Jeremiah 38 – 40, Psalm 74 and Psalm 79, etc.

Jeremiah 38 – 40, Psalm 74 and Psalm 79

In this passage, some folks come to Jeremiah because they had heard him say that those who stayed in Jerusalem would die, while those who surrender to the Babylonians would live. They go to the king and demand that Jeremiah be killed because his talk is undermining the morale of the “few fighting men we have left.” With the king’s approval, they take Jeremiah and put him in an empty mud-bottomed cistern.

Ehed-melech persuades the king to have Heremiah taken out of the cistern. When the king secretly asks Jeremiah about what will happen, he tells him the same thing: if he surrenders, he will live; if not, he will die. They keep this a secret.

From the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign and for two and one-half years, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem. On July 18, the Babylonians broke through the wall and the city fell. Zedekiah didn’t fare too well: they made him watch as they slaughtered his sons and all the nobles of Judah, then gouged out his eyes and led him to Babylon. Jeremiah was also in line to be taken in chains to Babylon, but Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard gave him a choice and Jeremiah decided to stay.

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading II King 24 – 25 and II Chronicles 36.

A Quick Fix

Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:

I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971 - before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1)year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in the United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that should be passed around.Congressional Reform Act of 2012

1. No tenure / no pension. A congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow in to the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all American do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective 12/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U. S.) to receive this message.

Don't you think it is time?

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!

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Proposed Budget Cuts

A liberal Denver Post Aurora Sentinel opinion piece by lifelong Democrat Chuck Green.

It is time that we asked George Bush to step aside so that Obama can get his presidency going.

Here's an opinion piece by Chuck Green who writes "Greener Pastures" for the Denver Post Aurora Sentinel...one of the more liberal papers in the country. Additionally, Mr. Green is a lifelong Democrat...so this is rather a stunning piece...Obama is victim of Bush's failed promises!

Barack Obama is setting a record-setting number of records during his first term in office:

Largest budget ever. Largest deficit ever. Largest number of broken promises ever.

Most self-serving speeches ever. Largest number of agenda-setting failures ever. Fastest dive in popularity ever!

Wow! I didn’t realize it’s all George Bush’s fault.

Just three years ago, fresh from his inauguration celebrations, President Obama was flying high. After one of the nation's most inspiring political campaigns, the election of America 's first black president had captured the hopes and dreams of millions. To his devout followers, it was inconceivable that a year later his administration would be gripped in self-imposed crisis.

Of course, they don't see it as self-imposed. It's all George Bush's fault !

George Bush, who doesn't have a vote in congress and who no longer occupies the White House, is to blame for it all.

He broke Obama's promise, to put all bills on the White House web site for five days before signing them.

He broke Obama's promise, to have the congressional health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.

He broke Obama's promise, to end earmarks.He broke Obama's promise, to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.

He broke Obama's promise, to close the detention center at Guantanamo in the first year.

He broke Obama's promise, to make peace with direct, no precondition talks with America 's most hate-filled enemies during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of global cooperation.

He broke Obama's promise, to end the hiring of former lobbyists into high White House jobs.

He broke Obama's promise, to end no-compete contracts with the government.

He broke Obama's promise, to disclose the names of all attendees at closed White House meetings.

He broke Obama's promise, for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in all matters.

He broke Obama's promise, to have chosen a home church to attend Sunday services with his family by Easter.

Yes, it's all George Bush's fault! President Obama is nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush administration.

If only George Bush wasn't still in charge, all of President Obama 's problems would be solved.

His promises would have been kept, the economy would be back on track, Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear bomb and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel . North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime, and integrity would have been restored to the federal government.

Oh, and did I mention what it would be like, if the Democrats, under the previous leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, didn't have the heavy yoke of George Bush around their necks? There would be no ear marks, no closed-door drafting of bills, no increase in deficit spending, no special-interest influence (unions), no vote buying ( Nebraska , Louisiana ).

If only George Bush wasn't still in charge, we'd have real change by now.

All the broken promises, all the failed legislation and delay (health care reform, immigration reform) is not President Obama 's fault or the fault of the Democrat-controlled Congress. It's all George Bush's fault !

Take for example the decision of Eric Holder, the president's attorney general, to hold terrorists' trials in New York City. Or his decision to try the Christmas Day underpants bomber as a civilian.

Two disastrous decisions.

Certainly those were bad judgments based on poor advice from George Bush!

Need more proof? You might recall that when Scott Brown won the election to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, capturing "The Ted Kennedy Seat", President Obama said, Brown's victory was the result of the same voter anger that propelled Obama into office in 2008.

People were still angry about George Bush and the policies of the past 10 years. And they wanted change.

Yes, according to the president, the voter rebellion in Massachusetts , was George Bush's fault.

Therefore, in retaliation, they elected a Republican to the Ted Kennedy seat, ending a half-century of domination by Democrats. It is all George Bush 's fault !

Will the failed administration of George Bush ever end, and the time for hope and and change ever arrive ???

Will President Obama ever accept responsibility for something/anything?

( Chuck Green is a veteran Colorado journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Denver Post.)

Subject: List of Republican Budget Cuts.....WOW YOU WON'TBELIEVE THIS !!!!!!!...

How about this!!  Read all the way to the bottom and see IF you’re not surprised...

Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.

These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting. Read to the end.

* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings.
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings.
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
* Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT THE HELL IS THISABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.
* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress.WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs -- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings.. WHY?????
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

My question is, what is all this crap doing in the budget in the first place?

Until next time…

Jeremiah 35 – 37

Jeremiah 35 – 37

In this passage, we are introduced to the Recabites, whom the Lord tells Jeremiah to invite in and offer wine. He does this, not just offering wine, but putting out cups and jugs of wine. They refuse to drink the wine because their ancestor Jehonadab son of Recab gave them commands never to drink wine, nor build houses or plant crops or vineyards, but to always use tents. The promise was if they followed these commands, they would live long, good lives in the land. They followed these instructions to the letter, but when the Babylonians were attacking, they feared them and decided to move to Jerusalem.

The Lord gives a message to Jeremiah which compares the difference in the way the Recabites obeyed their commands with the way the people of Judah and Jerusalem did not.

In chapter 36, the Lord tells Jeremiah to write down all of his messages against Israel, Judah and the other nations beginning with the very first message up to the very last. The Lord was trying to get the people to repent so he could forgive their sins and wrongdoings. Jeremiah dictated these messages to Baruch son of Neriah. Since Jeremiah was a prisoner and unable to go to the Temple, he sent Baruch to read them to the people who were there. Eventually, some of the officials felt the king should hear. The king was not impressed. As the scroll was read to him, he burned it up, section by section. As Jeremiah says, “N either the king nor his attendants showed any signs of fear or repentance at what they heard. The king even went so far as to order that Baruch and Jeremiah be arrested.

The Lord told Jeremiah to get another scroll and write everything just as he did before and to deliver it to King Jehoiakim of Judah, indicating he would have no heirs to sit on the throne of David, that the Lord would punish him and his family and attendants for their sins.

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 38 – 40, Psalm 74 and Psalm 79.

Until next time…

Jeremiah 32 – 34

When I read this passage today, I couldn’t help but think of the Dead Sea Scrolls. If you recall, some Bedouins found these scrolls in a cave – they were probably hidden there by the Essenes to protect them from the Romans. Scrolls have also been found in such places of Afghanistan.

While in prison, Jeremiah is told by the Lord to buy a piece of land from his cousin Hanamel and to bury the sealed deed and an unsealed copy of the deed in a pottery jar “to preserve them for a long time.” This was an object lesson for Jeremiah that even though the Babylonians were conquering Jerusalem, there would be a time when the people would return and fields would be bought and sold again.

So, here is Jeremiah, stuck in prison for delivering the Lord’s messages and the Lord tells him “remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come,” about healing Jerusalem’s wounds and giving it prosperity and true peace, and raising up a righteous descendant of King David’s line who will dow what is just and right throughout the land. His name will be “The Lord Is Our Righteousness.”

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 35 – 37.

Until next time…

Jeremiah 30 – 31, Stop the Leaks and Free Lunch

Jeremiah 30 – 31

Jeremiah 30 offers great hope when the Lord promises to restore the fortunes of his people of Israel and Judah and to bring them home to the land he gave their ancestors and rebuild Jerusalem. He also says:

“For my people will serve the Lord their God and their king descended from David—the king I will raise up for them.”

And

“You will be my people, and I will be your God.”

Jermiah 31 contains one of the prophecies fulfilled about Jesus when Herod, ordered his troops to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under: “A cry is heard in Ramah—deep anguish and bitter weeping. Rachel weeps for her children, refusing to be comforted—for her children are gone.”

Also, important in this chapter is the Lord’s promise of a new covenant, one where he will put his instructions deep within them and write it on their hearts. He will their God and they will be his people and where Jerusalem will never agin be captured or destroyed.

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 32 – 34.

Stop the Leaks

Please watch this video at:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-video-shows-former-military-members-of-the-intel-community-uniting-to-stop-leaks/ 

Free Lunch

From a California school teacher - - -
"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc.. where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a
Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America . (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weakand worried about"political correctness” that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressmen and Senators.
CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps..
He qualifies for free (no deductible), no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. Al l of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills AND his.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR
WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.

Jeremiah 26 – 29, God Bless America, and Michael Vey II

Jeremiah 26 – 29

Early in the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah, Jeremiah is given a message from the Lord that he is told to deliver in the courtyard in front of the Temple. The purpose of this message was to try to get God’s people to turn from their sins so that he would not have to destroy them. Did this ever tick off the priests, the prophets and the people. People don’t usually like to be reminded of the things they have done wrong. They mobbed Jeremiah and called for him to be killed. Of course, Jeremiah contended to the officals that his message was just what God had told him to say. A man named Ahikam son of Shaphan persuaded the court not to turn Jeremiah over to the mob.

The Lord gives Jeremiah another object to make his point to the people: a yoke to wear fastened to his neck with leather thongs. This was to demonstrate that they would be submitting to Babylon’s king and serving him with their necks under Babylon’s yoke.

When Hananiah son of Azzur, prophesied that Jeremiah was wong and that they would throw off the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar within two years. He took the wooden yoke from Jeremiah’s neck and broke it into pieces. The Lord had Jeremiah tell him that the wooden yoke would be replaced with a yoke of iron and the people would be forced into slavery under Nebuchadnezzar. He predicts Hananiah’s imminent death and, sure enough, within two months Hananiah died.

After the king, court officials and others had been deported from Jerusalem, Jeremiah sent a letter from Jerusalem to them telling them to plan to stay in Babylon, to build homes, plant gardens and eat the food they produce. He also told them they would only be there for seventy years and then he would bring them back. “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. For in those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me… I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”

What a gracious and forgiving God we have!

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 30 – 31.

God Bless America and those who love her

DO NOT ADD A SINGLE WORD

Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening. The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'. From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. General Bill Gann' USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171... During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It". NOW GET THIS !! 'Senator Obama replied: "As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing." (ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???) Obama continued: "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ...." When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past". "Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed,CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America " Yes, you read it right. I, for one, am speechless!!! Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS TO READ THIS, KEEP IT GOING ! ! SAVE AMERICA BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE ! !

Michael Vey II: Rise of the Elgen

Today, the second book in the Michael Vey series was released. In preparation for this, I re-read the first book. I had sort of forgotten how great the first book (Michael Vey: The Prisoner in Cell 25).

If you like a good read, you’ll love this series.

Until next time…

Jeremiah 23 – 25 and Made in China and Progress

Jeremiah 23 – 25

The Lord condemns Judah’s leaders and the false prophets, but promises that when the remnant is brought back, he will appoint responsible shepherds to care for them. He also promises to reaise up a righteous descendant from King David’s line to rule with wisdom. His name will be “The Lord Is Our Righteousness.”

Isn’t that exactly who Jesus is – our righteousness? We have no hope apart from God. No one is righteous because all have sinned. Only by the grace of God can we be saved. As Ephesians 2:8-10 says, “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so non can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

In chapter 24, we see a reference to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon exiling Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah to Babylon. Jeremiah is given another object lesson, this time with two baskets of figs: one basket contains ripe, delicious figs and the other figs that are two rotten to eat. The good figs represent those who are exiled to Babylon whom the Lord promises to give hearts that recognize him. They would be his people and hewould be their God. The rotten figs represent King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, all the people left in Jerusalem and those who live in Egypt. They will be an object of horror and a symbol of evil to every nation on earth. The Lord would send war, famine, and diease until they have vanished from the land he gave them.

In chapter 25, Jeremiah predicts that after seventy years of captivity, he would punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins. Babylon would become a wasteland.

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 26 – 29.

Made in China

It’s shocking that ABC would actually run this story…but I’m glad they did.  This is so hard to believe!

When will it end? November? OUR PRESIDENT, What the hell is he thinking? I-635 in Texas is being rebuilt with underground tolls from I-35 to I-45 and is contracted to a CHINESE firm for over $5 billion. Diane Sawyer reporting on U.S. bridge projects going to the Chinese.... NOT Americans. The bridges are right here in the U.S. and yet Obama has approved for Chinese contractors to come in and do the work. What about jobs for Americans??? Watch this video. It doesn't take long to view. This one should be tough for the supporters of the current regime to swallow....AND it comes from ABC NEWS U.S.A. Bridges and Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms Shocking to say the least! This video is a jaw-dropper that will make you sick. (It was also shocking that ABC was actually reporting this story.) The lead-in with Obama promising jobs in the U.S. by improving our infrastructure is so typical of all his promises! Our tax dollars are at work - for CHINA!!! I pray all the unemployed see this and cast their votes accordingly in 2012! CLICK here: U.S. Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms | Video - ABC News PLEASE PASS ON TO EVERYONE!!!

Progress on My Sewing Machine Case

Yesterday and today, I have made quite a bit of progress on my sewing machine case. The two ends and the two sides have had the Celtic designs traced, carved, and partially stamped. I intend to finish the stamping tonight.

The ends of the the case will have this cross – I have no idea why this looks so blue, but I’ll be coloring the background parts before I color the whole case..

The sides of the case have the following design:

After finishing the stamping, I will color the background with dark brown or black, then probably stain the case with some shade of brown.

Until next time…

Jeremiah 18 – 22 and Captions

Jeremiah 18 - 22

The Lord gives Jeremiah another object lesson, this time using a potter and his clay. Israel was like the clay in the potter’s hand; the clay could be smashed down and remolded if it didn’t turn out like the potter wanted.

The people reject Jeremiah’s warnings and plot ways to stop him. Jeremiah’s pleads for the Lord to deal with them in his anger. The Lord uses another object lesson to try to reach the people. He has Jeremiah buy a clay jar and take it through the Gate of Broken Pots to the garbage dump, accompanied by some of the leaders and priests.

Jeremiah was arrested, whipped and put in stocks when the priest in charge of the Temple of the Lord heard his prophesies. Jeremiah gives the priest a specific prophesy and tells him the Babylonians are coming to capture them and carry everyone away to Babylon.

Jeremiah is very unhappy with his lot in live, even to the point of cursing the day he was born and wondering why it ever happened.

Eventually, King Zedekiah (Judah) and the priest and Zephaniah come to Jeremiah to plead with him to ask the Lord to help them in the face of the attacks by Kind Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Jeremiah says the Lord will make their weapons useless against the invaders and will fight against Israel with a strong hand and a powerful arm. Once again God gives them the choice of life or death: life, if they surrender to the Babylonians or death if they do not.

Jeremiah also speaks specific prophecies to the members of the royal family of Judah.

Tomorrow, we’ll be reading Jeremiah 23 – 25.

Whoever captioned these is a genius!

Until next time…