Matt Van Epps has defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in a nationally watched Tennessee election that helped Republicans keep their majority in the United States House of Representatives.

Van Epps — a West Point graduate who served as a Lt. Col. in the Tennessee Army National Guard before being appointed as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services and serving in the governor's office — won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, earning 53.9% of the vote compared to Behn’s 45%. Other candidates got less than 1% each, CNN reported.

Though Van Epps was successful, many Republicans expressed concern over the result, as President Donald Trump had carried the district by 22 points in the 2024 election.

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As you contemplate the Nativity scene this Advent, let your prayers wander to that realm where the girl of Nazareth now reigns beside her Son. And, with hope, long to hear that Father’s voice who longs to draw you, as he did Mary. As the hymn continues: “All the host of heaven with great desire are longing to look upon you; Come, come, come, and be crowned with heavenly glory. Amen.”

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There are 2 canons of the bible.

Luke 24:44-53 He said to them, “Remember when I was with you before? I said that everything written about me must happen—everything in the law of Moses, the books of the prophets, and the Psalms.” Then Jesus opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.

Law Psalms Prophets - this canon list excludes 1 Enoch, and other OT texts (Jubilees, Test of the 12 patriarchs, Tobit, 1/2 Maccabees, and others). Josephus gave the same canon list around 100 AD, and it was Genesis to Malachi organized into around 24 books. This is the primary canon.
Josephus: Historical Evidence of the Old Testament Canon

Jesus also referenced 1 Enoch, and called it scripture

Jesus talking to the Sadducees who asked about resurrection.

Mathew 22 29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.

1 Enoch 15. God talking to the angels that left heaven, came down to earth, and bred with woman.

But you originally existed as spirits, living forever,
and not dying for all the generations of eternity;
7 therefore I did not make women among you.’
The spirits of heaven, in heaven is their dwelling;

Jesus tells the people he is talking to they do not know scripture and then proceeds to cite 1 Enoch about how God did not make women for the angels in heaven so he is calling 1 Enoch "scripture", and believed it was written before the flood by Enoch 7th from Adam like it says it was.

So Jesus has 1 Enoch in his canon there, and same with Jude with the "Enoch 7th from Adam prophesied" quote. This is the secondary "hidden" canon. Apocrypha means hidden, and Jesus said

Mathew 11
25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

Some Christians refer to 1 Enoch or any other text outside the primary (protestant) canon as apocrypha, and for them it means myth / pseudepigrapha . God has hidden those texts from them possibly due to

Romans 1:22
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,

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1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.”

Yes the secondary canon is hidden but hidden does not mean myth/ pseudepigrapha it just means it is for people that choose to believe the bible wherever it may lead otherwise maybe God thought it would be throwing pearl before swine to reference it in very obvious ways.

This concept of 2 canons in the NT goes back to 2 Esdras (internal date 557-457 BC consistent with 1 Ezra, and same genealogies as 1 Ezra which go back to Aaron son of Levi) where Ezra, and some others rewrite the bible because it was destroyed by the Babylonians

2 Esdras 14
44 So in forty days, ninety-four books were written. 45 It came to pass, when the forty days were fulfilled, that the Most High spoke to me, saying, “The first books that you have written, publish openly, and let the worthy and unworthy read them; 46but keep the last seventy,that you may deliver them to those who are wise among your people; 47 for in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.” 48 I did so.

The 24 was for the worthy, and unworthy aka everyone- this would of been the now protestant canon from Genesis to Ezra (Malachi, and Nehemiah may not of been written at that time as they came a bit later on in the 400s BC), and the other 70 was 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Test of the 12, Life of Adam, and Eve, Assumption of Moses, Testament of Job, Tobit, Baruch, other ones that still exist today, and some others that would be lost works today. For the NT it would be proto James, pseudo Mathew, gospel of Nicodemus, Didache, History of Joseph the carpenter, and some others. The expanded canon is only for the wise.

2, and 3 Enoch, and book of Jasher are all myths not inspired written after 70 AD (inspired scripture stopped 70 AD based on Daniel 9). 3 Enoch, and Jasher are Jewish fables (1 Titus 14), and 2 Enoch is either Jewish or Samaritan fables.

Jasher says Shem is Melchizadek like the Talmud does in an attempt to discredit Jesus from being a priest in the order of Melchizadek. 2 Enoch mentions the 532 year great cycle which was not discovered until 400s AD. 3 Enoch says It was written by 'rabbi' Ishmael which the Talmud says was 130 AD however the synagogue of satan actually believe it is pseudepigrapha written much later.

I myself do not have a single problem, and nor should any Catholic, in having interreligious dialogues and encounters if they are geared to drawing Muslims (and other non-Christians) to embracing the fullness of who God is as taught by the Catholic Church which He Himself founded (cf. Matthew 16:18-19). Yet what we have had for the last 60 years has been a political dynamic that, by its very nature, is incompatible with the Gospel teaching of Jesus Christ.

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As we recently celebrated the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the Universe, we ought to ask ourselves why we believe that Christ is truly our king. Then we must ask ourselves if we really believe it. If we do not examine these reasons and our belief in them, we will soon become disappointed in Him because we will be expecting from Him things that He does not intend to do in our lives.

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...wait till you meet Mr. Zanu. He's brilliant. He's like a reverse visionary when talking about the past. So far, in every conversation I've heard, people who disagree with him end up agreeing with him in under an hour. He's like a steamroller made out of information and insights.

My whole adult life I've heard people on TV saying "we need to have a serious conversation about race in America", but it never happened. It's finally happening.


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I watch Christians (mostly male) torture themselves over lust. I think it is fair to say that most Christians have been misled about what kind of lust that Jesus was talking about. Here it is in a nutshell.

The word almost always translated as “lust” in Matthew 5:28 is the Greek ἐπιθυμέω (epithumeō). In every other place in the New Testament it’s translated as “covet” or “desire” (sometimes even positively), and in the Septuagint (the Greek Old Testament that Jesus and the apostles quoted) it’s the exact word used for “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife” (Exodus 20:17). So the context is clearly coveting → mentally violating the Seventh Commandment by fantasizing about adultery with a married woman.

Jesus was intensifying the Torah’s command against adultery, not issuing a blanket condemnation of sexual desire or attraction. The early Church Fathers (Augustine especially) later universalized it into “any sexual thought outside of procreative marital sex = mortal sin,” and that sex-negative overlay got baked into Western Christianity (and then influenced some Jewish and Muslim interpretations too). But Jesus didn't say that at all.

So yes: noticing an attractive single woman and feeling turned on? Perfectly normal, healthy, and morally neutral.

Mentally undressing your friend’s wife and cultivating the fantasy? That’s the “adultery in the heart” Jesus was talking about.

Other later church figures widened the topic to saying that all lust is bad. But that's not at all what Jesus said. I feel bad hearing Christian males feeling guilty for no good reason.

Can anyone relate to this?

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So here it is in my writing

Revelation 13:18 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.

1 Kings 4:29-5:12 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. 30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser than all men—than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. 33 Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. 34 And men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon.

1 Kings 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

2 Chronicles 9:13 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents

1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. 12 lions total. 6 lions on one side, 6 steps in the middle, 6 lions on the other side.
The author of Revelation is saying the first beast in Revelation 13 will be like king Solomon. Solomon ruled in Palestine/Israel from physical Jerusalem in the 900s BC. There are prophecies to David in the old testament that he would have a son, build a house in Gods name, and rule forever. David's son Solomon built the first house of God / temple, but he didn't rule forever. This was fully realised in Jesus who built the new covenant church the house of God the temple, and rules forever in the new Jerusalem. Revelation 22 16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” Here Jesus combines that prophecy to David along with "A star will come from Jacob" from Numbers 24:17", and says it was about him. Also he is saying he existed before David "before Abraham was I am', "in the beginning was the word" etc. Jesus said "behold one greater than Solomon is here" about himself. He was saying Solomon was the greatest king in the old testament but I am a greater king. Also Isaiah 11:1), which states that a shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch will bear fruit from his roots.

Solomon was the "star of David" in the old testament. In the NT some of the apostles said to Jesus when will you restore the kingdom to Israel? Meaning they wanted a country like it was back in Solomon's time when ancient Israel was at its peak politically, militarily, economically, and had the most power over other nations. Jesus reply was the day of Pentecost. Some people also said to Jesus when you come into your kingdom let us sit on your right hand, and left hand. In their mind they meant when you become political king on this earth let us have high important positions with you. Jesus said you don't know what you are asking aka do you really want to be tortured, and then killed on my left, and right side on a cross ? Some people tried to make Jesus king politically but he sneaked away. So the first century AD Jews/Judeans had a very political mindset about who their messiah was going to be. In Ezekiel 33:24 the Israelite think they own the land of Canaan “Son of man, the people living in those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as our possession. God then says he will kill them due to their sin. The promise to Abraham about seed, and the land was made to Jesus Galatians reveals. The parable of the tenants in Mathew 21 summarises the old covenant. End part: 38 “But when the tenants saw the son, they said to each other, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and take his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” 41 “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and he will rent the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the crop at harvest time.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’[h]? 43 “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. 44 Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. 46 They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet. The OT Jews at Jesus time saw Jesus was heir to the land of Canaan so killed him thinking they could steal the land for themselves. The kingdom of God was taken

from them, and was given to the world via faith in Jesus instead of being centered around a temple in physical Jerusalem with Levite priests etc. God brought those wretches to a wretched end in 70 AD when he used the Romans to destroy the city of Jerusalem, the temple, and kill the people that killed Jesus. God himself evicted the synagogue of satan (SOS) from Palestine in 70 AD now since 1948 AD the SOS is back on the land building their Revelation 13 kingdom. The hexagram is called the star of David due to the SOS not believing in Jesus, and applying the messianic concepts from the old testament to their political king messiah. In their religious texts (Maimonides Misnheh Torah) their messiah builds a temple, rules from physical Jerusalem, is a political genius (all like Solomon), and beheads anyone that doesn't worship him (not like Solomon but same as Rev 13 anyone who won't worship the beast is killed). The hexagram is also called the star of Solomon. The hexagram is the mark of the beast. Christians are Jews, and the Israel of God Romans 2 28 29 Galatians 6 16. The symbol for Jesus the biblical star of David is the cross but the symbol for the synagogue of satans messiah is the hexagram hence the name star of David they use for it.


The Jewish Utopia Michael Higger The aim of this work is to present, in a comprehensive way, the traditional Jewish conception of the ideal life for individuals, as well as for nations. The problems taken up in the book are discussed, not from a theological viewpoint, but rather from that of the prophecies of the prophets as interpreted by the rabbis. The doctrines concerning God, Torah, Israel, Messiah, the future world and so forth, are, therefore, referred to, only where they are directly related to the subject of an ideal life in the ideal era to come. For my main problem is to reconstruct an ideal social life on earth as pictured by the rabbis of old. To understand the rabbinic conception of an ideal world it will help us if we imagine a hand passing from land to land, from country to country, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean to the North Pole, marking “ righteous ” or “ wicked ” on the forehead of each one of the sixteen hundred million inhabitants of our earthly globe. We should then be on the right road toward, solving the major problems that burden so heavily the shoulders of suffering humanity. For mankind should be divided into two, and only two, distinct and unmistakable groups, namely, righteous and wicked. To the righteous would belong all that which God’s wonderful world is offering ; to the wicked would belong nothing. In the future, the words of Isaiah, in the language of the rabbis, will be fulfilled: Behold, My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry ; behold, My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty ; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed.** This is the force of the prophecy of Malachi, when he said: Then shall ye again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. Rev 13 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. Maimonides laws of kings and their wars. 5 It has already been explained that Noachides are always executed by decapitation except in cases when one engages in relations with the wife of a Jew or a consecrated maiden. In the latter instance, he is stoned to death. A Noachide who transgresses these seven commands shall be executed by decapitation.

A Noachide is executed on the basis of the testimony of one witness and the verdict of a single judge. No warning is required. Relatives may serve as witnesses. However, a woman may not serve as a witness or a judge for them. Revelation 13 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. Rev 20 4 And I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, nor had received his mark upon their foreheads or on their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Login to view embedded media from 5:35 on in that video the synagogue of satan explain what has to happen to Christians when they have a bet din aka when their messiah comes, and they have a central ruling sanhedrin, and enough power over the nations, and legal system to do what they want. Noahide is a concept from the leaven of the pharisees/oral torah/ traditions of the elders/ talmud etc not the bible. It means someone that denies Jesus, and all other religions, and submits to them

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⭐ 1. CHRISTIANS ARE ABRAHAM’S SEED​

Galatians 3:7​

“Those who are of faith, these are the sons of Abraham.”

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Galatians 3:9​

“So then, those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.”

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Galatians 3:14​

“That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus.”

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Galatians 3:16​

“The promises were made to Abraham and to his seed… and that seed is Christ.”

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Galatians 3:26–29​

“If you are Christ’s, you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

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Romans 4:11–12​

Abraham is the father of all who believe, whether circumcised or uncircumcised.

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Romans 4:16​

“He is the father of us all.”

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⭐ 2. CHRISTIANS ARE HEIRS TO ABRAHAM’S PROMISE​

Romans 8:16–17​

“If children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.”

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Galatians 4:28​

“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise.”

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Galatians 4:30​

Believers are the inheritors, like Isaac, not Ishmael.

Hebrews 6:17​

God confirmed the promise to Abraham for the heirs (Christians).

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⭐ 3. CHRISTIANS ARE JEWS INWARDLY, THE TRUE CIRCUMCISION​

Romans 2:28–29​

“He is not a Jew who is one outwardly…
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly,
and circumcision is of the heart, in the Spirit.”

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Philippians 3:3​

“For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit…
and have no confidence in the flesh.”

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Colossians 2:11​

Christians receive the circumcision of Christ, not made with hands.

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⭐ 4. CHRISTIANS ARE “THE ISRAEL OF GOD”​

Galatians 6:16​

“Peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”

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Most scholars agree Paul uses this to describe the church, not ethnic Israel.

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⭐ 5. CHRISTIANS ARE THE TEMPLE, PRIESTHOOD, AND HOLY NATION​

All titles given originally to Israel in the Old Testament.

1 Peter 2:5​

“You are a holy priesthood.”

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1 Peter 2:9​

“You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a people for His own possession.”

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(These titles come from Exodus 19:5–6 describing Israel.)

1 Peter 2:10​

“Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God.”

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1 Corinthians 3:16–17​

Christians are God’s Temple.

Ephesians 2:19–22​

Believers are fellow citizens, part of the household of God, being built into a holy Temple.

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John 15:1 Jesus is the true vine

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman"​

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⭐ 7. CHRISTIANS ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD / CHILDREN OF PROMISE​

John 1:12–13​

“To all who received Him… children of God.”

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Romans 9:6–8​

“Not all who are of Israel are Israel…
The children of promise are counted as the seed.”

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Paul explains that true Israel is defined by faith, not ethnicity.

Galatians 4:4–7​

Believers become sons and heirs.

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⭐ 8. CHRISTIANS ARE “ONE NEW MAN,” NOT TWO PEOPLES​

Ephesians 2:11–18​

Christ abolished the dividing wall and created:

“One new man from the two.”

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Not two covenants.
Not two Israels.
One reconciled people in Christ.

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⭐ 9. CHRISTIANS INHERIT THE WORLD / THE KINGDOM​

Romans 4:13​

The promise to Abraham was that he would inherit the world,
and this promise comes through faith, not the law.

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Matthew 5:5​

“The meek shall inherit the earth.”

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1 Corinthians 6:2​

Christians will judge the world.

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⭐ 10. CHRISTIANS ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE JERUSALEM ABOVE​

Galatians 4:26​

“The Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.”

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This contrasts with earthly Jerusalem enslaved under the law.
Also Jesus was Abrahams seed so God gave Canaan to Jesus around 2100 BC the Israelites were only temporary residents on the land. Jesus did not want the land so he replaced it with the new Jerusalem for his followers Christians. Canaan /Palestine is no longer the promise land.

Obama judge, so not a surprise.

I asked chat GPT to give the etymology of these words only from the bible, and only before 70 AD.

Here is the etymology of “Jew,” “Jewish,” “Judaism,” and “Gentile” using ONLY evidence from the Bible written before 70 AD:

✔ Hebrew Bible (Tanakh / LXX)
✔ Septuagint Greek (before 70 AD)
✔ New Testament books written before 70 AD (Paul, Mark, early Matthew sections, etc.)

No later sources, no post-70 AD history, no archaeology, no rabbinic texts, nothing after 70 AD.

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⭐ 1. JEW​

Hebrew Bible evidence (before 70 AD)​

(A) Hebrew word: יְהוּדִי (Yehudi)​

Meaning: “Judean,” a person of the tribe/territory of Judah.

Earliest appearance:

2 Kings 16:6​

“The Syrians drove the Jews (Yehudim) from Elath.”

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This is the first time in the Bible the word “Jew” appears.

Other uses:

• Jeremiah 34:9 – “a free Jew” (Yehudi)
• Esther 2:5 – “a certain Jew named Mordecai”

In the Hebrew Bible, Yehudi always means:

• a person from Judah,
• or by extension, someone belonging to the southern kingdom (Judah).

(B) Greek Septuagint (before 70 AD)​

Hebrew Yehudi is translated as:

Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaios)​

Meaning: “Judean”.

Examples:

• Esther 2:5 LXX — And there was a man, a Judean (Ioudaios)…
• 2 Kings 16:6 LXX — Ioudaioi (“Judeans”)

⭐ What “Jew” meant before 70 AD (biblically):​

• A person from Judah
• or a southern Israelite (after the split monarchy)
• By NT times it could also mean a follower of the Judean religion

BUT the word always comes from “Judah.”

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⭐ 2. JEWISH​

The Hebrew Bible does not use an adjectival form (like “Jewish”).
Instead:

• “the Judean people,”
• “the people of Judah,”
• “the customs of the Judeans.”

Examples (before 70 AD):​

2 Kings 18:26 (Hebrew)​

“Speak to your servants in Aramaic… do not speak to us in the Jewish language.”

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Here “Jewish language” = Yehudit = “the language of Judah.”

This is the only Hebrew Bible term resembling “Jewish.”

LXX term (before 70 AD)​

Greek uses:

Ἰουδαϊκός (Ioudaikos) – “Judean / pertaining to Judeans”​

Examples:

• 2 Maccabees 2:21 (pre-70 AD text)
  “The battles… for the Jewish (Ioudaikos) customs.”
• Mark 7:3 (NT written before 70 AD)
  “The Jewish (Ioudaioi) traditions.”

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⭐ 3. JUDAISM​

This is actually a biblical word and it appears before 70 AD.

Original biblical term: Ἰουδαϊσμός (Ioudaismos)​

Meaning:

• “The way of the Judeans”
• “The Judean religion / practices”

First appearance: 2 Maccabees 2:21​

“…the struggles on behalf of Judaism (Ioudaismos)…”

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Other appearance: 2 Maccabees 8:1

New Testament (before 70 AD):​

Galatians 1:13–14​

Paul uses the same Greek word:

“I advanced in Judaism (Ioudaismos) beyond many of my own age…”

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⭐ What “Judaism” meant before 70 AD:​

• The religion of the Judeans
• The customs of the post-exilic people of Judah
• Not yet a global or modern system, but the pre-70 AD Judean faith

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⭐ 4. GENTILE​

This word comes from the Bible but through translation, not Hebrew etymology.

Hebrew Bible words (before 70 AD)​

גּוֹי (goy) / גּוֹיִם (goyim)​

Meaning:

• “Nation”
• “Peoples”
• “Ethnic groups other than Israel”

Most famous examples:

• Genesis 12:2 — Israel will be a great nation
• Psalm 2:1 — “Why do the nations (goyim) rage?”

The Hebrew word does NOT mean “non-Jew.”
It simply means “nation.”

Greek Septuagint word (before 70 AD):​

ἔθνη (ethnē)​

Meaning:

• “Nations,” “peoples,”
• in Israel’s context: “the other nations”

NT Example:

• Matthew 28:19 — “Make disciples of all nations (ethnē).”

Where “Gentile” comes from in the Bible:​

When Jerome translated the LXX/NT into Latin (pre-70 AD usage preserved):

Latin Vulgate: gentes = nations​

From this Latin word, English Bibles later used Gentile.

⭐ Meaning before 70 AD:​

• Goyim / ethnē = nations
• Often meaning non-Israelite nations
  But not originally a derogatory term.

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⭐ SUMMARY (Only Using Pre-70 AD Bible Evidence)​

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⭐ If you want, I can also show:​

✔ Every OT verse containing Yehudi, Yehudit, goy, or goyim.
✔ Every LXX verse containing Ioudaios, Ioudaikos, ethnos.
✔ How “Ioudaios” changed meaning between 200 BC and 70 AD.
✔ The difference between Hebrew, Israelite, Judean, and Jew.

Just tell me!
it is amazing. You could then ask it how these words changed meaning after 70 AD. Christians are Judeans (Romans 2 28 29) meaning of the religion of Abraham.

Solomon sins, and Israel splits into two. The northern kingdom sins, and they are exiled. Ask chat GTP to show all the OT prophecies about restoring the kingdom to Israel, reuniting all the tribes, rejoining the southern, and northern kingdoms, and then ask chat GPT how it happened on Pentecost. The remnant was regathered from all nations on Pentecost, the Davidic kingdom of Israel was restored (Hosea said it would happen without violence, and Jesus kingdom is not of this world), 3000 believed in Jesus, and will live in the new Jerusalem the promise land forever. All lost sheep of the house of Israel was saved via belief in Jesus by 70 AD when the fullness of the nations came in aka Romans destroyed Jerusalem or by 62 AD when Colossians 1:23 had been written, and "the gospel has been preached to the whole world", and the maximum number of Greco Romans had converted to Christianity. Spiritual circumcision via belief in Jesus Christ replaced cutting the penis as the sign of the Abraham covenant. Belief in Jesus makes someone born again, and become a descendent of Abraham Isaac, and Jacob which replaced physical ancestry. The new Jerusalem replaced the old Jerusalem as the promise land which is why Christians are Jews Israel Abrahams seed heir to the blessing etc Romans 2:28-29 Galatians 6:16, 3:29. The synagogue of satan do not believe in Jesus so are none of those things, and are not Israel despite their lies. They are not Jews aka Gods chosen people. Jew= Judean living in Judah where the God of Abraham lived in a temple. So Judean= faithful to the God of Abraham. Adam, and Eve were Jews same with Abel but not Cain he was from satan. Which is why Christians are Jews. No other way to be faithful to the God of Abraham other than believe in Jesus. Anything else is a different gospel. The third temple the church the Israel of God was born in a day on Pentecost (isaiah 66) . God does not close up the womb because people keep getting born again. It is sin for Christians to support promote , and defend the synagogue of satan, and their country. Jesus said they are blind, and should be ignored not promoted. Worse than that their country is the beast country in Rev 13, and the mark is the hexagram. Will post on that another time if I dont get banned for this
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Yehudi/ yehudim in masoretic hebrew= Judaean/Jew living in Judah in the OT Judea in the NT. First appears 732 BC in 2 kings 16 6 when there is a civil war going between the southern, and northern kingdoms. Ioudaios is the greek word Judean in the septuagint, and NT. Jew-ish. Ish is Germanic, and means like something so judean-ish. Appears only once in the entire KJV 1 titus 14 don't give head to jewish fables. Comes from a derivitive of the greek word for Judean. Judaism also from greek ,and appears only in Maccabees in the septuagint, and in context means the law of Moses. Appears 1-2 times in the NT both times in context of Paul persecuting the church according to his old religion of the traditions of his fathers aka the leaven of the pharisees commandments of men that make the word of God the law of Moses of none effect so basically it is satans religion in that context not Moses religion. So Judaism can mean two different things biblically, and is a confusing word so I don't use it same with jewish. I don't use Jewish either due to confusion. All English bibles in Romans 2 28 29 have Jew. Christians are actually Judeans not Judean-ish but real Judeans. I suppose the synagogue of satan religion is Jew-ish meaning their religion kind of looks like the OT Judeans religion on the outside with claiming they follow the torah of Moses, some feast festival things loosely based on the OT etc- but they are lying they are the synagogue of satan. Ask chat GPT about the etymology of those words. Goyim/goy ethnos/ethne= nations but mostly means non Israelite nations in the bible. If someone defines gentile to mean people not in covenant with the God of Abraham then all non Christians are gentiles. The NT calls the synagogue of satan dogs evil doers, and mutilators of the flesh. Philippians 3:2. They are outside the covenant.

Evening everyone. Got a cat scan tomorrow and getting ready to go to bed. I’d appreciate prayers for a good result. Thank you!

I can explain pretty much every single prophecy in the bible but it takes a long time so I will post an important one here
Jude quotes Enoch 7th from Adam about the Romans destroying Jerusalem 70 AD, and killing the people that killed Jesus, and quotes 1 Enoch 1:1-9. Enoch says it is a prophecy for a remote generation because he is writing pre flood about an event thousands of years into the future. He says people will be in tribulation like Jesus said 70 AD would be great tribulation. Enoch says God will come over MT Sinai because Jerusalem is metaphorically called MT Sinai (Galatians 4 25) first century AD, and Jesus told the apostles he was coming back in their lifetime. Jesus came back 70 AD like all the prophecies said, all the Israelites rose from the dead, the faithful ones got raptured same with some of the living pre destined elect remnant of the lost sheep of the house of Israel which was the 144 000 in Rev 7 all saved via belief in Jesus by 70 AD. Rev 1-12 happened 70 AD but Rev 13-22 is future. Gospel of Nicodemus inspired apocrypha for the wise only (like 1 Enoch is) has more info on people that raised from the dead the day Jesus died. Also some of the other acts Pilate has more info on the event too.

I can scarcely believe this when I read the news. It is one thing to be supporting a side in a conflict - why I may add it absolutely moronic, seeing what both sides have committed, it is another to hurt another people with intent to kill. Before anyone says they never intended to kill, save it because you can't tell me that when you swing a sledgehammer on a down person. They have full intent on taking a life.

As I re-read this again my blood only boils more. I hope they are all given the maximum penalty possible. There is nothing moral being done here. All I see are degenerates who can barely be called homosapien. In my helpless anger I can only pray for the recovery of officer Kate Evans. Yes she has a name. And may the name of the activists be forgotten by human history.

In his second term Donald Trump has torn up not just trade rules but the machinery of economic measurement. After lashing out at weak job figures, he sacked the head of the Bureau of Labour Statistics in August, unsettling markets. A month-long government shutdown has since paused nearly all official data releases, leaving policymakers “driving in the fog”, as Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, put it.

AI Overview

Morphic resonance is
a theory proposed by biologist Rupert Sheldrake that suggests all natural systems, including organisms and crystals, have a collective memory that influences their form and behavior over time. This proposed mechanism of "formative causation" claims that past forms and behaviors of similar systems create a cumulative, invisible influence that shapes the development and patterns of present systems, rather than being governed by fixed physical laws alone. It implies that nature is habitual and that new behaviors can spread more rapidly through a species because of this shared, non-physical memory.

Key concepts

Collective memory: Each species, from animals to plants, possesses a collective memory that individuals can access and to which they contribute.

Habitual nature: The theory suggests that the regularities of nature are more like habits that have been reinforced by repetition, rather than being immutable laws.

Similarity: The resonance is based on similarity. The more similar an organism or system is to past ones, the greater the influence it will have.

Behavior and form: Morphic resonance is said to influence both the physical form and the behavior of a system. For example, it is proposed to explain instincts and how certain patterns of behavior, like a new trick learned by rats in one location, can be learned more quickly by other rats of the same breed elsewhere.

Individual memory: The resonance of a system with its own past is also suggested as a way to explain individual memory, where memories are not entirely stored in the brain but are accessed through a resonance with the brain's past states.

The title is from the Wall Street Journal, and the article there goes into the details of how the Russian/USA negotiations over Ukraine went down. Sorry that article is behind the paywall for non-subscribers ,so this Forbes article summarizes parts of it. Here is the WSJ link, you can get a few articles for free if you register.


Of course now there are reports that Russia and Ukraine cannot yet agree on the territory to be ceded. The EU too is also upset as the deal leaves them out concerning teh future of Ukraine. Of course the deal negotiated by Russian and the USA could create peace at least for some time but the land area seems to be a sticking point. The future also has alleged cooperation possibilities between Russia and the USA to share business interests in frozen Russian assets, the rebuilding of Ukraine and Antarctica among others.

The meetings were attended by Jared Kushne, Steve Witkoff, and Kirill Dmitriev. These poeple are far more financial than diplomatic, but the point is that they worked on this as a way to make money, while at the same time as stopping the war. I can't judge myself if this is diabolical, but it does present the possibility of all kinds of conflict of interests. As one WSJ commentor pointed out if you follow the logic it does not seem to add up:

"Putin strategy?

1. Invade
2. Gain Donetsk
3. Lose 1M soldiers
4. Use business deals as off ramp"

The WSJ attributes Dmitriev as suggesting "There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve." Even suggesting they could do joint missions in space, even bringing in SpaceX an Elon Musk company.

While this might sound innoccous to some Americans the point is that it was a deal for two; USA and Russia. Sure it stops the war in Ukraine, but it leaves the EU out, and even China to an extent to focus on one thing: making money. The article has drawn quite a bit of attention and just hours ago we see that Russia and Ukraine look far apart on this deal.

So lots of implications here for prayerful considerations.
The future relationship between the USA and the EU.
The ending or expansion of the war in Ukraine.
The use of the 200 billion or so of Russian asssets that are frozen in Brussels
The real goals of Putin and Trump
The role of the love of money and power in politics.

Jesus Christ, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – left his throne in heaven, came to earth, and took on human flesh in being born as a baby to a virgin woman, but conceived of the Holy Spirit, and not of man. So he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And while he lived on the earth he was fully human and fully God (God incarnate), and he never sinned. And at the age of 30 he began his earthly ministry. And so he called 12 men to be his disciples and to work alongside him in ministry.

During his 3 to 3 ½ years of ministry on the earth, he healed the sick and afflicted, raised the dead, delivered people from demons, fed the hungry, comforted the sorrowful, and he performed many miracles. He also taught the critical importance of repentance for salvation from sin and for eternal life with God. And repentance, which is gifted to us by God along with our salvation and the faith to believe in Jesus, is a change of heart and mind resulting in a change of behavior away from sin to obedience to our God.

There were many people who followed Jesus for a period of time, but many of them deserted him later on when his teachings became too hard for them to accept. For they were mostly following him because of the miracles he performed. But the religious rulers and people of influence in the temple of God mostly rejected him and fought against him, and tried to find ways to trip him up with his words so they would have cause to accuse him of wrong. And eventually they had him put to death on a cross, hoping to end him.

But it was God’s will and purpose that Jesus Christ should suffer and die on that cross. For in his death, he put our sins to death with him so that, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God and to his righteousness in walks of obedience to his commands, by the Spirit. For in his death and resurrection he rendered powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil, in order to free us from our addiction to sin so that we will serve God with our lives, living holy lives pleasing to him.

[Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 17:25; John 1:1-36; John 6:35-58; John 8:24,58; John 10:27-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; 1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; Hebrews 2:14-15; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And this is the truth of the gospel message taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, which we can discover for ourselves if we read the Scriptures in their appropriate biblical context, and if we do not rely on other humans to tell us the truth. For many are they who are teaching lies in the name of Jesus, and in the name of the gospel of our salvation, who are teaching that all we have to do is to make a verbal confession of Christ as Lord, and now all our sins are forgiven and heaven is secured us for eternity.

But by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

So, please be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context, and who believe the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles, and who do not rely on other humans and on social media and on preachers to tell you the truth. For many speak lies, either willfully with the intent to deceive, or unknowingly out of biblical ignorance. And please know that the Scriptures teach that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, that we will not inherit eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

Who Believes?

Based off Isaiah 53
An Original Work / October 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?
Jesus Christ died on a tree,
Saving us from all our sin,
So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,
That we should desire Him.
Man of sorrows, suffering;
Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;
From our sadness, brings relief.
Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,
So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,
Each of us turned his own way.
Jesus calls, “Repent today;
My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to him,
We must die to all our sin.
Crucified with Him, we live,
Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,
Taking His identity on us,
When confessing Him
As our Savior, Lord and King.

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Freeing Us From Slavery to Sin
An Original Work / December 2, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Here is the original study in Spanish
Can copy paste the URL into sci hub to get the full article, download the PDF, upload it into chat GPT then ask it to translate into English
Bill Cooper has a book on it The Authenticity of the New Testament Fragments of Qumran - Anna’s Archive also Carsten Thiede but that is not online have to buy it if someone wants it.

Investment accounts for children

I'm not big on investment so my opinion doesn't mean much but I'm inclined to this that this would be a net benefit idea.

I really am unsure it would accomplish what it is planned to accomplish but it seems like a good idea.


People who understand this kinda stuff....thoughts?

Another angle:

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“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1Co 15:3, 4). This seems to have been the first truth preached by the Apostle Paul. It is plain that such a truth does not in itself clear us from the world, nor give us the realization of our union with Christ on high. It is something done for us (if we accept it—NC), and does not in itself reveal relationship, although it is marvelously suited to show the love of God, the measure being the gift of His Son.

There are multitudes of persons, to whom we should not deny the Christian name, who reach only to this state (going no further than just believing in Christ—NC). They would mourn over any teaching which did not embody the death of Christ as the only meritorious cause of their acceptance before God—a death to save the lost. Hence they would alike reject as valid the ritualism of the day—the pomp of symbolism, and the intellectual setting up of man, and, if they went so far, would insist of the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

With this class of persons, you will find it difficult to maintain a spiritual conversation. They can talk with real earnestness of the results of Christianity, but they cannot really talk of Christ Himself, since they only know of what He has done, rather than what He is in Himself. Such persons, alive to the necessity of a religious life, are more or less safe as to the properties of conduct.

It belongs to them to cultivate the arts and sciences, and to show a respectable, nay, even a religious hue over everything around them; for ignorant of “the sentence of death” in themselves (2Co 1:9), they must fill up life by embellishing “the old man”; in short, they would get the unrenewed—man out of his sinful ways by presenting a man’s own self to him under a more attractive guise. They are not deeply experienced in the ruin of man, but think that something good may yet be made out of it; and all this without at all meaning to deny Christ.

Now the next step, which ought to be known after the fact of Christ dying for our sins and rising again, is that we died with Him. This is unfolded in Romans 6:6: “our old man is crucified with Him.” To have died with the Lord Jesus is a different thing from Christ dying for us (He died for the world but He was not received by most—NC). A temptation arises, it may be some cast of the eye to which the flesh would give way; but I say I cannot entertain it because I am dead (temptation to a believer is not able to get him to desire to lust because of Phl 2:13—NC). People remain in this state for a long time. Their demeanor is, to a certain extent, doleful. They begin to understand the deeper aspects of Christianity, but they are not yet in the experience of the life that comes out of death.

The next stage is that I am not only dead with Christ but alive with Him from the dead—“If ye then be risen with Christ” (Col 3:1). When I only knew that I was dead, there was divine certainty that the old man was crucified by the death of Christ, but no joy. But to be alive with Christ from the dead not only gives me to see a Person—a glorious Object before me, with all His surroundings—but I learn to enjoy divine fellowship with Him there on high, “for your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col 3:3).


—William Wigram (1872 – 1953)



MJS devotional excerpt for December 2

“The believer, having received ‘the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,’ comes under the influence of the ‘law’ of that Spirit (Rom. 8:2). The operating principle of ‘the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus’ ever works in the direction of profound self-judgment, and of the consciousness that we have in the Lord Jesus not only righteousness, but a divine Source of satisfaction and strength.

“This ‘law’ operates not to give a sense of claim (law), but of divine gift (grace) and resource and support. And thus it makes the one in whom it operates free from ‘the law of sin and death.’ It gives the consciousness that divine goodness is an unfailing resource for our hearts, and that all the treasures of that goodness are stored up in Christ Jesus, that we may learn them there, and find the life of our spirits in the growing knowledge of Him.

—Charles Andrew Coates (1862-1945)



“‘The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus’ made me ‘free from the law of sin and death’ (Rom. 8:2)—not ‘the life,’ but ‘the Spirit of life,’—not our effort, but divine strength; not self-occupation, but occupation with Him in whom we are before the Father, and in whom the divine favor rests upon us full and constant, because on Him it rests.

“There is the substitution of the power of the Spirit for the power of a right will and human effort, the substitution therefore of occupation with the glorified Lord Jesus Christ for occupation with spiritual growth; for then and thus alone is growth obtained.”

—Frederick William Grant (1834-1902