A Father’s Influence

For many decades, psychologists and researches have been fixated on the mother-child bond, deeming it the most significant influence on a child’s life. Much focus was on this particular relationship and the outcome of the child.
In the recent decade, there has been greater recognition of just how much dads influence a child’s wellbeing and outcome. A large-scale analysis of research has been gathered to understand the power of parental rejection and the acceptance in shaping personalities as children and into our adult lives.

Luke 12:32

​5-28-21, Archives of Henry Morris, PhD -- ​The world tends to measure success by size, and this seems generally true in the Christian world as well. The most “successful” churches are considered to be those with the largest congregations, or the largest budgets, or the greatest number of converts baptized each year, or some other quantitative index. But this is not God’s criterion. At the judgment seat of Christ, “the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is” (1 Corinthians 3:13). Not how big it is, but of what sort it is! Quality, not quantity, is the criterion.

Christ’s encouraging words to the “little flock” were given toward the end of an extended warning against the desire to accumulate wealth. “Take heed, and beware of covetousness,” He had said (Luke 12:15), speaking to His small group of followers. He was their Shepherd and would provide the needs of His “little flock.”

Christ’s warnings against individual covetousness evidently apply also to group covetousness. A church, or any other Christian organization, needs continually to guard against the desire to be impressive in the eyes of the world. The cities of Christendom exhibit many ornate cathedrals and temples that are now mostly empty and spiritually dead [in some places taken over by Islam].

The Lord Jesus promised an “open door” to the little church at Philadelphia because it had “little strength” and had “kept [His] word” (Revelation 3:8), but threatened to “spue...out of [His] mouth” the tepid church at Laodicea, which was boasting that it was “rich, and increased with goods” (Revelation 3:16-17).

Not every “little flock” has kept God’s Word, nor has every big flock become lukewarm, but Christ’s words serve as both warning and encouragement. The greater blessings of the coming kingdom have been promised to the faithful “little flock.” Source

​Forensic analysis: More than 790,000 votes were “laundered” giving Joe the Electoral Votes ...
Evidence shows that ole Joe won the election by a mere 74 Electoral College votes with 790,175 votes being tampered with in some way. Had they not have been, Joe clearly would have lost. Five states are being investigated that gave him the necessary Electoral Votes. More here from NPR

​Breaking news from Arizona...
4-25-21, WorthyPolitics -- The Arizona forensic audit continued at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in downtown Phoenix. Nine cameras are watching the audit process ... here: azaudit.org/

6-19-21, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia preparing ...

 ​New Federal Holiday for Black People 'Juneteeth'
6-17-21, Forbes -- Before 'Juneteenth', federal employees received pay for 10 federal holidays, 13 sick days and 20 vacation days per year on average. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com estimate these benefits cost taxpayers $22.6 billion annually. Each paid federal holiday costs $818 million.
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In 1845, when Congress established a national election day, it had to be a Tuesday because farmers went to church on Sunday, market on Wednesday & may need Monday, to travel to their polling place. 

​November was chosen as the month for similar reasons: It was after fall harvest was over but before the cold winter weather set in.​

The U.S. House Democrats passed H.R.1, The People Act, that compels states to:

• count mail-in votes that arrive up to ten days after Election Day.
• allow ballot harvesting.
• ban voter ID laws.
• allow bureaucrats to redraw congressional districts.
• allow felons to vote.
• undermine free-speech 
• make election day a paid federal holiday with a $4 billion cost over ten years

H.R.1  amounts to an integrity - corroding, banana-republic attempt to override the will of states. , [The Senate has yet to vote on it and doesn't expect to pass it.] More from Huffington Post here

1 Thessalonians 5:2,4; Zechariah 14:9; Isaiah 13:6; Joel 2:1, 11

6-19-17, Chuck Steele [Excerpted*] --  The phrase “day of the Lord” usually identifies events that take place at the end of history. One key to understanding these phrases is to note that they always identify a span of time during which God personally intervenes in history, directly or indirectly, to accomplish some specific aspect of His plan. To better understand God’s timing regarding certain events which are about to take place the following verses enlighten us:

• Matthew 24:21 Jesus Himself said: “For then shall there be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
• Isaiah 7:23, 13:6,9 – "In that day every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. v6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. v9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
• Ezekiel 30:3 – For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
• Joel 1:15 – Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
• Amos 5:18 – Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.
• Obadiah 1:15 – For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

There's unmistakable clarity as to who the ‘day of the Lord’ is intended. Its purpose is to ‘destroy sinners’ and it's ‘the time of the heathen.’ The day of the Lord will be accompanied by God's wrath and fierce anger. That leaves out all born again believers who have repented of our sins asking Jesus to be our Lord and Savior. We have been cleansed and have received the gift of eternal life with Him.
 
Since we understand that the Rapture (or the “catching away of the believers”) is what ushers in the terrible ‘day of the Lord,’  it’s time to make our preparations for its coming. If you don't know the Messiah Jesus Christ ... earnestly pray for forgiveness turning your life over to Him. You will be born again. “Jesus said, marvel not that I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3,7

​Revelation 16:15  “Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”
 
Matthew 24:43  But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
 
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies[a] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace ​ with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:1
 
Excerpted & adapted full original message here:
www.raptureready.com/2017/06/16/understanding-the-day-of-the-lord
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Footage Shows Biden Reaching for His 'Flashcards' ..
6-16-21, WesternJournal -- Russia President Vladimir Putin said, "Thank you for the initiative to meet. I know you’ve been on a long journey and have a lot of work. Still the U.S. and Russia and U.S. relations have a lot of issues accumulated that require the highest-level meeting, and I hope that our meeting will be productive.”As the pair sat down before reporters and with top aides, a video showed Biden reaching over to a table where he had what appeared to be prepared notes for the short Q&A alongside the Russian leader. Video

People Laugh As Biden Gets Pulled Away By The Hand Like a Child...
6-13-21, NationalFile -- Ole Joe Biden’s humiliation tour for America continued in Cornwall, UK as he doddered his way thru the G7 summit. Further embarrassment when Joe's wife is recorded taking her husband's hand like a small child and leading him away when reporters attempt to ask him questions.  

Biden gaffes at the G7 summit
6-14-21, Blaze -- Biden confused Libya for Syria on two more occasions in his meandering diatribe. WATCH: Joe Biden confusing Syria with Libya THREE times at the G7 Summit... See video here: www.gop.com/httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvzzt9dfxdlao/

​G7 nations to provide 1 billion Covid-19
6-13-21, RT.com -- The G7 members are:

1. United States
2. United Kingdom,
3. Canada,
4. France,
5. Germany,
6. Italy
7. Japan,
8. and also includes representatives of the European Union.

This year, the leaders of Australia, India, South Korea, and South Africa were also invited as guests.

CLIMATE CRISIS!
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The G7 leaders pledged to reduce their emissions and improve climate finance, saying in the communique:
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“We commit to … halving our collective emissions over the two decades to 2030, increasing and improving climate finance to 2025 and to conserve or protect at least 30 percent of our land and oceans by 2030.”

Many offending nations are not involved in the pledge. Like China. 

G7 nations reach deal on global tax reform
6-5-21, CNBC -- G-7 nations reform the global tax system, to make it fit for the global digital age. In the European Union various member states charge different corporate tax rates and can attract big-name firms by doing so. Ireland’s tax rate, for example, is 12.5%, while France’s can be as high as 31%. The new rate is 15%.  [..] The U.S., under Trump, vehemently opposed digital tax initiatives in different nations & threatened to impose trade tariffs against nations that would plan on taxing U.S. tech companies.

Supposedly Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice. Mainly targeting and condemning the WHITE RACE ... 
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Critical Race Theory an attack on white males
6-14-21, Critical Race Theory is Marxist-rooted propaganda designed to divide the USA and turn Blacks against Whites and make white students feel guilty about alleged white superiority and alleged systemic racism. There is plenty of blame to be shared by all. To move forward, in a positive direction, we need to stop the blame game and teach that we must look at the heart of a person, not their skin tone.

Four star general Lloyd Austin III is the first black Defense Secretary in American history, and also the most radical – even though most black Americans are patriots and not radical.

No institution in America – from government offices to schoolrooms to corporate boardrooms and beyond – is safe today from the poisonous racism of Critical Race Theory and the “1619 Project” which posit that United States history is rooted in slavery and white supremacy, and that “whiteness” is an incurable disease.

The institution whose subversion poses the greatest threat to our national security is the military, now overseen by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a determined advocate of these repulsive anti-American views. More from FrontPage here

 6-13-21, Jewish Library -- Naftali Bennett [49] is a former software entrepreneur and the new Prime Minister of the Jewish state of Israel. He is Israel’s wealthiest politician.

Under the coalition agreement, Bennett will serve two years before passing the torch to Yair Lapid for the latter half of the four-year-term. Together they helped bring together a diverse government body, including a party representing Arab citizens for the first time in the nation's history.
 
Bennett is the first religious prime minister and first born of American parents who immigrated to Israel from San Francisco California USA soon after the Six Day War in 1967. He is the youngest of three sons. Like Netanyahu, he is fluent in English; is married to Gilat and they have four children.
 
He served in the Israel Defense Forces in the elite Special Forces commando unit Sayeret Matkal as well as the Special Forces unit Maglan. After his service he earned a law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1999, he co-founded and co-owned the U.S. company Cyota focused on preventing various types of online fraud. The company was sold in 2005 for $145. Million. ​ Bennett also served as CEO of Soluto, an Israeli cloud computing service, reportedly sold in 2013 for $100–130 million.

From 2006 to 2008, Bennett served as Benjamin Netanyahu's Chief of Staff. In 2010, he was chosen to be the Director General of the Yesha Council and worked against a settlement freeze. In December 2018, he was among the Jewish Home MKs to leave the party and form the breakaway New Right Party. Netanyahu pressured Bennett to form a union with the far right parties to increase the chance they would exceed the electoral threshold in the election for the 23rd Knesset in March 2020. However, Bennett ran a joint slate … The United Right as they were also called. In the 2021 election, Bennett’s Yamina Party won seven seats and he was viewed as the kingmaker; his natural allies are on the right.

Black man, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born into slavery and rose to become a leading American intellectual of the 19 century. His work in educating the freed slave helped give access to new hope for thousands. In 1881 he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University) and 20 years later the National Negro Business League. He is remembered as the most influential African American speaker of his time and he supported segregation.
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In 1991 Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be invited to the White House; President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dine with him. Roosevelt saw Washington as a brilliant advisor on racial matters. And President William Howard Taft was the second president to also seek his council. Washington, a famed public speaker known for his sense of humor also authored many books: “The Story of My Life" (1900) and “Up From Slavery” (1901)...
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6-11-21, Cape Cod, MA, USA -- Lobster Diver, Michael Packard reports:

“I was completely inside; it was completely black,” Packard said. “I thought to myself, ‘there’s no way I’m getting out of here. I’m done, I’m dead.’ All I could think of was my boys — they’re 12 and 15 years old.” Outfitted with scuba gear, he struggled and the whale began shaking its head so that Packard could tell he didn’t like it. He estimated he was in the whale for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale finally surfaced."

Packard’s sister, Cynthia Packard, spoke with crewman Josiah Mayo, who relayed some of the details to her. Packard said Mayo saw the whale burst to the surface, and that he initially thought it was a great white shark.
“There was all this action at the top of the water,” Packard said Mayo told her. Then the whale flung her brother back into the sea. Mayo picked him up, called by radio to shore and sped back to the Provincetown pier. A Provincetown Fire Department ambulance took him to Cape Cod Hospital.
“Thank God, it wasn’t a white shark. He sees them all the time out there,” said Cynthia Packard. “He must have thought he was done.”

"Based on what was described, this would have to be a mistake and an accident on the part of the humpback," said Jooke Robbins, director of Humpback Whale Studies at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown. Humpbacks are not aggressive animals, particularly toward humans, she said.

The humpback was described by Mayo as being medium-sized, Michael Packard said, and Robbins suspects it was a juvenile feeding on sand lance. When a humpback opens its mouth to feed, it billows out like a parachute, blocking the animal’s forward vision, which is why so many become entangled in fishing gear in their mouth and jaws, said Robbins. Incidents of feeding humpbacks injuring swimmers and divers, especially instances of swallowing them, are so exceedingly rare as to be nonexistent, Robbins said. The esophagus on nontoothed whales is too small to actually swallow a human but they couldwrap their mouth around a large object and then spit it out. Robbins said that, unlike toothed whales such as Orcas.

More information here:
https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/​