This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We publish articles about Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska, and the overwhelmingly negative impression of that meeting [see our StandingWatch program, titled, “The Debacle of Trump’s Meeting with Putin in Alaska”); and continue with Trump’s subsequent better-received meeting with Zelensky and European leaders in Washington.
For further developments regarding the discussions concerning Russia and Ukraine, please note our newest StandingWatch program, titled, “Is There (No) Peace After All?”
We speak on ICE’s unpopular raids on “harmless” immigrants; a warning not to pull the plug on Israel; and mysterious fatalities in the Epstein orbit.
We conclude with a strong movement in Germany to institute compulsory military service.
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
Impunity Through Immunity
Many politicians of this world enjoy a form of political immunity that appears to guarantee them exemption from punishment or impunity. Due to widespread corruption and lobbying, this gives the impression that these rulers can never be held accountable.
As an ordinary citizen, this is difficult to understand. Whether it is the US, the UK, Russia, Ukraine, or Germany, the whole world is corrupt, and pretty much all politicians seem to be concerned with their own advantage or their own position and power, rather than the welfare of the people they swore to uphold when they took office.
At present, one can only shake one’s head at recent Current Events published by the Church of the Eternal God and be deeply distraught about this worldwide political corruption.
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Whom did the Ancients give God’s tithe to prior to Moses and the Levitical tithing system?
Even though the Bible records that some in the Old Testament paid God’s tithe before Moses, there are those who claim that there was no obligation to pay the tithe before Moses, and it only became an obligation when the Levitical tithing system was instituted under Moses. They also claim that the tithing system was only instituted for Israel (some even say, the Jews, confusing the house of Israel with the house of Judah), and that any obligation to pay tithe ended at the time when Israel and Judah went into captivity. They say that in any event, there is no tithing obligation for New Testament Christians as Christ came to abolish the commandment to pay tithe.
All of these assumptions are wrong.
We say the following in our free booklet, “Tithing — Today?”
“One of the ancients who honored God with tithing was righteous Abraham. We are told that Abraham [Abram] gave a tithe of his income to the high priest, Melchizedek. We read in Genesis 14:20 that Abraham gave him ‘a tithe [or one-tenth] of all.’ In the book of Hebrews, it is again mentioned that Abraham gave Melchizedek ‘a tenth of the spoils’ (Hebrews 7:4)…
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