Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Starting with the thirtieth chapter of Jeremiah we move into the section of this prophetic book referred to as the "messages of consolation," where Jeremiah, "the weeping prophet," reveals his heart and the prophetic Word of God that is somewhat of a "consoling message" to the Jews who had heard the previous messages of retribution.
Jeremiah 30-33 are the four chapters where the Lord uses the ministry of Jeremiah to console the Jewish people. As the prophet begins this section he does so in chapter 30 with a mix of retribution and consolation.
Jeremiah lets the Jews know that though they will go into the Babylonian Captivity, and indeed they were taken captive by the Babylonians, that the Lord would bring them back into "the land of their forefathers," verse 3.
Jeremiah told the Jews that they would actually "possess the land" as promised to the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, verse 3b. This passage has a "double fulfillment" as is the case in other prophetic passages as well.
This means that there would be a "near term fulfillment" of these prophecies, and these prophecies were fulfilled, the Lord did return the Jews to the "land of their forefathers." The "long term fulfillment" of these prophecies, that the Jews would come back into the land in the last days, is in the process of being fulfilled, even today.
Verse 8 says that the "yoke" of the enemies of the Jewish people will be broken in the future, and that "King David" will be raised up to be co-regent with Jesus Christ as the Lord rules and reigns at the Temple in Jerusalem in the future Kingdom.
Notice verse 7 and the warning of "troublesome times" for the Jewish people, which is also yet future. I'm referring to the seven year "Tribulation Period" that takes place after the Rapture of the Church.
Jeremiah referred to the "time of Jacob's trouble" which is the last three and a half years of the seven year "Tribulation Period." The "time of Jacob's trouble" is like no time ever in the history of the Jewish people, verse 7.
It will be a time when the Lord dispatches the Archangel Michael, Daniel 12:1, to keep the Jews from being totally eliminated. God promised Jeremiah that there will be a great number of Jews to be saved, both physically and spiritually, out of the "time of Jacob's trouble."
By the way, as we watch the events of today unfolding and those things happening in Israel and among the Jewish people, it seems to be an indication that we are quickly approaching the "time of Jacob's trouble."
Remember, the Rapture takes place before the Tribulation, and the Lord's shout for us to join Him in the heavenlies could happen today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for Bible prophecy that alerts me of the times I'm living in. Help me to live for You as I await Your return.
And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
You must remember that God chose Jeremiah to be a "prophet to the nations" before he was born, before he was conceived, in fact the prophet was chosen by God in the Lord's mind in eternity past, Jeremiah 1:5.
As a "prophet to the nations" Jeremiah was a prophet first to his own people, the Jewish nation. In the passage from our devotional reading for today we see that the prophecy of the "seventy years" was mentioned in Daniel. Daniel 9:2 reveals when Daniel in his own quiet time, his devotional reading, read about the "seventy years" that Jerusalem would be desolate.
I'll have more on that in a moment.
This passage is a record of the prophetic ministry of Jeremiah before the Jews would be taken into the Babylonian Captivity. Jeremiah forewarns the Jews that the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, verse 9, would be the "servant of the Lord."
The Babylonian King would be used by God to make the Jewish people give the land that He had given them the "sabbatical" that He called for in Leviticus 25:1-7.
Every seventh year the Jews were to rest the land, plant no crops on the land, give the land a "Sabbath." The Jews had not obeyed the Lord for 490 years so He would use "His servant" Nebuchadnezzar, to take the Jews out of the land for that "70 Sabbaths" that the land should have been given.
What a practical lesson we can learn from this event in the lives of the Jewish people. When God tells us to do something He means for us to obey. Sometimes when we disobey He will force the issue and we learn the hard way to be obedient.
Now back to Daniel and his quiet time, his reading in Jeremiah, actually he read the same passage as we are today and he learned that Jerusalem would be desolate for 70 years, verses 11-12.
When Daniel read Jeremiah he was 85 years old, 70 years after he was taken captive by King Nebuchadnezzar, when he was 15 years old. Daniel was able to understand where he was in God's prophetic time and plan by reading the prophetic Word of God.
We also can understand the times we are living in and how close we may be to the Lord's return by reading the prophetic scenario for the "end times" found in Bible prophecy.
By the way, when you do read Bible prophecy you will realize we are very close to the Lord's "shout" at the Rapture, to call us up to be with Him. That Rapture could actually happen today, so keep looking up.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Help me, Lord, to live for your soon return as I understand the times we are living in by reading Bible prophecy.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Jeremiah was a Prophet, chosen and set apart for his ministry by the Lord, in eternity past. We know this from His statement in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, set thee apart for service."
In fact, the first part of verse 5 says that "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee," referring to Jeremiah who God knew in His mind in eternity past. Jeremiah was set apart to be the "prophet to the nations" which included the nation of Israel as well.
In Jeremiah 16 the Lord, through Jeremiah, speaks to the Jews about the way their fathers failed to obey the Lord and walk in His way. Then he says to them, verse 12, "and ye have done worse than your fathers."
This is exactly what is happening among the Jews today, but there is a "spiritual application" in these verses as well. The "Body of Christ," the Church, is moving each and every day away from the purpose of the Church, set in place by Jesus, the "Head of the Church."
The purpose of the Church is basically two-fold, to be Holy as He is Holy and to go out into the world and win people to the Lord for their eternal salvation. By the way, we are to "go out" not try and bring the people into the church.
The early Church, during the first century, set the pattern, Acts 5:42. The new Christians daily went into the Temple, which was not a church, but a gathering place, and house to house as they "ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ."
This is a "spiritual application" from this passage. As we come back now to the "technical interpretation" of the passage notice in verses 13-15 that the Lord speaks of scattering the Jews across the world, casting them out of their land to places they knew not, where they would serve other gods and the Lord would show them no favor.
Verse 14 reveals that the day will come when the Jews will not speak of the "Exodus" at the Passover Seder, as is the custom, but instead will talk about how the Lord brought them from the "land of the north" verse 15, and all the lands where they had been scattered for the last 2,000 years.
This prophecy is being fulfilled even today as we witness over one million Jews from Russia, the "land to the north," immigrating into Israel. There are Jews who have come from over one hundred nations of the world, back into the land as Jeremiah said they would do in the last days.
Please notice one other verse before we leave this passage. It's our key verse for today, verse 17. "They are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity hidden from my eyes." The eyes of the Lord are upon us at all times. He sees everything that we do, 24/7.
That is an awesome thought as we watch the Jews returning to the land, nearing the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. That Bible prophecy will be completely fulfilled at a time soon after we have departed from earth at the Rapture. At that point we will stand face to face with Jesus. That could happen very soon, perhaps today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Please Lord help me to live in the realization that Your eyes are upon me at all times.
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
The time of the writing of this passage is around 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ during the days of King Josiah, King of Judah. Daniel and his three Hebrew companions had already been taken into Babylon to be trained as "counselors" in the court of King Nebuchadnezzar.
Jeremiah, the prophet, receives a message from the Lord, verse 1, a warning to pass along to the Jewish people. The Prophet was to stand at the gate of the Temple complex and to warn all that came up to the Temple to worship.
God's spokesman, Jeremiah, was to tell the Jewish people to amend their ways, in other words, to "get their hearts right with God or else face judgment." The judgment from the Lord was to start at the "house of the Lord," the Temple. The Lord had Jeremiah remind the people of Israel of the judgment that took place at Shiloh, some 500 years earlier, I Samuel 3 & 4.
You might remember that Shiloh was the headquarters for the children of Israel when they came into the Promise Land under the leadership of Joshua. It is also where they erected the Tabernacle, to house the Ark of the Covenant.
Shiloh was the political and spiritual capital of the Jewish people for the first 350 years they were in the Promised Land, Joshua 18:1. The account of God's judgment on the Jewish people at Shiloh in I Samuel 3 & 4 indicates that the "Glory of the Lord departed from Shiloh."
God told Jeremiah to warn the Jews that it could happen again if they didn't get right with Him. Our extended reading for today details the "sins of the people" against the Lord in Shiloh and in the days of Jeremiah's ministry. This was the lifestyle of those coming to the Temple, to supposedly worship the Lord.
This is a similar scenario at many churches in our present world. It was a very sinful time as indicated by the Lord's words to Jeremiah to pray not for these people, verse 16. Verse 17 gives us the information of the worship the Jews were offering up to the "Queen of Heaven."
Let me give you some background on the "Queen of Heaven" from extra-Biblical material. The "Queen of Heaven" was the title of the wife of Nimrod, Semiramis, Genesis 11. Nimrod, who built a city, Babylon, Genesis 11:4, also established a religion. This religion was a "mother-son cult" where the mother, Semiramis, and the son, Tammuz, were co-equal recipients of worship.
That worship consisted of serving "cakes" in honor of this false religion established in Babylon. It also involved the parents painting hard-boiled eggs and hiding them for the children to find on their special "holy day" for the "Queen of Heaven" called "Ishtar."
Remember, God told Jeremiah not to pray for those who worship like this. The "mother-son cult," with worship of the "Queen of Heaven," was headquartered in Babylon until the fall of the Babylonian Empire in 539 BC.
The false Babylonian religion moved it's headquarters then to Pergamus in Asia Minor, modern-day Turkey, until the fall of the Roman Empire when it moved to the "seven-hilled city" of Rome, Italy, where it is today and where it will continue to be during the first half of the Tribulation Period, Revelation 17.
God's judgment will come even to those who supposedly worship Him. As we look at our world today we see a similar scenario, as was described for the last days. Judgment must begin at the "house of the Lord." We are living in the "last days."
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for the warning of judgment for sin. Help me to be pure before you in these last days.
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Jeremiah, the "weeping prophet," the one chosen by God in eternity past to be a prophet, Jeremiah 1:5, is selected to call a backsliding Judah to repentance. As you read our extended reading today it will remind you of Hosea who the Lord had to take for himself a "wife of whoredom."
Hosea's wife Gomer would continue in her adulterous ways and Hosea would go find her in the street, bring her back home and clean her up to be his wife.
The Lord is addressing the Jews, through Jeremiah, as His wife, Jeremiah 3:14, and calling them to repent, turn from their backsliding and return to service. That message given then, for the backsliding Jews, is appropriate for all of us as well, for today.
In the passage of our devotional reading for today there are three profound prophetic passages that I want you to notice.
Jeremiah 3:16 speaks of a time when there will be no need for the "Ark of the Covenant" and in fact the Jews will even forget the Ark. The Ark was the piece of Temple furniture in the Holy of holies. The Ark was where the "mercy seat" was located. It was where once a year on Yom Kippur the High Priest would enter to make atonement for the Jewish people for the one year, ahead.
As is the case with all implements of the Temple and every activity of the Temple they were a prototype of Jesus to come. The Ark was the model of Him to come. Of course when you have the "real thing", Jesus Christ seated on His throne in the Holy of holies of the Temple you no longer need the model.
Jeremiah 3:17 reminds us that the throne of our Lord will be in Jerusalem. One day the Jews will turn to the Messiah Jesus Christ who will sit on that throne. He will be their God and they will be His people, in Jerusalem.
The last verse I want you to look at is Jeremiah 3:18 which speaks of the time when there will be no longer "two houses for the Jewish people," Judah and Israel, but only one. I must remind you that there today is only one Jewish state, Israel. There are members of all twelve tribes in today's Israel. This has been the case since they returned to the land as recorded in Ezra 1, 2 and 6.
The ancient prophet Ezekiel foretold of a day in the future when there would be again two Jewish states in the Middle East, that's Ezekiel 37:15-23 (See my audio study "Ezekiel: Retribution or Restoration," which is available at www.prophecybookstore.com). This passage in Jeremiah speaks to the unification of these two Jewish states at a time in the future.
I suggest that in the near future, in all three cases, no more Ark, Jesus on His throne in Jerusalem and one Jewish state from two Jewish States, all of these prophecies will be fulfilled.
The stage is set for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. The next event in prophecy is when the Lord will call us to meet Him in the air at the Rapture. It is so exciting to think that the Rapture could happen today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Help me to stay in your Word Lord and close to You, so I won't backslide.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
I love this first chapter of Jeremiah. It is the record of Jeremiah's call to be a "prophet to the nations of the world." It is God assuring Jeremiah that He can take one who is not a public speaker and give him the words to say. The Lord encourages Jeremiah to not be afraid, that He, the Lord, will deliver him and give him what to speak.
In fact, God set Jeremiah as a prophet among the nations, and a prophet to the nations. The truth is that God did this for Jeremiah before he was born. But wait, verse 5 says God set Jeremiah aside, not only before he was born but, before he was even formed in his mother's womb. In fact, Jeremiah was "chosen" in the mind of God in "eternity past," verse 5.
Jeremiah 1:5 not only gives us background in the forming of the prophet but also is the evidence of when "life" begins, the big question today as it relates to abortion. Life does not begin at birth or even at conception. Life begins in the "mind of God" in eternity past. Now that settles the question.
In a later devotional we will look at other prophetic texts in this awesome book. We will learn of judgments pronounced against the Jewish people and the enemies of the Jewish people. We will find out what will happen to the Jewish people in the last days, just prior to the Lord's return.
If you would like to read ahead, read Jeremiah 31 and 50-51 where you will read about the nation of Israel in the last days and the fate of the country of Iraq. I will have more on those prophetic passages at a later time (see my audio study on Jeremiah).
By the way, Daniel read Jeremiah and was able to determine where he was in God's time by the word of God, Daniel 9:2. You can read the word of God to know the times we're living in today.
A study of God's prophetic word will help us to know how close we are to the "shout" from Jesus to join Him "in the air" at the Rapture. Let me encourage you to keep looking up, the Rapture could be today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Dear Lord, help me to study Your Word and teach me to recognize, in these last days, how close we are to the Rapture. Help me to live in light of that knowledge.
The key verse for our devotion for today may sound to you like a passage out of the book of Revelation, and you would be correct. However, the teaching of "new heavens and a new earth" is not original to the book of Revelation.
Actually, the ancient Jewish Prophet Isaiah was the first to mention such an idea. Of course we see the thought first mentioned in our key verse, but in the next chapter of his prophetic book, Isaiah also brings the subject to our attention, Isaiah 66:22.
This passage of Isaiah is looking at the blessings that God has planned for Israel, the Jewish people, in the Kingdom that is yet to come, but also in eternity future. Verses 17 through 19 are looking at the situation in eternity future. Verses 20 to 25 are looking at the Kingdom period as well as eternity future.
Verse 20 speaks of the birth of children in the Kingdom who will be "children" until one hundred years of age. By the way, these children will be born to those, in physical bodies, who trust in Jesus Christ during the Tribulation Period and enter the Kingdom.
At one hundred these "children" must receive Jesus as their Saviour or they will be "accursed" and sent to "hades" to await their sentencing into the eternal "Lake of Fire" at the Great White Throne, Revelation 20:11-15.
Also, please notice, that verses 21 to 25 also speak of this period on the earth known as the "Kingdom" when all will be focused on the "holy mountain" of the Lord, verse 25, where the Messiah, Jesus Christ will be located as He rules and reigns from His Temple. The "holy mountain" is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Daniel 9:16.
The first three verses of our devotional passage for today are referring to the time after the Kingdom, as we move into "eternity future" with the "new heavens and the new earth." Notice that the heavens and the earth are not "refurbished", but instead are "created," verse 17.
This old earth, and the heavens, will be destroyed, II Peter 3:10, and the Lord will create "new heavens and a new earth" because the original have been "cursed" by Satan and his evil angels.
This process all begins with the next main event in God's plan for the future, the Rapture. With our world today moving so quickly towards the "end times" scenario found in God's Word, the Rapture could happen today.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for the "look into the future," even into "eternity future." Please help me to use this knowledge of Your plan for what's ahead, in my life on this earth in the present, to live for You.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
In order to understand the harshness of this passage in Isaiah 63 you need to know some of the background of the passage.
The "day of vengeance" referred to by the Lord, speaking through the Prophet Isaiah, must be understood by looking back to Isaiah 61:1-2. This is the passage that Jesus Christ was asked to read in the synagogue in Nazareth, Luke 4:16-21.
In Dr Luke's record of Jesus in the synagogue you'll notice that our Lord did not finish verse 2, of Isaiah 61. The part He left out was, "and the day of the vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn", Isaiah 61:2b.
In our key verse, verse 4, Isaiah has recorded the prophetic words of the Lord, revealing, before the fact, what the Lord will say in the day described by our devotional passage for today.
Isaiah asked two questions, the first in verse 1, "Who is he that cometh from Edom, from Bozrah?" This is the geographical location of Petra in southern Jordan. To this question the Lord responds with, "I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save".
In verse 2 the second question, "Why is his apparel stained with 'red' like him that treadeth in the winefat?" The Lord responds to this question, verse 3, "I have trodden the winepress alone".
The Lord said, their blood will be sprinkled upon His garments, "for the day of his vengeance is come," verse 4. It is in verse 4 that the Lord finishes the thought of Isaiah 61:2.
This prophetic account is what will happen after the Lord goes to the Jezreel Valley at the time of the "Battle of Armageddon." After all the enemies are destroyed by Jesus Christ, He makes the trip to Petra, traveling the 176 miles predicted by John in Revelation 14:19-20.
The blood rises as high as the "horse bridles" for that trip. The blood comes from the bodies of the hundreds of millions of men who die on the "battle field". This will be a terrible time in history.
By the way, it is 176 miles from Megiddo in the Jezreel Valley to the entrance of Petra, the place "prepared by God" to protect the Jewish people in the last three and a half years in the Tribulation Period, Revelation 12:6.
This is the end time scenario of this terrible time of the end and the death of those who follow Satan instead of Jesus. It is a time when some of our loved ones may well be there because they have never trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
What we should do, now that we understand these prophetic truths, is warn our loved ones, and in fact everybody, of this terrible time of judgment ahead and invite them to trust in Jesus Christ today before it's eternally too late.
We should not just study this for knowledge but for that which will motivate us to warn others of the coming time of judgment, and then lead them to Jesus Christ.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Help me Lord to learn so that I can warn the lost before it's eternally too late.
This chapter in the prophetic book of Isaiah is like a "songbook" that contains great songs with lyrics, made up of Bible doctrine.
Our key verse is a prime example. Read slowly verse 11 and you can almost hear the melody that has been assigned to these words. In fact, the words of the verse speak of "singing and joy" as the way those that have been redeemed will return to Zion, to Jerusalem.
Notice the "joy", it is "everlasting joy", joy that is forever. This is not "happiness" which is based upon "happenings" but instead "joy" that comes from the Lord. When you have "Godly joy", joy that comes from the Lord, "sorrow and mourning" shall flee away.
The One that gives us that "joy" along with a "song" for us to sing is the Creator of all things, verses 13 & 15. He is the "Lord thy maker". "The One who stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations for the earth, the One who divided the seas."
As the Creator, He can give us a song to sing and "everlasting joy". The Creator is the same One who will protect His people, verses 16 & 23. The phrase "cup of trembling" is speaking of those who are "intoxicated with power", the ones the Lord will bring back to reality through judgment.
Before we leave this passage, look back to verse 3 and let me explain the "truth" found in this passage. This verse is speaking of the most sacred piece of real estate in the world, "Eden, the Garden of the Lord".
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the original sight of the "Garden of Eden". (See my audio series, "Return to Eden".) This fact has been known by all Orthodox Jewish academic scholarship from the "beginning," 5,778 years ago.
Judaism believes that the original Garden of Eden is on the location of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem today. God's Word says that this is where all joy, gladness, thanksgiving, and the "voice of melody," singing, emanates from in our old world.
But notice the verse again, the Lord will return this spot to the Jews in the last days, Ezekiel 36:35 and Joel 2:3. This of course is the reason for Islam's strong desire to take control of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Where the Lord began all things, the Temple Mount, He will return there in the last days. It will be the restored "Garden of Eden" on the location of the Creator's Kingdom headquarters, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Islam's continuing effort to explain away the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, at anytime in history, and it's effort to keep Jews off the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is evidence Bible prophecy is moving closer to being fulfilled.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord for the Word of God that explains current events in light of Biblical prophecy.
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
I hope you have some time to spend in this forty-fifth chapter of Isaiah. This is an excellent chapter of God's prophetic Word that reveals prophetic events that will happen, some of them only 150 years after they were given.
Other prophecies contained within the verses of this chapter will be fulfilled in the future, certainly future from Isaiah's day but also future from today.
The chapter also confirms that God is the creator of all things, which gives Him the authority to reveal the future, the Creator can tell you what His creation will face at a future date.
There is no way I can point out everything I would like for you to see in this devotional reading for today. I'll hit some "high points" but please spend a good amount of time reaping a harvest of great truths from what I do not cover.
I must bring to your attention the name "Cyrus", verse 1. This is the man, Cyrus, the leader of the Medo-Persian Empire, that allowed Zerubabbel and fifty thousand Jews to return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity. They returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple by permission of Cyrus and with funding from Cyrus as well.
Isaiah pre-wrote history that was fulfilled 150 years after he penned the prophecy, as found in Isaiah 44:28 and 45:1-4. The record of the fulfillment of this prophecy is found in Ezra 1 and 2.
Notice the verses that confirm that God created the heavens, the earth and all that in them is, verses 7-8, 12 and 18. The Lord gives testimony to "who He is" also in this chapter, verses 5-6 and 21-22.
This is a message from the one and only true God, through His spokesman, the Prophet Isaiah. God makes a commitment to save and give an everlasting salvation to the Jewish people, verses 17, 22 and 25. This is a prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled. Current events indicate we are in the process of moving toward the fulfillment of that prophecy.
Let me conclude my thoughts with verse 19, what a blessing this chapter is to the Jewish people, the "technical recipients" of these promises. It is also a blessing to us who are Christians who receive a "spiritual blessing" from these truths.
But you know, of course, that the entire book of Isaiah, in fact, the entire 66 books of the Bible are the spiritual "milk and meat" that we need on a daily basis. That's why the statement that God made about not speaking in "secret" is so good.
We all have His Word available to us so that we can receive the blessings from our time of reading and study of it. Dear Friend, join me as we "feast" on the "Word of God".
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank you Lord, for Your Word that You have spoken openly to me and all who will read it. It is a blessing Lord, to have the Creator of all things communicate with me daily.
For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
What a powerful passage of scripture this is that we will use as our extended reading for our devotions today. There are several directions we could go in this passage; thus let me take each pathway, for a moment, in each direction.
The Prophet Isaiah reveals the promise of the Lord for the Jewish people and assures them of a special time ahead. When the Lord refers to "Jacob" in verse 1, He is actually speaking about not only Jacob, but His twelve sons that became the twelve tribes of the Jewish people, the "twelve tribes of Israel."
The Lord promised to have "mercy" on Jacob, the nation of "Israel". The Lord had chosen these people in the past, Deuteronomy 7:6-8, and will "yet choose Israel" and "set them in their own land".
It really doesn't matter what the rest of the world may say about the land, God will set His chosen "Israel", the Jews of today, back in the land of their forefathers, the land He has given them for the future, as well. From the sidelines we today can see the Lord beginning that process, the process that will move to completion after the Rapture and culminate at His Second Coming.
Verses 4-6 reveal a prophecy that will focus on "Babylon", and the "King of Babylon". This prophecy, according to the context of the passage, is at a time yet to take place, in the future.
Notice that verse 7 speaks of a time when "the whole earth is at rest and is quiet and they will break forth with singing". This is describing the "Kingdom" that Jesus will set up at His Second Coming.
"Babylon" will be a major focus in our world, as will the "King of Babylon", who the Lord will deal with before He sets up His Kingdom. The "King of Babylon" in this text is referring to the "Antichrist" who rules the world the last three and one-half years of the "terrible Tribulation" yet to come, from Babylon, Revelation 18, which is modern-day Iraq.
We are seemingly living in the days that are quickly approaching this prophetic scenario. One final thought before we leave this passage, verses 12-14 reveal to the reader the five "I wills" of Lucifer, the most prominent of all angels created.
Lucifer became Satan when he exercised his "free will" and basically rebelled against the Lord, as you can tell by reading these verses. Please notice the last "I will" in verse 13, "I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation, in the sides of the North".
According to Psalm 48:2 this is describing the city of Jerusalem. Satan said he will be worshiped in Jerusalem, actually on the Temple Mount. II Thessalonians 2:4 is the prophecy of when the Antichrist, energized by Satan, claims to be God, from the Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
There is Biblical evidence that the Antichrist is alive and on earth ready to appear. Remember, that all preparations have been made for the Temple to be rebuilt. There is only one thing that must happen before the Jews get all of the land God promised them, Babylon is dealt with and Satan, in the person of Antichrist will be worshiped in Jerusalem.
That one thing is the Rapture of the Church when Jesus Christ calls us all into the heavenlies to be with Him forevermore. That could happen at any moment, keep looking up.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Lord, help me to live today as if today is when that Rapture will take place.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Thank You, Lord, for the best "gift" ever, the "Prince of Peace" who was born unto us and will rule over us one day, forever.
This chapter from the prophecy of Isaiah introduces us to a type of the "angelic bodies" that the Lord created on the first day of Creation between the creation of the heavens and the earth, Job 38:4-7. These creatures are "Seraphim", different from the "Cherubim" of Ezekiel 1.
Angels play a key role in our daily lives that we may not realize. Hebrews 1:14 reveals they are "ministering spirits" to those who know Jesus as Lord and Savior. Matthew 18:10 says they protect the little children. Luke 16:22 says that angels will accompany us at death and take us into the presence of the Lord. Revelation 22:9 reveals to us that angels are "fellow servants" with us as we together serve the Lord.
There is much more we could write about angels, but we'll save that for another time. Notice how the angels honor the Lord as they cry out to the Lord saying, "holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts".
I love that next phrase, "the whole earth is full of His glory". This echoes the statement of Psalm 19 and extends the location of His glory also into the heavenlies.
Verse 5 reveals Isaiah the prophet as the man he really was, a man of unclean lips and undone. The reason he recognized who he was, was due to the fact that he had seen the King, the Lord of Hosts, a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ. The result of this face-to-face meeting with Jesus was that Isaiah was made to see who he was and what he must do.
When the Lord said, "Whom shall I send", Isaiah was ready to respond with the statement, "Here am I, send me". We'll look at the new commission given to Isaiah, verses 9-13 at another time. Let's think together of what happened in Isaiah's life that should happen in our lives.
First, Isaiah saw the glory of the Lord, a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus. I don't believe we can see Jesus today; however, we can see His glory as I said, in the heavens and in His creation that is displayed throughout all of the earth, Psalm 19.
We must take time to "stop and smell the roses". On days off, holidays, or vacation time, go spend time in the midst of the creation of the Lord.
Second, the realization of the hand of God in creation and the manifestation of His glory should cause us to be willing to say as the prophet did, "here am I, send me".
Isaiah's message was that Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was coming. The preaching of this message of the Lord's return should be our message. He is coming. Be prepared by trusting Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
In this devotional, as is the case in all of the devotionals, we look at the passage with a prophetic prospective. To understand these passages "prophetically" is our aim, but not our only purpose. Once we have the understanding that Jesus is coming, and possibly very soon, we must endeavor to get that message to others that they might be prepared for His return also. It could be today, we need to get to work.
PRAYER THOUGHT: As I see "Your glory" dear Lord, in the heavens and in other acts of Creation, help me to be ready to go, wherever You may send me.


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So, finally! We, the collective we, are constantly told the only way to create awareness of our brand, our business, is to be out there in social media land. To blog, and blog and blog again.
It's not that I can't blog, I have always plenty to say, but I lack time to do it, or at least, do it justice. But tonight after attending a wedding suppliers networking meeting, I heard a comment that has inspired me to write a blog, so here it is.
When it comes to weddings, the couple spend all their time looking for the perfect things. They sample cakes and look at books of photos for the special design that calls to them. They might visit several venues to find that perfect one. They will look at the work of a few different photographers to find that something different that suits them. And that process works through all the elements of their special day. But, the one thing they don't look around for or put as much effort into choosing is the most important element of all. Their wedding ceremony itself.
A recent survey showed that the balance of civil ceremonies to churches is swinging about 80/20 in favour for the civil ceremonies. So you have put all that effort to have everything perfect and yet, you allow your actual wedding ceremony to be in the hands of people who just say the same things other than your names, as every other ceremony!
Why? Why do you leave the most important part of the wedding in the hands of someone else, letting them have the final say in what is said with no thought of you are as a couple. Why?
Ok let's get the white elephant out the room. Currently, here in the UK, a celebrant, cannot do the legal bit. That bit of paper that says you are officially Mr & Mrs. So my suggestion, go the day before your wedding with a celebrant, with a couple of witnesses, £50 later, you have that official bit of paper, signed and sorted.
For some people the act of signing the official marriage certificate creates a sense of stress and anxiety. It is really happening, you are going to officially tie the knot. Your stomach is in knots, you are sweating profusely, your heart rate is elevated, you feel like you are going to pass out. Suddenly its al over, it's a blur, you can't even remember what was said. What a waste of the most important moment of your life!
Would you not want to prefer to enjoy every moment of this your special day, without the stress and sweaty palms? Then do the official signing and then, enjoy a proper wedding ceremony the next day.
The next day, we have a totally unique wedding ceremony, written just for you, about you. To all those in the room, it will appear to be something quite special and beautiful and so much more than if they had been listening to a registrar repeat their prescribed words that have no bearing to you as individuals or as a couple.
I have heard so many times people saying, oh but we want to be properly married. But the ceremony should be as important as the cake, the photographer, the cars, the venue etc etc but we put a simple signing in the way of something totally unique, and special.
If all you plan on remembering is what a great party your wedding was or how great the food was and wow, what a cake, then it won't matter. But if you want to remember your ceremony and how it was special and unique, and was as special as every other element of your day, then surely, for the sake of a day, and a signature in advance, a celebrant lead wedding will leave you with lasting memories over and above what a great party!


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Simon's focus is bringing creative thought to design problems, achieving architectural solutions that reflect client's requirements and respond individually to site context and environment, delivering innovative, high quality design on time and budget.
Simon thoroughly enjoys the design process, applying this enthusiasm throughout his roles on the design review panel for the AHR Midlands region, the assessors panel for the Civic Trust Award and as a mentor to university students.


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JRF Announce first Digital Careers Fair
By Martene Carroll20/11/2020No Comments
JRF are pleased to announce their first Digital Careers Fair broadcasting live on Wednesday 25th November.
The event, which will be aired via StreamYard, will be hosted by Jo Tongue – CEO of Tongue Tied Management and Trustee of JRF, with guests on this first panel from a range of industries and fields including Network Rail, the Royal Air Force, St. George Property Developers, University Campus of Football Business (UCFB), and Brent Works.
For a few years JRF has delivered programmes of support involving life skills, education, training, and career opportunities within their multi-sports activities, and have hosted several Careers Fairs to benefit their young participants.
With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting people's livelihoods with businesses closing, job losses, income reduction, and future ambitions put on hold, JRF felt this was a crucial time to forge ahead with the Careers element of their programmes.
Otis Roberts, CEO of JRF said, "We understand how this ongoing crisis is affecting peoples lives, with their ability to earn a decent living a primary concern for many. For our young people, the future is uncertain and plans they had in place at the start of this year, may be on hold, or no longer viable."
He went on to say. "The pandemic has had a bearing on how many people are reviewing their current situation, and might be considering a different career pathway, retraining, furthering their education, or setting up their own business. With no upper age limit on some Apprenticeships now, it's never too late to pursue new opportunities. We wanted to provide a platform where people can access information that is relevant to their future plans."
The first event will be streamed from 6pm next Wednesday and information on how to access the broadcast will be updated on JRF's social media platforms – Twitter, Instagram, Facebook @JasonRobertsFdn
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Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could see more than 90 per cent of glaciers in the Alps disappear by the end of the century, scientists said on Tuesday in new research. There are more than 4,000 glaciers — vast, ancient reserves of ice — dotted throughout the Alps, providing seasonal water to millions and forming some of Europe's most stunning landscapes. But as humans pump out more and more planet-warming gases through burning fossil fuels, construction, aviation and mega-farming, those mountainside ice sheets are in danger.
Under a situation where greenhouse gas emissions peak within a few years and rapidly recede towards the century's end — a scenario known among climatologists as RCP 2.6 — they found that a third of Alpine glacier mass would survive.
However, under RCP 8.5 — essentially a business-as-usual approach where man-made emissions continue to rise as the global population swells — the models turned up worrying results.
"In this pessimistic case, the Alps will be mostly ice free by 2100, with only isolated ice patches remaining at high elevation, representing 5 per cent or less of the present-day ice volume," said Matthias Huss, a researcher at ETH Zurich and study co-author.
Earth's atmosphere currently contains more than 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide — the highest level in three million years.
The study came a day after European scientists said that the world's glaciers had lost around 9,000 billion tonnes of ice since 1961, contributing to a 27-millimetre rise in global sea levels.
Europe's glaciers contain around 100 cubic kilometres of ice — equivalent to around 400 million Olympic swimming pools of water.
"A glacier is a reservoir. Even a healthy glacier will typically melt in summer and become a bit bigger in winter. That means that when people need water most, they get water from the glacier," Zekollari said.
"We know that if glaciers are changing a lot they are more prone to cause natural hazards," said Zekollari.


The Moot Court Honor Society is not just about bettering one's advocacy skills, but also taking those skills and giving back to the community. During Constitution Week, Mesa College requested that Thomas Jefferson's Moot Court Honor Society put on a demonstration on a topic of law relevant to constitutional rights; a request Moot Court members were more than happy to oblige with.
Moot Court's President, Brian Del Vecchio, Vice President, Elizabeth Atkins, and Moot Court member, Donny Samporna argued Fisher v. University of Texas along with the assistance of Moot Court members Nadia Akaweih and Pua Uyehara.
During the demonstration, Samporna argued for Plaintiff, Fisher, while Atkins argued for Defendant, University of Texas. Del Vecchio served as Solicitor General and Akaweih and Uyehara assisted with practices and the facilitation of questions.
Fisher v. University of Texas is a constitutional law case pertaining to a Caucasian applicant, Fisher, who was denied admission to the state university. Fisher brought suit alleging that the university's race-conscious admissions program violated her Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection.
In 1997, the year that Fisher had applied to the university, the Texas legislature had enacted a law that required the University to admit all high school seniors who ranked in the top ten percent of their high school. Fisher did not fall within the top ten percent.
For those students who did not fall into that category, the school would consider race, amongst a number of other factors, such as Personal Achievement scores, as factors for admission. Fisher believed that the consideration of race violated her Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection.
However, the district court did not agree as they decided in favor of the University. Upon appeal, the Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court's decision. However, Fisher appealed the court's decision and the case found it's way before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court held that such cases were reviewable under the Fourteenth Amendment and that a strict scrutiny standard was to be applied in determining whether such policies are "precisely tailored to serve a compelling governmental interest." The Court held that the lower courts had not properly conducted the strict scrutiny analysis in this case.
What was most exciting for Moot Court members was having the chance to demonstrate their litigation skills as thought they were really presenting a case before a court.
Hopefully the demonstration inspired more than just Moot Courters but also the young minds at Mesa College hoping to pursue a career in the field of law.


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Motorists should expect overnight closures in both directions of the Loop Parkway between Meadowbrook State Parkway and Lido Boulevard beginning on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
There will be full closures of the Loop Parkway on weeknights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. while major structural, electrical, and mechanical repairs are made to the drawbridge over Long Creek. On Sunday, Feb. 3, the closure will begin at midnight into Monday, Feb. 4.
A detour is available between the Long Beach barrier island and Long Island's mainland via the Long Beach Bridge — Long Beach Boulevard connecting the City of Long Beach and Island Park. Detour signs have been placed to direct drivers to this alternate route. Variable message signs are also alerting area motorists and carrying additional details with any updates.
The closures are expected to be in place for about three weeks. As with most road and bridge projects, work may be cancelled, postponed, or prolonged due to inclement weather.
The New York State Department of Transportation has arranged that all major work for this project be done during the cold weather months to minimize the disruption to marine and vehicular traffic during the summer tourism season.
The DOT has coordinated these closures with area emergency response units, local elected officials and civic organizations, the U.S. Coast Guard as well as the local maritime community.
This bridge and the nearby drawbridge on the Meadowbrook State Parkway over Sloop Channel, both built in 1934, are undergoing a $22.5 million strengthening project with enhancements that include structural repairs of the draw spans as well as mechanical and electrical repairs, including new navigation lighting.
Work on both bridges began in the fall of 2017 and is scheduled for completion later this year.
Additional information about this project can be found online at www.dot.ny.gov/drawbridge-repairs. For real-time travel information, call 511 or visit www.511NY.org or the mobile site at m.511ny.org, New York State's official traffic and travel information source.


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CARF Accreditation is a sign of quality and is a public seal of trust and commitment to quality. CARF International, founded in 1966, is an independent, nonprofit accreditor of health and human services. CARF is The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. The goal of CARF is that the person seeking treatment from an accreditated provider is safe, satisfied, and treated with dignity and respect.
Many 30 – 90 day rehabs will fall in to this category. Partial hospitalization programs are time limited, medically supervised programs that offer comprehensive, coordinated, and structured clinical services. This should include a series of face-to-face therapeutic sessions that are designed to address the addiction and other associated conditions in a setting that is not inpatient. A PHP treatment facility provides services to addicts who do not pose an immediate risk to themselves or others. Services are provided for the purpose of evaluation; treatment of a person's condition; or to prevent relapse, hospitalization, or incarceration. Prevention programs are proactive and evidence-based, striving to reduce individual, family, and environmental risk factors, increase resiliency, and achieve individual and community wellness through a collaborative approach.
CARF's behavioral health standards matter!
Conducted a self-study and evaluation of its conformance to the standards.
Submitted an application that includes detailed information about leadership, the programs and services that the service provider is seeking to accredit, and the service delivery location.
Had a CARF survey team conduct an onsite survey to determine the provider's conformance to all applicable standards by observing services, interviewing persons served and other stakeholders, and reviewing documentation. Surveyors also provide consultation to the provider's personnel.
Within 90 days following notification of the accreditation outcome, the provider fulfills an accreditation condition by submitting to CARF a Quality Improvement Plan outlining actions that have been or will be taken in response to the areas for improvement identified in the report.
Submited an Annual Conformance to Quality Report (ACQR). A provider that earns accreditation submits to CARF a signed ACQR on the accreditation anniversary date in each of the years following the award.
When you choose a CARF accredited provider for Addiction Treatment, you can rest assured that your program or facility are of the highest quality. CARF accreditation is a demonstration of superior performance for their clients. You have chosen well; a service provider that meets or exceeds internationally accepted standards and will ensure that the services you receive are among the elite for excellence. Check out the Top 10 Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers to get started with your life in Recovery!


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By Simon Moss
Why We Need to #LevelTheLaw
What more needs to be done to fight for gender equality?
Five young women stepped out of the shadows of the backstage where I stood, and into the rapturous, overwhelming applause of 60,000 global citizens.
It was Global Citizen Festival 2015, and on that Saturday evening in Central Park, I was looking out on the crowd as Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and her fellow activists took to the stage.
These women had come to symbolize so much of what it means to be a global citizen, and that night, they shared their stories. Stories of standing up for their rights and committing their lives to help others. These stories showed the need for all of us to support their efforts to change the future for girls and women everywhere.
In the months since, the team at Global Citizen and CHIME FOR CHANGE have been asking ourselves and partners what more needs to be done to fight for gender equality. The answer came back loud and clear.
Roughly 90% of all countries have at least one legal difference between women and men that limits women's opportunities. In several countries, girls are restricted from attending school, forced into legally sanctioned child marriages and are not protected from gender based violence. Similarly, in many countries women cannot open bank accounts, apply for passports or identification documents, travel outside the home, be protected from domestic violence or work without their husband's permission.
So we started talking to partners, asking what our role should be in changing this situation. We spoke to activists, policy experts, NGOs delivering services, and government officials in dozens of countries. They told us global citizens should be there, loud and passionate.
And they told us we should be standing behind the brave campaigners challenging laws that treat girls and women like second class citizens.
Women like CHIME FOR CHANGE Advisory Board member, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, a Pakistani filmmaker calling on her government to end honor killings.
Women like Nadia, a Yazidi activist who is campaigning to have the genocide and rape of her community referred to the International Criminal Court.
And men like Artistarick, who is fighting child marriage in Tanzania after his sister was almost married off at the age of 14.
Importantly, our partners reminded us that our role was to support and show solidarity, bringing international attention to reinforce the campaigning that these activists are already leading in their communities. These aren't problems that we can solve from America or Europe or Australia directly. They're about local governance, with global citizens' role being to help campaigners access the tools, the resources and the people with the power to make things right.
As global citizens, our power comes when we act together to shape norms and expectations of national and international decision-makers. In our increasingly interconnected world, these leaders want international acknowledgement and appreciation, which is why we use the power of regional forums - like the United Nations, the G20 or the Commonwealth - as well as the influence of the media and influencers to shine the spotlight on issues. Your actions make decision-makers pay attention to an issue, show them the evidence, and ask for a response. We applaud when they do the right thing, and we make it very clear when they don't.
As we start supporting campaigns that challenge discriminatory laws, we'll put these same tools at the disposal of the campaigners you've just started to meet, and the many more we'll introduce you to in the coming months. We'll share their stories, keep you updated on their wins and losses, and follow their lead in asking you to take action to get these laws changed.
I hope you'll join us. Together, we truly can #LevelTheLaw for everyone.
The views expressed here are not necessarily those of each of the partners of Global Citizen.
TopicsGender EqualityGlobalGlobal CitizenInternational Women's Day#LevelTheLawGirls & WomenIssue IntroDiscrimination in the lawWhy sexist laws should be abolished


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Christopher Pair And His Story
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One thing that you should know is that America is experiencing hunger. However, a lot of people are having a hard time understanding it. Getting their next meal is has become a problem for children and families these days. Christopher Pair is someone who went through that situation. That experienced help him grow into someone.
He's a grandson of a Mexican immigrant and a sharecropper. Joining the military was Christopher's father's only hope to escape poverty at the time. After his father quit the military, he became a gardener to provide for his family. At that time, Christopher's home was lacking food most of the time. The nutritional value of the food they have most of the time is also sparse. That's why Christopher and his family had to find a way to earn more and buy enough food for themselves. They also had to get into recycling in order to earn more. There weren't many recyclers in California which is why Christopher was proud that his family was one of the first recyclers. In order to earn more money, they had to trade soda cans.
Needless to say, that kind of experience stuck with Christopher. It may be a grim experience for him, but it helped him to be driven in getting an education. He didn't want others to go through the same experience which is why he wants to provide others with hope. His determination led him to the direct selling industry. Christopher achieved professional success with years of perseverance and hard work. His success also put him in a position where he could share what he went through to reach where he is right now. That said, families and children still have a problem when it comes to hunger these days. Christopher is now a president of a company that helps people live healthier lives. Due to his profession, Christopher became a deserving president of a direct selling company.
Thinking back, Christopher's circumstances was quite hopeless, and it should have held him back. Still, his experience made him more determined to ensure that he can help those who are also struck by hunger. He was able to join a company that prioritized helping less fortunate people especially those who have little to eat. Providing nutrition and health is one of the goals that Christopher's company stays true with. Also, Christopher values the fact that the company he joined is dedicated to ending the hunger problem once and for all. That goal may be too ambitious, but the company is dedicated to doing it with the use of their services and their products.
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Statement by NC State AFL-CIO President MaryBe McMillan on the Supreme Court's decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31.
Local workers, labor and faith leaders, and family members will gather Friday morning on the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Raleigh for an annual interfaith Workers' Memorial Day service to ring a bell 174 times in remembrance of the 174 people known to have died on the job in 2016 — 24 more than the year before — and to call on the N.C. Department of Labor to do more to prevent workplace fatalities.
Clergy, members of community & civic organizations, labor advocates, public servants, and private citizens held a sidewalk rally with striking Border Rebar workers outside the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) this afternoon to draw attention to dangerous and abusive working conditions at one of its contractors, Border Rebar, and to call on the Department to meet and discuss implementing responsible contractor policies.
Striking workers who have been injured and abused on the job will hold a sidewalk rally outside North Carolina Department of Transportation headquarters on Monday, Feb. 12th, to draw attention to dangerous and abusive working conditions at one of its contractors, Border Rebar, and to call on the Department to meet and discuss implementing responsible contractor policies.


For a personable and memorable experience of Haida Gwaii, come and stay in this heritage house "dripping with character" overlooking the harbour in Masset. The Copper Beech House is owned and managed by the writer, Susan Musgrave and her husband, Stephen Reid. Read a full history of the house and it's various lives here.
TAKE COMFORT: We offer fresh, local food, in season, and simple pleasures, too: a crab or chanterelle omelette, homemade scones and jam.
TREAT YOURSELF: Unwind. Sip a good cup of tea, drift away in a book. Watch the tide roll out, roll in. Dream.
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Mr. Raester to Mr. Seward.
New York, No. 132 Front Street, August 24, 1868.
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to inform you that emissaries from the rebels of Hayti have lately arrived in this city, and among [Page 371] them is a person named Dejoie, ex-commander of the Haytien dispatch-boat Liberté, which he treacherously delivered to the enemy in exchange for arms and munitions of war, to be used against the constitutional government of the country; and, in consideration of the treaty and the good relations existing between the republic of the United States and the government of Hayti, I must ask you to give orders prohibiting the clearance from this port, or any other in the United States, of all arms, munitions, or contraband of war, intended to foment or supply the rebellion in Hayti.
I also inclose a copy of the Moniteur Haïtien, containing the decree of my government in relation to the two vessels, Liberté and Sylvain, which have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and are now used for committing all sorts of depredations upon the coast.
Please accept the assurance of my very distinguished consideration.
GEORGE RAESTER.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.
[From the Moniteur Haïtien, of the 15th of August, 1868.]
Decree.
SYLVAIN SALNAVE, PRESIDENT OF HAYTI.
Whereas a few ambitious persons, regardless of the responsibility of causing disorder, pillage, arson, and other crimes in the state, have excited a rebellion and seized the two national war vessels, Sylvain and Liberté, to commit depredations at sea as they are doing on land, by using those vessels to rob innocent vessels, to their own advantage, and to the damage of general interests;
And, considering that it is necessary to make known the injury those vessels are doing to commerce, and to retake them as soon as possible;
Announcing that the laws punish piracy by death, and the law of nations sanctions every measure for the suppression of such crimes;
By the advice and counsel of our cabinet, we decree as follows:
Article 1. Let the vessels Sylvain and Liberté, now in the hands of the rebels, and used against the government of the republic, and in depredations on our coast, be seized wherever found, and punished as pirates.
Art. 2. Every armed vessel is authorized to attack and capture them as lawful prizes.
Art. 3. The present decree shall be published and promulgated by the secretary of state, and the minister of war and marine is charged with its execution.
Done at the national palace, in Port au Prince, this 11th day of August, 1868, in the sixty-fifth year of independence.
S. SALNAVE.
By the President:
N. Rigaud, Secretary of State, &c., &c.
A. Tate, Secretary of Finance, &c., &c.
Hilaire Jean Pierre, Secretary of Justice, Public Education, and Worship, &c.


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Special Olympics Winter Games
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Special Olympics Canada announced on Aug. 18, 2017, that Thunder Bay has been awarded the 2020 Special Olympics Canada Winter Games. The finalists were Thunder Bay and Regina, Saskatchewan.
"Special Olympics Canada is thrilled that Thunder Bay will be the home of the 2020 Winter Games," said Blair McIntosh, V.P. Sport with Special Olympics Canada. "Thunder Bay has an excellent reputation as a host for winter sport events, and hosted Special Olympics Ontario's 2011 Provincial Summer Games. We are excited to bring participants from across all 12 Chapters to compete at these National Winter Games, Special Olympics Canada's signature sport competition, and all the excitement it will bring to the area."
About the Games
The Special Olympics Canada Games began in 1974 and are national multi-sport Games for athletes with an intellectual disability. The Winter Games are held every four years and were last held in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland in 2016 where the estimated economic impact was $5.4 million.
The event includes eight sports: alpine skiing, 5-pin bowling, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, floor hockey, snowshoeing and speed skating. The Games will require approximately 750 volunteers and a budget of over $2 million.
For information about the Games, visit http://specialolympics2020.com or call 807-633-1516.
The bid theme was "Hearts of Gold" to highlight Thunder Bay's community spirit and the fact that 2020 will be the City of Thunder Bay's 50th Golden Anniversary year. Bid supporters include tbaytel, Thunder Bay International Airport Authority, Union Gas, Tourism Northern Ontario, Mallons Promotional Clothing and Products, Dougall Media, and the Chronicle-Journal.
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Christophe Renou wins title of "Swiss Chocolate Master"
On 31st October 2004, the Swiss selection for the World Chocolate Masters competition was held at Salon Gastronomia in Lausanne. This competition was organised in close collaboration with the society of Swiss Pastry and Confectionnery Chefs. It took place in the "Truffe d'Or" competition area of Salon Gastronomia.
Six contestants, all working in Switzerland, competed there. The winner of the "Swiss Chocolate Creativity Award" was Ms. Lütolf Daniela. The biggest honour went to Christophe Renou of the famous "Moutarlier" house, a member of the "Chocolate Scpecialists". Because of his victory, Renou will represent Switzerland in the world finals and thus take his chance to become the World Chocolate Master!


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Brussels - description of the city:
Brussels is the cultural and political center not only of Belgium but also of the entire European community. Originally, the appearance of the city was made up of monumental buildings around King's House, built by prosperous merchants and artisans. EEC and NATO, who settled there in 1958 and 1967, respectively, provoked a strong high-rise building around the city. And Brussels, in former times, wealthy merchant's town, became the administrative capital of Europe.
Entertainment, excursions and places of interest in Brussels:
Most city excursions begin with a market square. The Grand Place is not only the largest and most beautiful square of Brussels, but also one of the most beautiful squares in the world. In the 13th century, there were noisy stalls, festivals and jousting tournaments, worked fulleries and justice was done. The buildings around the square were destroyed in 1695 during the French siege, but later were recovered on carefully thought-out plan, and began to look even better. Facades are decorated with intricate carvings, garlands, statues and columns. Each of the historic buildings has its own name, such as "She-Wolf", "Small cart", "Fox cub".
The most prominent building of the square is the Town Hall Hotel de Ville (15th century) with a 96-meter tower, which is crowned by a five-meter statue of the archangel Michael striking the dragon. In 1996, the original statue of the XV century was replaced by a copy. The facade of the Town Hall is decorated with sculptures that represent scenes of the city's life. Today, a part of the Town Hall is available for visiting; richly decorated interiors keep the collection of handmade wall hangings of the XVI-XVIII centuries.
On the other side of the square are Maison du Roi / Broodhuis. Under Philip II the building was the residence of a court trial, hence its French name - King's House. Today it is home to the Historical Museum, which has a rich collection of art and amusing collection of costumes for the "Manneken Pis".
The world-famous symbol of Brussels, Manneken Pis, appeared in 1619 and has since been repeatedly stolen and recovered again. It is believed that the figure of the boy is the embodiment of the rebellious spirit of the inhabitants of Brussels. Recently, in the next street appeared the boy's sister - Yanneken Pis.
To the west lies the historic center of the Upper Town, from which you can admire the view of the old Brussels. A huge area in the Upper Town is occupied by the Brussels Park, where the Royal Palace is situated - the residence of the Belgian monarchs. The museum's collection of the palace includes art objects made of china, silver and glass. Here is also the Museum of Bellevue, covering the history of the Kingdom of Belgium. Another monumental building of this area is the Palace of Justice, the largest building of the 19th century.
The western slope of the Upper Town is decorated with a silhouette of the Cathedral of St. Michael. From 1047 and for a few centuries the Cathedral was under the construction; the Gothic style is a result of the reconstruction of the 13th century. Dominants of the external look of the temple are two powerful towers, each of which has an access to the terrace. Inside it, attention is drawn to stained glass windows of the 16th century and carved cathedra of 1669.
One of the most famous historical places of interest is the Royal galleries of Saint Hubert with a length of 212 meters, opened in 1846. This is Europe's first architectural complex with cloisters, today surrounded by dozens of art galleries, cafes, restaurants and theaters.
On the small, really surrounded on all sides by museums, Museum Square is the palace of Charles of Lorraine and the famous "Gap" – a highlighted well, which contain a part of the exhibits of the Museum of Modern Art.
If you have enough time to stay in the Belgian capital, you will surely be interested in visiting the park "Mini-Europe" with models of famous buildings: the Atomium – an increased to 165 billion times model of an iron atom with a height of 102 meters, created for the World Exhibition in 1958, and the Palace of Nations (the Parliament building), built in the late 18th century.
International title Brussels
Population 1,019,022 people
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State Brussels Capital Region
Geographic coordinates Latitude: 50.85045 x Longitude: 4.34878
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Welcome To Brian Keeler Studio
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Learn all about painting from nature at home with this great instructional video You will be able to look over the shoulder of an award winnnig painter who has been painting landscapes, portraits, still lifes and other subjects for decades. Brian takes you to some of his favorite and most beautiful locations in the Finger Lakes region of New York. You'll see painting started at Keuka, Seneca and Cayuga Lakes in the summer,winter and autumn as well as view of Cascadilla Gorge.
The contemporary realist painting of Brian Keeler is represented here to offer you an easy view of a selection of his art. His paintings have won wide acclaim during the course of his career and they are represented in many private, public and museum collections. Several prestigious galleries in the northeast United States show his work or at his North Star Studio and Gallery in Ithaca, NY where he resides or at his other studio in Wyalusing, PA. Visit www.northstarartgallery.com for news about the shows, classes and events in Ithaca.
One thing that struck me about your work is you don't seem to fit into any known category. Your work is sort of like Academic Realism – sometimes even like Superrealism – it's a little like Impressionism – but not really – occasionally you do a Magritte-like Surrealism, and there's what I referred to at gallery night as that "hopped-up hyper-reality" like Van Gogh's work – a sort of hyper-awareness.
- Warren Greenwood- Ithaca Times, November 2, 2011
In 31 years of editing art magazines, I can't think of many other artists whose artwork is as varied, accomplished, or expressive as the pictures Keeler has created during his long career. He is an exceptionally talented, intelligent, and dedicated artist, and it has been a great privilege to share his work with readers of these publications. Above all, he is an intelligent, passionate artist who deals with aspects of the visual world that can be analyzed and explained, as well as those that are purely emotional.
- Stephen Doherty- Editor-in-Chief, American Artist Magazine- from a forward for an upcoming book. 2010
Paintings of Ireland !! Brian has been on two plein air painting trips to the west coast of the Emerald Isle. See the gallery for examples, or visit www.northstarartgalley.com
Brian Keeler - painting a plein air oil above the Susquehanna River in Sugar Run, PA. Brian was the top winner in a recent national contest sponsored by Plein Air Magazine - for best plein air painting. He was also one of the award winners at the Wayne Plein Air Fest- a national event near Philadelpia.
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Kasikorn Bank (or KBank), a major banking group in Thailand established as long ago as in 1945, announced the launch of its new Letters of Guarantee processing platform powered by the blockchain technology jointly developed in partnership with IBM. The bank reported that by next year 1 in 20 Letters of Guarantee for corporate businesses will be processed through the distributed ledger system of the bank.
KBank has been cooperating with IBM since last November, when the two companies decided to establish a blockchain-based business channel to enable loan recipients, credit receivers and the bank to track in real-time the banking processes that previously used to take much time.
As it is known, the new distributed ledger platform has been developed on the basis of Hyperledger Fabric and has been piloted within the Bank of Thailand's regulatory framework. The blockchain environment so developed may be expanded to cope with the potential surge in Letters of Guarantee issuance in the electronic format.
According to the available forecasts, the number of Letters of Guarantee issued in the commercial banking environment of Thailand is estimated to exceed $40 billion, 7% up in 2017. About $9 billion of that figure will be issued by KBank, holding the major share (25%) of the market. Meantime, KBank plans to build up the electronic issuance of Letters of Guarantee to reach 35% by late 2018, and 5% of those will be processed through the distributed ledger ecosystem. Besides, the bank plans to attract other players in the industry to join the blockchain initiative.


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Балка Бабіївка, Бабієва — балка (річка) в Україні у Олександрійському районі Кіровоградської області. Права притока річки Дніпра (басейн Дніпра).

Опис
Довжина балки приблизно 7,13 км, найкоротша відстань між витоком і гирлом — 6,46  км, коефіцієнт звивистості річки — 1,04 . Формується декількома струмками та загатами.

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Бере початок у селі Бабичівка. Тече переважно на південний схід понад селом Подорожнє і на західній околиці міста Світловодська впадає у річку Дніпро (Кременчуцьке водосховище).

Історія
До створення Кременчуцької ГЕС балка впадала у річку Цибульник.

Цікаві факти
 На правому березі балки пролягає автошлях  (автомобільний шлях у Черкаській, Кіровоградській та Полтавській областях.).
 На балці існує декілька газгольдерів.

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Джерела

Посилання
 Словник гідронімів України / Ред. кол.: А. П. Непокупний, О. С. Стрижак (заст. голови), К. К. Цілуйко (голова); Укладачі: І. М. Желєзняк, А. П. Корепанова, Л. Т. Масенко, А. П. Непокупний, В. В. Німчук, Є. С. Отін, О. С. Стрижак, К. К. Цілуйко. АН УРСР. Ордена Трудового червоного прапора Інститут мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні, Українська ономастична комісія. – К.: Наукова думка, 1979. – С. 26

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A French treasure-trove from Russia returns home
Nushin Elahi / January 15, 2017
NUSHIN ELAHI went to see a ground-breaking exhibition in Paris, Icons of Modern Art – The Shchukin Collection which reunites of one of the great art collections of the early twentieth century.
Sergei Shchukin – the Russian who collected French art
One of the world's most magnificent Impressionist collections is in Russia. The reason for this was a rich yet self-effacing man, Sergei Shchukin. He loved French art, and bought everything he could lay his hands on, at times getting artists like Matisse to come and paint in situ for his palace in Moscow. The intervening century has seen the artwork appropriated by the Russian government, and then split between the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, so even in Russia it is not possible to enjoy the full scale of what Shchukin collected.
For a brief moment, courtesy of one of the top luxury brands, the collection has been reunited and Paris is once again the place to view this wealth of French art. Icons of Modern Art – The Shchukin Collection is a massive exhibition in the colourful Fondation Louis Vuitton building in Paris's Bois de Boulogne which runs until the end of February. This is a chance in a lifetime to see so many fine masterpieces together, and I know I wasn't the only Londoner who had made the trip to view it.
Matisse's The Red Room
Shchukin managed to collect many of the major artworks of the early twentieth century, and it is not easy to describe the thrill of seeing paintings known so well from reproduction actually on the wall in front of you. Matisse's luminous colour enchanted me, particularly in The Red Room, but there were many others by Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin and Picasso in particular that drew a gasp of delight. Not everything was magical though, even works by artists one normally admires. This was particularly the case with Shchukin's more conventional early collection. There were also some pastel coloured Monets that made me wince, sketchy Gauguins, unfinished Matisses and hideously ugly Picassos, but then there was such a treasure-trove of gorgeous, glorious paintings you skipped over those and went back to the ones that you loved.
The exhibition is hung in 14 galleries over four floors and curated by Anne Baldassari, former head of the Picasso Museum in Paris. It opens with a roomful of portraits, among them self-portraits by Cézanne and Gauguin. The early collection shows Shchukin's interest from the outset in the play of light which resulted in the purchase of interesting Vuillards as well as a luridly sentimental Maurice Denis, The Sacred Grove. Cleverly positioned across from Monet's Luncheon on the Grass, this large oil presents a triad of nymphs prancing in artificial pink light, a sharp reminder of the norm against which the Impressionists rebelled.
The early Impressionist works Shchukin acquired are a symphony on the changing light of the seasons. Pissarro creates the fresh lime green of spring bursting into life on a Paris square, the sleet and its reflections decorating the Avenue Opera, Monet the harsh summer sun in a formal garden and London's winter fog, Sisley the autumn shadows along the River Seine. This landscape section also includes Picasso's Cubist views of houses and factories in rich orange hues, an early and much less successful version of the National Gallery's Rousseau, Surpris!, Matisse riverside scenes that could have been done by Andre Derain and some beautiful lush green Cézannes.
There are three sections devoted to individual artists: Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso, as well as themed rooms on still-life, nudes and portraits. The exhibition is also at pains to show how all these French artists influenced the way the Russian avant-garde developed. The result is at times slightly confusing, because the Russian and French artworks are hung together. In fact, if it wasn't French, Shchukin didn't collect it. Personally, I would rather have seen another twenty paintings from the original collection. While one may not see work by Malevich and his peers regularly, that is a whole other exhibition in itself. The work is not hung chronologically and the galleries at times feel awkward physical spaces, but once you get the hang of it and you know where to duck past the crowds reading wall text, there is nothing but the joy of revelling in these true icons of modern art.
The exhibition benefits hugely from a second visit, where the first gasp of recognition is replaced with a studied pleasure in the genius of the greats. I know I kept coming back to the Matisse room, which is dominated by his The Red Room. This is counterpoised by other large-scale depictions of his studio and the vivid colours and textures of the fabrics with which he loved to surround himself. The gallery glows with Matisse's love of pattern and colour, and every wall is a feast for the eyes.
It is also a bigger, brighter space than Gauguin's vivid Tahitian work enjoys, so despite that artist's overtly sensual themes, this island idyll didn't have quite the same impact as Matisse's work. That said, the languorous nudes in What, Are You Jealous? are a wonderful example of Gauguin's style. Picasso's work is threaded throughout the exhibition, from early, and rather unusual Cubist landscapes, through to the better known still-lives at the end, which hang side by side with similar Russian paintings. Five monumental African-inspired nudes, including Three Women, have a knockout effect in their autumnal tones in the final section of the show. The curator is then at pains to demonstrate the links with works such as Picasso's large lumpy peasant women and those done by Malevich, placing Cézanne and Picasso in the final room alongside Malevich's iconic Black Square. The Russian artworks are on loan from museums such as the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow and the Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
The final room: Cezanne, Picasso and one of Malevich's Black Squares
Cubist landscapes – Picasso and Derain
Archive image of how the collection was displayed in Shchukin's Trubetskoy Palace
One of the major drawbacks of this exhibition is the public's desire to photograph everything and often look at nothing, so not only are there crowds, but you are battling to get closer to a work while everyone around you is taking photos of it. Give me a blanket ban on gallery photography any day!
The Fondation Louis Vuitton is housed in the delightfully fanciful building designed by Frank Gehry which opens out at the top into terraces where the coloured glass sails capture unique views of Paris. It is perhaps unsurprising that it takes the wealth of private money to bring the viewing public the riches of this great art collector. No public museum today would have the funds to organise an exhibition on this scale. It is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Catch it if you can.
January 15, 2017 in Visual arts. Tags: Fondation Louis Vuitton, French art, Gauguin, Hermitage, Icons of Modern Art, Impressionists, Matisse, Monet, Paris, Paul Cézanne, Picasso, Pushkin Museum, Russian art, Sergei Shchukin, Shchukin Collection
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3 thoughts on "A French treasure-trove from Russia returns home"
Coenraad says:
Support the blanket ban on gallery photography.
alamb1506 says:
Wow! What an amazing collection, it looks stunning. So many fantastic paintings.
Alissa Lamb says:
Looks fantastic.


Many people love the warm sun. The sun's rays make us feel good, and in the short term, make us look good. But, exposure to sun is the number one cause of skin cancer and causes most of the wrinkles and age spots on our faces.
In fact, sun exposure causes most of the skin changes that we think of as a normal part of aging. Over time, the sun's ultraviolet (UV) light damages the fibers in the skin called elastin. When these fibers breakdown, the skin begins to sag, stretch, and lose its ability to go back into place after stretching. So while sun damage to the skin may not be apparent when you're young, it will definitely show later in life.
Here are some tips to help you protect yourself from the sun.
Reapply. Perspiration, exercise, swimming and towel-drying removes sunscreen from the skin so you should reapply after taking part in any of these activities, even if the product is waterproof.
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Everyday use protects in the long term. Using sunscreen every day on your face and back of the hands will limit the chances of developing dry leathery skin, wrinkles, and other signs of premature aging and skin cancer.
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No need to waste money. Budget brands are just as effective as the more expensive brands.
There is no "safe" ultraviolet (UV) light. There is no such thing as a safe tan.
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This information has been approved by Deb Fending, RN (June 2009).


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