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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When you’re done reading the CTH, take a look at this great article by Lee Smith on how the ruling class joined hands with China to screw over us deplorables. It’ll get your blood pressure up.
http://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
Then read American Exodus byProfessor Angelo Codevilla, author of an excellent book I read called The Ruling Class.
American Exodus
Don’t wait for the oligarchy to let you in. Just walk away.
http://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/american-exodus-angelo-codevilla-oligarchy
I tend to agree with both authors. We are in the punishment mode right now. We can expect more outrageous acts against us by the ruling class. They are at war with us. The border crisis is by design.
“Ruling people by insulting and harming them is problematic, and not reversible.”
Talk, Thanks for drawing att’n to Tablet.
I read American Exodus last week, and circulated it widely…Just an Excellent Article.
I am looking forward to the Lee Smith.
Tablet is a fine collection of thoughtful, intelligent Writers.
Thanks again…
The Thirty Tyrants is a most excellent piece! Read this about a month ago and it was so on point that I printed it out for references. Thanks for these links!
And for your listening pleasure, try Pat Condell. I don’t agree with his atheism, but the man can certainly articulate thoughts better than me on shared beliefs on many subjects.
He talks about Britain going full Ingsoc with Thought Police. He advocates for a 1st Amendment rights for Britain. It’s a warning to where we are going if we let the insanity of the Ruling Class prevail.
Like SD has explained on the intelligence community gathering information on their political enemies with private contractors, the Ruling Class in the USA is working around the first amendment obstacles by farming out the censorship to private entities. The Thought Police in the USA now reside in academia, public and private corporations, and the Democrat Party organs, including their MSM public relations firms.
You can find it here:
Home | (patcondell.net)
He’s also on Gab:
New video on #BitChute via #Gab. The term ‘hate speech’ is a shameless lie. The UK’s hate speech laws are subjective laws that infringe our civil liberties. They must be abolished if we are to live in a free country. https://
gab.com/patcondell/pos
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Excerpted from the american exodus column.
“Once a majority of Americans understand that Google, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, the Times, and Gannett are partisan instruments—that they use lies, censorship, and insults to subjugate us to a form of oligarchical totalitarianism—a substantial portion of their customers will begin to patronize alternatives, and their power over information will cease. That is because their power depends on the public accepting the pretense of objectivity and neutrality that these platforms still see fit on occasion to wear after sucking the life out of 20th-century American media. Stripping them of this borrowed pretense, and highlighting their overtly manipulative partisanship, must be every action’s proximate objective.”
” The oligarchy’s cancellation of ordinary working people—of those who actively participate in forms of organized religion, and are otherwise attached to the common norms and values that prevailed in America and shaped the civilization in and by which most of us live—signals an alienation deeper than that between citizens of different but friendly nations. Asking how this cultural chasm has come to be detracts from the hard task of understanding its depth and making the best of it. Like married couples who have lost or given up what had united them, trying to work through irreconcilable differences only drives Americans’ domestic quarrels toward more violence.
That is why going one’s own way, while paying no more attention to the woke than is absolutely necessary, should be the agenda of the country party, which in this case includes all of those who still feel an attachment to the ideals of republican citizenship that we once shared in common as Americans.”
The “American Exodus”/ Tablet Magazine piece you linked is a spot-on analysis of the oligarchy, how their power can vanish and a roadmap already in process for citizen who choose to save the country.
Fellow Treepers … share widely.
Thank you Hand Progs.
I agree Ryn.
We are not the minority and I’m way past accepting any of the tripe the ruling class spews through their various organs.
Thus my handle: Talk to the Hand!
Professor Codvilla is brilliant and his book The Ruling Class (2011) foreshadowed the election of President Trump by the country class.
Perhaps SD will read the article, if he hasn’t already, and points it out for the rest of the Treepers who may not have read it.
A Solemn Agreement
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
The Apostle Paul, referring to his journey to Jerusalem to tell the apostles and elders there about the good news that had been committed to him, says:
“And I went up by revelation and COMMUNICATED UNTO THEM THAT GOSPEL WHICH I PREACH AMONG THE GENTILES, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain… And when James, Cephas [Peter] and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, THEY GAVE TO ME AND BARNABAS THE RIGHT HANDS OF FELLOWSHIP, that we should go unto the heathen [Gentiles, nations], and they unto the Circumcision [Israel]” (Gal. 2:2-9).
Here, by solemn agreement, Peter, James and John promised publicly to confine their ministry to Israel while Paul went to the Gentiles with his “gospel of the grace of God.” This is striking in view of the fact that the twelve, not Paul, had originally been sent into all the world.
Were they all out of the will of God in making this agreement? By no means! Subsequent revelation proves that they were all very much in the will of God and that with the rejection of Christ God had ushered in a new program.
In the light of these Scriptures it is difficult to understand how anyone can argue that Paul’s ministry was merely a perpetuation of that of the twelve, or that “the gospel of the kingdom” and “the gospel of the grace of God” are identical.
If the above passage teaches anything clearly, it teaches the unique character of Paul’s apostleship and message. The Apostle devotes almost two chapters of his letter to the Galatians to the fact that he had not received his message from the twelve, but rather had communicated to the twelve.
He stresses the fact that those who had first been sent to all nations, “beginning at Jerusalem,” had now, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, agreed to turn over their Gentile ministry to him that he might proclaim far and wide “the gospel of the grace of God,” as found in Eph. 2:8,9 and Rom. 3:24.
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/a-solemn-agreement/
Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
“with the rejection of Christ God had ushered in a new program.”
Acts 7:51 ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
54 ¶ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
58 And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Ephesians 3:2 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,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
“the unique character of Paul’s apostleship and message.”
1Timothy 1:12 ¶ And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
16 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.
Romans 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my 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,
2Timothy 2:8 ¶ Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
“In the light of these Scriptures it is difficult to understand how anyone can argue that Paul’s ministry was merely a perpetuation of that of the twelve, or that “the gospel of the kingdom” and “the gospel of the grace of God” are identical.”
The Jews were waiting on the Messiah / Prophet who was to come and for fulfillment of promises. The Gentiles by and large knew nothing of any of that. It made sense for those who could personally testify and witness to the Messiah to do so amongst an audience valuing that, while those equipped to write and speak on a learned in an electoral level in multiple languages what have the focus abroad, even though both groups of believers preached both Jews and Greeks / Gentiles.
Thus, a gospel message in terms of how what was emphasized and conveyed would understandably be different for the two groups (testifying to those waiting that the Messiah has come, while in the other case, saying to the unknowing that God was sending a man to judge mankind). That’s even if the underlying message of salvation by grace through faith according to the promise is the same (cf. Acts 15:7-11, Galatians 3:26-29) and for fallen man has always had to be received that way, as Paul explained using Abraham as an example (Galatians 3:6-9).
I thought I would convey some thoughts on this repeatedly asserted matter of different good news messages a little differently. If it is going to march on to the usual reiteration of what has been said here countless times, we can get to that. For now, this is for those who might see if a story told by way of analogy might get across some points that seem not to have connected.
For example, let’s say there was a pair of cousins in the 1800s who shared a common grandfather with vast land holdings. One of the cousins lived in England, was told in his youth by the grandfather he would be offered a country estate when the grandfather died, and that other heirs would be offered an estate as well.. Meanwhile, the other cousin had become orphaned in the Belgian Congo and had no clue of his lineage, as the grandfather had lost touch with one of his sons who became a missionary in Africa and died.
When the grandfather died years later, his solicitor John James Peterson— who was a family friend and was charged with helping execute the estate disbursement — found the grandson in England and simply conveyed that his grandfather had died, and as the grandfather had promised, bequeathed him a house should he choose to claim it. As the grandfather had charged the solicitor Peterson with identifying any potential heirs from his missionary son, the solicitor knew he was going to have to explore what had become of the son who went to Africa. Peterson retained a unmarried younger partner in his firm named Stan who was well-versed in African cultural norms and languages that would suit his efforts. He and another single colleague named Barney Lee left Southampton as soon as they have put their affairs in order.
It was over a year before the pair had determined details about the deceased son and where his now full-grown child was located. Eventually, they encountered the grandson, who spoke German and Swahili and worked at the local mission. The pair had to explain to him that he had had a grandfather who lived in England, that the grandfather had a very large estate — and had passed away, and that he was being given part of the estate.
The grandson did not have the same concept of property ownership as someone raised in England, so there had to be further explanation along those lines as far as the gift he was receiving. However, it was the exact same gift received the exact same way, according to a promise of the grandfather long before. It was suitable given their backgrounds and commission that these two were the ones who went out to find the other grandson, and explained things in a way so he could understand the nature of the gift and how it was to be claimed officially. After the grandson had all the details explained, he accepted the gift, and the same official claim forms were written up (in German), signed, and sealed. Meanwhile the elderly solicitor attended to affairs back in England, including the dispensation of the estate and notification of local heirs.
In both cases, the welcome news was tailored to the recipients. The first recipient who knew of the promise and of the grandfather had the later news of the gift and the inheritance conveyed along those lines. The other grandson, who knew nothing of the grandfather and the estate other than the general concept that he would’ve had a grandfather, needed to hear from emissaries about the identity of his grandfather, that something had happened that was anticipated long before, that a promise had been made related to a gift, and that all he had to do was claim the gift. At that point, it was his — same as any heir. Though there was more information and contextualization needed, there was not any additional work or legal requirement.
If someone wanted to call how each received the news different “programs“, they could, but the essentials of the message remained the same: at an appointed time, through no action of his own, the orphan were authorized to receive a gift from someone who promised to give it to him. The grandson in Africa did not have to do something extra or maintain some protocol in order to receive the gift differently than the first grandson. The essentials of the message stayed the same and were not something new as far as how the gift was given and received.
Along those lines, it’s worth mentioning that while Peterson was on a Nile cruise long before Stan and Lee reached the mission, he and his wife were brought to the captain’s table and met a young woman named Cilla, whose parents had eloped and whose father had found work and a home from them in Suez. Stunningly, she was also identified as a cousin of the two grandsons, though there were questions about whether her status and her parents’ separation from the family precluded her from being included in the inheritance.
After receiving a communiqué from the head of the firm, Peterson saw no reason why she couldn’t also receive her promised part of the estate given the terms set by the grandfather. Peterson affirmed that to a joyful Cilla, and communicated this to the rest of the firm. Later, some were disputing how each of them were receiving equal shares of the estate despite their different statuses. At the meeting that was called to resolve this issue, Stan and Lee conveyed stories from their journey, while Peterson made it clear that each heir received what was promised from the grandfather the same way.
Peterson and the other partners in the firm made Stan and Lee full partners as well, and entrusted to them the bulk of the overseas estate work. There was never any indication that Peterson or the other partners were ceding their authority to the new partners as far as having them convey different or “new” terms of inheritance; the essentials remained the same. (Again, Peterson had received estate information from upstairs concerning an heir abroad and conveyed it to the firm, which was reported before Stan / Lee gave their report.)
However, it made sense for Peterson and the established partners to continue their work where they were, and for Stan and Lee to work with and train new members of the firm in their growing overseas work. For purposes of the estate and the gifts, the essentials remained the same.
“both groups of believers preached both Jews and Greeks / Gentiles.”
Matthew 10:5 ¶ These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Matthew 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
Acts 11:19 ¶ Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
Even though Paul and Barnabas were there at the Jerusalem council, there certainly seems to be a lot of focus on the one who was first recorded as sharing the gospel with the Gentiles passing along the revelation he received from above:
Acts 15:7-9 “ 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.
Acts 15:14 “Simeon has related how God first visited to take out of the Gentiles a people for His name.”
Always appreciate your missives D_ I .
Your welcome 🙂
Over 6 million Youtube viewers have been captivated by Roxanne Elfasci, a young and very gifted French guitarist who gave us this luminous performance of Clair de Lune. Not much is know about her. She was a business student, nearing graduation when she decided to study classical guitar. She lives in Paris apparently performs there, teaches there—and continues to make some of the most stunningly perfect guitar performances I’ve ever heard.
Attn Guitar pickers: If you watch these videos closely you’ll see why Roxanne is quite possibly the queen of the notoriously difficult 5-fret stretch.
Always nice to see someone doing what they love to do. . .no matter what it is.
Yep. I don’t know if that’s on her mind—usually it isn’t become most performers tale freedom’s existance for granted. Nonetheless her performances here personifies the value to perform when and how we choose to do so. I’m pretty sure that she had no idea that the quality of her playing would be so instantly recognized and appreciated by so many people on Youtube. Even if it wasn’t formost in her mind (not particularly surprising for a musician) her expression of freedom here is still a wonderful thing. 🙂
Thank you!!!!
Have a wonderful and blessed Sunday, Teeepers. Our Lord smiles on us today and for that we can be thankful.
Hazel Dickens sings with the voice of my ancestors long past. Listening to her, I can close my eyes and almost see them here with me. Although I’m no longer in their deep South heartland, I’m still there in spirit. I’ve always been there, never ever left. I don’t know if I’ll ever return, but those people and those places have left an indelible mark that still, to this day, defines who I am. You can take the kid out of redneck but you can’t take the redneck out of the kid. Thank you, Hazel. We’ll all be along directly . . .
I am still an Arkansas girl…so way to go hogs 🙂
Pig soooie! They took it all that year to!
This is just a feel good story that goes on in our USA everyday, we just don’t notice them. It has a few lessons. One, where there is a will there is a way. Two, our country has its own cancer growing in it at present. We have to fix it. Let’s get busy.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2021/03/27/video-son-raises-money-to-take-terminally-ill-mom-on-dream-vacation/
Hilarious…
I’m dying here. I have said since all this man bun stuff started that I will strongly council my granddaughters to stay away from any being with a man wearing a bun and wearing skinny jeans. ?
On a serious note though, I married a man, one of those honest to God make feminists shriek about patriarchy men. And that was perhaps the most important thing I’ve ever done to make my life good, outside the practice of my faith. His strength is bedrock and it comes from the uncompromising masculinity in him, the comfort in his own skin. I have never, never understood why women settle for less than the real deal when taking a mate.
I’ve been telling my wife for over 30 years that I’m the best thing that ever happened to her. The usual response is the LOOK. 😉
I don’t often mention this to anyone but i can bite 10 penny nails in (t0, too, two??). Just being in my presence makes the man-bun and skinny jeans guys nervous. Once I tried to explain to a bun/jeans guy how to hang a door. He thought I was talking about BDSM. SIGH.
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makes me think of Fellini’s LA STRADA. Zampano! zampano!
and my grandmother always said “men are men and women thank God for them.” she was descended from Scots.
Your grandmother said it well!
Heads up for those in the NE US. After having warmer than average temps this month April is looking like it’s going to go cold! We’re talking rain turning to snow flurries cold. The flurries will probably not reach the coastal plain but from PA through N. NY and on up the in the interior of the New England states were talking snow, especially at higher elevations. That cold will spread west eve. ntually into the central US Spring weather is going to be delayed for a couple weeks. Joe Bastardi is comparing it to what happned in the spring of 1982 and 83. It’s bring your plants in kind of weather for sure.
Most of the models are now showing it yet, but both the NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation) and the EPO (Eastern Pacific Oscillation) are headed for negative and when that happens we in the eastern half of the country, and in particular the northern half, are in for colder than average temps.
As I shovel snow. Lol
Mornin’ infidels!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/03/biden_administration_rearranges_the_dhs_deck_chairs.html
The O’Biden regime wants to accommodate the invaders as much as possible. Normally they get a court date but not anymore.
Morning Wee. Of all his evil deeds, this ranks second only to all he’s done to facilitate abortion. No country can serve open borders. And that is just what they intend. These people who live with Secret Service protection, or in exclusive communities with private security, while old men working for a living are slaughtered on the streets.
Mornin’ WeeWeed
I read somewhere that Biden is going to give citizenship to all those who voted for him.
ISN’T THERE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING?
“Let us go into Judea. His disciples say unto Him…Goest Thou thither again?” John xi. 7-8
I may not understand what Jesus Christ says, but it is dangerous to say that therefore He was mistaken in what He said. It is never right to think that my obedience to a work of God will bring dishonour to Jesus. The only thing that will bring dishonour is not obeying Him. To put my view of His honour in place of what He is plainly impelling me to do is never right, although it may arise from a real desire to prevent Him being put to open shame. I know when the proposition comes from God because of its quiet persistence: When I have to weigh the PROS and CONS, and doubt and debate come in, I am bringing in an element that is not of God, and I come to the conclusion that the suggestion was not a right one. Many of us are loyal to our notions of Jesus Christ, but how many of us are loyal to Him? Loyalty to Jesus means I have to step out where I do not see anything (cf. Matt. xiv. 29); loyalty to my notions means that I clear the ground first by my intelligence. Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.
Are you debating whether to take a step in faith in Jesus or to wait until you can see how to do the thing yourself? Obey Him with glad reckless joy. When He says something and you begin to debate, it is because you have a conception of His honour which is not His honour. Are you loyal to Jesus or loyal to your notion of Him? Are you loyal to what He says, or are you trying to compromise with conceptions which never came from Him? “Whatsoever He saith unto you, DO IT.”
Oswald Chambers
March 28th Devotional
Excellent piece stevie. Thank you. We are all so busy trying to make the Bible say what we want it to say, to make God be what we want him to be. We don’t let ourselves know him.
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter XXV – The Betrayal
25:1
Another scene appeared; and O how inefficient are all means of communication to reveal to human minds its true character! First I saw that same lovely Being seated, with a company of his friends, around a table, one of whom leaned upon his breast, and in pure love’s tenderest expression looked up into his face while listening to the words that fell from his lips. Mournfully and filled with exceeding sorrow, the group looked upon him as he said, “Verily I say unto you, one of you shall betray me.” After which he took bread and blessed it, and break it, and giving it to them said, “Take, eat; this is my body. For you my body shall be broken.” He then took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Then I heard a mighty angel whose voice was like the utterance of Nature when her forces contend saying, “The Son of Man goeth as is written of him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed: it had been good for that man if he had not been born!”
“Woe to that man; for him it had been good not to have been born. Woe, woe, woe be unto that man!” broke forth in a heavy voice which from many millions in univocal speech, pronounced the woe, and the elements of the interior shook like the leaves of a forest when contending with autumnal tempests.
As the echoings of these awful utterances which rolled along the bosom of the deep interior ceased, the little band arose, and after they had sung a hymn of solemn movement, retired.
Then I saw one of the number, silently and unperceived, withdraw from the band, as they retired slowly and solemnly from the scene of the last supper, and as he advanced, his movements changed, his step was quick and excited, his visage manifested an inward commotion that burned with consuming fires, fires kindled in the soul by antagonistic elements. At this I wondered. Nor could I perceive by what means a transition so sudden and so great could be effected. Just before, I had seen him seated with his friends, and those friends were suffering greatly by reason of the predictions of him to whom they looked for counsel and for safety. They mourned, fearing his departure from them. They leaned upon him as a dependent child leans upon a faithful parent. They had hoped, yea, they had exalted their hope in him. The extent or exact nature of that hope I could not comprehend. And when his words, which indicated his departure, had been spoken, they had fallen into despair, and perfect wretchedness possessed them when he declared that one of them should betray him. I heard them in the deepest solicitude inquire, “Lord, is it I? Lord, is it I?” That had been an awful moment, a moment that tried the soul, a moment in which gloom gathered around them as a mantle of thick darkness.
To be continued…
I predict…Ever Given is breaking up….look at photos and observe the waterline….much higher at the bow than the stern…there is already flooding in the forward compartments where the bow thruster equipment is located…extreme stresses are being placed where they are not designed for….three tugboats are pushing mid ship because the hull is being bowed to the port side of the ship and the forward and aft ends are supported by Asia on one end and Africa on the other…it’s going to complete the breakup already begun…Ever Given is doomed….jmho
No ship was ever designed with being stuck in the Suez Canal in mind as one of the stressors. You could be right.
Does this mean we have to stock up on toilet paper again?
It means the price of oil is going up too.
better get a bidet
post a link to you pictures if you can.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/EVER-GIVEN-IMO-9811000-MMSI-353136000
man, this would really be a good time to be energy-independent
gnomesayin’ ?
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great of Bithynia (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint (Psalm 51 KJV).
Verse of the Day for Sunday, March 28, 2021
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“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
BE MY VOICE
AMEN……………………………….MAGA.
PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
Father God, I now follow your command to put on the full armor of God, because my battle is not against flesh and blood but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the unseen world.
I first pray on the Belt of Truth that it may be buckled around my waist, may I be centered and encircled by your truth dear Lord. Hem me inside all that is true and right, and may I be protected and held up by the truth of your living word, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Breastplate of righteousness, please protect my vital organs and my inner man, cover my integrity, my spirit, and my soul. Guard my heart for it is the wellspring of life, please strengthen and guard the most vulnerable places in my life with that which is right, good, and noble that I might not receive a fatal blow from the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Gospel Shoes of Peace. I choose to stand in the shoes of your good news, and on the firm foundation of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the solid eternal rock. All other ground is sinking sand, I pray that I will not slip or fall, but that my feet would be firmly fitted on your lordship, my Lord Jesus. I choose to stand on you, so that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard my heart and mind in Christ Jesus, the eternal Rock of Ages. I receive your holy peace now my Lord, from the sole of my feet to the crown of my head, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray the Shield of Faith into my hand now. As I take up the shield of faith, I ask that you might extinguish every dart and arrow, that is launched from the enemy to take me down spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, and every attempt of the enemy to destroy my joy. I ask that my faith in you would make it flame out. Extinguish every flaming arrow that would come against me, my life, my family, my home, or my ministry. May my faith always be out in front of me like a shield. Give me the courage to “faith my fears” by choosing to walk by faith and not by sight, in my Lord Jesus name.
I pray on the Helmet of Salvation, that you might protect my mind from the thoughts that can lead me astray. I choose to take every thought captive, and arrest all intentioned ideas and motives that would harm others, or distract me from your holy will for me. I submit every captured thought to the Lordship of my Lord Jesus Christ, and ask that you would imprison those thoughts that are not of you my Lord. Transform my mind and renew my thinking that I may think God thoughts, and have a sober mind that is focused on your glory. Please protect me from being double minded that I may allow my mind, I reject to live an earthly life, because I choose to live a holy one, governed by you My Lord Jesus, the prince of peace, please have my mind to be saturated with the holy mind of Christ, in my Lord Jesus name.
Finally, I take up the Sword of the Spirit which is the holy word of God, I pray this powerful offensive weapon into my hand, and ask that your holy word would be fitting for every encounter I face. As the enemy gets close to me, please give me the insight, wisdom, and skill to wield the word of God to drive away the enemy, in my Lord Jesus name.
May the enemy and his team flee from me, upon hearing the word of God spoken by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit. Give me the sword of the spirit to cut through the wiles of the devil, so that I may discern the schemes of the enemy when he is near.
With all kinds of prayers, supplication, and intercession I pray to you my Lord God as the one who fights my battles. Now that I’m in your holy powerful armor, I walk away covered and ready to face my day as you go before me, and please protect me in the midst of the spiritual warfare in this unseen world, in my Lord Jesus name.
Thank you my Lord, for the spiritual weapons of armor and prayer that you have given me. It is written no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses me.
Thank you Father God, my Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit, that I am more than a conqueror in my Lord Jesus. I pray all of this in the mighty name of my Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.
What do you see? Grass needing mowing?
What you’re seeing, truly, is God at work as intended, His poyeema. Can you smell this garden as the breeze drifts? Just by looking at it?
Taller ‘weeds’ not weeds. Pollinator habitat. Mix of plants, at base of fruit trees, timed to bloom as the fruit trees bloom. Why does this matter? Increases fruit tree yields by 80%. Same amount of land, almost double the production.
At an age to remember all the smashed bugs on your parents front windshield when you were little? THAT is a sign of Earth’s good pollinator habitat. Those smashed bugs early salvo for feeding the birds, and more. I can travel great miles with no bugs smashed on my front windshield.
We’re losing insects, BEES, birds. Ourselves.
Think about the ubiquitous USA lawn. Green it up in spring with N-P-K fertilizer, toxic to soil and groundwater.
How did we get here, toxic lawns? Bomb manufacturers, end of WWII, needed new customers. A first target was the USA housewife with little kids. They advertised to her, to rid the yard of weeds/bugs. Keep her children safe.
If you’re not in homeowner association or deed restricted, consider getting back to Tara Turf.
Less mowing. Greater beauty. Feed Earth, feed soul.
Garden & be well……………
“We’re losing insects, BEES, birds.”
Where I live in WNY, we have lost the pheasant population that existed in the 1960’s – 70’s. Granted they were not native, but they had been flourishing.
Milkweed plants are scarce and so are the Monarch butterflies which rely on them.
Most of all I remember all the earthworms on the street while walking to the school bus stop after a heavy rain.
With the advent of widespread pesticide applicator companies catering to produce the perfect monoculture suburban lawn, there are very few worms crawling out onto those same streets the past 25 years or so.
God Bless America, 🙂
MAGA……..Because some of us still remember America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS68SDiQTvg
The Second Sunday of Great Lent in the Orthodox Christian Church
From the Synaxaria of the Triodion:
“On the same day, the Second Sunday of the Fast, we celebrate the memory of our Father among the Saints, Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica.”
He was a native of Constantinople. At 20 years of age he went to Mount Athos to live the monastic life. He was a great defender of Orthodoxy, refuting the false teachings of Barlaam of Calabria and then Islam. He reposed in the Lord in 1359.
Second Sunday of the Fast
Dismissal Hymn.
“Light of Orthodoxy, pillar and teacher of the Church, adornment of monastics, invincible champion of theologians, O Gregory thou wonderworker, boast of Thessalonica, herald of grace: ever pray that our souls be saved.”
Kontakion.
“O sacred and divine organ of wisdom, clear trumpet of theology, we praise thee with one accord, O Gregory of divine speech. But as a mind standing before the Primordial Mind, direct our mind to Him, O Father, that we may cry: Rejoice, O herald of grace.”
Remember the big hullabaloo over the ‘spotted owl’ years ago? That was a subtle and insidious antichrist movement.
From Matthew chapter 10:
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
Yet you are decidedly NOT of more value than the spotted owl. That was the message, and that message is antichrist.
More recently, the “diversity is our strength” push…another antichrist movement. It’s the undoing of God’s action at the tower of Babel. (An aside, that EU building designed to look like that famous painting of the tower of Babel demonstrates beyond any doubt that the demons who are doing satan’s work KNOW FULL WELL what they are doing and openly celebrate it.)
Even MORE recently, the GLUTEN FREE movement. I have no doubt that some suffer from consumption of wheat due to Celiac disease. I also have no doubt that some suffer not from celiac but from the glysophate which is sprayed on the wheat fields to trigger drying in a uniform fashion to make harvest nice and simple for the gigantic farming companies. That said, I also have no doubt that many MORE participate in the ‘gluten free’ movement simply because it’s been PUSHED so hard by the powerful forces who work for antichrist.
John 6:35
35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.”
A building collapse yesterday, and now, wanting to rely on the JoeBama Central Planning Committee for advice. Yeah, stay away from Egypt.
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/03/28/egypt-us-discuss-re-launching-ethiopian-dam-talks/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/100131/Egypt’s-FM-on-GERD-file-2nd-phase-of-dam-filling
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Juan Browne/Blancolirio you tube channel a new update on the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal status (just over 17 minutes in length):
I couldn’t post in Menagerie‘s thread, so here you go.
The description of Christ requesting a colt to ride into Jerusalem doesn’t quite ring true: who would want to ride an adolescent horse unless they were in a rodeo. The artwork depicts a donkey…an ass. I think my close associate King James had it right.
I would appreciate being corrected/educated.
Mark; 11 vs 2. And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it,
ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him and bring him. Jesus the maker of miracles could’ve rode
anything. I believe there’s references in the old testament to the riding of a colt.
Matthew 21:4 tells us: ‘This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, ‘Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ *The prophecy is cited from Zechariah 9:9 and Isaiah 62:11.
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 his family 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.
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Amen.
Amen.
Motives unknown? Riiight. https://en.protothema.gr/illegal-immigrants-set-fire-at-corinth-camp-video/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1158038/eu-expected-to-slash-funds-to-greece-for-migrants/
JESUS – OUR SUBSTITUTE
Many believe behavior determines one’s eternal destination, and by being “good enough” they can earn their heavenly home. But they have not grasped the crucial nature of Christ’s death on the cross. Jesus came to end our frustrated and inadequate self-efforts, and offer us not only a better way, but the best. In this message, Dr. Stanley examines the full meaning of Christ’s sacrifice and all that it makes possible for those who believe. As we understand more about His substitutionary death on our behalf, our hearts will be filled with gratitude and the recognition of His abundant blessings.
https://www.intouch.org/watch/jesus-our-substitute
I think the Pope is possessed
Vatican Observes ‘Earth Hour’ of Darkness Against Climate Change – https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/03/28/lights-out-vatican-observes-earth-hour-of-darkness-against-climate-change/
Pope appoints open homosexual to Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors – https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pope-appoints-open-homosexual-to-pontifical-commission-for-the-protection-of-minors