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" (April 15) The FBI announced it is conducting an investigation of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, and that it had boarded the cargo ship Dali: “The FBI is present aboard the cargo ship Dali conducting court authorized law enforcement activity.” https://thenewamerican.com/news/fbi-announces-criminal-investigation-of-baltimore-bridge-collapse/ So nearly three full weeks after "the accident," the FBI finally is getting around to discover if it really was an accident. (Or so they say.) Might have something to do with the fact that before this newfound FBI interest, "Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said the city of Baltimore was pursuing legal action, and that it would 'hold responsible all entities accountable for the Key Bridge tragedy, including the owner, charterer, manager/operator, and the manufacturer of the M/V Dali, as well as any other potentially liable third parties.'" Ibid. The FBI investigation quite likely will impede the city's legal action. The delay of the FBI to act immediately after the incident also means that any coverup of the facts would have had plenty of time to take place. The whole thing smells really bad. In other words, situation normal with the Biden administration.

Marital Union in Heaven, and in Creation, Part 2 The Origin of Marriage Marriage is the union of a male and a female. The primordial pattern of the male-female union did not begin with Adam and Eve, but rather with the Creator and His Creation. That pattern originated with a separation out of primordial, limitless Divinity of a limited part thereof; because absolutely nothing else than Divinity existed before that separation. Since that event, the Creator’s sole work has been to perfect that lesser part, and to bring it back into union with Himself. This entire purposeful process – Transcendent Divine Wholeness → separation → perfecting of that having been separated → Holy (Re-)union/Marriage – set off a Chain of Events (Hebrew: Hishtalsheluth) of this same pattern being repeatedly manifested over and over again in Creation, in increasing stages of unity, up until the fully sanctified Reunion is able to be completed. The next stage in this marital Chain of Events will be the return of Christ for His Bride, the Church, in order to consummate a spiritual marital union in heaven: Revelation 19:7 “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give Him [‘the Lord God’] the glory: for the marriage of the Lamb came, and His wife made herself ready.” 8 And to her it was granted that she might be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 And he said unto me, “Write: Blessed are the ones having been called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” But even this holy union will only be another stage of perfection in the Chain of Events. For during the Millennium, the heavenly New Jerusalem will be being “prepared as a numphē/betrothed woman adorned for her husband.” Rev. 21:2 That more highly-exalted stage of marital union will not be attained until after the Millennium has been completed. Earlier stages have already taken place, although they have not yet been perfected; these will be the subjects of Parts 3 - 6. ALL of these types of marital, male-female unions must be perfected together in one in order for the ultimate marriage of the Creator with His Creation to be completed. (Because for the perfection of the whole to be achieved, every part of that whole must also be perfected.) That Union will be the subject of Part 7.

Not a world-functional USA, certainly, because the land will be in too much chaos to be a player in international affairs. But the nation will come through its 3rd and worst crisis: Three great perils will come upon the Republic. The most fearful is the third, but in this greatest conflict the whole world united shall not prevail against her. ... Then once more, I beheld the villages, towns, and cities springing up where I'd seen them before, while the bright angel, planting the azure standard he had brought in the midst of them, cried with a loud voice: While the stars remain, and the heavens send down dew upon the earth, so long shall the Union last. -- George Washington's Valley Forge vision

None, because there isn't any. But that doesn't stop people from inserting the idea into various scriptures.

Ezekiel 20:33 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you: 34And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. 35And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. 36Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord GOD. 37And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant: 38And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 39As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. 40For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. 41I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. 42And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. 43And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. 44And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

From what you wrote in your first two posts, you have the classic symptoms of bipolar disorder. (Common these days.) Right now you are in the depressive phase, the other phase being the manic, where one feels like they can do everything. The primary medication for this is lithium carbonate, an inorganic compound; common dose around 50 milligrams, by prescription. But one can purchase lithium orotate online without a prescription in much smaller doses, 5 - 10 mg., and it is an organic substance, and cheap. Some research says it promotes brain health in general. A web search will bring up many articles about it. It can be purchased on ebay and other such sites. Hope this helps. Pray about it, of course.

Matthew 16:28 “Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.” John 21:22 Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.” So what is it to you if the Lord wants to extend the lives of some of His followers beyond that of a normal lifespan? (If that indeed is what He meant.) The Lord is sovereign over all His subjects, so why bother to question His will (or His Word)? We don't have to figure everything out, after all (and we never will); just follow Him.

Actually, it takes three: don't leave out the One in the equation. Who is able to raise the dead?

The summation of your difficulty. If one refuses to accept the Lord as Lord, but continues to demand to be their own lord, then that is what the Lord will allow one to do. But the results thereof will always bring sorrow in the end. Because only God is good, and therefore only God can bring good into our lives. But that comes at the cost of our submission to Him. Choose whom you will serve. Right now, it is you. And it ain't working.

You are mixing metaphors. If the Woman is Israel (it isn't, but say for the sake of argument), well, Israel is a collective group of people, not an individual. So therefore this Woman's offspring would not be a single man, but a group of men. And such is what they are, for the Lord told us: Rev. 12:5 She bore a male Child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron. Rev. 2:26 "“And the one overcoming, and keeping My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations— 27 ‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’— as I also have received from My Father..." Jesus says that all who fulfill the underlined part above will be of the manchild group of Rev. 12.

Then no real historian can prove that they were not fulfilled either. It is certainly possible that it did happen but was not recorded or the records were lost. You seem to be saying that just because there are no specific records, then it never happened or never could have happened, which you can't prove absolutely either way. Apparently you presume that there was a 40-year blank-out of the history of Egypt since the time of Ezekiel, but such is not the case. Both the Egyptians, as well as the Greeks and the Persians and the Libyans were involved with Egypt, and the sum of their histories fills in every period. You really think that the mighty Nile River was dried up for 40 years, and nobody ever noticed and wrote about it?? Please. And that the whole population of Egypt fled to all the surrounding countries and nobody ever mentioned this? Hardly. The onus is on your to prove your allegation, not on me to prove a negative. I can see the historical record of Egypt in Velikovksy's works, for one example, such as Rameses II and His Time and Peoples of the Sea. Every nation has both an angelic sar and a human ruler, the latter called by various titles. Human rulers don't say the following: Ezekiel 29:3 "“Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, ‘My River is my own; I have made it for myself.’ -- therefore this is the spiritual authority over Egypt that God is addressing here. As far as the mention of the sword, this metaphor is used by the Word for warfare all throughout the prophets, including in Revelation 19. You should have known this.

I've read of two mentions of Egypt making such an attack at end times.One of which is in zechariah and the other in psalms . According to the word of God as written by Zechariah ,the Lord sends a plague upon the nations that come against Jerusalem at the time of he end. This is the plague. Zechariah 14:12 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. According to the word of God,Egypt recieves this plague which the Lord brings upon the people who have fought against Jerusalem. Zech 14:18-19 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Absolutely nothing in Zech. 14 says that Egypt attacks Israel at this time. The potential plague that could come upon Egypt is due to their not attending the Feast of Tabernacles -- nothing about an attack at all. Read the context. Egypt is not mentioned AT ALL in Psalm 83. Again, you are adding to the Word something that is not in it.

You have to look at the context of all of chapter 11. The king of the north originally ruled from Syria, but for a time held far more territory both east and west of that. So one can't go just by geographical north and south. What I look at is the posterity of the two kingdoms. The posterity of the northern kingdom was decidedly western: Antiochus Epiphanes grew up in Rome, where he was thoroughly educated. Gotta go, battery running out. Suggest reading the following series for more info: 26. Antiochus Epiphanes and the End Times, Part 1: The History A short biography of Antiochus Epiphanes and his times, using interwoven passages out of Daniel and 1, 2, and 4 Maccabees. https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1411-antiochus-epiphanes-and-the-end-times-part-1-the-history/ 27. Antiochus Epiphanes and the End Times, Part 2: The Transition from the Past to the Present Shows how the god-king Antiochus Epiphanes led the transition from the Greek Empire to the Roman Empire, and how the latter empireʼs posterity is found in modern Anglo-European governments. https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1418-antiochus-epiphanes-and-the-end-times-part-2-the-transition-from-the-past-to-the-present/ 28. Antiochus Epiphanes and the End Times, Part 3: The Prophetic Fulfillment Shows how Daniel 11:40ʼs King of the North “in a time of an end” will commit comparable acts, and in the same sequence, as did Antiochus Epiphanes, therein fulfilling both Old and New Testament prophecies. https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1433-antiochus-epiphanes-and-the-end-times-part-3-the-prophetic-fulfillment/

Fat chance of such a bill ever getting passed in this Congress, i.e., before the election.

Unless enough people simply choose to reject both.

Smelled like that to me, too.

Are you looking into a mirror??

Correction: Scripture teaches us that there will be a coming Messiah..... both a true Messiah and MANY false messiahS. Matt. 24:5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. There will be no single "the Antichrist," as so many falsely claim. Antichrists will come both before and after the resurrection and rapture.

The resurrection will be AFTER the GT, not "during." You can't just glibly lump that whole passage together: it has separate parts. The events of Dan. 12:11-12, for example, cover the period from just before and then through the GT, which begins when the abomination of desolation is placed: Matt. 24:15 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), ... 21 then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be."

Not a conjecture. Zech. 12:10ff. says as much. I follow what the Word actually says. And Rev. 4:1 says that all things thereafter will be events of the future, not the past. (So Rev. 12's manchild is NOT about Jesus' birth, for example, which took place before the time Revelation was written.) The 7 each seals, trumpets, and bowls are sequential. However, other passages, such as in chapters 11 and 12, describe some parts of already-mentioned End Time events from a different viewpoint. Practically everything from chapters 4 through 19 were presaged by parallel events, often using the same words, during the Exodus era. Shown in a 4-part series of blogs beginning here: https://www.worthychristianforums.com/blogs/entry/1980-the-end-times-and-the-exodus-part-1/

No biblical mention at all for Egypt ever making such an attack in the End Times. Please avoid making such claims without biblical evidence to back them up.

Ahhh, THAT is the question, isn't it? My answer is that it will be a leader from one of the NATO countries, most likely either the US or Germany. Time will tell. But current events in the Middle East are telling me that the "King of the South" will sooner or later go all out and make a significant attack on the West, as I showed in my second post above:

The living aren't "caught up later" to heaven than the resurrected dead; all "will be caught up together" : 1 Thes. 4:17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

This verse is commonly misunderstood, because people project into it more than it actually says. First, what it does NOT say: – That marriage in heaven will not exist. (Heaven itself IS a state of marriage; that is, a state of union.) – That people in heaven will be sexless. – That angels in heaven are sexless, or are only males, having no feminine traits at all. Now, what the passage DOES say: – That personal volition regarding 1) the choosing to marry, 2) the choosing of whom to marry, and 3) the choosing to give one’s daughter in marriage, which currently are all earthly choices of our wills – such solely personal choices will not take place in heaven. What the Lord has shown me, and others also, is that man-woman marital unions in heaven are omnisciently provided by our Lord and King, who created marriage, and who designed and appointed the original wife for the original man. (Adam didn’t get a say in the matter, because God’s choice was perfect.) In heaven, our wills will be bound up within the Lord’s perfect will, because that is how we will come to be in heaven in the first place. The Lord’s perfect will, from the very beginning of Creation, has been to bring about a perfect union between the Creation and the Creator – including in every detail of the Creation. The stages of this uniting will be the subject of Part 2.

Yes, they are years apart, but still about the same events, Babylon and Egypt Same nations, different time period. The events of the following passage were never fulfilled in history: no real historian can provide any evidence that they were: Ezekiel 29:10 …“I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate from Migdol [N. Egypt] to Syene [= Aswan, S Egypt], even unto the border of Ethiopia. 11 NEITHER FOOT OF MAN SHALL PASS THROUGH IT NOR FOOT OF BEAST PASS THROUGH IT, AND IT SHALL BE UNINHABITED FORTY YEARS. 12 I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands having been desolated; and among the cities that are laid waste, her cities shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries.” 13 Yet, thus says the Lord GOD: “AT THE END OF FORTY YEARS, I WILL GATHER THE EGYPTIANS FROM THE PEOPLES AMONG WHOM THEY WERE SCATTERED. 14 I WILL BRING BACK THE CAPTIVES OF EGYPT and cause them to return to the land of Pathros [Southern Egypt], to the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.”