On the Streets of Babylon: Homoerotic Dancing in Church?

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 

Come out of her, my people,

Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems to be some "Homoerotic" Dancing on the Streets of Babylon....

"A service in Germany celebrating a Catholic priest’s recent ordination featured a homoerotic dance.

The newly ordained Fr. Fabian Ploneczka, 33, of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese, celebrated his first Mass on Sunday, July 15 at his home church of St. Moritz in Augsburg. The Mass was preceded by

three evening services, dubbed a “Triduum,” in the church, focusing on subjects of interest to the new priest. The events included a Saturday evening service dedicated to the theme of eroticism in the Christian faith.

According to the Augsburger Allgemeine, the worship service included the premiere of a ballet entitled “Jeremiah: Passion of the Prophet”, featuring ballet dancer Clemens Fröhlich of Munich and a narrated libretto written by Ploneczka himself. Observers told the German “Katholische Nachrichten”(kath.net) news site that the dancer performed dressed only in tight, skin-colored underpants.

“The whole church became a dance floor, even the altar area,” kath.net reported. “There the dancer took the Gospel in his hand, stepped almost naked to the ambo, and lolled suggestively in front of the altar.”

Afterwards Fr. Thomas Steiger of Tübingen, a pastor and radio personality, gave a talk on the “eroticism of the faith,” speaking of “a sensual love for Jesus.”
According to kath.net, a young man interrupted the service by shouting that everyone should undress and began to follow his own advice, standing up to display his naked torso. Some of the attendees, among whom were children, left early.
“Worshipers told kath.net that there was a clearly homophile, yes, homoerotic event in a consecrated church,” the news site reported."
Lifesite

Parable of the Sower Series: SUMMARY

"Because of its simplicity the parable of the sower has not been valued as it should be.

From the natural seed cast into the soil,

Christ desires to lead our minds to the gospel seed,

the sowing of which results in bringing man back to his loyalty to God.

 The sower sowed his seed.
Christ taught the truth because He was the truth.

His own thought,

His character,

His life-experience,

were embodied in His teaching.

So with His servants: those who would teach the word are to make it their own by a personal experience.

----He desires us to

meditate upon His love and mercy,

to study His wonderful work in the great plan of redemption.

The only hope for these souls is to realize in themselves the truth of Christ's words to Nicodemus, "Ye must be born again." "Except a man be born from above, he can not see the kingdom of God." John 3:7, 3."
Christ Object Lessons p.33,60 E.G.W.

The 1,2,3 of Bible Uniqueness

"Surviving countless attacks and criticisms,

continuing as the world’s best seller,

the Bible has been examined and cross-examined far more than any other book ever written.

1. When I examine the Bible, I see that the Bible claims to be inspired by God. “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). The literal meaning of the Greek word translated “inspiration of God” is breathed out by God or God-breathed. This claim is unique and sets the Bible apart from the vast body of world literature.

2. When I examine the Bible, I observe that, the critics’ claims notwithstanding, the Bible is amazingly consistent with itself. There is a grand procession throughout. This fact is actually very compelling when it is recognized that the Bible consists of 66 separate books written by approximately 40 different writers with varying and diverse backgrounds. Most of these writers never knew each other personally, making collusion in the composition of the Bible impossible. 
The finished picture becomes visible upon examination of the various New Testament writings. Added to this is the fact that these New Testament writers had no control over the work of the Old Testament writers who foretold these matters. How is this explainable absent divine intervention?

3. When I examine the Bible I see objectivity.... this is surprising if the writing of the book was not superintended by God.  The Bible relates both the good and the bad concerning its heroes. That is not typical of human works, although it can sometimes be accomplished with concerted, strained effort. But given the multiplicity of Bible writers, it would be difficult to explain how all of them succeeded in such objectivity."
RobertC.Veil,J.D.

What to Be...

Be ye therefore merciful,

as your Father also is merciful .

Luke 6:36 

"Mercy is an attribute that the human agent may share with God, thus cooperating with Him.

Mercy is kind, pitiful.
Mercy and the love of God purify the soul and beautify the heart, cleansing the life from selfishness.

Mercy implies the imperfection of the object upon which it is bestowed.
Because of man's imperfection, mercy was brought into active existence.

Sin is not the object of God's love,

but of His hatred.

Yet He pities the sinner, because the guilty one bears the Creator's image.

God's love and mercy are ever extended toward sinners.

 

Shall men who themselves have sinned against God,

refuse to forgive and accept a repentant sinner?"

That I May know Him p.47 E.G.W.

Creation Moment 7/27/2018 - Our Moon = DESIGNER

When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained;
Psalm 8:3
"The earth is the only terrestrial planet with a relatively large satellite. None of the outer planets have a satellite so close to its own size, either. While it’s true that the moon is smaller than the earth, the other planets’ satellites are many thousands of times smaller than their respective planets.

Here’s what is interesting. Most major satellites orbit on a plane that matches the planet’s rotation along its equator. (Again, Triton is an exception.) Many minor satellites orbit this way too, though some have extreme elliptical orbits with odd paths around their planet—some like Triton even revolve backward with respect to their planet’s rotation. The moon doesn’t fit any of these categories.
However, the moon orbits on a plane that nearly matches the plane of the earth’s revolution around the sun. No other satellite orbits in the same plane that its planet revolves around the sun. Not one out of 175.

This fact has a profound effect on the earth, suggesting design. The earth needs to maintain its tilt in order to have the changing seasons and keep temperatures fairly balanced around the globe. But other bodies in the solar system exert a small gravitational pull that slowly tends to tweak the earth’s axial tilt. Left unchecked, the earth’s tilt would gradually change.

.....the moon’s unique large size compared to earth and its unique orbit in the same plane that the earth orbits the sun.
These two factors combine to allow the moon to stabilize the earth’s tilt to within two degrees. Both factors must be in play for this stabilizing force to work. This is the only planet where this is possible, and since life appears unique to earth, this is the only planet where it matters." AIG

Parable of the Sower Series: In Good Ground

"Christ said, "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Mark 2:17. He has an honest heart who yields to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. He confesses his guilt, and feels his need of the mercy and love of God. He has a sincere desire to know the truth, that he may obey it.

He trembles at the word; for to him it is a living reality. He opens his understanding and his heart to receive it.
A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose, the simplicity of an earnest, dependent faith.
The word of God often comes in collision with man's hereditary and cultivated traits of character and his habits of life. But the good-ground hearer, in receiving the word, accepts all its conditions and requirements. His habits, customs, and practices are brought into submission to God's word."

"Good ground - That which had depth of mould, was well ploughed, and well weeded.
Is he that heareth - Who diligently attends the ministry of the word.
And understandeth it - Lays the subject to heart, deeply weighing its nature, design, and importance.
Which also beareth fruit - His fruitfulness being an almost necessary consequence of his thus laying the Divine message to heart. Let it be observed, that to hear, to understand, and to bring forth fruit, are the three grand evidences of a genuine believer."
Christ Object Lessons E.G.W./AdamClarke

IN the NEWS - The Real Question

The Real Question: WHO typed in dog 19 times to begin with???
That's what I want to know.....
"If a user of Google Translate keys in "dog" 19 times, when

translating from Maori to English, a message about the end times and the return of Jesus will appear.
"Doomsday Clock is three minutes at twelve," Google Translate's translation reads.
"We are experiencing characters and a dramatic developments in the world, which indicate that we are increasingly approaching the end times and Jesus' return."
The Maori language is the tongue of the indigenous people of New Zealand.
The Christian Post entered "dog" 19 times into Google Translate, using Maori as the detected language as other users have done, and received the same response."
CP
How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?
Psalm 137:4

IN the NEWS - Inventing Evil Things: Exhibit A

....inventors of evil things...Romans 1:30
"Teen Vogue published a story in which the writer argued abortion "can be funny." Now, as Argentina's Senate prepares to vote next

month on legislation that would legalize abortion until the 14th week of pregnancy, one developer has created a video game that grotesquely mocks the pro-life movement.

According to Kotaku, the object of the graphic game—"Doom Fetito"—is for players to procure an abortion-inducing drug called misoprostol. In order to obtain the abortifacient, players have to defeat Nazi-like police officers, pro-life women and priests, all of whom they can kill."

Tre Goins-Phillips/Faithwire

Creation Moment 7/26/2018 - "Factors"?

Gird up now thy loins like a man;

for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Job 38:3

"Factors that shaped evolution (Science Daily). “Understanding the many factors that have played into shaping the biodiversity within Earth’s ecosystems can be daunting,” this paper begins, but then claims that a group of international scientists helped identify “many of the fundamental factors that drive evolutionary adaptation and extinction.”

How did they solve this daunting task? They developed a computer simulation.

Needless to say, minds use intelligence to program computers, but nature (in the Darwinian view) has no such resource. If programmers know what they need to see, can’t they rig it to succeed? Besides, their simulation is so broad, trying to simulate “cradles, museums and graves” of organisms (which originate, stabilize and go extinct, respectively), the model does little more than restate their beliefs. Do they explain how a mountain range caused a particular bird or mammal to appear in a particular niche? Of course not; it would be impossible to sort through all the factors. The study accomplishes little more than providing them an opportunity to pontificate about climate change."
CEH

Parable of the Sower Series: Among Thorns

"The gospel seed often falls among thorns and noxious weeds; and if there is not a moral transformation in the human heart, if old habits and practices and the former life of sin are not left behind, if the attributes of Satan are not expelled from the soul, the wheat crop will be choked. The thorns will come to be the crop, and will kill out the wheat.
Grace can thrive only in the heart that is being constantly prepared for the precious seeds of truth. The thorns of sin will grow in any soil; they need no cultivation; but grace must be carefully cultivated. The briers and thorns are always ready to spring up, and the work of purification must advance continually.
Christ specified the things that are dangerous to the soul. As recorded by Mark He mentions
--the cares of this world,

--the deceitfulness of riches,
--and the lusts of other things.
Luke specifies the
--cares,
--riches, and
--pleasures of this life.
These are what choke the word, the growing spiritual seed. The soul ceases to draw nourishment from Christ, and spirituality dies out of the heart.
We are enjoined in the Scriptures to be "not slothful in business." Rom. 12:11. We are to labor that we may impart to him who needs. Christians must work, they must engage in business, and they can do this without committing sin. But many become so absorbed in business that they have no time for prayer, no time for the study of the Bible, no time to seek and serve God."

"Worldly cares are fitly compared to thorns, for they came in with sin....Worldly cares are great hindrances to our profiting by the word of God, and our proficiency in religion. They eat up that vigour of soul which should be spent in divine things divert us from duty, distract us in duty, and do us most mischief of all afterwards quenching the sparks of good affections."
Christ Object Lessons p.50,51 E.G.W./MatthewHenry

IN the NEWS - NYT goes to War on Leviticus

"Consider this past Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The most influential newspaper in the world, secular to its core and situated in the Gotham of secular New York, ran a opinion essay in its weekly “Review” section entitled “The Secret History of Leviticus.” Leviticus . . . in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times?

Just about every verse of Leviticus is offensive to the modern secular mind. Leviticus reveals a God who is both omnipotent and holy, a God who chooses Israel as his particular and personal covenant people, a God who drives out other nations in order to fulfill his promises to Israel, and a God who lays down commands about every dimension of human life, including human sexuality. Especially human sexuality.

As you might expect, sexuality was the issue at stake in the essay on Leviticus that appeared in Sunday’s edition of the Times.

Idan Dershowitz, identified as “a biblical scholar and junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows,” began by stating: “No text has had a greater influence on attitudes toward gay people than the biblical book of Leviticus, which prohibits sex between men.”

Indeed, Leviticus 18:22 is about as clear a prohibition of male homosexuality as can be imagined: “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”
An abomination is an object or act that God detests. It is the strongest word of divine judgment found in the Bible.

But Idan Dershowitz now argues–in The New York Times, no less–that the prohibition of men having sex with men is all based on the fact that a later editor (or redactor) changed the text of the Bible here. By the time Dershowitz has finished his argument, Leviticus 18:22 is explained away as being a deliberate effort by a redactor to change what had been permission for sex between men into a prohibition.

Dershowitz argues that Noah was never originally associated with the account of the flood, and that the original tragedy of divine judgment was drought and famine, later associated with Noah and changed into a flood. Get the pattern?" BCN

Christmas "in July" (One Small Child by David Meece)

Christmas "in July" (One Small Child by David Meece)
https://www.youtube.com/embed/bAQBXXF1GmM?list=PLT70zxsi10M-64a-OhIvmlu-1gD_UDzbs
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:14

Creation Moment 7/25/2018 - SSWD

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:22
"How California’s sea stars are evolving past a devastating pandemic (Phys.org).

In California, sea star wasting disease (SSWD) has had a devastating effect on a particular species of sea star, turning the “normally rigid body into a gooey blob.” Unchecked, the disease would have

driven the ochre sea star extinct, but some individuals of the species are surviving the epidemic (or “epizootic” as the paper in PNAS calls it).

Is this evolution in action? The article thinks so. “While it remains one of the worst marine pandemics ever recorded, the SSWD outbreak had an unexpected silver lining: It provided scientists with a natural experiment in evolution and an opportunity to explore how a species responds to a cataclysmic population collapse.”

At best, though, this is an example of microevolution that takes advantage of “standing genetic variation” – variability that already exists in the population.

The disease was specific enough to target only some existing variants. Others escaped. The biologists speak of “selection pressure” on the survivors, but that’s like saying wind creates selection pressure on falling leaves. Charles Darwin saw no more directionality to evolution than the way the wind blows." CEH

Parable of the Sower Series: In Stony Places

"The seed sown upon stony ground finds little depth of soil. The plant springs up quickly, but the root cannot penetrate the rock to find nutriment to sustain its growth, and it soon perishes.
Many who make a profession of religion are stony-ground hearers.

Like the rock underlying the layer of earth, the selfishness of the natural heart underlies the soil of their good desires and aspirations.
The love of self is not subdued. They have not seen the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and the heart has not been humbled under a sense of its guilt. This class may be easily convinced, and appear to be bright converts, but they have only a superficial religion.
As soon as the divine word comes to our hearts, God desires us to receive it; and it is right to accept it with joy. "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth." Luke 15:7. And there is joy in the soul that believes on Christ. But those who in the parable are said to receive the word immediately, do not count the cost. They do not consider what the word of God requires of them. They do not bring it face to face with all their habits of life."

"The saddest condition a man can be in is to sit under the most lively ordinances with a dead, stupid, untouched heart.
To hear God's word, and see his providences, and yet not to understand and perceive his will.
 Thus does God choose sinners' delusions (Isaiah 66:4), and bind them over to the greatest ruin, by giving them up to their own hearts' lusts (Psalm 81:11,12) let them alone (Hosea 4:17) my Spirit shall not always strive,... Genesis 6:3."
Christ's Object Lessons p.46,47 E.G.W./Matthew Henry

What is the new Hermeneutics?

What is the new Hermeneutics?
It is reading Scripture by NOT using Scripture to interpret Scripture...
In Summary:
It's entering into reading Scripture already Doubting......
...when Jesus perceived, he said unto them,
O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves,..
Matthew 16:8

The "Really" File - (Wisdomless "Wisdomless Club")

The "wisdomless club" is wisdomless alright....can you imagine Paul serving COCKTAILS at a bar with religious art as a tool for evangelism? Me neither....
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Proverbs 20:1

"While Rome always has been a city of beauty that highlights both the past and the present, a quaint and unusual bar nestled in the 

yes, this is the Wisdomless Club
Can anyone picture Paul in this?

heart of the Eternal City has taken that concept to new heights.
Located in Rome’s historic center, Wisdomless Club is known for serving up classic cocktails. But it also features 1930s decor interspersed with pieces of classical Christian art meant to awaken patrons’ attraction to beauty, Fabrizio Ghilardi, managing director, told Catholic News Service.
Beauty, like faith, isn’t meant to be imposed but rather experienced 

From the "Really" File

firsthand and as “a gift from God,” Ghilardi said. “You can either accept it or reject it.”
“There are some religious people who make proselytism their weapon, but that is a sectarian technique. I think, instead, that entering a place like this and seeing and participating in what is beautiful is attractive,” he said.
Wisdomless Club opened in February with a simple, yet elegant aesthetic featuring wood paneling, vintage chesterfield sofas, art and religious objects. Its name, Ghilardi said, is meant to be light-hearted self-deprecation; while the members are serious about faith and about life, they are at a bar, after all." CRUX

REALLY?

 

Creation Moment 7/24/2018 - Our "Unique" Place

Our UNIQUE earth, Our UNIQUE place within the Solar System---points to Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God,... Hebrews 11:3

"Even if you make it past the interplanetary radiation, you’re still confronted with any number of hazards, and they don’t stop once you land.

Here are a few places from your colonization dreams that might end up actual nightmares.
The Moon
Harrison Schmitt, an Apollo 17 crew member, called it “lunar hay fever,” according to a recent European Space Agency press release. The big culprit, ESA says, is the presence of silicates — a

group of silicon/oxygen compounds. Those compounds cause all of these symptoms in volcanic ash on Earth, and the Moon is littered with the stuff. But because there’s no oxygen on the Moon, the silicates on the surface aren’t eroded, making them even more dangerous: they can embed in and scar lung tissue more easily than their Earth-bound cousin. And not only is it a hazard to lunar explorers’ bodies, but it can also wear away at their equipment and spacesuits, too.
Mars
Sure, there’s water on the Red Planet. Mars’ strange and contentious “recurring slope lineae” have shown that. But these gully-like features mix a small amount of water in with a ton of perchlorates, a form of chlorine salts.
And that’s dangerous.
Perchlorates are incredibly toxic to humans. They’re cause for an industrial location to end up on the EPA’s Superfund site list here on Earth. Table salt — sodium chloride — is a non-toxic material. But perchlorates are chiefly made of carbon, oxygen and chlorine, which often fails to stabilize the toxic chlorine for Earth-life. Instead, you get a nasty kind of salt that can harm thyroid function, decrease bone marrow production, and damage lung tissue. Perchlorates also easily make their way into drinking water and food, which is bad if, say, you’re trying to grow potatoes in Martian soil.
Europa
Europa’s location: firmly within the radiation belts of Jupiter. Io and Europa are bombarded with lethal amounts of radiation. The future Europa Clipper mission even avoids orbiting Europa directly to lengthen the craft’s lifetime. If you landed Europa’s surface, the radiation dose would kill you — and anything else — within days.

Europa

Titan
 This planet-sized moon of Saturn looks much like early Earth. It has a thick atmosphere — the only moon known to have one so dense — and bodies of liquid all over the planet.
Except it’s all hydrocarbons. Where’s the water? If you manage to land on the surface of Titan water has been transformed into the rock all around you, frozen solid by frigid temperatures. And the pitter-patter of rain is actually a chemical closely resembling gasoline. Though the atmospheric pressure on Titan is higher than that of Earth, the actual hydrocarbon lakes are too thin to efficiently swim through. Oh, and it’s muddy everywhere.
Dig down, way, way far down, on Titan, though, and you might find a subterranean ocean of water. This means that Titan has two oceans, both closed off from each other, one on the surface and the other deep below. This could also mean Titan has two biospheres, as strange forms of nitrogen-based life using vinyl cyanide as cell walls could theoretically exist in the hydrocarbon lakes. If you stacked up all the potentially habitable places in the solar system together, the nitrogen life would easily be the most alien.
Ceres
 One of the biggest hurdles might be the abundance of ammonia on Ceres. All told, ammonia is 

Ceres

probably a lesser hazard than some of the others we’ve discussed, but it’s hard to separate ammonia from water, and exposure to it is harsh on your respiratory system.
So it might not be life friendly, but it’s certainly less out to kill you than Mars or the Moon.
Enceladus
The biggest hurdle is its gravity.
An Earth-sized hop on Enceladus could launch you 140 feet in the air. And at its south pole where Enceladus’ ocean is accessible, jets of frozen water vapor launch as high as 100 miles at a speed of 1,304 miles per hour.
So what’s causing those intense jets? Tidal forces from Saturn. That could make for some pretty intense waves on the ocean below. Imagine trying to navigate a submarine through intense, rough waves while risking getting swept up in a plume event. Sure, when you jump at Enceladus you might have a slow path back down, but an ejection at not-quite-escape-velocity could bring you smacking back down to the ice shell of Enceladus.
Outer Space
June 1971, the Soyuz 11 capsule and its three cosmonauts landed back on Earth after becoming the first mission to board humanity’s first space station. To their horror, the Russian space agency found the cosmonauts dead inside their spacecraft. Attempts to revive them didn’t work. They’d been exposed to the vacuum of space.
No astronaut is going to deliberately walk out an airlock, at least if they’re still in their right mind, which is not necessarily a guarantee. The Soyuz 11 crew are a good way to contrast the fact with the fiction of exposure to space. No, you don’t explode. Instead, you’re rapidly robbed of the air in your lungs, leading to asphyxiation. The official cause of death for the cosmonauts was brain hemorrhaging, as their systems had been rapidly robbed of oxygen. They didn’t die instantly either — they probably had one panicked minute as they died, as lactic acid levels, associated with stress — were extremely high.
After the accident, cosmonauts were given pressurized suits. While other space crews have died in the course of their mission, the Soyuz 11 crew remains the only one to die from exposure to the vacuum."
Astronomy

SDA Issues - That's a NO NO

Below are bits 'n pieces from the Adventist Review demonstrating, once again, that certain people are using our periodicals to promote their left wing political worldview that has NOTHING to do with Scripture.....on so-called "climate change", people hold different views and the Bible, no where, commands which side to take....These are people, like Schimpf-Torreblanca, Well &Holdsworth, who obviously dabble in leftist politics and want the church to be a mouthpiece for the DNC...
ESCHATOLOGY has NOTHING to do with the climate change debate -- except for maybe the point they missed as it relates to our end time worldview--that of using this climate scare to possibly help actually usher in the mark of the beast.
[click on Link for a Sermon by Emmanuel L. Nougaisse for an actual SDA view of how "climate change"/environmentalism could actually fit into eschatology- https://www.youtube.com/embed/zJ4Vmxs6dW4?list=PLT70zxsi10M8tKGY0eZ6lk3uCsy8T6sDN]

Nonsense below from Adventist Review--
"The fact that the world’s climate is changing for the worse should be a motivation to double our evangelistic and social efforts as God’s remnant church, said several scholars in separate

presentations at the Fourth International Bible Conference in Rome, Italy, held June 11-21, 2018.
Antillean Adventist University professor Silvia Schimpf-Torreblanca ..... “Eschatology and environmentalism are not, after all, contradictory but complementary ideas,” she said. “The care of the earth is not disconnected from the Christian mission of proclaiming the good news of salvation.”
Andrews University associate professor of Hebrew Bible A. Rahel Wells agreed. “Eschatology provides a definitive motivation for ecology,”...Holdsworth, quoted leading climate scientist Susanne Moser, who stated in 2015 regarding climate change, “We’re just beginning to understand the most catastrophic situations, and we’re starting to sound like TV evangelists in what we’re trying to say.”
Holdsworth emphasized, the church should recognize “climate-driven environmental circumstances … not only as eschatological fulfillment but as an opportunity to engage in evangelism as spoken and lived efforts to bring hope to a world immersed in growing crisis.” Adventist Review
This was a Big No No on the part of the Adventist Review.....shame on Bill Knott...Quit distracting the Church from the Gospel, 3 Angel's Messages & beauty of the Sanctuary Doctrine as an official Church periodical....stop dabbling in the GREEN RELIGION rooted in mother earth spiritualism!!!

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that

called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

Galatians 1:6

A Psalm (63) for the Remnant- In the "Wilderness of Judah"

Psalm 63:

To see thy power and thy glory,

so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

My soul followeth hard after thee:

thy right hand upholdeth me.

Psalm 63:2,8

"The location of the writing of the psalm is described generally as “in the wilderness of Judah”. Unlike many of the psalms written in these dire situations, however, this psalm is overflowing with thanksgiving rather than lament and petition.

In deepest words of devotion, this psalm expresses David’s intense love for his Lord. The psalm was written while David was in the Judean wilderness, either during his flight from Saul or more likely from Absalom.

David writes from the perspective of these tenses:

I.          Present – Seeking God’s Presence (63:1-5).

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. vs.2

II.         Past – Remembering God’s Power (63:6-8).

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. vs.7

III.       Future – Anticipating God’s Judgment (63-9-11).

...but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. vs.11

Verses 1-2: "Early will I seek thee". The true Christian devotes to God the morning hour.... There are Psalms proper for a wilderness; and we have reason to thank God it is the wilderness of Judah we are in, not the wilderness of Sin.

 

I. By a lively active faith: O God! thou art my God. Note, In all our addresses to God we must eye him as God, and our God, and this will be our comfort in a wilderness-state.

II. He longs to enjoy God. What is it that he does so passionately wish for? What is his petition and what is his request? It is this, To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.....he looked through the veil of ceremonies to the invisible One.

III. In the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice, alluding either to the wings of the cherubim stretched out over the ark of the covenant, between which God is said to dwell or to the wings of a fowl, under which the helpless young ones have shelter, as the eagle's young ones.

IV. When I remember thee upon my bed. Lying awake, the good man betook himself to meditation, and then began to sing. .... If day's cares tempt us to forget God, it is well that night's quiet should lead us to remember him.

BooksOfTheBible/MatthewHenry/CharlesSpurgeon

Parable of the Sower Series: By The Wayside

"The seed sown by the wayside represents the word of God as it falls upon the heart of an inattentive hearer. ....the heart that becomes a highway for
*the world's traffic,

*its pleasures

*and sins.

Absorbed in selfish aims and sinful indulgences, the soul is "hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." Heb. 3:13. The spiritual faculties are paralyzed. Men hear the word, but understand it not."

"Observe ...What kind of hearers are compared to the highway ground such as hear the word and understand it not and it is their own fault that they do not."
Christ's Object Lessons p.45 E.G.W./MatthewHenry

Ready for His Appearing Sermon SERIES by Stephen Bohr

Ready for His Appearing Sermon SERIES

(by Stephen Bohr)

And, behold, I come quickly;

and my reward is with me,

 to give every man according as his work shall be.

Revelation 22:12

Three Inseparable Doctrines

https://www.audioverse.org/english/embed/media/488

Hidden Sabbath Truths

https://www.audioverse.org/english/embed/media/489

Reflections on Daniel 11

https://www.audioverse.org/english/embed/media/490

The Holy and the Profane

https://www.audioverse.org/english/embed/media/491

Creation Moment 7/23/2018 - 150 Years of Making Stuff Up

..... their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 41:12

"150 years of making stuff up to fit the data.

1: Lamarkian Inheritance 2: Spontaneous Generation
3: Pangenesis
4: Darwin Theory of Evolution
5: Neo Darwin evolution
6: Synthetic Theory
7: Saltation
8. Punctuated Equilibrium evolution
9. Divergent /Convergent Evolution
10: Parallel Evolution
11: Preadaptive Evolution
12. Reductive evolution
13: The Third Way or the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis EES
14: Recapitulation Theory
15: Self assembly or self organisation/Plasticity
16: Biochemical predestination
17: Maximum Entropy Production (MEP),
18: Population Dynamics,
19: Facilitated Variation,
20: Semi-Meiosis,
21: Niche Construction,
22: Metabolic Rate Theory
23: Zoogenesis
24: Orthogenesis
25: Pangenesis
26: Gaia Theory
27: Evo-Devo
28: Symbiogenesis
29: Panspermia
30: Undirected Panspermia
31: Necropanspermia
32: Rapid Evolution
33: Moderm Evolution Synthesis
34: Cladogenesis/Anagenesis
35: The MacCready Explosion
36: Sympatric speciation
37: Co-option evolution
38: Reticulate evolution
39: The MFAP hypothesis (youll love this one)
40: Super Evolution - where 10 million stars formed every minute for 13.7 billion years WOW.
41: Reserved for the next evo term just for my mate Bill Ludlow
42: (Insert anything you like here) General theory of evolution or maybe Special theory of evolution or .... why not go for it ------> The Theory of Everything or Anything?
43: Out of context Theory - evos accuse us that we don't understand the "word usage" of Darwins time and we take him out if context."
GeorgeStefanidis

Parable of the Sower Series: Luther & Calvin

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side,

and the fowls came and devoured them up:

Some fell upon stony places,
where they had not much earth:
and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched;
and because they had no root,
they withered away.

And some fell among thorns;

and the thorns sprung up,

and choked them:

But other fell into good ground,
and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold,
some sixtyfold,
some thirtyfold.

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 13:3-9

LUTHER
"This Gospel treats of the disciples and the fruits, which the Word of God develops in the world.....Christ however sets forth here four kinds of disciples of the divine Word."

CALVIN
“The fertility of that soil which yields a thirty-fold produce is small compared with that which yields a hundred-fold…but Jesus classes together all kinds of soil which do not entirely disappoint the labors and expectations of the husbandman.” 

 

He's Trying to Teach you Something

 

"That temple, erected for the abode of the divine Presence, was designed to be an object lesson for Israel and for the world."
Desire of Ages p.161 E.G.W.

Q: What Lesson is taught by it?
A: The Plan of Redemption:

Outer Court/JUSTIFICATION/Grace-work of the Christ

Inner Court/SANCTIFICATION/Obedience-work of the Holy Spirit

Most Holy Place/GLORIFICATION/Judgment-work of God the Ancient of Days

SUMMARIZED

Jesus said unto her,
Neither do I condemn thee: (Justification-Grace)
go, and sin no more. (Sanctification-Obedience)
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Glorification-Judgment)
John 8:11/Ecclesiastes 12:14
 

Who is the "Holy Father"?

Christ calls GOD the HOLY FATHER
....so....when Papal Rome refers to the "Pope" as "Holy Father"....that would be BLASPHEMY...

Holy Father,

keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me,

that they may be one,

as we are.

John 17:11

The "Really" File - (Theybies?)

I have seen the foolish taking root:

Job 5:3

"Three-year-old twins Zyler and Kadyn Sharpe scurried around the boys and girls clothing racks of a narrow consignment store filled with toys. Zyler, wearing rainbow leggings, scrutinized a pair of hot-pink-and-purple sneakers. Kadyn, in a T-Rex shirt, fixated on a musical cube that flashed colorful

lights. At a glance, the only discernible difference between these fraternal twins is their hair — Zyler’s is brown and Kadyn’s is blond.

Is Zyler a boy or a girl? How about Kadyn? That’s a question their parents, Nate and Julia Sharpe, say only the twins can decide.
The Cambridge, Mass., couple represent a small group of parents raising “theybies” — children being brought up without gender designation from birth. A Facebook community for these parents currently claims about 220 members across the U.S.

“A theyby is, I think, different things to different people,” Nate Sharpe told NBC News. “For us, it means raising our kids with gender-neutral pronouns — so, ‘they,’ ‘them,’ ‘their,’ rather than assigning ‘he,’ ‘she,’ ‘him,’ ‘her’ from birth based on their anatomy.”

From the "Really" File

Parents in the U.S. are increasingly raising children outside traditional gender norms — allowing boys and girls to play with the same toys and wear the same clothes — though experts say this is happening mostly in progressive, well-to-do enclaves. But what makes this “gender-open” style of parenting stand out, and even controversial in some circles, is that the parents do not reveal the sex of their children to anyone.
Even the children, who are aware of their own body parts and how they may differ from others, are not taught to associate those body parts with being a boy or girl. If no one knows a child’s sex, these parents theorize, the child can’t be pigeonholed into gender stereotypes."
MichaelSavage.com

REALLY?