Trump attorney says presidents can’t be prosecuted for selling pardons or ordering murders

Former president Donald Trump’s lawyer told a three-judge panel of the US Court Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that a president would be immune from prosecution unless impeached and convicted, even if he was accused of having ordered a rival’s murder by the US military.

During arguments in a Washington DC courtroom on Tuesday, Trump attorney D John Sauer told Judges Michelle Childs, Florence Pan and Karen Henderson that Mr Trump is immune from prosecution under the impeachment and double jeopardy clauses of the US Constitution, citing the Senate’s 2021 acquittal of the ex-president on charges that he incited the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Judge Florence Pan, a 2022 appointee to the circuit court by President Joe Biden, almost immediately began a rapid-fire questioning of Trump attorney D John Sauer over his contention.

She asked Mr Sauer if, hypothetically, a president could order the killing of a rival by the US military or sell pardons and be immune from any legal consequences.

“I understand your position to be that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for any official act that he takes as president even if that action is taken for an unlawful or unconstitutional purpose, is that correct?” she said.

He replied that prosecution would only be allowed following a conviction by the Senate.

She interjected to repeat the query after Mr Sauer’s filibustering answer: “I asked you a yes or no question. Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival ... would he be subject to criminal prosecution?”

He replied: “Qualified yes – if he is impeached and convicted first.”

He later added that in his view, such a president would “have to be, and would speedily be, you know, impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution”.

James Pearce, the Assistant Special Counsel who argued the case for the US government, said Mr Sauer’s comments portended “an extraordinarily frightening future” because his view would place presidents largely outside and above the law.

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For the "Party of Law and Order", their leader seems to want to be above it entirely. At the very least, we can dispel notion that he doesn't consider himself above everyone and everything - Him and his legal team are arguing for this complete immunity in court.

Horrific, despicable, and monstrous.

Assuming that in fact Biden and/or Trump win their respective primaries do you believe either the RNC or the DNC will select someone else to run instead as they are the ones that actually choose the person that ends up the ballot? If you believe that either convention will do so what do you think will be the reaction of the public at large?

Peter has an interesting take on Trump's disqualification and the state's right to do so. I don't have a view one way or the other.
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Is there any truth to Biden engaging in insurrectionalsim as we speak?

The lord wants me to read the bible more than i am willing to, i do it anyways due to our aggreement. When the times i set up with the lord come up to read the bible i absolutely lose it and hate the fact i have to sit down and get into the word. While im reading the feeling doesnt seem to go away... than i get mad and sometimes mock the word due to my absolute non-enjoyment or want of reading the word

(The lord wants me to read 3 chapters every hour of the day every day)

Any advice?

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens.

2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin​

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed.
The planet was 1.48C hotter in 2023 compared with the period before the mass burning of fossil fuels ignited the climate crisis. The figure is very close to the 1.5C temperature target set by countries in Paris in 2015
Guardian January 9th 2024

I think we need to take this seriously. We are on the edge.

From Time to Time

From time to time, now and then,
I ponder places I have been
And all the folks who now reside
In memories, where flows a tide
Of supplication for the days
That danced entranced before the haze
Of heavy-hearted transformation
Canceled ways of celebration.

Innocence belongs to such,
A dancing, prancing, open trust
That, unaware of lurking snares,
Lives and laughs without a care
For what the morrow might entail
Or how in night and deep travail
Some ways are lost and not regained,
Some dreams are tossed from one-way trains.

Reality, inconstant friend,
Drawing lines that curve and bend
Around my eyes and creasing face
Tracing smiles and falls from grace
And forming now the channeled grooves
That funnel tears from former smooth
And cherub-looking cheeks of yore
Now snaked by rivers seeking shore.

These things I think, from time to time,
But then I blink and gone's the grime
Of fuzzy-headed introspecting,
Jaunts into my youth, reflecting
Sentimental searches, sure,
But wanderlust that's wandered far
From what the moment offers now
Far beyond nostalgic plows
Whose constant tilling of the past
In shadowed light the present casts.

The rivers running 'cross my face
Are crucial for the works of Grace,
Outlets needed for contrition
Seeking solace for convictions
Confident the test of time
Will show, in all, a greater rhyme
Where rivers end in pools of joy
Reflecting there the tears employed.

Secularism is terrible.

Christians leaders in America have completely abandoned their flock. They sit by silently while their sheep are led to the slaughter in the secular education system, and generally surrounded by a secular media and a secular ethos that hates everything about the sacred order, ordained by the God of the Bible, and embodied by the Son of God, Jesus Christ.

This is a long time coming.

The history of Protestant evangelicalism in America is a tradition that unfortunately... embraced The Enlightenment... embraced the "Will of the People" and the revolution against the King..... Christians never had any business in violent revolution against monarchs... and now we are lost in the sea of Liberal Democracy... where the Good and the Virtuous is nothing more than the shifting sea of the Will of the People. Which is why we have boys wondering why they can't turn into girls. It's a complete tragedy, and our Church leaders don't know what to do about it.

What is so sacred about democracy? Nothing. It's been a disaster.

What is so great about the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence? These are not sacred documents to me. What has the religion of modern Liberty done for the Christian community? It has only atomized us into nothing... where we can't even defend our own families from the onslaught of lies that saturate us from a million different directions.

What is so great about the "separation of church and state" ? Really? Why do Christians celebrate this? I would rather have our nation bow down to Jesus Christ our King... a million times over. Secularism is not clever to me in the least. It is diabolical.

I am completely fed up with the entire project of modernity. It's become a joke... and yet sadly, our Church leaders continue to lead us down this path of secularism and liberalism. They teach us that Christianity has no place in politics, that it only exists in the private belief of the individual believer... They offer us no shelter for our children. They encourage our kids to pursue higher education in an ideological system that is obsessed with the rejection of Christ. Christ becomes nothing more than a kind of moral therapeutic deism... a good luck charm in our libertarian pursuits.

But our Church leaders are in love with the secular order. We defeated Nazism and Communism! We are the City of Light! Liberal Democracy! Sacred Democracy..... No... No... God, No.... What a perversion of the Gospel. God's order is that women are to be submissive to men. But Secular Christianity hates this order. We love women's liberation. We love our pride. We hate submitting to God's word. We want our kids to get good jobs and makes lots of money. We worship money. We worship the Free Market. We worship commercial success and entrepreneurship. We worship individual liberty and individual property. That's American Liberty, baby.... The Will of the People! No King is gonna tell us what to do! Individual Liberty! Kill the King!!!!

I'm just so done with it. You can have your Statue of Liberty. You can have your Constitution. You can have your progress. You can have your pride.

I want to worship the King. I want to surrender to my Creator. I want to keep my children safe from the wolves. I want to hide in God's Word, not mix it up with the civil religion of liberalism.

Just had to vent. Thanks for reading.

I began watching it on Netflix.
I will see more when I have time.

Anyone else see it?

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A powerful message that I think is worth listening to even if you disagree with some or all of it. I think it is quite reasonable for Christians in the West Bank to fear that they may be in the firing line as this news story shows:

https://abcdbethlehem.org/abcd-news/media-2023

ABCD=Action around Bethlehem Children with Disability

ABCD MEDIA STATEMENT 6TH JANUARY 2024​

British charity-funded health centre for children with disability ABCD Bethlehem in Nur Shams refugee camp damaged by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in major raid.​

Nur Shams Refugee Camp, south of Jenin in the West Bank was raided by the IDF on Wednesday 3 January 2024, causing considerable damage to over 50 homes and to the ABCD-funded centre for children with disability. The charity’s project manager, Firas Sarhan was able to call Nehayah, the Centre’s Manager to speak to her to provide a live interpretation of her update on the horrendous destruction that has taken place over a 40-hour raid of the Camp.

‘They ransacked the building, destroying equipment, damaging all the rooms including the new sensory room,’ Nehayah reported today. Essential paperwork for the 250 children who receive treatment at the centre was also destroyed, with IDF also taking food and winter clothing for children, the ink from the printer and throwing walking frames, mattresses and beds out on the street. Windows were peppered with shots and, although snipers took positions on the building’s rooftops, fortunately no one was injured. Nehayah’s house was also searched and partly destroyed. She continues; ‘Thank God no one was injured at the Centre. There is no fresh food and nowhere for people to go,’ she added. ‘I helped to build the Centre from zero, my own soul has been broken.’

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Although according to the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, it seems that Lebanon might be next.

Israeli defense minister to WSJ: Hezbollah knows 'we can copy-paste [Gaza] to Beirut'

Our eyes are what we use to see things physically. But the word “eye” can also be used more figuratively to mean to judge, watch, observe, discern, and perceive. And this has to do with wisdom (or lack thereof) and good sense (or not). And both the literal and the figurative meaning of the word “eye” can be in combination together, too. For we need to be people of good judgment who discern rightly as to what we should be watching and not watching. And both can impact our spiritual health.

For example, sexual immorality is running rampant in today’s modern gatherings of what is called “church.” And much of that is centered in so many people’s addiction to sexually explicit and/or sexually charged and seductive videos, movies, cartoons, or still pictures. Especially with the creation of smartphones, many people, including children, have 24/7 private access to a whole world of evil on these pocket size devices in the privacy of a corner of a room, even a crowded room.

But this isn’t just about sexual immorality, although that is huge. This has to do with us using good judgment and discernment about all things in life, such as in decisions we make, and the people we choose to hang out with, and the activities we involve ourselves in, and how we spend our time, etc. Do we have good sound and biblical judgment and discernment? Or is our judgment bad? Do we guard our hearts and minds and eyes and ears from what is evil? Or do we “play with fire”?

Now if our judgments (discernments) and viewing are contrary to the will of God for our lives and in the category of what the Bible teaches is evil and sinful, then our eyes are bad. We have bad judgments and sense and discernment, plus what we are viewing is bad and spiritually unhealthy. And since we live in a world and age of technology where viewing and listening to music, stories, teachings, and all that is entertainment is available around the clock, and in much privacy, there is much temptation toward evil.

And so if we are going to use these electronic devices, we need to be people of integrity and uprightness who exercise much self-discipline in making sure that what we are taking in and how we are spending our time is not against the Lord and against his word and is not what is sinful and wicked. But this isn’t just about technology, but this covers all aspects of our lives in how we live them and in our attitudes and words and actions, and in how we treat other human beings, too, and how we treat God.

And what is light? It is Jesus Christ, it is the word of God, it is truth, and it is righteousness and holiness. So if we have healthy eyes, spiritually speaking, it is because we are those whose lives are surrendered to the Lord Jesus to do his will, and we are obeying his commands, in practice, and we are following him in his ways, and sin is not our practice, and we don’t “play with fire” and “test fate.” So we are full of Christ and his righteousness and holiness and truth, and his word is being lived out in our daily lives.

But if our eyes are bad, that means that we are walking in the ways of the flesh and not in the ways of God. We are living in sin and for self and for self-pleasure and not for the will and purpose of God for our lives. So then our lives are filled up with all that is evil and of this sinful world and of the flesh and not of God. Thus, our truth is not the light of God and of his gospel message, but our truth is of the evil one. It is all that is deceiving because it gets so many people to follow its ways instead of the ways of God.

But the sad reality of this is that so many people who are walking in sin and who deliberately and habitually sin against the Lord, and against other humans, even against those they are supposed to love, they are those who profess Christ as Lord and as Savior of their lives. So the light that they think they have within them is really darkness, because they are walking in the darkness and not in the light of the word of God, and not in walks of obedience to the Lord and to his commands. And that is a sad reality!

But so many of them think that they can do both – live in sin and still have Jesus as their Lord and Savior. But we cannot serve two masters. We can’t have Jesus in our pockets, expecting him to always be there for us, and that he will send us to heaven when we die, but while we ignore him and his teachings in favor of going our own way and living however we want. It is either/or, not both. Either we are walking according to the flesh or we are walking according to the Spirit, but we cannot do both.

So, it all comes down to where are hearts are. What is stored up in our hearts? What are our practices? For what we practice is who we are and what we will do and where we will end up. For if sin is our practice, and not righteousness, and not obedience to our Lord, then we are not in fellowship with God, we do not know God, we are not born of God, and we will not have eternal life with God unless we repent, in truth, and we turn, and we now follow our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; Jn 6:35-58; Jn 15:1-11; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-24; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-11; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 10:23-31; 1 Co 10:1-22; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer

Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897

Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

Oh, to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking the wandering sinner to find.

O to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing to suffer others to save.

O to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit me for life and Heaven above.

Oh, to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

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Here in America today we are expecting a huge storm on the east coast, where I live. They are predicting winds as high as 50 mph in some locations, massive rain and flooding, power outages, and the possibility of tornadoes. When these types of things take place, wherever they take place, or when, they have the potential of destroying much in the way of people’s homes and properties and possessions. So there is always a possibility that some of us could face some loss of property and possessions and human lives.

So, this is one of the reasons that we are not to lay up for ourselves treasures on earth, not that having possessions or property is wrong, for we all need a place to live and food to eat and clothing to wear, but that these things are not to be our treasures, the things that we cling to and live for, and that we give our hearts, minds, and souls to. We have to be of the mindset that the Lord gives and the Lord takes away, so blessed be the name of the Lord. We have to be willing to leave it all behind us.

For the things of this earth cannot be more important to us than our relationships with our Lord and our testimonies for him and us loving the people of this earth and us sharing with them the truth of the gospel. When the things of this world overtake our lives and we forget the reason that Jesus died for us on the cross, and the reason he saved us from our sins, and so we begin to make things our gods, instead of God being our only God, then we have forsaken our Lord and the purpose he has for us.

So, sometimes God does send storms as a way of rearranging our priorities. And I am not making any predictions here at all. I am just stating the obvious and what the Scriptures teach, that God does send trials and tribulations into our lives to discipline us, sometimes to chastise us, and so that we will rearrange our priorities to make him first place in our lives and not the treasures of this world. And in America so many professing Christians are so worldly and need to turn their hearts back to Jesus.

And I am not saying that only certain people need this rearranging of priorities. Perhaps we all do to some extent, because when things are comfortable and going well it is easy for any of us to slip back into worldly mindsets and to get comfortable with having things, and then for us to not make our Lord and his word and his calling on our lives top priority. But when things are taken away from us and we have less, that can often lead us to look to God and to rely on him more, so less can be a good thing.

So, the things of this world are not to be our gods. Our hearts are not to be given over to them, especially at the neglect of our relationships with the Lord Jesus and his calling on each of our lives. But we are to be those who are laying up for ourselves treasures in heaven. And this has to do with our walks of faith and obedience to our Lord in holy living. And this has to do with us doing the will of the Lord in sharing his gospel with the people of the world and with us encouraging the body of Christ in holy living, too.

For what is stored up in our hearts is what is going to come out in the things that we do and say. It will come out in what we make our priorities. It will be obvious in our attitudes and in what we value the most, and in our actions. And it will be evident in how we spend our time and in what we spend our time on the most. And it will be clear in the kinds of things that we post on the internet and on social media and in the things that we like to watch and listen to the most. And it will impact how we treat other people, too.

But what is most concerning here is that we must realize that if the treasure stored up in our hearts is worldly and sinful and selfish and self-centered, and if it is mostly about what we want out of life, and what pleases us, and thus it is not God-centered, and he does not have top priority in our lives, then we will lose a whole lot more than just homes and possessions, but we will lose our lives for eternity, too, because we made the things of this world our gods instead of making God our only God.

So, the encouragement here is that we all need to examine our lives and how we are living them and look closely at what has our hearts and minds and passions and desires and time the most. And then we need to make the necessary adjustments to where our Lord is truly our top priority, and to where our lives are now surrendered to him, to do his will, and to where his priorities now become our priorities, and the things of this world are no longer the leading influences in our lives.

And then we need to walk with the Lord day by day, dying daily to sin, denying self, and following him in obedience wherever he leads us to go and to do. His desires must now become our desires, and his will must become our will, which is to do his will in daily practice. For this is what it means if he is truly Lord of our lives. And Jesus died on that cross so that we will die to sin daily and walk with him daily in holiness and righteousness and no longer in sin. So surrender your lives today to the will of God for your lives.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Hebrews 10:23-31; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

Have Thine Own Way, Lord

Words by Adelaide A. Pollard, 1907
Music by George C. Stebbins, 1907

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Search me and try me, Master, today!
Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now,
As in Thy presence humbly I bow.

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Wounded and weary, help me I pray!
Power, all power, surely is Thine!
Touch me and heal me, Savior divine!

Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
Fill with Thy Spirit till all shall see
Christ only, always, living in me!

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As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

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ISAIAH 27:6-28:13

” In the days to come, shall Jacob take root, Israel shall blossom and bud....” We see a fulfillment of this prophecy in that once taken from Egypt, and united and solidified as a “People” a “Nation”, this people/nation has grown and has spread out throughout the world

Though many nations have tried to “snuff out” Am Yisrael, they, in turn (those nations) have suffered punishment and defeat in trying to do just that. Can a mouse “snuff out” an elephant? Israel, upon being scattered throughout the nations, brought the belief in “ONE GOD” when the nations believed in “Multi-gods”

Through the Tribe of Y’hudah, came forth YHVH in the flesh, “Yeshua” who is “Yeshuah” (Salvation) to all those who believe on him who died to set men free from sin. In the Book of Isaiah, it reads: "The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God." (Isaiah 52:10) Yeshua/Jesus is Adonai's "Holy Arm" which before, was hidden in the symbolic forms of the animal sacrifices, all which pointed to HIM. He was revealed to "All Nations" through His disciples and messengers, pastors, rabbis, Torah teachers, evangelists, etc... And the whole earth "Has Seen" the "Yeshuah" (Salvation) of God.

MATT 22:1-23:39

Yeshua tells a parable about the “Kingdom of Heaven” being likened to a “marriage/wedding feast, and the king invites many to come, but they refuse and even kill the servants, then he sends an army to destroy those who rejected him and killed his servants and sent others to invite others to come. Many came, and the feast was given. Both good and bad came.

When we look at this in plain light, Yeshua is now preparing a “wedding feast” for those who have accepted his “invitation”. Many accept, even those who walk in evil ways, want to change their lives, so they come to the wedding feast, yet also, many reject. The offer still stands, Yeshua died on the cross to offer mankind “salvation” (Yeshuah) through his blood and full atonement of sins. Yet many still make fun of that and refuse the gift of salvation, to prefer the ways of the world.

Those who refuse, and die in their sins, will suffer eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire, While the offer was made, they refused, while others accepted. What will you do with the free gift of Salvation? Accept or reject?


Shavua Tov (Have a blessed week)

I am thinking of TV religion where a Jimmy Swaggart Bible (study edition) or one of the many similar "study bibles" produced by a TV based "ministry" is spruiked mercilessly at the end of the TV show. Does that kind of religion and that kind of study bible run the risk of becoming a negative influence on its owner? I say, run the risk, because many will not be negatively influenced, and the study bible is not in and of itself a negative influence even if some of the notes in it may be.

I have one such bible, I bought it from Amazon.com for an exceptionally low price, it is from a TV ministry out of Atlanta, Georgia. The featured preacher is a quite elderly fellow (now deceased as of April 2023) who sits on a tall stool in front of a world map as he preaches. The bible is a "NKJV Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible [Second Edition, Brown]" and it cost $30.79 in Australia. It is Genuine Leather, the normal amazon price for it is $160. And the notes in the bible seem okay, as far as the ones I have read go. But I wondered if this sort of thing may not be a sort of personality cult and carry with it all sorts of risks.

I was reading a post in which the writer took issue with a theologian who described sexual pleasure as "a foretaste of heaven." Ultimately, the writer, who is Roman Catholic, stated that sex is for procreation only. He seemed considerably outraged at the idea of sexual pleasure within the context of marriage being a foretaste of heaven.

It seems to me that the Scriptures lend themselves to the idea of the bliss of the marital bed being a foretaste of heaven. Our Lord is called the divine Bridegroom and we are the Bride of Christ. A bride and a groom are looking forward to completing their union in the nuptial bed.

It also seems to me that the Song of Songs has some very erotic language in it which speaks to the union of lovers and has been presented as a metaphor for Christ and his people.

So at the end of all this, My interlocular become smarmy with me and tells me. I should talk to the monks at Mount Athos about and teach them about sexual theology. This would be why I am here to get feedback from those who would understand the Orthodox position better than I do.

I will appreciate all comments on this and any corrections you have for me if i'm wrong in thinking this way.

This article lists several sources about what Americans believe about the economy and also offers commentary about those poll results.

EVERYDAY AND UNENDING PRAISE ISAIAH 35
每一天不止息的赞美 以赛亚35



3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

你们要使虚弱的手坚壮，无力的膝稳固

4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God

with a recompense; he will come and save you.

对胆怯的人说，你们要刚强，不要惧怕。看哪，你们的神必来报仇，必来施行极大的报应；他必来拯救你们。



Are you downcast believer?

你是一个沮丧的信徒吗？

Personally, I suffer from slight depression at times or the Elijah syndrome as I call it

就我个人而言，我有时遭受着轻微的抑郁，我称它为以利亚综合症



Promises like this, make us get up and back into the fight.

这样的应许，使我们站起来重新战斗

Sometimes I have very weak hands and I tremble at the knees, but we are told to strengthen both of them, we have to do it ourselves, no one can do it for us. Your pastor and your Christian friends can encourage you as much as they want. But it is up to you, and indeed you can rely on God and his promises, because when you lean on him, he will never let you fall.

有时，我手很无力，我的膝盖会颤抖，但我们被告知要坚强我们的手和腿，我们必须自己去做，没有人能代替我们做。你的牧师和你的基督徒朋友可以尽可能多地鼓励你。但这取决于你，你确实能倚靠上帝和他的应许，因为当你倚靠他时，他将永远不会让你跌倒。

Are you afraid? This world is downright scary sometimes and one of the biggest tools in the devil's armour is fear. But God says, that we are not to be fearful, in any situation, whatever situation you are in, God sees it, the children of Israel got into some very bad places and they cried out to the Lord and he rescued them.

你害怕吗？这个世界有时是非常可怕的，而魔鬼盔甲中最大的工具之一就是让我们恐惧。但神说，在任何情况下，无论你处境如何，不要害怕，上帝到了，以色列的孩子们陷入了非常糟糕的境地时，他们大声呼求耶和华，神就拯救了他们。

So, it's time to stand up straight and have your hands full of the sword of the Spirit, weak

hands are not able to handle a sword or put the armour of God on.

所以，是时候站起来，让你的双手拿起圣灵的宝剑，软弱的手是不能拿住剑，也不能穿戴上神的盔甲。

God will come and help you downtrodden Christian, but he will not and cannot accept invitations to pity parties.

神要来帮助你们这些受压迫的基督徒，但他不会也不能接受自怨自艾人的邀请。

Stand up straight Christian and look up and forward.

站稳了，基督徒，抬头继续向前

God bless you

上帝祝福你







EVERYDAY AND UNENDING PRAISE PART 2

每天不止息的赞美 第二部分

PSALM 145

诗篇145

1 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

我的神我的王啊，我要尊崇你；我要永永远远称颂你的名！

2 Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.2

我要天天称颂你，也要永永远远赞美你的名！



We often wonder what we will be doing in heaven?

我们常常想知道我们在天堂会做什么？

Well, the correct answer is although, we will know and recognize each other, our main focus will be the praise of the Father and of the Lord Jesus.

正确的答案是，虽然我们会知道并认出彼此，但我们主要焦点是赞美天父和我们的主耶稣。

David was already in heavenly mode as he penned this psalm. We would do well to echo his words.

大卫书写这首赞美诗时，他已经沉浸在天国里了。我们要好好做去回应他的话语。

Why wait till heaven to praise God, when we can do it right now.

既然我们现在就可以赞美，为什么要等到天堂才赞美呢？

The time to praise God is right now...David had a great view of praising God

现在就是赞美上帝的时候...大卫非常赞美上帝。

He said it should be continuous and daily, believe me, you will never run out of things to praise God for.

他说应该每天持续不断的赞美，相信我，你们将永远不会没有可赞美上帝的东西。

So, start praising God today.. don't delay

所，今天就开始赞美神吧，不要耽延。





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PRAISE



The Practice of Praise


Ves Chancellor

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Everlasting Praise


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O That Men Would Praise The Lord


John Dorsey

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John Owen 1616-1683 in Mortification of Sin,

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

in A Depraved Corrupted Mind,

"To win the victory over this corrupt and futile mind, we must fix our minds and desires on spiritual things shown us by the Holy Spirit. But in fixing our minds on spiritual things, we must watch that the mind does not slip back into vain, foolish, and unprofitable thoughts and ideas. We must get into the habit of meditating on holy, spiritual things (Col 3:2). We must be humbled as we realize how foolish and futile our minds are left to themselves.
The unregenerate mind is perverse and depraved, so men are “alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them” (Eph 4:18). This alienation from the life of God is because their minds are sinful and depraved (Col 1:21) ."

Good stuff. We can be thankful for Jesus who purchased our redemption, and that we can overcome depravity by His blood and His Spirit, through the Word indwelling.

I'm considering start a business where i lease a car that i purchase to whoever has the need. It would be thru using the Turo Application. It will not be my car or the family car. Stricktly a car to be available for leasing all the time.
Also i am an Uber driver which is my own business too. So here what i'm thinking.
I Uber and save some money for a down payment on a good car, with record of good ROI.
I assume i will need to have a LLC and, i think what that looks like is, i have an LLC for the Uber business with a little capital saved up and record of earning a profit to start the Turo car rental.

Does this make since? I don't want to risk any of my personal credit or cash just want to have the Uber/Turo combo business disconnected from all my personal stuff.

I would appreciate any insights, warnings, you may have.

I am reading in Amos 5. God’s people had fallen due to their idolatries and their other sins, and so God was giving them counsel to seek him, and that they would live. But they were not to seek other avenues to rescue them. They were to seek the Lord and live, lest the Lord bring judgment upon them. For they were those who turned justice to wormwood (bitterness) and who cast down righteousness to the earth. And it says here that they hated him who reproves in the gate, and they abhorred him who speaks the truth.

But it wasn’t just their sins that was the issue, but that they thought they were still righteous in the eyes of the Lord. They thought their salvation and their eternal life with God were secure, that God would not judge them. And they were convinced that God would protect them physically, too. For they were full of pride in thinking that they were untouchable. So Amos was mourning over their spiritual condition. And following is an exhortation to them to repent, for the Lord rejected their hypocritical service to him.


And you know what? This could be written today to the church at large here in America, though not to apply to all, but definitely to the majority, it would appear. For so many professing Christians in America have bought into a diluted and altered version of our Lord’s gospel and of his covenant promises to his people, just like so many Jews today are still holding on to the covenant God made with Abraham, which also has the condition of obedience to our Lord’s commands. For all God’s promises have conditions!

Yet so many who profess faith in Jesus Christ today are in the same spiritual situation as were God’s chosen people of old who Amos was addressing. Although they profess Christ as Lord and as Savior of their lives, they are still walking in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord, and they are not walking in obedience to his commands in holy living. They are liars, thieves, adulterers, the sexually immoral, unfaithful, prideful, gossips, slanderers, malicious, hateful, spiteful, et al, and they do not submit to Christ as Lord.

And if truth be told, it is mostly not ignorance of the truth that is leading so many of them to wander from the truth, but it is the rejection of the truth of God’s word and their sinful hearts’ desire to follow the lies, instead, because they want to continue in their sins but while still holding on to the promise of heaven when they die. So they hate (reject) those who tell them the truth of what the Scriptures teach, for the truth lets them know that if they walk in sin and not in obedience to God, they will not have eternal life with God.


So, here was the counsel to them at that time, and God is still giving us the same counsel today. First of all, we must know that what is being presented as the gospel today is largely not the gospel that Jesus and his NT apostles taught. It is a diluted and altered and half-truth gospel which appeals to human flesh and which is approved by and acceptable to the ungodly. For it promises them forgiveness of all sins and heaven as their eternal destiny regardless of how they live, and on the basis of lip service only to the Lord.

But Jesus taught that if we are to come after him that we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin and for self, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience, then we have the promise and hope of eternal life. For Jesus also said that not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING God’s will.

For if we want to be saved from our sins and have the hope of eternal life with God we must be crucified and buried with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness, no longer as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. So we are no longer to let sin reign in our mortal bodies to where we obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it will lead to death, but if obedience is what we obey, its end is eternal life.

[Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Galatians 5:16-21; Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Hebrews 10:23-31; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6; 1 Jn 3:4-10]

So, the counsel here is for all of us to seek good, and not evil, that we may live, for lip service only will not get us into heaven. And we are to hate evil and love good (as God defines good), and we are to establish justice in the gate. And here I see the gate as that door (entrance) into eternal life, and justice is also righteousness. So we must establish righteousness at that door to salvation from sin and to eternal life with God, i.e. we must teach that we must die to sin and obey our Lord if we want eternal life with God.

The Battle for Truth

An Original Work / May 18, 2013
Based off Malachi 1-4

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I love you. Honor me.
Tell the truth. You’ll be free.
Sing My praise all your days.
I will give all you need.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

Turn from sin; cleansed within.
Stand in awe of My Name.
Teach what’s true. Walk in peace.
Follow Christ, in His ways.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

Show to God faithfulness.
Do not be adult’rous.
Do not shed shallow tears.
Do not be insincere.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I have sent messengers,
Who have giv’n my address.
They call for repentance,
And they warn of judgment.

Truth is marching, truth is marching.

I, the Lord, do not change,
So return – blessings gain:
Healing comes; joyfulness;
Freedom from your distress.

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Trump and his enablers are describing those imprisoned for their January 6th activities as "hostages".

On Saturday’s third anniversary of the riot, Trump called on President Joe Biden to “release the J6 hostages.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik, [#3 in the House] R-N.Y., then parroted Trump during an interview Sunday on “Meet the Press.”


These individiuals are not hostages. As of today, the only prominent Republican to push back on this language is Liz Cheney:

In an interview with Cheney, CBS News “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan noted how Stefanik’s remarks echo the word Trump used to refer to the prisoners, to which Cheney said, “That’s why she’s using it.”

“It’s outrageous and it’s disgusting,” Cheney continued. “And if you … go and you look at what individuals have been convicted for, who are incarcerated, you’ll find it, you know, extensively, these are people who were involved in violence against police officers in the assault on the Capitol. And it is really disgraceful for Donald Trump be saying what he’s saying and then for those who [are] attempting to enable him or attempting to further their own political careers [to] repeat it.”

“It’s a disgrace, and you cannot say you are a member of a party that believes in the rule of law, you cannot say you are pro-law enforcement if you then go out and you say these people are ‘hostages,’ it’s disgraceful,” Cheney added.

...not a peep from Republican leaders.

Hospital staff at Cincinnati Children’s in Ohio explained ways for doctors to work around parental consent for transgender minor patients in an internal training video obtained by the Daily Wire.

Steve Davis, the president and CEO of the hospital, testified in December against several bills that would have banned all transgender procedures for minors, arguing that parental consent was always obtained for any treatment and that the legislation would harm families. Dr. Lee Ann Conard, director of the hospital’s Transgender Health Clinic, said, however, that if a child is reluctant to tell their family that they identify as transgender there are things that doctors and hospital staff can do to conceal treatment from the parents, according to the video.



I know that Transgender issues are a sticky subject. However, I would like to see what y'alls thoughts and opinions are about what some of the hospital staff at the Cincinnati's Children Hospital in Ohio are doing and saying.

I will put forth a short, concise understanding unto those who do not like long drawn out dissertations, I find that once a concise point has been read, sometimes those types do not mind reading something a bit longer if it sparks a bit of curiosity.

Short Explanation

God gave Daniel a vision that runs from Daniel chapters 10 through Daniel 12:1-2 then explained a bit unto him, but mostly kept him in the dark, telling him that all these things would be locked up until the very end times, I think we are in the end times now, so God revealing's should not be a surprise.

In short, as I studied and did an Exegesis on Dan. 11 and 12, I understood that in vs. 6 an Angel asks the Man in Linen (Jesus pre incarnate or MIL) "how long until all these wonders end?" And in vs. 7 the MIL replied that from the time the holy people (Israel) are scattered (some get conquered and some flee) until all these wonders end will be 1260 days (Time, times and half). Now, of course Daniel had no clue of Jesus' second coming, but we do, and that gives us the advantage. We now can understand what ends this mans life and rule on earth in Dan. 11:36-45, its the second coming. So, the 1260 is very clear and easily understood as an event (the Little Horn/Anti-Christ conquers Israel) that will end in 1260 days, upon Jesus return. We piece this together by using scriptures from elsewhere in the bible, where he rules 1260 days over Israel.

Then as I read vs. 8 it hit me, Daniel was confused, and then he asked the exact same question as the Angel did in vs. 6, in vs. 8, "When will all these things end?" So, I thought to myself, everything has to end with the second coming, that is the fulcrum point God is using here, and if the 1260 was an event, so were the 1290 and 1335 events also. All three are just numbers with limited explanations for each event, and when they come to pass in juxtaposition to the second coming as per the numbers actual meaning, just like the 1260, we have to figure out what the numbers actually mean via gathering info from other scriptures elsewhere in the bible. I have done that, I will give the details and the scriptures that reveal why I came to these conclusions below in a longer dissertation, but to those who want to know what the other numbered events mean, in brief, here is the answer below.

1.) The 1335 is the Two-witnesses showing up (Blessing) to turn Israel back unto God before God's Wrath falls on mankind, they show up 1335 days before the second coming of Jesus.

2.) The 1290 is the False Prophet (a Jewish high priest) who takes away "the real sacrifice Jesus" and places the AoD in the temple, this happens 1290 days before the second coming.

Longer Version explaining why these numbers equal the events I am putting forth

As I began doing my Exegesis on Dan. 11 & 12, I understood I should have included Dan. 10 also, but that's neither here nor there. I saw how Dan. 11 was the full history of the whole Greek kingdom, from Alexander the Great unto Antiochus, the archetype Little Horn or Anti-Christ, however one like to view his name is OK by me. Then in Dan. 11:36-45 we get the end time Beast/A.C. and all his actions, who he conquers in verses 40-43 and where he dies in vs. 45. So, then when Jesus/MIL answers the two questions, one by an Angel and one by Daniel, about the end times seen here ("When will all these Wonders End?" and When will all these Things End?") both questions are referring unto Daniel 11:45 where the A.C./Beast comes unto his end or dies.

So, seeing as Daniel's question was the same as the Angel's question, this got me to thinking, these are all numbered events that end via the second coming of Jesus, and just like we all understand the 1260 is the A.C./Beast event, and he comes to his end after 1260 days of rule, via the presence of the Lord Jesus showing up, likewise these other two numbers are events that also must end with the second coming of Jesus, I just had to go through the bible and try to solve what these two numbered events were via study and prayer, and so off I went on my journey, I hit a stumbling block straight away via the 1290 event.

If I was correct, and each number was that many days until the second coming, then the 1290 event could not be the A.C./Beast because he would only come to power 30 days later at the 1260 event, God does not allow him to go forth conquering until the middle of the week (MoW) or 1260 event, so the 1290, if it was 1290 days away from the second coming, could not be the Beast or A.C., and thus I was like "Houston we got a problem" !! You see, my mind had been trained like everyone else's had, the A.C. has to sit in the temple and place the AoD I thought, but when I do these things I go full speed ahead, I had to give the idea a full vetting, and search the scriptures to see if it was possible the 1290 is not the A.C./Beast but is someone else. I thought to myself, well if its anyone, it has to be the false prophet, his sidekick, but could that be I wondered, so off to the scriptures I went.

Daniel 9:27 says in the midst (not middle) of the week he (prince to come/A.C.) causes the sacrifice to cease and the AoD to be placed. Hmm, that gives a little leeway I thought. Then I looked at Rev. 13 and saw that the 2nd beast is the one that gets the peoples of Israel to make an image of the first beast, so in reality, the false prophet met all the criteria for one who actually stops the sacrifice and places the AoD. He will be a Jewish high priest like unto Jason (real name Yeshua) who was under Antiochus (AE4). I might get into that later. But who has the power over the temple? The High Priest of course, so that kind of made sense, but alas, when I test I test to the max, but those scriptures seemed very promising, the AoD events might very well be the false prophet, but the thing that settled this for me was a problem I always had with the sign God gave Israel, at the 1290, being too late a sign, since the "Beast" had already conquered them. But this new understanding solved that problem, God gives Israel, or the Jews who repent a sign 30 days before He allows the A.C./Beast to come to power, conquering Israel and the whole Mediterranean region. So, it fits the 1290 event very well indeed.

Now that I had somewhat settled that, I wondered what event came 1335 days before the second coming. As I pondered these things I was like, well how do the Jews know they need to flee Judea at the 1290 event? I searched the scriptures (always works) and I saw that Malachi 4:5 says that Elijah will be sent back "before" the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Hmm, I thought. Then as I read Zech. 13:8-9 I saw in the end times God calls 1/3 of Israel people unto repentance whilst 2/3 refuse to repent and perish or die. Then in the very next verse in Zech. 14:1 the day of the Lord "arrives" so Israel repents before the DOTL or 1260 event happens. So, Israel repents or atones just before God's wrath fall in the MoW. But alas, as much as a liked this thesis, as it was coming together, I knew the timeline had to match or else it could not be true, so off I went to see if I could find any scriptures that showed me the two-witnesses show up 75 days before the Beast shows up at the 1260 event. Is that even possible I wondered.

Then I saw the clincher on this numbered event, the two-witnesses die at the 2nd woe in Rev. 11, whilst the Beast dies at the 7th Vial in Rev. 16:19, thereby if both have 1260 day ordained offices on this earth, as foretold by God, then the ones who die first (the two-witnesses), must also show up first. It all fits because its of God. When God leads you somewhere, and you follow, even doubting its of God yourself and testing everything, and then everything fits and passes all of the tests, its always of God when you test the spirits and it passes.

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Now, I will explain these things via what will happen in modern everyday verbiage

The 1335 (two-witnesses) happens first, Israel has to repent before the Dan. 9:24-27 prophecy can be fulfilled. Then Israel must flee Judea at the 1290 sign. Then the A.C./Beast conquers Israel at the 1260.

So how does a Jewish high priest betray his people? Well, just look at the two archetypes in history, Jason who was under AE4, he bribed AE4 in order to be named the high priest having his pious (real brother) brother Onias III killed. He then welcomed AE4 into the temple of God to offer a sacrifice unto Zeus, and he then mandated that all of the Jews must become Hellenized, which means they must all take on the Greek culture and accept the Greek gods, accept homosexuality et al. This then led to the Maccabean Revolt, and AE4 was killed on the Eastern front (war) by a disease like the coming A.C./Beast, he thus was killed "without hands". As I saw who Jason really was in history it hit me, of course if God gave us a type A.C./Beast He would also give us his type sidekick at the exact same time !! Eureka I thought. This is how I know the coming false prophet has to be a Jewish high priest gone rogue. This opened all this below up to my thought process of how the end time A.C./Beast could get a Jewish high priest to throw in with him. I put it all together like this, I have other things and worldly reports/treaties I use, but mostly I thought to myself, the Beast and false prophet are buddies/colleagues, but why? I show why below.

Because of much study, reading etc. I came to understand that the agreement/covenant Israel enters into with this A.C. is not an agreement with one man per se, Israel will join the E.U. and I am not just guessing, look up the European Neighborhood Policy, its on Wikipedia for all to see. Israel has been in 7 year cycled agreements with the E.U. since 2007. The goal of this policy is to bring forth the Mediterranean sea region nations under the umbrella of the E.U. and to maybe some day foster a relationship that leads to inclusion in the E.U. (go read it, its real). So after Gog & Magog (Russia, Iran and Turkey attacks Israel very soon) Israel will join the E.U. and she will give up her Nukes to the E.U. how else can the A.C. conquer Israel? Her nukes have to be freely given up, she must place all her trust in the E.U. This sets off God's 70th week anger, they just "gave His land away" to the E.U. This also is what triggers the pre 70th week rapture.

Everything in the first half of the 70th week will be mostly peaceful, but it is of course a deception, the Beast has every intention of conquering Israel and killing off all the Jews if he can. God of course knows all this, so at the 1335, He sends the two-witnesses back to get Israel to repent or atone, these 1/3 or 5 million Jews thus are now Jesus worshippers, they are filled with the holy spirit, they need and want to worship Jesus in their temple, so off they go, and they praise Jesus and sing unto Jesus in the temple for at least 45 days, until the 1290, when this Jewish high priest Jesus hater gets angry, and although the A.C. (E.U. President IMHO) is not yet the Beast because he only conquers Israel 30 days later, he has political sway. Israel is in the E.U. So, this high priest, and maybe even the Prime Minister of Israel, puts forth and edict, there shall be no Jesus worship in the temple (he causes the sacrifice to be taken away......not a profane meat sacrifice, but instead Jesus worship is forbidden) and the AoD to be placed. He gets the false prophet Jewish high priest like unto Jason under AE4 to cheekily place an image of him (the E.U. President) up in the temple to mock Jesus, God and all of His followers. But, when those Jews who repented see this, they know to flee into the mountains of the Petra and Bozrah area, God will protect them there for 1260 days and thus Jesus will set up the Kingdom Age with these new converts. Then at the 1260 event, the A.C. becomes the Beast by conquering Israel and the whole Mediterranean sea region as Daniel 11:40-43 shows us.