Psalm 122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you!
Dateline Rome, Italy: The Abraham Accords Global Leadership Summit was completed from December 7 – 9, 2022. The conference was introduced on the first day. The focus of the conference was to fight discrimination and build economic peace through strengthened political ties. The second session was called “Combating Hate: Creative Strategies”. The third session was titled “Economic Peace”. To close, 30 countries signed off on the summit with an agreement to a “family values pledge.”
Conjecture on the part of the author. I suspect any future covenant signed with focus in and around the 7 Noahide Laws. Time will tell…
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center indicated approximately 2 in 5 Americans believe “we are living in the end times“. Evangelicals and Black Protestants were the most likely to believe in the imminent concept.
Eschatology experts also weighed in and explained how this era we are living is not the end of the world.
However, The Official Expert has told us to be ready. Just sayin’…
Revelation 6:6 “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
Global inflation continues to take its toll. Below is a chart looking at rising prices around the planet.
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2022-12-08_13-41-29.jpg?itok=MgZyXMp0
Inflation has even affected the 12 Days of Christmas.
- Partridge in a pear tree: $280.18 (+25.8%)
- Two turtledoves: $600 (+33.3%)
- Three french hens: $318.75 (+25%)
- Four calling birds: $599.96 (0.0%)
- Five gold rings: $1,245 (+39.1%)
- Six geese-a-laying: $720 (+9.1%)
- Seven swans-a-swimming: $13,124.93 (+0.0%)
- Eight maids-a-milking: $58 (0.0%)
- Nine ladies dancing: $8,308.12 (+10%)
- Ten lords-a-leaping: $13,980 (+24.2%)
- Eleven Pipers Piping: $3,021.40 (+2.6%)
- Twelve Drummers Drumming: $3,266.93 (+2.6%)
Grand Total: $45,523.27 (+10.5%)
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/what-the-12-days-of-christmas-will-cost-you-with-2022s-inflation/
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Australia’s government looks to stop social media trolling and bullying.
For those who want an Australian government approved, fact checked link to the news article and “accurate” content of the policy…
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Ancient Sheba and Dedan Meet With Revelation 9
Riyadh: Chinese President Xi Jinping recently travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet with Mohammed bin Salman.
$30,000,000,000 (30 billion) worth of deals were signed.
The 34 deals struck between Chinese and Saudi firms are in green energy, information technology, cloud services, transport, construction and other sectors.
Multiple other Middle East leaders made the trip to Riyadh to meet with Xi Jinping. These include: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sudanese de facto head of state Abdul Fattah al-Burhan, Tunisian President Kais Saied, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani, Moroccan Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, and Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
“China and Arab states will continue to hold high the banner of non-interference in internal affairs, firmly support each other in safeguarding sovereignty,” Xi Jinping.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-china-announce-deals-xi-visit
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John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of mankind. And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not grasp it.
In 2021, over 10,000 Canadian citizens were euthanized.
A 2017 Canadian study suggested medically-assisted dying could reduce health care spending in the country by as much as $137 million a year.
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Genesis 2:24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
By the way, Jesus quotes this passage from Genesis in the Gospel accounts.
gamos/γάμος: a wedding or marriage, to bind or unite.
In the Bible, the context is between a man and a woman.
Sorry, I am not going to spend time on the cultural definition of marriage. They can speak for themselves.
The Good Lord will have a response.
