Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Transgenderism & the Emperor's New Clothes
Nov 27th, 2019
CommentaryJOHN STONESTREET/BREAKPOINT.ORG
Categories: Contemporary Issues

Nothing describes the social pressure to conform better than Hans Christian Andersen's parable, "The Emperor's New Clothes."

Do you remember it? An emperor hires two weavers who claim they can make a garment so fine it's only visible to the very wise. Of course, they end up not making any clothes at all. They pocket the emperor's money and send him on procession through the city naked.

No one--not even the emperor himself--dares to say anything, thinking if they do, it means they're fools.  Only a child is willing to shout out, "The emperor is naked!"

Each week, I come across a headline that makes me think, "Finally! This has got to be our naked emperor moment. Somebody is going to call this out."

Last week, for instance, the spokeswoman for a British doula association was forced to resign after reminding her social media followers that people who have wombs are... women.  

Commenting on a health awareness campaign that encouraged "everyone aged 25-64 with a cervix" to get screened for cancer, the longtime birth coach wrote, "I am not a 'cervix owner .  .  .' I am a woman: an adult human female."

In response, angry transgender activists barraged Doula UK with complaints, ultimately driving someone willing to say the obvious out of her job.

Honestly, I just cannot imagine that the majority of people really want to live in a world where birth coaches aren't allowed to call women, "women." In fact, it may be that we are ready to put at least some limits on the men who demand all the rights and privileges of women.

For example, a biological man who filed complaints against Vancouver beauty salons because they wouldn't wax his private area was just told by a Canadian court that he doesn't have a right to force female beauticians to touch him.

Then there's the ongoing custody battle over a 7-year-old Texas boy whose mother is convinced he's really a she and therefore should dress, live, and medically transition into girlhood. Since we last talked about this story on "BreakPoint This Week," a Dallas judge refused to grant the mother sole custody--a big improvement over what the jury had recommended.

And, resistance is growing in the academy, too. A recent essay at The American Mind describes how a growing group of radical feminists are bravely taking on the demands of transgender activists, having realized that their very existence as women is threatened by increasingly unrealistic demands. In response, they've earned a derogatory nickname: "TERF's" which stands for "Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists."

Camille Paglia--a hard-left feminist, lesbian professor--has been mercilessly attacked for refusing to accept the claim that men who feel like women really are women.

Paglia and other "gender critical" feminists think there's something essential to biological womanhood that no man can never appropriate, claim or understand - no matter how much makeup, hormone therapy, or surgery he endures.

As she told the Weekly Standard in 2017: "The cold biological truth is sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one's birth gender for life."

It sounds like something a conservative Christian would say.

The very fact that we now find ourselves as Christians lining up with radical feminists makes me wonder if we are, in fact, approaching a turning point. After all, the stakes are only getting higher. Sports championships that belong to women are already being given to men.

Will scholarships designated for women be taken by men? And what will happen when a federal small business grant program for women entrepreneurs is claimed by a man? Or when women no longer are able to represent their country in the Olympics because men claim all of the spots on their team?

We will see whether there's a limit to what people will sit back and take. I suspect there is. After all, the emperor just can't walk around naked forever.

That Which is Another's - Luke 16:12
Nov 27th, 2019
Morning MeditationF.B. Meyer
Categories: Commentary;Inspirational;Book Study

Our Lord is speaking of money and its use. 1. He describes money. - It is so associated with unrighteousness that He speaks of it as the unrighteous mammon. It was as though the inveterate money-maker, who will get money at all costs, was an idolater, prostrating himself daily in the temple of the heathen deity who bore that name. In His judgment, also, it is a very little thing (Luke 16:10). We only know how little when we compare it with the immortal qualities of a lowly character. At least, it is not the true riches (Luke 16:11). Moreover, it is not our own-it is dearly another's - God's (Luke 16:12). We have nothing that we have not received.

2. He indicates the main use of money. - It is God's; but He puts it into our hands to watch the use we will make of it, before He entrusts to us the true riches of eternity - just as you will test a child with a toy watch before you dare place in his hands a real one. If he is destructive of the one, you hesitate to hand him the other; whilst if he is careful, you feel able to consign to his care some family heirloom. So God is testing men by giving them money that He may know how far to trust them in the mart of the New Jerusalem.

3. He arouses us to fidelity - Care for God's interests as much as the wasteful and unfaithful steward cared for his own. He used his master's money to secure a welcome to the debtor's houses when he lost his situation. But God has so arranged it, that if you use His money aright, you shall not only win His approbation, but His interests will be so coincident with yours, that when the world fades from view, those whom you have helped for God's sake shall welcome you to heaven.

Space Wars: Satellite Warfare Could be America's Achilles Heel
Nov 27th, 2019
CommentaryPNW STAFF
Categories: Contemporary Issues

When the first Star Wars movie was released back in the late 70's, audiences imagined intergalactic battles taking place at a time far in the future - possibly a full century into the future.

No one could have predicted technology would improve at such an incredible rate in the decades to follow. Here we are approaching 2020 and as the last Star Wars movie approaches it's release - we are reminded that a "star war" is a very real possibility.

Much of the technological advantage enjoyed by the United States and other world powers is owed to the use of satellites.

Troop movements can be precisely coordinated with GPS, drones can be flown from bunkers on the other side of the globe, battlefield commanders can communicate over vast distances and high-resolution cameras can provide insight into enemy positions.

We have become so dependent upon satellite technologies that without them it would be fair to say we would be "flying blind" both figuratively and literally. Some experts have even warned that our dependence upon them has created an Achilles heel due to their potential vulnerability to our adversaries.

Steve Isakowitz, CEO of The Aerospace Corp., a government-funded think tank that serves as the military's leading adviser on space said the U.S. can no longer afford to take its dominance for granted.

"That supremacy in space has enabled us to have the world's greatest war-fighting capability ... whether it is our soldiers on the field, our drones that fly overhead, our bombers that travel around the world, intelligence we collect," he told POLITICO. "More and more every day, literally, we become more dependent on it.

"And our adversaries know that."  It is the old error of having all one's eggs in one basket.

Air Force Gen. John W. Raymond, commander of the Pentagon's new Space Command, said last week that the threat of attacks against vital American satellites is real.

"I can tell you from my perspective, the scope, scale and complexity of that threat is alive and well and very concerning," Gen. Raymond told an audience Nov. 18 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

A previous report by the Department of Defense warned that if the U.S. is to avoid a 'Space Pearl Harbor,' it needs to take seriously the possibility of an attack on the U.S. space system.

Clearly, any nation that can destroy its opponent's satellites gains a considerable advantage, and that is exactly what Russia and China are now preparing to do.

The United States is deeply concerned that Russian movements in space indicate the country is building an offensive military space force that could knock out American satellites.

Assistant secretary for arms control, Yleem Poblete, categorized the developments as both "unprecedented" and "very abnormal" as Russia develops both a combat laser system and specialized missiles that can be launched from an aircraft mid-flight to destroy American satellites. 

Russia is also reported to have launched an orbital kinetic kill vehicle, a sort of kamikaze satellite, known as the Kosmos 2499. 

Already traveling at incredible speeds, the satellite would target American satellites in orbit and obliterate them with a simple collision. 

The Chinese military's Joint Staff in 2018 said it's goal is to achieve "space superiority" -- controlling space without interference from ground-based or space-based threats.

To that affect, China has launched its own satellite killer, one equipped with grappling arms, called the Shiyan. Other weapons pulled from the pages of science fiction include lasers and magnets.

The Chinese Shiyan satellite has performed at least one successful capture using its grappling arm, capable of throwing other satellites out of orbit or stripping them of their useful parts.

China is even planning a permanent base on the moon as part of it's dual military and commercial program.

Russia has also been spotted using what has been dubbed 2014-28E, a rather enigmatic name for a secret military satellite. Launched clandestinely along with three Russian communication satellites, it was at first believed to be simply debris resulting from the launch. 

When the object began to change orbit however, its propulsion capabilities became apparent. Russia has kept quiet about the craft but many believe it to another example of an erstwhile Soviet-era program called Istrebeitel Sputnik, or Satellite Fighter.

These are not proposals or prototypes of what Russia and China could launch, they are offensive satellites already orbiting the Earth with a singular purpose: removing American satellites from above the field of battle. 

Gen. Raymond, commander of the Pentagon's new Space Command,  disclosed during his Senate nomination hearing in June for the first time that the Pentagon is working on "counterspace weapons" to conduct offensive and defense military operations in space.  

He further warned "China is pursuing a full spectrum of threats to our space capabilities, including reversible jamming, directed energy weapons, cyber threats, orbital threats, and kinetic energy threats from ground-based missiles.

Rick Fisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, warns that the biggest key to thwarting Chinese dominance in space will be denying Beijing control over the moon and the region of space between it and the Earth.

"If America fails to beat China back to the moon to secure commanding positions that can help deter conflict, we are then condemning our country and military forces to many future wars with China," Mr. Fisher said.

Let the Headlines Speak
Nov 27th, 2019
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Trudeau’s U.N. Ambassador Boasted About Voting for North Korean-Sponsored Resolution Against Israel
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s U.N. ambassador Marc-André Blanchard bragged on Saturday about voting on a North Korea-sponsored resolution against Israel last week, stating in a tweet that: “Canada found its voice”.

Biden Says Graham Is ‘About To Go Down,’ Claims He’ll Regret Ukraine Investigation ‘His Whole Life’
“Biden: Lindsey Graham will “regret his whole life”! This reminds me of Biden’s decree to the media to silence me on September 29th. Now a threat to a US Senator. This is getting to be more and more like my old mafia cases. They sure do sound like crooks,” Giuliani tweeted.

Russian State-Owned Bank Sends Code to Customers: ‘Kill Jews’
Last week, a former Moscow-based consultant exposed a code with the message ‘Kill Jews’ in its text reports Jewish.ru.

Is this the end of Mashiach ben Yosef?
Why Netanyahu? When Avichai Mandebilt declared his intention to indict the Prime Minister, he essentially paved the way for the leftist super-structure, Israel’s Deep State to begin the process of finally wresting control of the country from the street it lost it to when Begin surprised the parochial classes and Laborites in 1977.

Scientists Admit: Snakes Once had Legs as Described in Book of Genesis
Paleontologists in Argentina reached for their Bibles after finding fossils of snakes with hind legs. The report published in the journal, Science Advances, estimates the fossils found in the Rio Negro Province, Patagonia in 2013. The fossil is believed to be 95 million years old. The new discovery was appropriately named najash rionegrina. The term najash is based on the Hebrew word נחש (nachash, snake).

The world’s first human composting facility will let us recycle ourselves
But the first renderings of new after-death center Recompose (don’t call it a “funeral home”) reveal another option for the afterlife of our bodies here on earth: composting. The flagship facility, expected to open in Seattle in spring 2021, is designed to reconnect human death rituals with nature and to offer a more sustainable alternative to conventional burial options.

Iran Threatens ‘Crushing Blow’ to U.S, Israel for ‘Interference’ in Uprisings, Threatens ‘Crushing Blow’
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri warned regional countries on Saturday that if it could be proved that they had stoked recent protests in the country, then consequences would ensue. “Some countries of the region must know that if clues are found that they have been involved in provoking riots inside Iran, then their goose is cooked …

US General Hints at War With Iran As US Troops Mass on Border
The U.S. has been beefing up its military presence surrounding Iran while at the same time strengthening channels of communication with Israeli military brass. Several experts have expressed their belief that all this is justified and a regional conflict pitting several countries against Iran is “probable.” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, recently warned that Iran has set a precedent for aggression.

Israeli military says rocket launched from Gaza
The Israeli military says a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel less than two weeks after a cease-fire halted hostilities with Palestinian militants. The army said Monday that it had identified a rocket launch from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

UK urges China to give UN access to Xinjiang region
The UK has called on China to allow UN observers “immediate and unfettered access” to the Xinjiang region. It follows a data leak that revealed how hundreds of thousands of Muslims were mistreated in high security camps. The official documents, seen by BBC Panorama, show how inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished.

Albania: Powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Tirana
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Albania, bringing down buildings and leaving people trapped under rubble. At least six people have died. One man died after jumping from a window in panic, a defence ministry spokeswoman confirmed. The quake hit 34 km (21 miles) northwest of the capital, Tirana, in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Georgia police use water cannons on protesters in Tbilisi
Riot police used water cannons on anti-government protesters outside Georgia’s parliament building in the capital, Tbilisi. Thousands of people demonstrated on Monday evening calling for reform to the country’s electoral system. Several activists and a politician were arrested early on Tuesday, opposition leader Giorgi Vashadze said.

Mada Masr: Egypt independent news outlet’s office ‘raided’
The office of Egypt’s last major independent media outlet has been raided by plainclothes security officers, its editors say. On Facebook, Mada Masr said laptops and phones were confiscated and three staff members briefly arrested. Despite being blocked in Egypt since 2017, the website is accessible in the country via virtual private networks.

Lassa fever ‘at risk’ Britons sent home from Sierra Leone
Three British nationals have been brought back to the UK from Sierra Leone for medical assessment after coming into close contact with two people diagnosed with Lassa fever. One of the two infected Dutch nationals – both doctors…has died from the virus. Health officials say the move is a precautionary measure – Public Health England has also notified another 15 British nationals who may be at risk.

Corporate Executives Try to Assess Potential Impact of Tax Change Proposals
Corporate tax chiefs are trying to assess the potential implications of a proposal for a new global tax system for consumer-facing businesses…The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development…was scheduled to…discuss a proposal that would set a standard tax rate for a company’s global operations and allow individual governments to tax profits above that based on sales…

Russia hopes to agree new S-400 missile deal with Turkey next year
Russia hopes to seal a deal to supply Turkey with more S-400 missile systems in the first half of next year… Such a move could further sour ties between Turkey and the United States, which has suspended Ankara from the F-35 stealth fighter jet programme, in which it was a producer and buyer, to punish it for buying S-400 batteries earlier this year.

Second night of clashes in Lebanon amid anti-gov’t protests
Clashes have erupted between protesters calling for an overhaul of the political system and supporters of the main Shia groups Hezbollah and Amal amid reports of gunfire in some parts of Lebanon… For the second consecutive day, security forces intervened in a bid to break up confrontations late on Monday between the groups’ supporters and demonstrators protesting against Lebanon’s political elite.

Red Cross: Yemen faces new outbreak of dengue fever
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has reported a new outbreak of dengue fever in Yemen, with thousands of cases and several dozen deaths. Robert Mardini, head of the ICRC’s delegation at the UN, said…the poorest nation in the Arab world was facing “a very dire humanitarian situation”, amid an escalation in dengue cases, tens of thousands of cholera cases as well as a flare-up of malaria.

Erdogan: Turkey-Qatar military base serves regional ‘stability’
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday the construction of a new Turkish military base has been completed in Qatar and it will be named after the famous Muslim commander Khalid bin Walid. Erdogan arrived in Doha earlier in the day to attend the fifth meeting of the Turkey-Qatar High Strategic Committee.

It’s Official: The United States Is Now A Banana Republic
And it has not Russia, nor China, nor any other enemy, foreign or domestic, to blame… except for one: the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States.

Communist Chinese Controlled Drug Cartel Infiltration Into US Cities Will Turn America Into the Next Bolivia and Venezuela
The bulk of infiltration of America by subversive forces, headed by the cartels, and backed by Communist China, really gained their foothold under the Obama administration.

Coming to Washington: “Composting” dead humans creates bio-goo that gets flushed down sewage pipes, turned into biosludge, then deposited on crops
 Washington state is on the verge of legalizing the “composting” of human remains, which advocates say will create a new source of “organic fertilizer” for food crops. But this so-called “organic fertilizer” is actually a toxic and just plain disgusting bio-goo that will easily make its way into sewage systems, only to be “recycled” and turned into toxic biosludge.

BDS and Antifa Bigots Shout “Back to the Ovens” at Toronto’s York U
“Go back to the ovens, go back to Europe!” That was what Jewish students, pro-Israel activists, and Jewish community members heard in Vari Hall.

IRGC commander threatens to ‘destroy’ Israel
General Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, on Monday threatened that Iran would “destroy” the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia if they cross its “red lines”.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development In Talks At Paris Forum Discussing A Global Tax System Possible Prophetic Harbinger
For many of you, a story about a global tax is pretty dry stuff, something you wouldn’t really much care about. But to prophecy watchers and students of the Bible, this is fascinating and nothing short of an end times harbinger of prophetic fulfillment.

Prepare now: Historic, unprecedented storm for southwest Oregon and northwest California
A dangerous storm, possibly historically strong low, is heading towards southwest Oregon and northwest California Tuesday and Wednesday, November 26 and 27, 2019, in the run up to Thanksgiving.

At least six dead as severe weather wreaks havoc across parts of Europe
Six fatalities, power disruptions, and widespread devastations have been reported over the past weekend, November 23, 2019 and 24, as severe storms lashed parts of Europe. In France and Italy, four people died and one person was missing after torrential rain caused flooding and landslide. In Greece, thunderstorms and strong winds caused a boat to sink, killing two people.

Emmanuel Macron Grants Asylum To ISIS leader who Slaughtered 1,700 soldiers
The Islamic State (ISIS) leader, who posed as a refugee was granted political asylum in France by Emmanuel Macron, was responsible for the 2014 slaughter of some 1,700 soldiers near the northern Iraq town.

Biden Bluntly Backpedals On ‘Potaway Drug’ Marijuana After Vowing To Keep It Illegal
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