Somehow, I trust a believing Coptic Christian trained in history under VDH to the ignorant speculations of a small town, Internet-famous pastor expelled from his church in part for embezzlement. Wonder why TC had that guy on, not @RaymondIbrahim5? Actually I donโt wonder at all.
Proof Candace Owens is a COSPLAYING CHRISTIAN - more interested in New Age and occult concepts like curses, third eyes, and karma, and in mocking the Bible, than in proclaiming it. Feat. @DLoesch
This is possibly the most alarming act of treason since the Lincoln assassination. For an outgoing president to engineer a coup against a succeeding president is unthinkable in America.
I knew Tulsi Gabbard would be the most effective Cabinet member.
Understand what these street shows are actually about. They have plenty of mosques to pray in. They are demonstrating their intention to infiltrate and take over our nation. They are so confident of our weakness, they rub our faces in it by doing this.
If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.
This Old Testament prophecy proves Roman Catholicism.
It's specific. It's detailed. It was written 500 years before Jesus was born.
And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
It's in Daniel chapter 2.
King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream that terrifies him โ a massive statue with four sections (Daniel 2:31-33):
โ A head of gold
โ A chest and arms of silver
โ A belly and thighs of bronze
โ Legs of iron, with feet of iron mixed with clay
Daniel tells the king exactly what it means. Each section represents a kingdom that would rule over God's people in succession (Daniel 2:36-43):
Babylon. Persia. Greece. Rome.
This isn't speculation. This is just what the Bible plainly says. And history confirms every single one.
But then Daniel says something that should stop every Protestant in their tracks:
"In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, nor shall its sovereignty be left to another people... and it shall stand for ever." โ Daniel 2:44
In the days of those kings.
Meaning during the Roman Empire.
So ask yourself โ which church actually began during the Roman Empire?
Not Lutheranism. That started in 1517.
Not Anglicanism. That started in 1534.
Not Calvinism. That started in 1536.
Every Protestant denomination came roughly 1,500 years too late to fulfill this prophecy.
And Daniel doesn't stop there. He says:
"A stone was cut out by no human hand, and it smote the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces... but the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth." โ Daniel 2:34-35
The stone is a kingdom established by God Himself.
A kingdom that would spread across the entire world.
A kingdom that would never be destroyed.
Only one church in human history checks all four boxes:
โ Founded during the Roman Empire (33 AD)
โ Established by God Himself (not by a reformer)
โ Spread across the entire globe
โ Still standing 2,000 years later
And here's the part that should give every honest reader chills.
Out of all twelve apostles, Jesus singles out one man. He changes his name from Simon to Peter โ which literally means rock (John 1:42).
Then He says:
"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it." โ Matthew 16:18
So where does Peter end up?
Where does he shed his blood for Christ?
Where does he lay the foundation of the Church that Jesus promised would never fall?
Rome.
The stone cut by no human hand โ Christ Himself โ comes down from heaven during the reign of the Roman Empire.
He builds His Church on Peter, who participates in Christ's "rockness" (as Augustine and Aquinas both put it).
Peter goes to Rome, dies in Rome, and lays the foundation of Roman Catholicism.
And get this โ the Catholic Church is the oldest continuously operating organization on the face of the earth.
Every empire that ever persecuted the Church has crumbled to dust. The Catholic Church is still here. Two thousand years later. Exactly like Daniel said.
Scripture predicted it.
History confirmed it.
The Church Fathers taught it.
And the Catholic Church still stands today as living proof.
So the real question isn't whether Daniel's prophecy points to Catholicism.
The question is โ what are you going to do about it?
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Why does Mary look younger than Jesus in Michelangelo's Pietร ?
The answer is one of the most beautiful in art history...
Mary is holding the body of her 33 year old son, but she looks 20. Critics noticed it the moment the sculpture was unveiled in 1499. The mother of a man who has just been crucified would have been in her late forties or early fifties. Michelangelo had carved her as a girl.
His own biographer, Ascanio Condivi, was the one who finally asked him why. The answer Michelangelo gave is preserved in Condivi's Life of Michelangelo and has been repeated for centuries: "Do you not know that chaste women stay fresh much more than those who are not chaste? How much more in the case of the Virgin, who had never experienced the least lascivious desire that might change her body?"
Most modern critics treat this answer as a half-serious deflection. Michelangelo was famous for his sharp tongue and refused to explain himself to people he considered beneath his intellect.
The deeper answer is older, and it lies inside one of the greatest poems ever written. In the final canto of Dante's Paradiso, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux begins his prayer to the Virgin with one of the most extraordinary lines in Italian literature:
"Vergine madre, figlia del tuo figlio."
"Virgin mother, daughter of your own son."
Michelangelo, who knew Dante by heart, was carving that line into stone. Mary is younger than Jesus because Jesus is older than the universe... because she gave birth to her own creator.
But there is another reading, simpler than either of those, and it is the one I find myself thinking of today. Every mother who has held her child has held them at every age at once. The infant is still inside the toddler. The toddler is still inside the teenager. The young man on her lap, even dead, is also the boy she nursed and the baby she first carried home.
And maybe that's why Michelangelo did not carve Mary as the years had aged her. He carved her as love had kept her: outside of time, outside of grief, holding her son the way she had always held him...
Happy Mother's Day.
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๐จInside Communist-Controlled Cuba:
As Cuba faces its largest humanitarian crisis in years amid growing tensions with the US, I went to see what 60+ years of communism has done to a country.
Within 24 hours I was planning my escape out of the country after being followed by their intelligence agents, and a 2 star general waited to interrogate me outside my hotel room at 4 AM. Right now Cuba has no oil or gas, 7/10 people are going hungry, there is no medicine and some haven't even had eggs in a year.
In communism there is no freedom of speech or press, and I was almost taken hostage for asking about communism. This is a look into Cuba like never before, no one truly knows how bad it is until now.
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