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Whatsoever Parteth the Hoof and Cheweth the Cud - Leviticus 11:3
Nov 17th, 2019
Morning MeditationF. B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

The animals, in which these two characteristics met, were reckoned clean, and therefore fit for food. It is certain that the minute particularity of these words has some further reference than to the diet of Israel, important though that was, or to accentuate with every meal the necessity of their being a separate people. We, at least, may gather this lesson, that in our daily experience we must combine meditation and separation.

Meditation. - The cattle do not simply browse on the pastures, but they lie down to chew the cud. It is not enough to peruse our allotted Scripture portion; we must ruminate upon it, comparing spiritual things with spiritual, and scripture with scripture. The Holy Ghost will take of the things of Christ and show them unto us, and He will bring all things to our remembrance.

Separation. - "Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God." "The Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." We have not meditated to good purpose unless we have felt its keen edge. Detachment from the world must follow on true attachment to Christ. Love to Naomi will draw Ruth from Moab across the Jordan.

The two must be combined. - The swine divideth the hoof, but cheweth not the cud, and was therefore unclean. A man may profess to love his Bible, but the supreme test is his daily separation from evil. On the other hand, our daily life ought to emanate, not from without, which is Pharisaism, but from within, where we chew the cud of holy meditation.

Let the Headlines Speak
Nov 17th, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Israel’s New Defense Minister Begins Protecting Israel With Morning Prayers
Israel’s newly appointed Defense Minister’s first week was challenging with over 400 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza but he began it in proper fashion. After being sworn in on Tuesday morning, Bennett spent the night in the ministry dealing with the Islamic Jihad attacks. Bennett began his first full day as a minister by attending morning prayers in the ministry building’s synagogue wrapped in a tallit (fringed prayer garment) and tefillin (phylacteries).

Signs Of The Times: Lesbian Episcopal Priest Made CEO Of National Abortion Group
“Abortion providers are some of my personal heroes and modern-day saints,” says Episcopal priest and longtime abortion activist Katherine Ragsdale. With statements like that it is not hard to see why Ragsdale has recently been appointed to serve as the CEO and President of the National Abortion Federation.

Fox News reporter in Gaza: Amnesty International lied
Amnesty International lied yesterday, Tuesday, when it accused Israel of violating international law for bombing the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights building in Gaza, said Fox News foreign correspondent Trey Yingst. Yingst, reporting from Gaza, said the building was hit by a rocket that misfired from Gaza, and that he witnessed the event. “Israel did not strike this building. A rocket misfired from Gaza.I was across the street when it happened,” wrote Yingst on Twitter.

IDF hits Gaza targets in response to rockets, ceasefire violated
IAF jets and drones carried out strikes against Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, and the operation had ended for now, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reported on Saturday morning. Among the targets were a Hamas military camp and a base used by the terrorist group’s naval arm. The strikes were in response to rockets fired at Israel overnight, the report stated.

Hamas: ‘We won’t allow Israel to pick the time and place of each clash’
Hamas stockperson Fawzi Barhum said on Saturday that Israel will bear “the results of its ongoing aggression faced with the opposition and the Palestinian people,” Walla reported. “We won’t allow Israel to pick the time and place of each clash,” he added, he further stated that a joint command of all Gaza-based factions was established to jointly decide how to respond in the future to Israeli actions.

Iran petrol price hike: Protests erupt over surprise rationing
Protests have erupted across Iran after the government unexpectedly announced it was rationing petrol and increasing its price, state media report. Prices went up by at least 50% on Friday. The authorities have reduced heavy subsidies on petrol prices to curb the impact of US sanctions which have badly affected Iran’s economy.

Measure introduced in Ohio would ban abortion outright
A group of conservative lawmakers in Ohio has introduced a bill to outlaw abortion outright except to save the pregnant woman’s life. State Rep. Candice Keller, a Republican from Middletown, says the bill’s backers are tired of taking an incremental approach to ending abortion. “The time for regulating evil and compromise is over,” she said in a statement.

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff calls for Gulf Arab unity to counter Iran
United States Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein on Saturday pressed Gulf Arab states to reconcile differences and unify military capabilities as tensions with Iran simmer. Washington sees an ongoing dispute that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and non-Gulf state Egypt have with Qatar as a threat to efforts to contain Iran and has pushed for a united front.

Turkey: We bought Russian S-400 missile defense systems to use them
Turkey bought S-400 missile defense systems from Russia to use them, not put them aside, the head of the Turkish Defense Industry Directorate said on Saturday, days after talks between President Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump. Erdogan and Trump held talks in Washington on Wednesday to overcome increasing differences between the NATO allies…

CBP chief warns Mexican ‘super labs’ flooding US with meth, as seizures nearly double
The acting head of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) warned Thursday that “super labs” in Mexico are flooding the U.S. with purer, cheaper forms of methamphetamine — and that seizures of the deadly drug were up 90 percent last month compared with the same time last year.

St Mark’s closed as Venice faces more floods
Another exceptional high tide swamped flood-hit Venice on Friday, prompting the mayor to order St Mark’s square closed after Italy declared a state of emergency for the UNESCO city.

Major snowstorm hits France – widespread disruption reported, 300 000 homes without power
Snow, ice and heavy rain brought by the first major snowstorm of the 2019/20 season caused widespread disruption on the roads of southeastern France on November 14 and 15, 2019. At least one person has been killed and 300 000 customers left without electricity. Snow will not be as heavy today as it was yesterday, but traffic disruptions are likely through the rest of the day.

Tropical Storm “Kalmaegi” (Ramon) triggers floods and landslides ahead of landfall, Philippines
Tropical Storm “Kalmaegi,” known as Ramon in the Philippines, has slowed down on Friday morning, November 15, 2019, as it continued heading towards Cagayan, Northern Luzon where it is expected to make landfall on November 17 or early November 18. However, the storm has already made locals feel its fury as rains, floods, and landslides hit provinces, particularly Quezon and Camarines Sur.

Trump clears three military members accused of war crimes
…Lorance was locked in Forth Leavenworth military prison serving a 19-year sentence for murdering two civilians. Golsteyn’s trial was scheduled to start next month, and he faced murder charges for killing a suspected Taliban bomb-maker. Gallagher..was acquitted of murder charges but found guilty of bringing discredit on the armed forces, for which he was demoted one rank.

If You’ve Given Your Genetic Code To A DNA Database, US Police May Now Have Access To It
In the past week, news has spread of a Florida judge’s decision to grant a warrant allowing police to search one of the world’s largest online DNA databases, for leads in a criminal case.

Exploiting Transgenders Part 1: Manufacturing an Industry | coreysdigs.com
…The manufacturing of this industry goes far beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, and if you dare question it, it is discrimination. The real discriminators are those exploiting a community who truly suffer from trauma, depression, and an attempted suicide rate of 40 percent. They are the ones who should be angrier than anyone about the atrocities these people have committed. They are now exploiting your children, and they have taken this to dangerous extremes.

Shocking Sex Ed Videos Indoctrinate Young Children With Drag Queens and Explicit Sex Advice
Excerpts from a series of disturbing sex and gender education videos have been shared online, prompting widespread outrage.

‘This Has Got to Stop. It’s Evil’: Turkish Military Using Drones to Attack Civilians, Ambulances in Northern Syria
While the Pentagon has ordered the withdrawal of most US troops in Syria, some will remain to secure the country’s eastern oil fields from ISIS.

US Special Operations Forces Forced to Flee From “Foreign Beings” In the Story That Won’t Go Away!
…I felt compelled to discuss why 150 Special Forces in Northern Syria allegedly had to run for their lives. No, they were not running from the Russians, or the Chinese or the Turks. They were, as the story goes, running from the Anunnaki who mysteriously appeared 50KM from the Special Forces encampment and were closing on their position. The warning of the impending disaster came from Putin as he warned Trump and the President ordered the evacuation of the US forces.

Exorcists call for day of reparation after Pachamama rituals
In a joint statement, four exorcists called on Catholics to join a day of reparation to drive out “any diabolic influence within the Church” that occurred as a result of the Pachamama ritual that Pope Francis attended at the Vatican at the onset of the Amazon Synod.

Finnish Christian Mp Faces Hate Speech Charge for Quoting NT
Nov 17th, 2019
CommentaryEVANGELICAL FOCUS
Categories: Warning

Finnish Christian Democratic MP, former Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen is being subjected to pretrial investigation by the Finnish Police on account of suspected incitement against sexual and gender minorities.

The matter concerns a critical comment she made on social media of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland's (ELCF) official participation in the Helsinki Pride event earlier in the summer.

On 17 June, Päivi Räsänen posted a photo of Romans 1:24-27 from the New Testament, that describes same-sex relationships as "shameful".

Räsänen explained why she posted the remarks online: "When praying, I got convinced that it is not my time now to jump out of the sinking boat as a parable of the Church, but to try to wake up the sleeping ones in the Church in that boat. And that's why I decided to write to social media."

Räsänen risks being accused under Section 10 of the Criminal Code of Finland for "ethnic agitation". A fine or prison are contemplated for this crime.

In the attached post, she criticised Finland's largest church body's announcement to become an official partner of Helsinki Pride 2019, asking, "How can the church's doctrinal foundation, the Bible, be compatible with the lifting up of shame and sin as a subject of pride?"

Räsänen, like some 69% of Finns, is herself a member of the ELCF and married to an ELCF pastor. 

She is well known in the country for her defence of traditional Christian views on ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and marriage that are often more conservative than those of the Lutheran Church's official leadership.

Officially, the Evangelical Luterhan Church of Finland's Church Order, ratified by the Finnish Parliament, states that it "confesses that Christian faith which is based on the Holy Word of God, the prophetic and apostolic books of the Old and the New Testament" and the Lutheran confessional writings of the 16th century. 

The ELCF is called a "national church" and plays an active role in the public sphere and has the right to collect church tax from its membership that is largely secularised but contains an active minority of conservative 'revival movements'. 

Its membership has been on the decline recently by between 1 and 2 per cent points per year. In 2010, some 80,000 Finns quit the church body, most blaming MP Räsänen's participation and expression of traditional views in a TV debate on gender neutral marriage. 

Räsänen's minority party, the Christian Democrats, currently hold 5 seats in the 200-seat Finnish Parliament. 

If convicted, Räsänen case would set a Finnish precedent that could impact the freedom of speech of Christians throughout the country.

"It is difficult to understand what is now happening in my home country, but I am grateful that so many Christians have been woken to pray for our nation".

Räsänen also tweeted, "I am concerned if quoting the Bible is considered even 'slightly' illegal. I hope this won't lead to self-censorship among Christians. Rom. 1:24-27".

Cair's Goal: 30 Islamists Elected to Congress
Nov 17th, 2019
CommentarySHIREEN QUDOSI/CLARION PROJECT
Categories: Warning

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) recently held its 25th Annual Gala in Washington, D.C, in which CAIR's executive director announced a goal of pushing more Islamists into Congress.

As the Investigative Project on Terrorism reports, CAIR's executive director Nihad Awad shares the "formula" he believes will secure Islamists greater political power:

"A strong CAIR equals a strong community. A strong community will produce a strong and confident and successful Muslim ... "So I'm telling you tonight we are going to work in the next years, inshallah (God willing], to elect at least 30 Muslims in the Congress. This number is equivalent to our size and our potential as American Muslims. Including at least two U.S. senator Muslims."

In addition, Awad envisions Muslim judges, including a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, along with an Islamist extension of Hollywood. 

No matter that Awad got his numbers wrong, this has been the Islamist agenda since at least the 2000s, when I heard the same professional targets outlined at national conventions. But as Middle East Forum's Daniel Pipes wrote in 2003, it goes further.

Pipes documents how, in 1998, CAIR's Chairman Omar M. Ahmad told a crowd of Muslims in California: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant." 

In 2008, I heard this message echoed at a southern California mosque by Imam Siraj Wahhaj at an event sponsored by the Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), where Wahhaj said: 

"There is no America. There is only Islam." 

None of these views have been clandestine. Over the years the message has been consistent. What has changed is that the Islamist candidates they produce are more vocal about exactly which interests they represent.

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's support of the Hamas terror group and the anti-Semitic BDS movement against Israel is the most recent demonstration of that. 

6′5″ Male Wins Girls' Running Event, Named 'woman of the Week'
Nov 17th, 2019
CommentaryTONY PERKINS/FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
Categories: Contemporary Issues

For some college students, it's a parody that hits way too close to home. When the Babylon Bee ran a satirical news story about a motorcyclist identifying as a bicyclist to set a new record, a group of runners at the Big Sky Conference understood all too well. In their conference, boys don't just compete as girls -- they get honored for it!

Two years ago, Jonathan Eastwood "dominated" the men's competition. In 2019, he's dominating something else: the women's field. Jonathan, who now goes by "June," "finished second in a field of 204 runners at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational" and "helped the University of Montana finish seventh as a team." For that, school officials decided, he's been named the "Women's Cross-Country Athlete of the Week," edging out eight other actual females for the title.

"Not surprisingly," Bill Zwerger noticed, the six-foot, five inch male "fared quite well against his weaker and slower female competitors this season, finishing first at the U of Montana's Invitational and second (by one second!) at the most recent Bronco Invitational. 

But that's only to be expected, seeing that he was a top runner ... for the U of M Grizzlie's men X-C and track and field teams as recently as 2017. I have the sneaking suspicion that his latest second-place finish was due to him 'letting off the gas' toward the end of the race, seeking to minimize the negative publicity his winning yet again would have garnered, along with the outrage his female opponents must feel in having a male win every race against them."

When the College Fix contacted the university, they asked why the school didn't disclose the fact that June identifies as a transgender. Spokesman Joel Carlson insisted there "was no subtext." Good luck convincing the rest of the sport, which is struggling to survive this fatal infusion of political correctness. Even now, the NCAA has no answers for girls' track, admitting, "The NCAA does not have a maximum testosterone level for its current policy. The current policy is being reviewed by our membership."

In the meantime, women's high school and college programs are desperately trying to cope as girls lose more races, team eligibility, and scholarships to biological men. Girls like Selena Soule have been adamant that they just want a fair shot. But that's virtually impossible now, she says, in an unlevel playing field. 

In her complaint to the Department of Education, she argues that women's sports can't compete in an age when biological men can line up and take her trophies. In Connecticut, where she competes, the reality is particularly harsh. The competition board allows boys to race against girls, even without undergoing any sort of hormone therapy.

Olympians like Sharron Davies are furious that the standards are so low now that men can compete against women "no surgery required ... no hormones ... no medical diagnosis ... just self-ID and reduced testosterone to a level [still] x5 the highest average (98 percent) of [real] females." It's "madness!" she argues. 

The whole reason we have men and women's sports, she points out, is "because we are biologically different. Performance 100 percent confirms that. The reason steroids (including testosterone) are on the banned list is because using them give[s] you an advantage."

And yet, the extinction of women's sports -- and the uniqueness of women in general -- is exactly what the Democratic Party is championing. Under the radical Equality Act passed by the House, every school would be forced to accept men like June into girls' athletics. It's a policy so near and dear to the 2020 candidates that Joe Biden promised that if he was elected, "[the Equality Act] will be the first thing I ask to be done."

If there is a silver lining to this politically correct lunacy, it's that more people are starting to see the quandary that's created by policies and decision that aren't based in anatomical realities but emotional whims. If biological sex doesn't matter in sports, where does it matter? Good question. 

One that most liberals can't seem to answer. Members from both sides of the aisle -- especially those who claim to be pro-woman and pro-children -- need to stop this devastating legislation. The future of women's rights, privacy, protection and athletic potential depends on it.