Tag: Empire
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The Demagogues of Democracy in an Idol-led Empire
Labor Day in 2023 of the Common Era What is more common in this Common Era of a 2024 Presidential election than demagogues landing like locusts on our popular propaganda screens like ants at a Labor Day picnic? Demagogue: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to…
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Crucifixion! – The Spirit of Grace
Now Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written: “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.” John 19:19 NASB More Mockeries of the Son of Man on the Cross of Sacrifice Even today mockery of Jesus Christ is as common as rejection of the Lord God. In CRUCIFIXION!…
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1st century Rome – an awkward embrace of RELIGION & politics
Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death” John 18:31 NKJV As a reminder from our study of John 18, the Messiah Jesus was seized by officials of the Temple in…
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Looking Back – Nations in the eyes of the LORD
“So nation was destroyed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every adversity. – 2 Chronicles 15:6 NKJV History from an eternal perspective We have begun this year of our Lord, 2018, in consideration of eternal time. Time beyond years and measurement shows a perspective of man peering beyond the beginning…
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A Temporary Throne – 22
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. – Genesis 6:5 KJV CHAPTER 22 THE LORD confused the men who would make a name for themselves. Their babble was unintelligible to me (but I have never…