Puritan Corner - That Inverse Relationship

"As the wicked are hurt by the best things — so the godly are bettered by the worst."

by William Jenkyn (1613-1685)

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Revelation 3:19

Calvinistic Predestination vs. Free Will: Who is right?

 God DESIRES that ALL be Saved.....

.....who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV 

 

But--He gives us Free Will to Choose.....

How long halt ye between two opinions? 

if the LORD be God, follow him: 

but if Baal, then follow him. 

.... choose you this day whom ye will serve.....

1 Kings 18:21/Joshua 24:15

The "Really" File - (Mattel Goes All Rom.1:30)

 ...inventors of evil things.... Romans 1:30

 

"Executive Vice President and Global Head of Barbie and Dolls at

Mattel Lisa McKnight said in a statement, “We are proud to highlight the importance of inclusion and acceptance at every age and to recognize Laverne’s significant impact on culture with a Tribute Collection Barbie” by releasing a Tribute Barbie of transgender actor Laverne Cox.

Cox, an Emmy Nominated Actress and Emmy winning producer, is a biological male who identifies as a woman. People reported Cox was “very involved” in designing the doll.

“What excites me most about her being out in the world is that trans

From the "Really" File

young people can see her and maybe get to purchase her and play with her, and know that there’s a Barbie made by Mattel, for the first time, in the likeness of a trans person,” Cox said, according to People. 

 

“I begged my mother for a Barbie doll and she said no because I was assigned male at birth,” Cox said. “And when I was in my 30s, I was in therapy and telling my therapist that I was denied the opportunity to play with Barbie dolls. And my therapist said, ‘It’s never too late to have a happy childhood, and what you should do for your inner child is go out and buy yourself a Barbie doll.'”

SaraCarter

REALLY?

Creation Moment 5/31/2022 - Another Building Block of Creator's Putty: Weyl Loop

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Job 38:4 

 

"As physicists dig deeper into the quantum realm, they are discovering an infinitesimally small world composed of a strange and surprising array of links, knots, and winding. 

--Some quantum materials exhibit magnetic whirls called skyrmions — unique configurations sometimes described as “subatomic hurricanes.” 

--Others host a form of superconductivity that twists into vortices.

Now, in an article published in the journal Nature, a Princeton-led team of scientists has discovered that electrons in quantum matter can link one another in strange new ways. “We’re studying properties related to the shape of the wave functions of electrons,” said Hasan. “And we have now taken the field to a new frontier.”

 

The essential building block of this new frontier is a quantum

mechanical structure known as a Weyl loop, which involves the winding of massless electron wave functions in a crystal... the case of Co₂MnGa turned out to be different from wave function winding considered in conventional topological theories. “Here instead we have linked loops — our newly discovered knotted topology is of a different nature and gives rise to different mathematical linking numbers,” said Tyler Cochran." SciTechDaily

MEMORIAL DAY 2022

 Joab scolds David for disrespecting his military men

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants,

which this day have saved thy life,

and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters,

and the lives of thy wives,

In that thou lovest thine enemies,

and hatest thy friends.

For thou hast declared this day,

that thou regardest neither princes nor servants:

for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived,

and all we had died this day,

then it had pleased thee well. 

 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants:

for I swear by the LORD, if thou go not forth, 

there will not tarry one with thee this night:

and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil

 that befell thee from thy youth until now.

 

Then the king arose, and sat in the gate.

And they told unto all the people, saying,

Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. 

And all the people came before the king:

2 Samuel 19:5-8

IN the NEWS - Unholy Alliance Power Grab

And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her,... Revelation 18:19

IF they get away with this what will be next? 

Doing a similar thing in the name of a so-called Climate Change Lockdown--Laudato Si' style?

 

"In the coming days, the nations that adhere to the World Health

Organization will vote on resolutions regarding the WHO's management of pandemics. These resolutions will transfer sovereignty regarding the health of citizens to a supranational body that is largely financed by the pharmaceutical industry and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

If these resolutions are approved by a majority, the WHO will have exclusive international authority in the case of a pandemic to impose all the rules — including quarantines, lockdowns, obligatory vaccinations and vaccine passports. It should also be borne in mind that this organization enjoys immunity, and thus its members cannot be either tried or convicted if they commit crimes. Unelected technocrats will paradoxically have more power than that which citizens confer on their representatives by means of their democratic vote.

The psycho-pandemic has demonstrated the enslavement of rulers, the political system, the media, the judiciary, the entire medical industry, and even the Holy See itself to the diktats of a group of functionaries of a supranational entity that has a blatant conflict of interest. 

 

The Holy See — which is a permanent observer at the United Nations and also at the WHO for one year now —....up until now [Pope Francis] and his cabal have indulged the delusions of Gates, Schwab, and Soros," 

ChurchMilitant

Creation Moment 5/30/2022 - Long Age Chronology: A Hard Mountain To Climb

 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. 

1 Corinthians 3:19

 

"....the mountains are still rising.  

The forces of orogeny (mountain building) exceed the forces or erosion, so that, for example, Everest is rising at 50 to 62 millimeters per year, while being eroded down at

only about 2 millimeters per year.  

Everest’s peak is 5.5 miles above sea level, and mainstream geology asserts that the mountain is 40 million years old.  

But if it were really 40 million years old and had been growing at a net rate 48 millimeters per year (50 less two for erosion), the peak would now be 1,920 kilometers, or 1,193 miles, above sea level.  

*(By comparison, the space station orbits the earth at 254 miles.)  

*Climbers would need to carry a lot more oxygen than they do now." 

DavidRead/Fulcrum7

Memory

This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

Lamentations 3:21

 

"MEMORY is frequently the bondslave of despondency. 

--Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of mingled gall and wormwood. 

 

There is, however, no necessity for this. 

 

Wisdom can readily transform memory into an angel of comfort. That same recollection which in its left hand brings so many gloomy omens, may be trained to bear in its right a wealth of hopeful signs. She need not wear a crown of iron, she may encircle her brow with a fillet of gold, all spangled with stars. 

 

Thus it was in Jeremiah's experience: in the previous verse memory had brought him to deep humiliation of soul: "My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me"; and now this same memory restored him to life and comfort. "This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope." 

 

Like a two-edged sword, 

--his memory first killed his pride with one edge, 

--and then slew his despair with the other. 

 

As a general principle, if we would exercise our memories more wisely, we might, in our very darkest distress, strike a match which would instantaneously kindle the lamp of comfort. 

 

Let us open the volume of recollection which is so richly illuminated with memorials of mercy, and we shall soon be happy. Thus memory may be, as ...when the Divine Comforter bends it to His service, it may be chief among earthly comforters." 

 Charles Spurgeon

IN the NEWS - The "godfather" has Died

 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13

"Cardinal Sodano, Vatican ‘Godfather’ alleged to have covered up

clerical abuse, dies aged 94. 

Cardinal Sodano died May 27, after having been hospitalized in Rome’s  Columbus Hospital-Gemelli for COVID-19 since May 9.

Sodano, who has been described as the “Vatican’s Godfather,” was mired in controversy over his alleged role in covering up clerical sexual abuse, particularly in the case of Marcial Maciel and ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

The office for the Secretary of State for the Holy See stated over Twitter that it was “united in prayer over the loss” of the cardinal.

Despite Pope Francis’ praise for the cardinal, Sodano has been mired in controversy, accused of covering up clerical sexual abuse, and even of being an active homosexual himself.

The highly influential cardinal was very closely linked to the pedophile priest Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ,  and was said to have protected and covered up for Maciel.

 “For years a leaf did not move in the Vatican unless Cardinal Sodano wanted it to,” said Badilla.

 New York Times’ bestselling author Frederic Martel wrote that the cardinal was “La Montgolfiera,” a previously un-identified active homosexual in Martel’s book Sodoma (In the Closet of the Vatican). Himself a homosexual, Martel stated: “My rule was not to reveal the homosexuality of a living priest or cardinal. Now that he is dead, the truth can be written.” 

Lifesite

Creation Moment 5/29/2022 - Mathematical Delima for Geological Long Ages

 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. 

1 Corinthians 3:19

 

"The conceit of modern geology is that the “present is the key to the past,” meaning that the currently observed rate of processes like erosion and deposition should inform our interpretation of what we see in the earth.  

Q: But do geologists really live by that maxim?

A: It turns out they don’t. 

 

The rates of coastal erosion of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of

North America have been well studied. 

--The Atlantic coast is eroding away at the rate of over two feet per year, 

--whereas the Pacific coast is wearing down at a much slower 8 inches per year.  

Monte points out that at these rates of erosion, the Atlantic and Pacific will meet somewhere near Salt Lake City, Utah, in about 4.2 million years.  

 

But mainstream geology tells us that the North American plate was formed 3 billion years ago, and that the supercontinent “Pangea” separated into the continents we have today about 200 million years ago.  

But given current rates of erosion, if the continents had really separated that long ago, North America would have completely eroded away about 40 times over.  

If the present is really the key to the past, the North American continent is vastly younger than what mainstream geology posits.  *Those 200 million years didn’t really happen."

Fulcrum7/DavidRead 

What Christ Desires to Say.....

"Why do we turn from divine wisdom to human wisdom? 

God sees the dishonor we do Him. 

He knows that in humanity we shall find no solace for our woe, and He pities us because we are so needy, yet so unwilling to make Him our confidant, our burden-bearer. 

He sees human beings slighting the love and mercy provided for them, and He says sadly, Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life (John 5:40). 

 

Our distrust is an insult to the One who has done so much for us. 

He will never neglect those who come to Him. 

Of the poor, fainting soul, tired of looking to humanity only to be betrayed and forgotten, Christ says,  

Let him take hold of My strength, 

that he may make peace with Me; 

and he shall make peace with Me (Isaiah 27:5). 

 

Christ desires to say of His people 

as He said of Israel of old,  

*And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: *for it was perfect through My comeliness, 

*which I had put upon thee, 

saith the Lord God (Ezekiel 16:14)."

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Targeting Bees Now?

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

 

"The new virus variant is spread by varroa mites or “varroa destructors”, a devastating pest which feeds on the hemolymph (blood) of the Western honey bee population. The mites invade honeybee hives and can eat honey bee pupa as well as spread viruses. 

A newly discovered variant of the Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) is threatening to wipe out the global bee population. “The Deformed Wing Virus is arguably the biggest threat to honey bees right now.

Our lab research has shown that the new, highly contagious variant is killing bees faster,” says Dr. Robert Paxton. DWV is responsible for causing severe damage to a bee’s wing before eventually killing them. 

The new variant is being spread by varroa mites, a common honey bee pest......bees are a vital part of the planet— responsible for 80% of all pollination globally— they are the farmers who help support and grow fruits, nuts, and vegetables within 70/100 top human food crops that are responsible for 90% of the world’s nutrition."

Sputnik

IN the NEWS - Children of their father busy in North America

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning....without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful... John 8:44/Romans 1:31

 

I.

"TEXAS shooter Salvador Ramos may have revealed his chilling plans to kill children in a callous school shooting online after LOSING at the violent video game Dead by Daylight, a gamer

claimed. The gamer revealed how a male player was making threats to “shoot up a school” using an “AR-15” after he became mad at losing the video game – just hours before Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. The player was so disturbed by the comments that she allegedly recorded them and reported everything to the FBI and the creators of the game. 

Just hours later, the gamer was shocked to hear that 18-year-old Salvador Ramos had shot his own grandmother before going on a rampage at Robb Elementary School, killing multiple people with an AR-15." TheSun

 II.

"Several schools in the Toronto area were placed on lockdown on Thursday afternoon, following reports of a person walking down the street with a rifle in their hands, local media reported.

According to Canadian news website CP24, citing an eyewitness report, one person had been shot by police on Thursday afternoon in front of an elementary school in Toronto's lakeside Scarborough district.

Toronto police described the suspect in a tweet as "male, late teens early 20s, white ball hat, 3/4 length coat." The person was later reported as being in police custody. However, in a screenshot from a video posted by Toronto CTV News, an orange tarp covering a body could be seen on the sidewalk, surrounded by police, suggesting the suspect has since died." Sputnik

 

III.

"An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard,

killing eight people before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in.....

The attacker was identified as 57-year-old Sam Cassidy, according to two law enforcement officials. Investigators offered no immediate word on a possible motive.

His ex-wife, Cecilia Nelms, told The Associated Press that Cassidy had a bad temper and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work, “but I never believed him, and it never happened. Until now.” France24

 

IV.

"Joanie Lum of WFLD-TV was reporting from the corner of

Clark and Hubbard at about 7 a.m. when a man pointed what appeared to be a gun at the camera from behind her back.

The video shows him dancing away and waving the gun at some other object.

Chicago police have named him a person of interest and they're working to identify him. 

He is accused of aggravated assault with a firearm." 

TheBlaze

 

V.

"A California tree trimmer was found guilty in multiple throat-

slashing incidents that took the lives of three people. Now, the Oroville man is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Blinston was working for a tree-trimming service when in 2020 he returned to the clients’ homes in Butte and Tehama Counties, north of Sacramento, after the work was completed and slashed the throats of the residents, prosecutors said.

In May 2020, he attacked Loreen Severs, 88, of Los Molinos in Tehama County and her husband, Homer Severs, 91. Homer Severs survived the attack but died that December of an unrelated illness, authorities said.

 “This is on a truly evil man that we have now brought to justice,” Butte County District Attorney Michael Ramsey told ABC 10."

Breitbart 

 

VI.

"At least eight people were shot, two of them fatally, outside a Chicago McDonald’s Thursday night about 10:40 p.m. 

Two groups of individuals were fighting at the restaurant “in the 800-block of North State Street” when an individual in one of the groups pulled a gun and began shooting.....33 people were shot last weekend in Chicago."

Breitbart 

 

VII.

"Two suspects stabbed, slashed and punched a Bronx driver during a brutal caught-on-video robbery released by cops late Thursday.

The duo punched the victim and stabbed and slashed him with knives, cops said. 

They then took off with a watch, two chains and three bracelets valued at a total of about $1,000, police said." 

NYP

Creation Moment 5/28/2022 - Why Genesis Matters Today

Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be
their God. Revelation 21:3

"The book of Genesis was, therefore, written at the time of coming out of Egypt, when God was to deliver his people from Egypt and set them a light in the world for all the world forever.  

Since that was God's object in bring the people out of Egypt, and that promise to Abraham is the new earth which God will create, do you not see the object in the giving of Genesis then?

---The object of God's giving Genesis just then was that the people might be prepared for the work which he had to do by them for all the world."

A.T. Jones 

The Place of Sleep

"Death is wholly an unconscious sleep, as, in the very nature of the case, it must be when the place of sleep is in the grave. 

 

*Then it is that "many of them that sleep in the dust of the

earth shall awake." Dan. 12:2. 

--Then is the time to which David looked when he fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers: "As for me, I will behold Thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy likeness." Ps. 17:15. 

--This is the time to which Job looked when he said, "Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." 

*For it is at the coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead that the heavens roll away."

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 5/27/2022 - Faith in Evolution: 3 Results

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

"Faith in evolution rather than creation is racism's best friend,  

God's most potent ideological enemy, 

and abortion's ally: 

Babies seen as productds of chance seem readily replaceable."

Marvin Olasky, World Magazine 9/11/21

IN the NEWS - Sabbath vs. Sunday makes the News

 "CBS Channel 42 in Birmingham, AL featured an interview with a pastor from the United Methodist Church to explain why Christians worship on Sunday. Despite the fact that the Methodist pastor stated that “some Christians,” such as “Seventh-day Adventists,” observe Saturday as the Sabbath, he expressed that most Christians, more than 98%, worship on Sunday, and this has become the primary day of worship.

 

The Methodist pastor went on to say that Saturday, like the Ten Commandments, was for Jews. 

He also stated that while people are free to worship on Saturday, Sunday has become the “primary time of worship” due to Jesus’ resurrection on Sunday. This, he claims, is what led to Sunday becoming the new Christian Sabbath. 

What matters, he says, is that we keep a day holy, whatever that day may be, and that we rest emotionally and spiritually.

Unfortunately, what people want nowadays is for the truth to be whatever they want it to be. Despite the fact that the truth is staring them in the face, most Christians today will accept anything that makes them feel good. Truth according to the Bible is neither an emotion, a suspicion, an opinion or a perspective. The reality is that there is only one truth, and that is God’s (Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17). Everything else is simply an illusion.

According to Daniel 7:25, (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: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.) the seventh-day Sabbath was changed to Sunday by a power that claims to be greater than the Creator. 

 

According to Bible prophecy, the son of perdition, the antichrist, the beast of bible prophecy, will compel the world to drink the wine of the wrath of her fornication, which is her false doctrine (For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Revelation 18:3). 

 

This power will be followed and embraced by the entire world (And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. Revelation 13:3)."

AdventMessenger

IN the NEWS - High School in the 21st Century Corn Belt

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

"An Iowa high school is facing criticism after footage was posted online showing grown men wearing thongs and performing sexual dance routines for the school’s teenagers.

The Gay-Straight Alliance group at Ankeny High School hosted the event, which was allegedly not approved by the school.

Popular drag performers from around the Des Moines area drove in for the club’s end-of-the-year meeting.

 The Iowa Standard posted an image from the event showing a student appearing to give a dollar to a dancer as if they were at a strip club.

The drag queen told parents who are upset about the event to “broaden their horizons,”....

Meanwhile, the establishment continues to claim conservatives upset about grooming in schools are kooky conspiracy theorists." NW

Creation Moment 5/26/2022 - Collapse of Scopes Today

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Psalm 2:4

 

"The 1925 Scopes Trial reflected the confidence that human evolution was proven beyond a doubt. The evidence was based on skeletal fragments of Piltdown Man, Java Man, and Neanderthals. All three examples have now been disproved.

--Piltdown Man is a forgery made from human and orangutan bones.

  

--Java Man consisted of three teeth (two orangutan and one human), a giant gibbon skullcap, and a human thighbone (found 50 feet away from the partial skullcap). It was controversial from when it was first discovered, and still is today.

 

--Neanderthals are now recognized as fully human, even by the National Geographic Magazine, one of the most aggressive pushers and financial supporters of the evidence for human evolution." 

CEH

That Time Without an Intercessor

"Isaiah while dwelling on the time when the indignation of the Lord will be upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies; when he shall utterly destroy them, and their slain shall be cast out,--and their stink shall come out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood, says, "for it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion." Isa. xxiv, 8. 

 

Here the nouns day and year are put in by apposition, the noun year being explanatory of the noun day, and establishing our proposition beyond the possibility of successful contradiction. Isa. lxiii, 4 is also explicit: "For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come."
 

The Lord will come at the close of the time of trouble; for
under the sixth plague he says, "Behold I come as a thief." It is also under this plague that the spirits of devils, working miracles, go to the kings of the earth and to the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great day, in which Christ will take a part at his coming. Rev. xvi, 14, 15; xix, 11-21; 2 Thess. ii, 8; Joel iii, 9-13.

 
The Lord must come under the seventh plague; for it is under this plague that the islands and mountains are moved out of their places, and that men cry to the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of the Lamb. Compare Rev. xvi, 20; vi, 14-17.

 
Therefore the last church will be one year on the earth without an intercessor, while the plagues are falling."

   D. T. Bourdeau