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The United nations did not originate in 1947, it commenced under League of Nations established on January 10, 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference. The Covenant of the League of Nations was signed on 28 June 1919 as Part I of the Treaty of Versailles, and it became effective with the rest of the Treaty on 10 January 1920. The main organization ceased operations on 18 April 1946 when many of its components were relocated into the new United Nations. As the template for modern global governance, the League profoundly shaped the modern world. Was the Balfour declaration done legaly? The Balfour Declaration, which resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there. The pledge is generally viewed as one of the main catalysts of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 – and the conflict that ensued with the Zionist state of Israel. It is regarded as one of the most controversial and contested documents in the modern history of the Arab world and has puzzled historians for decades. The Balfour Declaration (“Balfour’s promise” in Arabic) was a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. The statement came in the form of a letter from Britain’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a figurehead of the British Jewish community. Was the Balfout declaration legal to enforce? Journal of Levantine Studies Vol. 8 No. 1, Summer 2018, pp. 101-120Journal of Levantine StudiesVol. 7, No. 1, Summer 2017, pp. 9-34The Balfour Declaration in International Law Introduction: Why Law Matters The Balfour Declaration had enormous political significance, but did it have any legal force? Was it legally binding, exposing Britain to legal remedies for its breach, or was it merely an expression of policy that could be disregarded without legal consequences? These questions are of intense interest to legal historians, but they also have contemporary political relevance. The issue is not so much whether Britain might be liable to the Palestinians for failing to safeguard the “civil and religious rights” of non-Jewish residents of Palestine, though that is a theoretical possibility. Instead, the question is whether the Declaration is legally relevant to the ongoing peace process. The Declaration’s binding character matters because any negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will take the form of a legal document, and any such document will build on—indeed, be shaped by—the pre-existing legal framework. If the Balfour Declaration is part of that legal framework, then a final settlement to the conflict has to account for the legal obligations set forth in the Declaration, at least in broad terms. The parties have routinely recited the most prominent planks of the legal framework in their peace agreements. The Camp David Accords and the first Oslo Accord, for example, both begin by invoking UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338.1 The legal framework is important in another way: it shapes the negotiation process itself. Background legal norms set boundaries for the parties by describing which negotiating positions are acceptable and which are beyond the pale. What is more, the legal framework can define the political “center of gravity” of negotiations https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2000&context=scholar Question: In Light of the secret British documents, did Colonel T.E. Lawrence ( Laurence of Arabia) deceive the Hashemite Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire?

Which is how we know that human lifetimes haven't changed significantly over tens of thousands of years. Evidence from ancient graves shows that people didn't live extremely long lives. If you have to invent silly ideas and insist that I believe them, that's a pretty good clue you're out of excuses. Is there anything in the Bible, however obscure, with which you agree with it as it is? Show us that. Hint: God lengthening the lifetime of a few patriarchs does not overrule His word that human lifetimes are about a century long. You're not satisfied with his word, so you've invented your own doctrines. Neither was a speaking ass heralded as a miracle. But it doesn't mean donkeys could talk in Biblical times.

HOLY SPIRIT --- *** A BIBLE STUDY*** PART 3 ACTS 1:1 the former treatise have I made o theophilus of all that JESUS began both to do and teach --1:2-- until the day in which HE was taken up after that HE through the holy spirit had given commandments unto the apostles whom HE had chosen JOHN 12:48 he that rejecteth me and receiveth not MY words hath one that judgeth him the words that --I HAVE SPOKEN-- the same shall judge him in the last day --12:49-- for I have not spoken of myself --BUT THE FATHER WHICH SENT ME-- HE gave ME a commandment what I should say and what I should speak --12:50-- and I know that HIS commandment is life everlasting whatsoever I speak therefore even as THE FATHER said unto ME so I speak PSALM 56:5 EVERY DAY THEY WREST MY WORDS FOR ALL THEIR THOUGHTS ARE AGAINST ME FOR EVIL JOHN 14:26 but the comforter which is the holy spirit whom THE FATHER will send in MY NAME he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you --14:18-- I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU COMFORTLESS ---I WILL COME TO YOU--- PSALM 119:50 this is my comfort in my affliction ---FOR THY WORD HATH QUICKENED ME--- PSALM 86:17 show me a token for good that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed ---BECAUSE THOU LORD HAST HOLPEN ME --- AND COMFORTED ME--- 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 blessed be GOD even THE FATHER of our LORD JESUS CHRIST THE FATHER OF MERCIES AND THE GOD OF ALL COMFORT --1:4-- who comforteth us in --all-- our tribululation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of GOD --1:6-- and whether we be afflicted it is for your consolation and salvation which is effectual in enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer or whether we be comforted it is for your consolation and salvation ROMANS 15:4 FOR WHATSOEVER THINGS WERE WRITTEN AFORETIME WERE WRITTEN FOR OUR LEARNING THAT WE THROUGH PATIENCE AND ---COMFORT OF THE SCRITURES MIGHT HAVE HOPE--- 2 TIMOTHY 3:16 all --SCRIPTURE-- is given by inspiration of GOD and is ---PROFITABLE -- FOR DOTRINE -- FOR REPROOF -- FOR CORRECTION -- FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNES ACTS 17:11 these were more noble than those in thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind ---AND SEARCHED THE SCRIPTURES--- daily whether those things were so PSALM 119:76 let I pray thee thy merciful kindness ---BE FOR MY COMFORT --- ACCORDING TO THY WORD UNTO THY SERVANT--- ISAIAH 66:13 as one whom his mother comforteth so will I comfort you and you shall be comforted in jerusalem PSALM 31:6 I HAVE HATED THEM THAT REGARD LYING VANITIES BUT I TRUST IN THE LORD 1 JOHN 5:10 he that believeth on THE SON OF GOD hath the witness in himself --- HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT GOD HATH MADE HIM A LIAR --- because he believeth not the record that GOD gave of HIS SON REVELATION 21:23 and the city had no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of GOD did lighten it and THE LAMB is the light thereof REVELATION 21:27 AND THERE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO IT ANY THING THAT DEFILETH NEITHER WHATSOEVER WORKETH ABOMINATION ---OR MAKETH A LIE--- BUT THEY WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE PSALM 69:28 LET THEM BE BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LIVING AND NOT BE WRITTEN WITH THE RIGHTEOUS LOVING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

Whatever has been uploaded to the world wide web is accessible to AI applications which are given access to the web by the creators and coders. Whatever the AI language model accesses is added to the application's semantic database. What is a semantic database? A database that stores, organizes, and interprets data based upon their semantics. I engineered a semantic database for a JAVA chatbot I coded in college. Who defined the semantics of data captured from end user input? I did. A lack of understanding warps the perception of A.I. language models. Popular media treatments don't help. These AI language models are grossly exaggerated in media presentations, endowed with characteristics that applications simply don't evidence. The very definition of artificial intelligence is the illusion of intelligence. It's fake. Much like the illusionist's trade, fooling observers into believing that the illusion is real is the point.

I knew it. I was just joking around. Well if it was there, I bet you would have found it. I was being a smart alec when I said find it in Daniel. I don't think it's that easy because the NT is based on a different language. "The word "hour" does not occur in the Old Testament until we come to the Book of Daniel, one of the last books written, and the only reason we find it in Daniel is because of a poor translation. The ancient Jews never thought in terms of hours. In the five places in Daniel where our Bibles have the word "hour," the Aramaic word so translated is "shaah," which means literally "look" or "glance" and should have been rendered "moment" or "in the twinkling of an eye." "For instance, in the King James version, Daniel 3 : 6 reads: "And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace." In Dr. Moffatt's new translation, in place of "the same hour," the word "instantly" is correctly used. - Time in Bible Times, Potter, C. F. Page 164. https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1941JRASC..35..163P&db_key=AST&page_ind=1&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=YES I have other reasons to suspect it's a veiled reference to another of the Prophetic Time periods found in Daniel and Revelation: 1. Time, times and half a time (saints persecuted – Daniel 7:25) 2. 2,300 evenings and mornings (until temple restored – Daniel 8:14) 3. 70 weeks (determined upon the Jews, Messiah crucified – Daniel 9:24,25) 4. Time, times and half a time (when completed, power of the holy people broken – Daniel 12:7) 5. 1,290 days (from the end of the daily to the setting up of the abomination – Daniel 12:11) 6. 1,335 days (blessed is the one who waits for and reaches this day – Daniel 12:12) 7. Half hour of silence (at the opening of the 7th seal – Revelation 8:1) 8. 5 months (length of torture upon those not having the seal of God – Revelation 9:5) 9. Hour, day, month and year (punctiliar event when war begins – Revelation 9:15) 10. 42 months (Gentiles trample holy city – Revelation 11:2) 11. 1,260 days (Two Witnesses empowered for this length of time – Revelation 11:3) 12. 3.5 days (bodies of Two Witnesses lie in the street – Revelation 11:11) 13. 1,260 days (woman fled into the desert – Revelation 12:6) 14. Time, times and half a time (woman fled into the desert – Revelation 12:14) 15. 42 months ( beast was allowed to exercise authority – Revelation 13:5) 16. One hour (ten kings join with beast – Revelation 17:12) 17. One day, one hour (Babylon’s destruction begins – Revelation 18:8,19) 18. 1,000 years (Satan in the abyss – Revelation 20:2) We need to really review the various uses of the Greek "hora". https://biblehub.com/greek/5610.htm It could be a season, a designated period of time, a divinely pre-set time-period; a limited period to accomplish the Lord's specific purpose, i.e. "the hour" in which specific characteristics prevail exactly like that for a limited time, or, based on the context, the final hour of one's life. And like how Ezekiel lay on his side 40 days, each day for a year. He was silent for those 40 days after the Crucifixion until the siege of Jerusalem, when the silence was broken. Heaven, the Prophetic voice spoke: "Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her. The one I have in mind now is in the midst of the "week", the middle of the week. That's an example where a designated space of time is already split in half for us. About the space of half a heptad. Thanks Charlie. Both I think. Like how the Two Witnesses lay dead silent in the street for 3.5 days. The Prophetic Voice goes silent. The angels and the elders already know what's happening. I'm afraid there's a big reason for it. The seventh seal is serious. And, unlike some of the members, I don't think those who dwell in heaven are too worried, or apprehensive about witnessing the wicked being punished. The time has come to destroy the destroyers of the earth. Remember the vials: "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!” And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!” Yes thank you as well Charlie for the thread. That Day of Atonement idea looks big to me. Big. I didn't think of it before. It gave me a new path to investigate. There's a guy, C.F. Lovett. The Rock Island Book guy. Remember the Berisheet prophecy video dissecting the first verse of Genesis? Declaring the end from the beginning? That guy has a bunch of videos, he makes me nervous. The ones that have 2024 in the title. He thinks the 70th week begins on the Day of Atonement this year. You and I both know the 70th week was from 27AD to 34AD, but there might be more than one way to calculate a heptad, to count a "seven". Some think we're in another count of the "sevens' right now. Anyway, if you're a video guy, you can search this title on you t u b e: 2024: Mystery of the 4th Day on the LORD'S 1000 Years for a Day Calendar. Take care Charlie.

Av·er·age noun A number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number. Next you'll tell us that you have personally seen the grave of Adam. Is there anything in the Bible, however obscure, with which you agree? Please explain for us how you arrived at the conclusion of "everyone." Nobody suggested that. The evidence clearly shows that prior to the flood people could live a long lifespan. Surely, not everyone did. However, those named lived for several centuries. Such lifespans were not heralded as miracles.

We are to be continually taking ground for the Kingdom of God as we position ourselves in our Christ calling. As we continually experience His person our eyes are opened to see from His heavenly perspective which shows us the importance of helping others with their spiritual lives. If we choose not to heed the leading of the Spirit and become proactive in renewing our minds, it is possible that we will limit God's power and anointing from flowing through our lives because of un-renewed thinking patterns that we are still embracing. You have the potential to believe impossibilities into possibilities. "Everything is possible for him who believes." - Mark 9:23 "I heard the voice of the Lord saying: 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?'" - Isaiah 6:8 As long as you dwell on your own qualities and traits and think about what you are suited for, you will never come to understand your Christ calling. Most Christians cannot hear anything but themselves. And they cannot hear anything God says. But to be brought to a place, through an act of consecration, where you can come to recognize your role in advancing His Kingdom by changing lives, is to be profoundly changed. AFFIRMATIONS: I am living proof of the Word of God working in and through me. The same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in me -- So, therefore, I walk in His Kingdom power. His fire surrounds me and His Glory dwells within me. The Lord does battle for me. His angels go speedily to do His bidding. All of heaven backs up His Word in my life. ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

My my, everything you put forth is always out of sorts with the facts. Stop taking commentary from men and ASK God, He will give you the answers Himself. There are proper commentaries, the problem with using them is you can find one that matches your own confirmations, so its useless then right? Especially if you do n0t say, well 50 said differently, but this agreed with me!! Now I will show you what this means from a deep 40 year study, we over 39 because I put forth this blog about 8 years or so ago. Daniel's 70 Weeks Decree against Israel In Daniel 9:24, Daniel prophesied that these six things must come to pass before this judgment against Israel would be fulfilled. Some think Jesus fulfilled all of these, most seem to think, as I do, that these things have not yet come to pass, and when they do that will be the end of the age. 1. Finish the transgression (Israel must repent before the 70 weeks judgment decree can come to an end) 2. Make and end of sins (Willful sins must end by the time the 70th week decree has ended, so says the prophecy) 3. To make reconciliation for iniquity ( Israel will be blinded in part, until the "Time of the Gentiles" [servitude unto God] has come to pass, via the rapture. Therefore Israel can not repent as a nation until the 70th week has come, but must repent as a nation before the 70th week can end. A 7 year timeframe ) 4. Bring in everlasting righteousness (This prophecy must end with Jesus' Second Coming as Lord of lords and King of Kings ruling on this earth ) 5. To seal up vision and prophecy (All Prophecy must be completed or sealed up by the time the 70th week decree ends, so that couldn't have been 2000 years ago because much prophecy has yet to be fulfilled ) 6. Anoint the most Holy ( Jesus must be anointed King of kings and Lord of Lords before the 70th week can end ) 1. The Hebrew word used for transgression denotes revolt or rebellion. The Jewish people chose to reject God, many chose to stay in Babylon once they were freed. It also denotes their rejection of Jesus Christ. Jesus prophesied in Matthew 23:39 that the Jewish people would not see him again until they accepted him. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. So in order for Jesus to return, Israel has to repent of their rejection of God and Jesus, and Israel will open their hearts to the Messiah, as Isaiah and Zechariah (Zechariah 12:10) and Paul in Romans 11 prophesied, among others. 2. This is fairly straightforward, "willful sins" can only end when the millennial reign starts, so by the time this 70 week decree is over, Jesus will have returned to set up his kingdom on earth, ushering in the millennial kingdom where there will be no more willful sins. Since the tribulation week is the last week of the 70 weeks decree, that makes perfect sense, as soon as the tribulation period ends, or the “time of Jacob’s trouble”, then “willful sins will end”. 3. Israel has to be reconciled unto God before the 70 weeks have been fulfilled. There is no doubt that Jesus died for all of our sins, thus the atonement for sins has been made, but there is a conditional requirement for all of us to receive that atonement, we must accept Jesus as our Savior. When Israel accepts the Messiah Jesus, as their Messiah, then the atonement for sins will have been completed, and Israel will have been reconciled unto God, thereby ushering in the millennial kingdom. 4. This 70 week decree has to bring in everlasting righteousness, and we know this can not happen until Jesus sets up his Kingdom. This world has always had willful sin, and always will until Jesus is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. By the time Daniels prophecy ends, it must usher in everlasting righteousness. 5. Seal up vision and prophecy, the word used here denotes to close up, meaning that before this 70th week can come to an end, all prophecy must be fulfilled or closed up. This will only happen when Israel accepts Jesus as their Messiah and he lands on Mt. Zion to rule over this wicked world with a rod of iron. 6. The very last goal that this 70 week prophecy has to usher in is the anointing of the most holy. The bible says most holy, many try to add holy place, but whether it is the temple being anointed, or Jesus Christ as Lord of Lord and Kings of Kings as I suspect, we know this must happen before the 70 weeks decree is fulfilled. And Jesus must return and rule on earth. All six of these things have to happen before this prophecy can be fulfilled in full. These are six spiritual goals that have to come to pass or this prophecy will not be finished or sealed up. We know these things have not come to pass yet, but we also know they are very near to happening, therefore watch, for Israel is now a nation again, and the world is against her, soon she will need her Messiah's help, then she will call upon him, and he will save her from this wicked world. ------------------------------------- So, there is no chance Jesus was this prince to come, its nit even a Capital P, as in Dan. 8: 27 where Jesus is described as a Prince. So, why would Daniel not capitalize the word? Because its not Jesus, its the Little Horn/A.C. who is to come 2000 some odd years after the people of Rome destroy the city Jerusalem. 25 And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. --------------------------------------- Remember there were no chapters and verses, the translators added them in, the prophesy is divided wrongly IMHO, if we were to divide the last "THREE VERSES" it should be divided into "TWO VERSES" like this. Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks(49 yrs), and threescore and two weeks(434 yrs): the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off(Killed), but not for himself: and the people(Romans) of the prince (A.C.) that shall come shall(during the 70th week or at the end) destroy the city and the sanctuary;(Jerusalem in 70 AD) and the end thereof shall be with a flood(Roman army swamps Jerusalem) , and unto the end of the war desolations are determined(Jerusalem will be desolate unto 1948 when God raised the Dead Bones up again). 27 And he (A.C.) shall confirm the covenant(Agreement) with many for one week(Israel and every nation on the Mediterranean Coastline): and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease**(The the A.C. from AFAR causes the Worshiping of Jesus to stop)**, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation(The Anti-Christ defiles the temple as per his orders from afar, until he is killed or CONSUMED), and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. ** The Anti-Christ is not in Jerusalem at the 1290, that happens 30 days before the 1260, it is 1290 days away from the 2nd coming while the A.C. only shows up 1260 days before the 2nd coming. Thus this False Prophet High Priest like unto Jason unto Antiochus Epiphanes, (the two Archetypes) will forbid Jesus worship in the temple of God by the 5 million or so (1/3 see Zech. 13:8-9) Jews who repent JUST BEFORE the DOTL arrives in Zech. 14:1 ONE VERSE LATER !! By the way, the Two-witnesses are the 1335 Blessing, they show up 1335 days before the 2nd coming, and this 45 days before the 1290 and 75 days before the 1260. Then, this False Prophet Jewish High Priest will place an IMAGE of the E.U. President up in the temple. Bu the way, the Dan. 9:27 AGREEMENT is simply this, Israel joins the E.U. and that sets EVERYTHING in motion, Gd raptures the Church and His 70th week of penance, designed to get Israel to repent begins**

By Worthy News’ Stefan J. Bos and Johan Th. Bos reporting from the Netherlands AMSTERDAM/AMSTELVEEN (Worthy News) – While alerted Christians prayed for them as far away as Indonesia and other nations, the Dutch held a live televised commemoration for those killed in World War Two and other armed conflicts, without antisemitic incidents. At 8 pm local time, there were two minutes of silence with several thousand people, including the royal family, standing quietly in pouring rain at Dam Square near the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, the capital. There was concern that pro-Palestine activists, who targeted Jewish individuals, including students, a rabbi, an artist, and Holocaust survivors, may interrupt the ceremony. Holocaust survivor Phia Baruch told Worthy News earlier there had been “fear within the Jewish community about possible civil war.” Some 102,000 Dutch Jewish people died in the Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, along with Sinti people and others the Nazis didn’t like. Yet there was a sigh of relief when King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima were among those singing the Dutch anthem at 08:02 pm. The royal couple was among the many laying wreaths for those who passed away in the horrors of recent wars. REMEMBERING THE FALLEN Youngsters publicly remembered fallen family members and survivors. In nearby Amstelveen, a key suburb with world headquarters of major companies, Mayor Tjapko Poppens seemed visibly moved by the hundreds turning up to remember those who died quietly. The two minutes of silence at Amstelveen’s famed war monument ‘To those who fell,’ in a public park, C.P. Broersepark, passed without incident. Additional police had been deployed in Amstelveen, which was one of several municipalities raising the Israeli flag after Hamas killed some 1,200 people on October 7. Amstelveen, which has a thriving Jewish community, had been anxious about antisemitic incidents after a mother here was threatened by three women because her daughter serves in the Israeli army. While raindrops fell as tears, and perhaps blessings, from heaven, Mayor Poppens spoke and remembered the many who died. Christians in Indonesia, which gained independence from the Netherlands after World War Two, told Worthy News they had been praying for a peaceful ceremony and the Jewish people. The post Netherlands Moment of Silence Without Antisemitic Incidents Amid Prayers appeared first on Worthy Christian News. View the full article

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Ukrainian Greek Catholics and others are celebrated Easter Sunday amid reports of heavy fighting as Russian troops were further advancing in Eastern Ukraine. Sunday marked the third Easter in Ukraine since Russia invaded the nation in February 2022. https://www.worthynews.com/wordpressimages/2024/05/WorthyNewsRadioMay5.mp3 Worshipers in churches observing Easter according to the Julian calendar gathered across Ukraine to celebrate Christ’s resurrection amid destruction and death. As the war against Russia enters its third year, people put their trust in the hope of the Gospel, including in Kyiv, where Orthodox believers were seen flocking to St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral. Elsewhere, Ukrainian soldiers received blessings before Easter, when many will be fighting on battlefields against advancing Russian troops. St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, many received blessings and prayed for peace after hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured in the ongoing war. Their sentiments are shared by the Ukrainian Greek Catholics, who also celebrate Easter this Sunday. The head of Ukraine’s five million-strong Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, says that “each day probably 200 Ukrainians are killed.” ‘WHERE IS GOD?’ “When a young widow is crying on the tomb of her husband killed in the front line in this situation, [we may wonder] where is God? And that question is a very important and deep religious question,” he told Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). “But God is with us,” he noticed. “Jesus Christ today is [in a way] the crucified body of Ukraine. And He is with the wounds of the simple people,” the archbishop stressed. And the church leader made clear that while Easter celebrates the resurrection of Christ from death, the same Lord understands the suffering of people in war. “Very often when I am visiting hospitals, and I see those young soldiers, young civilians with amputations, we have 1,500 amputations right now in Ukraine, I had the feeling: ‘Lord, those wounds are yours’.” And there were more injuries and amputations expected as Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, with Russia launching a barrage of drones in Ukraine’s east, wounding more than a dozen people. Moscow also claimed that its troops had taken control of the village of Ocheretyne, the scene of heavy fighting. Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had launched 24 Shahed drones overnight, of which 23 were shot down. But in Kyiv, people expressed hope and prayed that the fighting would stop and peace would return to this wartorn, shaken nation. The post Ukraine Celebrating Easter Amid Heavy Clashes (Worthy News Radio) appeared first on Worthy Christian News. View the full article

"Wars & rumors of wars" abound . . .

That's your addition to scripture. But you have no evidence for it. In fact, you just cited evidence against it: And as you know, someone recently lived longer than that. So clearly ages haven't changed very much. It's not just God's word that you reject. Evidence from ancient graves shows that people didn't live extremely long lives. Would you like to learn how we know? If God chose to lengthen the lives of patriarchs,that doesn't mean that everyone had a longer lifespan. Maybe one of us does.

My eschatological view agrees, and this stage will give rise to the apparent "savior of the world."

I don't know what's worse: a yelling dictator or a soft spoken "concerned" smiley servant of the state.

The LAWS of thermodynamics stand.

October 7, 2023, was the equivalent of our 9-11. Did the world dictate to the U.S. how we should respond, call for ceasefires and restraint? What are the commonalities between 9-11 (the Big Satan) and Israel's declared war (Little Satan) in Islam's eyes? It is a published fact Islam wants nothing less than to drive Israel into the sea and remember her no more. What do the United States and United Nations not understand about that? They are fighting for their very existence and have a right to defend themselves to live in peace and security. Israel holds the biblical and moral high ground in every engagement since their return to the land. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:3) As far as I know, this promise is not rescinded. What moral or legal right does the world have to handcuff another sovereign nation's right to existence? In war, there are always innocents killed and unintended consequences. As I mentioned previously, Israel has adopted biblical rules of offensive and defensive rules of war. The mentioned Israeli atrocities were not government-sanctioned, to my knowledge; please correct me if I am wrong. It would be akin to the U.S. My Lai massacre in Vietnam and hundreds of other instances of historical conflict. The Lord instituted nations in Genesis 10. Nations have sovereign physical borders to defend against intrusion. Israel is a nation (through Abraham) chosen by God to be His people, and He will protect them, leaving a remnant. Israel is fighting this same battle: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12) The following comes to mind with Israel's current war: But the prince of the kingdom of Persia (Iran) withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. (Daniel 10:13) [emphasis added] Elisha prayed for his servant’s eyes to be opened so that he could see into the supernatural realm. If our eyes were opened, we would be shocked at what we saw. As a side note: Notice that Elisha prayed for his servant’s eyes to be opened, not for the invisible army of horses and chariots to be made visible. This is because the angelic army was not invisible but rather not perceivable. Because of sin, we have lost our ability to perceive the full spectrum of the dimensional world encompassing us. IMO

WOW!!! There is a problem with your mind. How could ANYONE read this chart and believe that it doesn't show long ages. I'm sorry, but you need therapy.

I tried to listen to a sermon online today because there's no way we can go there and a part was great but then he had to talk about his wife and how great it all was that God gave her and how much they loved each other. Pffffff. So I put it off. I'll try again some other time. Lol then I was grumpy and said: Lord thank You that You gave me my ex to polish my character like iron, which I thought was hilarious and gave me great joy. My ex once preached. We were then already divorced some years, but I went there for the kids. He made a joke that when you're alone you're like: ooooh I wish I was married and then you're married and you're like: oooooh I wish I was alone. Nobody thought it was funny, but I was laughing like a horse. Hilarious. A pity he doesn't preach anymore.

There are several references throughout the bible describing the worlds nations being gathered to contend with the Lords people (who will have been previously gathered from the four corners of the earth, following the great tribulation period) to an area commonly referred to as Armageddon. I would like to see how many, if anyone here, knows the reason why the worlds nations will gather themselves together to contend with the Lords people in Armageddon. The bible clearly gives the reason in numerous scriptures,--but one has to acknowledge certain truths together in order to understand the reason why. And I have seen several people here on this forum, and other forums, deny these certain truths.

It is the curse (Isaiah 24:6), that goes over the face of the whole earth (Zechariah 5:3), which are the things mans hands produce and worship (Isaiah 2:8 & Revelation 9:20), that are destroying the earth. Isaiah 24:6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Zechariah 5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it. Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

I wouldn't put it past Biden to just turn them loose also.

The second law doesn't say that everything is in a constant state of degradation. Why not learn a bit about thermodynamics so you can discuss this issue without making such errors? You've confused heat with matter. Heat can cease in a closed system (which as another person here noted, means that one has to assume that the universe is a closed system). But the end of heat does not mean the end of matter. Please learn a bit about these things before you tell others about them. Perhaps you don't know what a scientific law is. What do you think it is? They do predict what scientists expect to see under specific conditions. However, they are not always universally applicable. Newton's laws of motion, for example were once considered to be universally true. NASA still uses them to navigate spacecraft through the solar system. But relativistic effects are large enough at those speeds and distances that it's not exactly right. Kepler's 3rd law applies only to our solar system, and so on. Never heard that, but there is a tiny, but non-zero probability that all the oxygen molecules in your room might move to one corner and suffocate you. Law of large numbers makes that so unlikely as to be effectively impossible, but it could happen. Happened at least once. Have some faith in God. The question is whether He used some other created thing to make this universe, (as he did for everything else) or if He created our particular universe from nothing. He doesn't say. I've always been intrigued by the creationist obsession with 747s and junkyards. It's not a thermodynamics problem, BTW. See above. You've been misled by that. They are human-discovered rules. Some, like Cope's Law, turned out to be only applicable to certain conditions. Others, like the laws of thermodynamics seem to reflect the rules within this particular universe. The difference between me and you as that I accept God's creation as it is and you seem to believe He is bound by the physical laws of the universe He created.

Well, of course. Seventy years is a reasonable average lifetime. Which doesn't mean that God couldn't lengthen the lives of specific humans for whatever purpose He had in mind.

The Bible says that mans life span is 75 years, and in another place says 120 years. (but recently someone broke that limit). Your new doctrine was that most humans once lived hundreds of years, which (as you admitted) God's word denies. If God let some humans live much longer, that doesn't mean He let everyone live that long. Your story is just an addition to his word you inserted to make it more acceptable to you. That's your addition to scripture. But you have no evidence for it. In fact, you just cited evidence against it. That was the problem with agriculture. Herding or hunting and gathering tended to allow longer lives. It clearly didn't, since at least one person recently lived longer than that. And of course, God lengthened the lives of a number of patriarchs. Nevertheless, your admission shows that lifetimes were not intrinsically different in earlier times. But that didn't stop you from assuming that it was, in spite of God's word to the contrary.

In my mind, Heaven is a constantly bustling place. I view the space of half an hour of silence as unprecedented. The magnitude never seen before in history and never again must elicit shock and awe for what is about to occur. The preparation and execution elicit silence. I once jokingly commented Revelation 8:1 meant: It is a proof text that men will be Raptured 30 minutes before women. That comment was irreverent and made light of the most horrific events mankind has ever or will experience.