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Thursday, October 17, 2019

Where God Found You (Pastor Charles Lawson)

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

If God is truly Sovereign and comfortably confident in His Sovereignty; then humanity is free to love Him or themselves. Humanity will always be accountable for all the choices God gave them, and all the consequences of them He prepared for them. Common confusion within theological circles is that God has to be in complete control or they do not understand the outcome. These types of confusion lie within specific groups of people.
The first dictionary definition for "responsible" is "liable to be called on to answer. This is so great because accountability/responsibility is associated with the ability to choose your behavior. This is the only way you can be responsible FOR your behavior. Those who cannot be held accountable are those whose mental capacity is unable to choose, as they cannot comprehend/understand the differences that will hold them responsible. Freedom and understanding

are integral to accountability.

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

A Biblical Profile of Nimrod - 119 Ministries

Sunday, October 13, 2019

What does Galatians 1:8 mean?

What does Galatian

s 1:8 mean?

Why did God choose Israel?

Why did God cho

ose Israel?

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Calender

On this date, 1752 Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar, losing 11 days. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives

They implemented the Gregorian Calendar to fix the Julian calendar that drifted about one day every 314 years.

Friday, October 11, 2019

Herodotus on The Pyramids // The Histories 440 BC // Ancient Greek Prima...

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Judah Marries a Canaanite

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Untouched and Unlooted 4,400-yr-old Tomb of Egyptian High Priest Discovered

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

This photograph, taken from a Royal Air Force plane in 1927, shows the site of the ancient city of Ur, Mesopotamia, in what is modern-day Iraq...

Roman Baths Used in Algeria for 2,000 Years

The Essalihine Bath, in Algeria, is an ancient Roman bath that is still in use after nearly 2,000 years.

Since this bath complex was built in the 1st century AD, nothing has changed, except for the more recent Ottoman bricks and the doors of the newly built dressing rooms.

The baths here are dated to the Flavius Dynasty, as the Latin name Aquae Flavianae suggests. The Flavius dynasty was the Roman imperial dynasty between 69 and 96 AD, during the reigns of Vespasian (69-79) and two sons Titus (79-81) and Domitian (81-96).

The Flavians rose to power during the civil war in 69, also known as the Year of the Four Emperors. The Year of the Four Emperors is named after the emperors Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, who came to the throne of the Roman Empire in 69 consecutive years.

According to the inscriptions, the complex was reused or possibly rebuilt during the Flavian dynasty in Vespasian's time in 69 AD. Another inscription shows that Septimus Severus repaired it in 208.

There are hundreds of spas or fountains in Algeria, and some of these resources have been used for thousands of years. Others saw major construction and repairs during the days of the Numidian kingdom and during the Roman times.

The circular pool in the bath complex is 8 meters in diameter and 1.45 meters in-depth, and the rectangular pool is 1.45 meters in depth and measures 13.80 × 10.05.

The water source of Essalihine Bath is very rich in minerals and this water is pure enough that it does not need any filtration. In fact, this hot spring water naturally cools down before reaching the resting basins and is the center of attention for thousands of tourists every year.

What are the weapons of righteousness in 2 Corinthians 6:7? | GotQuestions.org

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Horse Lords: A Brief History of the Scythians

Saturday, October 5, 2019

Invasions of the Sea Peoples: Egypt & The Late Bronze Age Collapse

Friday, October 4, 2019

Vatican, Pope, Napoleon, Mussolini

A prophecy was fulfilled February 20, 1798, when Napoleon’s General Berthier took Pope Pius VI prisoner upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power. To observers, it appeared the Papacy had lost its supreme power and authority which it had enjoyed for more than a thousand years. Napoleon, however, restored the Papal States in 1800.

Then in 1870, the Italian nationalist army invaded Rome and the Pope surrendered but he declared himself to be a prisoner of the Vatican and refused to leave St. Peter’s. The new Italian government took possession of the papal states leaving only a small parcel of land on Vatican Hill to the Pope. The loss of the papal states represented an economic setback for the Vatican due to lost tax revenues.

It wasn’t until the signing of the Lateran Pacts with Mussolini in 1929, that sovereignty was fully restored. In exchange for political support of Mussolini’s fascist government, the church was granted enormous power, including full sovereignty, tax exemption and establishment as Italy’s sole religion. Still, with the loss of almost all of its land, the Vatican lost a significant source of regular income. To cover its expenses and with direction from hand-picked bankers, the church began investing heavily in real estate and setting up banks throughout Italy. Money from the Lateran Pacts was also invested in insurance companies and industry, including arms and munitions manufacturing. Investments were later made in large American businesses, including IBM, General Electric, Shell, Procter & Gamble and others.4

Thursday, October 3, 2019

Vatican, Pope Pius xii

World War II: A Unique Money-Making Opportunity

March 2, 1939, Eugenio Pacelli was elected Pope. He had been the papal nuncio to Germany and had a great fondness for everything German. His family was among the Black Nobles, Roman aristocratic families that remained loyal to the Pope when the Italian nationalist army took Rome and confiscated the Pope’s kingdom in 1870. Early in his pontificate, Pope Pius XII sent Hitler a message assuring the Führer of the Vatican’s desire for good working relations with the Nazis. Shortly afterward, he directed his diplomatic representative, the Papal Nuncio to Germany, Archbishop Orsenigo, to fete (honor) Hitler on his fiftieth birthday.5

Pope Pius XII’s policy was silence in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust and the slaughter of Serbs in Croatia. Priests and bishops were actively involved in the politics and killing machinery of Croatia and Slovakia where hundreds of thousands, possibly more than a million, Jews and Orthodox Christian Serbs and others were killed. Though repeatedly implored by eyewitnesses to speak out against the brutality, the Pope remained silent. Even when the Nazis entered Italy, where 1200 Jews living in Rome were rounded up and transported along streets that lay just 250 yards (approximately 230 m) from the Vatican – virtually right under the Pope’s nose – to a military detention center, Pope Pius did nothing to stop the violence. A thousand of those Jews, mostly women, and children, were put in rail cars two days later and sent to Auschwitz.

Germany’s Ambassador reported, “The Curia is upset considering the action took place, in a manner of speaking, under the Pope’s own windows. The Vatican’s response at that time? An official thanks Hitler’s Foreign Minister for the German military’s respectful wartime behavior to the city-state,8 possibly a reference to a promise made by Ernst von Weizsacker, Germany’s ambassador, that Germany would protect the Vatican from damage.

Unbelievably, in 1942, Pius was pre-occupied with the filming of a movie he was having made about himself, Pastor Anglicus.