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And we see the comments made of the decline of the United States, the fall of the Roman Empire comes to mind...

When God brought Israel out of bondage, He implemented laws which some might consider draconian. Various offenses were punishable by death. There was no freedom of religion or speech, for that matter. Illegitimate children were to be aborted. A potion was administered by a priest to that end. Sexual immorality was punishable by death. A system, cities of refuge, was devised to deal with murderers, for which execution was commanded. Homosexuality was explicitly forbidden, no doubt because it was practiced in Egypt. Even with a system like this, the people were ultimately all killed. A new nation was brought forth. Many of the things which God punished with death are now openly practiced in America. A China-Russia military alliance could be as devastating to America as Babylon or Rome was to Israel. People worry about the shaking. There are other things to be concerned about.

I agree that God's eternity is essential. Thanks for adding it.

This the correct view, He was fully God and yet fully man, that is hard for us to grasp and tends to confuse our understanding on it...

I think Noah is the only one who could truly claim 'weather patterns are shifting.'

And He is from everlasting...

Here is a good sermon on this from Mark Finley... "We don't "ride" into God's kingdom on our church membership. Salvation isn't determined on the basis of names on the church books. And yet, it is important to know how God is going to use His church in the last days. We need to understand what is meant by that important expression, "the shaking." What events will constitute the shaking? How will the shaking affect each of us? Will God's believers be shaken out? Or will the unfaithful be shaken out? How will God purify His church? And how can we be confident that we are among those who, knowing Jesus, will receive God's seal, so that we may live forever? We want to face the future with a firm assurance in Jesus. Throughout history, God's people have often drifted into apostasy. Periodically they have adopted the customs and practices of the people around them. Note some examples: Old Testament God called Abraham out from among the idolaters of his day because of his obedience. He was a "friend of God," a loyal, devoted follower of the true God. In subsequent generations, God called Abraham's descendants, the people of Israel, out of Egyptian bondage to maintain this obedient relationship with Him. When Israel persisted in disobedience, God allowed them to face oppression, persecution and defeat at the hands of their enemies, and eventually to go into captivity, in order to teach them dependence upon Him. Then He called them out of Babylon's paganism to be His separated people once more. Through the prophets' warnings and appeals to repent, and through the scourge of persecution, He tried to purify them, pruning the unfruitful branches. Some responded, but most of Israel blatantly continued in rebellion. New Testament The Greek word for church in the New Testament is ekklesia, a gathering or assembly, especially one that had been "called out" of a larger community (in Greek, ek means "out" or "out of" and klesia is from the word that means "to call"). The New Testament church was a body of believers called out of the world to maintain faithful allegiance to God (see 1 Pet 2:9). Church history reveals that the New Testament church drifted away from God. Pagan practices began to slip into the church. Images, Sunday worship, human ordinances, indulgences—all were signs of the growing apostasy. Reformation The Reformation was also about God calling out of God's people. First, God called the reformers out of the papacy, which had become Babylon. Then those reformers—Wycliffe, Huss, Jerome, Luther, Calvin, and others—called out other true believers from the main body. But when the Protestant churches failed to keep pace with the advancing light of God's Word, God again called Bible students out of Protestantism during the Advent movement. Whenever the corporate body at large has drifted away from God, spurned the principles of the Scriptures for the practices of the world, and refused the advancing light of God's Word, God has called out a body of believers from the Babylonian confusion and rebellion. Shaken Out or In? Many Seventh-day Adventists today are deeply concerned as they see certain conditions within their church. They sincerely wonder whether God is about to call out a body of believers from the Seventh-day Adventist church in order to purify it. In fact, certain movements we often call "offshoots" base their entire philosophy on the idea that God is going to purify the church by calling out a faithful few. But God's method is to call people out of paganism, out of Egypt and Babylon, not out of Israel. He works to purify His people, pruning some branches of the parent stock and grafting others in (see Rom 11, especially vv. 17-23). He removes the dead wood. In Hebrews 12 Paul recounts Israel's experience at Mount Sinai when God delivered the Ten Commandments. He speaks of the darkness, the thundering, the great voice speaking, and the fear. Then He says: "His voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, 'Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heaven.' This phrase, 'Yet once more,' indicates the removal of what is shaken, as of what has been made, in order that what cannot be shaken may remain" (vv. 26-27 RSV). Notice that the unshakable things are left, and the things that are shaken are removed. Verse 28 continues, "Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe." Remnant Remains God purifies His church not by calling out the faithful, but by shaking out the unfaithful. Those who are loyal to the principles of God's Word and the teaching of Jesus remain. We call them "the remnant." Isaiah used an agriculture illustration to describe the same concept when he said, "You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them away" (Isa 41:16 RSV). John the Baptist echoed that symbol: "His shovel is ready in his hand and he will winnow his threshing-floor; the wheat he will gather into his granary, but he will burn the chaff on a fire that can never go out" (Matt 3:12 NEB)."... Shaken or Sealed? - Mark Finley — Adventists Affirm

We are at the place we were warned would appear as those we thought were close as family, church brethren, and even close friends and even leaders in the church that SOP told us would come.. "The work which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity, she will have to do in a terrible crisis, under most discouraging, forbidding, circumstances. The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld, must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith. And at that time the superficial, conservative class, whose influence has steadily retarded the progress of the work, will renounce the faith, and take their stand with its avowed enemies, toward whom their sympathies have long been tending. These apostates will then manifest the most bitter enmity, doing all in their power to oppress and malign their former brethren, and to excite indignation against them. This day is just before us. The members of the church will individually be tested and proved. They will be placed in circumstances where they will be forced to bear witness for the truth. Many will be called to speak before councils and in courts of justice, perhaps separately and alone. The experience which would have helped them in this emergency they have neglected to obtain, and their souls are burdened with remorse for wasted opportunities and neglected privileges."--Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 463. {ChS 158.1}

It became about one man, what he said was all that mattered, if you did not agree with him you went to jail or faced the firing squad. Everyone followed just Castro, and if you didnt your children would report you, your neighbors would come for you with machetes, and the soldiers would arrest you, and they would take your house, car, land, and your friends would cease to know you. My family escaped with the clothes on their backs and my mothers iron, she said Castro would not get that and she meant it and she carried it out. That was before the horrors happening now, with the power and transportation cut off...

I agree!!

Effective in reducing drug use or not, drug dealers should be executed. It may take time but eliminate enough of them, others will get the message.

There are many people here who would agree with you. However, we never saw any reduction in drug dealers or drug use. After him the national police force formed special units to cover whole cities and with the cooperation of the local Barangay Captain (village chief), they seem to be very successful. A large group, 40-50, specializing in one thing with a good intelligence network (Barangay cpt), seems to work better. This new administration has new police leadership. They have adopted a "special teams" approach that seems to be very effective. They have a special team for wanted career criminals on the run. This team can go anywhere and follow up on leads. 6-8 people, whose job it is to hunt one person. Like a most wanted. Then, when they have the suspect in sight, they mobilize the local police and move in for arrest. They are very successful. They have many different teams. It is working very well. The best I have seen in 20 years.

I am not employed by a conference or mission. But I hold evangelistic meetings. Later this year I will start a new set of meetings. Evolution VS Creation. There is a lot of scientific evidence proving evolution is impossible. Dr James Tour has many videos on it. The difficulty is to make the complex, a simple thing to understand.

A favorite refrain from prison inmates is "I didn't do it." I once remarked to a gun tower officer that the U.S. justice system must be a mess, since every inmate imprisoned here was wrongfully convicted. I then asked him if any inmate ever acknowledged his crime and guilt. Only one he could recall was an Armenian who killed the drug dealer who sold to his brother. He warned the guy once. It was driving the boys mother to despair, the drug use; unfortunately, the dealer didn't realize the seriousness of the warning. If the U.S. wants to wage war on drugs, execute dealers. Duterte had the right idea.

Joe, I noticed that EGW used the following expressions in her writings: Gospel medical missionary evangelists, medical missionary evangelists, gospel medical missionaries, medical missionaries who labor in evangelistic lines. Could you explain what a "lay evangelist" is?

That's not what is being reported here. Seem like a miscommunication between two federal agencies. Two men, one from each agency got confused and started shooting. Tension is high because of the possible arrest of a senator, who was connected to the former president, now on trail. It is difficult to tell what is true.

https://religiousliberty.tv/the-law-is-not-optional-why-congress-should-defund-jury-nullification-campaigns/ Well I disagree with Mr. Michael Peabody, Esq. Jury Nullification give the power to the people. Many people don't like that. No other country in the world has this system. It's one of the things that make America great.

Many experts believe NATO is going to go to war with Russia. Trump wants no part of that. That's why he is pulling out of NATO. The EU is bankrupt. They need a war just to stay in power and default on their debts. "Europe is becoming Unrecognisable",

Maybe in some areas, but the fact is weather patterns are shifting. Adapt 2030 YT documents it.

My friends in Michigan would disagree.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nbcsports/list-of-vaccinated-unvaccinated-nba-players-ahead-of-season/2624018/

I am a lay evangelist, so mission is important to me.

GC EXCOM voted to confirm the dates for the 63rd GC Session, scheduled for June 20–29, 2030, in Indianapolis, Indiana. GC President Köhler said the dates were set slightly earlier than usual to reduce travel challenges and avoid major holidays and peak travel periods. The goal, he noted, is to ease flight congestion, lower costs, and improve logistics for international delegates attending one of the denomination’s largest global gatherings. The decision also builds on earlier plans for Indianapolis to host the 2020 session, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, preparations were already underway. “We were just a few short months away[…]and then COVID-19 shut down everything,” GC Associate Treasurer Sabrina D’Souza recalled while presenting the motion. She framed the 2030 session as both a return to those plans and a continuation of the church’s regular global meetings. During the discussion, a question was raised about whether future sessions could be held outside the US. Responding, Köhler said leaders are already considering options for the 2035 session. “We are evaluating different locations[…]United States [and] outside of the United States,” he said, noting that decisions will take into account visa access, transportation, costs, and infrastructure. He added that, as a global church, future sessions will aim to better serve members from all regions. --------------------- There were many problems leaving the last session from that small airport. Many complaints. By 2035 two giant airports will be open in Asia. One in the Philippines is under construction and it is planned to have 4 active runways. The largest amount in the world.