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[Yang Michael @YangMichael17]

目前为止，上推以来看过最好的推文，所以置顶，这是上推5年来第二次置顶一篇推文，距离上一次置顶已经快3年了。

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

Tucker Carlson Exposed the Church’s Fear

A frightened church is very easy to lead.

Tucker Carlson recently said that many Christians wanted a protector in Donald Trump. Whatever one thinks of Carlson, that line might be exposing something revealing in the American church.

Fear has a way of making believers reach for protection before they ask what faithfulness requires.

That is why this moment in America is so dangerous for Christians. Under fear, a man excuses what once disgusted him. Once fear gets into the bloodstream, almost any kind of harshness starts to look like strength.

And that is where Jesus stands in our way.

When our Lord opens His mouth in Matthew 5, He does not give His disciples a strategy for preserving influence or a playbook for cultural retaliation.

Jesus does not give His disciples a strategy for controlling their enemies. He teaches them how to live when wronged and how to walk through a world that will misunderstand them, mock them, pressure them and sometimes hate them.

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” (Matthew 5:38).

That line had been twisted by the religious teachers of the day. What God gave as a principle of public justice, they turned into a private license for revenge. They took the measured scales of justice and traded them for the hot pleasure of getting even.

Jesus pulls the knife out of that lie.

“But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil” (Matthew 5:39).

Christ is not setting justice aside. He is forbidding the bitter instinct for personal vengeance and teaching His people to live without the craving to strike back.

That word lands right in the middle of American Christianity.

A great many believers say they are standing for righteousness and some of them are. Yet somewhere in all the noise, a different spirit has started moving through the church. It is a spirit of quick contempt. It is rude, suspicious, easily provoked, hungry for humiliation, eager to crush an opponent rather than win a soul.

Fear dressed up as conviction is still fear.

The church in America is tempted to believe that survival depends on finding a protector powerful enough to guard our place. The New Testament keeps pulling our eyes elsewhere. Christ does not teach His people to panic when the world turns hostile. He calls them to holiness and teaches them to bear witness to another kingdom.

“Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” (Matthew 5:39). “Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain” (Matthew 5:41).

These are not words for cowards. They are words for people so anchored in God that they do not need revenge. Christ is describing a soul that cannot be baited into becoming worldly in the very act of denouncing worldliness. He is describing a people who would rather suffer wrong than stain their witness with spite.

That is where many of us have lost our footing.

We have watched the country change. We have seen laws shift, morals erode, speech coarsen, and hostility toward Christian conviction grow bolder. Those dangers are real. Christians do not have to pretend otherwise.

Justice still matters. Truth in public life still matters. What children are taught and what a nation honors still matter. Public justice and law matter. The state has real responsibilities before God.

Yet the Christian heart must never confuse justice with personal malice. The believer may stand firm, speak plainly, vote carefully and contend earnestly, but a man who borrows the world’s sneer will soon start looking like the world.

Jesus presses further.

“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy” (Matthew 5:43).

Then He says what no frightened tribe wants to hear: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).

That command tears through every politics-first version of Christianity.

Love your enemies.

Not surrender truth. Love your enemies. Pray for the people who would gladly push your faith to the margins. Do good to those who despise your convictions. Bless those who curse you. Speak truthfully, stand cleanly and leave behind the sour thrill of treating opponents like prey.

Why?

“For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45).

Picture that. Morning light spilling across the porch of a man who mocks Christ. Rain settling into the fields of people who use God’s name as profanity. Bread on the table of families who never bow their heads in gratitude. Breath in lungs that will spend the day denying the One who gave it.

And still the sun rises and the rain falls. Still God is kind.

Jesus says that God is your Father. Then this is the family likeness He expects from His children.

The church loses her beauty when she forgets that. A church can keep its slogans and lose its witness. It can cling to its tribe and lose the tone of Christ. It can preserve a political identity while its spiritual aroma turns sharp and cold.

The world already knows how to hate…how to curse, mock, caricature and strike back. When the church does the same thing with a cross around its neck, she has not become bold. She has become ordinary.

There is a reason Jesus closes this section with words that tower over the whole chapter: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

That is the mark before us. We are meant to look like our Father.

And here is where every honest Christian has to stop and lower his eyes. Who has loved enemies like this? Who has prayed for persecutors with a clean heart? Who has kept his tongue from the acid of contempt and moved through this angry age with steady holiness and no mixture of fear?

Few of us have.

That is why the end of this article cannot be a command to try harder and do better. The end must be Christ.

Because the One who said, “Love your enemies,” did exactly that. He was reviled and did not revile in return. He was struck, mocked, falsely accused, spat upon, crowned with thorns, nailed to wood outside the city walls, and in that hour He prayed, “Father, forgive them” (Luke 23:34).

The world gave Him hatred. He answered with mercy. The guilty drove in the nails. He opened the door of pardon with His blood.

This is the gospel for a frightened church.

Our hope is not finally in a protector who can preserve our rights. Our hope is in a Savior who forgives our sins, kills our fear and remakes our hearts. Jesus did not come merely to improve our tone. He came to rescue rebels, cleanse the bitter, humble the proud and give new hearts to people who have loved power more than holiness.

At the cross, fearful sinners can be forgiven. At the empty tomb, fearful sinners can be changed.

The church in America needs less panic and more holiness.

The church must come back to Christ, repent of fear and hatred, repent of looking so much like the world while claiming to oppose it and feel the steadying power of the gospel again.

Because when a man knows that Christ has loved him at his worst, he can stop grasping for a worldly protector.

He has already found his refuge.

[Disaster Zone @Disaster_X_]

🌋💥 A Giant Volcano Comes Alive! Terrifying Eruption in Indonesia 😱🌍

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Cochin Jews of India are one of the oldest Jewish communities east of Persia. Their written history reaches back to about 1000 CE, while their oral traditions claim descent from Jews who came to the Malabar coast after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

Whether that early date can be proven or not, they are a people who lived for two millennia on the spice coast of Kerala. Today they stand at the edge of disappearance in India, their synagogues quiet, their last elders waiting in the narrow lanes of Jew Town while the majority of their people have rebuilt their lives in Israel.

They were never a single body. Like the society around them, they developed internal divisions shaped by migration and history. At the top were the "Paradesi Jews," "White Jews" or "foreigners," descendants of Sephardic and Middle Eastern traders who arrived from the 16th century onward, especially after the Spanish and Portuguese expulsions.

Below them were the "Malabari Jews," "Black Jews," the descendants of the original settlers. They were the majority, spoke Malayalam, and absorbed many local customs. At the bottom were the "Meshuchrarim" "freedmen," descendants of freed slaves and converts who were long barred from full religious participation. These barriers began to break in the early 20th century, notably through the activism of Abraham Barak Salem, a Meshuchrar who fought for equal rights.

The Paradesi Synagogue, built in 1568 on land granted by the Raja of Cochin, became the spiritual center of the Paradesi Jews. The Malabari Jews had their own synagogues in Cochin, Parur, and nearby villages. The community developed a distinctive religious culture at the crossroads of Jewish and Indian life.

Torah scrolls were kept in wooden tik cases, and the crowns and rimmonim were often carved with lotus motifs. Prayers were sung in Malayalam in a unique form called kolas. Purim was celebrated with particular energy, and for that day the usual social divisions were set aside.

The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 marked both fulfillment and loss. As one member put it, "to immigrate to Israel was our goal." Between 1949 and 1954, about 2,800 Cochin Jews left for Israel, only a few dozen elderly remain in Kochi.

The Paradesi Synagogue still stands in Mattancherry, maintained by a caretaker and visited as a museum. The other synagogues are empty.

The Cochin Jews survived two millennia by adapting without disappearing. They preserved Torah, language, and custom on the Malabar coast, and then carried that identity to a new homeland. In India their story is nearly finished. In Israel it continues.

#archaeohistories

[Fox News @FoxNews]

Surgeons cling to a patient on the operating table mid-surgery as a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake violently shakes a Japanese hospital.

Surveillance video shows equipment rattling and staff scrambling to keep items from falling while the surgical team works to protect the patient as the room moves around them.

The earthquake struck southwestern Japan, killing at least 39 people and forcing thousands into evacuation centers.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

ISAAC NEWTON: "I study the Bible daily. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer."

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Three women sat down for a photograph in Philadelphia in 1885. At first glance, it looks like a formal Victorian portrait, dark dresses, composed expressions, nothing particularly revolutionary.

But look again.

The women were Anandibai Joshi of India, Kei Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria. All three had traveled thousands of miles to study medicine at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, one of the few places willing to train women as physicians.

And each had crossed boundaries far larger than geography.

Joshi had been married at nine. After losing her infant son when she was still a teenager, she became determined to study medicine so other Indian women could receive care from female doctors. Her decision to travel alone to America provoked fierce criticism at home.

Okami arrived from Japan, earned her medical degree, and later treated patients in Tokyo. According to a widely repeated account, when Emperor Meiji visited her hospital, he refused to receive her professionally because she was a woman.

Then there was Islambouli, a Kurdish Jewish woman from Damascus whose life after medical school has become tantalizingly difficult to trace. Even her name appears in historical records in several different forms.

The famous photograph is often described online as showing the first licensed female doctors of India, Japan, and Syria. The truth requires a little more care: their precise "firsts" differ depending on how nationality and medical licensing are defined. But their achievement needs no embellishment.

In 1885, when enormous parts of the world still regarded women practicing medicine as improper or impossible, three women from three very different cultures found themselves in the same American medical school.

Someone had the good sense to photograph them together.

Nearly 140 years later, that quiet portrait looks less like a class photograph than evidence that the future had already arrived.

#archaeohistories

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Penetecost was the reversal of the Tower of Babel.

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

Someone captured the exact moment Colombia's Puracé Volcano erupted as a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the region

[Noahs Ark Scans @noahsarkscans]

Seashells… more than 5,000 feet above sea level, in the mountains of Ararat.

This layer of sedimentary rock is packed with marine fossils, including beautifully preserved shells and what are known as sand dollars, or “sea biscuits.”

And this isn't a single shell sitting on the surface.

They're embedded throughout the rock layer, stretching across the mountains.

The nearest modern ocean is hundreds of miles away.

And this isn't somewhere thousands of miles from the Ark site.

These fossils are found in the mountains surrounding the Durupınar formation, the very site currently being investigated as a possible resting place of Noah's Ark.

The evidence is right there in the mountains.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇨🇴 The moment the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales, Colombia, partially collapsed during the powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

It doesn't get more terrifying than this. The death toll so far is 20 but looking at the videos, It'll be many more :(

This is in Manizales during the M7.4 earthquake that hit Colombia earlier.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on Monday, August 10, 2026, has caused widespread destruction and at least 47 deaths national-wide, including casualties and structural damage in Manizales.

[何頻 @MJTVHoPin]

【全球突發】哥倫比亞7.4級強震：多城建築倒塌、有人受困

哥倫比亞西部當地時間8月10日上午發生7.4級強烈地震。美國地質調查局與哥倫比亞官方地質機構均確認，震央位於喬科省聖何塞德爾帕爾馬附近；震感波及首都波哥大，甚至鄰國厄瓜多。

已證實事實： 美聯社最新更新顯示，地震目前已造成至少2人死亡，西部多個城市有數十棟建築倒塌或嚴重受損。在擁有約200萬人口的卡利市，市長表示至少19棟建築倒塌並有人受困；喬科省首府基布多也傳出傷者與嚴重建築損毀。

在馬尼薩萊斯，一座新哥德式大教堂的塔樓倒塌；佩雷拉、卡利及基布多均出現住宅和小型建築垮塌。哥倫比亞政府已啟動緊急應變，新任總統表示將親自督導震區救援。

Reuters亦確認此次地震造成傷者與重大結構性損壞，並指出震動遠至波哥大與委內瑞拉部分地區均有感；目前美國海嘯預警系統表示沒有海嘯威脅。

仍待核實： 傷亡與倒塌建築數字仍在統計。由於部分地區仍有人受困，死亡人數存在進一步上升的可能，目前不宜把「2人死亡」視為最終數字。

這已達到真正重大災害的突發門檻：震級高、波及人口密集城市，而且已出現死亡、多人受傷、建築連片倒塌與搜救行動。後續若傷亡規模明顯上升，將只以「突發新聞後續更新」報導新增進展。

來源：Associated Press ；Reuters ；哥倫比亞／波哥大官方資訊 。

[Elaine Yu @ElaineYuMuMu]

我必须要先拉黑几个特别恶毒的蝇营狗苟，才能把受害人Kai的妈妈的心声发上来（经过她的同意），免得她们受到二度三度无数度伤害。有些华人移民毫无脑子和原则地支持ICE对合法移民的无理拘捕和剥削，对被欺压的同胞冷嘲热讽甚至恶毒攻击，这些人真是脑子坏透、心肠烂透了。希望Kai和她丈夫Nathaniel经过这一次以后感情更稳固、更珍惜彼此、爱主更深。以下是Kai妈妈的心声：
“我的女婿是很好的基督徒，
他在向我女儿求婚之前，哭泣地向神求：
求主使他求婚成功，
他的使命是成为我女儿Kai 的保护天使…….
2月14日晚，他来我家求婚，
我问了他许多关于信仰的问题，对答如流。
特别是问他对爱的理解？
他说到如何表达爱？
爱的精意 引用哥林多前书13章 爱的真谛！
爱就是牺牲、舍己。

2月16日登记注册
随后在教会、家庭举行婚礼见证聚会。
婚前守贞！

女婿曾向我表示：
他在世上一无所有，
他只有上帝、我的女儿才是他的至宝。

我的女儿新婚后，曾向我说：妈妈我真的坠入爱河了。感谢上帝的恩赐！

此次，我的女儿身陷囹圄。
我的女儿收到她的婆婆，我的亲家母写的信。信中写道：我的女婿太爱我的女儿了，如果我的女儿被遣返到中国，他会崩溃…….
那些无良知之人啊！
怎么可以如此随意地用言语伤害我们？

耶稣基督说到：
我们说的闲话句句定准，将来要面对上帝的终极审判！”

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

Jesus washed the feet of a man He knew was about to betray Him.

The silver has not changed hands yet and the kiss has not been given. Still, Jesus knows where those feet are going and He washes them anyway.

Water runs into the basin as a towel hangs from His waist. The King of heaven kneels before a man already carrying betrayal in his heart.

Forgiveness sounds beautiful until the wound has a face. Maybe you know that feeling…you hear their name and your chest tightens. One sentence they spoke still comes back with the same sting. Trust feels fragile. Part of you wants them to understand exactly what they did.

Then Jesus kneels.

Paul writes, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32).

Christ knew every ugly word I would speak, every promise I would break and every time I would choose myself over Him. He went to the cross knowing all of it. You see, grace releases vengeance into God’s hands and refuses to let another person’s sin become the ruler of your heart.

So before you decide someone is beyond your mercy, picture Jesus on His knees.

Hear the water move and watch Him wash Judas’s feet.

Then look toward the cross and remember this: The Savior who calls you to forgive is the same Savior who bore your judgment and loved you all the way home.

[Elaine Yu @ElaineYuMuMu]

我曾经坚定支持ICE遣返非法移民，直到我遇到被ICE拆散的新婚夫妇，我才知道一切的承诺和口号最终都化为权力和利益的驱动，人民老百姓永远是吃亏受苦的一方。
雨林说X：再次采访Kai的丈夫Nataniel Clementson，Kai得到裁决；ICE的黑幕 https://t.co/eWFoMLYHkt via @YouTube

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

"Just in Time" (Justo a tiempo) es una de las obras más dramáticas e impactantes del pintor marino británico Thomas Rose Miles, reconocido por su maestría para retratar el peligro del mar decimonónico…

La obra encapsula a la perfección el romanticismo y el realismo marítimo de la época a través de los siguientes elementos clave:

La pintura captura un momento de máxima tensión donde un bote salvavidas tripulado rema a contrarreloj en medio de un mar embravecido para auxiliar a un navío que está a punto de zozobrar de fondo.

Miles destaca por su capacidad para pintar la violencia del agua. El uso de tonos amarillentos, verdosos y espuma blanca en las olas transmite una atmósfera asfixiante y de peligro inminente.

Las líneas del mástil destruido del barco y la inclinación del bote salvavidas guían la mirada del espectador, acentuando la inestabilidad y el caos de la tormenta.

[Clint Warren-Davey @Clint_Davey1]

The Spanish Conquest of Mexico is probably the closest that real history gets to science fiction or fantasy.

For the Spaniards it was like landing on another planet.

Everything was different - the colours, the smells, the plants, the animals. The culture they encountered was so far away from Renaissance Europe it may as well have been aliens.

Read Bernal Diaz del Castillo's description of the Spanish first entering Tenochtitlan:

"We came to a broad causeway and continued our march towards Mexico, and when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded. These great towns and shrines and buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision from the tale of Amadis. Indeed, some of our soldiers asked whether the things we saw were not a dream? It is not to be wondered at, for their eyes had never beheld the like. Some of our soldiers even said that if we could only explain to the Emperor Charles V what we had seen, he would send many armies and be happy to die a thousand deaths to conquer such great riches. I say all this because I am not a courtier and do not know how to flatter, but only to tell the truth."

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Tourists take tea atop the Great Pyramid, 1938...

By the late 18th century, Egypt had been reduced to nothing more than an impoverished and neglected corner of the Ottoman Empire, crippled by endless power struggles among its Mamluk leadership.

Then in 1798, Napoleon arrived at the head of a French army, closely followed by the British, who had hitherto shown little interest in Egypt.

After the French retreat, Egypt became gradually Westernised under the Albanian Ottoman Muhammad Ali Pasha, so that by the time the English novelist Thackeray visited Alexandria in 1845, the Nile ‘was lined with steel mills’ and looked ‘scarcely Eastern at all’.

Egypt’s early tourism trade started in the 19th Century and increased in popularity alongside the rise of Egyptology as an academic and amateur pursuit. Especially, after the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869, it became much easier to visit Egypt. Organized group holidays offering an all-inclusive price that reduced the travelers’ costs were an innovation of the 1840s.

Thomas Cook (1808-1892), a brilliant entrepreneur from England, is seen as their inventor and thus the pioneer of commercialized mass tourism. In the 1870s, Cook offered his famous tour of Palestine and the Nile, a way for wealthy people to explore the wonders of Ancient Egypt. Many of these tourists took pictures in front of the ancient ruins or the Great Sphinx, some of them even climbed all the way to the top of the pyramids.

Scores of photographers, seeking to establish their studios, began arriving in Egypt following the tourist gaze. They hauled heavy equipment across the desert to photograph the wonders of the Nile Valley. Some opened studios in the larger cities where they sold their wares to tourists; a few were engaged by Egyptologists to document excavations. Travelers exploring the monuments of ancient Egypt could return home with souvenir photographs of the sights they encountered.

For Europeans, Egypt and Egyptian history offered a more vivid and exotic picture of the ancient world than probably any other culture. With a history covering over 3,000 years, dynasties of pharaohs lasting for centuries, and extraordinary figures like Alexander, Cleopatra, and Tutankhamun illuminating the story, this is hardly surprising.

The pictures collected here are part of a collection documenting the British occupation of Egypt and show the early tourists exploring the ruins of Ancient Egypt.

© Rare Historical Photos

#drthehistories

[大变活人 @seanwei001]

1925 年，两名医学生花费 1500 小时手工解剖了一个完整的人体神经系统。这是世界上仅有的四个之一。

这个标本由M. A. Schalck和L. P. Ramsdell在堪萨斯大学医学院解剖学家Rufus B. Weaver博士的指导下制作而成。他们使用放大镜、手术刀以及非凡的耐心，小心翼翼地移除每一块肌肉、器官和组织层，同时保留连接大脑和脊髓到身体每个部位的精致神经网络。

完成的解剖揭示了超过 45 英里的周围神经，其中许多比一根线还要细。它成为一个无价的教学工具，让几代医学生能够以三维形式研究身体的沟通系统，而不仅仅依赖插图。

如今，这个标本仍是解剖科学中最令人印象深刻的成就之一。现代成像技术，如MRI和CT扫描，在很大程度上取代了这种费力的工作，使得像这样的创作不太可能再被重复。

Rufus B. Weaver博士后来成为内布拉斯加大学的校长，但这个费力的神经系统解剖仍是与他早期职业生涯相关的最持久的教育项目之一。

[Yang Michael @YangMichael17]

@zhangheci @MJTVHoPin 【创4:22】洗拉又生了土八该隐，他是打造各样铜铁利器的（或作“是铜匠、铁匠的祖师”）。土八该隐的妹子是拿玛。

只有铜器，和没有文字，比较像大洪水之后，语言变乱之前的一支。