This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We discuss the big win of the Left in France and Britain, with disastrous consequences (please see our new StandingWatch program, titled, “The French and British Frankenstein Monsters” ), continue with developments pertaining to the Russia-Ukraine war; and report on Europe’s dark assessment of the situation in the USA. Please view in this regard our new program, titled, “Biden’s Decline and Trump’s Provocations—Comments on News and Prophecy, July 6, 2024.”
We speak on a new controversy involving Germany and Turkey; and the demand to create compulsory military service for German men and women.
We continue with an article describing Kamala Harris who is promoted by some as a replacement for Joe Biden; speak about Iran’s new President, and ask the question whether Big Pharma is responsible for many diseases.
We address the excommunication of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò from the Catholic Church, and conclude with an article about Mexico’s many criminal cartels.
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
The Only Constant Is Change
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life.” This saying has also been translated to “the only constant is change.” He lived in Ephesus, near modern Kusadasi, Turkey, around 500 B.C. And so, some 2,500 years later, is this still a truism today?
One psychologist wrote: “People age, develop habits and move environments. You can’t step into the same river twice — even rocks were subject to changes by the elements over time.”
We know that God never changes. In our Update on April 7th 2017 was the Q&A “Does God Change?”, and below is an excerpt from this:
“We know from Malachi 3:6 that God does not change: ‘For I am the LORD, I do not change’. Another verse that is used to show the unchanging nature of God is found in Hebrews 13:8: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.’ In James 1:17 we read: ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.’”
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Does God bless the wicked with riches?
In a previous Q&A, titled, “Must Christians be poor?”, we showed that God can and sometimes does bless His people with wealth and riches. We explained that it is therefore not required that God’s people must be poor. But as we will show in this Q&A, this does not mean that everyone who is rich has been blessed by God—that God made that person rich.
We wrote in the Q&A, mentioned above:
“God does not bless someone who is unrighteous. It is true, of course, that unrighteous people may be rich, but this would not be because of God’s blessings… Psalm 37:7, 16 says: ‘Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass… A little that a righteous man has Is better than the riches of many wicked…”
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