All who trust in Jesus as Saviour are credited with His righteousness, for we too have trusted the Word of God for salvation. All who believe the good news that Christ died for their sins and rose the third day to pay the price for their sins, have been clothed in the righteousness of Christ, by faith. As righteousness has been credited to us on His behalf, let us live by faith so that all that we do is done by faith and not by our flesh. And just as we were credited with righteousness at salvation, let us continue to live by faith, with thanksgiving for all that He has done for us.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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2 Thess 2:13-14, "But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Not only does the Lord desire a vertical oneness of each of His children with Himself, but He also yearns that we have a horizontal oneness with our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ; that we become one in principle and purpose, one in thought and word and deed, one in faith and doctrine, one in love and hope. He desires that individually and collectively the Church of God, which is His Body, demonstrates the glory of the indwelling Spirit of Christ by means of an outward demonstration of a holy character and a godly life, full of grace and truth.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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When Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks,” He meant that consistently sinful words and deeds are indicative of a sinful heart. Rather than always giving people “the benefit of the doubt,” we would do well to recognize the “fruit” we observe and respond accordingly. Being a “fruit inspector” does not mean we consider ourselves to be without sin; it does mean that we are realistic about whom to trust and whom we allow to exert influence over us and the people for whom we are responsible.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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Current-Events Watchman Bulletin #3
Iran's Missile Capability
Sadly, good brothers continue to make mistakes when it comes to Iran's missile capability. Some of this is traced to not sufficiently vetting their sources, and some of it to not understanding what they are reading.
One claim that I have seen being repeated is that Iran could launch 100 missiles which will split into 8000 warheads—-80 warheads per missile. This implies that Israel will face a blistering wave of destruction that will be difficult to defend against. But there are several problems with this claim.
First of all, I have found nothing in legit military research which claims that Iran possesses missiles which can carry 80 warheads. Such missiles would either have to be massive missiles many times larger than what Iran is known to possess, or they would have carry tiny, almost worthless, warheads. The American Trident missile can carry up to 16 independently targeted warheads, though they typically carry five when fitted for multiple warheads, current military policy favoring larger warhead payload over double-digit targets. The older American Poseidon missile was capable of carrying 14 independently targeted warheads. But these too were typically armed with far fewer warheads, if not single massive warheads.
As for Iran, the Shahab-3 can carry either a single warhead or five smaller warheads which are cluster munitions. These are destructive if they hit their target or come very close. But the Shahab family is notoriously inaccurate. While the Shahab-3 is an improvement, its accuracy does not compare to the accuracy of American or Israeli missiles of similar range.
The Khorramshahr-4, which was unveiled in May 2023, has a payload of 1500 kgs. The Aerospace Force of the IRGC claims this missile has multiple-warhead capability. This is likely true, although it is uncertain how many, if any, have been fitted for such service. The pay load would allow for 4-6 warheads, depending on the size and type. If this class of missile is launched against Israel, we are likely to see most of them, if not all of them, used as either a single stage or two stage version with a single large warhead. The two-stage version uses a re-entry vehicle which modestly extends its range and increases its accuracy.
Iran does have various other missiles capable of multiple warheads, and Iran has made progress in developing multiple warhead technology, BUT to this point they have not demonstrated any significant abilities that compete with the kind of MIRV technology that the US has had since the 70s. They have favored single warheads, on single stage or two-stage missiles, and multiple warhead cluster munitions, which rely more on the shotgun effect than on the kind of accuracy we see with American and Israeli Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles.
Personally, I think the only real strategy Iran has at her fingertips is to launch a barrage of missiles, single-stage and two-stage, at a few major targets, and hope a few make it through Israeli air defense. This would be particularly attractive to them if they armed a few with small nuclear warheads. I doubt that they have already developed their own. But I wouldn't be surprised if they have obtained a few from Russia or North Korea.
The next few days will likely see Iran embarrassed again unless she launches such a massive launch of her now hard to replace high-end missiles that she overwhelms Israel's defense, allowing a few to sneak through. But this would be a high-risk endeavor. Iran can't currently replace what she uses. The more she launches now, the less fear factor she has for the future, and the more incentive she gives Israel to cut the head off the snake.
Iran's Missile Capability
Sadly, good brothers continue to make mistakes when it comes to Iran's missile capability. Some of this is traced to not sufficiently vetting their sources, and some of it to not understanding what they are reading.
One claim that I have seen being repeated is that Iran could launch 100 missiles which will split into 8000 warheads—-80 warheads per missile. This implies that Israel will face a blistering wave of destruction that will be difficult to defend against. But there are several problems with this claim.
First of all, I have found nothing in legit military research which claims that Iran possesses missiles which can carry 80 warheads. Such missiles would either have to be massive missiles many times larger than what Iran is known to possess, or they would have carry tiny, almost worthless, warheads. The American Trident missile can carry up to 16 independently targeted warheads, though they typically carry five when fitted for multiple warheads, current military policy favoring larger warhead payload over double-digit targets. The older American Poseidon missile was capable of carrying 14 independently targeted warheads. But these too were typically armed with far fewer warheads, if not single massive warheads.
As for Iran, the Shahab-3 can carry either a single warhead or five smaller warheads which are cluster munitions. These are destructive if they hit their target or come very close. But the Shahab family is notoriously inaccurate. While the Shahab-3 is an improvement, its accuracy does not compare to the accuracy of American or Israeli missiles of similar range.
The Khorramshahr-4, which was unveiled in May 2023, has a payload of 1500 kgs. The Aerospace Force of the IRGC claims this missile has multiple-warhead capability. This is likely true, although it is uncertain how many, if any, have been fitted for such service. The pay load would allow for 4-6 warheads, depending on the size and type. If this class of missile is launched against Israel, we are likely to see most of them, if not all of them, used as either a single stage or two stage version with a single large warhead. The two-stage version uses a re-entry vehicle which modestly extends its range and increases its accuracy.
Iran does have various other missiles capable of multiple warheads, and Iran has made progress in developing multiple warhead technology, BUT to this point they have not demonstrated any significant abilities that compete with the kind of MIRV technology that the US has had since the 70s. They have favored single warheads, on single stage or two-stage missiles, and multiple warhead cluster munitions, which rely more on the shotgun effect than on the kind of accuracy we see with American and Israeli Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles.
Personally, I think the only real strategy Iran has at her fingertips is to launch a barrage of missiles, single-stage and two-stage, at a few major targets, and hope a few make it through Israeli air defense. This would be particularly attractive to them if they armed a few with small nuclear warheads. I doubt that they have already developed their own. But I wouldn't be surprised if they have obtained a few from Russia or North Korea.
The next few days will likely see Iran embarrassed again unless she launches such a massive launch of her now hard to replace high-end missiles that she overwhelms Israel's defense, allowing a few to sneak through. But this would be a high-risk endeavor. Iran can't currently replace what she uses. The more she launches now, the less fear factor she has for the future, and the more incentive she gives Israel to cut the head off the snake.
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Despite their obvious growth in the faith, Paul knew that all Christians, however mature they may be, must press on to the next level of faith, and so he encouraged them by writing: "I pray that God the Father Himself and Jesus Christ our Lord would direct our way to visit you… and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you, so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints."
Carli • Saved by Grace
Carli • Saved by Grace
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Well, the American public has spoken. But, I must confess, that I see the future as spiritually bleaker for true evangelicals than if Kamala had won. Yes, we will have more freedom than we would have had under Kamala. (And I did vote for freedom.) Yes, America will grow stronger economically, militarily, and geo-politically. Yes, the Abraham Accord concept will go forward, though I suspect it will see a few modifications that will benefit both Israel and the Palestinians. BUT, real Bible-believing Christians are going to face growing challenges over the next few years, challenges that many of them have not foreseen.
The truth is, the moral compass of the Republican party has swung definitively and permanently toward a morally progressive position. The Republican party will be less favorable toward true, Biblical Christians and their moral (biblical) convictions. The darlings of the party are going to prove to be progressive evangelicals, progressive Catholics, and postmillennialists who adopt progressivism, indeed any stamp of religion or conservatism willing to embrace progressivism.
The truth is, the moral compass of the Republican party has swung definitively and permanently toward a morally progressive position. The Republican party will be less favorable toward true, Biblical Christians and their moral (biblical) convictions. The darlings of the party are going to prove to be progressive evangelicals, progressive Catholics, and postmillennialists who adopt progressivism, indeed any stamp of religion or conservatism willing to embrace progressivism.
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I am convinced that the majority of the globalists wanted Trump to win with a clear, undeniable progressive right victory, which is why they installed Kamala for the opposition and pretty much shut down ballot stuffing. The NWO will not be hard-left Marxist. It will be a balancing act that harmonizes the left-right paradigm with a subtle, Hegelian mix that will be acceptable to the majority. Nobody gets all that they want. Everybody gets freedom and economic opportunity.
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Paul clearly states: "Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel that I proclaimed to you. You received it and you have taken your stand on it and it is the gospel by which also you are saved. It is the gospel by which we're saved. If you hold fast the Word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain (unless you only believed in a partial gospel, a different gospel, or an incomplete truth. To believe in vain is not to believe in all aspects of the gospel of grace which Paul taught), that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures."
Praise God that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, and may we share this truth with others.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Praise God that we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, and may we share this truth with others.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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May we take to heart the urgent plea to turn from our foolish, faithless, lukewarm ways, and strive, in the power of the Spirit, to be alert and attentive to His Word as we watch for His any day return.
Praise God that He does not cut off such carnal Christians, hypocritical believers, or disinterested disciples, but urges each of us that have fallen prey to this imperfect attitude to repent ~ to turn away from all that has replaced or removed the Lord from the central position of our hearts and to return Him to His rightful place in our lives.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Praise God that He does not cut off such carnal Christians, hypocritical believers, or disinterested disciples, but urges each of us that have fallen prey to this imperfect attitude to repent ~ to turn away from all that has replaced or removed the Lord from the central position of our hearts and to return Him to His rightful place in our lives.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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Every perpetrator, every enabler, and every endorser of the pogrom in Amsterdam should be arrested and either deported or imprisoned. The Dutch have to choose between decency and Nazi-esque degradation.
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Forwarded from Amir Tsarfati
Hard testimonies from Israelis who were present at the pogrom in Amsterdam:
"We asked for help from business owners in the area but they completely ignored us. When I tried to escape in a taxi, the driver took me out by force and even cooperated with the attackers in trying to locate me.'
Also, Israelis claimed that stun grenades were thrown at apartments where they lived.
"The hotel owner refused to give us shelter. Only thanks to a group of young Dutch people who intervened and called the police did we manage to escape."
Horrifying evidence also about Israelis who hid in attics in the city.
Many of the Israelis said that their passports were stolen.
"Ten people came at me and my partner with pepper spray. She ran into an apartment she doesn't know and they all ran after me," one of them wrote.
"I hid in a boat in the river for over an hour, in the cold of 5 degrees, while pretending to be a corpse until the police rescued me. They pass in convoys of dozens of vehicles, watching and looking for someone to murder.'
Another fan said: "We arrived at the hotel, they almost kidnapped us in their car", and another tweeted: "An event that will scar me mentally for life. 30 Palestinians on my back.'
"We ran away from thousands of Muslims and some Israelis entered KFC while the police were out in small numbers and did not know how to handle the event. They didn't bring a doctor to everyone who marked there because 'there is no way to help you'. The Muslims tried to run over, kidnap, beat and murder.'
"We asked for help from business owners in the area but they completely ignored us. When I tried to escape in a taxi, the driver took me out by force and even cooperated with the attackers in trying to locate me.'
Also, Israelis claimed that stun grenades were thrown at apartments where they lived.
"The hotel owner refused to give us shelter. Only thanks to a group of young Dutch people who intervened and called the police did we manage to escape."
Horrifying evidence also about Israelis who hid in attics in the city.
Many of the Israelis said that their passports were stolen.
"Ten people came at me and my partner with pepper spray. She ran into an apartment she doesn't know and they all ran after me," one of them wrote.
"I hid in a boat in the river for over an hour, in the cold of 5 degrees, while pretending to be a corpse until the police rescued me. They pass in convoys of dozens of vehicles, watching and looking for someone to murder.'
Another fan said: "We arrived at the hotel, they almost kidnapped us in their car", and another tweeted: "An event that will scar me mentally for life. 30 Palestinians on my back.'
"We ran away from thousands of Muslims and some Israelis entered KFC while the police were out in small numbers and did not know how to handle the event. They didn't bring a doctor to everyone who marked there because 'there is no way to help you'. The Muslims tried to run over, kidnap, beat and murder.'
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Let us rightly divide the Word of God, study to show ourselves approved, and seek to live as we have been taught, not only being identified with His death for the forgiveness of sins, but with His new born~again life within. Let us study the Word of truth to discover the riches of the glory of this mystery that has now been made manifest to the saints through Paul: "Which is Christ in you the hope of glory," a mystery revealed for our learning.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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It dawned on me this morning that the book of Job could be regarded as a loose typology of Israel in the last days.
Job represents the remnant of Israel who will be tried with crushing trials in the tribulation, trials which Satan intends for evil and God intends for good.
Job's wife represents the unbelieving, faithless portion of Israel whose counsel is, "curse God and die."
Job's friends represent well-intentioned allies who claim to be opposed to anti-Semitism, but don't really understand what is going on. Their counsel is of mixed value, and they seem to blame Israel as the chief cause of her problems.
Elihu, the young man, represents the dispensational friends of Israel, who defend Israel, point out her real faults, and uphold the glory of God, particularly as manifested in her Messiah.
God will reveal himself to Israel in the last days in the midst of her trials, revealing his greatness and majesty. He will restore to Israel twofold all that she has lost over her many painful centuries. He will bestow kingdom blessings upon her that will surpass the blessings that she enjoyed in her early days.
Job represents the remnant of Israel who will be tried with crushing trials in the tribulation, trials which Satan intends for evil and God intends for good.
Job's wife represents the unbelieving, faithless portion of Israel whose counsel is, "curse God and die."
Job's friends represent well-intentioned allies who claim to be opposed to anti-Semitism, but don't really understand what is going on. Their counsel is of mixed value, and they seem to blame Israel as the chief cause of her problems.
Elihu, the young man, represents the dispensational friends of Israel, who defend Israel, point out her real faults, and uphold the glory of God, particularly as manifested in her Messiah.
God will reveal himself to Israel in the last days in the midst of her trials, revealing his greatness and majesty. He will restore to Israel twofold all that she has lost over her many painful centuries. He will bestow kingdom blessings upon her that will surpass the blessings that she enjoyed in her early days.
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Chris Spinelli posted this on Twitter. I found it very insightful.
"What about the dispensational order of the books?
Ezra - Israel regathered
Nehemiah - temple rebuilt
Esther - rise of the Antichrist (Haman)
Job - Jews in the tribulation
Psalms - Millennium"
Myself, I would say Psalms = day of the Lord and Millennium.
"What about the dispensational order of the books?
Ezra - Israel regathered
Nehemiah - temple rebuilt
Esther - rise of the Antichrist (Haman)
Job - Jews in the tribulation
Psalms - Millennium"
Myself, I would say Psalms = day of the Lord and Millennium.
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Let us be increasingly aware that the trials of life are used by God for our eternal benefit and for His greater glory. Paul discovered the wonderful truth that God's grace is sufficient to meet all the difficulties and dangers that we may encounter in life.
The greater the trial, the wider the arms of God's sufficient grace are extended to lift us up, carry us through, and draw us into a depth of intimacy with Himself that we would otherwise have missed: "Let endurance have its perfect result," so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Carli • Saved by Grace
The greater the trial, the wider the arms of God's sufficient grace are extended to lift us up, carry us through, and draw us into a depth of intimacy with Himself that we would otherwise have missed: "Let endurance have its perfect result," so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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Like the Lord Jesus, we too are despised by this pagan world system and increasingly have become targets of ridicule and ill~treatment by a world which does not understand what manner of love the Father has towards you and me... who by faith in Christ have become His children and been made joint~heirs with Christ. One day the Lord Jesus is coming back to take us home and as sons of God, we will be made known to the world.
Let us hold firmly to this sure hope that is set before us, looking to Jesus ~ the Author and Finisher of our faith, knowing that those of us who have fixed our hope upon Him, purify ourselves just as Jesus is pure.
Carli • Saved by Grace
Let us hold firmly to this sure hope that is set before us, looking to Jesus ~ the Author and Finisher of our faith, knowing that those of us who have fixed our hope upon Him, purify ourselves just as Jesus is pure.
Carli • Saved by Grace
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