As the year 2025 quickly approaches, the mysterious connection between the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and The Messenger will rapidly unfold with astonishing importance. It is therefore germane for readers to understand how Jesus fulfilled the Spring Feasts at His first advent in order to comprehend the pattern for His return and the connection with the Fall Feasts of 2025, followed 3.5 years later and the arrival of the asteroid Apophis.
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Most scholars now estimate that Jesus was born in the year 4 B.C. Using this calculation, 1,991 years have gone by since then. We have not yet reached the two-thousand-year mark for the end of the Passover feast. The Bible is clear that no one knows the day or hour of Christ’s return. However, this does not mean we cannot recognize the season in which He will return. Again, the feasts mark the seasons of God. Paul wrote, “But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night” (1 Thess. 5:1-2)….
As Christians, we can reclaim Thanksgiving. Rather than just being a day where we eat too much and strategize our Black Friday sales plan of attack, we can go back to our historical and spiritual roots as we give thanks to God. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2019 occurs on Thursday, November 28. However, Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on a different date. In 1957, the Canadian Parliament proclaimed Thanksgiving to be the second Monday in October, which is called Columbus Day in the United States. For Christians, Thanksgiving not only has a patriotic history, but it also has spiritual roots that go back to the Old Testament. In the United States, Thanksgiving is historically a day to praise and thank God the Father for blessings and to ask Him to heal the wounds of the nation. It was also a national day of penitence to humbly repent for our sinfulness and disobedience…
China’s communist leader Xi Jinping is calling for countries across the world to accept a global COVID-19 tracking system that uses QR codes in an attempt to expedite international travel. Xi proposed the concept during a virtual G20 leaders’ meeting on Saturday, noting that this “global mechanism” uses an electronic barcode that would help determine a traveler’s health status, according to China’s government-run “news” agency…
As the world eagerly awaits the debut of a COVID-19 vaccine, many of us imagine that receiving the immunization will be similar to getting the flu shot: We’ll head to the clinic, roll up our sleeve and feel a quick prick to the arm. But Nebraska virologist Shi-Hua Xiang envisions a different approach, one with the potential to involve a little less pain and anxiety, enhanced immunity against COVID-19 and a smaller price tag. With support from the Office of Research and Economic Development’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program, Xiang is in the early stages of developing a bacterial delivery system for a COVID-19 vaccine that would be delivered directly to the respiratory tract as a nasal spray, prompting an immune response directly at the site where SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, likely invades and multiplies…
One problem that does not go away by editing the gamete – and that is the potential to create a problem that is inheritable from one generation to the next. To fully understand this ethical issue in human genetic editing, you need to understand the difference between somatic and germline editing. Somatic editing targets cells of various parts of the body – for example, the lungs, the blood, or the kidney – to treat a certain disease. On the other hand, as the name suggests, germline editing involves editing the germline. This means that any changes made can be passed along to future generations – good or bad. This would even apply to mistakes in the editing process, which could have long-standing consequences down the road…
What will Netflix do with the public demands to cancel the streaming of ‘Cuties’ as they parade the sexualization of underage girls? Apparently nothing. Are they aware of the sex trade and trafficking of young girls their daughters’ age? I spoke with Sheriff Bill Wayburn of Tarrant County, Texas, the fourth largest county in the nation. Sadly, he is on call around the clock as he and his deputies fight sex trafficking in our country. “The scenes from this movie are a pedophile’s dream,” he shared. To his point, one of the more disturbing scenes in Cuties portrays the girls’ big dance competition. As they thrust on the dancefloor, the camera pans to the judges’ panel consisting of adult men and women appreciatively “oohing and aahing” the more provocatively the girls dance. One of the male judges implies sexual appreciation as his face conveys, “ohhhhh yea” in response to the children suggestively dancing. This reaction to children dancing in a sexual way normalizes the criminal mental illness that is pedophilia…
A team of nonscientists may have inadvertently confirmed the most important finding in Great Lakes archaeology in at least a decade. “We didn’t expect to find this — it was really just amazing,” said Andrea Pierce, a 56-year-old Ypsilanti resident and citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, who was one of four women who drove the project to inspect the Straits bottom. “My question is, who knew they were there?” The finding seems to correlate with a University of Michigan archaeologist’s 2009 discovery of similar stone formations under water in Lake Huron, near Alpena, Michigan, also believed to be from an ancient, Ice Age-era culture. That professor, John O’Shea, told state officials in February that a consultant, hired by Enbridge to explore the area of its proposed Straits tunnel pipeline project, relayed to O’Shea that he had seen similar rock formations in the Straits…
According to a recent survey, nearly a third of self-described evangelicals do not believe that Jesus Christ is truly God. Arianism, as it turns out, is a heresy that plagues multiple generations of the church, not just the one of the third century. Well, over and over the church has, in various times and ways, ruled that some beliefs are not acceptable alternatives within Christianity. Adherents are, in fact, outsiders to the faith. For example, nearly 100 years ago, in a book entitled Christianity and Liberalism, Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen argued, in an extensive scholarly treatment, that liberal Christianity was not a version of the one, true faith handed down once and for all to the saints. Liberalism was, he argued, a completely different religion from Christianity. The Liberal Christianity of Machen’s day focused on a social-reform agenda, fueled by feelings and informed by secular thought, barely draped in religious language. The God it preached was not sovereign over creation and providential over the affairs of men; did not really come in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, who did not really perform miracles or physically rise from the dead. The Bible was not really the fundamental and decisive revelation of God, nor the final authoritative source for morality, but must be understood according to our evolving scientific knowledge and political agendas. Today, there is also an effort to update Christianity…
During that program recording, as I was making the case that, depending on one’s position, the asteroid’s impact date as first set by NASA could place the possible timing of a pre-Tribulation Rapture happening around October 13, 2025, and/or a pre-wrath date as no later than April, 2029, you can see SkyWatch TV’s host Derek Gilbert studying something on his MacBook. Unknown to me, while I was talking, he was searching a Hebrew calendar and checking whether anything interesting would be happening three and a half years before the date I was talking about involving when Apophis will strike earth.
