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Thanks John,
DB,
I will just excuse myself. The only comments that worth reading anymore are Dr. D, oxy, Phoenix and the rare TBear. It think the light switch and you seek is found here.
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. (2 Peter 5:7)
Definite psyop vibe today.
Wagner "I'm the new Girkin" GREY ZONE channel responds to the L/DPR request to hold an urgent referendum to join Russia, saying the leadership of the "LPR" does not want to take responsibility for the inability to hold it as a result of an upcoming liberation by Ukrainian forces. pic.twitter.com/K0uPSj2ozl
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1571956058200969217?s=20&t=lYg0rnPaDNQBsrXcIHuy9w
Oof looks like the new guideline arrived to Russian TV, which is to tell "truths", that HIMARS are good, NATO is strong, and so on. pic.twitter.com/Yj58a9C6AZ
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 19, 2022
The first 200 days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as mapped by @criticalthreats and @TheStudyofWar.
Ukrainian forces have liberated more than 60,000 square kilometers of territory since April. pic.twitter.com/UNTHihw5UL
— Brady Africk (@bradyafr) September 18, 2022
“[..] The domestic audience, too, appears to be shedding its illusions of Russia’s greatness, no matter what one might say about the efficiency of Putin’s propaganda. His media mouthpieces Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan no longer own the narrative. Even on state television, not to mention nationalist Telegram channels with hundreds of thousands of readers, Russia’s defeats are engendering much bitterness and hurt. The hard-core propagandists look lost, sometimes downright bizarre, with Simonyan retreating into sentimental memories and poetry” (Pinched from a recent Leonid Bershidsky opinion piece)
It seems being minority, like Ukrainian is Nazi. If you speak Ukrainian, it proves your Nazism. If you criticise policies of Moscow, you are 100% Nazi. If you resist its territorial expansion, no further proof is necessary – Nazi without any doubt
Even by the standards of Russian fascists, she's a particularly nutty and nasty piece of work. The looks on the faces of the other guys are revealing, like that uncomfortable moment at the dinner table when your craziest aunt decides to spool off. https://t.co/sdIhkFqQ3p
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 18, 2022
[..] Simonyan called on the Russian people to push forward until the bitter end, squeezing out “nerus,” a disparaging term, used to describe anyone who is not Russian, along with “vyrus,” the word used to describe those who are Russian, but refuse to self-identify as such.
[..] Concluding her bizarre performance on Solovyov’s show, Simonyan said: “People ask when, where and how our special operation will end. It will end when all the ‘nerus,’ all the ‘vyrus,’ everyone who wants to turn us into yahoos, everyone who directs them, everyone who brainwashes them, will suffer infamy and shame. It may take 3 months, 3 years or 30 years, so be it. What other choice do we have?” Solovyov replied: “Our other choice? Reduce the whole world to dust. Just not yet.” Smiling, Simonyan replied, “And we will go to heaven.”
Meanwhile in Russia, more of the usual: nuclear threats against Germany and Britain, cautioning NATO against going into Ukraine. This directly clashes with their lies, constantly spewed by state TV, that Russia is already at war with NATO & "uniformed NATO troops" are in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/ioMgbrzhbF
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 19, 2022
Baza reports that >8 prison transport trucks are transporting 400 prisoners in Tambov to a training area in southern Russia (possibly Wagner’s base in Molkino) likely before going to Ukraine. They say 10-12 prison trucks were seen in Belgorod last night. https://t.co/Cv3fMZcwEH pic.twitter.com/d7QBuN6YZ1
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) September 16, 2022
We took a closer look at the video in which a man, who strongly resembles a Putin associate, Yevgeny Prigozhin, promises inmates release from prison in return for a six-month combat tour in Russia's war against Ukraine: https://t.co/ICFIQ8WTVi pic.twitter.com/CUEXZSjsrN
— Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) September 16, 2022
“Let me sweeten the pill” (3:57 mark). The aid bridges are up the end of September. Lend/lease begins 10/1. Wonder if that one hit Lloyd Austin’s twitter feed?
All over Russian state TV, propagandists have been painstakingly painting the picture that Russian troops retreated after battling NATO—not Ukraine. One pundit made fun of the transparent plot to make Russia's defeats seem less humiliating, angering the Kremlin's mouthpieces. pic.twitter.com/6gEh6hpiey
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 16, 2022
Dr. D,
RAND document. I remember the fluff up early on regarding Poland getting their MIGs to the Ukraine. So if NATO countries are still using MIGs is there a separate or overlapping supply chain that feeds the Russian war machine too? They need to be maintained somehow. There were some articles recently highlighting links to German manufacturing/tech.
This was an interesting take too.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570499462447112194.html
Bankers an war profiteering. What is that saying?
“the time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”
I read farmland in Iowa goes for $14K/acre. In Ukraine it is now $15/acre.
I guess that could be taken literally.
Dilemmas on both sides. This one keeps popping up. Russia committed ??% of its battalion groups by April. 5k to 80k (you choose) have been eliminated.
On his Telegram channel, Kadyrov was calling for self mobilization. Such a plan could bring 85k troops to the battle.
Kadyrov is calling for leaders of Russia's regions to "self-mobilise" and train 1,000 volunteers each.
A sign of the second greatest army in the world!https://t.co/e6MLqBNQRm pic.twitter.com/XI4bbkoPCo
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 15, 2022
But hey, you got to fill the gap with something.
Girkin is not happy again, this about he doesn't enjoy the Wagner practice of recruiting convicts (although generally not against it). The man must be fun at parties!https://t.co/C6WAcJ01tz pic.twitter.com/le7ZUnm66E
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 15, 2022
Here is Soloyvov lamenting on the manpower issue.
Russian state TV's Vladimir Solovyov says his country should form an international coalition for its war in Ukraine including Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Nicaragua pic.twitter.com/mK5cssItKV
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 15, 2022
In Russia, general mobilization would require businesses to pay the soldiers salaries.
Russia isn’t even using its main fighting force yet or its up to date equipment.
This is getting nuttier by the day.
Ramzan “Don” Kadyrov releases a new uplifting message, saying Russians are not retreating, it’s all their cunning tactics to lure Ukrainian. Says he would declare martial law but it’s not up to him to decide.
Ramzan "Don" Kadyrov releases a new uplifting message, saying Russians are not retreating, it's all their cunning tactics to lure Ukrainian. Says he would declare martial law but it's not up to him to decide.https://t.co/QMHzkcabLy pic.twitter.com/jSHH7UlpaK
— Dmitri (@wartranslated) September 14, 2022
Watch Putin loyalist on Russian state TV concede that Russia should acknowledge its recent defeats in Ukraine. He also proposed a radical solution of "the Ukrainian question": recognizing that Ukrainian people really do exist. More in my latest article: ⤵️https://t.co/Io3SKofbsV pic.twitter.com/n3VPBLVoyu
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 13, 2022
BielieskoV estimates Russia has sent 200,000 to 250,000 total troops to Ukraine. The US estimated last month that 70,000 to 8o,000 of that force had been killed or wounded since the beginning of the invasion on February 24. Moscow’s troops, deployed along a front line 1,300km long, are stretched too thin. By contrast, Ukraine now claims total arnmed forces of 1 million.
Gennady Zyuganov, the head of Russia’s Communist party, calls for “total mobilization” and a declaration of war against Ukraine.
“You can end a special military operation, but not a war – it ends in victory or defeat. We’re at war and we have no right to lose it.” https://t.co/i2wX4BWhQ5
— max seddon (@maxseddon) September 13, 2022
Last night Sergei Mikheyev urged Russia's military bloggers to stop exaggerating the scale of the Kharkiv Reg withdrawal
But moments later he was lamenting that Moscow's military restructuring (begun in 2008) had failed because its authors had "watched too many Hollywood films" pic.twitter.com/XupCeurR5q
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 13, 2022
https://mobile.twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1569651935166496768
What is happening now is the battle in Eastern Ukraine is really almost over, all the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off, you have a concentration down in the Southeast of 30 to 40,000 of them, and if they don’t surrender in next 24 hours, I suspect the Russians will ultimately annihilate them. COL. DOUG MACGREGOR 2/27/2022
Tucker Carlson’s top Russia-Ukraine war expert Douglas MacGregor, on Friday night: “This entire war may be over” soon, “right now things are going very, very badly” for the Ukrainians and they’re “desperate,” “they’re losing once again just south of Kharkiv.” 9/12/2022.
With all respect to Col. MacGregor’s military record, his assessments of this conflict have been factually incorrect almost since Day 1.
Incredible if true.
Ukrainian and Western Intelligence is reporting that Russian Military Command has not recently deployed any additional Battalion Tactical Groups into Ukraine and seems to have suspended all further Combat Deployments into the Country. pic.twitter.com/fTTOAW8B2e
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 12, 2022
Will Putin declare war and force general mobilization?
Must watch. A big risk taker here telling the truth in the face of the same old bravado-filled talking points. Truth is seeping in, now deep in uncharted territory https://t.co/uxkxvaNK19
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) September 11, 2022
On 9/3, Ramzan Kadyrov released a video in which he says he is the longest-serving Russian governor and thinks “my time has come, before they kick me out.”
Just recently, he was rambling on his telegram channel the Putin may be unaware in the moment how bad things are.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1568737425597386752.html
The language among Russian milbloggers is starting to shift. During previous setbacks, there was the tendency to blame the west, the Ukrainians, or random uncontrollable things, but know they are targeting leadership, especially Putin.
This week, a group of council deputies in Petersburg called to impeach Putin for “high treason“ amid the war.
Maneuver warfare requires either overwhelming air support or long range precision fires. Not seeing it with the “regrouping” of Russian forces. Fish in barrel (not)
It appears that the Russians seem to have left much of their heavy equipment behind and simply run for their lives. Or maybe Spare parts shortage, lack of preventive maintenance, or lack of fuel maybe required them to be left.
In the moment, The Russians are unlikely to conduct a successful counterattack let alone an offensive. They appear to have neither the forces or equipment.
If they do a counter attack is likely to come from the north as they still control the supply lines from Belgorod. They do not have many options based what has been retaken by the UAF.
Kupyansk is at an n intersection of railroads and highways and is a logistical base that supplies materiel for practically all our troops west of the Siverskyi Donets River.
Ukrainians have not destroyed the bridges out of the city of Kherson in order to allow Russian forces to evacuate, but have fire control over the bridge with HIMARS, MLRS, and 155mm’s.
In the moment Russian elite mobile units of the Russian Army are in Kherson on the wrong side of a AFU HIMARS/GMLRS controlled river.
When Ukraine liberates Kherson, it will be within firing range of Crimea.
It’s looking like UAF has recaptured more land area since Thursday than the what was taken by Russia since late April (the 2nd phase of the SMO).
Unconfirmed, but Russian forces may have retreated from the Donetsk International Airport.
The change of tone from the Kremlin's media machine today, as exemplified by this post written by state TV reporter Andrei Medvedev, has been nothing short of extraordinary
I'm intrigued to hear what Dmitry Kiselyov has to say on tomorrow night's showhttps://t.co/LKIrLPs8zj pic.twitter.com/cpcleaR1LS
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 10, 2022
Only five days left before Putin's deadline* to capture the entirety of Donbas. ⏱️🙃
(*https://t.co/6aPUKTbikO) pic.twitter.com/9ahLDJElsY— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 10, 2022
Kremlin media confirming Russian troops have left the city of Izyum https://t.co/sF3WLmXcSF
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) September 10, 2022
Open sources claiming Izyum and Lyman retaken. Russians by and large retreating from the area. Could be a trap?
He didn't retreat. He advanced bravely in the opposite direction https://t.co/jso0OBf6wf
— Alexander Clarkson (@APHClarkson) September 9, 2022
Anyway, if Ukrainians did take Lyman then the Russians will have a problem counterattacking at Kupyansk, because it’s seems they are short on troops to secure the regions they have taken.
Here’s a gif of the Ukrainian advances in the Kharkiv Oblast from before the counteroffensive began 4 days ago until today. This is based on maps from @War_Mapper. #Kharkiv #Ukraine #UkraineFrontLines #RussiaIsATerroristState #NAFO #UkraineWillWin #Kupyansk #Balakliia #Balaklia pic.twitter.com/Z8vFeCFcjE
— Recon Ghost Fella (@reconghostsamar) September 9, 2022
How is that possible, given Russia’s air superiority and vast reserves? Looks like Ukrainians are now moving to cut off Izyum. It is reported that there is only one main artery to get in or out. Russian MSM sounding a bit panicked.
Even Russia's main sports channel Match TV has its own daytime "political talk show" in the mould of 60 Minutes and Time Will Tell
Today host Anton Anisimov signed off with this somewhat panicky message about the Ukrainian offensive in Kharkiv Region pic.twitter.com/zAYCTAceNJ
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) September 9, 2022
Looks like the Russians are trying to rush equipment, personnel and choppers to the area.
Footage from Russian Defense Ministry of reinforcements allegedly arriving to Kharkiv Oblast. pic.twitter.com/UNQDT383JX
— Aldin 🇧🇦 (@aldin_aba) September 9, 2022
Have no idea if this real. Could be CGI but I’ve read Ukr pilots have been training for the A10.
"Mom, I am OK. I want to show you something. Behind me is the #Izium city area. Oh wow! Look, this is A-10 Warthog! And another one! Here is the Lend-Lease!" This happy #Ukrainian soldier's video selfie is the first ever (to my memory) evidence of the US A-10 Warthogs in #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/yigN1bD4TP
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) September 9, 2022
Just tweeted
Doppelgänger
It isn't him. This is Sychevoy on the left. Different hairline, nose, etc. pic.twitter.com/5ySxapV26Q
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) September 9, 2022
This morning, I am reading that Ukrainian troops have made it all the way to the Oskil river, nearly cutting off the major Russian deployment in Izyum.
This was interesting, particularly given the buzz surrounding the possible capture of Lieutenant General Andrei Sychevoi, General in command RU’s “West” Group.
[..] The point about the redeployment to Kherson stripping Russia’s forces in the north-east is obvious, so I won’t rehash that. But the leak of an apparent operational map (I assume it’s that, as presumably sensitive information is blanked out in the image) is really interesting.
It suggests to me that the local command staff are *really* pissed off with the situation and want to draw public attention to the failings they perceive in the Russian high command. The aim being presumably to goad political leaders into replacing incompetent generals.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1568158988025356288.html
No confirmation yet, could be his doppelgänger.
[..] More than 5,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the invasion, according to a tally of confirmed deaths updated this week by independent Russian media outlet iStories.
The figure is over three times higher than the official death toll of 1,351 which was last updated by the Russian Defense Ministry in March.
While Russia is believed to have suffered significant military losses since its February invasion of Ukraine, the exact number of killed soldiers has been subject to intense speculation with Western officials estimating the number to be over 15,000 and Ukrainian officials claiming it to be more than 42,000.
iStories has verified the deaths of 5,107 soldiers.
Looks like iStories might have a math problem.
Just being curious.
Russia dependent on Western HiTech.
In July 2022, @conflictarm returned to #Ukraine to continue to document components of Russian weapons. There, we made an interesting discovery. Follow along… 1/19 pic.twitter.com/IULbKasFYg
— Damien Spleeters (@damspleet) September 4, 2022
It’s usually weeks before there is confirmation of what truly transpired. Here is an alternate narrative. (Remember, grain of salt. War racketeers are winning on both sides)
Funky vibe in the comment section.
(Long before Greta)
Darren Aronofsky’s idea for Noah originated when he was just 13-years-old, with a poem that won a United Nations poetry competition at his Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn school. Darren Aronofsky’s Noah poem was about the end of the world as seen through Noah’s eyes.
The Dove
A Poem by Darren Aronofsky
January 13, 1982
Evil was in the world
The laughing crowd
Left the foolish man at his ark
Filled with animals
When the rain began to fall
It was hopeless
The man could not take the evil crowd with him
But he was allowed to bring his good family.
The rain continued through the night
And the cries of screaming men filled the air
The ark was afloat
Until the dove returned with the leaf
Evil still existed.
When the rainbows reached throughout the sky
The humble man and his family knew what it meant
The animals ran and flew freely with their newborn
The fog rose and the sun shone
Peace was in the air
And it soon appeared in all of man’s heart.
He knew evil would not be kept away
For evil and war could not be destroyed
But neither was it possible to destroy peace
Evil is hard to end and peace is hard to begin
But the rainbow and the dove will always live
Within every man’s heart.
Good overview of all the legal actions regarding vaccine mandates for federal contractors.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Roller Coaster Continues: The 11th Circuit Ends The Nationwide Injunction Of The Government Contractor Vaccine Mandate
The key facts of the tragedy have already been established. A Land Cruiser Prado SUV, owned by Dugin and with Darya at the wheel, exploded in a highway near the village of Bolchie Vyazemy, a little over 20km away from Moscow.
They were both coming from a family festival, where Dugin had delivered a talk. At the last minute, Darya took the SUV and Dugin followed her in another car. According to eyewitnesses, there was an explosion under the SUV, which was immediately engulfed in flames and hit a roadside building. Darya’s body was burned beyond recognition.
The Russian Investigative Committee soon established that the IED – approximately 400g of TNT, unencapsulated – was planted under the bottom of the SUV, on the driver’s side.
My eyes are dry, My faith is old, My heart is hard, My prayers are cold, And I know how I ought to be, Alive to you and dead to me. (Keith Green)
Is it possible to walk with God?
Geomagnetic navigation of Chinese ICBMs over the artic aimed at DC and Texas. 18 min flight time from Mohe City, able to evade US missile defense system. Haven’t found much supporting info, interesting nonetheless. Aslo, doomsday missile bullet trains.
No decision on federal contractor mandate yet, but, federal mandate to go before full court.
The three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit reversed that judge’s decision in a 2-1 ruling in April, but enforcement was stalled due to a standard buffer period. The mandate was set to go back into effect in May, but a petition from those challenging the mandate for a rehearing from the entire 5th Circuit further delayed the Biden administration from taking action on employees out of compliance with the requirement. Now, the mandate is stayed until at least mid-September when the full court rehears the case.
That is the biggest change in territory in quite some time.
A look at the change to control over the last 2 weeks in the area around Lysychans'k and Severodonetsk.
12th June –> 26th June. pic.twitter.com/QLwcu3oUW2
— Ukraine War Map (@War_Mapper) June 26, 2022
It is rumored that general Mobilisation has begun in the Southern and Western Military Districts of the Russian Federation. Set to be announced on 27 Jun or 1 Jul.
Andrey Gurulyov, State Duma deputy, former deputy commander of Russia's southern military district, discussed how to best attack the West, while also purging internal opposition & hunting them down abroad. Fellow propagandist warned I would use those quotes, but he kept talking. pic.twitter.com/lCx1CRntdp
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 26, 2022
Canary in coal mine? Curious to she data from other countries, certainly Israel. Isn’t BioNTech German?
https://twitter.com/Jikkyleaks/status/1540914383349395456?s=20&t=MYN_p0KalzKZI_1GtLeKlw
Man lives in a world where Truth is reflected with obvious contradictions, but in the movement from the carnal mind to the spiritual mind these contradictions disappear, little by little and yield a way to integral wholeness, until at the very summit there is One God.
John’s description of the body-coat of crucified Jesus.
“but the body-coat was seamless, woven through the whole from the top. [John 19:23]
In other words, his undergarment did not consist of parts, it was undivided, an integral whole, one.
For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. [2 Cor. 5:1-6]
absence from the Lord=casting out from paradise
Genesis 3:22-24 Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
At this point, to which you will see later, it is important to highlight the basic blueprint of the tabernacle of Moses. There is an outer court, an inner room and an innermost room. There is a gate that leads into the outer court. The outer court has no covering and is exposed to the world. The inner room, the Holy Place, is separated from the outer court by the first curtain or veil. The innermost room was separated by the second curtain or veil. The inner room contained a seven-branched oil lampstand, a table for twelve loaves of show bread and the altar of incense. The innermost room, the Most Holy Place, contained the Ark of the Covenant. Only the priesthood could enter the inner room and only the high priest could enter the innermost room, the Holy of Holies. Israelites (including women) were restricted to the outer court.
Now going back this picture of inner and outer parts of the tabernacle, let’s look at circumcision as it is depicted in the scripture. In Romans 2:28-29, “A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.
Under the Abrahamic covenant or Jewish law, it was uniquely a male practice. In the spiritual sense, it is unique to the inner man or the spirit of a person. It should go without saying as to the importance of the monotheistic aspect of Judaism is also captured in this symbolism.
Recalling the First of the Ten Commandments, “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
And Moses spoke these words after 40 days and nights on the mountain,
“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul (Deut. 10:12)… Circumcise your hearts (Deut. 10:16)
The prophet Jeremiah, speaking to an unfaithful Israel,
“…Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem (Jer.4:4 KJV)
Also from 1 Samuel 16:7, But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
In the following, the innermost should not be confused with the already mentioned inner.
Proverbs 20:27, The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, Searching all the innermost parts of his being.
Psalms 51:6, Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.
When reading the following, remember Jesus spoke only what God would have him speak.
Luke 24:32 And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”
Hopefully, you should begin to see the connection between the tabernacle blueprint and a person, that there is an outer, an inner and an innermost part. The heart should be seen as a symbol for the spirit of a person. It is difficult to pin down as to what represents the soul of a person, except that is separated from the spirit. The innermost part is the abode of God. For this reason I use the following construct to help understand the relationship of this world to a person. Keep in mind this is an imperfect picture and simply a snapshot of my understanding.
The boundaries of this picture must lie within the spiritual realm, within the realm of good and evil. Within us is where the field of battle exists. As flesh and earthen vessels, we are part of world this world and everything external to us is governed by the “prince of this world”.
Eph. 2:1-2, As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
This world which surrounds us, lies outside of a person, is the mediator between a person and the “prince of this world”, the lord of evil.
Inside of a person is the dwelling place of God, The true inner mediator between God, the Lord of Good, and a person is Jesus Christ.
1 John 4:4 .. , “…because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world
Therefore a person cannot have but one of two mediators or one of two lords.The world, which is the one between the “prince of this world” and their soul (the outer man).
Or,
Jesus Christ, the one between God and their spirit (the inner man).
He became our mediator thru his life, death and resurrection.Mark 15 :37-38, And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.
The veil of course, is the second veil, the separation between the inner room and the innermost room. Hebrews chapter 9 testifies to the significance of the renting of the veil.
Hebrews 9:1-14. Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. 2 A tabernacle was set up. In its first room [inner room] were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. 3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place [innermost room], 4 which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant. 5 Above the ark were the cherubim of the Glory, overshadowing the atonement cover. But we cannot discuss these things in detail now.
6 When everything had been arranged like this, the priests entered regularly into the outer room [inner room] to carry on their ministry. 7 But only the high priest entered the inner room [innermost room], and that only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance. 8 The Holy Spirit was showing by this that the way into the Most Holy Place [innermost room] had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still functioning. 9 This is an illustration for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered were not able to clear the conscience of the worshiper. 10 They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order.
11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that is to say, is not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place [innermost part] once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death so that we may serve the living God!In the time of the Old Testament, this was a mystery, the Father could not be perceived as dwelling inside of a person. His abode, heaven, was taken to be located outside a person and hopelessly distant. This perception, by and large, still persists today.
When we read “in my Father’s house there are many mansions” we have been conditioned to see this as place in heaven, external to us. We do not see us as one of these mansions in which the Father dwells.
Note: The length of the tabernacle was to run from east-to-west and the width from north-to-south. In the innermost room, the second veil was located to the east of the Ark of the Covenant.
So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
I would agree Dr. D, there exists a portal, though I prefer “I stand at the door and knock …” I may not hear it though depending on which of the three denials I find myself in.
Arbys has an off menu item that you can order called the meat mountain. Costs about $10 bucks in the Midwest.
VietnamVet,
Unfortunately, that scenario seems likely in the moment. This caught my eye the other day in a Batiuska article linked at TAE
China may soon launch an Operation in Taiwan to free the ethnic Chinese there from the Nazism of its US-appointed elite.
Whether this will be the angle or the pent up hate the Japanese and Chinese have for each other will be leveraged to precipitate the invasion of Taiwan remains a question.
One thing that puzzles me, and is certainly debatable, is the slow progress that Russia is making despite their local advantages. This provides a window for modern Western equipment to be deployed and prolong the fight.
Hopefully, the combined exhaustion of Ukraine’s forces, the impatience of its supporters, and the spreading impact of this war on the global economy and food supplies, will lead to a deal that turns these conquests into a permanent part of Russia.
Or as Andrew Anglin (total nazi) put it,
I’m Glad They’re Ignoring Kissinger, Because I Want to See This Entire Fake Civilization Wiped Out with Chinese Nukes.
Big guns are being positioned on both sides. The timing of Ukraine’s talked about” counter offensive has been moving out to September. Discussing such things is either open denial of how bad it is or misdirection.
A train carrying MLRS and 152mm howitzers arrived in Belgorod (not far from Kharkiv) arrived a couple days ago. That train left Irkutsk on the 9th. Things have been picking up in this region. Kharkiv to likely to become the next Mariupol.
Also, The Russian army seems to be preparing a large-scale offensive kitchen sink style (T-62s and middle aged conscripts) to capture Luhansk region. Occupants have thrown all their reserves into the Severodonetsk and Bakhmut directions, trying to establish full control over the regional center and to “cut off” the Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway once and for all.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1535682460817793024?s=20&t=YBn3201ikBBMe9SBDZ7f-Q
In order to avoid effort, which the world demands, the human mind distorts the world, distorts its own self and goes on its own way as nothing ever happened. In other words man tries to construct a truth that suits him. In coming to know the Truth, man is the tool. With help he will arrive at the Truth. If the tool is broken, true perception is out of the question. The only way is by restoring the tool. The tool can’t be restored by trying to serve two masters.
Pre-war article on Putin. Check out comment section. Some good points made by Chris Hedges.
https://unherd.com/2022/01/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-putin/
“In Russia,” he continued, “disputes are usually resolved by common sense. If a dispute is about very significant money or property, then the two sides would typically send representatives to a dinner. Everyone attending arriving would be armed. Facing the possibility of a bloody, fatal outcome both sides always find a mutually agreeable solution. Fear provides the catalyst for common sense.”
