The Virgin Mary's Purity...Hurts a Rape Victim and Makes Her Feel Bad

If you want to see how deep and how far the wolves in sheep's clothing have infected main stream Christianity....I have an article here that will literally make you say, Please!  Come Lord Jesus!"

Of course its in the Washington Post....so it MUST be valid!  And liberals everywhere will embrace it!

Our culture of purity celebrates the Virgin Mary. As a rape victim, that hurts me.

This opinion piece is by the Rev. Ruth Everhart, a pastor and the author of two spiritual memoirs.

Church culture tends to be fixated on sexual purity year-round, but during Advent, I’m tempted to blame it on the Virgin Mary. After all, she set an impossibly high bar. Now the rest of us are stuck trying to be both a virgin and a mother at the same time. It does not seem to matter that this is biologically impossible. Can you at least try?

I’ll speak for myself. I was raised in the church and taught to be a good girl, by which I mean obedient, quiet and sexually pure. That worked reasonably well until I was 20. During my senior year of college, my housemates and I were the victims of a home invasion. The intruders held us for hours and took turns raping us at gunpoint. The next year of our lives revolved around the criminal-justice system.

Of course, I was traumatized. But what was harder to describe — and more long-lasting — was how the crime became bound up in a sense of sexual shame. I wondered constantly: Did I somehow deserve to be raped? Had the rape ruined me irreparably? Both questions seemed inevitable. After all, what is the opposite of being sexually pure? Sustaining irremediable damage. Being ruined.

I’m not blaming my sense of ruin on the Virgin Mary, not entirely. Protestants do not claim Mary in the way Catholics do, but every Advent I feel a sense of kinship. I know what it’s like to be a good girl whose life got upended by what someone did to her body. Of course, her story plot was good and mine was bad. Plus she was, well, a saint. And I’m not.

Still, I study her this time of the year — always dressed in blue with downcast eyes — and want to ask: “How was it really? And how do you feel about what the patriarchy has done with you?”

I’m convinced of this: Mary is not responsible for what we’ve done to her story. Church culture has overfocused on virginity and made it into an idol of sexual purity. When it comes to female experience, the church seems compelled to shrink and distort and manipulate.

Maybe that’s why, more than a decade after I was raped, I became a pastor. I had to face down the demons. To do that, I had to live inside church culture. I had to come to terms with Mary’s story, and so many others. What is the gospel call for women? I believe it’s more than being a good girl.

For starters, I believe it’s impossible to be a good girl — meaning unblemished and pure — and also inhabit a body. It’s certainly true if you’ve been sexually assaulted, and may also be true if you are fortunate to not have been.

I could say more about living in a female body, but it might be helpful if you just checked in with your own body right now. Is your body feeling quiet and clean and pure at the moment? Or is it hungry or noisy or smelly? Does it have needs?

That’s what I suspected. Bodies are like that. Even bodies that don’t bleed or ovulate or lactate. Bodies have needs.

If you can bear it....read the rest here;  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/12/16/our-culture-of-purity-celebrates-the-virgin-mary-as-a-rape-victim-that-hurts-me/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.dc8d82bec7c6

The fact that this woman is a Presbyterian Minister should speak volumes about where this woman is leading her flock.

Remember, here in Minneapolis if you go into the front door of the Presbyterian church in Downtown...you will see right in the foyer a table with 3 books on it and a sign above that says "The Sacred Texts".  If you look at the biggest book right in the middle you will discover the Koran....Islam's holiest book which is the exact polar opposite of the Bible.

Nuff said?

12 Yr Old Muslim Boy Attempts to Blow Up German Christmas Market

Remember how Team Obama and the liberal tribe ridiculed those who warned about letting Muslim children enter into Europe without vetting?  After all, they argued....what harm could some children do if we let them in?

A 12-year-old boy tried to detonate a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Germany, authorities said.

The explosive device was found near the Town Hall in Ludwigshafen earlier this month.

Hubert Stroeber, a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office, told NBC News that it would "turn down an investigation in the case" due to the fact the boy is aged under 14.

However, Stroeber confirmed that Germany's Federal Prosecutor had been informed about the incident.

The suspect was born in Germany but is of Iraqi heritage.

Local officials said they had found a black bag in a waste container on Dec. 5, according to a police report.

Investigators said that the material found in the glass container was believed to be "pyrotechnical material that is used in fireworks."

Germany's FOCUS magazine reported that a controlled explosion was carried out after the device was spotted by a member of the public.

It added that the boy had tried to detonate explosives at the Ludwigshafen Christmas market on Nov. 26.

"A backpack included a glass container with a drilled hole, through which a wire was pulled. It was filled with explosive powder … and prepared with nails," the magazine reported.

Here;  http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/christmas-market-targeted-nail-bomb-boy-12-german-officials-n696811

Tragic.  Humans on earth today have TOTALLY underestimated the power of Satan.

Most of you won't need this reminder, but I will remind you anyway of WHY the divide has grown so HUGE between liberals and Bible believers.

The liberal's world view is that all people are born good.  Mother earth is a great place full of beautiful animals, fish-filled oceans, and majestic scenery.....and it all was created by space dust over billions of years.  The liberal goes on to believe that if people were just kinder, less racist, more charitable, provided free health care, housing and food to everyone and flushed all religion (except their Mother Earth religion)...that the earth would be a much better place and we would all go to Nirvana when we die....if our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds.

The Bible actually tells us the exact opposite is true.  All people are born sinners who are in full rebellion against their Creator.  The whole world is under the control of the Evil One and as a result the entire earth and all creation GROANS under the weight of sin.  We are HOPELESS and have no way of saving ourselves from our deserved wrath of God.  Because God so loved us he sent Jesus to pay our penalty and cover us with the blood He shed on the cross.  There is NO ONE who will be saved from the clutches of this Satanic planet without accepting the WORK Christ did on the cross for all of us.  PERIOD!!

"But Dennis, I don't like that story!  I like story I made up in my head about God loving everyone and welcoming everyone to a huge party when we die where he will tell everyone how much he loves them forever and ever!  My Jesus/Buddha/Krishna/Meitreya was tolerant and accepting of all religions and spirituality!  And if I believe that hard enough....it will come true!"

Sadly there are millions or billions on earth today who actually believe that...and they will be in for a terrifying reality when they leave this earth and are resurrected at the Great White Throne Judgment.

Matthew 25
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

The 3 Stage Plot to Assassinate Trump

Of course I have no idea if Civil War is coming for America.  However, if you dare to turn on Facebook or social media....you will see some VERY angry people on both sides of the isle.

So what would happen if the Electoral College doesn't end up with enough votes to elect Trump?

What will happen if Black Lives Matter starts protesting something in every major city at the same time?

How about if the American Indians join them?

What if the police departments around America can't find enough people willing to be officers because of the fear they will be killed or thrown in jail for some "wrongdoing"?

How about if someone ASSASSINATES TRUMP in the next few weeks?

Here is what I do know.....from the very first time I heard about the Civil War in America (probably at age 8 or 9) I also heard about stories where brothers and cousins in the Union Army were fighting brothers and cousins in the Confederate Army.  I simply couldn't wrap my head around that fact as I thought about my own brother and cousins.

I thought to myself, "What could possibly happen that would cause a brother or cousin to enlist in different armies and shoot at each other?"

Today as I watch the foul mouths, hyperbole and threats get hurled between Hillary and Trump supporters....I now know the answer.  I know brothers and sisters who now refuse to talk to each other because of the divisive election we just went through.

Now check out this article and discern for yourselves whether anything in it is possible;

The 3 Stage Plot to Assassinate Trump: Thirty Three Days to Armageddon

I have delayed writing this article for the past four days. It is not that I don’t believe in the analysis that I am going to offer in this article, I wholeheartedly do. My hesitation stems from the fact that if the globalists are successful in pulling off the following plot, America is headed for the darkest days in her history. This will mark the end of America and for most us, our lives will be turned upside down.

What am I talking about? I am referring to a progressive three-part plan that will culminate in the failure for Trump to take office and it will mark the end of the populist movement designed to “Make America Great Again”.

The next 33 days will determine the fate of America and the personal fate of all who read this article. This article is the results of over a year’s worth of analysis with regard to the Clinton/Trump campaign and the Primaries before that. This article is also, in part, based upon what I have learned about how the globalists operate. There is very little that they do that surprises me. That is because there is nothing they won’t do to extinguish freedom in this country. The next 33 days are the most dangerous 33 days in American history.

Here is the three-pronged approach being employed by the globalists to end the Trump threat and subjugate the people of this country in every way possible.

Phase One: Keep Counting Until the Democrats Get the Result That They Want

Phase Two: Steal the Election at the Electoral College Level

Phase Three: The Assassination of Donald Trump and the Takedown of the Independent Media

If Trump survives the Soros’ inspired Electoral College coup and prepares to take office, he becomes a marked man.

In 1963 when President Kennedy was murdered, there was no Independent Media. There was no internet and still, the facts have come out. However, it took 20-30 years for the real facts behind the JFK assassination to be pieced together.

The globalists know this and they are not going to allow the Independent Media to fan the flames of dissent and rebellion in the aftermath of a Trump assassination. I would fully expect that within 24-48 hours of Trump’s assassination, the Independent Media would cease to exist in its present form. Of course there will be extreme civil unrest, but it will be nothing that a little martial law coupled with a false flag, blaming Trump supporters as well as a two-term president that will not leave office that would not solve the consequences of a Trump assassination.

I expect a serious threat to be made on the life of Donald Trump at the inauguration. Perhaps this is why Trump is appointing several hard line military types such as Kelly and Mattis. He knows he’s a marked man and will rely on the military to protect him as best as they can.

Here;  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/12/13/the-3-stage-plot-to-assassinate-trump-thirty-three-days-to-armageddon/

Please keep praying for Donald and his team.  Also keep praying for USA.

Many Christians who voted for Trump believe that God heard our prayers and granted a reprieve from the perversion-abyss we have been tumbling down these past 8 years....but Satan can be heard growling through atheist-liberal-progressive voices all over social media.  He is extremely angry that his globalist intentions got Trumped!....and he may be working on an IED (improvised explosive device) for America as we speak.

NASA Warns Earth is Due for Extinction Level Event

Do you have your Christmas shopping done yet?  I sure hope so...because any day now a massive meteor could come careening out of the sky and smash into earth and kill everything...according to a NASA scientist.

A NASA scientist is warning that Earth is due for an “extinction-level” event like a comet or asteroid strike — and claims there won’t be anything we can do to stop it.

Joseph Nuth, an award-winning scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told attendees during Monday’s annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco that policymakers should start preparing for such a possible cataclysmic strike, despite the extremely long odds of it happening.

“But on the other hand, they are the extinction-level events, things like dinosaur killers, they’re 50 to 60 million years apart, essentially,” Nuth said. “You could say, of course, we’re due, but it’s a random course at that point.”

Making matters even worse is Nuth’s claim that humanity isn’t close to being prepared for such a threat, The Guardian reported.

Here;  http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/12/14/nasa-scientist-warns-earth-is-due-for-extinction-level-event.html

Rest easy readers...we can sleep well tonight knowing that our God knows the beginning from the end. He is the Alpha and the Omega.  Yes, there may be a Great Tribulation coming for planet earth following the rapture of the church...but there will be NO extinction level event before that.

Aleppo has Fallen...Damascus is Next?

Aleppo is the largest city in Syria.  The Russians, Iranians and Syrian military has just taken the city back from the rebels and made it a heap of ruins in the process....now we should be watching Damascus.

This is according to Amir Tsarfati who was a recent speaker at Jan Markell's prophecy conference held here in MN last October.

See it here;  http://beholdisrael.org/news-israel/amirs-blog/prophecy-update-aleppo-falling-%E2%80%93-damascus-next

Isaiah 17
“See, Damascus will no longer be a city
    but will become a heap of ruins.
2 The cities of Aroer will be deserted
    and left to flocks, which will lie down,
    with no one to make them afraid.

It seems very clear by this prophecy that Damascus will no longer be a city, but will become a heap of ruins in the Last Days.

"But Dennis how do you know that?

Ummmm.....because it says "Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins."...and the Bible has a 100% track record of being spot on.

"Oh yeah!  Well you seem very intolerant, racist and hateful!  Now excuse me while I go look for a puppy to hold while I drink some cocoa under a warm blanket while humming Kum-ba-yah!"

More Female Teachers Caught Having Sex With Students

Apostle Paul seems to hint that a society is in its end-game of moral decay when "even their women" get perverse.

Romans 1:26
Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Needless to say, it's unnatural for a mature woman to desire sex with a younger boy.

A quick Google search will reveal that over the past 10 years, countless female teachers have been caught having sex with teenagers.  We wonder how many there are who haven't been caught yet?

Today we find a few more making headlines.

A Texas high school algebra teacher called off her wedding after she was arrested last month for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student — who apparently started the fling by inviting her to steamy Snapchat sessions.

Alaina Ferguson, 23, of Plano, was released from jail in lieu of $100,000 bond after being booked on charges of sexually assaulting the boy, according to Fox 4. Ferguson was also ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and deactivate all social media accounts.

The alleged relationship began at the beginning of the school year when the Plano Senior High student wrote his Snapchat handle on a test and gave it to Ferguson, according to an arrest warrant obtained by The Post.

Shortly after speaking on the app, Ferguson met up with the teen in Lewisville, where they reportedly had sex on a park bench.

Ferguson is accused of sending the boy nude selfies, plying him with alcohol and having sex with him in her fiancé’s apartment while he was out of town on a hunting trip just two weeks after their initial encounter.

They went on to have sex at the apartment on several more occasions and also played beer pong and ate pizza, according to CBS.

This incident is just the latest entry in a disturbing trend of female teachers sleeping with students:

Here;  http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/teacher-allegedly-had-sex-with-student-after-steamy-snapchats/

Yes....it is a disturbing trend....

We expect males to be more prone to perversion....but perverse females seem to be one more sign of just how far our society has fallen.

"But Dennis, don't you know that the pronouns MALE and FEMALE are a thing of the past?  Haven't you got the memo yet from Team Obama that there are now 37 recognized genders?  You really should quit using terms like "he" and "She" or "him" and "her"....it's disrespectful and hateful towards our gender-queer and and gender-neutral citizens!"

oh ish!

"In the beginning God created them MALE AND FEMALE.  MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM."

It's like God knew he should repeat himself....cuz he knew how dense/blind/dumb His subjects would ultimately become.

I truly am sorry if you are confused in your gender.  It's simply another sign of how mankind is DEVOLVING in this sin-sick world.

Indiana Town Ordered to Remove Cross from Christmas Tree

What is Christmas?

Ummm.....the word has Christ and Mass built right into it.

What is a Christmas tree?

Ummmm.....it's a Christian tradition of putting lights on trees to signify that Christ is a light that came to a dark and fallen world.

What is a cross?

Ummmm.....It's a Christian symbol that lots of people who celebrate Christmas put on their trees.

KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind. — Officials in an Indiana town removed a cross atop the town's Christmas tree because they said they could not win what was expected to be a costly lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

"It is with regret and sadness that the Knightstown Town Council has had the cross removed from the Christmas tree on the town square and is expected to approve a resolution at the next council meeting stating they will not return the cross to the tree," the council said in a Facebook post.

The council cites its inability to afford fighting a legal battle with the American Civil Liberties Union, a representative stated in an email to IndyStar.

Indiana's chapter of the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the town, about 40 miles east of Indianapolis, arguing the display of a Latin cross on the town square violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

The lawsuit was brought by Knightstown resident Joseph Tompkins. The town of about 2,100 people held a demonstration at the town square Sunday night, dedicated to keeping the cross on the tree.

Curt Hunt, pastor of the Knightstown United Methodist Church, led the event.

"This is demonstrative of the erosion of free expression of religion," Hunt told IndyStar.

"It is unfortunate that town council was forced to take the action," Hunt said. "It's my hope in the future, someone would be able to put forward the case under the First Amendment, that such displays do not violate the establishment of the First Amendment."

Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU of Indiana, said the decision to bring down the cross is a win for the First Amendment.

"We're obviously very happy and glad the issue could be resolved," Falk said, adding that Tompkins did not seek any monetary damages for the suit.

Here;  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/12/13/indiana-town-removes-cross-christmas-tree-after-aclu-lawsuit/95384080/

Dang liberals!  They should take a class in anti-bullying!

Another example of how the First Amendment is being misinterpreted by liberals to mean NO RELIGION can be displayed.

Trump Team Searching for US Embassy Site in Jerusalem

Who has a 3000 year historic claim to Jerusalem?.....Jews

Whose holy book NEVER mentions Jerusalem?....The Koran

How many times is the word Jerusalem in the Bible?....a lot.

What city does the God of the universe claim as His?....Jerusalem

Who passed a resolution over 20 years ago to put their embassy in Jerusalem....USA

Who is now looking to actually do what Congress recommended 20 years ago....Pres Elect Trump

The incoming Trump administration is reportedly searching Jerusalem for a feasible site in which to locate the U.S. Embassy, according to a report broadcast Monday evening by Channel 2 television news.

The report comes on the heels of one earlier in the day quoting senior aide Kellyanne Conway, who told media that moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a “big priority” for President-elect Donald Trump.

Conway told conservative U.S. radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, an attorney who broadcasts with the Salem Radio Network, that Trump “made it very clear during the campaign… and as president-elect I’ve heard him repeat it several times privately, if not publicly.”

She pointed out that such a move would be “easy to do” and wondered why other presidents have not done so, saying that it would be something that Israel, “a great friend in the Middle East” would appreciate. She also noted it is “something that a lot of Jewish Americans have expressed their preference for.”

The Politico website explained in an article on the issue that “The United Nations does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and most countries keep their embassies in the vicinity of Tel Aviv.”

Here;  http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/report-trump-team-searching-for-embassy-site-in-jerusalem/2016/12/12/

Of course the "Muhammad and his flying horse" folks (practicing Muslims) are NOT going to be happy with this news.

As for me....I can't help but smile.

"I will bless those who bless (the Jews) and curse those who curse them."---says the One True God.

Venezuela Pulls Highest Value Bank Notes From Circulation

Last week we blogged about India pulling it's larger bank notes out of circulation.  Today we read about Venezuela doing something similar.

Of course there could and will be different reasons for nations making this move....but remember that it is ALL moving the world closer and closer to a CASHLESS SOCIETY.

The Venezuelan government has announced it will remove the country's highest-denomination banknote from circulation within 72 hours to combat contraband.

Central bank data suggests there are more than six billion 100-bolivar notes in circulation, making up almost half of all currency.

Venezuelans will have 10 days from Wednesday to exchange the notes for coins and new, higher-value bills.

President Nicolas Maduro said the move would stop gangs hoarding the notes.

But in India, a similar move to scrap high-value bank notes last month has caused major disruption.

In a surprise announcement, Mr Maduro said on Sunday that the 100-bolivar note, worth about 2 US cents (£0.015) on the black market, would be taken out of circulation on Wednesday.

The president said the aim was to tackle transnational gangs which hoard the Venezuelan notes abroad, a move he has in the past described as part of the "economic war" being waged against his government.

He said the gangs held more than 300bn bolivares worth of currency, most of it in 100-bolivar notes.

President Maduro said there were "entire warehouses full of 100-bolivar notes in the [Colombian cities of] Cucuta, Cartagena, Maicao and Buaramanga".

Here;  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38284485

One day the entire population on planet earth will be required to have some sort of mark on their arm or forehead in order to buy or sell anything. 

Revelation 13

15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

Our blessed hope is that we will be kept from this awful time because Jesus came a few years earlier and called to His bride OUT OF this fallen world.

Even a few decades ago, it would have been impossible to read this passage from Revelation and have any idea how it could literally come true.  Today, with our explosive technology, a global-cashless-society is not only POSSIBLE....its' very PROBABLE.