Shaina Mathey

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@WindyCityWxMan The lightning was phenomenal. Looked like we were under a Tesla coil

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@WindyCityWxMan We had small hail in Dundee by Gilberts. It's so muggy out, it was melting before I could get an accurate measurement.

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@WolfofX Whatever became of the paintings?

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@tanpukunokami Calling cheese "food culture" is a lovely pun.

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@scottmschulz @NWSChicago "A quarter" according to the graphic.

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@EchoesofWarYT My dad thought his grandma exaggerated even she described riding on this until he saw pictures of it later on. Pretty mind blowing.

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@NatureScienceA1 Firelord Ozai almost won

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@RickTrembl35994 @canalCCore2 It's real. There are several views of this storm. Tornadoes are able to turn some things to splinters and leave other things undisturbed. My family saw it after the Plainfield EF5. Houses would be ripped open but the China in the cabinet was fine.

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@RickTrembl35994 @canalCCore2 Several people filmed this storm. It's real footage. Tornadoes are notorious for turning some things to splinters while other things are undisturbed. My family saw that with the Plainfield EF5. A house was ripped open but the china in a cabinet was unmoved.

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@tanpukunokami I grew up with a basement that was used as a workshop, office, storage, shelter, and even TV room. I miss it during bad weather. I took it for granted as a kid.

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@MikeWingerii Blue letter Bible app

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@tolkienzone Should've done Numenor

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Every ancient culture had its gods, and every god had a job. The god of the sunrises and sets. The god of the river floods and recedes. The god of war fights and rests. They were defined by their function, and their function had boundaries.

And then a voice speaks from a burning bush on the back side of a desert, and Moses makes the mistake of asking it for a name. The answer he gets back is Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh. I AM THAT I AM.

This God, unlike the gods of the past, is the ground of all existence itself. Everything that is, is because He is. You cannot name Him because naming Him would require a word bigger than any we have.

And then Jesus of Nazareth walks into the Gospel of John and picks that statement up and puts it in His own mouth. He does it not once but seven times, and each time He is making a claim so enormous that His first-century Jewish audience understood it immediately, even if modern readers who have been stripped of that context often miss it entirely.

“I am the bread of life.” “I am the light of the world.” “I am the door.” “I am the good shepherd.” “I am the resurrection and the life.” “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” “I am the true vine.”

Every single one of those statements begins with ego eimi, which means I AM. Those are the same words the Greek Septuagint used to translate the unpronounceable name God gave Moses at the bush.

Jesus is not using a figure of speech. He is not reaching for a metaphor. He is invoking Exodus 3. He is saying that the uncategorizable, uncontainable, unnameable God that Moses met on the mountain is standing in front of you right now in human skin.

And in case there was any ambiguity left in the room, He removes it completely in John 8:58. The Pharisees are arguing with Him about Abraham, and Jesus says, “Before Abraham was, I AM.”

He does not say I was. He says I AM. He uses the present tense. And the Pharisees picked up stones to kill Him, not because they were confused but because they understood exactly what He was claiming. He was not claiming to be old. He was not claiming to be a prophet. He was claiming to be the voice from the bush.

The I AM statements only work if you understand Exodus. They only carry their world-breaking weight if you know the covenant history, the burning bush, and the divine name that was so holy it could not be spoken aloud.

Jesus did not appear out of nowhere with a startup religion and a set of inspirational quotes. He walked into a story that had been unfolding for two thousand years and said He was the one the story had been about the entire time.

When you cut the Jewish root, when you treat His heritage as incidental, you sever the I AM statements from their foundation.

Those statements are God fulfilling the promise He made at the bush by showing up in person to do what He said He would do.

“I will be what I will be.” And what He chose to be was one of us, a Jewish man from Nazareth who carried the unspeakable name in a body that could bleed.

That is the character of God, and it is the thing that makes the biblical narrative unlike any other religious text on earth. He is not a God who stays abstract and unapproachable, hidden safely. He is a God who came down. He is a God who showed up. He is a God who says I AM and then proves it by becoming someone you can touch.

And He is a God that died for all of our sins so that we may be saved.

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@BrandonCopicWx That's part of what makes you great at what you do. Have a lovely time with your family!

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@F1RETHECANNON Is this why Southwest isn't going to fly through O'Hare anymore?

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@nilwxreports It's making sleep impossible.

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@lorigracewx Agreed! He also helps and looks after others, loves his family, and gives glory to God. Lots of respect for that man.

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@AnimeBibleVerse Genesis, Exodus, Leviathan, Nitendo, Do-The-Right-Thing

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 Illinois resident says everyone showed up to their City Council meeting to oppose 14 data centers being built

She said so many people showed up to oppose it, it took 6 hours with public comments

At the end Democrats didn’t care and UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO APPROVE THEM

“I just spent six hours at a city council meeting — where they were discussing the 14 data centers they're gonna build in my city. And public comment went on for hours and hours and hours of people telling them how badly our community does not need this, and how detrimental it will be to the people, the wildlife, the health, the everything, all of the negative impacts of the data centers.

We told them, and we told them over and over and over again, and then at the end, after sitting here for six hours, telling them this is not what we want — they unanimously voted yes for the data centers in our face”

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@AJamesMcCarthy So bummed we have clouds here. At least I can watch it via your work. Thanks for sharing!