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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Mike Lindell makes a presentation to the entire country, it’s on many “smaller” sites already.
https://intellectualfroglegs.com/robbed/
Much is a Recap for those who have been keeping up, new evidence is towards the last portion of the presentation.
https://youtu.be/elurOwLc1LM
Same but different 😉
Ah the good old days. Back when there were only two genders.
Back when hair color wasn’t green or blue or I just don’t know. 🙁
For all you young’uns, we called those fine young ladies Go Go Dancers….
” PRE TWERK “… it dates us , doesn’t it ???
Uhhh yup.
I thought it was Twerp?
“Twerps” do the twerking.
Good time music at its best. Wondered where Steve Marriot was when it started, and then there he was. The gravel in his voice was unmistakably blues. Heard the Get Back turn around and thought, “rip-off”. Did the Google thing and discovered Natural Born Bugie predates Let It Be. Hmm…
Couldn’t help adding this. My all time favorite Canned Heat tune. Less is more.
This is an old fav. Mine was “Going Up The Country.”
Oops. Not Get Back. Revolution. Back to original thought, and so what. It works.
That lead singer in the Humble Pie video really comes alive!
The Power Of The Gospel Of Grace
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“…the gospel… is come unto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth” (Col. 1:5,6).
How wonderful to see the gospel of the grace of God do its work! Paul had never even seen the Colossians. He had only sent missionaries to them from Ephesus with the good news of the grace of God, but this had produced amazing results.
Wherever the gospel of the grace of God is preached in its purity it produces results. No one hearing that message can go away the same. Either he will consider it utter foolishness and be hardened by it, or he will see its vital importance and be softened by it. Ultimately he will either be eternally condemned, or eternally saved and justified by his response to that message.
“The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (I Cor. 1:18).
“Christ crucified… unto them which are called… the power of God and the wisdom of God”
(I Cor. 1:23,24).
“The power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth” (Rom. 1:16).
Mark well: it is “the gospel of the grace of God,” the “preaching of the cross,” that produces such results. The law of Moses never did, “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh,” God sent His Son to accomplish for us (Rom. 8:3,4). This is why Paul proclaimed, at Antioch of Pisidia:
“Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses” (Acts 13:38,39).
God’s message to us is a message of love, proclaiming to even the vilest sinner that he may be “justified freely by [God’s] grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:24).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-power-of-the-gospel-of-grace/
Colossians1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;
6 Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
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.
1 Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Romans 1:16 ¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Born alive legislation fails.
We are a nation deserving God’s judgment. Appalling. Dreadful.
WHAT makes anyone think God is going to rescue our country?
It hasn’t failed at the state level in Montana. In fact it passed the House, and is working it’s way through the Senate, along with 4 other abortion restricting bills. There are still good and godly people in this country fighting for what’s right. Things are rough right now, but we aren’t quite Sodom yet.
Also at the state level:
“Texas is no longer funding Planned Parenthood, having successfully removed the abortion company from the state’s list of eligible Medicaid providers.”
Of course, there will always be a county judge somewhere in Texas who tries to blackmail the state…. but it won’t work.
Praise the LORD!
Sodom did not tie its foreign aid to poor nations to their acceptance of homosexuality and gay marriage. The United States does this and has been doing this for a while now.
We are, in fact, FAR WORSE than Sodom.
We kicked Him in the teeth and out the door and then slammed it! Yes, America needs to understand what true repentance is…tearing our clothes and covering ourselves with ashes! America is a proud, haughty nation in her sins. I weep daily in prayer for her… ?
Amen, Sister juststevie. Commandment number 1: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” We need to stop worshiping the creation and worship our Creator.
Agree!
Legislation cannot change the hearts of men or women. Those who who fear and glorify the Father and who love the Son will know the right choice to make. Those who don’t will face the an eternal harsh reality at the Judgement Seat of Christ.
My wife who is far better traveled than I am, introduced me to Fado music via this iconic song by Amalia Rodrigues. Her music—and especially this particular song—became emblematic of the rebirth of Portugal’s civil life after WWII. To this day in Portugal, it is as much an anthem as it is a still popular song.
Mariza is perhaps the most famous contemporary Fado musican in Portugal. Like Flamenco in Spain, Fado music adheres to traditional forms. Despite the passage of decades, in Mariza’s music you can clearly hear the influence of Amalia Rodrigues. Wouldn’t it have been great to be in this Lisbon bar when this video was being made?
When I make these music choices, my main interest is to always try to find some magic. Tonight I found some magic.
Happy Caterday, Treepers!
Thinking back, I’ve realized that all of our cats and dogs (more cats than dogs, however) have been foundlings that happily found there way to us. Almost always our new kitties quickly decided just which of us is going to be “their” person. Our little black foundling kitty, age 3 nowd, is still small despite having moved on from her kittenhood. From the frist she made it clear that I was “her” person. Although affectionate, she was never much for cuddling, had never actually climbed onto my lap for a back rub . . . until tonight. It’s always great having a little black kitty happily purring away in your lap. I think we may have a new routine.
You are SO right, Garrison.. you don’t chose a cat, the cat chooses you. That’s the same thing my wife used to tell me. We adopted two cats from the local shelter and in each case, the cat picked us. One of them clearly was “my” cat and other was “her” cat. They each would cuddle with “their” selected person, but not with the other of us. “Her” cat did make the “concession” of allowing me to feed her. Hahahaa. Ironically, my cat died over a year ago and my wife nine months ago. “Her” cat has now become more accepting of me.. but still not as close as she was with my wife. But she will occasionally get up on my lap (on her own) and sit there and purr at me.
Benzy, may the Lord hold you in His arms and comfort you as only He can.
🙂 Prayers, bensy.
The Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Reisen) and the decline of Japanese airpower,
The Japanese would all most certainly not have opted for war with the US without this excellent fighter aircraft and the stock of outstanding Naval pilots they had to fly it.
The aircraft was highly maneuverable with a fantastic rate of climb and exceptional operational range, and excellent armament for it’s time. It was made to be able to out turn and out climb it’s opponents. Through the first year of the war the Zero was the best fighter aircraft in the world being suited perfectly for it’s purpose and the conditions which it had to operate in and being flown by the most highly trained pilots in the world, bar none.
In July of 1942 the US recovered a flyable Zero from the tundra on Akutan island in the Aleutian chain, The aircraft was quickly evaluated and what was learned was quickly put . to good use. At the time the Grumman F6F Hellcat was nearing completion of its development. Based on the data received from the testing of the Akutan zero, design changes were made to the F6F to specifically make it better capable of taking on the Zero. What resulted was the most effective carrier based US fighter of the war responsible for the downing of more Japanese aircraft than any other US Naval type. (Some will say that the Hellcat downed more Japanese aircraft than any other US type from any service. I am not sure, but that seems unlikely to me. )
At the time of the Battle of Midway the average Japanese Naval pilot had a over 450 hours flight time while the average American Naval aviator had about 150 hours. The US Army Air Corp pilots at the time had even less flight time logged on the average than their Naval counterparts. Quite a few of the Japanese pilots had combat experience in the skies over China. IMO as a whole the Japanese pilots at the time were the best military pilots in the world at the time they attacked Pearl Harbor and their Naval fighter aviators the best of the best.
However as the war progressed the qualitative advantage in both aircraft and pilots that Nippon could field was ground down. This occurred as the quality and quantity of the US military pilots and aircraft steadily increased. By the middle of 1943 the decline in the quality and quantity of Japanese pilots had dropped to the point that they could never recover their superiority.
How did this occur? How did the US manage to dig out of the deep qualitative hole it found itself in when the war started?
There are several reasons why this shift in aviation power come about.
The first is the most obvious. The US was an industrial giant. The arsenal of democracy with it’s industry having already started to gear up as it supplied the powers facing Nazi Germany with the materials of war! Then came the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the nations population was unified and motivated like it had never been before. The great industrialists, all of them, turned their efforts towards developing and mass producing a massive arsenal of weapons with a speed and vigor unlike anything the world had ever seen before. And unlike Japan, the US had the natural resources to match it’s industrial capability.
And when shortages of a particular critical strategic raw material did occur the engineers and scientists innovated solutions to make products that often turned out to be superior in performance to those produced with the raw material that had been in short supply.
Perhaps the best single example of this adaptability and innovation was the massive effort to improve and produce synthetic rubber in versions having all kinds of different properties required for it’s intended function. Synthetic rubber had been around for years before the war but it’s applications were somewhat limited because it had not been developed in versions adequate for many potential applications before the war. There had been no need with a ready supply of latex coming from rubber plantations of the far east. But when the Japanese gained control of the vast majority of worlds rubber tree plantations the need for rubber to feed the massive build up of the war industry and the weapons it was to produce was acute.
The US military ground forces were developed to be more mechanized and mobile than any in the world and that meant vehicles, millions of them when one adds in the huge amounts supplied to our allies, and the tires they would run on. The US supplied 200,000 Studebaker 2 1/2 ton trucks to Stalin’s Russia along with spare tires and rubber parts to keep them running. GMC alone produced 571,073 trucks of various sizes and models from 1940 to 1945. Dodge and Studebaker and Ford were adding like numbers of various wheeled vehicles. With other smaller manufactures also producing significant quantities of heavy trucks and prime movers.
But it was not just tires, radiator hoses, and suspension bushings for vehicles that were critical. Massive quantities of rubber were needed for aircraft and ships and all kinds of other weapons and applications. An Iowa class battleship required about 150,000 lb of rubber in it’s construction. Rubber used in all kinds of different applications and requiring various properties for their specific applications/functions.
Then there were was production machining of steel, aluminum, and various alloys. Even before the war the US was far advanced over the Japanese in production and machining of these metals. And way ahead in the science of metallurgy which was especially critical for advanced aircraft engine production. As the war progressed and aircraft engines became ever more powerful and complex the Japanese simply could not keep up. The Japanese aeronautical engineers continued to develop aircraft designs that would have maintained parity in performance with the new types the US was fielding. However, due to lack of raw materials and limited metallurgical expertise they simply could not produce the alloys needed to make various components reliable.
It was inevitable that the US would far outstrip Japan in both quantity and quality of aircraft and other weapons of war. Admiral Yamamoto’s fear that the attack on Pearl Harbor he had planned would awaken an industrial giant was realized in spades.
But as has been demonstrated time and again during the history war in the air, the most critical factor in air to air combat is the quality of the pilot. This fact has been demonstrated many times but Chuck Yeager described an example the best I think. During the Korean war Yeager was the pilot that test flew the first MIG-15 that the US got it’s hands on. American pilots were reporting the MIG had all kinds of advantages over the aircraft they were flying. Yeager ended that BS quickly. An Air Force colonel was making such claims in a bar to Yeager. Yeager arranged for a dog fight with him. Yeager would fly an F-86 and take on the Colonel as he flew the MIG 15 after the Colonel had a chance to get enough hours in the type to become familiar with it. Yeager waxed the Colonels ass. Then they traded aircraft and Yeager flew the MIG 15 and waxed the Colonels ass again. It was all there on the gun camera film.
So how did the US gain a qualitative and quantitative superiority in pilots over the Japanese which started with what were the best trained pilots in the world at the time?
There were several factors that led to the elimination of the Japanese advantage in pilot quality.
First off the Japanese Naval pilot training program from the beginning stressed quality over quantity. The washout rate was very high and the programs took from 1 1/2 years to 2 years to produce a qualified pilot depending on the education level the recruit started with. It was a very inefficient program that from the beginning failed to produce enough pilots to replace operational losses. By the time the Japanese tried to increase the numbers of pilots being produced most of the superb pilots they had started with were dead! They had lost their base of experience and their training programs were overwhelmed.
The American pilot programs were efficient and set up to mass produce pilots from the start. They may not have produced as good a quality a pilot as the Japanese method did right out of school, but they produced a lot of pilots that were good enough. And the system grew upon itself and continually improved because unlike the Japanese the US brought combat experienced pilots home to train the new crops.
The loss of Japans best pilots occurred much more quickly than was anticipated for several reasons,
The US quite simply responded faster, more aggressively, and more competently than the Japanese war planners had ever anticipated and because of Japanese cultural and military norms and failures in logistics and cooperation between their Army and Navy.
The war in the Pacific was in it’s essence a war to take islands in order to stablish bases and especially airbases. .. And that put Japan at a disadvantage from the beginning since they had failed to develop the logistical and civil engineering units and equipment to efficiently and quickly build and maintain such installations. .
When the Japanese built an airfield they relied heavily on manual labor since they lacked the construction machinery. The manual labor was often supplied by slave labors brought in from Korea or from local sources of manpower. Such laborers were referred to as “flies” by their Japanese masters. The result of such a system were generally the relatively slow construction of a rough and poorly maintained airfield that resulted in excessive operational losses of aircraft. The Japanese even lacked the ability to provide their strips with PSP (Perforated Steel Plate) which was a mainstay for US airstrip construction in locations where the ground was marshy or liable to water drainage problems or where the soil was so sandy that it lacked the ability to support aircraft.
This situation came about in part because the Japanese had planned that the Central Pacific area would the responsibility of their Navy and the Army would be responsible for about everything else. This division of responsibilities resulted from the fact that their Army and Navy were at odds both politically and militarily from the beginning and objected to cooperating with each other any more than was absolutely necessary But the battle of Guadalcanal quickly made it apparent that the SNLF (Special Naval Landing Force) was totally inadequate for the task of throwing the Marines off the island and so the Navy and the Army were going to have to cooperate with each other and had relatively little experience doing so, .
As bad as the conditions for the Marine, Navy, and Army air forces on Guadalcanal were, those for the Japanese pilots were often worse. Because of their do or die attitude the Japanese military medical establishment and support was minimal compared to that US forces received. Thus their warriors, including their pilots, lacked the benefit of comprehensive preventative medicine practices and medical care that their US counterparts enjoyed. Far more Japanese were felled by the various diseases and infections rampant on those tropical islands they fought over. So the very attitude that death was as light as a feather which made the Japanese such tenacious fighters to the death also doomed to suffer diseases and infections and sometimes malnutrition that incapacitated or killed many of them and debilitated many others.
Those Japanese pilots that did not suffer and fail from such maladies faced flying and fighting until they were seriously wounded or killed. Unlike US pilots there were no rests away from the battle area to recuperate. American pilots, and quite often whole units, were cycled on a periodic basis to Australia for R&R, In some cases more frequent trips to Australia when a pilots body weight fell below a certain level. For the Japanese pilots it was fight until you could fight no more or died.
And die they did. During the fight for Guadalcanal the Japanese had to fly hundreds of miles from their existing bases to attack. This condition came about because of their failure and inability to quickly establish new bases closer to the action. And so when their aircraft was damaged or they were injured their odds of making back to their base were relatively poor and the Japanese had no formal search and rescue programs to try and save those pilots that had to bail out. While the Americans fighting to defend their field were quite often rescued if they survived to bail out. And the local natives and coast watchers helped considerably in these efforts while the downed Japanese that came across the natives would be more likely to be killed because of the poor treatment of the locals by the Japanese and the relatively good treatment they had received at the hands of local Australian authorities before the war. It is a fact that some Japanese pilots ended up in the stew pots of local inhabitants.
It was a scenario that played out time and again as American forces advanced up the Solomon chain to isolate the Japanese strong point at Rabaul.
We also shouldn’t forget the famous “Thatch weave” a maneuver Wildcat (outmatched by Zeros) pilots used to great effect against Zeros in the battle of Guadalcanal.
I intentionally stayed away from tactics in this post since it was already long enough. But to sum the subject up the Japanese tactics were excellent at the beginning of the war but as the war progressed the US pilots figured them out and learned how to fight using the advantages of their machines while avoiding flying in a manner that played into the hands of the Japanese machines. The Japanese generally failed to adapt. I also see that as consequence of the loss of their experienced pilots because the few real aces that did survive and continued to fight DID adapt and could still take on the Americans and if not come out ahead, at least come out alive.
It was a God send when they captured a complete zero in the Aleutians too.
Without a doubt. The contribution of the Akutan Zero was one of the few major contributions to the overall war effort that came out of the Aleutian campaign.
Armor plating in hellcats and P-47s made them like tanks in the sky. One of my most prized possessions is a aluminum model of a P-38 made by my uncle in the south pacific. Good paper weight. 🙂
The P-38 also had armored plating and was a tough bird. But for certain the the Pratt & Whitney double wasp radial engine which was the powerplant of the F6F, F4U, and P-47 was a tougher engine than any inline liquid cooled engine ever devised. There are many accounts of that engine having a cylinder head or two blown right off it it and continuing to run for an extended period.
All of the above mentioned aircraft had self sealing fuel tanks and armor plating protecting the pilot. Features that appeared in Japanese fighters later in the war.
It was the P-38 that pioneered the bubble canopy which was designed into the later and best models of the P-47 and P-51. It was the P-38 that pioneered the butt jointed aluminum with flush riveting which all the other aircraft mentioned here were constructed with. The P-38 had a longer range and could carry a heavier bomb load than any of the other above mentioned aircraft. Even in N. Africa when they were flying the early F,G, and H models of the aircraft the P-38s were carrying a 4,000 lb, bomb load. That’s only 400 lb less than the maximum a B-17 could carry.
Paragraphs please. VERY difficult to read such a long block of text on a screen. Thank you.
I don’t know why, but when I copy and paste to this blog the single spacing is eliminated and I have to remember to double space to get a a single space between paragraphs. I am not subscribed to this blog and so I have no ability to edit.
rah, you give Stephen Ambrose a good run for the money. Always great reading. Speaking of Ambrose, his The Wild Blue, about B24’s over Germany is a good read.
That is a hell of a complement. Thank You!
Read it and all about that Liberal for MN that piloted a B-24 and that later Reagan beat so badly.
Shore leave..
I loved Home..
man.. I was so deep in space.. it was all a blur..
Uptown.. there was a Happening.. Happening..
at night I was a ZL900 Eliminator with big hair.. cruising Uptown..
I would disappear.. for weeks.. months.. then reappear again..
it was like I was on tour.. but actually back from a tour..
and I was available for a limited time only.. so you had better capture me while you can..
it was one of those nights at Cardi’s.. electric.. everybody was here.. see my fun girls..
their subtle smiles were acknowledgment enough.. I would see them again later..
even the band joined in our revelry.. the club had sided with us again..
I went out on the main floor with one of the Cardi regulars.. she just grabbed me and there we went..
nearby I noticed a slightly older professionally dressed woman sitting at a table all by herself..
more specifically.. I had noticed her noticing me..
rolling with the music I subtly advertised my lean muscular frogman merchandise.. capture me..
her eyes locked onto her prey as she seductively motioned for me.. ..come hither..
..I was captured.. or so I had thought..
she reached down.. took out her business card.. and handed it to me..
she was from La Bare.. a high end male strip club around the corner on Richmond Ave..
she wanted me to audition.. just give her a call..
oilfield diver.. or male stripper..
..decisions.. decisions..
..in Uptown.. Houston..
..if I ever had to pick just one regret.. this one is certainly in the ballpark..
Memoirs of an Oilfield Diver
The Epic Archive
1984-1992
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Verse of the Day for Saturday, February 6, 2021
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“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Isaiah 26:3 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Be My Voice – I am a CHILD – not a CHOICE!!!
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52 would have been the majority, would it not?
It needed 60 votes. WHY?
Cloture, I think. It takes 60 votes to decide to hold a vote where 51 votes means it passes. Welcome to Washington, D.C.* ?
*Note that Cryin’ Chuck and the Dimms have yet to remove the filibuster, they are either scared to do so, or are tactically holding back on doing it unless they really have to, hence 60 votes to end debate & send a bill to the floor for a vote.
Pure evil. Isaiah 29:15:
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
This is why Biden’s in and Trump’s out. America is under God’s judgement. “He removes kings and establishes them.” (Dan 2:21)
Sometimes when I sleep at night, I dream about the America I grew up in. I hate waking up from those dreams.
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Amen ?
And they get away with late abortions and selling baby parts. What should God do?
Praying that he sends a plague upon the industry, that follows their children’s children and so on.
Look around you!
We are witness to what God is doing about our lawlessness and open worship of Baal through child sacrifice…
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.
The Jesus Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
The 50th Psalm Septuagint / Psalm 51 KJV
ARE YOU READY TO BE OFFERED?
“I am already being poured out as a drink offering.” 2 Tim. iv. 6 (R.V.Marg.)
“I am ready to be offered.” It is a transaction of will, not of sentiment. TELL God you are ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no strand of complaint now, no matter what God chooses. God puts you through the crisis in private, no one person can help another. Externally the life may be the same; the difference is in will. Go through the crisis in will, then when it comes externally there will be no thought of the cost. If you do not transact in will with God along this line, you will end in awakening sympathy for yourself.
“Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.” The altar means fire-burning and purification and insulation for one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God has not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God. YOU do not destroy it, God does; you bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar; and see that you do not give way to self-pity when the fire begins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What is your way of fire?
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.
Oswald Chambers
February 6th Devotional
Happy Birthday anniversaries to Ronald Reagan and Babe Ruth!
Does lowering the voting age to 16 bring a better quality of life to society as claimed? Heh no! https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-maatschappij-en-gedragswetenschappen/news/2021/02/why-voting-as-early-as-16-is-much-better.html?cb https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-doesnt-understand-people-oppose-lowering-voting-age-16/
Scenes Beyond the Grave – Marietta Davis
Chapter V – The Glory of the Cross
5:4
This last address revived within me remembrance of my former doubts, my want of confidence in the Savior, and of consecration to his cause. My spirit drooped. I saw the justice of the mild reproof, and inquired, “May I yet hope? Or is the opportunity to secure this heaven of life forever gone? Fain would I give myself, my all. Fain would I return no more to earth. O, that I could forever dwell where peace like a river gently floweth, and love unpolluted, moveth from heart to heart.”
“Be faithful then,” said the spirit, “to the light given, and at last thou shalt enjoy the bliss of heaven. Marietta, the scene now passing before thee, is one fraught with interest. In this assembly are the Prophets and martyred Saints. See, their raiment is white, pure and transparent. Upon their breast is the manifestation of the Cross. In their left hand is a golden censer, and in their right a small volume.”
The scene expanded and I saw that from the centre, and around which the multitudes were congregated, arose a pyramid whose column was composed of pearls and most precious stones, set with crosses of spiritualized diamond, upon which were engraven the names of those who had suffered for their love of Truth, and who not counting their lives dear, had endured persecution even unto death. Upon this column stood three spirits, in the attitude of meekness and adoration, holding in their hand, and above them a Cross from which floated a banner ever unfurling, – “These,” said my guide, “are select, one Patriarch, one Prophet, and one Apostle. They represent the triune circle of commissioned saints who shall attend the reappearing of the Son of Man, and shall go forth in the day appointed, gathering together the elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.”
“The volumes the spirits hold in their hands unfold the order of creation, the redemption of man, and the principles which govern the obedient, world without end.”
To be continued…
Mornin’ infidels!
Mornin’ WeeWeed,
Happy Caturday!
Mornin’ DI!
Good one, WeeWeed…mornin’ !
Good Evening, WeeWeed!
Something that has come through clear as a can be to me during this extended illness.
Heart health is a major key to surviving and recovering from other serious maladies.
Though I have a history of smoking my heart held out very well. I had an EKG before the first surgery that came out fine. But during this time under the strain and nearly constant pain my ;pulse and BP were elevated for sustained periods. At the same I could not eat right and I would get very little quality sleep. All of that adds up to a pretty good strain on the ticker which it sustained well.
I have learned that it was heart failure that took my friend Ron. It turned out he had two major blockages and the strain of having COVID was more than his ticker could stand.
dear rah
LOVE all your posts
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Here’s Monica Showalter’s (over at AT) piece about this. The only thing I disagree with is…why, WHY are they allowed to continue forward until the next election IF everyone knows it’s stolen??? Oh, I remember now…it’s because our votes/opinions don’t count!
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/hubris_elites_brazenly_gloat_they_rigged_election__and_why_thats_good_news_for_us.html
A short video showing highlights of a Bush Pilot STOL competition. They don’t need no stinking helicopter!
Alaska Bush Pilot Competition – Video | eBaum’s World
The Center Cannot Hold: Unreported Chicago Crime Data Suggests the 18th Police District (Michigan Avenue, Gold Coast, etc.) Has Fallen
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/the-center-cannot-hold-unreported-chicago-crime-data-suggests-the-18th-police-district-michigan-avenue-gold-coast-etc-has-fallen
The Supreme Court has ordered California to allow indoor church services despite restrictions of such services in counties with widespread COVID-19.
At issue was California’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy which ordered indoor worship services discontinued in counties in the “widespread” purple Tier 1, identified as having more than seven daily new cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/supreme-court-orders-california-to-allow-indoor-church-services/
I think this sums things up pretty well. Apologies if it’s been previously noted.
I hear a lot around here about Tucker Carlson’s betrayal, how you’re never going to watch him again. About how Newsmax betrayed us and you’ll never watch it again. About how Fox News took Lou Dobbs off the air and you’re done with them forever.
Carlson, Fox, Newsmax, etc., do what they do to protect the livelihoods of thousands of employees.
And yet those who are done with them forever can’t seem to stop posting videos from YouTube, which would cost them nothing to not do, but drives hits and enriches to Google.
And who around here still has Twitter and/or Facebook accounts. Hard living the life you preach for others t live, isn’t it.
I never have had a twitter or facebook account an never will. However, there simply is not alternative source for the huge library of videos on YouTube so I only post them when there is no other source.
I’ve read that “hooktube” allows one to view youtube videos but provides no benefit to youtube.
So now I’m curious as to whether or not Sundance allows hooktube links to work here on his site. The following is a test:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=ln1wZW2-1u8
This plays perfectly for me, but CTH does not allow the video thumbnail to appear.
(it is the video of Mark Dice interviewing Andrew Torba of Gab, by the way).
Thanks Mandy. I’ll give it a whirl.
I don’t have enough pigeons so have to use this instrument of satan at times. Been vigilante all my life to buying local USA.
If we want to go truly low tech, there’s always semaphore. (And, yes, for those who already know, it doesn’t spell HELP! HELP didn’t photograph well.)
Get that all day long whilst driving truck.
Lol!
There are plenty of conservative sites to get the news that do not hook up to screwtube. So the 80,000,000+ are supposed to go along with fake news and deception to give the support personnel jobs?
Tucker thinks Hunter B. is a good guy cuz they were neighbors. I am done with “good cop, bad cop” Fox and Newsmax shenanigans.
BEAUTIFUL!
It’s like I’ve died and gone to blonde heaven.
Go on grassroots offense. Take back the GOP. Take back The American Republic. MAGA Patriot Dan Schultz has been working on this for a decade. Now getting traction.
https://theprecinctproject.wordpress.com/
For Arizona in particular:
https://rightlanenetwork.com/
Saint Xenia of Rome and Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg
Saint Xenia of Rome was born there in the 4th century. She went to Milassa in Cæsarea and took the name of Xenia, meaning foreigner in Greek, devoting her life fully to God.
Saint Xenia of Saint Petersburg was a very young widow in the 18th century who distributed all she owned to others. After some years away from the city, she returned, spent her nights in a field in prayer and her days assisting others in need. She became known as a Fool-for-Christ and her grave has been a place of pilgrimage. She was Glorified as a Saint by Russian Orthodox Church Abroad in 1978 when Saint Philaret, Metropolitan of New York was Primate.
Both are among the Saints who are commemorated today, January 24th on the traditional Calendar of the Orthodox Christian Church and February 6th on the civil or commercial calendar.
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…
Thank you. 🙂
Amen.
Amen
Amen.