Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 144

"Psalm 144:
This royal psalm appears to be a compilation from other psalms (8, 18, 33, 102 – 104; but mainly Psalm 18).

I. God’s Greatness 

(144:1-2);

II. Man’s Insignificance

(144:3-4);
III. God’s Power 

(144:5-8);
IV. Man’s Praise 

(144:9-10);
V. God’s Blessing 

(144:11-15).

Psalm 144:1 Blessed [be] the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:
Psalm 144:3 LORD, what [is] man, that Thou takest knowledge of him! [or] the son of man, that Thou makest account of him!

Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: 

his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me

out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
Psalm 144:9 I will sing a new song unto Thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto Thee.
Psalm 144:15 Happy [is that] people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy [is that] people, whose God [is] the LORD."
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Branham & Bell: Servants of Satan on Racism [Serpent Seed & Interest Convergence Hypothesis]

Serpent Seed:
"The serpent seed theory refers to a false teaching that unnecessarily links the incident between Eve and the serpent (Satan) in Genesis to sexual relations. This teaching states that Eve had sexual relations with the serpent and from that Cain was born. Therefore, Cain and his descendants are considered descendants of Satan.

However, this doctrine is not in harmony with the teachings of the Bible. The serpent’s seed doctrine is a mixture of racial discrimination, prejudice, and religious superstition, which attempts to identify certain races or groups as the offspring of Satan.

Branham (1909–65), a proponent of Oneness theology, taught the so-called serpent seed.

“Here is what really happened in the Garden of Eden. The Word says that Eve was beguiled by the serpent. She was actually seduced by the serpent….He was so close to being human that his seed could, and did mingle with that of the woman and cause her to conceive. When this happened, God cursed the serpent.”

— William Branham

**As early as the mid-1940s, Identity preachers were building a new doctrine: the Serpent Seed theory. It is a fairly simple and straightforward belief: Jews are the physical descendants of a sexual union between ‘Mother Eve’ and ‘the serpent’ (Gen. 3). The serpent is variously identified as either Satan, or a demonic representative of Satan. As such, Jews are literally ‘Children of the Devil.’

William Branham taught the Christian Identity doctrines of Wesley A. Swift. According to this doctrine, the Serpent from the Garden of Eden mated with Eve to produce the black race.
William Branham's repeated use of racial language alongside terms like "darkie," reflected the racial assumptions of the white supremacist world that shaped his ministry, especially through his mentor Roy E. Davis and his continued ties to Klan-connected

figures; although Branham claimed to have repented of personal hatred toward Black people, his Serpent's Seed and "hybreeding" doctrines carried forward Christian Identity ideas associated with Wesley Swift, teaching racial impurity, condemning interracial marriage, and allowing later Message figures to identify Black people with the serpent's alleged evil bloodline, even as modern defenders attempt to soften or obscure the racial meaning of those teachings.
Branham re-branded Swift's doctrine and sold it to the masses under the name "Serpent's Seed", carefully separating the racial implications from Swift's doctrine into his own "hybreeding" doctrine. According to the "hybreeding" doctrine, the black race was impure, "mongrel",and should not mix with the white race. The "Curse of Ham", which described the "evil" through time due to the "colored people"."
GG/CR

Interest Convergence Hypothesis:
"If you're not familiar with critical race theory, it was developed by the first African-American tenure law professor at Harvard called Derek Bell. And there are various aspects of critical race theory.
One of which divides the world into oppressors and oppressed, which is the cultural Marxist worldview. 

You have the concept of intersectionality.....so that you're oppressed along multiple planes of existence. So if you are for instance black, female and gay and handicapped you're you're you're discriminated against in four bases in society that's what intersectionality is. 

But professor Derek Bell his unique contribution to critical race

theory was something called the interest convergence hypothesis. And the  interest convergence hypothesis says this: White people are so intrinsically evil that even if a white person, does something to ostensibly help the plight of black people in America, that white person is never actually acting to benefit black people in America, they're acting to to perpetuate white supremacy and the subjugation of the black people.... what this means is that white people are intrinsically and for forever will be evil. 

**The logical conclusion of of this kind of ideology is not just segregation. It's the elimination of the problem race, which is genocide." 

Conrad Vine

REBUTTAL:
The Bible clearly shows that all people come from one source (And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the

face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Acts 17:26), and salvation is open to all. 

Paul taught that “sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men” (Romans 5:12). 

He reinforced this by stating that “in Adam all die,” (1 Corinthians 15:22).

SDA News - Fire engulfs San Francisco's Seventh-day Adventist Church

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, even into His ears. Psalm 18:6

"Flames engulfed the Seventh-day Adventist Church near California and Broderick streets in San Francisco on Monday afternoon." 

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SDA History: Non-SDA Literature for SDA beliefs

"The rise of the papacy as supreme power was presented in a book and paper by Frances Dvornik in 1961. 

Byzantium and the Roman Primacy. The American Ecclesiastical Review 289-312. Online available 12th of June 2016 at http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=1355.

 

The Collectio Avellana is a prime source for research of this type. These 244 manuscripts dealt with heresies and schism and how the papal and imperial powers approached the issues. 

It ends with the last letter written by emperor Justinian to pope

Vigilius on the 14th of May 553. 

 

The Corpus Novellae of Justinian is an ingredient part of this research.

 

The Liber Pontificalis is another source that is essential for a study like this. It originated in the year 510 in the days of the primacy of the papacy insistence pope Homisdas and the intention was to illustrate the role of the popes.

 

D. Deliyannis, (2014). The Roman Liber Pontificalis, Papal Primacy, and the Acacian Schism. Viator Vol. 45/2: 1-16. For
the date of its compilation as between 514-530 see Liber Pontificalis by Duchesne 1886: XLV. Duchesne knows of two manuscripts Parisinus 5140 and Vaticanus 3764 (Duchesne 1886: XLVII).

 

The popes with whom Justinian and Theodora dealt that are relevant here are pope Johannes II (533-535); pope Agapetus (535-536); pope Silverius (536-537); Vigilius (537-555).

 

A helpful source for those who struggle to get access to the originals or good translations thereof of the papal letters to Justinian and other pertinent sources mentioned in this writing, is the Source Book Vol. 2 on AD 538 by Heidi Heiks (2010). 

 

For a helpful chronology of Justinian, the Gothic kings, the Vandals as well as the year from Creation as calculated by Jerome, see the Chronica Minora edited by T. Mommsen 1894.

 

Newton all calculated the 1260 days of Revelation and Daniel as 1260 years.

He felt that any period that indicated a division of the Roman Empire is a candidate for this event starting the 1260 years.
Bishop Newton apparently said that if one is to find the ten kings, one has to look at the broken pieces of the Roman Empire” 

For Frere the starting date for the 1260 years is 536.

Faber wanted it to start before 325 A.D. and Cuninghame suggested the thirteenth century.

Maitland used Frere and Cuninghame to argue against Faber that the date is not 606 but 533 with the Edict of Justinian.

For Mede the prophetic persecution started in 456 A.D.23 

Frere was in search for the year the Edict was published.

Hales suggested 620 A.D. Bishop Newton in 727 A.D. and Lowman in 757A.D. 

These are the times given for the ‘saints given in the hands of the beast’ as predicted by Daniel and Revelation. Maitland himself seems to say the event took place sometime in the fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth centuries. He called on all researchers of the 1260 days as 1260 years to cite their sources with accuracy and check
whether the source was correctly used and cited.
W. Spicer (1918) wrote on the 1260 years. In his diagram he dates it either between 533 to 1793 or between 538 to
1798. Spicer said that in 533 came the recognition of the supremacy of the pope and in 538 the sword came to Rome.

He found from secondary sources that used the originals that a turning point was in the year 538 when Vigilius became pope in the place of pope Silverius. He was removed in 537 but Justinian intervened and he was kept until 538.

H. S. Prenier, (1919), “on the 1260 days” Andrews University, James White library, Adventist Research Center lower floor.

In 1854 T. M. Preble wrote a manuscript which is a review of the argument to prove that the 1260 years started in 519 A.D.

A Millerite F. H. Berick (1853) wrote a research on 1260, 1290 and 1335. An article appeared on the opic of the end of the 1260 years in 1843. W. Digby, (1831), also wrote on the 1260 years. K. van Wyk, (1992), presented a devotional on new aspects surrounding the historicity of 538 regarding numismatics and Justinian.

 

Revelation 13:12 says that the “dragon gave him his power, his seat and great authority”... then the actions of Justinian, Belisarius answering the call of the pope to come to Rome with his military for defense, the coin change of Justinian in 538, his public announcement to the whole empire that he is a theologian and not a

soldier in 538 on his coins, his ecumenical and theological interest in Systematic Theology recognized by pope Johannes in his 533 letter to Justinian, Justinian’s emphasizing the supremacy of the papacy in his letter to Johannes, all these factors point to a paradigm shift in the history of that time: that is to say, the fall of the Pagan Rome Empire and the Ascendancy and development of the papacy to form the Holy Roman Empire. 

--With the seat of Justinian symbolically “vacant” as emperor, the “symbolic power gap” was there for the papacy to take it. Augsburger (1952) indicated that it was the church who fed the people after 538 A.D. described as disastrous years. 

--Diehl wrote “In this hour which marks for her (Rome) the end of ancient times, she was taking on the aspect that she was to keep during the whole Middle Ages and upon the debris of the palaces of the Caesars was slowly rising the authority of the popes.”

--Gregory the Great described the rise of the church on the ruins of Rome of the Gothic wars Gregory described very eloquently the summary of the churches’ rise to power “Amid the frightful storms of the Gothic War classical civilization perished in Rome and throughout Italy. In cities burnt, desolated and mutilated, ruins remained the sole evidence of former splendor. 

The prophecy of the Sybil was fulfilled. The night of barbarism had descended on the Latin world, a darkness in which no light was visible other than of the tapers of the church and the lonely studentlamp of the monk brooding in his cloister.”

--George Butler in 1885, as a president of the Seventh Day Adventist church, cites a speech of a bishop at the Ecumenical Council in
1870 which said: "Pope Vigilius, A.D. 538, bought the papacy from Belisarius, agent of the Emperor Justinian; though to be sure he broke his promise, and paid nothing Is this mode of gaining the tiara canonical?" (Vatican Council 1870: 189 cited in George Butler 1885: from the American Tract Society Pamphlet with the title: "The
Speech of a Bishop in the Vatican Council"). 

Butler listed many outside scholars who already understood the 1260
years prophecy, the fall in 1798 and the beginning in 538. 

It was not an invention by Seventh Day Adventists since it is historical and Biblical, recognized earlier by many commentators and historians."

538 A.D. and the Transition from Pagan Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire: Justinian’s Metamorphosis from Chief of Staffs to Theologian

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,).... Mark 13:14

Creation Moment 7/1/2026 - Quantum Mechanics has destroyed Classical Materialism

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Psalm 94:8

"Writer Graham Phillips takes aim at many universes theory, the lazy materialist’s dodge for getting away from the reality of the fine-tuning of the universe for life: There are countless universes out there with different variables and ours just happens to be one that enables life.

In “The Mind at the End of the Universe,” Phillips responds,

"If you restrict yourself to materialist theories, well, maybe. But is it taking materialism too far if it forces you to invent hordes of other unobservable universes to solve a problem in ours? I wonder if, like

solipsism, the multiverse theory is a tad distasteful for the same reason—it can’t be empirically verified or falsified.

Alternatively, could dropping the unassailable fidelity to materialism—the belief that the universe consists of nothing other than physical fields, energy, and particles—lead to a more intellectually satisfying solution to the finetuning problem?"

He contrasts Susskind’s approach with that of Princeton’s John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008). Wheeler saw that quantum mechanics (QM), the science of the behavior of subatomic particles, challenged the materialist universe:
"Wheeler came to this conclusion after wrestling with the discoveries of quantum physics. In particular, it was one of the theory’s most brain-bending revelations that forced his hand: that the world out there doesn’t seem to fully exist until it’s observed. Or until it’s measured, to use the term physicists prefer. For instance, particles, which are the building blocks of everything, don’t have a position until they’re pinned down by observation. They are neither here nor there.

The before-measurement world is only kind of there, partially existing, as a vast array of possibilities, but not an actuality. As after it’s observed, the potentialities crystallize into the reality we know."

What all this points to is the way quantum mechanics has destroyed classical materialism. It has left thinkers, who could once celebrate the certainty of science, searching in many new directions for ways to unite our various understandings of the universe. Materialism isn’t so much dying out these days as breaking up." 

Denyse O’Leary

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Puritan Corner - Whether in Sermon or in Secret

“Christian, prize thou the word, feed on the word, whether it be

dished up in a sermon…or in a more secret duty of reading and meditation by thy solitary self.” 

by William Gurnall (1616-1679)
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy word. Psalm 119:48

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 143

"Psalm 143:
Again David is beset by enemies, and again he knows to whom he must turn.

I. David’s Passion 

(143:1-2);
II. David’s Predicament 

(143:3-6);
III. David’s Plea 

(143:7-12).

Psalms 143:1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in Thy faithfulness answer me, [and] in Thy righteousness.
Psalms 143:3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Psalms 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Thy works; I muse on the work of Thy hands.
Psalms 143:8 Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in Thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto Thee.
Psalms 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto Thee to hide me.
Psalms 143:10 Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou [art] my God: Thy spirit [is] good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Psalms 143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I [am] Thy servant."
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IN the NEWS - UFO/Alien NONSENSE grips the theaters of the world

UFO/Alien NONSENSE grips the theaters of the world.
--The world refuses to believe in God despite the evidence all around them (For ever since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through His workmanship [all His creation, the wonderful things that He has made], so that they [who fail to believe and trust in Him] are without excuse and without defense. Romans 1:20 AMP). 

Yet they will believe in crackpot notions of UFO type aliens based on growing up imbibing too much on sci-fi of those with DISEASED IMAGINATIONS (...it is by beholding that we become changed. E.G.W.).

"Roughly a third of the way into Steven Spielberg’s new blockbuster film “Disclosure Day,” which focuses on the theoretical release of evidence documenting the existence of alien life, a conversation

between the two main characters takes a sudden turn toward the spiritual.
One of the characters, who is Catholic, begins fretting over what the release of such information would mean for religious people, worrying many will “stop believing in God.” People who believe in “superior beings,” she says, will balk at news of “actual” superior beings — namely, technologically advanced aliens.
“People can’t handle both,” she concludes.

Her implicit question is left hanging, like a flying saucer hovering over the horizon, for most of the film: If intelligent life were to be discovered beyond Earth, would it shatter religious traditions?
Catholics in particular have long been interested in extraterrestrial life. The idea was already showing up in the 15th century, when a German Catholic cardinal insisted on the prospect of life on other stars. What’s more, multiple heads of the Vatican observatory have openly discussed the prospect of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, with one saying he would baptize an alien."

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Why Aliens Will Never Reach Us | Leonard Susskind Explains

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Creation Moment 6/30/2026 - His workmanship displayed in the grandeur of a butterfly wing

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

"A butterfly wing may look like painted glass, but beneath its beauty is a living control system. A recent study on South American butterflies and a day-flying moth found a striking theme. Two genes, ivory and optix, help make similar colors in insects that conventional scientists place far apart on the family tree. The study presents this as evidence that evolution has repeated itself. Yet the finding points to

a stronger, creation-based thesis: these wing patterns show built-in flexibility based on stable, reusable design.

The wing colors in these insects, although very pretty, are not random decoration: they are warning signs. Many of the species use bright bands and patches as warning signals that help mark them as poor food choices for predators. That function requires not only pigment, but also wing scales, color paths, body plans, timing, and controls that put the right color in the right place.

Again and again, the PLOS Biology study found that similar color patterns are tied to the same control regions near the ivory and optix genes. Earlier butterfly research also showed that wing pattern changes can involve moved or reshuffled control parts that affect where a trait appears. This means that butterflies’ genes don’t start from scratch when formulating the color design on their wings. Instead, they tune their existing system in the control regions to adjust where the colors go.

These regions act like dimmer switches. While they can’t explain the machine they control, dimmer switches can adjust a light. But they did not invent the power, wires, glass, or bulb. In the same way, control DNA can change color placement on a wing, but it does not explain the origin of the wing, the pigment system, or the genetic logic behind it.

The authors also state that repeated use of the same genes points to strong limits and expected outcomes. That observation fits well with the creation model’s assertion that living things show flexibility, just as butterflies and moths vary in color pattern. But that modification works inside limits, so the core system remains intact.

The logic is straightforward. When a system gives controlled, repeatable results, its built-in parts should be central to explaining those outcomes. Organisms use internal systems to adjust to changing conditions rather than inventing themselves through unguided processes, like the butterflies in the study demonstrate.4

The butterfly wing gives a small but powerful lesson in design. 

Its colors can change, but only through systems already in place—illustrating the difference between flexibility and invention. The

study shows real variation within clear limits in a living system, not the origin of the machinery behind it. Such apparent design is not surprising in a world made by the Creator. His workmanship is displayed in both the grandeur of life and the fine details of a butterfly wing." 

ICR

Meditation Upon the PSALMS Series: Psalm 142

"Psalm 142:
As the superscription indicates, David’s distress this time is the dogged pursuit by his enemies.

I. Cry of David 

(142:1-2);
II. Circumstances of David 

(142:3-4);
III. Confidence of David 

(142:5-7).

Psalm 142:1 I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
Psalm 142:2 I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed before Him my trouble.

Psalm 142:5 I cried unto Thee, O LORD: I said, Thou [art] my refuge [and] my portion in the land of the living.
Psalm 142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for Thou shalt deal bountifully with me."
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Creation Moment 6/29/2026 - Io and Ganymede's challenge

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

"Two of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, Io and Ganymede, were recently featured in science news stories—stories that remind us that these moons are problematic for those who believe the solar system is billions of years old.

The four largest of Jupiter’s more than 100 moons are called the Galilean moons, in honor of their discovery by Galileo Galilei. In order of increasing distance from Jupiter, they are: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Io and Ganymede both challenge the solar system’s presumed age of 4.6 billion years because they seem warmer than they should be after such a long time.

Small planets and moons quickly radiate heat to space, cooling off rapidly in the process. If these celestial bodies really are billions of years old, whatever primordial warmth they originally had should have been lost to space eons ago. Uniformitarian scientists are aware of this, and they argue that radioactive decay and tidal flexing can keep these small bodies warm over long ages. Heat is produced when radioactive elements decay. Likewise, tidal flexing, the stretching and compressing of a planet or moon’s interior due to gravitational tugs from nearby bodies, also produces heat.

However, in many cases, neither tidal flexing nor radioactive decay are plausible heat sources. Heat from radioactive decay can account for only a tiny fraction of Io’s heat output.

Tidal flexing is a possible explanation for Io’s heat, but it is problematic also. Volcanism on Io is so intense that at the current measured rate, Io’s volcanism should have completely turned its interior inside out more than 100 times over the supposed age of the solar system! Additionally, a process called magmatic differentiation should have depleted Io’s crust of magnesium if the volcanic activity had been occurring for as long as conventional scientists claim. But this is not what’s observed. Moreover, Io is losing three tons of material to space every second through volcanism. It is very difficult to see how such volcanic activity could have persisted for billions of years.

To make matters worse, the recent news article on Io suggests that scientists may have “massively underestimated Io’s [heat] output,” exacerbating the problem even further. For these reasons, most uniformitarians would likely argue that Io’s intense volcanism started relatively recently, although some are still trying to claim that Io’s volcanism has persisted for billions of years. 

*But a recent start to Io’s prodigious volcanism is troubling to uniformitarian scientists because such volcanism should only last a short time compared to the age of the solar system. Thus, it seems an odd coincidence that we were lucky enough to develop the technology to observe this volcanism just as it is occurring.

Ganymede, the other Jupiter moon in which we’re interested, has a magnetic field. This surprised conventional scientists because their uniformitarian dynamo theory, which they need to explain how a planet or moon can maintain a magnetic field over deep time, requires the moon or planet to have a liquid core. 

*Yet Ganymede’s liquid core should have frozen or solidified eons ago.

Scientists have given up on tidal flexing as an explanation for Ganymede’s presumed warmth and have started invoking more exotic scenarios, such as iron “snow” or the formation of iron-sulfide crystals in Ganymede’s core. But even these strange theories have problems. Now scientists are claiming that perhaps Ganymede’s core never fully formed and that heat from this ongoing formation process may sustain a liquid dynamo. The fact that uniformitarian scientists are inventing yet another mechanism to try to explain Ganymede’s magnetic field is an indication that the other explanations didn’t work very well.

Both Io and Ganymede silently testify that they were created about 6,000 years ago by the Lord Jesus Christ, just as Scripture declares." ICR