Christopher de Vidal

Linux SysAdmin. Born-again disciple of Jesus, passionate that His glory be known in the earth. Not a Repub or Dem.

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@Timewilltel1068 @alphafox I kept watching for the jug to catch on the lip of the feeder

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.

But this one broke me:

Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.

I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.

I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.

But bro, you know what shook me?

There’s a night missing.

After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.

A lamb is slaughtered.

Its blood painted on the doorposts.

And death passes over every house covered by that blood.

The Passover.

I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.

Islam just skips it.

And here’s what wrecked me.

The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.

Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.

70 times.

So I had to ask myself the honest question:

If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?

You don’t forge a document 70 times.

That’s just not corruption.

That to me is preservation.

And then I read the line that finished me off.

1 Corinthians 5:7.

“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”

That’s when it hit me.

The whole story was never just about Moses.

It was always pointing to a King.

The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.

Forever.

The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.

Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…

he’s one step away from the cross.

[ΔΙΟΝΓΕΝΗΣ⚡️ @ElectricEcho0]

@Rothmus

[BowTiedQueenBee 💯 @BowtiedQueenBee]

@Rothmus Enough to homeschool my kids and move out of the city

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

Prepare.

[Marhelm @MarhelmData]

Mercuria head of freight says 10% of global ships could be forced to stop next month due to fuel shortages

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@atrupar This is your proof!?

You need better hobbies.

(And no, I didn’t vote for him.)

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@sizov_andre Why is it dropping?

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸 “I was following GPS and wound up here”

A woman drove into the rail in Seattle. The incoming train had to be stopped and the stuck car removed with a crane.

But why lock the car? You can’t park there ma’am!

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@DerrickEvans4WV UFO releases?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Very interesting

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@Emanuel072999 @CaptainRoyen @FahadHandle Given the advances in catalytics and other emissions reduction, I'll bet if CA drivers switched to the same blend as the other 49 states they would hardly notice.

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@Emanuel072999 @CaptainRoyen @FahadHandle Oops you're right, there was still visible smog even through the end of the 80s.

Nonetheless it begs the question: If the rest of the states did not switch to the same formulation, why did CA mostly have the problem? Probably wind patterns, weather, and geography endemic to CA.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet.

Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States.

The dominant driver is not rainfall or land use change, it is rising atmospheric CO2.

Higher CO2 lets plants photosynthesize more efficiently, they lose less water, they tolerate heat and dryness better.

The effect is strongest along desert margins, across the Sahel, the Middle East, Australia's interior and the southern edge of the Sahara.

Rising CO2 is making the deserts, and the planet as a whole, greener.

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@Emanuel072999 @CaptainRoyen @FahadHandle The California Reformulated Gasoline (CaRFG) I'm speaking about was introduced in the 1990s. In the 70s when smog was worst, they switched to unleaded and required all vehicles have catalytic converters. By the late 70s, most of the smog was gone.

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@AutismCapital Consequences of decades of voting Blue no matter who

[Nacho Business @NachoQuixotic]

@TheInsiderPaper Are the brits trying to lose their civilization?

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@FraysSorted @CaptainRoyen Newsom helped

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@Antonio82687742 @CaptainRoyen CA has tons of oil but they have a cranium-anus blockage that prevents them from using it

[Christopher de Vidal @cdevidal]

@PaulNemeth47454 @CaptainRoyen I wasn’t paying attention as much as I am now and I missed Lehman specifically, but I started to get concerned about the market in general six months prior. Things already were looking shaky.