SDA Issues - ADRA & sex ed?

 ....they have no understanding... Romans 1:30 NIV

A few Points:

1) The program is called the "birds and the bees"...so what do you think it really is about, at least some of the 27 courses? 

2) It is in partnership with a secular globalist corporation in Europe. So when it comes to "reproductive" issues---what do you think that means?...well, in the secular world it means for one thing abortion. And what will they teach about LGBT topics?

3) The dude that runs ADRA has been known for both being a theological liberal and a political liberal who has used ADRA to advance so-called "social justice". So IF Reproductive issues come up in conjunction with a secular globalist European based company---what do you think their "birds and bees" will involve?...do you think it will be a Biblical based view or a secular worldview?

4) ADRA is supposed to be the church's version of the Red Cross. But it appears to be used to funnel your donations into secular leftist politics including the "birds and the bees".

5) When was the last time ADRA promoted the 3 Angel's Messages to those in need of hearing it?

6) When you Donate to ADRA  for Disaster Relief...IS THIS WHERE YOU THOUGHT YOUR MONEY WOULD BE GOING?

 

"Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) India, an India-registered Society and affiliate of the global humanitarian nonprofit, ADRA, headquartered in Maryland, United States, has launched a life skills programme for kids, “The Birds and Bees Talk” (BBT) with support from the global conglomerate, Reckitt Benckiser. RB, under its flagship Dettol ‘Banega Swasth India’ in partnership with Primus Partners, launched a unique life skills program for kids, “Birds and Bees Talk” (BBT). 

 

The Birds and Bees Talk program which has developed an innovative, engaging curriculum designed to address the information gap around Young people’s Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights and provide them with a comprehensive life skills curriculum that addresses Power, Protection and Pleasure.

This comprehensive sexuality education curriculum will help to make children informed with the help of accurate, fact-based and age-appropriate information on growing up, sexuality and life skills amongst adolescent kids.

The unique design of the program comprises of 27-hour lessons allowing the schools to teach in a staggered format, spread over the year. 

 

Commenting on the partnership initiative, Ravi Bhatnagar, Director, External Affairs and Partnerships, Reckitt Benckiser Health AMESA said, “Education is the catalyst to social change and one of the most critical areas of empowerment for children.” The program will help in developing key skills like critical thinking, decision-making and analytics and informed choices amongst children.

 

---Rajan Pydimalla, Programme Director, ADRA, said, “ADRA helps people in need, ....With support from Reckitt Benckiser (RB), ADRA is implementing ‘The Birds and the Bees Talk’ for 10-19-year-old adolescents in the Northeast. I am thankful to RB for supporting a much-needed initiative and involvement of youth through bike rides which is definitely going to enhance the outreach and outcome of the Birds and Bees Talk campaign.  Improved Knowledge and awareness about sexual health, sexual risk behavior, and gender is the call of the moment.”

---Weston Davis, Country Director – ADRA India, stated, “We are eager to present a fundamental ability preparing module for juvenile youngsters with liberal help and direction from RB’s Dettol ‘Banega Swasth India’ crusade. I am pleased to share that through this activity we have remained consistent with our witticism of equity, sympathy, and love.”

 

Reckitt Benckiser with ADRA India organized a purpose-led bike

rally in Imphal, Manipur under the Durex led Birds and Bees Talk program, today.  The purpose-led bike rally organized by consumer healthcare company Reckitt Benckiser, with ADRA India under the Durex led Birds and Bees Talk program aims to showcase the support for the importance of informed decision making, consent and life skills for adolescents.

Around 55 riders from the Royal Motors Group will be covering 110 km from Imphal East to Bishnupur, Imphal West in support of the Durex programme which aims to reach two million children across seven northeastern states."

CSRjournal/EW/EastMojo/ OnlineAndYou/IndiaFrontline/MediaSamosa

On the Streets of Babylon: Big Foot & Unicorns?

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..

Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

 
There seems to be "Big Foot and Unicorns" reported by those on the Streets of Babylon...

 

"When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and  prophetess isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that when babies die in miscarriage, sometimes God “puts them back” in the womb or that St. Patrick’s mansion is surrounded by giant singing shamrocks, she’s describing how heaven is filled with giant 20ft sasquatches, unicorns, 200ft high cryptids, and other fantastical creatures- the result of visiting heaven “thousands of times.”

 

"I know there’s unicorns in heaven. We know there aren’t any on the

earth right now-God had them all in heaven-but I have never seen bigfoot down here. I can’t confirm. What I can confirm to you is what I have been shown, and most of what I have been shown is in heaven and yes, yes absolutely yes, there are creatures that you would call bigfoot or sasquatch or whatever they want to call them, I’ve seen unicorns in heaven- they’re really there. I’ve seen little tiny beings that you would call a fairy but they’re small angels and all those things up there. Haven’t seen a leprechaun yet or a mermaid, because we’ll always get those questions after I talk.

There are creatures, huge creatures I would say probably close to 20 foot tall that look like that and most of them are part of the army of heaven. The army of heaven is mostly made up of super-intelligent creatures designed by God to fight against the army of darkness and that’s where I saw them. I saw them in the area where Michael’s headquarters are in heaven, and I saw some that were not like that being, but I’ve seen some beings that would be like 200 feet high, and the barracks they stay in or the areas they stay in, the doorways are that high for them to go through. So yes, there are creatures like that in heaven, you’ll be delighted when you get there to find out exactly what’s there." Protestia

Papal Notes - Francis' Radical Politics & Scandal = Financial Pain for Beaest Power

But yet ....and all the world wondered after the beast. Rev.13:3

"Catholics who "believe in the mission of the Church and want to support the Holy Father" continue to support the Vatican's finances, Alves said, urging the faithful to imitate the widow in the gospel "who gave a small amount — everything she had."

 Donors have increasingly withheld contributions to the scandal-ridden fund after recent revelations that up to 90% of money is being used to plug administrative deficits, while as little as 10% is spent on charitable works.

 

The closure of the Vatican museums may have resulted in a loss of over €22 million so far. Museum fees generate over €80 million each year, with around 20,000 daily visitors. Around €20 million is earned from souvenirs and corporate hospitality. 

 

Francis has been a staunch supporter of lockdowns — despite scientific studies revealing the futility of the draconian measures to contain the spread of the China virus.

 

The pontiff has also used the global lockdowns to call for a "great reset" wherein "the world could be organized differently," including by government providing a universal basic income.

The pontiff has attacked anti-lockdown protestors, calling them "victims only in their own imagination — those who claim, for example, that being forced to wear a mask is an unwarranted imposition by the State, yet who forget or do not care about those who cannot rely, for example, on social security, or who have lost their jobs."

 

During Holy Week 2020, the Vatican issued a memo forecasting "heavy repercussions" for "the economic and financial situation of the Holy See and of the State of Vatican City" that will "only become more serious with the passing of time," ChurchMilitant

Creation Moment 3/29/2021 - When Church of England "apologized" in 2008

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... Romans 1:22

"The officials said that senior bishops wanted to atone for the vilification their predecessors heaped on Darwin in the 1860s, when he put forward his theory that man was descended from apes.

The Church is also anxious to counter the view that its teaching is incompatible with science. 

It wants to distance itself from fundamentalist Christians, who believe in the Biblical account of the creation of the world in seven days.

 

An article to be posted on the Church’s website will say: ‘Charles Darwin, 200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still.

But the struggle for your reputation is not over yet, and the problem is not just your religious opponents but those who falsely claim you in support of their own interests.’

 

The article has been written by the Rev Dr. Malcolm Brown, the director of mission and public affairs of the Archbishops’ Council, the Church’s managing body, which is headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams....Dr. Brown argues that there is nothing incompatible between the scientific theories adopted by Darwin and Christian teaching.

 

Horace Barlow, 87, from Cambridge, who is Darwin’s great-grandson.....He said he thought his ancestor would have been pleased to hear the Church’s apology....‘They buried him in Westminster Abbey, which I suppose was an apology of sorts,’ said Mr Barlow.

‘Darwin was very concerned about offending other people as his wife Emma was a committed Christian. So I think this apology would have pleased him.’ DailyMail

Genesis 1 SERIES - Verse 14-19

  Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry

 

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

Vs.14-19

 

Observe, The lights of heaven are the sun, moon, and stars; and all these are the work of God's hands.

 

And God said, Let there be lights, etc. - One principal office of these was to divide between day and night.

 

And let them be for signs - לאתת leothoth . Let them ever be considered as continual tokens of God's tender care for man.

 

For seasons - מועדים moadim ; For the determination of the times on which the sacred festivals should be held. Some think we should understand the original word as signifying months, for which purpose we know the moon essentially serves through all the revolutions of time.

 

For days - Both the hours of the day and night, as well as the different lengths of the days and nights, are distinguished by the longer and shorter spaces of time the sun is above or below the horizon.

And years - That is, those grand divisions of time by which all succession in the vast lapse of duration is distinguished. This refers principally to a complete revolution of the earth round the sun, ....for though the revolution is that of the earth, yet it cannot be determined but by the heavenly bodies.

 

And God made two great lights - Moses speaks of the sun and moon here.

 

He made the stars also - The Stars in general are considered to be suns, similar to that in our system, each having an appropriate number of planets moving round it; and, as these stars are innumerable, consequently there are innumerable worlds, all dependent on the power, protection, and providence of God. Where the stars are in great abundance, Dr. Herschel supposes they form primaries and secondaries, i.e., suns revolving about suns, as planets revolve about the sun in our system. He considers that this must be the case in what is called the milky way, the stars being there in prodigious quantity. Of this he gives the following proof: On August 22,1792, he found that in forty-one minutes of time not less than 258,000 stars had passed through the field of view in his telescope. What must God be, who has made, governs, and supports so many worlds!

 

* The sin and folly of that ancient idolatry, the worshiping of the sun, moon, and stars, which, some think, took rise, or countenance at least, from some broken traditions in the patriarchal age concerning the rule and dominion of the lights of heaven. But the account here given of them plainly shows that they are both God's creatures and man's servants; and therefore it is both a great affront to God and a great reproach to ourselves to make deities of them and give them divine honors. 

 

 The revolutions of the day and night oblige us to offer the solemn sacrifice of prayer and praise every morning and evening. 

What's in a Book Title?... ask Uriah Smith

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

 "LIKE the frogs which came upon Egypt, Sunday sermons, Sunday

tracts,..... are now swarming over all our land; and they are just about as much of a blessing to mankind.

 

....hence a selection must be made of those which for various reasons seem to possess special claims for consideration. 

Such an one we have just received from our brethren in Ohio. 

It is by "J.B. Knappenberger, B.D.," and is entitled, "The Old and the New Sabbath."  

 

The very title betrays its character, and shows it to be an effort to defend a human institution; 

Q: for where in the Bible is there anything said about a "new" Sabbath? 

A: Nowhere. 

 

---The Bible knows but one Sabbath; 

---and that is neither Jewish nor Christian, 

---neither old or new,  

*but it is the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and his only from the beginning to the end. 

We might just as well talk about "the old and the new " marriage relation, as about the old and the new Sabbath." 

Uriah Smith

Lesson about Redemption in Marriage Feast Miracle

"The special object of Jesus in attending this marriage feast was to commence the work of breaking down the exclusiveness which existed with the Jewish people, and to open the way for their freer mingling with the people.

"This donation of Christ to the marriage supper was a symbol of the

means of salvation. 

---The water represented baptism into His death; 

---the wine, the shedding of His blood for the purifying of the sins of the world. 

The provision made for the wedding guests was ample, and not less abundant is the provision for blotting out the iniquities of men. 

The wine which Christ provided was not of an intoxicating character."-Spirit of Prophecy, vol. 2, p. 104 E.G.W." 

Sabbath School Lesson 1896

The World's First Language

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:9

"The early chapters of Genesis make several important points about the world’s first language that can be summarized here: 

1) Adam named every living creature that God brought to him

(Genesis 2:19), 

Q:  but on what basis? 

Q:  Did he just invent a combination of sounds or did he try to describe the creature before him, in which case in what language? 

 

2) The Table of the Nations (Genesis 10:1–32) divides the peoples of the world into three groups—the descendants of Noah’s sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem. A total of 70 nations are listed. There is no simple link between descent from a particular son of Noah and language, but generally speaking Japheth fathers the Indo-European-speaking peoples, Ham, the Hamitic-speaking peoples and Shem, the Semitic-speaking peoples.

 

3) The story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9 gives an

explanation for linguistic diversity and makes three basic points: 

a) Originally there was just one universal language (11:1).

b) When the Lord confused the language of the people, new languages were generated. .... the people were unable to understand each other and so scattered over the face of the whole earth. 

c) The location of this incident is placed in Shinar which may be the land inhabited by the Sumerians, i.e. southern Iraq (11:1). The city, of which the tower was a part, was Babel (‘confused’), the Hebrew word for Babylon (11:9). 

*It is noteworthy that 

---although languages within a language family have many common features, 

---surprisingly few of these features are shared with languages from another language family, 

---suggesting that the proto-languages and progenitors of modern isolates arose at the original confusion of languages that the Book of Genesis records as happening at the Tower of Babel." 

CMI/Paul J.N. Lawrence

Creation Moment 3/28/2021 - Rise of Darwinism in Catholicism

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.... 2 Peter 2:1

"Encouraged by Roman Catholic academia and most bishops, many prominent Catholics happily assert that their church embraces

evolution.....  

 

---When the Pontifical Academy of Sciences organized an international conference on creation and evolution in 2009, it decided specifically not to invite any scientists who supported creation or Intelligent Design (ID). 

Free enquiry was not part of the agenda. The only creationist present was a multi-faith invitee. 

Once the organization discovered that this Turkish Muslim professor was a creationist who dared to speak out against evolution, his microphone was turned off..............with the recent suppression of the seminary of the Friars of the Immaculata in Rome,4 the last bastion of traditional creation theology was shut down and theistic evolution has become the virtually undisputed academic orthodoxy in the Roman Catholic seminaries and universities.

 

According to last year’s Gallup Poll, nearly 40% of all American Catholics believe in a Biblical creation less than 10,000 years ago and accept the historicity of Adam and the worldwide Flood as

described in Genesis. This also explains why, although teaching evolution in Catholic institutions is the rule, it is still controversial among traditional religious communities and in Catholic circles at the parish level. 

 

The public shift of the Vatican towards evolution only started under Pope John Paul II.In a lecture for the Papal Academy of Science (22 October 1996) he spoke positive words about evolution as ‘more than a hypothesis’. 

Also at the time, newspaper headlines followed, including ‘Pope believes in evolution’.

Catholic media like EWTN were quick to explain that the wording of the speech did not endorse biological evolution. What is profoundly mystifying though, is that John Paul’s famous lecture most likely never took place, despite the countless international news reports to the contrary.

The text of the speech was, most likely, forwarded to the media

without the pope ever seeing or signing it.

 The press release also bypassed the pope’s right-hand man who was responsible for approving its contents. It is reported that members of the Pontifical Academy for Science received a copy without the pope’s usual signature. 

The media coup outmanoeuvred the small circle of John Paul II loyalists in the Vatican who took an interest in publicly preserving the teachings of the magisterium on Genesis. They were placed before a fait accomplit. A combination of embarrassment and the liberal personal views of John Paul II kept him from public disclosure and correction of this affair, particularly as the speech had received the highest praise by almost all media outlets in the world. 

 

Both Benedict and John Paul functioned under tremendous pressure, especially from the Jesuit order, which is not only the largest religious order, but also the one most involved in and responsible for Catholic education. In the 20th century they took a leading role, both in media and education, in actively promoting historical criticism in Biblical studies and Darwinism in science.  

Georges Lemaître, the Belgian physicist who proposed the idea that was popularized as the ‘big bang’, was educated in a Jesuit school; and an influential Jesuit evolutionist was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. His thinking shows that the adoption of neo-Darwinism isn’t merely about the historicity of one or two chapters in the Bible, but inevitably leads to the denial of core Biblical truths. "

CMI/ Benno Zuiddam

Genesis 1 SERIES - Verse 9-13

 Commentary of Charles Spurgeon, Adam Clarke & Matthew Henry

 

And God said, 

Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 

And God called the dry land Earth; 

and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: 

and God saw that it was good.

And God said, 

Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Vs.9-13 

 

The third day's work is related in these verses—the forming of the sea and the dry land, and the making of the earth fruitful. Hitherto the power of the Creator had been exerted and employed about the upper part of the visible word...

 

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas - These two constitute what is called the terraqueous globe, in which the earth and the water exist in a most judicious proportion to each other.

 Thus, instead of the confusion which there was (v. 2) when earth and water were mixed in one great mass, behold, now, there is order, by such a separation as rendered them both useful. 

 

Let the earth bring forth grass - herb - fruit-tree - The earth still remains under the efficacy of this command, to bring forth grass, and herbs, and its annual products; and though, being according to the common course of nature, these are not standing miracles, yet they are standing instances of the unwearied power and unexhausted goodness of the world's great Maker.

 

Having attended to the air, God further exercised his power by setting the earth in order. Observe the remarkable fact that, no sooner had God made the dry land appear, than it seemed as if he could not bear the sight of it in its nakedness. .... As soon as ever the earth appeared, then came the herb, and the tree, and the grass. 

---So, dear brethren, in like manner, let us bring forth fruit unto God, and bring it forth abundantly, for herein is our heavenly Father glorified, that we bear much fruit.

 

One or the Other

"If 

--- the Bible is not a literal book, then we need another book, proceeding from the author of the Bible, explaining the revelation we now have, that we may have the will of God. 

 

If 

--- the Bible is the revealed will of God, there are no nonessentials in it, but it is profitable, and is written for our learning. 

 

The injunction of our Savior is, "Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." 

John v, 39-40." J.N.Loughborough

Health Note - Caffeine Withdrawls

Beloved, 

I wish above all things that thou .... be in health...

3 John 1:2

 

"The first day of a caffeine detox is typically the hardest. 

Within hours, you’ll most likely become irritable and experience brain fog and headaches, which happens to 50 percent of people.

 

After One Week....Expect to feel the full effects of caffeine withdrawal during this time..... it usually takes 72 hours to get over the symptoms of withdrawal, which include constipation, headaches, insomnia, and dizziness. 

 

After One Month....If you were a light caffeine consumer, your body

will start reverting to the way it was before you started to regularly consume caffeine. Your brain will eventually begin to develop more adenosine receptors (which communicate to you when it’s time to go to sleep and help regulate blood flow to arteries) after being blocked by caffeine molecules for such a long time. 

 

After six months..... a person should be back to the baseline. Sleep, mental health, and digestion will all be back to the way they may have been before the individual used caffeine." Domino/RavenIshak