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The Bitter (and Stinky) Self-Destructed Rotten End of The Simpering Senile Snake of marred-a-LAME0; The Drained and Dithered Dullard, Liddle donnie j. trump: Part 11/18: Stop Light. Now Tired, Trembling, and Tearful trump Lays Down To Sleep... And Everybody's Got A Little Light Under The Sun! Hooray!

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 396: Deuteronomy 9:18 I threw myself down before the Lord--eating no bread and drinking no water forty days and forty nights, as before--because of the great wrong you had committed, doing what displeased the Lord and vexing Him.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 866: Isaiah 9:18 By the fury of the Lord of Hosts, The earth was shaken.'" Next, the people became like devouring fire: No man spared his countryman.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1780: Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is more valuable than weapons of war, but a single error destroys much value.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1799 and 1800: Esther 9:18 (But the Jews in Shushan mustered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and so rested on the fifteenth, and made it a day of feasting and merrymaking.)

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1827: Daniel 9:18 Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolation and the city to which Your name is attached. Not because of any merit of ours do we lay our plea before You but because of Your abundant mercies.

Acts 9:18 Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, Acts 9:19 and after taking some food, he regained his strength. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.

Matthew 15:22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” Matthew 15:23 But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.” Matthew 15:24 Then Jesus said to the woman, “I was sent only to help God’s lost sheep—the people of Israel.” Matthew 15:25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said. Matthew 15:26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” Matthew 15:27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

Strong's Concordance #9 abedah: a lost thing, something lost; destruction, i.e. Hades, loss. Original Word: אֲבֵדָה

Strong's Concordance #18 ebus: a crib, feeding trough, manger Original Word: אֵבוּס

Strong's Concordance #2013 has: hush! keep silence! "He hesitated" Original Word: הָסָה

I lost my heart and hesitated (Hebrew): אֲבֵ דָ האֵ בוּ ס הָסָה Father G-d, I am sorry (Yiddish): אֲבֵ דָ האֵ בוּ ס הָסָה

Luke 2:5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. Luke 2:6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, Luke 2:7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. Luke 2:8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. Luke 2:9 An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. Luke 2:10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Luke 2:11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” Luke 2:13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Luke 2:14 “Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: September 18th, 2013: "C" = 3. https://suntoday.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/2013/09/18/f0193.jpg

In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. "We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: July 4th, 2023: "C" = 3. https://suntoday.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/2023/07/04/f0193.jpg

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Mahatma Gandhi

December 19, 1941 (Friday): Adolf Hitler relieved Walther von Brauchitsch as Commander-in-Chief of the German Army and took personal command himself. A proclamation announcing the move was published two days later. (Wikipedia)

In a major shake-up of the military high command, Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army. The German offensive against Moscow was proving to be a disaster. A perimeter had been established by the Soviets 200 miles from the city—and the Germans couldn’t break through. The harsh winter weather—with temperatures often dropping to 31 degrees below zero—had virtually frozen German tanks in their tracks.

Soviet General Georgi Zhukov had unleashed a ferocious counteroffensive of infantry, tanks, and planes that had forced the flailing Germans into retreat. In short, the Germans were being beaten for the first time in the war, and the toll to their collective psyche was great. “The myth of the invincibility of the German army was broken,” German General Franz Halder would write later.

But Hitler refused to accept this notion. He began removing officers from their command. General Fedor von Bock, who had been suffering severe stomach pains and who on December 1 had complained to Halder that he was no longer able to “operate” with his debilitated troops, was replaced by General Hans von Kluge, whose own 4th Army had been pushed into permanent retreat from Moscow. General Karl von Runstedt was relieved of the southern armies because he had retreated from Rostov.

Hitler clearly did not believe in giving back captured territory, so in the biggest shake-up of all, he declared himself commander in chief of the army. He would train it “in a National Socialist way”—that is, by personal fiat. He would compose the strategies and the officers would dance to his tune. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-takes-command-of-the-german-army

December 20, 1941 (Saturday): Joseph Goebbels announced a winter clothing collection drive for troops on the Eastern Front. Rather than admitting to a supply shortage he presented it as an expression of solidarity between the soldiers and the homeland.

December 19, 1941 (Friday): Maurice White, musician and founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. February 4, 2016)

Earth, Wind & Fire - "December"

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Published: December 12, 2014 (346th day) Duration: 3:50 (230 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjCWhwdnCd0 CjCWhwdnCd0 (0) CjCWhwdnCd cccddhjnww 3+3+3+4+4+8+600+40+900+900=2465. 2465+230=2695. 2695+346=3041.

Strong's Concordance #3041 Yedideyah: From ydiyd and Yahh; "beloved of Yah/Jah/the G-d of Israel"; Jedidejah, a name of Solomon; friendship, membership, camaraderie, companionship, fellowship Original Word: יְדִידְיָה

Earth, Wind & Fire - "December" "Do you remember the 25th night of December? Love was changin' the minds of pretenders While chasin' the clouds away Our hearts were ringin' in the key that our souls were singin' As we danced in the night, remember? How the stars stole the night away, oh yeah My thoughts are with you, holdin' hands with your heart to see you Only blue talk and love, remember How we knew love was here to stay Now December found the love that we shared in September Only blue talk and love, remember The true love we share today The bells were ringin', oh oh Our souls were singin' Do you remember? Never a cloudy day, yow Hey, hey, hey! Ba-dee ya, say, do you remember? Ba-dee ya, dancin' in December Ba-dee ya, never was a cloudy day There was a… Ba-dee ya, (dee ya dee ya) say, do you remember? Ba-dee ya, (dee ya dee ya) dancin' in December Ba-dee ya, (dee ya dee ya) golden dreams were shiny days"

In July 2006, Stormy Daniels, an American pornographic film actress, met donald trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada. At the time, trump was the host of the reality TV series The Apprentice and was married to melania trump. Their son, barron trump, had been born four months earlier. According to Daniels, trump invited her to his penthouse at Harrah's Lake Tahoe where the two had sex and talked about making her a guest on The Apprentice.

In 2011, Daniels considered selling the story to the celebrity magazine Life & Style for US$15,000 as trump began exploring a potential presidential bid. His lawyer, Michael Cohen, threatened to sue Life & Style when it asked the Trump Organization for comment. Daniels' agent, Gina Rodriguez, leaked the story to gossip blog The Dirty in October. The post was taken down following complaints by trump's lawyers, and Daniels disputed the story's veracity.

As Trump's 2016 presidential campaign began, Rodriguez approached multiple publications—including the National Enquirer—and attempted to sell the story. Following the publication of a lewd tape between trump and the television host Billy Bush, the National Enquirer bought the story in October 2016. In an effort to help the Trump campaign, the National Enquirer sought to suppress the story. Rather than paying Daniels, the National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard negotiated a $130,000 non-disclosure agreement between Daniels and Cohen. As the election neared, Cohen attempted to find the money and repeatedly delayed her payment. Keith Davidson, Daniels's lawyer, canceled the deal in October 2016.

Realizing that his work to cover up the story could be revealed, Cohen drew the money from his home equity line of credit and sent it through a shell company incorporated in Delaware. Trump initially denied knowing about the check made out to Daniels. In April 2018, aboard Air Force One, he told a reporter he did not know where Cohen got the money. Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for trump, refuted these claims in a Fox News interview, saying that trump was aware of the payments. trump wrote several checks, totaling $420,000 to Cohen.

The checks reimbursed him for the non-disclosure agreement and covered the costs for Cohen to manipulate online polls to boost trump's status. The $180,000 paid to Cohen was doubled to offset taxes, and $60,000 was added. These payments were made throughout 2017, during Trump's first year of his presidency. The payments made to Cohen were declared as a legal expense; if this were misleading, it would constitute a misdemeanor under New York law.

Prosecutors have also considered the legality of Cohen's payment; under New York law, falsifying business records to cover up a crime is a Class E felony.

December 12, 2018: Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for having paid $130,000 hush money (characterized in the charges as an "excessive campaign contribution") to Stormy Daniels during donald trump's election campaign.

March 18, 2023: donald trump stated that he expected to be placed under arrest the following Tuesday (March 21), on unspecified charges at the behest of New York prosecutors.

March 30, 2023: A grand jury voted to indict donald trump on more than 30 charges related to business fraud.

The People of the State of New York v. donald j. trump is a pending criminal case against donald trump. On March 30, 2023, trump was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for his alleged role in a scandal relating to hush money payments made to the pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, making him the first U.S. president to be indicted.

trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the first degree, carrying a maximum sentence of 136 years if trump is convicted on all counts. On May 23, 2023, Justice Merchan set the trial for March 25, 2024. (Wikipedia)

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with presidential succession and disability. Section 4 addresses the case of a president who is unable to discharge the powers and duties of the presidency but cannot, or does not, execute the voluntary declaration contemplated by Section 3. (Wikipedia)

Two conditions often connected to magical thinking: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia, are treatable and manageable. So, what is magical thinking?

Magical thinking is most often associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and disorders under the umbrella of schizophrenia.

In OCD, magical thinking can lead someone to perform a specific action or ritual. They may articulate they understand the thinking is not logical but still feel compelled to complete an action in order to prevent harm to someone or to stop bad things from happening.

Older research from 2014 found that, in those with schizophrenia, magical thinking was most closely related to auditory hallucinations. For folks with schizophrenia, there’s often no comprehension that the behavior and event’s relationship isn’t logical. Source: https://psychcentral.com/health/magical-thinking

Recognizing the signs of schizophrenia Schizophrenia can cause hallucinations, delusions, and unusual behaviors, as well as cognitive challenges, such as problems with memory, attention, and concentration.

Signs and symptoms:

Hallucinations, such as hearing voices or seeing things that others do not experience.

Beliefs that are odd or that others do not share.

Trouble thinking logically.

Agitated or repetitive body movements.

Lack of emotional expression when talking.

Speaking little.

Lack of pleasure in everyday activities.

Difficulty paying attention.

Trouble applying information to make decisions.

Problems with working memory (a type of short-term memory involved in processing information).

Source: https://www.apa.org/topics/schizophrenia/recognizing

"…by Christmas 2024, that's just shortly after the election, because of the momentum of our victory, we will have a Unus economy…" - Looney Toonus Dummy Doofus Stinky Toofus donnie j. trump (Coralville, IA) Source: ACYN

Unus's One Finger Stand (c.1950) Unus’s act was also spectacular. He worked in tails and top hat on high pedestals, on which he performed a variety of one-arm stands. At what point he introduced the one-finger stand is not known, but the trickAny specific exercise in a circus act., which he presented at the top of his act with great drama, became his trademark. However, Unus didn’t originate it, as has often been alleged: This privilege is generally given to the American Nelson Hall, who presented it around 1905—although the Cirque Fernando in Paris featured "Gaylord, équilibriste sur un doigt" as early as 1878. Nonetheless, the one-finger stand was rarely seen; Unus revived it and made it popular, to the extent that after his American successes, it ceased to be a rarity in Europe. There are several ways of performing it, all of which necessitate a more or less elaborate gimmick. In the case of Unus, he concealed it in his glove; but no one better than him has been able to tease so charmingly and efficiently the audience with the obvious object of their suspicion! Before WWII, Unus became a well-known act in Northern Europe’s huge variety and nightclub circuit. It was a more comfortable environment than the circus, and it paid better too. As an Austrian headliner, Unus also had the dubious honor to perform for the Reich Chancellor, Adolph Hitler. His rare incursions in the ring—such as at Circus Knie in 1947—happened after the War, at a time when there were practically no variety theater or nightclubs left in Germany and Austria. Since German or Austrian performers were often ostracized in countries that had been occupied by or fighting the Reich, Unus also went to work in Spain, whose Fascist regime had had strong ties with Germany before WWII and had remained more or less neutral during the conflict. www.circopedia.org/Unus

Strong's Concordance #245 Azanyah: From 'azan and Yahh; heard by Jah; "Yah/ the G-d of Israel has heard," a Levite Original Word: אֲז��נְיָה

On August 8, 2022, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the residence of former U.S. president Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida. The search warrant application was authorized by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and approved by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, following a criminal referral by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

The order, unsealed a few days after the search, showed that the FBI obtained the search warrant as part of an investigation into Trump relating to three federal criminal statutes:

violations of the Espionage Act regarding unauthorized retention of national defense information;

destroying or concealing records "with the intent to impede obstruct or influence" federal government activity;

illegal removal or destruction of federal government records (without respect to cause).

Later, courts released the affidavit with redactions, giving the public a window into the FBI's goals in this search and what the FBI seized. In 2021, NARA tried to recover material, and Trump went through the material in his possession at the end of that year. Surveillance footage subpoenaed by the Justice Department in June 2022 showed boxes were moved in and out of a storage room at some point. The Justice Department said the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely "concealed and removed" to block investigation.

Over 13,000 government documents were recovered. They included nuclear-related information and FBI, CIA, and NSA information about national security interests. Of these documents, 337 were classified: 197 handed over in January 2022, 38 turned over under subpoena in June 2022, and 102 seized in the August search of Mar-a-Lago. Months later, at least two more documents with classified markings were uncovered at Trump locations.

On June 8, 2023, Trump was indicted on federal charges related to the documents. On June 13, 2023, Trump surrendered to federal custody and was arrested, booked, processed, and arraigned in the U.S. District Court of South Florida. Trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 charges. On July 27, a new version of the indictment (superseding the old) added three counts against Trump. (Wikipedia)

Matthew 7:26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. Matthew 7:27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

'Blood on his hands': As US surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, experts blame trump administration for a 'preventable' loss of life Besides being the first president to get impeached twice, donald trump will have a stain on his legacy with arguably longer-lasting consequences: He's the only American leader in a century with more than 400,000 deaths from one event on his watch. The USA crossed that somber threshold Tuesday, yet another reminder of how poorly the nation with the world's largest economy has fared during the coronavirus pandemic. As of 2:52 p.m. EST Tuesday, the COVID-19 death toll was at 400,022, according to the Johns Hopkins University dashboard. Not since Woodrow Wilson was in office during the 1918 flu pandemic – which killed about 675,000 in this country and 50 million worldwide – had a president overseen the loss of so many American lives. That total is fast approaching the 405,000 U.S. fatalities from World War II – thousands of them recorded when Harry Truman was president after Franklin Delano Roosevelt died in April 1945 – to rank as the third-deadliest event in the history of the republic. About 618,000-750,000 were killed in the Civil War of 1861-1865. Many public health experts and historians blame the trump administration for the extent of the COVID-19 devastation. “What’s so troubling about this loss of life is it was preventable,” said Dr. Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. “This is an infectious disease we knew how to prevent, and as difficult as it is, far easier to solve than defeating Nazi Germany. And yet, we did not mount a response to wage war against this virus as we have in these other situations.” Thomas Whalen, an associate professor at Boston University and an expert on the American presidency, is even harsher in his assessment. Whalen cited reporting by journalist Bob Woodward, who taped trump on Feb. 7 acknowledging how dangerous the virus was even though he repeatedly downplayed its severity publicly. “He has, you could say, blood on his hands,” Whalen said of Trump. “He knew this was a threat and really did not do what was necessary to respond to it in a thoughtful and resourceful way.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/17/covid-19-us-400-000-deaths-experts-blame-trump-administration/6642685002/

Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Beastie Boys - "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" - "I'm done running…"

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May 5, 2023 (125th day) Duration: 3:06 (186 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuAbDG8FnH8 VuAbDG8FnH8 (8, 8) VuAbDGFnH abdfghnuv 1+2+4+6+7+8+40+200+700=968. 968+8+8=984. 984+186=1170. 1170+125=1295.

Strong's Concordance #1295 berekah: From barak; a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place) -- fishpond, pool, pond; blessing Original Word: בְּרֵכָה

Christian Televangelist Pat Robertson says he believes President Joe Biden truly won the election and distances himself from donald j. trump: 'You've had your day, and it's time to move on' On his television show "The 700 Club," Robertson delivered a monologue in which he challenged the president on a personal and political level and gave a very different assessment. "donald was "very erratic, and he's fired people and he's fought people and he's insulted people, and he keeps going down the line." 'donald lives in an alternate reality," Robertson added, laying into some of Trump's most notorious lies and telling Trump "it's time to move on." In reconciling his perception of donald j. trump, Robertson added, "And so, it's a mixed bag," he said. "And I think it would be well to say, 'You've had your day and it's time to move on.'" When asked about a potential 2024 trump run, Robertson said, "I think it's a sideshow." Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/pat-robertson-distances-himself-trump-its-time-to-move-on-2020-12

Megyn Kelly said that Donald Trump is increasingly confused and not as 'mentally sharp' as he once was "There's no question that Trump has lost a step or multiple steps," Kelly told conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Friday. "He is confusing Joe Biden for Obama. I know he's now saying he intentionally did that — go back and look at the clips, it wasn't intentional." She noted that he is making mistakes "repeatedly," including "confusing countries, confusing cities where he is." "With all due respect to Trump, this is what happens when you're 77 years old. Trump is human. He's just a very old man." Trump's presidential nomination rivals are also challenging his mental capacities. Kelly highlighted a DeSantis' jab at Trump, who said, "Father Time spares no one." Source:https://www.businessinsider.com/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-not-as-mentally-sharp-once-was-2023-12

Billionaire GOP donor endorses Haley, says Trump’s time has ‘come and gone’ Home Depot co-founder and billionaire Ken Langone put his support behind GOP hopeful Nikki Haley on Friday, calling her approach to the 2024 election “smart.” “I think she’s just what we need right now. I think her approach is smart. I think she’s clarified herself on some issues which is very important,” Langone, who is seen as a GOP mega donor, said in an interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto. “And more importantly, I think the American people need this kind of leadership, statesman-like, elegant.” “When you think of where we’ve been in the last six or seven or eight years, it’s not good, Neil. It’s not good at all,” he added. Langone added that he believes the former president’s time had “come and gone,” while pointing to the last few months of his tenure in the White House, as reasons why he wouldn’t back Trump. “What Trump put this country through for the last three months of his presidency was disgraceful. I’m sorry. And I think, frankly, that to me, ruined his chances to succeed himself at some point,” he told Cavuto. “So, you know, I think what happened on January 6th, all I had to say was, ‘please go home.’ You made known your feelings. Now go home.” Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4350728-nikki-haley-billionaire-gop-donor-endorsement-2024/

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden wrapped up a weekend of fundraising in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 10, 2023, with a record amount raised. More than $15 million was raised through the weekend, including for the Biden Victory Fund, said campaign co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg, founding partner of WndrCo. That is the most raised for a single visit to Los Angeles of any president or presidential candidate, he said. It also surpassed the amount raised by Barack Obama in May, 2012, when Obama headlined a fundraiser at the home of George Clooney and co-hosted by Katzenberg. That fundraising trip brought in almost $15 million. “To do this a year before an election is really just exceptional and it demonstrates the tremendous amount of support and enthusiasm for the president’s re-election,” Katzenberg said. https://deadline.com/2023/12/joe-biden-fundraising-jeffrey-katzenberg-hollywood-1235661110/

Statement from President Joe Biden on Baseless House Republican Impeachment Stunt December 13, 2023 The American people need their leaders in Congress to take action on important priorities for the nation and world. On Tuesday, I met with the President of Ukraine, who is leading his people in a battle for freedom against Russian aggression. He came to America to ask us for help. Yet Republicans in Congress won’t act to help. The people of Israel are in a battle against terrorists, and they are waiting for our help. Yet Republicans in Congress won’t act to help. We have to address the situation at our southern border, and I am determined to try to fix the problem. We need funding to strengthen border security, but Republicans in Congress won’t act to help. We need to continue our progress on the economy and make sure inflation keeps going down and job growth keeps going up. That means avoiding self-inflicted economic crises like a government shutdown, which Republicans in Congress are driving us toward in just a few weeks because they won’t act now to fund the government and critical priorities to make life better for the American people. There is a lot of work to be done. But after wasting weeks trying to find a new Speaker of the House and having to expel their own members, Republicans in Congress are leaving for a month without doing anything to address these pressing challenges. I wake up every day focused on the issues facing the American people – real issues that impact their lives, and the strength and security of our country and the world. Unfortunately, House Republicans are not joining me. Instead of doing anything to help make Americans’ lives better, they are focused on attacking me with lies. Instead of doing their job on the urgent work that needs to be done, they are choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt that even Republicans in Congress admit is not supported by facts. The American people deserve better. I know what I am going to remain focused on. I would invite Republicans in Congress to join me. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-baseless-house-republican-impeachment-stunt/

Impeachment vote boosts Biden campaign fundraising Kevin Breuninger Posted: December 14, 2023 | Last updated: December 14, 2023 Republicans' impeachment efforts are paying off — for President Joe Biden. A fundraising email from Kamala Harris attacking House Republicans for voting this week to authorize a "ridiculous" impeachment inquiry has already become the vice president's top-performing pitch of the entire reelection, a Biden campaign source told CNBC. It was also the campaign's best pitch of the month, added the source, who requested anonymity to discuss the fundraising development. It's "a testament to the energy against this whole thing," said the source, who declined to say exactly how much had been raised. "This inquiry is nothing but political theater with bad actors," the email read. Harris accused the Republicans of trying to "destroy President Biden and our record." The impeachment-focused campaign pitch takes a page out of donald trump's playbook, by capitalizing on a message of political grievance and presenting the president as a victim of unfair attacks. trump, the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination, regularly decries his many active criminal and civil lawsuits as witch hunts and political "lawfare." His campaign references those legal battles in near-daily fundraising pitches that accuse Biden of trying to suppress his top political rival. Despite Biden's low approval ratings, his campaign has already raised massive sums toward his bid for a second term. His fundraising operation raked in over $71 million in the third quarter, far exceeding the totals posted by Trump and other Republican presidential contenders. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/impeachment-vote-boosts-biden-campaign-fundraising/

Touch: "Pilot" (alternatively "Tales of the Red Thread") is the first episode of Touch. It originally aired in a special preview event held January 25, 2012, on FOX.

"Today we'll send over 300 billion e-mails 19 billion text messages. Yet we'll still feel alone. The average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 other individuals. Will these words be used to hurt or to heal? The ratio is always the same. 1 to 1.618, over and over and over again. The patterns are hidden in plain sight. You just have to know where to look. Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior. Galaxies, plants, seashells. The patterns never lie. But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together. 7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet. This is the story of some of those people. There's an ancient Chinese myth about the Red Thread of Fate. It says the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we're destined to touch. This thread may stretch, or tangle, but it'll never break. It's all predetermined by mathematical probability, and it's my job to keep track of those numbers, to make the connections for those who need to find each other, the ones whose lives need to touch. I was born 4,161 days ago, on October 26, 2000. I've been alive for 11 years, 4 months, 21 days and 14 hours. And in all that time I've never said a single word." - Jake/Jacob/Israel Bohm

October 26, 2000: Strong's Concordance #4161 motsa: a place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring, growing place, a mine. Original Word: מוֹצָא

A Web search leads Jake's father, Martin, to the Teller Institute, a rundown home at 318 West Tesla Street.

Arthur Teller explains that, on his own, Jake discovered the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio concerning patterns repeated in nature: a wave's curve, a shell's spiral, segments of a pineapple. Jake sees vast connections that amount to road maps, and it's Martin's job, his destiny, to follow them for Jake.

"Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees! No wonder he doesn't talk." - Arthur Teller on Jacob/Israel Bohm

In the 2012 television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, "Music of the Spheres", Jacob "Jake" Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the "Lamed Vav Tzadikim" by a Hasidic man. In the second season of Touch, Jake and other people who have special gifts are referred to as members of the 36; throughout the episodes they are exploited for their capabilities and are hunted down by one who believes they hold too much power. The final episode features consideration of the Kabbalah and the mystical roots of the legend of the 36. Lamedvavnik (Yiddish: למד־װאָװניק), is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy persons in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are. For the sake of these 36 hidden saints, God preserves the world even if the rest of humanity has degenerated to the level of total barbarism. This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men. Since nobody knows who the Lamedvavniks are, not even themselves, every Jew should act as if he or she might be one of them; i.e., lead a holy and humble life and pray for the sake of fellow human beings. It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they live and die as an ordinary person. Whether the person knows they are the potential Messiah is debated. (Wikipedia)

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 870 and 871: Isaiah 11:1 But a shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, A twig shall sprout from his stock. Isaiah 11:2 The spirit of the Lord shall alight upon him: A spirit of wisdom and insight, A spirit of counsel and valor, A spirit of devotion and reverence for the Lord. Isaiah 11:3 He shall sense the truth by his reverence for the Lord; He shall not judge by what his eyes behold, Nor decide by what his ears perceive. Isaiah 11:4 Thus he shall judge the poor with equity And decide with justice for the lowly of the land. He shall strike down a land with the rod of his mouth And slay the wicked with the breath of his lips. Isaiah 11:5 Justice shall be the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness the girdle of his waist. Isaiah 11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard lie down with the kid; the calf, the beast of prey, and the fatling together, With a little boy to herd them. Isaiah 11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze, Their young shall lie down together; And the lion, like the ox, shall eat straw. Isaiah 11:8 A babe shall play Over a viper's hole, And an infant shall pass his hand Over an adder's den. Isaiah 11:9 In all of My sacred mount Nothing evil or vile shall be done; For the land shall be filled with devotion to the Lord As water covers the sea. Isaiah 11:10 In that day, The stock of Jesse that has remained standing Shall become a standard to peoples--Nations shall seek his counsel And his abode shall be honored.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1053: Jeremiah 17:13 O Hope of Israel! O Lord! All who forsake You shall be put to shame, Those in the land who turn from You Shall be doomed men, For they have forsaken the Lord, The Fount of living waters.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1459: Psalm 39:7 Man walks about as a mere shadow; mere futility is his hustle and bustle, amassing and not knowing who will gather in. Psalm 39:8 What, then, can I count on, O Lord? In You my hope lies.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1616: Proverbs 10:28 The righteous can look forward to joy, But the hope of the wicked is doomed. Proverbs 10:29 The way of the Lord is a stronghold for the blameless, But a ruin for evildoers.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1617: Proverbs 11:7 At death the hopes of a wicked man are doomed, And the ambition of evil men comes to nothing.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1678: Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree; If it is cut down it will renew itself; Its shoots will not cease.

“I believe with complete faith in the coming of Mashiach. Though he tarry, nonetheless I await him every day, that he will come.”.

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey." - Sarah Fielding

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." - Buddha

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics. Daily results are presented here on Spaceweather.com.

On December 19, 2023, the network reported 8 fireballs. (7 sporadics, 1 December Leonis Minorid)

Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

1 Corinthians 7:1 Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 1 Corinthians 7:2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. 1 Corinthians 7:3 The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

2 Corinthians 12:5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 2 Corinthians 12:6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 2 Corinthians 12:7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 2 Corinthians 12:8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1635: Proverbs 21:30 No wisdom, no prudence, and no counsel Can prevail against the Lord.

Luke 12:1 Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:2 There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. Luke 12:3 What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. Luke 12:4 “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. Luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Luke 12:7 Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

James 1:26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Matthew 12:34 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Mark 12:28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” Mark 12:29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ Mark 12:31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” Mark 12:32 “Well said, teacher,” the man replied. “You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him. Mark 12:33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Mark 12:34 When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And from then on no one dared ask him any more questions.

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 188: Exodus 34:8 Moses hastened to bow low to the ground in homage, Exodus 34:9 and said, "If I have gained Your faovr, O Lord, pray, let the Lord go in our midst, even though this is a stiffnecked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own!" Exodus 34:10 He said: I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will work such wonders as have not been wrought on all the earth or in any nation; and all the people who are with you shall see how awesome are the Lord's deeds which I will perform for you.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1233: Ezekiel 34:11 For thus said the Lord God: Here am I! I am going to take thought for My flock and I will seek them out.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1450: Psalm 34:7 Here was a lowly who called, and the Lord listened, and delivered him from all his troubles. Psalm 34:8 The angel of the Lord camps around those who fear Him and rescues them. Psalm 34:9 Taste and see how good the Lord is; happy the man who takes refuge in Him! Psalm 34:10 Fear the Lord, you His consecrated one, for those who fear Him lack nothing. Psalm 34:11 Lions have been reduced to starvation, but those who turn to the Lord shall not lack any good.

John 13:34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

“Taste, Chef said, is all about balance. The sour, the salty, the sweet, the bitter. Now your tongue is coded. A certain connoisseurship of taste, a mark of how you deal with the world, is the ability to relish the bitter, to crave it even, the way you do the sweet.” ― Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.” ― Kim Harrison, Early to Death, Early to Rise

“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad… you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more… oh, ever so much more… oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!” ― Dr. Seuss, Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

“And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.” ― M.T. Anderson, Thirsty

“We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.” ― MAD Magazine

“At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.” ― Vincent van Gogh

“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“If life feels bitter and sour, taste the sugar from the sweetness of flower” ― Munia Khan, Attainable

“You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. You cannot touch love either; but you feel the sweetness that it pours into everything. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.” ― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.” ― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“As our bodies are mostly made of water, I’d rather be hungry than thirsty. And as love is mostly made up of sugar water, I’d rather be a hummingbird caged in your heart.” ― Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

My Lemonade Stand by Dr. Wilfred Waterson (November 30, 2023). Vibrant crayons partied hardy on the posterboard sign of my lemonade stand. Their footprints said, "Let Those Without Sin Convince Me Love Never Wins In The End!" Then Jesus and a travelling table and chair were witnesses to what unfolded next. The day was broiling, so when they saw me, they were desert desperate for my sweat.

And I said: You think you're such a nuisance to me, well, go ahead and get to it. But I'm juicin' dozens of lemons here while you're smirkin' 'bout all you're doin'. 'Cause my weakness isn't only obvious to just the two of us, you see? Now hear my Father sing; 'cause he made a humble little lemon tree of me.

Three times I'll plead for relief, and on the fourth we're gonna get to it. And by "we" I mean my Father's grace and my deep roots leading you straight to Him. You're stoning me with the squishy tart softness picked from the lemon tree of me. But Jesus is my sweetness; so I'm an oasis of cool lemonade and kindness to you in this vicious heat.

See me as nothin' and call me a sheep; but ain't the whole world the destiny of the meek? So please don't sleep on these lemon seed mysteries that are leavin' us lacking nothing like priests. Just relax with that shade for a fresh minute under this canopy my faith in Jesus grew for me. And let my love for others become the lemon seed beginning that finally sets you free.

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Teaming Up to Make a Visible Difference in Sun Valley, CO May 11, 2017 EPA researchers are partnering with the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Colorado, Denver (UCD) to support the revitalization of the Sun Valley Eco District community in Denver. With some 83 percent of people living below the poverty line, the community is the poorest in the Front Range region and the Denver Metro area. Recently, it has garnered increasing attention for revitalization, including a late 2016 grant of $30 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to replace distressed and isolated public housing and transform the surrounding neighborhood. https://www.epa.gov/healthresearch/teaming-make-visible-difference-sun-valley-co

Stamp Announcement 17-27: Total Eclipse of the Sun Stamp by Fred… May 11, 2017 On June 20, 2017, in Laramie, WY, the U.S. Postal Service® will issue the Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp (Forever® priced at 49 cents), in one design, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 16 stamps (Item 475300). The $7.84 Total Eclipse of the Sun pane of 16 stamps may not be split, and the stamps may not be sold individually. The stamps will go on sale nationwide June 20, 2017. On August 21, 2017, a total solar eclipse will be visible to millions of Americans as it sweeps a narrow path across parts of the entire country. The U.S. Postal Service anticipates this rare event with a stamp celebrating the majesty of total solar eclipses. A total eclipse of the Sun occurs when the Moon completely blocks the visible solar disk from view, casting a shadow on the Earth. The image on the Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp shows a total solar eclipse that was seen over Jalu, Libya, in 2006. The Total Eclipse of the Sun stamp is the first U.S. stamp to use thermochromic ink, which reacts to the heat of your touch. Placing your finger over the black disc on the stamp causes the ink to change from black to clear to reveal an underlying image of the moon. The image reverts back to the black disc once it cools. The back of the stamp pane shows a map of the eclipse path. Art director Antonio Alcalá designed the stamp with existing photographs taken by astrophysicist Fred Espenak. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2017/pb22467/html/info_005.htm

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Greetings in the matchless Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Book of Jude (Part 01) – The Description of True Believers!

Rhema Word: Jude 1:1-2 (NKJV) “Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.”

Let us pray. Our Gracious Loving Father, thank You for giving us an opportunity to meditate Your Word today along with Your children who have been called to live a holy life, Father. I commit everyone who are all meditating this message into Your mighty hand Father. Bless them and give them the oneness of Spirit and make their heart as a good land to receive each Word which is living and active Father. Thank You Holy Spirit for helping us to understand the in-depth treasure of Your Word and helping us to live a life as per Your Word Lord. We give all the Glory and Honour to You only Father. We pray in the mighty Name of Your beloved Son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Who authored the book?

Like most of the other general epistles, the title of this little book takes its name from its author. Most scholars identify the writer as Jude the half-brother of Jesus for at least two reasons. First, he identified himself as the “brother of James” (Jude 1:1), meaning he was not the apostle named Jude, a man who was called “the son of James” (Luke 6:16). That the author of the book of Jude identified himself as the brother of James aligns him with the family of Jesus. (See “Who Wrote the Book” on the page about James for more information.) Second, Matthew 13:55 records the names of the brothers of Jesus as James and Judas. Whereas the gospels record his name as Judas, English translations shorten it to Jude—for the same reason no one in the present day wants to name a child Judas, because of the association it has with Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus.

Like his older brother James, Jude did not place his faith in Jesus while the Lord was still alive. Only after the crucifixion and resurrection did the scales fall from Jude’s eyes and he became a follower of his half-brother, Jesus. First Corinthians 9:5 offers a tantalizing piece of information, noting that the Lord’s brothers and their wives took missionary journeys. From this scant portrait, we begin to picture Jude as a man who lived in skepticism for a time but eventually came to a powerful faith in Jesus. And as he travelled on behalf of the gospel—telling the story in city after city with his name Judas butting up against that of Judas Iscariot—he would stand as a living example of faithfulness, a stark contrast to the betrayer.

Why is Jude so important?

Jude’s edgy brevity communicates the urgency of his notion that false teachers needed to be condemned and removed from the church. Few words meant that Jude would not waste space dancing around the issue. He saw within the church people and practices that were worthy of condemnation, including rejecting authority and seeking to please themselves. In response to these errors, Jude marshalled much biblical imagery to make clear what he thought of it all—anything from Cain killing his brother Abel to the punishment of the sinful people who populated Sodom and Gomorrah (Jude 1:7, 11).

What's the Purpose of this letter?

Jude’s purpose in his letter was twofold: he wanted to expose the false teachers that had infiltrated the Christian community, and he wanted to encourage Christians to stand firm in the faith and fight for the truth. Jude recognized that false teachers often peddled their wares unnoticed by the faithful, so he worked to heighten the awareness of the believers by describing in vivid detail how terrible dissenters actually were. But more than simply raising awareness, Jude thought it important that believers stand against those working against Jesus Christ. Believers were to do this by remembering the teaching of the apostles, building each other up in the faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, and keeping themselves in the love of God (Jude 1:17, 20–21).

Here we can see Jude sitting down and writing to the believers of the first century. And in writing, he wastes no time: right from the start he describes himself as a true minister of Jesus Christ and his readers as true believers of Christ. Consequently, in his opening remarks we have a picture by which we can measure ourselves, the picture of a true minister and of a true believer.

We will be meditating the following five parts in the coming weeks starting from today:

Part 01 - The Description of True Believers:

Part 02 - The Warnings Against Apostasy: The Characteristics and Judgement of False teachers – (SET A):

Part 03 - The Warnings Against Apostasy: The Characteristics and Judgement of False teachers – (SET B):

Part 04 - The Warnings Against Apostasy: The Characteristics and Judgement of False teachers – (SET C):

Part 05 - The Exhortation To Believers:

Let us try to understand the First Part – “The Description of True Believers”, on the following, with the help of our Holy Spirit, today:

(01) There is the Picture of the True Minister:

(02) There is the Picture of the True Believer:

(01) There is the Picture of the True Minister:

The Bible says in in Jude 1:1 “Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ.”

There is the picture of the true minister. Who is he? Jude says two simple things about himself:

(i) He says that he is “a servant of Jesus Christ”. This is amazing, for as stated above, Jude was the brother of Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth (Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3). At first, he did not believe that Jesus was the Christ, the Anointed One of God, the Son of God who was to come to earth as the Saviour of the world. But note what Jude says here: he says that he is “a servant of Jesus Christ”. He now believes that his brother Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One of God. He believes that his brother Jesus is the Son of God who came into the world to save man. He believes that his brother Jesus can save him from sin, death, and judgement; he believes that his bother Jesus can make him acceptable God. What an enormous turnaround! What a testimony for our Lord Jesus Christ!

Our Lord Jesus Christ said in John 12:26 “If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honour.”

Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 6:6-7; Colossians 3:23-24 “Not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men.” … “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”

The Bible says in Hebrews 12:28; Exodus 23:25; Psalms 2:11;100:2 “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.” … “So, you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you.” … “Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling.” … “Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before His presence with singing.”

(ii) Jude says that he is the brother of James. Who is James? What James would be so famous and well known that all the believers of the first century would know him by his first name? There was only one such James, the James who was the Lord’s brother, the James who was the pastor of the great Jerusalem church, the mother church of Christianity.

Note this fact: Jude identifies himself by referring to James. Believers all over the world knew James, but few knew Jude. Therefore, he must identify himself so that his audience will receive his exhortation. He is simply Jude “A servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James”. Note the humility of this man! The only claim he has is that he is a slave to Jesus Christ and the brother of a famous man. He could have easily been jealous of his famous brother, resentful of the fact that he had to live under the shadow of his brother, resentful that he had to use his brother’s name to get a hearing from believers. But Jude was not jealous or resentful. He was a true minister of God: he walked humbly among the believers or the world, humbly before God, ever so thankful that God had called him to serve His Son the Lord Jesus Christ, thankful for whatever call God gave him.

Lesson 01: The true minister of God has two very basic traits:

(i) The trait of being a servant and slave of Jesus Christ. And remember Christ means Messiah, the Anointed One of God, the Son of God whom God sent into the world to save men. This is the most basic belief of a true follower of Jesus Christ. Therefore, every true minister of the gospel makes this belief the basis of his life and ministry. He is a true minister because he is a servant and slave of Jesus Christ.

(ii) The trait of humility. The true minister walks humbly among believers and before God. No mater how low God’s call is to him, he is thankful for the very fact that God called him. He is the servant and slave who is available to do the bidding of the Master.

Lesson 02: The fact that Jude was a brother of our Lord is glorious evidence that Jesus Christ is exactly who He claimed to be. It is touching when we realize that Jude has lived as the half-brother to Jesus for years. Day in and day out, hour by hour, month by month, and year by year Jude had played, eaten, worked, slept, and gone to school with Jesus. He had roamed the surrounding hills with Jesus as a boy and seen Him play with other children and relate to the neighbours and adults of their neighbourhood. Jude had seen how his brother received and responded to adult instruction, teaching, and supervision. He had also probably seen Jesus take over the head of the household when their father, Joseph, had died.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said in Mark 16:19; Luke 22:69; John 3:31 “So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” … “Hereafter the Son of Man will sit on the right hand of the power of God.” … “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.”

The Bible says in Acts 2:26; 5:31 “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”… “Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.”

Apostle Paul says in Romans 10:9; 14:9; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 1:19-20; Philippians 2:6-11 “That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” … “For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.” … “Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.” … “And what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.” … “Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name, which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

The Bible says in Revelation 5:12 “Saying with a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honour and glory and blessing!”

(02) There is the Picture of the True Believer:

The Bible says in Jude 1:2 “Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.”

There is the picture of a true believer. Who were these believers? If Jude was writing to a particular church or group of churches, he does not name the church or churches. This points toward him writing to all the believers of the first century. Apparently, the fact that Jude and James were brothers of the Lord Jesus Christ carried a lot of weight with the believers of their day. When they spoke, it made the believers stand up and take notice, for they had lived with Jesus day by day before His ministry and had experienced dramatic conversions from unbelief to staunch belief. This fact points to Jude writing to a wider audience. What he was writing was to be circulated among all the churches among all believers. In these opening words, Jude pictures just who a believer is. We can measure ourselves against his description and tell whether we are a believer.

(i) Believers are the “called” (kletois). This means several things:

(a) It means that believers are the persons who have responded to the call of the gospel. God calls man to accept the gospel. He tugs and pulls at the heart strings, convicts, and convinces man to accept Jesus Christ as His Son, but man must respond to the call of God. God cannot make the decision for man. The believer is a person who has genuinely accepted the call of God. God summoned him called him, and the believer responded. He became a believer, a person who truly believed in Jesus Christ.

Our Lord Jesus Christ said in Matthew 22:14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:6-7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 23-24; 2 Timothy 1:9 “Among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ; To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” … “To the church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.” … “But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.” … “Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.”

(b) It means that a believer has been called to be a saint, that is, to live a life of holiness. The word “saint” (hagios) means holy one or holiness. The believer is called to be holy, pure, and righteous just as God is.

Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2 “To all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” … “To the church of God, which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.”

Apostle Peter says in 1 Peter 1:15 “But as He who called you is holy; you also be holy in all your conduct.”

(c) It means that the believer is called to have a heavenly hope. He is called to an eternal hope, the hope of living forever with God. He is called to be perfected and conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ forever.

Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 4:4; Philippians 3:14 “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling.” … “I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

The Bible says in Hebrews 3:1 “Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus.”

(d) It means that the believer is appointed to an incredibly special task and duty while on earth. He is called to serve Jesus Christ.

Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:1; 1 Corinthians 1:1; 7:20-24 “Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God.” … “Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother.” … “Let each one remains in the same calling in which he was called. Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ’s slave. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. Brethren, let each one remains with God in that state in which he was called.”

(ii) Believers are loved by God. That is, believers are beloved in God the Father. God holds them ever so close to His heart. They have accepted His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ; honoured Him by believing in Him. Therefore, God loves the believer with an incredibly special love, the love that accepts the believer and gives him the right to live in God’s presence forever and ever. Note: Greet text here is uncertain. Some have the word sanctified (hagios) instead of beloved. The sanctified person is a person who has turned away from sin and set his life apart to follow God. He is a person who is set apart unto God, a person separated from the world and its possessions and pleasures, a person who is dedicated to following God, a person who has given all he is and has to God.

(iii) Believers are “kept by Jesus Christ”. The word “kept” (teteremenois) means to be kept; to be guarded and watched after. God keeps the believer, guards, and watches over him. The believer is a person…

=> who is watched over by God;

=> who is guided and directed by God day by day;

=> who is strengthened by God to walk through all trials and temptations of life;

=> who is protected from all the enemies of life, even death;

=> who is to be escorted into heaven quicker that the blink of an eye when the time comes for him to leave this world;

=> who is given life, both abundant and eternal; and

=> who is given assurance of God’s presence and love through all of life.

The true believer is a person who is kept by God. He is a person who is looked after and cared for by God. But note: it is by Jesus Christ that God keeps a person. The believer is a person who has placed his life into Jesus Christ; he is a person who is trusting Jesus Christ to save him. It is the true believer in Jesus Christ whom God keeps.

(iv) The believer is a person who has received the mercy and peace and love of God:

(a) He has received the mercy of God.

(b) He has received the peace of God.

Let us introspect ourselves.

Shall we thank our God for helping us to understand that a true minister is a servant and slave of His beloved Son Jesus Christ?

Shall we thank our God for helping us to understand that a true minister walks humbly among believers and before Him besides responding to the call of the gospel to be a saint, to have a heavenly hope, to serve Jesus Christ?

Shall we thank our God for helping us to understand that a true minister is loved by God, guarded, and watched after, guided, strengthened, given life both abundant, eternal besides assuring of God’s presence and love through all of life by Jesus Christ?

Shall we thank our God for helping us to understand that a true minister is a person who has received the mercy, peace, and love of God?

Let us Pray: Our Heavenly Gracious Father, we thank You for helping us to understand about “The Book of Jude (Part 01) – The Description of True Believers”, today, Father. We thank You Father for helping us to understand that a true minister is a servant and slave of Your beloved Son Jesus Christ, for helping us to understand that a true minister walks humbly among believers and before You Father besides responding to the call of the gospel to be a saint, to have a heavenly hope, to serve Your beloved Son Jesus Christ, Father. We thank You Father for helping us to understand that a true minister is loved by You, guarded, watched after, guided, strengthened, given life both abundant, eternal besides assuring of Your presence and love through all of life by Your beloved Son Jesus Christ, Father. We thank You Father for making us to understand that a true minister is a person who has received the mercy, peach, and Your love Father. We thank You Father for filling us with Your joy, peace, and hope, for accepting us when we approach You through Your beloved Son Jesus Christ besides being merciful on us and loving us so much and predestined us to receive Your promise of glory through Your beloved Son Jesus Christ, Father. We give all praise, glory, and honour to Your Holy Name. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

God bless you all.

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You’re Anointed to Be Blessed

Bishop T.D. Jakes has influenced millions worldwide to give their love and lives to Jesus.

His Holy Spirit-inspired messages are empowering and encouraging—resulting in day after day and year after year of blessings and miracles.

The content in this guided journal has been specially selected from one of Bishop Jakes’s most inspiring books, Woman, Thou Art Blessed, which has touched people around the world who were searching for more than just religious platitudes.

Similar to Bishop Jakes’s Woman, Thou Art Loosed Guided Journal, this guided journal includes comments and questions to stir up buried events or situations that should be dug up and dealt with—whatever may be holding you back spiritually, physically, relationally, mentally, and/or emotionally from being who God created you to be.

On every page are valuable Scripture passages pertaining to a lavish lifestyle in Christ, godly wisdom from Bishop Jakes, as well as “thought prompts”—all designed to illuminate anything that may have been preventing your true, unique self from shining through.

This guided journal may be used independently or in combination with the book Woman, Thou Art Blessed. Jesus Christ brought with Him abundant-living blessings from Heaven for all of God’s children for every area of your life. Divine purpose and promises are yours for the asking.

God enables you to make the radical changes necessary to rock your world with His blessings.

A few of the numerous Scriptures throughout the Bible that declare God’s promise of blessings include:

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You [God] prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings (Psalm 23:5 NLT).

When they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings (Psalm 84:6 NLT).

You [God] go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head (Psalm 139:5 NLT).

For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children (Isaiah 44:3 NLT).

From his [God’s] abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another (John 1:16 NLT).

The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all (Acts 4:33 NLT).

When he [Barnabas] arrived and saw this evidence of God’s blessing, he was filled with joy, and he encouraged the believers to stay true to the Lord (Acts 11:23 NLT).

This interactive journal allows you to delve into a world of blessings where God’s abundant love showers you with joy and grace. You will feel His mercy and see His wisdom at every page turn. Considering and answering the prompts will stir, motivate, strengthen, and give you pause for intentional, deep reflection—venturing into previously unknown spiritual realms.

Journeying with the Holy Spirit, you will explore a beautiful space that only God could create, especially for you.

Get ready to experience a new life in Christ as you peel away the troubles and trauma to uncover the blessings waiting for you and freely given to you by your heavenly Father. Abundant life and blessings galore await you!

Like Jesus

For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters (Luke 13:13 NLT).

God has predestined you to shape up into a picture of Christ on earth. Christ is the firstborn of a huge family of siblings who all bear a striking resemblance to their Father. God presses the oil of His anointing out of your life. When you forsake your will in order to be shaped into a clearer picture of Christ, you will see little drops of oil coming out in your walk and work for God. In short, He predestined pressing in your life, and as you are pressed, you gradually conform to the image of your predestined purpose.

In what ways do I resemble Jesus:

In what ways can I attempt to reflect Jesus in my everyday walk with Him:

The Promise Keeper

And the Lord said, “That’s right, and it means that I am watching, and I will certainly carry out all my plans” (Jeremiah 1:12 NLT).

God is sovereign. If He decrees something, it will surely come to pass. That doesn’t stop the evil one from trying to delay the fulfillment of what God has said, but he can’t stop it from happening. Your blessing may not come in the way you thought it would. It may not come through the person you thought it would. But if God said it, then rest assured it cannot be denied.

Sometimes we need to let go of our ideas of how things should be to see where He’s moving. If things didn’t go according to plan, ask God for His perspective. Ask Him if there is anything you need to let go of—perhaps a past disappointment—so you can see that He indeed is the Promise Keeper.

Knowing that God is always watching over me brings me to a place of:

Today I accept the truth that God keeps His word and His promises—which will change my life in these ways:

Fresh Hope

[Eve] bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed” (Genesis 4:25 NKJV).

Loss is very real and all of us will have to walk through it at certain points in life. The emotions Eve must have gone through were legitimate and valid. One of her sons was gone forever. The other was convicted of murder, which isn’t anyone’s dream for their child (see Genesis 4). The heartbreak would have gone very deep. If you’ve suffered loss or disappointment, take the time to grieve. Let God meet you in that situation and heal your heart, beloved, but don’t stay there. God has promises over your life that will not be denied. Let Him take you by the hand and lead you into the next season. Spend time inviting the Holy Spirit into your disappointment or loss today. Ask God for fresh hope for your good and beautiful future.

I know deep down that God is able to:

Have I ever really invited the Holy Spirit into my life during times of loss:

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“Warren to Hang February 3, Says ‘Jury Did Its Best’,” Toronto Star. November 11, 1932. Page 1 & 3. ---- ‘No Fault to Find With Verdict’ – Hicks Gets 15 Years ==== WIVES IN TEARS ---- After Mr. Justice Raney had sentenced him to be hanged on Feb. 3, next, for murdering Dr. William G. More, Ewart G. Warren, 27, walked into the York assize court cell last night and said unemotionally:

‘I am feeling fine; I have no fault to find with the verdict. The jury did its best.’

His brother-in-law, Harold T. Hicks, 23, sentenced to 15 years in Portsmouth penitentiary, when convicted of manslaughter, expressed thanks to the jurymen, and entered the cell shortly behind to Warren to announce: ‘Well, boys, I got a break. I got fifteen years.’

Warren smiled in his peculiar customary manner when Mr. Justice Raney pronounced the death sentence. Hicks all but collapsed in the dock but quickly recovered, in time to be led to the cell. Fifteen minutes after the penalties were imposed, the two were on their way to the Toronto kail, incompany with three other prisoners who had been sentenced for other misdemeanors early last evening.

The jury had retired at 3.50 p.m. The verdict was returned at 8.32 p.m.

‘Stood Up Well,’ Says Father Both defence counsel, W. B. Horkins, and F. G. Gardiner, the jail chaplain, Rev. T. W. Barnett, and Capt. Wallace Bunton of the Salvation Army shook hands and conversed with Warren and Hicks before they left the city hall at about 9 o’clock. Meantime, in the corridor, the gray-haired father of Warren, who had advised the ‘boy’ to keep his head up, gripped the hands of Chief Constable D. C. Draper, Crown Prosecutor Norman B. Sommerville, K.C., Mr. Horkins, Hugh John Macdonald and several others.

‘It cannot be helped,’ remarked Mr. Warren, Sr., with tear-dimmed eyes. ‘But Ewart stood up well, didn’t he?’

The wives of Warren and Hicks and Warren’s sisters, who had retained in an ante-room, wept bitterly when the sentences were made known to them.

The jury recommended mercy for Warren.

‘You understand, of course, gentlemen,’ remarked Mr. Justice Raney, ‘that I have no opportunity to mitigate the penalty?’ Some jurors nodded their heads in assent.

At this time, Hicks grasped the dock rail, leaned forward and looked for a moment to be in the act of swooning. Warren, though very pale and tense, sat erect and stared straight ahead.

No Option, Judge Says ‘I suppose, Ewart Warren,’ his lordship said to the convicted man,’ that if the judges had any option on the matter between capital punishment and life imprisonment, there would be very sentences of death. But the judges have nothing to say about it. The law says that everyone committing murder shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to death.’

Warren stood with shoulders square, a smile on his face, as the death sentence was passed.

Mr. Horkins asked for a stay of execution ‘as long as you see fit,’ in view of the recommendation to mercy, so that the minister of justice and authorities might have time to be informed with a view to commutation of sentence.

‘I would suggest, my lord,’ said Mr. Sommerville, ‘that the execution be not sooner than the 15th of January.’

Warren looked toward the floor for an instant as the sentence was passed, then braced up. Sheriff’s Officer Gilbert grasped his sleeve to take him from the dock. The prisoner looked at the jurors as he passed, but there was no malice in his gaze.

Says Jury: ‘Lenient to Hicks’ ‘The jury have taken a very lenient view in Hicks’ case,’ the crown said. ‘They have been extraordinarily lenient.’

‘I’m glad they did, Mr. Sommerville,’ Mr. Justice Raney interjected.

After bowing to his counsel, Hicks left the dock and bowed again to the jury. ‘Thank you, gentlemen,’ he said, then passed out of the court and to the cell.

Shortly after four o’clock, the jury returned when Mr. Sommerville made a suggestion. His Lordship redirected the jury in reference to bodily injury, as it related to the murder charge.

At 5.17 p.m. the jurors filed into court again and wanted to know if a separate verdict could be found for each of the accused on one count.

‘I might say you could find both guilty of murder, if you so decide on the evidence, or both guilty of manslaughter; or you might find one guilty of murder and one guilty of manslaughter,’ Mr. Justice Raney directed. ‘I don’t say you could find Hicks guilty of murder if you find Warren guilty of manslaughter. But you might find Warren guilty of murder and Hicks guilty of manslaughter.’

Warren Sleeps Well In his death cell at Toronto Jail, where he will live until his executive day, February 3, guarded by a death watch of three, Warren spent his first night under sentence quietly and peacefully and arose this morning and had a good breakfast.

Warren held up better and showed more self-contriol than the officials expected. After saying good-by to his white-haired father, his wife and sisters at the city hall, Waren was taken to the jail. He was visited for a few minutes by Captain Wallace Button, J.P. of the Salvation Army, who has been his spiritual adviser and will act in that capacity during Warren’s stay in the death cell.

Warren told Captain Bunton that he was feeling all right and was satisfied with the sentence.

‘The jury could not do anything else or better under the circumstances, Warren told me,’ stated Capt. Bunton. ‘He said Justice Raney was a real gentlemen and was fair in every way. He said he was thankful to the jury for their recommendation for mercy. He said he will live in the hope that the authorities at Ottawa may see their way clear to take the recommendation into consideration.’

Harold Hicks, Warren’s brother-in-law, who was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years, may be tried for armed robbery on the five charges laid against him and Warren in connection with hold-ups of three dentists and two gasoline station operators in October, 1930, in Toronto.

‘Whether further charges will be proceeded with against Hicks, will rest with the crown attorney,’ Assistant Inspector John Chisholm stated to-day when questioned by The Star.

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“While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, ‘This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah...’” Luke 11:29  We are always looking for signs, a red rose, a white rose, whatever. I remember when my mom used to call a particular book of meditations, the magic book, because when she would cut it, the words on that page gave her an answer that was particularly meaningful for her. In this passage from the book of Luke, Jesus told the crowd listening to Him that, “This is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah...” So many people followed Jesus around, jostled to listen to Him, because He was a miracle worker, He healed the sick, He raised the dead, He multiplied bread. If Jesus came today, crowds would follow Him as well. And He would say the same thing, “This generation is an evil generation.” Not much has changed. I am still selfish, seeking my own good, instead of looking after the needs of my neighbors. I may try to be pious but do I see things the way the Lord wants me to? Am I where the Lord wants me to be? Jesus already gave us the ultimate sign, the sign of Jonah. Of course the crowds during Jesus’ time would never have gotten the allusion, but we have the advantage of knowing what happened after Jesus was crucified. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days, Jesus stayed in the darkness of His tomb for three days. And just as He prophesied, He rose again to save us from our selfishness, and sin, and death to give us new life. These past few years several people I’ve known have passed away from cancer, COVID and other diseases. Truly it is sad and difficult to accept that God did not heal them after we pleaded and asked for His mercy. May the families they’ve left behind be consoled by the reality that they are now with the resurrected Lord who loves them best. We ask for signs but the sign of Jonah is our best and brightest hope for a new dawn! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjg1WCGvSfd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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GOSPEL FIRST PREACHED TO THE JEWS -- KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List King James Version Bible verse list compiled by #BillKochman for #BillsBibleBasics concerning the topic "Gospel First Preached to the Jews". Visit my page at https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ to see all the lists I've compiled to date. Thanks! "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matthew 10:5-6, KJV "And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour." Matthew 15:22-28, KJV "Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews." John 4:22, KJV "Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only." Acts 11:19, KJV "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." Romans 1:16, KJV If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/. Thank-you! https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/gospel-first-preached-to-the-jews-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list/?feed_id=53773&_unique_id=64463d4654800&GOSPEL%20FIRST%20PREACHED%20TO%20THE%20JEWS%20--%20KJV%20%28King%20James%20Version%29%20Bible%20Verse%20List

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And They All Said, "All Hail the Lord of the Flies! He'll Go to Jail to Make America Well! Make America Great! Cage the Orange Snake! Him Caged Will Save the States! Keep America Great!" Part 2/2.

Earthquake: 2023-10-17 01:56:08 GMT+3 Jerusalem, Israel, 15:56:08 PDT Local Time (approximately 163 minutes, 8 seconds (9788 seconds) after the "America's Favorite President, Joe Biden" post at 20:13:00 UTC)

Luke 1:49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name. Luke 1:50 His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. Luke 1:51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. Luke 1:52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. Luke 1:53 He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. Luke 1:54 He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful Luke 1:55 to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors.” Luke 1:56 Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.

1 Corinthians 15:54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 1 Corinthians 15:55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Luke 22:52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs? Luke 22:53 Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour—when darkness reigns.” Luke 22:54 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. Luke 22:55 And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. Luke 22:56 A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, “This man was with him.” Luke 22:57 But he denied it. “Woman, I don’t know him,” he said. Luke 22:58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You also are one of them.” “Man, I am not!” Peter replied. Luke 22:59 About an hour later another asserted, “Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.” Luke 22:60 Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. Luke 22:61 The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” Luke 22:62 And he went outside and wept bitterly. Luke 22:63 The men who were guarding Jesus began mocking and beating him.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 976 and 977: Isaiah 56:8 Thus declares the Lord God, Who gathers the dispersed of Israel: "I will gather still more to those already gathered."

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1479 and 1480: Psalm 56:7 They plot, they lie in ambush; they watch my every move, hoping for my death. Psalm 56:8 Cast them out for their evil: subdue peoples in Your anger, O god. Psalm 56:9 You keep count of my wanderings; put my tears into Your flask, into Your record. Psalm 56:10 Then my enemies will retreat when I call on You; this I know, that God is for me. Psalm 56:11 In God, whose word I praise, in the Lord, whose word I praise, Psalm 56:12 In God I trust; I am not afraid; what can man do to me? Psalm 56:13 I must pay my vows to You, O God; I will render thank offerings to You. Psalm 56:14 For You have saved me from death, my foot from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.

"Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t." - Thomas A. Edison https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9788-negative-results-are-just-what-i-want-they-re-just-as

Earthquake: M 1.8 - 31.8 km (19.7 mi) WSW of Round Valley, CA

2023-10-16 22:56:08 (UTC) 37.328°N 118.940°W 5.1 km depth

On Infant Buttes between Bear Dome and Depressed Lake near Bear Ridge, Bear Creek, Upper Bear Creek Meadows, East Fork Bear Creek, West Fork Bear Creek, South Fork Bear Creek, Rosemarie Meadow, Rose Lake, Marie Lake, Seven Gables, and Lake Thomas A. Edison.

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Strong's Concordance #37 Abital: From 'ab and tal; father of dew/night mist (i.e. fresh, freshness); Abital, a wife of King David Original Word: אֲבִיטַל

Strong's Concordance #328 at: to move softly or slowly; gentleness; secret Original Word: אַט

“I believe with complete faith in the coming of Mashiach. Though he tarry, nonetheless I await him every day, that he will come.”.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page Isaiah 42:1 This is My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen one, in whom I delight. I have put My spirit upon him, He shall teach the true way to the nations. Isaiah 42:2 He shall not cry out or shout aloud, Or make his voice heard in the streets. Isaiah 42:3 He shall not break even a bruised reed, Or snuff out even a dim wick. He shall bring forth the true way. Isaiah 42:4 He shall not grow dim or be bruised Till he has established the true way on earth; And the coastlands shall await his teaching.

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Strong's Concordance #118 Adalya: the fifth son of Haman Original Word: אֲדַלְיָא

Strong's Concordance #940 Buzi: contempt springing from pride and wickedness; judicial, poured out (שׁפך) by God, in judgment; shamed, despised; boozy, intoxicated, drunk; a descendant of Buz Original Word: בּוּז

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 860: Isaiah 7:14 Assuredly, my Lord will give you a sign of His own accord! Look, the young woman is with child and about to give birth to a son. Let her name him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:15 (By the time he learns to reject the bad and choose the good, people will be feeding on curds and honey.) Isaiah 7:16 For before the lad knows to reject the bad and choose the good, the ground whose two kings you dread shall be abandoned. Isaiah 7:17 The Lord will cause to come upon you and your people and your ancestral house such days as never have come since Ephraim turned away from Judah--that self-same king of Assyria! Isaiah 7:18 In that day, the Lord will whistle to the flies at the ends of the water channels of Egypt and to the bees in the land of Assyria; Isaiah 7:19 and they shall all come and alight in the rugged wadis, and in the clefts of the rocks, and in all the thornbrakes, and in all the watering places. Isaiah 7:20 In that day, my Lord will cut away with the razor that is hired beyond the Euphrates--with the king of Assyria--the hair of the head and the hair of the legs, and it shall clip off the beard as well.

Timeline of Assyrian History: 50 B.C. (4700) Some Assyrians experiment with Judaism.

0 A.D. (4750) Jesus Christ is born.

33 A.D. (4783) Assyrians become the first nation to convert to Christianity. The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East is founded by Thomas, Theodos and Bartholomew. Source: www.aina.org/articles/toah.htm

The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari belonging to the East Syriac Rite. Its main liturgical language is Classical Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic, and the majority of its adherents are ethnic Assyrians. The Assyrian Church of the East considers itself as the continuation of the Church of the East, a church that originally developed among the Assyrians during the first century AD in Assyria, Upper Mesopotamia and northwestern Persia, east of the Byzantine Empire. It is an apostolic church established by Thomas the Apostle, Addai of Edessa, and Bartholomew the Apostle. (Wikipedia)

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1657: Job 1:8 The Lord said to the Adversary, "Have you noticed My servant Job? There is no one like him on earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil!"

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1772: Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep your mouth from being rash, and let not your throat be quick to bring forth speech before God. For God is in heaven and you are on earth; that is why your words should be few.

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." - George Washington

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope." - Maya Angelou

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Giver (2014) - Rosemary's Piano Theme Scene

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Published By: Axion Published: October 20, 2014 (293rd day) Duration: 3:13 (193 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REMuQrjvTyM REMuQrjvTyM ejmmqrrtuvy 5+600+30+30+70+80+80+100+200+700+400=2295. 2295+193=2488. 2488+293=2781. Strong's Concordance #2781 cherpah: a reproach, taunt, scorn, slander, disgrace, rebuke, shame. Original Word: חֶרְפָּה

The Giver (2014) Final Speech and the Memories Return

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Published: November 5, 2014 (309th day) Duration: 5:03 (303 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYrVQ1BwRT0 uYrVQ1BwRT0 bqrrtuvwy 2+70+80+80+100+200+700+900+400=2532. 2532+1+0=2533. 2533+303=2836. 2836+309=3145. Strong's Concordance #3145 Yoshavyah: From Yhovah (Yhvh: the proper name of the God of Israel) and shavah (to level, i.e. Equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. Counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.) -- avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a-)like, make plain, profit, reckon.); "Reckoning of the God of Israel"; one of David's heroes Original Word: יוֹשַׁוְיָה

Silent Night: "Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace"

"The Giver" Movie (2014) Ending ("Silent night, Holy Night" being sung in the Christmas-decorated cabin)

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Strong's Concordance #690 Ara: for 'ariy; lion; a descendant of Asher Original Word: אֲרָא Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Pages 916 and 917: Isaiah 31:4 For thus the Lord has said to me: As a lion--a great beast--Growls over its prey And, when the shepherds gather In force against him, Is not dismayed by their cries Not cowed by their noise--So the Lord of Hosts will descend to make war Against the mount and the hill of Zion. Isaiah 31:5 Like the birds that fly, even so will the Lord of Hosts shield Jerusalem, shielding and saving, protecting and rescuing Isaiah 31:6 Return, O children of Israel to Him to whom they have been so shamefully false; Isaiah 31:7 for in that day everyone will reject his idols of silver and idols of gold, which your hands have made for your guilt. Isaiah 31:8 Then Assyria shall fall, Not by the sword of man; A sword not of humans shall devour him. He shall shrivel before the sword, And his young men pine away. Isaiah 31:9 His rock shall melt with terror, And his officers shall collapse from weakness--Declared the Lrod, who has a fire in Zion, Who has an oven in Jerusalem.

The Lion King (1994) | Remember Who You Are

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Strong's Concordance #666 apher: a covering, bandage, ashes, a turban Original Word: אֲפֵר

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 767: 1 Kings 20:38 Then the prophet, disguised by a cloth over his eyes, went and waited for the king by the road. 1 Kings 20:39 As the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, "Your servant went out into the thick of the battle. Suddenly a man came over and brought a man to me, saying, 'Guard this man! If he is missing, it will be your life for his, or you will have to pay a talent of silver.' 1 Kings 20:40 While your servant was busy here and there, [the man] got away." The king of Israel responded, "You have your verdict; you pronounced it yourself." 1 Kings 20:41 Quickly he removed the cloth from his eyes, and the king recognized him as one of the prophets. 1 Kings 20:42 He said to him, "Thus said the Lord: Because you have set free the man whom I doomed, your life shall be forfeit for his life and your people for his people."

The Lion King (1994) | Battle For Pride Rock

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Strong's Concordance #2630 chasan: to be treasured up or hoarded Original Word: חָסַן

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 446: Deuteronomy 32:9 For the Lord's portion is His people, Jacob His own allotment. Deuteronomy 32:10 He found him in a desert region, In an empty howling waste. He engirded him, watched over him, Guarded him as the pupil of His eye. Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings, Gliding down to his young, So did He spread His wings and take him, Bear him along on His pinions; Deuteronomy 32:12 The Lord alone did guide him, No alien god at His side.

The Lion King (1994) | Simba vs. Scar

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Strong's Concordance #2583 chanah: to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. To encamp (for abode or siege) -- abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent; Hannah. Original Word: חָנָה

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 424: Deuteronomy 23:15 Since the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let Him not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you.

The Lion King (1994) Simba Roars and the Elephants Celebrate the Return of Balance to the Kingdom

June 24, 1994 (175th day) Duration: 2:28 (148 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-YiWSWz7kQ B-YiWSWz7kQ (7) BYiWSWzkQ bikqswwyz 2+9+10+70+90+900+900+400+500=2881. 2881+7=2888. 2888+148=3036. 3036+175=3211.

Strong's Concordance #3211 yalid: born, child, son, native, aborigine Original Word: יָלִיד

Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Coming "Don't you ever be sad Lean on me, when the times are bad When the day comes and you're down In a river of trouble and about to drown Just hold on, I'm comin' Hold on, I'm comin' Reach out to me for satisfaction, yeah Call my name, yeah, for reaction Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Just hold on (Don't you worry) I'm comin' (Here we come) Hold on (We're about to save you) I'm comin' (Yeah)"

3000+318… Sam & Dave - Hold On I'm Coming Published: October 29, 2018 (302nd day) Duration: 2:32 (152 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJuhJJCdoI vsJuhJJCdoI cdhijjjosuv 3+4+8+9+600+600+600+50+90+200+700=2864. 2864+152=3016. 3016+302=3318.

Strong's Concordance #3318 yatsa: to go or come out, appear, bring forth, break out, escape, carry out, lead out, grow, spread out, be risen Original Word: יָצָא

Anton LaVey's Death: Wednesday, 29 October 1997 = 28th of Tishrei, 5758 Parashat Noach כ״ח בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשנ״ח Parashat Noach is the 2nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Genesis 6:9-11:32 Noach (“Noah”) begins as God decides to destroy mankind with a flood. At God’s command, the righteous Noah builds an ark, where Noah, his family, and select animals survive the flood. Noah’s children bear children, and several generations develop. God confounds the speech of people building the Tower of Babel.

Anton LaVey's Black House Demolished: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 = 30th of Tishrei, 5762 Parashat Noach כ״ח בְּתִשְׁרֵי תשנ״ח Parashat Noach is the 2nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Torah Portion: Genesis 6:9-11:32 Noach (“Noah”) begins as God decides to destroy mankind with a flood. At God’s command, the righteous Noah builds an ark, where Noah, his family, and select animals survive the flood. Noah’s children bear children, and several generations develop. God confounds the speech of people building the Tower of Babel.

Strong's Concordance #6114 etser: to inclose, to restrain, restraint, detain, shut (up), stop. Original Word: עֶצֶר

The Black House was a building that formerly stood at 6114 California St. in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The house was used by Anton LaVey as the headquarters of his Church of Satan from 1966 until his death in 1997. LaVey conducted Satanic seminars and rituals at the house; one of the most notorious such rituals was the Satanic baptism of his daughter Zeena Schreck in 1967, punctuated by LaVey speaking the words "Hail Zeena! Hail Satan!" over the nude body of a female acting as the 'Satanic Altar'. Public ceremonies were performed at the house until 1972. LaVey lost ownership of the house in 1991 as the result of a court settlement resulting from his separation from Diane Hegarty, but LaVey was allowed to reside at the Black House until his death from poor health, increasing paranoia, and a pulmonary edema on October 29, 1997 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco, CA. Following LaVey's death, members of the Church of Satan unsuccessfully attempted to raise funds to repurchase the house, and it was demolished on October 17, 2001. A duplex now stands in its place. (Wikipedia)

“if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.” ― Stephen King, It

“The timing was just right enough so that things worked out wrong for everyone.” ― Stephen King, It

“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one—probably a child—who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.” ― Stephen King, It

“Someday you're just going to go too far and that will be the end.” ― Stephen King, It

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1437: Psalm 23:4 Though I walk through a valley of deepest darkness, I fear no harm, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff--they comort me.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 983: Isaiah 59:11 We all growl like bears And moan like doves. We hope for redress, and there is none; For victory, and it is far from us.

S7-52: Jonas - The Receiver of Memory (The Giver)

Strong's Concordance #52 Abishay: from 'ab and shay; father of a gift (i.e. Probably generous) My Father is The Giver; "my father is Jesse," an Israelite name Original Word: אֲבִישַׁי

Touch: "Pilot" (alternatively "Tales of the Red Thread") is the first episode of Touch. It originally aired in a special preview event held January 25, 2012, on FOX.

October 26, 2000: Strong's Concordance #4161 motsa: a place or act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring, growing place, a mine. Original Word: מוֹצָא

A Web search leads Jake's father, Martin, to the Teller Institute, a rundown home at 318 West Tesla Street. Arthur Teller explains that, on his own, Jake discovered the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical ratio concerning patterns repeated in nature: a wave's curve, a shell's spiral, segments of a pineapple. Jake sees vast connections that amount to road maps, and it's Martin's job, his destiny, to follow them for Jake.

"Imagine the unspeakable beauty of the universe he sees! No wonder he doesn't talk." - Arthur Teller on Jacob/Israel Bohm

Lamedvavnik (Yiddish: למד־װאָװניק), is the Yiddish term for one of the 36 humble righteous ones or Tzadikim mentioned in kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. According to this teaching, at any given time there are at least 36 holy persons in the world who are Tzadikim. These holy people are hidden; i.e., nobody knows who they are. According to some versions of the story, they themselves may not know who they are.

For the sake of these 36 hidden saints, God preserves the world even if the rest of humanity has degenerated to the level of total barbarism. This is similar to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Hebrew Bible, where God told Abraham that he would spare the city of Sodom if there was a quorum of at least 10 righteous men. Since nobody knows who the Lamedvavniks are, not even themselves, every Jew should act as if he or she might be one of them; i.e., lead a holy and humble life and pray for the sake of fellow human beings. It is also said that one of these 36 could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for them to reveal themselves. Otherwise, they live and die as an ordinary person. Whether the person knows they are the potential Messiah is debated. (Wikipedia)

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1617: Proverbs 11:7 At death the hopes of a wicked man are doomed, And the ambition of evil men comes to nothing.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1620: Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred sickens the heart, But desire realized is a tree of life.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English): Page 1678: Job 14:7 There is hope for a tree; If it is cut down it will renew itself; Its shoots will not cease.

“I believe with complete faith in the coming of Mashiach. Though he tarry, nonetheless I await him every day, that he will come.”.

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey." - Sarah Fielding

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." - Buddha

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings." - Henry David Thoreau

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TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 822 and 823: 2 Kings 18:28 And the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in Judean: "Hear the words of the Great King, the King of Assyria. 2 Kings 18:29 Thus said the king: Don't let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hands. 2 Kings 18:30 Don't let Hezekiah make you rely on the Lord, saying: The Lord will surely save us: this city will not fall into the hands of the king of Assyria. 2 Kings 18:31 Don't listen to Hezekiah. For thus said the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me, so that you may all eat from your vines and your fig trees and drink water from your cisterns, 2 Kings 18:32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own, a land of grain [fields] and vineyards, of bread and wine, of olive oil and honey, so that you may live and not die. Don't listen to Hezekiah, who misleads you by saying, 'The Lord will save us.' 2 Kings 18:33 Did any of the gods of other nations save his land from the king of Assyria? 2 Kings 18:34 Where were the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? [And] did they save Samaria from me? 2 Kings 18:35 Which among all the gods of [those] countries saved their countries from me, that the Lord should save Jerusalem from me?" 2 Kings 18:36 But the people were silent and did not say a word in reply; for the king's order was: "Do not answer him." 2 Kings 18:37 And so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and they reported to him what the Rabshakeh had said. 2 Kings 19:1 When King Hezekiah heard this, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of the Lord. 2 Kings 19:2 He also sent Eliakim, who as in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amor. 2 Kings 19:3 They said to him, "Thus said Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, of chastisement, and of disgrace. The babes have reached the birthstool, but the strength to give birth is lacking. 2 Kings 19:4 Perhaps the Lord your God will take note of all the words of the Rabashakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to blaspheme the living God, and will mete out judgment for the words that the Lord your God has heard--if you will offer up prayer for the surviving remnant." 2 Kings 19:5 When King Hezekiah's ministers came to Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:6 Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master as follows: Thus said the Lord: Do not be frightened by the words of blasphemy against Me that you have heard from the minions of the king of Assyria. 2 Kings 19:7 I will delude him; he will hear a rumor and return to his land, and I will make him fall by the sword in his land."

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Pages 1431 and 1432: Psalm 19:1 For the leader. A psalm of David. Psalm 19:2 The heavens declare the glory of God, the sky proclaims His handiwork. Psalm 19:3 Day to day makes utterance, night to night speaks out. Psalm 19:4 There is no utterance, there are no words, who sound goes unheard. Psalm 19:5 Their voice carries throughout the earth, their words to the end of the world. He placed in them a tent for the sun, Psalm 19:6 who is like a groom coming forth from the chamber, like a hero, eager to run his course. Psalm 19:7 His rising place is at one end of heaven, and his circuit reaches the other; nothing escapes his heat.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1631: Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of a poor man despise him; How much more is he shunned by his friends! He who pursues words--they are of no avail.

TANAKH (Jewish Publication Society, Hebrew-English) Page 1984: 2 Chronicles 19:7 Now let the dread of the Lord be upon you: act with care, for there is no injustice or favoritism or bribe-taking with the Lord our God."

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queenlilith43 · 3 years

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The Eldest Curses -- Biblical Nephilim?

I have been thinking of this theory for a very long time, but I had to do tons and tons of research. I had to read the Book of Enoch, which is over 100 chapters long, and also spent an entire chapter describing how the solar system works.

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Also huge shout-out to @revati3008 Ilysm you helped me with this and also managed to handle my explanation of the Book of Tobit.

I'm linking some resources I used at the end so you can read it on your own and draw your own conclusions.

As we already know, the eldest curses are the children of the Princes of Hell, specifically the oldest ones. It's been hinted at they have some powers, and I have evidence to explain how the eldest curses may be the same thing as the giants of the Nephilim from the Bible.

(Also I know there are the giant Nephilim from QOAAD that was Julian and Emma but that would be the angelic version of these!)

First, this quote from Genesis. All quotes from the Bible are the King James version, because that's the same version the Lucifer quotes were taken from.

Genesis 6:4-5 "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

Evil giants are not good, and then soon after this, God just floods the Earth and kills almost everyone. It's been said that this was because of the Nephilim, and we can look to the Book of Enoch for more information on this.

Enoch 7:11-15 is "And the women conceiving brought forth giants, Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labour of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them; When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them; And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood Then the earth reproved the unrighteous."

I saw another quote that caught my eye, which was Enoch 6:10, "But you, ye unholy, shall be accursed."

Along with this quote, Enoch 6:6, "Therefore your days shall you curse, and the years of your lives shall perish; perpetual execration shall be multiplied, and you shall not obtain mercy."

Cursed, eh? This was also referring to the same giants earlier, the sons of the fallen angels.

Who are these fallen angels? You might be asking. Well, let's look at the Book of Enoch.

Enoch 7:9 "These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. [Azazel is in here somewhere I totally forget which one is supposed to be him, sorry.] These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them."

Samyaza is supposed to be the angel of pride, similar to Lucifer. For some reason my mind went straight to this quote from Magnus, when he was talking to Asmodeus in one episode of the TV show. (It was 3.10 in case anyone's wondering.) "The kind of man whose love for his chosen son might outweigh his pride."

Even if this was on the show, Asmodeus was shown to be proud of Magnus in the book. Coincidence? I think not!

And there was Azazel, who gave weapons to man. His punishment? To be chained up in Dudael.

Enoch 10:6 "Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there."

What's interesting is that the angel was Raphael. Raphael is an archangel who only appears in apocrypha books of the Bible, which is Enoch and Tobit. He also appears in Paradise Lost.

And then there's this quote, which really caught my eye. It's Enoch 94:3, "The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according to your pleasure."

First, the word "wicked." And then the use of righteous made me think of a certain quote from Asmodues in TRSM, on page 308, "He was born to righteousness, and you were born to night everlasting." The eldest curses being the dark mirror of the Shadowhunters seems likely.

The word "wicked" is also used a lot in the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch also deals with an order of angels called the "Grigori."

According to a passage from the Shadowhunter's Codex, the Silent Brothers are occasionally called this. But it's mainly archiac. Still interesting, though.

A lot of the fallen angels in this book were chained up, not just Azazel. Which made me think of the quote that started off The Lost Book of the White.

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains in darkness into the judgment of the great day." - Jude 1:6

@patalliumapples summed it up pretty well when she said, "ok so in stupid terms god has angels that defied him and left where they belonged chained up to wait for the day of judgement."

Like as if it had the same effects as the Sventhorn . . . As if Hell is a prison for demons. So what the eldest curses are used to free Lucifer, as they turn into the demonic giants of themselves.

Under the influence of the Sventhorn, in one of Magnus's dreams, he dreamt he was a giant.

Also in one of @foxglove-airmid's flower card analysis on Tessa, apparently her flower (red verbena) has some associations with Lucifer. It's said to be powerful enough to summon Lucifer. Tessa is also an eldest curse.

That's all I have right now, but feel free to add more.

#tsc #tec #the eldest curses #the shadowhunters chronicles #the shadowhunter chronicles #the wicked powers #twp #tlh #magnus bane #tessa gray #the lost book of the white #the red scrolls of magic #QOAAD

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Agathion, Crocuttal

[Commissioned by @listmaker-lastcity. To quote Pathfinder Bestiary 2: “ Certain animals, particularly those associated with scavenging activities (such as hyenas, buzzards, or jackals) or parasitism (like lampreys or ticks) specifically do not have agathions associated with them—these animals are not intrinsically evil, but their habits and ecological niches are far from the noble and proud traditions that most of the souls who seek enlightenment upon Nirvana would associate with themselves.” Bull. There’s enough people in the real world that love “unlovable” animals that contrarian souls would seek to associate with them upon death and incarnation into a perfect spiritual being.

In D&D and Pathfinder both, hyenas are linked strongly to gnolls, which are usually among the most evil of humanoids, and almost universally demon worshipers. So I wanted to incorporate that hyenas = gnolls = demons line of thought into the text explicitly. If you’re looking for an excuse to have a tribe of good gnolls in your otherwise traditional game, here’s an option. The sin eater ability literally came to me in a dream, and the atonement-focused flavor text is inspired by The Avatar’s Handbook’s Hallowed class of angels.]

Agathion, Crocuttal CR 10 NG Outsider (extraplanar) This creature resembles a humanoid hyena a head taller than a man, with a strong neck and clawed hands. Despite its ferocity, it has a sense of purpose and calm, rather than mindless savagery.

Crocuttals are benevolent outsiders of hyena-like aspect. They embody virtues demonstrated by hyena behavior—cooperation and communication, flexibility and standing up to the powerful. They are highly social, and are almost never found alone. Even a crocuttal without a pack will find a group of like-minded creatures to band together with, and they may join adventuring parties for a time as allies.

In combat, a crocuttal is fierce, but not without mercy. They work together, supplementing each others’ martial prowess with spell-like abilities—they tend to take turns acting as casting support, with the pack member focusing on magic alternating from battle to battle. Although they will soften foes up at a distance using bows and spells, crocuttals prefer close combat. Their usual strategy is to knock a foe to the ground and tear into it until it stops moving. One crocuttal takes some time to stabilize and shield the fallen, as the pack moves onto the next target.

An evil creature rendered unconscious by a crocuttal is given supernatural visions of their wickedness, and offered the chance to atone and change their alignment. This is in fact the purpose of the crocuttals—they are the rare example of an agathion molded more by mortal desire than the needs of the empyreal lords. The first crocuttals were created from the souls of a band of adventurers who died attempting to redeem a pack of gnolls from the worship of demons. Although they failed in the broad scope, they had successfully converted a few of the individuals, and argued that they should get a chance to continue that work. Now, crocuttals can be created from the souls of any goodly creature that cares to fight for the cause of redemption. A lone crocuttal may infiltrate a pack of gnolls to make friends and allies, confronting their leadership and offering a choice between the hard work of salvation and the quick release of death. Every soul that avoids descending to the Lower Planes is a mark in the crocuttal’s favor, and some of the redeemed will become crocuttals themselves after they die, continuing the cycle. Demon lords and other archfiends hate crocuttals, even more than they do many other good outsiders, and target them for death when their activities become known.

Crocuttal CR 10 XP 9,600 NG Medium outsider (agathion, extraplanar, good) Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, Perception +22, scent Defense AC 24, touch 14, flat-footed 20 (+4 Dex, +10 natural) hp 126 (12d10+60) Fort +13, Ref +10, Will +13; +4 vs. charms, compulsions, poison DR 10/good; Immune electricity, petrifaction; Resist cold 10, sonic 10; SR 21 Defensive Abilities conviction Offense Speed 50 ft. Melee bite +18 (2d6+6 plus sin eater), 2 claws +18 (1d6+6) Ranged +1 longbow +17/+12/+7 (1d8+6/x3) Special Abilities vision of redemption Spell-like Abilities CL 10th, concentration +13 Constant—speak with animals At will—protection from evil, sanctuary (DC 14) 3/day—cure critical wounds (DC 17), heroism, holy smite (DC 17), prayer 1/day—dispel evil (DC 18), restoration 1/week—atonement Statistics Str 22, Dex 19, Con 20, Int 13, Wis 20, Cha 17 Base Atk +12; CMB +18(+22 trip); CMD 32 (34 vs. trip) Feats Alertness, Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Coordinated Maneuvers (B), Greater Trip, Improved Trip, Lightning Reflexes, Outflank (B), Paired Opportunists (B) Skills Bluff +14, Diplomacy +14, Disguise +11, Heal +16, Knowledge (nature, planes) +12, Perception +22, Sense Motive +22, Stealth +15, Survival +16 Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Gnoll, speak with animals, truespeech SQ augmented teamwork, lay on hands (9/day, 6d6, as 12th level paladin) Ecology Environment any land (Nirvana) Organization solitary, pair, band (3-8) or pack (9-24) Treasure standard (+1 longbow [+6 Str bonus], 20 arrows, other treasure) Special Abilities Augmented Teamwork (Ex/Su) A crocuttal gains three teamwork feats as bonus feats. If gaining the benefits of a teamwork feat from another crocuttal, it increases the benefit to d20 rolls granted by that feat by an additional +1. Conviction (Ex) A crocuttal gains a +4 racial bonus on saving throws against charm and compulsion effects. Sin Eater (Su) A crocuttal deals an extra +1d6 damage with its bite attack against evil creatures, and heals that amount of damage each time it bites an evil creature. Vision of Redemption (Su) A living evil creature that is rendered unconscious by a crocuttal is assailed with visions of a life gone wrong, and offers of a better path. It may attempt a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ the creature’s HD + the creature’s Cha modifier; creatures with the alignment aura class feature increase the save DC by +5, and creatures with the evil subtype increase it by +10). If it succeeds, it may change its alignment to true neutral. If it fails, the visions follow it, rendering it shaken for 1 day. This is a mind-influencing effect.

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flowercrown-bard · 3 years

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A new us will begin (3/ 11)

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Content warnings: Implied self-harm, guilt, child-death, character death, alcohol

Four decades.

Four decades since Geralt had buried his best friend and the man he loved more than anything.

It was too long without him. Geralt had never spent more than a couple of months without Jaskier. He had always known he would get to see him again some day. His smile, his eyes, his ridiculously bright doublets that he had worn even in old age. Now he knew he wouldn’t see any of that ever again. Not tomorrow, not in spring, not even another four decades from now.

Four decades were too long.

At the same time, four decades were far too little time. They said time healed all wounds. When would enough time have passed to heal the wound that Jaskier had ripped into his chest when he had left him? That hole that kept bleeding and aching even after all this time?

The answer was a cold certainty inside Geralt’s chest. Never. There would never come a time when Geralt wouldn’t announce that he was about to make camp, as if Jaskier were there to hear. There would never come a day when Geralt wouldn’t point at a pretty bird or flower, as if Jaskier were still there to delight in the thing he saw.

Those brief moments in which Geralt forgot however briefly that he was alone were exhilarating, only to have him crash down when reality set back in and forced images of Jaskier’s lifeless body into his mind.

Geralt had promised himself that never again would he watch anyone die if he could prevent it.

He couldn’t prevent it. Far too often was he too slow, too weak, too late. He had watched far too many people to count die and yet they all stayed in his memory, seared into his mind like a brand marking him as the one who had failed them all. Peasants, merchants, hunters. A mother and her son that had probably been too young to even understand what was going on. Perhaps that had been a mercy.

No. There was no such thing as mercy. It had been on Geralt to save them and he had failed.

For a brief moment, Geralt had been foolish enough to hope. Relief had roared through him like a blazing fire when he had heard found the beast, had heard the boy’s heartbeat and thought for just a moment that he hadn’t been too late, that he’d still be able to save the child. It would have been ugly to get him to understand that his mother was dead and that he had to come with Geralt, that he would bring him back to his father where he was safe. Because Geralt wouldn’t have been able to promise him safety with him. Maybe the boy would have started crying then. Maybe he would have wanted to stay with his mother, not understanding why she wouldn’t get up again. Geralt would have told him not to look at her, not to do that to himself. Maybe he would have told the boy to look at him instead, but that would have only made it worse for the child, wouldn’t it? He had been so brave. No screaming, no crying, no stench of fear. Or perhaps there had been fear. Perhaps the boy had been terrified, of the beast, of Geralt but the coppery smell of his blood had drowned that out.

It didn’t matter now whether the boy would have been afraid if he had seen Geralt’s eyes. Geralt would never get to find out how that brave little child would have reacted. He had failed. He had let him die.

He could have just gone back to the town and told the man that had begged him to bring his child back safely where their bodies lay and be done with it. Instead, he had carried them back to the small hut at the edge of town. He had watched the man’s face twist into a grimace of pain as he had laid eyes on his dead family.

Geralt hadn’t been able to look away as the stranger, who in that moment felt like a mirror image of Geralt, cried and clutched his son’s small body to his chest.

When the man had looked back up at Geralt, he hadn’t shouted, hadn’t screamed and spat at him. He had been too broken for that. But Geralt had seen it in his eyes. The man had blamed Geralt, hated him, wished he would have been the one to die instead.

If Jaskier knew that Geralt agreed, he would have hated Geralt as well.

But Jaskier wasn’t here and Geralt was left to carry the weight of what he hadn’t been able to do on his own.

For so long Geralt had carried it, but it didn’t get any lighter, if anything the weight of his guilt got heavier and heavier the longer he lived, the more people he let die. The memory of the child – the light in its eyes dying before Geralt was even close enough to discern the colour of them – stayed with him, accusing him of things he wished he could deny.

There was only one way for Geralt to repent, for him to make this better. He threw himself into contract after contract. Recklessness and desperation, that Vesemir would have been angry to see him succumb to, were guiding his sword.

The weight of the guilt that was threatening to crush him didn’t subside.

The only thing that changed, was the tapestry of scars littering his body, each angry red line like a tally torn into his skin keeping count of his failings. All the times he could and should have died instead of letting that fate befall someone else. No matter how many monsters he slew and how many people he saved, those marks would still be there. Never fading. Never letting him forget.

Nothing could make him forget. He knew that. He knew it was impossible to get drunk enough on human ale to free himself of the guilt. That didn’t stop him from trying.

It made things worse. All it did was make him pathetically wish there was someone there trying to steal a sip of his drink or sing to him while Geralt used the ale to hide his smile.

There was no smile on Geralt’s face now. Neither was there anyone who would have given him one.

Instead of music, frustrated voices filled the tavern. Geralt didn’t know why he listened in. Perhaps it was years of experience telling him that raised voices meant trouble for him. Or maybe it was the insistent voice in the back of his mind telling him that Jaskier would be disappointed if Geralt didn’t bring him the latest gossip.

The more he listened, the more his heart ached. Oh, Jaskier would have loved this. Tales of an earl or viscount or something like that, who was utterly unfit to rule for being a dreamer. Rumours about how he kept humming to himself instead of listening to his advisors when they brought forth the grievances of the people. One woman even said that she heard the lord had the habit of doodling horses of all things onto important documents.

Maybe Jaskier would have laughed at this and nudged Geralt in the ribs claiming that Geralt had met his match when it came to his love for horses. Maybe Jaskier would have thought these rumours romantic and spun a bittersweet ballad out of it about a trapped lord yearning for life outside of his castle walls. Or perhaps he would have composed a sharp-tongued ditty insulting the lord for how little he seemed to care about his subjects. Either way, Geralt was sure he would have been able to make everyone in this tavern sigh and smile and forget their worries for a while.

As it were, there was no one here to make anyone forget their worries. The air grew thick as frustration turned into anger. Geralt had witnessed this change often enough to know that it was better to leave now before the contempt for an untouchable lord turned towards someone – a witcher - a mob would be able to insult and hurt without anyone batting an eye.

So Geralt downed the last of his ale and left the tavern. He had just lead Roach out of the stables she had been in, when his retreat was stopped. Not by a mob, not even by a single drunken man who itched for a fight and got reckless in his drunkenness. No, he was halted by a man with slicked back hair, fanciful clothes and an air of importance about him.

Geralt scowled at him. It didn’t seem to deter the man, though he did let his eyes wander disdainfully over Geralt’s appearance.

“Sir Witcher?”

Geralt snorted. He didn’t know what was more ridiculous: The honourable or the fact that the man thought it necessary to ask whether the slit-pupiled freak in front of him really was a witcher.

Geralt didn’t give an answer, but evidently one wasn’t needed anyway.

“I have come to summon you to Viscount Alfred Pa-“

“No,” Geralt cut him off harshly.

This time, the man stumbled a bit over his words, evidently not used to being interrupted. His brows drew together and his eyes narrowed.

“Sir, I must ask you to come to –“

“You can ask but the answer is no. Unless there is a contract for me, but I haven’t heard anyone speak of monsters, so I doubt it.”

The tension in the face of what must be some sort of page or messenger - or whatever fancy title those people had – eased at that and bled into relief.

“As it happens, the Viscount does have a contract.” He left a pause, giving Geralt a chance to bid him to continue. Geralt let the opportunity pass but the messenger continued even so. “There has been conflict brewing with the neighbouring earldom. They demand – “

“I don’t care.” Geralt turned to Roach.

“But sir! Viscount Alfred the fifth requests that you speak with him personally. I assure you you would receive adequate pay. Perhaps you could –“

“Don’t care,” Geralt repeated, more harshly this time. He swung himself up onto Roach’s saddle. By the outraged noise the messenger made, he must have had to jump back to not get hit by Geralt’s leg. Geralt took the reins in hand and looked down on the messenger who was glaring daggers at him. “You can tell this Viscount of yours that witchers won’t solve his problems. We are neutral. Don’t care about petty human affairs or politics.”

Something almost desperate flashed through the messenger’s eyes. “How can you not care? There must be something that makes you have a little compassion. If not money, then you must have a conscience.”

It took every ounce of self-control not to make Geralt flinch. He had cared once, had been made to care. There had been someone who he hadn’t minded getting involved in petty affairs for.

See where that had gotten him.

“I don’t. Maybe you haven’t heard, but Witchers don’t feel.”

With that, Geralt pressed his heels into Roach’s flanks and fled Lettenhove, leaving behind houses and roads and making his way to the forest bordering the viscounty. As soon as he was surrounded by the trees and the sounds of forest creatures flitting about, he felt some tension ease away, yet a strange chill crept up his spine, the unsettling feeling that he should know this place. Geralt couldn’t put his finger on it, but something about this place felt achingly familiar.

It was only when he decided to make camp beneath an old oak tree with branches reaching higher into the sky than any other tree, that he realised why he seemed to know this place.

Jaskier had never spoken much of the place he had grown up in and if he did, it had always been with a tenseness around his eyes and lips. It had only left when Jaskier mentioned the woods he sometimes ran away to, when everything became too much. In great detail and with shining eyes Jaskier had told him about the small river he had waded through during summer, the clearings where he had laid down and dreamed of far off places and the great oak tree he used to climb as if he was a bird trying to reach the sky. He had told Geralt how he-

Without meaning to, Geralt’s feet carried him to the tree, searching and fearing, though he didn’t know whether he feared more what he might find or what he wouldn’t find.

He didn’t need to wonder for long. Right there was the mark Jaskier had told him about so long ago. A clumsy J carved into the bark. Geralt traced the letter as tenderly as if it was Jaskier’s skin. There was no mistaking that over a century had passed since the letter had been carved, but it was still there, never forgotten.

Geralt’s hands moved on their own. Before he knew it, he held his hunting knife in hand and put it to the bark right next to the J.

He hesitated, drew back at the last minute. He had no right to carve his own mark into the bark as if he was still beside Jaskier, as if his presence next to Jaskier’s had ever done the bard any good.

He dropped the knife. His eyes were burning and he had to squeeze them shut.

“I miss you,” he whispered, a rough, choked sound. “I miss you so much. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Jask.”

He pressed his forehead against the tree, wondering if at a different time, Jaskier had done the same before leaving this place to find a better life.

Geralt’s breath came in shudders and his shoulders wrecked with dry sobs.

Witchers didn’t feel. They didn’t cry. They didn’t shatter.

There was no one around to witness Geralt do just that.

It wasn’t until months later that he heard rumours again of the viscounty he had left without a second thought.

Rumours about how the Viscount had tried and failed to come to an agreement with his foes. Of how in the end a battle had ensued that the dreamer hadn’t been prepared for. He had lost his estate, his title, his land and at with that every last shred of sympathy his people had had left for him. The only thing he had gained had been seething hatred from those he had been supposed to protect.

Geralt had been at the wrong end of a mob too many times not to know how the story would go. He didn’t need to listen to the rumours to know that the Viscount hadn’t survived.

Geralt…Geralt didn’t care. He didn’t care that he had sealed the Viscounts – the dreamer’s – fate when he had left without even hearing him out. Maybe the Viscount had still been waiting for help when his estate had gone up in flames, when the earl he had fought had taken everything from him and the people had paid the Viscounts incompetency back with pitchforks and torches.

Perhaps it would have all gone differently if Geralt had followed the messenger and spoken face to face with the lord. Perhaps it would have even been better, if he had looked the Viscount in the eyes and explained why he wouldn’t help. Or maybe seeing the Viscounts desperation in his eyes would have changed Geralt’s mind and he would have been able to prevent the bloodshed after all.

But he didn’t care. He couldn’t allow himself to.

He told himself that the violent fate of the Viscount wasn’t the reason why he sought out a contract that he knew he wouldn’t be able to finish without gaining at least one new scar. One new mark on his too long lists of lives taken by his choices.

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