The restrictive clause verse 17

"Another as serts that “the term cannot refer to any ceremonial sabbaths of the Jews, because they had no annual festivals which could properly be called ‘sabbaths;’ that the word sabbaton used in Col.2:16, is the one always used to designate the weekly Sabbath; and therefore the word there must refer to the weekly Sabbath, and that alone, all the Jewish festivals being included in the word holy-day (or feast-day) used just before.” 

Thus the fourth commandment seems to be a source of perplexity to many people. 

--It is so, however, only to those who wish to avoid its obligations. 

--Such, we are happy to say, will always find it a thorn in their side and a prick in their eyes. 

*To all others, it is a “delight, the holy of the Lord, honorable.” (Isaiah 58:13)

--There is, therefore, no necessity of going outside of the limits prescribed by the apostle’s language, and invading the realm of the moral law, and bringing in the weekly Sabbath of the Lord, which is just as distinct from these other sabbaths in its origin, nature, office, and destiny, as can possibly be. 

**Moreover, Paul is careful to guard still further against any

misunderstanding in this matter, by immediately adding (verse 17) this restrictive clause: “Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” 

--Thus he points out in just as plain language as could be used, just what sabbaths he refers to; it is only to those which belong to the system of types and shadows, and which are a part and parcel of that system. 

*But this was never true of the weekly Sabbath, which originated, as the record in Genesis shows, before any type or shadow had, or could have had, a place in the economy of God’s grace in behalf of men." Uriah Smith

SDA Issues - Threat of Theological pluralism

O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. 2 Corinthians 6:11

"In orthodox theology "the emphasis is on God's revelation, not our response. The test for Christian doctrine is whether it is true to that revelation". Unless, of course, it is no longer believed that the writers of the Bible perceived God's revelation accurately. To focus on the human response as the basis for doctrine is a major shift in theological method and hermeneutics.

The substitution of human experience for Scripture as the authoritative source for doctrine and direction for Christian living. This is the reduction of "statements about God and alleged supernatural events merely to claims about man and his experience."

Theological pluralism by its very nature has to be satisfied with

tentative truth. "Anyone who insists on any truth claim at all cannot embrace the principles of pluralism without thereby calling his own truth claim into question."

When the Bible is no longer seen as the final authority for doctrine, faith, and life, other claims to authority are made—the authority of the church, or of religious experience, or of theological pluralism.

Theological pluralism suggests theological evolution, implying that the religious experience of today's believer is a much more mature faith than that of the Biblical writers, and that the thought of contemporary theologians is more reliable than that of the Biblical writers. 

Theological pluralism sets itself up as the judge of all theological claims. It excludes as unacceptable all who dare to claim more than a tentative status for doctrine. Thus an approach which demands such wide tolerance is most intolerant of traditional orthodox views. It does not hesitate to engage in name-calling, using terms such as "fundamentalist," "reactionary," "divisive," "ignorant," "unsophisticated," and "traditionalist" to brand those who hold to unchangeable and absolute propositional truth.

Pluralism allows for contradictory theological statements to be credited with equal validity. Thus both of the following statements can be recognized as truth if the principle of theological pluralism is applied: "The Bible teaches that the seventh-day Sabbath, Saturday, is the day on which Christians should worship God." 

"The Bible teaches that the Lord's Day, Sunday, is the day on which Christians should worship God." Yet both of these statements cannot be true because they are neither consistent nor complementary, but contradictory. One of them is false.

Theological pluralism inevitably leads to religious pluralism. That is to say, when the principle of pluralism is applied to the spectrum of the religious world it leads to the conclusion that Christianity is not unique among world religions. 

*Likewise it leads to the conclusion that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is not unique among Protestant churches. Thus pluralism threatens the very identity of the SDA Church." 

Raymond Holmes

Creation Moment 11/7/2026 - Just "Popping" into existence?

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

"“Nothing comes from nothing, nothing ever could!” is a line from a popular musical; but it speaks to a profound question that is relevant

to some of the most complex phenomena that physicists continue to grapple with: 

Q: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Behind particles ‘popping into existence’ by quantum fluctuations lies a deeper challenge for cosmological evolution. 

Q: While particles may appear from energy, what explains the origin of energy, laws, and fields?

In dialogue with atheists or agnostics at university, when the topic of the universe’s origins came up in conversations, the ‘go-to’ explanation was always “quantum fluctuations.” 

Whether or not that atheist had a background in Physics, the appeal to “quantum fluctuations” has become a scapegoat answer thought to provide a satisfying explanation for a lack of belief that a Supreme Creator is necessary for the creation of the world.

In one of the most recent attempts at examining one of the mechanisms popularly referenced to answer this question, Arinjoy De and colleagues used a programmable trapped-ion quantum computer to simulate a phenomenon known as string breaking (simply put, a process where energy stored between particles is converted into new particles) – or as described in ScienceDaily, it is a process

“…in which two connected building blocks of matter are pulled apart until so much energy accumulates that new particles can effectively “pop into existence” when the connection breaks.”

In their simulation, De et al’s team created a controllable quantum system consisting of 13 trapped ions and investigated how energy stored in a simulated “string” connecting charges could lead to the formation of additional charge pairs. Their experiments revealed evidence of a previously unrecognized mechanism of string breaking and demonstrated how quantum simulators are becoming powerful tools for studying how matter behaves and may help scientists explore ideas about the early universe.

For one, 

the experiment did not create matter from absolute nothingness.

 

---Instead, the system already contained trapped ions, laser beams, stored energy, quantum fields, a carefully engineered Hamiltonian (the mathematical rule that describes the total energy of a system and how that system changes over time) and scientists directing and

controlling every aspect of the experiment. 

In fact, quoting from the ScienceDaily article, the authors described “precise” and “controlled” conditions to view this phenomenon. In their words:
“Quantum simulators are especially useful for this kind of work because researchers can precisely control them and program them to imitate physical processes that occur at atomic and subatomic scales… “Working at the intersection of quantum simulation and high-energy physics is incredibly exciting,” said Arinjoy De, first author on the paper, former PhD student in Monroe’s lab and now production machine lead at QuEra Computing. “By simulating quark confinement and string-breaking phenomena in a controlled lab environment, we’re opening up new pathways for experimental investigations into the behavior of matter at its most fundamental level.””

*Far from sounding like proof for undirected naturalistic origins of matter, the precisions required to even view one particle appearing from existing energy seems to require much intentionality and pre-designed conditions! 

Q: If scientists must carefully design and control every aspect of a quantum simulator to reproduce these phenomena, how did the extraordinarily precise conditions required for such particle-forming processes arise in the universe itself?" 

CEH

6 Points on Colossians 2:16

"There are many considerations which show that the weekly Sabbath cannot by any possibility be included in the sabbaths of which the apostle speaks in Col.2:16: 

1. The weekly Sabbath did not have its origin with meats, drinks, festivals, new moons, and ceremonial, or annual, sabbaths. It originated during man’s independent, innocent condition before the fall (Gen.2:2,3,) and was thus placed among the original, primary laws which would always have governed him though he had never sinned; while the latter originated with the ceremonial system

introduced at Horeb. 

2. It did not rest on the same authority with them. Its authority rested upon the voice of God, and the writing of God upon the tables of stone; the ceremonial system was found only in the book written by Moses. 

3. It was not typical or shadowy in its nature, any more than the command, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

4. It was not “against us,” as were the things of which Paul is speaking; for “the Sabbath was made for man.” Mark 2:27. 

5. It was not “contrary to us,” for there is no commandment or institution anywhere singled out to which so great blessings are attached as are promised to the keeping of the Sabbath, not to the Jews only, but to the Gentiles also. See Isa.56:6,7; Jer.17:24,25; Isa.58:13,14. 

6. There is no necessity for including the weekly Sabbath in the expression, “sabbaths which are a shadow of things to come,” inasmuch as there were other sabbaths, of the same nature as the feast-day and new moons mentioned in number amply sufficient to meet the demands of the apostle’s language." 

Uriah Smith

IN the NEWS - Oromo Liberation Army engages in ABOMINATION before God

These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him:....and hands that shed innocent blood,... Proverbs 6:16,17

"Two violent attacks by armed individuals — one on October 20 and another on October 24 — left 60 Christians dead and 20 homes burned to the ground in Ethiopia.
The Independent reported, “14 people were killed in Merti district”

on the 20th and another “46… [were killed] in Shirka district four days later.”
Moreover, over 20 people were injured “and 20 homes destroyed.”
The BBC noted, “A church official described the attacks on three areas in the Shirka district as a ‘massacre,’ saying security forces arrived at the scene but were unable to stop the assault.”
Concerns about the safety of Christian communities were on the rise and had been brought to the attention of authorities, but the Orthodox Church indicated, “So far there has been no solution.”
The BBC observed that “a local official blamed the attacks on a newly formed rebel coalition, the Alliance for Survival, which includes the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA).” 

msn

Creation Moment 11/6/2026 - What type of intelligence and creative power could produce such a thing?

To Him that stretched out the earth above the waters. 

Psalm 136:6

"In order for the universe to be inhabited by intelligent beings of any

kind it has to achieve an extremely high level of precise fine tuning for large numbers of variables known as “fundamental constants”. 

Obviously intelligent design was required to achieve a level of fine tuning far beyond what any spaceship would require to function. 

Q: What type of intelligence and creative power could produce such a thing?" 

EducateTruth

Health Note - How to get your BHB

Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health,.. 3 John 1:2

"In their study, published in the February 16 online issue of Nature Medicine, the researchers described how the compound ß-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) directly inhibits NLRP3, which is part of a

complex set of proteins called the inflammasome. 

The inflammasome drives the inflammatory response in several disorders including autoimmune diseases, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, atherosclerosis, and autoinflammatory disorders.

“These findings are important because endogenous metabolites like BHB that block the NLRP3 inflammasome could be relevant against many inflammatory diseases, including those where there are mutations in the NLRP3 genes,” said Vishwa Deep Dixit, professor in the Section of Comparative Medicine at Yale School of Medicine.

BHB is a metabolite produced by the body in response to fasting, high-intensity exercise, caloric restriction, or consumption of the low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet. Dixit said it is well known that fasting and calorie restriction reduces inflammation in the body, but it was unclear how immune cells adapt to reduced availability of glucose and if they can respond to metabolites produced from fat oxidation.

Dixit and colleagues focused on how macrophages — specialized immune cells that produce inflammation — respond when exposed to ketone bodies and whether that impacts the inflammasome complex.
The team introduced BHB to mouse models of inflammatory

diseases caused by NLP3. They found that this reduced inflammation, and that inflammation was also reduced when the mice were given a ketogenic diet, which elevates the levels of BHB in the bloodstream.
“Our results suggest that the endogenous metabolites like BHB that are produced during low-carb dieting, fasting, or high-intensity exercise can lower the NLRP3 inflammasome,” said Dixit." SciTechDaily

Creation Moment 11/5/2026 - The "or" for Uranus and Neptune... just saying....

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

“Uranus and Neptune may resemble twins today, but their chemistry is telling us that they are more like cousins with very different histories,” said Dr. Olivier Mousis, a researcher at the Southwest Research Institute.
“Their atmospheric compositions may be connected to different regions of the protoplanetary disk where the planets formed, which

would make their similarities a noteworthy coincidence.”
The study authors therefore used carbon monoxide detected in the upper troposphere as an indirect probe.
By modeling that process, the researchers can work backward to estimate how much oxygen lies below.
“We can’t directly access the deep atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, but chemical tracers allow us to probe the conditions hidden beneath their visible clouds,” Dr. Mousis said.
“Studying carbon monoxide is particularly useful because of its abundance in the upper troposphere.”
For Uranus, the model used a fresh carbon monoxide measurement from ALMA, which the team put at about 5.6 parts per billion. Neptune’s level is roughly two orders of magnitude higher.
When vertical mixing was allowed to vary with latitude, the scientists estimated that Uranus has 62 to 177 times the Sun’s oxygen-to-hydrogen ratio, while Neptune has 222 to 342 times.
They also estimated carbon-to-oxygen ratios of about 0.06 to 0.52 for Uranus and 0.02 to 0.12 for Neptune.
Next, they compared those ratios with a model of the Sun’s protoplanetary disk.
Uranus’ upper range is close to the Sun’s value, while Neptune’s is clearly lower.
The results suggest Neptune’s building blocks may have formed near the water ice line closer to the Sun.
Uranus’ lower values could fit material that formed inside the methane ice line.
“Neptune’s chemistry is difficult to reconcile with the idea that it formed where we see it today, pulling from the same reservoir of cosmic materials as Uranus,” Dr. Mousis said.
“Due to a lack of in situ access to the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, the full scope of understanding regarding their composition, interiors and formations are fundamentally limited.”

SciNews

OR---the Reason they are not identical in their makeup is because they were DESIGNED for different purposes by their MAKER.

Those "handwriting of ordinances"

"We say that Colossians 2:14-17 refers exclusively to the ceremonial law, having to the moral law (10 Commandments) not the remotest allusion whatever. 

And he who endeavors to hide behind this scripture as his defense for the neglect or violation of any mor al duties, will stand at last in the

judgment ashamed of his folly and speechless in his condemnation. In studying Col.2:14-17, we ought to pay some regard to the consistency of the figures which the apostle uses, lest we represent him as a simpleton in spite of his inspiration. 

It is first to be noticed that the subject of the apostle’s remark is the “handwriting of ordinances.” This expression will not apply in any sense to the ten commandments; for no abuse of language can be carried far enough to allow us to call them a “handwriting;” and they contained not a single “ordinance,” or ceremony. 

The “handwriting of ordinances” is not the ten commandments. The apostle further says that this “handwriting” was “blotted out.” 

--That only can be blotted out with the ink and pen of the scribe, which has been written by the hand of the scribe. That which is engraved in stone might be brushed over and discolored with ink; but the engraving would be there in all its distinctness still; it could not in any sense be “blotted out,” and it would be utterly inconsistent to apply that term to it. The apostle continues that this handwriting was “nailed to the cross.”

If we attempt to apply this to the ten commandments, we involve the astute and logical Paul in the absurdity of talking about nailing up tables of stone.

The figure of blotting out and nailing up the laws written by men upon parchment, as applied to what Christ accomplished by His

death upon the cross, is at once consistent and forcible. Christ was nailed to the cross. In Him all offerings met their antitype, all shadows their substance. They were there nailed in Him to the cross. 

Men could look upon Him and say, Here is the great sacrifice which supersedes all typical offerings. The laws for these are now no longer in force; they are nailed with Him to the cross. 

*But suppose we try to consider that the tables of stone were also there, in Him, nailed to the cross; in what respect was He the antitype of them? In what respect were they the shadows and He the substance? 

Q: Could men look upon him and say, Now, to-night I will plunge a dagger into the heart of my enemy; for the law, “Thou shalt not kill,” is there in Christ nailed to the cross, and is no longer binding?" Uriah Smirh

IN the NEWS - Something OR Nothing?

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: Luke 21:26

Q: Is this Something OR Nothing?

--Time will tell.....

"Emergency preparedness warnings across the U.S., Europe, and Japan have been amplified in corporate media and turned into hysteria for the general public.
It's hard to say what's fueling the panic, but mentions of "stockpile food" in corporate media headlines jumped on October 23 to their highest level since the Covid-19 panic era of 2021.
What's indisputable is what has happened since those warnings were blasted around corporate media: 

--a political crisis began unfolding in Poland on Friday evening, 

--Iran warned that any renewed conflict with the U.S. would have "no geographical limitation" in retaliation,

-- and the U.S. Embassy in Moscow had warned of a "credible threat of a mass casualty event" in the Russian capital.

--All of those developments come just a week after an attempted communist revolution in France that led to days of riots, looting, chaos, and embarrassment for the Macron government.
It remains to be seen whether the preparedness warnings across the West and among U.S. allies are just fearmongering or whether the threats are credible and were part of some intelligence bulletin sent to allied countries. Notably, this is all happening just days before the U.S. midterm elections."

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 11/4/2026 - When the BBC checked their brain at the door

I have seen the foolish taking root. Job 5:3

"This past summer, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) addressed the subject of origins in the five-part television series Evolution. 

Not too surprisingly, the possibility of supernatural creation was completely ignored. The United States Corporation for Public Broadcasting is in the process of airing these five episodes, with some possible variations from the BBC versions. 

The first United States episode, “Brain Power,” aired on October 14, 2026. It attempted to convince viewers that evolution and natural selection can explain the brain’s origin, without the need for a supernatural Creator. 

Q: Did they succeed? 

A: Only if you check your own brain at the door!

Despite acknowledging that scientists do not yet fully understand how the brain works, this first episode of Evolution claims scientists are beginning to understand how it evolved. But this contention is undermined by the shallowness of the purported explanations—or perhaps I should say, with the shallowness of the assertions. “Brain Power” doesn’t actually explain the origin of anything. Rather, the episode tells a series of hand-waving, “just-so” stories about how the brain supposedly originated over millions of years, with an emphasis on the brain of the highly intelligent dolphin.

Supposedly, the origin of vision played a large role in this process. It’s claimed that three billion years ago, the light-sensing molecule retinol enabled one-celled organisms to detect and respond to light, a primitive prelude to conscious thought. 

Then, over half a billion years, two light-sensing eye spots formed. After that, mutations caused the eye spots to become slightly curved, allowing better determination of light direction. Millions of years later, eye spots became genuine eyes . . . somehow. And today, highly intelligent human and dolphin brains are the result!

The critical details in this supposed process are ignored or smoothed over. The episode never explains how the first one-celled living organisms arose from nonliving chemicals; it simply assumes that they did. And magic words and phrases, uttered like incantations, repeatedly gloss over enormous difficulties in the evolutionary story:

“Brains are driven to expand”; “The first nervous systems arise”; “Evolutionary forces . . . boosted problem-solving powers”; “The virus led to a quantum change in the sophistication of the brain”; “Over the next two-and-a-half billion years, life diversifies from single-celled to multicellular forms”; “Over countless generations, simple eye spots transform”; etc.

As pointed out by Dr. Randy Guliuzza, these “magic” words and phrases have no explanatory power. Rather, they are naked, empty assertions. Anyone can assert that a biological structure arose via some natural process, but a mere assertion is not an explanation.

The viewer who is paying close attention may notice that the essence of the argument in the first Evolution episode may be summarized simply as, “Evolution did it.” The sophisticated computer animations and swelling music accompanying the narration give this naked assertion more apparent credibility than it deserves. But for those viewers who are actually using their brains (and not merely responding emotionally to the visuals and music), it should be apparent that this brain origins story is very low on substance." 

CMI

HEALTH NOTE: L-carnitine of Red Meat

Beloved, 

I wish above all things that thou mayest...

be in health,.. 

3 John 1:2

"A nutrient known for helping the body burn fat may also cause inflammation when the immune system is in overdrive.
Yale researchers found that L-carnitine, a nutrient abundant in red

meat and widely used in exercise and weight-loss supplements, could worsen severe inflammation in mice. After a bacterial component triggered inflammation and sharply lowered blood levels of L-carnitine, restoring the nutrient made the animals sicker, suggesting the decline was protective.

The findings were published October 19 in Cell.
L-carnitine is best known for helping cells turn fat into energy. The body produces it naturally, and skeletal muscle contains particularly high concentrations.
“L-carnitine helps transport fats into mitochondria so they can be broken down for energy,” says Eric Elliott, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and the study’s first author. “In simpler terms, it has become synonymous with fat burning, which is why it has also gained prominence as an exercise and weight-loss supplement.”

The team was investigating metabolic changes during sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which the body’s response to infection damages its own tissues and organs. Much of that damage can come from uncontrolled inflammation rather than a failure to contain the infection.
“Sepsis is incredibly challenging,” Elliott says. “Patients with sepsis can become critically ill, and among patients with sepsis treated in intensive care units, some studies report mortality rates approaching 40%.”

To model the inflammation associated with sepsis, the researchers exposed mice to lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a bacterial component. When L-carnitine levels in the animals’ blood dropped sharply, the team tested whether restoring the nutrient would improve their outcomes.

Replacing the Nutrient Made Things Worse

“We predicted giving carnitine back to these animals might improve their outcomes, but they actually did much worse,” Elliott says. “That told us the reduction in carnitine was an adaptive response.”
--They found that L-carnitine activated part of the cell’s internal alarm system called the pyrin inflammasome. 

--This triggered an inflammatory response involving the immune signaling molecule IL-17 and increased deaths among the mice.
“What was particularly striking was how detrimental IL-17 was in this model,” Elliott says. The team now wants to investigate whether blocking IL-17 might eventually help a subset of patients with sepsis, although that possibility remains untested.

Because skeletal muscle contains high levels of L-carnitine, the researchers suspected that its release from damaged muscle could help drive inflammation. Senior author Andrew Wang, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (rheumatology, allergy &

immunology) and of immunobiology at YSM, says the pathway may have implications beyond sepsis.
“There is tantalizing genetic evidence that the pathway we uncovered could be contributing to inflammation in a variety of diseases, particularly diseases in which muscle involvement has perhaps been thought to be a casualty of the disease rather than a potential driver,” Wang says.

The team found support for this idea in rhabdomyolysis, a condition in which skeletal muscle rapidly breaks down and releases its contents into the bloodstream, potentially causing acute kidney injury. In a mouse model, L-carnitine transport and pyrin inflammasome activation contributed to inflammation, suggesting that immune cells may interpret L-carnitine released from damaged muscle as a warning signal.
The pathway could also be relevant to cardiovascular disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and cancer." 

SciTechDaily

IN the NEWS - Europe on the brink?

Q: Is Europe on the brink of collapse?
It appears that this "revolution" racking Europe was organized online in France by unions.
It also appears to really be a Marxist-Islamist attempt to bring down the west.
They began by stirring up youth as a proxy to use for a front to get things rolling.
Years of Socialistic policies, mass Islamic migration and Globalist shenanigans for money and power have finally come home to roost as they have created a system of paralysis by the governments unable or unwilling or not knowledgeable about how to deal with the crises.

And brainwashed a generation in the education system that at least is sympathetic to, or outright supportive of, Marxism.

Google on E.G.W.'s comments on Unions: 

Warning Against Confederacies: White warned that labor unions, when they become “confederacies” with political aims, can become “an oppressive power” and “one of the agencies to bring a time of trouble”. She urged Christians to avoid aligning with such organizations if they seek to control government or restrict liberty. "And 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." E. G. White

"Of the 54 organizations identified in the October protest ecosystem, 16 — or only about one in three — are student or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim student organization, The remaining 38 include adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy groups and international propaganda outlets."
"Nationwide revolt on Saturday, a communist leader and academic, Vijay Prashad, celebrated the unrest with a message linking protests across three continents. "Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires," Prashad

posted on X, borrowing a line from the British punk band The Clash: "Let fury have the hour, anger can be power." Prashad was important not only for what he said, but for who he is: executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by an American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai. The message captured how France's riots have become part of a wider international narrative of rebellion — a kind of "Chaos Inc." — amplified by a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations stretching from Europe to Asia, Australia, Africa and South America and North America." Frank Pots

"For the third Saturday in a row, Paris looked like a city under lockdown. More than 40 metro and RER stations were closed, and shopkeepers along the route boarded up their windows with plywood or kept their shutters down.

France's seats of power, including the Élysée Palace, the prime minister's office, and the National Assembly, were heavily guarded.
Some 70,000 police and gendarmes were deployed nationwide, and Nuñez said 40,000 checks had been carried out on roads and in train stations, 15,000 of them in the Paris region, to intercept weapons. Face coverings, Halloween masks included, were banned around the demonstrations.
By 9 p.m., 565 people had been arrested nationwide.

At an evening press conference, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said every march had contained groups of rioters and looters, "many of them driven by the ultra-left and the radical far left," who attacked police with the goal of reaching the city centers "with unheard-of violence."
He listed Paris, Montpellier, Toulouse, Rennes, Marseille, Nantes, Angers, and Tours as cities where groups of several hundred people had tried to break through police lines with mortar fireworks, paving stones, and other projectiles, and said firefighters had to put out numerous fires.
The most serious incident took place at the end of the Paris march near Porte de Charenton, where a Molotov cocktail landed on the shield of a mobile gendarmerie unit and set a gendarme alight before his colleagues put out the flames. He ended up being slightly injured, Nuñez said.
another crisis appears to be unfolding in Germany on Halloween night: looting and chaos.
An initiative called "Gen Z regelt" ("Gen Z's got this") organized these protests "for education, health, climate protection and an affordable life" and opposing the return of military conscription.
Some protests in Germany also turned violent on Saturday night.
"The looting of stores has started in Frankfurt, Germany. Young first and second-generation migrants are attacking stores in the city," Poland-based digital news outlet Visegrád 24 wrote on X.

"German police were attacked with a Molotov cocktail in the city of Frankfurt on Halloween night. Youths participated in looting and clashes with police, with much of the footage livestreamed on TikTok," Budapest-based news outlet Remix News & Views wrote on X.
In Portugal, thousands of demonstrators gathered in Lisbon once again.
In The Hague, Netherlands, protests broke out after calls to demonstrate circulated online. According to Dutch police, 34 people were arrested, and one officer was taken to hospital with suspected hearing damage after fireworks were thrown at police. As in Paris, many shops across the city had boarded up their windows amid fears of rioting.
On Oct. 30, large crowds took to the streets across Italy following a call to demonstrate by the Italian trade union USB. The union estimated that more than 1 million people participated in protests across 70 cities, while the Interior Ministry put the figure at 255,000. Violent clashes between demonstrators and police broke out in Rome, Turin, Mestre, Vicenza, and other cities, according to Corriere della Sera.
Europe's mounting crises point to a troubling deterioration in stability.  

On Halloween night, unauthorized protests in Zurich and Basel turned into street violence as hundreds of young demonstrators built barricades, set fires, and attacked police. The slogan was “On en a marre – en Suisse aussi” — “We’ve had enough, in Switzerland too” — a direct import from the French social unrest that has already produced weeks of clashes, looting, and property destruction across the continent." ZeroHedge

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

Creation Moment 11/3/2026 - Saturn Moons Surprise

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 2 Peter 3:5

"Conventional scenarios fall short in explaining the origin of moons within our solar system. Recent computer simulations have strengthened the argument that these moons, particularly the moons of Saturn, were supernaturally created not that long ago.

Scientists think many moons within our solar system, including Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Mimas, may have hidden oceans of liquid water within their interiors. Computer simulations show that these suspected subsurface water oceans were likely not formed by large objects colliding with these moons, ruling out one possible

explanation for their existence. This result, combined with the results from computer simulations of these moons’ orbits over time, is bad news for natural explanations for the origin of these moons.

The existence of subsurface liquid oceans, if confirmed, is apparent evidence of youth, because it is virtually impossible that the “fine balance between internal heating and heat loss” needed to maintain a subsurface liquid ocean can serendipitously last for billions of years. Alternatively, it seems an unlikely coincidence that these moons recently became warm enough to support liquid oceans, just at the time we developed the technology to potentially detect them. Conventional scientists have acknowledged that such “lucky” coincidences make them uncomfortable.

Based on orbital calculations, conventional scientists have concluded that many of Saturn’s moons must be less than 100 million years old:
In computer models that trace those moons’ orbits back in time, everything went off-script roughly 100 million years ago, with the moons being jostled onto orbits that simply are not observed today. “Their orbits do get knocked out of the plane of Saturn’s equator way more than we observe,” [astronomer Matija] Cuk [of the SETI Institute] says. “Meaning that this history that we are modelling never happened, and the current moons must be younger than that.”

For this reason, they have been forced to argue that Saturn’s moons did not form billions of years ago but are instead relative “newcomers” to the solar system. 

Supposedly, a previous generation of moons existed. Some have proposed that today’s moons formed from leftover debris from collisions between the planets’ original moons. Of course, that is sheer speculation—there is no evidence this supposed earlier generation of moons ever actually existed!

However, other scientists strongly object, arguing that a recent origin, including a recent collisional origin, for Saturn’s moons is extremely unlikely. Yet the collisional origin seems to be the least far-fetched option among several unlikely scenarios. 

*This most recent study has revealed still another problem with the collisional explanation: the collisions can’t form the subsurface liquid water oceans thought to exist within some of these moons.

Q: So where does this leave conventional theories? 

--Apparently, many of Saturn’s moons must be relatively young, but a convincing natural explanation for their recent origin is elusive.

Of course, there is a possibility that some theorists seem unwilling to consider. 

Q: What if these moons had a recent and supernatural origin, like the Bible describes? 

The Lord made the earth out of water, and some creationists suspect He made the heavenly bodies out of water, too, transforming the water into other substances when He formed them. 

Evidence continues to grow stronger all the time not just for creation, but for a recent creation only 6,000 years ago." 

CMI

About that LAW.....

"God wrote nothing but the ten commandments. 

These alone were written upon the tables; to these the terms law and commandments are both applied. 

By these circumstances and peculiarities they are sharply distinguished and set apart from all other injunctions and obligations. By these they are shown to belong, in a degree, and a sense not common to any other requirements, to the Most High. They are pre-eminently “the law of God,” and “the commandments of God.” 

These constitute that New Testament law by which is “the

knowledge of sin” (Rom.3:20), without which “there is no transgression” nor imputation of sin (Rom.4:15; 5:13), and the transgression of which is sin. 1 John 3:4. 

These constitute “His [God’s] commandments,” the keeping of which is “the whole duty of man,” and by which every work shall be tested in the judgment (Eccl.12:13,14); and they compose the “royal law” and the “law of liberty” by which James declares we shall be judged at last. James 2:8,12. 

They are the “commandments of God,” to which the third message of Revelation 14 brings us, in connection with “the faith of Jesus,” which includes all the teaching and precepts of Christ and His apostles in the New Testament. Rev.14:12. 

They constitute that law which God declared that His Son would “magnify” and make “honorable” (Isa.42:21), which he speaks of as “My law,” and declared that He would write it under the new covenant in the hearts of His people ( Jer.31:33; Heb.8:10) - the “His [God’s] commandments” which those will be found keeping who will be summoned at last to enter through the gates into the city of the New Jerusalem. Rev.22:14." 

Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 11/2/2026 - Among the more Dangerous

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Romans 3:13

"Of all the fads and foibles in the long history of human credulity, scientism in all its varied guises — from fanciful cosmology to

evolutionary epistemology and ethics — seems among the more dangerous, both because 

--it pretends to be something very different from what it really is

--and because it has been accorded widespread and uncritical adherence.... One longs for a new Enlightenment to puncture the pretensions of this latest superstition."

Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012

"Evolutionary epistemology refers to three distinct topics: (1) the biological evolution of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans, (2) a theory that knowledge itself evolves by natural selection, and (3) the study of the historical discovery of new abstract entities such as abstract number or abstract value that necessarily precede the individual acquisition and usage of such abstractions. As a branch of inquiry in epistemology, evolutionary epistemology lies at the crossroads of philosophy and evolutionary biology." wiki

Schopenhauer, Ellen White and Scripture on "the will"

Battle of the will....since the beginning.... 

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:16,17

"To understand this one, you must understand Schopenhauer beyond this essay. His broader philosophy laid out in the world as will and representation. 

It was built on a single idea, the will, the blind insatiable force of

desire that drives all living things. 

*He argued that this will, this appetite, this impulse, it was the root of all suffering. 

*And not because wanting things is wrong, but because the will has no off switch. 

*It always wants more and if that's left unchecked, it will destroy everything around it. 

*Civilization, in his view, was the set of structures that channeled the will." 

Kait Willett

"Ellen White describes the will not as mere taste or inclination, but as the deciding power that directs all other faculties toward either obedience to God or disobedience.

She writes, “The will is the spring of all your actions… it was at the Fall given into the control of Satan”, and that humanity’s destiny depends on whether it is enlisted “on the side of God and right”. Ellen White emphasizes that God’s will is not to destroy our will, but to purify and refine it so that it becomes identical with His own.
Her counsel includes:
Kept on God’s side: “Keep your will on the Lord’s side… every emotion… into captivity to the will of Jesus”. 

Active choice: Desires for goodness are good, but without choosing to serve God, they “avail nothing."

Daily renewal: Drawing daily from the “fountain of truth” strengthens the will against temptation." 

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"In the Bible, “will” refers both to God’s sovereign plan—seen in verses like Ephesians 1:11 and Romans 12:2—and to human free will, the God‑given ability to choose obedience or disobedience (Genesis 2:16–17; Deuteronomy 30:19).
Human Will Created with moral choice: Humans bear God’s

image and can choose good or evil (Genesis 1:26–27; 2:16–17).
Freedom with responsibility: Scripture repeatedly calls people to choose obedience (Deuteronomy 30:19).
Fallen but active: The human will can resist God (Genesis 3; Isaiah 1:19–20).
Relationship Between God’s Will and Human Will: Humans plan, but God directs outcomes (Proverbs 16:9). 

Holy Spirit’s role: The Spirit helps believers align with God’s will (Romans 8:26–27)." 

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