Raymond Clements

Sharing Christian biblical message using sound principles.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

Why does Genesis 3:15 speak of the "seed of the woman" when Scripture ordinarily traces lineage through fathers?

Because from the very beginning, God was pointing to a unique Deliverer.

The promise begins with a woman in Eden (Genesis 3:15), narrows through Abraham (Genesis 12:3), Judah (Genesis 49:10), and David (2 Samuel 7:12–16), and ultimately arrives at the Messiah. The prophet Isaiah later adds another remarkable detail:

"Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son" (Isaiah 7:14).

Genesis 3:15 introduces the mystery. Isaiah 7:14 develops it. The genealogies preserve the Messianic line. Together they reveal a Redeemer who would be both the promised Seed of David and uniquely the Seed of the woman.

This is far more than an explanation for why humans dislike snakes. It is the opening promise of God's redemptive plan, one that unfolds through the entire Bible and culminates in the Messiah who crushes the serpent's head. (Genesis 3:15)

[Jason | 🇬🇧 🇿🇦 🇮🇱🇺🇲 @Ajaon_of_All]

Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.

I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.

Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.

I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"

You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

@RicoSauve111 Jon, you are correct that the word or concept does not come from the scriptures.

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

Gabe makes a clear statement with which I agree. Is that when the daily Jewish sacrifices start being carried our more than likely on the temple mount, then the 7 year count down has started which is covered in Daniel.

[The Emmaus Wire @EmmausWire]

This seems like a good time to share a quick update from Gabe on Iran peace negotiations, the Abraham Accords, and the "covenant with many."

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

@DDV23924893 @Isabelletkrause Did you find out what LOTR stands for as I dont know either? Thanks

[Rabbi Brian Samuel @rabbriansamuel]

These days, the perplexing question is, "How can you be Jewish and believe in Jesus?"

Yet, in the New Testament, it was the opposite. Being Jewish and believing in Jesus was the norm.

The question of the hour was, "How can you be Gentile and believe in Jesus?"

Much of the New Testament seeks to answer this question.

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

@BrephosUK Thank you. I got my PDF copy. I am planning on raising this gently with done believers at my church and see what sort of response I get. One guy agrees abortion is an issue, but he did not know that 1 in 3 have had abortion.

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

@BrephosUK I went to https://t.co/nEllxmotZT and then books I could not find it. What is the title and is the colour yellow as in the 2025 video or has it changed its colour.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

You are assuming something the text never actually says.

Yes, Messiah must be:

❖ From the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10)
❖ From David’s line (2 Samuel 7:12-16, Jeremiah 23:5)
❖ The promised King (Psalm 89:35-37)
Agreed.
But where does the Tanach say Messiah must come through a biological human father?

The messianic line actually begins with:

❖ “her seed” (Genesis 3:15)
Not “his seed.”

The promise then narrows:

❖ Seed of Abraham (Genesis 22:18)
❖ Seed of Isaac (Genesis 21:12)
❖ Seed of Jacob (Genesis 28:14)
❖ Tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10)
❖ House of David (2 Samuel 7:12-16)
Also, the appeal to Jeremiah 22:30 creates another problem. Coniah's line is told:

“No man of his descendants shall prosper, sitting on the throne of David…”

Matthew traces Joseph through that royal line (Matthew 1:11-12).
Yeshua receives legal royal rights through Joseph while not being physically descended through him, avoiding the Coniah issue.
And Isaiah speaks of Messiah as more than merely another human king:
“For unto us a child is born... and His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God...” (Isaiah 9:6)
The issue is not whether Messiah is Davidic. He must be.

The issue is whether Scripture explicitly requires a biological human father for Messiah. The Tanach never says that.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Australia lets the cat out of the bag!

In order to ban under 16s from social media, EVERYONE will have to have digital ID or they won’t be able to get on the internet

Starmer says Digital ID won’t be mandatory er Unless you never need the internet 🔥

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

American Politics and the Emerging Controversy of Zion https://t.co/Q09AsqiKML

[Kyronis @kyronis_talks]

A community college professor named Marty Lobdell taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years. The video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings online, with over 10 million views.

He spent his career watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because no one had taught them how their brain actually works when learning something difficult.

The lecture, “Study Less Study Smart,” contains a powerful framework.

Your brain cannot sustain focus the way most people believe. Studies show the average learner hits a wall between 25 and 30 minutes. After that, efficiency collapses. You’re still sitting there, but almost nothing is being absorbed.

Lobdell told the story of a student who planned to study 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week. Thirty hours total. She failed every class. She was not lacking effort. She was confusing time near books with actual learning. The fix is simple: when focus drops, stop, take a 5 minute rewarding break, then return. That reset makes a massive difference.
He also destroyed the myth of highlighting and re reading. Recognition is not the same as recall. To prove it, he read 13 random letters. Almost no one remembered them. Then he turned them into “Happy Thursday.” The entire room recalled them instantly. The brain stores meaning, not repetition.

This is why elaborative encoding works so well.

Finally, he shared the most important principle: 80 percent of study time should be active recitation. Close the book and explain the material in your own words. Teach it to someone else or an empty chair. Retrieval is where real learning happens.

His closing line stuck with me: If this information does not change your
behaviour, you have not actually learned it.

The best students do not study more hours. They stop confusing the feeling of studying with the reality of learning.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed]

My position is one of the hardest positions to take in a deeply divided and politicized world.

I criticize Islam, and I believe from my heart that it is an evil religion.
At the same time, I love Muslims as human beings, and I believe nobody should attack them or cause them any harm.

Many Muslims hate me and deliberately try to blur the line between criticism and hatred in order to portray me as a bigot.

At the same time, many non-Muslims attack me because they see my defense of Muslims as some leftover attachment from my Islamic background, and they confuse defending Muslims with defending Islam itself.

But these are two completely different things.

You can reject an ideology while still defending the dignity and safety of the people who follow it.

[Ron Cantor @RonSCantor]

🎯A serious problem today is spiritual elites who want us to trust them rather than the Spirit-illumined Word of God. We’re told to submit to authority and trust the pastors. And there is a real biblical call to honor leaders who have embraced the yoke of shepherding: “Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account” (Hebrews 13:17). The elders who lead well are “worthy of double honor” (1 Timothy 5:17).

SUBMISSION IS NOT ABSOLUTE

But that submission has a ceiling. When the apostles were ordered to stop preaching Messiah, Peter answered, “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). We honor our leaders, and we refuse to follow them into error. Both are biblical. It should flow like this:

🎯Word of God
🎯Spirit’s leading
🎯Conscience
🎯Leadership

This is exactly why Peter wrote 2 Peter — to warn believers about false teachers and to ground them in the Word of God as the standard for testing what they hear. “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies” (2 Peter 2:1).

JESUS WARNED AGAINST FALSE TEACHERS

Teachers sometimes go off the rails. They may have compelling supernatural stories to draw you in — “They mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error” (2 Peter 2:18) — but their teaching is off. Jesus himself warned, “For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24).

YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT

The discernment Peter calls for isn’t private intuition or “my truth.” It’s the believer, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, weighing every teaching against the Scriptures. The Bereans were called “more noble” because they “received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so” (Acts 17:11). Some leaders today would have rebuked the Bereans for not blindly following leadership.

DON'T TAKE THE "PROTEST" OUT OF PROTESTANT!

And what is so crazy about that is that the Protestant Reformation was started as a reaction to the Catholic Church's monopoly over doctrine, interpretation, and so much more. Protestants “protested” against such tight control…and now some are repeating it.

John says it directly: “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). And Paul: “Test everything; hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

ABUSE RESPONSES TO RAISING CONCERN

The trouble is, many believers feel guilty for voicing concern.

If they leave, they’re labeled as followers of Satan. If they warn others, they’re called divisive. Now, Scripture does warn against true divisiveness — splitting fellowship over secondary matters or personal preference (Titus 3:10). But raising the alarm over false teaching isn’t divisiveness; it’s faithfulness. Paul didn’t soften his words: “If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed” (Galatians 1:9). And Jude pleads with us to “contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).

Peter closes his letter with the exhortation that holds this whole message together: “Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position” (2 Peter 3:17).

THE ANOINTING IS IN YOU, NOT JUST THEM

So let me encourage you to read 2 Peter — it’s only three chapters. Every believer has the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9). Every believer is part of “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9). As John reminds us, “You have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth... the anointing that you received from him abides in you” (1 John 2:20, 27). Every believer can open the Word of God. Every believer, by the Spirit, can discern and think critically. You have been forewarned. Be on your guard.

—Dr. Ron Cantor
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[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My aim in court was to reclaim power for the elected MPs, and therefore the people, from the unelected bureaucrats - I failed. We now have the scandalous situation in which unqualified and unelected civil servants can wield parliamentary privilege to literally place themselves above the law.

They now hold a special legal status which means they cannot be challenged in court - positioned even higher than MPs for whom the system was actually designed.

Parliamentary privilege, an ancient right, exists so that MPs can speak without fear in the chamber, it does not exist to give faceless bureaucrats legal immunity.

I wanted to challenge the system in an open and fair court, with ruthless transparency so that the British people could finally see the truth.

Our judiciary has not allowed that to happen, enabling unelected civil servants to weaponise parliamentary privilege, designed for MPs, to entirely avoid scrutiny and fair legal challenge.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Leader of the House of Commons, previously commented on the case.

“Thus if Lowe wins, he will not have harmed Parliament, but defended it. For through cowardice we – and I was an MP at the time – abdicated our privileged responsibility and gave it to unelected boffins, who are not so much better than elected politicians after all, but much harder to eject.”

A fair summary, yet here we are.

I have come to the brutal conclusion that the only way to restore Britain is to win the next general election.

That is our last available route out.

Restore Britain is the only chance our country has.

[Raymond Clements @RaymondTheBrave]

Much of this post I agree with but I believe that the fouth empire was the Islamic domination and absolute carnage of what the Muslims did led by Mohammed for many centuries reaching as far as Spain & all the countries of North Africa all the way India & western Asia.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

WHAT IF DANIEL 2 PROVES GOD CONTROLS THE RISE AND FALL OF EMPIRES?

Thousands of years before the modern world existed…
Before Rome ruled…
Before Greece conquered nations…
Before Medo-Persia rose to power…
God already revealed the future.

Daniel 2 is not merely a story about a dream. It is one of the greatest prophetic chapters in all of Scripture, demonstrating that the God of Israel rules history itself.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was the most powerful man on earth. Babylon was wealthy, sophisticated, militarily dominant, and feared by the nations. Its hanging gardens, walls, temples, armies, astrologers, and wise men made it appear invincible.

Yet the king was terrified.

“And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled.” Daniel 2:1

The mighty king of Babylon could not understand his own dream.

So he demanded something impossible from his wise men: not only the interpretation, but the dream itself.

“There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king’s matter.” Daniel 2:10

That admission exposes the limits of human wisdom.

Political power cannot reveal truth.
Pagan religion cannot reveal truth.
Human philosophy cannot reveal truth.

Only God can.

The astrologers and magicians of Babylon stood helpless before a mystery from heaven. But Daniel responded differently.

He prayed.

“Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah… that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret.” Daniel 2:17–18
Before Daniel stood before kings, he bowed before God.

And God answered.

“Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision.” Daniel 2:19

Daniel immediately gave glory to God rather than taking credit for himself:

“He changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings.” Daniel 2:21

That verse alone destroys the illusion that rulers ultimately control history.

Empires rise because God permits it.
Empires fall because God decrees it.

Daniel then revealed the dream: a massive statue composed of successive metals representing Gentile world empires.

The head of gold was Babylon.
The chest and arms of silver were Medo-Persia.
The belly and thighs of bronze were Greece.
The legs of iron were Rome.
The feet mixed with iron and clay point to a divided kingdom connected to the Roman system.

What makes this prophecy astonishing is that Daniel wrote this centuries before several of these empires even existed.

Babylon fell.
Medo-Persia rose.
Greece conquered the world under Alexander.
Rome crushed nations with iron strength.

Exactly as God foretold.

As Chuck Missler once said:

“The Bible is the only book that stakes its authority on its ability to predict the future.”

And then the vision reaches its climax.
“A stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet.” Daniel 2:34

That Stone is not a human empire.
Not democracy.
Not the United Nations.
Not political reform.
Not military power.

It is the Kingdom of Messiah.

The Stone was “cut without hands,” meaning its origin is divine, not human. God Himself establishes this Kingdom.

“And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed.” Daniel 2:44

This is why Daniel 2 matters so much prophetically.
History is not random.
The nations are not spiraling out of control.
God already revealed the outline of Gentile dominion long ago.

The final phase of the statue, the iron and clay feet, appears strong outwardly but internally fragile. It points toward a future divided global system connected to the legacy of Rome. Scripture later reveals that this final kingdom will culminate in the rise of the Antichrist before Messiah returns to establish His reign.
But the Antichrist does not get the final word.

The Stone does.

“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Psalm 118:22

Yeshua Himself applied this imagery to Himself:

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” Matthew 21:42

The rejected Stone will one day crush every rebellious kingdom of man.

Daniel 2 also speaks powerfully to believers living in today’s cultural Babylon.

We live in an age obsessed with power, self, technology, entertainment, political salvation, and moral compromise. The pressure to conform is constant. Truth is redefined daily. Many churches compromise simply to avoid conflict with the spirit of the age.

But Daniel remained faithful in exile.

Before the lions’ den came the prayer room.
Before public influence came private conviction.
Before national impact came personal holiness.
Daniel did not blend in with Babylon.
He stood apart from it.

And God honored him for it.

John Walvoord wrote:
“Daniel 2 is the foundation of Gentile world history in prophecy.”

But it is also a call to courage.

God is still sovereign over kings.
Still sovereign over nations.
Still sovereign over history.

And one day every empire, ideology, rebellion, false religion, and throne raised against God will collapse like dust before the returning King.

The Stone rejected by the world will fill the whole earth.
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 11:15

[Nick Uva @nickuva]

Here’s some more about the Bible reading habits of the English Puritan, Thomas Brightman. His practice was to read the Greek New Testament all the way through every two weeks. During the first week, he would read the Gospels and Acts. In the second week, he would read the Epistles and Revelation.

The Gospels and Acts have 117 chapters combined: Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 21, and Acts 28, which add up to 117. He therefore had to read some 17 chapters per day during the first week of the two-week cycle.

The remainder of the New Testament has 143 chapters, which means that he had to read a little over 20 chapters per day during the second week.

Because the New Testament has 260 chapters in total, you can read through it in two weeks at an even pace of about 18.5 chapters per day.

Less than nine chapters a day is required to read through it in a month, or some three chapters a day to read through it once a quarter, i.e., four times a year.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Many of the onshore wind farms along the coasts of the UK and Denmark are falling apart after only 10 years.

A study reveals that energy contributions from wind farms begin to fall sharply after only 10 to 15 years, leaving the skeletons of steel and plastic blowing in the wind.

The economic analysis reveals the lifespan of an onshore turbine is not 20 to 25 years, as stated by the wind industry itself, supported by the UK Government.

This peer reviewed British study reveals that the energy production of onshore wind farms falls substantially as they get older, due to wear and tear. Energy and environmental economist, Professor Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh), carried out the statistical analysis of wind farm performance data in the UK and Denmark.

He concluded that load factors, like electricity generated as a percentage of capacity, declined a lot faster than expected, suggesting a baseline 10 to 15 year lifespan. This is when the technical life of most turbines crunch to halt, and become unprofitable to continue. Rising maintenance costs makes them uneconomical.

The study found the average UK wind farm's ability to meet electricity demand had fallen by a third after around 10 years, leading to a conclusion that many are fully uneconomic to run after only 12 years.

While the wind industry generally forecasts a 25-year lifespan, the data reveals a different reality about the viability of keeping them spinning so long. Many companies now 'repower' (replace old turbines with new ones) long before the 25-year target to maximise subsidies and output. This often ends the lifespan of the original hardware much sooner.

The wind farm study is published by the 'Renewable Energy Foundation on the Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark, 2012'.

[Mark @Mark_Wilson_25]

Paul clearly warns Gentiles not to boast against ethnic Israel.

“Do not be arrogant toward the branches… it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.”
Romans 11:18

Hebrews 8 does not say the Church replaced Israel. It says the New Covenant is made “with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,” quoting Jeremiah 31 directly.

Gentile believers share in Israel’s spiritual blessings through Messiah, but Paul says they are “grafted in among them” (Romans 11:17), not that they became Israel or replaced her.

Paul is clear

God has not rejected His people.
Romans 11:2

All Israel will be saved.
Romans 11:26

Claiming the Church replaced ethnic Israel is exactly the kind of boasting Paul warned about.