"SDA's on" SERIES: The Sanctuary

SDA's on The Sanctuary:
"We keep before our adherents the earthly sanctuary service, given to the Israelites by God through Moses, teaching that it was a type of the heavenly service that is conducted for man's salvation. 

The system of animal sacrifices makes vivid to men the reality that the shedding of Christ’s blood was necessary for the remission of sins (Heb. 9:22), a truth de-emphasized in today’s Christian world, especially in mainline Protestantism, which has abandoned Biblical Christianity in favor of chamber-of-commerce-style civic boosterism and self-improvement.

We see in the earthly lambs slain a type of the Lamb of God who was slain from the foundation of the earth (Rev. 13:8); in the earthly Passover, a type of "Christ our Passover,” who is-sacrificed for us; in the earthly priests, a type of Christ our high priest who ministers in heaven above for us. (See 1 Cor. 5:7; Heb. 8:1)." 

F.D. Nichol

IN the NEWS - Book Publishers Re-write Scripture

Book Publishers Re-write Scripture....to bend to world that is at enmity with God.

"A crop of new children’s storybook Bibles aims to reach progressive Christians who are turned off by traditional presentations of Scripture, offering messages focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice.

Publishers say the projects are meant to reflect the faith values of a changing audience — and to fill what they describe as a gap in faith resources for progressive believers.
"The Just Love Story Bible," a "justice-oriented" storybook for readers ages four to 10, was released last month.
The authors said they also hope to prompt children to ask questions and challenge traditional beliefs about God, Jesus and the Biblical narrative.
"Did that happen?" Lewis said, describing how the storybook presents Jesus' resurrection. "For me, it matters more that children know that love never dies, so that’s where I landed."
"It’s OK to actually tell kids from the get-go: Some of these stories are about true people and things that really happened, and some of them are made-up stories, but they’re in there because they can still teach us true things about God," Daley-Harris said, referencing the story of Jonah.
Lewis said the book also highlights women in Jesus’ ministry and portrays Him as a "feminist."
"When Shannon and I say we don’t want children to learn something they have to unlearn, we don’t want them to learn patriarchy from this story Bible," she told RNS.
The book’s publisher, Beaming Books, says it hopes to reach progressive Christians seeking an "open-minded Bible." FOX

---The "Christ" they give lip service to believed in Jonah was a real person: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12:40

"Another devotional, "Growing in God’s Love: A Family Devotional," is out from Westminster John Knox Press. The book

offers daily readings that bring "substantive, progressive lessons in faith for all generations," and is aimed at adults and children ages five to 17.
Author Jessica Miller Kelley, an editor at Westminster John Knox, said she intentionally avoided using gendered language such as "mother" or "father" in the devotionals, except when directly quoting Scripture, to make the stories more inclusive of gender diversity and different kinds of families, she told Publishers Weekly." FOX

---The "Christ" they give lip service to believed in 2 Genders: 

And He answered and said unto them, 

Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female.... Matthew 19:4

Creation Moment 10/20/2025 - Exodus 20:11 an insurmountable stone wall to Long Age Chronology

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11

"Exodus 20:11.-- this verse is critical to the question of the age of the creation. It stands as an insurmountable stone wall to block every attempt to add millions of years anywhere into the Bible. Therefore, to be faithful to Scripture, Christians must reject the “big bang” theory and the billions of years of cosmological and geological history as myths.

Exodus 20:11 is very important because it is God’s Word in a special

way: it was not written through Moses but rather directly on tablets of stone by God Himself.

In Exodus 20:11, God used the same Hebrew word for “days”  (yamim, the plural form of yom [day]) that He used in verse nine, showing that God’s days of creation in Genesis 1 were the same kind of days (the same length) as the days of the week for the Israelites. It is doubtful if any faithful Jew ever interpreted it any other way until the idea of millions of years started to take control of people’s minds about two centuries ago.

We should note that if God really created over the course of millions of years (as most Christians around the world today believe), He could have clearly indicated that in the Hebrew. He could have used the Hebrew word dor (דּוֹר), which is translated in English Bibles as time, period, or generation. 

Or He could have borrowed an Aramaic word, as He did in the books of Nehemiah and Daniel, such as zeman (זְמָ֑ן) or iddan (עִדָּן), which are translated as season, time, or period. 

Or He could have used some phrase such as “after many days,” “after some years,” “after thousands of ten thousand years,” or “after years of many generations.” 

But instead, God used the only Hebrew word, yom (יוֹם), that means a literal, 24-hour day, and it means that (or the light portion of a literal, 24-hour day, in contrast to night) in the majority of the 2,320 times it is used in the Old Testament." 

AIG

"SDA's on" SERIES: The Sabbath

SDA's on The Sabbath:
"The seventh day Sabbath focuses the worshiper's mind on the great truth that Christ created the world in six literals days, and rested on the seventh day, the truth denied by evolutionists today. 

God the Father “created all things by Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 3:9. "For by Him [Christ] were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him." Colossians 1:16. So Christ is just as much the Creator God as God the Father.

Q: Now what would we think of Christ if He created, as the

evolutionists allege, through a slow process, requiring millions of years of predation, animal suffering, and death? 

A: We would think that Christ is a cruel creator indeed. 

--But the Adventist doctrine, which keeps in memory that Christ created a good world, free of death, disease, and predation, in six literal days, and rested upon the seventh day, protects Christ from this charge of being a cruel creator.

*The Sabbath doctrine also emphasizes Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall. Because our minds are weekly focused upon the original perfect world of the seventh day of that first creation week, we realize how terrible was the fall of our first parents, and how necessary and important is Christ’s role as redeemer from the Fall.

It is only by contemplating each week the fact that we were created in innocent perfection and fell into sin that we see the necessity for our redemption both as a race and as individuals. 

Hence, the Sabbath doctrine greatly glorifies Christ in His role as the Second Adam, the redeemer of the race that the first Adam caused to fall into sin." 

F.D. Nichol 

Relationship between the Trumpets and the Plagues

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! Revelation 8:13

"The trumpets and the plagues afflict the same things, in the same order: 

First trumpet and plague: Afflict the earth 

Second trumpet and plague: Afflict the sea 

Third trumpet and plague: Afflict rivers and fountains of waters  

Fourth trumpet and plague: Afflict heavenly bodies

Fifth trumpet and plague: Heavenly bodies darkened 

Sixth trumpet and plague: Mention of the Euphrates 

Seventh trumpet and plague: Possessing the Kingdom

The evidence seems to indicate that the trumpets represent preliminary and partial judgments that fell upon the oppressors of

God’s people beginning with the destruction of Jerusalem and ending with the setting up of Christ’s everlasting kingdom. 

--The fact that the trumpets only fall on thirds and not on the totality indicates that the trumpet judgments are preliminary and partial. 

The trumpets series indicates that repentance during the blowing of the trumpets is possible. 

The plagues, on the other hand, describe final and total judgments of God upon end time Babylon after the close of probation. 

We can see the irrevocable nature of the plagues by the use of the expression ‘in them the wrath of God is complete’. 

--Each plague is God’s judgment upon some particular sin that Babylon has committed. 

The plagues are retributive in character and not remedial. 

--Repentance is not possible once the plagues begin to fall. 

A careful study of the trumpets and the plagues reveals that the trumpet judgments foreshadow the plague judgments. 

That is to say, the trumpets are the type and the plagues are the antitype." 

Stephen Bohr

“The battle of Armageddon will be fought and that day must find none of us sleeping. Wide-awake we must be, as wise virgins having oil in our vessels with our lamps. 

The power of the Holy Ghost must be upon us and the Captain of the Lord's host will stand at the head of the angels of heaven to direct the battle. Solemn events before us are yet to transpire. 

Trumpet after trumpet is to be sounded; 

vial after vial poured out one after another upon 

the inhabitants of the earth.” 

E.G.W.

Jezebel of our unbelief

And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. 1 Samuel 27:1

"THE thought of David's heart at this time was a false thought, because he certainly had no ground for thinking that God's anointing him by Samuel was intended to be left as an empty unmeaning act.

On no one occasion had the Lord deserted His servant; he had been placed in perilous positions very often, but not one instance had occurred in which divine interposition had not delivered him. 

The trials to which he had been exposed had been varied; they had

not assumed one form only, but many—yet in every case He who sent the trial had also graciously ordained a way of escape. 

*David could not put his finger upon any entry in his diary, and say of it, "Here is evidence that the Lord will forsake me," for the entire tenor of his past life proved the very reverse. 

He should have argued from what God had done for him, that God would be his defender still. 

Q: But is it not just in the same way that we doubt God's help?

We have had dark nights, but the star of love has shone forth amid the blackness; we have been in stern conflicts, but over our head He has held aloft the shield of our defense. 

Q: How can we ever be so ungenerous as to doubt our God? 

Lord, 

throw down the Jezebel of our unbelief, 

and let the dogs devour it." 

Charles Spurgeon

Papal Notes - King Charles about to Bend the Knee?

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. Revelation 17:2

"King Charles III and the Queen Consort will travel to the Vatican

next week for a state visit, where the King and Pope Leo will pray together, the first time such a thing has happened in 500 years, if not longer.

Pope Leo XIV is to welcome King Charles III, the head of state of the United Kingdom and the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, to the Vatican on October 22nd and 23rd. 

While King Charles will not be the first British monarch to visit the Vatican — Queen Elizabeth II visited during her reign, for instance — the two men will pray together at the Sistine Chapel, reckoned by Buckingham Palace to be the first time this will have happened in some 500 years.

This claim dates back to King Henry VIII splitting from Rome in 1534, before there was even a United Kingdom, and Henry was the King of England only.
Yet King Henry VIII is not known to have ever visited Rome or met the then-Pope himself, so the date of the last time a ‘British’ King prayed alongside the Pope in Rome may have been hundreds of years before even that. King Canute, the Viking King of England, Denmark, and Norway certainly made a pilgrimage to Rome in 1027 — nearly exactly 1,000 years ago — and met Pope John XIX.

During the Sistine Chapel meeting planned for next week, priests from both the Catholic Church and Church of England will pray together — despite the Catholic Church not officially recognizing

Anglican priests as valid — in a show of Ecumenicalism that will also see a choir brought from Windsor Castle sing.
In another link to the pre-reformation relationship between Britain — then England — and Rome, King Charles will also be made a Royal brother of the confraternity of the Abbey at St Paul’s Outside the Walls, an ancient Church that was once closely linked to the English and even ancient pre-ancient monarchies which helped fund its upkeep. The King will receive a private seat at the Basilica with his coat of arms. As noted by Buckingham Palace:

"In further celebration of this new bond, the Basilica of St Paul’s Outside the Walls has created a special seat for His Majesty, which

will remain in the Basilica as a perpetual mark of mutual respect between Pope Leo and The King as Heads of State. The special chair is decorated with His Majesty’s Coat of Arms. The King will use this chair during the service, after which it will remain in the apse of the Basilica for future use by His Majesty and his heirs and successors."

The Times notes Saxon King Offa and Æthelwulf in the 8th and 9th centuries were supporters of St Paul’s, sending money for the protection of St Paul’s and St Peter’s tombs." 

Breitbart

Creation Moment 10/19/2025 - Genesis 1 in Proper Perspective

"If God created the world over millions of years, there would have
been death before the Fall—hardly the definition of a “very good” (Genesis 1:31) creation. 

If the days of creation are really geologic ages of millions of years, then the gospel message is undermined at its foundation because it puts death, disease, thorns, and suffering before the Fall." 

AIG

"Hell" SERIES PAGE

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? 

shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? 

Psalm 89:48

Intro

Dig Deeper: "Hell" SERIES: Intro

Tartaroo: The Dark Abyss

Dig Deeper: "Hell" SERIES: Tartaroo: The Dark Abyss

Hades (the grave, death)

Dig Deeper: "Hell" SERIES: Hades (the grave, death)

Gehenna: the Burning Place

Dig Deeper: "Hell" SERIES: Gehenna: the Burning Place

What is the LAKE OF FIRE?

Dig Deeper: "Hell" SERIES: What is the LAKE OF FIRE?

"SDA's on" SERIES: The Law

SDA's on The Law:
"We teach that "sin is the transgression of the law," (1 John 3:4) and that all mankind stands guilty and condemned before God. 

--If God's law could have been abolished, Christ's substitutionary death on our behalf would not have been necessary to our salvation. 

--Could the law have been set aside, Christ’s death on Calvary would serve only as a beautiful exhibit of a good man's dying for a noble ideal, and setting before us a noble example.

That is indeed the position that some Christians take, popularly known as the “moral influence theory.” But this view of the atonement robs Christ's death of its legal necessity, and hence of its salvific significance. 

By contrast, Seventh-day Adventists hold that God's law could not be set aside; hence a guilty sinner’s only hope is found in Christ, who bore his sins and died in his stead. How could we give greater significance to Christ as our savior and redeemer? " 

F.D. Nichol

Creation Moment 10/18/2025 - "If" & "Could"

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, 

whom He hath appointed heir of all things, 

by whom also He made the worlds; 

Hebrews 1:2

See how they write authoritatively  yet based on"If" & "Could"  

"JWST might have spotted the 'smoking gun' of a hypothetical object called a dark star in the distant Universe. If confirmed, this discovery could solve several mysteries of physics.

A dark star may sound like an oxymoron, but it would still emit light and energy. It wouldn't be powered by nuclear fusion like a garden-variety star, however – it would be running on a core of interacting dark matter particles.
Most intriguingly, though, one of the objects showed a particular light absorption feature at the wavelength of 1,640 Angstrom. 

This is considered a sure sign of dark stars, which arises from singly ionized helium in their atmospheres."

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"Hell" SERIES: What is the LAKE OF FIRE?

"But if there be an eternal Hell, then we have not the annihilation but merely the segregation of evil. 

--There is still sin and suffering in some corner of God’s perfectly re-created paradise. 

--The former would still be remembered and come into mind—and in a painful way for the saved in heaven who have loved ones continually suffering torment.

*How much better the doctrine, in which the unsaved living are killed by the brightness of Christ’s coming, and the unsaved dead are not resurrected until the end of the millennium. 

The saints are taken to heaven for the millennium, and during that time, the books of heaven are opened, each case examined, and all are satisfied that God has judged correctly in every case. The saved will have one thousand years to go through the lives of those who were not saved before judgment is executed.

Then, at the end of the millennium, the New Jerusalem descends to earth, the unsaved dead are all resurrected, and Satan is set loose. Rev. 20:7-10. It is at this time that “every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phil. 2:10-11. Everyone will admit that Christ’s judgment was just and fair.

--Then, the unsaved will be cast into the lake of fire. Rev. 21:8. 

--Some will be consumed instantaneously, some in mere seconds, some in minutes, a few in hours, and a very few, other than Satan himself, in days. But eventually all are consumed and reduced to ashes. Then the world is made anew, without any trace of sin or evil. Rev. 21:1-5."
F.D. Nichol

“The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy,

 declare that God is love.”

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - When Netflix, Hamish and Lucifer walked into a room....

When Netflix, Hamish and Lucifer walked into a room.... ...THE RESULT: ...inventors of evil things,... Romans 1:30

"Tennessee Republican Congressman Tim Burchett is calling for Netflix executives to explain the massive amounts of “demonic” transgender content in its children’s programing.
Burchett and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R,

KY) have presented the streamer with a letter calling executives to a committee hearing after learning of the cartoon series called, Dead End: Paranormal Park, which was aimed at children under 13, featured a transgender main character.
“If they don’t come in voluntarily, we ought to subpoena them. Because this is a serious issue. It affects the mental health of our young people, the moral degradation of our society,” Burchett added. 
Dead End is not the only children’s series on Netflix featuring transgender and LGBTQ+ characters. 

Others include, Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City, The Baby-Sitters Club, Monster High, and Transformers: Earthspark, all of which pushed the radical gay agenda.
“The transgender issue is a mental health issue, is what it is. I don’t think we should be celebrating or promoting it is very harmful to these folks,” Burchett insisted. “The shows that they are targeting for children, for instance, that are showing a little boy becoming a girl, which is biologically impossible… to me, they’re just recruiting or grooming young children.”

The congressman admitted that Netflix has a First Amendment right to air its programming, but he feels there is a fine line between allowing for the First Amendment and seeking tools that are needed “to protect people from harming children.”
Burchett also pointed out that the FCC already has legal grounds to make certain rules for “communications corporations,” even as he admits that the law has not exactly caught up to online and streaming services.
“We’re going to have to address all those matters,” he insisted.

A controversy broke out in September when Hamish Steele, the creator of Dead End: Paranormal Park, took to social media and railed at people saddened by the brutal murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Steele called Kirk a “Nazi” in an expletive-laden rant on left-wing social media outlet BlueSky.
The series, which launched in 2021, follows “Barry Guttman” (voiced by trans actor Zach Barack) who is described as a “gay transgender teen boy.” The storyline follows Barry as his dog Pugsley (Alex Brightman), becomes possessed by the demon “Temeluchus.”
“DeadEnd is about terrifying demons, vengeful ghosts and mysterious magic,” Steele said of the series after it was picked up by Netflix. “It is also about coming of age in a world that wasn’t made for you. It’s a drama about found family, identity and making mistakes.”

“I’ve always dreamed of making the show I needed as a lonely, horror-obsessed closeted gay kid and thanks to Netflix and our ridiculously talented, diverse and representative writers room and crew, we have shot way past my dreams and into wildest fantasy territory!” he added.

The series survived for two seasons before being cancelled by Netflix." 

Breitbart

IN the NEWS - The Vatican goes a WHORING

Q: Will God have "Muslim Prayer Rooms" in Heaven?

Q: If not, then why would a place claiming to be a "Holy City" of the Father God do it on earth?

A: Because they are neither a Holy City of the Father God on earth NOR guided by His Spirit.

Exult not like the peoples;

for you have played the whore, forsaking your God.

You have loved a prostitute’s wages

on all threshing floors.

Hosea 9:1 ESV

"A dedicated prayer room for Muslims has reportedly been opened inside the 500-year-old Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome after a plea for the separate, carpeted space was made by visiting Islamic scholars.
The Catholic Herald reports Fr. Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that

Muslim academics had requested an area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” he said.
In the interview, Cardinali referred to the library’s modern collections: about 80,000 manuscripts, 50,000 archival items, nearly two million printed books, and hundreds of thousands of coins, medals, engravings, and prints.
The library, located within Vatican City, traces its origins to Pope Nicholas V in 1451 and has since served as one of the world’s leading repositories of Christian and human knowledge.

The opportunity given by the Vatican for Muslims to pray in their own designated area is at odds with Islam’s own strictures

 for its holy city.

Non-Muslims are not allowed to enter Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Non-Muslims who attempt to enter Mecca can face severe consequences, including imprisonment and deportation." 

Breitbart

IN the NEWS - College LGBT due to Mental Illness and Social Pressure

... but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 

Judges 17:6

"The numbers are somewhat similar to a survey two years ago, also by the Brown Daily Herald, which found 40 percent of the student body identified as LGBTQ.
Of the respondents, 12.8 percent said they were bisexual, five percent said they were “questioning or unsure,” six percent said they were gay or lesbian, and 1.6 percent said they were “pansexual.”
Several social scientists provided insights into the data and broader trends of LGBT identification among college-aged students.
Eric Kaufmann, a professor of political science at the University of Buckingham, said the percentages are close to 30 percent across the entire student data set, with some schools seeing 40-50 percent

LGBT identification.
Kaufmann attributed this to “female bisexuality” – a figure that has nearly doubled since the 2010s.
He previously has conducted research on trends in LGBT identification.
The social scientist says it seems the increase is linked to mental illness and social pressure.
“As the share of female bisexuals has soared, the number of them having same-sex relationships has gone down. That tells you something: it’s more of an identity than a behavior,” Kaufmann wrote in an email to The Fix.
“So this is only – in my view – partly connected to woke ideology and politics.”
A quantitative social scientist who regularly comments on social issue polling and studies provided comments on why the incoming class at Brown might identify as LGBT at a smaller percentage than the student body several years ago.
“First, multiple polls have shown that younger members of Generation Z are more politically conservative than older members of Generation Z,” Professor Michael New told The Fix via email.
“Additionally, multiple news reports indicate that this generation of young men are more religious and more likely to attend church than previous generations of young men,” the Catholic University of America professor said.
He also explained why LGBT identification might still be higher overall at Brown than other universities.
There is a strong likelihood “students at elite universities, like Brown, are more likely to identify as LGBT than other members of their age demographic” due to higher socioeconomic backgrounds and secularity,” he said.
Research by Kaufmann, the Buckingham social scientist, has found similar results.
About 23 percent of Gen Z identifies as gay, transgender, or another sexual orientation, according to Gallup.
Gallup’s survey also revealed the average percentage of Gen Z adults identifying as LGBT to be 22.7 percent in the past two years. The average drops as they survey older generations." 

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 10/17/2025 - The Real Question for evo-devo

....hath not one God created us? Malachi 2:10

"In Expelled, Dawkins floated the idea of life being seeded by an

advanced civilization — an idea he calls “intriguing.” 

But this just pushes the question back one step. 

Evo-devo performs the same dodge: parade “modules” and “regulatory landscapes,” but never answer the real question — 

Q: where did the information originate?" 

CEH

"Hell" SERIES: Gehenna: the Burning Place

"Gehenna is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Hinnom, the name of a valley near Jerusalem, that was used as a dump, where the refuse, including animal carcasses and dead bodies, were consumed in a fire constantly kept going (See Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon.) Hence, Gehenna is the only one of the words translated "hell" in the Bible that actually does contain the concept of fire or burning.

Let’s look at the twelve instances in the King James Version New Testament where Gehenna is translated as “Hell”:

Matt. 5:22 states, “anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.” This is clearly referring to a burning place.

Mat. 5:29-30 (Mat. 18:9 is another instance, and Mark 9:43 and 45 and 47 are parallel passages) states, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.”
It is interesting that this passage speaks of people being case bodily into Hell, not as disembodied spirits.

Mat. 10:28 (Luke 12:5 is parallel) states, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”
This clearly states that the soul can be killed in the burning place. It is not immortal.

Luke 12:5 is clearer from an Adventist prospective, in that “soul” is not used:
“But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”

In other words, “don’t fear the first death, from which you can be
resurrected, fear being cast into Hell, which is the second death.”

Mat. 23:15 states, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.”
“Child of Hell” is figurative language, obviously.

Mat. 23:33 states, “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?”

James 3:6 is using figurative language: “The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.”

--Now in connection with the twelve times Gehenna is used two facts stand out:
1. The “body” as well as the soul is said to be “cast into hell.” Twice is the phrase used, "the whole body." (See Matt. 5:29-30; 10:28.) Note that the wicked are here said to be "cast into" the fire, as

though to describe the act of hurling an object into the flames. 

Note, further, the interesting fact, which is surely more than a mere coincidence in words, that the very same word "cast" (even in the original Greek) is repeatedly used in the various Gehenna texts. In no less than six of these texts we read, "Cast into hell [Gehenna]."

2. In not one of the twelve instances does the text tell when the wicked will be “cast into Hell.” For the time when this happens, we must consult passages such as Rev. 20:11-15, which we discussed above, and Mat. 25:31-41.

--From all the foregoing we reach the conclusion that the Bible does not support the idea that the wicked go into the flames of hell at death, but rather that the day when the impenitent objects of God's wrath are "cast into Gehenna" is still in the future."
F.D. Nichol

IN the NEWS - God Creates Man / Man Creates Brainless Bodyoids [Zombies]

And it repented the LORD that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. Genesis 6:6

"Three Stanford biologists and ethicists argue for the use of so-called bodyoids in science and medicine. This infelicitous term refers to hypothetical modified human bodies created from stem cells - bodies that have been genetically altered so that they lack brains, and thus, presumably, are without consciousness. The authors acknowledge

that we do not yet have the technical capability to create such beings, but recent advances in stem cells, gene editing, and artificial uteruses “provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain.”

Strictly speaking, artificial uteruses are not necessary for the development of bodyoids. Such a reprogrammed embryo could ­theoretically be created in a lab and implanted in a woman’s uterus, as is done with IVF. But the notion that an entity regarded as subhuman should be born from a human mother seems too gruesome even for these bioethical pioneers to contemplate.

The authors admit that many will find the prospect of bodyoids disturbing, but they argue that a “potentially unlimited source” of “spare” human bodies will be immensely useful and should be pursued. 

We could, for example, harvest the organs of these ­presumably nonsentient humans and conduct experiments on them in order to test drugs and other medical interventions. 

The authors even suggest that it would be more ethical to do drug testing on humans who cannot feel pain, because they lack nervous systems, than on animals that can feel pain. There are other potential benefits for animal species as well, they aver, since we could use animal bodyoids to avoid causing pain and suffering in the cows and pigs we slaughter for food.

Human bodyoids are not entirely within the realm of science fiction. Scientists have recently produced “embryoids,” or “synthetic ­embryos,” from reprogrammed stem cells, without the use of sperm and eggs. Embryoids are living entities that seem to develop as human embryos do but that presumably lack the capacity for full human development.

Bodyoids are human bodies. Or rather, human-like bodies. But not human in any morally relevant sense - they lack brains, after all. But sufficiently human that we can harvest their organs for transplant and conduct experiments on them to see how “real” humans would respond to drugs.

The precise name for such a creature is zombie. The concept has roots in Haitian folklore, where the term is zonbi, referring to a person who has been brought back from the dead through magical means to serve as a mindless slave. The problem with creating zombies, our stories suggest, is that they always come back to bite us. Creating them ­diminishes our humanity.

The concept of brain death - defined as total cessation of all brain function - arguably paved the way for advocates of the ­creation and exploitation of bodyoids. As the authors of the article point out, “Recently we have even begun ­using for experiments the ‘animated cadavers’ of people who have been declared legally dead, who have lost all brain function but whose other organs continue to function with mechanical assistance.” What are we to make of the term “animated cadaver,” which seems to express a manifest contradiction?

Advocates for the brain-death criterion argue that death is the disintegration of the unified organism, and the brain is responsible for maintaining organismic unity. Liberal bioethicists also argue that,

without consciousness, though there may be a living human being, there is no morally or legally relevant “personhood.” 

But these arguments do not withstand scrutiny. The brain modulates the coordinated activity of the other organs; it does not create that coordinated activity. That is accomplished by the organic formal unity of the body as a whole—which modern science, with its reductionistic analysis of the body into component parts, fails to discern.
Although a brain-dead patient has no functional electrical activity of the brain, the patient continues, with the help of machines, to breathe and to circulate blood.

A bodyoid’s value for science and medicine lies precisely in what it would be, which is not a zombie, not a dead person, not a mannequin that mimics the human form. It would be a profoundly disabled human being, designed and created to be profoundly ­disabled—a ­vulnerable human being so ­totally defenseless and voiceless that it could be exploited with ­impunity.

If this is the case, we would endorse this macabre project only if we ourselves had become, so to speak, moral zombies." 

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Papal Notes - Dilexi Te

This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666. Revelation 13:18 NIV

"Pope Leo XIV’s first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te,” published on October 4, 2025, is an appeal to alleviate poverty and promote human solidarity. 

Yet beneath its calls for humanitarian work lies a deeper and more transformative vision—one that seeks to unite the world under a single political, religious, and moral order capable of implementing Christian-inspired social reforms on a global scale.

In Dilexi Te, Pope Leo repeatedly calls for “a community of all and for all,” a “more united country, a more fraternal world,” and cooperation with institutions such as the United Nations. 

His emphasis on “solidarity” and “universal fraternity” urges governments, popular movements, and international organizations to collaborate with the Church in reshaping the world’s social and economic systems. In doing so, the document elevates the Vatican as the world’s moral and spiritual leader, positioning it as the spiritual foundation for a new form of global governance—blending church and state as described in Bible prophecy.

Several sections of Dilexi Te explicitly call for collaboration among peoples, institutions, and nations toward a worldwide moral renewal.
• Paragraph 10: “It is to be welcomed that the United Nations has made the eradication of poverty one of its Millennium Goals.”
This statement openly connects the Vatican’s mission to UN objectives, showing direct cooperation between the Church and international agencies.
• Paragraph 73–75: “The Church’s mission to migrants and refugees … describes the Church’s mission to all those living in the existential peripheries … They are an occasion that Providence gives us to help build a more just society, a more perfect democracy, a more united country, a more fraternal world and a more open and evangelical Christian community.”
This statement is one of the clearest globalist appeals in the document and is a call to build a “more united world” through Christian moral cooperation, uniting spiritual and political goals. It portrays the Church not only as a religious body but also as a guiding force for global political renewal.
• Paragraph 97: “Unjust structures need to be recognized and eradicated by the force of good … by developing effective policies for societal change. The Gospel message … has to do not only with an individual’s personal relationship with the Lord, but also with something greater: the Kingdom of God … a setting for universal fraternity, justice, peace and dignity.”
This statement is especially troubling, as it calls for the “eradication” of unjust systems—implying that Rome will claim the authority to define who the “unjust” are. According to Revelation 13, this very mindset prepares the way for a power that speaks like a dragon, enforcing its moral judgments upon the world and persecuting those who refuse to conform to its decrees. 

It also defined the church’s new mission: to establish the Kingdom of God in the current political framework through Vatican-based policies. This document makes the Pope out to be the moral voice for the world.
Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic letter serves as much more than just a

pastoral message—it is a blueprint for Revelation 13 and global integration. 

Under the banners of fraternity, peace, and social justice, the nations of the world are being invited to join a single fraternal order guided by Rome’s moral leadership. As the world rallies around this vision of solidarity, prophecy warns that freedom and Biblical faith will once again be tested." 

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