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We stil have people to put in prison.

And, ideally, on death row.

You’re a Doctor??

No, this person is a bought-and-paid for liar and shill.

I am glad these “scientists” are getting some of what they deserve.

Indeed, Hotez and his ilk should be grateful that "harassment" and "threats" are all to which they've been subjected. What they deserve is far worse.

Russia is not our enemy...our govt is our enemy...

Yes, this exactly. Anyone who doesn't understand this simple reality at this point is a fool who's NGMI.

If people like Maxine Waters are truly “concerned for [their] safety,” I see that as a good thing, actually.

Anyone who trusts “public health officials” is a complete and utter fool who deserves whatever fate befalls him.

I gather that the Chang'e-6 probe has both an orbiter and a lander. So, presumably, the orbiter transmits recorded data (i.e., uploaded from the lander) back to Earth when in the course of its orbit it has established line-of-sight, as it were.

Trump needs to purge these Tinkerbells as soon as he's back in office.

No, the entire FBI needs to be abolished. A handful of goofy gay agents is the least of the country's concern at this point.

I definitely reject what you’ve shown as Dual Covenant. Jews that reject their Messiah are cut off (Romans 11).

I believe God’s dealings with the unbelieving Jewish people now, and during the coming tribulation period, are a fulfillment to what Jesus said in Matthew 23…”you won’t see me again until you say ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’”

As the Prophet Zechariah also prophesied…

Zechariah 12: 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Yes, well, here is where I would indeed part ways with your eschatological outlook. My reference to the "dual covenant" -- which I, of course, reject; God has only ever had one people -- comes from what Dispensationalist adherents like Darby and Larkin and Scofield believed. That's simply a fact of history, as can be evidenced by what they themselves wrote. Thereafter, through the course of the 20th century, Dispensationalists largely shed most of the trappings of their own aberrant (indeed, heretical) theology, until the only part of the Dispensationalist dog that is now left is its eschatological tail.

Along the way, those who continued to embrace Dispensationalist End Times thinking tweaked their eschatological outlook by retrofitting it with various proof-texts (including the ones you've cited here), changes intended to establish that, "oh, no, Jews aren't saved apart from the Cross; we're not saying anything that. Rather, at the end of, or at some point during, the (mythical) Great Tribulation, those Jews who have managed to survive said Great Tribulation, will all come to faith, corporately, in Jesus. So, see? No heresy here!"

Okay, except that I think that this Rube Goldberg retrofit is wholly without basis in Scripture itself. I wouldn't myself divide with a brother or sister in Christ over this matter, its not being an essential of the faith and its being of secondary or tertiary importance at best. But I do reject Dispensational eschatology as being errant nonsense, propagated most fervently in recent times by Bible "teachers" whose "ministry" in this regard is more in the nature of a grift or a racket. To sell books or to drive a particular latter day geo-political agenda. I mean, you haven't lived until you've heard -- as I did this past October -- a former Hindu woman who moved to Israel, married an Israeli, and converted to Judaism, explain in a Twitter/X video how Christians must read Romans 11:26, or else risk falling into the error of "Replacement Theology." So, get out there and support the modern nation-state of Israel, and the Likud Party, no matter what. Yeah, no.

I won't otherwise argue the finer points of the matter with you, as I'm confident in my own position and am willing to rest on "we must agree to disagree." I would point out, however, that while I'm well familiar with the Dispensationalist invocation of Zechariah 12:10 as a key proof-text of this supposed End Times mass conversion, as it were, of the Jews corporately, I've always found it curious that the apostle Paul, writing in Romans 11:26, that "all Israel will be saved" -- another, of course, of the Dispensationalists' proof-texts -- does not at that point reference the aforementioned Zechariah 12:10. And this, even though, as he continues in verse 26, he specifically adds "as it is written. . . ." Rather, Paul cites, and stiches together, two other snippets from Isaiah . . . while quoting the LXX version of the same at an interesting point. Cf. "The Deliver will come from Zion" (LXX) with "A Redeemer will come to Zion." (MT)

I would have imagined that, if Zechariah 12:10 is indeed the Old Testament passage that speaks to this End Times mass conversion that Dispensationalists foresee for the Jews, the apostle Paul would have cited it right then and there. But he does not. He never cites Zechariah 12:10 in any of his epistles. Did he not know his Old Testament as well as the crooked American lawyer, C.I. Scofield? Very curious.

Agreed! Can you explain what you mean by Dual Covenant?

That's just the label I apply to the false teaching (promoted by Darby and popularized by Scofield, etc.) that there are "two peoples of God" -- i.e., (1) Israelites/Jews, to whom the Old Covenant continues to apply even after the Cross, and thus who are reconciled to God under the Old Covenant; and (2) Gentiles, who are reconciled to God by the finished work of Christ on the Cross.

So we Gentiles are grafted into Believing Israel and believing Judah and get to partake of this “New Covenant”?

Yes. That's how I read the Apostle Paul. In Romans 9-11, and, of course, Galatians 3:

"Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, In you shall all the nations be blessed.' So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith."

-- Galatians 3:7-9. I'm not sure how Paul could have put it any clearer. Nevertheless, over the many decades, starting early in the 19th century, the "dual covenant" proponents have gone out of their way, it seems to me, to miss the point.

The essay he references: Meredith G. Kline, The Covenant of the Seventieth Week.

Well worth reading.

Yes, all of Kline's work is worth consideration.

Among other things, Kline is one of the few biblical scholars who picked up on the fact that the "battle of Armageddon" (as described in Revelation 16 and 19) and the "Gog/Magog" confrontation (as described in Revelation 20) are clearly the same event. This, of course, has implications to those who hold to either "historical premillennialism" or "dispensational premillennialism."

Question: Who did God make the New Covenant with in Jeremiah 31?

Simple:

"Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

-- Jeremiah 31:31-33.

By specifically referencing the "house of Judah and the house of Israel," the prophet means to identify the entirety of the Israelite nation that was formed under the old Sinaitic Covenant -- i.e., all 12 tribes (well, 13, really, when you include Levi). But, of course, at the time of the prophet Jeremiah's communicating this message from Yahweh/God, the 10 northern tribes no longer existed. Having been carried into exile by the Assyrians in the 8th century B.C., they were to be dispersed throughout the Gentile nations, among whom they eventually intermarried and lost their character as "pure" Israelites under the Sinaitic Covenant.

Flash forward to the Last Supper:

"And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, 'This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, 'This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.'"

-- Luke 22:19-20.

The New Covenant announced by the prophet Jeremiah was promised by Yahweh/God to the totality of the Israelite nation . . . even though, at the time of Jeremiah's announcement, the northern portion of that nation no longer existed. This New Covenant was inaugurated by Jesus of Nazareth at the Last Supper. The regathering of all the tribes of Israel, including those descendants of the northern kingdom that was dispersed among the Gentile nations, began at Pentecost:

"Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, 'Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.” And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

-- Acts 2:5-12.

In sum, the New Covenant is between Yahweh/God and the whole nation of Israel. Those who partake of this New Covenant are those Israelites who are in Christ.

This is pretty much New Testament 101 stuff.

This is long overdue.

Exactly right. Good news, indeed.

Imagine trying to understand scripture, Old and New Testament, the way the biblical writers intended it to be understood, instead of how the deranged cult leader John Nelson Darby; or the crooked lawyer, C.I. Scofield; or the whackadoodle date-setting false prophet Hal Lindsey argued that it must be read.

Dispensationalist eschatology has its roots in the cancerous heresy of "dual covenant" theology.

Thos poor cadets. What did they do to deserve that.

Well, if this experience causes at least some of them to rethink their career choice going forward, some good will have come of it.

I posted to those with technical abilities

One can appreciate how difficult it must be for you, to have lived as long as you have, without anyone recognizing your true genius.

You gotta wonder who is behind the trans push.

I don't wonder all that much. I start by looking to see who's making money off of it. All those surgeries aren't being done on a pro bono basis. And nobody's just giving away those hormone supplements.

Satan may be the "but for" cause of it, but for the "proximate cause," one need look no further than today's medical industry.

Stars and Bars ought to do it

Of course. But the "Federalist" would never touch that with a 10-foot pole. They inhabit the "socially acceptable" neighborhood on the Right. If/when push comes to shove, they would invariably side against those who support individual liberty and who would reject "the State."

In other words, the "Federalist" is ultimately as much an "enemy of the People" as the "communists" it wishes to "trigger." That's what they're into: "triggering" the Left for clicks and monetary support. The "Federalist" and its ilk would never actually fight for "the People." Never, ever.

Start worrying about what the REPUBLICANS Plan B is, because it is the Republicans who have been all in on preventing and then ruining a Trump presidency since 2015, and nothing about that has changed.

Exactly right. The true threat to Trump in November is GOP, Inc.

As likely as not, all of this "what will the Dems do?!?" nonsense is intentional, misdirecting propaganda.

Not far enough. Not until we find out just how extensive a role DoD and the IC have had in this whole fiasco.

And that's not going to happen, and it's Rand Paul's job at this point to ensure that it doesn't happen. Or, to put it another way, Paul is there to "keep a distance between the U.S. military and intelligence community and anything unseemly."

Here's where we are, as far as I'm concerned: if professing "conservatives" do not understand that they are in far more danger, actual danger, from their own government than they are from China, or Russia, or Iran, or any other external bugaboo that always gets trotted out, like clockwork, whenever people begin to notice, then they're NGMI.

It's very late.