All the time we are told how the war in Ukraine is "unprovoked"
But then i see this video from early 2014, were Ukrainian soldiers, fully supported by the CIA, are firing at homes in Eastern Ukraine, creating chaos in the region........
You are probably familiar with the story in the Babylonian Talmud (Yoma 39b), where four extraordinary signs are listed as having begun 40 years before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
The lot for the Lord ceased coming up in the high priest's right hand; the scarlet thread associated with the scapegoat no longer turned white; the western lamp of the Temple no longer burned continually; and the doors of the Temple began opening by themselves.
This was brought about by Christ's death and resurrection. The Old Covenant waxed old (Hebrews 8:13) before it was brought an end to by Titus and his Roman soldiers.
What is lesser known, however, is what was happening in the Gentile world.
For centuries, the pagan nations had consulted oracles: supposedly supernatural voices that communicated through priests and priestesses at temples dedicated to Apollo and other false gods. Demonic power seemed to reign supreme.
Kings consulted these oracles before going to war, cities sought their guidance in times of calamity, and the common people lived in fear of their pronouncements.
Yet now the ancient oracles began falling silent.
The Roman writer Cicero openly questioned why the famous oracle at Delphi had ceased delivering its former prophecies. The Greek geographer Strabo likewise observed that the once-celebrated oracle of Ammon had become almost deserted.
Plutarch, himself a pagan Greek philosopher and priest at Delphi, devoted an entire treatise to this extraordinary phenomenon, entitled On the Cessation of Oracles (Περὶ τῶν ἐκλελοιπότων χρηστηρίων).
He observed that places once renowned for their supernatural pronouncements had become utterly silent. In some regions, nearly every oracle had disappeared. The pagans were perplexed, and various explanations were proposed for this remarkable decline.
But perhaps the most astonishing account preserved by Plutarch concerns an event during the reign of Emperor Tiberius—the very emperor under whom our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified.
A ship was sailing through the Mediterranean when, near the island of Paxi, a mysterious voice called out to an Egyptian pilot named Thamus. After calling him three times, the voice commanded: “When you come to Palodes, announce that Great Pan is dead.”
Pan was one of the deities worshiped by the ancient Greeks.
The passengers were terrified; Thamus nevertheless resolved to deliver the message if the sea remained calm.
When the ship approached Palodes, he turned toward the shore and cried out: “GREAT PAN IS DEAD!”
Plutarch records a tremendous groaning was heard, not from one voice, but from many, accompanied by cries of astonishment.
When Emperor Tiberius heard about this in Rome, he ordered an investigation into the matter.
This matters theologically, of course.
The prophets had expressly foretold that the coming of the Messiah would bring about the overthrow of idolatry.
Isaiah 2:18 declares: “And the idols he shall utterly abolish.”
And Zechariah 13:2: “I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered.”
Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ demonstrated His absolute authority over the powers of darkness. The demons trembled at His presence, confessed His divine identity, and obeyed His commands. But His victory did not end at Jerusalem; it went beyond Judaea and Samaria to the ends of the earth.
Following His death, resurrection, and ascension, the Gospel began spreading throughout the nations. The strongholds of pagan superstition were shaken. Ancient temples were deserted. The worship of idols was overthrown, and those who had formerly lived in darkness were brought to the knowledge of the true and living God.
In the Jewish world, the signs of the Temple were changing. In the Gentile world, the ancient oracles were being silenced. The pagan philosophers recognized that something extraordinary was happening, but they could not explain its true cause. By God's grace however, we Christians can.
The crucified and risen Christ had triumphed over the principalities and powers of darkness. The nations that had so long been held captive by idolatry were now being summoned to worship the Son of God.
As we read in Psalm 2:8: “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”
The coming of Jesus Christ marked the beginning of the overthrow of paganism and the gathering of the Gentile nations into His kingdom.
The oracles of the false gods fell silent, while the Gospel of the risen Christ went forth into all the earth.
Here’s something they probably never taught you in Sunday school.
When Jesus died, several supernatural events were reported occurring in diverse locations, which seemed to collectively testify that a major revolution had occurred in the spiritual realms.
1. The veil of the Jewish Temple was torn from top to bottom. This occurred on Crucifixion Day.
2. The dead awoke and walked around in Jerusalem. This also occurred on Crucifixion Day.
3. The Roman historian Plutarch recorded that around the time of Jesus’ death, and certainly before 37 AD, it was publicly announced near the island of Paxi that “the Great Pan is dead”. Eusebius of Caesarea interpreted this as meaning that the whole pantheon of pagan gods had been overthrown.
4. Plutarch also recorded that, for the first time ever, the legendary oracles of Rome’s famous temples went silent after Christ’s death, asserting that the risen Christ had driven them out. The last Delphic oracle itself announced that its shrine had gone silent.
5. Back in Israel, immediately after Christ’s Crucifixion, four supernatural Jewish Temple rituals suddenly stopped working, although they had previously never ever failed to do so. (1) the lot for the Lord no longer came up in the high priest’s right hand, (2) the crimson thread tied to the Yom Kippur scapegoat ceased turning white, (3) the westernmost lamp of the menorah would not stay lit, and (4) the doors of the Hekhal would open by themselves at night. These unprecedented supernatural changes were all recorded in the Babylonian Talmud Yoma 39b. These signs are described in the Talmud as beginning right around the death of Christ, and then consistently continuing for the remaining 40 years until the temple was destroyed in 70 AD. The Talmud views these events as portents of impending destruction and loss of divine favor, which aligns nicely with both the announcement of the death of Pan and the silencing of the Roman oracles, which both occurred right around the same time as these supernatural changes in the Jewish Temple rituals.
Wagner wrote this in a letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria in November 1881.
In the same letter he goes on to say that Germans would be destroyed by jews, and argued that jews were corrupting German art, language, and "spirit," and that this would eventually erode what he saw as authentic German identity. He cast himself as perhaps "the last German" still resisting it.
WE AUDITED ALL 58 FOREIGN-BORN FEDERAL JUDGES SITTING ON AMERICA'S BENCH FOR LIFE.
I spent over a billion tokens and about 45 days on this deep dive.
Through this deep dive and the over a million court cases we have combed through, we have launched an American First Index (AFI) for the site. (More on it as we improve the metrics and refine deeper.)
Out of 58 sitting foreign-born Article III judges, 43 were appointed by Biden or Obama. Among those drawn from ACLU and public defender pipelines, border enforcement is blocked over 80% of the time and 60% of criminal sentences fall below federal guidelines.
We have added an interactive tool on bench receipts that allows you to drill down and look at how each of these judges behave on the bench.
This is just the start. The federal judges are easier to identify than the state level judges. I assume there are 100s if not 1000+ foreign born or first-gen American on our benches.
They do not judge on our laws, they judge on the culture they came from. This is a huge reason our country has lost its identity.
Andrew Jackson went to war with & defeated the banks - only for American schools to make him synonymous with the trail of tears & the panic of 1837.
Now, why do you think that is?
Here’s what they won’t tell you. When the economy collapsed in 1837, the price to obtain new land/homes dropped dramatically, making homeownership affordable for regular people & shifting wealth from a small eastern/foreign elite, to regular people.
You won’t learn that in school.