Are ALL days Holy?

Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:9,10

"The radio host argued, as many Christians do today, that all days belong to God and therefore we should worship Him every day.

No one would argue against the idea that all days belong to God and

that we should worship Him every day. 

--However, the Bible simply does not teach that all days are holy. The Fourth Commandment leaves no doubt that six days are for our secular labor and work but the seventh day Sabbath is holy because God set it apart from the rest.

--By way of analogy, the Bible tells us that all the money that we manage belongs to God (Haggai 2:8). 

Q: Does this mean that all the money we have is holy and we must return 100% of our money to God? 

A: Of course not! Although all the money that we have belongs to God, only 10% is holy— the tithe. Likewise, all days belong to God but only the seventh is holy." 

Stephen Bohr

Creation Moment 10/20/2026 - Only the Biblical worldview

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

"Only the Biblical worldview allows a consistent framework for doing science. 

One must believe that God, who cannot lie, created a logical, mathematically-structured reality, and gave His creatures the capacity to explore and understand it. 

Otherwise, if it is the result of a blind evolutionary process, how can one trust the sensations of a physical brain that emerged only for survival?

With Bible in hand, the world becomes comprehensible. 

Math works. 

Reality is approachable through our intelligently-designed senses that were given to us for the purpose of knowing truth." 

CEH

What "emerged" (Grokipedia vs. Wikipedia about the SABBATH)

Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia squares off against Elon Musks Grokipedia over the SABBATH

Wikipedia:
Opening of article --
"In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath (/ˈsæbəθ/) or Shabbat (Biblical Hebrew: שַׁבָּת [ʃa'bat]) is a day set aside for rest and worship.

--According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest

as God rested in the Genesis creation narrative. Sabbath observance is commanded in the Ten Commandments: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy" in the Masoretic text contrasting with the Samaritan Pentateuch which says "Keep the Sabbath day to keep it holy."

--A day of rest is observed in Islam (Friday), Judaism (Saturday), and Christianity (Sunday). Observances similar to or descended from the Sabbath also exist in other religions. The term may be used more generally to describe similar weekly observances in other religions.

--The Sabbath might have been influenced by Babylonian mid-month rest days and lunar cycles, though its origins remain debated."

OBSERVATION:

Wikipdeia's article is written in the WOKE TONE as if sitting in the faculty lounge of academia. 

It claims that Christianity observes Sunday without explaining that not all Christians do and why. So it leaves the impression that Sunday is the holy day naturally for Christendom.

It mentions of other religions here which is irrelevant to this article

(there would naturally be an article about "holy days" that would be separate as this one is supposed to be specific about the "SABBATH").

So it leaves the impression in it's opening that holy days are just something all religions do meaning it's ALL made up which would include Christianity. To make my point that that is their view they are implying notice the following paragraph to it makes the claim that Sabbath emerged from Babylon. This smacks of the WOKE TONE.

BOTTOM LINE: Wikipedia leaves the impression that the SABBATH emerged from ancient Babylonian (paganism) but that Sunday is the obvious, natural day for observing it for Christendom.

Grokipedia:
Opening of article --
"The Sabbath, from the Hebrew shabbat meaning "to cease" or "rest," designates the seventh day of the week—Saturday in the Gregorian calendar—as a mandated day of cessation from labor, rooted in the Biblical account of God's rest following six days of creation.

--In the Hebrew Bible, this observance is enshrined in the Fourth Commandment, requiring the Israelites to "remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" by refraining from work, with rationale tied both to creation and the Exodus deliverance.

--In Judaism, Shabbat commences at sunset Friday and concludes at

nightfall Saturday, encompassing a 25-hour period marked by ritual preparations, candle lighting, festive meals, synagogue services, and Torah study, while prohibiting 39 categories of creative work (melachot) derived from tabernacle construction activities to preserve the day's sanctity.

This practice, central to Jewish identity, emphasizes spiritual renewal over mundane labor, with historical enforcement varying from strict halakhic adherence to more flexible interpretations in modern denominations.

--Among Christians, Sabbath observance diverged early: while Jesus upheld its intent without abrogating it, post-resurrection emphasis on Sunday worship as the Lord's Day emerged, commemorating the resurrection rather than enforcing seventh-day rest for most traditions, though groups like Seventh-day Adventists retain Saturday observance based on unchanged Biblical perpetuity. 

--Debates persist over its ongoing obligation under the new covenant, with some viewing it as fulfilled in Christ rather than a perpetual ritual."

OBSERVATION:

At least it acknowledges that Sunday observance "emerged" overtime and WAS NOT the view of Christ.

It also rightly claims that "some" (meaning not all) Christians claims it was "fulfilled" in Christ.

It also is written in a tone that is NOT that stuffy woke/academic elitist approach.

BOTTOM LINE: Grokipedia leaves the impression that the SABBATH was ordained by God (the God of Creation at Creation) but that Sunday emerged over time for many in, but not all of Christendom.

WINNER of Most Close on NAILING this One:

GROKIPIDEIA

From the "Really" File - (REALLY John Paul?)

Thus were they defiled with their own works, 

and went a whoring with their own inventions. 

Psalm 106:39

"Circa 1959, a widowed Brazilian truck driver named Neiva Chaves Zelaya claimed to begin receiving visions from what she believed to be extraterrestrial spirits. 

After linking up with a prominent medium, she founded a religious

movement based on her visions called the Spiritist Union White Arrow which eventually evolved into the Valley of the Dawn. 

The largest alternative religion in Brazil to this day, Valley of the Dawn boasts a massive complex outside the capital city of Brasilia where spectators and journalists flock to watch their fascinating rituals unfold. Known as "Jaguars," Valley of the Dawn's mediums wear brightly-colored robes, carry spears, and are believed to be the reincarnation of extraterrestrial giants who kickstarted human evolution 32,000 years ago and inspired humanity's greatest feats, like the pyramids. 

And although this bizarre religion began with a single truck driver who claimed to experience visions of aliens, it now has some 600 temples across Brazil, Portugal, Germany, Japan, Uruguay, and the United States — as well as 130,000 members around the world.

From the "Really" File

Just outside Brazil's capital city of Brasília lies a fortress belonging to a religious group. Followers of Vale do Amanhecer (in their native Portuguese) believe a spaceship from the planet Capela hovers above the Earth here. It acts as a vortex, sucking up all the negative energy that the group's healers banish from humanity. As such, they believe this area to be the spiritual capital of civilization. Calling themselves Jaguars, the healers use their "cosmic energies" in spirit-healing rituals. Jaguars are the reincarnated descendants of extraterrestrials sent by God.
The Catholic Church "officially disapproves" of the religion, but Pope John Paul II apparently sent them a letter of blessing." msn

REALLY?

Creation Moment 10/19/2026 - Compulsion to Closure (CtoC).

Compulsion to Closure (CtoC)

"For classical Christian theism, intelligibility is guaranteed by the infinite Logos. Reason Himself spoke the world into being, endowing it with real, dependable order. Because God is infinite and man is finite, our knowledge is necessarily asymptotic: we may approach true, objective understanding of creation, but we never circumscribe the infinite Mind of the Maker. Humility and mystery sit comfortably alongside rigorous scientific inquiry because the cosmos is open to its transcendent Ground.

For scientism, however, the PSR has been perverted into a

suffocating, airtight cage. The creature demands total closure within the boundaries of the immanent system. Human reason must construct an autonomous Theory of Everything where every link of the causal chain terminates inside the natural world.

When that closed system crashes into the undeniable reality of conscious experience (what David Chalmers famously termed the “hard problem“), the secular apparatus panics. Kimpton-Nye admits the failure of the mechanistic model with surprising candor:

“However closely we look at the physical matter that makes up conscious beings, we get no closer to understanding how consciousness arises. Leibniz encouraged us to imagine increasing the size of the human brain to the size of a mill so that we can walk around inside it and observe all its working parts in meticulous detail. If we did this, at no point would we observe conscious experience.” CEH

**Here's some "CLOSURE" -- And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

Bible Color Symbols

White: Purity, light, righteousness (Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18; These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:13 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. Revelation 19:8)

Blue: Truth (... and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Numbers 15:38-40). This is where we get the expression ‘true blue’ from.

Red: Sacrifice. It can represent the blood of Jesus
(These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:13; 14:20)

Purple: Royalty (Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, Behold the man! John 19:5)

Gold: Character (I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir....For God maketh my heart soft... Isaiah 13:12; Job 23:16)

Black: Sin, darkness, error, power of Satan (This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: I John 1:5-6)

Green: Symbolizes life and spiritual renewal. It is often associated with flourishing in God’s grace: (He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. Psalm 23:2)

Creation Moment 10/18/2026 - The Foolish Twins

"Panpsychism and Darwinian natural selection are ideological twins:

The panpsychist says: “We can’t explain how consciousness arises

from non-conscious matter, so we will claim consciousness was inside the matter all along.”

The Darwinist says: “We can’t explain how complex, specified genetic information arises from unguided physics, so we will claim the creative power of design resides within the selective pressure of the environment.” CEH

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,... 

Romans 1:22

Question for blacks in Christendom

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth... Acts 17:26

For those in the black community within the halls and walls of

Christendom---when you hear rhetoric like "Christianity is a white man's religion":
* Are you going to follow the God who DESIGNED your racial characteristics?
* Or listen to the Marxist rooted race baiting politics DESIGNED by the opponent of this God in this Great Controversy to lead you astray and intended to make a shipwreck of your faith?

Creation Moment 10/17/2026 - How Methodological Naturalism Gives Up the Ghost

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

"For two centuries, the gatekeepers of scientific naturalism have lectured the world on intellectual hygiene. We were told in stern, uncompromising tones that true science demands the total banishment of mind, intention, and divine agency from scientific explanation. The universe, they’ve insisted, is a vast, blind mechanism. Living beings are accidental chance-arrangements of

matter in motion.

Anyone proposing that the specified, information-rich architecture of the cell points to a transcendent Mind is immediately branded a purveyor of “medieval superstition” and cast out of respectable academic company. Yet they’ve depended upon Reason’s capital at every turn to make their case. When you routinely borrow such immense wealth, the debt eventually comes due. You must pay it … or go bankrupt.

Is Everything Conscious? (Sam Kimpton-Nye, University of Southampton, Aeon 12 October 2026). This revealing essay published in Aeon, titled “Does the Principle of Sufficient Reason Make Panpsychism True?”, exposes what happens when secular reductionism finally exhausts its explanatory credit.

The conclusion of modern analytic metaphysics and its sister, scientism, is not a triumphant vindication of materialism. It is an unvarnished surrender to animism. Desperate to explain consciousness without admitting a transcendent God, secular thinkers are now seriously arguing that reality itself, in all its manifold presentations is conscious. 

--The high priests of scientism have run the dialectic in reverse: having started with the bold promise to purge nature of the spiritual, they have ended by turning Nature itself into conscious agency. This should have been obvious the moment the scientific world embraced Evolution by Natural Selection.

Intellectual Malpractice: Erasing Descartes

To observe how our author’s trap springs, one must watch the sleight of hand performed at the very beginning of the essay. Kimpton-Nye sets up the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), the classic Leibnizian philosophical axiom that every fact must have an explanation for why it is thus and not otherwise. In surveying early modern attempts to ground this principle, Kimpton-Nye dismisses René Descartes with a breathtaking piece of revisionist history and exegetical dishonesty:

“One option is to understand consciousness in terms of a new substance entirely, one fully distinct from physical matter… This is called dualism. The most influential champion of dualism was the French philosopher René Descartes. But Descartes ultimately failed to uphold the PSR, since he couldn’t say why there are two substances as opposed to just one.” 

This is not merely sloppy history. It is intellectual gaslighting and academic malpractice. Anyone who has read Descartes’ Meditations knows he did not assert substance dualism without a foundation. The entire architecture of the Meditations anchors the distinction between res cogitans (thinking substance) and res extensa (extended matter) in the infinite, non-deceiving character of God. The sufficient reason for two substances is grounded in Divine freedom: a transcendent Creator who brought forth an extended, contingent world and breathed into it thinking beings fashioned in His image.

The Biological Twin: “Natural Selection” as Micro-Animism

Modern evolutionary theory is not an empirical deduction from raw observation. 

*It is an immanent dialectical myth. 

Neo-Darwinism insisted that it had banished teleology and design from the living world.

Yet the moment Darwinists eliminated the transcendent Mind of the Creator, they immediately re-endowed the physical environment with creative, discerning, and design-like faculties. 

*In standard Darwinian literature, the environment constantly “selects,” “favors,” “engineers,” “fine-tunes,” and “solves problems.” Blind physical conditions are granted the (unconscious) conscious capacity to discern subtle phenotypic advantages across millions of years and sculpt intricate molecular motors.

The Mechanistic Dead-End: Dead matter in motion cannot explain the philosopher or the scientist holding the test tube, nor can it provide what human life requires: objective truth, meaning and morality.
The Animist Patch: Sensing the Enlightenment promise slipping forever beyond our grasp, we choose to believe that electrons feel pain and rocks have minds.
The Nihilistic Collapse: Realizing that conscious rocks and elementary particles are absurdities born of desperation, we shrug our shoulders, surrender to Camus and tell ourselves to be happy pushing a useless boulder up a hill for eternity.

Scientism was never an objective, neutral referee standing above religious dogma. It chose a 19th century immanentist, monistic faith. By adopting the Hegelian impulse that elevates closed historical and material processes above transcendent grounding, secular science set itself on an inescapable trajectory toward self-deification and animism.
The Word of God was banished, but religion was not defeated. It was merely replaced by an ancient paganism in which men bow down to the creation rather than the Creator." CEH

Question for Christians on Daniel 8:14

"And finally, the vision of Daniel 8 climaxes in verse 14 with the

sanctuary being cleansed: "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."
These four elements compose the vision of Daniel 8: Media-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the cleansing of the sanctuary. 

Q: If the first element, Media-Persia, was so important; and if the second one, Greece, was so important; and if the third one, Rome, was and still is so important-what does that prove about the fourth element?" 

Clifford Goldstein

Do Antichrist go to heaven in the end?

"I haven't seen anywhere where Antichrist can sit on the seat of Satan and heaven at the same time.

It's not about railing against Catholics. I'm not railing against Catholics. Catholics in general don't even understand their own religion.

But you cannot be the papacy. 

You cannot be the Antichrist in the series of Antichrist. 

Sit in the seat of Antichrist and not be Antichrist. 

If you sit in the seat of the president, you are the president.

Q: Do Antichrist go to heaven? Let's take a look. 

A: "Although those standing at the head of the papacy claim to have

great love for God, He that is God looks upon them as haters of Him. They have turned the truth of God into a lie." MS1261901.

Every pope is the man of sin by virtue of the office. And the dragon gave him his power, his sear, and great authority. (Revelation 13:2) 

Q: Who's the dragon? 

A: Well, it's the devil." 

Mark Kolic

Creation Moment 10/16/2026 - Laodicea: Remember the Creator

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them... Ecclesiastes 12:1

"Christ will not bless a church that forgets He is the creator.
That He sets the rules for male and female roles. 

That He tells us the creation as God defined it. 

Male and female, marriage, headship, seventh day Sabbath. 

These are the things that Laodicea must uphold if it wills to stand. 

And if it does, if it does not, God will spew it out of His mouth.
The remnant people must first refuse temptation to rewrite Genesis according to the whims of the the world. 

Friends, the overcomer is one who still treats the creator's original order as binding in the last days." 

Kolic

The Offspring & Doctrine of the Age of the Reformation

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Romans 5:1
"As the Reformation was “the offspring of the age,” so the leading

doctrine of the Reformation, i.e., Justification by Faith, was the logical deduction from the promises laid down by the age. 

And in view of the times and the events, it is difficult to conceive any other doctrine that might properly have been the leading one." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 10/15/2026 - Quagmire of their competing models

In the beginning God created..... Genesis 1:1

"According to recent reviews, four main human origins models now

exist and compete with one another:

RAO (classic): Modern humans first developed in Africa about 100,000 years ago and then migrated throughout the world. Existing archaic human populations (i.e. Neandertal and/or Homo erectus) in various areas of the world were then replaced by the RAO migrating populations, with little to no hybridization between the populations.
RAO With Hybridization: This model is similar to the classic RAO above, but includes a greater level of hybridization taking place between the migrating populations and the indigenous archaic populations being encountered and displaced.
RAO Assimilation: This model, like the other two above, accepts a recent African origin for modern humans. Unlike the previous two models, it includes replacement and/or extensive migration of populations as the major driving factor in the emergence of modern humans. This model focuses on the importance of pervasive gene flow and population admixture in conjunction with changing environmental conditions.
Multiregionalism: This model denies a recent African origin for modern humans, based on biogeographical data that continue to emerge from paleontology and archaeology. This model also promotes the role of broadscale genetic continuity over time and gene flow between populations. The basic premise is that modern humans arose not only in Africa, but also in Europe and Asia from their H. erectus type Pleistocene ancestors.

If this quagmire of competing models was not confusing enough, researchers are at odds concerning the origins of modern human within Africa before the alleged global dispersion(s) ever occurred.

The first is known as African multiregionalism, which maintains that there were multiple points of modern human origins across Africa, with continuing admixture between populations. 

The second proposes that there was a single point of origin, with range expansions and local extinctions, but with one line predominating. 

The third proposes that there was a single point of origin, with range expansion and one line predominating, but slightly lesser-evolved populations breaking off shortly before the dispersion, and occasional admixing. 

The fourth proposes that there was one point of modern human origins, with multiple lines of archaic humans evolving side by side with a small amount of admixture occurring shortly before the dispersal.

Q: So what kind of genetic clock data could be achieved if the evolutionary assumptions were not used and an empirical approach to the analysis was taken? 

A: As it turns out, research by both secular and creation scientists indicates a date of modern human origins of not more than 5,000 to 10,000 years (reviewed by Tomkins in 2015).

Evolutionists first noticed a problem with their paradigm in 1997 when human mitochondrial DNA mutation rates were first being analyzed. 

As stated in the original paper: “Using our empirical rate to calibrate the mtDNA molecular clock would result in an age of the mtDNA MRCA [most recent common ancestor or the first human woman] of only ~6,500 years.” This study was ridiculed and maligned, not for the methods used, but for the young age of the non-evolutionary conclusions that were reached. 

In 2012 and 2013, two major secular papers were published that each analyzed the rare mutational variants in human protein coding exons among ~9,000 individuals of various ethnicities and found that, based on demographic models, as opposed to standard evolution-calibrated models, the rare mutational variation in the human genome could be no older than 5,000 to 10,000 years.

Q: While the mitochondrial data has spectacularly confirmed the Biblical timeline for the maternal human lineage, what about the data on the paternal side? 

A: As it turns out, Y-chromosome analyses are just as revealing. In addition to their early creationist work on mitochondrial DNA, Sanford and Carter also analyzed Y-chromosome diversity among modern humans and found there to be only about 300 mutations, on average, that were different from the consensus sequence for a Y chromosome representing the original Adam. 

In fact they found that if a normal mutation rate for the Y chromosome of about 1 mutation per generation was assumed, that only about 300 generations corresponding to about six thousand years would be needed to get 300 mutations worth of modern human Y-chromosome diversity." 

CMI

End Times Lesson of Gideon's 300

"And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place. (Judges 7:6,7) 

This account is a picture of events 

at the end of the age, soon to come. 

Gideon represents Jesus, 

and the three hundred portray 

the last members of the body of Christ.

 A dog customarily drinks water by bending its head and lapping up

water with its tongue, all the while keeping its eyes open, looking ahead. And so those Christians who figuratively scoop up handfuls of water, bringing prophetic truths to their mouth, with their eyes alert and glued forward in anticipation—are most pleasing to the Lord. 

By the possession of such characteristics, they show their submission to the divine will."

FrankShallieu

Creation Moment 10/15/2026 - Creation, Daniel 7 & Christology comes full circle

"Just as creation starts with the spirit א the waters, then the making of heaven (הַשָּׁ מַ ֖יִם , Gen 1:8), the waters and the sea (י ם ֑ , Gen 1:10), the beasts (Gen 1:25) and then the creation of Adam (Gen 1:26–28), so מּ ִיַ Daniel 7 discusses the wind ( ַרוּח, Dan 7:2a), the heavens (שְׁ מַ יָּ ֔א ; Dan 7:2b), the sea the beasts (Dan 7:3–9), and “one like a son of man” (Dan 7:13). 

In Dan 7:2c ,יַם light of these parallels, the “one like a son of man”

parallels Adam, which explains why the one in Daniel 7 bears the title “one like a son of man.” Christ is “like a son of man” in that He shares some similarity with Adam even while there are differences. 

While being truly man and of Adam’s line, the Messiah is still distinct from man because He is equal to the Ancient of Days. 

He is like Adam because He is everything Adam failed to be and should have been. The “one like a son of man” then is the final Adam, and Daniel 7 adds that truth to Daniel’s Christology." 

ICR

ARCHAEOLOGY: Historicity of Hezekiah’s reforms

"Second Kings 18:5–6 (ESV) describes Hezekiah in this way: “He trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel, so that there was none like him among all the kings of Judah after him, nor among those who were before him. For he held fast to the Lord. He did not depart from following Him, but kept the commandments that the Lord commanded Moses.” Second Chronicles 33:1–4 also confirms this by mentioning that his son, Manasseh, reinstated idolatry in the land by rebuilding the high places that his father had destroyed and erecting altars to Baal and Asheroth.

The prevailing thoughts on the historicity of Hezekiah’s reforms (bringing Judah back to the worship of Yahweh and destroying high places, groves, and images of false gods) is in one of three camps:

*The events are just as described in Scripture.

*The events were the consequences of the Assyrian invasion (not reforms by Hezekiah).

*Hezekiah started these reforms, but the average Judahite only carried out Hezekiah’s orders grudgingly and many religious shrines were merely buried and not destroyed (desecrated).

Unsurprisingly, many Biblical archaeologists refuse to believe option one. Some claim that because of the lack of field evidence, they cannot fully accept that hypothesis even though Scripture repeatedly states it.

Q: Has anything else come to light to corroborate Hezekiah’s reforms? 

A: Yes, and ironically, many of the naysayers of there being evidence of Hezekiah’s reforms have now switched sides, claiming that there is sufficient archaeological evidence. In regard to Tel ‘Eton, there seems to have been a cancellation and burial of a domestic cultic standing stone or massebah, measuring approximately 4.6 feet in height and weighing about 1,650 pounds.

Indeed, we have seen that despite the doubts, most scholars insist that the archaeological evidence supports the historicity of the reform. As Herzog (2010: 196) noted, “The detailed discussion about the abolishment of cult at Arad and Tel Beer-sheba shows that one cannot doubt the fact that these cult centers were intentionally abolished,” concluding that the evidence “justifies the conclusion that the acts of abolishment of cult . . . are a result of Hezekiah’s cultic reform.” . . .
. . . Still, it is likely that the desecration in Lachish, like the dismantling operations at Arad, Beersheba, and Tel ‘Eton, was intentional and, therefore, hints at a coordinating hand. Thus, insofar as the cancellations were intentional and implemented some time before the Assyrian campaign, it seems that Hezekiah’s reform provides a plausible and suitable historical context.

Besides Tel ‘Eton, there is a more directly associated cultic desecration, now acknowledged to be part of Hezekiah’s reforms in Lachish.
Most surprising of all was that in one corner of the room, the archaeologists discovered a seat carved of stone with a hole in the center—what Ganor and Kreimerman believe to be a toilet. This latrine, Ganor and Kreimerman say, was unquestionably a form of desecration of this shrine room—a practice described in the Hebrew Bible [ironically by King Jehu of Israel, who is not described as a good king, since none of the kings of Israel were]: “Then they demolished the pillar of Baal, and destroyed the temple of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day” (2 Kings 10:27)

Additionally, there is also a site in Arad that is considered to be part of Hezekiah’s reforms.
Arad is another case in point. Its large sacrificial altar and the small incense altars were cancelled by careful construction (e.g., Aharoni 1968) that was cautious not to harm the objects themselves (this is so regardless of the hot debate concerning the date of these events).

Faust in his Tel ‘Eton article explains the difference between desecration, destruction, and cancellation.

"While the distinction between destruction and burial of religious (and, in some contexts, also non-religious, symbolic) objects is important, in the following, I would like to elaborate on a third, intermediate option. Such third-option events occur when there are religious changes, and the intent of the reformers is indeed to desecrate preexisting symbols and practices, but the people who carry out these operations still respect and even revere the old objects. They thus follow the orders of the new regime and cancel these objects (or buildings), but they do so with care and (if possible) avoid defiling them. Thus, there is a distinction between the reformers’ intents and those of their agents."

"It should be stated that the cult places in Arad and Beer-Sheba had been destroyed before the Assyrian invasion of 701 by their inhabitants themselves. This indicated changes in religion as well. Since in the case of Arad we have to do with a frontier royal fortress, it is hard to suppose that desecration of the temple in such a place could have taken place without the king’s consent. In the period that is of interest to us, that is in the second half of the 8th c., the Bible mentions only one religious reform accomplished by the king; therefore, it seems logical to associate the findings from Arad and Beer-Sheba with Hezekiah’s activity."

Conclusion
Even many skeptical Biblical archaeologists have conceded that

there appears to be sufficient evidence “on the ground” supporting the Bible’s accounts in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles of Hezekiah’s religious reforms. While it is true that there are still some holdout naysayers, the pendulum appears to have swung in favor or archaeology corroborating what is written in Scripture." AIG

Creation Moment 10/14/2026 - Old and New Testaments Agree on Creation

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. Romans 1:20

"One reason we should trust what God says about our earliest beginnings is that the New Testament agrees with what Genesis records in the Old Testament. 

Q: What did New Testament authors say happened in the very beginning?
A: Prophets began revealing God’s words to human hearers when the world began. Zacharias said after the Lord restored his voice, “As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began” (Luke 1:70). Genesis says Adam and Eve were created at the start of time, and Mark affirmed this: “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female” (10:6).

Today’s New Testament verse teaches that creation has been

revealing the Lord’s “invisible things,” meaning His supernatural essence, since “the creation of the world.” 

Similarly, Hebrews 1:10 aligns with Genesis 1 in that God laid the foundation of the earth “in the beginning” and not billions of years after time began. Clearly both Testaments agree on a recent creation. These records falsify ancient and modern pagan notions of eons before Adam.

Peter encouraged his readers to “be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets [in the Old Testament], and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior [in the New Testament]” (2 Peter 3:2).

Belief in both the Old and New Testaments elevates our opinion of God’s Word and thus His character. He spoke the truth in the beginning about our beginnings. We can trust this God who is Himself “the truth” (John 14:6). 

BDT/ICR

Self-surrender

1 Peter 5:6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. 

“Self-surrender is the substance of the teachings of Christ. 

Often it is presented and enjoined in language that seems authoritative, because there is no other way to save man than to cut away those things which, if entertained, will demoralize the whole being.” 

DA, p. 523

Papal Notes - Analysis of Zenit Article

An Analysis of Catholic News article on Zenit 

"The Catholic Church’s ecological teaching has taken a significant step forward with a new document that argues environmental destruction cannot be understood merely as a scientific, political or economic problem. It is also a matter of sin.

The document, Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God, runs to more than 29,000 words and was developed by a subcommission that worked between

2022 and 2025. It was approved by a majority of the commission’s members in July and authorized for publication by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, after being presented to Pope Leo XIV. Its central argument is clear: the ecological crisis is ultimately inseparable from the crisis of the human person.

The commission traces the present situation to what it calls a “triple transformation” in humanity’s relationship with nature. Over the centuries, the perception of the natural world as God’s creation weakened; an increasingly exploitative form of anthropocentrism emerged; and environmental degradation eventually developed into a crisis of planetary dimensions.

Exploitation, pollution and the destruction of biodiversity are therefore not simply technical failures. They reveal a disorder in humanity’s relationships with God, with other people and with the created world.
The “cry of the earth,” the document argues, is closely linked to the cry of people whose livelihoods, homes and resources are threatened by environmental degradation.

It calls for changes not only in technology and public policy but in personal and cultural habits. Scientific and technical solutions remain necessary, particularly in production, consumption, transportation and energy use. (so it is about gaining TOTAL CONTROL and/or INFLUENCE over every sector of your life---and EVERYONE on this planet)

The document gives particular importance to the Biblical principle of the Sabbath. Rest is not presented merely as a practical interruption of work but as a challenge to the modern impulse to possess, dominate and consume without limits. (the SABBATH is NOT about "Mother Earth" -- it is about honoring God the Father in Obedience and Worship -- He commands you to rest - you rest  And He said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:--Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work,...Mark 2:27/Exodus 20:8,10)

The Eucharist occupies a particularly important place in this vision. The document describes it as an “ecological school” because it teaches believers to receive creation not simply as raw material for consumption but as a gift. 

From that sacramental perspective can emerge, the commission argues, a positive and active relationship with nature — one based neither on exploitation nor on fear. (We don't have a "relationship" with the world. It is an inanimate thing. We have a "relationship" with the animate around us and the Godhead---we communicate with people and God)

The commission also invokes the universal destination of goods, emphasizing that private property is not an absolute right detached from responsibility toward others and future generations.(Marxist rooted politics---who are YOU Rome to determine what one can and cannot do with private property?....who decides what YOU think needs to be done with it is right or relevant?)

The commission recognizes elements of environmental responsibility found in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism,

African religions and Indigenous religious traditions from the Americas and Oceania. It calls for interreligious cooperation wherever believers can work together to protect creation and promote the flourishing of life. (So it is about a back door for to ecumenicalism for the religions of the world under the umbrella of Rome's leadership)

That is why the proposed expression — “sin against creation and against the Creator” — matters. It identifies environmental destruction not as an abstract crime committed against an impersonal planet, but as a rupture of relationships: with God, with other human beings and with the world humanity has received as a gift.
More than a decade after Laudato Si’, the Church’s theological reflection is therefore moving toward an even sharper conclusion." (Oh you got that one right --- ...and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3) 

Zenit