And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8

Monday, March 18, 2024

About the 2 "Testaments"

 "Christ admonished the Jews to “search the scriptures; for in them you think you have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me.” John 5:39.

Some people, when they discuss the law and the Sabbath, seek to set
up a contrast or even conflict between the 
Old and the New Testament, as though the former were of little or no value and superseded by the latter. This false contrast lies at the root of much of the erroneous reasoning of those who contend that the Sabbath was abolished at the cross.

The “Bible” of the apostles was what we know as the Old Testament. What is now known as the New Testament did not exist during the life of Christ and did not even begin to be written until after His ascension.

During most of the first century of the Christian Era, the term “the
Scriptures
,” often mentioned by the
 New Testament writers, referred to what we call the Old Testament. To sum up, the Old Testament was the Bible of Jesus, His disciples, the Apostles.

Nor did the apostles give any hint that they discounted the Old Testament in favor of the writings they were then producing and would later produce. Paul wrote to Timothy:
From a child thou has known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim. 3:15-17.

Could the New Testament accomplish more than this! Both Christ and the apostles repeatedly cited the Old Testament in confirmation of their teachings." 
F.D. Nichols

Creation Moment 3/19/2024 - Black Cats are still "cats"

Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Genesis 1:24

"Maryland scientists studied why some cats are black and reported
their genetic investigation in the cover story in
Current Biology (3/03)
Apparently melanism (black coloration) is recessive in domestic cats but dominant in jaguars; in some species it is frequent but never predominant. 
They identified two genes that cause melanism in some species but not others. They feel there must be “at least four independent genetic origins for melanism in the cat family. The inferred multiple origins and independent historical elevation in population frequency of felid melanistic mutations suggest the occurrence of adaptive evolution of this visible phenotype in a group of related free-ranging species.

Q: And your point is? 
This is supposed to be a paper about why black cats evolved. You read the paper and there are observations about which species have this or that gene, but no theory as to why black color is adaptive. They say, “To date, little is known about the molecular or adaptive basis of coat color variation in free-ranging mammals, and so far no study has addressed this issue in multiple polymorphic species from the same family.” So did they come to the rescue and find a reason for natural selection to select melanism? See if you can find one in their conclusion:

"The elevation of independent gene variants in parallel Felidae lineages raises the possibility of an adaptive advantage of melanistic
mutants under certain ecological circumstances. An interesting example is the jaguarundi, whose “wild-type” dark coloration is here shown to be a derived condition, having replaced the ancestral reddish form throughout its continental range. The prospect of directly inspecting gene variants that specify phenotypic variation potentially subject to natural selection will allow the direct study of such traits in free-ranging populations. These and other applications of such integrated genetic approaches will hopefully enhance our understanding of species survival, diversification, and adaptive evolution over space and time
."

You can hunt through this jargon jungle without ever finding the promised nugget of evolutionary wisdom; it’s just empty promises and futureware. 
So some cats are black. 
Q: They’re still 100% cats, aren’t they? 
Q: What’s Darwin got to do with it?" 
CEH

Sunday, March 17, 2024

That "Terrible Delusion"

So then death worketh in us,.... 2 Corinthians 4:12
If you suppose for a moment 
---that God will treat sin lightly, 
---or make provisions or exemptions so that you can go on in committing sin
---and the soul suffer no penalty from so doing, 
*you are under a terrible delusion of Satan. 
Any willful violation of the righteous law of Jehovah exposes your soul to the full assaults of Satan.” 
E.G.W.

Creation Moment 3/18/2024 - Your "ready-mix patch"

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14

"You’ve probably used those packets with two compartments that do something when the dividing membrane is broken, allowing the components to mix: instant heat, instant cold, instant glue, or instant light. 
Your body has something like that to repair its tissues. Tissues are the webs of specialized cells that distinguish us multicellular organisms from the rest, and the bulk of tissues are composed of epithelium
Epithelial cells line up in tightly-knit ranks forming the lining of
most organs, the lungs and windpipe, the digestive tract, and the skin. Because they are subject to injury, these membranes must have a means of repairing themselves quickly. So they have a kind of
ready-mix patch that works only when two components combine. But the system must work flawlessly, or a disaster can result.

Keith Mostov and Mirjam Zegers talk about this in the Mar. 20 issue of Nature, “Cell Biology: Just Mix and Patch,” reporting on work by Paola Vermeer and company in the same issue. Epithelial cells have two linings. 
Consider the respiratory tract as an example. 
*One lining, the apical side, faces the airway. 
*The other, the basolateral side, lines the other end and the neighboring cells. 
These two linings are segregated by a kind of O-ring seal that makes a tight fit between neighboring cells. 
Scientists recently found that the basolateral membrane has one
component of the patch, called
erbB2, and the apical side has a matching component called heregulin. Normally kept apart, they can be brought in contact when a breach occurs in the epithelial tissue. 
*Together, they activate a complex series of steps leading to cell division and presto! the gap is filled in with another snug-fitting cell, and life goes on
-- It is essential these active ingredients don’t mix at the wrong time. Too much cell division and you know what happens — cancer. Science Now has a news write-up on this story, and its discovery that is “so beautifully simple.”

A few more Cool Cell Tricks were reported recently: Cells have an exquisite toolkit for dealing with iron. Three New Zealand scientists writing a Perspective special feature in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describe a family of proteins called transferrins that clamp around iron and delicately transport this very toxic atom to wherever it’s needed in the cell. The clamp has a hinge that opens the structure and disgorges the iron when it is safe to do so. 
Another protein called hemopexin transports heme by holding it in the center of a four-part structure.
Another Special Feature in the same issue talks about nitrogenase. Two Harvard chemists attack this puzzling molecule with the zeal of Captain Ahab pursuing Moby Dick (this is actually how they end their article), but in spite of the best efforts of scientists for decades, “Few problems in bioinorganic chemistry have proved as challenging and refractory.” They speak of techniques this molecule uses that are “biologically and chemically unprecedented,” and marvel. Hidden inside the inner sanctum of this molecular machine is a secret method for separating nitrogen atoms at room temperature that is the dream of agricultural chemists, because artificial nitrogen fixation (e.g., fertilizer making) is costly and energy intensive. “The synthetic problem of nitrogenase, nevertheless, remains unsolved,” but they think we’re getting warmer.

Current Biology for March 18 has a quick guide to a very versatile gene called APC (adenomatous polyposis coli), without which we
either die or get colon cancer
. It moves all over the cell, in and out of the nucleus, even riding the intracellular railroad.
APC has many jobs. It’s a potent tumor suppressor, it regulates gene transcription, and it has a role in “maintaining adherens junctions, and also helps to tether mitotic spindles to the cortex and to orient them in the epithelial plane. In mammalian cells, APC has been implicated in cell migration. APC also helps safeguard the fidelity of chromosome segregation in mitotic cells.

Wow; a multi-talented kit. It appears to be essential for cell survival, too." 
CEH

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Why a Shamrock?

"St. Patrick's use of the
three-leafed shamrock—which he used to explain the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)—played a role in converting early Irish people to Christianity." 
Bing

A better word to use than "trinity" would be Triune Godhead...
And God said let US make man after OUR image, 
after OUR likeness.....
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
be with you all......
Genesis 1:26/2 Corinthians 13:14

IN the NEWS - "Sunday" comes up in U.S. Senate (allied with Unions)

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for thechildren of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: Daniel 12:1
***As we've said before, to those who think that only the "Christian
Right
" via the Republican Party will implement
Sunday Sacredness--here we have a Leftwing Democrat making the case of Sunday & "worship" on Sunday being special. 
---The Point: ALL the WORLD we are told will wonder after the BEAST. That will be both sides politically including these pro-abortion, pro-LGBT agenda Leftists.

"The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions heard a speech by Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris Murphy on Thursday, March 14, 2024. 
The committee hearings addressed the need for a 32-hour work week that would give Americans more time for leisure activities such as family socials and Sunday church services
Speaking to Mr. Shawn Fain, International President of the United Auto Workers Union, Senator Murphy said that the reason for the drop in religious attendance is that individuals are simply too exhausted after their week of work. In response, the head of the union reaffirmed that those who work too much don’t have time for worship on Sundays.

The following exchange occurred in our US Congress between
Senator Murphy and Union President Fain:
Senator Chris Murphy: There’s a pretty wild thing happening in
America today: in 2000, 70 percent of Americans belonged to a religious institution, but today that number is 50 percent. There has been a pretty precipitous decline in the ability or willingness of Americans to go to church or to a religious institution on a regular basis. And I think that has lots of broad impacts in our society. There are a lot of reasons for that, but one of them is that Americans just have less free time. When you have to work 70 hours to get the same standard of living for your family that 40 hours would have gotten you a few decades ago, you don’t have time to go to Wednesday night Bible study; you might not have the ability to even attend church services on a
Sunday. You can talk about church if you want or if you don’t want, but it is just true that some of the leisure time activities, some of the institutions that Americans found value and meaning in, are less accessible when you have to work these long hours. I’d love to just hear your thoughts on that
.”
Shawn Fain, UAW President: One of the biggest, one of the things we talked about was the 32-hour work week when we put that in our
contract talks was the fact that we wanted to create work life balance … And as I say when you’re working multiple jobs to live paycheck to paycheck or you’re working seven days a week, 12 hours a day, something else is sacrificed in that, and that’s what ends up happening. You have to sacrifice, you know, the ability to go to church. If it’s something else to do on a
Sunday, maybe you get a Sunday off and you haven’t slept all weekend, and you spend the whole day sleeping. I mean that that is a reality a lot of workers face on some of the schedules they work … I do believe Congress has an obligation here, spending priorities and regulations. And that may be an ugly word to some people that represent business.


A sitting US senator is urging policymakers to get involved in ensuring that people have more time for church and recreation. According to Senator Murphy, the desire for more leisure ought to be considered a “public policy interest of the United States Congress.” This is a call being made in a Senate committee to reduce the work week, and one of the justifications is so that people can get back to church on Sundays. It’s not simply a call, though. A bill to cut the workweek down to only 32 hours has already been introduced." 
AdventMessenger

"The trades unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon
this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world began
........These
unions are one of the signs of the last days. Men .....may be church members, but while they belong to these unions, they cannot possibly keep the commandments of God; for to belong to these unions means to disregard the entire Decalogue
Those who claim to be the children of God are in no case to bind up with the labor unions that are formed or that shall be formed." 
E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Here We Go.......

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the
children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time:
Daniel 12:1


Now, in the story below, Imagine world governments coming together to Control AI. They easily could program it to manipulate people to their view and demonize the opponents on a global scale....just saying the OBVIOUS.
More TOOLS & MECHANISMS being put in place.

"A consulting firm called Gladstone AI published a report commissioned by the State Department this week that recommended more government involvement with the development of artificial
intelligence (A.I.)
to avert “urgent and growing risks to national security,” which could metastasize into an “extinction-level threat to the human species.


The proposed remedy is to create a new government agency in charge of policing A.I., while restricting A.I. development with heavy-handed regulations.

The report’s authors were particularly concerned about the next step in evolution: artificial general intelligence (AGI), a “transformative technology with profound implications for democratic governance and global security.

AGI refers to advanced A.I. systems that can “outperform humans
across all economic and strategically relevant domains, such as producing practical long-term plans that are likely to work under real world conditions.

The nightmare scenario is “loss of control,” which the report defined as “a potential failure mode under which a future A.I. system could become so capable that it escapes all human effort to contain its impact.”

The report authors borrowed from Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT. Altman was one of 300 signatories to a public “statement of A.I. risk” in May 2023 that said “mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority,” on par with mitigating the risk from pandemics and nuclear wars.

One role of the proposed federal A.I. department would be pumping the brakes on software development to ensure the AGI genie doesn’t suddenly pop out of seemingly obsolete chipsets a few years from now." 
Breitbart

IN the NEWS - March towards FREEDOMLESS Democracies

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: Daniel 12:1

In Canada, the AUTHORITARIAN/TOTALITARIAN assault on Free Speech continues by the Trudeau regime.....LIFE IN PRISON for SPEECH deemed "hate" by the Politicians. 
NOW, Picture this Mentality applied in the near future to the MARK OF THE BEAST Controversy.
One can see how, if the government deemed at some point in the future, that criticism of the beast entity constitutes "hate speech" they could lock you up with a Life Sentence. Tools & Mechanisms are being flirted with as we become
FREEDOMLESS FEMOCRACIES in the West.

"The Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63 increases the potential penalties from five years to life imprisonment. It also increases the penalty
for the willful promotion of hatred (a dangerously ill-defined crime) from two years to five years. The proposed changes constitute a doubling down on
Canada’s commitment to reducing free speech for citizens despite criticism from many in the civil liberties community. There is also a chilling option for house arrest if a judge believes a defendant “will commit” an offense. In other words, if a judge thinks that a citizen will be undeterred and try to speak freely again.

Justice Minister Arif Virani employed the same hysteria to convince citizens to surrender their freedoms to the government. He expressed how terrified he was with the potential of free speech....

It is not likely to end there.

The law comes after Canada blocked a Russian dissident from becoming a citizen because of her violation of Russian anti-free speech laws.
In a telling act, the government said that the same conduct (i.e., free speech) could be a crime in Canada.
Indeed, it may now be punished even more harshly." 
ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 3/17/2024 - They admit it.....

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

"Well known creationist physicist Dr John Hartnett has been very
critical in CMI literature and elsewhere of the alleged stuff that astronomers call
dark matter. He has said, “Its alleged existence is an admission that we don’t know something about our universe”, and has predicted that it will not be found, at least not in the exotic form and quantity needed.

In popular science magazine New Scientist had this admission on its front cover:

DARK MATTER: We still haven’t found it. Our theories are falling apart.”

Commenting on this situation, Dr Hartnett says,
"Add to that the mystery of ‘dark energy’ and the two components total 96% of the mass/energy content of the universe. But what makes it worse, we know nothing about these alleged entities. The simplest solution—as per Ockham’s Razor—is that they just do not exist. The big bang cosmological paradigm is wrong. It is based on the false notion that the universe created itself, without the Creator. It follows then that when fallen creatures use this false starting point, many contradictions will arise in any theory that tries to explain the universe. And finally someone is admitting it—their theories are falling apart.
CMI

Friday, March 15, 2024

State of the Dead Controversy in days of Christ

The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record. 
John 12:17

"Bethany was so near Jerusalem that the news of the raising of
Lazarus was soon carried to the city. 
The Sadducees, though not favorable to Christ, had not been so full of malignity toward Him as were the Pharisees
Their hatred had not been so bitter. 

But they were now thoroughly alarmed. They did not believe in a resurrection of the dead
---Producing so-called science, they had reasoned that it would be an impossibility for a dead body to be brought to life. 
*But by a few words from Christ their theory had been overthrown. *They were shown to be ignorant both of the Scriptures and of the power of God. 

They could see no possibility of removing the impression made on
the people by the miracle. 
Q: How could men be turned away from Him who had prevailed to rob the grave of its dead? 
A: Lying reports were put in circulation, but the miracle could not be denied, and how to counteract its effect they knew not. 
Thus far the Sadducees had not encouraged the plan of putting Christ to death. But after the resurrection of Lazarus they decided that only by His death could His fearless denunciations against them be stopped." 
E.G.W.

Creation Moment 3/16/2024 - Why not in Biology?

For we are his workmanship.... Ephesians 2:10

"Design is already commonly considered in archaeology,
cryptography, forensics, and SETI, so why not in biology
Apparently this arbitrary rule has become a national controversy. Intelligent Design, says Nelson, is finally removing a “rule of the game” that is hindering science." 
CEH

Post #20,000

For the perfecting of the saints,... 
Till we all come in the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God
unto a perfect man
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Ephesians 4:12,13

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Scripture on the Sabbath

"We have read the Scriptures from Moses to Malachi, and we find
there a command to keep holy the seventh day Sabbath of the Ten Commandments. 
We have read numerous references to the Sabbath in the writings of the apostles, but they have given no hint that the Sabbath was abolished at the cross. 
Q: Why have they failed to do this in all their references to it?

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; 
Colossians 2:16.17

Q: What Sabbath, therefore, would they conclude Paul was discussing when they read, in his letter to the church at Colossae, that the ritual of meats and drinks, new moons, Sabbaths, et cetera, was abolished? 
Q: Honestly, what would be their conclusion? 
A: The same conclusion we would reach after we had read in a book fifty-nine references to “day” as meaning twenty four hours, and then read the sixtieth reference to “day” in the context of red sky and setting sun
---They would conclude that Paul was speaking of annual Sabbaths, not the weekly ones.---
F.D. Nichols

Creation Moment 3/15/2024 - What headline might show up that will throw out the current assumptions?"

 .....He made the stars also. Genesis 1:16


"Aastronomers decided they had dated a pulsar too young. Now, they
figure they dated another one too old by 43,000 years, says the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, “Age Discrepancy Throws Pulsar Theories into Turmoil.

Using the Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers measured the proper motion of a pulsar away from its presumed supernova progenitor and got a much younger age than the technique used for years, measuring the slowing of the rotation rate. 
The NRAO report says,
Previous estimates of pulsar ages have assumed that all pulsars are born spinning much faster than we see them now, that the physical characteristics of the pulsar such as its mass and magnetic-field strength do not change with time, and that the slowdown rate can be estimated by applying the physics of a magnet spinning in a vacuum. ‘With one pulsar older than the estimates and one younger, we now realize that we have to question all three of these assumptions,’ said Gaensler.”

**
Notice that important word assumptions. 
Dating methods are often presented as empirical tools that give
objective results. 
---In reality, they are interpretations of measurements made with unverifiable assumptions. 
Some of the assumptions may seem reasonable, but consider that for decades now, these assumptions seemed reasonable, but are now being questioned. 
Q: Does that give you any confidence that the ages tossed around in this story–64,000 years– have any validity at all? 
Q: What headline might show up that will throw out the current assumptions?"
 CEH

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Q: If a Man Dies, Shall He Live Again?

"This question is not one that is asked now so much as it ought to be.
And as it is, in the great majority of cases, decided that man does not die, that "there is no death, what seems so is transition," in the view that man never ceases to live, it would not be an appropriate question at all to ask, Shall he live again?

In Job 14:14 is written the question to which we have here referred, "If a man dies, shall he live again?
And in Isaiah 26:19 we have the direct answer to the question: "Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead."

The only hope of future life, which the Word of God presents, is in the resurrection of the dead. This is the hope of the righteous; it is the Christian's hope.

Paul, in discussing this subject of the resurrection of the dead, proves first that Christ is risen, and then says: "Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty" (1 Cor. 15:12-14).

This is so important that the Spirit of God, by the apostle, repeats it.
Again he says: "
For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Cor. 15:16, 17). Here it is declared that to deny the resurrection of the dead is to deny the resurrection of Christ, is to leave the professed believer yet in his sins; and therefore it subverts the gospel and the salvation of Christ.

This is followed by another most important conclusion, and that is, If the dead rise not, "those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished." It would be impossible to more forcibly show that all hope of future life depends upon the resurrection of the dead. 
If there be no resurrection of the dead, then the dead are perished. And this is stated, not of the wicked dead, but of the righteous dead, "they also which are fallen asleep in Christ," even these have perished if there be no resurrection of the dead. In verse 32, this is repeated in another form: "If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!””
Such argument as that is very seldom heard in these our days." 
A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 3/14/2024 - Your ion channels

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.... Psalm 139:14

"The cover story of the March 9 Science News Vol 161:10, pp 152-
154
is about ion channels, the complex gates that attract and channel electrically-charged atoms into the cell.....the complex proteins that make up the channels and describes how they function: the KcsA potassium channel, for instance, “can shuttle up to 100 million potassium ions across a cell membrane in a single second while keeping out similarly charged sodium ions, whose smaller size would seem to make the passage easier.


The importance of ion channels is emphasized: “Literally every single thought or action involves these channels. After all, among their duties is regulation of the electrical excitability that nerve cells use to communicate and that muscles exploit to contract.

 Roderick MacKinnon and other researchers who first revealed their intricate structure were surprised that lowly bacteria had fully-formed ion channels:
"There was something even more surprising. No one had previously
reported voltage-gated
ion channels in a microbe. Jellyfish were the simplest creatures known to possess such channels. It was generally thought that microbes, which lack muscles and nervous systems, don’t need the high-speed reactions that voltage-gated ion channels permit.
This changes the whole evolutionary picture of [ion] channels,” says Clapham. “It means that bacteria, the most primitive life forms, have what was thought to be a very specialized channel."

The descriptions of these channels and their fast-acting voltage-regulated gates borders on awe at times. MacKinnon, though pleased at the possibility of medical advancements now that ion channels are becoming better understood, “admits that he’s motivated more by the thrill of understanding these remarkable proteins. ‘I just wonder how nature does things,’ he says. ‘How did nature make an electrical signal go from my brain to my toes so fast? The more you learn about what the ion channels have to do to make that signal, the more incredible it seems.’

---Yes! Keep asking questions like that. Let the evidence speak for itself. 
The closer you look at the cell, the more amazing it becomes, and the more old-fashioned Darwinism looks totally inadequate to account for it


What is strange are the forced references to Darwinian evolution and
materialism, the near obsession with explaining how complex specified structures arose spontaneously. 
If we just omitted those references, we would have Intelligent Design science right now. 
This article is a good example. It shows what the potassium channel is, what it does, what it looks like, how it operates, what genes code for its formation, etc.–in other words, a description of its design
It is even fair to call it beautiful, intricate, and exquisite
---But the brief reference to the evolutionary history of these channels adds nothing to the story, other than to show what an awful predicament the evolutionists are in.

Design presupposes information, which could be assumed to be a fundamental entity of the universe alongside matter and energy."
CEH

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Answer honestly before you give sleep to your eyes

To whom belongest thou? 
1 Samuel 30:13

"No neutralities can exist in religion
We are either ranked under the banner of Prince Immanuel, to serve and fight his battles, or we are vassals of the black prince, Satan. "To whom belongest thou?"

Reader, let me assist you in your response. 
*If you have, you belong to Christ, but without the new birth you cannot be His. 
Q: In whom do you trust? 
For those who believe in Jesus are the sons of God. 
Q: Whose work are you doing? 
You are sure to serve your master, for he whom you serve is thereby owned to be your lord. 
Q: What company do you keep? 
If you belong to Jesus, you will fraternize with those who wear the livery of the cross. "Birds of a feather flock together.
Q: What is your conversation? 
Q: Is it heavenly or is it earthly? 

We press the question, "To whom belongest thou?
---Answer honestly before you give sleep to your eyes

*If you are Christ's let me advise you to do four things. 
-1- You belong to Jesus--obey him; let His word be your law; let His wish be your will. 
-2- You belong to the Beloved, then love Him; let your heart embrace Him;
-3-  You belong to the Son of God, then trust Him; rest nowhere but on Him. 
-4- You belong to the King of kings, then be decided for Him."
Charles Spurgeon

SABBATH SIMPLIFIED

"The concept of the Sabbath is deeply rooted in the sacred scriptures.

--Humans should not attempt to determine which day is the Sabbath
since God Himself has set aside His holy day. 
--The Bible clearly and unequivocally states that the seventh day is the Sabbath, and therefore, it is the true sacred day of rest and worship. In 
*Exodus 20:8–11, it is explicitly commanded to “remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” and to refrain from work on that day, reflecting the pattern established by God during the story of creation. 

-*-This divine prescription underscores the belief that 
-a-the Sabbath is not simply a human construct 
-b-but rather a divine ordinance intended to provide rest, reflection, and spiritual rejuvenation." 
AndyRoman/AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - Head in Freezer......

Being filled with all unrighteousness... wickedness,.... maliciousness; full of envy, murder, .... Romans 1:29

"An NYC criminal justice activist facing charges over a headless torso found inside a Bronx apartment has been seen in surveillance footage wearing blonde wigs and transporting a large plastic box
from the crime scene, reports say.

Sheldon Johnson, 48, was detained Thursday in relation to a dismembered body found in a blue bin and a head stashed in a freezer inside the Bronx apartment found two days prior.
Neighbors allegedly told investigators they heard a victim pleading for his life before two shots were heard from the apartment, sources told the New York Post.
The victim was named Thursday as Colin Small, 44, as Johnson was charged with murder, manslaughter, and weapon possession.
Before the grisly discovery, Johnson was spotted chilling surveillance images appearing to disguise himself in a blonde wig and transporting large boxes and trash bags.
Police descended on the apartment Tuesday following reports from concerned neighbors over shots heard within the building.
They reportedly told police making the wellness check that they subsequently saw a stranger coming and going from the apartment with cleaning supplies.
Fears were also sparked by the alleged pleading from the victim, who was heard screaming, 'Please don't... I have a family.'
Johnson is a well-known criminal justice activist in New York City, and had recently appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast to speak about how he turned his life around.
He served 20 years in prison for a series of armed robberies in 1999, and upon his release from prison in 2019 began working as a client advocate at the public defender's office in Queens." 
DailyMail

Creation Moment 3/13/2024 - Counting the Stars

"People have always been fascinated by the stars and many have tried to count them. 
Today, the local Milky Way galaxy 
(of which our sun is a part) has been found to contain 200,000 million stars. What an astounding result! If somebody could count three stars per second, after 100 years he would have counted less than five percent of this number.

Astronomical distances are too large to be measured in kilometers, so light-years are used instead. One light-year is the distance that a light ray travels in one year. At a speed of 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second, it amounts to 9.46 million million kilometers (5.87 million million miles).

Q: Can we really grasp such an immense size?

With the naked eye we can see three more, namely the two Clouds of Magellan near the southern celestial pole, and the Andromeda galaxy in the constellation of the same name. The Andromeda galaxy is thought to be 2.25 million light-years from us.

Isaiah tells us that God’s thoughts and ways are far higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8–9). Not only are His thoughts higher than ours, they are also much faster. He can count the stars! And He has done exactly that; He even gave each one a name: “He determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names.” (Psalm 147:4)." CMI