ARCHAEOLOGY: Peek into Pre-Flood Switzerland

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

"Schleitheimia schutzi .... in what is now Switzerland.
The ancient animal is one of the earliest representatives of Sauropodomorpha, a large group of long-necked, herbivorous

dinosaurs that includes the sauropods and their ancestral relatives.
The fragmentary fossilized remains of Schleitheimia schutzi were found in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen.
The fossils were long considered to belong to Plateosaurus, a genus of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic period in what are now Central and Northern Europe, Greenland, and North America.

Professor Rauhut and co-authors re-examined the specimens and concluded that they were from a distinct species of


Schaffhausen Today

sauropodomorph dinosaur.
Although Schleitheimia schutzi probably looked quite similar to Plateosaurus, this dinosaur with an estimated  29.5-33 foot long body length is already significantly larger than the latter.
The discovery of Schleitheimia schutzi shows that at least three different species of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs lived in what is now Switzerland."
SciNews

Creation Moment 7/26/2020 - Heraclitus Influence

"...which of the ancient Greek philosophers/scientists was responsible for originating the idea of an eternal universe.
The earliest clear statement about this comes from a fragment attributed to Heraclitus:

This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made. But it always was, is, and will be: an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.

Furthermore, later writers credit Heraclitus with teaching the eternality of the universe.

Therefore, it appears that Heraclitus may be one of the primary culprits in establishing the eternality of the universe in Western thought.
However, there may be an even earlier proponent(s) of the eternal universe from which Heraclitus was drawing.
But returning to influencers of Western thought, it is reported that Anaximander, who lived a century earlier than Heraclitus, also taught that the universe was and is eternal. The problem is that, being even earlier than Heraclitus, we know even less about what Anaximander wrote (only one fragment survives, and it doesn’t address cosmology).

We certainly don’t know the reasons why the ancient Greeks thought that the universe was eternal. Heraclitus didn’t tell us why he thought this, and those who came later seemed to have accepted the eternality of the universe without question.
There likely are two reasons for this.
First, the ancient Greek gods were very limited: not much more than super-men. Therefore, their gods were incapable of fiat creation.
Second, from their study of how the world around them operated, the ancient Greeks couldn’t see any possibility that the world could have created itself. If no one created the universe and the universe didn’t create itself, then the only other possibility is that the universe was not created, and hence must have always existed.

Had Christians held firm on the fact that, according to Genesis 1:1–2:3 (as well as many other biblical passages, such as For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Exodus 20:11), God made everything in the beginning, then the notion that the universe was eternal would have died out in the West 15 centuries ago."
AIG

Creation Moment 7/25/2020 - Your Spiral Staircase & Water

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made:
Psalm 139:14

"Water conducts electricity; it can also conduct energy and information.

Biophysicists are finding that “water wires” at the nanoscale fine-tune enzymatic actions — indeed, can be indispensable for function.
... a remarkable fact about dynein, one of the molecular machines that “walks” on microtubules.
The scientist in that story theorized that water molecules bind to the stalk and help transmit kinetic energy via “water waves” from the reaction center, where ATP is spent, to the “feet” where walking takes place. The water molecules are so positioned as to create a virtual “tsunami” of energy from one end of the machine to the other, which causes the feet to move.
Obviously, this requires very precise cooperation between the water molecules and the amino acids in the stalk. Now, other instances are coming to light of biological systems incorporating water molecules into their functional specificity.
The purpose of membrane channels is to permit certain molecules through the cell membrane but prohibit others. This is called active transport, because normally molecules would move by diffusion (passive transport). Cells need to both attract the right molecules to go through the channel and authenticate them through the

“selectivity filter.”
Water can assist this process via electricity.
Since H₂O is bipolar, single water molecules in a chain, held together by hydrogen bonds, become a sort of “wire” through which ions can pass.
Gramicidin A (gA), discovered in 1939, is a linear peptide antibiotic produced by Bacillus brevis. Unlike most peptides, gA consists of alternating left- and right-handed amino acid residues. This gives it a spiral helical shape that penetrates the bacterium’s membrane, forming a pore that looks like a spiral staircase. This allows for the free passage of cations (positively charged ions) to neutralize the pH of the interior and exterior. “The antimicrobial activity,” the authors explain, “derives from its ability to form a transmembrane channel that is selective for monovalent cations.” It is a simple “channel” to use for studying the activity of a water wire."
EN&V

IN the NEWS - Twitter's True Character

We've Warned You there has been a push Testing the waters for Pedophilia. Twitter Loves to Cancel Conservative Voices but they allow this....SPEAKS VOLUMES OF CHARACTER OF WHO RUNS TWITTER...just saying...
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9

"Twitter Says, Pedophiles Are Permitted to Discuss ‘Attraction

Towards Minors’ and Share Some Depictions of Nude Children.

Social media giant Twitter has updated their terms of service to allow their users to discuss adult attraction to minors as well as share artistic depictions of nude children.The updated policy states: “Discussions related to child sexual exploitation as a phenomenon or attraction towards minors are permitted, provided they don’t promote or glorify child sexual exploitation in any way.”
Caldron

A Dwelling Place of Christ

"The living light comes from God in a never-failing stream. The psalmist exclaims: "For with thee is the foundation of life; in thy light shall we see light." Ps. 36:9.

Christ dwells in His inspired word,

and through it we get His life.

This life is the Christian's light, and it is that which makes him a light to others."
A.T.Jones

IN the NEW - "Earth’s Malaise"?

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel... Galatians 1:6

"The Vatican released a document for church faithful with reflections on COVID-19 with the wordy title ” “Useful information on the Document of the Pontifical Academy for Life: Humana Communitas in the age of pandemic: untimely meditations on life’s rebirth.”

The work, which is stretched out over 4000 words, does not mention Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit, the Church, prayer, or Christian, making one question how “useful” it would actually be to the believer.

But the most interesting part, which is par for the course, is that the Vatican bases the pandemic on humans monkeying about with mother nature and the environment, writing:

The Covid-19 epidemic has much to do with our

depredation of the earth and the despoiling of its intrinsic value. It is a symptom of our earth’s malaise and our failure to care; more, a sign of our own spiritual malaise (Laudato Si’, n. 119). Will we be able to remedy the fracture that has separated us from our natural world, too often turning our assertive subjectivities into a menace to creation, a menace to one another?
 

Let us know when the Vatican and Pope Francis offer some reflections and hope that actually involve Jesus and the gospel."
Lifesite

Q & A on the Millennium Series: Ultimate Millennium Question

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: Where will you spend the thousand years?

A: How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him.
1 Kings 18:21

IN the NEWS - When the Street Mob goes Mob on the Home Front

"A photograph of a man kneeling on the neck of a white baby while another person holds the diapered child’s arms is stirring up a massive amount of rage on social media.

The shocking and disturbing photograph, which was captioned by the abusers as “Blm now mf”.

The paternal grandmother of the child wrote on Facebook that the photo was taken two days ago while the two-year-old was with his mother, who is dating Jackson. She told TGP that her son did not find out about it until yesterday morning.

The grandmother provided us with screenshots of conversations in which the mother attempted to defend the photo when confronted about it, calling the person “ignorant” and claiming that “he wasn’t hurting him.” She also claimed she was not present when the photo was taken.

Child Protective Services is involved and the mother will only be allowed to see the child while the father is present for now. She is not allowed to be alone with him, the grandmother said.

She said that the mother is not normally like this and that she suspects it is because of the people she has been hanging out with.
“When I saw the person holding his arms back it made me so much more upset,” she said. “The fact that he was crying, it makes my stomach hurt. He didn’t have anyone there to protect him or stop it.”
GP
For men shall be lovers of their own selves,...Without natural affection...
2 Timothy 2:2,3

Q & A on the Millennium Series: What will the New Earth be Like?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: This earth, after the thousand years, will become the eternal home of the saved. What will it be like?

A: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Revelation 21:1

Creation Moment 7/24/2020 - "Weird" or Unique?

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God...
Hebrews 11:3
Are they really "weird" or just Unique--which would point to Design...

"Astronomers and citizen scientists have found two would-be stars lacking heavy elements.

Brown dwarfs ....these Jupiter-size balls of gas aren’t massive enough to maintain nuclear fusion in their cores, so they never light up as stars.
Arttu Sainio independently discovered the first brown dwarf, WISEA 1810–1010...Four citizen scientists, Paul Beaulieu, Sam Goodman, William Pendrill, and Austin Rothermich, independently discovered the second object, WISEA 0414–5854.
Additional observations at other wavelengths confirmed these sources were brown dwarfs, but strange ones. “Indeed, the spectra of these objects look pretty weird (to brown dwarf astronomers),” notes study coauthor Adam Burgasser.
The best explanation is that these brown dwarfs lack heavy elements.
Technically, that marks them as “extreme subdwarfs of the T class".
Sky&Telescope

Creation Moment 7/23/2020 - Lesson of Venus

For this is what the LORD says-- he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited...
Isaiah 45:18

"Certainly nothing could live today on Venus, where surface temperatures are hot enough to melt lead.
Astrobiologists will need to remember the lesson of Venus.
---Just because a rocky planet orbits a star at or near the habitable zone, that does not imply that it is suitable for life."
CEH

Reason for Lack of Joy

"As the apostle Paul exhorted Timothy Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life
(1 Timothy 6:12).
There are too many who are striving to obey all of God’s commandments who have little peace and joy. 
This lack is the result of a failure to
---maintain regular communion with the Father,
---and of not fortifying the mind with God’s word and not meditating on the words of life."
StepsToLife

Q & A on the Millennium Series: The 2nd Death

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: The sentence is death. What is this death called?

A: Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death.
Revelation 20:14 NLT

Matthew 13:39 & the Everlasting Gospel

"Under the symbol of three angels' messages, there is introduced in the book of Revelation a threefold warning, which is followed by our Saviour's coming to reap the "harvest of the earth." (Rev. 14:14,15)

In the public ministry of Christ, our Lord gave a parable in which

He presented not only the seed sowing and the growth of the plants, but also the final "harvest."

In explaining this parable to His disciples, He told them distinctly that "the harvest is the end of the world," (Matt. 13:39) thus showing that these three messages not only immediately precede the end of the world, but that they contain the truths which are to "ripen" the harvest of the earth,
 -the one class for the heavenly garner,
-and the other for the wine-press of the wrath of God.

The first of these messages proclaims the "everlasting gospel."
These angelic messengers of Revelation are regarded as symbols of messages of truth to be proclaimed by men to this last generation. While the visible workers are men, angels, who "desire to look into" (1 Peter 1:12) the truths of the gospel.

In the first of these three messages, however, there is, connected with the proclamation of the gospel, a new reason assigned why men should yield obedience to the Lord.
It is found in these words: "For the hour of His judgment is come." (Rev. 14:7)
This first angel's message does not say the judgment is coming, but "the hour [period] of His judgment is come."
J.N.Loughborough

Q & A on the Millennium Series: What will happen to the wicked?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: What will happen to the wicked at this time?

A: And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city...And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Revelation 20:9,12

Creation Moment 7/22/2020 - Mars Lesson?

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2Did our other solar system planets form by the same way via the Spirit of God?

"Mars may once have had an ocean – but only for a geological

blink of an eye, which puts a dampener on ideas that there is or was life on the Red Planet. That’s according to a new theory put forward by Tim Parker of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Signs that Mars was once rife with water litter the present-day surface, with numerous geological features that are difficult to explain if it was always the dry, dusty lo­cale we see today.

The trouble is that models of the ancient Mars climate struggle to match the conditions necessary to keep liquid water on the surface, which would require a thicker atmosphere. This atmosphere must have somehow been rapidly lost to leave Mars as we see it today."
NewScientist

IN the NEWS - Lesson from a "Christian" Podcast

Some of the Lessons from this podcast were:
1) The Influence on young people of LGBT nonsense in the Entertainment (and likely Social Media) arena.
2) The Dangers of  hard hearted "Christians" who sell out their God on LGBT topics presenting Scripture as having "Various" "Persepctives" thereby confusing the young searching God's Word on the Internet.
3) The fulfillment of Romans 1:32 on even the Home Front.

"The podcast episode is raw and heartbreaking. Jen Hatmaker, a

popular author and speaker, invited her daughter Sydney to discuss her homosexuality and spirituality. The open discussion was part of a special “A Moment of Pride” series on Hatmaker’s “For the Love” podcast.
“This is like a known fact in our family, and has been,” Hatmaker prefaced the podcast.
Sydney speaks of recognizing she was lesbian around 12 years old (12 years old!), having pretend crushes on boys, and finally understanding her sexuality thanks to “representation of gay people just in movies and stuff.”

She admits to struggling with confusion and, quite sadly, doing her

own comprehensive Bible study to understand varying perspectives.

Sydney explained, “I just remember trying to Google it, and one of the first resources that I found was just this person talking about various Christian perspectives on same-sex marriage. And they were kind of providing some different leaders who had said different things on it.”
The article mentioned those who were “loving, but unaffirming” and then linked to an article written by Jen Hatmaker at the time. Sydney said, after that moment, “I didn’t touch a Bible for years.”

Towards the end of the podcast, Hatmaker says that among her greatest regrets is not reconciling homosexuality and Christianity sooner. In her own words:

“So, it will just always be my greatest sadness that Dad and I

did not do our own work early enough so that you felt safe and beloved in your own family—or that we didn’t do our work in front of you even, that that was not something that we were talking about. He and I were, but we weren’t talking deeply about what we were learning and processing in front of you, and thus left you alone, and vulnerable, and scared. And I am so sorry. And I’m so sad. And if I could go back, I would change it. I would shake myself to life before you were even born, shake some sense into me. Like, ‘Look at this, look at what this is causing. Just look around, use your eyes, use your ears, use your brain, and use your heart.'”
“I would not change one molecule of you, not one. I’m so glad you’re gay, I’m so proud that you are free. I love that this is how you were made. I’m thrilled about your future,” Hatmaker concluded.

The words of Romans 1:32 are striking. “Though they know

God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.”
ChelsenVicari

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Rocks Streets of Seattle...Again

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;.. Romans 1:29

"On Sunday, what began as a peaceful protest in Seattle devolved into violent riots, vandalism, looting, and arson. Antifa rioters tore a devastating path through the city, smashing windows at the

municipal courthouse and at various businesses — including storefronts for Amazon Go, Starbucks, and Walgreens — they targeted both the West Precinct Police Station and the East Precinct Police Station.
They fired mortar-style fireworks at both stations, causing a fire in the East Precinct station.
According to the Incident Commander, individuals within this group appeared to be very organized and this appeared to be a very concerted effort at property damage of certain businesses and government facilities....another group showed up, wielding baseball bats. As the group (likely antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters) marched south, individuals within the group broke windows and tagged buildings with paint. The group headed south to the Seattle Police Headquarters and Seattle Municipal Court where they broke windows and spray painted both buildings.
Multiple officers were injured by the fireworks thrown at them."
PJMedia 

Q & A on the Millennium Series: What Will Lucifer Do After the 1,000 Years?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: After the thousand years, when the wicked are raised, what will

Satan do?

Q: And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Revelation 20:7,8

SDA Issues: What has been going on at Andrews?

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16

"Andrews seminary student and Mdiv recipient Paul-Anthony Turner, who also attended Southern Adventist University, recently shared on his Facebook page a letter from the Middletown SDA in Louisville, KY.

According to the letter, the Middletown Church elders and Pastor informed Paul that because of his theological views (Turner claims to be gay/homosexual), he would not be given church leadership roles.

Indignant, Turner made this letter public on Friday, posting it on his Facebook page.  He also invited readers to repost and/or share “anything  I‘ve discussed.”

What are some of the public views that Turner (who claims to be celibate) espouses regarding human sexuality?  Here is a sample:

• “Queer Eye is an indispensable theological resource for learning how & why to celebrate queerness in the Church.”
• “Because of how we LGBT+  people have been subjected to
  

  

  immense abuse by incessant theologizing about sin regarding our lives, even though I hold certain traditional biblical beliefs about marriage that have led me to choose to be celibate to honor God, I choose to focus the Church’s attention on the breadth and beauty of the queer experience so that it may learn increasingly to celebrate those aspects of queer experience that go unnoticed and unappreciated and with which it should logically have no problem.  I pray Christians gain a new concern for LGBT+ people, one of celebration, instead of obsession with debates over sin, no matter how important those conversations may be.”
• The church’s unwillingness to accept homosexuality is causing us to miss out on the “sacredness of queerness.”
• “The longer we debate, the longer we miss out on the sacredness in queerness. We are missing out on all the wonderful, necessary color queer people cannot help but bring into the Church, and it is one of our weak links.  Maybe that’s just me, but what do I know?  I’m just a gay.”
• “Bad theology #8: Adam & Eve were straight.”
• “Bad theology #5: Homosexuality is a sin.”
• “Bad theology #1: Adam & Eve, not Adam & Steve.”
• “Gayness is a corrective for straight toxicity”
• “The “BLM org vs. BLM fact” dichotomy is a DIStracting and DEtracting nonstarter—yet another (whether veiled or unrecognized) instance of distrust of Black people’s ability to protest correctly."  What is Marxism, how *specifically* does it manifest in the BLM org, and why is its influence bad?”
• “Edenic sexuality is not straightness.”
• “And leave my boy Karl [Marx] alone; he was (largely) right.”

In typical social media outrage fashion, there are calls on Turner’s page to complain to the NAD, the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference about Turner not being selected as a leader in the Middletown SDA Church."

Fulcrum7

'The faith of Jesus'

Here is the patience of the saints:

here are they that keep the commandments of God,

and the faith of Jesus.

Revelation 14:12

“ ‘The faith of Jesus.’ It is talked of, but not understood.

Q: What constitutes the faith of Jesus, that belongs to the third angel’s message?

A: Jesus becoming our sin-bearer

that He might become our sin-pardoning Savior.

--He was treated as we deserve to be treated.
--He came to our world and took our sins that we might take His righteousness.
*And faith in the ability of Christ to save us amply and fully and entirely is the faith of Jesus.”
Selected Messages, vol. 3, 172 E.G.W.

Creation Moment 7/21/2020 - TOI-1728b

NOTICE--all these exo-planets are unique in their own way...as if specially DESIGNED...Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God... Hebrews 11:3

"....astronomers have discovered and confirmed a warm super-

Neptune orbiting the red dwarf TOI-1728.....TOI-1728 is an inactive M0-type star located 198 light-years away in the large northern constellation of Camelopardalis.
Also cataloged as TIC 285048486 and UCAC4 774-029023, the star is smaller and less massive than the Sun and is 7.1 billion years old.
TOI-1728b is the largest transiting super-Neptune around an M-dwarf host."
SciNews

IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia Rocks Portland

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;.. Romans 1:29

"Portland protesters broke into the building of the local Police Association headquarters, setting it on fire late Saturday night, according to police.

Police have declared the gathering a riot and begun working to clear the downtown area.
In North Portland, the PNW Youth Liberation Front, an organized group that has been leading demonstrations over the course of the past two months, hosted a protest to demand the abolition of the Portland Police Bureau ....After an evening gathering at Peninsula Park, marchers headed south on Interstate Avenue, stretching out for about five blocks.
Two dumpsters that had been tipped onto their sides in the street were set on fire. Portland police declared the event a riot around 10:50 p.m."
IW

Afraid God Will Not Accept You?

"He
---gave Himself for our sins,
--that He might deliver us from this present evil world,
-according to the will of God and our Father." Galatians 1:4

Many people hesitate to make a start to serve the Lord, because

they fear that God will not accept them, and thousands who have been professed followers of Christ for years are still doubting their acceptance with God.

For the benefit of such I write, and I would not bewilder their minds with speculations, but will endeavor to give them the simple assurances of God's word.

"Will the Lord receive me?"

I reply by another question:

Will a man receive that which He has bought?"

E.J.Waggoner

Q & A on the Millennium Series: What Comes Down at the end of the Millennium?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q: What will come down from heaven to earth at the close of the thousand years?

A: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband....And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God...
Revelation 21:2,10

Creation Moment 7/20/2020 - Pluto Lesson?

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Genesis 1:2
Did our other solar system planets form by the same way via the Spirit of God?

“Because water expands when it freezes and contracts when it

melts, the hot-start and cold-start scenarios have different implications for the tectonics and resulting surface features of Pluto,” added Carver Bierson, also from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz.
“If it started cold and the ice melted internally, Pluto would have contracted and we should see compression features on its surface, whereas if it started hot it should have expanded as the ocean froze and we should see extension features on the surface.”
“We see lots of evidence of expansion, but we don’t see any evidence of compression, so the observations are more consistent with Pluto starting with a liquid ocean.”
SciNews

ARCHAEOLOGY: Peek into Pre-Flood North America

And God made the beast of the earth after his kind... Genesis 1:25

"Dilophosaurus wetherilli was the largest animal known to have lived on land in North America during the Early Jurassic.

Despite its charismatic presence in pop culture, major aspects of Dilophosaurus wetherilli’s skeletal anatomy, taxonomy and evolutionary relationships were unknown until now.
"It’s pretty much the best, worst-known dinosaur. Until this study, nobody knew what Dilophosaurus wetherilli looked like...,” said study lead author Dr. Adam Marsh, a paleontologist in the Jackson School of Geosciences.
Early descriptions characterize Dilophosaurus wetherilli as having a fragile crest and weak jaws, a description that influenced the dinosaur’s depiction in the Jurassic Park book and movie as a svelte dinosaur that subdued its prey with venom.
But the study authors found the opposite. The jawbones show signs of serving as scaffolding for powerful muscles. They also found that some bones were mottled with air pockets, which would have helped reinforce the skeleton, including its dual crest.
“They’re kind of like bubble wrap — the bone is protected and strengthened,” Dr. Marsh said.
Skeletons of this species were collected from the middle and lower

part of the Kayenta Formation in the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona. Redescription of the holotype, referred, and previously undescribed specimens of Dilophosaurus wetherilli supports the existence of a single species of crested, large-bodied theropod in the Kayenta Formation.
The parasagittal nasolacrimal crests are uniquely constructed by a small ridge on the nasal process of the premaxilla, dorsoventrally expanded nasal, and tall lacrimal that includes a posterior process behind the eye."
SciNews

SDA Issues: Pippenger's Spiritual Mental Abuse of his Cult

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
Matthew 24:11

Well now that their (Future For America & Pippinger's) nutty

False Prophecy of the nuking of Nashville on 7/18/20 has proven to be, well, a FALSE PROPHECY---I discovered this FALSE PROPHECY and spiritual mental abuse of their followers on their website about their 1996 False claims about the dragon, beast and false prophet---

".....but we discovered just before September 7th that in 1996 there

was three satanic media outlets formalized one of them was Fox News the false prophet of Bible prophecy the other one was CNN the dragon of Bible prophecy and the third one was eternal world television network the media outlet the largest Catholic media

outlet in the world and we put that in the public record on September 7th under the title of the sermon was hiding Mother Angelica..."

FutureForAmerica 

Q & A on the Millennium Series: Will the Wicked Live Again?

Millennium Q & A from Steps To Life...

Q:  Will the “rest of the dead” (the wicked who were not resurrected, along with those who were slain at Jesus’ second coming) ever live again?

A: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
Revelation 20:5

IN the NEWS - God's "Biosphere 1" vs. Manmade "Bioshphere 2"

--Biosphere 1--

And God saw every thing that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good.

Genesis 1:31

--Biosphere 2--

"In the 1990s, a troupe of hippies spent two years sealed inside a dome called Biosphere 2.......the outside world – Biosphere 1, if you prefer....Looking back, it’s amazing that Biosphere 2 even happened at all.

They ended up starving
and gasping for breath .

As a new documentary Spaceship Earth tells their story, we meet the ‘biospherians’.

Biosphere 2’s origins lie in late-1960s San Francisco, and a man named John P Allen. Already in his 40s by then, Allen was something of a renaissance man: a Harvard graduate, a metallurgist, a union organiser, a beat poet, and a traveller studying indigenous cultures. He founded an idealistic performance group called the Theatre of All Possibilities. As the name suggests, they wanted to change the world but weren’t sure where to start. Art? Business? Ecology? Technology? In classic counterculture fashion, they decided: “Let’s do all of it!”

They turned their desert ranch into a self-sufficient homestead, planting trees and raising buildings, including a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome.

In 1975, they even decided to build a ship. Their chief designer was a 19-year-old student with no experience of boatbuilding, but it proved perfectly seaworthy. They sailed around the world for several years, researching the Earth’s ecosystems.
Having learned how these worked, they were ready to build their own. If humankind was going to settle other planets, they reasoned, it would need to learn how to replicate Earth.

The Biosphere 2 launch was staged like a space mission. The media descended on the $150m Arizona facility, all gleaming white panels and ziggurats of glass, filled with forests, deserts, laboratories, recycling systems, pigs, chickens, hummingbirds, bush babies, and even a coral reef. There were speeches and fireworks as the jumpsuited volunteers sealed themselves in for the two-year journey into the unknown.

After a stable start, problems began to emerge. Food, for one. “We really could have used more calories,” says Linda Leigh, another biospherian.
Leigh had been involved with stocking Biosphere 2 with wild plants, but many of the food crops were too slow or too labor-intensive to be worthwhile. The wild coffee bushes took a fortnight to produce enough for one cup.
Rather than luxuriating in a Garden of Eden, the biospherians became more like subsistence farmers. There was a lot of beetroot and sweet potato. “It was a challenge to make exciting meals,” says Leigh. Everyone lost a lot of weight.

On top of that, oxygen levels decreased faster than anticipated, with

a corresponding build-up of carbon dioxide. Earth’s atmosphere is about 21% oxygen, but inside the biosphere it fell to 14.2 %. “It felt like mountain-climbing,” Nelson recalls. “Some of the crew started getting sleep apnoea. I noticed I couldn’t finish a long sentence without stopping and taking a breath of air. We worked in a kind of slow-motion dance, with no energy wasted. If the oxygen levels had dropped any lower, there could have been serious health issues.”

Understandably, morale deteriorated. Living under biosphere conditions was a challenge at the best of times. If the coronavirus lockdown feels restrictive, imagine spending two years with the same seven people and no internet. Nelson likens it to “a marathon group therapy session”. Added to which, true to their theatrical origins, the biospherians were on permanent display. Coachloads of tourists and schoolchildren arrived daily to tap on the glass and take pictures of the emaciated crew. Leigh remembers anthropologist Jane Goodall coming to visit. “She observed us like we were captive primates.”

Biosphere 2’s difficulties had not gone unnoticed, though Allen and the team had tried to conceal them. Eventually extra food was smuggled in and two oxygen pop-ups followed."
Guardian