Chaos Blankets the World and Leaves No Easy Answers

USA - Almost 50% of Republicans state ahead of the election they won’t accept the results if they lose, making it a foregone conclusion that the only way they can lose, in their opinion, is if the Biden-Harris camp cheats. We just don’t know if either side means they’ll revolt against the results legally or violently. It promises to be a toxic election year, no matter who loses.

Jeremiah 18:8, “If that Nation... Turns from Its Evil..."

USA - As the US Congress is debating the Continuing Resolution (CR) that authorizes the national budget, most are concerned about the government shut-down that will occur if the CR is not passed. “Woe!” is being sounded by various Congressional members announcing the calamitous ruin that will fall upon our nation if the CR is not passed by 01 October 2024. The calamity is NOT coming because the CR is not passed. The calamity is coming because of our nation’s evil. EVIL HAS RESULTED BECAUSE OUR NATIONAL LEADERS HAVE REJECTED GOD and trusted on self-serving agendas.

What's going to explode next? The fridge? My phone?

LEBANON - Thousands of walkie-talkies, solar panels and fingerprint recognition devices used by Hezbollah fighters have detonated across Lebanon in the past two days, killing 14 and wounding hundreds of people including mourners at a funeral. The second wave of carnage hit a day after thousands of exploding pagers used by the group left almost 3,000 people injured and a dozen dead, including civilians and children.

Britain should learn lessons from Israel's exploding pagers

UK - At 3.30pm on Tuesday, the world entered a new era: one in which warfare will be waged against individuals by means of targeting personal devices. The exploding pagers, walkie-talkies and other devices planted by Israel have not just killed a couple of dozen Hezbollah fighters and injured thousands more (together, regrettably, with innocent bystanders). They have also seriously impeded the ability of Hezbollah to communicate with its fighters. The terror organisation had already ditched mobile phones for fear that they could allow Israel to track the location of Hezbollah operatives. Pagers, which most of us consider now to be an obsolete form of technology, were supposed to make communication safer. Now, the group will be reduced to using flags and messengers to pass instructions between members.

UN General Assembly Adopts Resolution Prohibiting Israeli Self-defense

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution Wednesday that effectively bars Israel from self-defense in any of the territory it captured in a defensive war in 1967, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. The resolution refers to a ruling earlier this year by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — led by a judge from Lebanon, which is in a state of war with Israel — in which it declared Israel’s presence in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and eastern Jerusalem to be illegal under international law. Israel angrily rejected the ruling, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring: “The Jewish people are not occupiers in their own land.”

Rat-infested cities in America revealed

USA - The Big Apple is the most rodent-riddled city in America, according to new data that will hardly surprise New Yorkers, who notice the pests proliferating in parks, playgrounds and subway stations. Pest-control company Terminix ranked the 50 most rodent-infested cities based on what locales use their services most often, with New York coming out on top. Scurrying in as the second-most rodent-infested city in the US was San Francisco. Los Angeles ranked third, while Philadelphia and Washington, DC, rounded out the Top 5.

Worst flooding ‘in decade’ hits EU state’s capital

EUROPE - Heavy flooding has hit the Hungarian capital, Budapest, with the city bracing for what could become the worst deluge in over a decade. The severe weather event named Storm Boris has ravaged Central and Eastern Europe in recent days, unleashing months’ worth of rainfall on parts of Hungary and other countries, and causing the Danube to burst its banks. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has called the flooding one of the most significant challenges the country has faced. Neighboring Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Slovakia have also been affected by severe weather and flooding. More than 20 people have lost their lives across the region.

 
Walkie-talkie and pager blasts leave Hezbollah one option

LEBANON - In an operation of quite astonishing boldness and professionalism, the Israelis have struck a telling blow at their long-term enemy Hezbollah. Yesterday, at approximately 13:45 BST, pagers which had been distributed by the terrorist organisation to its members and supporters began to explode, in an almost simultaneous series of events which lasted roughly half an hour. Complete confusion ensued in Lebanon and parts of Syria as multiple individuals – presumably all associated in some way with Hezbollah, – were wounded and otherwise incapacitated as the electronic devices exploded in their hands, pockets, waist belts, and shopping bags.

“No, Pope Francis, Not All Religions Are ‘Paths to God’”

VATICAN - The redoubtable Archbishop Charles Chaput has offered fraternal correction to Pope Francis, urging him to hold to the basic tenets of Christianity. The former archbishop of Philadelphia was responding to the pontiff’s off-the-cuff remarks to youth in Singapore on Friday, in which the pope told his listeners that all religions are paths to God, seeming to suggest that none is superior to the others.

Europe's new law is 'going to impact every single American'

EUROPE - While Americans have been focused on the election, the European Union has been in the process of passing a new law. It’s called the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, and its reach will go far beyond European borders. In fact, “It’s going to impact every single American,” Justin Haskins, author and editorial director of the Heartland Institute, tells Allie Beth Stuckey. “Essentially, what it does is create ESG social credit scores for companies... These ESG scores are designed to transform the way companies operate, the kinds of products and services that they can sell, and then, by extension, transform societies around it,” Haskins explains.

Fed slashes interest rates by a half point

USA - The Federal Reserve on Wednesday enacted its first interest rate cut since the early days of the Covid pandemic, slicing half a percentage point off benchmark rates in an effort to head off a slowdown in the labor market. With both the jobs picture and inflation softening, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee chose to lower its key overnight borrowing rate by a half percentage point, or 50 basis points, affirming market expectations that had recently shifted from an outlook for a cut half that size. Outside of the emergency rate reductions during Covid, the last time the FOMC cut by half a point was in 2008 during the global financial crisis. “The Committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2 percent, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance,” the post-meeting statement said.

 
US debt surpasses $1 trillion

USA - According to the latest Treasury Department data, the national debt now exceeds $35.3 trillion. The amount of money required to service the US debt has reached levels that exceed Medicare expenditures, the military budget, etc. For the first time in history, interest on US debt surpassed the $1 trillion mark, becoming the second greatest government expense, trailing only Social Security expenditures ($1.5 trillion). But according to economists, it is only a matter of months before the interest on the debt exceeds $1.6 trillion and brings the US economy to its knees. This is a national crisis and isn’t even discussed at the national level (and wasn’t even mentioned in the presidential debates).

 
Climate Scare Stories Keep Turning Out to be False

USA - Shrinking islands, vanishing polar bears, collapsing coral reefs — the media loves a good climate scare story. There’s just one problem, says Bjorn Lomborg in the New York Post: all of these have turned out to be false. At the start of this century, the polar bear was the emblem of climate apocalypse. Protesters dressed as polar bears, while Al Gore’s hit 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth showed us a sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death. The Washington Post warned that polar bears faced extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund’s Chief Scientist even claimed some polar bear populations would be unable to reproduce by 2012. And then in the 2010s, campaigners just stopped talking about polar bears. Why? Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day. (The main reason? People are hunting a lot less polar bears.)

Robert F Kennedy Jr: ‘Stop This Reckless Escalation’

USA - The world is hanging on the edge of a major escalation with unpredictable consequences, as Ukraine relentlessly pushes for the US to make decisions that can have unpredictable consequences. All around the world, peace-loving people who can see the danger ahead are cautioning the western NATO powers – notably the US and the UK – not to take this irresponsible step and instead take a path for peace. Former Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr is one of these people. He has now urged the Biden administration not to give Ukraine the green light to use American-supplied long-range weapons to strike at targets deep within Russian territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky keeps insisting that he needs the long-range capabilities, as well as air defense ‘to protect the life of his people’.

 
9 people killed, thousands injured in Hezbollah pager explosions

MIDDLE EAST - Nine people were killed, including a child, and 2,800 were wounded when pager devices belonging to Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon and parts of Syria on Tuesday, Lebanon's minister of health said on Tuesday. No group has claimed responsibility for the explosions, but suspicion immediately fell on Israel's intelligence services. Hezbollah accused Israel of being responsible for the explosions and said in a statement that it was going to respond. The group said that after an investigation, it places full responsibility on Israel "for this criminal aggression that also harmed civilians and caused deaths and injuries." Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had previously urged members of the group to stop using cellphones for security reasons. On Monday, US envoy Amos Hochstein visited Israel and warned Netanyahu that initiating a war against Hezbollah in Lebanon could have disastrous consequences.

 
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Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)