Mild Spring Zephyr

Author of Avoiding Armageddon & Bible Themes Study Guides

[Mild Spring Zephyr @MildSpringZephy]

3 books on Amazon: Bible Themes communicates the big ideas. Avoiding Armageddon=Bible Prophecy. The Courage to Make a Comeback=daily devo

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

This video by @rehoov is the most important ever. Here’s why:

We’ve been inundated by propagandists shouting Nakba Nakba Nakba. The Islamic world has manufactured the term to try invert the Holocaust the Jews suffered and claim one of their own. But the Palestinians never had Nakba.

The real Nakba was that of the Jews of the Middle East. And the UN, Europe and entire Arab Muslim world have tried everything possible to bury this truth for nearly 80 years.

Before, during and after the 1948 war of independence, Israel absorbed nearly one million people who were forced out of Arab lands with nothing. They were given no right of return. No compensation. The world simply forgot and discarded them. But Israel didn’t. We took them in and gave them everything. We had very little, but every Israeli citizen gathered whatever they could to help. We had no special UN agency set up for them. No support. Nobody cared. We did.

Today, there are no Jewish refugees. We did it on our own. No UN. No international community. Yet there are 5.5 million Palestinian refugees today because the UN and Arab world intentionally chose to keep them as eternal refugees and use them as weapons against Israel.

Please watch and share this most incredible documentary. The longer full version is available on YouTube.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

If you attend a Christian church in Texas, please immediately share this video with your Pastor.

Remind your Pastor that 30% of Christians are NOT registered to vote.

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @USAmbIsrael]

Today we honor the brave Americans who gave the last full measure of devotion.

We owe a debt we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice by defending our natural rights, standing united as one nation under God, and teaching our children that America is worth fighting for.

[Eric Metaxas @ericmetaxas]

We are a Christian nation. but not an "officially" Christian nation. We are MORE Christian than merely "officially" Christian, because out of Christian faith you get freedom -- including Religious Freedom. We don't FORCE our citizens to believe. We're not a theocracy.

[Louie Giglio @louiegiglio]

I don’t know what you’ve lost, and I don’t know what place you’re in right now, but I know this: God isn’t finished with you yet.

You may not run the exact race you thought you would be running, but God still has a race for you.

Here are God’s words as recorded in Jeremiah 29:11: “I know the plans I have for you… plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

The same God who spoke those words to the Israelites is speaking them to you today.

God has not forgotten the dreams He placed in your heart.

This is the God we are invited to serve: a God who gives dreams and sees those dreams through.

Don't give up.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

As most know, I am a huge Reagan fan.  I campaigned for him in 1976 and 1980.  I served in his administration for 8 years.  But one of the biggest mistakes was amnesty granted to 2.3 million illegal aliens.  And on top of that, amnesty was granted BEFORE the Democrats promised border security was funded.  The Democrats simply refused to honor their part of the bargain.  Reagan would later say it was a mistake.

Sequencing matters.  I am opposed to a deal.  I've been saying this for months.  Congratulations to those who've wanted a deal.  Looks like you've won the day.  And, if a deal is made, the Iranian regime will survive, at least for now.  We shall see how that works out over time.  I am quite skeptical any deal can contain the enemy or will be enforced for numerous reasons, especially after President Trump leaves office, or that the terrorists will cease being terrorists.  

That said, I have to assume that if there is a deal, the Iranian regime will be required to perform what it promises first -- that is, as a condition precedent to any relief.  I believe it would be a huge mistake if not.  Among other things, if the Iranian regime doesn't intend to follow through, we ought to know upfront not later.  And it should be forced to reveal itself now.  And releasing billions and billions of dollars to them, which was withheld before the war, will be nearly impossible to control once in their hands, and will be used to strengthen the regime.  Of this I have no doubt.  That's who they are.  That's their mindset.  They answer to no one but themselves.

And no Middle East country should be pressured to diminish its own national security for the sake of a deal.  Will Hezbollah actually survive and reestablish its dominance over Lebanon, and be free to keep shooting missiles into Israel?  Is that something we would accept?  This needs to be very clear.  "Israel's right to exist" cannot be only a slogan.  So far, I see nothing about the ballistic missiles, which is the most potent conventional weapon the Iranian regime has in its arsenal.  It'll be important to see how that is addresed.

I'll be very focused on a whole bunch of issues if a deal is made.  We all should.  It would be very strange if we weren't.  This isn't just some foreign enemy thousands of miles away.  It has killed and maimed thousands of our fellow Americans during the last 47 years.  The President made the strongest case, repeatedly, for why military action was so essential and timely.  It would also be far more fruitful, not to mention intelligent, if our senators and congressmen who want a deal would tell us what and how they think the specific mechanics of a deal should work from their perspective.    

More later ...

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Remember the guy who wouldn't take the flag pole down on his Virginia property awhile back? You might remember the news story several months ago about a crotchety old man in Virginia who defied his local Homeowners Association and refused to take down the flag pole on his property along with the large American flag he flew on it.

Now we learn who that old man was. On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg, Texas . That probably didn't make news back then.

But twenty five years later, on May 23, 1944, near Cyrano, Italy, That same Van T. Barfoot, who had in 1940 enlisted in the U.S. Army, set out alone to flank German machine gun positions from which gunfire was raining down on his fellow soldiers. His advance took him through a minefield but having done so, he proceeded to single-handedly take out three enemy machine gun positions, returning with 17 prisoners of war.

And if that weren’t enough for a day's work, he later took on and destroyed three German tanks sent to retake the machine gun positions.

That probably didn’t make much news either, given the scope of the war, but it did earn Van T. Barfoot, who retired as a Colonel after also serving In Korea and Vietnam , a well deserved Congressional Medal of Honor.

What did make news was his Neighborhood Association's quibble with how the 90-year-old Veteran chose to fly the American flag outside his suburban Virginia home. Seems the HOA rules said it was OK to fly a flag on a house-mounted bracket, but, for decorum, items such as Barfoot's 21-foot flagpole were "unsuitable."

Van Barfoot had been denied a permit for the pole, but erected it anyway and was facing Court action unless he agreed to take it down.

Then the HOA story made national TV, and the Neighborhood Association rethought its position and agreed to indulge this
aging hero who dwelt among them.

"In the time I have left", he said to the Associated Press, "I plan to continue to fly the American flag without interference."

As well he should. And if any of his neighbors had taken a notion to contest him further, they might have done well to read his Medal of Honor citation first. Seems it Indicates Mr. Van Barfoot wasn't particularly good at backing down.

If you've read this post and don't share it, - Guess what -You need your butt kicked. I share this with you because I don't want MY butt kicked anymore and I'm tired of seeing those who hate our country yet march in our streets, tear down our statues, burn our stores and loot our businesses have a free hand to do whatever they want.

WE ONLY LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE! AND, BECAUSE OF BRAVE OLD MEN LIKE VAN BARFOOT!

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

We still send $40,000,000 a week to the Taliban because the Senate won’t vote on my No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act.

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.

“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”

If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.

‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.

Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?

I started looking into it and I have not recovered.

God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.

But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.

Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.

The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.

Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.

Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.

None of them knew they were collaborating.

Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.

And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.

John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”

Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.

The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.

[Mild Spring Zephyr @MildSpringZephy]

@PeteHegseth Thank you !!!

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

THE ABYSS AHEAD

Are we still focused on the ideas that matter—or have we lost our way? In this clip, I talk about what I see as a dangerous shift away from discussing conservatism itself and toward distractions, personalities, and constant reaction.

These are serious times. More extreme, more volatile, and more uncertain than in years past. And yet, instead of teaching, debating, and reinforcing core principles, too much of the conversation is spent on everything but the ideas that define a movement.

That’s the real risk. Because if we’re not grounded in what we believe—if we’re not actively learning, teaching, and articulating those beliefs—we’re not prepared to meet the challenges ahead. And those challenges are real.

This is a call to refocus. To stop playing defense. To get serious about ideas again—and to rally around the principles that matter.

To watch the entire episode:

YouTube: https://t.co/cQdJq8mpGP

Rumble: https://t.co/qDKcMZTZjt

[Mild Spring Zephyr @MildSpringZephy]

@TheEXECUTlONER_ @Real_Ames My guess would be that weather cracking would crater the concrete over time because of all the air pockets, since the jack would only support a narrow slice of the concrete. DIY shoveling in a slurry of sand and gravel under the concrete might be much less expensive.

[Mild Spring Zephyr @MildSpringZephy]

@TheEagleyeNews You can stir fry the whole thing to make a batch last longer with refrigeration. Or cook it in omelets. Also good on hummus or bean dip.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

This photo was taken TWO WEEKS AGO.

The Amish, who YES are WHITE, are STILL in Western North Carolina rebuilding after Helene.

Hundreds of bridges.
Hundreds of homes.
By hand. FOR FREE. With NO cameras.

Zero mainstream media coverage.

GOD BLESS THE AMISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lee Strobel @LeeStrobel]

TODAY is premiere of this important new movie showing how science points toward God! It will inspire you! Get your tickets now and see it in theaters April 30-May 6.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

I've been on the air live twice now when someone has tried to kill the President. I worry about President Trump every day. I worry about these events.

The fact that DHS has been unfunded for 70 days in this environment is outrageous. Every American should be outraged by it.

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

The Senate just greenlit billions of taxpayer dollars to fund transgender experimentation on our kids.

The House must act to stop this abomination once and for all