This Week in the News

by Norbert Link

We begin with deeply troubling developments in Germany, as Angela Merkel wants to push through a new law giving the federal government autocratic powers with the goal of enforcing a nationwide lockdown with curfews; report on the death of Prince Philip and worldwide reactions; and focus on the “inevitable” Biden-Israel showdown; Governor Cuomo’s hatred of God’s Feast of Tabernacles; and America’s, the UK’s and Germany’s announcements to unilaterally withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. We also speak on a worldwide debt crisis and America’s growing border crisis.

We continue with speaking on military “exercises” all over Europe and the fear of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this regard, please see our new StandingWatch program, titled, “Russian Invasion of Ukraine Inevitable?”

We speak on COVID-19 vaccines which may not be as “harmless” as officially presented; a US Supreme Court decision [divided by “party” lines], limiting California Governor Newsom’s assumed powers; address the terrible prospects of a drought in the Western part of the USA—unparalleled in modern times.

We conclude with new technologies for animals, including the unsettling concept of “recreating” dinosaurs.

Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.

When looking at the Sacrifice of Christ from an analytical point of view, we come to the conclusion as to how complete it was, covering every base as it were. Blood, the lifeline of any human being, was shed for our sins to be forgiven. Life is in the blood, it is the human common denominator, and loss of it leads to death.

Christ could have chosen a more pleasant way to die, but He did not for a reason. The one thing which cannot be said to Him is: “I suffered more than You.”

We have all gone through painful experiences. For some women it is very painful to have a child, and for all of us passing a kidney stone is very painful also. Crushing-type injuries are particularly painful.

But none of us has been beaten, punched in the face, slapped, scourged (from which, in many cases, the tortured person died with the subsequent loss of blood), hung on a stake for six hours and then being speared in the side to finish us off. Why go through so much physical suffering? A spear through the heart, without the previous excruciating pain, would have been quick and just as deadly in…

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This is a good question, and the answers are there for everyone to see if only they would look in the right place.

We make no apology for always basing our answers on the instruction manual that God has given mankind – the Bible. But the Bible today is ridiculed, maligned, scorned, rejected and attacked by so many opponents, including intellectuals (so-called), many in the teaching fraternity, politicians and other leaders including those who are involved in shaping the direction of society which the overwhelming majority of people just blindly accept.

It is such a huge subject to address, and yet the answer is simple. In Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, we read about the promise of blessings and also the pronouncement of cursings (or retribution) that God would bestow on the ancient nation of Israel depending on their obedience or disobedience. Not just blind obedience, but obedience based on the principles that would bring about peace, protection, prosperity and plenty.

The Bible does not hold back on its reporting of the good things and bad ways of Israel and of its kings and their subjects. We see that when the people respected and followed God, good things happened. When they rejected God…

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