Vatican Now Saying Men Evolved From Apes

As I have said numerous times, I have NO IDEA how old the earth is, BUT, the Bible is clear that God created Adam and Eve in HIS OWN IMAGE and He did it only about 7-10,000 years ago.  If you stray from that idea you will find yourself with some real theological problems.

Why?

Because God said that all sin came into the world through one man, Adam.  

Romans 5:12

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned.

So if we evolved from apes then sin doesn't really exist.  Do we arrest an ape if he raped, killed or beat up another ape?  No.  How about if he kills one of his offspring?  No.  How about if he kills another ape fighting over a female?  No.

So on what day in evolution did the ape become more man than more ape?  On what day was man held accountable for his sin?  On what day in evolution did the ape-man KNOW the difference between good and evil?

If God didn't create men in his own image then the Gospel isn't really needed.  And that's exactly what Satan wants the world to believe.  Our public schools pump it into our kids heads every day but now we read the Catholic Church may be joining them.

Last month, the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VRG) launched a new project, a website to present their theories, with the expressed mission of showing the world that “the Church and science can coexist.” A closer look shows that the Vatican project is challenged by the Biblical account of creation and comes very close to explicitly rejecting Genesis.

Established in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as the Vatican’s scientific institution, the VRG is currently headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and operates a telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in the United States. The mandate of the current VRG stated by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 was to “show the world that the Church supports science.” 

In a 2002 interview for the Catholic Education Resource Center, George Coyne, a Jesuit who ran the VRG for over a quarter of a century until he retired in 2006, stated that the Vatican policy was to firmly embrace evolution, “both biological and cosmological,” as fact. 

“Revelation teaches us that man was created in the image and likeness of God,” Coyne stated, citing Pope John Paul as the source.”New knowledge has led us to realize that the theory of evolution is no longer a mere hypothesis.”“The Catholic church has long accepted a developmental worldview, complete with descent from apes and a Big Bang beginning,” Coyne said. 

“To imagine a Creator twiddling with the constants of nature is a bit like thinking of God making a big pot of soup,” he declares with a rare flash of sarcasm. A bit more onion, a bit less salt, and hey presto the perfect gazpacho. “It’s a return to the old vision of a watchmaker God, only it’s even more fundamentalist.”

Coyne’s writings still serve as the basis for the Vatican’s website. In one paper, he rejects the validity of “intelligent design”, the assertion that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as random natural selection.

In this conflict between evolution and Biblical Creation, Coyne and the Vatican assert that evolution is the irrefutable truth. On the new website, Coyne states that “intelligent design movement lies outside [scientific] methodology.”

Here;  https://www.israel365news.com/194150/vatican-challenges-bible-promotes-evolution-that-man-evolved-from-apes/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Vatican+Challenges+Bible%3A+Promotes+evolution%2C+that+man+evolved+from+apes+and+Today+s+Top+Stories&utm_campaign=I3N+-+AM+-+June+23%2C+2021

Can you see how the Catholic Church is further setting itself up to be the institution who delivers the FALSE PROPHET to all the folks who are left behind?  They have already said that if/when aliens show up they will baptize them as brothers.  Why not?  If we evolved from simple life forms on earth then certainly there has to be millions of other "human like" intelligent beings who evolved on other planets who are smarter and more evolved than we are!  We could learn SO MUCH from ET when he arrives!  And when they deny the deity of Christ we are told the God will send the left behind humans a great delusion so that they will believe this lie.

How close are we to the fulfillment of all prophecy starting with the rapture?  We don't know the day or the hour, but it sure seems like it could happen any day now.  Don't be surprised.

First Transgender Olympian

 For those of us alive in the 1980's it was a huge deal when Russia sent very masculine looking women to compete against our feminine women.  We demanded drug testing to find out if those Russian "women" were actually women?  Everyone in the entire world KNEW it was unfair for men to compete against women.

But not today!  The world is suddenly WOKE!  We understand that men can claim to be women and we must take them at their word!  

We actually hope that the Leftists will see the day when men start taking ALL of the women's scholarships at all the colleges across the country.  Sooner than later, when college boys realize that if they couldn't get a scholarship and full ride by trying out for a men's team, they can collect thousands of $$ by claiming to be a woman and trying out for the women's team!

Today we read about the first transgender Olympian.  So proud!

Laurel Hubbard will go down in the history books at the Tokyo Olympics as the first transgender athlete to compete at the Games.

But the consequences of this decision for female athletes and women in general will be devastating and long-lasting.

The day may be imminent when natural-born females are no longer represented on the Olympic medal podium as biological males start to make serious inroads into their sports.

Laurel Hubbard, 43, is among five weightlifters chosen to represent New Zealand in the Tokyo Olympics to compete in the women’s 87-kilogram category. As an aside, he is also the progeny of Dick Hubbard, the former liberal mayor of Auckland. The criticism and controversy that has greeted the news of the first transgender athlete to participate in the Games does not seem misplaced. First, Hubbard, whose inclusion won the approval of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, will enjoy a competitive advantage over his contenders that has been scientifically proven to come with inborn male attributes.

It seems ridiculous to have to remind anyone of the obvious anatomical differences between males and females, but such is the state of the current world we live in.

According to one study, published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, “trans women still had a 9% faster mean run speed after the 1 year period of testosterone suppression that is recommended by World Athletics for inclusion in women’s events.”

The developmental biologist Dr. Emma Hilton seconded this opinion.

“Males can run faster, jump longer, throw further and lift heavier than females,” Hilton confirmed in a 2019 discussion.

“They outperform females by 10% on the running track to 30% when throwing various balls.”

Hilton went on to produce some sports trivia to support her claim:

-there are 9,000 males between 100m world record holders Usain Bolt and Florence Griffith Joyner, the fastest woman of all time;

-the current female 100m Olympic champion, Elaine Thompson, is slower than the 14 year old schoolboy record holder;

-under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women’s National Team in a scrimmage.

Criticism on the decision to include Hubbard on the New Zealand team has been fierce.

Belgian weightlifter Anna Vanbellinghen said that allowing Hubbard to compete at Tokyo was unfair to female athletes, calling it “a bad joke.”

New Zealander Daniel Leo, a former professional rugby player turned CEO, remarked in a tweet that the decision to include Hubbard “tarnishes [New Zealand’s] reputation BIG TIME.”

Meanwhile, the British advocacy group, Fair Play for Women, slammed the IOC’s policy as “blatantly unfair.”

“The IOC stated in its 2015 transgender guidelines that the overriding sporting objective is, and remains, the guarantee of fair competition,” remarked Nicola Williams, FPFW director.

“But its current rules are blatantly unfair to women, and to trans gender women, who both want to play by rules which are fair to everybody.”

In the United States, meanwhile, resistance to the madness has taken root. A number of state legislatures are opposed to the idea of permitting transgender women to play sports alongside women. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa and Kentucky, for example, are just some of the states that have passed legislation strictly forbidding the participation of biological males in female sports unless they have undergone full reassessment surgery and taken the relative hormones.

Louisiana law, by way of example, states that the student-athlete is eligible to compete in the reassigned gender when, among other procedures, “surgical anatomical changes have been completed, including external genitalia changes and gonadectomy.” They even demand that “legal recognition of the sex reassignment has been conferred with all the proper governmental agencies (Driver’s license, voter registration, etc.).”

Here;  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/does-first-transgender-olympian-signal-death-knell-female-sport

My readers know this but for anyone new who doesn't understand the lunacy and how it relates to prophecy, this is an attack on God's order.  God made them MALE and FEMALE.  The godless folks in the world want to claim that their are an infinite number of genders and do away totally with male and female.

The Democrats are falling right in line by insisting that words like "birthing person" be used instead of "mother".

The fact that these folks are succumbing to such lunacy may very well be the foreshadowing of 2 Thessalonians where "God sends" a great delusion on those folks who are left behind after the rapture.

Summer Camp for Future Terrorists

 Many of us grew up going to church camp or family camp every summer.  We would canoe, sing around the campfire, ride horses, play kickball and do a ton of fun things.  

The Palestinians are sending their boys to camp this summer too!  Terrorist Camp is where they learn to hate Jews, handle weapons, jump through fire and crawl out of holes carrying a weapon.

So pretty sure the next generation of Arabs living in Palestine are going to continue to wage war against Israel and the Jews.

The military wings of the Hamas terror group and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are recruiting Palestinian children and teenagers for their upcoming annual summer camps to train them and win their support to become future operatives in the terrorist organizations.

The summer camps are "a type of indoctrination into the group's ideology. What they are trying to do here is to prepare these child minors into possibly joining militant groups at an older age of about 16. There are many child militants out there," Joe Truzman, research analyst at FDD's Long War Journal told The Algemeiner. 

"For someone in Gaza it is normal. They don't bat an eye. A lot of the children look up to these militants, they are their freedom fighters. There is nothing more honorable than to join one of their militant groups to become a shaheed -- a martyr."

According to David Bedein, Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research, a promotional video for the summer camp suggests that the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, last week recruited and registered Palestinian children for the program at United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools in Gaza. Other places for recruitment for the basic military training camps included mosques and other locations in the Gaza Strip.

Under the moniker 'Sword of Jerusalem,' a reference to the recent Gaza conflict in May, the al-Qassam Brigades invited four male age groups -- from around nine years old at primary school, to high school, college students and adults -- to join the camps under the guidance of the terror group's military advisors. 

One of the promotional video invitations for the summer event shows children engaged in a number of military training activities from marching with guns, jumping through rings of fire, and crawling out of holes in the ground armed with a weapon. The summer camps are for the duration of one or two weeks at the most, according to Truzman.

"More than 50,000 kids in Gaza have signed up so far to participate in Hamas' special terrorist summer camps for kids. That's tragic & unacceptable. Where are their parents?" tweeted Ofir Gendelman, the Israeli Prime Minister's spokesperson for the Arab media. "Hamas deliberately uses Palestinian kids and civilians in Gaza as human shields. That's a war crime."

If you are between the ages of 14 and 17, Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing -- Saraya al-Quds -- has opened registration on Sunday for its upcoming military summer camp, according to Truzman.

The terror groups are publishing "photos of the militants in their full gear with their rifles and bandanas covering up their face signing these children up. They are clearly children," Truzman added. "At the Gaza summer camps the children do a lot of things: weapons training, gorilla tactics, combat training, mock abduction of IDF soldiers. This year, I don't expect any new technology to be shown or something. Maybe we will see some of them operating a drone."

According to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad summer camp flyer, the children will receive educational training, military training, security training and engage in sports activities.

"Eventually around 16 or 17 they are recruited into the militant groups to serve in artillery, cyber units and other military units. Very common to see them being recruited into artillery units where a lot of these child soldiers are getting killed which we saw in the recent war," Truzman said.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reported that at least 248 Palestinians were killed during the 11 days of last month's fighting, including 66 children and teens. Earlier this month, findings by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) disclosed that a second Hamas military operative -- identified as 16 year-old Muhammad Sabar Ibrahim Suleiman -- was among the list of children killed during the clashes between Israel and the terror group.

Here;  https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4794

50,000 kids have already signed up for this wonderful summer camp experience!  

I'm sure most of my readers are aware that the Palestinians name schools after men who have killed Jews or committed other attacks on Jews or Israel.  They also pay families of dead terrorists a monthly pension if they died as a "martyr" trying to kill Jews.  We call this practice of theirs, "Pay-to-Slay" and we wonder how much of Joe Biden's COVID RELIEF package that went to the Palestinians is being used to for devilish practices?

Puerto Ricans in Chicago Dragged Out of Car and Shot

 I feel it's necessary to post this article so you can see what is happening with your own eyes.  In the video from this past weekend out of Chicago, you can see a Puerto Rican couple with the flag of Puerto Rico flying on their trunk, being pulled from their car by 3 black men and shot at point blank range.  It's common knowledge that Latinos and blacks have "cultural differences"....meaning they don't like each other as a community.

So this should be a hate crime right?  Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton should be there begging the black community to lay down their guns and cease the senseless violence.  The MSM should be asking why 7% of Americans are black males and yet commit almost 50% of the violent crimes.  Someone should be asking why the black man shooting has his pants almost on the ground.

A man was killed, and a woman was critically injured in a shooting Saturday night in Humboldt Park.

There has been crickets in the media about this possible hate crime.

The shooting took place as people were leaving Chicago’s 43rd Annual Puerto Rican People’s Day Parade, which people from all over the country and Puerto Rico travel to the city to attend.

The victims had a large Puerto Rican flag waving from their car when they were approached by a mob of black men and pulled from the vehicle and shot.

Police say the couple was “ambushed” by “up to three males.”

ABC 7 reports that “the man was rushed to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. He has not been identified. The woman was struck in the neck and rushed to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.”

Watch the short video here;  https://world365.info/horrific-video-puerto-rican-couple-yanked-from-their-car-and-shot-by-mob-of-black-men-in-chicago/

At least 21 people were shot in Chicago in one night last weekend.  Can you take a guess at what color all of the shooters were?  Can you take a guess on what color MOST of the shooting victims were?

That's not racist to point out facts.  But yet the Left and the MSM have declared that such facts can't be repeated because they could be construed as racist.

Oh.

Jews Believe Current Persecution is Indicator of Messiah Coming

 I think my readers all understand this by now, but will explain it one more time.  The religious Jews don't accept that Jesus is the messiah. So they are waiting for a messiah to come.  

The followers of Christ accept Jesus as the Messiah and are awaiting His return, first into the clouds to snatch away the Bride and next to sit on David's throne and rule as a King for 1000 years.

What's super interesting to watch is that WE BELIEVE that Jesus is soon coming and the religious Jews will be left behind because THEY HAVE REJECTED JESUS.

Soon after we are gone the Antichrist will be revealed and it's pretty obvious that at some point in the first 3 1/2 years that many of the Jews will accept him as their messiah.  This is probably why they let him into the soon-to-be-built 3rd Temple where Antichrist declares himself to be god.  When this happens the Jews figure out they have been deceived and many, many will be killed along with many, many recognizing that Jesus was and is their Messiah.

So this next article is really interesting when you understand that the Jews are looking at signs around the world and believing that their False-messiah (the Antichrist) is soon coming!  And if the rapture happens before the Antichrist is even revealed, how much MORE READY should we be for the trumpet to blow.

A rabbi known for his end of days lessons explained that the recent wave of antisemitism that accompanied Hamas’ genocidal attack on Israel was predicted by the Prophet Daniel as a means of weeding out the haters of Israel. The next stage, the rabbi predicted will be millions of Jews in Israel rebuilding the Kingdom of David accompanied by tens of millions of righteous gentiles who are grasping onto their fringes.

Rabbi Isser Z. Weisberg of Machon Mishne Torah in Lakewood, New Jersey recently released a video in which he discussed the recent outbreak of anti-Semitism that accompanied the conflict between Israel and Gaza and how it was prophetic and necessary before the final redemption.

“The mini Arab-Israeli war of May 2021 brought many people out of the woodwork; the good and the bad,” Rabbi Weisberg began. “Sadly, the bad outnumbered the good by about ten to one. But this is the way it was meant to be. In times of exile and darkness, when God hides His presence, only those who really want to see, are able to see the truth.

At this time in human history, the ones who hate us plus the ones who couldn’t care less, are the majority of mankind. But many people of many faiths, including many many wonderful Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists, even some left-wing progressives, as well as a few very kind and very courageous Muslims, use the platforms they have on social media, or actually went out into the streets, to vocalize their support for the Jewish people. 

The war also brought out into the open the many hypocrites who spoke about how they really care about Israel and the Jews while at the same time instructing us to stop protecting ourselves by destructing the Hamas war machine, because this may accidentally cause civilian deaths in Gaza. These self-righteous hypocrites also encouraged the Israeli government to stop antagonizing Muslims by displaying any form of sovereignty in Jerusalem and specifically on the Temple Mount.

It is not enough, they implored and beseeched us, to allow the Muslims who already have complete control over the Temple Mount to pray whenever they want and to prostrate themselves on the ground facing Mecca with their backsides to the Holy of Holies, where the presence of the Shechina never left. It is not enough to bar the Jews from uttering even one word of prayer on the Temple Mount. But in order to be sensitive to the feelings of the Muslims, we must allow them to riot and throw stones and even grenades on the worshippers below at the Kotel. Because if the police try in any way to stop this, it will antagonize the Muslims whose only desire is to live in peace with us (sarcasm intended).”

These gentile and Jewish hypocrites, Biden and Blinken, who embrace encourage and egg on our enemies, are stupid enough to believe that they can fool us into believing that they really care about us. 

As we have already mentioned in a previous video, that the identity of the righteous and the wicked will be revealed before the redemption, is explicitly prophesied at the end of Daniel.

Many will be purified and purged and refined; the wicked will act wickedly and none of the wicked will understand; but the knowledgeable will understand. Daniel 12:10

Here:  https://www.israel365news.com/194034/currrent-wave-of-anti-semitism-part-of-daniels-prophesied-purification-before-redemption-says-rabbi/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Current+Wave+of+Anti-Semitism+Part+of+Daniel+s+Prophesied+Purification+Before+Redemption%2C+Says+Rabbi&utm_campaign=I3N+-+PM+-+June+20%2C+2021

Of course we have been blogging these past 13 years because we can't help but share the incredible, prophetic news that seems to jump off the news pages every single day.  We hope these news articles make you excited to go out and do the work of spreading seed because you can see that there isn't much daylight with which to work.

As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.  John 9:4

Mega-Drought 2021

 We blogged on the drought in USA last week and today we wanted to add this Nearing Midnight entry to the conversation. 

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The Great “Mega-Drought” of 2021

Many Western states are in the grips of a drought that is starting to have a major impact on the local economy. The dry period has lasted so long, it has been given the rank of “Mega-Drought.” A return to normal moisture levels would require months of heavy rainfall.

According to The Weather Channel, 89% of the Western U.S. is experiencing drought conditions. More than half — about 55% — of the West is experiencing the highest levels of “extreme” and exceptional” drought.

The state of North Dakota is in the second-worst level of drought, and ranchers are auctioning off their cattle by the thousands.

“Normally this time of the year, we’re probably looking at 400-600 head, and a lot of times would be every other week,” said former auctioneer Ron Torgerson.

Recently, more than 4,200 head of cattle were sold at Rugby Livestock and Auction during a two-day sale. Needless to say, ranchers in North Dakota don’t want to get rid of their cattle, but the drought has pushed prices for hay and corn so high that many of them simply have no choice.

Feeder Cattle prices have declined as herds are being sent to the slaughterhouse. As cattle herds shrink all over the western half of the country, beef prices will move significantly higher a few months down the road.

Record heat during the past few weeks has yielded no shortage of horror stories. Almond growers have lost whole orchards, and 17 million endangered salmon are being shipped to the sea because rivers are too hot to navigate.

Meanwhile, the drought continues to push the water level in Lake Mead into the danger zone. According to CBS News, Lake Mead has hit the “lowest level ever recorded.” Since most Western states get nearly zero amounts of rain during the summer, Lake Mead will continue to dry up for several months.

Formed in 1937 by the construction of the Hoover Dam, Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S. The reservoir supplies water to 25 million people in Los Angeles, San Diego, Tucson and Las Vegas, per Reuters. Lake Mead has not been full since 2000, with water levels falling 140 vertical feet since then, and it is currently at just 36 percent of capacity.

The ability to produce electrical power at Hoover Dam has become a concern. Lake Mead has dropped so much that it has cut the dam’s hydropower output by nearly 25%. At some point, the dam could stop producing electricity altogether.

For the first time ever, the federal government is expected to declare a water shortage on the lower Colorado River later this summer. That will force automatic cuts to the water supply for Nevada and Arizona starting in 2022. Homeowners have higher priority and, at first, won’t feel the pain as badly as farmers will.

Dan Thelander is a second-generation family farmer in Arizona’s Pinal County. The water to grow his corn and alfalfa fields comes from Lake Mead. “If we don’t have irrigation water, we can’t farm,” he said. “So, next year, we are going to get about 25% less water; [this] means we’re going to have to fallow or not plant 25% of our land.”

Unless something changes, Thelander and other farmers in the region could potentially have all water cut off in 2023. That is just two years away.

Farmers in California are in far worse shape. Some have already been informed that they will not be getting any water allocated to them at all here in 2021. It is being projected that farmers in the state will not grow anything on 500,000 acres this year; that is really bad news because California grows more than a third of our vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts.

California’s groundwater situation is another factor that is putting pressure on food production. For decades, groundwater was pumped with no statewide limits. As the water level dropped, farmers have been drilling deeper wells to suck out more water to plant. We are now at a point where the groundwater levels are so low, many fields cannot be planted without access to surface water.

As I look back over the past decade, there has not been a single year that did not have a major disaster. Judging from 2020 and 2021, it now appears we are going to have multi disasters for any given future year. Since the tribulation hour will likely have monthly disasters, the rapture must be very near.

“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28).

–Todd

Here; https://www.raptureready.com/category/nearing-midnight/