It is draining me emotionally. I come back home and sleep a lot. sometimes, I am hardly hanging in there. I am looking for another job, but scared to make a change. Feast of Trumpets is coming up. Meanwhile we're praying for you. Biblical Illiteracy Is At Astonishingly High Levels In The Church, New Study Reveals: Is the exodus from Egypt a New Testament or Old Testament event? What about the crossing of the Jordan, the healing of a man born blind, a miraculous escape from prison, or the healing of Naaman’s leprosy? It’s hard to believe, but according to a new study, 1 in 10 “American Protestant Churchgoers” (11%) can’t answer those sorts of questions. The survey asked this question, “Of all the stories found in the Old Testament of the Bible, which one is your favorite?” (As a side note, I don’t believe we should use stories when talking about the Bible as story means “fairytale; not true” in our culture today. So I’ll use “biblical accounts” throughout this blog). Of those surveyed, 11% answered with an account from the New Testament, not the Old. Another 10% either couldn’t identify a single account from the Old Testament or had no favorite passage. Biblical illiteracy is rampant. Interestingly—and not surprisingly given our research—the second-most-popular account is Noah and the ark (marginally surpassed by the Exodus and Moses), and when combined, 32% of favorite accounts were from Genesis. The study asked respondents about the story of Romulus and Remus. Now note that I said story this time. And that’s because this is a mythological account from the ancient Romans to explain how Rome and the Roman civilization were founded—by twin brothers, fathered by the god Mars and cared for briefly by a wolf and a woodpecker. One brother later kills the other, among other atrocities. It’s certainly not real history and is nowhere found or mentioned in the Bible. So what did survey respondents say when they were asked about the story of Romulus and Remus? Only 39% recognized this story is not part of the Bible. Only 4 in 10 churchgoers! The others believed it was in the Bible but that they “couldn’t tell any of it” (33%).... Biblical illiteracy is at astonishingly high levels in the church. So many Christians don’t know their Bibles because they aren’t reading them, and they aren’t receiving biblical teaching from all of God’s Word in their churches. They know a few fuzzy basics and that’s about it.... And yet Christians are apathetic, their Bibles are dusty, and their children are left to glean their worldview from the culture with a moral lesson thrown in during Sunday school each week. It’s a far cry from the commands throughout Scripture that God’s Word be constantly on our lips and in our hearts and minds. I live not too far away from Stanford University in California. The main street that passes by it in Palo Alto is called El Camino. There is a stretch of that road right near Stanford where RVs and Vans are parked along the sidewalk. Everyone knows that people permanently live in them. A shocking video released by Fox 31 Denver reveals the frightening reality of the situation: armed members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have taken over yet another apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, terrorizing the local community. The Gateway Pundit previously reported that Fitzsimon’s apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado was forced to close its doors, displacing hundreds of families who have called the building home. A newly released video from Fox 31 Denver reporter Vicente Arenas has captured alarming footage of an armed group at another Aurora apartment complex. [Video at link.] Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky has been outspoken about the situation, declaring that gangs have taken over the complex. "And I repeat... A GANG HAS TAKEN OVER several apartment complexes in Aurora!" Jurinsky wrote on X. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/kamalas-border-failure-strikes-again-new-terrifying-video/ Elon Musk fired off a warning to Americans after radical Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes blocked X in Brazil. “Soon, we expect Judge Alexandre de Moraes will order X to be shut down in Brazil – simply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents. These enemies include a duly elected Senator and a 16-year-old girl, among others,” X’s Global Affairs said. “When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts. Our challenges against his manifestly illegal actions were either dismissed or ignored. Judge de Moraes’ colleagues on the Supreme Court are either unwilling or unable to stand up to him,” Global Affairs said. Elon Musk lashed out at the Brazilian Supreme Court Justice and called him an “evil dictator.” Elon Musk warned that free speech likely won’t exist if Kamala Harris Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have repeatedly attacked free speech. Tim Walz famously said, “There is no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/elon-musk-fires-warning-americans-after-brazil-bans/ Germany has commenced the deportation of Afghan nationals for the first time since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021. The shocking change of pace comes as the Country is set to hold two elections on Friday, and faces mounting pressure to deal with the rising crime brought by the untill-now unchecked migrant community. In response to these growing safety concerns, Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed his commitment, back in June, to begin deportations of Afghan and Syrian nationals who have criminal records. The government's recent actions appear to be aligning with this pledge. Amir Tsarfati's Bible Bites: For all those who are pro-abortion, [just so you know] life begins at conception. So if you’re talking about a lifespan – a lifespan begins at conception and it ends at death. It is just that he’s having fun swimming for nine months. Where is he? Swimming. He’s alive. You always make sure he is alive, but he’s just swimming and he has some weird food that you don’t have to buy. You just produce it. That’s all. Amazing, amazing to see. I always was amazed when I touched my wife’s pregnant belly, when I could see the foot of the baby. And I was like, I don’t know if I could be a pregnant woman. Forget about the birth pangs and all of that. I’m talking about the fact that there’s a living creature inside of you. Amazing. How can people say it’s not a living creature? He’s there. He’s kicking. It’s amazing, and he’s swimming and he’s so happy, has no clue what’s going to happen next. It is quite amazing that people today can repeat the mantra “trust the science”, because so many of them don’t trust the science themselves. They don’t even know what a woman is! And there is no new evidence that inside a pregnant mother’s womb is anything other than a human baby. There no new scientific evidence that the baby at such and such a time during the pregnancy suddenly becomes human. So, the pro-choice crowd has decided that they can make things up that are unscientific and untrue. These are things like, it’s not a baby until it breaths air, or it’s not a baby until it has sentience (the ability to perceive or feel things). How foolish to think that a baby that reacts to touch can’t feel its precious little body being torn apart during an abortion. That means that the true force behind the “my body, my choice” movement is not science but rather the great deceiver, Satan. There is no other way to describe the pro-choice movement other than loveless and demonic. They say they care about women’s health, yet half of those aborted babies are female. Since 1970, the estimated number of human children killed in their mother’s womb ranges from 1.72 billion to 2.15 billion. David believed that when an infant child died, it would go to where he would later be, which is in the presence of God. This makes it likely that we can expect to see this massive number of slain human beings when we inhabit the New Jerusalem. There is too much scientific evidence and far too much history to think that inside of a pregnant woman’s womb is anything other than a growing human baby. It is not simply a clump of cells or fetal tissue. The one positive thing to remember in all this ugliness is that God is gracious and merciful and the blood of Jesus is sufficient to cover all sins, including that of taking the life of a baby inside the mother’s womb. The denial of this scientifically proven truth of life beginning at conception is preparation for the loss of of respect for human life at any level. This will set people up for the joining of the masses of the world in support of the first beast of Revelation 13, whom we call the antichrist, when he slaughters anyone who refuses his mark and who has the testimony of Jesus and the word of God! (Revelation 13:17) The world has been made ready for the arrival of the lawless one which tells us that Jesus is coming for us soon. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus. https://mailchi.mp/beholdisrael/amirs-bible-bites-devotionals-11465224 UPDATE: At least four people are reportedly dead, with approximately 30 injured, per CNN. As of 2:23 pm ET, CNN reports that nine people were transferred to hospitals with injuries and four are confirmed dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. One suspect is in custody. An active shooter situation at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta, is believed to have left four dead and approximately 30 injured on Wednesday morning. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/breaking-least-one-dead-several-injured-georgia-school/ 
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