12-7-18, Ohio -- Potter's Field* workers, Kenneth Bryant and Jordan Cole were driving from Montana to Pennsylvania for a pastor's conference when their truck broke down. Jordan said:

"We escaped being crushed by a semi because we heard a voice, and it was to get out of the truck - I looked and I saw a semi swerving toward us. We jumped out; God kept us safe, God kept us alive.”

Both men absolutely believe they know Who saved them and why; Kenneth said:

“We’ve come to the conclusion that it was Jesus. He allowed this to happen for me to be able to share this story...for people to know that our Heavenly Father is mindful of us. There's a purpose for your life, you do have a reason to be living and it’s God’s perfect timing.” ​More here *Potter's Field Ministry, Montana here

Examples of God's Warnings from Scripture

Deuteronomy 4:36 - "Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words..."

Isaiah 55:11 - "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it."

Matthew 2:13 Angel sent to warn Joseph to save Jesus, "Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."

John 10:27-28 - "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me."

Luke 2:11-12

12-7-18, Nebraska's Manchester Elementary School Principle Jennifer Sinclair Bans the following a list of “not acceptable” Christmas practices:

• Using images of Santas or Christmas items on worksheets.
• Trees in classrooms.
• Elf on the shelf.
• Singing carols.
• Playing Christmas music.
• Sending a scholastic book that’s also a Christmas book.
• Making ornaments as gifts.
• Reindeer.
• Christmas videos/movies and/or characters from Christmas movies.
• Candy Canes - Historically, the shape is a ‘J’ for Jesus, the red is for the His blood and the white is a symbol of His resurrection. This will also include different colored candy canes. More here

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​Virginia USA Middle School Bans
Christmas Songs Mentioning Birth of Jesus
1 John 2:18, 22, 4:3, 2 John 1:7

12-5-18, In Virginia, at Robious Middle School all Christmas carols that refer to the birth and name of Jesus Christ has been banned. Their reasoning: diversity. The school's chorus teacher said: "We had a few students who weren't comfortable singing a piece, I have done many times in the past, but it is of a sacred nature and does mention Jesus." School administration approved it saying:  "We're simply trying to "be more sensitive to the increasingly diverse population at the school."

According to LifeSiteNews, the Robious website announcements refer to the Christmas season with notoriously politically correct [and abhorrent to many] names like "Winter Concert" and "Holiday Party."

David Allen has a child at the school and told reporters: "It just seems like ... everywhere you look everyone's afraid of stepping on someone's toes or everything is so sensitive. I'm trying to rationalize how you can encourage diversity and yet be exclusionary in one specific area." He also said that Christians deserve representation as much as any other if diversity is truly the goal. 

A circulating petition from a socially-conservative group has called on the school principal, Dr. Derek Wasnock, to reverse the policy; it's garnered more than 17,000 signatures - the petition says:

"As a person who cherishes true freedom, I respectfully urge you to reinstate Christmas carols that mention the name of Jesus in your school. To remove Christ from Christmas guts the meaning of Christmas altogether."

The middle school's decision to remove all sacred Christmas carols about the birth of the Lord Jesus is just one of many decisions schools have made attempting to kick Christ out of Christmas. In 2016, a Texas school banned a Charlie Brown Christmas display because it used the word "Christ" in it. Others complain about showing any images of the Christ child because they are questioning His ethnicity; skin color, hair, eyes, etc. Apparently it matters not to them that the Lord Jesus Christ - in human form - was a Jewish man. His Jewish ethnicity is one of the least contested truths of the Holy Bible. The genealogy of Messiah Yeshua ("Jesus Christ"), reports He descended from King David, the son of Abraham (Matthew 1:1). Who were Abraham and David? Abram in Gen. 14:13 "the Hebrew." ​Yeshua is from the Tribe of Judah (Hebrews 7:14). His mother was a descendant of David (Luke 1:27, 32-34, 3:23-31). More here and here

The Red Cross bans Christmas
Christmas has been banned by the Red Cross from its 430 fund-raising shops. Staff have been ordered to take down decorations and to remove any other signs of the Christian festival... 

Canada: War on Christmas smacks of “anti-culturalism” | Vancouver Sun
Dec 19, 2017 - The “war on Christmas” is a high-conflict media story every ... North Delta high school bans Christmas displays, but not Sikh or Muslim symbols...

​Saint Nicholas of Myra was a 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lycia. The real person was famous for his generous gifts to the poor. He was very religious and from an early age devoted his life entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ. Surely he would despise the way the world has honored HIM instead of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ... The remains of Saint Nicholas are in Italy; and in 1087, the city of Bari mounted an expedition to locate his tomb. More here

Holy Bible Old Testament About the Lord's First Coming

The Savior: "Born of a Virgin" Isaiah 7:14
"Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.  Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

The Savior: "Born in Bethlehem" Micah 5:2 
"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for Me one Who is to be ruler in Israel, Whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days."

The Savior: "Rule the Nations" Psalms 72:11; Isaiah 9:6
"May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve Him! v6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting  Father, Prince of Peace." More here

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives:
 
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
 
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.1
 
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
 
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu. The Japanese government also launched an attack against:

Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, Philippine Islands, Wake Island and this morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.
 
Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday and today speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
 
As Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense; but always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
 
I believe that I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us. Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. 
 
I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire.

With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph -- so help us God." ​Source ​More here

Titus 1:2

12-6-18, Henry Morris, PhD -- There are some things that God, even in His omnipotence, cannot do as follows:

• He cannot fail in His ultimate purpose in creation.
• He cannot do wrong or be wrong, for what He does is right and what He says is true, by definition.
• God cannot lie, so whatever He has promised, He will perform.

One of His most glorious promises is that of eternal life, for this promise was made even before He made the world, including space and time. But how could anything take place before time began? The same word is used in 2 Timothy 1:9: “. . . his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.” Similarly, Romans 16:25 speaks of “the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began.”

Our very minds are locked in space and time, and therefore we cannot even conceive of anything “beyond” space or “before” time. Nevertheless, God is the Creator, and even “the worlds [that is, the ‘aeons,’ the space/times] were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3). He created time and space and all the phenomena that exist in time and space, and the fact that we cannot comprehend this simply confirms the Scriptures. “Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being his counselor hath taught him?” (Isaiah 40:13). “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it” (Psalm 139:6).

However, what we cannot understand, we simply believe, for God cannot lie [Numbers 23:19]. Even though the worlds had a beginning, and our lives each had a beginning, the world will never end, and our lives will never end, for God will never end! 

We receive, by faith, His immutable promise of everlasting life, given us in Christ Jesus, according to His own purpose and infinite grace, before the world began. Source

12-3-18, * -- Since 9/11 attacks on the USA the message we’ve been hearing is that the Islamic terrorists are a “tiny minority of extremists.” Yeah, nothing to fear they’re only a handful of “guys in a cave” or a few “lone wolves” radicalized over the internet. Oh? How tiny is that tiny minority?
 
According to a study by the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, there are 230,000 Muslim Jihadists
 
Put this tiny minority of extremists together in a city and you would have Boise, Idaho, or Richmond, Virginia, or Des Moines, Iowa. But that’s not a roster of Muslim civilians who support Islamic terrorism, just active members of terrorist groups. And so a better point of comparison is to national armies.
 
At 230,000, Sunni Islamic Jihadists outnumber the British Armed Forces (149,000), the French Armed Forces (117,000), and Germany's Bundeswehr (179,753). That should be troubling since those are some of the militaries and countries on the front lines of Europe’s reluctant fight against Islamic incursions.
 
The list of Sunni fighters has a lot of questions marks and is incomplete. Sunnis [Turkey] outnumber Shiites [Iran], but under the Iranian umbrella they have fielded sizable terror forces in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen:

• Hezbollah in Lebanon boasts between 25,000 to 65,000 Jihadists.
  
• The Houthis in Yemen, currently the beneficiaries of a massive propaganda campaign in the media, have around 25,000 to 30,000 Jihadists.
  
• Iraqi PMU’s add another 90,000 to 150,000 Jihadists to these numbers.
  
• And finally there’s Iran’s own Revolutionary Guard, a regional terror hub with another 120,000 members.

12-6-18, U.S. taxpayers pick up appx 25% of the annual United Nations budget. Yet the world body is anti-American despite our global leadership. Why the USA remains a member is a mystery to many. [In February 2018, Pres Trump signs order to reduce US contribution to UN by 40% we now pay 28% appx $2 billion annually here.]

Currently UN members rejected a U.S. proposal to condemn Iran proxy the Islamic terror group in Gaza Israel, Hamas for its serial acts of terrorism, mostly against Israel. If a majority of the UN’s members hate anyone more than the U.S., it’s Israel. The resolution was straightforward condemning Hamas for “repeatedly firing rockets into Israel and for inciting violence..."  

Most nations would agree that targeting civilians with acts of terror is a violation of international law; right? Wrong. The majority of the 192 member nations in the UN are pro Islam and anti Israel. Violence against Jews is apparently A - OKAY with them.
UN vs Israel Pro Hamas here

Matthew 7:7–8
 
12-2-18, * -- What do God’s promises in Matthew 7:7-8  mean? Do they mean that everything we ask for, when we asked for it, the way we want it, we'll get?  Hardly. It can't mean that, because it just doesn’t happen.
 
If you could make God do something, you’d be God, wouldn't you? “Everything I tell him to do, he does.” Then what does the text mean? So, not only should it not mean that everything we ask for we get, and we wouldn't want it to mean that and it doesn't. We should know that our prayers are filtered ... what's for our good. Jeremiah 29:11
 
Apparently Jesus is carefully saying, “Now, if you as a father have a son who asks him for bread, would you give him a stone?” No, you wouldn't give him a stone. If he asks for a fish or an egg, would you give him a serpent? No, you won’t give him a serpent. Matthew 7:9-10
 
However, what if the kid asks for a serpent? It’s unmistakably clear in this text that God would not give it to him. Fathers don’t give poisonous snakes to 3-year-olds. They don’t do it no matter what the kid is crying for in the pet shop. “Can I hold it? Can I hold the rattlesnake? It just makes such a cute noise. I like his teeth.” Parents have to respond, “You don’t understand; the answer is no because I love you it's not good for you.”
 
God does not give bad, hurtful gifts — and I mean ultimately hurtful. This tests our faith to the limit, doesn’t it? “I asked for healing. I asked for a job. I asked for a fixed marriage. If I wanted this, I would have asked for it. This is not what I wanted.” No matter how painful it may seem; God always answers our prayers in one of three ways:
1] yes
2] no
3] wait

Very often - LOOKING BACK - we see that the past things we prayed for and didn’t get was for our best. Thank you dear Lord! *Excerpted and adapted full original message from John Piper here 

12-3-18, Natural News -- Key to beating cancer is understanding what works for the body — and what doesn’t. Studies show that the following five foods kill cancer cells:

Green tea
A study in the journal Anticancer Research points out that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the active ingredient in green tea, could be used to treat certain types of cancer, as it was found to inhibit and suppress tumors, based on cancer stem cell models.

Ginger
A component found in ginger, has been found to perform better than chemotherapy in targeting cancer cells without harming healthy cells around it. The research, published in PLOS, has noted that 6-shogaol promotes programmed cell death (apoptosis) in cancer cells.

Turmeric
Turmeric is revered in Ayurvedic medicine for its multiple health benefits, as well as its ability to treat various diseases — mainly because of its active ingredient curcumin. In a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international study has found that curcumin can bind with certain proteins in the body to prevent cancer cells from spreading.

Grapes
The most popular member of the Vitaceae family contains compounds that can effectively treat certain types of cancer. The study, published in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, suggests that the proanthocyanidins and resveratrol in grapes can be used to colon cancer stem cells.

Blueberries
A study in Pathology and Oncology Research has found that blueberry extract can make cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation therapy. In particular, they found that while blueberries can reduce the number of cancer cells by 25 percent, combining it with radiation therapy increased its efficacy, killing nearly 70 percent of cervical cancer cells. These are just some of the foods that have been found to treat cancer cells.

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11-30-18, FOX NEWS -- While making his deliveries in Maryland, US Marine Veteran and FEDEX Driver, MIKE KING, made an unscheduled stop and it was caught on a home surveillance camera. Homeowner, Gail Cook posted the images of Mike seeing that high winds had caused her flag pole to break and blown over. The video shows Mike getting out of the truck, walking toward the fallen flag pole and pulling off the American flag; walking toward the porch, folding it and placing it in a box on her front porch. Cook wrote. “Thanks FedEx! I hope he gets the recognition he deserves, I can’t thank him enough!” See video here

Matthew 2:13–23; Hosea 11:1

12-2-18, * -- The bestselling science fiction novel of all time, Frank Herbert’s "Dune" that recounts the story of a man named Paul whose chief lesson is also his most succinct: “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.” Few in the Bible could have benefited more from that lesson than King Herod.

In the Bible's New Testament [Matthew 2:3] we learn that when Herod heard the news that the king of the Jews was born he “was troubled.”  One might translate this to say that he was afraid. His fear killed his mind; but it also killed so many more. It led him to lash out irrationally, attempting to kill the Son of God; and in his quest to do so, he killed countless innocent baby boys. [Matthew 2:16]

In contrast to Herod stands Joseph

Whereas Herod lost his wits, Joseph kept his. Even when he received a second startling visitation from an angel telling him to take his family and flee to Egypt. Joseph did not panic. Rather, he did what had to be done, gathering Mary and Jesus and escaping “during the night” [Matthew 2:14]. Like his namesake from Genesis, Joseph went to Egypt and provided safety for his family. In the process, he fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet, which foretold that God would bring His Son, like the Israelites before him, out of Egypt [Hosea 11:1; Matthew 2:15].

Until the Son’s kingdom comes in full, there'll be losses we grieve, like Rachel weeping for her children (Matthew 2:18). However, the power of God, which is made manifest in the faithfulness of those like Joseph, assures God’s final victory.

Herod’s fear drove him to oppose God’s will and inflict immense pain on others. As the Apostle John tells us, however, “perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18). Do you harbor fears that are leading you to resist God or hurt others? Pray that God would help to drive out your fears so that you might love God and others more perfectly. Source Moody Bible Institute here

Philippians 3:12; James 4:14-15, 16-17
 
12-3-18, Oswald Chambers Archives* -- How can we say, “It could never be God’s will for me to be sick”? If it was God’s will to bruise His own Son Jesus Christ (Isaiah 53:10), why shouldn't He bruise us?

What shines forth and reveals God in our lives is not our relative consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but our genuine, living relationship with Jesus Christ and our unrestrained devotion to Him whether well or sick.
 
Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection.
 
Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship with God that shows itself to be true even amid the seemingly unimportant aspects of human life. We are called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that our lives produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for ourselves. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He's getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants. Genesis 39:20-23; Daniel 1:17-19; 1 Samuel 17:17-18; Romans 9:14;  *Excerpted full original message here

12-3-18, Germany’s offer to pay rejected asylum seekers up to €1,000 ($1226) for individuals and €3,000 for families, to go home sparked condemnation and praise. But Europe’s economic powerhouse, which took in one million refugees in 2015, is by no means the first or only European country to take this approach.

​More here and here

12-3-18, Surely it's politically incorrect to say that the dangerous ticks, fleas and diseases coming into the USA are being carried across our border by foreign illegal migrants. Nonetheless true. The Asian long horned tick was first discovered on a sheep in New Jersey in August 2017 and has now been found in nine states: Virginia, West Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and Arkansas. The Washington Post reported it's the first invasive tick species to reach the U.S. in approximately 80 years.

The Center for Disease Control [CDC] said, "Where this tick exists, it's an important vector of human and animal disease agents. Studies in Asia identified ticks infected with various diseases all of the following pathogen groups circulate zoonotically in the United States: Anaplasma, Babesia, Borrelia, Ehrlichia and Rickettsia."

In 2013 seventeen people in So Korea died from a hemorrhagic fever transmitted from a virus carried by the tick. The CDC said the species is potentially capable of spreading a large number of diseases. More from Newsweek here

Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Symptoms and Treatment
www.medicinenet.com/viral_hemorrhagic_fever/...
Symptoms of fatigue, fever, weakness, dizziness and muscle aches; patients with more severe infections show bleeding under the skin, internal organs, or even from bodily orifices like the mouth, eyes, or ears.

THE ILLEGAL MIGRANT CARAVAN IN MEXICO: Carry Diseases | More here
11-28-18, American Thinker -- The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently announced the formation of a task force to investigate a new mysterious illness afflicting primarily children. The U.S. is currently seeing cases of a polio-like illness that paralyzes children, sometimes permanently. This year, 62 cases have been reported, and 386 cases since August 2014. Coincidence with resettling about 70,000 children from Central America in 2014 there were 70 cases of polio-like paralysis and a thousand severe respiratory illnesses from the “mystery virus” enterovirus D68...

11-21-18, Greg Gutfeld, Fox News [excerpt] - Trump won't punish Saudi Arabia over killing of Khashoggi; media freakout is occurring. Which happens whenever Trump tells the blunt truth about a policy we were OK with before him.

So now media is up in arms about Saudi Arabia. After decades of human rights abuses, terror-enabling -- THIS is what gets your goat?

According to Ben Rhodes, in 2009, when Obama went to Riyadh, the Saudi king gave each staffer a pile of jewels. And the first couple £100,000 worth of baubles which were accepted, were sent to the national archives. Even back then we knew Saudi Arabia was different; but they were allies - and allies can suck.

So maybe the boss's [Saudi King] son [Prince] had Khashoggi offed. Or maybe not. Which is it? Think hard. It's a card game. If you say the prince is guilty, you're committing poker suicide by folding, while holding all the best cards. Sure, playing your moral ace might please the media; but winning their approval wins America nothing. It just wastes a great opportunity.

If you've spent your life playing this game, keeping your cards close and waiting, you know: America has the Saudis over a barrel. Millions of barrels, really. And in negotiations, that means you can get something big from them, that you couldn't get before. Like what? Middle East progress? A chance for peace in Palestine and Israel? The ability to influence oil prices? Who knows? For sure it'll be more than a pile of dumb jewels. Source Fox News here

11-20-18, President Trump's statement on the death of Jamal Khashoggi, an old Muslim Brotherhood friend of Osama bin Laden, was fairly nuanced, but it put our national interests and the fight against Iran front and center. He makes the case that Saudi investments and the fight against Iran matters more than the media's Khashoggimania.That's obviously not very satisfying for the media, which backs Iran and the Brotherhood over the Saudis.The media however loathes America and rejects our national interests, economic or military.
Trump not only shrugged at Khashoggimania, but he rejected the left's hysterical push to help Iran win in Yemen. Trump's agenda is beating Iran. The media's agenda is helping Iran beat America. He said:
"As President of the United States I intend to ensure that, in a very dangerous world, America is pursuing its national interests and vigorously contesting countries that wish to do us harm. Very simply it is called America First!”  Source here and more here

11-30-18, President Trump, "I think China wants to make a deal". G20 powers descended on Argentina for two days of talks, dominated by US President Donald Trump's efforts to realign world trade. The leaders of the Group of 20 Summit, consisting of 19 countries and the European Union, unanimously agreed to fix the world trading system at the end of the conference, however, only 19 members agreed to back the Paris Climate Change pact; the United States President Donald Trump stands firm against it refusing to sign.

Putin enthusiastically high-fived the Saudi crown prince at the G20 summit
12-1-18, MSN News· Russia's Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman both in Argentina to attend the G20 Summit regardless of unpleasant talk against them. World leaders have widely condemned the crown prince and Saudi Arabia over the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey. Riyadh has long sought to distance the crown prince from the incident. Putin, however, has refused to publicly condemn the crown prince over the killing. And after Russian ships reportedly opened fire on and seized three Ukrainian vessels near Crimea, many European leaders have taken it as an act of Russian aggression suggesting Putin shouldn't attend the G20. However, he did and Pres Trump met with him... more here