Estonia Forms New Government

Yet another shake-up among Schwab’s leaders. Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas stepped down from her role on a technicality before being reappointed a day later. Kallas’ Reform Party reached an agreement with the Social Democrats and Isamaa Party to form a new three-party coalition.

Estonia shares a 180-mile border with Russia and has strongly supported Ukraine before the war began. Estonia is a small nation with a population of around 31 million and a GDP of $36.29 billion USD. Their inflation rate is among the highest in Europe after spiking to 22% in June.

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Do You Feelieve or Befeel?

Does believing something make it true? Can other people “feel” the same way you do? There are people who believe things that are blatantly false! That answers the first question. Every individual is just that – an individual. As an individual, I can’t feel what your feel and vice versa! That should answer the second […]

Do You Feelieve or Befeel?

All the virtue that is saving, and that distinguishes true Christians from others

is summed up in Christian love
This appears from the words of the text, because so many other things are mentioned that natural men may have, and the things mentioned are of the highest kind it is possible they should have, both of privilege and performance, and yet it is said they avail nothing with this; whereas, if any of them were saving, they would avail something without it.
And by the apostle’s mentioning so many and so high things, and then saying of them all, that they profited nothing without charity, we may justly conclude, that there is nothing at all that avails anything without it. Let a man have what he will, and do what he will, it signifies nothing without charity; which surely implies that charity is the great thing, and that everything which has not charity in some way contained or implied in it, is nothing, and that this charity is the life and soul of all religion, without which all things that wear the name of virtues are empty and vain.–Charity and its fruits by Jonathan Edwards

Prophecy News Watch: Why Tactical Nuclear Weapons Are Returning

The reported strategy appears intended to provide choices between conventional defeat and a massive strategic nuclear attack.

Instead of immediately striking cities or launching intercontinental missiles, the United States could theoretically use a lower-yield weapon against a military formation, naval force, hardened command center or isolated target. The hope would be to stop an enemy advance, restore deterrence and force negotiations without triggering an all-out exchange.

But this logic contains a potentially fatal assumption: that nuclear escalation can be controlled.

A weapon may be described as “tactical” because of its range, yield or battlefield purpose. The country receiving the strike may not view the distinction as meaningful.

Russia or China would have only minutes to determine whether an explosion was an isolated warning or the beginning of a wider attack. Leaders would be forced to make decisions while communications were disrupted, military installations were being destroyed and additional missiles might already be in flight.

A supposedly limited strike could produce retaliation against an American base. Washington could then answer by striking additional military targets. Each side might believe it was responding proportionately even as the conflict moved closer to attacks on major cities.

The escalation ladder may be easy to climb and impossible to descend.
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If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body,

I could boast about it;a but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:3)
Great things that these, no natural man ever had or did, and they are the kind of things in which men are exceedingly prone to trust; and yet the apostle declares that if we have them all, and have not charity, we are nothing.–Charity and its fruits by Jonathan Edwards

If I had the gift of prophecy

and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:2)

These are the most excellent things known to man; the most excellent privileges, and the most excellent performances. Yet, without love, they are nothing.–Charity and its fruits by

Jonathan Edwards

Bible Study Tools Part 2 : Isaiah 66:7 before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child;

Like a woman before she is scarcely sensible of any pain; as soon as ever she perceives the least uneasiness of this kind, is delivered of a son, to her great joy, and the joy of all about her. This is to be understood, not of the sudden and easy deliverance of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, by the proclamation of Cyrus, which occasioned great joy; much less of the birth of Christ, of the Virgin Mary at the inn, and in the stable, which is the sense of some Popish interpreters; much better do some Jewish writers interpret it of the birth and appearance of Christ, before the troubles of their nation came on; so the Targum,

“before distress comes to her, she shall be redeemed; and before trembling comes upon her, her King shall be revealed;”

that is, the King Messiah; and so some copies have it, according to Galatinus F18; who also makes mention of another exposition of this passage, by R. Moses Haddarsan, if it may be depended on,

“before he should be born that should bring Israel into the last captivity, the Redeemer should be born;”

that is, as he explains it, before the birth of Titus, who destroyed the temple and city of Jerusalem, the Messiah should be born; but the passage refers not to his natural but mystical birth, or the regeneration of a spiritual seed in his church; or of the conversion of the first Christians both in Judea and in the Gentile world; who were like a man child, strong and robust, able to bear and did endure great hardships for the sake of Christ, and do him much work and service, in which they persevered to the end; see ( Galatians 4:26 ) ( Isaiah 54:1 ) , as the first Christians did through various persecutions, until the times of Constantine, by whom they were delivered from them, and who is prophesied of as the church’s man child, as in ( Revelation 12:2 Revelation 12:4 Revelation 12:5 ) .
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Prophecy News Watch: Russia And China Do Not Need A Formal Alliance

The strategic relationship between Moscow and Beijing makes the problem even more dangerous.

China has provided Russia with dual-use components that support its military-industrial base. Russia can offer China battlefield knowledge, advanced military technology and lessons from years of sustained warfare. The two countries also conduct joint exercises and share a desire to weaken American influence.

Their interests are not identical, and neither government fully trusts the other. But a formal alliance is unnecessary.

China benefits when Russia absorbs American resources in Europe. Russia benefits when China forces the United States to concentrate ships, aircraft and missiles in Asia. Every American weapon sent to one theater is a weapon unavailable in the other.

This creates a strategic form of cooperation even without coordinated battle plans.

Bible Study Tools Part 1 : Isaiah 66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth

That is, Zion, as appears from the following verse: lest it should be thought that the interest of Christ would be swallowed up and lost in the destruction of the Jews, this, and what follows, are said concerning the conversion of many of that people, both in the first times of the Gospel, and in the latter day, as well as concerning the calling of the Gentiles, and the uniting of both in one church state. Zion, or the church of God, is here compared to a pregnant woman, that brings forth suddenly and easily, without feeling any pain, or going through any travail, or having any birth throes; at least, feeling very little pain and travail, and having very few pangs, and those, as soon as they come, are gone, and an immediate delivery ensues:

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels

but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (1 Corinthians 13:1)

There is no proof of ignorance more common than conceit of knowledge. Much may be known, when nothing is known to good purpose. And those who think they know any thing, and grow vain thereon, are the least likely to make good use of their knowledge

Matthew Henry Commentary