Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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You gotta hand it to them…….
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This is a fantastic interview – both for the SR-71 related material, but maybe equally so for the personal message that the pilot has to relate on how he overcame huge obstacles to do what didn’t seem possible. He is also an entertaining storyteller.
Author Brian Shul on piloting the SR-71
This talk was presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Nov. 15, 2016, Vietnam-era attack pilot and retired Air Force major Brian Shul, author of “Sled Driver: Flying the World’s Fastest Jet,” reveals fascinating details of piloting the SR-71. Using his rare aviation slides and stories as a vehicle, he tells a broader inspired story of hope, overcoming obstacles and daring to dream.
Shul graduated from East Carolina University in 1970 with a degree in history and anthropology. After graduation, for the next 20 years he served as an Air Force fighter pilot. During the Vietnam War, he flew 212 close air support missions. During one of these missions, Shul was shot down near the Cambodian border and was unable to eject, so he was forced to fly his plane into the jungle. He was severely burned in the crash. Shul was rescued by Special Forces and endured one year in military hospitals where he underwent 15 surgical procedures and was told he would never fly again.
After much physical therapy, Shul miraculously returned to active duty flying. He flew the A-7D, was an instructor in the A-10 and went on to teach at the Air Force’s Top Gun School. He culminated his Air Force career by flying our nation’s top secret spy plane, the SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft ever built. He flew covert missions in the Blackbird for four years and was the pilot who provided President Reagan with detailed photos of Libyan terrorist camps in 1986. During that time, he became the only SR-71 pilot in history to fly three missions in three consecutive days.
Retiring from the Air Force in1990, Shul pursued his writing and photography interests. He was the first pilot to write a book about flying the Blackbird, which is completely illustrated with his own photography. The book won Aviation Book of the Year honors and is today the single most popular book on that plane worldwide. He is also the only man to fly extensively with both the Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds as a photojournalist.
This talk was presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Nov. 15, 2016.
Well worth your time
Wonderful!! What,a great American…….and I had never heard of him. Thank you Robert.?
The song brings back memories. 🙂
Very Good memories….
The Secret Of The Gospel
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Significantly, it was to Paul, not Peter, that “the secret of the gospel” was first revealed. (See Eph. 3:1-3; 6:19). It was he who was first sent forth to proclaim the doctrine of salvation, and to reveal all that had been accomplished at Calvary.
The Old Testament Scriptures had predicted that the sins of others would be laid upon Christ, but they had not explained how Christ’s death would be the basis for the sinner’s justification.
Many a criminal has gone free because his crimes have been “pinned on” another, but this has by no means justified the criminal! Some sincere Christians seem to think that substitution is the very acme of Bible truth, when in fact it is but the beginning, for substitution in itself does not imply the sinner’s justification.
It is also true that salvation had been offered before Paul. Men were told what to do to be saved — though the terms varied from time to time — and were even instructed, upon Christ’s arrival, to believe in Him for salvation. At that time sacrifices, circumcision, water baptism, etc., were still required for the remission of sins — and any believer would approach God in His way. This is why these religious rites were observed throughout our Lord’s earthly ministry and even through Pentecost.
The Apostle Paul, however, was later raised up to make known “the secret of the gospel,” and to proclaim the glorious accomplishments of Christ at Calvary. All the rich blessings so thrillingly set forth in Paul’s epistles flow to us from Calvary. Ours is a heavenly position because He came to earth to die for our sins. Ours is “the hope of glory,” because He suffered our shame. Ours is the blessing of “peace with God” because He bore God’s wrath upon sin. Ours is relief from the load of sin because He bore that load. Every one of our “all spiritual blessings” comes to us from Calvary. Paul’s “secret of the gospel” centers in Calvary. Little wonder St. Paul calls his preaching “the preaching of the cross.”
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-secret-of-the-gospel/
Romans 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Ephesians 6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
Colossians 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
“Significantly, it was to Paul, not Peter, that “the secret of the gospel” was first revealed. (See Eph. 3:1-3; 6:19).”
The above verses pertain to the “mystery” (Gr. mystērion); Paul shared more about “the mystery by revelation” that God made known to him:
Ephesians 3:2-7 “Surely you have heard of the administration of God’s grace, having been given to me toward you, that He made known to me the mystery by revelation, just as I have written before in brief, which, by reading, you are able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as now it has been revealed in the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets, that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, and a joint-body, and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the gospel, of which I became servant according to the gift of God’s grace, having been given to me according to the working of His power.”
Who are some of the other “holy apostles and prophets” spoken of “to whom “now it has been revealed in the Spirit” that “the Gentiles are joint-heirs, and a joint-body, and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the gospel”? (And what is an important implication of all of this joint participation?)
Note how post-ascension and post Pentecost apostle Peter received direct revelation “out of heaven”:
Acts 11:1-10 “Now the apostles and the brothers being in Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision began contending with him, saying, “You went to men having uncircumcision, and ate with them.” Now Peter having begun, set forth to them in order, saying, “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, being let down out of heaven by four corners, and it came down as far as me. Having looked intently on it, I was observing it, and I saw the quadrupeds of the earth and the wild beasts and the creeping things and the birds of the air. And also I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Having risen up, Peter, kill and eat.’ But I said, ‘In no way, Lord. For nothing ever common or unclean has entered into my mouth.’ But for a second time the voice answered out of heaven, ‘What God has cleansed, you do not call unholy.’ Now this happened on three times, and all was drawn up into heaven again.”
Note how the Holy Spirit told Peter to go to meet Gentiles, “not having discriminated”. Note further emphases by Peter of the sameness of the experience:
Acts 11:11-18 “And behold, immediately three men having been sent to me from Caesarea stood at the house in which I was. Now the Spirit told me to go with them, not having discriminated. Now these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man’s house, and he related to us how he had seen the angel having stood in his house and having said, ‘Send forth to Joppa, and send for Simon who is called Peter, who will speak words to you in which will be saved, you and all your household.’ And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ If then God has given to them the same gift as also to us having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how was I able to forbid God? And having heard these things, they were silent and glorified God, saying, “Then indeed God has given also to the Gentiles repentance unto life.”
Note how those who did not view the Gentiles as a “joint-body” at first (Acts 11:2-3) appear to have received, after to listening to Peter’s testimony, an important level of “insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as now it has been revealed in the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets, that the Gentiles are joint-heirs, and a joint-body, and joint-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus, through the gospel” (cf. Eph. 3:4-6).
“the sameness of the experience:”
The Difference between Peter and Paul’s Message
Peter and Paul never taught the same gospel. When Peter taught the kingdom gospel at Pentecost Saul was rejecting the Messiah. When Paul preached the gospel of the grace of God Peter’s gospel of the kingdom to Israel was limited to the circumcision.
Below are the six major issues of distinction between what Peter taught and what Paul taught. The main similarity between the two messages exists in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph 1:10).
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1. Israel and Prophecy
Peter* taught Israel is still standing and prophecy is being fulfilled.
(Acts 2:16-17; 3:21,24-26)
Paul taught Israel is fallen and the prophecies are postponed.
(Rom 3:10,19;11:11,25; 16:25)
2. Apostolic responsibility
Peter* taught Salvation is of the Jews led by the twelve apostles.
(John 4:22; Mat 19:28; 1 Pet 1:10; Rev 21:14)
Paul taught Salvation sent to Gentiles through Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles.
(Rom 11:13; Col 1:25; 2 Tim 1:11; 1 Cor 3:10)
3. Justification
Peter* taught Salvation and the law; justification by faith in Jesus as the Messiah accompanied by necessary works.
(Jam 2:24; 1 John 2:5; Mat 19:27; Heb 10:26)
Paul taught Salvation apart from the law; justification by grace through faith in the cross work of Jesus Christ.
(Rom 4:5; Eph 2:8-9; Tit 3:5; 1 Cor 15:1-4)
4. The Church**
Peter* taught Separation between the Jew and
Gentile; Israel is God’s chosen people. Gentiles blessed through Israel.
(Mat 10:5; Luke 24:49; Acts 11:19)
Paul taught No longer Jew nor Gentile but all are part of a new creature in Christ called his Body.
(Gal 3:28; Col 3:11; Eph 2:15; 1 Cor 12:13)
5. God’s representation
Peter* taught God’s holy nation, the little flock of Israel, is His earthly representation from among the world.
(Isa 61:6; Rev 7:1-8; 1 Pet 2:5,9)
Paul taught Gentile Ambassadors are His representation to a world in total rebellion.
(2 Cor 5:20; 1 Cor 12:20; 2 Tim 2:2)
6. Destiny***
Peter* taught Promised to receive an earthly inheritance in the kingdom.
(1 Pet 1:4; Mat 6:10; Heb 13:14; Rev 21:2)
Paul taught Promise of an heavenly position in God’s universal dominion.
(Phil 3:20; Eph 2:6; 1 Thess 4:17)
* Peter is used as representative of the twelve apostles during their kingdom and Pentecostal ministry.
** There are three churches mentioned by name in the Bible; listed are two.
*** In the dispensation of the fullness of times both of these things will be brought together in Christ (Eph 1:10).
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“Note how the Holy Spirit told Peter to go to meet Gentiles,”
Peter Taught Gentiles. Yawn.
By Justin Johnson
Sometimes people mistake the mystery of Christ with God’s blessing upon the Gentiles. More than one student of right division has fallen captive to this error. Beware.
You can identify when this mistaken definition of the mystery is made because Cornelius in Acts 10 will be presented as a problem for Pauline right division.
The line goes like this: Cornelius was a Gentile; Peter preached his gospel to Cornelius; thus, Paul was not the only one to go to Gentiles with the gospel.
Supposedly, this diminishes the importance of Paul’s unique apostleship to the Gentiles (Rom 11:13), and gives evidence that Peter taught the mystery kept secret since the world began (contrast Rom 16:25 to what Peter taught in Acts 3:21).
The Cornelius “problem” has been dealt with already very handily. Peter’s gospel was the kingdom gospel and he was operating under the law. The mystery of Christ is absent from Acts 10.
Gentile Blessing Prophesied
If the Pauline mystery of Christ was merely Gentile blessing then it would not be a mystery at all since we find that sort of Gentile involvement in Jesus’ earthly ministry. Jesus blessed the centurion’s Gentile servant in Luke 7:1-8 and the Canaanite dog in Matthew 15:24-28.
We also find Gentile blessing in the prophets in passages such as Isaiah 49:6 where the Holy One is the Restorer of Israel and a light to the Gentiles.
The prophets speak of the Gentiles being blessed through Israel in Zechariah 8:22-23 or Micah 4:2-4 where Gentiles follow the Jewish road to Zion to receive the blessed teaching of God’s law for the whole earth.
Gentile blessing is not uniquely part of the mystery of Christ.
Gentile blessing was part of God’s prophetic purpose for the earth going back as far as the promises made to the fathers (Romans 15:8-12).
Paul explains in Romans 15 that Gentile blessing was not a mystery. Christ confirmed the promises made to the fathers which included the blessing upon Gentiles through Abraham’s seed.
Remember, Abraham’s promise was that “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” (Gen 12:3). The Gentiles would be blessed at the glorious rise of God’s chosen people.
“And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.” – Isa 60:3
The Mystery to Gentiles
Meanwhile, Paul received grace from God to minister the unique mystery of Christ to Gentiles (Romans 5:15-16). He was the apostle of the Gentiles (Rom 11:13).
That Gentiles would be blessed was no mystery. How they would be blessed is different according to the revelation of the mystery.
Under prophecy they would be blessed through Israel and the covenants. The earthly purpose of God is to bless the world (i.e. Gentiles) through his covenanted people Israel.
Under the mystery of Christ Gentiles receive all spiritual blessings directly through Christ and his completed work on the cross. The mystery purpose of God is to bless all men today through the abundance of his grace without any covenants.
Peter and the Gentiles
Peter went one time to Gentiles with a gospel in Acts 10. So what, it was not the preaching of the cross. Israel was destined to be the channel of blessing to the Gentiles anyway (Isa 61:6).
Jesus was prophesied to be a light to the Gentiles (Isa 42:6). Yawn. Old news, there is nothing new here. The Messiah was always part of the covenant to bless the whole world. The mystery of Christ was hidden and not yet revealed in any of the prophets. The mystery is not merely Gentiles receiving blessings.
The mystery of Christ includes salvation offered to all men freely by God’s grace without a covenant in order to form a new creature (Jew and Gentile) that would reside in heavenly places.
Peter teaching a Gentile in Acts 10 provides an example of the difference in Gentile blessing according to the kingdom gospel and Gentile blessing according to the mystery gospel. Cornelius was blessed through the covenant of a law abiding Jew. Paul’s Gentiles received blessing through faith in the preaching of the cross.
https://graceambassadors.com/mystery/peter-taught-gentiles-yawwwn
So the new protocol for this thread is not only top posting 3 to 4 articles a day, but posting entire articles from some others in reply to other’s in-thread replies to aspects of initial articles? Really? OK, let’s have a look.
“Peter went one time to Gentiles with a gospel in Acts 10. So what, it was not the preaching of the cross.”
As previously noted above, the elements of the gospel preached to the Gentiles in Acts 10 and to Gentiles later were the same in their essence: salvation by grace through faith (cf. Acts 11:11- 18, 15:7-11). Was Peter going to teach them everything intricacy of the faith other than the core essentials in the first meeting, or rather that which was of first importance?
Per Paul to Gentiles to whom he preached (some of whom he’d personally baptized per the same letter: “For I delivered to you in the foremost what also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve” (1 Cor. 15:3-5). Is it a matter of a “yawn” or “so what” that Paul led with the basics and then progressively overtime stepped up elements of teaching?
Notably. the fact that the cross / tree was in fact preached goes against the core issue brought up to begin with as part of the revelation of the gospel message and the key essential elements preached from the start to Gentiles per Acts 10:39 — “And we are witnesses of all things that He did, both in the region of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they also put to death, having hanged Him on a tree.”
Given that the doctrinal perspective posted here has often cited Acts 16:31 on a prooftexted basis about needing to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and one will be saved, let’s note another similarity in Scripture as to the message of first importance, with wording almost identical to that full verse attributed to Silas and Paul from the Philippi jail: ‘Send forth to Joppa, and send for Simon who is called Peter, who will speak words to you in which will be saved, you and all your household’ (cf. Acts 11:13-14).
With all of that as context, let’s return to the matter of teaching. Recall what Cornelius said to Peter: “Therefore I sent to you at once, and you did well, having come. Now therefore, we are all present before God to hear all the things having been commanded you by the Lord.” After the conversion experience, “Then they asked him to remain some days” (Acts 10:48).
In Peter’s retelling of the story from the next chapter, Peter —who already received revelation from above, had even further insights related to not just “Gentile blessings“, but — and this is key — the actual manner of salvation for all as it related to the gospel message and how it was preached: And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He had said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ If then God has given to them the same gift as also to us having believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, how was I able to forbid God?” (Acts 11:15-17).
Throughout the Gospel accounts as well as the book of Acts, Christ’s promise to bring recollection and understanding to the apostles through the Holy Spirit is shown to bear out many times. Combining all of this, it stands to reason that having gotten continual divine insight on the subject in apparently real time, Peter’s words and teaching to the Gentiles over those “some days“ would’ve gone beyond the initial message of first importance and into doctrinal matters and insights relevant to those Gentiles — though possibly not in exactly the same words and doctrinal fleshing out that Paul or Apollos would have done later.
That most of the expositional writings in the New Testament were done by the trained scholar rather than the fisherman speaks again to the division of fields of expertise and specialization rather than uniqueness and distinctiveness and separateness of message. The recorded words from the trained scholar in the book of Acts are also sparse as far as preaching the cross to the Gentiles. Does that mean something was lacking in what Paul preached to them, or could the following have been of relevance along with the emphasis on that which was of first importance? “And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as fleshly—as to infants in Christ. I have you milk to drink, not solid food, for not yet were you able” (cf. 1 Cor. 3:1-2).
Later, Peter spoke approvingly about further doctrinal exposition in letters. Notably, it does not appear that Cornelius and the others “having obtained a faith equally precious with ours” who may have received Peter’s letters received a caution about a different and uniquely applicable message wholly distinct and unique coming from Paul, which one certainly thinks could’ve been warranted.
Though Cornelius, the Romans, and all the Gentiles having received the gospel message from someone other than Paul would have welcomed the further insight, it certainly does not seem that what they received initially — especially the salvation message — was in anyway insufficient or a yawn moment.
I don’t know about any new protocol in Sundance’s blog but your argumentative posts in reply to every spiritual message posted by Deplorable Infidel have become quite tiresome and they use up a lot of comment space.
If you have an original uplifting spiritual message then please post it as an original post. I have rarely seen you make an original post; only responding and nitpicking Deplorable’s posts.
I don’t know about other Treepers but I would appreciate it if you take your interpretive and exegetical arguments with Deplorable somewhere else.
I actually enjoy their interchanges.
🙂
Ok
“I don’t know about any new protocol in Sundance’s blog but your argumentative posts in reply to every spiritual message posted by Deplorable Infidel have become quite tiresome and they use up a lot of comment space.”
At another time, if you want to go down the personal route of casting my contributions as “argumentative“ and “nitpicking” versus “every spiritual message” (which doesn’t even appear to survive examining posts from this last week in which I’ve barely replied), I can more than adequately break down and see if the above characterization holds water.
For now, going with the notion that it’s not just about not wanting to blunt or chill differing opinion and what is posted in an open thread, but about the manner in which things transpire in the open thread, let’s consider that. First off, there’s no requirement for you to post a blog or an article composed by yourself when you reply to any part of any of these threads, and I should be afforded the same right.
If I feel like posting something of itself because of value, that’s great. However, there’s enough at issue that I speak up when I think it’s warranted, just as if someone started posting articles from the JW‘s watchtower or some other religious organization. You may recall a couple of weeks ago when someone started posting and linking to a professed Christian website that was talking about mermaids stealing people and bringing them to the center of the earth. Was it nitpicking or argumentative for me to point out that issue? Did I need to put some original material in article form to make a point rather than just speak to the issue at hand? Of course not.
As far as concerns about comment space, does posting entire articles of biblical doctrinal opinion comport well with posting guidelines? Again, if you’re seeking to be consistent, do the posting for articles including replies also comport, whether you find them tiresome or not? That’s a worthwhile question if it’s about space and content, and you’re free to look at the open thread since the beginning of the month to see how that has fared, with few contributions from me.
Would I instantly be afforded the same level of approval as putting forth spiritual messages if I had a blog and started posting from it 3 to 4 TMonroe’s Biblical Takes of whatever length I saw fit, including in the replies to comments on an initial “Take” or two that have become the norm this month? Should I expect on a general open thread with people from all walks of life to not have people answer according to their own perspective and information what I post? What if someone thinks I’m posting an error on spiritual subjects, or that multiple posts don’t actually add up to a consistent message if for example I had guest posts from people I know giving their “Biblical Takes? If I top posted them again and again and again and again and again on an ongoing basis, should someone stop replying to what they think is error just because I’m persistent and find challenges tiresome?
I’m going to point to a solution that can be accepted or not. This was from DI in 2018 in the Chapel Thread: “There is another thread we could go to discuss theology, if you want. We are suppose to stay on topic I will post this over there:”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2011/02/02/the-chapel-door-is-open-part-4/
Here’s the deal. If there are going to be posts coming from a highly doctrinal perspective, let them originate and stay there in the Chapel thread, and the comments in that space can follow. If it’s not about that and everything’s going to stay in the open thread, then we’re not gonna have a Joe Biden lid on replies to it, but comments will remain in the open thread. If they do, you might want to raise a concern about full length articles being posted as replies as they have today, if space is truly the issue that is of concern.
Also, if there are posts that are generally just Bible verses and the usual devotional is it usually populate the open thread – – as you’ll notice there are mostly those versus persistent doctrinal assertions as far as other posts that come to the open thread, that actually comports with the norm. If however there is going to be this Pauline prioritization as well as questioning the spiritual maturity and more of people who choose to be baptized in the present day and so forth — something which even the usual writers appear to claim to be mostly their concentration rather than the rest of general professed Christianity, that falls into theology and doctrine, which going by DI’s own words belongs in the Chapel thread. The ball is in your court.
Was Paul’s Message Unique?
When Bible teachers seek credibility for their messages, they will often cite Scripture to give divine authority to their teaching. Some may seek confirmation from other like-minded teachers quoting books or periodicals. It is not uncommon to speak about the historicity or tradition of their message.
Teachers in the Bible used these methods for credibility: quoting Scripture, quoting other prophets, and recognizing the promises made to ‘the fathers’.
John the Baptist began his ministry preaching the authority of the prophet Isaiah:
“For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” – Matt 3:3
During his earthly ministry, even Jesus came to ‘confirm the promises made to the fathers’ (Romans 15:8). He taught what was in the ‘law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms’ (Luke 24:44). Filled with the Holy Ghost, Zacharias said Jesus’ ministry contain what was spoken by ‘his holy prophets, which have been since the world began’ (Luke 1:70).
After the Christ’s ascension, Peter, also filled with the Holy Ghost, preached a gospel which they had been speaking ‘since the beginning’ – the gospel of the kingdom (Acts 1:22, Mark 1:14-15). Peter after Pentecost preached about Jesus as was ‘spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since the world began’ (Acts 3:21).
No doubt there were sincere students of Scripture who when they heard these claims would go and verify them within the divine text. In fact, the noble Jewish Bereans did just that (Acts 17:11).
A message without a history
Although the message taught by John, Jesus, and Peter was verified by the historical Scripture, Paul makes an extraordinary claim. He claims that his message was not revealed to anyone prior! It was kept a ‘secret’ and ‘hid in God’ (Rom 16:25, Eph 3:9).
This is not to say that Paul taught heresy or never quoted Scripture. Paul often quotes Scripture. However, Paul blatantly distinguishes his message from any previous revelation, teacher, or historical tradition.
“But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ” – Gal 1:11-12
His teaching was not after the tradition of man nor was he taught it by anyone. It was revealed to him by Christ himself from heaven.
Instead of using the ‘mouths of his holy prophets’ as a source of support, Paul says that his message was kept secret from those prophets.
“Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,” – Romans 16:25
Paul had no doctrinal history to appeal to, since he claims that his mystery message was hid from ages and generations.
“Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:” – Col 1:26
Declaring such a message it is no wonder why Paul had no small dissenstion even with other believers (Acts 15:1-2, Gal 2:6-11).
Paul first
Paul says he was the first to take part in the blessings of this glorious new dispensation from God.
“Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. “ – 1 Tim 1:16
In another place Paul claims authority over the disciples’ ministry as he pronounces himself to have laid the foundation.
“According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.” – 1 Cor 3:10
When we consider that Peter was given authority to lay a foundation in Matthew 16:18-19, this is a very bold statement. We must consider that either Paul was arrogant beyond reason [See ‘Was Paul arrogant?‘] and was deluded in his thinking or that it was true that a new dispensation was committed to him (1 Cor 9:17).
When compared with Peter’s appeal to what was ‘spoken by the prophets since the world began’, there can be no doubt that there should be a distinction made with a message which had been ‘kept secret since the world began’ (Romans 16:25, Acts 3:21).
Paul considered what he taught to be a new revelation not spoken of before, and the beginning of something new. He refers to this message as the ‘mystery’ and the ‘dispensation of the grace of God’. There would be much to gain from an understanding of the distinctive content of this further revelation given to Paul.
https://graceambassadors.com/mystery/was-pauls-message-unique
“Declaring such a message it is no wonder why Paul had no small dissenstion even with other believers (Acts 15:1-2, Gal 2:6-11).”
There is no evidence that the dissension in Galatians (which clearly appears isolated to Galatians 2:11-14 rather than in verses 6-10, making this winter’s citation curious) had to do with a uniqueness of message preached. Rather, it is clear that even though Peter and the others were preaching the same message salvation by grace through faith (cf. Acts 10, 11, 15), Paul’s issue with Peter and others — which notably included Paul’s ministry partner Barnabas — apparently related to fellowship with Gentiles and were followed by others (cf. Galatians 2:11-13).
Not only is there a dearth of evidence that the dissension of Galatians 2:11-14 stemmed from resistance to a unique message by Paul being supported let alone presented here (especially what the timeline shown in Acts 10 and 11 makes clear), but what of Barnabas, who per the cited verse of Galatians 2:9 was given the “right hands of fellowship” from “James and Cephas and John”?
According to Paul, Barnabas was being carried away by the aforementioned hypocrisy, which given no other given example figures to be what the writer is using for the allegation of resistance and dissension over the message being preached. How would it make any sense that Barnabas all of a sudden after preaching the gospel right along with Paul for years was going to permanently resist that same message, if what was at issue in Galatians 2 represented the supposed potential permanent resistance?
Acts 15:1-5 had to do specifically with erroneous assertions from the “certain ones“ who insisted on circumcision and keeping of the law of Moses being required for salvation for all including Gentiles:
“But certain ones having come down from Judea were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you are not able to be saved.” Having been brought about, then, no small commotion and discussion by Paul and Barnabas with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and certain others out from them to go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question” (Acts 15:1-2).
The explanation that followed showed that the “certain ones“ evidently were in error about the nature salvation for Jews as well, with all being saved by grace through faith rather than works of the law, something which Peter made clear before them as well as
Paul, Barnabas, and the others by referring to his own experience (see reply to previous article for further background concerning Acts 10 and 11):
“And much discussion having taken place, Peter having risen up, said to them, “Men, brothers, you know that from the early days God chose among you for the Gentiles to hear by my mouth the word of the gospel, and to believe. And the heart-knowing God bore witness to them, having given them the Holy Spirit, as also to us. And He made no distinction between both us and them, having purified their hearts by the faith. Now therefore, why are you testing God, to put upon the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But we believe ourselves to be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same manner as they also are” (Acts 15:7-11).
“Peter and the others were preaching”
Did Paul Preach A Different Gospel?
Although every man at any time is saved by the grace of God through faith, the content of faith differs from one dispensation to the next. That is, the message that is offered and believed for righteousness and salvation varies according to God’s progressive revelation.
As discussed in ‘What are the different gospels in the Bible?’ various people at sundry times were counted righteous as a result of faithful obedience to separate messages.
Where Abraham was counted righteous as a result of his obedience of faith to a promised nation, Moses taught the obedience of faith in the law for righteousness (Genesis 15:6, Deut 6:25). John the Baptist taught water baptism for remission of sins, and Jesus taught the ‘seeking the kingdom’ as a gospel worthy of righteousness (Mark 1:4, Matt 6:33).
Later the disciples witnessed the death and resurrection of the Messiah and testified of the endurance of the saints for attaining salvation (1 Peter 1:7-9). The message taught by Peter, James, and John was that Jesus was the promised Son of God, and whomever believed this truth and followed the commandments would be counted worthy of eternal life (Acts 3:26, 1 John 5:12).
Righteousness with the law
Since the beginning ministry of John the Baptist, the disciples taught the necessary obedience of faith to the covenant laws for righteousness. Although faith was always required for justification, it was the active obedience of faith to God’s instructions that would gain a righteous standing before God.
During his earthly ministry, Jesus taught, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:20)
James says, “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone” (James 2:17).
John says, “Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous” (1 John 3:7).
Even the New Covenant promised to ‘write the laws in your hearts’ and ‘cause you to do them’ (Heb 8:10, Eze 36:27).
Therefore it was no surprise when if anyone failed to keep the strict standard of righteousness taught by Christ, then they would be condemned! [See ‘What is the New Covenant’]
“Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.” – 1 John 3:9
“For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.” – Hebrews 10:26-27
Righteousness without the law
However, Paul taught the contrary. Instead of preaching the obedience of faith towards the law for righteousness, he taught righteousness by faith only.
“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested …” – Romans 3:21
“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” – Romans 4:5
In his exposition of salvation, Paul explains that we are reconciled to God while we were his enemies, disobeying the commandments and ‘strangers from the covenants’ (Eph 2:12).
“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” – Romans 5:10
Whereas under the message of the disciples righteousness was indicated by their deeds, Paul’s message indicates righteousness as a product of the work of Christ on the cross imputed upon those that believe (Romans 3:22-24, 2 Cor 5:21).
A Different gospel
Based upon the necessary conditions for righteousness, we can see that Paul not only taught a different message but a different gospel than the disciples. Whereas, the disciples taught faith in the Christ as the Son of God and commandment-keeping as their standard for righteousness, Paul revealed a message of trusting the function of the death and resurrection for justification (Romans 3:24-25).
Peter taught the crucifixion as the ultimate example of unjust persecution (Acts 2:23, 1 Peter 2:20-24). However, the blood of Christ was something that was necessary for the glory of the gospel preached by Paul (Col 1:14, Romans 3:24).
“But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.” – Gal 6:14
He taught the faith in Christ’s righteous atonement that grants justification apart from any works of the law (Romans 4:5). This message and gospel of grace is first taught by the Apostle Paul as it was revealed to him by Christ for he had not learned it from the disciples (Gal 1:11-12).
Misunderstanding this gospel distinction is the cause of so much confusion about salvation. To become assured of our eternal destination, a proper understanding of the righteousness without the law is needed.
https://graceambassadors.com/salvation/did-paul-preach-a-different-gospel
“a uniqueness of message preached.”
Paul’s Certified Ministry
One of the most controversial writers of scripture is Paul. Since he wrote about information kept secret he has been pushed aside, doubted, and even labeled the Antichrist as scholars regularly fail to rightly divide.
Yet, Paul is continually emphasizing his authority from Jesus Christ to present the gospel of grace in contrast to the law system of the Old and New Covenants. One of the more lengthy presentations of his ministry certification is listed in Galatians 1 and 2.
Not of men, neither by man
He starts the epistle by stating that his apostleship was not of a lineage of human authority, ‘not of men’, neither did his apostleship come by the teaching of men. Rather it was given by the Lord Jesus Christ out of due time.
Later he emphasizes this fact by stating:
“But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. “– Gal 1:11
How could anyone forget how Paul received his commission on the road to Damascus as Paul was in rebellion against Jesus Christ. In fact, it is the degree of his lifestyle before his conversion that he uses as further evidence of his authoritative message.
Paul’s conversation in time past
In Gal 1:13-14 Paul explains that he was persecuting the church of God and wasted it. It does not stand to reason that Paul’s voluntary zeal for God in persecuting would-be heretics would reverse suddenly without some sort of intervention.
Paul explains that it was divine intervention. The description of the event and his subsequent actions traveled wide as it was propagated “That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. “ – Gal 1:23
Conferred not with flesh and blood
Adding further credibility to his initial statement that his gospel came by further revelation of Jesus Christ, Paul explains that he did not confer with flesh and blood.
At the height of his successful persecution of the church of God he flees the country to Arabia.
“…immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. “ – Gal 1:16b-17
Furthermore, when he returned from Arabia he went to Damascus but this time not to seek and destroy believers, as his zeal had led him to request letters from the high priest, but rather to preach among the Gentiles the gospel he had received from the Lord himself.
Fourteen years after
By Galatians 2 we read that apart from a two week meeting with Peter in Jerusalem, he had not gone to Jerusalem for a stint of 14 years.
Surely Paul had already established many followers in the regions of Syria and Cilicia where he had been preaching outside of the national boundaries of Israel and contrary to the apostolic commission of Luke 24:47.
Without the benefit of distance communication that we have today through phones, email, and the internet, it would have been impossible for Paul to receive a ministerial training course from the apostles.
“The same was mighty in me”
Paul says, that when he did meet with the Jerusalem apostles that they “who seemed to be somewhat added nothing to me” (Gal 2:6).
Rather Paul taught them a few things, specifically that he had the power and authority from God to preach his gospel to the Gentiles. In a bold yet true statement Paul says that his authority was on the same level as Peters.
“For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:” – Galatians 2:8
It is by inspiration that Paul writes elsewhere that “in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles” (2 Cor 12:11).
As a result Paul was given the ‘right hands of fellowship’ to continue with his authoritative God ordained ministry.
Surely, Paul’s certifications as the minister of the gospel of grace cannot be doubted. It should not require the pertinent knowledge of 2 Timothy 2:15 to take the first step in understanding right division. A cursory reading of Galatians 1 and 2 should be quite sufficient.
https://graceambassadors.com/midacts/pauls-certified-ministry
“Just a country boy who’s learning that the pitfalls of the city are extremely real . . .” Pure Willie. Some seriously good pickin’ on this song.
Just say’n… 😉
Timing is everything…
Nov 3rd is for all the marbles…
October Surprise?
You watch and listen;
You decide credibility…
https://youtu.be/rCybWf1g9K8
TY
So Hillary, Leon Panetta and Brennan cooked up the hit on Bin l;aden and didn’t tell Ozero until the Seal Team was on their way into Pakistan; too late for Ozero to stop it?
Seal Team 6 actually killed a decoy (double)? And disposed of the body to hide that evidence?
Iran had spirited Bin Laden away back to Iran and blackmailed Ozero for $152Bn or else they were going to reveal the big lie?
So Seal Team 6 was murdered to coverup the entire scandal?
And now a whistleblower has given a terabyte of evidence – documents, videos, photos etc – to a prominent member of Congress? Expecting what (they don’t say)?
This is far too sensational to not make at least ONE major news network.
The fact that it has not been mentioned on ANY, not even OANN, means that they have not been able to confirm any of this.
Very stinky odor around this story.
Luke 8:17
For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.
Proverbs 26:26
Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
Matthew 10:26
So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
Mark 4:22
For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light.
Luke 12:2
There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
question: Where is the real Osama bin Laden now?
If anyone knows, they aren’t telling, fearing they’ll end up like Seal Team 6.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Teacher: For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die;
A time to plant, a time to collect the harvest;
A time to kill, a time to heal;
A time to tear down, a time to build up;
A time to cry, a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, a time to dance;
A time to scatter stones, a time to pile them up;
A time for a warm embrace, a time for keeping your distance;
A time to search, a time to give up as lost;
A time to keep, a time to throw out;
A time to tear apart, a time to bind together;
A time to be quiet, a time to speak up;
A time to love, a time to hate;
A time to go to war, a time to make peace.
– The Voice version
Navy veteran Joe Collins targets Democrat Maxine Waters’ home in campaign ad.
Collins is a 13-year Navy veteran who fought in the Iraq War.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/navy-veteran-joe-collins-targets-democrat-maxine-waters-in-campaign-ad
Good luck to Joe!!! It’s a great video with a perfect message, and I hope it successfully reaches much of his constituency!
For a bit of a wider perspective on the wider globalist organizing, look at the latest Davos crowd thinking… This Sky News opinion piece hits it…
Sky News
‘The Great Reset’: World leaders to harness COVID and pursue ‘sinister’ climate agenda
Sky News host Rowan Dean says the next World Economic Forum in Davos has morphed from a “jet-setter climate gabfest” into a sinister “anti-democratic enterprise designed to destroy your job, steal your prosperity and rob your kids of a future”.
“It’s a hardcore leftist eco-horror show replete with quasi fascism,” he said.
Mr Dean highlighted what he described as a “disturbing trend among many of the world’s left-wing elites to increasingly conflate COVID-19 with climate change.
“Many are going so far as to suggest that all the measures applied to the coronavirus, the lockdowns, the destruction of businesses, the suppression of dissent, curfews, strong-arm police tactics, should become the ‘new normal’ for dealing with climate change.”
This aligns with what I have been reading from other completely unrelated sources.
IMHO, it would be advisable for Treepers to review this video and familiarize with the assertions made therein.
It’s not “quasi fascism”, they are the real deal. Too many people tend to think of fascism as more of a historical even than a system of government. With the almost total failure of communism, police-state socialists have increasingly turned to a fascist model. Fascism is attractive to globalists and oligarchs for the exact same reason Mussolini so successfully co-opted Italian industrial oligarchs in the 20;s and 30’s—-they know that if they form a partnership with a fascist state their wealth and power will be preserved and, even better, they also know that the fascist police state will work to prevent workers from striking. China has embraced this model while, here in the US, the progressive left is pushing hard for us to adopt a fascist model. We’re almost there.
Is this for real? This is popping up in other forums, this is the second time I heard a reference to “the billions in cash to Iran was to cover up the killing of Seal Team 6”
The video says the news came out Sunday. What a whopper if this is for real…!
BREAKING: Whistleblower Drops HARD Evidence, Biden, Obama, Hillary EXECUTED Seal Team 6, Audio Proof
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCybWf1g9K8
This video is from the last panel of the conference where this bombshell was announced.
If this pans out, it will dominate this election news cycle.
Benghazi Betrayal | Charles Woods & Nick Noe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Qu5tP-RW2ss
Published on Oct 12, 2020
Heartbreaking story of Charles Woods (father of Tyrone Woods killed in Benghazi) and how he was lied to by the Obama administration after Benghazi at AMP Fest in Florida on October 11th, 2020. Charles received intel about what truly happened that terrible day. He explains with Nick Noe, Benghazi whistleblower, explosive NEW information about Benghazi, Osama Bin Laden, Seal Team 6, and its connection to the 152 Billion Dollar Iran “nuclear deal”. ALL of the documents and audio proof is coming out shortly!
As a side note, one of the claims is that the helicopter carrying Seal Team 6 was shot down with a Stinger missile that was part of the weapons cache that passed through Benghazi, originated from a cache from Qatar.
I remember that there was a circulated story claiming that all of the Stingers that passed through Benghazi contained GPS geo-fencing technology, presumably to prevent unauthorized blowback terrorists events like airliners getting shot down, etc. The tech supposedly prevented use outside of predetermined geographic areas.
Now if this is true, the missile launcher in question which shot down Seal Team 6 in Afghanistan would either not have this protective feature, or the launch site and was within the electronically-allowed geographical footprint, and it would be interesting to see who signed off on that region being greenlighted.
Mr mayhem, I think your hunch is correct, in that this is frequently getting circulated , as I was given this yesterday by someone.
I have my doubts not about its accuracy, but whether it will make it to news cycles.
Interesting about the geo fencing technology and giving the greenlight.
It has a strong odor about it but I can’t determine why other than the uber-sensational nature of the claims and the insinuations made therein.
I think the narrators especially the young woman in the video is deceptively “cool” given that her life is in extreme danger if the story is true. If they murdered an entire Seal team and paid $152B to Iran to coverup the truth then why would they leave her alone?
Something is not adding up or it is quite true and too white-hot to handle…..
Baby Lives Matter.
Just say’n… 😉
https://twitter.com/Rifleman4WVU/status/1315831115496726529/photo/1
It needs to be closed permanently!
Here’s a great article by Charles Hugh Smith (Of Two Minds) that will have you nodding your head in dismay! We all have been here…?…and no fix in sight!
“How We Institutionalized Incompetence”
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2020/10/how-we-institutionalized-incompetence.html
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/InfidelAngela/status/1315727008324898824
Good afternoon WeeWeed
Mornin’ DI!
‘Afternoon WeeWeed!
Afternoon Bari!
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life history documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
INDIVIDUAL DISCOURAGEMENT AND PERSONAL ENLARGEMENT
“Moses went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens.” Exodus ii. 11
Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After the first strike for God and for the right, God allowed Moses to be driven into blank discouragement, He sent him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared and told Moses to go and bring forth His people, and Moses said – “Who am I, that I should go?” In the beginning Moses realized that he was the man to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in the individual aspect, but he was not the man for the work until he had learned communion with God.
We may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and we start to do the thing, then comes something equivalent to the forty years in the wilderness, as if God had ignored the whole thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged God comes back and revives the call, and we get the quaver in and say – “Oh, who am I?” We have to learn the first great stride of God – “I AM THAT I AM hath sent thee.” We have to learn that our individual effort of God is an impertinence; our individuality is to be rendered incandescent by a personal relationship to God (see Matthew iii. 17). We fix on the individual aspect of things; we have the vision – “This is what God wants me to do;” but we have not got into God’s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a big personal enlargement ahead.
Oswald Chambers
October 13th Devotional
Verse of the Day for Tuesday, October 13, 2020
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“Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.”
Psalms 51:2 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Tuesday Butterfly Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Be My Voice
Nothing much happened last night. Good. Someone misread the tea leaves. Dog was right: don’t listen to the cat.
Hi trapper, I had fortunately forgotten about the potential for things to happen yesterday! Glad the dog was right!
Ad Rem: I think something is wrong with the site. The homepage continually returns to October 5th version of website.
I can only access the most current CTH articles via external links to specific articles. This may explain why comments are very low.
I had this happen last week. I could only get the current date on my phone. For some reason it just went away. I did do a cookies cleanout, no idea if that did it. I deleted and re book marked but no idea if that helped. Good luck
“The Kids Are All Right at Home: Texas, North Carolina, Nebraska Seeing Signs of a Pandemic Homeschooling Boom”
https://www.the74million.org/article/the-kids-are-all-right-at-home-texas-north-carolina-nebraska-seeing-signs-of-a-pandemic-homeschooling-boom/
🙂 🙂 🙂
“As more parents choose to homeschool, school bureaucrats try to stem the tide”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-more-parents-choose-to-homeschool-school-bureaucrats-try-to-stem-the-tide/ar-BB19ylxq
🙁 🙁 🙁
NYC at the Abyss: Use the Financial Control Board
By BETSY McCAUGHEY, Special to the Sun | October 13, 2020
New York is heading into a financial abyss. On October 1, Moody’s downgraded New York City general obligation debt for the first time since the Dinkins era, and warns that more downgrades may be ahead.
Meantime, the De Blasio administration announced October 3 that it was defaulting on a long scheduled $900 million deferred payout to current and former employees. Intervention by a court led to more obligations.
https://www.nysun.com/new-york/nyc-at-the-abyss-use-the-financial-control-board/91295/
I am still having problems liking posts and logging in.
Homer Understood Climate Change
By Jeffrey Folks – October 13, 2020 – AmericanThinker.com
For students of ancient civilizations, one of the curious facts is that the site of Troy (Hisarlik in western Turkey), whose walls Homer describes as overlooking the sea, is now 6.5 kilometers inland at the closest point to the Aegean. Millions of modern-day tourists have visited that inland site since Schliemann excavated it in the 19th century. Portions of the walls and towers are clearly visible — but the Aegean is nowhere in sight.
Why? Because the world’s oceans and seas were different at the time of the Trojan War that Homer celebrated in the Iliad.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/10/homer_understood_climate_change.html
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Poland Culture Minister Glinski suggests that foreign media operating in Poland should be bought out by state-run companies. Why? https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/polish-state-run-firms-should-buy-media-from-foreign-owners-says-minister-2020-10-13
Thank you, didn’t know about this
Interesting to see what happens. Germany and France have laws about this already? And German company currently owns a lot of the Polish press?
“Asked whether PKN will be taking over Polska Press, Glinski told private radio RMF on Tuesday: “You have to admit that this is not a normal situation, that almost all regional press is firstly in hands of one corporation, and secondly in a German corporation….PiS officials said earlier that the reforms would focus on reducing the proportion of foreign ownership allowed in media companies and would be modeled on existing legislation in France and Germany”