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

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

Thursday, April 18, 2024

How Abraham became a "FRIEND OF GOD"

"Jesus said to Pilate: “Everyone on the side of truth listens to Me”
(John 18:37). Noah’s and Abraham’s hearts were inclined to the things of God, and godliness, truth and righteousness mattered to them and when God spoke, what He said made sense to them. 
God’s words rang true, 
--and they valued truth, 
--and were prepared to pay a high price to honor it. 
Indeed, they loved it and loved the One who was truth (John 14:6). 
Abraham was called the friend of God (James 2:23). 
--He cared about the things God cared about; they shared common interests and communed together on a deep level.

Conversely, godlessness leads to the suppression of the truth (Rom. 1:18) and those who love evil deliberately avoid it (John 3:19,20). Pilate asked, “What is truth?” (John 18:38) but had little time for the One who could have answered the question. 
Such is the animosity of many towards truth that they unrepentantly assert that God is a liar (John 3:33-34) and even attribute His words and works to Satan (Luke 11:15). 
Adam and Eve fell into sin because they chose not to believe God and to believe Satan instead (Gen. 3:1-13)." 
CMI
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Creation Moment 4/19/2024 - Observation & Response to Darwinian World View

"Satan’s strategy today is exactly the same as the one he employed in the Garden of Eden: “Did God really say?” (Gen. 3:1). 
Q:“Did God really mean that He made the world in six days?

I. Observation
Satan has “blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the Gospel” (2 Cor. 4:4), and the extent of this mind control is truly remarkable. 
--The insistence that it is a fact that ‘primitive’ life emerged out of
the oceans, by purely natural processes, is breath-taking, given that scientists have absolutely no idea how it could have happened. 
--Evolutionists are hard pressed to identify more than one or two mutations that appear to have added information to genomes, yet they insist that this happened billions and billions of times throughout history, to create all the complexity of the living world. 
--The dogma of an exceedingly ancient Earth, when current rates of erosion indicate that the continents would have been flattened many times over, were they really millions of years old, is nothing less than self-inflicted blindness.

*The insistence that belief in evolution is necessary for scientific advancement and medical progress is astonishing, given the difficulty scientists have in pointing to technological breakthroughs which arose from evolutionary thinking. As pointed out by Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School,
“In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all.”

II. Response
--When people question us about whether God cares about us in our fallen state, 
*we can tell them that, no sooner had man sinned, God announced His plan of salvation (Gen. 3:15). 
--When they ask us why the sedimentary rocks contain billions of fossils, and billions of tons of coal and other fossil fuels, 
*we can point them to the Noahic Flood (Gen. 6-8). 
--When they ask us where the different ‘human races’ came from, 
*we can point them to the dispersal at Babel (Gen. 11:1-9) and explain that there is only one human race, the one descended from Adam. 
--When they ask us how Christ could die for their sins, 
*we can explain that just as all sinned in Adam, so all may be redeemed in Christ (1 Cor. 15:21-22). 
--According to Jesus, the greatest commandment is 
*that we should love the Lord our God with all our hearts and with all our souls and with all our minds (Matt 22:37). 

Q: How can we do this if we have lingering doubts that we do not get answered? 
A: The answer is God’s Word, which provides “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (Heb. 6:19)." 
CMI
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

We are like the Dove of Old

Lift them up for ever. 
 Psalm 28:9

"God's people need lifting up. 
They are very heavy by nature. 
They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold.

By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, "lift them up for ever!" 
David himself said, "Unto Thee, O God, do I lift up my soul,".

God's people require to be lifted up. 
--They require to be elevated in character. 
*The world's people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift Thy people up above all this." 
Charles Spurgeon
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SDA Issues: President Ted Wilson Responds to Hardy's NONSENSE

Train up a child in the way he should go: Proverbs 22:6

"Mrs. Lisa Hardy. Education director for GC. 
She outlined a host of edits to the document, and said that the
document could negatively affect the autonomy of educational institutions. Directly interposing between the institution and its governing board would be a challenge (whatever that means). Putting a BRI member on boards would pose ‘some challenges’. Many of our educational institutions are not willfully going against GC working policy. They just don’t have a copy of the GC policy (lamest excuse ever). She is also concerned that the recommendations are too broad.

Ted Wilson responded to Mrs. Hardy. “I'm going to put my neck right on the line. Our institutions which have drifted—and I'm going to use that word—have drifted into the area of saying “You can't touch us. We have our own board we have our own protocols and you can't touch us.” They have drifted into the wrong place.
Institutions are institutions of the World Church respectively in all of the different areas—who funds them, who sends the students. These are the people that want to see those educational institutions flourish under an understanding of [true] education in a Biblical and spirit of Prophecy and [a] God-focused understanding. That is the reason for our institutions. Otherwise, there's no other reason for it. Parents [and] constituent members want to see that kind of focus. Institutions which are now putting an arm's length between the church and active involvement of the church are headed in the wrong direction. Some people will not like to hear that. They will say [it] sounds like this president is now going to become a big gorilla and going to lean on us. We're going to work on this collaboratively, but we cannot allow the slippage.” 
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SDA Issues: Diop's Korah Moment

"According to Ganoune Diop, the Three Angels’ Messages are no longer applicable. They are an aberration in today’s world. Furthermore, Diop implies that those who speak out against the Pope or his secular advocates, who support doctrines couched in Marxist rhetoric, are engaging in hate speech and should be viewed as extremists. They endeavor to discard every vestige of our church’s foundational principles in order to become like the rest of the world.

Diop alluded to the fact that promoting Bible truths and their
relationship to history and current events can place the lives of all Seventh-day Adventists in jeopardy. 
In other words, present truth is nothing more than an effort to incite violence. This is a trend we have been seeing at many of our churches where the Spirit of Prophecy has been relegated to the “historical trash heap”; part of a quote by Neal Wilson (Ted’s father) during a court hearing in 1975 when he tried to allay concerns about the so-called anti-popery sentiments of conservative Protestantism.

We are supposed to be a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people (1 Peter 2:9). 
This sets us apart from others, and, by virtue of this position, we will indeed face persecution. E.G. White sums it up this way: “When we reach the standard that the Lord would have us reach, worldlings will regard Seventh-day Adventists as odd, singular, straightlaced extremists” {RH, January 9, 1894, par. 10}."
Arnie Suntag/AM
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Creation Moment 4/18/2024 - The problem......

And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. 
Colossians 1:17

"Materialistic ideology has subverted the study of biological and
cosmological origins so that the actual content of these sciences has become corrupted. 
The problem, therefore, is not merely that science is being used illegitimately to promote a materialistic worldview, but that this worldview is actively undermining scientific inquiry, leading to incorrect and unsupported conclusions about biological and cosmological origins." UncommonDescent
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

That day in between

"The closing verses of the twenty-third chapter of Luke and the
opening verse of the twenty-fourth chapter forever settle the question of the relationship of a certain day to the Sabbath command. 
Christians generally are in agreement that Christ was crucified on Friday, and that He rose on Sunday. 
---The day in between is described as “the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” 
---The language is simple and explicit. 
*Anyone who wants to follow the Sabbath commandment and wishes to free himself from any uncertainty as to which day is the Sabbath day has only to read this passage in Luke." 
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When will the Mark of the Beast become -- the Mark of the Beast?

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: ---- The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Daniel 7:24/Isaiah 24:5 

“But when Sunday observance shall be enforced by law, 
--and the world shall be enlightened concerning the obligation of the true Sabbath, 
--then whoever shall transgress the command of God, to obey a
precept which has no higher authority than that of Rome, will thereby honor popery above God. He is paying homage to Rome, and to the power which enforces the institution ordained by Rome. 
--He is worshiping the beast and his image. 
--As men then reject the institution which God has declared to be the sign of his authority, and honor in its stead that which Rome has chosen as the token of her supremacy, they will thereby accept the sign of allegiance to Rome—“the mark of the beast.” 
--And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive “the mark of the beast.” 
E.G.W.
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Creation Moment 4/17/2024 - Prayer of a Scientist the Psalmist would Love

When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained; What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Psalm 8:3,4


"Teach us to study the works of Thy hands that we may subdue the
earth to our use and strengthen the reason for Thy service; and so to receive Thy blessed Word, that we may believe on Him whom Thou hast sent to give us the knowledge of salvation and the remission of our sins."
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), 
father of electromagnetic theory
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Monday, April 15, 2024

The "what" & "how" of the Beast

Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. Revelation 22:10

“The fearful judgments 
denounced against the worship of the beast and his image, 
*should lead all to a diligent study of the prophecies to learn 
--what the mark of the beast is, 
--and how they are to avoid receiving it. 
But the masses of the people turn away their ears from hearing the truth, and are turned unto fables”. 
E.G.W.
Check out these Links for the SUMPLIFIED-to-the-Point version of the Topic:
--The MARK--
Duel of the Images (The Mark of the Beast)
MARK OF THE BEAST: Let's Walk it back to it's ROOTThe SEAL OF GOD
Moral Clarity of the Creator: SIMPLIFIED in 2 Parts
Sabbath Glue in Hebrews 4: Inverse Relationship
The MARK OF THE BEAST: That Buying & Selling 
--The BEAST--
Identity of the BEAST: Daniel & John view the sea beastsIdentity of the BEAST: Cast the Sanctuary TRUTH to the Ground [Little Horn]Identity of the BEAST: Blasphemy of the Sanctuary in Heaven [The Beast] Identity of the BEAST: Mathematics of Little Horn / Beast Identity of the BEAST: Wore out the Saints Then - and Will AgainIdentity of the BEAST: Peter's Clue Identity of the BEAST: Stretching Through TimeThe MARK OF THE BEAST: The Breaking of that EVERLASTING COVENANT
The MARK OF THE BEAST: Gog & Magog (Mother & Harlots)The MARK OF THE BEAST: Those 2 Great Errors of Gog and Magog
--Man's Rebellion--

How Eve Broke All 10 Commandments

Our 3 step Apostasy from God of the Human Race

Rumblings of the Roots of the PAGAN & SECULAR APOSTASY

Point of Christ's Mission 
BIBLE MEMO: Point of Christ's Mission (cnnncme738weid.blogspot.com)
--The Judgment---
3 Phases of the Judgment
God's Microfilm of our Life?
God's Armory in the Sanctuary
That "Trinity" of precepts as Seen in the Sanctuary (of the Triune Godhead)
Root of Opposition to the Sanctuary pt.1 (Sabbath)
--The Dead--
The Dead: Between the 2 Resurrections "Sleeping" the Sleep of DeathHades, Gehenna and TartarusThings the Dead do NOT Have
False Doctrine of Eternal Torment ("hell") Dishonors God
--The WARNING--
Apostle Paul's WARNING on this Great Controversy

What is the Doctrine of Sunday Sacredness?

Birth-Place of all Evil
Charismatic Movement a Counterfeit Latter Rain
Playing with Strange Fire
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Creation Moment 4/16/2024 - YOU are NOT Related to a Common Beast of the Field

"Q: Is the idea of an original human couple (Adam and Eve) in conflict with science? 
Q: Does DNA tell us anything about the existence of Adam and Eve? 
Readers have probably heard that the 98 percent similarity of human DNA to chimp DNA establishes that humans and chimps had a common ancestor. 
--Recent studies show that number dropping significantly. 
--More important, it turns out that previous measures of human and chimp genetic similarity were based upon an analysis of only 2 to 3 percent of the genome, the small portion that codes for proteins. 
--This limited comparison was justified based upon the assumption that the rest of the genome was non-functional “junk.” 
--Since the publication of the results of something called the “Encode Project,” however, it has become clear that the noncoding regions of the genome perform many important functions and that, overall, the non-coding regions of the genome function much like an operating system in a computer by regulating the timing and expression of the information stored in the “data files” or coding regions of the genome. 
--Significantly, it has become increasingly clear that the non-coding regions, the crucial operating systems in effect, of the chimp and human genomes are species specific. 
--That is, they are strikingly different in the two species. Yet, if alleged genetic similarity suggests common ancestry, then, by the same logic, this new evidence of significant genetic disparity suggests independent separate origins." Uncommondescent
Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7
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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Christ & Peter Believed the Flood was Global

To so-called "Christians" who don't believe in a Global Flood--the God you give lip service to did and so did the Apostle Peter.

"Jesus compared his second coming to Noah’s flood. Jesus’ return isn’t
going to be a localized event—it will be global, just as the flood was! (But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Matthew 24:37).
And the Apostle Peter wrote in his second epistle that only eight people survived the flood. (Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 1 Peter 3:20)" AIG
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"Saint" Astrology?

There shall not be found among you......a necromancer.
Deuteronomy 18:10,11
Below is an article from a Catholic website. It would appear that "saints" are being used like stars in Astrology. 
 
"Among the thousands of saints canonized or beatified by the Catholic Church, each has his or her own favorite — a preference that is often revealing.
A saint for every cause and a cause for every saint. The web is
teeming with personality tests of all kinds, and more and more corporate seminars offer them to their employees. These often-exhaustive tests all have the same aim: to paint a typical portrait of a person to determine their main character traits and the way they behave in society.
As members of the Church, we recognize there are physical and spiritual links that unite us to others. In this sense, the saints — or rather the relationships each person has with them — could be just as revealing of someone’s personality as the answers on a personality test. So asking, “Who is your favorite saint?” might be a great way to get to know our loved ones, colleges and friends better.
Perhaps it is the saints who choose us as friends. 
In that case, such friendships contain a whole program of sanctification that indeed say something profound about each person’s personality: “Tell me your favorite saints and I’ll tell you who you are.” 
Aleteia
Uhm.....
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ARCHAEOLOGY: Sharks in Arkansas & Oklahoma?

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11

"The newly-described species lived in the Devonian oceans.
Named Cosmoselachus mehlingi, it is one of many well-preserved fossil sharks from the oil-bearing Fayetteville Shale Formation, which stretches from southeastern Oklahoma into northwestern Arkansas and has long been studied for its well-preserved
invertebrate and plant fossils.
Dr. Bronson and colleagues CT-scanned and digitally reconstructed the specimen.
They worked for many months to describe its anatomy, including dozens of tiny pieces of cartilage.
Once the reconstruction was complete, they placed Cosmoselachus mehlingi in the tree of life of early cartilaginous fishes."
SciNews
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Creation Moment 4/15/2024 - Devastating to the Presuppositions of Darwinians

For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible... Colossians 1:16

"Darwinists simply have no evidence that morphology is reducible to DNA.
Where differences are greatest between chimps and humans, (and
between all other creatures), are not in the genetic sequences, but are instead found in alternative splicing patterns. 
As the following paper states, “A major question in vertebrate evolutionary biology is “how do physical and behavioral differences arise if we have a very similar set of genes to that of the mouse, chicken, or frog?”,,

In fact, due to alternative splicing, “Alternatively spliced isoforms,,, appear to 
--behave as if encoded by distinct genes 
--rather than as minor variants of each other.,,,” 
and “As many as 100,000 distinct isoform transcripts could be produced from the 20,000 human protein-coding genes (Pan et al., 2008), collectively leading to perhaps over a million distinct polypeptides obtained by post-translational modification of products of all possible transcript isoforms."

This finding is simply completely devastating to the reductive materialistic presuppositions of Darwinists.
Thus in conclusion, the evidence from population genetics, as well as the genetic evidence itself, simply does not line up with Darwinian presuppositions."
Uncommondescent
In other words---you're NOT related to a Common Beast of the Field
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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Archaeology: Response to largest known single day CHILD SACRIFICE on planet earth

But they mingled with the nations. And learned their practices, and served their idols, which became a snare to them. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
and shed innocent blood. The blood of their sons and their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idol......And the land was polluted with the blood. Psalm 106:35-38



"Around 1450 AD,
227 children were sacrificed in the Peruvian Chimu culture. The theory is that this great sacrifice was made to appease the rain gods because the rain did not stop, flooding the area, ruining the crops and more." Reddit

A Response to a post-Modernist/woke post on Reddit over largest known single day CHILD SACRIFICE on planet earth. [name of Reddit poster will be withheld].


Original Post-Modernist Post:
"Though it seems vile on its surface,
I’m going to put aside my modern perspective and look at this in a more detached way.
In the case of an upcoming famine because of massive crop failure, the children are likely going to die anyway. A slow and painful death that will scar the working adults and also encourage them to waste what little food they do have trying to save their children.
I can see how the leaders might take a decision to kill off some extra mouths to feed, prioritizing the fully grown workers so that there is more chance of saving the civilization as a whole.
The ceremonial religious sacrifice part of it could also serve a purpose, to make those parents feel as if their loss had more meaning, possibly some control over the situation too. Certainly slightly less traumatic than a kill squad going door to door.
Anyway I’m just trying to offer a different perspective, feel free to assume people from radically different times and cultures are simply wrong and evil, and that we are so much more civilized now without any introspection in to how ****** up things still are."

My Response/Observation:
I'm going to try looking at this without a post-modernist/woke/PC lens. Let's view through a Biblical lens.
1) Apparently long before cars, planes and air conditioners, (supposedly causing man-made "global warming") there were droughts. Long before the Climate Change Cult there was" weather" that went through cycles. LIKE TODAY. 
So now, instead of venerating idols (as our pagan ancestors did) we are more sophisticated in our paganistic veneration of mother earth, we use charts and words like "science" and are willing to sacrifice our standard of living to it and even listen to some who call for "population control" in the name of it (which means, if these people ever fully get their way, someone among us must be sacrificed to appease the mother earth goddess).And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 
Romans 1:23
2) As our ancestors turned from God along their paths from Babel they turned to False gods as their hearts were darkened. (Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God,
neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21) to the point that they sacrificed their own children before lifeless pagan deities. Today, there is nothing new. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
We too sacrifice our children on the Altar of Self via abortion [snuffing out beating hearts that haven't yet sinned] and even march for it DEMANDING it as a right---despite claiming how enlightened we are today. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9
3) The very fact we have people on cyberspace trying to justify or downplay the evil of killing their own children with the argument that they would probably die anyway speaks volumes of the age of Enlightened Man. 
Q: Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? Job 22:15
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Pope Sylvester turned the switch

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: 
2 Timothy 2:7

"From the earliest times, the first day of the week, in the religion of idolatry, was dedicated to the worship of the sun; so that when Christianity come into contact with that false system, Sunday was a venerable day throughout all the heathen world.

Constantine's law, it will be noticed, speaks not of the lord's day, or the Christian Sabbath, but of "the venerable day of the sun." 
This was the heathen, not the Christian, name of the day. 
And this law was on behalf of Sunday as a heathen, not a Christian, institution. 

The law was dated A.D. 321. Constantine did not experience his so-called conversion to Christianity till A.D. 323, two years afterward. The day following his Sunday law, he enacted another, regulating the work of the soothsayers who foretold future events by examining the entrails of beasts offered in sacrifice to the gods; fitting companion to the preceding. 

Q: But how did this heathen law come to have a bearing upon Sunday as a Christian observance? 
A: The pope of Rome cheerfully looked after that matter. 
When Constantine professed Christianity, his sunday law was left on the statute book unrepealed; and Sylvester, bishop of Rome, since
called pope, took advantage of this fact; and giving the day the imposing title of Lord's day, by his apostolic authority, enforced it upon the church as a Christian institution. 
Constantine also, then deeming himself as much the head of the church as the pope, took upon himself to elevate it still further, by church authority, as a Christian observance, taking "upon him," says Heylyn, not only "to command the day, but also to prescribe the service."

In the days of Constantine so near had the two systems come together that it was not difficult to transfer institutions from one to the other. 
Sunday had heretofore run on the pagan track; now it could be switched off upon the Christian. 
Pope Sylvester turned the switch; 
and henceforth Sunday is a palace sleeping car 
upon the Christian track, 
and not upon the heathen. " 
Uriah Smith
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Our Precious "bundle of myrrh"

A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.
Song of Solomon 1:13

"Myrrh may well be chosen as the type of Jesus on account of its preciousness, its perfume, its pleasantness, its healing, preserving, disinfecting qualities, and its connection with sacrifice.

Q: But why is He compared to “a bundle of myrrh”? 
A: First, for plenty. He is not a drop of it, He is a casket full. 
He is not a sprig or flower of it, but a whole bundle. 
There is enough in Christ for all my necessities; let me not be slow to avail myself of Him. 
Our well-beloved is compared to a “bundle” again, for variety: for there is in Christ not only the one thing needful, but in “Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;” everything needful is in Him. 

Take Jesus in His different characters, and you will see a marvelous variety—Prophet, Priest, King, Friend, Shepherd. 

Consider Him in His life, death, resurrection, ascension, second
advent; view Him in His virtue, gentleness, courage, self-denial, love, faithfulness, truth, righteousness—everywhere He is a bundle of preciousness. 

He is a “bundle of myrrh” for preservation—not loose myrrh to be dropped on the floor or trodden on.
Moreover, Jesus is a “bundle of myrrh” for speciality; ,,,,From before the foundation of the world, He was set apart for His people; and He gives forth his perfume only to those who understand how to enter into communion with Him, ...“A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”
Charles Spurgeon
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Creation Moment 4/14/2024 - Truth about those Neanderthals

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

"The reconstruction of Neanderthal appearance and behavior has quite a checkered history. 
After an initial controversy over whether the fossils really represent
ancient humans or just malformed modern humans, Neanderthals were described in 1864 as distinct hominin species, Homo neanderthalensis. 
For a long time, they were considered as brutish cavemen with a club and almost gorilla-like appearance. 
Then the scientific opinion shifted and Neanderthals were more and more recognized as human-like and even as geniuses of the ice age (Husemann 2005, Finlayson 2019), based on an avalanche of new evidence for complex human behavior (Nowell 2023, Vernimmen 2023). 
We now know that Neanderthals used fire (Angelucci et al. 2023), buried their dead (Balzeau et al. 2020, Dockdrill 2020), created stone circles (Jaubert et al. 2016, Callaway 2016) and bone tools (Soressi et al. 2013), made jewellery from eagle talons (Radovčić et al. 2015, Rodríguez-Hidalgo et al. 2019) and used feathers as body decoration (Peresani et al. 2011, Finlayson et al. 2012), made cave art with paintings and engravings (Rodríguez-Vidal et al. 2014, Hoffmann et al. 2018a, Marquet et al. 2023), played music with bone flutes (Turk et al. 2018), used ochre as pigment (Roebroeks et al. 2012, Hoffmann et al. 2018b) and sophisticated fiber technology (Hardy et al. 2020), produced flour from processed plants (Mariotti Lippi et al. 2023), dived for seafood (Villa et al. 2020), cooked food and self-medicated with herbal painkillers and antibiotics (Hardy et al. 2012, Weyrich et al. 2017), and even produced glue from birch bark with a complex chemical procedure (Blessing & Schmidt 2021, Schmidt et al. 2023).

But it is not just new evidence for Neanderthal behavior that overturned our previous crude image of Neanderthals as dumb brutes, but also new anatomic data. 
Contrary to earlier beliefs, more recent studies have demonstrated a fully upright posture with typical human spinal curvature called lordosis (Haeusler et al. 2019). 
The latter authors concluded that "after more than a century of alternative views, it should be apparent that there is nothing in Neandertal pelvic or vertebral morphology that rejects their possession of spinal curvatures well within the ranges of variation of healthy recent humans.” 
There even exists compelling new evidence for hearing and speech capacities (Conde-Valverde et al. 2021), which “demonstrates that the Neanderthals possessed a communication system that was as complex and efficient as modern human speech” (Starr 2021).

Of course, the undeniable evidence for significant and common genetic admixture (Kuhlwilm et al. 2016, Villanea & Schraiber 2019, Callaway 2021), which makes up 1-4 percent of the modern human genome (Reilly et al. 2022), would suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common gene pool and belonged to the same biospecies. 
Even the skeptic and ID opponent Michael Shermer (2010) agreed in an article for Scientific American that the genomic evidence suggests that our Neanderthal brethren were not a separate species.

However, some human populations such as Australian aboriginals
indeed share with archaic humans like Neanderthals a robust skull with pronounced brow ridges, which lead Darwin’s bulldog, Thomas Huxley (in Lyell 1863), to compare them with Neanderthals. 
Of course, this also had some typical Darwinist racist connotations. Just like Neanderthals, native Australians were considered primitive and inferior. Nevertheless, the similarities are real and have been confirmed by modern anatomical studies (e.g., Wolpoff & Caspari 1996), which concluded that “the interpretation of Neanderthals as a different species is very unlikely.” 
EN&V
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