This Week In The News

Current Events

by Norbert Link

We begin with disturbing articles related to Donald Trump and Joe Biden, as well as the US Congress and its House Speaker Mike Johnson, speak on the effects of the Baltimore bridge collapse and the UK’s delayed ruling on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US; and continue with antisemitism and anti-Israel propaganda in Great Britain and continental Europe.

We address America’s betrayal of Israel; the dangerous push for a Two-State-“Solution”; and typical threats against Israel by Turkey’s mass murderer Erdogan.

We speak on “sticky questions” for the green movement, and conclude with Hungary’s Victor Orbán’s insightful comments about the EU’s war agenda and Emmanuel Macron’s dangerous “folly.”

Please view our new StandingWatch program, titled, “Satan—the God of this Evil World!” 

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

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Editorial

Do We Really Need to Know Every Last Detail?

Last Friday evening, March 22, 2024, my wife and I sat down to watch the 6 o’clock BBC News where we were told that there was to be an announcement from the Princess of Wales about her health concerns following mountains of “trolling” in social media.

It was said that she had come to the decision around the time she was facing intense social media speculation after the Photoshop editing of a family photo released on Mother’s Day.  We further learned that she was always intent on waiting until her children’s school broke up for Easter on Friday to go public about her health.  The princess revealed in this video announcement that she was diagnosed with cancer last month, having spent a fortnight in the private London Clinic for abdominal surgery in January.

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Q&A

Why is arrogance so condemned by God?-Part 2

In the first part of this Q&A, we started our review about why God continually condemns arrogance.  We mentioned that the words arrogance, arrogant, proud, and haughty are mentioned over 200 times in the New International Version, and that they are all interconnected in their meaning.   God resists the proud, as we read in 1 Peter 5:5: “Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for ‘God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.’”

In the Book of Psalms are found many references to those traits that God does not approve of.   Psalm 5:5 reads: “The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.”   Boastful, that is self-praising, boasting and bragging, exhibiting self-importance, reflects arrogance that God totally disapproves of; therefore, His people should steer clear of any such behaviour.   This is further supported by Psalm 75:4: “I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal boastfully,’ And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.’”

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