With Millennials and Generation Z leading the way, particularly among men, Bible reading among U.S. adults in 2025 is at its highest level in the last 15 years, according to new data from the "State of the Church" initiative.

The initiative by Barna Group and Gloocollected data from 12,116 online interviews conducted between January and October of 2025. The research revealed that approximately 50% of self-identified Christians report reading the Bible weekly, the highest level of Bible reading among Christians in more than a decade.

Weekly Bible reading among all U.S. adults reached its lowest point in 15 years in 2024 when it hit 30%. In 2025, the figure rebounded 12 percentage points to 42%, according to the latest data.

"Bible reading is rising again across generations, marking a reset to faith engagement levels we haven't seen in a decade," David Kinnaman, CEO of Barna Group, said in a statement. "People aren't just curious about faith — they're opening Scripture for themselves. This trend aligns with other signs of renewal we've seen in our research, like growing commitments to Jesus and increased church attendance."

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CoreyD said:

According to Job 33:6 on an internet forum?

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You really think in Psalms, God physically made a new material clean heart appear out of thin air and then God transplanted that into David?

contratodo said:

No because this thread claims to have video for the 24 hour sun, TFE, and I've yet to see 24 hours of sun.

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YouTube doesn't allow full 24 hour videos but here's part 1:
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There we go: 24 hours of sun in the Antarctic, uninterrupted.

Or, you know, you could pay for a flight to northern Sweden in the Summer months and experience it yourself.

Psalm 54:6 , Leviticus 22:21, Exodus 35:29

Acts 17:21-32
"in times past God overlooked their ignorance, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He has appointed and has given assurance unto all mankind I that He rise Him from the dead."

Clare73 said:

That is the meaning of "co-" in Co-Redemptrix; i.e., equality in redeeming from condemnation,

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No, as has already been stated, it is not. For example, If people cooperate that does not mean those people are equal or have an equal share in doing so.

Guojing said:

So salvation, to you, requires faith and works.

Would that be the accurate conclusion?

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We are saved by grace through faith. Our faith is demonstrated by our works if our faith is genuine or not.


Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
By faith we should do just that.

Its the faith part that saves, the act of obedience to God is a result of faith. Disobedience is rebellion and sin. Heb3:7-13 something God is trying to call us out from if we hear Him.

It will never be bad to obey God the way God asks, sadly this narrative has flipped, like its good to disobey God's laws and bad to obey them. That is not found in Scripture.

Jesus asks...
John 14:15 “If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Why not listening to Him, Jesus says this...


Luke 6:46 “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was [j]founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it [k]fell. And the ruin of that house was great.”

Homily Monday, November 10 2025

32nd OT



Ws 1:1-7

"For the spirit of the Lord fills the world, is all-embracing."



We receive wisdom with peace and joy.



Lk 17:1-6

The Apostles say to the Lord: "Increase our faith!"



Let us welcome God's love, joy, and peace within us, and His understanding will instruct us in what is good, right, beautiful, true, real, and just.



Biblical texts: NAB-RE

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Bradskii said:

Stopped reading at exactly that point.

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I continued reading, so you don't have to.

Kjelete said:

Sorry I can`t explain it better, scientists don`t explain much.

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Scientists explain a great deal and they do this following exhaustive investigations and observations and experiments and reasoning and argument and critical thinking. And they review their investigations, refine their observations, repeat their experiments, justify their reasoning, dissect their arguments and question all their assumptions and speculations and provisional conclusions. Then, and only then, may they be in a position of having a theory.

It's good to have an imagination and good to use that imagination, but we can imagine many thinks that are not real. You have an interesting idea, the only thing wrong with it is that there is no evidence for it.

Guojing said:

Initially, you concluded that "I know that I am saved because I believe God sent His Son to save me if I believe in Him"

The use of past tense seems to indicate a present salvation, after you believe.

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I was replying to Dan Perez question as to how I know that I am saved in the first reply.

1 Peter 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. NKJV

I am begotten by God. I did not do any work to be saved.

Guojing said:

Then you use this passage to conclude that you are rewarded when you "give a drink of water to the brethren of Jesus" and that reward is eternal life in heaven.

So eternal life require belief and this work?

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Then I replied to BelieveItOarKnot of his comment that Jesus will reward those who give a cup of water to His brethren. The reward for blessing Jesus' brethren is the Matthew 25 judgment which corresponds to the Revelation white throne judgment. That judgment is for those who have blessed Jesus' brethren. None of us who are born of, adopted by, God will be judged at the white throne. Those of us who are born of God will live in heaven and have spiritual bodies. Those who enter eternal life from the white throne judgment will live on the new earth, not be allowed entry into heaven and still be flesh and blood. Yes, their work of blessing Jesus' brethren earned them a place on the new earth.

Dan1988 said:

The bible sates that faith is not of yourself, but it is the gift of God, lest anyone boast

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My full stance is that Ephesians 2:8-9 has been edited. " it is " is an added in phrase, denoted as such with italics in most good Bibles.

For by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves. The Holy Spirit is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Because we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works...

Repent and be baptized everyone one of you, for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38

....the Spirit of grace. Hebrews 10:29

Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God Romans 10:17

Our ability to choose or think at all also comes from God.

Not by works of righteousness we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us BY the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed in us abundantly through Jesus Christ our savior.
Titus 3:5-6

Servus said:

AI is going to rate a story based on reviews it finds on the internet.

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Not necessarily; chatGPT will evaluate a story based on its content. For example, it will evaluate and indeed sometimes offer suggestions on how to improve, unpublished works (usually with my works it prefers them as is, except for my villains in one story, who are arguably over the top, albeit not one dimensional, but who I myself have been tempted to tone down).

hedrick said:

How do you understand that phrase?

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The Theotokos helps us in three ways - she prays on our behalf to Christ Pantocrator, and her prayers are known for efficacy, and also she points us to our Son and commands us to follow Him - we see both attributes on display during the Wedding Feast at Cana, and finally as the Mother of God, it is from her that Christ put on our human nature, facilitating our redemption, and indeed, the Gospel read at Marian feasts in the Eastern Orthodox Church it might surprise you to learn concludes with Luke 11:27-28, for indeed only our Glorious Lady Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary, who is immaculate* managed to keep His commandments, but still required His salvation due to original sin, a salvation she obtained by virtue of risking her life to bear him.

Thus when we pray for her to save us, we are asking her to pray on her behalf, in recognition of the fact that she has pointed us to Her Son, our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, commanding us to follow His instructions, and consequently those of the Father and Holy Spirit, the precious and life-giving Trinity, “ever One God” to use an elegant phrase from the Anglican hymnal, as is attested once more in the Gospel according to John, and the fact that she is the means by which the Only Begotten Son and Word of God became incarnate as the Son of Man for our salvation.

The efficacy of her prayers is demonstrated at the Wedding Feast in Cana, and also makes sense, in light of the fact that Our Lady had the most intimate relationship with God of any human, since the closest relationship any human can enjoy is with his or her own mother. Thus, the Theotokos is uniquely blessed, and will be held as blessed by all generations, for she as the Mother of God was and is closer to Him physically and emotionally than anyone else. This is also why on the occasion of her repose her body was assumed into Heaven on the feast of the Dormition - Rome may only have made this a dogma in 1955, but we Orthodox have regarded it as dogmatic since at least the fourth century, and likely much longer than that, for it has always been celebrated in our liturgy (everything celebrated in the Orthodox liturgy is dogmatic, on the basis of Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi, an approach also theoretically followed by the Anglicans, which is one of many reasons why historically there have been such good relations between the Orthodox and Anglicans, although one could argue varying degrees of churchmanship compromise this in Anglicanism by resulting in the same liturgical text having multiple interpretations depending on the churchmanship of the reader; I would argue that a prayer book is like the Bible, in that what St. Isidore of Seville said certainly applies - the meaning ultimately is in the interpretation, not the reading, since the right Scripture wrongly interpreted is still wrong, as demonstrated by the Arians for example, who managed to somehow read John ch. 1 and not interpret it as speaking of the Incarnation of Christ (a phenomenon we also encounter among some contemporary Christians, who usually are not Christologically neo-Arian but in some cases are, who seem to think that John ch. 1 is speaking about the Bible).

* The Orthodox do not deny that she is immaculate; we reject rather the immaculate conception, because this puts the Theotokos in a different ontological condition than the rest of the humanity and in our view this compromises the doctrine of the Incarnation, since we believe that Christ saved us by restoring our fallen human nature by glorifying us through His Incarnation, Baptism, Transfiguration, Passion and Resurrection, most especially on the Holy and Life Giving Cross where on the sixth day, he remade man in His own image, before reposing in a tomb on the seventh, thus just as the womb of the Theotokos once contained Him who is boundless and uncircumscribed, likewise the Holy Sepulchre contained Christ our God on the Seventh Day when He reposed - before His glorious resurrection, the true meaning of the Sabbath - also for this reason the Orthodox venerate the Theotokos and pray for our departed loved ones on Saturday. Indeed for us every Saturday is in some respects like All Souls Day in the Roman Catholic Church, but several saturdays throughout the year are dedicated as Soul Saturdays.

The Saturday preceding All Saints Day, the Sunday following Pentecost, which for us is a feast both of the descent of the Holy Spirit and of the Holy Trinity (this likely being one of several examples where the Western church took a compound feast such as the Epiphany and split it into two feasts, and more recently with the separation of Epiphany Sunday from the feast of the Baptism of our Lord in the 1969 Missal, into three; of course, everyone went along with the separation of the Nativity and Theophany (the feast of the Epiphany, the Baptism of our Lord) except for the Armenians, who alone continue to celebrate them together on the eve and the day of January 6th (thus the Armenians in Jerusalem who, like all Hagiopolitan Orthodox, use the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian, are the last to celebrate the Nativity, on January 18th and 19th).

bob121 said:

Brother SabbathBlessings,


Thank you for this thoughtful, Scripture-saturated reply—glad you enjoyed Japan! It’s a unique country and very peaceful; I love the wa (harmony, space for each other) unlike back home where everyone crowds in.

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Yes, its beautiful and everyone was so kind and friendly, even a huge city like Tokyo.

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The Lord uses even mishaps (deletes) to refine our thoughts and words.

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Yes, He does if we allow Him to and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us through the writings of His word and teach us and be open to make changes based on His word, He promises never to go away from Isa8:20

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You ask the heart of it: If God claims one day as “My holy day,” dare we shift it? Fair question. Let’s walk gently through the texts—this is a good opportunity for views to be shared.

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Wouldn’t God know what is His holy day? He only named one in all of Scripture, He only sanctified one day in all of Scripture, He says He does not change. For me, if we are going to make a change or shift as you say, I would want a thus saith the Lord. Do you have one verse for this shift in God’s own Words. God did say in His own Words- My covenant I will not alter My words Psa89:34, not a jot or tittle, heaven and earth would pass before so and heaven and earth are still here and Jesus has not come in the clouds Mat5:18-19. Jesus said He is Lord of the Sabbath, not Lord of the first day. I think it’s important to allow God to reveal Himself just as He says.

Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man (not against man). The word Jesus used Greek: anthrōpos, meaning all humanity. Jesus Himself said He is Lord of the Sabbath, not the destroyer of the Sabbath or said Lord of the first day. If there was going to be a shift that makes up the character of God, the Sabbath points to Him as our Creator Exo20:11, our Sanctifier Eze20:12 in the 4th commandment is where He chose to place His seal - which contains His name, territory and title. It was written by the Holy Spirit of Truth, that sits under His mercy seat Exo25:21 in the Most Holy of His Temple and shown in heaven Rev15:5 Rev11:19. If God was going to make a shift or change, He would have told us plainly. He did warn there would be a shift as you call it to His times and laws, but not by Him Dan7:25 and the only law that is a time (every seventh day Exo 20:10) and Law (4th commandment) is the Sabbath. There is a clear history of this change and the government (or beast power) who made this change that they claim if keeping Sunday over God’s Sabbath, you are obeying them over God, said they made this change that the whole world followed, based on their own sense of power over the word of God. I can provide all of the references if you would like. The point is the shift is not a biblical one, God is calling us back to worship the God of Creation Rev14:7 Exo20:11

bob121 said:

1. The Sabbath is God’s gift—creation sign (Gen 2:3), redemption sign (Deut 5:15), sanctification seal (Ex 31:13). No dispute.

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Yes, the Sabbath started at Creation, He made everything according to His perfect plan and the Sabbath was a big part of that. God rested on the seventh day from all His works and blessed and sanctified the seventh day what He calls the Sabbath. God commanded man this same cycle Exo20:8-11 as man was made in the image and likeness of God to do what He does. Both God and Jesus kept the Sabbath- is there a greater example we are to follow in Scripture? Who does Scripture tell us to follow?

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1. Yet Colossians 2:16–17 calls sabbaths (plural, including the weekly) a shadow whose substance is Christ. Paul isn’t contradicting God; he’s saying the shadow points to the One now present.

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Yes it says sabbath(s) plural, that are connected to the sabbath(s) feast days, not the weekly Sabbath God gave to humanity that started at Creation, that is a commandment of God, that came with God’s sanctification and blessing.

Paul came after Christ ratified His covenant at the Cross. It Is Finished. Nothing can be added or changed after His blood. Any changes to God’s covenant requires blood Heb9:15-16. Paul cannot change one thing to God’s covenant, it would require the blood of Jesus all over again and His sacrifice was once and for all Heb10:10. Paul was a servant of Christ and a servant is not greater than their master- we are called to be servants as well Isa56:6. Paul was commissioned to spread the gospel, not change the law of God written by the Holy Spirit. God’s Laws never changed, the words of the Covenant, the Ten Commandments Exo34:28 Deut4:13 written by God, not man, went from tables of stone, to tablets of the heart Heb8:10 2Cor3:3 the law never changed because the law was never the issue, it is perfect sa19:7 holy, just and good Rom7:12 the issue is mans heart.

I will provide you a deeper study of Col 2:14-17 but before I do that can you tell me how the Sabbath ended at the Cross, which is what Col2:14 says, the laws contained in ordinances ended at the cross. So how can the weekly Sabbath end at the Cross, if Jesus in His own Words expected His people to be still keeping it decades later Mat24:20 and eternity Isa66:23. So either we are misunderstanding what Paul is saying like we are warned plainly would happen or Jesus doesn’t know what He is talking about. Both cannot be true. If the weekly Sabbath ended at the Cross, why would His apostles be keeping EVERY Sabbath DECADES after the Cross just as Jesus indicated and predicted His house will be a house of prayer for ALL nations- those who hold fast to His covenant by keeping the Sabbath Isa56:6-7. The shift to God’s Sabbath to Sunday would provide a lot of contradictions to the plain writings of Jesus. Jesus is the way- my faith is in Him.

bob121 said:

1. The shift isn’t man-made tradition—it’s resurrection reality:
   • Christ rose first day (Matt 28:1).

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Can you please go back and respond to what I previously addressed on this verse. Where did Jesus say, this made a shift in one of His commandments. Jesus was on this earth 40 days before descending back to heaven where did He once say, we no longer need to keep the Sabbath and now we shift everything to Sunday. Just one verse please.

bob121 said:

• Spirit poured out on a first-day feast (Acts 2).

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Where does it say the first day, where does it say, this annual feast now removes our moral obligation to keep God’s 4th commandment?

bob121 said:

1. • Church broke bread and collected on the first day (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor 16:2). That’s apostolic pattern, not Roman invention.

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This was already addressed, if you can please respond to what I addressed previously,

bob121 said:

Jesus kept the seventh day perfectly—for us. Now He is our Sabbath rest (Heb 4:9–10). We don’t abandon the convocation; we fulfill it in Him, gathering where His victory is proclaimed.

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Jesus kept the Sabbath perfect, He is our example to follow, so now we no longer need to obey or follow what Jesus did. Hebrews 4 does not say Jesus is our Sabbath rest and therefore we can break God’s 4th commandment. I am open to going through this passage with you verse by verse, I have studied it for a long time and what most people don’t look at, it at least references the OT 4 times in this passage, so one would need to understand these OT references to understand this passage. It’s not an easy one to understand because there’s a lot going on in a short amount of verses. I am happy going through it though if you would like, I can promise you though what it’s saying is the exact opposite of what most people use it against. It’s actually warning us about not keeping the Sabbath. Would you like to go through this verse by verse? We can look at the greek words used here which will also help bring in more understanding.

bob121 said:

You love the texts—let’s keep digging together. What do you make of the first-day gatherings in Acts and Corinthians? No pressure, just iron sharpening iron.

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I am happy to do this and pray we can both be open to what the Scriptures are really saying. In order to progress, we need to respond to things that have been addressed so we can keep proceeding forward. Does that sound fair to you?

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Thank you again for your thoughts—it gives me a chance to dig deeper, always good for the mind.

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At the end, we should all be seeking for God’s Truth. That’s what sets us free.

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Have a great day/night. God bless.

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Thank you and God bless!

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And I am happy Radios still exist!! ^w^ =3

I bought a Weather Radio recently!! Now I can listen to Christian Music while doing dishes!! ^w^

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FaithT said:

I always wear a necklace with either a crucifix or a plain cross. Sometimes I just like wearing a plain cross for its simplicity. Is that wrong?

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No I do the same. My priest blessed all my Christian jewelry.

Carl Emerson said:

Actually for the true believer every day is Holy.

True believers are motivated by Love not Law. This is why Jesus said His new Commandment is to Love God and Love ones neighbour.

We need to understand the Old Covenant of Law but move on to embracing the New Covenant of Love and Grace.

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The New Covenant is God’s law going from written on stone, to being written on the heart He8:10 2Cor3:3 the location changed, the promises changed Heb8:6 God’s laws did not change, just as He promised Psa89:34 Mat5:18-19. The heart of man is the issue, not the law of God, it is holy, just and good Rom7:12 and perfect Psa19:7 God never called us to keep every day as the Sabbath Exo20:8-11, everyone would starve if doing so, its why I am a big believer to believe and do what our Creator asks and trust He knows better than we do. I believe this is what faith is all about instead of obeying Him on what feels right to us.

I guess this will get sorted out soon enough.

The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God. Psalm 9:17

streams shall become pitch and the dust into brimstone. Isaiah 34:9

Who among us shall dwell with the consuming fire, who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Isaiah 33:14

(The wicked) shall be ashes under your feet in the day that I do this says the Lord. Malachi 4:3-4

If any man will hurt them a fire proceeds out of their mouth... and if any man will hurt them they must in this manner be killed. Revelation 11:15

The beast and false prophet will hurt them and therefore must be killed by the fire that comes out of their mouth. In this we can see the creation of the lake of fire, it is first kindled by the two prophets, then by the Lord when He returns, He also spews fire from His mouth Revelation 19:21, and then the final fire from the Father Revelation 20:9 destroys the whole world, 2 Peter 3:8-12 Rev 21:1 this world becomes hell, the lake of fire, just as the was said in psalms 9:17.

keras said:

Zechariah 5:1-4, describes what we know today as a ICBM rocket.
Zech 5:5-11, is not another different object. It goes on to tell about what that rocket has inside it.

Any other explanation, simply makes a mess of what Zechariah Prophesies.

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That seems very unlikely, particularly given that ICBMs are smaller than the dimensions given, by a considerable measure, and also given that ICBM warheads do not use lead for shielding due to weight. Remember, they contain very little plutonium since most of the power is derived from a secondary thermonuclear explosion (which releases much less fall-out than a fission bomb if used in an airburst, while causing more destruction relative to the mass of the warhead).

Also most ICBMs have three or more warheads (known as MIRVs) that are launched in the same missile, which allow one ICBM to hit multiple targets.

Rather it is clear that St. Zechariah is speaking of the typological harlot of Babylon, the symbol of vice and idolatry (which contrary to popular belief has nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Church).

Also insofar as Baghdad is a major center of Aramaic speaking and Arabic speaking Christians, of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Ancient Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church, there would be no point in God allowing the modern city of Baghdad to be annihilated - it certainly does not meet the criteria of Sodom or Gomorrah. Indeed the Christians of Iraq are among the most righteous and persecuted in the world, with those in Mosul in particular enduring gruesome suffering during the reign of ISIS.

RandyPNW said:

The very thing described in Matthew and Mark as the AoD Luke identifies as the Roman Army of Jesus' time. That would begin a period of "Great Tribulation" for the Jewish People, lasting from the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD up until the end of the NT age.

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Where is the Mark of the Beast then?