Dig Deeper: November 2019

Friday, November 29, 2019

Puritan Corner - David's, Paul's & Abraham's

"Having given up ourselves to God, let us comfort our souls that God is our God.
We are now God’s Davids, God’s Pauls, God’s Abrahams.
We have an everlasting being with him, as one with Jesus Christ his Son."
by Richard Sibbes (1577-1635)
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: 1 John 3:1

Creation Moment 11/30/2019 - Upending Evolutionary Cosmology

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Job 38:33

"An international team of astronomers has discovered an exceptionally massive black hole of stellar origin with a mass 68 times that of the Sun.
“Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Milky Way Galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution,” said Dr. Jifeng Liu.
“The newly-discovered black hole is twice as massive as what we thought possible. Now theorists will have to take up the challenge of explaining its formation.”
The newfound black hole is part of LB-1, a star-black-hole binary system located some 13,800 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini.
“This discovery forces us to re-examine our models of how stellar black holes form,” said Professor David Reitze."
BreakingSciNews

Isaiah 24:5 in Focus

Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;

because they have transgressed the laws,

changed the ordinance,

broken the everlasting covenant.

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:

therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned....

Isaiah 24:1,5,6

"It is impossible to describe the horror and despair of those who have trampled upon God's law.
To secure the favor of the world,
---they set aside its precepts
---and taught others to transgress.
Now they are condemned by that law which they have despised. They see that they are without excuse.
The enemies of God's law have a new conception of truth and duty.
Too late they see that the Sabbath is the seal of the living God.
They have been fighting against God.
Religious teachers have
---led souls to perdition
---while professing to guide them to Paradise."
E.G.W.

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Who are the "dogs" of Psalm 22:16?

For dogs have compassed me:
the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me:
they pierced my hands and my feet.
Psalm 22:16

"For dogs have compassed me.
Here he marks the more ignoble crowd, who,
---while less strong than their brutal leaders,
---were not less ferocious,

for there they were howling and barking like unclean and hungry dogs.
Hunters frequently surround their game with a circle, and gradually encompass them with an ever narrowing ring of dogs and men. Such a picture is before us.
In the center stands, not a panting stag, but a bleeding, fainting man, and around him are the enraged and unpitying wretches who have hounded him to his doom."
BST

The "Really" File - (Vampire Help?)

Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Proverbs 14:7
Yeah I get it....they are just trying to be cutesy and not promoting the belief in real Vampires--but official government entities using Vampires? Now what IF someone used Scripture to make a point? There would be many people coming unhinged....

"The Moscow health authority’s campaign to encourage parents to vaccinate their children has recruited an unlikely ally: blood-sucking vampires.

An ad posted on its social media page features a vampire father and his daughter visiting the doctor to ask about the blood of vaccine opponents.

“I’d like to know if my daughter can drink their blood?” the dad — with slick hair, a leather jacket, dilated pupils and a cane to go with his fangs — asks.

While the doctor dismisses blood-drinking as “uncivilized,” he also appears to suggest that vaccinated children’s blood is safer to consume.

From the "Really" File

“Vaccine opponents’ blood can be very dangerous,” he explains before listing the medical advantages of vaccines.

The doctor then agrees when the vampire dad asks if parents who refuse to vaccinate their children “don’t want them to be bitten.”
“Yes, perhaps it’s the only explicable reason” parents refuse vaccines, he says in the video titled “What Do Vampires and Vaccinations Have in Common?”
MoscowTimes

REALLY?

Papal Notes - Francis' Ecumenical "Yalta" Pact?

...and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3

"Pope Francis has once again promoted the Abu Dhabi document “Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together” at a

meeting organized in Rome by an Argentinian group under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Part of the document, which was signed in February by the Pope and a Grand Imam, states that a “pluralism and diversity” of religions is “willed by God.”
During a meeting on November 15, attended by Cardinal Miguel Ayuso and Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Father Guillermo Marcó of IDI made a “historic announcement” saying that in Argentina a council is being formed between the bishops’ conference, the Jewish center AMIA, the Islamic Center of the Argentinian Republic, the Argentinian Federation of Evangelical Churches, and the Institute of Interreligious Dialogue.

Francis quoted a “very wise man, a very wise European politician” whom he said spoke to him about the Abu Dhabi declaration last February in these terms:
“Let us think of the end of the Second World War, let us think of Yalta; in Yalta a balance was struck in order to break the impasse, a balance that was weak but possible. The cake was shared, and a period of peace was maintained, but these documents, this attitude that goes towards dialogue among the transcendent, creates fraternity, surpasses pacts, surpasses the political; it is political in that it is human, but it surpasses this, it transcends this, it makes it nobler.”
The Yalta Pact divided the world that had emerged from the Second World War into two zones of influence under the winners of the global conflict: that of America on the one hand and that of Soviet Russia on the other. It left hundreds of millions of people in that country under the heel of communist power. The “peace” that was brokered abandoned large parts of Eastern Europe to Stalin’s

“influence” and prepared communism’s total domination in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the Baltic States…
Pope Francis’ speech showed he believes there is a new element at play since the signature of the Abu Dhabi document:
“The intention of the document is to adopt: the culture of dialogue as a way; common collaboration as conduct; mutual knowledge as a method and criterion. From now on, it can be affirmed that religions are not a closed system that cannot be changed, but with their own identity. And this is the key: identity cannot be negotiated, because if you negotiate identity there is no dialogue, there is submission. With their own identity, they are in motion.”
The operative words are: “From now on … ” The Pope said in substance that religions must be prepared to adapt to a situation where they maintain their “identity” while accepting to modify their attitudes in favor of world peace and prosperity."
Lifesite

Creation Moment 11/29/2019 - How to Spot Darwin Clutter

"Honeybees use their wings for water surface locomotion (PNAS). Here’s an interesting paper about another skill honeybees have. When trapped in water, they can “hydroplane” with their legs

underwater to get higher where their wings can help them escape.
The science is fine until the last paragraph, when the authors take their Darwine break and start confabulating mythoids.

More broadly, winged locomotion on a water surface could be an evolutionarily important category of biolocomotion. One of the hypotheses on the origin of insect flight is that flight evolved from the locomotion on a water surface, on which the weight of an organism is offset by either buoyancy or surface tension. While it is unlikely that the honeybee’s flight evolved from their water surface locomotion, the mechanism of hydrofoiling may have biomechanical resemblances to early preflight locomotion.

This is absurd and uncalled for. Powered flight of any kind requires massive remodeling of an animal’s entire body: its weight, its aerodynamics, its brain software, and a host of other things.
Any insect using “preflight locomotion” to fly would quickly drown. What was it flapping, its legs? If the animal had surface tension, like a water strider, why don’t we see those evolving flight?
The authors even state that it is “unlikely that the honeybee’s flight evolved from their water surface locomotion” (that’s an understatement!), they dream on, visualizing the bee’s behavior as some kind of atavism of “early preflight locomotion.”
Ask yourself if the science of this article was improved in any way by the Darwin clutter."
CEH
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
Genesis 1:31

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Thanksgiving Reminder of Babel

These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Genesis 9:19

"This date is the supposed date when Christopher Columbus discovered America, and his story is one of great hardship, Christian faith, and courage, crowned finally with worldwide acclaim.

But it is now generally recognized that he was not even the first to discover America. Leif Ericson and the Norsemen not only found it before he did but explored large sections long before Columbus came.

But Leif was not even the first.
The evidence is mounting that the ancient Phoenicians reached America well before the time of Christ. There is even some evidence that the Egyptians and Chinese may also have come before Leif Ericson. All this is very uncertain, of course.

Even if so, however, they still were not the first. Various tribes of immigrants now known as the American Indians were the real discoverers of America, long before anyone else, probably not too long after the dispersion at the Tower of Babel.
Because of the wicked rebellion of all the clans against God, instigated by Nimrod at Babel, the Lord suddenly corrupted the original language into a vast "babble" of different languages, evidently one per family, "and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Genesis 11:9).
"All the earth," it says, and that would seem to include America.
Some probably traveled by land up through Asia, crossing the Bering Strait land bridge during the Ice Age, some came by sea from Europe or Asia or Africa.
They came in many different tribes and languages and established their "nations" throughout the American continents.
And there they were ready to greet Leif and Christopher Columbus when these late comers finally arrived." HMM

Nehemiah's Thanksgiving to Our Thanksgiving

"Following the Mayflower’s arrival at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620,

--the Pilgrims suffered the lost of 46 of their original 102 colonists.
--With the help of 91 Indians, the remaining Pilgrims survived the bitter winter and yielded a bountiful harvest in 1621.
--In celebration, a traditional English harvest festival, lasting three days brought the Pilgrims and natives to unite in a “thanksgiving” observance.
--This “thanksgiving” meal would not be celebrated again until June of 1676.
On June 29 the community of Charlestown, Massachusetts proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for their good fortune.

--Thanksgiving as we celebrate it -- George Washington proclaimed it a National holiday in 1789,
--Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November in 1863,
--and Congress sanctioned it as a legal holiday in 1941.
*In the Bible, the meaning of thanksgiving reflected adoration, sacrifice, praise, or an offering.
Thanksgiving was a grateful language to God as an act of worship.

Rarely, if ever, was thanksgiving extended to any person or thing, except God. “These things I remember as I pour out my soul; how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng” (Psalm 42:4).
---Long before the colonists celebrated their successes, Nehemiah assembled two great choirs to give thanks for God’s faithfulness in rebuilding the wall. “ . . . The Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully and dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres” (Nehemiah 12:27)."
AllAboutHistory

FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION

"The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)
On June 20, 1676, the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving, our first.
Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; Psalm 147:7

THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION – JUNE 20, 1676:
“The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present War with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things

against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgments he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions.”
PuritansMind

Creation Moment 11/28/2019 - Darwin Pops Up Uninvited

Who is as the wise man?
and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing?
Ecclesiastes 8:1

"Darwin. Who needs him?

Uninvited

He keeps popping up uninvited, cluttering science papers and articles with his BAD ideas.
Science writing would be much cleaner and understandable without him.
Dear scientist, tell the public

what the question was,

the hypothesis that was tested,

the methods and materials,

the findings,

and the conclusions.

But cross out the Darwinese.

Like deadwood in bad writing, it just adds clutter."
CEH

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

--"to suffer with"--

For that he also himself is compassed with infirmity. (Hebrews 5:2)

"No one can sympathize with a sufferer except one who feels the same pain, or at least has a vivid recollection of it.
That is what the word itself means. "Sympathy" is made up of two Greek words, which mean, "to suffer with."
The word "compassion" has the same meaning, being formed from two Latin words.
The only reason why the priest ordained of God has compassion on the ignorant and the erring, is because he himself has the same infirmities."
E.J.Waggoner

IN the NEWS - Enmity of the Toronto Star

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God... Romans 8:7

"Canada’s largest newspaper threatened Catholic schools in an editorial that unless they get in line with homosexuality and transgender “rights,” support will only grow for an end to their public funding.

The Toronto Star’s Monday editorial also excoriated beleaguered Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) trustee Mike Del Grande and called for the board to censure him.
Del Grande — along with Teresa Lubinski, Garry Tanuan and Nancy Crawford — voted November 7 after months of bitter debate not to add “gender identity, gender expression, family status and marital status” to the TCDSB’s code of conduct as prohibited grounds for discrimination.
The many delegates and opponents of the policy change argued that adding the terms endorses spurious gender ideology in Catholic schools in contravention of Catholic teaching, leading to great harm to students.
But eight trustees led by chair Maria Rizzo voted to include the terms, arguing that the board had to follow a ministry directive to align its code of conduct with the provincial code and the Ontario Human Rights Code.
And now LGBTQ activists are piling on in an all-out attack on Del Grande, who is running for chair of the board in an upcoming election that will be held November 28."
Lifesite
Observations:
1) The Church school shouldn't be taking Public Money.
2) But--WHY is everything sacrificed on the Altar of LGBT today? WHY are public officials obsessed with forcing LGBT down people's throats?
3) What happened to Freedom of Religion in Western so-called Democracies?
4) And WHO are the 8 trustees who Voted to Sacrifice Biblical positions at their Church School in Favor of the ways of the world?

Creation Moment 11/27/2019 - Guess Whose State Ideology?

Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not... Exodus 23:7

"The Marxist classics considered Darwin's theory of the materialist

explanation of biological evolution and praised it to the skies... Major pronouncements on Darwinism had been given by... leading party figures... Most importantly, evolutionary doctrine was taught as a part of the official state ideology, dialectical materialism."
Nikolai Krementsov, Stalinist Science (1997)

Monday, November 25, 2019

ARCHAEOLOGY: Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry

"Was a small pond an allosaur graveyard?

Observation: “The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry is the densest collection of Jurassic dinosaur fossils,” Science Daily says. “Unlike typical Jurassic bone beds, it is dominated by the famous predatory dinosaur Allosaurus.”
Explanation: the beasts died in droughts, but their carcasses washed into a small pond over and over “in flood periods” and rotted, such that pond creatures and other dinosaurs didn’t want to eat them. Is that credible? Look at the problem:

Since its discovery in the 1920s, numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of the quarry. Were the dinosaurs poisoned? Did they die due to drought? Were they trapped in thick mud?

Other observations call for explanation.
---There are no gnaw marks on the bones, suggesting the animals were not fighting or preyed upon by other dinosaurs after they died.
---If the site was a small pond, there is an “unusual lack of typical pond fossils at the site.”

Also found are “calcite and barite concretions found on bones excavated from the quarry.” It doesn’t sound like this latest story is any better than the previous “numerous hypotheses” that were proposed.
Maybe it’s time to think outside the box and let some creation paleontologists have their say."
CEH
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; Genesis 6:17

Message to ALL Christendom

*How many of you have heard Church Leaders throughout Christendom present as hip and cool having "doubts" or "questioning" God's Word.? (sometimes they use the phraseology of having a dialogue for a new view or look).
*How many of you hear Christians introducing the acceptance of open sin into the Church (LGBT, abortion, the Green Gospel in place of the Biblical Gospel, Evolution over the clear teaching of the Word, etc.)?
*Do YOU not see the Darkness you are being led into by these men (and women)?
--Well read below to open your eyes--

"The Jews rejected Christ; but they were self-deceived.
They hated his teachings,
---because he exposed the secrets of their hearts
---and reproved their sins.

They chose darkness rather than light, and would not come to the

light, fearing that their deeds would be manifest.
"This is the condemnation," said Christ, "that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."

The Jews rejected Christ until their eyes were so blinded by the moral darkness that they thought they were doing God service in crucifying the Son whom he had sent unto them to be a messenger of light and hope.

Very many are in danger of a similar deception.
God does not compel men to believe.

He sets light before them,

and Satan presents his darkness.

Minds that are submitted to Satan's control are led farther and farther from the light of truth into error and darkness.

It should not be considered a virtue to be on the side of the doubting rather than on the side of the believing.
---Jesus never praised unbelief, never commended a doubting, questioning spirit.
He gave to his nation evidence of his Messiahship in the miracles he wrought; but there were some who reasoned these evidences away, and in every good work found something to question and censure."
Signs Of The Times E.G.W./John 3:19

Creation Moment 11/26/2019 - Shaky Ground of "Science" Journalism

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Hebrews 13:8

"In biology, the top journals – Cell, Science and Nature – have

created a mess.
They tell the authors “give me the headline, not the data”. And then we see retractions and shattered careers and dreams."
Walter Gilbert, Nobel laureate The Conversation Sept 2014