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A View From the Cross
lulapilgrim
April 1, 2010 9:56:00 PM from JoeUser Forums
A Must See! A 10 minute video meditation on the various wounds of sin which plague humanity, wounds that were borne by Jesus on the Cross. The drama of Christ's Passion shows how Divine Mercy bore our wounds and wants to heal us. An Excellent Lenten preparation for the Sacred Triduum!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrFBX03Bnno
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KFC Kickin For Christ
Reply #301 May 12, 2010 9:04:24 PM
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That's it KFC...no time, no place, no Scripture which teaches a future 1,000 year reign of Christ on this present earth. There is no Scripture which views the Church age as nothing more than a "parenthesis" in the work of Almighty God.
The literal interpretation of Apoc. 20, a future millennial kingdom of earth where Christ after He appears for His Second coming will reign in Jerusalem for 1,000 years was officially rejected by the Chruch under the reign of Pope Pius XII as a system of interpretation that "cannot be taught safely."
of course. Let's just not abide by what Revelation 20 says. It's right there. How convenient. The OT Prophets speak of this time period and here in Revelation God mentions it 6 times thru the pen of John!!! For emphasis like he always does when HE wants us to "get it."
How can I argue with you? YOUR church has rejected it. End of story. All I can say to you is..."did God really say?" said the serpent to Eve.
This is exactly where you and I differ. When you listen to men over God's revealed word. Psalm 118:8.
the_Peoples_Party
Reply #302 May 12, 2010 10:12:18 PM
I've read almost all the post up to half way through page 20. Lula, you break the golden rule of interpretation nearly 90% of the time 'When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense; therefore, take every word, at its primary, ordinary, usual, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context, studied in the light of related passages and axiomatic and fundamental truths, indicate clearly otherwise.' This golden rule applies not just to Scripture intrepretation but the translation of any language.
Regarding Peter as pope. It never mentions Peter as pope and the first Fifteen bishops of the Jerusalem Congregation were all Jewish (a note to something that was previously posted). James was the first leader of the Jerusalem Congregation and apparently Peter never contested this or he didn't realize he was a pope. In fact, until the defeat of Israel by the Romans in 135CE Jerusalem was the headquarters of the Messianic faith. Peter was involved but he was not in any way the big cheese or 'pope' position.
Speaking of Jerusalem: 'If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget what its suppose to do; let my tongue cleave to my palate, if I do not remember you, if I do not bring up Jerusalem above the head of my joy.' That's Psalms 137:5-6. That does not say rome that does not say vatican city that says Jerusalem. G-D will never FORGET JERUSALEM!
Lula, you said something about Jews can't keep the mosasic law or judiasm and be 'christians' or something to that nature. Just disregard Acts 21:20 then and what I'm about to say ' And hearing, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews that have believed, and ALL ARE ZEALOUS ONES OF THE LAW'. Also, don't continue to read any further past verse 20 because you'll see Paul make a sacrifice! WHAT! Paul makes a sacrifice after Jesus died! WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!! Take a Nazarite vow, what! That's the 'old' down away with Testament, what are these guys doing?
The early Believers were hardcore Jews. Probably knew Scripture better than most religious Jews back then and I bet they knew Scripture better then most Believers now as well.
The OT Prophets speak of this time period and here in Revelation God mentions it 6 times thru the pen of John!!! For emphasis like he always does when HE wants us to "get it."
After looking carefully at these verses of Apoc. 20:1-6, I agree with Pope Pius XII. That there will be a literal 1,000 year reign of Christ physically present on earth in Jerusalem is NOT TAUGHT OR EVEN IMPLIED IN THIS VISION or any other vision for that matter.
It's almost blasphemous to picture Christ on an earthly throne doing some kind of day-to-day-work for 1,000 years! Christ's Millennial kingdom is the Chruch of which St.Paul teaches there is "no Jew or Gentile...." Christ's Millennial kingdom is universal made up of all nations. Christ's Millennial kingdom is ecclesiastical. Christ reigns and rules His kingdom from heaven..after His Second Coming in Judgment (not for an earthly rule), the Millennial kingdom becomes New Jeruslem, an eternal, heavenly spiritual reality. It makes no sense to plant Christ on a physical throne in earthly Jerusalem. No, no, no. no. Can't be.
lula posts:
This is exactly where you and I differ. When you listen to men over God's revealed word.
The question is not what is written in God's revealed Word...we can all read. The question is what does Apoc. 20:1-6 really mean?
Yes, you are right ....you and I differ.....
You are reading Apoc. 20:1-6 and listening to men as to what it means....Marv and Rapturists, Dispensationalists, Pre-Millennialists, Christian Zionists and so on.
I'm reading Apoc. 20:1-6 and listening to the Church as to what it means. In this case Pope Pius XII, who, as St. Peter's successor, was given the teaching mission of the Church by Christ. St.Matt. 28:18-20.
From the pen of St.John, I know that the teaching authority in the Chruch has Divine protection, "These things I have spoken to you while yet dwelling with you. But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your mind whatever I have said to you.....when the Advocate has come, whom I will send from the father,, He will bear witness concerning me, becasue from the beginning you are with me." 14:25-26, 15:26-27.
Christ made it quite clear when He said, "He who heareth you, heareth Me." Confirming that the teaching authority of the Chruch is the infallible voice of Christian truth St.Paul wrote, "I write these things to thee....that thou may know how to conduct thyself in the House of God, which is the Chruch of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of truth. 1Tim. 3:15.
Leauki
Reply #304 May 13, 2010 5:16:20 AM
I have already done that.
No. You never did.
None of the forms of Judaism that were established after 70AD have these 3 holy things...and, if by some chance a Temple is built...it won't be holy as Our Lord God won't be there.
You not knowing or not recognising certain features of Judaism doesn't count.
Judaism still has priests and I have pointed this out time and time again.
Judaism still reveres the Temple and the remaining wall in Jerusalem is Judaism's holiest place.
And the Torah remains Judaism's holy scripture.
So please, go ahead and point out actual differences between what you call "Old Testament Judaism" and "modern Judaism", but make sure those are differences that Jews actually acknowledge and not just stuff you make up based on ignorance of Judaism.
If the majority of Jews had listened to the prophets, including the one that Moses spoke of (Christ Himself), they would not have missed the Messias Christ's visitation.
When did Moses speak of Jesus?
Reply #306 May 13, 2010 11:52:42 AM
Quoting lulapilgrim,
leauki posts: Yes. It's true. But bronze age Jews also took their religion for granted without inquiring deeply. It's called faith. Jews keep believing now what they believed then, regardless of reasons not to believe it. You found that out correctly. Judaism was granted. By G-d. And while Islam and Christianity have converted almost any nation they ever met or attacked, the people of Israel stuck to their own faith.
My, my, here you are speaking of Jews in a theological sense.
Now, we are getting somewhere.....Let's continue by going back to Isaias.
The Scriptures show that Christ intended the perfect development of the Mosaic religion (Christianity..Catholicism) to be distinct from the religion of the Synagaogue which has ended. Christ said, I will build My Chruch at the time the Synagague was already established. Christ prescribed new doctrines, new modes of worship, and a new form of authority. He even predicted to His Apostles, in the synagogue you shall be beaten." St.Mark 13:9. The intended disctinction of His Chruch from the prefigurative Synagague is most clear. CHRIST WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS 2:2, THAT ALL NATIONS WOULD BE CALLED TO HIS CHURCH.
to which you replied:
And here we go again. Isaias 2:2 says nothing about a "church". There isn't even a "calling".
Oh yes, the prophet Isaias chapter 2: 2-4 certainly predicted that all nations shall flow to the House of the Lord...in other word's, Christ's New Covenant Church.
Isaias 2:2-4 "And in the last days, the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be prepared on the top of mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it. And many poeple shall go and say, Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord and to the Hous of the God of Jacob; ANd He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For the law will come forth from Sion, amd the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge the Gentiles and rebuke many people."
In Scripture, "In the last days" is the whole time of the New Covenant, the time from Christ's First Coming till the end of the world because no other time shall come after it but only eternity.
So, from the time of Christ until He Comes again in Judgment on the Last Day, all nations shall flow into the CC.
"on the top of mountains" shows the perpetual visibility of Christ's Church, for a mountian on top of a mountain cannot be hid."
Christ came and He established the religion of God, Christianity. As opposed to the one chosen people of the Jews, all nations will be represented amongst its members. And they will learn from His Chruch the ways of God and will walk in His path under its guidance. This promised New Covenant religion will originate in Jerusalem. Now, the NT shows Christ fulfilled this OT prophecy of Isaias. In St.Matt. 16:18, Christ says, "I will build My Church" upon Cephas, Peter. In 28:20, He prescribed its doctrines and commissioned it to go forth from Jerusalem teaching to observe all things I have commanded you. In 28:18, He gives His Church His authority, "Amen, I say to you whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven...." In the preceeding verse, He gives the Church judicial power, "If a man will not hear the Chruch, let him be as the heathen."
And He sends that Chruch no longer to the Jews only, but to the Gentiles also, saying, "teach all nations." His Chruch must remain one Chruch for it is to be "one fold under one shepherd". It is to last with the constitution He gave it until the end of the world and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Behold, I am with you all days until the consummation of the world.
Leauki, all this obviously indicates a very definite religion and a very definite Church.
Slow down there Pilgrim! Just because it says in Isaiah 2:2 'In the after days' does not mean please insert 'church'. Again, this is a violation of the Golden Rule. One should take the verses in context before ever interjecting something else.
On the mountain top is referring to the temple which was built on mount Moriah. This is why it is called the mountain of the L-RD's house. The temple, or the mountain on which it was reared, would be the object which would express the public worship of the TRUE LIVING G-D. That this would be elevated higher than all other hills, or mountains, meaning that the worship of the TRUE LIVING G-D would become an object so conspicuous as to be seen by all nations (the Jews were to be a light to ALL NATION something that refutes what you said that G-D came to one people. Which is a twist. G-D did come to one people BUT HE wanted to us that people as a LIGHT TO ALL NATIONS). The LIGHT would be SO BRIGHT that all nations would forsake other objects and places of worship, being attracted by the glory of the worship of the TRUE LIVING G-D.
It says nothing about all nations following to the 'CC'. It says nothing about vatcian or rome in FACT it says JERUSALEM! Jerusalem would be the EPIC CENTER FOR THIS ALL! Not rome, not vatican.
What would they be teaching there? 'church' doctrine? RCC doctrine so this would be a cachehism? No it says 'כִּי מִצִּיּוֹן תֵּצֵא תוֹרָה, וּדְבַר-יְהוָה מִירוּשָׁלִָם.' Zion break forth the TORAH (which is usually translated into law and this IS A VERY POOR translation for TORAH IS INSTRUCTION) the word (dabar is a play on word and power here for it is coming from G-D) of G-D.
Christ came and He established the religion of God, Christianity. As opposed to the one chosen people of the Jews, all nations will be represented amongst its members. And they will learn from His Chruch the ways of God and will walk in His path under its guidance.
Did G-D change? G-D's religion has been going on throughout all Scriptures. Scripture will and should be reflective of itself. In other words, all Scripture is a mirror reflection of itself and G-D.
"Torah" derives from a root Yud Resh He. The G stem is "yarah".
"Yarah" today means "he shot" but originally meant "he threw" from "he cast (a die)" and ultimately, in long-forgotten time, "he decided".
From "liroth" = "to decide" derives the H (causative) stem "lehoroth" = "he made someone decide" = "he instructed".
And "torah" derives thence and is the means by which this happens, an "instruction".
(This follows the same mechanism as "yashav" = "he sat" -> "lehoshiv" = "to seat" -> "toshav" = "inhabitant".)
G-d always was open for all nations, not just the people of Israel. I believe G-d send prophets to many nations, for example Zoroaster to the Persians (who heeded his words).
When king Cyrus liberated Jerusalem, king Cyrus and his people were already blessed by G-d and on the right path, despite not being the "chosen people". Israel was chosen as a light to the nations. The Persians were chosen for another task. And even today Americans are chosen for something else still.
LEAUKI POSTS 287
Fact is that Judaism as a religion already existed long before Jesus' birth......
What you mean by the word "as" here? That religion you are describing here is Old Testament Judaism.....so, what is OT Judaism other than a religion?
lula posts 296
....BINGO! And the Judaism which already existed long before Jesus' birth is NOT Rabbinic Talmudic Judaism which was devised in 90AD by revolutionary Jews who rejected Christ and everything concerning Christianity.
LEAUKI POSTS:
....... Jews continued living their old religion.
No. Leauki...after 70AD, it was impossible for Jews to continue to "live their old religion."
"living the old religion" (Biblical Judaism) required 3 holy things...High priests. Temple Altar, Torah prescribed sacrifices in that Temple. From 70AD, these are of the historic past.
Furthermore, the Jewish Encyclopedia rightly declares, that "the official genealogies disappeared with the destruction of the Temple" that this was "deplored as a calamity" vol 5, page. 597, that "it is extremely rare to find a Jewish family that even claims to trace its ancestry further back than the 16th century. vol 9 page 517.
LEAUKI 304
As to the differences....
OT Judaism is the holy religion that God gave through Moses. All the forms of the modern religion of Judaism that arose after 70AD are of men who reject Christ.
The principles as set forth in the Torah (Pentateuch) make plain the fact that OT Judaism of God is of an authoritative, priestly, sacrificial, character.
Leviticus is a liturgical Book which tells in detail the the duties of the Aaronic priests and the sacrifices they were to offer to God for the people of Israel.
You claim there are Jewish priests today...OK, if so, those Jewish priests have no authority as did the Aaronic priesthood who were keepers of God's Laws and determiners of their application. In fact, no one speaks with Torah authority today in either the Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, or Reconstructionist divisions of modern day Jewry.
Another difference is that the Jews of today have Rabbis, not priests and that's becasue the sacrificing priesthood ended with the Temple.
The Jews of the Old Mosaic Covenant believed "that atonement comes through blood", which is "the life of the flesh" Lev. 7:11, In the Mosaic law "forgiveness" comes primarily through the shedding of the blood of animals.
That's why Rightwinger back at the beginning of this thread asked, "what do Jews do now to atone for their sins?" And your answer was "We fast".
You're going to have to make up your mind Lula. which is it? Marv has nothing to do with what Revelation 20 tells us about the Millennium. So now instead of inserting Luther and Calvin you're putting in Marv as my latest guru? hmmmm smooth. In other words you can't stick with the topic so you have to go on the attack again. Every single time I get you in a corner you do this. Every single time. It really doesn't matter tho does it because I'm just not listening to the RCC and that's all that matters.
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise...NOT. You just blasted me for listening to Marv, rapturists (not sure who they are) Zionists etc and here you are admitting you're listening to man. I've ONLY brought up scripture to you here. This is very hypocritical Lula.
A thousand years is a thousand years Lula. It's not symbolic. It's to be taken literally. That's why it's mentioned six times. For emphasis. God is clear. It will be a thousand years.
You see this type of repetition many times in scripture. Take Genesis 1:27 for example:
"So God created man in his own image in the image of God He created he him; male and female created he them."
He mentions this three times in one verse for emphasis knowing quite well down the road this would come into question. Did a God really create mankind? So you see you can't take it literally in Genesis and not in Revelation. There's absolutely no reason not to.
You may not even know this (maybe you do) but you're actually folliwing an African Donatist named Tyconius who developed a view of the Millennium that the RCC followed. When he came to Rev 20 he interpreted the thousand years in nonliteral terms and understood the period as referring to the church age (like you do), the time betwen the first and second comings. Augustine following Tyconius followed suit with this interpretation and for centuries to come this was the viewpoint. But remember this was well before (4th Century) before the first thousand years after Christ had finished.
The much earlier position (the early church before 4th century) unquestionably held to the teaching of an earthly, historical reign of peace that was to follow the defeat of Antichrist and the physical resurrection of the saints but precede both the judgment and the new creation.
Marv has nothing to do with what Revelation 20 tells us about the Millennium.
You suggested your teacher Marv's website. and guess what...you and he are mouthing the same endtime fable--Dispensationalism....PreMillennialism --after Our Lord's Second Coming, you and he predict a future literal 1,000 year reign of Christ on earth.
Lula, I believed this for years and years way before I met Marv (2 1/2 yrs ago). My belief in the Millennium has NOTHING to do with Marv. Nothing. The fact that he believes as I do (as well as centuries of Christians) just means we're reading the same book. You just admitted you're listening to a Pope who told you differently. Marv and I believe in the 1,000 year reign of Christ because that's exactly what it says...SIX TIMES in one Chapter.
I'll take the book anyday over man's opinion. "Did God really say?"
I've been studying the fall of Eve this past Mother's Day as I was invited to give a talk at a woman's luncheon. I taught about the craftiness of Satan's deception in how he worked Eve. He operates still today as an angel of light working in deception and disguise (even as a Pope).
When dealing with the enemy who doesn't deal in truth be careful to not take anything at face value. Let God's words be your authority...not man's. As soon as Satan tricked her into questioning God it was only a matter of time before she went her own independent way.
When we shade God's truth just a little bit it can have a disastrous impact in our lives.
Eve taught us that talking with the devil and walking with the Lord do NOT go hand in hand. That's what I believe you're trying to do.
You suggested your teacher Marv's website.
When did I do this? I told Leauki he would love Marv's CD on "Israel Under Seige" and "Zion's Fire" but I don't recall saying anything here about going to Marv's website for information. I don't even go on that myself because I see him weekly and I get "Zion's Fire."
Marv has nothing to do with what Revelation 20 tells us about the Millennium. So now instead of inserting Luther and Calvin you're putting in Marv as my latest guru? hmmmm smooth. In other words you can't stick with the topic so you have to go on the attack again.
Marv, your endtime "lastest guru"!! Hmmm...interesting....your words, not mine.
Teasing aside, I have stuck with the topic..which for the most part has concerned the endtimes.
Attack? C'mon? Your belief in a literal 1,000 year earthly reign of Christ is in common with other Dispensationalists, Pre-Milleniallists, Christian Zionists, and Rapturists.
It's either correct or it isn't. The Magesterium of the Catholic Church has rejected that belief system and that's good enough for me. And just to show that I am sticking with this topic, I brought up the Church's teaching on this very subject ... in post 157 I wrote:
Post 157
Rapturists and Millennialists believe verse 26 was fulfilled in 70AD......and then there is this time gap........2,000 year and going .........verse 27 is in the future and centers on ethnic Israel rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple and the coming of the Messias who will set up His earthly Messianic Kingdom and rule over it for 1,000 years. This falsification of the kingdom is called Millenarianism which the CC has rejected....see the Catechism of the CC # 676.
KFC posts:
You just admitted you're listening to a Pope who told you differently.
Yes, and Pope Pius XII is a successor to St. Peter to whom Christ gave the keys to the very Messianic kingdom of God you believe is a future earthly kingdom Christ will reign over for a 1,000 years.
Remember St. Matt. 16:18-19? "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build My Church, and the powers of Hell will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of Heaven and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven."
Here it is clear, crystal clear, that when Christ said this to St.Peter, He was setting up His Messianic kingdom and gave St.Peter the keys..it is the Church that will be in existance for a 1,000 year Millennium, that is, the Church age...which will be a long period of time that will last until Christ's Second Coming when the Messianic kingdom will be glorified in the eternal New Heavens and New earth.
Now, as a successor to St.Peter, Pope Pius XII holds the keys to the Messianic kingdom (the Church) and he made a "binding" decision when he officially rejected the belief system known as Millennarianism as a system of interpretation that "cannot be taught safely."
Marv and I believe in the 1,000 year reign of Christ because that's exactly what it says...SIX TIMES in one Chapter.
You wrote in post 248:
The Jews are central in the earthly kingdom to be set up by Christ when He returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They will be the leading nation and Jerusalem the world capital when Christ personally takes over the reins of the government of the world.
Where is any of this in Scripture? ................................Save your time...it isn't there.
When Christ returns Scripture tells us it will be on the last day of this earth to judge the living and the dead; not to set up His earthly kingdom.
Jesus Christ died and lives again. Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords now seated at the right hand of the Father. He possesses all power in Heaven and on earth. He is far above all rule, authority, power and dominion for the Father has put "all things under His feet". Christ is Lord over the cosmos and of history.
Since the Ascension, God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. Christ the Lord has already set up His earthly kingdom, the Church. As Lord, Christ is Eternal Head of the Church, which is His Body. Christ dwells on earth in His Church. LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN....CHRIST DWELLS ON EARTH IN HIS CHURCH. Christ by the Holy Spirit exercises His authority over His Church.
Christ's kingdom is already present on earth, the seed, and in mystery, the beginning of the eternal heavenly Kingdom, the glorious Messianic New Jerusalem which according to the prophets will bring all men justice, love and peace. Is. 11:9.
We are in "the last days". The Church, Christ's kingdom is already endowed with a sanctity that is real but imperfect. 1Cor. 10:11. This reign is under attack by the evil powers, even though they've been defeated by Christ's Passover. 2Thess. 2:7. According to the Lord, the present time is the time of the Spirit and of witness to His Gospel, but a time marked by distress and trial of evil which does not spare the Chruch and ushers in the struggles of the endtimes.
KFC, it is a time of waiting, of watching and of praying, not taking Scripture and looking at events in the Middle East and the European Union and making endtime predictions about a literal 1,000 year physical reign of Christ.
The antichrist deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made about this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of Millenarianism.
I don't know what "Old Testament Judaism" is.
But Judaism is a religion.
Let's go through the list of "differences" between "Old Testament Judaism" and current Judaism:
Current Judaism is also the holy religion that G-d gave through Moses. "Rejecting Christ" was merely a continuation of that religion in face of several Messiah claimants.
Your first "difference" is just a repition of your claim.
But how is current Judaism different from that?
There are Jewish priests today. It's a fact. And they do have that authority when the Temple stands.
In Judaism nobody ever spoke with Torah authority except the Torah and the prophets.
Another difference is that the Jews of today have Rabbis, not priests and that's because the sacrificing priesthood ended with the Temple.
What do you mean "another difference"? You haven't listed any differences yet.
Judaism has had rabbis and priests for over 3000 years. Those roles were always distinct.
And yes, sacrifices (but not the priesthood) ended with the Temple. But when the Temple is rebuilt, they will start again.
Incidentally, sacrifices also ended during the Babylonian Exile and in the time before the rededication of the Temple in the event we celebrate with Hanukkah every year.
Yes. Since the Temple isn't standing there are no sacrifices so we continue with the other method which was also in use during Temple times.
So please, just tell me those alleged differences.
Do NOT just repeat your claim.
Do NOT just go into detail with your faulty knowledge of Judaism.
Tell me at least ONE difference between what you see as "Old Testament Judaism" and current Judaism which is NOT based on your ignorance of the role of rabbis and priests and which is NOT a coincidence relying on the fact that the Temple is currently destroyed again.
Yes, and Pope Pius XII is a successor to St. Peter
Says Pope Pius XII.
I told Leauki he would love Marv's CD on "Israel Under Seige" and "Zion's Fire"
Yes, and I looked into it and found it interesting. Thanks for the hint!
That reminds me, Lula, any word yet on how Catholic Priests are priests in the order of Melchizedek when you also told us that Judaism (and not Melchizedek's pre-Mosaic religion) was the first divine and priestly religion?
Was Melchizedek a legitimate and real priest of G-d or not?
You might want to read Psalm 2 among many other scriptures that show otherwise. This is the Messiah the Jews are still waiting for. This is a Messianic Psalm and HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. As always I go to scripture.
"Yet have I set my king (Jesus) upon My holy hill of Zion (Mt Moriah-Jerusalem). I will declare the decree the Lord has said unto me, Thou are my Son; this day have I begotten thee (day of coronation-hasn't happened yet). Ask of me and I shall give you the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." v6-9
Now you go to Revelation 2 and you see the future of this still yet to happen so it couldn't have ANYTHING to do with the church because John is writing this in 90 A.D.
"And HE shall rule them with a rod of iron as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers...." 2:27
"And out of HIS mouth (Christ) goes a sharp sword (His WORD) and with it he should smite the nations and HE shall rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." 19:15
note to Leauki. THis is what the Jews wanted to happen in the 1st century but they didn't understand that it will happen not on their time schedule but God's. It will happen. Jesus is the Messiah and when he comes back He's coming as King and will rule on earth with Jerusalem as his seat on earth. He promised He would be back. The reason for all this goes all the way back to Abraham. All nations will be blessed as a result. If he came back as King the first time (as the Jews thought) the promise to Abraham would not have been kept. God always keeps his promises.
Since the Ascension, God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. Christ the Lord has already set up His earthly kingdom, the Church.
See here you go again. What scripture are you referring? Jesus said himself:
"My KINGDOM is NO PART OF THIS WORLD!" John 18:36
So who do I believe? You or Jesus Christ himself? I notice you give no scripture to back your words. Again why would I go to man when I can read God's revealed Word to mankind? This world was NEVER meant to be our home.
no kidding! The Pope speaks and they all listen. Reminds me again of what Jesus said:
"I am come in my Father's name and you receive me not; if another shall come in his own name him you will receive." John 5:43
Basically he's saying you won't follow me or my word even tho I come in the name of my Father, but you will follow someone who comes in their own name; other messiahs you will listen to and believe me the Popes are "other Messiahs" in the RCC.
Yes he was. When I think Melchisedech... I think sacrifice, a "clean oblation" as per the OT prophet Malachais 1:11. The "clean oblation" he offered in thanksgiving to God was bread and wine.
The OT is full of references to sacrifices as prescribed by God Himself. It's an offering to God of some sanctified object made by a legitimate priest.
That reminds me, Lula, any word yet on how Catholic Priests are priests in the order of Melchisedek when you also told us that Judaism (and not Melchizedek's pre-Mosaic religion) was the first divine and priestly religion?
In Psalm 109 King Davod prophesied of Christ, "thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchisedech." St.Paul applied the same words to Christ in Hebrews 5:6. Again Melchisedech offered a sacrfice of bread and wine. So according "to the order of Melchisedech" means the priesthood of Christ would be like that of Melchisedech. His sacrfice must be of bread and wine.
In verses 10-11, Malachais speaks of the sacrfice of the New Covenant (Law). "I have no pleasure in you (priests of Jewry), saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will not receive a gift of your hand. For from the rising of the sun even to the going down, my name is great among the Gentiles and in every place there is sacrifice and there is offered to My name a clean oblation."
So, at the time of Christ's death on the Cross and the Temple Veil was rent into from top to bottom, clearly and definitely the sacrifice of the Old Law is rejected by God, and its place is to be taken by a clean (unbloody) sacrifice offered universally (from the rising of the sun to its going down) by the Gentiles. The Sacrifice of the New Covenant is to consist of an unbloody offering to God under the rite of bread and wine by the Gentiles all over the world.
In Scriputre, sacrifice has a special meaning and it must be offered by a priest and presented by him to God alone for and in the name of the people.
So sacrfice was an essential element in Old Covenant Judaism and is in the holy religion of Jesus Christ...New Covenant Christianity and specificlally Catholicism. The New Covenant in the Precious Blood of Christ fulfilled and completed the Old Covenant.
The Apostles as well as the early Fathers of the Chruch used expressions as "sacrifice, oblation, host, offering, victim, altar,and priest in reference to Christ's institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper on HOly Thursday the day before He died on the Cross.
At the Last Supper holding the bread, Christ said, This is My Body which is given for you....and then holding the cup ...This is the chalice of the New Testament in my blood which shall be shed for you." The meaning is clear, that His Body and Blood were "here and now" being offered for sacrfice eucharistically as on the next day It would be offered physically.
The Holy Eucharist is not only a Sacrament but the One Sacrifice of the New Covenant Law and as a sacrifice we call it the Holy Mass.
The short of it is Jesus Christ is the eternal High Priest of the New Law, in virtue of His Sacrficial death on the Cross. The eucharistic sacrifice according to the rite of Melchisedech fulfilled the prophecy of Malchais was instituted by Christ at the Last Supper. On Calvary, Christ made once and for all the necessary sacrifice of reparation. Christ is a Priest forever and Cathoic priests (by the imposition of hands ---Holy Orders) are merely His agents offering Sacrifice in His Name.
This is what the Jews wanted to happen in the 1st century but they didn't understand that it will happen not on their time schedule but God's. It will happen. Jesus is the Messiah and when he comes back He's coming as King and will rule on earth with Jerusalem as his seat on earth. He promised He would be back. The reason for all this goes all the way back to Abraham. All nations will be blessed as a result. If he came back as King the first time (as the Jews thought) the promise to Abraham would not have been kept. God always keeps his promises.
I told you before that I will be fine with all that if he comes back and fullfills all prophecies.
I am not arguing with Jesus, I am arguing with his followers.
Blablabla, what does that mean "When I think Melchisedech... I think sacrifice"?
When I think Melchizedek I think "king of the Canaanite city that happened to worship the same god as Abraham".
Nevertheless you haven't answered my question.
How can you count Melchizedek as a legitimate priest if at the same time you claim that Judaism, a religion created 400 years after his death was the first priestly and divine religion?
You cannot have priests without a religion.
As for your going on and on, Lula, about "Old Testamant Judaism", it is very clear that you don't know much about Judaism, almost nothing about bronze age societies, and even less (if that is even possible) about comparative religion.
The Jews might have been wrong when they rejected Jesus as the Messiah.
But to claim that it was "revolutionary" for the Jews to reject Jesus is nonsense.
(Was the CC "revolutionary" for rejecting the reforms proposed by Luther or was Luther the revolutionary?)
Anyway, if you want to understand the god of Israel, you will have to start in Jerusalem. Because according to the Torah, before Abraham even learned of Him and understood that He was the only god, one Canaanite city already worshipped Him.
This is the Messiah the Jews are still waiting for.
The Jews may still be waiting for the Messias to come but they wait in vain. Anyone after Christ who claims to be the Messias is a false Messias is antichrist. So please stop KFC encouraging this blasphemy.
Christ is not coming back as Messias...been there; done that....The Messias came and established the New Covenant of Grace. Christ is coming back one more time at the end of the world, time and history to JUDGE the living and the dead and to take His kingdom now glorified into the eternal New Jerusalem in the new heavens and new earth.
Any Jewish person who wants to be saved and enter into the Kingdom of God must do as St.Peter told the multitude of men of Israel that gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost. Read Acts. 2:21-36. It cuts to the heart. Verse 37, after hearing the truth, they ask St.Peter, what shall we do? He tells them to repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of their sins and they shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Verses 39-42, "For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to Him." He said "save yourselves from this crooked generation." 3,000 were added that day and "they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of the bread and the prayers (the primitive form of the Holy Mass.)
Knock, knock, KFC, the Messias Christ of Psalm 2 has already come....the majority of the Jews missed His visitation. But St.Paul teaches it's not too late for them to be grafted into Christ's Body...through baptism. While the Jewish people remain most dear to God for the sake of Abraham and Moses, nevertheless, becasue of unbelief they were broken off from the olive tree which is Christ. But "if they abide not sitll in unbelief, shall be grafted in : for God is able to graft them in again." Romans 11:20-23, 28.
How shall the Jews be grafted in? By conversion and baptism the Jews can be reincorporated into the sole and exclusive covenant people of God which is the Cathoalic Chuuch, the kingdom of Heaven, just as St.Paul himself was. Of the Jewish race, "there is a remnant saved accroding to the election of grace. 11:5 and that remnant consists of those Jews who repent, are batpitzed and become members of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Catholic Church.
good point Leauki although I'm not sure how we can know "before Abrham even learned of Him". Melchizedek came from Salem which was an old name for Jerusalem. Everything starts and ends with Jerusalem. Not Rome. In fact even Peter called Rome Babylon. They can't deny that. Babylon in scripture is NEVER a good thing to be called. Salem means peace and someday the King of Peace will come to the City of Peace and all will be good. Melchizedek typified Christ. Ps 110:4 because Christ will hold the office of both Priest and King which is a very unusual office.
He will. But keep in mind what was said about Abraham:
"and He believed in the Lord and he counted "it" to him for righteousness." Gen 15:6
Abraham believed this would happen way before you or I or Jesus were even born. That's true faith. Believing in what hasn't happened yet but yet knowing it will because God said it would. Just like Abraham believed in the promise so too are we to believe in the future promise that He will come back and set things right. Right now what's happening is God's allowing his cup of wrath to fill. When it starts to spill over...watch out. Then it will be too late. Just like in Noah's day it will be again.
note to Leauki. THis is what the Jews wanted to happen in the 1st century but they didn't understand that it will happen not on their time schedule but God's. It will happen.
Ever since Christ's First Advent, it has happened; is happening now and will continue to happen until the end of the world.
Jesus is the Messiah and when he comes back He's coming as King and will rule on earth with Jerusalem as his seat on earth.
The highlighted is unBiblical as well as enditme fantasy.
He promised He would be back. The reason for all this goes all the way back to Abraham.
Yes, absolutely true...Christ will come back only one more time...Christ came the first time in Perfect Mercy; the second time will be in Perfect Justice.
The reason for all this is becasue the Lord God is gracious and patient and plenteous in mercy so as to save man's soul and make him eternally happy.
All nations will be blessed as a result.
What's this will be blessed nonsense? All nations HAVE been blessed by Christ's First Advent. After all, He died and redeemed all mankind and opened the gates of Heaven that were shut as a consequence of Adam's sin. Daniel's six blessings have already been bestowed by Christ's First Advent.
If he came back as King the first time (as the Jews thought) the promise to Abraham would not have been kept.
"If He came back as King the first time..." What does that mean? Don't you mean, if he came as King the first time?
God always keeps his promises.
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Escalon stuns Hilmar boys with buzzer-beater
Junior Alec Cano (4) of Hilmar goes up for a deep two-point shot during the first half of Tuesday's TVL game at Escalon. - photo by EDDIE RUIZ / The Journal
Eddie Ruiz
Updated: Jan. 27, 2015, 7:44 p.m.
The Hilmar High boys varsity basketball team suffered a devastating loss in the closing seconds of Friday's matchup against Trans Valley League foe Escalon High.
After a stiff start from Hilmar in the opening quarter, head coach Paul Willis' team stepped their game up to take a one-point lead by the end of the first half and kept a steady pace up until the closing seconds.
With less than 10 seconds left in regulation and Hilmar up by two-points, Vincent Bacay of Escalon took a perfect pass from teammate Marvin Lawrence and then sank a three-point shot to win it 59-58.
"We played a really good ball game and got down early in a hostile environment and they put a lot of pressure on us and we got back into it," said Willis, who was still in disbelief minutes after the game ended. "We took away their first choice shooter who passed it out and he hits it, what do you say to that?"
If you are a fan of a good high school sports rivalry, then Tuesday night's contest was just that.
There was a fast-tempo style of play from both sides, which executed their offenses with near perfection bouncing back and forth with nothing but fast break points for a large period of the game.
Escalon took a four-point lead by the end of the third after sneaking its way into a 14-9 run to take a 40-36 lead.
The 'Jackets knew what needed to be done and they fought back as hard as they could with hustle plays from various players.
Alex Chavez, Hudson Harris, Nino Ta-a, Kole Gaglio and Alec Cano all played strong on Tuesday for their 'Jackets, but it just wasn't enough.
The buzzer-beating loss gave the 'Jackets their third league loss of the season and they have now lost six of their last seven games.
"It was a physical game. I thought we played well through adversity; we got a couple questionable calls here and there," Willis said. "Bottom line is if we make some free throws down the stretch, which we didn't, then it's a different outcome. We have to do a better job."
Cano finished with a game-high 13 points, Gaglio was second (12), Chavez tallied 10 and Ta-a ended with eight points.
The Hilmar defense was on point after causing Escalon to turn the ball over 24 times and forcing them to shoot 34 percent from the field.
"I told our guys to keep their heads up," said Willis. "I thought they played a great game and played hard, obviously we are disappointed since we had the win right there in our hands but that is how this league goes, everybody can beat anybody, and we just came up short and it was unfortunate I didn't ponder on it too long."
Hilmar (10-11, 1-3) will have an opportunity to rally as they host Riverbank (6-12) at 7:30 p.m. Friday.
"I think they are going to respond well, Friday night we will go right back at it, I think these guys can move on from it starting Friday, which we will be home and there will be energy there," Willis added. "TVL is a grind and that's what we know and expect. It's those close games that can go either way and sometimes you get them and other times you don't."
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TC names former Eagle new boys basketball head coach
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UK Superfund Research Center Receives $12.2 Million Federal Grant
by Carl Nathe
(June 16, 2014) — The University of Kentucky has received a $12.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue its work to better understand and minimize negative health and environmental impacts from hazardous waste sites.
The Nutrition and Superfund Chemical Toxicity grant funded through the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is administered through the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. It supports the efforts of more than 50 scientists and students from 15 departments within the colleges of Agriculture, Food and Environment; Arts and Sciences; Engineering; Medicine; and Public Health.
UK is one of only four programs funded in 2014, placing it in a very elite group of just 19 centers nationwide. UK has received funding for its Superfund work since 1997, with this being one of the largest NIH grants ever received by UK.
UK Superfund Research Center's biomedical research focuses on the idea that nutrition can help reduce negative health effects from exposure to hazardous chemicals. Environmental science researchers at the center are working to develop new methods to detect hazardous chemicals and clean up contaminated sites.
Kentucky has rates of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and hypertension, well above national averages. The state is also home to more than 200 federal Superfund sites, including 14 active sites that are on the National Priorities List, a list of the worst sites in the country. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines Superfund sites as uncontrolled or abandoned places where hazardous waste is located.
In Kentucky, such sites include abandoned waste dumps and large industrial facilities. Many of these sites are contaminated with environmentally persistent chlorinated organic compounds, molecules which contain carbon and chlorine, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and trichloroethylene (TCE).
"Our biomedical research goal is to help offset the negative health impacts that can occur when humans are exposed to toxic chemicals, thus improving health and disease outcomes, which can be associated with such exposures," said Bernhard Hennig, center director and professor of nutrition and toxicology in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. "The team is also looking at the impacts of such exposures on prenatal development."
"We are optimistic that the results from our environmental science research will help accelerate the clean-up of several Superfund sites in Kentucky, such as the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Our research is likely to have other applications as well, including uses in treating drinking water and removing toxic metals from power plant water," said Lindell Ormsbee, associate director of the UK-SRC and a Raymond-Blythe Professor of civil engineering.
"This project brings the best scientists from many different disciplines and colleges together for a high-impact collaboration that advances our knowledge of some of the most pervasive chemical contaminants in our environment," said Nancy Cox, dean of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. "These scientists also collaborate with colleagues from other state and national agencies and work within affected communities to educate individuals about strategies that may help combat the effects of contaminants and improve overall health."
For more information on the Superfund Research Center, contact the UK-SRC Research Translation Core at 859-257-1299 or visit the center's website, www.uky.edu/Research/Superfund.
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a new type of digital phoropter, next week at International Vision Expo East. The VX 55 combines the simplicity and comfort of a manual phoropter with technological advances that allow for connectivity among diagnostic devices in the practice, and easy importation of measurement findings into EMR systems. Users can digitize their manual phoropter and control the entire refraction process from a tablet, increasing efficiency and making refractions quicker and easier than ever before.
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Add "assist" function offering easier operation when testing the add value in near vision.
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Vital Stats: There is little to no learning curve with the interactive tutorial guide screen and familiar interface, according to Visionix.
Top Line: Topcon Medical Systems (TMS) is launching the "Topcon Online University" training system. Topcon's CV-5000S Automated Vision Tester is the subject of the first in this new series of online training modules.
Close Up: The new CV-5000S Online Training Program was previewed at the Vision Expo West Meeting in Las Vegas in 2013 and is the first in a series of interactive, online product training systems that collectively will be known as Topcon's Online University.
"The CV-5000S Online Training Program is designed for technicians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, and other eye care professionals that are getting started with the CV-5000S Refraction System. Through a combination of narrated videos, graphics and step-by-step instructions, the system highlights the key features and operating procedures of the system," said Bob Gibson, vice president of marketing for Topcon Medical Systems.
Vital Stats: The online university will be available 24/7 on the Topcon website to registered users, allowing them to access it at any time and from any location. This value-added feature of the CV-5000S and other products to come will not only enhance the patients' experience but also improve and accelerate the learning process for the operator.
Fast lens rotation provides comfort for both user and patient while the compact and contemporary design enhances the doctor's professional image.
Provides complete 21-point refraction and features the KB-50S One Dial Controller with a 10.4" color touch-screen display.
Complete connectivity allows data to be sent automatically to every CV system throughout the office and populated automatically into the EMR, making paperless refraction a reality.
Top Line: Next week at International Vision Expo East, ABS is launching two new iPad Stands, a desktop model and a freestanding model.
Close Up: The new "Smart Stand" from ABS allow optimum use of the ABS Smart Mirror Mobile App. Slim, space-saving modern design, the 360-degree rotating stand is also height adjustable to elevate the iPad camera to the customer's eye level to avoid parallax error.
Vital Stats: The Smart Stand gives added stability and frees up the dispenser's hands so they can easily readjust a customer's frames and posture before taking pictures.


On 8 September in Berlin, officers from the Seed Money Facility (SMF) for the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR) met applicants for seed money to discuss their project ideas. The SMF has so far received about 35 project ideas for consultation.
At the meeting, the officers did not only explain technical and organisational specificities of seed money to applicants, but they also gave feedback on the project content, aligned with the respective Policy Area or Horizontal Action Coordinator.
"Close exchange between the coordinators, the funding facility and the applicants is a lot of effort on all sides", says Patricia Bohland of the EUSBSR Seed Money Facility. "Yet, such trilateral discussion of project ideas is necessary at an early stage to make sure that upcoming EU funded projects will actually implement the Strategy".
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Ret. MSGT Teofilo Benavidez age 63, a resident of Deatsville, AL passed away on September 8, 2021 at a local hospital. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church with Father Den Irwin officiating. The interment will be private at Alabama National Cemetery. Mr. Benavidez retired from the United States Airforce and worked as a computer programmer with Civil Service. He was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. He is survived by his parents Ernesto Benavidez & Benancia Hinajosa Benavidez, his wife Ronda R. Benavidez, daughters Jessica Neighbors (Josh), Monica Scroggins (Chris), brother Ernesto Benavidez, Jr., grandchildren Hadyn Neighbors, Gabriel Neighbors, Payton Scroggins, Kylie Scroggins & a host of nieces & nephews.
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Banned in Moscow! Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera "The Golden Cockerel"
August 7, 2017	3:00 PM CST By Eric A. Gordon
Tim Mix (Tsar Dodon), Keven Burdette (General Polkan), Meredith Arwady (Amelfa), and the chorus | Paul Horpedahl for Santa Fe Opera, 2017
SANTA FE, N.M.—So many operas, so little time! Santa Fe Opera has been presenting opera with the highest professional values since 1957, yet this is the first time the company has offered Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, The Golden Cockerel. In fact, it's the only opera by this composer the company has ever staged. In fact, his operas rarely get staged at all, outside Russia, at least. In fact, only a handful of Russian operas are ever seen on Western stages.
I recall a Snegurochka (The Snow Maiden) by Rimsky-Korsakov that I saw at the Maly Theatre in Leningrad in 1980 at the height of the Cold War. "A charming production, steeped in tradition, with a fine mezzo," I wrote in a travelogue of that trip, "we are likely to hear nothing like it in the West any time soon."
The Golden Cockerel has a remarkable history. Curiously enough, it is based on one of Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra, his adaptation of the tales of the Arabian nights. He happened to be traveling in Spain with a friend of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, and upon publication of his 1832 collection, which included the "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer," Pushkin transformed it into the satirical poem "Tale of the Golden Cockerel." Pushkin set his story in Russia, using a nationalist folk style to criticize the Russian aristocracy.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is best known for his masterfully orchestrated compositions such as the frequently performed Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade, prominent examples of his fairy tale and folk style. He encouraged other Russian composers of his time to draw on their native literature, history, and musical traditions to establish a national school independent of European models. Most of his 15 operas reflect this orientation.
During the 1905 Revolution, students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where Rimsky-Korsakov taught, as well as at St. Petersburg State University, demonstrated for political reforms and for a constitutional monarchy. In this turbulent period, often referred to as a "rehearsal" for the 1917 Revolution, Tsarist officials met protest with alarming violence. Rimsky-Korsakov sided with the students, 100 of whom were expelled, and he was dismissed from the faculty. The police banned Rimsky-Korsakov's work, and other faculty members resigned in protest. Although he was later reinstated, he retired from the Conservatory in 1906.
His liberal political sympathies nevertheless found expression in Pushkin's poem, which he composed as the opera The Golden Cockerel, with a libretto by Vladimir Belsky. Its implied censure of monarchy, Russian imperialism and the Russo-Japanese War—which was among the provocations for the 1905 Revolution—ruled out a performance, which must necessarily have had to be approved by the censors.
Rimsky-Korsakov died in 1908 at the age of 64, and only the next year, after the worker and student agitation had subsided, would the opera see its premiere at Moscow's private Solodovnikov Theatre, albeit in an adapted version. The opera went on to achieve a certain popularity, known in the West by its French title Le coq d'or, and received its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1918, where it held the stage for a couple of decades. In more recent years, however, it virtually disappeared from opera house repertoires.
In the opera, the old foolish king, Tsar Dodon (Tim Mix)—the name purposefully suggests "Dodo"—fears his empire is under attack from enemies on his border. A wily Astrologer (high tenor Barry Banks) gives him a Golden Cockerel (soprano Kasia Borowiec) to sit atop the ramparts of the capital and warn him of any danger. In exchange for this vital tool in his military arsenal, Dodon promises the Astrologer anything he wants. When the wise man asks for a legal contract, the Tsar answers, "I've never heard of such a thing! My every command and whim is 'a contract'…. My word here is law!" (Apparently some things never change.)
Responding to the rooster's cries, Dodon sends his idiotic sons, Prince Guidon (Richard Smagur) and Prince Afron (Jorge Espino) off to war. These two, exemplary chips off the old block, wind up killing each other on the battlefield, but in the aftermath of the massacre, the mysterious Queen of Shemakha (Venera Gimadieva) appears, with her seductive songs and belly dances, to woo Dodon. The Tsar invites her back to his capital to become his wife.
The Shemakha role in particular (she occupies center stage of the entire second act) shows the composer's fascination with the different national groups that comprised the Russian Empire. She comes from the far-flung exotic province of Azerbaijan, which Russia acquired from Persia in 1828.
In the third act denouement, Dodon meets an especially brutal end—one final reason for the censors to ban performance of the opera. The Astrologer's prologue promises a useful moral to his tale, that those in power take their responsibility seriously. For generations of young men have been sent off to futile war, and the national treasure is squandered. The chorus—the famously great "people" of the Russian operatic tradition—conclude this morality tale not by hailing the new ruler, but by asking "What will the new dawn bring? What will we do without our tsar?"
As Dodon, baritone Tim Mix was outfitted as a tubby hedonist encased in a bright red onesie, who literally had to climb up to sit on his oversized throne. He enjoys snacking on his servant Amelfa's (contralto Meredith Arwady) tasty goodies, then napping on her lap, where he dreams of teddy bears and beautiful women. When the war cry is sounded, Dodon marches off on a life-sized hobbyhorse.
As the Queen of Shemakha, Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva brought out a sultry, dusky, lusty interpretation of this chromatic, melismatic, "Orientalist" music, very different from the bell-like sonorities sometimes recorded by coloratura sopranos. It took me some time to decide if this was "right" for the role, but then it occurred to me that the legendary soprano Maria Callas, in her interpretation of the classic leading ladies of Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini, transformed the way we understand these women with unaccustomed ferocity. Director Paul Curran brought out the graphic—effectively pornographic—quality of her seductiveness.
Emmanuel Villaume conducted this revelatory score, with storybook scenic and costume design by Gary McCann.
Planning for a production of this magnitude at a world-class house like Santa fe Opera begins years in advance. I know this will sound like kind of a spoiler, but I'm writing this for the record, not because I expect this review will get very many people to Santa Fe to see this opera. I cannot believe that the decision to disrobe the Tsar and the Queen in the last act and reclothe them as Donald and Melania Trump lookalikes was anything but a last-minute directorial decision responding to the mood of the moment. Dodon's long blue beard disappeared and a stylish short brown beard took its place, vaguely recalling the look of Nicholas II who would be overthrown in 1917.
I believe audiences have to be trusted more to draw their own conclusions about foolish rulers and their beautiful seductresses without every detail, down to the long, solid red tie, being spelled out for them. I'm no fan of the Trumps, needless to say, but artistically I feel this was a misfire. From the very start we already got the idea that this childish nincompoop was way too small to occupy the enormous throne of the Russian Empire.
This is a co-production with the Dallas Opera, which may well decide to eliminate this conceit once its turn comes to stage the work—by which time the red tie may well have become an unpleasant though distant memory. Although a case could be be made for turning him into more of a Nicholas figure, even if not so instantly recognizable by opera audiences.
Nevertheless, Santa Fe Opera deserves warm plaudits for restoring this provocative, forward-looking Russian gem.
The last two performances take place August 9 and 18 at 8 pm. See Santa Fe Opera for ticket and other information.
the golden cockerel
Eric A. Gordon
Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson's autobiography, and the translator (from Portuguese) of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. He chaired the Southern California chapter of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 UAW (AFL-CIO) for two terms and is director emeritus of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District. In 2015 he produced "City of the Future," a CD of Soviet Yiddish songs by Samuel Polonski. He received the Better Lemons "Up Late" Critic Award for 2019, awarded to the most prolific critic. His latest project is translating the fiction of Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for Álvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese. The first book, Five Days, Five Nights, is available from International Publishers NY.


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Tampa March for Lions is a Roaring Success
The Tampa March for Lions may have just seemed like one heck of a party, but thanks to everyone who came and fundraised for the event, we were able to net $10,000 and we wanted to spend it on ways to help lions outside our gates. The movers and shakers behind the Global March for Lions were Chris and Bev Mercer of CannedLion.org. Any time we need the truth on what is happening in Africa regarding lions, we always turn to Chris and Bev. They have been the leading force against lion hunting and pay to play schemes that pimp out lion cubs, only to sell them into canned hunts as easy targets. They would never ask for help, but this event made it possible for us to contribute $7,000. to their continued efforts to ban lion hunting. Chris said this is the equivalent of a small fortune in his world and that he will put it to good use in protecting lions.
We were impressed with Nat Geo's Cause an Uproar campaign and donated $1,000. to their BuildABoma.org project. This will build two bomas to help protect lions from being killed for harming livestock.
We have long been impressed by Animal Defenders International because they are a small organization that has been winning huge victories for animals. What really brought them up on our radar was the amazing work they have done in the past few years to ban circus acts that use wild animals in 20 + countries. If you saw Blackfish and thought, "big cats need a movie like that," then you have to see Lion Ark. We saw it and were so enamored that we sent $1,100. to help with their efforts to free all big cats from circuses.
Before the March for Lions even began we sent the early money we raised, in the amount of $900. to Walking for Lions to be a major sponsor for the cycling event from Kenya to Botswana to raise awareness of the plight of lions. So, thanks to your generosity we are raising awareness, supporting boots on the ground, giving locals a way to live with lions, rescuing lions from circuses and letting everyone know that when you pay to play with a cub, the cub is always the one who pays with his loss of life and liberty.
See what 570 lion lovers look like when they come together to march for lions.
See the photos from the Tampa March for Lions here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gp6i6tcwdy8pyv6/iKO4YsnO1j
We sent this letter to Chris and Bev Mercer ,of the Campaign Against Canned Hunting, who have been our most trusted resource on all things involving African cats:
By all accounts, the 2014 Global March for Lions was a huge success!
We had over 570 people show up for the march, plus 60 or more of our own volunteers to manage it. We were sold out at 500, and let 70 more squeak in, but had to turn away scores of people, so I think we could double the size of the event next year.
We had news coverage on Fox, NBC and TBO.
We had some major organizations fundraising for us, including the Girl Scouts, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Invest Financial Corporation and C1 Bank, so that was a lot of exposure inside their organizations as well.
We grossed over $17,000 so I'm guessing the net will be about half that, as a lot of that figure was in tee shirt sales, and the sale of plushy lions.
Big Cat Rescue was a $1000.00 sponsor of this event to raise awareness about lions from Botswana to Kenya this weekend: http://www.walkingforlions.org/wfl-campaign-2014/4581915111
I'd like to see how we can help this young man save lions: http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_turere_a_peace_treaty_with_the_lions
Do you know if his work, or work like it, can be funded by us?
We would like to help finance the building of bomas to protect lions from retribution killing.
AND last, but certainly not least, I want to know how we can help you with your campaign against canned hunting. YOU guys are the boots on the ground and know where our proceeds from our Tampa March for Lions can be spent to do the most good.
In addition to the above, we had 108 supporters call their lawmakers in support of the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act. Annette was able to compose half an hour of supporters talking on camera to their lawmakers asking them to protect lions and other big cats by co sponsoring the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act. We haven't counted the written letters, petitions nor the post cards filled out and colored by children yet, but there were lines to do it all day, so it should be impressive.
This is a global event (15 countries and 62 cities with over 250 organizers of lion marches) to raise awareness about:
Cub handling, posing with cubs for photos, petting cubs and why that is always abuse
Walking with lions (walking lions on leashes and letting people walk out into groups of sub adult lions, so the lions get used to people walking up within shooting distance)
Canned hunting (where lions are shot for a fee in cages)
Lion meat issues (all of these are connected)
560 registrants will "march" through Big Cat Rescue to meet our lions and other wild cats and will take action to save lions by paw-sing at the end to be taped asking their lawmakers to "march the Big Cat & Public Safety Protection Act through Congress." For more information about this bill go to: CatLaws.com
This event is to help people understand the link between paying to play with a cub in this country and lions being slaughtered for their fur, bones and meat, here and in the wild.
There will be a food truck rally at the sanctuary where you can buy great food and drinks from vendors such as PDQ, Disco Donuts, Tasty Stacy, Yogurtology, Burger Culture & The Cheesery and Health Freakz Cafe.
Have fun in the photo booth with silly props and a commemorative photo strip!
The Humane Society of TampaBay will have their mobile adoption office and cats who are looking for the purr-fect homes.
Karen Lynch will be signing copies of her children's tale Finn McCool, the Magic Leprechaun Cat
Test your skills at Dunk the Poacher, or use your raffle tickets to play for great prizes, and even enter our Front Flip game to win an iPad mini.
Two first edition coloring books for the kids are all about lions and there will be a coloring contest with grrreat prizes.
The event will start at Citrus Park Crossings, the new office building on Citrus Park Lane. From Citrus Park Blvd. (the street the mall is on) turn south at the light that is by the Veteran's Expressway just East of McDonald's. Participants should arrive there, NOT at the sanctuary, as the food trucks and fun things to do will be set up in our parking lot.
Roar of Thanks to our Sponsors
#GlobalMarchForLions
#SaveOurLions
#CannedHunting
#CannedLionHunting
Volunteer, Desmond Fowles, whipped up this rendition of The Lions Weep Tonight
http://bigcatrescue.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LionSleepsTonightDesmondFowles.mp3
Global Event page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-March-for-Lions/224817361029223
Tee shirts will be available at the event and free to those who raise $25. or more. Here is the tee shirt logo:
Tee shirt logo for Big Cat Rescue's March for Lions designed by Jamie Veronica Boorstein
Kids! Come as a Lion Cub!
Download, print, cut out and wear this cute little lion cub mask.
Lion_Cub_Mask
CLICK HERE for more free kids goodies: http://bigcatrescue.org/march-lions-kids/
Make a Lion Cookie Box
Make a Lion Bracelet
Maze Game
Word Scramble Game
Match Cats' Names to Their Species
Kids' Lion Stationery
Telling Time Worksheets
How is cub petting connected to lions being killed in the wild?
There are at least two primary ways that paying to pet a cub results in that cub growing up to be shot in a cage and slaughtered as a trophy, or for his or her bones, fur or meat.
1. In Africa there are many "parks" that offer the opportunity to bottle feed, or pose with lion cubs. Some will offer "walk with lions" where you walk among juvenile lions so that they get used to the idea of people walking right up to them to shoot them. They always tell you that it is for conservation and that the cubs are orphaned or rejected by their mothers, but it's a lie. That is just what they know you want to hear so that you can feel good about touching a wild animal that would never let you do so if they had a choice in the matter.
NONE of these parks are actually doing anything for conservation. The cubs are sent to canned hunts, which are fenced in areas where people pay to shoot lions as trophies.
2. In America there are many zoos and pseudo sanctuaries that offer the opportunity to bottle feed, or pose with lion cubs. They always tell you that it is for preservation of the species and that the cubs are orphaned or rejected by their mothers, but it's a lie. That is just what they know you want to hear so that you can feel good about touching a wild animal that would never let you do so if they had a choice in the matter.
USDA guidelines only allow that contact between the ages of 8 and 12 weeks, so every month a new litter has to be produced for the public to use as photo, petting and ego props. We estimate that 200 lion, tiger and liger cubs are bred each year and hawked to the public as orphaned, rejected or needing human bonding.
When they are no longer lucrative money makers, they quickly grow to 300-500 lbs and begin costing thousands of dollars a year to feed and house so they are given away to ill prepared, pet owners, or sold to brokers, who sell them to exotic meat markets in the U.S.
In Africa there are limited permits issued to kill lions and other wild cats. They are killed in the wild and on game farms in cages, but the hunting companies don't want to limit themselves to the export permits that they have obtained legally, so they sell the same permit over and over. The problem for them is that they can only export one carcass per permit, so when someone comes from the U.S. to pay $50,000 to shoot a lion, they let them do so, because there is no one on site monitoring how many times lions are killed, but when it comes time for the "hunter" to get his trophy, the African hunting outfitter calls a broker in the U.S. and orders up one of those excess lion cubs from last year's pay to play schemes to be killed and forwarded on to the "hunter."
Don't pay to see, touch or pose with baby lions, baby tigers or baby ligers. If you do, their blood is on your hands.
Save the Lions while you still have time to roar!
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Last night after a long hiatus the Bunker Brothers attempted to put a song down on wax. After way too many hours the master of the song was completed. After listening to the song the boys realized the song was not completed and needed a complete reworking and all three members decided they needed replacing. A long melee ensued which went on for hours and was only broken up when Wendell realized his beer was empty. Chris then went home and Ed spent a half hour waiting for "tv to get funny."


I sometimes think about the ways becoming a mother has changed me. I once heard a beautiful Bengali quote, which says that the day a baby is born, it is not just one but two people that are born. A child and a mother.
I gave birth nearly four years ago and in a way I am a new person. I am a mother. I am something more than before. Becoming a mother did change me in some ways, and over the years I have grown more.
But in another way, I am still me. Being a mother has not fundamentally changed me, not my deepest sense of self. Nor has it, rather unfortunately, corrected my character flaws or made me in any way a better person.
I am still the same old me. The one who comes up with great plans to do all kinds of things, but rarely ever manages to finish them. The one who has bags and bags of unfinished craft projects. The one who constantly looks for a step up somewhere, somehow, as long as it is a step up. The one who is like a dog with a bone when she wants something - including winning an argument. The one who should sleep, but gets distracted by a variety of things until 3AM. The one who would be happy doing pretty much anything in life, but who doesn't have a real passion for anything particular.
I am still all that.
It is not all perfect, and it is not all pretty, but it is what makes me, warts and all, me.
What took me by surprise was the anxiety. As soon as pregnancy became something more tangible than just a thought, I got anxious. What if I didn't eat the right things? What if I accidentally consumed something harmful? What if I fell on my stomach? What if I lifted something too heavy? Gradually, the anxiety just increased and increased. It reached it fever point not long after my daughter was born. Amongst many other things, I spent hours and hours worrying over our impending death in a car crash, and of course me being me, learning also all about the best types of car seats and car seat placements to protect our precious cargo. They are rear-facing until four years old, and back middle, back passenger side, back driver side and front passenger in descending order of safety by the way.
Perhaps it is part of being a new parent. This thinking of all kinds of possible but highly unlikely scenarios, and how to steer clear of them. But can you ever be totally relaxed as a parent? Probably not. I cannot think there will ever be a time when I won't worry over what my child is doing or if she is safe.
Other ways it has changed me is that I finally have a real reason to try and be better than I was before. One word describes it the best. Motivation.
I am more motivated to try more. I am more motivated to push myself more because it is not just for me. It is for us. It is not just about trying to do something for myself, but it is about choosing things that I know are better for us as a family, and things that I want to do for us. It is not so much about thinking purely about what I want to achieve, and how I want to achieve it, but how it will benefit us as well. The simple life sometimes feels like, well, it would be a bit more fun. To relax. To not take everything so seriously. Watch a bit more TV. Laze around a bit more. And at the same time, I know that if I don't do the right things at work, at the gym, at home, it won't be just me who won't be going anywhere. It is all of us.
And perhaps the biggest thing of all... Before having my child I never really knew what it meant when people would say they would lay their life for someone. It was an abstract concept. After giving birth I finally knew what that meant. The willingness to lay your life down in a heart beat, with no questions asked. That is what really makes me a mother.
So what was born then that day, nearly four years ago? A tiny little daughter, growing cheekier day by day. And a mother, much the same as before, but also more anxious and more tenacious, and one who loves her child more than life itself.
How did you change when becoming a parent?
I grew up when I became a mother. I developed a sense of perspective. Learned what mattered.
Yes, that sense of perspective is something I gained too. I can brush off many things I would previously been annoyed about as they just aren't that important.
Samanlaisissa ajatuksissa olen myös ollut äidiksi tultuani. Omaa lastaan haluaa varjella kaikelta pahalta, miltä pystyy, ja samaan aikaan haluaa tarjota kaikkea parasta, mitä voi. Ne on aika voimakkaita ja elämää ohjaavia tunteita. Ja sillä lailla yllättäviä, että ei kyennyt ajattelemaan niiden voimakkuutta ennen kuin todella tuli äidiksi.
Toisen kerran äidiksi tultuani olen koettanut vaalia positiivisuutta ja uskoa hyvään. Suhteeni Luojaan on nyt eri tolalla kuin ensimmäisen lapsen kanssa. Luotan Jumalan varjelukseen tässä maailman ajassa, sen lisäksi, että ennen kaikkea on usko ja toivo iankaikkisesta elämästä Jeesuksen sovitusyön tähden. Jumalan rakkauden suojassa on myös helpompi rakastaa omia lapsiaan, molempia yhtä lailla.
Siunausta elämäänne, ja hyvää sikäläistä äitienpäivää!
Näinhän se on että ne tunteet olivat todella yllättäviä. Kyllähän niistä aina aikaisemmin kuulee muilta ihmisiltä, mutta sen ymmärtää ihan eri tavalla kun ne tulevat vihdoinkin omalle kohdalle.
Definitely - I appreciate life, and the simple little things a lot more. I have much more laughter in my life now too!
The anxiousness can be really bad. I think especially when you are a new mother and with all the hormones too it makes it even worse.
Thank you :) I guess you can't change who you are but motherhood does add so many new layers, and just that life experience that makes you appreciate new things more.