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What Evangelical Christian ministries got wrong when the Soviet Union opened to the Gospel in 1991
This is not a post on the Russia-Ukraine conflict per se, but it’s a critique of what I believe that many Evangelical Christian ministries got wrong when the Soviet Union opened to the Gospel in 1991. It may have contributed…
Read moreAt least 53 percent of Ukraine's claimed mineral resources are in regions acceded to Russia
I heard about a couple of interesting developments recently concerning the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which are things I have said would happen in my articles and videos. WION TV graphic showing that 53% of Ukraine's mineral res…
Read moreWhy is Christmas celebrated on December 25th?
The date of Christmas was not determined by Church Fathers by copying the date of a pagan Roman winter solstice festival. Instead, the date was calculated from the Jewish calendar using the date of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 22nd, 6 BC, when Gabriel appeared to Zecharias in the Temple according to Luke 1:5. The conception of John occurred “immediately after that” when Zecharias returned home to Elizabeth to the hill country of Judea, by calculation on September 24th, 6 BC.
The conception of Jesus was calculated to have occurred when Elizabeth was “in her sixth month” (Luke 1:26,36) on March 25th, 5 BC, which was also the first day of Passover in that year. John’s birth was June 24th, 5 BC, followed by Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem on December 25th, which was also the first day of Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, in that year. The Church Father, Hippolytus of Rome, in his work Chronicon, saw that each date had allegorical significance.
So why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th?
Read moreTucker’s Sergei Lavrov Interview: What does Russia want?
Tucker’s Sergei Lavrov Interview: What does Russia want? Click play to connect to youtube If you listen only to Western legacy media, you probably think that the Russia-Ukraine conflict is nothing more than a big land grab by Vladimir…
Read moreRussia-Ukraine Conflict Was Provoked
Russia-Ukraine Conflict Was Provoked Click play to connect to youtube In the early days of the Russian-Ukraine war of 2022, the legacy media made it obligatory to include in any news presentation, the phrases, Vladimir Putin’s unprov…
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