That’s ok. We’ll just switch to Brawndo ™. It has what plants crave. Electrolytes. (You have to laugh to keep from crying!)
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Prominent journalist Tucker Carlson … exposes how the most fervent supporters of Israel in Congress are the exact same politicians voting to open American borders. He confirms the Zionist lobby is actively working to destroy the nation from within.
“These are American Jews.” “You cannot be loyal to 2 masters at once. You have to chose.” “The global nation of Jews, or America.”
https://x.com/FurkanGozukara/status/2049671579261710779?s=20
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Bobby Fischer, world chess champion, and a master at seeing patterns. (WHich does NOT mean that he is always right.)
He became an outspoken opponent of the goals of the political activities of “the global nation of Jews.”
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I remember when I first found out about the 72 shot schedule. I was horrified. It was so obvious that this would damage people. It was obvious. By the time I found out about the 72 shot schedule I was already decently self-schooled in immunology. But, even if I hadn’t been, it would still have been obvious and horrifying.
Sometimes I think, “just what type of people have we become who would allows this.”
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I must defend the faith here - your characterization of the story of Abraham and Isaac is a misrepresentation of the story and it’s meaning and your suggestion that it is part of the same cultural practice of “child sacrifice” is unfair. If you will bear with me - I’ll keep it short.
The story from Chapter 22 is one of the most poignant and perplexing in the Old Testament which is often seen as an indictment of God’s character - what kind of God would ask something so hideous of his servants? Indeed, this type of child sacrifice is the most abominable practice of the ancients (including the Israelites). The sacrifice of the innocent (especially an infant) was designed as a blasphemous affront to God - it’s hard to imagine something worse.
The story opens with verse one “. . .God tested Abraham” and Abraham answered him with “Here I am” signaling his immediate willingness to obey. As you know, Isaac was the long awaited fulfillment of the promise God had made to Abraham and Sarah - who gave birth at an advanced age. In verse 2, God gives uncharacteristic instructions to Abraham
"Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
God intentionally references the fact that Isaac is Abraham’s only “legitimate” son, “whom you love”, and that he is to offer him as a sacrifice on a distant mountain.
Speaking for myself, I couldn’t even take my beloved cat to the vet to by euthanized and I cannot imagine the horror and betrayal that Abraham must have felt at this command from God. Indeed, he arose early, saddled his own animals, and chopped his own wood. As one of the wealthiest men in that era, he could have had servants do the work, but perhaps he was ashamed, procrastinating, or taking out his frustration as he prepared for the journey. No doubt he arose early because he couldn’t sleep and just wanted to get the abominable deed over with.
I cannot imagine the anger, fear, confusion, and frustration that he must have felt as he traveled for 3 days to Mount Moriah. On the trip, his son asks “where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” Abraham’s answer is full of desperate hope “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.”
At the last second - at the point of demonstrating inhuman faithfulness - as the knife was raised to slay his only son - God intervenes:
But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
The ultimate test had been placed upon Abraham and he responded with unnatural faith and trust in God. Everything Abraham believed had been thrown into doubt. His every human instinct had been screaming for him to reject God’s command, but his trust in the promises of God were greater. God had made a covenant with Abraham prior, and he had demonstrated his faithfulness in the character of God.
The story continues:
Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
Notice that it was a ram that had been provided - the lamb would come later - in the same place - many years later. This time, there would be no one to stop the sacrifice - God would give up his “only begotten son”.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
The story of Abraham and Isaac shows the extent of God’s love for us - by His willingness to do the unthinkable - so that we may live in Truth and freedom. He spared nothing and provided the ultimate sacrifice - his Son Jesus Christ.
Trust Him.
Rector
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"Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. And so on …
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If you read the wikipedia entry on Rumpelstiltskin…its in the very first paragraph [edited below]:
Rumpelstiltskin is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children’s and Household Tales. The story is about an imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a woman’s firstborn child.
The sacrifice thing always catches my eye, since it was (apparently) a common demand made of us poor humans back in the day. Some of the Powerful Ones demanded sacrifices to make it rain when there was a drought.
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Because jehoah was not GOD. he was one of the powerful 9nes..the annunaki..and a very lesser god..He got only a people group, but no land
James Rawles posts unusual alarms about Rogue AI:
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Great show. I must say, I am getting overwhelmed now with content. Maybe we all are, because we want to stay on top of things and there is so much out there, and a lot of it is good stuff. It’s all the usual trusty truthy people onboard saying what must be said. But I’m at the point where I need to scale it back and actually get stuff done, rather than look at things that are like “you gotta get stuff done!”
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Or the abortion so you don’t derail your career.
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I totally trust God-the-Father. And Jesus too.
Do I trust the Powerful One who ran that loyalty test on Abraham? And ordered Saul to genocide the Amalek - including babies, camels, donkeys, and sheep?
Faith is earned. Jesus turned the other cheek, healed the sick, raised the dead. That gives off a very loving vibe, and it has earned my faith and trust. In contrast, that specific Powerful One in the OT ordered the genocide of the Amalek - as well as the fake (torturous) child sacrifice, and ordered death penalties for a bunch of “sins”, including being a “medium.” By contrast, Jesus said: “go and sin no more.” They couldn’t be more different.
“Religion” arranged for this Powerful One to be granted a heavenly label. Of course, “Religion” also ordered Crusades, Inquisitions, and offered Indulgences to those who paid well. Perhaps the trick was - calling a genocidal figure “God” helped justify all the murders they clearly wanted to commit.
I’m not into “Follow the Religion”, just like I’m not into “Follow the Science” post-Covid. I know I’m a total outlier - and I don’t expect any of the heavily-educated religious folks here to give any credence to my “blasphemy.”
However, there may be some in the middle who might feel the same as I do. That’s whom I’m really talking to right now.
I read the source documents, look at what everyone said and did, and I decide for myself in whom I should have faith. Jesus is right at the top of the list, as is “the Father” he talks about. That genocide-the-Amalek Powerful One that inspires Bibi Netanyahu (and the rest of the Greater Israel group) to this day? Hard pass.
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And that’s the difference between the old and the new covenant. Jesus’ death and resurrection made all the difference.
The story of Abraham and Isaac prefigures God’s sacrifice of his only begotten son, Jesus. God himself provided the sacrifice.
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How’s that? Jesus is just a face of god in essence, a game character he decided to play for a little bit. What’s a few hours of agonizing on a cross for an immortal omnipotent being? I don’t see the “sacrifice”.
Do you have children? @goldenageahead
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I do. But Jesus is god, or so I’ve been told anyway.
And he can’t be both god and the son of god, just like I can’t be my own son.
But let’s go ahead with the cognitive dissonance of being both god and son of god. So god is sacrificing his son… but he doesn’t actually lose the son because he just resurrects him.
The point of a sacrifice is that it’s forever lost. When the sacrificed is resurrected, was that even a sacrifice at all? What exactly was sacrificed?
And there’s the mystery. If you sacrifice your life and are resurrected, what’s the sacrifice?