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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Greatest Biblical Event of Our LIFETIMES Just Happened?
Dennis Edwards:
Nelson, Daniel 8:13-14 tell us that the period of the prayer and the transgression of desolation will be 2,300 days. Therefore, if this is the Covenant we should see the Jewish people begin sacrificing within around 8 months from now. See my article:https://fightforyourfaith.blogspot.com/2021/07/how-do-2300-days-of-daniel-8-fit-into.html
We are definitely moving toward World Government, but I believe the Covenant will give the Jewish people the right to begin their sacrificing on the Holy Mount, no doubt in exchange for giving the Palestinians some autonomy and security. Remember the Red Heifer. Daniel 11: 30-31 shows us that the AC will stop the daily sacrifice and place the abomination that makes desolate. Daniel 9:27 shows us that the breaking of the Covenant and the stopping of the sacrifice and placing of the abomination takes place "at the midst of the week," or at the 3 and 1/2 year mark of that last 7 year period.
Daniel 8:13-14 tells us how many days the sacrifice and abomination shall stand. So many days of sacrifice before it is stopped, PLUS, so many days of the abomination standing, EQUALS, 2,300 days. Since the abomination standing is either 1,260 days or 1290 days, then the time of the sacrifice must be 2,300 days MINUS 1260 or 1290 days. That gives us either 1,040 days or 1010 days of sacrifice which will stop at the 3 and 1/2 year mark or 1,260 days from the signing of the Covenant. That would mean, if this is indeed the Covenant and not a precursor to it, that in 220 days or 250 days the Jewish people will start their religious sacrificing on the Temple Mount.
It seems a bit premature to claim that. Unless their is some secret agreement already made or if some major military operation is going to be made against Israel?
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Pope Francis Says All Religions Lead to God; A Strong Bishop Corrects Him (2)
Posted by Daily Citizen Staff | Sep 16, 2024 | Culture
At an interreligious youth meeting in Singapore late last week, Pope Francis made some troubling statements about how people around the world can find God’s salvation.
Departing from his prepared remarks, Francis declared to the gathering that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.” He continued, “Sort of a comparison, an example, would be they’re sort of like different languages in order to arrive at God.”
The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics continued along this universalist tack: “But God is God for all. And if God is God for all, we are all sons and daughters of God.”
He lamented that some argue, “But my God is more important than your God!” and asked, “Is that true?”
Answering his own question to the young people, the pontiff finished,
There is only one God and each of us has a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God. Sihk, Muslim, Hindu, Christian. There are different paths. Understand?
And the leaders on stage, representing various religions, happily shook their heads in agreement.
Crux, a Catholic news site, said of these statements from the Pope, “Such rhetoric has stirred controversy … among more conservative Catholics who fear that it calls into question Catholic doctrine on Christ as the lone savior of the world and also undercuts missionary efforts to bring people to the faith.”
They are not wrong.
When Pope Francis made similar statements at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan in 2022, Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider from that country warned such statements risk creating a “supermarket of religions” where people can shop for what suits them.
Of course, such teaching is in direct conflict with Jesus and the Gospel itself.
Jesus was unequivocal when He said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, ESV)
As C.S. Lewis famously pointed out, either this claim is true, or Jesus is a lunatic or a liar.
The Christian Church has always held, from earliest days, to the exclusivity of salvation in Christ alone.
When Jesus asked the twelve Apostles, “Do you want to go away as well?,” Peter himself, who Catholics believe was the first leader of the Church, responded,
Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. (John 6:68-69, ESV)
And it was this same Peter, speaking of Jesus before the Jerusalem Council in Acts 4, who proclaimed, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12 ESV)
In First Things, archbishop emeritus Charles J. Chaput, a good friend of Focus on the Family, correctly said of the pontiff’s comments last week.
Pope Francis has the habit, by now well established, of saying things that leave listeners confused and hoping he meant something other than what he actually said.
Chaput adds, “That all religions have equal weight is an extraordinarily flawed idea for the Successor of Peter to appear to support.”
He continues,
As St. Paul preached two thousand years ago, the search for God can take many imperfect forms, but they are each an imperfect search for the one, true, triune God of Sacred Scripture. Paul condemns false religions and preaches Jesus Christ as the reality and fulfillment of the unknown God whom the Greeks worship (Acts 17:22–31).
All Christians must appreciate the clarity with which Archbishop Chaput explains,
We are called Christians because we believe Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Trinity. From the beginning of our faith, followers of Christ were unique among world religions because they accepted as true Christ’s extraordinary claim that he is God—in part because of his miracles, in part because of his preaching, but ultimately because of his death and bodily resurrection. Christians have also always believed that this reality makes Christianity categorically distinct from all other religions, and in turn requires a total commitment of our lives.
This captures the universal truth of Christianity, the foundation of the Gospel itself. Our Lord alone has the words of eternal life, to whom else shall we go?
Every leader of Christ’s Church must be crystal clear about this fact.
Any who are not, undercut their own calling, contradict the claims of Jesus Himself, and diminish the martyrdom of untold waves of saints through the ages who have given their lives for the sake of our Lord’s matchless Gospel.
At an interreligious youth meeting in Singapore late last week, Pope Francis made some troubling statements about how people around the world can find God’s salvation.
Departing from his prepared remarks, Francis declared to the gathering that “every religion is a way to arrive at God.” He continued, “Sort of a comparison, an example, would be they’re sort of like different languages in order to arrive at God.”
The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics continued along this universalist tack: “But God is God for all. And if God is God for all, we are all sons and daughters of God.”
He lamented that some argue, “But my God is more important than your God!” and asked, “Is that true?”
Answering his own question to the young people, the pontiff finished,
There is only one God and each of us has a language, so to speak, in order to arrive at God. Sihk, Muslim, Hindu, Christian. There are different paths. Understand?
And the leaders on stage, representing various religions, happily shook their heads in agreement.
Crux, a Catholic news site, said of these statements from the Pope, “Such rhetoric has stirred controversy … among more conservative Catholics who fear that it calls into question Catholic doctrine on Christ as the lone savior of the world and also undercuts missionary efforts to bring people to the faith.”
They are not wrong.
When Pope Francis made similar statements at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan in 2022, Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider from that country warned such statements risk creating a “supermarket of religions” where people can shop for what suits them.
Of course, such teaching is in direct conflict with Jesus and the Gospel itself.
Jesus was unequivocal when He said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6, ESV)
As C.S. Lewis famously pointed out, either this claim is true, or Jesus is a lunatic or a liar.
The Christian Church has always held, from earliest days, to the exclusivity of salvation in Christ alone.
When Jesus asked the twelve Apostles, “Do you want to go away as well?,” Peter himself, who Catholics believe was the first leader of the Church, responded,
Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God. (John 6:68-69, ESV)
And it was this same Peter, speaking of Jesus before the Jerusalem Council in Acts 4, who proclaimed, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12 ESV)
In First Things, archbishop emeritus Charles J. Chaput, a good friend of Focus on the Family, correctly said of the pontiff’s comments last week.
Pope Francis has the habit, by now well established, of saying things that leave listeners confused and hoping he meant something other than what he actually said.
Chaput adds, “That all religions have equal weight is an extraordinarily flawed idea for the Successor of Peter to appear to support.”
He continues,
As St. Paul preached two thousand years ago, the search for God can take many imperfect forms, but they are each an imperfect search for the one, true, triune God of Sacred Scripture. Paul condemns false religions and preaches Jesus Christ as the reality and fulfillment of the unknown God whom the Greeks worship (Acts 17:22–31).
All Christians must appreciate the clarity with which Archbishop Chaput explains,
We are called Christians because we believe Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Trinity. From the beginning of our faith, followers of Christ were unique among world religions because they accepted as true Christ’s extraordinary claim that he is God—in part because of his miracles, in part because of his preaching, but ultimately because of his death and bodily resurrection. Christians have also always believed that this reality makes Christianity categorically distinct from all other religions, and in turn requires a total commitment of our lives.
This captures the universal truth of Christianity, the foundation of the Gospel itself. Our Lord alone has the words of eternal life, to whom else shall we go?
Every leader of Christ’s Church must be crystal clear about this fact.
Any who are not, undercut their own calling, contradict the claims of Jesus Himself, and diminish the martyrdom of untold waves of saints through the ages who have given their lives for the sake of our Lord’s matchless Gospel.
Pope Says: “All Religions Are A Path To God” Others Move To Correct Him (1)
by | Sat, Sep 21 2024During his recent visit to Singapore, Pope Francis declared that “all religions are a path to God,” sparking a backlash among Christian leaders and believers around the world. Departing from his prepared remarks, Francis, who’ll turn 88 in December, spoke off the cuff, stating that different religions are like “different languages” to reach God.
“If you start to fight: My religion is more important than yours, mine is true and yours isn’t. Where will that lead us?” he asked, according to Catholic news outlet Crux. “There’s only one God, and each of us has a language to arrive at God. Some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, and they are different paths [to God],” he added.
US Christian commentator Billy Hallowell wrote in The Washington Times: “The pontiff tossed petrol on the proverbial flames of concern when he went off-script, delivering a head-scratching monologue seen by some as undermining the Christian Gospel.”
Reacting to the Pope’s comments, Bishop Joseph Strickland, who oversaw the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas, until his dismissal by the Vatican last year, said in a social media post: “Please pray for Pope Francis to clearly state that Jesus Christ is the only Way. To deny this is to deny Him. If we deny Christ, He will deny us, He cannot deny Himself.”
Bishop Strickland was ousted for disagreeing with Francis on the issue of banning pro-abortion Catholic politicians from receiving communion and over the degree to which outreach to the LGBT community is acceptable in the Catholic Church. A petition created in defence of the bishop last year said he was ousted because he “publicly corrected several heterodox statements from Pope Francis.”
Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, also took take aim at the Pontiff’s message by quoting: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except by Me” (John 14:6).
Outspoken former Anglican and current Old Catholic priest Father Calvin Robinson who has just moved from the UK to the US to take over an Episcopal parish in Michigan, also quoted that verse, adding: “This is a counter-scriptural statement from Pope Francis. The Scriptures teach us the opposite. The gate [to Heaven] is narrow.”
Billy Hallowell wrote: “These concerns from Mr. Strickland, Mr. Laurie and many others aren’t simply minor, dismissable complaints. They’re essential calls to correct a grave spiritual malfeasance and inaccuracy perpetuated by one of the world’s most well-known religious leaders.”
“One of the strongest presentations of this reality is seen in John 3 when Jesus speaks with a Pharisee named Nicodemus. During the exchange, Christ explains that: No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. From there, Christ explains that the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in Him.”
“Thus, it’s impossible to act as though different religions are merely divergent “languages” that all lead to the same God. The entirety of the Biblical message is one of transformation — the need to accept Jesus and allow God to transform our hearts and lives. Christ makes it painstakingly clear that a person can truly access the Lord only through Him,” the Christian commentator continued.
“This is why, via the so-called Great Commission, He implores his disciples to: Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you (Matthew 28:19-20, NIV).
“Jesus didn’t say: Go out and point people toward any random religion or philosophy, nor did he offer any prompt that affirms: All religions are paths to God. The Pope’s claims simply do not stand up to the Bible’s historical and theological narrative — and even an atheist understands this reality.”
“It’s possible Pope Francis misspoke, is being taken out of context due to translation, or wishes to further clarify his remarks. Considering the gravity of what he’s saying — and especially in light of his position in global Christendom — he owes believers everywhere an immediate and expansive explanation,” Billy Hallowell concluded.
Argentina's Milei blasts UN Over Agenda
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Argentinian President Javier Milei called out COVID lockdowns as a 'crime against humanity' in fiery speech
UNITED NATIONS, New York - Argentinian President Javier Milei, in his first address before the United Nations General Assembly, blasted the organization, saying it "has transformed into a Leviathan with multiple tentacles that intends to decide not only what each nation-state should do but also how all the citizens of the world should live."
He added, "This is how we moved from an organization that pursued peace to an organization that imposes an ideological agenda on its members," according to a Reuters translation.
He then took aim at the world body's latest offering, calling its "Pact for the Future" "twisted," saying the policy was the "wrong course" to follow.
"The adoption of this agenda is fully in line with these privileged interests, and, looks beyond the principles that were set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it is therefore twisted the role of this organization and set it on the wrong course," Milei said during his impassioned speech.
Milei accused the U.N. of turning into "one of the main proponents of systemic violations of freedom," citing the organization’s support for the COVID pandemic lockdowns and allowing "bloody dictatorships" such as Venezuela to sit on the Human Rights Council "without reproach."
"For this reason, I'd like to officially express our dissent on the pact for the future that was signed on Sunday, and I invite all nations of the free world to support us, not only in the U.N. in relation to this pact, but also in the establishment of a new agenda for this noble institution that is the agenda for freedom," Milei declared.
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Argentinean President Javier Milei addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 24, 2024. (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
"As the ‘Pact for the Future’ purports to dictate, this long list of errors and contradictions has led to a loss of credibility for the United Nations before the citizens of the free world," Milei said. "I'd like to issue a warning here we are coming to the end of a cycle: Collectivism and moral posturing and the woke agenda is coming up against reality. There are no further credible solutions to the real problems of the world."
The "Pact for the Future" was the centerpiece of the Summit for the Future, which kicked off the high-level week for the U.N. General Assembly this week. The pact serves as the culmination of policies and mission statements issued by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres over the past few years.
The pact aims to expand the scope and focus of the U.N. and its members to handle "global shocks," such as "disruptions to global flows of goods, people or finance."
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council meeting on Ukraine, on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 24, 2024. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
Milei compared these new policies, which he alleged amounted to overreach by the organizations, to the original mission and achievements of the U.N., going on to blast the celebration of countries who "punish their women just for showing their skin in this same house that have voted against the State of Israel, which is the only country in the Middle East to defend a liberal democracy."
Israel’s returning Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon applauded Milei’s challenge to the General Assembly and Guterres’ pact, calling Milei "a true friend of the State of Israel."
"In this hall where they slandered Israel all day, you expressed courage and supported Israel!"
Ambassador Danny Danon, permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations, holds a picture of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped by Hamas during the Oct. 7 attacks and whose body was found underground in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, during a United Nations Security Council meeting about the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza, at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Sept. 4, 2024. (Reuters/David 'Dee' Delgado)
Milei insisted that if the current agenda should fail, the U.N. members must ask "whether or not this was an ill-conceived program from the outset."
"We should accept this reality and change what we’re doing," he argued. "The same thing always happens with ideas that come from the Left … When individuals freely decide to act otherwise, they have no better solution than to restrict, repress or cut off their freedom."
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"In Argentina, we’ve seen with our own eyes what they have done at the end of this path of envy and sad passion: Poverty, anarchy and a total lack of liberty," Milei said. "We still have time to choose another direction."
Milei ended with his often said slogan, ""Long live freedom, damn it! Thank you very much."
Reuters contributed to this report.
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