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Could Muslims be right about ‘New Year’s’?

COGwriter A while back, a religious leader in Turkey publicly condemned New Year’s and Christmas as pagan: Christmas and New Year celebrations are events where both pagan rituals and capitalist drives are intertwined, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate Mehmet Görmez said in a statement… “What I will most object to as the religious […]

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NPR: 2023 will be the hottest year on record. Is this how it’s going to be now?

More about this ridiculous December mildness in Canada with temperatures well above freezing even in the Northern Territories….in late December. Above freezing in the British Columbia mountains where skiing is a quite hard task. https://t.co/Poj218XOYY — Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) December 28, 2023 COGwriter NPR reported the following: 2023 will be the hottest […]

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Google files for a patent to identify “misinformation” on social media

Googleplex (photo from The Pancake of Heaven!) COGwriter The Washington Examiner posted the following: December 28, 2023 Normal political debate involves one side making a claim or argument and the other side using facts, logic, and argumentation in order to rebut the first side. … Misinformation or disinformation is a knowingly false claim that causes […]

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Messages to the Churches of Revelation 2 & 3

COGwriter at site of “Church of the Apocalypse/Revelation” on Patmos in 2008 COGwriter Seven churches are mentioned in Revelation 1, with messages given to them in the next two chapters. As it turns out, my wife Joyce and I have been able to visit the area of each of those seven as well as the […]

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30 additional countries want to partner up with the BRICS, and 130 nations move towards CBDCs, putting the US Dollar at risk

BRICS header photo https://twitter.com/brics_cci/header_... COGwriter Sputnik News reported about the expansion possibilities for the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) alliance: MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Some 30 countries want to partner up with the BRICS club of five emerging economies, in addition to those invited to join at the summit in Johannesburg in summer, […]

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Giant Hordes Of Illegal Immigrants Are Being Brought Into The U.S. Just In Time For The Societal Meltdown Of 2024

COGwriter Michael Snyder posted the following: Giant Hordes Of Illegal Immigrants Are Being Brought Into The U.S. Just In Time For The Societal Meltdown Of 2024 December 26, 2023 Are they trying to destroy our nation on purpose?  At a time when our economic problems are rapidly progressing, we are already involved in multiple global […]

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Norman Edwards on Protestant Samaritans

Ancient Samaria COGwriter Sometime back, Shepherd’s Voice magazine had the following article by former GCG board member Norman Edwards: For the mature Christian, the last words of Jesus Christ to His apostles are utterly vital. They certainly have application throughout the entire church age. They were not just for the first century. Therefore, when they […]

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MS: 2024 Will Be a Year of Catastrophic War in the Middle East; COGwriter: Then Jesus May Return in 2031

(Photo from Pexels.com) COGwriter A reader sent me a link to the following from Michael Snyder: 2024 Will Be a Year of Catastrophic War in the Middle East December 26, 2023 The war in the Middle East that began in 2023 is going to go to an entirely new level in 2024.  As you will […]

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Newsmax: China Reportedly Working on Bioweapons

(Pixabay photo) COGwriter NewsMax reported the following: Gordon Chang to Newsmax: China Working on Bioweapons December 25, 2023 8:30 pm Gordon G. Chang, author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” told Newsmax that Beijing is experimenting with what appears to be biological weapons targeting human brains. … “These are biological weapons, and China isn’t part […]

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Are there prophecies related to Belgium and Luxembourg?

1997 Feast Location and Brussels, Belgium COGwriter Are there prophecies related to Belgium and Luxembourg? The late evangelist Dr. Herman Hoeh wrote the following: Asher “his bread shall be fat and he shall yield royal danties” (Gen. 49:20). This peculiar expression could have reference alone to Belgium and the kindred state Luxembourg. From Belgium have […]

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