🔴The latest @FAO Food Price Index is out! Global food commodity prices rose in July, influenced by the termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and new trade restrictions on rice.https://t.co/wuPRM9DIAe — FAO Newsroom (@FAOnews) August 4, 2023 COGwriter The United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) is reporting a significant increase in food price […]
Month: August 2023
2 Corinthians 6: Salvation and Persecutions
Portion of 2 Corinthians from late 2nd century Papyrus 46 (photo from Wikipedia) COGwriter The Continuing Church of God is pleased to announce this sermon on its ContinuingCOG channel: 1:11:19 2 Corinthians 6: Salvation and Persecutions In this sermon, Dr. Thiel goes over each verse of the sixth chapter of the Apostle Paul’s epistle (letter) to the Christians in Corinth. […]
‘Hebrew Media Claims Christians Brought Red Heifer to Israel to Establish Antichrist’
🐮A very rare living Red Heifer is settling into its new home at the Ancient Shiloh Heritage site, former home of the Biblical Tabernacle. LEARN MORE 👇 #parahadumah https://t.co/dGyXEfo5Dg — Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) July 16, 2023 COGwriter In its newsletter today, the Temple Institute had the photo of the red heifer in the tweet […]
‘Great Evil Is Roaming The Streets Of America’
(UnSplash photo) COGwriter Michael Snyder posted the following: Great Evil Is Roaming The Streets Of America August 3, 2023 America’s societal decline appears to be accelerating. Hordes of predators are roaming our streets, drug addiction has risen to unprecedented levels, and crime is completely out of control. … A 29-year-old man named Negasi Zuberi recently kidnapped […]
What should you tell children who ask about dinosaurs?
Dinosaur bones (Wikipedia Commons) COGwriter The National Catholic Register had the following in an article by Stacy Trasancos: What Do You Say When Kids Ask About Dinosaurs? Suppose you catechize your children properly and teach them all about Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and original sin. Suppose you sit on the sofa one […]
Niger coup, Haitian gangs, wars, and rumors of war
General Abdourahmane Tchiani has declared himself the new leader of Niger after a coup. https://t.co/RVic6kqDmm pic.twitter.com/IbIl73a0iu — Dr. Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) July 28, 2023 COGwriter Here is a report about the military coup is Niger: August 3, 2023 Days after the democratically elected president of Niger was deposed in a military coup, thousands of supporters […]
Politico: Why China is not as powerful as the West might think
China’s hukou policy, designed to limit geographic mobility, significantly affects bargaining power within the household and favors the spouse with the better hukou, from Liqun Zhuge and @lang_econ https://t.co/4Fb9cqgTnW pic.twitter.com/pXHYPYgE8b — NBER (@nberpubs) May 18, 2023 COGwriter China continues to take steps to rise and increase its influence. While many see China as the power […]
Priscilla and Aquila
COGwriter Priscilla and Aquila were early converts to Christianity that were married and must have worked together. I have listed Priscilla (also called Prisca) first, as the Bible twice lists her first. This is not to say that she was necessarily superior to her husband Aquila, but since the Bible gives her that honor as […]
Wall Street drops and investors step back after Fitch deservedly downgrades USA credit rating
“I will break the pride of your power” (Leviticus 26:19) COGwriter Notice the following: Wall Street drops, investors step back after Fitch downgrades US August 2, 2023 Wall Street dropped on Wednesday, as investors embarked on a round of profit-taking in response to the move by rating agency Fitch to downgrade the U.S. government’s credit […]
MS: 10 Signs That We Really Are Living in Apocalyptic Times
(from Pixabay) COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following (with brief information about many of them in italics by me, Bob Thiel): 10 Signs That We Really Are Living in Apocalyptic Times by MICHAEL SNYDER August 2, 2023 Time is running out for humanity. Our world becomes a little bit more like a […]