Hank77 said:

It's a difficult problem for a school system that doesn't have enough bilingual teachers. But I believe with a little creativity it will get solved.
I'm glad they aren't holding these children back and allowing them to move forward. If the past is any example migrant children quickly catch on to a new language and catch up to their peers. In fact, at home, they often become the teacher teaching their parents the new language to both speak and write it.

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I agree to a certain extent.

If you come to our country, you must learn our language. Period. That’s the only way someone can communicate and thrive.

My opinion only.

QvQ said:

If Trump had a group called "White Dudes for Trump" whop whop whop
Yet Harris gets away with it...
Weird.

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First, she didn't create the group. It created itself.
Second, Trump has all kinds of similar groups backing him.

A viral music video tribute to former President Donald Trump has amassed over 10 million views across social media in less than three days.

Just 24 hours after it went live, Breitbart COO Jon Kahn's stirring song “FIGHTER,” went to #1 on the iTunes charts across all genres.

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Kokavkrystallos said:

The scriptures do speak of the "sides of the north," in Psalm 48:2, "Mount Zion, the sides of the north," and Isaiah 14:13 when "Lucifer", that is, Halel Ben Shohar, says he will exalt his throne above the stars of God, sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north .
And we know he was cast out, and became Satan.

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The scriptures mention the north quite a lot & I don't think that the anagram of north is coincidental either;

North = throne without the e

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hedrick said:

these are not non-citizens. They are people who registered before the State required verification. There's no reason to think they are non-citizens. They've taken an oath that they are. The State was supposed to verify people who had registered before the requirement, but a paperwork error caused them not to be checked. The law specifies processes for dealing with unverified voters, which requires giving them notice so they can supply verification. There isn't time to do that before the election. The State Supreme Court said that the law doesn't allow them to be dropped without following the process.

The US Supreme Court had already made the same decision for Federal elections, so without this decision these people would have voted only in Federal contests.

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If anyone cares. more are registered Republican than Democrat.

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The woke approach to crime doesn't work--Kamala has shown that. The Biden/Harris administration has lost track of approximately 325,000 minors. No one knows the total number of those who are human trafficked. The older trafficked children and adults could be coerced into voting by their cartel masters--a signature is not going to stop them.

WarriorAngel said:

Why do they report it as potential?

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They probably don’t want too much attention, I guess?

Bob Crowley said:

I believe a number of the Old Testament texts were written during and after the Babylonian exile.

Because the Jews were forced to rethink their role after the destruction of the temple and the bitterness of the exile, I get the sense the exile meant they had to consider where their real identity lay.

Was it to be a national identity or was it as the people of God?

Since Christ has come, one could say they've achieved their purpose in God's eyes.

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I agree.

Leave these holy women alone! Period.

Above all, they need our compassion and care.

God bless this bishop.

WarriorAngel said:

We need a crying emoji

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Agreed. Sad and sickening.

Godforgivez said:

I'm going to have One Foot In and One Foot Out.

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They say the devil just wants to get his foot or even his big toe in the door to keep you from slamming the door on him.

tonychanyt said:

Jesus did not give an absolute number of people who would go to heaven.

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Jesus said few and many. Zechariah 13:8 says one third. “It will come about in all the land,” Declares the LORD, “Two parts in it will be cut off and perish, But the third will be left alive."

I pray the Gospel spreads to all Iranians with repentance for all and bloodshed to none.

On a side note, Iranians have always been complicated and of various views. The Islamic Revolution in 1979 had been simmering for years and was probably sustained by agitation. The last phase was abrupt and chaotic perpetrated by Islamic extremist terrorists in the downfall of the not universally loved or hated kingdom of the Shah. There was a movie theater burned down by radical Islamic terrorists that killed hundreds and led to mass protests through agitation and chaos.

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Pray for Indians receiving Bibles in their own languages through our partner. Pray for protection for those printing and distributing these copies, and that God will make his truth known to all who read them.
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19 September 2024 – India​

Pray for the thousands of Christians displaced from Manipur who have had to start life again, learn new languages and find new schools and jobs. Pray that they will be made welcome and can access the services they need.
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Pray for peace in Manipur and across India’s north-eastern region and borders with war-torn Myanmar. Pray that security forces will act with integrity to protect all Indians, including Christians and other minorities.
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Pray for the more than 130 pastors in Uttar Pradesh who have been jailed for their faith, on flimsy charges, and are being held pre-trial without bail. Pray that their cases will be heard soon and they will be acquitted.
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Tellyontellyon said:

How come Wicca, witchcraft, paganism, occultism etc. are all making a massive revival?

Even in my lifetime the numbers of people taking up these practices seems to have exploded.. even while Christianity seems to have an overall decline... Why?

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IMO, it is the cancer of radical individualism. Making yourself God. Serving yourself and your own self-interests. It is a selfishness that America has propagated for some time starting with the 60s and the sexual revolution all saying, "Be free! Be yourself! Let nothing hider your rights!"

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All citizens of Bhutan are expected to follow Buddhism, the state religion. Anyone who converts to Christianity will be watched with suspicion – and their surrounding community, local Buddhist leaders and family will likely try to bring them back to their former religion. Evangelical and Pentecostal communities are at risk for surveillance and raids by authorities.
Local leaders may refuse to issue Christians the needed paperwork to do basic things like apply for loans, register property, apply for jobs and renew ID cards. Additionally, the Christian community is also denied citizenship, which negatively impacts believers’ ability to conduct business, own real estate or receive higher education. Christians are also forced to follow Buddhist rituals as part of paramilitary training.

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7thKeeper said:

Objective reality.

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In order for a perception to be objective it would have to be entirely devoid of any perspective. For a human, that is not possible because it is the human mind that perceives, and the mind IS a perspective. The mind is a subjective perspective.

tranquil said:

The burning of the cedars of Lebanon refers to the 1st Trumpet's 1/3 burning of the trees. There is the implication of there being a coup as it is a reference to Judges 9:15 and the parable of the Trees

15But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’​

The locusts of Joel are the same locusts as in the 5th Trumpet. These will begin at the Feast of Tabernacles/ 15 Tishri and will begin with at the start of the Trumpets.

The one month (Zechariah 11:8) is the time of the winter Sabbath great tribulation, the 1st phase of the 6th Trumpet in Rev 9:13-21. (If it starts Oct 17th, then this will be March 15th, 2025). Then the Dan 9:27 covenant will be confirmed by the Rev 10 mighty angel (aka the Dan 7 Little Horn, king of Babylon, Lucifer from Isa 14) one month later.

the 3 shepherds being dismissed during this month are: the Dan 7 Lion head, Bear head, Leopard head. See my thread about this month which I call the East Wind.

Futurist Only - The East Wind

The ‘east wind’ is the time of the great tribulation that occurs during Revelation 9:13-21 (the winter, sabbath great tribulation of Matt 24:15-16), at the start of the 6th Trumpet. But to start with, let’s look at Deuteronomy 28 for a moment. Deut 28:7 The LORD will cause the enemies who rise...

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After the Dan 7 Little horn (4th Beast) has possession of the saints for a time, times, and half a time (which is to say the 1st half of the covenant) (Dan 7:25), then he is killed after he tries to be like God (Isaiah 14:12-14) (same as Michael warring with Satan and thus falls from heaven in Rev 12:7-9). This is the breaking of the covenant after 1260 days at the 7th Trumpet. When he is killed, then the 'rest of the beasts' are given an extension for a season and a time (Dan 7:11-12). The 'rest of the beasts' are the 'lion, bear, leopard' that were dismissed from before - the beast from the seas' Leopard, Bear, Lion.

At the time of the confirming (and breaking) of the covenant, the beast has 7 heads, 10 horns, 7 crowns (Rev 12:3).

At the time of the beast from the sea, there are 10 horns, 7 heads, 10 crowns. The 3 dismissed shepherds (Lion, Bear, Leopard) turn into the 3 horns of Daniel 7:8 during the 1st half of the covenant and then become kings again with the resurrected Dan 7 Little Horn.

Dan 7:7 After this, as I watched in my vision in the night, suddenly a fourth beast appeared, and it was terrifying—dreadful and extremely strong—with large iron teeth. It devoured and crushed; then it trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the beasts before it, and it had ten horns. 8 While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.​

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23 This is what he said: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on the earth, different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth, trample it down, and crush it. 24 And the ten horns are ten kings who will rise from this kingdom. After them another king, different from the earlier ones, will rise and subdue three kings. 25 He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.​

At the 7th Trumpet, the Lion, Bear, and Leopard shepherds that were present for the East Wind month are reinstated to round out the 10 kings given power by the dragon (7 heads plus the 3 reinstated heads).

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Wow! Your diagram has going for it that it at least makes falsifiable predictions. That is, it makes claims that are in principle falsifiable, as any scientific claim must be to have any real meaning. You (plural) are going at eschatology in accordance with the futurist school, where the eschatological events are all compressed into "the last days" at the end of the age (of Pisces). This leaves most of the previous 20 centuries of history free of any eschatological meaning.

I am looking at the topic from the standpoint of historical eschatology, where it has been happening all along. I have recently written down some notes of the topic and what follows is the first of them, for what they are worth.

Eschatology 1​

I have been putting some effort into studying biblical eschatology. This is, to many Christians, about like trying to learn particle physics, but it is possible (and somebody has to do it!). Certainly I do not have the remaining future to the end of the age figured out, but I find that the book of Revelation is not as cryptic as many suppose, given some knowledge of the Old Testament symbolism from whence most of it comes. For instance, the "four creatures" are Israel assembled - see Numbers 2.) Here are a couple of ideas:

1. The seven seals of Rev. 6 are the first of three "nested" sequences (followed by trumpets, bowls) and the first four are the Four Horsemen. Somewhere in the Middle Ages the idea came about that these were like the judgement of the seven bowls (and trumpets), but the facts do not fit this interpretation. First, the white horse of the first seal elsewhere is the Lamb empowered (see Rev. 19:11). What he carries is not clear from the Greek, though Bible translators have to put something down for it. It might be the "weapon" of the Word of God, or more likely, the cross, not a bow.

(Feucht's First Law of Bible Study: never assume the translators had it right! This applies to every translation simply because translation as such is impossible; whole articles are needed to adequately explain some phrases in scripture, and some of it - especially paleo-Hebrew - can have multiple possible meanings.)

Second, the Black Horse is depicted as famine. However, it has been learned since the Middle Ages that nobody is going to starve if a choinix of wheat sells for a denarius, and the luxury items (oil, etc.) are "held" - made available. This is more like prosperity than famine.

I interpret the seals as phases of civilization, from the gospel spreading (white horse), leading to a strong society, growing into an empire phase (red horse) of military expansion, to economic prosperity and its materialist emphasis (black horse), to civil collapse of a death culture (chloros or green horse, the color of gangrene & death). The righteous suffer (covered by the blood of Jesus "under the altar") in the fifth seal from the death-mongers, then ecological disaster, and finally the threatening reappearance of the Son of Man in space (heaven) to the Rulers, and everyone taking for the underground, especially to the under-reported tunnels and underground facilities of all large cities, who do not try to commit suicide by calling the rocks to "fall on them". The Greek word pipto also means to alight - to close the tunnels from the wrath of the Lamb.

2. Much of what happens in biblical eschatology is positioned chronologically at the "end of the age". (The English word world is etymologically were-ald - were, as in werewolf, is man and ald is old German for age, or "the age of man".) It is generally supposed (as I also had) that this time is unknown, yet for millennia, the ultimate time clock for humanity has been the stars, and also for millennia, and before the babylonian mystery religion - the source of all extant paganism including New Age - corrupted it, the 12 constellations of the zodiac were the age clock. Before the sun rises in the east on the spring equinox, whatever constellation is in the night sky at that location is the age we are in. Astronomically, this corresponds to the cycle of precession of the earth, as a spinning top wobbling on its spin axis, pointing the earth to the different constellations. The period of this precessional cycle is 25,920 years. Each age is thus 1/12th that or 2160 years. The age of Pisces, which began not long before the first advent of Jesus, is now ending and the age of Aquarius is beginning. In the arid Ancient Near East (ANE) context, water was symbolic of life, and the bearer of life is Aquarius - a fitting symbol for the next age under the rule of Christ.

What every student of eschatology wants to do is determine its chronology. If we know when various events occur (whether past, present or future) we can assemble a coherent history from it. Yet that is the ultimate challenge, and the three major schools of biblical eschatology reflect that: preterist (past), futurist (future) and historicist (all along). The celestial age clock does not nail down the dating, however; constellations span a width in the sky and offer only a time resolution of several decades which can be over a century.

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Moon Dogs:

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Woof!

KevinT said:

if God wanted, for example, to give a command for everyone to move out of California because He knew that there was going to be a massive earthquake causing the state to fall into the sea, how would that sort of new instruction be taken?

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Thanks for the clarification.

I would take it this way: I assess the human speaker's prophetic authority against what I hear from the Paraclete in me. Check out How to hear God?.

Ophiolite said:

True, until there is a paradigm shift and we change the Laws of Physics. If the Laws of Physics were immutable there would no longer be any need for physicists.

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This raises the question of whether the laws of physics are what their understanding is according to scientific work or whether the "laws of physics" refers to the nature of the physical world apart from how well or poorly humans understand it. Philosophically and theologically it is the latter, and if we are studying science it is the former.

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We have a fine line to walk. We have an elderly lady that volunteers in the thrift store. The Haitians come in and argue prices and intimidate her. I told the director if it does not stop they should be banned. They are incredibly rude. Culture? I don’t know.

DennisF said:

the more biblical theological school at (Syrian) Antioch took the Bible more literally in that it believed the Bible meant what it said, though the usual rules of language applied. A metaphor was to be taken as a metaphor, but what was not a metaphor was not to be "metaphorized" mystically in a way that appealed the mystic's imagination.

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Yes and that is true for the Bible itself. We see this with the dead sea scrolls. They are an example of how ancient texts can have multiple translations and interpretations. The variety of languages and scripts used in the Dead Sea Scrolls reflects the diverse linguistic landscape of the time. For instance, some texts are written in a more formal Hebrew, while others use Aramaic, which was the lingua franca of the Near East during that period1. Additionally, there are a few texts in Greek, and even some fragments in Latin and Arabic.

The Bible is literal but we do have translation problems. For example the Bible says that Eve came from the side of Adam. But they translate that rib and this is just not accurate. The same with the fig leaf. They made clothing then the same way they do today. They take the fiber of the plants and spin it into thread and they weave the thread into clothing. Jesus had very special clothing and that is why they had to cast lots and it could not be divided.

I am reading a book on this now. Genesis and the Big Bang written over 30 years ago by Gerald Schroeder. We can see how much Science, the Bible and History all agree