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[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Wishing a blessed Yom Kippur to all my Jewish friends and followers. Though I’m not Jewish, I’ve walked alongside the community for the past two years. Here’s what I’ve observed, and how it ties into atonement—meaning to make right—in the spirit of Yom Kippur.

It’s with a heavy heart over this morning’s news that I share this, but in truth, it sadly reinforces what I’ve come to learn. Over the past years, I’ve been forced to pry my eyes open to something I spent much of my life not seeing. Antisemitism. It is not hidden in some corner of the human heart, it is acted upon daily. If you ever enter Jewish spaces, the evidence of unsafety strikes you like a lightning bolt. The schools are wrapped in barbed wire, synagogues are iron clad, and Jewish events are fortified like compounds. There is no corner of the earth in which Jews get to experience the simple privilege that most in the west unconditionally enjoy: safety. Not in Europe, not in America, not even in Israel.

But it’s not for nothing that I didn’t see it. What makes this hatred so deadly is its cloak of invisibility. Two thousand years has given it time to perfect its disguise, each year becoming more professional, more concealed. Yet, in truth, its cloak is still as poorly made as it’s ever been. Today, just like two thousand years ago, they continue to kill Jews and once again lay the blame at their own feet. It isn’t because of Jews, and it never was. It is because they are the scapegoat upon which the world projects its own hatred.

Sometimes when I’m sitting alone on my balcony, I think of the hostages that remain underground. I feel so much pain and sorrow thinking of what it must be like to be without light, water, or touch, and starved of life itself, while the world keeps turning above them. While we laugh, go to work, debate, rest, play, and love, they suffer alone. They aren’t just forgotten, their experience is shrugged off as deserved, simply because of their identity.

Yet, this hatred is not meaningless. What I’ve come to see is that the Jewish people exist as a mirror. They reflect back to societies the sickness they cannot face within themselves. A healthy society treats everyone as equals, a sick one casts Jews as scapegoats for their projected ills. Every age reveals itself in how it treats them. It is only when a society learns that their concealed hatred is a reflection of the sickness that lives in their shadow that that society can begin to “make right.”

To atone is to admit what is broken. And Jews, by their very existence, force the world to see its brokenness. They are history’s mirror, held up to every empire, every nation, every generation. Until the world stops projecting its hatred and confronts its own reflection, nothing can be made right.

So on this day, I’d like to offer this to my Jewish friends and followers. You are not the hatred that the world projects onto you. You are the catalyst that awakens the world by reflecting back to it what it refuses to see it. In other words, you are healers. For every person that understands themselves or the world better because of what was done to you, another heart becomes healed. That isn’t a light role, but it is the role of the light.

[MS @mlsinkc]

@BasedReliably @PatentlyPietro @realspitfire Finally found this reply re: Peter. Thank you. Cause I didn’t want to have to write it out myself!

[MS @mlsinkc]

@BethCavete For so many of my young friends here, IHOP is their primary spiritual foundation or a place where they experienced some sort of revival. And for that very reason it is crushing to their identity to leave. So in turn.. they stay and try to make it real.

[MS @mlsinkc]

@BethCavete I think what you wrote about having come into IHOP with a different but stronger foundation resonates deeply with me. Knowing an unadulterated gospel warns us of a false one. And coming into the community but staying on the fringes was a great mercy to me.

[MS @mlsinkc]

@BethCavete They all but disavowed MB yet couldn’t bring themselves to turn their backs on the prophetic history and the sheer madness of those stories, which like you note, is a FALSE GOSPEL. “I didn’t come here for Mike Bickle.” I could talk with you for days about this delusion alone.

[MS @mlsinkc]

@BethCavete Being here through the fallout and seeing my friends absolutely confused and destroyed and not knowing what to do but wait for some proof for it to all be false was maddening. And ultimately it has to do with the power of enticing yet false prophetic words.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

This is extremely concerning. Eleven year olds are being shown cartoon videos in schools which tell them that if they feel uncomfortable when their body begins to change with puberty that they should go to a therapist who may refer them to an endocrinologist who can prescribe drugs which can delay the onset of puberty with no side effects.

We are creating a generational nightmare for our children. Watch this video and tell me what I am missing. It doesn’t appear to me like a medical education video. It’s a recruitment film.

https://t.co/g20XV7rcEj

[Sana Ebrahimi Ledene @__Injaneb96]

Pretty sure I missed the chapter in history books where Jews threw a victory parade after Nazi Germany was defeated and 6 million of them were exterminated. They held memorials for the victims and the horror their community went through.
That’s how you know it was a real genocide, not propaganda.

[WMIII @WilliamMatt22]

I’ve waited a long time to share this story:

I first suspected Shawn Bolz was lying back in early 2016. He told me to my face that Lou Engle asked him to prophesy at The Call Azusa but God told him no. Then several months later he was on that stage prophesying. Thread 🧵

[John Piper @JohnPiper]

Presidential election results.

Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another.

“The Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.” Deuteronomy 13:3

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

As if the Satanic display at the opening ceremony wasnt enough, the Olympics glorifies men punching women in the face with the intent of knocking them unconscious.

Imane Khelif is 1 of 2 male boxers fighting women at the Olympics. A woman is going to die.

[Dwayne Roberts @dwaynearoberts]

God was clear with Ezekiel: He confronted Israel for their sins, and they did not repent. When judgment came, God was specific in his instructions, start with the leadership. The Apostle Paul states judgment still exists, and when God judges, it is righteous, and the truth will come out. Then, the Apostle Peter helps us understand God; when God begins to release judgments for past actions, he will begin with the church. (Ezekiel 8-9, Rom 2:1-16, 1 Peter 4:17)

God is judging the church; he is bringing our sins into the public forum because we would not repent. We have blasphemed God by our actions; we have lived in the hypocrisy of the worst kind, and there have been things done IN THE CHURCH BY LEADERS IN THE CHURCH that are not remotely acceptable among those who do not put their faith in Christ. (1 COR 5:1-8)

I have no other way of looking at this but to say God is evaluating the church. He searches the hearts and tests the minds of his people, and God has found us, the corporate church desperately wanting. God found egregious corruption in our foundation and is now confronting us. (Jeremiah 17:10)

The only way forward is humility and repentance!

(Just to be clear: When I say "we" I am speaking as the corporate church, not as an individual)

#church #judgement #scandal #ihopkc #gateway #repentance #leaders

LISTEN to some more of my thoughts here:

https://t.co/vQ1dmaeCeQ

[Rick Warren @RickWarren]

I’m angry & disgusted to hear of Robert Morris’ sexual abuse of a child & heartbroken for Cindy Clemishire. To sexually use a 12 yr old child, then continue it for yrs, is not merely an “inappropriate relationship.” It’s a crime. Sexual child abuse is an evil punishable by law. One can’t just confess when caught & move on with no consequences.
For the integrity of Christ’s Body, God insists “Expel the wicked person out of your church!” 1 Cor. 5:13 Perpetrators are to be publicly fired, not allowed to resign.
Child abuse STILL enrages Jesus: “If anyone offends one of these little ones, it would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and drowned in the sea. “ Matt.18:6.
Until the Church realizes the soul-destroying trauma of sexual abuse, the pattern will continue. Kay still remembers the horror of being molested in church as a little girl. Prov. 31:8

[Honest Youth Pastor @HonestYPTweets]

In one week we have heard of the moral failings of both Tony Evans and Robert Morris. Both being intentionally vague in speaking about there sin, and in Morris’ case his return to ministry after restoration.

Allow me to state something you’ll likely not want to hear:

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[Rachel, Maker of Wild Sparrow Naturals @SpiritedSparr0w]

There's a special brand of liberal that assumes they are the loving one, while anyone who disagrees with them is, of course, hateful (this is the only possible reason they could disagree).

Ms. Rachel embodies this. At the end of her video, she addresses the people who wouldn't watch her content due to this post and says "that's okay, I stand in love". This statement is meant to suggest that these other people are not "standing in love".

Instead of hearing what these people might say regarding the matter and how they love their children and want to protect them from politicizing or sexually suggestive content, she calls them hateful (by making everyone assume it).

She embodies a brand of liberalism I have grown to really distaste. It is lazy and unintelligent and in fact quite close-minded.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The Islamist terrorist who stabbed 6 people at an anti-Islamist rally in Mannheim, Germany today has been named.

Sulaiman A. is a 25-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan

🇦🇫🇩🇪

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Double the laughs!

I just love this video compilation depicting the joys (and occasional cookie thefts) experienced by young twins.

From a developmental standpoint, twins often have a very different experience than singletons (which is the term used in twin circles for those of us born without a built-in best friend).

On one hand, multiple births are often associated with short-term developmental delays - which actually makes perfect sense.

Multiples are more likely to be born prematurely (putting their chronological age ahead of their true developmental age) and may receive less individualized attention/interaction (when compared to single births) as their parents balance the very real demands of meeting the needs of two infants.

But twindom has distinct upsides as well. With a constant companion and playmate (the value of which these videos illustrate beautifully) twins develop close bonds, key social skills, and sometimes even their own linguistic adaptations.

Are you a parent of twins?

How did the experience shape your children’s development?

This compilation was shared to TT by funny.laeliababie.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Activists should be removed as judges