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PILATE HAS JESUS FLOGGED . JOHN 19 New International Version ©1984, emphases added Abrdgd: the complete text is in your Bible . Resources to CLICK: To read JOHN 19 in full To hear MAX McLEAN reading it To hear a DRAMATIZATION of it To see an ANIMATION of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John Harmony of the Gospels 30 A.D. Bible Timeline JOHN 19:1-3 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and...

North Korea appears to have restarted the operation of its main nuclear reactor used to produce weapons fuels, the U.N. atomic agency said, as the North openly threatens to enlarge its nuclear arsenal amid long-dormant nuclear diplomacy with the United States. The annual report by the International Atomic Energy Agency refers to a 5-megawatt reactor at the North’s main nuclear complex in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang. The reactor produces plutonium, one of the two key ingredients used to build nuclear weapons along with highly enriched uranium.

Source: InstagramOn August 26, 2021, a terrorist struck military and civilian targets in Kabul, Afghanistan. Instant notifications of this horrific terrorist attack went out through social media with news that a massive explosion went off. The families of those thousands deployed waited to hear the news if their loved one was hurt, or even worse, killed. Thirteen families' lives were changed that day. Thirteen service members were killed, thirteen Gold Stars borne from their deaths. What does the Gold Star represent? So many outside the families and friends do not know. A Gold Star banner or flag is flown by...

President Joe Biden has come under fire for apparently glancing at his watch during a solemn ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the 13 US troops killed in the terror attack near the Kabul airport. Biden and first lady Jill Biden were at the airport for a “dignified transfer” movement, a somber military ritual of receiving the bodies of fallen service members who died in foreign combat. During the event, he placed his right hand to his chest as the flag-draped coffins were carried off the Air Force C-17 Globemaster plane. But at one point, the commander-in-chief...

Biden appears to be in a hurry at Dover Biden appears to check his watch during the dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base. pic.twitter.com/oMsBefnmfS — Benny (@bennyjohnson) August 29, 2021 I’m sorry. Are we inconveniencing you? pic.twitter.com/LcNAcF9gLE — Eric Matheny 🎙 (@EricMMatheny) August 29, 2021

The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case have been fixed even as new revelations of misconduct come to light. __________________________________________________________________________________ The FBI, already under fire for its handling of FISA warrants and confidential informants, is enduring more scrutiny as the Justice Department admits agents failed to disclose to a court that they had paid — to the tune of six figures — a white supremacist publisher for years to be an investigative source. The admission came in...

On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some forecasters said Hurricane Ida would be as intense as last year’s Laura and the Last Island Hurricane of 1856. Both were among the strongest storms on record to make landfall in Louisana. According to CNN, about half a million people were without power in the region. On Saturday, state and federal officials worked to get evacuation orders signed and emergency declarations in order. Sporting events and casinos were closed or postponed for the weekend. Mississippi schools were announced closed for Monday. The situation is already serious and there is no need for...

Anyone who has been to college will recognize that course number. Freshman courses start at 100, and the numbers get larger as you progress. Numbers below 100 mean that you need to make up for what you didn’t learn in high school. A lot of Americans simply can’t get to the starting blocks. They know they don’t trust the government and they don’t trust the media, but then they watch PMSNBC and take the CDC at its word. It’s clear that their cognitive isn’t connected, so they can’t even develop cognitive dissonance. Their brains are off and their transmission is...

All over the United States, elected officials are acting like petty tyrants and abusing the citizens they serve. The Palm Beach County School board is one of the worst. Last week, PBCSD chair Frank Barbieri had parent Everett Cooper forcibly removed from a public meeting and arrested for the horrific crime of standing in the back of the room. “My name is Everett Cooper. I am being arrested for standing in the back of the room,” he pronounced as police took him away.

Pray For the Peace of JerusalemPsalm 150 1 Praise the Lord.[a]Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. 2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, 5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. 6 Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.Footnotes a Psalm 150:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 6New...

Merely existing on a college campus these days can feel like you're walking through a minefield while blindfolded and juggling nine sticks of unstable dynamite. You just never know if you're going to offend someone by blinking in a culturally appropriative fashion. Thankfully, one school has done the hard work of identifying many things that students simply must avoid saying at all costs: A newly expanded list of language to avoid using at one ultra-woke college now warns against joking about obsessive-compulsive disorder — unless you've actually been diagnosed with it. More than a dozen words and phrases have been...

Once known for it’s rugged individualism, the former penal colony of Australia is now closer to tyranny than we are. Some are having none of it:Truck drivers are reportedly planning to 'block every highway entering into every state' It began today:Australian truck drivers have blocked a major highway in the north-eastern state of Queensland in a protest against vaccine mandates and tough border restrictions, causing traffic to back up for several kilometers. I don’t know how it will turn out for our brothers of another mother, so all I can do is wish them well and pass along Walt Whitman’s...

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After largely burying any serious look into the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic for four months when he assumed office in January, President Biden finally gave into to strong public pressure in late May and ordered a 90-day review by the intelligence community into that critical question. This week, Biden’s team completed that top-to-bottom review of the available intelligence, and, as so many predicted from the outset, it drew no conclusion on where the deadly virus came from -- whether it was engineered as part of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bioweapons research in a lab in Wuhan, China, or spread...

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I recently heard a sermon that gave me deep concern. It was on 1 Peter 4:12–13, a text that predicts serious suffering for Christian believers. Peter, who was crucified upside down by the “civil” authorities of Rome, wrote: “Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.” Peter was writing to Christians under persecution for not worshiping the Roman emperor, who...

We all know a smartypants who has been saying from the start of the pandemic that the left was going to use the pandemic to take away other rights. If you know someone who wears those intelligent trousers, you owe them a drink. Because CDC Director Rochelle Walensky came out and said "something has to be done" about gun violence. Immediately after posting this blog, I'm going to Venmo my editor Courtney money to get herself a pumpkin spiced latte. Though she may be busy buying more guns. CNN just posted a clip of Walensky being interviewed for some gun-grabbing...

Finally, Ukraine is on the front pages of the Western press - and this is not about the sediments of power, corruption or some other loop. But, about the heroism of our military. Ukrainian special forces organized the evacuation of Afghan translators who worked with Canadians. 19 Afghan citizens (translators and their families) are already safe. The Canadian government was ready to accept and accommodate them, but only if they could reach Kabul airport. And no one was ready to go out into the city for them. They asked the U.S., Canadian, Qatari military - everyone was afraid to go...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, Aug. 29. Reports from across the river state that all was quiet to-day along our lines. Our pickets were not disturbed. Gen. SCOTT expressed the opinion to-day that the rebels must make an attack upon our lines, and that, too, at an early day. Gen. MCCLELLAN is ready to receive them. THOS. L. MCELRATH, of New-York, has been appointed a Lieutenant of the Marines. A member of the Government to-day received a letter from a Union man in Kentucky, which gives some interesting views relative to the condition of the rebel troops at Manassas. The information comes from...

In recent days, Twitter permanently banned independent journalist Alex Berenson, Google demonetized The Gateway Pundit from its ad network, and Chase Bank canceled the credit cards of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Read more..