Meaning of being the "Salt"

"The object of God in choosing a people before all the world, was

not only that he might adopt them as his sons and daughters, but that through them he might confer on the world the benefits of divine illumination.

When the Lord chose Abraham it was not simply to be the special friend of God, but to be a medium of the precious and peculiar privileges the Lord desired to bestow upon the nations. He was to be a light amid the moral darkness of his surroundings.

Jesus has said of his followers, "Ye are the light of the world," "a city set upon a hill" that "cannot be hid;"

"Ye are the salt of the earth." And when God makes his children salt,

it is not only for their own preservation,

but that they may be agents in preserving others.

The religion of Christ is not a selfish religion. It is not to be kept under lock and key, but it is to be an influence of power going forth from every genuine Christian to enlighten those that sit in darkness."
E.G.W./Matthew 5:13,14

The OFFERINGS Series: Burnt Offering

"THE whole burnt-offering had its origin at the gate of the garden of Eden, (Gen. 4:4; 8:20) and extended to the cross; and it will never lose its significance as long as mankind is subject to temptation and sin.

*The entire sacrifice was laid upon the altar and burned, (Lev. 1:2-9) typifying not only a surrender of sin, but a consecration of the entire life to the service of God.

---"Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." (1 Sam. 15:22)---

The whole burnt-offering was offered as an atonement for sin. (Lev. 9:7)
The individual making the offering laid his hands on the head of the animal, confessing his sins; (Lev. 1:4; Num. 8:12) and then, if it was from the flock or the herd, with his own hands he took its life.
If the burnt-offering was a bird, the priest killed the offering.
The blood was sprinkled round about upon the brazen altar, in type of the cleansing blood of Christ, and then the offering was burned upon the altar.

---Every morning and evening a lamb was offered at the sanctuary as a whole burnt-offering. (Ex. 29:38-42)
---Each Sabbath day four lambs were offered, two in the morning and two in the evening. (Num. 28:9,10)
*These sacrifices typified a re-consecration of the whole congregation each morning and evening to the service of God."
Stephen Haskell

The "Really" File - (Spector just "kind of happened"?)

...inventors of evil things... Romans 1:30

 

"Disney is slated to openly embrace Hollywood’s descent into the

world of woke and feature its first openly lesbian character in its upcoming film Onward.

The upcoming film, which is described as taking place in “a magical universe whose fantastical citizens — think elves, dragons and manticores — have lost their connection to the magical arts,” will feature a lesbian character — a Cyclops police officer named Officer Spector.

“It just kind of happened,” the film’s producer, Kori Rae, told Yahoo Entertainment. 

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The film centers around two brothers, Ian and Barley, who lost their father but receive a gift he left behind, “which turns out to be a 24-hour resurrection spell.” According to Yahoo, “the spell immediately goes haywire, forcing the duo to embark on a ticking-clock quest to find a replacement element before their father vanishes again.”

Officer Specter, the lesbian cop, makes an appearance amid the brothers’ journey." Breitbart

REALLY?

Creation Moment - 2/24/2020 - Bang Goes the Theory

"Researchers recognize there are problems with inflation and the big bang. Some physicists and astronomers have been “jumping ship” from the big-bang model in recent times, and this movement has continually gained steam since an open letter with respected signatories was published in the magazine New Scientist in 2004.
However, the majority of old universe believers still adhere to the big bang.
The hope of many who opposed the big bang was to revise the big bang and inflation to avoid the many problems.
More recently, New Scientist ran an article called “Bang Goes the Theory.” The article quotes two leading cosmologists, Drs. Paul Steinhardt and Max Tegmark:

We thought that inflation predicted a smooth, flat universe. . . . Instead, it predicts every possibility an infinite number of times. We’re back to square one.
Inflation has destroyed itself. It logically self-destructed.

To boil it down, some researchers recognize there are problems with inflation and the big bang, and they are questioning aspects of these ideas, such as:

1. the big bang and its type
2. nothing to something
3. what started and stopped inflation
4. the starlight problem and recognizing how bad it is

Inflation and the big bang have their problems, and honest scientists fully admit this.

Potential Models to Solve the Problem

Interestingly, biblical creationists have known about the distant starlight problem for a while and have been working on solutions. The popular ideas include:

1. Light in transit (or mature creation)
2. Speed of light decay (cdk)
3. Relativistic models
4. Alternate Synchrony Conventions
5. Dasha Solution

Let’s take a look at each of these in brief.

Light in Transit

Light in transit: This is the idea that God created the universe mature, or fully functioning. The functions of the stars (Genesis 1: 14–17; Psalm 19:1–2) required that Adam see them right away, so God created starlight in transit when He created the stars. Many reject this particular model today.

The reason many do not accept the light in transit idea is that starlight contains a tremendous amount of detailed information about stars.
For instance, stars have been known to blow up into supernovas like SN 1987a. Had this merely been starlight in transit, then what we saw would not have represented a star or a supernova, but instead merely light arriving at our eye to appear as a star and then a supernova.
In other words, the star that was observed before the supernova could not have come from the actual star. If the light in transit idea is correct, then the light was encoded on the way to earth to make it look like an actual star.
In that case, the supernova itself did not really happen but amounted to an illusion, sort of like a movie.
Many have suggested that if this were the case, then most stars are not stars. The implication is that God would be deceptively leading us to believe they were stars, when in fact they are illusions of stars. The idea of light in transit was widely popular among creationists for some time, but now many reject this idea because it seems far too deceptive.

Speed of Light Decay (cdk)

Speed of light decay (spearheaded by Barry Setterfield): This is the idea that the speed of light was much faster in the past and has been slowing down primarily in a uniform fashion (but possibly in steps) to what we observe today.

Most creationists reject this idea now, but we encourage researchers to keep working on it.
In the end though, it appears to have problems with other constants in the universe that are tied to it. If the speed of light were to change, then these constants would change, too. Those constants govern the structure of matter so that matter would drastically change as the speed of light changed.
Evidence for a reduced speed of light decay is also lacking, and in centuries past, the accuracy of such measuring devices has been limited. Furthermore, as people really researched the speed of light over the past three centuries, it really was not changing as previously thought, but has remained largely the same.
In recent times, secularists such as John Moffat, Andreas Albrecht, and Joao Magueijo have appealed to the speed of light decay (VSL or Variable Speed of Light) as a possible solution to the secular starlight problem.
Perhaps as secular scientists do further research, they will see that there are some problems with this model. Either way, creation scientists are “light years” ahead of them in the research (pun intended).

Relativistic Models

White Hole Cosmology

Dr. Russell Humphreys has a model dubbed the “White Hole” cosmology.
A white hole is like a black hole, except that matter flies outward from a white hole whereas matter falls into a black hole. Near the boundary of a black hole or a white hole, space and time are distorted.

According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, this distortion can be described as stretching the fabric of space, and time progresses at different rates depending upon where you are.
So this theory plays off general relativity to solve the distant starlight problem with gravitational time dilation.
From an overview perspective, Dr. Humphreys challenges the commonly held assumption that the universe has no boundary. Running a bounded cosmos through general relativity results in a model that is not at all like the big bang and consistent with Biblical creation.
Essentially, in the White Hole cosmology, all the matter in the universe flew out of this “white hole.” This would have occurred during creation week, and the white hole would have vanished some time during that week. As matter left the white hole, gravitational time dilation occurred.
The earth was near the center of the white hole, so time on earth passed much more slowly than time near the boundary of the white hole.
Though there are still problems with this issue, such as blue shifts and red shifts not matching what they should be, this model also holds some promise, and so we encourage further work on this model.

Hartnett Model (Carmelian Physics)

A method solution utilizing Carmelian physics (named for Moshe Carmeli) was proposed by physicist Dr. John Hartnett.

In a different approach to Humphrey’s White Hole cosmology where the bounded universe was in four dimensions, this has assumed five dimensions (utilizing Carmeli’s approach) and was still bounded.
Like the Humphreys model, the Hartnett model also relies on time dilation — a massive amount on earth. He postulates that most of this occurred on day 4 of creation week resulting from space expansion as God was creating galaxies. So time was running at different rates with six days passing on earth but more time passing elsewhere.
Much of this dilation of time would have occurred during creation week, as opposed to Humphrey’s model where it occurred all along at a more steady rate. Hartnett has produced some interesting results. Both the Humphreys and the Hartnett models are still being developed.

Alternate Synchrony Conventions

Lisle-Einstein Convention

This model derives from passages like Genesis 1:17 that states that the stars were to “give light on the earth.” For a God who created all things, having distant stars give light on earth is no problem.
Astrophysicist Dr. Jason Lisle (also writing under the pen name of Robert Newton) led the research on this model.

From the concept of light being given from stars to light the earth, Dr. Lisle derived the Lisle-Einstein Synchrony Convention, otherwise known as the Anisotropic Synchrony Convention (ASC), which is based on an alternative convention that is position-based physics as opposed to velocity-based physics. Einstein left open both options but did most of his work on velocity-based, and so have most physicists since him.
Einstein pointed out that time is not constant in the universe, so our simple equation [Distance = Speed x Time] is not so simple anymore.
But this starlight model is based on something quite “simple.” Dr. Jason Lisle built on this position-based physics and the one direction speed of light (which cannot be known), and it solves distant starlight.
In laymen’s terms, think of it like this: You leave on a jet from New York at 1 p.m. and you land in L.A. at 1 p.m. But you might say, “The flight took about five hours on the jet.”
Here is the difference: according to Einstein, when you approach the speed of light, time goes to zero. So if you rode on top of a light beam from a star that was billions of light years away from earth, it took no time for you to get here. So that five-hour flight was a “no hour” flight for light. It was an instantaneous trip.
Based on this convention-based model, light left distant stars and arrived on earth in no time. This fulfills God’s statement that these lights were to give light on the earth in Genesis 1:14. Of course, the physics is more complicated than this, but this analogy should give you an idea of how this model might work.

Dasha Solution

We would leave open miraculous options (as this was creation week). One particular form is by co-author Dr. Danny Faulkner (astronomer) dubbed the Dasha Solution.

Dasha is the Hebrew word for “sprout” as found in Genesis 1:11. Many processes during creation week were done at rates uncommon today.
While some things were created ex nihilo (out of nothing) during creation week (Genesis 1:1), many things during that week probably were made of material created earlier in the week.
For instance, the day 3 account tells us something about how God made plants (Genesis 1:11–12).
The words used there suggest that the plants shot up out of the ground very quickly, sort of like a time-lapse movie. That is, there may have been normal growth accomplished abnormally quickly. The result was that plants bore fruit that the animals required for food two to three days later. The plants had to mature rapidly to fulfill their function.
God made stars on day 4, but to fulfill their functions the stars had to be visible by day 6 when Adam was on the scene. As the normal process of plant development may have been sped up on day 3, the normal travel of starlight may have been sped up on day 4. If so, this rapid thrusting of light toward earth could be likened to the stretching of the heavens already mentioned.
Some people may want to equate this stretching of starlight with some physical mechanism such as cdk or relativistic time effects, but this would not explain the abnormally fast development of plants on day 3.
This also overlooks the fact that much about the creation week was miraculous, hence untestable today. If one were to attempt to explain the light-travel-time problem in terms of a physical mechanism, one might as well look for a physical mechanism for the virgin birth or Resurrection.

Conclusions

When all is said and done, this alleged problem of distant starlight

does not seem as problematic for the Biblical creationist. Researchers have several options that can solve this problem, so it is not a problem for a young universe.
Light is truly unique in its makeup and properties, and with further study perhaps we can be “enlightened” to understand this issue in more detail."
Lisle/AIG

The OFFERINGS Series: Sin Offering

"Sin is the transgression of the law of God.

In none of the types was the individual worshiper brought into so close contact with the sanctuary service as in the sin-offering. 

---There is no part of religious worship that brings the individual worshiper into such close touch with the Lord as when he kneels at the Savior's feet, confessing his sins, and knowing the strength of the promise, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9)---
It is then that the repentant sinner touches the hem of the Master's garment, and receives His healing power in the soul.

 *If the sinner was a priest, filling that holy office where the influence of his wrong course would case others to stumble, then he was to bring a bullock, an expensive animal, as a sin-offering; but if he was one of the common people, he could bring a kid goat or a lamb.
*The sin-offering was brought into the court of the sanctuary, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. (Lev. 4:1-35)
*The sinner, with his hands laid upon the head of the lamb, confessed over it all his sins, and then with his own hand he killed it. (Lev. 4:29; Num. 5:7) sometimes the blood was taken into the first apartment of the sanctuary by the officiating priest, who dipped his finger in the blood and sprinkled it before the Lord. The horns of the golden altar, the altar of incense, were also touched with the blood.

The priest then came out into the court, and poured all the blood at the base of the altar of burnt-offering. (Lev. 4:7,18,25,30)
The bodies of the animals whose blood was taken into the sanctuary, were burned without the camp. (Lev. 6:30) "Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." (Heb. 13:12)

The sinner, by confessing his sins over the lamb, in type and shadow transferred them to the lamb. The life of the lamb was then taken instead of the life of the sinner, typifying the death of the Lamb of God, who would offer His life for the sins of the world. 
---When the sinner lays his sins on Christ, "the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world," those sins are hidden, covered by the blood of Christ. (Rom 4:7,8)
---They are all recorded in the books in heaven; (Jer.2:22)
---but the blood of the Savior covers them, and if he who sinned is faithful to God, they will never be revealed, but will finally be destroyed in the fires of the last day.
---The most wonderful part is that God Himself says He will cast them behind His back (Isa. 38:17) and will not remember them. (Isa. 43:25)."
Stephen Haskell

Inverse Relationship of the Temptation of Christ

--When Lucifer offered Christ the Kingdoms of the Earth--Christ said NO
--When Lucifer offered the Church the Kingdoms of the Earth--the Church said YES (via Union of Church & State)
And the devil, taking Him up into an high mountain, shewed unto Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto Him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind Me...
Luke 4:5-8

The "Really" File - ("ministers" for DRAG?)

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 22:5

"Texas A&M University hosted a drag queen show Wednesday evening at the MSC Town Hall event that was co-sponsored by the A&M LGBTQ+ Pride Center.

RuPaul’s Drag Race performer Kevin Richardson, aka Monique Heart, emcee’d the show.

“Performances were required to remain PG-13 — meaning performers could not remove clothing or use explicit music — and were pre-approved by organizers,” the report noted.

A&M junior Sophie Gonzalez, Town Hall special events executive, said 763 tickets were sold and the event was funded entirely by ticket sales. Gonzalez said the drag queen show brings diversity to Town Hall’s regular schedule of events. She hopes the show will 

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become an annual event.

The Rev. Amy Klinkovsky, a campus minister for United Campus Ministry, told the Eagle she supported the drag queen show and stood for it since she could not obtain a ticket.
“As someone who is an ordained minister, it is being present for all of God’s children and making sure that what we’re proclaiming is a message of love and support for our fellow human beings in all of the ways that they want to express themselves,” Klinkovsky said." Breitbart

REALLY?

Papal Notes - Tax Cuts are "Sin"?

Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high, rich and poor, together....Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Psalm 49:1,2,14
Francis, once again, isn't calling sinners to repentance, or preparing the world for the 2nd Advent--but rather once again preaching secular class-rooted Marxism.

"On the heels of calling for a Marxist economic conference this

coming March (“Economy of Francesco”), Jorge Bergoglio (a.k.a. “Pope Francis”) has once again opined on financial matters.  The purported head of the Catholic Church has now designated “tax cuts” as sinful behavior on a par, apparently, with stealing, lying, and adultery:

Today’s structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development.

 
In Bergoglio’s collectivist mind, those who try and keep their wealth from the ravenous demands of the State are somehow denying the poor their just due:

Every year hundreds of billions of dollars, which should be paid in taxes to fund health care and education, accumulate in tax haven accounts, thus impeding the possibility of the dignified and sustained development of all social agents.

What Bergoglio and his fellow socialists do not understand is that tax cuts lead to economic growth, whether they are for higher or lower income groups. 
The less wealth that the State confiscates, the more is available to be used for saving and investment – two keys to economic growth.  The rich do not horde their money but expand and create businesses which leads to more and better paying jobs for lower income groups who supposedly Bergoglio wants to help."
ZeroHedge

ARCHAEOLOGY: 3,100-Year-Old Canaanite Temple

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. Joshua 10:33

"Lachish was one of the most important Canaanite cities in the Land of Israel during the Middle and late Bronze Ages. Its people controlled large parts of the Judean lowlands.

Found at Lachish Temple

The front of the compound is marked by two columns and two towers leading to a large hall.
The inner sanctum has four supporting columns and several unhewn ‘standing stones’ that may have served as representations of temple gods.
The Lachish temple is more square in shape and has several side rooms....archaeologists unearthed a trove of artifacts including, bronze cauldrons, Hathor-inspired jewelry, daggers and axe-heads adorned with bird images, scarabs, and a gold-plated bottle inscribed with the name Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs.

“Of particular interest was a pottery sherd engraved with ancient Canaanite script,” the researchers said.
“There, the letter ‘samek’ appears, marked by an elongated vertical line crossed by three perpendicular shorter lines. This makes it the oldest known example of the letter and a unique specimen for the study of ancient alphabets.”
SciNews

Creation Moment 2/23/2020 - Becoming Aquainted with the Mind of God

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Psalm 8:3,4

"After
--the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God,
--the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.... It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed."
 James Prescott Joule (father of thermodynamics,) address to the British Association, 1873

The 1,2,3 of the Special Message Sent To Believers

Have I not written to you

1- excellent things of counsel and knowledge,
2- that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth,
3- that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? — Solomon, Proverbs 22:20-21
 

The Christian's Hope

"The Christian's hope is as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and entereth into that which is within the veil, whither Christ the forerunner is for us entered.

We have an individual work to do to prepare for the great events that are before us.
The tempest is coming, and we must get ready for its fury,
---by having repentance toward God,
---and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Lord will arise to shake terribly the earth.
We shall see troubles on all sides.
Oh, let us seek God while he may be found, call upon him while he is near!
The prophet says: "Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." (Zeph. 2:3)."
E.G.W.

Creation Moment 2/22/2020 - TIME & Creation

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1,3

"TIME, as distinguished from eternity, may be defined as that part of duration which is measured by the Bible.

From the earliest date in the book of Genesis to the resurrection of the unjust at the end of the millennium.
Before the commencement of this great week of time, duration without beginning fills the past; and at the expiration of this period, unending duration opens before the people of God.
Eternity is that word which embraces duration without beginning and without end. And that Being whose existence comprehends eternity, is he who only hath immortality, the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God."
J.N.Andrews

Could the eyes of deluded youth be opened... what would they see?

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 1:3

"Could the eyes of deluded youth be opened, they would see the exultant leer of Satan at his success in ruining souls.

In every conceivable way he seeks to adapt his temptations to the various dispositions and circumstances of those whom he wishes to entangle.

 

He will try every device, and if the subjects of these temptations do not seek God, they will be blinded to his deceptions,
--and will be self-confident,
--self-sufficient,
--and in ignorance of their condition and danger."
E.G.W.

Creation Moment 2/21/2020 - Vivekananda's Role in Evolution

"Hinduism presupposes a Creator—albeit an impersonal one, a transcendent universal force known as Brahman. Nevertheless, Hinduism easily accommodates the following beliefs:

• Long ages: Hinduism poses that multiple universes, including ours, exist in endless cycles of creation and dissolution lasting billions of years.
• Evolution: Some Hindu teachings suggest that life follows a fixed pattern of evolution during each of these cosmic cycles. Similarly, the doctrine of avatarism holds that the Hindu deity Vishnu “evolved” through a series of reincarnations from fish-man to human, a philosophy which many Hindu writers connect with Darwinian evolution. Still, while other Hindus reject Darwinism, Hinduism is compatible enough with the idea of evolution that 19th-century Hindu philosopher Swami Vivekananda, a key player in yoga’s Western popularization, remarked:
  

  “The idea of evolution was to be found in the Vedas [Hindu scriptures] long before the Christian era; but until Darwin said it was true, it was regarded as a mere Hindu superstition.”

• The authority of man’s word: In Hinduism, the self (atman) is part of Brahman. In other words, humans are essentially divine. Hinduism even recognizes human wisdom as the basis of its Vedas, while holding that no scriptures are inerrant or divinely inspired.

Darwin and the Gurus

Do these messages sound familiar? That’s because long ages, evolution, and the authority of man’s word are key tenets of secular humanism, the worldview that—as one of my Canadian professors once stated—people created God. Western cultures adopted this worldview after human interpretations of science displaced widespread trust in God’s word beginning in Genesis, thanks especially to the popularity of beliefs, including long geological ages and biological evolution. As Vivekananda put it,

At the beginning of the nineteenth century man tried to find God through reason, and Deism was the result. What little was left of God by this process was destroyed by Darwinism and Millism.

Notably, Vivekananda is one of the mystagogues who helped popularize Eastern spirituality in the West. Regarding Vivekananda’s Darwinian basis, Dr. Dermot Killingly of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies wrote:

“Evolution and involution are the foundation on which Vivekananda builds his doctrine of the inherent though obstructed perfection—not merely perfectibility—of each person. Having proclaimed this doctrine in Chicago in opposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin, he now applies it to the manufacture of yogis. Each of us, and indeed each living being, has a blissful and infinite essence, which can be released by breaking through the accumulation of karma and avidyā (ignorance), which appears to limit us. Yoga—which includes all forms of spiritual striving—hastens this process of evolution.”

In other words, Vivekananda’s worldview began from the Hindu starting point that humans are inherently divine—a sentiment which suspiciously echoes the serpent’s promise in Eden, “. . .Ye shall be like gods. . .” (Gen.3:5)

This ancient lie, reincarnated like a recurring nightmare across history’s cults, clearly opposes the gospel’s message that ...Yet Vivekananda sold that age-old lie to Westerners by packaging it in the very paradigm that shook Westerners’ belief in Scripture: molecules-to-man evolution.
As ichthyoid swamp dwellers evolved upwards to humanity, claimed Vivekananda, so man evolves to realize his godhood through spiritual disciplines, including yoga.
The claim that “You will be like God” certainly held sway with Westerners, forming the basis for belief systems including New Ageism, Theosophy and even modern Humanism.
So, it’s no wonder that Hinduism, which promotes this message while accommodating evolutionary beliefs, spread rapidly West—especially given Hindu and Western cultures’ shared foundation of man’s word.

Even so, modern Western cultures have more recently rejected the foundation of God’s word compared to the nation where I now stood, which has founded its thinking on man’s word for millennia. Now, teachings far removed from Scripture inundate every filament of society. Society is so grounded on man’s word that individuals who found their thinking on God’s Word instead face active persecution. As Jesus warned his disciples in John 15:18-25 (ESV):

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

The Moral of the Story

Whether those cultures embrace Eastern mysticism or Western humanism, their man-made worldviews share roots in the same deception.

This deception holds that humans

--can evolve to become their own gods,

--chart their own spiritual courses,

--and set their own moral standards.

--It’s the lie of personal autonomy apart from God that Darwin ultimately sold to the West;
--the same lie Vivekananda expounded from the East;
--the lie which has pervaded human cultures since the serpent first voiced it in Eden."
AIG

Book of Hebrews Mission Simplified

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things,
--by whom also he made the worlds;
--Who being the brightness of his glory,
--and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Hebrews 1:1-3/9:23

"THE epistle of Paul to the Hebrews ....
---This book represents Christ and his work as no other of the epistles do.---

It is a commentary upon the typical system, designed to carry the mind from the dead figures of the old covenant, up to the living facts of the new.
---The Jewish sacrifices in which blood was shed were a type of the sacrifice and precious blood of Christ.
---The Jewish sanctuary, with its two ministrations, was a type of the true tabernacle in Heaven where Christ ministers in both the holy and the most holy places."
James White

Paths from Babel Revealed by Waterless Map

"A planetary scientist formerly at NASA recently remade a 2008 video that shows how the earth would appear if the oceans evaporated (it’s a pretty incredible video).

Well, the scientist, James O’Donoghue, says in an article about the video:

“I slowed down the start since, rather surprisingly, there's a lot of undersea landscape instantly revealed in the first

tens of meters. . . ”
The continental shelves include some of the land bridges that early humans crossed as they migrated from continent to continent..... our ancestors could walk from continental Europe to the UK, from Siberia to Alaska, and from Australia to the islands surrounding it.
“When the last ice age occurred, a lot of ocean water was locked up as ice at the poles of the planet. That's why land bridges used to exist…Each of these links enabled humans to migrate, and when the ice age ended, the water sort of sealed them in.”

Now, creation apologists have taught for years that the post-flood ice age lowered ocean levels and enabled people to move to different places over land bridges (e.g., a land bridge would’ve formed between Asia and North America in what’s now the Bering Strait). Evolutionists believe the same basic model, but they always slow things down to hundreds of thousands or millions of years because of their worldview.
The video from O’Donoghue really does give you a great idea of how these land bridges could have formed after the flood. So, he’s right that emptying the seas unearths ‘not only the ocean bottom, but also the ancient story of humanity."
AIG
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; ....and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9

Health Note - How to Increase your Cancer Risk by 90%

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

For this is the will of God....that ye should abstain from fornication...

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife...What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

3 John 1:2/1 Thess.4:3/Mark 10:7,9

"A new study has found that engaging in sexual promiscuity increases the risk of getting cancer by as much as 90 per cent.
“Experts found older women who had ten or more lifetime lovers

were 91 per cent more likely to be diagnosed with the disease, compared to those who only had one,” reports the Sun.
The study by Anglia Ruskin University scientists shows that many cancers such as cervical, prostate and oral are linked to sexually transmitted infections. The higher the number of partners, the more likely someone is to get infected.
“In both men and women, a higher number of sexual partners was associated with increased risk of cancer,” said lead researcher Dr Lee Smith."
PaulJosephWatson

The "Really" File - (Alien Transitioning?)

This is sad, this poor woman is confused, and instead of help she likely receives a pat-on-the-back from the worldly powers of social media that be...more collateral damage of the gay marriage movement....expect more of this nonsense in this warped, degraded world---for instance we've already documented on here those who live as mermaids. And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him. Luke 8:30

"A woman who transitioned into a man, then, after realizing they

were displeased with their identity, transitioned into a “genderless alien,” leaving humanity behind.

Jareth Nebula, who withheld their birth name, transitioned from female to male at the age of 29, before making the step to transcend humanity altogether, transitioning into a genderless alien at 33.

According to All That’s Interesting, Nebula’s fascinating moniker was inspired by “David Bowie’s character, Jareth the Goblin King, from Jim Henson’s 1986 cult-classic fantasy film Labyrinth.”

From the "Really" File

Since making the transition, Nebula has had their eyebrows and nipples removed to give themself a less human look, after reportedly feeling uncomfortable as either gender.

The Daily Mail reported that Nebula fashions a number of piercings and face paints to look more alien-esque." IW

REALLY? 

IN the NEWS - Future Potential Damage of Doha to the Planet

This is Scary.....there is a movement by those from western democracies to globally persecute at the Hague "hate speech"....now STOP and ask yourself---what could the world do one day in the not too far future with such Marxist rooted PC nonsense IF targeted at a group that say--is critical of a certain entity as the Beast of Revelation or the Little Horn of Daniel?...in this Post-Modernist Nonsense, where criticism or disagreement is labeled as hate speech, this can be very dangerous....don't we already have people who claim that criticism of Papal Rome is "hate speech"?...yes we do...

Below is part of an article written by Shannon Maree Torrens, a so-called international and human rights lawyer from Sydney,Australia...(pics are from past Doha meeting)

"Early next month....the Doha Interfaith Dialogue Conference,

which will focus this year on the intersection of religion and hate speech.
This will be my second time speaking at this enriching gathering of practitioners, academics and other prominent figures, all with a shared interest in interfaith communication.... on the prosecution of hate speech at the highest level, at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

A negative narrative is established by one group, which depicts the minority as being problematic, oppositional to the greater cause or deeply offensive in some way and that narrative is then used to justify the subsequent violence that is levelled against the minority. Hate speech is therefore a method or tactic used to incite violence and a form of propaganda that encourages and normalizes the perpetration of serious crimes against the individuals that comprise the targeted group...."
ThePeninsula
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Revelation 13:7