The Lord's Supper SIMPLIFIED

"As His body was to be broken, so broke He the bread. As His blood was to be shed, so poured He forth the wine. 

He wished it to be clear that He died willingly because He died for us.

He would have us thus show forth His death till He comes again, so that what moved Him to endure the cross may never be in doubt.

"This do," said He, "in remembrance of Me"--not as a test of orthodoxy, not as a sacrifice for sin, not as expiation for the dead, not as a preparation for judgment--do it only as "remembrance." 

W. Wilson

IN the NEWS - Another Week... What is up?

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:7,8

We should be careful NOT to do Prophecy by Headline---but it would seem the last 3 weeks of worldwide calamities may be a taste of what is to come in the near future. The Question is: Is it beginning? Or just a Taste of the Future?

THIS WEEK:

U.S.A: Massive Flooding in Texas washing away people at night while sleeping and a children's summer camp. Massive Flooding in

New Jersey, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Massive wind and sand storm severely damaging Las Vegas. Red Alert issued in Hawaii due to a volcano "rising, shifting and cracking."

Italy: Of those more than 15,000 quakes in southern Italy over the last 2 months now the largest yet to rattle Naples hit along with a piece of Italy's coast breaking off and slipping under the waves. In the north multiple landslides and mudslides filling city streets.

Greece: The Island of Crete rattled by multiple quakes surrounding the island. Tourists evacuated.

Austria: Massive Landslides and military sent in to evacuate.

China: Several more Massive Flood outbreaks. Severe wind and

rain storms near Shanghai and Beijing closing the airports. Out of control Wild Fires still raging. Parts of China from the air looks like an ocean.

South Africa: Cape Town flooded by rains and a tidal wave.

Japan: Over 900 minor quakes with prediction of the big one coming.

Tonga: Rattled by an earthquake.

Indonesia: Moderate earthquake---but this is on the heels of last

weeks volcanic eruption.

Turkey: Small quake---but not far from the seismic activity rocking Italy and the Greek Islands the last 2 months.

Mexico: Tropical Storm floods east coast.

Moon: Prediction that an asteroid may be heading for the moon and striking it within a few years.

Thailand/Cambodia: Border Clashes. Massive floods in Thailand.

For the Last 2 Weeks SEE Links Below:

IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

SDA History - Loughborough on Steps to Christ Book

"My mind is impressed this morning to read again Eph. 4:13: "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the

fullness of Christ." 

In my first talk I told something about the work of the gifts in producing unity; but that is not all there is to it, for our text says, "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." 

And here is this little work of Sister White's, "Steps to Christ," which Brother Jones has called the "Gospel Primer" -- yes, and it's a whole library -- Q: in what direction does it point?

A: Is it not in this very direction of growing to the up full measure of the stature of Christ?" 

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH

Creation Moment 7/6/2025 - Adam & Eve's Skin Color

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Genesis 1:28 NKJV

"In Western countries, nearly every imaginative painting of Adam and Eve depicts two adult Caucasians with fair skin and blue eyes. These images, even when used as Bible illustrations, tend to shape the reader's mental image of the first man and woman. The origin of the darker-skinned races is often that they were descendants of Adam and Eve who had migrated to a hot climate where the suntan eventually became an inherited characteristic.
These images and explanations discredit Christianity.

The true explanation began to be resolved when it was shown that

human beings carry two genes for color and that each gene consists of "black" or "white" alleles. One allele was received from the mother and the other from the father. The allele is part of the gene, and the gene is part of the DNA – while the DNA resides in the nucleus of every cell in our body. Our skin color is caused by the pigment melanin, and this is controlled by two pairs of genes that geneticists refer to using the letter designations Aa and Bb, where the capital letter represents dominant genes and the small letters represent recessive genes.

A and B, being dominant, produce melanin in good quantity, while recessive a and b produce only a minor amount of melanin. Hence, our coloration depends upon the number of black and white alleles we received from our parents. The color genes express themselves in only one place – specialized skin cells called the melanocytes – that produce granules of melanin that are delivered to neighboring cells.

Eve was made from Adam's rib and was thus a clone of Adam [Genesis 2:21-22]. They would therefore have had identical genes for melanin production. If they were both AABB, they would have been black and produced children of only the darkest coloration. If this were the case, the world's population today would be entirely Negro.

In fact, only around 10-14% of the world's population is black, so we can be certain that our first parents were not of the AABB combination. By the same argument, if Adam and Eve had both been aabb, all their children would have been aabb, meaning that all their descendants would be the lightest Caucasian possible – there would be no other colors. Clearly, this is not the case, so by a process of deduction, we can conclude that Adam and Eve were heterozygous, each having two dominant and two recessive genes, AaBb.

These color differences were likely amplified following the business at the Tower of Babel [Genesis 11:1-9] when the human gene pool was divided.

Loss of genetic information in an isolated population is well known and a documented problem for breeders of pure-bred dogs, horses, and other animals. It seems that one population group that migrated from the Tower of Babel suffered a greater loss of the genetic information required to produce melanin and became the Caucasians.

The bottom line is that Adam and Eve were not white or black but a good middle brown." 

CM

Commentaries on the Cities

I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD. Zephaniah 1:3

"The pursuit of pleasure and amusement centers in the cities. 

The cities of today are fast becoming like Sodom and Gomorrah. 

The many holidays encourage idleness. The exciting sports—theater-going, horse-racing, gambling, liquor-drinking, and reveling—stimulate every passion to intense activity. 

The youth are swept away by the popular current. 

When God's restraining hand is removed, the destroyer begins his work. Then in our cities the greatest calamities will come. Death will come in all places." 

E.G.W.

Creation Moment 7/5/2025 - Limiting the scope of inquiry

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. Revelation 4:11

"If science declares in advance that all explanations must be

naturalistic, it effectively limits the scope of inquiry.

In doing so, it precludes the possibility that God could act directly in the world in ways that natural processes cannot explain." 

Larmer

Your Calling

 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 

1 Corinthians 7:20

"SOME persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which

they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many would be shut out from any opportunity of magnifying the Most High if this were the case. 

Beloved, it is not office, it is earnestness;  

God is most surely glorified in that cobbler's stall. 

The name of Jesus is glorified by the poor unlearned carter as he drives his horse, and blesses his God, or speaks to his fellow laborer by the roadside, as much as by the popular divine who, throughout the country, like Boanerges, is thundering out the gospel. 

God is glorified by our serving Him in our proper vocations. 

Take care, dear reader, that you do not forsake the path of duty by leaving your occupation, and take care you do not dishonor your profession while in it. 

*Think little of yourselves, 

*but do not think too little of your callings. 

Every lawful trade may be sanctified by the gospel to noblest ends. Turn to the Bible, and you will find the most menial forms of labor connected either with most daring deeds of faith, or with persons whose lives have been illustrious for holiness. Therefore be not discontented with your calling." 

Charles Spurgeon

Using the Public Schools

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

"In 1905, John Dewey was hired as a professor of philosophy at Columbia University Teachers College, a position he held until 1930. He was without question the most influential shaper of our modern

school system.
Dewey was also an outspoken proponent of humanism and socialism, and he believed that teachers should use their positions of authority in the classroom to advance “progressive” or Leftist ideas: “I believe it is the business of everyone interested in education to insist upon the school as the primary and most effective instrument of social progress” (which he believed meant moving away from Christianity toward humanism and socialism).

Dewey was not subtle about his ideological preferences:
“The old dogmas of religion have largely lost their power…There is no room for fixed and final dogmas in the life of the mind… The hypothesis of God as a person cannot be maintained.”
“The true and primary source of knowledge is not in revelation but in observation and reason.” 

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Creation Moment 7/4/2025 - The Damnable Heresy Taught in Schools

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, 2 Peter 2:1

"The first two tenets of Humanist Manifesto I (1933), signed by many prominent evolutionists, are:
1- Religious humanists regard the universe as self-existing and not

created.
2- Humanism believes that Man is a part of nature and has emerged as a result of a continuous process.

This is exactly what evolution teaches. Many humanist leaders are quite open about using the public schools to proselytize their faith." CMI

Axiomatic of the Scriptures

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of Me. John 5:39

"As long as the Bible is believed to be the word of God, so long will it

be denied. 

As long as the Scriptures shall be held as of authority, so long will they be opposed as such. 

So long as we may present the Scriptures as the word of God, just so long shall we have to defend them as such." 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 7/3/2025 - Arrowhead Analogy

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,... Romans 1:22 BBE

"For example, when archaeologists find an arrowhead, they can tell it

must have been designed, even though they haven’t seen the designer.  

*Yet the materialistic bias of many evolutionists means that they reject an intelligent source for the literally encyclopedic information carried in every living cell." 

CMI

The line of demarcation

And this is love, 

that we walk after His commandments. 

This is the commandment, 

That, as ye have heard from the beginning, 

ye should walk in it. 

2 John 1:6 

“The world can only be warned by seeing those 

--who believe the truth sanctified through the truth, 

--acting upon high and holy principles, 

--showing in a high, elevated sense, the line of demarcation between those who keep the commandments of God and those who trample them under their feet.” E.G.W.

Creation Moment 7/2/2025 - The Game

Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 

Romans 1:22 NLT

"Many evolutionists chide creationists not because of the facts, but because creationists refuse to play by the current rules of the game that exclude supernatural creation a priori.

That it is indeed a ‘game’ was proclaimed by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dickerson:

"Science is fundamentally a game. It is a game with one overriding

and defining rule:

Rule #1: Let us see how far and to what extent we can explain the behavior of the physical and material universe in terms of purely physical and material causes, without invoking the supernatural."

In practice, the ‘game’ is extended to trying to explain not just the behavior, but the origin of everything without the supernatural." CMI

When that spirit enters the Church

In honor preferring one another. Romans 12:10

"At one time two of the disciples made a request, through their mother, for the two highest places in Christ’s kingdom. When the rest of the

disciples heard of it, they were moved with indignation against the two. They thought that it was unfair for the two to steal a march on them in a place for preferment.
Whenever a spirit of seeking a position for oneself, or a disposition to exercise authority over another, comes into the church, then it is the world, and not the church of Christ." 

E.J. Waggoner

Papal Notes - A little bit about who the new Pope Leo is named after

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Revelation 13:15

"Another statement from the same paper from a speech by Edgar H. Gans entitled, "The Catholic Church in America," is published in the Chicago Herald of September 5, 1893. Speaking of the spirit of liberty as exemplified in the United States and gathering the statement concerning this spirit of liberty from a quotation from Webster, the speaker says:

"The Catholic church welcomes this bright and beautiful spirit and takes it to her bosom, for she is its foster mother. With tender devotion has she nourished it through the ages. Time and again has she rescued it from the bold and impious hands of despots, whether they be kings, emperors, or a popular majority enthroned. Within the church of God is the only true sovereign and the source of all power. The sovereignty of the people comes from him as a sacred trust, and they must use this trust for the common weal."

We shall find presently from the pope's encyclical that he, in the place of God, is the guardian and the source of this sovereignty. We now read the closing statement of this same speech of Mr. Gans'. 

The statement is identical with one which we read last night:

"We have among us our prophets of Israel, divinely commissioned, as

were the holy men of old, to guide, instruct, ennoble, and elevate the nation; and the American people will have achieved their highest glory when they seek the words of wisdom and truth from their lips--when they voluntarily submit to the gentle ministrations of the priests and the bishops of the holy Catholic church."

These statements need no comment. 

We now read from a speech by Bishop John A. Waterson, of Columbus, in the Catholic Congress, and published in the Chicago Herald, November 6. His speech is upon Leo and Satolli, and he says this, speaking of Leo:

"By his personal dignity and goodness, the practical wisdom of his teachings and the firmness of his acts, he is giving the world to understand that the pope is a great thing in the world and for the world. [Loud cheers.] And intellects heretofore rebellious are accustoming themselves to think that, if society is to be saved from a condition worse in some respects than that of pagan times, it is from the Vatican the savior is to come. [Renewed cheering.]"

Now I turn to some other statements made last fall in connection

with the then coming encyclical of the pope. 

A letter from Rome dated October 14, 1894, printed in the Catholic Standard of November 3, 1894, has this:

"The United States of America, it can be said without exaggeration, is the chief thought of Leo XIII in the government of the Roman and universal Catholic Church."

I would like to comment a little upon this as we go along. 

Q: Why is it that Leo thinks so constantly of the United States?" 

A.T. Jones

Creation Moment 7/1/25 - The Debate

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:1
"Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. 

While creationists are often criticized for starting with a bias, evolutionists also start with a bias, as many of them admit. 

The debate between creation and evolution is primarily a dispute between two worldviews, with mutually incompatible underlying assumptions." 

CMI

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Puritan Corner - Scripture

"Satan may allege and corrupt Scripture, but he cannot answer

Scripture. It is Christ’s word of mighty authority. Christ foiled Satan with it."
by Robert Leighton (1611-1684)
Then saith Jesus unto him, 

Get thee hence, Satan:

for it is written..... Matthew 4:10

IN the NEWS - Imagine This......

"A massive asteroid, initially feared to be on a collision course with Earth, is now predicted to potentially strike the Moon. The "city killer" asteroid YR4, roughly the size of a 10-story building, was detected in 2024 and has a chance of hitting the Moon by 2032, as per the latest forecast from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.
Experts warn that if YR4 were to hit the Moon, the event could unleash devastation akin to an atomic explosion, potentially triggering a meteor shower that might endanger satellite systems orbiting Earth." msn

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

Creation Moment 6/30/2025 - Quite the Admission

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

Romans 1:22

"Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist, is a renowned champion of neo-Darwinism, and certainly one of the world’s leaders in promoting evolutionary biology. He recently wrote this very revealing comment. It illustrates the implicit philosophical bias against Genesis creation regardless of whether or not the facts support it:

"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfil many of its extravagant

promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." CMI

When Death Enters YOUR Neighborhood

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; 

and of the shadow of death, without any order, 

and where the light is as darkness. 

Job 10:22

"But death, whenever and wherever it is seen, has a voice for us. 

*As we behold it even in the vegetable, or more especially in the animal kingdom, it is impressive. 

*When it takes one of the human race, it calls still more loudly upon us. 

**The thought which it then suggests is this: That class of beings of which I am a member, is subject to the destroyer, so that I, too, am under his power. 

But when it comes still nearer to us; when it enters a neighborhood, and an acquaintance is taken, a friend, a school-mate, a class-mate, how much more impressive is its solemn presence. 

There is, therefore, a lesson for the young in the event which we here contemplate to-day. I would then say to them, Look upon these relics of mortality, these emblems of the grave, and ask yourselves if you have any guarantee of life which he had not." 

Uriah Smith

IN the NEWS - There's More..... (plus a sidenote)

For nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

and there shall be famines,

and pestilences,

and earthquakes,

in divers places.

All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Matthew 24:7,8

There's more to follow-up last weeks post.

*CHINA: According to news reports China may be now 50%

flooded under water! Besides last weeks flooding by the government in the west central impacting nearly 100,000,000 people (wiping out crops, farm animals and people), and the golf ball sized hail that pounded the north (killing farm animals and destroying crops) and in the south record rainfall flooding the region along with many landslides. Looting and riots in Guangdong.

Since then there has now been the biggest earthquake in a decade in China hitting the south along with a typhoon causing even more flooding. And now----the biggest wildfires on record in China

sweeping through land and cities causing the closing of businesses and schools due to smoke.....if it's not flooded it's burning....of course we can't forget their claim a few weeks ago of a resurgent COVID pandemic.....so the worry with all this destruction of farms and farm animals is that China could face a real Famine in the near future of the likes not seen since Mao's so-called "Great Leap Forward."....time will tell........

ELSEWHERE....

*Philippines: Several more quakes including on the Philippine Trench in the ocean as well as the capital of Manilla flooded.

*Indonesia: Volcanic eruption.

*India: Major flooding and landslides in the north.

*Columbia: Flash floods sweeping away people in their beds at night in Medellin along with a loud boom under ground and collapsing of mountain.

*France: Stunning rain and hail flooding Paris in 10 minutes along with a pounding by lightning. Also more rain/flooding into northeast France to Normandy. The southwest pounded by hail.

*Germany & Austria: Massive flooding from rain and hail in southern and western Germany and parts of Austria. Germany had serious floods also last year in 2024.

*Italy: Along with the more than 15,000 recorded small quakes in the south the last couple of months---now there is a "girgling" sound detected under Naples as well as Mt. Etna having a small eruption resulting in a "unknown substance" being spit out from beneath the earth.

*Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico: An earthquake in the Caribbean resulting in damage and death in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

*Venezuela: Rains and Tidal Waves washing inland have flooded 3 western states holding 70% of the nations farmland. Also many landslides and most bridges out hampering rescue operations.

*Thailand: Massive Flooding from rains.

*U.S.A.: Hail pounded both of the Carolinas around Metro-Charlotte. Metro-Atlanta in Georgia sees serious flooding. Central New York State sees minor flooding (Some flooding in the U.S. is routine each year -- but considering the magnitude of global flooding over the last couple of weeks.....) Also major Flooding in Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio including Dayton as well as Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hail in Florida.

Mt. St. Helens in Washington State is experiencing multiple tremors with a bulge forming near the edge of the top. The McDermitt Caldera on the Oregon-Nevada border is now heating up and rising. The heatwave gripping the Midwest is said to likely last ALL SUMMER with the only relief on days it rains. Multiple 7.0 quakes off the Aleutian Island chain of Alaska were in a cluster. That usually, but not always, precedes a major tidal wave quake at some point. This one, if were to happen there due to a bigger quake, could produce waves over 1,000 feet tall that won't stop until they reach Australia and New Zealand.

WEATHER is Getting CREEPY

See Link Below for what happened Last Week: 

Dig Deeper: IN the NEWS - Don't Panic: All these are only the BEGINNING of sorrows

“It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity”. E.G.W.

OBSERVE Through the PRISM of PROPHECY

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he

had two horns like a lamb, 

and he spake as a dragon. 

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,

 and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
Revelation 13:11,12

SIDENOTE: As Trump restores America to super power status on the world stage to meet one day it's place in prophecy (by whoever is President when it comes) China, America's main rival to global leadership is being beat down.

But not only the overwhelming natural disasters pounding the nation but also it's embarrassment on the world stage over the Pakistan-

India War that lasted barely more than a weekend. Pakistan was unable to stop India at all, even from flattening it's main nuclear base. And nearly all of Pakistan's military equipment was stamped "made in China". Compare and contrast Trump's strike on Iran's nuclear sites. Imagine the message that sent to Putin and China.

And of course Trump's tariff war with China, which led to China crying uncle in a matter of weeks, nearly collapsed the Chinese economy.

IN OTHER WORDS---is anyone noticing that America's main opposition to global hegemony is slowly being reduced---militarily and economically by the U.S. President and physically by "mother nature" in a series of fast moving events?