly newsworthy in and of itself.

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I suspect the subterfuge is for the benefit of whatever nation is allowing the aircraft to pre-deploy closer to the engagement zone.

It would also keep fewer military members out of the loop, 'cause military is more likely to have misgivings about the mission. I've suspected that it's more likely a CIA operation (or even a civilian para-mercenary group) than actual military.

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler is reassuring supporters after recent public appearances sparked concern about his health, saying the medical episodes he has experienced are not life-threatening and are part of what God is using for his sanctification.

In what he referred to as an “unusual” video that he hadn't “planned to release,” Mohler addressed concerns about his health, saying, “God, who is sovereign, means this for my sanctification.”

“I appreciate how many people have reached out just to ask if I’m OK,” Mohler said while acknowledging that concerns about his health have stemmed from “episodes” that have taken place during his appearances at recent public events, which have caused him to “pause.”

“Clearly, I’m in distress,” he added. “The episode passes and I’m able to resume what I’m doing.”

Continued below.

Spiritual Jew said:

That was the wrath of God the Father, not the wrath of Jesus.

Matthew 22:2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a marriage for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come. 4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.” ’ 5 But they made light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his business. 6 And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them. 7 But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Notice how Jesus differentiated between the king, who represents God the Father, and the king's son, who obviously represents Jesus. In verse 7 it indicates that the king, representing God the Father, "sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.". What happened in 70 AD was God the Father's wrath and was not a coming of Christ in any sense.

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You are correct. Thank you.

The Cinema Rex fire in 1978 by Islamic extremists did more than anything to overthrow the Shah.

Social media users blasted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after his office approved a plea deal that reduced jail time for Waco attorney Adam Hoffman, who had faced a possible life sentence in a child s**ual abuse case.

Hoffman, 49, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanour charges after prosecutors dropped a first-degree felony charge of repeated s**ual abuse of a young child. Under the agreement offered by Ken Paxton’s office, Hoffman would serve one day in jail and avoid registering as a sex offender.

A few years back.. Trump rewarded the prosecutor who cut a similar deal with Jeffrey Epstein by making him Labor Secretary:
While the handling of the case arose during Acosta’s confirmation hearings, it has come under fresh and intense scrutiny after the prosecutors in New York brought their charges on Monday, alleging Epstein abused dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s, paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for massages, then molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York. Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges; if convicted he could be imprisoned for the rest of his life.

Acosta’s lawyerly presentation was an effort to push back against growing criticism of his work in a secret 2008 plea deal that let Epstein avoid federal prosecution on charges that he molested teenage girls. A West Palm Beach judge found this year that the deal had violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act because the victims were not informed or consulted.

Acosta defends Epstein deal amid calls for his resignation

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to tamp down calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he got the toughest deal he could at the time.

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Paxton is now hoping Texans will forget that his own party impeached him, his pending fraud case, and his move to help out a pedophile friend.

Russia announced on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Yerevan over Armenia's efforts to strengthen its ties with the European Union.

Armenia historically has strong economic, diplomatic and security ties to Russia, but its government has in recent years increasingly pivoted toward the West.

The Caucasian country held an Armenia-EU summit earlier in May, which Brussels hailed as a "leap forward" in ties.

Putin cites 'Ukrainian scenario' in warning to Yerevan

The statement comes a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin tied the dispute with Armenia to what he called the "Ukrainian scenario," saying that Moscow's military confrontation with Kyiv began after Ukraine began to seek closer ties to the European Union.

I guess Flynn has learned his lesson and has registered as a foreign agent this time.

Far-right blogger Scott McMahan posted a Foreign Agents Registration Act form Monday that was dated October 2025, and stated that Donald Trump’s former national security adviser was now making $100,000 per month from the Republic of Srpska. The confederated entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina is run by Milorad Dodik, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Freedom of religion. He has a right to say no. Period.

Peace

There is no official registry or census, but demographic data and denominational mapping show that thousands of churches and ministries across the U.S. actively advocate for and support emergency prepping.

Rather than using the secular term "prepping," faith-based organizations generally frame these initiatives under the biblical concepts of "provident living," "self-reliance," or "disaster ministry."

The breakdown of how religious ministries support and organize prepping in America spans from formal institutional mandates to grassroots movements:

1. Institutional Mandates (Over 30,000 Congregations)

For some denominations, emergency preparedness is an official, non-negotiable doctrine taught directly from the pulpit.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS): The LDS Church is the largest institutional supporter of prepping in the world. Through its doctrine of "Provident Living," all members are commanded to build a supply of food, water, and financial reserves. The church operates over 100 Home Storage Centers across the U.S., where members and non-members can buy bulk, 30-year shelf-life survival food.
• Seventh-day Adventists (SDA): With thousands of churches in the U.S., the SDA church officially promotes rural homesteading, food preservation, and self-sufficiency. Their network runs extensive disaster response ministries that teach local congregations how to stockpile resources and maintain backup communications (like ham radio networks).

2. Para-Church & Grassroots Ministries (Hundreds of Groups)

Outside of official denominations, a massive ecosystem of independent Christian ministries explicitly blends biblical prophecy, survivalism, and tactical preparation.

• Independent "Joseph Ministries": Named after the Genesis story of Joseph storing grain for seven years of famine, hundreds of non-denominational ministries use this model to teach churches how to build community storehouses.
• CERT Ministries: Organizations like Christian Emergency Readiness Training (CERT) act as mobile ministries traveling to churches across America to teach wilderness survival, emergency medical skills, and tactical perimeter security through a Christian worldview.
• Digital & Local Fellowships: Platforms like Meetup and Facebook host hundreds of regional "Christian Prepper" groups where church members coordinate bulk food buys, security protocols, and primitive skill sharing.

3. The Theological Divide: Hope vs. Fear

The reason prepping isn't universal across all ~380,000 U.S. Christian churches comes down to a major theological debate:

• The "Anti-Prepper" Church View: Many mainstream evangelical and mainline Protestant ministries actively discourage survivalism. Prominent organizations like ⁠Focus on the Family warn that a "fortress mentality" or stockpiling weapons and food comes from a place of fear and a lack of faith in God's provision (citing Matthew 6).
• The "Pro-Prepper" Church View: Conversely, supporting ministries argue that prepping is the ultimate form of Christian charity. They teach that you do not prep to hide in a bunker, but rather to ensure your family isn't a burden on the state—and so that your home can become a resource center to feed your community when a crisis hits.

Food insecurity in the United States is a widespread, measurable reality affecting 13.7% of all U.S. households, which translates to approximately 47.9 million Americans.

Rather than a total absence of food, food insecurity in a developed nation like the U.S. is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a lack of consistent, reliable access to enough affordable, nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

The Severity Scale

Federal data splits the affected population into two distinct tiers based on severity:

• Low Food Security (11.1 Million Households): These families avoid major disruptions to their actual food intake, but they manage by heavily relying on federal assistance programs, food pantries, or shifting to cheaper, less nutritious diets.
• Very Low Food Security (7.2 Million Households): This represents severe food hardship. In these homes, eating patterns are actively disrupted, and family members routinely skip meals, eat less than they should, or go entire days without eating due to a lack of money.

Who is Most Vulnerable?

Food hardship does not affect the country equally; it is concentrated heavily within specific geographic and demographic pockets:

• Families with Children: Nearly 1 in 5 households with children (18.4%) experience food insecurity, leaving over 14 million children living in homes struggling to guarantee meals.
• Single-Mother Households: Single mothers face the highest risk in the nation, with 36.8% of female-headed single-parent homes experiencing food insecurity.
• Racial Disparities: Black households (24.4%) and Hispanic households (20.2%) face hunger rates that are double or more than those of white households (10.1%).
• Geography: The highest concentration of food insecurity is found in the American South, while geographically, both densely packed urban centers (16.0%) and isolated rural areas (15.9%) suffer far worse than suburban regions (11.9%).

U.S. FOOD INSECURITY BY HOUSEHOLD TYPE

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Single Mothers [█████████████████████] 36.8%

Black Homes [██████████████] 24.4%

Hispanic Homes [████████████] 20.2%

Homes w/ Kids [███████████] 18.4%

National Avg [████████] 13.7%

White Homes [██████] 10.1%

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Why Hunger Has Risen

Food insecurity numbers dropped to a historic two-decade low in 2021 due to aggressive, pandemic-era federal interventions. However, modern hunger rates have climbed sharply back up due to a "double whammy" of economic forces:

1. The Expiration of the Safety Net: The expiration of expanded Child Tax Credits and the deep rollbacks to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps) benefits removed a vital financial floor for low-income families.
2. Cumulative Grocery Inflation: Even as broad inflation indicators fluctuate, the cumulative rise in core grocery prices over the last few years has permanently altered lower-income budgets. Research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York highlights a sharp spike in families dipping into meager savings or charging groceries to high-interest credit cards just to stay fed.

This widespread, baseline instability in the traditional food supply chain is precisely what drives millions of mainstream Americans to adopt prepper strategies.

FEMA itself cannot legally walk into your home and confiscate your personal prepper storage.

The idea that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) acts as a domestic seizure force is a widespread myth. FEMA is a civilian administrative agency responsible for coordinating logistics, funding, and federal relief aid—it does not possess law enforcement or military confiscation powers.

However, the legal reality regarding the wider federal government's authority over private property during a catastrophic emergency is more complex and depends on specific federal laws and executive powers.

1. What Federal Law Actually Says

While FEMA cannot seize your goods, the Defense Production Act (DPA) and several historical Executive Orders do grant the President and broader cabinet departments (like the Department of Agriculture or Commerce) the theoretical legal framework to requisition resources during a severe national emergency.

• Executive Order 13603: Signed by Barack Obama in 2012 (updating a series of similar orders dating back to the Cold War), this order allows the government to allocate and control private resources—including food, water, livestock, and energy—for national defense and emergency preparedness.
• Anti-Hoarding Provisions: Under Title I of the DPA, the President can declare certain scarce materials as protected. If a person or business hoards those specific materials "in excess of reasonable demands" to gouge prices, the government can seize them.

2. The Commercial vs. Personal Distinction

In practice, these emergency laws are designed for commercial supply chains, not individual households.

• The Intended Targets: If a massive crisis occurs, federal intervention would target mega-warehouses, commercial food distributors, grain silos, and industrial manufacturers to redirect supply lines to hospitals and shelters.
• The Household Reality: The federal government has zero operational capacity, logistical benefit, or legal mandate to go door-to-door to seize individual buckets of freeze-dried food or home water barrels.

3. The Fifth Amendment Protection

Even in a catastrophic scenario where a local government or military entity tries to claim eminent domain over a massive private stockpile, the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution still applies. The government cannot take private property for public use without providing "just compensation" (paying you fair market value for the items taken). [1]

4. Why Preppers Worry: The Real Threats

When preppers discuss "confiscation risks," the danger is rarely FEMA. Instead, history shows two primary risks during local breakdowns of order:

• Local Law Enforcement Mandates: During major local disasters (such as Hurricane Katrina in 2005), local or state authorities have occasionally issued temporary emergency decrees—such as weapon confiscations—that were later heavily litigated and overturned.
• Desperate Neighbors: The primary reason hidden preppers practice "OPSEC" (Operations Security) is not to hide from federal satellites, but to prevent local community members from knowing they have resources if food and water utility grids fail.

Aussie52 said:

I believe one has to have the right and proper definition of sin. People use the word and have different meanings for it. One of the hurdles for many seeking victory over sin is that they have a wrong idea about sin, and thus never enter into Christ's victory.

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True. HOWEVER, one should look at the original words themselves. In the Hebrew OT you have chatah. In the NT Greek you have hamartia. Both of these words are archery terms meaning to aim at the target but miss the mark. (bulls eye)

Because hidden preppers actively avoid tracking, their exact headcount cannot be officially measured; however, demographic experts estimate this hidden layer could represent an additional 15 million to 35 million Americans.
This "underground" segment operates under a strict rule of "OPSEC" (Operations Security), intentionally hiding their lifestyle to avoid becoming a target for desperate neighbors during a crisis. To deduce the size of this invisible group, researchers look at economic anomalies, consumer behavior, and survey gaps.

1. The "FEMA Survey Gap" (Estimated 15–20 Million)
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conducts its annual National Household Survey, it measures actual preparedness behavior rather than asking people if they identify as "preppers."

• The Discrepancy: Up to 78 million Americans score incredibly high on emergency self-reliance metrics, but only about 20 to 24 million will openly admit to a researcher, peer, or pollster that they are actively prepping.
• The Secret Fraction: Conservative estimates suggest that at least 20% to 25% of that remaining gap consists of deliberate "stealth preppers" who purposefully mask their stockpiles and plans.

2. Supply Chain and Retail Anomalies (Estimated 10–15 Million)
The consumer market for survival gear is vastly larger than a consumer base of 24 million people could support.

• Cash and Alternative Sales: Distributors of long-term freeze-dried food, solar generators, and water filtration systems note massive sales volume originating from untraceable payment methods (cash, cryptocurrency, or generic gift cards) or shipped to discrete P.O. boxes and commercial addresses.
• The Closet Prepper: Millions of middle-to-high-income families purchase high-end emergency gear under the guise of "camping, homesteading, or outdoor recreation" to avoid the social stigma or visibility associated with doomsday prepping.

3. The "Deep Survivalist" Core (Estimated 2–5 Million)
This is the most extreme pocket of the hidden population. This group consists of ideological survivalists who intentionally live off-grid or semi-off-grid. They do not participate in public forums, they do not answer government surveys, and they obfuscate their digital footprints. Experts generally estimate this deep, completely unmapped pocket at roughly 1% to 2% of the total US population.

The "marauder threat" is a core concept in survivalist philosophy that refers to the risk of armed individuals or desperate groups using violence to steal food, water, and supplies following a total collapse of the social order
In prepper culture, this scenario is often called a "TEOTWAWKI" (The End Of The World As We Know It) event [1]. Rather than focusing on nature, the prepper focus shifts to human-on-human conflict.

1. The Psychology of the Marauder Threat
Prepper literature divides the post-collapse population into distinct categories based on behavior. Marauders are viewed through a specific lens:

• The "Golden Hour" Shift: Preppers believe that within 72 hours of a grid failure, ordinary citizens will run out of household food and realize help is not coming.
• Desperation vs. Malice: The threat is categorized into two types: desperate refugees (unprepared neighbors looking for food to feed their children) and predatory marauders (organized gangs or criminal elements actively exploiting the chaos).
• The "Ant and Grasshopper" Dynamic: Preppers view themselves as the industrious ants and fear that the unprepared "grasshoppers" will attempt to take their stockpiles by force when starvation sets in.

2. Physical and Tactical Defenses
To counter this perceived threat, the prepper community has developed specific tactical strategies designed to make a home or homestead look unappealing or impossible to breach.

• Hardening the Perimeter: This includes reinforcing entry points with steel security doors, window security film, and hidden physical barriers (like thorny landscaping or hidden ditches) to prevent vehicles from ramming a home.
• Early Warning Systems: Preppers rely heavily on passive security, such as tripwires, driveway alarms, trail cameras, and solar-powered motion lighting to eliminate the element of surprise.
• Defensive Formations: In rural areas, preppers advocate for Mutual Defense Communities (MDCs). This involves neighbors banding together to establish 24/7 armed checkpoints and communication networks to secure an entire road or valley.

3. The Counter-Strategy: Radical Anonymity (OPSEC)
Many experienced preppers believe that standard tactical defenses are ultimately useless against a determined, armed group. Therefore, the primary defense against marauders is absolute invisibility.

• The "Grey Man" Concept: This is the practice of blending perfectly into the background. A "grey man" wears ordinary clothing, drives a common vehicle, and never alerts anyone to their skills or preparedness level.
• Tactical Camouflage: If a neighborhood loses power and light, a prepper home utilizing a noisy generator or displaying bright indoor lights becomes an immediate target. "Stealth prepping" involves using heavy blackout curtains, silent solar setups, and cooking only at night to hide smells.
• Deceptive Landscaping: Some urban and suburban preppers intentionally make the exterior of their homes look ransacked, messy, or abandoned during a crisis to trick passing marauders into thinking the home has already been looted.

4. Historical Context vs. Fiction
While pop culture (like Mad Max or The Walking Dead) portrays marauders as heavily armed leather-clad gangs, real-world historical collapses paint a different picture.

• What History Shows: During real societal breakdowns—such as the Bosnian War (Siege of Sarajevo), the economic collapse of Venezuela, or major grid failures like Hurricane Katrina—widespread violence does occur. However, it is rarely characterized by organized "biker gangs" roaming the countryside.
• The Real Danger: Historical data shows that the real threat comes from localized looting, opportunistic street crime, and eventually, the rise of organized black-market cartels controlling resources like fuel and medicine. Security is most effectively maintained by community cooperation rather than isolated shootouts.

Phar said:

What are we really doing to the youth when we push them out into space...

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Isn't evolution absolutely amazing. Sometimes it's self selecting. Those who are afraid to enter into the new world, end up perishing in the old one... now where have I heard that story before?

essentialsaltes said:

“This is the great lie of mass migration,” Miller wrote on social media. “You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a law professor at University of Colorado Law School, said that Miller was treating people as “forever branded by their origins, distinct and antithetical to the fabric of our community.”

“In short,” Gulasekaram said, “he views immigration solely through the lens of cultural threat.”

Or more succinctly from a few years back:

“We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.”

At the time, for statements like this and his friendliness with other white nationalists, King was stripped of committee assignments and ultimately lost his primary. Now views like his are part of the national conversation and in the White House.

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So why are they lying about it?

DougE said:

I see Mark 16 being applied to the Gentiles in Acts 10:

[Mark 16:15 KJV] "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." ********** Jesus commanded the apostles to preach the gospel. Which gospel were they to preach? ********** [Matthew 4:23 KJV] "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people."
[Matthew 24:14 KJV] "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." *********** Jesus and the apostles preached the gospel of the kingdom. They were preaching the promised millennial kingdom on earth.

[Mark 16:16 KJV] "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."
[Matthew 24:13 KJV] "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
[Matthew 24:22 KJV] "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." ********* To be saved was for believing Israel to be delivered at the end of the tribulation. He who believes and is baptized will likewise be saved to enter the kingdom.

[Mark 16:17 KJV] "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;" ********* The Gentiles in Acts 10 conformed to Mark 16

[Acts 10:43 KJV] "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins."
[Acts 10:44 KJV] "While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word."
[Acts 10:45 KJV] "And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost."
[Acts 10:46 KJV] "For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,"
[Acts 10:47 KJV] "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?"
[Acts 10:48 KJV] "And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days." ********** These Gentiles believed on the name of Jesus and were commanded to be baptized in accordance to Mark 16:16. They spoke in tongues in accordance to Mark 16:17. These Gentiles were also therefore saved to enter the millennial kingdom along with believing Israel in accordance to Mark 16:16.
Peter wasn't seen to be intentionally obeying the command of Mark 16:16, but God started to fulfill Mark 16 with theses Gentiles.

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And there a better verse in Acts 15:11 that says But we believe that. though te GRACE. of the Lord Jesus b. Christ to be

SAVED AS THEY ALSO. !!

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Exodus 21:18-19 ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,") and Exodus 21:23-25 ("only payment.. for the idleness caused") uphold proportionality of judgment/discipline in relation to the severity of the sin(s)/crime(s).

Please pray that there is proportional judgment in relation to the severity of the crime(s) especially in light of Ghana's new bill criminalizing LGBTQ+ activities which in many ways is disproportionally cruel:

Leviathan-at-play said:

Given the tremendous amount of song and poetry in the Bible I think it's clear that music is very close to God's heart.

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David appointed musicians for worship service. 1 Chr. 25 Many of the descendants of these Levites still served in thetime of Ezra and Nehemiah:

Neh.7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred forty and eight.

Recommended web site: Chavah Messianic Radio: Chavah Messianic Radio Not at all like much (not all ) of the contemporary Christian music fluff found on radio.

When the Holy One reveals His Presence to those upon earth, both past (at Mount Sinai) and future (from heavenly Mount Zion), those of fleshly and soulish natures cannot enter within the sphere of the Presence, which manifests as a mass of clouds having the Light of God at its center.

At such times, the third of the four types of people to see the event are those having the primary nature of the spirit [Hebrew ruach; Greek pneuma]. In the Exodus-era prophetic picture, these were represented by Joshua. He was the only spirit-level man of that soulish and carnal era. The priests and elders were called to ascend before God, yet still remain “afar off” (Ex. 24:1); but Joshua the attendant of Moses was called to ascend much higher up the mountain:

Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain and be there… 13 So Moses rose up, and his attendant Joshua: and Moses [and Joshua] ascended into the mountain of God. 14 And he said unto the elders, Wait here for us, until we come back to you. 15 Then Moses [and Joshua] ascended into the mountain, and the cloud covered/clothed the mountain.

“The cloud” here speaks of the outer covering of the Presence of God. In the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple, this was represented by the Holy Place (front chamber) of the sanctuary. When Moses and Joshua were enclosed within the cloud, they came into the Presence, from which the Adamic race had been cut off (with a limited few exceptions, e.g. Enoch) since the fall of Adam and Eve. This second-level ascent is a prophetic picture of the End Time Rapture of the Spirit-filled Church:

Revelation 1:7 Behold, He is coming with the clouds…

Luke 21:27 Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven… 17 Then we…shall be caught up…in clouds, into a meeting of the Lord in air. And so always with the Lord we shall be.

To “always be with the Lord” is to eternally be clothed with = dwell within the Holy Presence. In the Exodus-era’s prophetic picture of this, even though Joshua by necessity had to later descend from earthly Mount Sinai, Scripture tells us –

Exodus 33:11 …[Moses’] assistant Joshua…did not depart from the tabernacle.

The same thing is said of the Spirit-infilled believers caught up/Raptured to heaven in the End Times:

Revelation 7:14 …the ones coming out of the Great Tribulation… 9 …clothed in white robes… 15 …[will] serve Him [God] day and night in His [heavenly] sanctuary.
The fourth type of people are those called into the very Light of the Holy Presence. This is the third-level ascent. In the Exodus-era’s prophetic picture, Moses alone represented this type:

Exodus 24:2 Moses alone shall come near the LORD… 17 The sight of the Glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain… 18 So Moses went into the center of the cloud and ascended into the mountain…

Exodus 33:11 And the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, like one speaks to his friend.

Because of Moses’ closeness to the Light of the Face of God,

Exodus 34:29 …the skin of [Moses’] face shone while he talked with Him. [And for sometime afterward. 34:30-35]

In the Mosaic Tabernacle and Solomon’s Temple, the Most Holy Place (innermost chamber) of the sanctuary was the only place a man could approach near unto the Glory/Light of the Presence. Only one man, the High Priest of Israel, was accorded this privilege. The two chambers of the sanctuary represent the middle and highest of the three heavens (2 Cor. 12:2), requiring respectively greater levels of sanctity to enter.

In the Seventh Millennium, apparently no man will be able to fully approach God face-to-face except for Jesus, the High Priest of the Melchizedek (heavenly) priesthood. All views of the Glory of the Father will be, as Ezekiel once described it, an “appearance of the likeness of the Glory of YHWH.” Ezek. 1:28 (Even Moses was only able to see “the form/similitude of the LORD.” Num. 12:8; cf. Ex.33:20) Not until the Eighth Millennium, when the old, sin-corrupted heavens and earth have “passed away,” and sanctified “new heavens and a new earth” have been created (Rev. 21:1), will mankind be permitted to fully

Revelation 22:4 …see/gaze upon His Face; and His Name shall be upon their foreheads.