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JESUS' TWELVE CHOSEN APOSTLES . FORMAT NOTE for each Apostle: 4 portraits, 2 statues, 2 windows S I M O N called PETER 1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby PETER PAUL RUBENS, 1611 "St Peter" 2 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby GUERCINO "Saint Peter Crying" 3 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby EL GRECO, 1593 "The Penitent Saint Peter" 4 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby PAOLO EMILIO BESENZI "Saint Peter" 5 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Source 6 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby Karel van Poucke "Saint Peter" 7 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Source 8 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Source A N D R E W Simon Peter's brother 9 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Image Sourceby PETER PAUL RUBENS, 1611...

The outgoing spy agency chief reveals Israel was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and its top scientist. The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgement yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear programme and a military scientist. The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative programme Uvda in a segment aired on Thursday night, offered an extraordinary debriefing by the head of the typically secretive agency in what appears to be the final days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule. It also gave a clear warning to...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared himself and President Joe Biden to wartime leaders Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Speaking shortly after the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the commemoration of which was once again heavily disrupted by coronavirus restrictions, Prime Minister Johnson suggested that his meeting with the U.S. Democrat at the G7 summit in Cornwall is not unlike Churchill and Roosevelt meeting in 1941 to agree the Atlantic Charter.

As the Marxists march for complete control over the American people Kevin McCarthy diddles. After daily attacks on President Trump and his voters, Anti-Trumper Rep. Liz Cheney was finally ousted from her position as the third most powerful Republican in the US House of Representatives on May 12th. It took GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy over SIX MONTHS since the election to remove this loudmouth Never-Trumper from her role in the House Republican Caucus. That’s just weak. Now a new poll finds that Kevin McCarthy’s weakness is catching up with him. Pollster Richard Baris released the results on The War Room...

On 7 June, 2021, the Attorney General signed a “proposed rule” about the regulation of arm braces for pistols. The ATF has put the “proposed rule” on its website.The “proposed rule” can be seen as a trial balloon. It has no legal authority, as it has not been officially published in the Federal Register. Once officially published, the public can make comments for 90 days once the proposed rule has been published.Significantly, the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, signed this trial balloon, and not the acting head of the ATF.The proposed rule is 71 pages of details only a bureaucrat would...

Letters from a D.C. Jail The rule of law for anyone involved in the events of January 6 has been flipped on its head by the U.S. justice system; defendants are presumed guilty before proven innocent.This week, five Republican senators sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding his office’s handling of January 6 protesters. The letter revealed the senators are aware that several Capitol defendants charged with mostly nonviolent crimes are being held in solitary confinement conditions in a D.C. jail used exclusively to house Capitol detainees.Joe Biden’s Justice Department routinely requests—and partisan Beltway federal judges routinely approve—pre-trial...

Donald Trump was so effective at being president the deep state literally had to steal his reelection to get him out of office. They couldn’t afford to have some political first-timer, an outsider, come in and upset their sweet, back-scratching, self-enriching set-up that took a century to install. No. Trump had to go, come hell or high water, and if it took destroying our electoral system in the process, so be it. The RINO faction of the GOP was involved in ‘Operation Dump Trump’ as well, don’t think for a moment they weren’t. They were being self-enriched and empowered by...

Graphene can be used for ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD), with up to a tenfold jump compared to current technologies, researchers at the Cambridge Graphene Centre have shown. The study, published in Nature Communications, was carried out in collaboration with teams at the University of Exeter, India, Switzerland, Singapore, and the US. HDDs first appeared in the 1950s, but their use as storage devices in personal computers only took off from the mid-1980s. They have become ever smaller in size, and denser in terms of the number of stored bytes. While solid state drives are popular for mobile devices,...

Parents need not fear investigation for letting kids engage in normal behaviors. The state of Texas just passed a law (HB 567) that protects a child's right to "reasonable independence." This means children will be allowed to engage in normal childhood activities, like walking to school, sitting unattended in a car for short periods of time, or staying home alone, without their parents being accused of neglect and possibly getting investigated by the authorities. Texas is the third state to pass such a law, after Utah and Oklahoma. Independent play advocates are thrilled because Texas has a population of 29.1...

The Missouri congressman says, "It shows a weakness of our leadership team with Harris and Biden." Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) criticized the leadership of the Biden administration, saying that other countries have "got to look at us and say, 'Well, you've got a bunch of clowns in charge of your country right now.'" "It shows a weakness of our leadership team with Harris and Biden," Luetkemeyer said on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast. "I think she's sitting there like a teenager, sort of laughing and chuckling and trying to hope that 'you don't ask me a really tough question and...

Carbon tax, 15% VAT, wealth tax, privilege tax — Democrats want all of this and more VIDEO AT LINK.............................

As recently reported by Human Events News, a battalion commander by the name of Andrew Rhodes is on a mission to infect the army with woke fever. Rhodes, commander of the 1-8 Infantry – “Fighting Eagles,” ran a private, “woke,” left-wing Twitter account under the name “Dru.” Rhodes tweeted repeatedly that he supported military leaders using social media. He promptly deleted his account once Human Events began reading it. Rhodes tweeted that he does not support the UCMJ, a major violation for any military official. He also tweeted his opposition to teaching Army Values, because in his view, the Army...

In March, Joe Biden announced that Kamala Harris was going "to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle" to stem illegal "migration to our southern border". Why? According to Biden, "she’s the most qualified person to do it." This confused everyone including the White House, Kamala Harris, and even the media which spent the next few months clarifying exactly what her job was and how she was going to do it. Anonymous officials told CNN that afterward, "Harris' aides appeared to 'panic'". At their joint press conference, Kamala Harris dubiously claimed that "we can chew gum and walk...

When churches are desecrated, when believers are humiliated, when WaPo came after a local D.C. priest for tending his flock during lockdowns, politicians lick their fingers, put them in the air, and keep quiet.If you’ve been trapped in an airport, incarcerated abroad, or in some other way been forced to watch CNN over the past few years you may have heard that America is suffering from a surge of “hate crimes.”A lot of these hate crimes are fake: Nooses that turn out to be garage pulls, bleach attacks that were staged, graffiti that turned out to have been left by...

“And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king” (Daniel 1:21). People of integrity are people of significant spiritual influence. When King Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel as one of his personal servants, it was just the beginning of a ministry that would last for seventy years. Daniel 2:48 records that soon afterward “the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.” At Daniel’s request, the king also appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego to positions of authority, thereby...

Democrats often like to talk about getting corporate money out of politics. Several candidates have even made it part of their campaign platform. Why then, is there such an uproar from the Left regarding state-level election integrity efforts that ban outsider money in local election administration? In a confusing shift, progressives cheer as corporations criticize or leave states like Georgia for cracking down on attempts to manipulate voters. Honestly, of all the headaches, disruptions, and inquiries after Election Day (more like Election Week 2020), the discovery of the Facebook CEO’s funding of local elections is one of the most alarming....

“Now Saul was afraid of David, because the Lord was with him, but had departed from Saul” (1 Samuel 18:12, NKJV). Satan envies and fears most those who have been with God in prayer and are determined to stand up and fight in faith. Satan fears even a small army of those who are girded up in faith for a fight. He cowers before those who are up on their feet and ready to resist. Because he fears you, his design is to neutralize your fighting spirit. The devil does this by trying to flood your mind with defeating, distracting,...

Number 1 item in the Friday Bizzarro news roundup:I don’t know who wrote this but it definitely wins this week’s headline contest: Jeffrey Toobin holds his own in on-air return to CNN."I hope to be a better person off camera as well as on camera," Toobin told anchor Alisyn Camerota in one of the more bizarre segments CNN has broadcast in recent memory.Yeah, good luck with that you sad sack.Which leads one to wonder: is there anything a liberal weenie can get permanently fired for? Honestly, even Toobin’s “explanatory” mea coupa interview, conducted so professionally by Alisyn, would have been...

Michelle Goldberg complains in the pages of The New York Times about how it is the left wing that is currently a victim of cancel culture—thanks to the right, which is trying to destroy “critical race theory.” Sounding alarm at the global counter-movement, she writes that Critical race theory, the intellectual tradition undergirding concepts like white privilege and microaggressions, is often blamed for fomenting what critics call cancel culture. And so, around America and even overseas, people who don’t like cancel culture are on an ironic quest to cancel the promotion of critical race theory in public forums.What are some...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Cell phone video, text messages and photos are just some of the evidence in a murder case against two teens. Police say the parents of Sierra Halseth, 16, and Aaron Guerrero, 18, told them they couldn’t see each other anymore. The teens planned on running away together to California, and then Sierra’s father ended up murdered. Video evidence shows the teens talking about a murder. “Welcome back to our YouTube channel … Day 3 after murdering somebody …,” Guerrero says into the camera in a cell phone video. The I-Team reviewed dozens of photos considered as...