Nor I you.

Merry Christmas to you!
May God see fit to raise up for us
in this upcoming new year of 2024
a new president who loves the U.S.
and can shovel through all the BS!

"The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,

but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for He sees that his day is coming."

(A Psalm of David: Psalm 37:12-13)

Thank you, okie don,

That is a perfect historically factual response.

The God of the Bible is in control of fulfilling His prophecies just as he was 2,000 years ago and 4,000 years ago.

He works through individual people, including Theodor Herzl.

Excellent! Did anyone ask her why she thought the posters were hers to destroy?

Now the hundreds, if not thousands of students across this country who chose to behave as she did, should be expelled from their respective schools just as she was.

God's words have and will always stand the test of time. No man can disprove them, nor will they ever.

God did, Richard, when He told Abraham, He would make of him, and Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob's descendant's after him, a great nation. i.e., Eretz Yisrael/Israel.

It is, oh, so simple, and, oh, so very profound, as exemplified by two little verses.(Acts 7:2-3)

Uh, Marty, Would that be God the H.S., who received it from J.C., the Son of God, who originally received it from GTF, God the Father?

Context is everything.

Romans 10:17 is a verse that explains how faith comes from hearing the message of the Gospel, the word of God the Father through Christ, via the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit; The verse is part of a longer passage that discusses the role of preachers, ministers, and apostles in spreading the Gospel.

Romans 10:18 "But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

The Order of Resurrection 1st Corinthians 15:32-34
"If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain?
If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God.
I say this to your shame."

Well, I would look upon that as a bonafide challenge, Marty.

There are two Greek words meaning "word" in the New Testament.

1) Logos
2) Rhema

There are two primary Greek words that describe Scripture which are translated word in the New Testament. The first, "logos," refers principally to the total inspired Word of God and to Jesus, Who is the living Logos.

Logos means in classical Greek both "reason" and "word." The translation "thought" for the Greek term, indicates the faculty of reason, when the word is inwardly conceived in the mind, as well as the word then outwardly expressed through the vehicle of language.

Biblical Examples of Logos

The following passages of Scripture give examples of the logos of God: •“In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word [logos] was with God, and the Word [logos] was God” (John 1:1). •“The seed is the word [logos] of God” (Luke 8:11). •“Holding forth the word [logos] of life” (Philippians 2:16). •“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word [logos] of truth” (II Timothy 2:15). •“For the word [logos] of God is quick, and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12). •“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word [logos] of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (I Peter 1:23).

The two ideas thought and speech, are indubitably blended in the term "logos," and in every employment of the word, in philosophy and Scripture, both concepts of thought and its outward expression are closely connected.


Rhema—The Spoken Word

The second primary Greek word that describes Scripture is rhema, which refers to a word that is spoken and means “an utterance.”

"Rhema" means "utterance," the act of speaking or otherwise communicating the conceived word.

Those we should avoid are not the unsaved sinners, but those who falsely present themselves as the most godly of the redeemed, and worm themselves into leadership positions, although they produce no fruit.

2nd Timothy 3:5:
"They will act religious, but they will reject the [spiritual] power [of the Holy Spirit] that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!"

These are the false religious leaders whose only joy was in ruling over other men, those whom Jesus rejected as ungodly men who deliberately projected a false pious external image to maintain their religious authority. Jesus called them "white washed sepulchers with dead men's bones inside;"

Matthew 23:27 -
"Woe to you, teachers of the law, Scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

Jesus never rejected humble sinners.

Rest for the Weary Matthew 11:28-30

28 "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

(Also read Luke 10:21–24)

As Noah's descendants gradually fell away from their belief and worship of their Creator God, preferring to build themselves idols in their own images, they wrote down their perverted, reimagined versions of the t***h they had once retained from Noah.

Because every word of the Bible was freshly inspired by the Holy Spirit, to God's chosen prophets, and later to the Apostles, it does not matter when the lies of Satan were written. They cannot compete in the mind of those who ask God for the wisdom to know the t***h... (James 1:5-6, 4:8)

Because the word of God is supernaturally applied to the mind and to the heart of the sincere seeker after God.

You are, therefore, arguing a moot point.

As to how long this will continue, I believe God nailed it when speaking of the descendants of Ishmail = all Arabs, and by their spiritual motivation, all muslims:

Genesis 16:12 "He shall be a wild ass of a man, with his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him, fierce and untamed, and unsettled in his habitation; or as that creature is (Job 39:5,8; Jeremiah 2:24; Hosea 8:9), living in deserts and mountains, warlike and violent, exercising himself continually in oppressing men, and he shall live at odds with all his kin/brethren." [Muhammad, founder of Islam, claimed descendancy from Ishmail.]

IMHO, the t***hfulness of God's Word needs no backing up from secular sources, although, historically, of course, those who have chosen to adhere to worldly standards, have always and will always choose so to believe.

Nor could I ever regard the word of God as merely "religious evidence," because Jesus made it clear that all those who choose to so disregard it, make themselves subject to its judgment. God's words are t***h, light and life.

Jesus said, "Whoever rejects Me and refuses to accept My teachings, has one who judges him; the very word that I spoke will judge and condemn him on the last day." John 12:48

God, speaking through the prophet Nehemiah, in the 5th century Before Christ, specifically told the spokesmen of the Iranians, the Arabs and the Jordanians they had no part in Jerusalem. That is no less true today than it was then.

"But when Sanballat the Horonite [1st Persian Empire/Iran], Tobiah the Ammonite [Jordan] official, and Geshem the Arab [Arabia] heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?
"In reply to them, I said, "The God of heaven has appointed us for His purpose and will give us success; therefore we His servants will arise and build, But as far as you're concerned, there exists no ancestral heritage, no legal right, nor any historic claim in Jerusalem." (Nehemiah 2:19-20)

In even the most "humane" wars, armies are trained to k**l people and smash things. Israel is fighting for its survival against an inhumane opponent, who is possessed by the most ancient satanic hatred on earth.

The Jews have proven with videos in recent weeks what the discriminating world has known for years, that Hamas like subterranean reptiles, has headquarters and tunnels and weapons beneath the hospitals, schools and mosques throughout the Gaza strip, with which they war against Israel in the most cruel, brutal and indiscriminate manner.

Before commencing their bombing, followed by their ground invasion of Gaza, the Israeli's repeatedly warned the civilian occupants by dropping leaflets in Arabic by the millions, to vacate the area. Hamas, in many instances, prevented them doing so, willingly facilitating their injuries and deaths as a propaganda tool.

The Bible says that Eretz Yisrael [the land of Israel] has belonged to the Jews as an eternal possession, by God's dictate, for almost 4,000 years, – which Joshua 1st made a physical reality by conquest over 3,000 years ago.

The United States, the British, and the 22 Arab nations can and will debate "Mideast peace plans" ad nauseam, however, nothing can or ever will change this pre-eminent fact: Almighty God gave the land to Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as an eternal possession. No one else is or ever will be entitled to the land. The deed is recorded in the Bible, the most historically accurate supernatural document in history.

In the Book of Genesis, God appeared to Abraham and said: “I will assign this land to your offspring” (Genesis 15:18-21). In this passage, God made an unconditional covenant – contract – with Abraham. Throughout the Bible, He repeats over and over that this covenant is eternal and unconditional, and that He alone will perform it. Nothing is contingent upon the Jewish people, or required of them.

The medieval scholar and Bible commentator Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) asked: “Why, if the Torah is a book of laws for the Jewish people, does it begin with the history of creation and the lives of our Jewish forefathers?”

Rashi’s answer foretold that there would come a time when nations would claim the Jews “stole the Land of Israel,” and that the land belongs to others and not to them.

Rashi further explains that the Bible in Genesis begins first with the story of creation to establish that all the world belongs to God, and that He alone has the right to apportion it. Again and again, in the subsequent historical stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, God promised the land of Israel to the nation of Israel.

God, in the Bible, makes it clear that the land of Israel would not be given to the descendants of Abraham’s son, Ishmael, by the Egyptian, Hagar, but rather to Isaac, the son of promise. In Genesis 17:19, God tells Abraham: “Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come.”

In 17:20-21 God promises to bless Ishmael, the ancestor of the Muslims, and use him to create a great nation, but His covenant to Abraham, which again prominently included the specific promise of the specific land, was to be accomplished through Isaac, not Ishmael, removing any ambiguity whatsoever.

When people of faith read the Bible, they understand the intrinsic, unbreakable connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. There are over 1,000 verses in the Hebrew Bible connecting the Jewish people with the land of Israel.

Anyone who questions God also questions the historical veracity of the Bible, by incorrectly assuming that in a proverbial game of "telephone," it was altered over the years.

Extensive techniques have been used by Jewish scribes for centuries to make sure the Bible we hold in our hands today is the most historically accurate document ever produced in the ancient world. Copying scriptures has always been considered a sacred task among the Jews, and therefore literally thousands of quality-control methods were locked into place to ensure reliability.

For instance, the Torah must be written by hand by a scribe, one letter at a time. This process means writing a Torah can take more than three years. And, upon completion, the document is once again checked for accuracy before it can be used.

Further, massive accumulative archeological evidence supports the belief that Israel has been in its land for as long as the Bible recounts and that the words of scripture are all historically true.

Every archaeological dig in Israel supports the t***h that Jews have had a presence in Israel for thousands of years. Jewish and non-Jewish archaeologists have found coins, pottery and literally complete buried cities that document the Jewish presence in Israel predating any shrill claims that other people now in the region make.

It is well known and indisputable that the Jews had a presence in the land of Israel until the Romans conquered it. and that they were forcibly expelled from the land during two dispersions, in the years 70 A.D. and 135 A.D..

The Ottoman Turks had control until World War I when they fought against the British on Germany’s side. The British sent troops against the Turks in the Holy Land under the leadership of Bible-believing Christian General Edmund Allenby.

In 1917, Allenby captured Beersheba from the Ottoman Empire, bringing himself within striking distance of Jerusalem, intending to deliver the city as a Christmas present to the British people. The night before the attack against Jerusalem, Allenby prayed that God would allow him to capture the city without damaging its holy sites.

On that day, Allenby sent World War I biplanes over Jerusalem on a reconnaissance mission. The Turks had never before seen airplanes and when they looked into the sky, they did not know what they seeing, and were terrified.

Further, they were told they were going to be opposed by a man named Allenby, whose name in their language means “prophet from God.” The Turks dared not fight against a prophet from God, so the next morning, General Allenby captured Jerusalem without firing a shot.

Not taking the religious significance of his role lightly, when Allenby entered the Jaffa Gate on Dec. 11, he dismounted, and entered on foot, as a sign of respect for the holy city, believing the Scriptures that only the Messiah could enter Jerusalem riding upon an animal.

In those short weeks – 40 days to be precise – between the Battle of Beersheba and the capture of Jerusalem – the Balfour Declaration was issued by the British government. It was a short declaration sent from the British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to prominent British Jew, Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, expressing the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

The Balfour Declaration was meant to inform the local inhabitants of Palestine, but most of all, it addressed the Christians of England.

“England more than anything needed a moral case in advance of Allenby’s taking Jerusalem, not for the Jewish conscience but for the Christian one,” explained Barbara Tuchman in her classic book which I have in my library, "Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour."

That moral argument originated in the Bible, for throughout the Bible, the Lord says that Israel belongs to the Jews.

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