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Một chiếc xe mang biểu tượng lễ Chanukah đã bị đốt cháy bên ngoài nhà của một giáo sĩ Do Thái địa phương ở St Kilda East, Melbourne vào ngày Giáng sinh. Một lãnh đạo cộng đồng Do Thái cho rằng chủ nghĩa bài Do Thái phải được coi là vấn đề an ninh công cộng, trong bối cảnh nhà chức trách đang truy tìm nghi phạm đứng sau vụ đánh bom xăng được cho là do thù ghét sau vụ tấn công khủng bố ở Bondi.

Tác giả người Úc Morris West (1916 – 1999) là một nhà văn tài năng xuất chúng. Ông đã viết hàng chục cuốn sách được đánh giá cao, đạt được thành công quốc tế và đã được dịch sang 27 ngôn ngữ. Sách của ông vẫn được tái bản, chủ yếu bằng tiếng Anh. Trong khoảng thời gian từ 1959 đến 1963, ông làm việc ở Vatican với tư cách là phóng viên cho tờ London Daily Mail. Kiến thức mà ông có được trong thời này này về hoạt động và nội bộ Vatican đã được phản ánh trong các tiểu thuyết của ông. Đặc biệt trong bộ ba tiểu thuyết « The Shoes of the fishman » (1963), « The Clowns of God » (1963) và « Lazarus » (1990). ----- ***** ----- Giorgio càu nhàu vẻ không vui rồi nhét tiền vào túi. « Mẹ tôi muốn tôi làm linh mục. Có lẽ bà ấy đúng. » - Linh mục cũng có vấn đề của họ, Kiril nhẹ nhàng nói. Ngay cả Giáo hoàng cũng có vài vấn đề, tôi nghe nói vậy. « Giáo hoàng ư ! Thật buồn cười ». Người bán báo thốt lên, vốn là người bán tin tức, nên cũng có quyền bình luận về nó. « Lần này họ đã thực sự làm chúng ta say mê. Một người Nga ở Vatican ! Có chuyện để kể cho anh nghe đây ! » Anh ta trải tờ báo lên bàn và chỉ tay một cách đầy ẩn ý vào bức chân dung Giáo hoàng chiếm gần nửa trang nhất. « Nói cho tôi biết liệu ông ta có phải là một người kỳ quặc để gán cho người Roma chúng ta không. Nhìn khuôn mặt đó và… » Anh ta ngừng lại và nhìn chằm chằm vào khuôn mặt râu ria của người mới đến. Giọng anh ta nhỏ dần, nhỏ dần. « Dio ! » Trông anh giống hệt ông ta. - Tôi là Giáo hoàng, anh nói với họ, và họ há hốc mồm nhìn anh như thể anh là một bóng ma. - Tôi không tin, Giorgio nói. Trông anh giống hệt ông ấy. Chắc chắn rồi ! Nhưng anh lại ngồi đây không một lira trong túi, uống cà phê, mà cà phê thì chẳng ngon chút nào. - Nó còn tốt hơn những gì tôi nhận được ở Vatican. ----- ***** ----- « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ – The Shoes of the fishman » Trên đây là trích đoạn từ tiểu thuyết « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ – The Shoes of the fishman » (1963) của nhà văn người Úc Morris L. West (1916-1999). Câu chuyện này cũng được đạo diễn Michael Anderson dựng thành phim vào năm 1968 với diễn viên Anthony Quinn trong vai giáo hoàng Kiril. Trong thời kỳ chiến tranh lạnh đạt đến đỉnh điểm, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, Tổng giám mục Lviv, Liên Xô, bất ngờ được trả tự do sao 20 năm trong trại lao động ở Siberia bởi cựu quản giáo Piotr Ilyich Kamenev. Ông được sai đến Roma và được phong hồng y. Rồi Giáo hoàng đột ngột qua đời. Và tiến trình mật nghị bầu giáo hoàng mới bắt đầu. Hồng y Lakota tham gia với tư cách là một cử tri. Sau bảy vòng bỏ phiếu không kết quả, Lakota bất ngờ được bầu làm giáo hoàng và ông miễn cưỡng chấp nhận, lấy hiệu là Kiril. Trong khi đó, thế giới đang bên bờ vực chiến tranh hạt nhân do mối thù Trung-Xô, càng trở nên trầm trọng hơn bởi nạn đói do mất mùa lan rộng ở Trung Quốc. Tối hôm sau khi đắc cử, giáo hoàng Kiril lẻn ra khỏi Vatican để vi hành thành Roma trong trang phục của một linh mục bình thường. Và xảy ra chuyện như ta thấy ở trên. Trong những năm tháng trong trại, Kamenev là người thường xuyên thẩm vấn giám mục Kiril Lakota. Vào cuối thời gian cải tạo, Kamenev đã được thăng tiến và quyết định bí mật thả Kiril với ý định đòi tiền chuộc vào một thời điểm trong tương lai. Khi Kiril Lakota trở thành Giáo hoàng, Kamenev đã liên lạc với ông và nhờ giúp đỡ về các vấn đề quốc gia. Nhờ thế, giáo hoàng đắc cử trở về Liên Xô trong trang phục thường dân để gặp riêng Kamenev và chủ tịch Bành của Trung Quốc để thảo luận về cuộc khủng hoảng đang diễn ra. Giáo hoàng Kiril nhận ra rằng nếu những bất ổn ở Trung Quốc tiếp diễn, cái giá phải trả có thể là một cuộc chiến tranh tàn phá thế giới. Trong lễ đăng quang, Kiril đã cởi bỏ vương niệm của mình và cam kết bán tài sản của Giáo hội để giúp đỡ người dân Trung Quốc, trước sự hân hoan của đám đông tại Quảng trường thánh Phê-rô. Hành động mang tính cách mạng này mang đến cho thế giới một cơ hội hòa bình mới và quyết định của Kiril được quốc tế hoan nghênh. Tiểu thuyết không hẳn là câu chuyện hư cấu. Thực tế, « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ » đã tường thuật lại những gì xảy ra ở Vatican và thế giới trong những năm 1960. Thời điểm diễn ra Công đồng Vatican II (1962-1965), làm thay đổi sâu rộng Giáo hội Công giáo và thế giới chìm dưới bóng của cuộc chiến tranh lạnh với mối đe dọa hạt nhân. Cuốn tiểu thuyết đã tiên báo cho vị giáo hoàng người Ba Lan Karol Wojtyla – Gioan-Phaolô II. Người lên ngôi vào ngày 16 tháng 10 năm 1978. The Clowns of God – Les gouffons de Dieu – Những chú hề của Chúa (1981) Tiếp theo thành công của cuốn đầu tiên lấy bối cảnh Vatican và câu chuyện xung quanh Giáo hoàng, Morris West tiếp tục phần hai. Lần này, giáo hoàng của ông là một người Pháp 65 tuổi, ông cũng phải đối diện với một cuộc khủng hoảng hạt nhân nhưng trong bối cảnh khác. Câu chuyện mở đầu cũng bằng sự ra đi của một giáo hoàng, nhưng không phải là một tang lễ mà là một sự thoái vị. Giáo hoàng Gregory XVII tự nhận mình được Chúa báo cho biết là thế giới sắp tận thế. Các hồng y ở Vatican tin rằng ông bị điên và đe dọa tuyên bố ông mất trí nếu ông không chịu từ chức. Ngài đã phải ký vào văn kiện thoái vị trước sự chứng kiến của hồng y đoàn và chúc họ may mắn trong việc tìm kiếm một người tốt nhất để đeo chiếc nhẫn ngư phủ. Jean Marie Barette, giờ đây đã là giáo hoàng danh dự, lao vào cuộc hành trình đơn độc để tìm cách ngăn chặn thế giới rơi vào vòng xoáy hỗn loạn và cuồng bạo của ngày tận thế. Với tài kể chuyện khéo léo, Morris West đã xây dựng sự hồi hộp của chuyến phiêu lưu, bằng cách đặt bên cạnh cựu giáo hoàng người bạn thân Carl Mendelius. Nhưng liệu người này có đáng tin hay không ? Ông có phải là điệp viên của CIA và sẽ đóng vai trò gì ? Tiểu thuyết của West nổi bật giữa nhiều tác phẩm hư cấu ngày nay nhờ vào những nhân vật tử tế, tốt bụng và mối quan hệ mà ông xây dựng giữa họ chính là trọng tâm của tác phẩm này. Trong một cảnh cảm động, cậu con trai đang tuổi đại học của Mendelius thú nhận mình không còn giữ đạo nữa. « Cha rất tiếc khi nghe điều đó, con trai ạ » cha cậu đáp. « Nhưng cha mừng vì con đã nói với cha. » « Không ai, cha cậu tiếp tục, có thể sai khiến lương tâm của người khác », và nói thêm, « Nhưng hãy nhớ một điều, con trai ạ. Hãy giữ cho tâm trí con luôn rộng mở, để ánh sáng luôn chiếu rọi. Hãy giữ cho trái tim con luôn rộng mở để tình yêu không bao giờ bị ngăn cản. » West có niềm tin lớn lao vào sức mạnh của đức tin, nhưng không mấy khoan nhượng với những tranh cãi về học thuyết và phẩm trật nơi tôn giáo có tổ chức. Trong thời đại mà các giáo hội truyền thống đang mất dần giáo sĩ và các cộng đoàn, những phân tích đạo đức của ông về hệ thống phẩm trật của giáo hội lại rất đúng lúc. Lararus (1990) Trong phần ba, Morris West kể về Giáo hoàng Leo XIV hư cấu, một người bảo thủ kiên định, sản phẩm hoàn hảo của hệ thống phẩm trật Vatican. Với ngài, các học thuyết và tín điều quan trọng hơn các tiêu chuẩn con người. Ít nhất là cho đến khi ngài gặp vấn đề tim mạch và phải trải qua nhiều cuộc phẫu thuật bắc cầu động mạch vành. Bác sĩ phẫu thuật chính, người Do Thái, đã cảnh báo Giáo hoàng rằng một bệnh nhân cận kề cái chết có thể bước ra khỏi ca phẫu thuật với những quan điểm khác, thậm chí là những tính cách khác. Trong khi Giáo hoàng bước vào cuộc chiến sinh tử, thì bên ngoài những cuộc chiến khác cũng diễn ra một cách khốc liệt. Các hồng y âm thầm chuẩn bị cho một cuộc bầu giáo hoàng mới cho Giáo hội. Bên trong và bên ngoài bệnh viện, các nhân viên tình báo Mossad của Israel tăng cường an ninh, vì một tổ chức khủng bố Hồi giáo có tên « Thanh Gươm Hồi giáo » muốn lợi dụng cuộc phẫu thuật này để ám sát giáo hoàng. Tuy nhiên, Giáo hoàng Leo XIV ra khỏi phòng giải phẫu với cái nhìn ôn hòa hơn về đời sống tôn giáo trong Giáo hội. Ngài phải bước vào cuộc chiến khác khi đảo ngược lại mọi đường lối trước đây và ngài phải đối mặt với một Giáo hội mà ngài không còn nắm quyền điều hành. Căng thẳng và âm mưu, xung đột nội bộ và các mối đe dọa bên ngoài, tất cả cùng nhau gây ra một giáo hoàng suy yếu và một Giáo hội dễ bị tổn thương. Các cuộc đấu tranh của đức Leo XIV đề cập đến những chủ đề luôn luôn thời sự và phù hợp cho đến ngày hôm nay : vấn đề độc thân linh mục, vị trí của phụ nữ trong Giáo hội, kiểm soát sinh sản và phá thai. Những tiểu thuyết lấy bối cảnh Vatican của Morris West không chỉ là những câu chuyện trinh thám hư cấu, mà khi đọc qua, độc giả thấy được những sự kiện và những nhân vật đã xảy ra và dần được hiện thực. Chúng được kiểm chứng qua các giáo hoàng Gioan-Phaolô II, Benedicto XVI và Phanxicô. Đó chính là sự tài tình của nhà văn người Úc khiến chúng ta phải tìm đọc những tác phẩm của ông.

Tác giả người Úc Morris West (1916 – 1999) là một nhà văn tài năng xuất chúng. Ông đã viết hàng chục cuốn sách được đánh giá cao, đạt được thành công quốc tế và đã được dịch sang 27 ngôn ngữ. Sách của ông vẫn được tái bản, chủ yếu bằng tiếng Anh. Trong khoảng thời gian từ 1959 đến 1963, ông làm việc ở Vatican với tư cách là phóng viên cho tờ London Daily Mail. Kiến thức mà ông có được trong thời này này về hoạt động và nội bộ Vatican đã được phản ánh trong các tiểu thuyết của ông. Đặc biệt trong bộ ba tiểu thuyết « The Shoes of the fishman » (1963), « The Clowns of God » (1963) và « Lazarus » (1990). ----- ***** ----- Giorgio càu nhàu vẻ không vui rồi nhét tiền vào túi. « Mẹ tôi muốn tôi làm linh mục. Có lẽ bà ấy đúng. » - Linh mục cũng có vấn đề của họ, Kiril nhẹ nhàng nói. Ngay cả Giáo hoàng cũng có vài vấn đề, tôi nghe nói vậy. « Giáo hoàng ư ! Thật buồn cười ». Người bán báo thốt lên, vốn là người bán tin tức, nên cũng có quyền bình luận về nó. « Lần này họ đã thực sự làm chúng ta say mê. Một người Nga ở Vatican ! Có chuyện để kể cho anh nghe đây ! » Anh ta trải tờ báo lên bàn và chỉ tay một cách đầy ẩn ý vào bức chân dung Giáo hoàng chiếm gần nửa trang nhất. « Nói cho tôi biết liệu ông ta có phải là một người kỳ quặc để gán cho người Roma chúng ta không. Nhìn khuôn mặt đó và… » Anh ta ngừng lại và nhìn chằm chằm vào khuôn mặt râu ria của người mới đến. Giọng anh ta nhỏ dần, nhỏ dần. « Dio ! » Trông anh giống hệt ông ta. - Tôi là Giáo hoàng, anh nói với họ, và họ há hốc mồm nhìn anh như thể anh là một bóng ma. - Tôi không tin, Giorgio nói. Trông anh giống hệt ông ấy. Chắc chắn rồi ! Nhưng anh lại ngồi đây không một lira trong túi, uống cà phê, mà cà phê thì chẳng ngon chút nào. - Nó còn tốt hơn những gì tôi nhận được ở Vatican. ----- ***** ----- « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ – The Shoes of the fishman » Trên đây là trích đoạn từ tiểu thuyết « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ – The Shoes of the fishman » (1963) của nhà văn người Úc Morris L. West (1916-1999). Câu chuyện này cũng được đạo diễn Michael Anderson dựng thành phim vào năm 1968 với diễn viên Anthony Quinn trong vai giáo hoàng Kiril. Trong thời kỳ chiến tranh lạnh đạt đến đỉnh điểm, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, Tổng giám mục Lviv, Liên Xô, bất ngờ được trả tự do sao 20 năm trong trại lao động ở Siberia bởi cựu quản giáo Piotr Ilyich Kamenev. Ông được sai đến Roma và được phong hồng y. Rồi Giáo hoàng đột ngột qua đời. Và tiến trình mật nghị bầu giáo hoàng mới bắt đầu. Hồng y Lakota tham gia với tư cách là một cử tri. Sau bảy vòng bỏ phiếu không kết quả, Lakota bất ngờ được bầu làm giáo hoàng và ông miễn cưỡng chấp nhận, lấy hiệu là Kiril. Trong khi đó, thế giới đang bên bờ vực chiến tranh hạt nhân do mối thù Trung-Xô, càng trở nên trầm trọng hơn bởi nạn đói do mất mùa lan rộng ở Trung Quốc. Tối hôm sau khi đắc cử, giáo hoàng Kiril lẻn ra khỏi Vatican để vi hành thành Roma trong trang phục của một linh mục bình thường. Và xảy ra chuyện như ta thấy ở trên. Trong những năm tháng trong trại, Kamenev là người thường xuyên thẩm vấn giám mục Kiril Lakota. Vào cuối thời gian cải tạo, Kamenev đã được thăng tiến và quyết định bí mật thả Kiril với ý định đòi tiền chuộc vào một thời điểm trong tương lai. Khi Kiril Lakota trở thành Giáo hoàng, Kamenev đã liên lạc với ông và nhờ giúp đỡ về các vấn đề quốc gia. Nhờ thế, giáo hoàng đắc cử trở về Liên Xô trong trang phục thường dân để gặp riêng Kamenev và chủ tịch Bành của Trung Quốc để thảo luận về cuộc khủng hoảng đang diễn ra. Giáo hoàng Kiril nhận ra rằng nếu những bất ổn ở Trung Quốc tiếp diễn, cái giá phải trả có thể là một cuộc chiến tranh tàn phá thế giới. Trong lễ đăng quang, Kiril đã cởi bỏ vương niệm của mình và cam kết bán tài sản của Giáo hội để giúp đỡ người dân Trung Quốc, trước sự hân hoan của đám đông tại Quảng trường thánh Phê-rô. Hành động mang tính cách mạng này mang đến cho thế giới một cơ hội hòa bình mới và quyết định của Kiril được quốc tế hoan nghênh. Tiểu thuyết không hẳn là câu chuyện hư cấu. Thực tế, « Đôi giày của người ngư phủ » đã tường thuật lại những gì xảy ra ở Vatican và thế giới trong những năm 1960. Thời điểm diễn ra Công đồng Vatican II (1962-1965), làm thay đổi sâu rộng Giáo hội Công giáo và thế giới chìm dưới bóng của cuộc chiến tranh lạnh với mối đe dọa hạt nhân. Cuốn tiểu thuyết đã tiên báo cho vị giáo hoàng người Ba Lan Karol Wojtyla – Gioan-Phaolô II. Người lên ngôi vào ngày 16 tháng 10 năm 1978. The Clowns of God – Les gouffons de Dieu – Những chú hề của Chúa (1981) Tiếp theo thành công của cuốn đầu tiên lấy bối cảnh Vatican và câu chuyện xung quanh Giáo hoàng, Morris West tiếp tục phần hai. Lần này, giáo hoàng của ông là một người Pháp 65 tuổi, ông cũng phải đối diện với một cuộc khủng hoảng hạt nhân nhưng trong bối cảnh khác. Câu chuyện mở đầu cũng bằng sự ra đi của một giáo hoàng, nhưng không phải là một tang lễ mà là một sự thoái vị. Giáo hoàng Gregory XVII tự nhận mình được Chúa báo cho biết là thế giới sắp tận thế. Các hồng y ở Vatican tin rằng ông bị điên và đe dọa tuyên bố ông mất trí nếu ông không chịu từ chức. Ngài đã phải ký vào văn kiện thoái vị trước sự chứng kiến của hồng y đoàn và chúc họ may mắn trong việc tìm kiếm một người tốt nhất để đeo chiếc nhẫn ngư phủ. Jean Marie Barette, giờ đây đã là giáo hoàng danh dự, lao vào cuộc hành trình đơn độc để tìm cách ngăn chặn thế giới rơi vào vòng xoáy hỗn loạn và cuồng bạo của ngày tận thế. Với tài kể chuyện khéo léo, Morris West đã xây dựng sự hồi hộp của chuyến phiêu lưu, bằng cách đặt bên cạnh cựu giáo hoàng người bạn thân Carl Mendelius. Nhưng liệu người này có đáng tin hay không ? Ông có phải là điệp viên của CIA và sẽ đóng vai trò gì ? Tiểu thuyết của West nổi bật giữa nhiều tác phẩm hư cấu ngày nay nhờ vào những nhân vật tử tế, tốt bụng và mối quan hệ mà ông xây dựng giữa họ chính là trọng tâm của tác phẩm này. Trong một cảnh cảm động, cậu con trai đang tuổi đại học của Mendelius thú nhận mình không còn giữ đạo nữa. « Cha rất tiếc khi nghe điều đó, con trai ạ » cha cậu đáp. « Nhưng cha mừng vì con đã nói với cha. » « Không ai, cha cậu tiếp tục, có thể sai khiến lương tâm của người khác », và nói thêm, « Nhưng hãy nhớ một điều, con trai ạ. Hãy giữ cho tâm trí con luôn rộng mở, để ánh sáng luôn chiếu rọi. Hãy giữ cho trái tim con luôn rộng mở để tình yêu không bao giờ bị ngăn cản. » West có niềm tin lớn lao vào sức mạnh của đức tin, nhưng không mấy khoan nhượng với những tranh cãi về học thuyết và phẩm trật nơi tôn giáo có tổ chức. Trong thời đại mà các giáo hội truyền thống đang mất dần giáo sĩ và các cộng đoàn, những phân tích đạo đức của ông về hệ thống phẩm trật của giáo hội lại rất đúng lúc. Lararus (1990) Trong phần ba, Morris West kể về Giáo hoàng Leo XIV hư cấu, một người bảo thủ kiên định, sản phẩm hoàn hảo của hệ thống phẩm trật Vatican. Với ngài, các học thuyết và tín điều quan trọng hơn các tiêu chuẩn con người. Ít nhất là cho đến khi ngài gặp vấn đề tim mạch và phải trải qua nhiều cuộc phẫu thuật bắc cầu động mạch vành. Bác sĩ phẫu thuật chính, người Do Thái, đã cảnh báo Giáo hoàng rằng một bệnh nhân cận kề cái chết có thể bước ra khỏi ca phẫu thuật với những quan điểm khác, thậm chí là những tính cách khác. Trong khi Giáo hoàng bước vào cuộc chiến sinh tử, thì bên ngoài những cuộc chiến khác cũng diễn ra một cách khốc liệt. Các hồng y âm thầm chuẩn bị cho một cuộc bầu giáo hoàng mới cho Giáo hội. Bên trong và bên ngoài bệnh viện, các nhân viên tình báo Mossad của Israel tăng cường an ninh, vì một tổ chức khủng bố Hồi giáo có tên « Thanh Gươm Hồi giáo » muốn lợi dụng cuộc phẫu thuật này để ám sát giáo hoàng. Tuy nhiên, Giáo hoàng Leo XIV ra khỏi phòng giải phẫu với cái nhìn ôn hòa hơn về đời sống tôn giáo trong Giáo hội. Ngài phải bước vào cuộc chiến khác khi đảo ngược lại mọi đường lối trước đây và ngài phải đối mặt với một Giáo hội mà ngài không còn nắm quyền điều hành. Căng thẳng và âm mưu, xung đột nội bộ và các mối đe dọa bên ngoài, tất cả cùng nhau gây ra một giáo hoàng suy yếu và một Giáo hội dễ bị tổn thương. Các cuộc đấu tranh của đức Leo XIV đề cập đến những chủ đề luôn luôn thời sự và phù hợp cho đến ngày hôm nay : vấn đề độc thân linh mục, vị trí của phụ nữ trong Giáo hội, kiểm soát sinh sản và phá thai. Những tiểu thuyết lấy bối cảnh Vatican của Morris West không chỉ là những câu chuyện trinh thám hư cấu, mà khi đọc qua, độc giả thấy được những sự kiện và những nhân vật đã xảy ra và dần được hiện thực. Chúng được kiểm chứng qua các giáo hoàng Gioan-Phaolô II, Benedicto XVI và Phanxicô. Đó chính là sự tài tình của nhà văn người Úc khiến chúng ta phải tìm đọc những tác phẩm của ông.

Thủ tướng Anthony Albanese cho biết Tổng Toàn quyền sẽ gửi lời mời Tổng thống Israel Isaac Herzog đến thăm Úc “ngay khi có thể”. Ông Herzog đã đồng ý thực hiện chuyến thăm này sau vụ tấn công khủng bố nhắm vào cộng đồng Do Thái tại Sydney hôm 14 tháng 12.

Tám ngày sau vụ tấn công gây chấn động nhằm vào cộng đồng Do Thái tại Úc, Thủ tướng Anthony Albanese đã lên tiếng xin lỗi và thừa nhận nỗi đau, sự phẫn nộ đang lan rộng trong cộng đồng. Tuy nhiên, ông vẫn không ủng hộ việc thành lập Ủy ban Điều tra Hoàng gia cấp liên bang, bất chấp những lời kêu gọi ngày càng mạnh mẽ từ các lãnh đạo cộng đồng và phe đối lập.

Nỗi đau tập thể là một trải nghiệm thường thấy sau những thảm kịch lớn, như sự kiện mà Úc đã chứng kiến tại Bãi biển Bondi vào ngày 14 tháng 12. Mười lăm người đã thiệt mạng trong vụ tấn công khủng bố, và kể từ đó, nỗi đau thương đã lan rộng khắp nước Úc và trên toàn thế giới, đặc biệt là trong các cộng đồng Do Thái, những người bị nhắm mục tiêu trong vụ tấn công. Các nghi lễ đóng vai trò quan trọng trong cộng đồng Do Thái, và các chuyên gia cho rằng chúng là một phần thiết yếu của quá trình vượt qua mất mát.

“Bóng ma của chủ nghĩa bài Do Thái” đang trỗi dậy mạnh mẽ, biến những thiên đường du lịch từ bãi biển Bondi đến vùng rừng rậm Mindanao thành tâm điểm của nỗi kinh hoàng. Vụ thảm sát kinh hoàng tại Úc không chỉ là một hành động bạo lực đơn lẻ, mà còn phơi bày sự tồn tại của những trại huấn luyện khủng bố bí mật ngay tại Đông Nam Á. Cùng SBS Tiếng Việt bóc tách mạng lưới cực đoan xuyên quốc gia và những lỗ hổng an ninh đang đe dọa hòa bình khu vực.

"My soul doth magnify the Lord"Luke 1:46

Khi các nhà lãnh đạo tranh luận về luật lệ nghiêm khắc hơn, chống lại ngôn từ thù hận và chủ nghĩa cực đoan, thì cả tiếng nói của người Hồi giáo và người Do Thái đều cảnh báo chống lại việc đổ lỗi tập thể, khi nỗi lo ngại về một phản ứng bài Hồi giáo tiềm tàng ngày càng gia tăng.

Trong vụ tấn công bài Do Thái gây rúng động tại bãi biển Bondi tối 14 tháng 12, giữa tiếng súng và hỗn loạn, không chỉ có nỗi sợ hãi bao trùm. Khi nhiều người tìm cách chạy trốn, một số ít đã chọn chạy ngược về phía nguy hiểm. Trong số đó có một người tị nạn Hồi giáo đến từ Trung Đông, hiện đang sống tại Úc với thị thực tạm thời. Ông không hành động vì chính trị, cũng không vì sự ghi nhận, mà chỉ vì bản năng muốn cứu người. Đây là câu chuyện của ông.

Vụ xả súng hàng loạt gây chết người tại Bondi đã làm nóng lên cuộc tranh luận trên toàn quốc về luật kiểm soát súng đạn của Úc. Tuy nhiên, một số nhân vật có tiếng nói, trong đó có cựu Thủ tướng John Howard, cảnh báo rằng cuộc tranh luận này không nên làm chệch hướng khỏi mối đe doạ ngày càng gia tăng của nạn bài Do Thái. Sau đây là tổng hợp những lập luận đối lập giữa các bên ủng hộ kiểm soát súng và các nhóm vận động ủng hộ quyền sở hữu súng, bao gồm các thảo luận về việc liệu luật hiện hành có đủ nghiêm ngặt hay không.

Vụ xả súng hàng loạt tại Bondi, một trong những bãi biển nổi tiếng nhất của Úc, nhắm vào những người đang tham dự lễ hội Do Thái, đã gây chấn động cả thế giới. Trong khi những lời chia buồn liên tục được gửi tới, cộng đồng Do Thái ở Úc, cùng những người ủng hộ, đã thắp nến tưởng niệm các nạn nhân, đồng thời lên tiếng mạnh mẽ chống lại hận thù và bạo lực.

Sau vụ xả súng bài Do Thái tại bãi biển nổi tiếng nhất nước Úc, Thủ tướng sẽ khẩn trương làm việc với các tiểu bang và vùng lãnh thổ để thảo luận thêm các phương án nhằm tăng cường luật kiểm soát súng của Úc. Tuy nhiên, chính phủ và cơ quan tình báo nội địa quốc gia đang phải đối mặt với những câu hỏi về lý do tại sao một trong những kẻ xả súng lại lọt vào tầm ngắm của Cơ quan Tình báo An ninh Úc (ASIO) nhưng lại được đánh giá là không gây ra mối đe dọa nào.

Trong khi lực lượng cứu hộ rà soát từng ngóc ngách của địa điểm ven biển nổi tiếng nhất Sydney, các chính trị gia Israel thuộc mọi phe phái ngay lập tức lên mạng xã hội để bày tỏ sự phẫn nộ của họ. Cuối cùng, họ quy trách nhiệm cho vụ thảm sát kinh hoàng tại lễ hội Hanukkah của người Do Thái ở Bondi cho một người duy nhất: Anthony Albanese. Và điều đó thậm chí còn xảy ra trước khi thủ tướng gặp gỡ ủy ban an ninh quốc gia để nắm bắt được mức độ kinh hoàng vừa xảy ra đối với đất nước.

VOV1 - Vụ xả súng kinh hoàng nhằm vào cộng đồng người Do Thái tại Australia ngày 14/12 khiến hàng chục người thiệt mạng và bị thương, đang không chỉ gây chấn động Australia - một trong những quốc gia yên bình nhất, mà còn khiến cả thế giới phải giật mình.Thủ hiến bang New South Wales Chris Minns và nhiều người dân đến đặt hoa tưởng niệm các nạn nhân của vụ xả súng tại bãi biển Bondi. Ảnh: Edwina Pickles

Cảnh sát đã tuyên bố vụ xả súng hàng loạt tại bãi biển Bondi hôm Chủ nhật là một vụ tấn công khủng bố, sau khi hai tay súng nổ súng vào hàng trăm người đang tụ tập để mừng lễ Hanukkah. Ít nhất 16 người đã thiệt mạng, trong đó có một trẻ em, trong vụ xả súng hàng loạt đẫm máu nhất ở Úc kể từ vụ thảm sát Port Arthur năm 1996. Sự kiện này đã dẫn đến sự lên án trên toàn cầu, tăng cường an ninh tại các địa điểm của người Do Thái, gây lo sợ trong các cộng đồng và làm dấy lên lời kêu gọi từ các nhà lãnh đạo về việc đối mặt với thù ghét và thể hiện sự đoàn kết với cộng đồng Do Thái.

Một số tin chính trong bản tin trưa ngày 15-12-2025. Thủ Tướng đến thăm bãi biển Bondi khi những lời tưởng niệm dành cho những người thiệt mạng liên tục được gửi đến. Kêu gọi hành động mạnh mẽ hơn nữa chống lại nạn bài Do Thái sau vụ tấn công ở Bondi. Đặc phái viên Hoa Kỳ Steve Witkoff cho biết "đã có nhiều tiến triển" trong các cuộc đàm phán về Ukraine.

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The story returns for a brief moment outside the normal timeline to ask ourselves some crucial questions- here, at the start of the Tudor age, what was the prevailing mindset of the Londoners of the period? How did they conceptualise themselves and a world that was brutal compared to our own conditions? How did they fundamentally differ from people living today? An important set of questions because it will hopefully help explain everything that is to come.A deep dive into attitudes towards health, diet, grief, alcohol, risk assessment and faith.Cover shows a detail of ‘Venus and Mars' by Sandro Botticelli, c.1485

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Holiness by Fear of the Lord (1) (audio) David Eells – 11/26/25 There is NO Ego in the Body of Christ Eve Brast - 10/22/2016 (David's notes in red) While everyone was sharing last night, Father brought a scripture to mind: 1Pe.4:18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator. I thought that this was a very weighty and impactful statement, and it makes me tremble with Godly fear at its implications. And then I thought about the next verse, 19, that when we are bitter and unforgiving, critical or judgmental, we are actually being unwilling to “suffer according to the will of God”. Later, I thought about what Jesus said in Joh.13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, a servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him. Jesus suffered injustice and wrongful treatment at the hands of evil people His whole public life: “A man of many sorrows and acquainted with grief”. Should we expect, as His disciples, not to endure the same? I pray for myself and us all that Father will fill us with the same grace to endure the suffering according to His will and recognize that ultimately it comes from Him. If we fight against it, we only delay our progress. While driving to that Friday night meeting, I asked Father to give me confirmation during our meeting if I was to share the word He gave me on Thursday, 10/20/16. So while David was speaking to us about pride and humbling ourselves, he used the term “ego,” which seemed to be the main theme of the Word Father had given me. I knew then that it was the confirmation that I had asked for, and I knew He wanted me to share it with the brethren. So here is that word: “You were created for My purposes and Mine alone. You were created to serve Me, My Kingdom, and your fellow servants. Your sole purpose is to glorify the Name in all you think or do. The body is one. There is no ego in the body (which is His body), no separateness, no fleshly individualism, which is factious and divisive, no independence. There is one Spirit and all who abide in Me and My Son will have the same Spirit. They will have My desire for the life I've given them and for others. There is only one personality, one character in the Body. Ego and individualism are rebellion and Jezebel. (Unforgiveness, offense, anger, self-justification, faction, criticism, slander, backbiting, railing, are all part of this witchcraft spirit.) The life I gave you is not your own. I ransomed you. You belong to Me. Your allegiance is to Me, not to man and the flesh. Serve Me with unwavering loyalty. Understand that this is your sole purpose. There is no other life or reason to exist. Those who live for themselves don't consider My will and they are choosing death. They are choosing separateness, individualism, and separation from Me”. (And, I would say, separation from His character [and his true body].) I posted a word from Father: “Let My Spirit have free course in you”. In which He said, “Get rid of the “I's” and let there be only Me”. Here it is: (I've been hearing this phrase for about two weeks now: “Let My Spirit have free course in you”. So on Wednesday, I asked Father what He wanted to share about this. I really felt the heart of His Spirit pouring out to me while He spoke. I hope it will bless y'all, too. :0) He said, “Come away with Me, My love! Come away with Me, My Bride. I desire to be your only love. I desire to be the only one reflected back to Me in the eyes of My dove. Let My Spirit have free course in you. Surrender to Me. Yield your control to Me. Be still and hear the voice of My Spirit. Let My Holy Spirit lead and guide you into all obedience. I long to be in sweet communion with you, undistracted and unhindered”. “Do you trust Me, My love? Do you truly trust Me? Allow Me to have free course in you. Trust Me to live and move through you as a vessel of honor for My people and My Kingdom. For this purpose, I created you. Get rid of the “I's” and let there be only Me! There is no other fulfillment; no other satisfaction; no other completion outside of sweet communion with Me”. I looked up the word Ego and this was one of the things that was mentioned: Ego is the Latin word for “I”. So if a person seems to begin every sentence with “I”, it's sometimes a sign of a big ego. Thank you, Father, for giving us Your grace and Your humility. Help us to rid ourselves of pride and ego, self-centeredness, or self-importance. By faith, we believe that You are perfecting Christ's character in us. Help us to have the desire and strength to commit ourselves to You and to well-doing, in Jesus' name. Amen. Love to you all, Eve.   Pride, Independence and Egotism is not of the Body David Eells (Notes in red) Proud and independent people do not control their tongue so they destroy the unity of the body and are not part of the body. Jas.3:5 So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. Those whose tongues do not conform to the confines of scripture destroy the body of Christ and are guilty of its blood. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison. Which comes from the evil heart: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh”. 9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: 10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? 12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can salt water yield sweet. 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. Faction always lies because it is a demon spirit and speaks in order to deceive and take captive even the innocent. Faction is causing division for selfish ambition to make disciples, so there is lying and jealousy involved. Faction is separation and independence from the body and its leadership. 15 This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. Every vile deed describes well the independence from the body that the faction has and creates in others. Unforgiveness, offense, anger, self-justification, faction, criticism, slander, backbiting, railing, lying, theft, deception, witchcraft, graft, extortion, lust, fornication, perversion, are all brought in by the faction spirit. On the other side of this Beast, the election has revealed this same nature in our government. Ever wonder why they can justify killing Christians all over the world and are ready to do it here? So don't feed on that, or you can receive that spirit. Those Christians who receive this spirit also murder the brethren through slander, introducing them to faction unawares. I have seen faction demons take over brethren who had a lust to rule over the body. I have seen them side with and even become homosexuals under this spirit several times. I have seen brethren taken over by lust after receiving this spirit. I have seen them try to bring convicted unrepentant pedophiles and womanizers into the church and get angry and leave when I forbade it. I have seen them go into grand theft many times. One man stole 300 silver coins that were to be given to the poor brethren, and then a sound system from the church. Another stole a commercial lawnmower. Another stole tractor equipment. I have seen them steal money from the brethren many times when this spirit comes upon them. One man who was hiding his sin among us had spent many years in federal prison for theft, and when he came to us, he was sued because he forged a check sent to his ex-wife for around $22,000, and the judge threw him in jail until he would give the money back to his ex-wife. His new wife told me he still had the money, so I convinced him to give up his stolen money to get out of jail. When faction totally consumed him, he told everyone that I stole the money from him. This is the kind of perversion these spirits do. And these cannot be convicted of any sin. They are no longer moved or constrained by scriptures. I have seen them join religions that were not Christian or go under the law as a Jew to try to be justified because they never have faith for grace anymore when that spirit enters them. As David Wilkerson witnessed, their main target is the true leadership of the church, just like Satan. None of these people would have considered these “vile deeds” before receiving the faction spirit. They were turned over to this because they were hiding a sin or had one of the forms of unforgiveness. So, fear God and avoid like the plague anyone who wants to whisper in your ear against others. These people have lost many years that they could have been bearing fruit, and some are lost eternally. As one man told us when he partially repented and came to us, “The Lord told me that this is my last chance”, and even knowing this, he didn't take it. I pray for all of these people that, like Nebuchadnezzar, they would be granted grace to snap out of this demon possession. Continuing with our James 3 text: 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. Jas.4:1 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? Envy and jealousy come from ego. The Bible codes say, “Ego IS the antichrist”.) 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. 11 Speak not one against another, brethren. He that speaketh against a brother (Slander and blaspheme mean to speak against another.), or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor? The independent are proud, unforgiving, and judgmental. They are their own God. Mat.6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. The unforgiving person is under the curse of Deuteronomy 28 because they are not forgiven. The independent person does not have to “obey them that have the rule over you”, for they make themselves elders, prophets, pastors, apostles, etc. They judge others unworthy of grace and therefore have no grace from God to avoid judgment. Mat.18:34 And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due. 35 So shall also my heavenly Father do unto you, if ye forgive not every one his brother from your hearts. The tormenting demons then take this person to show them what it is to have God's unforgiveness with no grace and if they still do not repent, they are reprobated.) Jas.2:7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called? 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty. 13 For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment. We will be judged by grace if we give grace; we will be judged by the law if we judge others according to law. Mat.7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. If you are being judged, you are likely judging others. This judging is manifested in separation, unforgiveness, anger, wrath, etc. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you. As much as you judge, is how much you will be judged. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me cast out the mote out of thine eye; and lo, the beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Rom.2:1 Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judges another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things. (When a person has demons, they are the grossest hypocrites, for they accuse others of doing exactly what they do and get judged for it.) 2 And we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that practise such things. 3 And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? Rom.14:4 Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.... (This is where our faith must be: that God will save them through their afflictions.) 10 But thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or thou again, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of God. 11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, to me every knee shall bow, And every tongue shall confess to God. 12 So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God. 13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling. Rom.12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits. 17 Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men. Mat.12:36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (So, if you are an impulsive person saying things that are not right it will come back to bite you with out repentance and confession.)   Holiness Protects from the Curse B. A. - 12/24/2013 (David's notes in red) I dreamed that I was having a dream, and in this dream, I woke up and I was surrounded by tiny black particles (representing the curse). Deu.11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: 27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day; 28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. (Only the true people of God with “spiritual eyes” [renewed by the Word of God] can see the curse around them.) I got up out of bed and went outside, and these black particles were everywhere. I began to fan my right hand up in the air, and I watched as these black particles just moved about. Then I turned my hand palm-side up, and I watched as these black particles hovered just a few inches from my hand. It was amazing. These particles could not touch me in any way. I began to walk around, and I watched as these black particles just moved out of my way. (If we are abiding in Jesus Christ, we have a blood covering and we are protected from the black curse.) (Scientists have proven in Quantum Physics the smallest particles are everywhere and called the quanta. They take on no physical attributes until you believe something. Then they become that, whether good or bad, as in white or BLACK. A black particle is something to avoid with you renewed mind. Jesus affirmed this in Mark 11:24 … All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye received (Greek) them, and ye shall have them. Also, Pro 23:7 For as he thinketh within himself, so is he…. (It is not the word of religious leaders that causes us to abide in Jesus, but the Word we received in the beginning. If we abide in this Word, we abide in Jesus. Joh.1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him; and without him was not anything made that hath been made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. White particles were all around Jesus. 1Jn.2:24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. Jesus, the Word, which was given in the beginning, is the secret place that we hide from the black curse. When we believe the white word of promise we get it. Psa.91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I asked the Father this question: “Father, what are these black particles?” He replied, “You know what they are”. I said, “I do?” And the Father said, “Yes, you do; just think about it”. So I did. I stood there looking at these black particles, when I got the revelation that these black particles are the curse. I said to the Father, “I know what these tiny black particles are! They are the curse, and they are all around us. But if we are abiding in Jesus Christ, they can't even touch us! Wow, Father! This is awesome!” 2Co.5:21 Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Gal.3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Joh.15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. 1Jn.2:24 As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father. Just then, the Father showed me an hourglass, and He asked me this question: “Daughter, what do you see?” I said, “I see grains of sand at the bottom of an hourglass”. Isa.10:22 For though thy people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness. Isa.44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. Isa.56:5 Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.) There appeared to be only about 1/8 of the sand left in the hourglass. (I believe these particular grains of sand represent God's elect, and the Father was showing me that these particular grains of sand (or His elect) are those who are coming into the image of Jesus to be sons and daughters, as we are drawing near to the end of days.) I asked the Father, “Father, does this mean that time is running out?” And He replied, “Yes. I only created so much time in the beginning, and when it's gone, it is finished.” Gen.6:3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years. (Time is running out to get into the secret place of Jesus because the curse is coming to devour the whole earth, as Isaiah and Revelation show. Isa.24:5 The earth also is polluted [Radiation in the Pacific, oil in the Gulf and Atlantic, biologicals in the atmosphere, poisons from chemtrails in the air, earth and water, our food sources, solar, volcanic, earthquakes, comets, asteroids, meteors, etc.] under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. 6 Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. Deuteronomy 28 is a long list of the curses, a sample of all the curses seen around us that Jesus, the Word, delivers us from. The cause of these curses is in: Deu.28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. What a curse it is to not read the New Testament to know how to avoid this. I say “a sample” because we are also told that if it's not listed here, God will also put that on you for your disobedience. 61 Also every sickness, and every plague [Does not mean disease. Hebrew meaning “a blow; to smite”.], which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. Jesus came to bear the curse for we who believe by “working in us to will and to work for His good pleasure”, [Philippians 2:13] meaning He puts the gift of obedience in us when we believe the good news that He took away our sins and the curse.)   Walk in the Infamous Place of Holiness K. H. - 10/23/2008 (David's notes in red) In a dream, I was with a group of students headed toward a convention center when all of the people we encountered along the way tried to discourage us from going there because they said it was in a bad part of town and was very dirty there. No matter what was said, we still kept on walking toward the convention center. When we got there, we all went through the doors, and as soon as I walked through the glass doors, I saw how nice it looked inside. I didn't see that it was dirty like the people had said it was going to be. (The Convention Center is where the students are going to truly learn of God. Apostates have always believed such a place is unclean. The Pharisees thought that Jesus was a false teacher and His students were deceived.) All the other students filed into the auditorium, but I needed to go to the bathroom, and at this point, I felt the need to take off my shoes. I initially began to recall what the people along the way were saying about how dirty a place it was and started to become concerned about where I was about to walk, but I cast that imagination down and just said to the Lord, “I trust you”. I started to head for the bathroom and began to feel how clean the tile and carpet felt under my feet and once I got to the bathroom, I was even more amazed. When I walked into the bathroom, it was the most pristine and cleanest bathroom I think I have ever seen. I knew now without a doubt there was nothing dirty about this place, and began to feel the peace of the Lord about being barefoot. (This training center is holy and clean.) After I was finished in the bathroom, I left to find my seat with my parents in the auditorium for our meal that we were going to have together. I was so filled with joy and peace that I didn't even notice that I didn't have my shoes on when I went into the auditorium. (The spiritual food served here is holy and clean.) When I woke up, I was reminded that I had taken my shoes off my feet in the dream. It was then brought to my attention that when in the presence of God, Moses had to remove his shoes so that he would not be separated from the holiness of God. (Our feet are not to be separated from holy or clean ground, meaning we are to walk in a place of holiness with God.) From what the Lord showed me, I know that this is why I felt led to take my shoes off as well, because I was entering into the holiness of God. The Lord also revealed to me that the students in this dream represented the students of His Word. As students of His Word, we will have many come against our walk with the Lord, but we have to hold fast the confession of our faith that it waver not and walk in spirit and in truth. No matter what the flesh tries to tell us, we have to lean not on our own understanding but just trust in the Lord. This life that we live is not our own, but it is Christ's to live in us; He is our hope of glory. When I didn't notice that I didn't have my shoes on, I believe that it signified walking in His holiness and in His rest; the flesh had been crucified. Thank you Jesus!   Walk Before Me in Fear and Trembling  Debbie Fenske 11/2/25 I would like to share this word that the Lord began speaking to me at 4:45 this morning. He actually woke me at 2:30, and I was in much prayer, for myself, doing much confessing before the Lord, and praying for all of my family, for our body here, and all our families, for David and Michael, and all of UBM, and for all the Elect of the Lord. Then I heard the Lord say, “I want to speak to you, My Beloved.” So, I quickly got out of bed and went and grabbed my notebook and pen. And the Lord began to continue speaking this. “I speak to you, My Beloved, the Elect of God whom I have drawn unto Myself. Yes, you who are My Elect, who I have drawn to Myself with My everlasting love. I say to you, who My eyes have beheld as My Bride from before the foundation of the world; let not this calling negate the fact that you must walk always before Me in fear and trembling. Though I have drawn you to Myself, and have allowed My grace to abound unto you, fear Me, My Bride. Walk before Me in holy fear, and be holy in all your ways, in all your manner of speech, all your days. It has long been the time that you have basked in Me through the love and truth of My Word that enables you to walk with Me, and in Me with a perfect heart. My Beloved, My Bride, I have poured out upon you the anointing of My Spirit, that you will shine forth My beauty, My glory, in all My truth. I have chosen you to be My glory upon this earth, as also many more whom I am perfecting. But you must remember to walk, to live in holiness before Me, in fear and trembling. Yes, My beloved ones, there is always this one condition, holiness, with total and complete surrender. Seek Me about this holy surrender. It is what My Bride must be; wholly surrendered unto Me in all things, understanding that I am your all in all, your Everything. I am your life, your breath, the Giver of TRUE life, sustaining you in all your ways. All the many ways known only in Me, your provider and your complete sustenance, and your righteousness. I will be opening doors before you, and you will enter. There will no longer be anything of this world holding you back. Only a walk of holy fear and trembling before Me will keep your garments shining brightly, reflecting to all your beauty, your anointing, reflecting the brightness, even the glory of My very presence, life, and character before the world. What will this do? It will draw all men unto Me. All whom I have called and ultimately chosen. Remember, “Fear and trembling.” This is your daily, your hourly, and your minute-by-minute assignment. Will you remember? For I will reveal My will to you in ways you have never considered. And I will certainly lead you down paths you have not yet walked. You will know it is I leading you. You will not doubt. For walking before Me with fear and trembling will cause you to know that, “This is the way. Walk ye in it.” It will require much self-denial, so much more than you have known. This is what a walk with fear and trembling before Me will do. And this is how My perfection will be seen in and through you, and will draw many unto Me, completing your part in bringing many into the Kingdom of Heaven. Rejoice that in all of these things I have chosen you. Rejoice in Me, My Bride, My holy companions, walking step-by-step with Me, in Me. Oh, rejoice, My Beloved! Again, I say rejoice! Let your rejoicing in Me lead you on. Even through all the times when you will not know what lies ahead, I will lead you on. Down every path, and every crooked turn, I will help you to say, “Yes, Lord!” After I finished writing this down, I wanted to see what my word for the day was. I was excited because I felt really compelled to look at it right then. It is always a chapter a day. I thought it was amazing and very timely, that when I opened it up, the chapter to read was Ruth Chapter 1. I took this as confirmation. Thank You, Father. I pray You let this word speak to our hearts and move us on in our walk in You with holy fear and trembling, and with knowledge and understanding of all things You would have us to let go of, thoughts we think, and things we do that will otherwise keep us from having a holy fear of You, Lord, and not allow Your glory to shine forth from us in Your fullness. We need Your help, Father. So help us, Lord. Lead us on! Amen!

I come bearing big news that many of you will weep about for years to come: American Filth has come to a close for the foreseeable future. But don't worry... While I'm departing the iHeart Cinematic Universe, I'm heading out to uncharted territory and starting two new podcasts for you, my friends of filth. Here are the shows... America Is Perfect! features my comedic commentaries on the PERFECT people and events that are shaping our PERFECT nation. Because as we know, nothing bad ever happens in America! (Doth you sense the sarcasm??) You can listen to that show wherever you listen to podcasts. Apple. Spotify. Etc. First episode drops next Friday, 11/21. America is Perfect! THE PAST is the same idea, but about the PERFECT events and people of the past. You can listen to this show exclusively on Patreon with a monthly pledge of $5 or $10. Here's the link to that. Episode 1 is already available to stream. Here's the link to the shows' Instagram and to Gabbie's Instagram. Stay filthy!! Links again...if you like them formatted like this: Patreon, where you can listen to America Is Perfect! THE PAST: https://www.patreon.com/AmericaisPerfect America Is Perfect! on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-is-perfect/id1851536611 America Is Perfect! on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HZ86HA6KT9JtFHPKhsnS0 The Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americaisperfectpod See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this episode we went back to this classic from the golden era of the Simpsons. It's not only our 123rd episode but also the 123rd episode of The Simpsons (we swear it was a total coincidence). Santa's Little Helper becomes of father to not one, not two but 2 dozen and one greyhounds. Join us for this really fun one, we really like the vest! And don't forget our standard nonsense which includes the following:- Cori's tired- Shouting out all the Mikes- Hollywood's Don Johnson and his old man strength- 6-7 rearing it's ugly head- Not child actors- Redefining the age of babies- 3-D Printing talk- The Simpsons take over of Fortnite- Reading things we don't actually understand- Fixing the timeline and dated Quantum Leap references- Did you know that we have a former gifted child on our show?- A deep dive into Model's Inc.- The decline of laundry chutes- Starting an MMC podcast?Our Recommendations:- Bryan: The Lowdown on FX- Cori: Black Phone 2 and It: Welcome to Derry on HBO Max and The Curse of America's Next Top Model podcast- Patrick: Peacemaker on HBO MaxWant to reach out to us here's how you can do it:Email: soitscometothispod@gmail.comInstagram: @soitscometothis_podFacebook: @soitscome2thisWeb: radpantheon.com

Một cuộc biểu tình của những người theo Tân Quốc xã bên ngoài Tòa nhà Quốc hội New South Wales đã gây chấn động trong cộng đồng Do Thái và đa văn hóa tại Sydney. Chính quyền tiểu bang đã bị chỉ trích sau khi có thông tin tiết lộ rằng có sự chấp thuận của Cảnh sát New South Wales. Vậy chính xác thì tại sao cuộc biểu tình của Tân Quốc xã này lại được phép diễn ra ngay từ đầu?

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 19, 2025) In yesterday’s sermon, we began to examine the second objection to the doctrine of election set forth by Paul in Romans 9. This objection – which I call the “absoluter objection” – argues that, since “God made me this way” (i.e., God has basically predestinated...

by Elder Chris McCool, Pastor (preached on October 19, 2025) As we continue dealing with the objections to the doctrine of election set forth in Romans 9, we come to the second objection that is commonly raised. I call this objection the “Absoluter Objection,” because it goes something like this: “God, you made me a...

So it turns out that to talk about the Gunpowder Plot, you need to do over an hour of stuff to lay the groundwork for the Gunpowder Plot. In the beginning...in 1517 Martin Luther staples an essay to a church, leading to millions of deaths for dumb reasons. These are those reasons.

Why do Incels have to ruin everything? It's a world gone mad, Dear Listener, with the Amish (of all peoples) in standing up for their rights. Amy saunters past the Costco in protest. And Missy wonders aloud how a simple reframe is all it takes to turn Failure To Launch into the new Side Hustle. 

Doth mother know you wearth her drapes? Does father knowith where my nut has sallied forth? Is this our best work - Jake has questions. Is it a show - for sure!

The crew breaks down Week 6 NFL action including the brutal Broncos-Jets London game, discusses whether the Chiefs are back after beating Detroit, and debates the surprising AFC playoff picture featuring the Colts as the #1 seed. Plus: James Franklin gets fired from Penn State with a $50M buyout, the guys reveal their aging problems, and Tony mixes up a Blood & Sand cocktail for his fantasy rivalry game.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tại Úc, cộng đồng người Do Thái và người Palestine đã cùng ăn mừng việc trao trả con tin và tù nhân, khi con đường mong manh hướng tới hòa bình ở Gaza tiếp tục mở ra. Tại Melbourne, những người ủng hộ con tin Israel đã xuống đường ăn mừng, trong khi các gia đình người Palestine cũng vui mừng đón người thân được trả tự do.

Hai người đã thiệt mạng và ba người khác bị thương nặng sau khi một kẻ tấn công lao xe vào người đi bộ và đâm một nhân viên an ninh gần một giáo đường Do Thái ở Manchester, miền Bắc nước Anh. Vụ tấn công diễn ra đúng vào thời điểm cộng đồng Do Thái toàn cầu kỷ niệm ngày Yom Kippur – ngày linh thiêng nhất trong năm theo lịch Do Thái.

- Xuất khẩu nông lâm thủy sản đạt hơn 52 tỷ đôla sau 9 tháng- Cảnh sát Anh tuyên bố, vụ lao xe và đâm dao ở giáo đường Do Thái ở quốc gia này là tấn công khủng bố- Liên minh châu Âu bày tỏ cam kết tiếp tục đấu tranh chống lại chủ nghĩa thù hận và bài Do Thái-Malaysia sẽ thiết lập nền tảng “đám mây” trí tuệ nhân tạo chủ quyền

Faith for the Coming Wilderness (7) (audio) David Eells – 9/28/25 Father, we ask You in Jesus' name that Your power, Your anointing, Your wisdom be in this study, and not only that, Lord, we ask that You would bless the people who are reading and hearing this will have eyes to see and ears to hear. We ask that You would bless them and that Your anointing will go into their heart, that the Word and the truth will go into their heart to put the courage of the Lord in them. We thank You, Father for this opportunity to share with the brethren, and we thank You so much for blessing all who are studying with us, in Jesus' name. I'm going to continue with our study on faith for the coming wilderness, and I want to share with you how you can prepare yourself for this wilderness. Let's start in (Heb.12:22) But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels, (23) to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. The text here is about going to Zion, going to the City of God, and becoming a member of the “just men made perfect.” (25) See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned [them] on earth, much more [shall not] we [escape] who turn away from him that [warneth] from heaven. Some people think they're going into a great escape. They think they're going in the rapture, but obviously, the escape here is not talking about their kind of escape. You see, they're refusing the warning of God and they are not getting prepared. I learned a long time ago that whether you go or whether you stay, you have to do the same thing: you have to prepare. Even if your theology is wrong, if you're walking in the steps of Jesus Christ, then you'll be ready for what is coming because God has prepared tribulation for His people. Tribulation is coming upon the whole world, people. We have to be careful to accept His warning from Heaven. He is going to shake this world. Even right now, as a matter of fact, we are in a pre-tribulation shaking that God is going to use to bring in the New World Order. Some people insist that God doesn't have anything to do with that, but He does. He is the One Who is uniting the whole world against apostate Christianity, just as He has always done throughout all the Scriptures. Every time God raised up a new world order, it was to persecute His people who had fallen into apostasy. We know this is so because (Ecc.1:9) That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. God just repeats history and He always takes the credit for it. (Ecc.3:15) That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away. In Isaiah, the Lord takes credit for raising up the Assyrian Empire against His people. (Isa.10:5) Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! (6) I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. (7) Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. The Lord put it in their hearts to come against His people and plunder them. Today, since His people are worldwide and not just little, natural Israel, God is raising up a worldwide Beast to come against His people. It's God, saints! God is behind all of it! (Eph.1:11) In whom also we were made a heritage, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his will. God works all things after the counsel of His Own will, and “all things” doesn't leave out much, does it? Just because He uses vessels of honor and vessels of dishonor, some people like to give credit to the vessels of dishonor, but no, it's the Lord; it's all the Lord. He's working all things together for our good. (Rom.8:28) And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose. And what does He say here in the rest of this text? (Heb.12:26) Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more will I make to tremble not the earth only, but also the heaven. (27) And this [word,] Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. Listen to me, God is going to shake everything so that only His Kingdom remains. The reason for the shaking is to break all of the strength of man, to break all of the power of man's ability to save himself. Do you know why so many people are going to run to the Lord in these days? It's because they've always depended upon their own power in the past, but God is going to take away the ability of people to save themselves. I've mentioned some of the judgments that have already come to the Gulf Coast of America. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, for example, flooded New Orleans and killed over 1,800 people but it also knocked out about 80% of the oil production, which really hurt the trucking industry and the farmers. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 and its use of Corexit oil dispersant was a great catastrophe that poisoned the Gulf and destroyed the fishing industry, but we're just seeing the beginning of these things. It's going to get a lot worse. Places in this country that never see hurricanes have seen hurricanes, but some of those that don't see hurricanes are going to see earthquakes. There are going to be nuclear attacks, there are going to be biological attacks. It will come to the point where there won't be jobs, there won't be gasoline. It will come to the point where the water is poisoned, and the air is poisoned. It will come to the point where there's nothing that man can do to save you, and you won't be able to do anything in the flesh to save yourself. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that men will turn to the only Savior because it is in our weakness that God's power will be made manifest. (2Co.12:9) And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. His power is made perfect in our weakness. (Heb.12:28) Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe: (29) for our God is a consuming fire. So, not only is He shaking the earth, He's burning up the wood, hay and stubble of our lives. He's a consuming fire. Back when I was a very young Christian, my wife had a dream in which she saw me standing on a rock in the middle of a vast ocean, and it seemed that this was the only thing that was above the water. I was standing on this rock with leg braces on, like those a polio victim would have. At that time, I didn't know much about the ways and the work of the Lord, but the Lord really spoke to me through that dream. He showed me that the waters represented the curse of the Word on this world, just like the flood waters in the time of Noah represented the curse of the Word upon the world. The flood waters were the curse of the Word upon the wicked who had disobeyed God's Word, but at the same time, the waters were salvation to Noah and those who were in the ark floating above. God said through Moses, (Deu.11:26) Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse: (27) the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day; (28) and the curse, if ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. The Word of God is a blessing to those who are humble and submitted to it; it's a blessing to those who are walking in it, but it's a curse to those who rebel against it. And the curse is coming to take away everything that God's people have depended upon other than Him. He's a jealous God (Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 6:15; Joshua 24:19; etc.) He wants to be our only Savior, which is why He's bringing us to a place of great weakness. Being weak to save ourselves is a part of God's salvation; it's not just faith. (Php.4:13) I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me. We can do all things through Christ; He's the One Who strengthens us. The problem is that we're used to working things out ourselves, rather than trusting in the Lord. We're used to working things out ourselves, rather than putting our faith in Him and resting in Him to bring it to pass. We, ourselves, are the biggest hindrance to receiving the benefits of God. This shaking that's coming is for the purpose of judging all the “gods of Egypt,” as God said about His people who were in bondage in Egypt, in bondage to the old man. (Exo.12:12) For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. That represents Christians today and their gods, which are the things and demons they serve and God wants to rid them of in their wilderness experience. Christians today have been in bondage in Egypt. They've been in bondage to the old man, the Egyptian. The old man was the one who died in the baptism of the Red Sea (Exodus 15:4; Acts 7:36; Psalm 106:9; etc.) and the new man, the Israelite, is the one who came up on the other side. (Hebrews 11:29; Nehemiah 9:9-10; etc.). Well, the Lord brought those judgments upon Egypt to set the Israelites free from bondage to their worldly lusts. You realize that this is now us. That's the people of God. We've been in bondage in Egypt but now we're coming to our wilderness and the wilderness, of course, is the Tribulation (Revelation 12 and 17). We're coming to the same point in time as Israel when they were about to start their wilderness, and I was given a revelation about those braces I was wearing in my wife's dream. I learned they represented an external strength that was going to come to me, a strength from God that would enable me to stand on the Rock of Jesus Christ when the curse is everywhere around us. You know this is what God's going to do. (Zec.4:6) Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel (meaning: born from Babylon), saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. This is what God's going to do for a people who cannot save themselves, who cannot provide for themselves, in a wilderness experience. God Almighty is going to do it. He is going to be our strength. When our strength is worn out, He's going to be there. And He is a consuming fire. He's going to burn up all the wood, hay, and stubble through the Tribulation that we're going through, until only the gold, silver, and precious stones will be left of those who are truly His elect. (1Co.3:10) According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon. (11) For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (12) But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble (the last three, which burns in the fiery trial, leaving only what is valuable in the Kingdom.); (13) each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is. (14) If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. (15) If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire. Many years ago, I used to work for the Exxon Refinery in Baton Rouge, and one day, I got a little revelation, and I'm going to share it with you: it's pretty neat. When I was a machinist, I worked on a lot of pumps, drivers, turbines, jet engines, and things like that. It was interesting to me because I was a very mechanically minded person. Now, a pump is basically a shaft that goes through a housing, and inside the housing there are impellers to pump the fluid, but the fluid needs to be sealed somehow to keep it from coming down the shaft and out of the pump. Well, usually it's a seal, but sometimes it's what we called “packing.” Packing is something that's kind of like rope with different substances mixed in with it and we would pack that rope around the hole. Then we would use a gland with bolts to pull the packing up in there to seal between the shaft and the housing of the pump. So, anyway, the shaft might be turning at 3,600 rpms or 3,700 rpms, or even more, in some cases. The shaft is running very, very fast, and depending upon the size of the shaft, there's a lot of friction there, but no matter what kind of packing we would use, if we tightened up the gland too tight to try to seal off the leak, the friction would cause that packing to get very, very hot. In some cases, it would smoke, and in some cases, it would even catch on fire. You had to loose the packing just enough to have the right amount of fluid come through there so that it wouldn't leak out, but at the same time would lubricate the packing. It was a ticklish situation because, if the packing got a little old, sometimes you couldn't tighten up on it at all. It would smoke and leak. We continually had a problem come up where a pump that had been running for a while, and we had to try to tighten the packing up, and it would start smoking, but if you didn't tighten it up, it would leak, so it was kind of a catch-22 situation. Finally, we had a salesman come by who brought some packing that they called Graphoil, and I tried it one day in a pump that was very ticklish. It didn't matter what kind of packing you put in there; if you tightened it up very much, the packing we had would just start smoking because it was a hydrocarbon. And if it got hot enough, it would catch it on fire; the fire would literally be coming out of the hole of the shaft of the packing. So we bought this new product, this graphoil, and I was going to test it for them. I shoved that stuff up in there, and I tightened down on it, and I found I didn't have to tighten down on it very much until it sealed off the leak. The salesman said, “Well, tighten down on it some more.” I said, “I don't want it to catch on fire and burn up.” But he insisted, “No, don't worry about that and just tighten down on it some more,” so I did. I tightened down on it some more, and I told him, “Man, this is pretty good stuff. It doesn't catch on fire.” And he said to me, “Tighten down on it some more.” So, again, I tightened down on it, and nothing was leaking out, but it still wasn't smoking or catching on fire. I asked, “What's the deal here? How come it doesn't burn?” And do you know what he answered me? He said, “It doesn't burn because it's already burned; it's totally burned. It's all graphite; there's no rope in there. It's all totally burned graphite, so it can't burn because it's already totally burned when you put it in there.” Do you remember when they burned up all the diseased cattle over there in England during the Mad Cow Disease outbreak? They did that because that was the only way to destroy the prions that caused the disease. A fire purifies any contaminant, and what's left can't really be destroyed; it's already burned, it can't be burned anymore. It was as if that salesman was comparing our God to being a consuming fire. Ashes are pure, and that's the revelation! We're going into the fire, saints, to be purified, so that this world can't touch us and so that we won't ultimately go in the big fire. By His grace and by His power, God is going to make us able to go through this consuming fire until there's nothing that the world can do to us, until there's nothing but His fruit and His life in us. Hallelujah!! Paul called it a “baptism” when the Israelites went through the Red Sea and into the wilderness. (1Co.10:1) For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; (2) and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. Do you know what we're doing in our baptism? We're celebrating the victory of the death of the old man because he died at the cross, just like the Israelites celebrated the victory when the old man was put to death at the Red Sea. (Exo.15:1) Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The “horse and his rider” represented the old man who was coming after them to bring them back into bondage. The horse was the beast, the flesh that had been harnessed to serve the old man, and this is what went down in the Red Sea. I'm not talking about the body; I'm talking about the appetites of the natural man to serve the mind of the flesh. The rider and the strength of the flesh that was harnessed to serve that rider, who was the old man, died in the Red Sea, died in the baptism, and they were celebrating the victory. It's the same thing we do at baptism: (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. We reckon ourselves to be dead unto sin but alive unto God, or in other words, we reckon that the old man can no longer do us harm and we continue to walk by faith in that. Many people believe the devil, or they believe the old man, or they believe the world, and by doing that, they give authority to the old man to bring them back into bondage. You need to believe what the Bible says: (Rom.6:1) What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (2) God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? (3) Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? (4) We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection; (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him,] that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin; (7) for he that hath died is justified from sin. (We reckon that old man to be like the graphoil packing; he is already burned up; there is nothing left for the big fire at the end.  The valuable stuff left doesn't burn. We consider the old man to be dead and the new man to be alive. If you walk in that faith, you'll find you have power when you are in the trials and tribulations of life, and the old flesh wants to take over. You'll have power when the devil tells you that you don't have authority. You'll have power when the devil tells you that you don't have more power than him. You'll have power when the devil tells you that he's the giant in the land and you can't overcome him. By faith, if you will celebrate the victory that you were given when you became united with Christ in the likeness of His death, you'll find that you have power over the old man. The Israelites always kept forgetting this fact and they kept giving authority back to the old man and his devil. (Exo.15:2) The Lord is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation.... What does it symbolize when the horse is put to death? It means you're no longer counting on the flesh of the beast any longer; you're no longer trusting in his power. The Lord then becomes your strength and your salvation. The people who live in Egypt trust in the Egyptians for their salvation. They trust in the strength of the flesh to save them in any situation, which is the reason God wanted to bring these Israelites into the wilderness. He wanted them where they could no longer trust in the power of man, no longer trust in their old man, their flesh, to save them. (Exo.15:2) The Lord is my strength and song, And He is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him. Yes, we're going back to our “father's God”! Paul said, (1Co.4:15) For though ye have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I begat you through the gospel. I'm talking about the apostolic fathers. We're going back to our fathers' God, not the god of apostate Christianity to which so many Christians are in bondage. We're going back to our fathers' God and we're going to trust in His salvation. You see, even after you've been baptized and you believe the Good News, the Gospel, that the old man is not a problem anymore because the Lord has already dealt with him, and you believe that sin's not a problem anymore because the Lord has already dealt with that, and you believe that sickness is not a problem because the Lord has already dealt with that, the enemy still comes after you. And sometimes you become convinced by him that he still has power over you. (Exo.15:9) The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. But God had another plan, didn't He? The Egyptians followed the righteous into the Red Sea and were destroyed. You see, the waters of God's Word are meant to fulfill what baptism gave us by faith as a type and shadow. The waters of God's Word will put to death your old man and take away his power. Whenever you remember what the Lord did for you and you celebrate the victory, you take away the power of the old man. Don't ever believe what your flesh is telling you. Don't believe it when the devil tells you through your flesh that he still has power. No! That old man's dead and he has no power anymore. Now the Lord is your Savior; continue to trust in Him. (2Co.5:17) Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. Old things have passed away and all things have become new; you're a new creature in Christ. Remember the Good News because, if you get talked out of the Good News, you'll make the same mistakes that the Israelites made in the wilderness. They wanted to go back to the power of Egypt because God brought them to places and positions where they knew they had no strength to save themselves. Do you know what happens when you get into a position like that? Your flesh cries out to go back to Egypt because its tired of the manna of the Word. It tells you to go back to the flesh pots, go back to a place where your flesh will be sure to be fed more flesh. Where you serve the flesh and don't have the fiery trial that makes you fit for the Kingdom. But the Lord is not going to let that happen, saints! He's not going to let us go back to Egypt. In these coming days, He's going to keep us in the wilderness until the old man's dead because the world will be a wilderness. Of course, at baptism, we know the old man's dead, but when you go past your baptism, you're going into the place where what you received by faith at baptism must now be manifested. And the way it's manifested is you let the water of the Word put to death the old man. You hold fast the confession of your hope that it waver not. (Heb.10:23) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised. You reckon the old man to be dead. He made you free from sin. Don't forget it. It says that twice in Romans 6: (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. (17) But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; (18) and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. Remember, this is the way we overcome sin; it's by faith. It's not by works, not by self efforts, not by our power. If you're trusting in your ability, you're going back to the old man, back to the horse and rider. Legalism does that; it causes you to go back to the self-righteousness of religion in Egypt, but God wouldn't let His people sacrifice in Egypt. (Exo.8:25) And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land. (26) And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us? When they sacrificed in Egypt, they sacrificed the abomination of the Egyptians. So God is going to keep His people in the wilderness until everything that needs to be burned up is burned up. This really is a joyful thing, because the people of God are once again going to walk in the steps of Jesus Christ. They're going to take up their cross and follow Him. Now, Miriam, the sister of Aaron and Moses, said, (Exo.15:21) Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously (This is a revelation of our victory that was given to us through Jesus Christ. He conquered the old man.); The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. (22) And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water. Here's one of the first trials that God was going to use to put to death the old man and to cause them to learn to trust in the power of God. He was going to manifestly put to death what died symbolically at the Red Sea. You may have heard the saying, “Well, He got them out of Egypt but He had to get Egypt out of them,” and that's so true, isn't it? We come out of the world through faith in Jesus Christ but then God has to get the world out of us. You see, He wants us to walk totally in the Kingdom. (23) And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah (“Bitterness”). (24) And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? (25) And he cried unto the Lord; And the Lord showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. I believe that this “tree” represents the cross, where God gave us new life. The old man died there, and Jesus Christ, the new man, was given to us. 2 Corinthians tells us the same parable but in a slightly different way. (2Co.3:18) But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. What happened at the cross, what happened at the Red Sea, what happened at our baptism, was that the old man died and the new man came to life, and that new man is Jesus Christ. He is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Col.1:26) [Even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints, (27) to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (28) whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ. We are to believe that, (Gal.2:20) I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that [life] which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, [the faith] which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me. That's the Gospel. If you begin to confess that, you will see the power of Jesus Christ in you to overcome these things. We sometimes have a failure attitude, an attitude of unbelief, when it comes to trials and the ability of the Lord in us to overcome in our trials. It is “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” We now have everything that He was. Well, when the Israelites came to their trial where they didn't have any water, God showed Moses a particular tree to cast into the waters and the waters were made sweet. In the wilderness, “water” represents life and we know from James that the sweet and the bitter “waters” are talking about the tongue. We've taught that part of the Gospel is “confession”; it's confessing what the Gospel says is ours. (Rom.10:10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Murmuring in the wilderness is the opposite of the sweet waters. (Jas.3:8) But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. (9) Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God. This is not talking about speaking what the world calls “curses”; this is talking about speaking what the Bible calls “curses.” The Bible calls it a “curse” when you don't speak in agreement with what the Word says. The Lord told us in the last four verses of the Bible, (Rev.22:18) I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book: (19) and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book. If you add to His Words or take away from His Words, the curses of this Book are upon you, and He'll take away your part from the tree of life! We bring ourselves under a curse with our own mouth when we disagree with God's Word. We bring ourselves under a curse when we agree with the world and with the devil, and with what the old man says, but he's dead. He doesn't have a right to talk anymore. So we bring ourselves under a curse because we have disagreed with the Gospel. The Gospel is the Good News. (Rom.1:16) For I am not ashamed of the gospel: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. The Gospel is the power of God to save the one who believes it, but we prove whether we believe it by our actions. When they went into the wilderness, the Israelites proved they didn't believe it by their actions, their complaining and murmuring. We need to pray what David said in (Psa.141:3) Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. He wanted to be careful about what came out of his mouth. We're also told, (Pro.18:21) Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. We need to agree with God; we need to be proven to be believers. We need to have the sweet waters that the cross has given to us, not the bitter waters that bring the curse. As he goes on to say here, the tongue is a restless evil, a deadly poison. (Jas.3:10) Out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. (11) Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter? (12) Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet. If we back up a little bit, in this same text, James talks about the great power of salvation that comes from the tongue. (Jas.3:2) For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man.... Mature people don't stumble in their words, and that's how you get to maturity. You don't agree with the world; you don't agree with the devil; you don't agree with the curse because Jesus bore the curse. You agree with what God said, and you agree with His promises. You “hold fast the confession of” your “hope that it waver not; for He is faithful that promised.” Anybody who doesn't do that will die in the wilderness. (Jas.3:2) For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. The sweet water of the tongue has the power to bridle the body, to bring it under control, to make it serve the Lord. The horse represents the very opposite. The horse represents bridling the flesh to serve the old man, bridling the beast to serve the old man. (3) Now if we put bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also, (4) Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. (5) So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things.... In other words, the tongue can turn about your body; the tongue can bring repentance. People think repentance is crying to the Lord about their sins, but “repentance” just means “turning around and going the other way.” The Greek word for “repentance” is metanoeo and it means “to change your mind or purpose ... involving a change for the better.” The tongue is able to turn us around. When you change your mind and you speak in agreement with the Word, power is given to you. You already know we are justified through faith; we are counted righteous through faith. (Jas.2:18) Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith. So when you speak in agreement with the Word by faith, you are justified. Also, (Rom.3:4) God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment. If you want to be justified in your words when you come into judgment, let God be true and every man a liar. Now, why do we have to be justified? It's because without justification, you don't get grace, which means “favor.” If you want to be justified before God, if you want God's favor upon you, then say what God says. Don't say what the world says. If you will do that, you will find God's favor upon you. When the Israelites murmured in the wilderness, it was because they disagreed with God. Instead, they sided with the devil, and they sided with his son, which is the old man, the flesh. They didn't receive grace from God and they died in the wilderness. He goes on to say here, (Jas.3:5) So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! Your tongue can destroy you. Every time you open your mouth, you are speaking faith. Every time you open your mouth, you're showing that you believe in the devil and the curse by agreeing with them, or you're showing that you believe in God and the blessing He gave you at the cross by agreeing with Him. You're always speaking faith and showing what you believe; therefore, you're giving authority to someone every time you open your mouth. (Mat.18:18) Verily I say unto you, what things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. You're “binding” and “loosing” every time you open your mouth, without ever saying “I bind” or “I loose,” as some people like to do. When you agree with the devil, you're giving faith to him, and giving him power. When you agree with God, you give faith to Him and you give Him power. You ask, “How do I give God power?” Well, if you remember, Jesus went to His own hometown (Mat.13:58) And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. He was powerless and it was because of what they believed. Jesus said, (Mat.9:29) … According to your faith be it done unto you. And He told the centurion, (8:13) … Go thy way; as thou hast believed, [so] be it done unto thee.... You give power to God because God has given you authority to give Him power. He said, “What you bind on earth is bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.” Now, of course, God always has power, but He's not going to use it for you if you're not justified, and you're not justified if you disagree with Him. You have to agree with Him; otherwise, you are destroying yourself. The lost people out there destroy themselves with their own words and actions; they have all the faith in the world, in the devil and in the curse, which Jesus bore. (Jas.3:6) And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body.... The tongue defiles the body; did you know that? Jesus said, (Mar.7:14) … Hear me all of you, and understand: (15) there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man. (16) If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear. (17) And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable. (18) And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him; (19) because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said,] making all meats clean. (20) And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. (21) For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, (22) covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness: (23) all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man. There are a lot of people with religious spirits who are pretty legalistic about what they can eat and what they can't eat, but “This He said, making all meats clean.” That's the Word of the Lord, saints. He rebuked Peter about that: (Act.10:11) And he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth: (12) wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts and creeping things of the earth and birds of the heaven. (13) And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat. (14) But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common and unclean. (15) And a voice [came] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common. (16) And this was done thrice: and straightway the vessel was received up into heaven. The Lord told Peter, “What I've made clean, don't you make unclean,” so we can see that was also being used as a parable of the Gentiles that He'd made clean. (Act.10:28) … [Yet] unto me hath God showed that I should not call any man common or unclean: ... (35) but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him. (Jas.3:6) And the tongue is a fire; the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature (or, in other words, “cycle of life”).... How can your tongue set on fire the cycle of life? Well, the cycle of life is like sowing and reaping. What you sow, you later reap, then you take out of what you've reaped to sow again; it's a cycle. For instance, if you plant corn, after it's grown and you've harvested the corn, you save some of the corn so you can use it to plant the corn again. You sow, you reap. It's the exact same way with our nature. When you're filled with holiness, it comes out of your mouth, and what do you do? You reap what you've sown and then you sow it again. (Mat.12:35) The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. (36) And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. (37) For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. It's the same with the wicked tongue: you agree with the curse and you get the curse, so then you're living a cursed life, and what comes out of your mouth is more curses. And so what you receive back again is more of the curse, which is what you're sowing and reaping. (Jas.3:6) And the tongue is a fire; the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. We have to learn to agree with God. When the Israelites went into the wilderness, their big mistake was that they agreed with the curse. They walked by what they saw, what they felt, and what they heard. They didn't walk by “thus saith the Lord,” and listen to me, this is a revelation for us. What we need to do from the time when we first enter into our wilderness is to walk by “thus saith the Lord.” We all need to learn to live supernaturally and there's only one way you can do that: you have to walk by “thus saith the Lord.” You have to accept and speak the Word. I'm reminded of Peter, when he stepped out of the boat: he lived supernaturally, and he stepped out on only one word. (Mat.14:28) And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee upon the waters. (29) And he said, Come. And Peter went down from the boat, and walked upon the waters to come to Jesus. (30) But when he saw the wind, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, Lord, save me. (31) And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? Well, the Lord said “Come” and Peter stepped out of the boat, but when he got his eyes off of the Lord, when he got his eyes off the Word and onto the waves, he started sinking. When Peter started walking by sight in the desolation of the wilderness, so to speak, he started sinking. We have been given the power to walk supernaturally through faith in the Gospel and the Gospel needs to be coming out of our mouths in the situations where we don't have any strength to save ourselves. As God told Paul, “My power is made perfect in weakness.” When you have no way to save yourself, you will turn to the Lord. Everybody who is called of God, everybody who is the elect of God, turns to the Lord. That's why the wilderness is there; it's bringing us to the place where the horse and the rider no longer have power, and we need to remember that. We can live supernaturally. We can live above this world, even in a wilderness where there is no provision; we can live there by faith in the Word of God. The cross made sure of that for us, which is what Exodus 15:25 is saying. Moses cast the tree into the waters and the bitter waters became sweet. Do you know what happened at the cross? That old man died. The one who spoke the bitter waters died. The one who gave faith to the devil died. The one who brought the curse upon that life died. The cross crucified him and that old man is dead. (Rom.6:11) Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. If you will do this, you will be united with Christ in the likeness of His death, and if you will do this, you will be justified before God. He will give you His grace, His favor, and so you will be able to walk out that life in the wilderness. Returning to our text in (Exo.15:25) And he cried unto the Lord; And the Lord showed him a tree, and he cast it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute (“law”) and an ordinance (“penalty for breaking the law”), and there he proved them; (26) and he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice.... We don't need to hear any other voice in this coming wilderness; we need to “hearken,” which means “hear and obey,” the voice of the Lord. If we will do that and not walk according to the ears of this world nor the sight of this world, if we let that voice be our voice, then we'll have this benefit. (26) And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. Why did He make this promise to them at the very beginning of their wilderness? (1Co.10:11) Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. He made this promise at the very beginning of their wilderness because they are a type and a shadow for us. This promise is for us because we are about to go into a wilderness, and one of the judgments that is falling upon the world is that all of the diseases that man has made are spreading but so will be the cure. “He sent His Word and healed them.” Mass healings like the world has never seen will come to glorify God. I had a vision like that one time. In the vision, my wife and I were resting in lawn chairs in front of our house, and we were looking at this power line going from pole to pole across in  the front of the house. This power line was sagging in the middle until it almost touched the ground, and we were studying this sagging power line when suddenly a tornado came over the top of that power line and just picked us up and carried us away. And the Lord explained this little vision to me. He said, “That power line represents the power of man and the reason it was sagging and almost touching the ground is because it's coming to an end.” The power of man is coming to an end. And when the tornado came and picked us up, that represented the power of God, like that which carried away Elijah (2 Kings 2:11). Shortly after that we were moved to Pensacola, Florida from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and God paid the whole bill. Many miraculous things happened, including that He found us the very house He'd shown us in visions. He gave us the house, He gave us the new car; everything we'd asked for in faith, He did. The power of man came to an end, too, because it was nothing I did to bring it all to pass. God doesn't want to share His glory with the old man, with the flesh. While you're working, He's not. When you stop and believe, He will. God is not going to share His glory with the horse and rider; they have to die at the edge of the wilderness. Where we're going, saints, the works of the horse and rider won't save us. The Israelites lost faith in God walking by sight and they wanted to go back to Egypt. They wanted to go back to the salvation of the flesh pots, to trusting in the arm of the flesh, to trusting in man. That's not going to work for us anymore. It's not even going to work for the world, but it definitely won't work for us because God has called us to something higher. The truth is, this whole world is going to be polluted; this whole world is going to be poisoned. There are going to be both natural and weaponized diseases loosed on this world from God and man that are just beyond imagination, and yet we have a promise, right here at the beginning of the wilderness, that God won't put this upon us. “For I am the Lord that healeth thee.” He said He would put it upon the Egyptians and not upon us. The wicked will feel His wrath but we're supposed to walk by faith in this Good News; this Good News is the Gospel, and it's God's salvation to everyone who believes it. We've received revelations at UBM about the air and water being poisoned all throughout this land. Multitudes of people will die of manmade diseases, and we're already seeing it happen. A brother over on the East Coast was given a vision in which he saw biological weapons being smuggled into this country by terrorists who loosed them and killed 80 million people; he was a prophet, and he saw a vision of that happening. Truly saints, only faith in the Gospel is going to save you from the judgments that will be going across this land. The only thing that is going to save you is faith in the Gospel; no strength of man will do it. Nothing will keep us alive through this wilderness like lessons from Joshua and Caleb (Numbers 14:30, 26:65), who held fast to the confession of the Gospel of their time. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and everything that can be burned will burn. Something that's stuck with me for a long time is Dumitru Duduman's vision of seeing the earth catch on fire and God speaking to him, “Dumitru, quick! Get on the mountain or you will burn!” That mountain is Mount Zion. It's “the spirits of just men made perfect.” It's the only place that won't be shaken. Everything in this world will be shaken, but those who abide in God's Kingdom, through faith and through their confession, will be saved, and they will endure this wilderness. In fact, multitudes of them will endure until the end. They will live through everything that's coming upon this world because of their faith that Jesus has already borne this curse. God is going to deliver them. We need to get prepared and the way to do that is to put the “manna,” which is the Word of God, in our heart. That's the very next parable we see in Exodus. (Exo.16:4) Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. (31) And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey. Jesus is the bread that came down from Heaven to give life to the world. (Joh.6:51) I am the living bread which came down out of heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: yea and the bread which I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world. But those Israelites said that they hated the manna and they called it “vile.” (Num.21:5) And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light (or “vile,” as the footnote says) bread. They didn't like the manna, they were tired of the manna, and many Christians today are just tired of the manna. They're tired of the Word. They'd rather go please themselves with the world, instead of preparing for the things that are coming upon the world, but life to God's people in the wilderness is the manna. Life to God's people in the wilderness is Jesus, Who was that manna and Who is the Word (John 1:14). God commanded those Israelites to partake of the manna for the whole time they were in the wilderness. (Exo.16:35) And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan. The manna supernaturally preserved them all the way through the wilderness until they came to the Promised Land. So when they became tired of the manna, they cried out for flesh and what did God do about it? He said, “Alright, I'll give you flesh. I'll give you flesh until it comes out of your nose.” What does “flesh” represent? It represents living after the lusts of the flesh. (Num.11:18) And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. (19) Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days, (20) but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the Lord who is among you.... That was the manna. They rejected the manna because they wanted to live after the flesh. God wanted to give them the Word, but they wanted the flesh and God brought judgment upon them. (33) While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. (34) And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (“the graves of lust”), because there they buried the people that lusted. It pleased them to live after the lusts of their flesh, instead of partaking of the Word, which was life (John 6:63), and God gave them over to the lusts of their flesh. Multitudes of so-called “Christians” are going to go berserk in the coming times because they are crying out for something besides the Word of God, which God provided for them to preserve them through this wilderness. And while they are calling out for it, just as He did with the Israelites who lusted, God's going to be giving it to them. The whole world is going to be demon-possessed in the coming wilderness, saints. The only people who are going to be preserved are those who have eaten the bread of life, Jesus Christ. Do you know what it is to “eat” something? You chew it, you swallow it, you digest it and it becomes who you are. Some people study the Word and they talk about the Word in Church, but they don't walk according to the Word. They don't live it out. In the days to come, the lusts of the flesh are going to kill people. The only thing that's going to preserve us is to digest the Word of God. (Exo.15:26) And he said, If thou wilt diligently hearken (meaning “to hear and obey”) to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his eyes, and wilt give ear to his commandments (meaning “keep these commandments”), and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon thee, which I have put upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee. Our God will give supernatural provision to His people to live through the wilderness, but remember what He told them in (Exo.16:4) ... I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. He was going to try them with a day's portion every day to prove them, to see whether they would keep His law or not.

Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom?

Doth not he see my ways?

We keep saying The 2025 Rugby Championship is the tightest one yet, and so it remains after four rounds. Everyone has two wins and two losses. Everyone has won and lost at home, everyone has won and lost away. Brett & Harry ask the key questions in this TRC week off before we resume for Round 5 next weekend. But how will Australia and New Zealand bounce back after stinging losses? And how confident are Argentina and South Africa right now? This week's key questions: Q1. How deep is the Wallabies fallout from the Argentina loss in Sydney? Q2. Is it nearly as deep as the All Blacks fallout from the Boks loss in Wellington? Q3. Everyone has two wins + two losses. Who wins the TRC from here? What do you think? We'd love to hear from you in the comments below! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Sheep that from the fold did stray No true shepherd e'er forsaketh; Weary souls that lost their way Christ, the Shepherd, gently taketh In His arms that they may live. Jesus sinners doth receive. “I, a sinner, come to Thee With a penitent confession. Savior, mercy show to me; Grant for all my sins remission. Let these words my soul relieve: Jesus, sinners doth receive.”

Liên minh đối lập đang kêu gọi chính phủ đẩy nhanh việc thông qua luật để liệt Lực lượng Vệ binh Cách mạng Iran (IRGC) vào danh sách các tổ chức khủng bố. Động thái này diễn ra sau khi cộng đồng an ninh và tình báo của Úc cáo buộc IRGC đã chỉ đạo các cuộc tấn công nhằm vào cộng đồng Do Thái.

Các cơ quan cảnh sát và tình báo Úc tiết lộ rằng Lực lượng Vệ binh Cách mạng Iran đứng sau hai vụ tấn công bài Do Thái ở Úc. Việc phát hiện mạng lưới do Iran chỉ đạo đã dẫn đến việc trục xuất Đại sứ Iran tại Canberra và rút các nhà ngoại giao Úc khỏi Tehran.

For over 400 years, the King James Version of the Bible has shaped the English-speaking world—one could argue that it's been the single most influential and important book in the English-speaking world. But for some Christians today, it's more than just a trusted translation—it's the only legitimate translation. The King James Only movement insists that all other English translations are flawed, dangerous, or even deceptive. But where did this idea come from? Why do some believers cling so tightly to this one version? And what does the actual history—of manuscripts, translations, and church tradition—really say? In this episode, we'll explore the roots of the KJV-only position, the arguments that fuel it, and why a faithful reading of Scripture doesn't have to mean speaking 17th-century English.

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Does wisdom remain silent in a world of noise? Not according to Solomon. In these opening verses of Proverbs 8, we see that wisdom takes the initiative; she lifts up her voice, positions herself in the public square, and beckons to all who will listen. In today's teaching, we explore how God's wisdom is both accessible and confrontational, calling out from the high places, the gates, and the paths of life. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart    You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961. Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! AmericanReserves.com It's the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. Sacrificingliberty.com The Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! Trunews/faucielf

Does wisdom remain silent in a world of noise? Not according to Solomon. In these opening verses of Proverbs 8, we see that wisdom takes the initiative; she lifts up her voice, positions herself in the public square, and beckons to all who will listen. In today's teaching, we explore how God's wisdom is both accessible and confrontational, calling out from the high places, the gates, and the paths of life. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartJoin the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt's the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

In this episode, the boys look back at the MLS All-Star Game and the recent clash between Nashville SC and San Diego with a little help from the Bard himself.  It may not have been totally worth it to stay up late on Friday night to catch the game, but there were some terrific concerts worth going to this weekend instead.  And while the boys show a lot of love for Joe Willis, they've got bones to pick with MLS ownership for their greed and general disinterest in the game of soccer.  But that's okay, because Nashville is still having a great season, and the boys express the joy of 2025 through poetry before offering up some incredibly spicy (and slightly uncomfortable) takes about Walker Zimmerman's starting role.  Finally, the boys look ahead to the friendly match against Aston Villa.  Ryan is torn between two of his favorite teams, but in the end, they're all rooting for the gold and blue.  And they drink beer.

Late summer nights, early June. Walter Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood are squashing the beef we all finally just stopped talking about. The Stanley Cup is off to a thrilling start. Vinnie writes an ad to sell Chat GPT to ministers to help out with their sermons. Let's not forget how much of an icon Barbara Streisand is. Old habits die hard: If you grew up without money, you're still using the last drop of every product.