Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses the impact that a fundamentalist mode of thought has had, on a great deal of the contemporary Messianic movement.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
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Mother Agapia said that while people should continue to send money “what we really need is political change.”: link
If Putin fails to commit by Monday to meet Zelensky, “it means that once again President Putin played President Trump,” President Macron said at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Merz.: link
Bill Clinton is facing renewed questions about his health after he and his wife, Hillary, were spotted leaving the Hamptons this week with a portable defibrillator bag in tow — just two months after the 79-year-old former president was seen stumbling on a Big Apple sidewalk.: link
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday there “probably will be a vote of some sense” on a resolution requiring the Trump administration to release files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.: link
The US has sent a powerful fleet to the coast of Venezuela: link
“Russia does not have enough strength to capture all of Ukraine, and Ukraine does not have enough strength to reclaim all occupied territories,” said Zelensky.: link
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs on almost every country on earth but left in place for now his effort to build a protectionist wall around the American economy.: link
In the Kremlin, Andriy Parubiy was considered an ideological enemy: link
“The crime was, unfortunately, carefully prepared, but everything is being done to solve it,” Zelensky said about the murder of Parubiy.: link
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a Volodymyr Zelenskyy–Vladimir Putin meeting might not happen, adding that he is weighing U.S. planes in a security guarantee to end the Ukraine-Russia war, Daily Caller reported.: link
Online rumors of President Trump’s demise were greatly exaggerated — much to the dismay of creepy leftist critics. The president took a brief hiatus from public appearances this week, sparking morbid theories and social media posts speculating he had died.: link
Leftists spread baseless rumors online overnight Friday and into Saturday morning that President Donald Trump was dead.: link
Vanity Fair‘s new global editorial director has floated the idea of putting first lady Melania Trump on the cover, prompting employees of the fashion magazine to threaten to “walk out the motherf*cking door.”: link
Houthi-run media channels have now confirmed the death of Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi as well as several other unnamed ministers who were part of the Houthi Political Council, as a result of a series of targeted strikes by the Israeli Air Force against the Yemeni capital of…: link
President Donald Trump said that he doubts Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet anytime soon, and that the two nations may “have to fight a little longer.”: link
Conservative media figures can’t have it both ways on Israel criticism: link
Senior officials at the White House believe some European leaders are publicly supporting President Trump’s effort to end the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, while quietly trying to undo behind-the-scenes progress since the Alaska Summit, according to Axios.: link
Greta Thunberg speaking is speaking in Barcelona before sailing off for Gaza on a new “freedom flotilla”: link
Consequently this blood moon is happening during the season of Teshuvah on the Hebrew Calendar and only days before the UN General Assembly kicks off on September 9th in New York with a major push to divide Jerusalem in the name of a two state solution!: link
At the People’s Conference for Palestine in Michigan: link
Trump’s “Day After Gaza” plan, revealed by the Washington Post, lays out a sweeping vision to erase Hamas’s rule and remake Gaza into what he calls the “Riviera of the Middle East.”: link
The winds of change could soon blow on Iran, according to a new report. The Islamic Republic is facing collapse, indicates the report, issued by UK-based Henry Jackson Society this week, as the UN accuses Tehran of executing nearly 900 people already this year “as a tool of intimidation.”: link
American millennials are facing a troubling rise in premature deaths, with new research showing mortality rates among 25 to 44-year-olds are significantly higher than expected.: link
President Donald Trump issued another warning to Illinois Democrat Gov. JB Pritzker: Fix the violent crime “fast, or we’re coming” with federal forces.: link
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is pushing a hardline response to the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest Gaza-bound flotilla to date, with ships launching from Barcelona, Sicily, Greece, and Tunisia carrying activists from 44 countries, including Greta…: link
The Israeli Government is seriously considering the annexation of parts of the West Bank in retaliation for the imminent recognition of the State of Palestine by several countries, including Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom, according to a number of Israeli, U.S.…: link
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a freak car accident in New Hampshire on Saturday night, a rep said. Giuliani, 81, was hospitalized with a fractured vertebrae and multiple cuts and bruises.: link
71% of US Catholics believe Jesus was a created being.: link
On this day 28 years ago, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.: link
U.S. President Donald J. Trump is set to hold his second meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of other European countries who are part of the “Coalition of the Willing” in Paris on Thursday, September 4. The topic of the meeting will be security…: link
On Sept. 1st 1939, at 4:45 am, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein started firing at the Polish defenders of Westerplatte, near Gdańsk.: link
Xi Jinping will hold a military parade in Beijing alongside Putin, Kim Jong Un, and Iranian leaders to strengthen the alliance against the West and assert China’s claim to a new global role, the Financial Times reports.: link
Xi Jinping pushes ‘Global Governance’ initiative at SCO summit: link
Putin told SCO leaders that Russia attacked Ukraine because of the West’s attempts to “pull” Kyiv into NATO.: link
The General Staff of the Russian Army is now having meetings in front of a map which shows the Ukrainian regions of Mykolaiv and Odesa as part of Russia.: link
Swedish globalist elite Greta Thunberg @gretathunberg and the so-called aid “flotilla” were forced to abandon their journey to Gaza just hours after setting sail from Spain on Sunday due to windy weather.: link
