THE BIBLE IS GOD’S STORY – FROM CREATION OF THIS COSMOS TO A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH

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This article is taken from an editorial by Jonathan Sarfati in Creation Magazine 2025, volume 47, issue 1.

Make sure you get it. there are great articles in this issue: the righteous Enoch of Genesis 5:21–24 is a N.T. hero (Luke 3:37, Hebrews 11:5) (p. 32). On Day 5, God created the amazing megalodon (p. 12), trilobites (p. 15), penguins (p. 28), and jellyfish (p. 46). On Day 6, He created the giraffe with its intricate blood pressure control (p. 18), the elephant with its trunk (p. 56), and dinosaurs— and their surviving DNA (p. 38) shows it was only a few thousand years ago, not millions. The global Flood radically changed the world for Noah (p. 34). It also left very clear evidence behind, such as Devils Tower (p. 21).

Some Christians dismiss Genesis creation’s importance. Some claim to be ‘New-Testament Christians’, ignoring the Old Testament. Others, the ‘Red-letter Christians’, treat only the Bible’s red direct quotes of Jesus as authoritative. One obvious problem is ‘cutting off the branch they’re sitting on’. The New Testament cites the Old Testament as God’s Word. The NT contains about 250 direct OT quotations. That rises to about 1,000 if it includes indirect quotations and allusions—including about 100 from Genesis 1–11 (see creation.com/nt).

Furthermore, NT citations of OT passages often include “God said” or direct quotes from God as “Scripture said”. Both affirm the divine inspiration of the OT. Even the ‘red letters’ are enough to affirm the OT. Jesus said, “Scripture cannot be broken” (John 10:35). When He said that, the only Scripture was the OT. He also rebuked opponents, concerning the foundational doctrine of the Resurrection, “have you not read what was said to you by God” (Matthew 22:31). The OT is God speaking to you! Jesus also said, over and over, “It is written …”, citing Scripture and settling the matter, for God had spoken.

To believe the NT logically entails believing the OT. However, a strong case for biblical (‘young earth’) creation can be made just from the NT.

Note in the ‘red letters’, how Jesus teaches about marriage in Matthew 19:3–6 (cf. Mark 10:5–9). He goes right back to God’s ordination of marriage as one man + one woman in Genesis 1:27 and 2:24. Jesus starts with His common rebuke, showing His high expectations about OT knowledge, “Have you not read …?”. Then He continues, “he who created them from the beginning made them male and female [1:27], and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’” [2:24]. Genesis 2:24 is part of the text, but Jesus explicitly stated the Creator Himself said it.

Jesus clearly affirmed the great Flood, Noah, and the Ark as real in Luke 17:26– 27, warning about a future judgment. Peter affirmed that the Flood deluged and destroyed the whole world (2 Peter 3:3–7). Further, he affirmed that only eight people survived—those on the Ark (1 Peter 3:20)—Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives.

The Apostle Paul taught about the Gospel and Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15. In v. 45, Paul quotes Genesis 2:7 directly, “It is written … the man became a living creature”. Paul said this referred to “the first man, Adam”. Paul explicitly teaches that the first man, Adam, was God’s direct creation—not human-like creatures evolving from ape-like ancestors. Paul also taught the Athenians that the Creator “made from one man every nation of mankind” (Acts 17:26). Luke 3:23–38 traced Jesus back to “Adam, the son of God” (not the son of an ape!).

Paul also referred to Genesis 3, that Adam’s sin brought death into the world. (All long-age compromises place human and animal death before sin.) Thus Jesus, “the last Adam”, would bring resurrection from the dead (1 Corinthians 15:21–22, 45). And in vv. 35–41, Paul explains theological truths about the Resurrection body, alluding to the history of what God had created in Genesis 1, on Days 3–6.

Creation Ministries International (CMI) affirms the divine inspiration of both OT and NT!

This magazine is meant to be shared. And our ultimate aim is the spread of the Good News (p. 54).

THE EARTH IS NOT BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD

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Exploring the tension between biblical and secular history, this discussion delves into complex questions—Is the Earth thousands or billions of years old? What do genealogies reveal about the Bible’s timeline, and how do we reconcile this with the dates proposed by modern science? The conversation also touches on ancient Egyptian history, carbon dating, and why these topics shape our understanding of humanity’s origins and our place in history. Beyond these scientific and historical analyses lies a more profound question: why does any of it matter? With insights drawn from Scripture, the discussion unveils how beliefs about creation and the Fall directly influence the purpose and message of redemption. These foundational elements connect directly to the role of Jesus, the “last Adam,” who reconciles creation to God. Dr. Rob Carter weaves together science, theology, and personal experience, illustrating how a firm biblical foundation can transform both understanding and faith. He is one of my favourite expositors on creation and evolution.

FAILED PREDICTIONS OF EVOLUTION

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Evolutionists often claim that they have made many successful predictions that show evolution is true. However, the many failed predictions prove the theory is without valid functionality. Random chance will not produce complex functioning organisms.

In this video, Dr. Don Batten covers five major failed predictions across cosmological, geological, and biological evolution.

Eminent scientists like Dr. Dean Kenyon (former Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University and the author of two evolutionary biochemistry textbooks) said the discovery of DNA (complex information) and the electron microscope that revealed complex machines inside every living cell rang the “death knell” of evolution. You can hear his incredible testimony on Youtube: https://youtu.be/jrXf8KCJLMg.

ON FRENCH TV AIRWAVES ABORTION CANNOT BE PRESENTED AS A CAUSE OF DEATH

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Modern France traces its ideology back to the violent, anti-Christian French Revolution, when the Jacobins chose as their slogan “liberté, égalité, fraternité” (liberty, equality, and fraternity) — but not vérité (truth). The French government revealed its hostility to vérité recently when it fined a Christian program for saying that abortion causes death.

On February 25, 2024 broadcaster Aymeric Pourbaix of the CNews channel’s Roman Catholic program “En quête d’esprit” (“In search of the Spirit”) posted a slide with a stark and unwelcome truth: Abortion is “the leading cause of death in the world.” The infographic came as the nation of France stood poised to make abortion a constitutional right. The government promptly punished the conservative news outlet for speaking truth to power.

CNews announced on November 14th, 2024 that the government agency in charge of regulating broadcasting, ARCOM (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique) meted out a fine of €100,000, or $104,000 U.S. for airing that segment. ARCOM also tried to shackle CNews or any other TV show from presenting the human toll of abortion, stating that, on TV airwaves, “abortion cannot be presented as a cause of death.” ARCOM further complained that this “manifest inaccuracy” was “not contradicted by the other people present on the set.”

“Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year,” according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Yet in an article posted in August titled “The top 10 causes of death,” WHO claims the “world’s biggest killer is ischemic heart disease … rising by 2.7 million to 9.1 million deaths in 2021.” The number two cause of death, the WHO claimed, was COVID-19.

The French government has kept rolling out fines for speaking truths not approved by the government. The modern-day Jacobins have no greater aversion to using force to crush truth than their murderous, secular ancestors. 

France will reap God’s judgement for this anti-God act. France like so many of the nations will be judged goat nations.

“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world... Then he will say to those on his left, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” Matthew 25:32-34, 45

IS IT TOO LATE FOR TRUMP TO SAVE AMERICA?

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Many in America, including many Christians, are on a high right now with the comprehensive election win by Donald Trump and the Republicans. Christians see Donald Trump’s win as a reprieve. The fact that he miraculously survived two assassination attempts was seen by Trump and many Christians as the hand of God.

However, the consequences of many years of reckless government spending make the following events inevitable for America. A stock market wipeout, a coming home-equity slaughter, a trillion-dollar pension fund wipeout, the collapse of the dollar, and the real threat of war with China.

Dylan Jovine in his book Midnight in America – Five Cracks that Threaten America’s Foundation, says the collapse has already begun. I have listed six cracks.

During the next six months, the stock market will plummet by at least 50 percent, real estate will drop 40 percent, savings accounts will lose 30 percent and unemployment will triple.

It’s already starting to unfold. Let’s take a look at crack one.

Crack #1: The Inevitable Stock Market Wipeout

The stock market is at all-time highs. And it’s been one heck of a rally. But this rally is about to end. And it won’t be pretty when it does. Three warning signs are flashing right now. 

A big warning sign is coming from the U.S. government bond market. 

This is something almost no stock investors talk about. But if the bond market sneezes, the stock market catches a cold. The U.S. government is borrowing $1 trillion every 100 days. Think about that: $1 trillion every 100 days! This is unprecedented. And it’s unsustainable. We’re now spending $2.7 billion per day on interest costs alone! 

Historically, Wall Street has had no problem buying as many bonds as the U.S. government was selling. But in October of 2023, the U.S. government finally hit a brick wall. Wall Street told Washington it couldn’t sell all these bonds anymore. Traditional buyers like foreign central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and large institutions started to just say “NO!” After decades of reckless borrowing by both parties, we have FINALLY reached the point where nobody wants to lend us money anymore.

The stock market’s recent highs are being driven by government spending. The more the government spends, the more jobs are created, and the more people buy things. But the government is now being told it cannot borrow anymore, which means it will have to cut spending. And when it finally cuts spending that means millions of jobs will disappear. And when those jobs disappear, spending will disappear along with it. Once that spending dries up, corporate profits are sure to follow. It’s so clear, J.P. Morgan called this coming crisis, “The most predictable crisis in history.”

The second warning sign is coming from the gold market.

For stock investors, the recent rise in gold is the canary in the coal mine. It’s signaling serious danger for investors. Right around the time, word began to leak on Wall Street that the U.S. government was having trouble borrowing money gold was selling at about $1,800 an ounce. The following month, gold hit $2,100 an ounce, a 16% gain in 30 days. That’s a big move for an old-fashioned metal. It almost moved like an AI stock. But then reports kept coming out showing how hard it was becoming for the U.S. to borrow money. And the price of gold began its historic rise, hitting $2,400 an ounce.

Gold has always been a great predictor of a stock market crash. Its price tends to rise in the six months before the market gets hammered. 

The third warning sign is the price to earnings ratio.

The price to earnings ratio tells you how many years of earnings it would take to get back what you pay for a stock. In a healthy, normal market, the P/E ratio is about 16. That means, it would take 16 years for a stocks’ earnings to equal the price. But right now, the average stock in the S&P 500 has a p/e of 35. That’s over twice the historical ratio! There have been two other times in history that the p/e ratio has been this high. The first was right before the market crash in 1929…. Right before the market crashed 80% from its highs. The second time this happened was in 1999… Right before the dot com bubble burst and the market crashed 50%.

These are just some of the indicators signaling that a massive collapse that will blindside most investors is coming very soon. A 50% correction in the stock market is a conservative estimate. If the market drops to the lows we hit during Covid we’ll see a 60% decline. What makes this coming crisis so unique, is that there are four more cracks that are just as dangerous. Maybe even more so. 

They are breaking apart the foundation of our prosperity each and every day. When one of these cracks gets big enough, it will blast open all the others causing the market to crash 50%, real estate to plummet 40%, bonds to lose 30% of their value, and unemployment triple. It’s already starting to happen. 

Crack #2: The Looming Home Equity Slaughter

During Covid the government sent checks to people worth $7 trillion. One of the consequences was soaring house prices. Prices of homes have doubled in the past 10 years. In 2014, the average home in America cost $200,000. In 2024, the average home in America costs $400,000. The problem is average incomes in America haven’t doubled in the past ten years. They’ve only increased by 13.8% since 2014. In the short term, housing prices are based on whatever people will pay for them. But in the longer term, they’re based on income. And the fact that housing prices have doubled in the past ten years, while incomes have stayed about the same… means homes are unaffordable to most buyers in America. Prices will have to come back down to a level where buyers can pay for them. It’s already begun. The only reason housing prices haven’t gone down faster is that the government is still borrowing $1 trillion every 100 days. But when that finally ends, and the hangover hits this country, housing prices will have to drop 40% to get back down to the level folks can afford them.

Crack #3: The Coming Pension Fund Wipeout

As a result of Covid the new “work-from-home culture” is causing a collapse of the commercial real estate market. And the problem is about to get worse. Banks are sitting on a ticking time bomb: almost $3 trillion in commercial real estate debt. What most people don’t know is that pension funds are one of the biggest investors in commercial real estate. The simple fact that the commercial real estate market is causing a $6 trillion meltdown for banks and pension funds is a topic most people don’t grasp.

Crack #4: The Stunning Pace of “De-Dollarization”

China has already convinced Brazil, Argentina, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia to trade in yuan so America is on its way to losing the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

President-elect Trump has said it would be a disaster. “It would be worse than losing any war.”

Crack #5: War With China Over Taiwan

China’s attack on the U.S. dollar is bad for America. But it’s nothing compared to what would happen if they attacked Taiwan.

Taiwan makes 90% of the world’s advanced semiconductors. They’re the tiny operating brains inside just about any modern device, like smartphones, hospital ventilators or fighter jets. And yes, the chips Nvidia sells to power AI all come from Taiwan too. A China attack on Taiwan would immediately stop 90% of the world’s chips from leaving Taiwan.

That would be like cutting off 90% of the global oil supply. The price of smartphones, iPads, computers, washers, televisions, and smartwatches would skyrocket. Firms would be forced to lay off workers as they couldn’t make their products. It gets even worse. Look around your house. How many of those items pass through the South China Sea? Nearly one-third of all global maritime trade. This includes smartphones, computers, furniture, car seats, clothing, hats, heaters, paint, shoes, rubber tires, washers, dryers, bicycles, microwaves, toasters – you name it.

A Chinese attack on Taiwan would instantly freeze one-third of global trade. Firms that sell furniture would have no furniture to sell. Firms that sell car seats would have no car seats to sell, and firms that sell shoes would have no shoes to sell. That would send the stock market crashing, as global firms lost revenue, profits and faced bankruptcy.

Crack #6: The Coming Spike in Unemployment

AI and Robotics is already having a major impact on jobs. Amazon has robots and AI operating its warehouses. They operate seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day with minimum mistakes. Amazon’s bottom line has improved enormously. Wal Mart is following Amazon’s lead and the job losses will be enormous.

AI is being adopted faster than any new technology in history. Faster than automobiles, faster than the internet and faster than the iPhone. And that’s a problem. It’s being adopted faster than the jobs it will replace. Indeed, this technology threatens the jobs of almost every man and woman in America. And it won’t distinguish between blue-collar workers and white-collar workers. Jobs will just vanish. 

A new study from MIT estimates that AI will replace as many as two million manufacturing jobs within the next 12-18 months. And a recent report from Goldman Sachs was even worse: the bank predicts that two-thirds of all jobs are at risk from AI. 

I LOVE JORDAN PETERSON: GOD IS USING HIM MIGHTILY

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There are very few people walking the earth today who can claim to have engaged the minds of millions in the way that Jordan Peterson has, and his influence isn’t based on political power or obscene wealth, but his diamond-cut intellect. Having garnered notoriety from his decidedly anti-mainstream takes on news and culture, Peterson has been tempered by the fires of public opinion and left stronger than ever. That isn’t to say however that the man is made from stone, and when the conversation turns to his father, and by extension fatherhood, Peterson has no shame in letting the tears flow. Together, he and Piers Morgan conjure up a meaty dialogue on Trump, America, family, and God as they discuss Jordan Peterson’s latest book We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine. ENJOY

DEMONIC DELUSION OF ANTISEMITISM: FOUR CRITICAL TESTS FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN

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Calling every pastor and every follower of Jesus worldwide to ‘Be Like Bonhoeffer!’

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor and theologian who possessed not only the moral clarity to distinguish good from evil but also the historical and doctrinal clarity that Jesus was a Jew.

Bonhoeffer understood that it was impossible to separate the person and work of Jesus — who he believed was the Messiah of Israel, and therefore the Savior and King of the world — from the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob!

But his understanding was not merely intellectual; it was a deep, unwavering conviction that fueled extraordinary courage.

He boldly stood against Hitler and called the church to awaken to the evil of antisemitism, urging those who followed Jesus to stand with and protect the Jews, who were being systematically isolated and persecuted.

In 1938, Bonhoeffer wrote, “Only he who cries [out] for the Jews may sing Gregorian chant.”

In April 1943, Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo after attempting to save 14 Jews by helping them escape to Switzerland.

Following his arrest, it was revealed that Bonhoeffer had been involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

Yet Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer’s close friend and biographer wrote, “There is no doubt that Bonhoeffer’s primary motivation for entering active political conspiracy was the treatment of the Jews by the Third Reich.”

On April 9, 1945, just days before the American liberation of the POW camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was hanged at Flossenbürg where it is believed 10,000 Jews lost their lives.

The last words of this brilliant, godly, and courageous man — who stood up to Hitler, gave his life to rescue Jews, and once said, “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die” — were: “This is the end — for me, the beginning of life.”

A ‘Bonhoeffer Moment’

Today, we stand at a turning point in history. We are facing a “Bonhoeffer Moment” — why? Because we are witnessing the rise of antisemitism and anti-Zionism at levels not seen since the Holocaust.

As Christians, we cannot, NOT see what we are seeing. We must not make the same mistakes that so many made in the German church during Bonhoeffer’s time.

What is essential at this crucial moment is that every Christian pass four critical tests:

1. The moral test

Hitler believed in a superior race, while today the Iranian Islamic leadership believes in a superior faith and seeks to establish a new Islamic world order, with Israel standing on the front lines of this battle. Today, the “Free Palestine” campaign has become nothing less than the rallying cry of “Islamic Nazis” — those who seek to destroy Israel and spearhead an Islamic New World Order. Those who chant this slogan are deluded by evil; those who promote it are its puppets.

2. The historic test

The land of Israel is the ancestral home of the Jewish people! Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to a national home in Israel. A Christian is a Bible believer who stands on the biblical promise that God gave the land of Israel to the Jewish people and in fulfillment of prophetic Scriptures, God is behind Israel’s regathering in the land after nearly 2,000 years of dispersion.

Anti-Zionism stands in opposition to the very purposes of God. Anti-Zionism is the promotion of the idea that the land of Israel is not the historic and ancestral home of the Jewish people. This lie is the fertilizer of the false narrative that Israel is “the oppressor” in “occupied Arab land,” feeding the delusion that murder and rape against Jews is a justified response.

3. The theological test

Christians are grafted into God’s unfolding plan through Israel and the Messiah of Israel. “… you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you” (Romans 11:17-18).

4. The faith test

Our faith should not only inform us of the truth but also transform us. As Scripture reminds us, “faith without works is dead.”

If Christians don’t pass these tests, how can we expect the world to?

To be like Bonhoeffer is to pray for and protect all Jews, to fight against the insanity and demonic delusion of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, radical Islamism, replacement theology, and other attacks on Israel and the Jewish people.

May there be an awakening throughout the Christian world — one where the darkness of antisemitism and anti-Zionism is confronted first by Christians, ensuring that our Jewish friends and the nation of Israel know more than ever that they are not alone. Now is the time!

Article by Greg Denham, Op-ed contributor, Christian Post, Saturday, November 23, 2024. Greg Denham is the Senior Pastor of Rise Church in San Marcos, CA. He is the founder of “The Context Movement” and spearheads yearly “Friends of Israel Weekends” to fight anti-Semitism and champion friendships between Christians and Jews.

AUSTRALIA: NUCLEAR POWER IS THE ONLY SOLUTION TO OUR ENERGY DILEMMA

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Article by Chris Kenny in The Australian, November, 16th 2024.

Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen have long argued that renewable energy is the cheapest form of electricity. However, while tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and investments flow into renewables, prices keep going up. A reckoning must come, and it will be ugly.

Not only is Labor’s plan to reach its net-zero goal by switching the electricity grid to 90 percent renewable energy physically impossible (it has committed to get to 82 percent within 6 years), but the attempt is sending us a broke. At some stage, the facts will break through the delusion.

The unavoidable logic behind firming up a renewable energy grid makes additional costs unavoidable – a renewables grid demands two grids. You need to construct an expansive network of wind and solar generation plants, enough to cover about three times peak demand spread across vastly different microclimates in the hope that wind or sun will be available somewhere when you need it.

On Friday, the Coalition released estimates from Frontier Economics putting the total requited spend for the renewables transition at $642bn – that is $500bn more than Labor has estimated, and about five times what we have already spent. All of this must be recouped with profit, so our power price pain can only ­increase.

The catch with renewables is that they will always require backup, in effect another electricity grid, perhaps using much of the same transmission lines, but capable of generating peak demand without wind or solar. Most likely this backup grid would be powered by gas.

Once we know there is enough backup to supply peak demand, we can understand that the entirety of the renewable asset build is an additional and unnecessary energy cost we have chosen to impose on ourselves. It alienates land, increases complexity, and escalates costs without providing additional power, all so we can meet emissions reduction targets that other countries are not meeting, and which will make no discernible difference to global emissions or, therefore, the climate, anyway.

And whenever gas is needed to firm up the grid, the price the gas generators can charge will determine the cost of electricity. Two grids, a vast and inefficient renewable grid we could well do without, and an effective and reliable fossil-fuel grid are needed to guarantee the energy that underpins our society.

The lies being told on renewables costs have been brilliantly exposed by simple observations and arguments run by entrepreneur Dick Smith in an, until now, private debate with The Guardian Australia. Smith responded after The Guardian ran a piece slamming him for running “ill-informed claims” about renewable energy costs and practicality.

Smith does not contest the need to reduce emissions. His arguments are about whether renewables can power a modern economy and whether nuclear might not be a crucial part of the energy mix. In his letter, Smith says the underestimates from the CSIRO allow it to “falsely claim that renewables with storage is the cheapest form of energy”.

The electronics entrepreneur, adventurer, and environmentalist made a killer observation that exposes the ruse. “No doubt you have noticed all the wind and solar farms that exist around our country,” Smith wrote to The Guardian. “If the CSIRO claim that wind, solar, and storage is the cheapest form of energy is correct, these facilities would include batteries to supply power 24/7 – or at least for five hours. None of them do.”

This connects to a point I have made for a decade or more – instead of subsidising the installation of unreliable renewable energy, we should have made any subsidies or targets contingent on generators firming up their own supplies, either with batteries or dispatchable generation. Smith provides a clear explanation for why this is impossible: “That is, the cost of even limited storage results in solar and wind power being so expensive it is unaffordable.”

Dick Smith has also pointed out that when Broken Hill went dark last month because the main transmission line from Victoria was taken out in a storm, neither the nearby solar factory, wind farm, or big battery were able to keep the Silver City in power. He cites the real-world example of Lord Howe Island where despite a $12m grant for a renewables grid with storage, they have ended up with higher power prices and a reliance on diesel generators for 100 percent of their electricity at times.

This is just the reality. No developed country has even attempted to run on a 90 percent renewables model, and unless there is a watershed development in energy storage no country ever will – so what is Australia playing at?

A clue for a secure, prosperous, and clean energy future comes from our defense force—not the inane net-zero strategy but their plan to run nuclear-propelled ­submarines.

Instead of wasting government subsidies and burdening consumers with the investment costs of unproven renewable models and other “green energy superpowers” hyperbole like green hydrogen and pumped hydro, the time is ripe for nuclear power. It is dense power with a small land footprint that can use existing transmission infrastructure,

Remember the Whyalla wipeout? A decade or more on, it is still on the way with grave doubts about the future of the steelworks, delayed only by taxpayer subsidies and green energy posturing.

A steel manufacturing centre established with the advantage of cheap and reliable coal power is struggling again, as it awaits some kind of “green hydrogen” saviour. Yet a couple of hours up the road is one of the world’s largest uranium mines, and Whyalla and Port Augusta are linked to the national transmission grid because of the now-demolished coal-fired power plants in the region.

A nuclear power station near Port Augusta would buttress power supplies for Whyalla, South Australia and the national grid. Any excess power at times of low demand could be used for desalination or hydrogen production.

It is a much more logical and efficient solution, with proven technology, than our current renewables-plus-storage experiment. The only thing stopping the nuclear option is an honest and truthful appraisal of our options – and the political will.

THE TIMING OF THE RAPTURE

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Jesus promises that in the end times, there will be tribulation, even great tribulation before His return but believers will be kept from the wrath of God that is poured out on unbelievers at that time.

Dr. Baruch Korman of Love Israel Ministries (www.loveisrael.org) explains the timing of the rapture and the wrath of God is poured out with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements. What happens and who is involved when the seven seals are opened and the four horsemen are released is enlightening.

Christians will be on Earth for six years of the final seven. The Wrath of God with the Trumpet and Bowl judgements will take one year and ten days which just happens to be the same time as the time God poured out His wrath the first time with Noah’s flood. Why one year and ten days? The length of a year before a Jubilee year is always one year and ten days on the Hebrew calendar.

ANOTHER GREAT JORDAN PETERSON INTERVIEW

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Greg Laurie, senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship. This episode was filmed on November 4th, 2024. They discuss the true story behind the hit film “The Jesus Revolution,” Laurie’s relationship with hippie-preacher and counter-culture icon Lonnie Frisbee, how he found faith in the most unlikely of places, and the past 50 years of building his world-renowned ministry.

I have followed Jordan Peterson’s faith journey for several years. He has come a long way and his knowledge of both the O.T. and N.T. is impressive. The questions he asks Greg Laurie ensure we see what God did to capture Greg Laurie’s heart and direct his steps. I believe God is using Jordan Peterson to reach many with the Gospel message.

Greg Laurie is the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship with campuses in California and Hawaii. He began his pastoral ministry at the age of 19 by leading a Bible study of 30 people. Since then, God has transformed that small group into a church of some 15,000 people. Today, Harvest is one of the largest churches in America and consistently ranks among the most influential churches in the country. In 1990, Laurie began holding large-scale public evangelistic events called Harvest Crusades. Since that time, more than 9.8 million people have participated in these events in person or online around the United States. In 2012, Laurie launched Harvest America, a nationwide event using the internet to simulcast live HD video to thousands of locations across the country. With an unprecedented 306,000 Americans in live attendance, Harvest America ranks among the largest presentations of the gospel in United States history. Harvest Crusades have also been held internationally in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. More importantly, some 531,889 people have made professions of faith through these outreaches.