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CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #3 of 33 GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR MARY L U K E CHAPTER 1 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you...

Built to rival the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the great mosque in Damascus has always been claimed by rival faiths Sometime in the mid 1990s, I was standing in the marble courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus when two nuns asked me where they could find the head of John the Baptist. I pointed them towards the grand transept facade, gleaming with green and gold mosaics evoking a fertile paradise. Beyond lay the shrine to John or Yahya ibn Zakariyya, as he is known in Arabic, one of the few shared sites of Muslim-Christian pilgrimage. In 2001,...

The purification of the temple and city. Other exploits of Judas. His victory over Timotheus. 1 But Machabeus, and they that were with him, by the protection of the Lord, recovered the temple and the city again. 2 But he threw down the altars, which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols. 3 And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition. 4 And when they had...

The wretched end, and fruitless repentance of king Antiochus. 1 At that time Antiochus returned with dishonour out of Persia. 2 For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple, and to oppress the city: but the multitude running together to arms, put them to flight: and so it fell out that Antiochus being put to flight returned with disgrace. 3 Now when he was come about Ecbatana, he received the news of what had happened to Nicanor and Timotheus. 4 And swelling with anger he thought to revenge upon the Jews the injury...

Judas Machabeus gathering an army gains divers victories. 1 But Judas Machabeus, and they that were with him, went privately into the towns: and calling together their kinsmen and friends, and taking unto them such as continued in the Jews' religion, they assembled six thousand men. 2 And they called upon the Lord that he would look upon his people that was trodden down by all, and would have pity on the temple, that was defiled by the wicked: 3 That he would have pity also upon the city that was destroyed, that was ready to be made even with...

CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #2 of 33 GABRIEL'S AMAZING NEWS FOR ZECHARIAH L U K E CHAPTER 1 In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah; his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron. Both of them were upright in the sight of God, observing all the Lord’s commandments and regulations blamelessly. But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren; and they were both well along in years. Once when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he...

CHRISTMAS BIBLE-ART EPISODE #1 of 33 JESUS' VERY INTERESTING GENEALOGY MATTHEW 1 & LUKE 3 Derived from LUKE, Chapter 3: Adam by MICHELANGELO "The Creation of Adam" Seth "Patriarch Seth" Enosh by ROBERT BARRETT "Enosh Praying" Methuselah "Methuselah" Noah by JAMES EDWIN MCCONNELL "Noah's Ark" Shem by JAMES TISSOT "Shem, Ham and Japheth" Quoted from MATTHEW, Chapter 1: A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, by WEYLON SMITH "Abraham and Stars" Isaac the father of Jacob, "Abraham & Isaac" Jacob the father of Judah...

[Catholic Caucus] A Guadalupano Wins the Palm of VictoryAbove: Cristero Warriors with Our Lady of Guadalupe.The Son of God became man for our salvation, but only in Mary and through Mary. – Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673-1716).“Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!” cried Miguel Gomez Loza, the final words of the Cristero leader before fatally shot in the back.In death, just as he had in life, Miguel honored Our Lady, when the last thought on his mind, the last name on his lips was that of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Empress of the Americas, the Patroness of Latin America,...

My topic this year is “anti-Christendom.” But what does that even mean? Christendom as a concept is considered by many to be something of the past…Ever since the time of the Reformation and the shattering of the beautiful Catholic unity that had pre-existed, with an objective moral standard that was shared by all of Europe, the concept of Christendom has been in retreat… In these three examples alone, we see the philosophical (postmodernism), the intellectual (the sexual revolution) and the practical (libertarian capitalism) assault themselves on the historic territory of Christendom. The forces of anti-Christendom are therefore aping the historic...

[Catholic Caucus] Whither the Mass of Vatican II?Sixty years ago today Pope Paul VI offered Mass in St Peter’s Square before presiding over the ceremonies formally closing the Second Vatican Council. “The Mass was not the kind of solemn pre-conciliar ceremony once sung by the Pope and the Julian choir,” one observer remarked, “but a simple sung Mass to which the entire assembly responded.” “It was a reminder of another fruit of the Council, its Constitution on the liturgical renewal” (Council Daybook, III, p. 284).For December 1965, such an assertion seems quite reasonable. The verbal participation in the Gregorian chant...

[Catholic Caucus] Vatican II ended 60 years ago today - "The Smoke of Satan has entered the Temple of God - Doubt has entered through windows meant to be open to light - We believed it would be sunny: instead, darkness and clouds."The Second Vatican Council ended 60 years ago today, on December 7, 1965 (the official end came on the next day, with the publication of several documents and messages, but December 7th was the last day of official business). You may read the still optimistic closing address by Paul VI here.Seven years later, we can see through Paul...

Today (December 7th) marks the 84th year anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor naval base. How sad that this date - which would live in infamy - has been nearly forgotten by today's American population, and especially our youth. Tragically, it has been the successful revision of our American history by the Left and the evils of it that have made us weak and vulnerable to a present-day "Pearl Harbor" of EXPONENTIAL proportions (Rev. 6). It was under the deception of peace and negotiations that Japan struck without warning. To set the stage for 1941, tensions were high between...

Fatima and the Simple Explanation of the Crisis in the Catholic ChurchIt is very simple: we are facing the spiritual disorientation foretold by Our Lady of Fatima because “Vatican II demolished piece by piece the scaffolding constructed by our Lord, and what remained standing [was] bulldozed during the subsequent pontificates.” By rejecting the warnings of the pre-Vatican II popes, John XXIII and the Council’s architects brought about the “suicide of altering the Faith” foretold by Pius XII.A few years before his election to the papacy, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pius XII) sounded a grave warning based on his understanding...

The Christmas tree tradition emerged from the “sacred trees” of Northern European mythology such as Yggdrasil, the giant ash tree at the center of the Norse cosmos that holds all the worlds in its roots and branches. It is said that St. Boniface came upon one such sacred tree during his mission to the Germanic tribes in 723. Upon finding devotees preparing to sacrifice a child to Thor at the “Thunder Oak,” Boniface intervened and miraculously chopped down the tree with one swift swing. He used its wood to build a Christian chapel, and in the spot where the oak...

Brussels officials are investigating after the infant Jesus figure in the city’s newly installed nativity scene was found beheaded overnight, according to a report circulated by Radio Genoa early Monday. Police have not released details on possible suspects, and the city has not yet confirmed when the damage occurred. The incident took place at the Grand-Place, where the redesigned display—made of recycled fabric and featuring faceless, patchwork figures—was unveiled last week as part of the city’s Christmas program, reports the European Conservative. The nativity, titled Fabrics of the Nativity, was meant to introduce what organizers called an “inclusive mix of...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell Medieval Christian maps showing the twelve tribes of Israel featured clear boundary lines centuries before most other maps depicted political borders These religious maps, created to illustrate spiritual inheritance, inadvertently became the model that Renaissance cartographers followed when drawing territorial boundaries on secular maps By the 1600s, the visual language of bordered territories had become so normalized that English scholars began interpreting biblical texts as describing precisely surveyed nation-states, even though those passages originally made different points The relationship...

Theologically speaking, scholars generally regard the book of Hebrews to be second in importance only to Paul’s letter to the Romans in the New Testament. No other book so eloquently defines Christ as high priest of Christianity, superior to the Aaronic priesthood, and the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets. This book presents Christ as the Author and Perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). However, both the authorship and audience are in question. VIDEO AT LINK................... The title “To the Hebrews,” which appears in the earliest known copy of the epistle, is not a part of the original manuscript....

Most Believers I speak to today firmly believe we are in the Last Days. Many have become almost obsessed with trying to interpret and unravel the Bible’s mysterious End-Time prophecies, and keep a keen eye on politics and world events—especially those that involve Israel or the Middle East. The news is scrupulously analyzed by many watching for specific prophetic signs: a ten nation confederacy, the Antichrist’s emergence and identity, the mark of the beast, the rebuilding of the Third Temple, the Bear of the North—Russia, and the cataclysmic rise of catastrophes and natural disasters. Although these signs are indeed found...

2:32 Video Amazing. In the Last Days there will be a great awakening of the Jewish people.......................................

Well folks, this is both incredible and stunning and also terrifying. The scope and scale is almost hard to fathom. And honestly? Yeah, it looks amazing! I have to admit, it looks wonderful, like a place I’d actually love to visit (if it wasn’t in the Middle East). Drop this thing into Texas and I think it would be a blast! So…why do I say it’s terrifying? Because it plays right into End Times from Revelation. The thing is a near perfect counterfeit of the “New Jerusalem” described in Revelation. I’ll explain more on that in a minute. First, take...