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Psalm 103 New Living Translation
1 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name.
2 Let all that I am praise the Lord;
may I never forget the good things he does for me.
3 He forgives all my sins
and heals all my diseases.
4 He redeems me from death
and crowns me with love and tender mercies.
5 He fills my life with good things.
My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!
6 The Lord gives righteousness
and justice to all who are treated unfairly.
7 He revealed his character to Moses
and his deeds to the people of Israel.
8 The Lord is compassionate and merciful,
slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.
9 He will not constantly accuse us,
nor remain angry forever.
10 He does not punish us for all our sins;
he does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve.
11 For his unfailing love toward those who fear him
is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
12 He has removed our sins as far from us
as the east is from the west.
13 The Lord is like a father to his children,
tender and compassionate to those who fear him.
14 For he knows how weak we are;
he remembers we are only dust.
15 Our days on earth are like grass;
like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
16 The wind blows, and we are gone—
as though we had never been here.
17 But the love of the Lord remains forever
with those who fear him.
His salvation extends to the children’s children
18 of those who are faithful to his covenant,
of those who obey his commandments!
19 The Lord has made the heavens his throne;
from there he rules over everything.
20 Praise the Lord, you angels,
you mighty ones who carry out his plans,
listening for each of his commands.
21 Yes, praise the Lord, you armies of angels
who serve him and do his will!
22 Praise the Lord, everything he has created,
everything in all his kingdom.
Let all that I am praise the Lord.
Following is 'follow up' to a paper entitled "From the Desk of..."
I was just watching Fox and one of the show hosts began a segment with, “Where is the justice for the children?”
Well, I am simply a follower of Jesus and surely not qualified to answer such deep theological questions, but I do know that the Lord God who made the heavens and the earth is a very compassionate and merciful God.
And at first hearing of the incident those were my thoughts as well. Nevertheless, I know that God created man in a way that was completely “Just,” for all of mankind. There is not going to be any ‘single’ individual who will be cheated by the system of “Salvation” in which God instituted to deal justly with man’s rebellion.
“No,” each one of us will have had the choice to have believed in a Savior as God had planned and which will justify and distinguish between those who will go to heaven and those who will go to eternal damnation.
As concerning the children, however, I believe that all children who have not reached the “Age of Reason,” will surely go directly to heaven.
As for justice?
Perhaps, those children who were slaughtered in such a way will receive an even greater reward for what they suffered?
I don’t know, God has not revealed that to the church. Nonetheless, there are few “theologians,” who would argue the point with me that these children are not in heaven.
But this is also why one of God’s main themes throughout the Bible is that “The just will live by Faith.”
What that means is that despite all that looks unfair on Earth you must “Hold Fast,” and to still believe in the goodness and the mercy of God.
You see, there are some people who are going to go to hell because they will never believe the words that are coming out of my mouth as I preach the “truths” of life. Perhaps, if God had established a way for man to greedily enrich themselves above their fellas, we might have a whole lot more going to heaven?
But God established a way in which any man or woman can receive ‘Eternal Life’ by simply believing something so incredibly and unbelievably preposterous that even the simplest man could achieve it, so long as he “put down his PRIDE,” to do it.
Nevertheless, at last count I believe that the believers have fallen short of the wise and prudent of this world in numbers?
Is that a little strange or unjust, I wonder?
Or is it just the way that God has set up his "Mercy" which He offers to every man so freely?
Psalm 136 New Living Translation
1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good!
His faithful love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods.
His faithful love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords.
His faithful love endures forever.
4 Give thanks to him who alone does mighty miracles.
His faithful love endures forever.
5 Give thanks to him who made the heavens so skillfully.
His faithful love endures forever.
6 Give thanks to him who placed the earth among the waters.
His faithful love endures forever.
7 Give thanks to him who made the heavenly lights—
His faithful love endures forever.
8 the sun to rule the day,
His faithful love endures forever.
9 and the moon and stars to rule the night.
His faithful love endures forever.
10 Give thanks to him who killed the firstborn of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
11 He brought Israel out of Egypt.
His faithful love endures forever.
12 He acted with a strong hand and powerful arm.
His faithful love endures forever.
13 Give thanks to him who parted the Red Sea.
His faithful love endures forever.
14 He led Israel safely through,
His faithful love endures forever.
15 but he hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea.
His faithful love endures forever.
16 Give thanks to him who led his people through the wilderness.
His faithful love endures forever.
17 Give thanks to him who struck down mighty kings.
His faithful love endures forever.
18 He killed powerful kings—
His faithful love endures forever.
19 Sihon king of the Amorites,
His faithful love endures forever.
20 and Og king of Bashan.
His faithful love endures forever.
21 God gave the land of these kings as an inheritance—
His faithful love endures forever.
22 a special possession to his servant Israel.
His faithful love endures forever.
23 He remembered us in our weakness.
His faithful love endures forever.
24 He saved us from our enemies.
His faithful love endures forever.
25 He gives food to every living thing.
His faithful love endures forever.
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven.
His faithful love endures forever.
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AI Overview
"As Tears Go By"—written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and manager Andrew Loog Oldham—is a melancholy reflection on the fast passage of time, the loss of youth, and quiet isolation. The narrator sits watching children play, realizing they no longer share that carefree innocence, left only to watch the days slip away.
Yesterday, I got back from the grocer and turned on my Fox App on the computer. Well, Hannity was wrapping up a story concerning this mother who had slain her children.
Well, the last guest I believe having read my opinion on the possibility of the mother being possessed by an evil spirit, and then in another paper stating that whatever the cause, I had no doubts that the children were in heaven had seemed a little perturbed.
He stated “No matter the situation it bothered him immensely that the children will not have any justice for the time that was robbed from them in terms of living on Earth.”
Well, I could appreciate that. Then today I watched the various individuals who were interviewed respond and many were professional doctors and psychiatrists, nonetheless, I was listening as intently as anyone else.
You see, I can’t say positively that this woman was possessed by a demon and she had nothing to do with the killings directly. Nevertheless, when I hear opposing theories, I am as those who question all of the facts. I don’t know if the defense is purposely trying to deflect from a cold-blooded intent of killing or if she was directly possessed by a demon who was the ‘being’ inside of her slashing away at the children.
Nonetheless, in all of the suppositions raised that I have heard is that they still question as if she were in her right mind.
Well, that was not what I was suggesting when I first printed the possibility of having become possessed. For example one person ask a doctor whether she could have been in her right mind after killing the first child and then going forth to kill the other two. And so what I am suggesting is that all of those are moot questions when compared to what I was suggesting as a defense.
What, I was suggesting was that perhaps the woman had become possessed by a being and her state of mind had nothing to do with the actual slashing. Furthermore, I suggested that because of all of the medications which were prescribed and taken maybe they had tranquilized her or zombie-ized her into becoming a simple slave to a man’s voice inside her body?
I believe that they mentioned also that she had lacked sleep, as well, for long periods. Well that can weaken your stabilization, as well. I have gone on a few occasions where I have ingested a sleeping pill and having lacked proper sleep for a few days have awakened in my kitchen hunting or eating something that my conscious mind could not remember as having made a decision snack on. Therefore my point being is that medications can cause you to do strange things by weakening your self will to control the functions of your body.
But I don’t know. What I do know is that “possession’ is a very real thing and that to dismiss it as being some old wives’ tale would be as similar to take any other part of the Bible and to say, “We don’t believe those stories therefore it all must be ‘Old wives’ tales.”
No, I am sorry, but the Bible for ‘scholars’ who have proved it out for fifty years, such as myself is as real as this computer which I am tapping its keys. And I have never come to any reading, chapter, or verse which I did not have complete ‘Fatih’ to believe that it was all true.
Lastly, I would like to emphasize another fact that this individual had last night. I am in no way condemning him or anyone else who questions my suggested theory as I don’t know or can say for sure that it happened as I suggest.
Nonetheless, “Demon Possession” is a real thing when those demons leave that spiritual realm and trespass into our physical realm.
Well, this gentleman suggested that he was upset concerning these children who were robbed of their days on Earth.
Well, could I offer a few scriptures to perhaps put some people’s mind to rest.
This man was speaking from a human perspective, not from a “mind of Christ,” perspective. Let me use some scriptures to further explain.
The Bible talks about human wisdom as compared to Godly Wisdom and calls it foolishness.
1 Corinthians 3:19 New Living Translation
19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say,
“He traps the wise
in the snare of their own cleverness.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 New Living Translation
8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways
and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
I ask AI a question:
How many scriptures emphasize in the bible just how fleeting our time on earth is to be as compared to eternity.
The answer as given by Google AI:
The Bible includes dozens of specific scriptures—with lists compiled by top theological sites containing anywhere from 45 to over 70 verses—that directly emphasize just how fleeting our time on earth is compared to eternity.
Scripture constantly uses natural word pictures to explain this contrast. It shows that human life is tiny, fragile, and quick, while eternity has no end.
The Imagery of Earthly Brevity
To show how small a human lifespan is, the Bible compares our time on earth to everyday things that disappear in seconds:
Direct Comparisons: Time vs. Eternity
The Bible directly pits our few decades of physical life against the endless nature of God and the afterlife.
Topic
Earthly Lifespan,
Eternal Reality,
Duration
70 or 80 years (Psalm 90:10)
Endless, forever (1 John 2:17)
Troubles & Joys
Light and momentary (2 Corinthians 4:17)
An eternal weight of glory (2 Corinthians 4:17)
Physical World
What is seen is temporary (2 Corinthians 4:18)
What is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18)
Material Wealth
Destroyed by moths and rust (Matthew 6:19)
Treasures in heaven that last (Matthew 6:20)
Why the Bible Emphasizes This
The writers of the Bible did not point out the short nature of life just to make people sad. They did it to teach two major lessons:
1. To Gain Wisdom
In Psalm 90:12, Moses prays, "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Knowing that time is short helps people stop wasting it on things that do not matter.
2. To Shift Your Focus
Because the world is passing away, the New Testament tells believers to change their priorities. Colossians 3:2 urges people to set their minds on things above, not on earthly things. This means investing in love, faith, and serving God, which outlast the physical world.
But do you see what I am getting at?
You see, man thinks of our time on Earth as eighty years or 700,800 hours.
I mean, wouldn’t you think that as a long time?
Well, God doesn’t because “his ways are higher than ours, and even ‘his thoughts’ are higher than ours.”
So, how does God measure time?
2 Peter 3:8 New Living Translation
8 But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
Following from Google AI:
AI Overview
Five years of earth life would equal 432 seconds(7 minutes and 12 seconds) of God's time, based on the ratio where one divine day (86,400 seconds) equals 1,000 earth years.
The Math Steps
So, what I am suggesting is that when God looks down on Earth at the tragic events which happened surrounding this woman’s three children in his “Thoughts,” the oldest child had only been on Earth for 432 seconds.
Nevertheless, if the mother is innocent 5-year-old daughter, Cora Clancy will spend eternity with her mother and recall the good times when she spent those five years with a sane individual, but more importantly she will be with Jesus Christ.
Following from GoogleAI:
AI Overview
Depending on how you interpret the question, one million human years is either 24,000 God-hours or 8.76 billion human hours.
Interpretation 1: In God's Hours
If a 24-hour day for God equals 1,000 human years: 1 God-day = 1,000 human years.
1,000,000 years = 1,000 God-days.
If you want the number of standard Earth hours in one million years:
If you want to explore biblical timelines further, tell me if you are looking at a specific prophetic text, calculating a creation timeline, or studying theological time concepts.
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Are you still ‘tracking with me?
If you are could I tell you of even a worse tragedy than of those murders committed on Earth?
It is this:
There have been billions of individuals born on this Earth who have lived the whole eighty years or their seven hundred thousand and eight hundred hours in which God had given them to spend here on Earth. Nevertheless, probably at least ninety-five per cent of them have ever done anything for their fellow man other than to accumulate wealth for themselves in order to ‘tip,’ the unfortunate a ten per cent fee, so long as the service had been good.
Then when they die, they take nothing with them and spend eternity in hell.
Not, however, because they were never warned, but because they refused to believe it…
But this is the reason why God gives man 80 years. It is because he is a compassionate and merciful God. Nonetheless, to our God our lifetimes are not eighty long years, but would be 6912 seconds. That means that if God sets his alarm for a couple of minutes to look in on you again, you will already be tasting dirt?
AI Overview
An 80-year Earth life would last exactly 6,912 seconds (or 1 hour, 55 minutes, and 12 seconds) in God's time.
This calculation is based on the biblical concept found in Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, which states that to the Lord, "one day is as a thousand years."
Matthew 7:13-14 New Living Translation
13 “You can enter God’s Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14 But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.
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Just a thought!
Earlier today I was reminded of a scripture from the Holy Spirit. He had brought this to my remembrance as Jesus promised his disciples upon receiving him.
John 14:26 New Living Translation
26 But when the Father sends the Advocate as my representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.
But it is the passages where the apostle Paul talks about the Christians struggle with sin and why we should overcome it.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the part which tells the believer to have “the Medical field,” prescribe you over thirty psychiatric medications, so you can take like thirteen really serious ones, once you establish the fact that you have “SIN,” living and actively working within your body?
Perhaps, I am getting a little old because before I never had trouble finding important and pertinent scriptures?
Romans 7:11-25
New Living Translation
11 Sin took advantage of those commands and deceived me; it used the commands to kill me. 12 But still, the law itself is holy, and its commands are holy and right and good.
13 But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my death? Of course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation to death. So we can see how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commands for its own evil purposes.
14 So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. 17 So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
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