Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES: 7 Branch Candlestick

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Exodus 19:6

God's people as Light to the World = 7 Branch Candlestick

Creation Moment 7/3/2020 - "everything from shells"?

I have seen the foolish taking root...
Job 5:3

"Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802) expressed his belief in deep time

extending over millions of years, and a form of evolution, in his written works: for instance, The Temple of Nature, The Botanic Garden, and Zoonomia. Mention of millions of years in Erasmus Darwin’s works appears in the Philosophical Notes to The Botanic Garden (1791).

He was also an open advocate of the pagan beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, was a leading Freemason, and used Rosicrucian imagery. In Zoonomia, first published in 1794, he spoke of the “magnificent idea of the infinite power of THE GREAT ARCHITECT! THE CAUSE OF CAUSES!”, and asked whether it would

“… be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality …”.

Such statements in his works relating to millions of ages and the deity of freemasonry seem to echo Voltaire’s earlier reference to the Great Architect, and millions of years of change: “Revolutions of thousands of millions of years are infinitely less in the light of the Great Architect of Nature, than to us that of a wheel which compleats its round in the twinkling of an eye.”

Darwin’s family motto was E Conchis Omnia, meaning “everything from shells”, and he used the image of a scallop shell on the family crest, for a time painted on his carriage.

In Greek mythology, Aphrodite, the goddess of love (the Roman Venus), was often depicted riding the ocean upon a scallop shell.

In The Temple of Nature, Erasmus Darwin spoke of the goddess Venus in terms of an allegory for evolution: “Amazed the Sea’s prolific depths I view, And VENUS rising from the waves in YOU! … . Her beaux and beauties, butterflies and worms, Rise from aquatic to aerial forms.” In the footnote there is the comment: “Venus seems to have represented the beauty of organic Nature rising from the sea … .”
So, it may be seen that Erasmus Darwin read Venus/Aphrodite as an allegory for evolution occurring as a result of generating powers, and a similar view may have been held by Hume.

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) later developed the ideas in Zoonomia along more Epicurean lines, removing the overt paganism of his grandfather.

Erasmus Darwin expressed some qualified support to Hutton’s scientific work, calling it ‘ingenious’. He understood that Hutton’s Theory of the Earth advocated an eternal universe: “according to the ingenious theory of Dr Hutton, who says new continents are now forming at the bottom of the sea to rise in their turn, and that thus the terraqueous globe has been, and will be, eternal?”
CMI

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia's Symbolic Gesture of his Inspired Movement

What a fitting symbol for the spirit that pervades the mobs on the streets.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John 15:18

 

"Montana’s leftwingers....it appears that there is indeed an ugly side to the activists. They just pulled down a monument to the Ten

Commandments, chained it to a pickup, and drove off with it being dragged down the street.

 

Flathead 411 posted a video of workers placing the monument, abandoned in the middle of the street across the yellow line, into a skid steer bucket to be transported out of the way of traffic.

 

According to the local news page, “Locals are saying they saw someone in a big truck chain up to a ten commandments statue near the courthouse and drag it down the road and that he is in custody.”

P&P

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Riots in Portland

...warn them that are unruly,... 1 Thessalonians 5:14

"Police responded to a protest that descended into a violent riot in north Portland after demonstrators threw rocks and water bottles at officers, shined lasers in their eyes, and attempted to set fires near the precinct.

Clashes between police and protesters on the 34th night of demonstrations stretched for a nearly mile through North Portland late Tuesday, leading to police using tear gas and leaving some drivers caught in the crosshairs.
 Once demonstrators were to North Fenwick Avenue and North Lombard Street, they began to move dumpsters and plastic trash bins to the street. The demonstrators attempted to set fire to the dumpsters and trash bins. During this time, demonstrators deployed orange smoke towards officers.
Last week, Portland protesters reportedly attempted to burn the North precinct with officers inside in yet another chaotic night, leading officers to declare another unlawful assembly, with arson, looting, and vandalism dominating the streets."
Breitbart
 

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES: Table of Bread

Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread

from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
Exodus 16:4

Manna = Table of Bread

ARCHAEOLOGY: Lessons of Durrington Walls

"To the astonishment of archaeologists, the largest ‘prehistoric’ structure ever found in Britain has recently been unearthed—just under two miles north-east of Stonehenge, the UK’s iconic Neolithic site on Salisbury Plain, near Amesbury, Wiltshire.

The newly discovered site is a huge circle, 1.2 miles in diameter, consisting of twenty shafts which are five metres deep 16 ft. and up to 65 ft. in diameter. This construction encircles an existing structure called the Durrington Walls, the site of a large settlement and later wooden henge circle, described as ‘Neolithic’ (from the so-called ‘Stone Age’).

Archaeologists leading the investigations are stunned at ‘early man’s’ abilities. For instance, geoscientist Richard Bates, of St Andrews University, said the new Durrington circle discovery offered “an insight to the past that shows an even more complex society than we could ever imagine.”
Regarding the construction of the pit circle, Professor Gaffney stated: “I can’t emphasize enough the effort that would have gone

in to digging such large shafts with tools of stone, wood and bone.”

But researchers shouldn’t be so surprised, considering Stonehenge was made by the same people who transported ‘bluestones’ (weighing up to five tons) 150 miles to Salisbury Plain from south-west Wales. Ancient man likely had technology and ingenious means to achieve such great feats, which we have so far failed to uncover.

Genesis 1:26–27 tells us that humans were made in God’s Image from the beginning, so faculties such as mathematics and the ability to plan and make complex constructions would have been fully formed in the first couple.
Within the first few generations, Genesis 4 makes it clear that humans were able to farm (v. 2, 20), build cities (v. 17), make complex musical instruments (v. 21), and work with iron and bronze (v. 22)."
CMI
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

IN the NEWS - Oh the Irony (French Revolution Redux...complete with Guillotines)

Oh the Irony----Bezos of Amazon has been a supporter of these Leftist Mobs (Democrat Party Paramilitary Units unleashed on the streets of America) as he ran a banner on Amazon.com that said "black lives matter" and publicly chastising customers who suggested it read "all lives matter".....
yet he still isn't woke enough, apparently because of his wealth.
They even go all FRENCH REVOLUTION using a copy of a Guillotine outside his house.
The Prince of Persia's own eat their own....Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked... 1 Samuel 24:13

".....activists on Sunday set up a guillotine in front of Amazon

CEO Jeff Bezos’s Washington, D.C. home, and demanded that Amazon be “abolished.”
In video shot by Drew Hernandez, host of the hit web show “Lives Matter”, one of the protesters can be heard over a bullhorn: “When they become threatened, and we have no voice, the knives come out.”
Who is “they” and who is “we”? And what about those “knives coming out”? Although the guillotine does add a certain panache to the protest."
RedState

IN the NEWS - Confessions of a Green Priest

...And all the people said, Amen... 1 Chronicles 16:36

"Michael Shellenberger....Besides his TED talks garnering more

than 5 million views, he's a Green Book Award Winner, a frequent contributor to publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American...But Shellenberger said a Forbes article — "On Behalf of Environmentalists, I Apologize for the Climate Scare" — based on his new book was soon "censored" soon after it went up Sunday.

Here's how Shellenberger opens his article: "On behalf of

environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It's just not the end of the world. It's not even our most serious environmental problem."
He also says he feels "an obligation to apologize for how badly we environmentalists have misled the public."

Shellenberger then details a list of "facts few people know":

• Humans are not causing a "sixth mass extinction"
• The Amazon is not "the lungs of the world"
• Climate change is not making natural disasters worse
• Fires have declined 25% around the world since 2003
• The amount of land we use for meat — humankind's biggest use of land — has declined by an area nearly as large as Alaska
• The build-up of wood fuel and more houses near forests, not climate change, explain why there are more, and more dangerous, fires in Australia and California
• Carbon emissions have been declining in rich nations including Britain, Germany and France since the mid-seventies
• Adapting to life below sea level made the Netherlands rich not poor
• We produce 25% more food than we need and food surpluses will continue to rise as the world gets hotter
• Habitat loss and the direct killing of wild animals are bigger threats to species than climate change
• Wood fuel is far worse for people and wildlife than fossil fuels
• Preventing future pandemics requires more not less "industrial" agriculture

"I know that the above facts will sound like 'climate denialism' to many people," he adds. "But that just shows the power of climate alarmism.

Until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. Partly that's because I was embarrassed. After all, I am as guilty of alarmism as any other environmentalist. For years, I referred to climate change as an "existential" threat to human civilization, and called it a "crisis."
But mostly I was scared. I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage to defend climate science from those who misrepresent it I suffered harsh consequences. And so I mostly stood by and did next to nothing as my fellow environmentalists terrified the public."
TheBlaze

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES: Brazen Laver

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
1 Corinthians 10:2

Red Sea Crossing = Brazen Laver of Baptism

Creation Moment 7/2/2020 - Titan's Movement says....

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God...
Hebrews 11:3

"A recent news release from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announces that new examination of the data from the late Cassini spacecraft indicates that Saturn’s moon Titan is moving away from the planet at a higher rate than previously thought.

What are the implications of the fact that the moon is moving away?

Scientists thought they knew the rate at which the giant moon Titan is moving away from Saturn, but they recently made a surprising discovery: Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, they found Titan drifting a hundred times faster than previously understood – about 4 inches per year.

The article goes on to comment about the apparent age of the moon Titan (and the rest of the 80 moons). What can be determined (or at least inferred) by this movement?  The article states that this has caused questions about the age of the moons. The article states some basics:

The findings may help address an age-old question. While scientists know that Saturn formed 4.6 billion years ago in

the early days of the solar system, there’s more uncertainty about when the planet’s rings and its system of more than 80 moons formed. Titan is currently 759,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn. The revised rate of its drift suggests that the moon started out much closer to Saturn, which would mean the whole system expanded more quickly than previously believed.

First, the statement is made that “scientists know that Saturn formed 4.6 billion years ago.”
They know? Really? Based on what real information do they know?
However, the point is what does it suggest, knowing that Titan is moving away from Saturn at a certain rate?

Titan moves outward at four inches a year. It seems hardly a significant amount, considering that Titan is presently 759,000 miles away from its host planet.

However, let’s look at these four inches on a cosmic time scale.
Four inches a year is 0.0063 miles a century. That computes to 6,300 miles each million years. In 100 million years, assuming the drift rate stayed at the present rate, the movement would be 630,000 miles, which would place the moon pretty close to Saturn. 
And 100 million years is miniscule compared to the claimed age of Saturn of 4.6 billion years.

So, this calls into question again – about the age of the universe and all that is within it. 
If Titan and Saturn were created at the same time as the earth, Titan sure would not have moved much since that event. And the way they were created would result in the slow drift apart."
CEH

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia's attempt at Tainting again....

Will there be another attempt by the Prince of Persia to taint the air with another Pandemic?...And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; Luke 21:11

 

"Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy

and Infectious Diseases, testified Tuesday that an emerging virus found in pigs in China shares traits with the 2009 Swine Flu and 1918 Pandemic Flu, and U.S. public health officials are monitoring the disease.

Fauci, a White House coronavirus task force member, explained before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that the virus — known as “G4 EA H1N1,” — doesn’t appear to infect humans, however, it has shown “reassortment capabilities.”
Breitbart

Words Chosen to Target Persian gods

"The habits of both the Medes and the Persians, but more

particularly of the Persians, brought them in close touch with nature, and in their worship they took the elements, fire, earth, water, and air as the highest manifestations of the Deity.

They therefore sought a hill country, and kept a perpetual fire burning.
They believed in the struggle between good and evil as represented by light and darkness, and doubtless the words of Isaiah, which are addressed to Cyrus, had this belief in mind, for the Lord says, "I form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil; I the Lord do all these things." (Is.45:7).

In these words he places himself above the gods of the Persians."
StephenHaskell

IN the NEWS - Snitch's 'n Hypocrisy

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor..
Proverbs 11:9

I support Churches obeying the government for Church closures and other Health measures--- but this is blatant HYPOCRISY and Political Pandering to his Democrat Base by Picking on certain people......

Snitching on Churches....
"Churches have felt put out by various city and state restrictions on assemblies during the coronavirus pandemic.

But now, Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam is ramping up the pressure, according to a religious liberty advocate, providing a means for citizens to snitch on people who violate coronavirus rules, such as attending a "religious service" without a face covering.
the Virginia Department of Public Health "has been updated with a 'Complaint Report Form' with dropdown options to anonymously report citizens who exceed the emergency limits on building capacity or refuse to wear masks to the state. The form allows users to specify the 'type of establishment' they’re reporting, including indoor gun range or religious service."
Liberty Counsel pointed out there is no option to report "unmasked crowds of more than 50 people that protest, vandalize communities, destroy personal property, or threaten police officers."
WND

Hypocrisy....

Spot anyone without masks in these crowds in Virginia? Anyone not social distancing in these crowds?
Where's the Snitch Line for this?
 

SDA Issues: 5th-10th Commandments

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
Jeremiah 12:5

"Why don’t our pastors preach powerful sermons on the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Commandments?

If there was ever a time to do it, it is now.
We have violent mobs running through the streets, we see

destruction and theft, we see little police intervention, we see complete apathy on the part of political leaders, and where are the pastors? Most of them are completely silent. Why is that?

 Are we really a commandment-keeping people if we don’t speak up for God’s Law when it’s being trampled underfoot? When we look at Commandments 5-10 of the Decalogue, they specifically address our nation’s current moral decline: disobedience, rioting children, disrespect, hatred, violence, murder, abortion, sexual immorality, sexual anarchy, perversion, theft, robbery, falsehood, slander, lies, selfishness and greed.

During this unprecedented period of lawlessness, God is looking for preachers of righteousness who will uphold the principles of right and wrong, good and evil that are being largely removed from our society. Unfortunately, there will be those who are too afraid to defend what they know to be correct. We will have pastors who will not preach against sin for fear of offending others. Many will not talk about Commandments 5-10 for fear of being rejected or criticized.

On May 18, 2020, a report was published in the city of San

Salvador, El Salvador, that LGBT+ activists have been trying to get the government to pass a resolution that makes every May 17 a “National Day Against Discrimination for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.” This effort has been unsuccessful due to opposition from different ‘conservative’ groups. Who are those groups?

The Roman Catholic Church said they opposed reserving May 17 for the LGBT+ movement because they saw no need to highlight their  “position”.
The Light of the World Church (Pentecostals) argued that they could not support the LGBT+ initiative because this “would be against the design of God.”

What about Seventh-day Adventists?
What position, if any, did they take? When asked about their point of view on making May 17 a day for the LGBT+ movement, their response was very typical of politically correct and compromised people. Basically they said they did not want to get involved and would simply “leave the decision to the discretion of government officials.”

Why are the Pentecostals in El Salvador more willing to stand up and defend the law of God than Seventh-day Adventists? Can we say, “Praise God” for these Pentecostals who refuse to bow to the LGBT+ activists? What about our people? They are groveling and whimpering before the LGBT+ movement. We crawl into the fetal position and refuse to answer any questions.

If we cannot defend Commandments 5-10 in a time of relative peace, how do we think we will defend the 4th Commandment during the mark of the beast when we could lose our lives?"
AndyRoman/AdventMessenger

“We are sorry that there are some who are too cowardly to own the truth. You feel dependent upon your neighbors for [an] agreeable companionship and do not want to displease them.
But your cowardice, you are hiding your light so that it shall not shine distinctly in good works, so that they may see with a certainty you are in harmony with the obedient, commandment-keeping people of God, [this] constitutes you a stumbling block to your neighbors. They stumble over your disregard of God, taking license from you to follow pernicious ways.”
Manuscript, 69a, 1896 E.G.W.

Exodus through the Sanctuary SERIES: Altar of Sacrifice

And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses... Exodus 12:7

Passover = the ALTAR of SACRIFICE

Health Note- JULY means.....

Beloved,

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

3 John 1:2

"As June transitions into July, it’s time for fruit harvesting—including apples, peaches, pears, and cherries. Notice how fruit phenology (seasonal life cycles) is linked to the timing of agricultural harvesting.

As peach thinning continues, the first fruits are ready to be

harvested; sweet cherries in mid-June and sour cherries in late June or early July. July also brings ripe plums, the ever-popular Yellow Transparent and Earligold apples, and the start of the peach season. Peach season begins at the beginning of July and continues into the second week of September. The entire peach season overlaps with the apple harvest. The end of August is an intense time in the orchard. All three major fruits—apples, peaches, and pears—are ripe.

Nutritionists tend to give more attention to apples, pears, and peaches, but cherries also deserve some acclaim for their nutritional benefits. Both sweet cherries and sour cherries are bountifully beneficial for human health.

Increased oxidative stress contributes to development and progression of several human chronic inflammatory diseases. Cherries are a rich source of polyphenols and vitamin C which have anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

According to studies done by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service nutrition scientists, cherries have a lot of good to offer.

We found 29 (tart 20, sweet 7, unspecified 2) published human studies which examined health benefits of consuming cherries.

…Consumption of cherries decreased markers for oxidative stress in 8/10 studies; inflammation in 11/16; exercise-induced muscle soreness and loss of strength in 8/9; blood pressure in 5/7; arthritis in 5/5, and improved sleep in 4/4. Cherries also decreased hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C), Very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and triglycerides/high-density lipoprotein (TG/HDL) in diabetic women, and VLDL and TG/HDL in obese participants. These results suggest that consumption of sweet or tart cherries can promote health by preventing or decreasing oxidative stress and inflammation.

Cherries, although small in size, are large in nutritional value.

The cherry fruit is a nutrient dense food with relatively low caloric content and significant amounts of important nutrients and bioactive food components including fiber, polyphenols, carotenoids, vitamin C, and potassium. In addition, cherries are also good source of tryptophan, serotonin, and melatonin.

In short, it’s good to include cherries, both sweet and sour, in your diet.

Given the high concentrations of bioactive compounds (e.g., anthocyanins, hydoxycinnamates, Flavin-3-ols) in cherries, it is not surprising that cherry consumption promotes health. Results from published animal and human studies suggest that consumption of cherries may reduce the risk of several chronic inflammatory diseases including, arthritis, cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, and cancer. Furthermore, there is evidence that cherry consumption may improve sleep, cognitive function, and recovery from pain after strenuous exercise.

Based upon what we know about God’s goodness in how He provides nutritious food, we shouldn’t be surprised that cherries are good for us."
ICR

Creation Moment 7/1/2020 - What is Life?

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Genesis 2:7

"Q. Many biologists define life as anything that undergoes

Darwinian evolution.
A. We pretend that makes sense, but if you look it makes no sense at all. What is the unit of Darwinian evolution? Is it the gene? Is it the cell? Is it a multicellular organism? Is a city evolving? How about Gaia? Is that a life form?"
Charles Lineweaver, New Scientist, May 24, 2012

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IN the NEWS - LGBT Woke Grips Notre Dame

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly... Romans 1:27

"The University of Notre Dame is giving former mayor of South

Bend, Indiana and failed Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg a one-year appointment to the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS). The appointment as a faculty fellow begins this fall.

 The university announced that "Buttigieg will work on two research projects at the NDIAS: one that explores how to restore trust in political institutions and another that considers the forces distinctively shaping the 2020s."

Dempsey points out that Buttigieg's signature identity, the anchor of his public image, is same-sex "marriage." ..."And same-sex marriage's compatibility with Christianity."
CM