There are plenty of Russian content creators on YT that show life in Russia today for her citizens. Plenty of expats from the USA and other countries producing Russian content as well for anyone who would care to enlighten themselves!
There are plenty of Russian content creators on YT that show life in Russia today for her citizens. Plenty of expats from the USA and other countries producing Russian content as well for anyone who would care to enlighten themselves!
A common tactic in debating, to point the finger at someone else to divert attention from what was the subject.
I had a step-father-in-law who was interned at Dinuba (near Fresno) for the duration. He had no resentment, and said that he could understand why it was done. His older brother was permitted to leave the camp and attend a Seventh Day Adventist seminary. He received $10.000 in compensation from the U.S. Govt. a few years before his death. I interviewed him for a college paper and got an A+ and rave reviews. Your expertise here is....?
Native Americans, popularly depicted in movies and other fiction as robbed and oppressed, but in actual fact some of un-civilizations fiercest, most heartless and ruthless warriors. Killers of women and children, excelled in torture of captives. They certainly gave as good as they got, and just lost.
Millions killed by the U.S. invading other countries.....well, let's see here......who declared war on who, the U.S. or Germany? Who had a dozen or more death camps that liquidated MILLIONS of innocent civilians? Hard to compare Nissi detention camps to that, isn't it? Ever hear of a Japanese incident (just one of many) called "The Rape of Nanking?" And, of course you'll bring up the A Bomb, but how many Japanese and Americans would have died if we had invaded the home islands? Everywhere the Nazis and Japanese went the population was abused and exterminated. How did the Marshall Plan compare? Who stood up to the Communists in South Korea? Lots of Americans didn't come home.
Always a pleasure to get the views of those who hate America. If your feelings were similar about the Russians would you be free to post them in Moscow?
DG
Trying to justify emotional attachments to one side or the other by arguing over which group of power drunk government hacks are the worst...
Boy howdy now there's a fruitless endeavor.
Anybody looking around and thinking that maybe "Jacob's trouble" is manifesting?
Interesting thought....Worth studying about.
We are still very early in the final season. I believe war is ramping up but the world ...especially the disgrace our country has become...Does NOT have the stomach for war. The people of the 1930's had an intestinal fortitude the likes of which these gutless cowards today will never know. ...The world as a whole has no stomach for war so when it comes...and it IS coming..the cries for peace will be deafening and the fools will take peace at any price. Mans hubris will try to fix this by seizing liberty from the world as a whole...out of fear, the masses will accept it. The sheep want one worldism. They're getting it. It won't work.
Isaiah 45 - I AM the Lord and there is none else
I think that young men will be shaving their own heads in their enthusiasm for enlistment, but that's another story.
1, Russia has furnished nukes to Belarus, (who are itching to use them).
2, Russia has greatly increased their furnishing of "advisors" and material to Syria and Jordan.
3, The peace accord between Israel and Egypt is now broken, forces on both sides have been shooting at one another.
4, Israel has been getting ready for hordes of Hezbollah and 10s of thousands of rockets to attack.
5, Israel now has their own air-to-air refueling capability to strike "Elam" the section of Iran that borders the Persian Gulf and contains most of the launching systems that point at Israel.
6, Jerimiah 49:35 speaks of "Breaking the bow" of Elam.
Elam has the missiles, (arrows,) but Israel will break the "Bow", (the launch facilities).
7, Iran has admitted they have nuke capability, Israel has been practicing for a pre-emptive strike on the launch facilities.
8, Egypt was adamant about Israel to stop the Rafah operation, they didn't want Israel to discover the cross-border tunnels
that Egypt was using to smuggle arms into Gaza.
9, All of the "nations" listed in Psalm 83, (with the exception of "Elam",) are presently located in the four countries that
share a common border with Israel, that's Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
10, Lebanon will attack from the north, Syria will attack thru the Golan Heights, Jordan will attack thru the West Bank, and Egypt will attack from the south.
11, Faced with being completely overrun, and the "Iron Dome" overwhelmed, Israel will "push the button", Damascus and Ammon will be obliterated, and the "Bow of Elam" will be broken.
What we're seeing in Gaza/Rafah is the prelude to the Psalm 83 war, in which all the attackers share a common hatred of Israel and want the country and its people obliterated.
The Ezekial 38 Gog-Magog comes later, it involves countries that do not share a common border with Israel, and they are described as attacking to "Take a spoil"
In the Psalm 83 war the IDF forces, (with God's grace,) win, but take heavy casualties.
In the Gog-Magog war God fights the battle and the attackers are destroyed by His might.
Yes, we're seeing all the pieces fall into place right before our eyes.
When I was younger, I had a hard time understanding what was written in the Bible. At first, I thought that it was because I was not well enough educated. As time went by, it occurred to me that perhaps, over the centuries, as the Bible was translated from it's original form into various languages, some errors may have been made, or at least, some nuances may have been lost. There are plenty of examples of inconsistencies that can found if you look. For example, In Genesis, God gives to man all living things as meat. But the Ten Commandments tell us that Thou Shalt Not Kill. It's pretty hard to eat a steak if you don't kill the cow, so at a minimum, something there was poorly translated. Perhaps Thou Shall Not Kill should really be Thou Shall Not Murder They Fellow Man? If that error exists, then how many more have been placed by the imperfect hand of man as it handled the original sacred messages? One could surmise that this was the intentional work of the deceiver, or simple incompetence.
In any event, the current form of the Bible would seem to be a hazardous tool to use when trying to understand the divine truths. In the hands of ill purposed people, cherry picked passages have been used to falsely state the purpose & intent of the good book. For example, we could look at the passage where Jesus tells Luke to sell his cloak & buy a sword, then look at the passage where God commends mirth, for man hath nothing better under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry. If you look at just those two passages, you might logically conclude that by going out drinking & shooting you are doing the Lord's work. ...but that is obviously not the true message of the Bible. It would be a deception, based on cherry picking & misrepresentation. It would be blasphemy.
Now, even if the good book is in the hands of a person with good intentions, the likely transnational imperfections are still an issue. This leaves me wanting to be cautious about how much faith I put into the printed material that I am told constitutes The Bible. I just don't believe that I have a fully legitimate version available to me.
That leaves me observing the acts of my fellow man & trying to decipher things for myself, a skill that has been frowned upon in schools for quite a while now. At this time, I see the evil forces as being represented by those who were politely described by this country's founders as "ambitious men". Tyranny is the face of evil in this world today, as I see it. The ever increasing concentration of wealth & influence into a smaller number of hands has always been a formula for disaster throughout history, but today it's being perfected as an art form. Social media is actual social monitoring, a tool for determining just how far The People can be pushed before they rebel. It's also a tool for determining how well lies have taken root and are now believed to be truths. The internet is also a fantastic tool for distributing different information to different groups of people & farming division in society. many good hearted people still exist in this world, but they are prevented from obtaining power & influence through the cancel culture. The move in the direction of tyranny is accelerating. The art-form is being perfected.
The coordinated world wide response to the pandemic was a showing of just how unified and ubiquitous the tyrannical forces have become. Even remote little island nations got on board & toed the line with the prescribed reactions. That entire event was an apparent dress rehearsal for something bigger. it was a test of who is on what side. The next big thing that comes along may well be a grand finale type of event. The will certainly exists in the ruling class. The ability to pull it off may be at hand.
The most likely salvation that I see for the common man is the greed at the top causing infighting between the major players, during which, they loose sight of or loose interest in the unwashed masses. In that case, the meek may actually inherit the earth. Perhaps the holy spirit that resides within the lowly will bind the commoners together as the evil greed within the elites will cause them to destroy each other. perhaps that will be the final battle of good vs. evil? How much of what has been written is a metaphor? How much of that metaphor has been poorly translated? Many possibilities exist. My stated example is as a grain of sand on a beach of possible outcomes. I offer it as food for thought.
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“an armed society is a polite society.”
Robert A. Heinlein
"Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset."
Publius Tacitus
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
2 Timothy chapter 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Hey Nines,
I think the rift is usually a misunderstanding between two folks that ultimately believe the same thing.
When a born again christian says something like "But we are no longer under the Mosaic Law" so that does not apply to us. There usually is someone that might be offended and will quote
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
And the first person will then quote
Colossians 2:16-17
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
and then it usually heads to
Galations 3:10-14
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
At some point they both agree that all scripture is Holy and Profitable but the Born again Christian is not under the curse of the Law with regards to salvation but still should not murder, steal, lie,commit adultery, fornicate etc. and if we do we are forgiven under the blood of Christ and no animal sacrifice needed as in the Mosaic Law.
I think what Paul was teaching is that Salvation is by Faith alone and not of works less any man should boast because at the time there were some trying to teach Faith+works (circumcision for example) for salvation and he was leveling the boom on them with a pretty Harsh rebuke.
I tend to think the rift is because some people cannot discern the difference between Law, statute and ordnance.
Ohh well. HIS will be done.
Isaiah 45 - I AM the Lord and there is none else
The Truth Project addresses all these issues and more in about two months of Wednesday nights on 12 DVDs. You have to watch it carefully as a fellowship group, The Word is a team sport as is this forum.
IMHO the modern failing is scientism, the belief that all is figured out if only we had a bigger telescope.
(University of Arizona is building it, we will soon have swell new colorized pictures of faraway blobs.)
Kick God out of school, who is left to run it? And the Deceiver does a poor job, as planned.
So we are left with nothing to worship except our own selves.
Surely there will soon be another nifty war in the "Middle East" what else is new?
Where does Joel 3:1-3 fit into this discussion?
exile
"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage." --John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men. 1776
"The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times." Psalm 12:6 (E.S.V.)
"So we are left with nothing to worship except our own selves."
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"There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage." --John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men. 1776
"The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times." Psalm 12:6 (E.S.V.)
Joel 3
King James Version
1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
11 Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.
12 Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
16 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth out of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of ****tim.
19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
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