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dailyaudiobible · 4 years

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05/20/2020 DAB Transcript

1 Samuel 26:1-28:25, John 11:1-54, Psalms 117:1-2, Proverbs 15:22-23

Today is the 20th day of May welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is a joy and a pleasure to be here with you today as we move forward one more step taking us one step further away from the beginning of the year one step closer to the end of the year because the journey we are on lasts a year and is life-changing because the Bible in a year touches everything about us. And that should be apparent by now. May 20th. We've already been through an awful lot this year and the Scriptures in our lives makes such a difference in pointing the direction that we should go. And, so, let's take that next step. We’re reading from the Christian Standard Bible this…this week and we’re working our way through the book of first Samuel and now we are firmly ensconced in the story between David and King Saul. Today, First Samuel 26, 27, and 28.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we…I mean…pretty dramatic reading today, both old and new Testaments. So, in first Samuel again, Saul is after David. He's pursuing him to destroy him again. David, has an opportunity to kill the King but spares the king and then exposes the king and exposes the deficiencies of the people who are keeping the king alive by calling out and just showing like, “I could have killed you again. You could be dead right now but your hearing my voice because I spared you. So, once again Saul is exposed here. Part of the plot against David that Saul is whipping up is that David wants to destroy the king…the king…that David wants the king dead. But David was never plotting against the king and this keeps showing itself. And the thing is, the people are seeing, right? So, like Saul’s got 3000 elite warriors who are loyal to the king in the kingdom but they’re seeing all of this, people are talking about this. In the end though, like after this episode David is like, “you know what…I mean…I have to be on my game 100% of the time. If I mess up one time, we could all be dead. He's not gonna stop.” And, so, David defects to the Philistines, actually becoming like a Philistine with his allegiance…his allegiance to king Achish of Gath. And, so, the king gives David a city to take his people to and that's where they settle. And, so, for over a year then, King Saul's not going to pursue David into Philistine territory like crossing an international border. So, David finds some…some safety. Meanwhile the Philistines are gonna go to battle, and a big battle with the Israelites and David is expected to go into the battle as a Philistine, which he agrees to do. Meanwhile, Saul is a little bit freaking out because God won't answer him. And, so, he tries to re-create the structure that he had at one point with the final judge of Israel, the prophet of Israel, even the leader of Israel, Samuel, who has died. Saul goes to spiritist and calls of Samuel from the dead. And this seems to be actually Samuel coming up from the dead, not like some kind of demon or something impersonating Samuel. The Bible is saying this is Samuel, who has essentially one final prophecy for Saul and that prophecy is that…that Saul and his sons will be with Samuel in the realm of the dead in one day. So, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow's reading to find out if that is true. What a strange showdown we have. We have Saul who has pursued David all this time to kill him, who was not successful, but David, in order to preserve his life has had to defect to the Philistines who are now expecting that he will be in battle against Saul. And meanwhile Saul's essentially told that he's got less than a day to live. So, yeah, some drama building for us in first Samuel.

Now, in the book of John there's also drama building. It’s the story of Lazarus being raised up from the dead and its a very, very famous story. And, so we won't go into all of the story right now. Let’s just kind of skip to the end. Lazarus is raised from the dead after having been in the tomb for four days. That would cause a ripple effect, right, of information spreading throughout all the social networks of the day. Obviously, there weren’t social networks online. Like we understand that everybody has some type of social network - the people that you know. This would spread all around very quickly. And Bethany just being 2 miles from Jerusalem, word would've gotten to Jerusalem very quickly. And it did. And it caused a meeting of the Sanhedrin. It brought together the people who were most studied in the law and most studied in the how…how to govern the people because of the law, the Mosaic law. They got together and decided that if this guy Jesus thinks he can run around raising people from the dead, then they're going to kill him. So, we are kinda getting set up here for a couple of showdowns in the old and the New Testament. Of course, in the New Testament we know the story of the gospel, but let's understand that the territory we are moving into in the book of John, this is the last time we will be moving through this territory. And, so, let's remember that as…as we give it the honor that it's due.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for another day that You have allowed Your word to come into our lives and…and…and just work in our minds, work in our hearts, challenging our motivations, and allowing us to see that we can… we can read these texts and they can be thousands of years old but underneath of them all the motives of the human heart is the same. So, we thank You that You guide and direct us as we look into the lives of those who have gone before. Come Holy Spirit. Continue this work of transformation in us, this work of sanctification in us as we continue to open ourselves fully to Your will and Your ways and Your direction, to Your comfort, to Your discipline in our lives. We open ourselves fully to You because we trust You. Come Jesus we pray. In Your name we ask. Amen.

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forgivenandcherished · 5 years

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Abiding in Christ

The call of the Christian life is an intentional one. Being a Christian isn’t about what you do, or where you worship, or even what you know, but rather Who you know. It’s about a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. And like all relationships, it takes both parties actively participating to make it strong. The depth of a relationship is often determined by the amount of effort put into it. Relationships can range from impersonal and shallow to deeply intimate. What you put in, or what you sow in your relationships, impacts what you get out.

So consider for a minute how much God has invested to have a personal relationship with you. God intentionally and sacrificially became like us – we are who are made in His image – to seek us out, meet us where we are at, and speak life giving truth into our hearts and souls in order that we might be saved. Before the foundation of the earth He decided to give Himself to the utmost in order to redeem us. Jesus came to seek and save the lost. Christian, that was you. Jesus came and lived and died and rose for you.

Jesus was unswervingly committed to His Father’s mission to bring us back into right relationship with Himself, submitting and obeying to the point of death, even death on a cross. God demonstrated his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. God went to extraordinary lengths to open the Way for us. His desire is to be personally known by us. God is fully committed to knowing you, loving you, leading you, guiding you, and growing you; how do you return that commitment to Him? How are you investing in your relationship with God?

Consider how often the reality of the Gospel actively compels you to follow Jesus. The term “Christian” actually means “Christ follower.” How often does your redemption through His blood impact your life? How has the truth of the Gospel moved your heart and transformed the way you think? The way you love? The way you live?

Our natural inclination when faced with our short-comings is to simply “try harder.” We feel we need to do something to improve our relationship with God. So we end up committing ourselves to some spiritual discipline: reading the Bible, praying, memorizing scripture, etc. These disciplines are certainly important, but relationship with God is more than just practicing religious rites. Consider a marriage where every day the husband works, comes home and does the dishes, folds the laundry, bathes the children, and puts them to bed, but he never spends any time with his wife. Serving her that way might demonstrate his love or perhaps commitment, but if he is never present with her their relationship will wither. In much the same way we try to serve God by doing what we think He wants, rather than simply spending time with Him.

Jesus calls us in John 15 to abide with Him. The word “abide” is defined as “to accept or act in accordance with” and some synonyms include: “to follow, hold to, heed, acknowledge, conform and defer to.” God doesn’t just want your spiritual habits, He wants your heart. Abiding is necessary if we desire to grow in our relationship with Christ.

John 15:1-11 describes it this way: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. 9 As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” (Emphasis added)

Abiding does not nullify practical Christian discipline, but it is by being present with Jesus that real and lasting fruit is formed in and through our lives. God has invited us into relationship with Himself and into His own ministry, but He does not call us to participate in our own strength, with our limited perspective, experience, and knowledge. He invites us to abide in Him so that He might work in and through us to build His Kingdom.

Our call and mission to share the Gospel and make disciples, to love God and neighbor, is not nearly as intimidating when we think of it as simply drawing intimately nearer to our Father in personal relationship, allowing Him to work in us and through us. Our desires become like His desires when we abide. Our thoughts become like His thoughts, our ways like His ways, and our hearts like His heart. When we shift our gaze to rest on Christ, rather than self or circumstance, we will find an exuberant joy that strengthens us to trust and obey. We will find fear replaced by faith.

As we continue in prayer for the future of First Missionary and how that will impact not only our lives, but the lives of others, let our first and greatest desire as individuals be to abide with Christ. We are all members of One body, and Christ our Head. When each member abides in the Lord we will be united in His Spirit and able to follow and function as One to carry out His will, to our great joy and His great glory.

God with us, help us to be an abiding church. You have a most excellent plan for Your Kingdom and a beautiful desire for Your people. Help our hearts to see You and seek You. May we each fall more deeply in love with You. Teach us to practice Your presence that we might be transformed inside and out. You make all things new, Lord. All praise to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! Have my heart, Father, and have Your way in me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Lovingly yours,

Samantha

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riverdamien · 4 years

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Station 3: Stations of the Cross

Station 3: Jesus Falls the First Time-April 1, 2020

Journey with us in spirit on Good Friday, April 10 as we journey through the Tenderloin. The first two stations will be at City Hall, this station will be at the State Office Buidling.

There are times when we are living in twilight, we live, yet our lives have changed. The past three weeks they have changed suddenly with social distancing, having to stay in our homes, businesses shut down, fear of contacting a strange disease, fear of losing our housing, and fear of being on the streets without the benefit of social distancing, food, and care. The reality is things will never be the same gain. It is strange to walk in the midst of people wearing masks, some obviously fearful, and keeping a distance. Every store is closed, and you remember the meals and fellowship in the restaurants. We will never be the same. There is an impersonal-ism, distance, a feeling of just being an object.

When Jesus fell the first time, knowing that he was in the twilight of his life, he too knew that his life was ending, life was over. He too was living in fear.

St. Maria Skobtosova speaks to my heart in these words setting our priorities:

“At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, nor how many bows and prostrations I made. Instead I shall be asked, Did I feeed the hungry, clothe the naked, vist the sick and the prisoners. In doing this “All will be well!”

We all fall, but like Jesus we can get up and face our fears and march forward, with these words from Winston Churchill: "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

( We received a flyer about ways of dealing with losing financial support in your businesses etc. If you would like a copy send an email and we will forward it.)

Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

Station 3: Jesus Falls the First Time

In your imagination can you see a friend, or yourself, fall to the ground?

The cross became too much for Jesus and he fell, powerless in the moment.

Jesus falls each day in the homeless who suffer from mental illness and drug

abuse.

In San Francisco, the estimated statistics are that 37% suffer from

alcohol/drug abuse, and 35% from mental illness. It is difficult to separate

these two figures because they both play into each other.

In the story of the Gerasenes demoniac from the book of Mark, we read:

“5 They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. [a] 2 And

when Jesus [b] had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the

tombs a man with an unclean spirit. 3 He lived among the tombs. And no one

could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, 4 for he had often been bound

with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the

shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. 5 Night and day

among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting

himself with stones. 6 And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down

before him. 7 And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have you to do

with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment

me.” 8 For he was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!”

9 And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion,

for we are many.” 10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the

country. 11 Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, 12 and they

begged him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” 13 So he gave them

permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd,

numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and

drowned in the sea.

14 The herdsmen fled and told it in the city and in the country. And people came

to see what it was that had happened. 15 And they came to Jesus and saw the

demon-possessed [c] man, the one who had had the legion, sitting there, clothed

and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 16 And those who had seen it

described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and to the

pigs. 17 And they began to beg Jesus [d] to depart from their region. 18 As he was

getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed with demons begged him

that he might be with him. 19 And he did not permit him but said to him, “Go

home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and

how he has had mercy on you.” 20 And he went away and began to proclaim in

the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.

This is the scene we see on the streets daily. Healing those who suffer from mental illness was a part of the ministry of Jesus. It should, by extension, be a part of our own. All of us have something to contribute, including those

without professional or pastoral expertise in mental health care. We do not have to be therapists, but we must be the face of Jesus.

Mental illness has biological causes, but it also impacts one’s spiritual life: the ability to find meaning. We all have a role to play in helping others restore their confidence, find support, and rediscover their value.

We all fail in our care of the mentally ill and addicted, but Father Henry Nouwen calls us in these words to get up and to love deeply:

“Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply. You might be afraid of the pain that deep love can cause. When those you love deeply reject you, leave you, or die, your heart will be broken. But that should not hold you back from loving deeply. The pain that comes from deep love makes your love even more fruitful. It is like a plow that breaks the ground to allow the seed to take root and grow into a strong plant.

Every time you experience the pain of rejection, absence, or death, you are faced with a choice. You can become bitter and decide not to love again, or you can stand straight in your pain and let the soil on which you stand become richer and more able to give life to new

seeds.”

In the same way, we fail each time we criticize or condemn someone that we disagree with or simply do not like. Today it was announced that Rush Limbaugh has lung cancer, and many responses put forth have been to wish him much suffering and some death. Growing up we were friends with Mr. Limbaugh’s family; his granddad was a partner in a law firm with my best

friend’s dad. They are conservative, but very decent people. When my dad was dying from lung cancer himself, the Limbaugh family often gave my mother and me a place to stay.

Through the years I have received death threats, along with all sorts of painful “shit” said to me at first through the phone, then email, and now social media. For the most part, these come from people who do not know me.

Those words hurt and tear me apart. What I have learned through my experience, and the pain in the experience of others who have been hurt by the judgment of people, is that only in caring and loving each other can we truly find wholeness and happiness. Judgment belongs to God!

Stations of the Cross Exmin Style

Step 1: Choose a Station. Let’s say we’re focusing on Jesus taking up his Cross. You can read a passage from the Bible that correlates to that scene or simply picture an image in your mind. Then take a few deep breaths and ask God to help you quiet your head and open your heart. Often we only try to focus on getting rid of all the mental chatter inside of us, but it’s also important to place our attention on the waves of emotions and feelings inside us. Something in you might resist focusing—you may feel tired, nervous, or angry, but that’s okay. Allow yourself to find a level of openness that is true to you.

Step 2: Remind yourself that God is all around you. He’s inside you and outside you and his heart beats in yours. Try to feel that reality as best as you can. Then take the picture of Jesus carrying his Cross, and imagine placing the image inside you. Let it take root in you.

Step 3: Ask the Holy Spirit to rise up inside you and give you the wisdom to acknowledge God in your life. Ask the Spirit to help you meditate on the scene inside you. How do you think Jesus felt when this was happening? What was he thinking? What is your cross to bear? How heavy is it? How does it affect your relationship with God?

Step 4: Review your day. Where did your cross feel the heaviest today? Where did you encounter the cross on the shoulders of others at work, on the news, or in the streets? Where is God in these encounters? Ask God to make you more aware and compassionate of others and yourself.

Step 5: Give thanks to God for the opportunity to know Jesus better, and ask God to help you to become more aware of the crosses that everyone carries in life.

Image by Enrique López-Tamayo Bio

Dear Lord,

Help me keep my eyes on you. You are the incarnation of Divine Love, you are the expression of God’s infinite compassion, you are the visible manifestation of the Father’s holiness. You are beauty, goodness, gentleness, forgiveness, and mercy. In you all can be found. Outside of you nothing can be found. Why should I look elsewhere or go elsewhere? You have the words of eternal life, you are food and drink, you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. You are the light that shines in the darkness, the lamp on the lampstand, the house on the hilltop. You are the perfect Icon of God. In and through you I can see the Heavenly Father, and with you I can find my way to him. O Holy One, Beautiful One, Glorious One, be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, my Guide, my Consoler, my Comforter, my Hope, my Joy, and my Peace. To you I want to give all that I am. Let me be generous, not stingy or hesitant. Let me give you all—all that I have, think, do, and feel. It is yours, O Lord. Please accept it and make it fully your own.

Amen. Father Henri Nouwen

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nocturnal-iridescence · 6 years

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"But ... But the NWO Promotes Peace!"

New blog post. Original post [here].

Peace as a concept is good. Jesus even says, "Blessed are the peacemakers". But just because the consequence of something else is peace, doesn't mean that thing is automatically good as well. For example, if the only reason you're in a state of peace is because (for example) you're being sedated against your will, is that still "good" just because it yields "peace"? No, and likewise, the NWO's "peace" isn't good, either.

The NWO's frequent talk of "peace" comes from words and vague concepts that sound good on paper, but are then mixed in with other ideas that are ultimately more dangerous than they appear. "A little leaven..." The idea of various races and cultures working together, for example, is a fraction of the NWO's agenda. And despite what some far-right and alt-right ""Christian"" nationalists/racists would claim, there is nothing wrong with this. This idea, in and of itself, is entirely harmless. Race (from what I understand) comes from where one lives in relation to the equator. Darker-skinned people tend to live closer to the equator, and lighter-skinned people tend to live further away from it. That's it. There is nothing that should inherently cause conflicts between other races -- ESPECIALLY according to the teachings of God. Likewise, just because different cultures do things slightly differently doesn't mean one is more wrong or right than another. The Bible, inspired by God (a culturally impartial deity), should be our measuring stick for righteousness, not our own personal upbringings. The Greeks were not Israelites, and yet managed to join the church along with the Hebrew apostles. I'm no expert in the cultural aspects of ancient Greek or Israeli culture, but I feel pretty confident assuming both were quite radically different things. I do know, of course, that Greek culture emphasized philosophy far more than the Israelites did.

The problem is when these harmless ideologies are tied into harmful ones. The idea of a "one world religion" probably sounds good to those who aren't very dedicated to any one side, especially those who are just soooooo tired of "all the wars they heard were caused by religions". The problem is, there is a spiritual side to the concept of "religion". Religion is not the same as philosophy, though the two can certainly work hand-in-hand. Philosophy is a worldview. Worldviews are not objective, impersonal phenomena. Worldviews can change with time. Religion is one's spiritual interactions and studies in the physical world. Religion cannot simply be deconstructed and pieced back together in the same way that philosophy can, because religion is based on objectively existing phenomena, that still exist even when you stop thinking about them. Either there is a Hell where unbelievers go, or there is not. Either our souls are reincarnated, or they are not. Either we can project ourselves into other dimensions, or we cannot. Our beliefs on these things can differ, but at the end of the day, religion is more of a science than a philosophy. A science of the spiritual. Our hypotheses can differ, but ultimately, one is right, and the others are wrong. To imply that these hypotheses should be melted together (rather than studied and either proven or disproven to the very best of our ability) not only demeans the concept of "religion" on a moral level, but objectively misrepresents its core concepts.

Mohammed, who denied Jesus' equality with God, cannot sit side-by-side with Jesus Himself, who taught that He was divine (but simply did not regard it as something to be exploited for His own benefit). Buddha, who was either agnostic or atheist, cannot sit side-by-side with Mohammed or Jesus, who both insisted on the existence of a deity. This isn't because Buddha and Jesus were hateful bigots who sought to bring down others through force, using their "beliefs" as a shield for their boiling hatred of others, but rather, because there is an ultimate truth to all this -- an ultimate truth that exists regardless of who talks about it or makes hypotheses about it (this needs to be stressed). And "religion" is not merely opinions. Religion is the study of an ultimate truth. The NWO attempts to paint religion as a matter of opinions, but it's not. People may have opinions about religions, but this is no different from secular science, where hypotheses are always being proposed and tested, and theories are being challenged. Science still seeks an ultimate truth in the physical world regardless of the opinions of scientists, and likewise, religion still seeks an ultimate truth in the spiritual regardless of the opinions of religious people. Can "religious people" technically work together to discover that ultimate truth? I suppose, to be completely objective, there is a theoretical possibility that this could occur, but it'd be a waste of time. The truth has [already] [been] [revealed] [in] [full].

Note my previous statement is not meant to be taken as one of intolerance or dismissal. If it weren't for the existence of demons, Hell, and so on (which exist regardless of whether I choose to "believe in them" or not), I really would not care if somebody were a Buddhist or Hindu or Zoroastrian or what have you. But for reasons that I fully admit are beyond my current understanding, God has chosen to create Hell, and people will be sent there. This is not my "worldview", this is the truth. If you want my personal worldview, we could go into the semantics that Romans 14 tells us are not very important, like my belief that it's okay to eat meat. My belief that Christians should NEVER speak in "tongues". My belief that literally any theological work outside of the Protestant Bible (including Catholic apocrypha etc) should be taken with a grain of salt. My belief that the "sacred traditions" of Catholicism and Orthodoxy are vain, pointless nonsense. These are all a mix of philosophy and study of "religion".

But the NWO would have us believe that the very core basis of these things is, in and of itself, a fluid concept, and ultimate truth should be compromised for the sake of "peace". But in promoting this "peace", two main criticisms immediately come to mind:

1) It's as I said at the beginning of this post -- just because something yields peace, doesn't automatically mean it's good. In forsaking truth and the objective consequences of our spiritual interactions, in favor of avoiding conflicts with others, we cancel out one danger only to replace it with another. Not doing one's homework on the spiritual can yield very dangerous consequences in both this life, and in the next life. The spiritual cannot be ignored because discussion of it causes disagreements -- I can attest to this myself. (Note that post is NOT a complete account of everything I went through.) We NEED to have these discussions and we NEED to learn about the truth, otherwise a much more dangerous force than mere conflict will be able to take hold of our lives and our souls.

(Note also, it is not my intent, nor is it most other people's intent to cause disagreements through our insistence on the pursuit of objective truth, but there are those who cannot accept disagreement and will turn it into a matter of serious contention -- even to the point of war -- rather than one of civil discussion. These are the ones who ultimately cause the problems, not those of us who merely bring the points up. (If we're speaking in a human sense. If we can speak in supernatural terms, it's the demons who tempt humans to wrath. Nevertheless we should still not give into their temptations, and are guilty of our trespasses unless we seek forgiveness through Jesus' sacrifice.))

2) It's quite hypocritical of the NWO to be talking about "peace" in the first place, given their influence over governments. Think about all the wars waged in the name of human greed, of human power, of natural resources, and so on. "Peace" can then be thought of as more of "complacency" than actual "peace" when it comes to the NWO's agenda. ............. And this (already very significant point) is only what I feel comfortable accusing them of publicly, to say nothing of the other, even more serious allegations that have been raised against the NWO by conspiracy theorists. I won't say what those allegations are, though I'm sure most people reading a post like this are already aware of the sort of things I'm referring to, but even if those are somehow not true, the NWO has no place to be talking about peace, regardless.

May God bless you all and guide you, according to His perfect will. In Jesus' name. Amen.

PS. Why would they promote "peace" at St John the Divine, when they have a statue of Christopher Columbus? Somebody who MANY (myself included) do NOT want honored because of how horrible of a person he truly was.

PPS. Unlike many conspiracy types, I hold as little ill-will toward the NWO as possible. I pray for those involved in the Illuminati and so on, that they would see the error of their ways and learn of the true joy and peace and knowledge found in the righteousness of God.

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