This Week in the News

by Norbert Link

While especially the American media is obsessed with every little nuance of the impeachment circus against the President, we have chosen to ignore “reporting” on this, except for a passing reference in an article on Israel and one article claiming that President Trump will be reelected because of the attempt by Democrats to impeach him, which is, of course, doomed to fail in the Senate at the latest.

Instead, we are showing, among other things, how terribly divided the nation is; that many Americans are tired of their country’s endless wars; and that the dollar is under attack.

We also speak on an important defeat of the Trump Administration regarding a contemplated change in the immigration law; and report on President Trump’s obsession with the ancient emperor Cyrus. We also ask what America would do in case of a war between Israel and Iran.

We address – briefly – the ongoing Brexit debacle and the EU’s resolve to become more relevant on the world scene and build a powerful army [please view our new StandingWatch program, titled, “Europe—the Coming New Superpower,”] and speak of alarming signs of increasing anti-Semitism in Germany. We also address the horrible violent situation in Mexico, due to the government’s inability to deal with its drug cartels.

We speak on more scientific foolishness; a long-overdue decision by Austria to ban public smoking; the way in which governments control their citizens; and the new trend of microchipping; and we conclude with ongoing paganism in the Roman Catholic Church.

After we had such an inspiring and joy-filled Feast of Tabernacles, it does not take Satan long to start creating problems for and among the brethren. After all, he is the accuser of the brethren, an agitator and a provocateur, and he is like a vicious roaring lion seeking whom he may devour (1 Peter 5:8). He discourages and causes problems for us in the hope we will fall short of the mark.

Some, returning from the Feast, had difficulty with flight delays and some had to stay in a hotel overnight due to flight interruptions. One couple came home to a flooded basement due to a water-valve failure.

I came home to find only two of my nine chickens were alive. Some wild animal killed seven of them while we were away, due to the failure of those who were supposed to take care and feed them according to my instructions.

So we can expect more trials and tests as we settle into the coming winter months, with shorter days and inclement weather in various parts of the country.

Trials and tests are part and parcel for those who are seeking to obey God, and we only need to read what Paul, an…

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The Bible teaches that the first resurrection is a resurrection to eternal, immortal life—to an existence in the spirit realm, when converted men and women become born-again members in the Kingdom and Family of God. We are told that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 15:50), and that in the first resurrection, we will have incorruptible spiritual bodies, when we are “raised in glory” (verses 42-44).

We will be like Christ, bearing His very image (1 Corinthians 15:49), and Christ is the exact image of God the Father (2 Corinthians 4:4). We will be glorified God beings, as the Father and Jesus Christ are glorified. We will in that sense look like Christ.

We can find a description of the resurrected Christ in His glorified state in numerous passages of the Bible, and none of them implies that He has a physical body. For instance, we read in Revelation 1:14-16: “His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice the sound of many waters… and His countenance was like the sun…

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