Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13

Revelation 11:18 Pt.1
Sep 11th, 2020
Exploring RevelationArt Sadlier
Categories: Commentary;Prophecy;Book Study

Last week we saw that our Lord had finally moved to begin to remove Satan from the rulership of this world. The coming victory is pronounced in verse 17,as a fact, as if it  had already happened, because victory is certain and near at hand.  Yet we know that there are yet many things to be accomplished before Christ actually sits on the throne of this world in Jerusalem.

As this age draws to a close, we see everything coming to a great climax. We see in verse 16, a climax of intensity of the worship of God by men, an intensity which will continue for eternity. In verse 18, we see a climax of anger against God, a climax which will also continue for all of eternity. This anger against God by men is reached in Revelation 19:19, "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army". This takes place as Christ returns to the earth take possession of the kingdom.

The phrase in verse 18, "Thy wrath is come", is today repulsive to a generation that has been brainwashed with the false teaching that emphasizes the love of God but rejects His holiness and justice and His incredible anger against sin. Today there is no fear of God in the eyes of men, men need to be reminded that the old testament is filled with demonstrations of God's anger against sin. Roman's 1:18 says, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness".

We read much about the mercy of God, but the mercy of God is only extended to those who repent of their sin, "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him" John 3:36.

Men sometimes make up a god to satisfy their own desires, their god does not exist, men often say, I don't want a God of judgment, I reject such a God, to bad, they will meet the real God soon enough. My friend, repent, turn around, meet God at the throne of mercy now or you will one day meet Him at the great white throne judgment.

Next week we learn more about Judgment and more about rewards.

Lgbt Movement Imposes 'niephew,' 'nibling' to Describe New Trans Identities
Sep 11th, 2020
CommentaryJONATHON VAN MAREN/BRIDGEHEAD.CA
Categories: Contemporary Issues

Hollywood's efforts to mainstream transgender ideology are as old as the trans movement's first major public efforts -- which is to say, less than a decade old. But since then, many celebrities have bought in completely.

As I noted earlier this summer, Walking Dead actor Khary Payton recently announced on social media that his 11-year-old daughter is now his transgender "son." Charlize Theron is raising her son Jackson as a girl. Cynthia Nixon's daughter underwent a "transition" to appear male. Most famously, singer Cher's daughter Chastity underwent "sex change surgery" and came out as Chaz Bono.

Just as Hollywood campaigned for mainstream acceptance of the LGBT movement by sprinkling its entertainment with same-sex "weddings" and gay characters, they are doing the same for the trans movement.

There are films like The Danish Girl (the trans movement's Milk), but also the introduction of transgender children into cartoons, Netflix tween shows like The Babysitter's Club, and TV shows such as Modern Family (in which the gay dads are terrified that the toddler they're raising is "transphobic" and "a baby bigot"), CSI, NCIS, Designated Survivor, Grey's Anatomy (which features a teen coming in for surgery with a trans partner), Orange Is the New Black (which landed Laverne Cox on the cover of TIME), and many others.

Voicing support for the trans community has become something of a required ritual for progressives -- considering how rapidly this phenomenon has exploded into the culture, many feel it necessary to let everyone know that they have kept up.

This has occasionally humorous consequences, such as the time Senator Cory Booker invented a brand-new LGBT word in his attempt to outflank his Democratic colleagues in his support for the trans community. While lauding the influence of his non-binary niece (?) Avery, his brother's child, he told Mara Keisling of the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund that his "nie-phew" would have a seat at the table if he became president. "Nie-phew," a word Booker appears to have made up, is supposed to be a combination of "niece" and "nephew."

In terms of the jerky transition trans activists are attempting to force on the English language, Booker's invention was the dumbest recent invention. But now megastar Jennifer Lopez is attempting to top him, sharing a video promoting an upcoming short film, Draw with Me, that features one of her family members who comes out as transgender. The film, Lopez announced, is "about accepting change and challenges with love and knowing that whatever we do, anything is possible. Also because Brendon is my nibling."

I'll pause to allow you a chortle before noting that according to NBC, a "nibling" is a gender-neutral term for niece or nephew and is probably the (also made-up) term Booker was searching for, as it turns out that his non-binary "niephew," who uses the pronouns they/them, has much in common with Lopez's nibling, who also uses the pronouns they/them.

Also, it turns out, both Cory's "niephew" and Lopez's "nibling" are female (according to NBC, Brendon uses a chest-binder). Naturally, Lopez and her family feel that this incredibly complicated and risky journey should be public. How else would anyone know that they have trans people in their lives?

To be fair, Merriam-Webster claims that "nibling," which it defines as "a gender-neutral term used to refer to a child of one's sibling as a replacement for 'niece' or 'nephew,'" is "thought to be coined in the early 1950s, but was relatively obscure for several decades before being revived in recent years" -- albeit in a totally different context.

I'd never heard of the term before today, and I suspect that most of you reading this never have, either. But as the LGBT movement plunges forward faster than the English language can evolve, we'll see more of this.

Young people are increasingly taking their own identities -- even their own physical identities -- into their own hands, and with that, new terms are needed as new identities are forged. We'll be sure to hear about niblings again. Despite poor Booker's best interests, it appears that only he is rooting for niephews.

Let the Headlines Speak
Sep 11th, 2020
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

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9-11: Israel and the US Joined in Blood Against Evil
9-11 is a bond of blood that is the US-Israeli brotherhood fighting the evil forces that threaten to plunge all of humanity into darkness. The attack was a graphic reminder that the same evil that targets Israel also targets the U.S. Osama Bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, stated that one of the main motivations for the attacks was U.S support for Israel.

Waqf Using Site of Jewish Temple as Garbage Dump
“While I was praying on the Eastern side of Har Habayit (the Temple Mount), one of the Waqf employees, literally in front of my eyes, decided to bring this street sweeper and dump dirt/garbage, where the woman’s courtyard of the Beit Hamikdash (Jewish Temple) once stood,” Miller told Israel365 News. “I felt dead inside, helpless, angry, waiting to burst into tears of how much the nation of Israel as a whole just doesn’t care about its holiest site and allows them to do this.”

3.5 magnitude earthquake hits near Egypt’s Hurghada on Thursday; no injuries reported
An earthquake with 3.5 magnitude on the Richter scale hit 35 kilometres east of the city of Hurghada on the Red Sea on Thursday, Egypt’s National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIA) said in a statement.

RETROGRADE MARS:
Mars “goes retrograde.” Basically, Earth is lapping Mars in a two-way race around the sun. Our planet is faster, so Mars seems to go backwards during the weeks of closest approach. On Oct. 6th, Earth and Mars will be only 62 million km apart–a small distance by interplanetary standards. In fact, its one of the finest close encounters in years. Mars will be up all night long, outshining every star in the sky with a piercing burnt-orange hue.

Explosion occurs at military warehouse in Jordan
A massive explosion occurred overnight Thursday at a military warehouse on the outskirts of the Jordanian city of Zarqa, The installation, east of the city, contained idle mortar bombs belonging to the armed forces, said Amjad Adaileh, minister of state for media affairs. The Jordanian Army said that an explosion occurred in one of the munitions depots under dismantling. The fire was caused by an electrical short circuit.

Netanyahu to visit DC for UAE signing ceremony under strict protocols
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to visit the US to participate in ceremony with the United Arab Emirates in which he and Foreign Affairs Minister and the crown prince’s brother, Abdullah bin Zayed will sign the normalization deal between the two nations.

California town destroyed by deadly wildfire; another town relives 2018 nightmare
A small California community about 100 miles north of Sacramento was destroyed by the deadly Bear Fire on Wednesday, according to reports. The Bear Fire is part of the North Complex of fires that have collectively burned more than 254,000 acres throughout the northern part of the state. “My immigrant father owns Village Market, the only store in Berry Creek. It burned in the #BearFire,” a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record tweeted Wednesday. “He put everything into the business so my brothers and I could have all the opportunities in the world. He often worked 80-hour weeks. We have insurance, but our hearts still hurt.” Most of the structures in Berry Creek — east of Chico, Calif., with a population of about 1,200 — were destroyed Wednesday,

Tropical Storm Rene forecast to become hurricane, Paulette may near Bermuda
The latest named tropical system over the Atlantic Ocean restrengthened on Wednesday to a tropical storm and is expected to become a hurricane later this week, according to forecasters. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami said that Rene is now a tropical storm again, after bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to the Cabo Verde Islands.

Earthquake shakes ground near Brewton
A small earthquake rattled the border between Alabama and Florida past Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake, which happened about 10:07 a.m., was centered in Escambia County, about ten miles southwest of Brewton and less than two miles north of Mt. Carmel, Fla. The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office told the Associated Press it had not received any calls about damage.

Archaeological discovery: Stone artifacts from pre-Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem unearthed in Israel
The discovery of carved stone structures and relics is evidence of a magnificent palace from the biblical Jewish Kingdom in Jerusalem, Israeli, according to archaeologists. The artifacts, which were neatly buried, were unearthed approximately 2 miles south of Jerusalem’s Old City and are believed to be from a palace that was constructed in the eighth century or seventh century BC

Syrian air defenses thwart suspected Israeli attack on Aleppo, seven dead
Syrian air defenses thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city, Syrian state television said on Friday. The attack reportedly left seven militia men of the Iraqi Hezbollah dead, and the death toll is expected to rise due to the severity of ensuing causalities, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

Palestinians: ‘Our Arab brothers have abandoned us’
Palestinians have reacted with outrage and deep disappointment to the Arab League’s refusal to condemn the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The refusal of the Arab League foreign ministers to endorse a Palestinian draft resolution against the Israel-UAE agreement will pave the way for other Arab states to establish relations with Israel…

Latest: 500,000 people in Oregon forced to flee wildfires
Authorities in Oregon now say more than 500,000 people statewide have been forced to evacuate because of wildfires. The latest figures from Thursday evening come from the Oregon Office of Emergency Management. That’s over 10% of the state’s 4.2 million population. More than 1,400 square miles (3,625 square kilometers) have burned this week in the state.

The stock market is detached from economic reality. A reckoning is coming.
When the stock market surged last week, President Donald Trump was quick to tweet, “The Dow Jones Industrial just closed above 29,000!” The picture changed a bit after the Dow slid 800 points a few days later, largely driven by the poor performance of tech stocks, which continued after Labor Day weekend.

Jobless claims come in worse than forecast, and with a key ‘red flag’
The number of Americans filing new jobless claims last week remained unchanged, despite what experts were anticipating. The Labor Department on Thursday said that 884,000 Americans filed first-time jobless claims last week. Since officials also revised the previous week’s number of claims up to 884,000, there was no change in the amount of filings.

DHS Files Rule Proposing Increasing Scope of Biometric Information Collection
The Department of Homeland Security posted a proposed rule to the Federal Register Friday that would widen the scope of its biometric information collection program. The department originally announced the forthcoming rule Tuesday, but did not file text of the rule until Friday afternoon.

The US National Hurricane Center is tracking seven systems in the Atlantic
It’s the peak of hurricane season and the hurricane center is tracking seven systems. The meteorological peak of hurricane season is Sept. 10, and it sure looks like it in the Atlantic basin. The National Hurricane Center is tracking seven systems, with the newest one added at the 8 a.m. update. Two of them are tropical storms, and one is poised to strike Bermuda.

Taiwan denounces large-scale Chinese drills near island
Taiwan denounced China on Thursday over large-scale air and naval drills off its southwestern coast, calling them a serious provocation and a threat to international air traffic. It urged Beijing to rein in its armed forces. China, which claims democratic Taiwan as its own, has stepped up military exercises near the island, in what Taipei views as intimidation to force it to accept Chinese rule.

Explosions rock Jordan military base
A military source said high temperatures caused a “chemical reaction in one of the mortar shell fillings” at an army facility in the Jordanian city of Zarqa on Friday. The blast happened at an isolated uninhabited area of the military depot which mainly contained decommissioned bombs. There are currently no reports of any casualties.

Beirut fire: Large blaze erupts in port a month after explosion
Lebanon has launched an investigation into a huge fire at a warehouse storing aid that erupted in the port of Beirut – one month after a massive explosion… The blaze broke out where an aid agency had been storing food and cooking oil. Firefighters and military officials spent hours battling the fire, using helicopters to drop water on it, before getting it under control on Thursday.

France tries forcing change on Lebanon’s politicians
During his visit this month, French President Emmanuel Macron gave Lebanon’s politicians a road map for policy changes and reform, set deadlines for them to take action and told them he’d be back in December to check on progress. It was a hands-on approach that angered some in Lebanon and was welcomed by others. And it revived a bitter question…: Can Lebanese rule themselves?

Record-early winter storm brings much below-average temperatures and record snow from Montana to New Mexico, U.S.
One of the earliest snowstorms on record swept through parts of the United States, from Montana to New Mexico on September 8 and 9, 2020, bringing record-early snow and record-cold temperatures to much of the region. The weather system hit the region after record-breaking heat, producing a drastic 33 °C (60 °F) drop in temperatures within just 24 hours.

Justice Department has charged 57 individuals with trying to steal $175M in coronavirus relief aid 
Federal prosecutors since May have charged 57 people with trying to steal more than $175 million in federal aid designed to help small businesses weather the deadly coronavirus crisis, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

LA County Public Health Director Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Reopening Schools
We know Democrats have weaponized the coronavirus against President Trump, but sacrificing the education and development of school children to hurt the president’s re-election chances — that’s just sick.

Mueller investigators ‘wiped’ government phones
Newly obtained Justice Department records show that more than two dozen government phones used by members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team were wiped of data before being returned to the inspector general.

Antifa activist arrested for arson in Washington state
Amid criminal investigations into the origin of many of the fires that have devastated communities in Washington, Oregon and California, a 36-year-old man with a history of radical activism has been arrested.

“Serious adverse event” in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial revealed as spinal inflammation disorder caused by toxic adjuvants
It has finally been revealed that the participant in AstraZeneca’s Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine trial who suffered a “serious adverse event,” causing a global shutdown of the company’s entire phase-three trial, developed a spinal inflammatory disorder known as transverse myelitis.

CHILD QUARANTINE CAMPS: CDC opens up FEMA camps to hold children who might have been exposed to COVID-19 
The state of Ohio, under the leadership of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, is opening up quarantine camps all across the state to detain children who are suspected of being infected with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19).

Tens Of Thousands Flee California As Worst Fires In State History Turn Skies Orange, Frightened Residents Say Looks Like A Literal, Glowing Hell 
By now it is obvious to anyone paying attention in 2020 that a major paradigm shift has occurred, and our world as we know it has inexorably changed. Everywhere you look, everything is now different, from the physical realm we can see to the spiritual realm we cannot see, a major change has happened. Not only have things changed, things are rapidly accelerating.

Black Christian Lives Apparently Do not Matter
Sep 11th, 2020
CommentaryGIULIO MEOTTI/GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Categories: Persecution

"Stop the killings", "Enough is enough", "Our lives matter", said Nigerian Christians and church leaders gathered in London on August 20 to demonstrate against the massacre of Christians in their country. They sent British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a letter accusing the international media of "a conspiracy of silence".

At the same time, a report by three organizations -- the International Organization for Peace Building and Social Justice, the International Committee on Nigeria and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief -- disclosed that in Nigeria, over the past 20 years, 100,000 Christians have been killed.

Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, Fulani herdsmen and other Islamist groups are responsible for the deaths of more than 96,000 Christians in 21,000 separate attacks. According to the report, 43,242 Christians were killed by Boko Haram, Islamic State and Al Qaeda; 18,834 died in Fulani attacks and 34,233 from other armed groups. Nigeria is becoming the "biggest killing ground of Christians in the world".

"This thing is systematic," said Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Argak Kwashi of Jos; "it is planned; it is calculated.... their intention is to Islamize Nigeria".

The stakes are strategic and immense. Nigeria, already the most populous African country, could have a population of about 800 million people in the year 2100, according to a study by The Lancet, and could become the ninth-largest economy in the world. "If Islam overruns Nigeria, the rest of Africa might easily fall prey to them", Bishop Hyacinth Egbebo said.

To read the reports on the massacres of Nigerian Christians, the scene is always the same: a village with a few poor houses surrounded by open fields. Jihadists appear in the middle of the night and attack house after house.

They break down doors, shout "Allahu akbar", murder the elderly, rape and maim women and children, and kidnap for ransom as a "business." They burn houses, schools and churches. "It is as if the lives of Christians no longer matter", said Pastor Stephen Baba Panya, president of the Evangelical Church Winning All.

"In Nigeria's northern and central belt states, thousands of civilians have been killed in attacks led by Boko Haram, Islamist Fulani herders and other extremist militias", wrote the Baroness Caroline Cox. "Hundreds of churches have been burned to rubble. Entire communities have been forced to abandon their homes and farmland". The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law warned of the risk of "Rwandan-style genocide".

Organizations that track the persecution of Christians have long been denouncing what is taking place. In 2012, Open Doors USA was already pointing out the risk of genocide in Nigeria. Eight years after that, how many Christian lives have been lost?

How many could be saved if the media, the chancelleries and international organizations had put pressure on the Nigerian leadership to protect its Christians? Why has the West never linked trade, diplomatic, military and political exchanges with Nigeria to protecting its Christians?

US President Ronald Reagan linked talks with the Soviet Union to a campaign to let Russia's Jews leave the country. But even the Jews in the Soviet Union were not experiencing the atrocities that the Christians in Nigeria are suffering every day.

US President Donald Trump, in 2018, raised the issue with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. "We have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria", Trump told him. President Trump, however, is almost alone among Western leaders to raise the issue. When his predecessor, President Barack Obama, met with Buhari, he never talked about the murders of Christians.

President Trump should "appoint a special envoy for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region to 'focus like a laser beam' on the attacks by Boko Haram and other Islamic militants... to stop a genocide of Christians in the region," urged former Congressman Frank Wolf.

Six years ago, the kidnapping of 276 female students, mostly Christian, by the Islamist group Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, led to international condemnation. #BringBackOurGirls trended on Twitter -- not surprisingly with no effect on Buhari. The hashtag campaign was brief.

Only one of those kidnapped Nigerian teens, Leah Sharibu, failed to regain her freedom and therefore spent two years in Boko Haram captivity. Why? Because she had refused to renounce Christianity and convert to Islam. Her mother joined a protest in London, but no major European newspaper had time for her. "Out of fatigue or self-shame, or both, we close our eyes", said the journalist Franz-Olivier Giesbert.

"Does the life of Christians in the East, Africa or Asia count? This is a question that we are entitled to ask ourselves when we see the place that our dear media give to the killings and discrimination of which Catholics or Protestants are the object on the planet: nothing or almost nothing , a few fortunate exceptions (...) It is our tartuferie (hypocrisy) that feeds the clash of civilizations".

Another exception was the French author Bernard-Henri Lévy. In a long article, Lévy described his visit to Nigerian churches and villages burned and destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists, while local priests and bishops showed him the photographs of Christian women mutilated after they refused to convert to Islam. Then a Fulani told him:

"This is our land, there are too many Christians here, Christians are dogs and children of bitches. They are traitors because they have converted to the White religion. When they all leave, Nigeria will finally be free".

American journalist Kirsten Powers wrote:

"Christians in the Middle East and Africa are being slaughtered, tortured, raped, kidnapped, beheaded, and forced to flee the birthplace of Christianity. One would think this horror might be consuming the pulpits and pews of American churches. Not so. The silence has been nearly deafening."

Mainline US churches have embraced "virtue signaling" about racism after the death of George Floyd, but no Christian leaders have said "Black Christian Lives Matter" to raise awareness about the massacre of Christians. As one bishop said, Western silence on the persecution of Christians has been "sinister".

The "cultural genocide" of Uyghurs by the Chinese regime has been denounced and is squarely on the radar of our media, and the "Rohingya genocide" in Myanmar ended up in the International Court of Justice in The Hague; German and European Union MPs condemned it. However, on the genocide of 100,000 Christians in Africa's largest country, the West has simply shrugged.