And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Creation Moment 7/4/2022 - about one bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb years

"On 30 June 1860, there occurred an event which, in the minds of
many people, was the turning point for the public acceptance of the theory of evolution in its confrontation with Christianity. This event was the debate between the agnostic Thomas Huxley, who came to be known as ‘Darwin’s bulldog’, and the Anglican Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, son of the famous anti-slavery politician, William Wilberforce. 

 
Wilberforce began the debate and, after making several scientific points, concluded with Paley’s argument that a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker, and similarly design in nature implies the existence of a Designer.
Huxley then arose and is said to have put forward his now well-known argument that six eternal monkeys or apes typing on six eternal typewriters with unlimited amounts of paper and ink could, given enough time, produce a Psalm, a Shakespearean sonnet, or even a whole book, purely by chance that is, by random striking of the keys.
In the course of his presentation Huxley pretended to find the 23rd Psalm among the reams of written gibberish produced by his six imaginary apes at their typewriters.  

Let us imagine a special typewriter, ‘user-friendly’ to apes, with 50 keys, comprised of 26 capital letters, 10 numbers, one space bar, and 13 symbols for punctuation, etc. For the sake of simplicity we shall disregard lower-case letters and settle for typing all to be in capitals, and we shall disregard leap years.
 
Q: How long would it take an operator, on the average, to correctly type the 23rd Psalm, by randomly striking keys? To obtain the answer, let us first consider the first verse of the Psalm, which reads: ‘THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WANT.’
 
According to the Multiplication Rule of Probability (in simplified form) the chance of correctly typing the three designated letters ‘THE’ from possibilities is 1 in 50 x 50 x 50, which equals 125,000. At a rate of one strike per second, the average time taken to make 125,000 strikes is 34.72 hours.
The chance of randomly typing the eight keys (seven letters and one space) in the right sequence for the two words THE LORD is 1 in 50 x 50 … eight times (i.e. 508). This is 1 chance in 39,062 billion. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year, so the average time taken in years to make 39,062 billion strikes at the rate of one strike per second would be 1,238,663.7 years.
The time taken on the average to correctly type the whole of verse 1 of the 23rd Psalm, which contains 42 letters, punctuation, and spaces, would be 5042 divided by 31,536,000 (seconds in a year), which is 7.2 x 1063 years.
And the time taken on the average to correctly type the whole of the 23rd Psalm, made up of 603 letters, verse numbers, punctuation, and spaces, would be 50603 divided by 31,536,000 which is 9.552 x 101016 years. 
If the letter ‘b’ stands for billion (109), this could be written as about one bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb years.
By comparison, the evolutionists’ age of the Earth is (only) 4.6 billion years, and the evolutionists’ age of the universe is (only) almost 15 billion years." CMI

Saturday, July 2, 2022

Jeremiah on the Laodicean State of the Church

 
Neither say they in their heart, 
Let us now fear the LORD our God, 
that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: 
he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest
Your iniquities have turned away these things, 
and your sins have withholden good things from you
For among my people are found wicked men: 
they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; 
they set a trap, they catch men. 
     The prophets prophesy falsely, 
         and the priests bear rule by their means; 
and my people love to have it so: 
and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 5:24-26,31

Franco-Prussian War Influence on Nietzsche's Warped Worldview

 ....and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21

"Nietzsche served in the Prussian forces during the Franco-Prussian
War
(1870–1871) as a medical orderly. In his short time in the military, he experienced much and witnessed the traumatic effects of battle.
In January 1889 he suffered a complete mental breakdown which rendered him an invalid for the rest of his life.
 
Nietzsche’s views on war apparently changed after he performed paramedical duties during the Franco-Prussian War. Or did he merely oppose Prussian attitudes? Most fail to understand that all the Germanic (Teutonic, Frankish, Swedish, Viking, Norse) people are instinctively soldiers, or marines (like Vikings). Clausewitz considered war to be “politics by other means.” If death is inevitable, is it not better to die on the battlefield, and thence, to Valhalla?
Nietzsche is a disciple of Heraclitues who said, “War is the father of all things.”

Nietzsche on war:
Why war is necessary:
War essential. It is vain rhapsodizing and sentimentality to
continue to expect much (even more, to expect a very great deal) from mankind, once it has learned not to wage war. For the time being, we know of no other means to imbue exhausted peoples, as strongly and surely as every great war does, with that raw energy of the battleground, that deep impersonal hatred, that murderous coldbloodedness with a good conscience, that communal, organized ardor in destroying the enemy, that proud indifference to great losses, to one’s own existence and to that of one’s friends, that muted, earthquakelike convulsion of the soul
.” (HAH, 477)
For Nietzsche, To prepare oneself: “One must learn from war … one must learn to sacrifice many and to take one’s cause seriously enough not to spare men.” (WP, 982).

And predictive of coming times:

I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about
to begin
, which will restore honor to courage above all. For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require one day—the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
” (GS, 283)."
StephenHicks

Hartford City, IN Obituary Lesson: He was Just Reading a Newspaper [1899]

  To day if ye will hear his voice
harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.  
Hebrews 3:15/James 4:14
 
"WILLIAM PUGH,
Hartford City, Ind., April 17, -William Pugh, aged fifty-six years,
one of the pioneer residents of Harrison township, dropped dead last evening at 4 o'clock, while reading a newspaper
He was one of the best known farmers in the county. 
In 1849 the settled in Harrison township and lived there until his death. 
He was a soldier of the rebellion and enlisted in Company B, Thirty-
fourth Indiana Infantry
He was a member of James Cartright Post, G. A. R., and was one of the organizers of the post at Montpelier. 
His death was due to heart failure. 
 [The Weekly Indiana State Journal, (Indianapolis, IN) Wednesday, April 19, 1899 - Submitted by Candi]."

IN the NEWS - Pro-Abortionist [home made] Flame Thrower Attack

Without understanding...without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Romans 1:31
 
"The Los Angeles Police Department said 30-year-old Michael Ortiz
attacked an officer with a torch, sending the officer to the hospital with burn injuries.
The attack happened during protests staged in downtown Los Angeles following the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Bottles, rocks and fireworks were seen thrown at officers during a later portion of the protest.
Ortiz was booked into jail where he awaits charges for attempted murder of a police officer, LAPD said. He remains in custody as of Saturday night with bail set at $1 million, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department inmate roster." KTLA5

Creation Moment 7/3/2022 - Where Life Matters

Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. Numbers 12:12

"The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs is one of the most monumental in decades. As such, it deserves more attention than usual on our creation-evolution site, because it touches on a central worldview issue: 
Q:
who are we? 
Q: What is man? 
Q: Are we created in the image of God, or products of chance evolution descended from screeching apes? 
 
Nowhere is worldview more urgent than in questions of life and death. 
Q: If creation doesn’t matter when it comes to life, where exactly does it matter? 
 
---Even before the final Supreme Court decision was announced, radical pro-abortion activists were 
rioting, 
chanting, 
shouting, 
harassing justices 
and even threatening one of the justices with murder. 
 
They were attacking crisis pregnancy centers with graffiti, vandalism and threats. One such center was firebombed and burned to the ground. 
Q: Why are they being targeted? 
No woman is forced to go to them."
CEH

Friday, July 1, 2022

Time of the Plagues

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image. Revelation 16:1,2

"The description of the first plague clearly reveals at one the time
when it shall fall upon the earth, for it is poured out upon those who have the mark of the beast, and who worship his image-the very work against which the third angels warns us. 
---This is conclusive proof that these judgments are not poured out until after this angel closes his work, and that the class who hear his warning and reject it, are the ones to receive the first drops from the overflowing vials of God's indignation."
Uriah Smith

Longing for Fresh Flowers Planted

 The voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Genesis 3:8
 
"MY soul, now that the cool of the day has come, retire awhile and hearken to the voice of thy God. He is always ready to speak with thee when thou art prepared to hear. 
---If there be any slowness to commune it is not on His part, but altogether on thine own, for He stands at the door and knocks, and if His people will but open He rejoices to enter. 
 
Q: But in what state is my heart, which is my Lord's garden
May I venture to hope that it is 
well trimmed and watered, 
and is bringing forth fruit fit for Him? 
 
---Come, therefore, O Lord, my God, my soul invites Thee earnestly, and waits for Thee eagerly. 
 
Come to me, O Jesus, my well-beloved, and plant fresh flowers in
my garden
, such as I see blooming in such perfection in Thy matchless character
Come, O my Father, who art the Husbandman, and deal with me in Thy tenderness and prudence! 
Come, O Holy Spirit, and bedew my whole nature, as the herbs are now moistened with the evening dews. 
---O that God would speak to me. 
Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth! 
 
Sweet is the cool twilight, when every star seems like the eye of heaven, and the cool wind is as the breath of celestial love." Charles Spurgeon

"Baleful Results" are of a Wrong Marriage Choice

"But the marriage of Christians with the ungodly is forbidden in the Bible. The Lord's direction is, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers." 2 Corinthians 6:14, 17, 18
While Abraham required his children to respect parental authority, his daily life testified that that authority was not a selfish or arbitrary control, but was founded in love, and had their welfare and happiness in view.
What a contrast between the course of Isaac and that pursued by the youth of our time, even among professed Christians! Young people too often feel that the bestowal of their affections is a matter in which self alone should be consulted--a matter that neither God nor their parents should in any wise control.  
Long before they have reached manhood or womanhood they think themselves competent to make their own choice, without the aid of their parents. 
A few years of married life are usually sufficient to show them their error, but often too late to prevent its baleful results.
If there is any subject which should be carefully considered and in which the counsel of older and more experienced persons should be sought, it is the subject of marriage; if ever the Bible was needed as a counselor, if ever divine guidance should be sought in prayer, it is before taking a step that binds persons together for life." E.G.W.

Creation Moment 7/2/2022 - SCUBE3

 "Messengers" smack of DESIGN, not Random Chance over eons of time....for how/why would hair appear/grow along a supposedly evolutionary chain of events in the first place?...Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven. Judges 16:22

 "SCUBE3 potently stimulates hair growth and may offer a therapeutic treatment for androgenetic alopecia.
Dermal papilla cells are specialized signal-making fibroblasts at the bottom of each hair follicle.
The production of activating molecules by the dermal papilla cells is critical for efficient hair growth in mice and humans.
In people with androgenetic alopecia, dermal papilla cells malfunction, greatly reducing the normally abundant activating molecules.
At different times during the hair follicle life cycle, the very same dermal papilla cells can send signals that either keep follicles dormant or trigger new hair growth,” said Professor Maksim Plikus.
We revealed that the SCUBE3 signaling molecule, which dermal papilla cells produce naturally, is the messenger used to ‘tell’ the neighboring hair stem cells to start dividing, which heralds the onset of new hair growth.”
SciNews

2 Characteristics of God

'The true God is distinguished from false gods by two special characteristics: 
He can create and He can save
The false gods can do neither. 
 
So we read again in Jeremiah 10:10-12: "But the Lord is the true
God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king.... The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, he hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
"
 
 He who can create can redeem
He who can redeem can create
But the one who cannot create cannot redeem." 
W.W. Prescott

IN the NEWS - PURE EVIL just a 2 minute drive from my house....

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. 
He was a murderer from the beginning, ... John 8:44
 
"James L. Bonewits, 27, faces two counts of Murder and two counts of Attempted Murder related to the violence that unfolded around 7:20 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of Whitelock Street, near the county fairgrounds.
So many people in Huntington are still shocked after a quadruple stabbing happened in the city leaving a couple dead. Family members are remembering them and calling for justice.
Katelyn and Danny England were fatally stabbed in Huntington Thursday night. 
Police say two other people were stabbed as well and are in critical
condition. Katelyn’s sister, Jessica Houston, says the couple was loving and cared for so many. She says they’re leaving behind a four-year-old son and 2-year-old triplets.
 
Huntington City Police say it all happened Thursday night when they received a call about a stabbing in a home on Whitelock Street. Police arrested the suspect 27-year-old James Bonewits for the crime Friday morning. 
He was first seen in court Monday.
 
--When officers arrived and found a woman on the ground in front of a home suffering from multiple stab wounds, and a man on a back porch with a severe cut to his arm and a large laceration to his chest.
The man – identified as Danny England – was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman – Katelyn (Huddleston) England – would die at a hospital later.
 
--Inside the back door of a home, another man – Beau Williamson – was found with numerous cuts to his torso. “I don’t want to die,” he said repeatedly, the affidavit said.
 
--Another man was found on the floor of a bathroom also suffering from numerous cuts to his torso. Terry Saulmon II told investigators he heard screaming and found his neighbor on the ground outside and when he went outside a man with “dark scraggly hair” and dark facial hair attacked him with knives with orange handles, the affidavit said.
 
About an hour before the violence on Whitelock Street, a suspicious person report was made in Bluffton, “with a male fitting our suspect’s description,” the affidavit said. In that situation, police were called to the Family Farm and Home store on a report that a man was there holding two orange-handled knives, the affidavit said.
The man drove off in a silver sedan before police arrived.
Police were able to find the suspect’s vehicle with traffic footage, and found it was registered to Bonewits
 
--Around 9 p.m. then, police in Madison County received a report about a suspicious vehicle that was parked in a vacant property. Deputies were told a male parked a silver Impala there and walked toward a wood line.
When police arrived, inside the vehicle, they found two knives with orange handles and blood on them sitting in the car, the affidavit said.
--Around 10 a.m. the next morning, Bonewits was found in a field in Madison County. His clothing was stained in blood, the affidavit said. He was taken into custody and later transported back to Huntington County." WANEtv

The "Really" File - ("privileged professionals" as Mermaids)

 The Fallen state of mankind.....
 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; Psalm 73:12

"As reported by The Associated Press, “mermaiding” subculture is
making a monstrous splash.
The outlet profiles Queen Pangke Tabora, who’s made the transition to life under the sea. In 2019, the former insurance company employee put on a pair of fins and was hooked.
 
[Queen Pangke describes] the experience of gliding under water, half-human and half-fish, as “meditation in motion.” … “The world outside is really noisy, and you will find peace under water.
 
For the transgender Filipina woman approaching middle age, seeing her legs encased in vibrant scaly-looking neoprene…was the
From the "Really" File

realization of a childhood dream. “The feeling was mermai-zing,” [Queen Pangke] said one recent morning while lounging in a fiery red tail on a rocky beach south of Manila, where she now teaches mermaiding and freediving full-time.
 
Across the world, there are thousands more merfolk like her — at its simplest, humans of all shapes, genders and backgrounds who enjoy dressing up as mermaids. In recent years, a growing number have gleefully flocked to mermaid conventions and competitions, formed local groups called “pods,” launched mermaid magazines and poured their savings into a multimillion-dollar mermaid tail industry.
 
When mermaiding first started to catch on, most tails for sale were custom-made silicone creations that weigh up to 50 pounds, cost upwards of $6,000 and take a surprising amount of time and lubricant to wrestle into. But over the past few years, the increasing availability of cheaper, lighter fabric options — some of which sell for less than $100 — has transformed the mermaiding community from an exclusive enclave for privileged professionals into an achievable dream for the wider public.
 
It is…inspiring to (transgender) merfolk like Che Monique, the
Washington, D.C.-based founder of the Society of Fat Mermaids, which promotes body-positive mermaiding. “I’m a 300-pound Black mermaid in America over 35, and hopefully that tells somebody they can do whatever they want to do,” says Monique, whose group sells shirts that read ‘Fat mermaids make waves’ and ‘Gender is fluid under the sea.
 
Mermaid Nymphia grew up as a male-presenting child of the 1990s,
and gender norms dashed her dream of dressing up as her idol, Ariel. Years later, as an adult transgender woman, her dream was finally realized when her mother helped her sew her first mermaid costume. “With transgender and nonbinary merfolk, they often connect with that mentality where you’re not quite sure which world you belong in, but you’re able to be this alluring creature of the sea and live as your most authentic self,” Nymphia says. “I know a lot of people who have found their gender identity, myself included, through mermaiding.”
 
 “As transgender, it’s a transition,” [Queen Pangke] says. “It’s like in the sea, everything evolves.” Redstate
REALLY?

Creation Moment 7/1/2022 - Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses

And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint..
Genesis 25:30
 
"Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.
 ---When food has been in short supply for a long time and body weight falls below a critical threshold, the brain reduces its energy consumption by changing how it processes information.

When our phones and computers run out of power, their glowing
screens go dark and they die a sort of digital death. But switch them to low-power mode to conserve energy, and they cut expendable operations to keep basic processes humming along until their batteries can be recharged. Our energy-intensive brain needs to keep its lights on too. Brain cells depend primarily on steady deliveries of the sugar glucose, which they convert to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to fuel their information processing. When we’re a little hungry, our brain usually doesn’t change its energy consumption much.

What you’re getting in this low-power mode is more of a low-resolution image of the world,” said Zahid Padamsey, the first author of the new study.

If you’ve ever felt that you can’t focus on a task when you’re hungry — or that all you can think about is food — the neural evidence backs you up. Work from a few years ago confirmed that short-term hunger can change neural processing and bias our attention in ways that may help us find food faster." 
Quanta/AllisonWhitten

IN the NEWS - Dinner is Served: Green Religion Menu

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Psalm 146:3
 
"A Canadian company says it will produce 9000 tons of insects per year for human and pet consumption after completing
construction of the world’s biggest cricket food processing center.
Yep, Canada is now the epicentre of bug eating.
The Aspire Food Group says it will produce roughly two billion crickets every year for your delection.
A report from Canadian Manufacturing states that “Crickets are currently being explored as a protein-rich superfood. They contain fibre and are already found in grocery stores and restaurants, and have a smaller environmental footprint than traditional protein sources.”
The move is the latest in a growing trend of pushing bug eating on the masses as a way of saving the planet."
SummitNews

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