Posted on 10/28/2017 3:57:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many Americans rely on Social Security benefits to see them through retirement, but how much should they really be depending on those checks?
Not very much, experts said.
Social Security is not being used as it was intended, said Ric Edelman, executive chairman and co-founder of Edelman Financial Services in Fairfax, Va. and author of “The Truth about Your Future.” When Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the system in 1933, the program was designed to be a safety net for Americans — for those who had no financial support. Now, “a great many Americans are relying heavily on Social Security to maintain their lifestyle in retirement.”
More than 66 million people received Social Security and/or Supplemental Security Income in August, more than 46 million of which were Americans 65 and older. Social Security makes up a majority of cash income for 61% of elderly beneficiaries, and a third rely on this benefit for 90% or more of their income, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a governmental budget policies think tank based in Washington, D.C. The average monthly retirement benefit under the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance was $1,326, according to the Social Security Administration.
Retired workers received an average of $1,371 while spouses of retired workers received $714 and children of retired workers received $659. “Social Security is funding as last resort, and if it goes away there is no government program to serve as a fall back,” Edelman said. “This is the fall back.”
How did Americans get here?
Unfortunately, it’s a familiar story: many Americans just haven’t saved enough for retirement, either because of poor planning or an inability to put money away for their futures.
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The “Day of Trumpets” is precisely what ends Satan’s tribulation of the body of Yeshua.
That will be 84 Biblical months from the beginning of Daniel’s 70th Sabbath, which was at the new moon last September. ( which was the beginning of the 10th jubilee from the Reformation)
The Trib begins in 41 biblical months.
We are officially in “interesting times.”
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>> “Gee, I always heard: ‘No man knows the day or hour, except the FATHER.’” <<
Which is precisely the Hebrew idiom for the Day of Trumpets.
It was yeshua’s way of telling his sheep exactly what Biblical date would be his return to gather them.
Of course they already knew this because they had observed the appointed times all of their lives, and understood that they were “pictures” of the actual events.
A Pharisee/Nicolaitan you are indeed.
You spread “inherited lies wherein there is no profit.”
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Im not the one who set a date/guaranteed year !
ie: " The kingdoms of men are guaranteed to become the Kingdoms of Yehova in the fall of 2024."
See that, you guaranteed your comment!!!!!You can't even guarantee your next breath, much less fall of 2024.
You should get a job with the globbull warming crowd. Your prophecy skills are about as good as those doofus loonies!!
Sounds like a whole lota spreadn' “inherited lies wherein there is no profit.” As a great prophet once said, " you're pointing out the spinters in everyone else's eye but ignoring the plank in your own!
You're all mumbojumbo, 2X-holier-than-thou, Allahu Akbar-in-free, ever spouting bloviating ignoramus, and never coming to the truth!!
I can't help you.....you need a professional.
Yehova’s prophets delivered his plan to those willing to study and understand it.
Its gobldy gook to those such as yourself, dedicated to free guaranteed salvation without obedience.
The doctrines to which you cling are the inherited lies to which Jeremiah referred.
No one in their right mind would look to you for any “help.”
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What doctrines? You barely know my doctrines. BUT, I know your Pharisees doctrines.....you and your kind bind people up in your anti NT legalism with smugness/deceit.....go pedal your phony religious BS to weak minded fools! Paul exposed your kind!
No one in their right mind would look to you for any “help.”
Then pay your bill an go home, dip!
BUT, which Day of Trumpets?????? There's been a Day of Trumpets for every year since the first one.
It was yeshua’s way of telling his sheep exactly what Biblical date would be his return to gather them.
So, he said exactly fall of 2024?
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Are you deliberately trying to be dense?
Isaiah precisely prophesied the day that Israel would become a nation in one day, and that is one of the fixed points in time.
From that the rest is worked out through other prophesies. They all fit together like a carefully machined jigsaW puzzle.
The total expanse of time from the day time itself was created was prophesied several times in Torah, starting with the beginning of Genesis.
Yehova wants his people to know his plan; that is why he gave us his appointed times (yes, those times that “christianity mocks in its man made doctrine)
He gave us the tools we need, but few have the faith to use them.
Yeshua said with certainty and clarity that few would find his narrow path, while christianity foolishly says that the end times would be a grand revival.
The apostasy of the falling away is not a revival; it is exactly the total moral/spiritual disaster that we are witnessing today.
Scoff on; its not for the scoffers.
If you don’t want to know, its not for you to know, but it is for his elect to know.
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>> “What doctrines?” <<
Start with the big lie: Iniquity!
The insane idea that John Paul and Peter are wrong and you are right.
Matthew 7:21-23 is plain: you must keep the commandments.
You truly are a pharisee; you invent your own rules and reject Yehova’s loving Torah.
John said that if we do not walk exactly as Yeshua walked we are lost. Transgression of Torah is the definition of sin, and thje keeping thereof is righteousness.
There is no such thing as “imputed righteousness.”
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So, show us the carefully machined jigsaw parts.....fit it all together to = fall 2024!.......I already know your answer.......it's always the same from charlatans like you. Pick your preference:
Answer me, Oh great and wonderful Pharisee!
I predict your answer will confirm your exalted Pharisee position.
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Study and show yourself!
That is exactly your problem!
Study to show thy self approved...
Nobody else can do it for you.
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The KJV version of Romans 4 uses the word “imputed” twice. It simply means “credited to “ in this context.
Starting with Romans KJV 4:13......”13For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: 15Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb: 20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. 22And therefore it was IMPUTED to him for righteousness. 23Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; 24But for us also, to whom it shall be IMPUTED, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.”
So you are wrong about the KJV Bible on the notion of “imputed righteousness” or righteousness “credited to us”(as the Berean Bible states of Romans 4) through our faith and belief in Yeshua. You would be correct in citing James when he said “Faith without works is Dead!”...but only to the extent that if we use faith as a mirror but don’t repent of the sin that we see in that mirror then what use is our faith?
The problem with your “time issues” is the unknown gap of time cited in Daniel from when the “prince is cut off” to the final “70th week”. So you might be in error using the Formation of Israel as a “fixed point” with which to base your calculations. The Bible simply gives no time period as to when the 70th week starts back up though most scholars say it starts with the rise of the Son of Perdition! Now when that 70th week starts...no doubt everything proceeds like clockwork with the caveat that even the week itself may not go the full 7 years as Christ will interfere early lest “all life on the Earth be lost”. That is how violent and precarious the situation of Earth for remaining humans will be!
The insane idea that John Paul and Peter are wrong and you are right.
You're the one who's full of lies......I've never said John, Paul and Peter are wrong and I'm right. You make it up and then rant on!
Matthew 7:21-23 is plain: you must keep the commandments.
You better read this carefully because it applies to Pharisees like you:< Matthew 7:21-23 is plain: you must keep the commandments.
Matthew 7:21-23 21"Not everyone who says to me, 'LORD, LORD,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, 'LORD, LORD, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
and thje keeping thereof is righteousness. Isaiah even made it plain that to GOD our righteousness are as filthy rags.
There is no such thing as “imputed righteousness.”
And there is why: did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?' 23Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you' applies to you!!!!
2 Corinthians 5:21 - For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Philippians 3:9 - And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Isaiah 53:11 - He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Galatians 2:16 - Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 3:22 - Even the righteousness of God [which is] by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe:
Romans 1:17 - For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
1 Corinthians 1:30 - But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Romans 4:3 - For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Jeremiah 23:6 - In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Romans 4:5 - But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
YOU CAN'T HAVE A MORE CLEAR case for “imputed righteousness!”
There, I broke my own rule to clarify for you.....hope it takes......if not, your loss.
That is exactly your problem!
Study to show thy self approved...
Nobody else can do it for you. .
Perfect answer and exactly how I knew you'd answer!!!! Dodge and weave..... Dodge and weave!
You make me smile.
Exactly so.
An online service not open outside business hours
Rotflmao
So typical of government crap
Inefficient and shitservice
Man....no wonder there’s no money
Yep, NVIDIA is a nice “cryptocurrency” play (GPU “mining”)...should be strong demand for awhile. AMD would also be a decent play in that area, along with their new “Ryzen” CPU.
AMD stock is down even though their earnings are up...
I have been watching the stock as it is low price. If it falls some more I may take a risk and buy as I think it only will go up in the future.
2017 it has meandered between $11 and $14 or so.
In 2016 it went from $2.20 to Feb 2017 to $14.55 or so.
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Dodging and weaving is exactkly what you’re now doing.
You have to study, I cannot learn something for you.
The gap in knowledge that you demonstrate registers well below the milk and cookies level, and no posting on this thread can possibly fill the gap.
Clinging to the man made doctrines of “christianity” as preached by dispys places one far below foundational level.
Black out the italicised abominations in your KJV and start reading the word without the twists, and eventually the view will become clear.
Realizing that Paul did nothing but profusely praise the Galatians would be a good start.
“Let no man judge you, but the body of Christ” is what he told them.
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