Gleanings from Daniel 7

"Daniel 7
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
Daniel 7
8 ...before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots,
–and they apply to that one of which he said he had…
20 ...a mouth that spoke very great things, [and] whose look was more stout than his fellows.

The specifications that are given in regard to this power are such that they absolutely fix to the Papacy the application of the prophecy:
1. It is established after the development of the ten kingdoms, and upon the ruin of three of them (verse 24);
2. It speaks great words against the Most High (verse 25);
3. It wears out the saints of the Most High (verse 25);
4. It thinks “to change the times and the law” of the Most High (verse 25);
5. And this dominion and power were to be held for “a time and times, and half a time,”—1260 years,—when the dominion should be taken away (verse 25).

But though the dominion was to be taken away…
Daniel 7
26 ...to consume and to destroy it unto the end,
–it appears that the power of persecution,—of making war upon the saints,—is only checked, or suspended, for a season, because, says the prophet,
21 The same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High." 

A.T. Jones

How do the Skeptics think it would have been done?

"THUS the divine Son of God came into this world - born of a woman. 

The mystery of His glorious incarnation is among the wonders which the angels desire to look into. 1Pet.1:11,12. 

Here the skeptic grows facetious, and the scoffer waxes merry over his innuendos concerning the miraculous conception and birth of the Son of Man. 

Could such overcome the vacuity of their minds long enough to bestow a serious and sensible thought upon the subject, they might be asked, on the hypothesis that a plan of redemption was to be devised, how they would propose to accomplish that purpose. Given this condition to be met, that a divine being is to come into this world on the plane of humanity, taking upon Himself the nature of man, 

Q: how would they have this change effected? 

Q: Could there be a member of the human family not born of a woman? 

Q: Could a divine being become a man among men without being born into this plane of existence?" 

Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 11/23/2024 - Infinite Monkey Theorem tells us......

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

Romans 1:22

"You’ve probably heard this argument: Give enough monkeys enough typewriters and enough time and they will type out Shakespeare. The Infinite Monkeys Theorem is meant to show that chance rules the universe.
If you sense a problem, you are right.
Q: What does “enough” mean here?

--The Infinite Monkey Theorem only considers the infinite limit, with either an infinite number of monkeys The Infinite Monkey Theorem only considers the infinite limit, with either an infinite number of monkeys or an infinite time period of monkey labor. ..... the estimated world population of 200,000 chimpanzees types one key per second until the universe ends in about 10100 years (1 followed by 100 zeros).

Q: How far would the monkeys get with typing so many words in a correct sequence?
A: The results reveal that it is possible (around a 5% chance) for a single chimp to type the word ‘bananas’ in its own lifetime. 

However, even with all chimps enlisted, the Bard’s entire works (with around 884,647 words) will almost certainly never be typed before the universe ends. “Too short”

If the monkeys couldn’t type out Shakespeare within the life of the universe, human creativity is not just a matter of chance." 

MindMatters

WHY He came down

"Taking upon Himself our nature, He brought himself into a position where He can call us brethren. Heb.2:11. 

He can therefore be touched with a feeling of our infirmities, for He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin; and having been thus tempted, He is able to succor them which are tempted. Heb. 4:15; 2:18. 

----He came down to pass with us through the school of life and show us the way."---- 

Uriah Smith

Creation Moment 11/22/2024 - Ken Ham & using Abe Lincoln to witness

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 

"When my hair and beard were darker, I would often have people stop me and say, “You look like Abraham Lincoln.” 

After this happened a number of times, I decided to reply by saying, “Yes, he’s one of my relatives.” 

People would often exclaim, “You’re related to Abraham Lincoln?” 

I would reply, “Yes, we all are.” And then I would use this as a witnessing tool to talk about the fact that 

---all humans are related, all are one race, 

---and therefore, all are sinners in need of salvation. 

A great way to lay the foundation for presenting the gospel." 

Ken Ham

What is serving Mammon?

"This is so wrapped up with that phase of "the pride of life” —ambition, self-exaltation, self aggrandizement, gloriosus,—that it is, in great measure, inseparable from it. 

For there is nothing that gives worldly glory so quickly, so easily, and so abundantly as money; and there is nothing that gives power so quickly and so easily as does money. 

---All this, simply because Mammon is such a familiar deity to mankind, because mankind is naturally so worshipful of Mammon. And yet it is all idolatry; it is all a denial of the true God; it is a breaking of the First Commandment, which says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” For, says Jesus: "Ye can not,"—not, Ye ought not; not, Ye should not; but,—"Ye can not serve God and Mammon."
Since the true worship of God is to love God with all the heart, and all the soul, and all the mind, and all the strength; and anything that draw away either the heart, soul, mind, or strength to it, and comes between man and the true worship of God, is another god; so the allowing of money, the desire for money, the love of money, to come between a man and his true service to God, is the worship of Mammon." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/21/2024 - Pseudo-science of Evolution

"We see in evolution the intimidation of humanistic arrogance coupled with the logical fallacy of circular reasoning (e.g., “all true scientists believe in evolution” and “unless you believe in evolution, you are not a true scientist”). 

Pseudo-science can be thought of as commitment to an agenda

instead of commitment to the truth. Pseudo-science is essentially trying to “see through” truth that cannot be seen through – like First Principles that cannot be debunked, or like trying, through surgery and hormones, to become a female when you are actually a male.

In fact, the Bible warns us, saying “…avoid profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of ‘science falsely so-called’” (1 Timothy 6:20b). The literal Greek is ‘pseudo (falsely named) knowledge’. This is so-called knowledge that is actual absurdity. And it can be applied to the grand hypothesis of evolution."
Mark Cadwallader

Your measuring line is false

"Too often we compare ourselves among ourselves:

Thy measuring line is false;

it is not the standard of the sanctuary."

Charles Spurgeon

I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Job 42:6

Creation Moment 11/20/2024 - Why you don't blow up everyday

"The stability of matter is a continuing puzzle to physicists. 

They point out that when you consider all the physical forces at work in matter, even in something as simple as a glass of water, it’s sort of miraculous that everything doesn’t just collapse and then, releasing huge amounts of energy, blow up. 

Consider that water, H2O, is simply eight electrons orbiting in

“space” around eight tightly packed protons and neutrons (oxygen), with, at a further distance, two electrons each orbiting around independent protons (2 hydrogen atoms). 

This 99% + configuration of space with a few tiny particles, incredibly has bulk and substance. And also incredibly, it has stability under the repelling force of positive proton charges packed together in the nucleus, and the stresses of gravity, atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field.

If matter was not somehow so stable, we’d be at risk of setting off nuclear explosions every time we stirred a cup of coffee or a glass of tea!

Q: Why are the molecules and atoms of life, and all matter as we know them, so incredibly stable? 

Q: Why are all the physical constants of “nature” so well balanced? 

A: The Bible says, speaking of Christ, “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Col 1:16,17).

He who came to earth in love for us. He it is who stabilizes things in the present, and will de-stabilize them one day in the future, to re-stabilize them in “new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13, Revelation 21:21)."
Mark Cadwallader

The Jezebel Analogy

"She (Jezebel) soon dominated the king and ruled in the kingdom.

And when the evil that she would do was more than the king could have the heart to compass, she would do it herself in the king’s name and by the power of the kingdom and would be merry in it all. 1 Kings 21:5-16. 

---She would make her religion to be the religion of the kingdom and of every soul in the kingdom. 

She brought with her eight hundred and fifty “prophets” of her religion. She was the personal patron of them all. They all “ate at Jezebel’s table.” 1 Kings 18:19. 

---She deliberately set herself to abolish all the religion and all the worship of God, and to establish solely her own in all the kingdom. She systematically broke down all the altars of the worship of God in the land. She compelled all to conform to her form of sun-worship. 

1 Kings 19:10, 14. 

And whosoever would not do this in some way—by sacrificing, by bowing the knee in a genuflexion, or by kissing the hand to throw a kiss to Baal—was outlawed and had to find refuge in dens and holes and caves of the earth. 1 Kings 18:4, 13. 

---So thorough-going was she in this that though there were seven thousand persons who would worship God only, and serve Him alone, they were so scattered and hunted that each one thought that he was the only one left.

I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Revelation 18:7 

In the Scriptures there is another Jezebel. 

She is described in the book of Revelation. 

Her career is in Christian times. Revelation 2:20-29. 

Among the people of Christ who had left their first love and had

fallen away from the true Way and pure worship of God, there came in heathen sun-worshipers bringing with them all their native characters and dispositions and ways. There were so many of these that they became a heathen sun-worshiping church professing the Christian name. 

---This sun-worshiping church secured an alliance with the imperial Roman State.

---She would make her heathen naturalistic religion to be the religion of every kingdom and of everybody in all the kingdoms. 

---She set herself against all the true worship of God. She compelled all to conform to her worship, which was but a form of heathen sun-worship with the Sun day the grand token as “queen and chief of all the days.”
And here, by “that woman Jezebel,” “the beast,” the ultimate Antichrist accomplishes the crowning work of iniquity. 

This is brought about in the following way: It is to the people of God that there remains the “keeping of a Sabbath.” 

It was made for the man of God’s eternal purpose. 

And none but those who are the people of God in this purpose can possibly keep the Sabbath. 

And now in this time of the ultimate Antichrist he doubles up on his abominations by making both Sabbath and Sunday to be days of enforced idleness and of consequent mischief and iniquity. In this course of abomination there is yet another step to finish the mystery of iniquity.

That woman Jezebel undertakes to require her Sun day as a day of rest of all from all work and from every honest occupation, for worship. 

---Through the power of the State she makes this compulsory upon all. Thus by means of denominational, national, international, and world federation, with its “pressure” upon city, county, State and National authorities, enforcing a day of universal idleness as the means and necessity of enforcing the universal false religion and worship of the beast and his image, the ultimate Antichrist is enabled to bring all to the full reflection of his own image, and so to finish the mystery of iniquity." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 11/19/2024 - Truth about "Mutations" supposedly Leading to "evolution"

For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. Romans 1:20 ESV

"Mutations are word-processing errors in the cell’s instruction

manual. Mutations systematically destroy genetic information—even as word processing errors destroy written information. 

While there are some rare beneficial mutations (even as there are rare beneficial misspellings), bad mutations outnumber them—perhaps by a million to one. 

So even allowing for beneficial mutations, the net effect of mutation is overwhelmingly deleterious. The more the mutations, the less the information. 

This is fundamental to the mutation process." 

Dr. John Sanford

You must make your choice

Most assuredly, 

I say to you, before Abraham was, 

I AM. 

John 8:58

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing

that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. 

---A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. 

---He would either be a lunatic  — or else he would be the Devil. 

You must make your choice. 

*Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, 

*or else a madman or something worse. 

You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon or you can fall at His feet and call him Lord and God, 

---but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. 

---He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 

C.S. Lewis

Creation Moment 11/18/2024 - "Rational"

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities—His eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. Romans 1:20 NLT

"If a rational God is not responsible for human minds, and instead they were cobbled together by unguided evolutionary processes, we should not expect them to be trustworthy. 

---Since our minds are generally trustworthy, though, the evolutionary worldview must not be correct." CMI

In the Valley of the Vapor

“What is your life?” And you know the answer. “It is even A VAPOR, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” James 4:14.
So, you can see that this life which all men have for the mere passing moment, is not real life: it is “even a vapor.” 

And this death that we meet when that vapor “vanisheth away” is not real death: it is a sleep. 

---Only that life which is the life of God is life indeed; 

---and only that death from which there is no resurrection, from whose power there is no possible deliverance,—only that is death indeed. 

---This life which is but a vapor, 

---and this death which is but a sleep, 

form for mankind a valley of decision between the life which is life indeed and the death which is death indeed." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/17/2024 - Those Deer Mice

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

Romans 1:22

"Nebraska-led study of mountaineering mice sheds light on evolutionary adaptation (7 Nov 2024, University of Nebraska). *Sigh*. 

Q: Why do they call this an “evolutionary” adaptation and not just an adaptation? 

They started with deer mice; 

they ended with deer mice of the same species. 

Both young-earth creationists and intelligent design advocates accept change within the family level, claiming it is designed into created kinds so that they can continue thriving when the environment changes. That is not Darwinism.

"Bautista said the findings show how adaptation to local conditions

can allow a widely distributed species like the deer mouse to thrive in diverse environments.

It highlights how evolved changes specific to populations help shape their flexibility,” Bautista said. “Ultimately, it is these changes that influence their ability to survive within different habitats.”

Q: Why does he call these “evolved” changes?
---They could be designed changes.

Bautista and team took deer mice up in the mountains and measured their ability to cope with the lowered oxygen levels and cold. The ones who normally lived at higher elevations did better:

"Data showed that the highland and lowland deer mouse cousins do not share a general ability to acclimate to hypoxia (low oxygen conditions). As the simulated elevations rose above 4,000 meters, the homefield advantage of the highland mice quickly became apparent. As oxygen levels dropped, the highland mice were better able to regulate body temperature than their lowland counterparts owing to more efficient breathing and circulatory oxygen-transport.

The results show us that the highlanders and lowlanders do not share a generalized ability to acclimatize to changing environmental conditions,” Bautista said. “Rather, the mice living at higher elevations share evolved ways to acclimatize to low oxygen conditions that are distinct from those of the lowland prairie mice.”

Q: Any genetic data to support this?
---The press release says that “the highland mice have a genetic advantage that helps suppress thickening of the right ventricle of the heart,” but the paper in PNAS does not ascribe this to Darwinian natural selection of chance mutations. It says of the highland mice “local selection and/or genetic drift play important roles in shaping transcriptomic variation in high-altitude mice.”

Q: Well, which is it? 

---This either-or causation gives them an out: maybe it was natural selection, or maybe it was genetic drift." CEH

The 2 Tithes: Money & Time

"He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things." Acts 17:25. 

The Lord declares, "Every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." Psalm 50:10. 

"The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine." Haggai 2:8. 

And it is God who gives men power to get wealth. Deuteronomy 8:18. 

---As an acknowledgment that all things came from Him, the Lord

directed that a portion of His bounty should be returned to Him in gifts and offerings to sustain His worship.
---Here the same form of expression is employed as in the law of the Sabbath. "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Exodus 20:10. 

God reserved to Himself a specified portion of man's time and of his means, and no man could, without guilt, appropriate either for his own interests." 

E.G.W.

IN the NEWS - Election Night Turns Demonic

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. John 8:44

"The wife of a prominent Seattle transgender author allegedly

butchered her father with an ice axe on Election Night in response to Donald Trump’s victory, referring to it as an “act of liberation.”
The alleged gruesome murder occurred shortly after it became clear on Election Night that Donald Trump had decisively beaten Kamala Harris. 

Upset by the results, 33-year-old Corey Burke, who also served as a training program manager at Jeff Bezos’ spacecraft company Blue Origin, allegedly then proceeded to murder her father, Timothy Burke.
She went upstairs, 

---grabbed an ice ‘pickax,’ 

---tripped her father, 

---choked and bit him on the floor, 

---and struck him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool, police said.
---Corey Burke then reportedly sat down beside her father to watch him die before proceeding to smash all the windows in the house, later describing the moment to police as “an act of liberation,” according to charging documents, per the Post. Police said that when they arrived, Burke was “clapping … because she was so happy.”

Public records show Burke is married to prominent transgender author Samantha Leigh Allen. Burke had been living with her father in the Seattle house at the time of the alleged murder." 

Breitbart

Creation Moment 11/16/2024 - Zeitnehmer

And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. Genesis 1:31

"The entire issue of the November 29 Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences of the Royal Society of London is devoted to “Complex Clocks.” 

Some statements from Fred Kippert’s introduction indicate that molecular biologists, “reductionist by vocation,” have their hands full trying to understand the multiple interacting systems that resist simplistic models.

The central theme of both special issues is ‘complexity’ – apparently nothing new for biological systems.
-We can now emphasize the complexity of circadian systems as we have recently gained enough knowledge to free ourselves from the inheritance of a past of looking for simple loops and cycles.
-As with any other sensory function, circadian systems need to discriminate between signal and noise. One way of doing so is to ‘probe’ actively for signals, modulating the strength of a given physical or chemical stimulus according to circadian time rather than passively responding to them. This creates ‘zeitnehmer’ (time taker) loops that are both input and output of the clock (an unimaginable complexity for the simple sequential model) which have the

interesting consequence of increasing the robustness of the system.
-Another aspect of complexity is the presence of several oscillators in the same organism. Circadian clocks are not confined to the central nervous system but are also present in peripheral organs: examples have been found in invertebrates, like fruit flies and moths, and in vertebrates, like zebra fish and mouse. 

Peripheral oscillators are self-sustained, as evinced by in vitro studies, but show a great deal of variation in their robustness and responsiveness to external (i.e. light) and/or internal (i.e. hormonal and neuronal) stimuli.
The physiological implications of relying upon a multi-oscillator system are particularly evident in birds. The avian time-keeping system is the product of the dynamic interplay between anatomically distinct pace-maker components. The flexibility in the interaction is particularly important in helping the circadian system cope with extreme environmental conditions such as those experienced by high-Arctic (low-amplitude light variations in midsummer) or migratory (travel between time zones) birds.
----the conferees were not “surprised to also find complexity in biological timing mechanisms, considering that they have evolved in response to a complex environment (which we fail to reproduce in our simple artificial laboratory conditions) …. Their contribution brings into focus once again the notion, held all along by the honouree of the conference, that complex environments will necessarily breed complex timing mechanisms.”
He thus falls into his own reductionist trap. The environment no more produces complex systems than horse hair and cat gut produce string concertos. 

Q: How could rocks, air and sunlight produce complex biological clocks? 

Q: How could they invent timing mechanisms that allow birds to migrate by the stars and the earth’s magnetic field, and to compensate for solar angle and changing seasonal light, and find their breeding grounds unerringly after thousands of miles of flight? The complex parts of the biological clocks reside in multiple organs and genes, which communicate with each other through feedback loops and compensation techniques. 

The systems baffle the researchers who try to study them, yet we are

told to believe that time, chance and aimless processes of natural selection produced these wonders. 

Q: Which is more amazing: the clocks, or the evolutionists who attribute them to a blind watchmaker?" 

CEH

What is Your Duty?

"As the ten commandments contain the whole duty of man, -----Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear (RESPECT) God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 

Ecclesiastes 12:13." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 11/15/2024 - The Rare Ability of the Human Mind

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 2 Corinthians 4:2

"John Hoffecker, an evolution-believing scientist at the University of Colorado, notes that humans have the “rare ability” to “imagine something in the brain that doesn’t exist, and then create it”. He says, “the human mind seems to have taken off as a potentially unlimited creative force”. 

He also suggests that evolutionists should look more to the honeybee than to the ape as the closest analogy to the development of the human mind because, like us, bees gather, process and share highly complex information.

How ironic that evolutionist Hoffecker’s own words put humans and apes as being leagues apart—in stark contrast to the evolutionary paradigm. Hoffecker also notes that “it is inconceivable to me that [languages] could have evolved independently at different times and places”.
Indeed. 

God made man in His image (and with some of His qualities), 

and also gave man one common language that was later confused at Babel."

 CMI

The Carved out Nile

"From Aswan in the south to Cairo, the Nile occupies a long, reasonably flat valley generally12 to 18 miles wide. 

Typically, it was carved some 500 ft deep into the limestones of the desert plateau that covers most of Egypt. 

The Valley of the Kings sits along one of the limestone cliffs.

On top of the plateau was a scattered deposit of gravel and cobbles, both of chert. 

Chert is a form of quartz, but with very fine-grained texture comprising microscopic crystals. It is incredibly hard—impossible to scratch with a steel knife.

Some chert cobbles were more than 6 in long. 

They were well rounded, indicating they had been transported by

water. Some cobbles were broken, and dented with circular marks, called percussion marks. These indicate that they smashed into each other as they were carried along by the torrential water flow that rounded and broke them. Significantly, percussion marks are not forming on such hard rocks today, even in the most powerful modern flood events.

The chert would have originated from chert layers and nodules within the limestone when massive water flows catastrophically eroded the valley. 

While this sort of erosion creates a wide valley in rapid time, some portions of the limestone originally deposited during the Flood’s Ascending Phase remain. These are called erosional remnants—such as the Giza plateau near Cairo.

This erosional remnant in a broad valley 

---with water-rounded hard rocks on top that are broken 

---and contain percussion marks indicates that the Nile River Valley was carved by an extraordinarily torrential water flow. 

The Recessive Stage of Noah’s Flood would produce just such a flow, as the floodwaters that covered the whole of the African continent drained from the landscape." 

CMI

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

Creation Moment 11/14/2024 - Survival of the Fittest?

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: Job 5:13

"Darwin’s theory of evolution is often unfortunately associated with the phrase ‘Survival of the Fittest’. So much so, that anyone who doubts the former is therefore often regarded as denying the self-evident truth of the latter.

But a University of Exeter press release has reported that when

researchers multiplied bacteria in the laboratory over hundreds of generations—“about 3,000 years in human terms”—the result was a surprise.

“It had been believed that the genome of only the fittest bacteria would be left, but that wasn’t their finding”, reported the press release. 

It went on to say instead that the resulting bacterial population “challenges our current understanding of evolution” because “both fit and unfit” bacteria were still present. 

Thus, “we discover a new principle, one in which both the fit and the unfit coexist indefinitely.” 

CMI

Gleanings for Your Soul at the Well

"Then she thought of a theological question that had troubled her ever since she was a little girl. 

---All her life she had heard the arguments about where was the proper place to worship. 

It was a question that defined her as a Samaritan, competing as they

were with the Jews in Jerusalem. 

People that she knew and respected insisted that Samaria was the place where God where God was focused. 

It had convinced her that all that was needed to please God was the right location. Worshiping in the “right” place and drinking from this special well had become an empty tradition, unable to purge her guilty conscience.

So she posed this question to Jesus. “Where is the right location to worship?” She leaned forward slightly to hear the answer.
Jesus fixed His truthful, gentle eyes on her. “Woman, true worship is not about having the right place; it is about having the right heart.”

Q: How is it with you? 

Q: Has your ecclesiastical tradition become just another hole in the ground that sustains your existence but hinders eternal life?

Lessons From This Story:
God is looking for you (But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. John 4:23).

His Word cuts into our soul (For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that Thou art a

prophet. v. 18-19).

You look up towards heaven, and say “I need a Savior” (The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. v. 25).

He reveals Himself and accepts you (Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He. v. 26).

Your priorities change (The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ? v.28,29).

There are no human solutions 

to the deep needs of our life." 

Gerry Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/13/2024 - Time: Creator and creation are separate

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. Genesis 2:3

"The Ten Commandments uses the Sabbath to show that Creator and creature, God and mankind, share something. 

They share action in a continuity of time; 

that is, God’s action is linked to our history. 

---It demonstrates the basis for real fellowship.

Also pivotal is that Creator and creation are separate. 

---It is in the creation done within real history that God shows He is distinct from but present and active in the world we live in.

CMI

IN the NEWS - MATGA?

Ye are of your father the devil, 

and the lusts of your father ye will do. 

He was a murderer from the beginning, 

and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. 

John 8:44

"Women online have taken to filming ghoulish murder-fantasy videos in which they romanticize lacing men’s beverages with deadly poison as a justifiable response to fears about abortion rights under a second Trump presidency.

Many of the videos have been viewed millions of times on X or TikTok and feature young women fiendishly grinning as they adulterate a cup of tea or other drink with an unknown substance.

Some of the women have dubbed the videos part of a “Make Aqua Tofana Great Again” — or “MATGA” — movement, a nod both to President-elect Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign slogan and ancient killer Giulia Tofana, who has been adopted as the disturbed group’s heroine.

Tofana was a 17th century Italian woman who sold poison to wives who wished to dispatch their abusive husbands — resulting in the deaths of more than 600 men.

Tofana’s signature brew was a mish-mash of deadly ingredients such as arsenic and belladonna known as “Aqua Tofana,” a concoction that was so effective, she is considered by many today as one of the most prolific serial killers of all time.
The poison — believed to be flavorless and completely undetectable after death — was typically stored in ordinary cosmetics bottles, ensuring that a husband who was about to get whacked would be none-the-wiser to his impending fate.

One of the online clips shows a young lady with green hair, a backwards camo hat and a large, spiked septum ring with the text “Aqua Tofana isn’t that hard to make” superimposed over footage of her making the throat-slitting gesture with her thumb.
“My advice for American women,” reads the text in video of a woman standing in a body-length mirror.
“I know you will understand this. They asked for it,” the text reads before she flips open her poison ring and gives the camera a sinister smile.
Liberal women have been registering their dismay at the outcome of the election through the “MATGA” movement and a number of other ways, meticulously documenting everything online." 

NYP

IN the NEWS - The Left's HATE

Ye are of your father the devil, 

and the lusts of your father ye will do. 

He was a murderer from the beginning, 

and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. 

John 8:44

 John Hinckley Jr. Has to Issue Demand to Stop Sending Requests to Assassinate Trump

"John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been so inundated with requests to do something similar to Donald Trump that he felt compelled to address the situation on social media.
How far gone do you have to be to try and enlist a former attempted assassin to take out the new President-elect — and he's telling you to get a grip? 

Hinckley's comments indicate enough of an onslaught of requests that it needed to be mentioned.
And it's incredibly troublesome considering Democrat rhetoric over the past several months has already led to two attempts on Trump's life — one of which came within a centimeter of killing him and plunging the nation into irreparable chaos.

"I’m a man of peace now!" Hinckley insisted. "Please stop with all the negative comments!"
NBC 4 in Columbus reports that Hinckley's plea is in response "to messages on social media calling for him to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump."
Making matters worse is that some social media users who saw his plea for peace kept egging him on. Most of them focused on what he claims was the motivation to shoot Reagan — his obsession with impressing actress Jodie Foster.
"You know what Jodie Foster would think is REALLY impressive?" one man writes, adding a GIF of Colin Jost saying, "Just saying."
Another chides, "Oh I’m sorry, it’s just I didn’t think you were a QUITTER is all…. Jodie Foster will not be impressed."
With Democrats relentlessly bashing Trump as a dictator representing the end of democracy and equating him to Hitler, who killed millions upon millions, it doesn't seem far-fetched that somebody might want to stop him from taking office in January.
This past Election Day, the Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a Michigan man for threatening to kill Christian conservatives and Trump himself if he won the election." 

RedState