This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We begin with further developments in Syria and Turkey’s aggressive role, prompting the question whether it is time to expel Turkey from NATO; and we continue with a deal between Israel and Hamas, which is not as good as some may believe. Please view our new StandingWatch program, titled, “The Hostage Deal—Peace in the Middle East?”
We report on Biden’s controversial past and present actions; and report at length about the wildfires in Los Angeles and the blame placed correctly, for the most part, on California’s incompetent government, beginning with Governor Gavin Newsom whose resignation is way overdue.
We continue with the hoax of sentencing Donald Trump for a non-existent crime; and speak about the international uproar caused by Trump when claiming that Greenland should become part of the USA.
We conclude with Germany’s sudden desire to exert political and military influence and power.
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
Finally at Home
New year, new opportunity, so they say in the world. Well, the world has ushered in the year 2025 with many wrong things, which I won’t go into here, but I would like to ask a question: What are we going to do in 2025?
Will we continue to do the same this year as the year before? Was it perhaps a year of escape, escape from the Church, from the Truth, from God? Or have we been careless? If so, then we should turn quickly from the wrong path and withdraw from this society or from carelessness.
But what can we do? Who can help us?
It is not enough to eliminate the obvious sins in our lives. We must also actively resist the wrong influence of this society.
God tells us in James 4:7 what to do: “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
So far, so good. But it’s not that easy, is it? And so, James gives us further instructions: “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (verse 8).
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What lessons can we learn from the instructions given to kings to write out a copy of the law? (Part 1)
In the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 17, we read about an instruction that was to be given to a king showing that he was not to look after his own personal interests as being foremost in his activities, but to learn to fear God and to observe His law and statutes. Deuteronomy 17:14-20 reads as follows:
“When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.”
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