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Rank Derivatives Bank Name
1 $54,840,618,000,000 Goldman Sachs Bank USA
2 $50,348,171,000,000 JPMorgan Chase Bank
3 $46,307,544,000,000 Citibank
4 $18,790,732,000,000 Bank of America
5 $13,302,651,000,000 Wells Fargo Bank
6 $2,609,488,000,000 State Street Bank and Trust Company
7 $1,302,304,822,000 HSBC Bank USA
8 $1,210,930,907,000 U.S. Bank
9 $1,187,396,000,000 The Bank of New York Mellon
10 $677,252,711,000 PNC Bank
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Disadvantages of Derivatives
The derivatives market also comes attached with a set of its own disadvantages. Following are the drawbacks of the derivative market:
Overpriced Options
The derivatives are not easy to value as they are derived from other securities. Besides, the derivatives market is not as liquid as the stock market and there are not many “players” as well. Hence, there is much larger bidding which results in price increment.
Time Restrictions
The prime reason for the derivatives market to be risky for the investors is that they have a specified contract life. After their life expires, the contract becomes of no use.
Complexity
Most people are not aware about the complexity of the derivatives market. Hence, it fosters the scam actors to utilize this weakness and use the derivatives to build enticing schemes to take advantage of both the professional and non-professional investors.
Legalized Gambling
Due to the nature of trading in financial markets derivatives are criticised for being a type of legalized form of gambling as it is very much similar to the other types of gambling activities.
Key Points:
A derivative is a contract between two or more parties whose value is based on an already-agreed underlying financial asset, security, or index.
Derivatives can be used in two ways, either to Manage Risks (hedging) or assume risks with the expectation of equal returns (speculation).
Most commonly used derivatives are futures contracts, forward contracts, swaps, warrants, and options.
Basics of Derivatives in the financial markets is a very important part of the banking and finance competitive exams. Hence, for every finance aspirant, it is worth knowing the basics of derivatives such as its meaning, uses, types, advantages, and so on. The below article is intended to guide such candidates with the most updated and relevant information on the basics of derivatives and its related aspects.
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We are at war... and it's not easy
Dear Friends,
to my dismay I learned that none of the links in our last emails worked. They did work when I tested before sending, but once the email broadcast went out, the server malfunctioned and nothing would open.
What is going on? Let me explain...
In case you are not aware yet, the world is at war. The greatest and most vicious war in all of history. Not a war between nations or people, but an all encompassing onslaught of satanic elitists who are going all the way to submit the entire human race to unprecedented diabolical tyranny.
They are officially announcing the complete eradication of all privacy, and declare that all thoughts, emotions and dreams of everyone worldwide will be recorded 24/7.
There will be vaccine mandates of highy lethal experimental DNA altering injections, in order to eradicate the vast majority of humanity, over time.
They want to end all freedom of speech and impose a suffocating censorship that won't allow anyone to speak openly, so that literaly the only thing mankind will hear, is pure deception, to further destroy them, with their eyes wide open.
They plan to control everybodies finances, to the point where you will be told by the banks what you can and cannot buy. If your purchase is deemed unnecessary, or 'bad for the climate' it will be forbidden.
They also want to lock up all of humanity inside Smart Cities, where your movement will be limited to a 10 or 15 minute range from your home. To go beyond that, you will need a permit.
As if that's not enough, they are destroying farming worldwide, in order to force all of us to eat lab grown plastic 'meat' (that causes mass cancer) and factory bred GMO bugs, that are highly toxic.
They are busy normalizing pedophilia, and instruct schools to teach toddlers to have sexual interaction with their classmates while learning to masturbate. Sexual child abuse will be normalized and defending children will be outlawed, because it will be labeled a 'violation of the human right' of children from the age of 0 to experience sexual pleasure. We show the evidence of this in our report on the website StopWorldControl.com.
Furthermore, they are spraying billions of gallons of neurotoxic and carcinogenic chemicals over our nations, to manipulate the weather, while blocking the sunlight from reaching the earth.
And of course, they want to end the human race and replace us with cyborgs and humanoids, controlled by AI.
They also want to lock off most wilderness areas and force mankind to 'enjoy nature' in a virtual way, in digitally rendered fake worlds.
And they want to eliminate all private property, forcing the world population to rent everything from the elites, even clothes, tools and toys. We should own nothing. This was declared publicly by the World Economic Forum with their world famous statement:
'By 2030 you will own nothing, have no privacy and be happy.'
None of this is exaggerated, but in reality they go much further than all of this. There are no bounds to their insane evil minds. And they are determined to accomplish all of it. In the USA the Biden administration has signed several executive orders to make sure many of these things will become reality soon.
They are serious. Dead serious. While the world is dead asleep in total blindness and foolishness.
The war they have unleasehd on humanity is beyond description. And the insanity of it all is that the vast majority of humanity agrees with it, supports it, and will fight anyone who opposes it.... because most people are so severely mind controlled and brain programmed, that they believe all of this is good for us, and those who oppose it are evil.
We saw that with the vaccines for the pandemic. Truthful, caring, courageous and good hearted people who warned others about these extremely dangerous injections, were attacked, banned, fired, censored, bullied, arrested, some murdered, beaten by police, and excommunicated from churches, families, schools, and so on.
Those who defend what is good, are hated, and those who unleash the worst horrors of hell on our world, are defended. That is how extreme the brainwashing is of the masses.
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Alito tells congressional Democrats he won't recuse over flags
May 29, 2024
Justice Samuel Alito is flatly rejecting calls to recuse himself in two cases before the Supreme Court involving former President Donald Trump because of two flags that flew outside his homes.
In letters Wednesday to House and Senate Democrats, Alito said he had nothing to do with the flying of the flags, and that nothing about the incidents merited recusal under the Supreme Court's code of conduct. In addition, he says, neither he nor his wife knew of the meanings that are now being ascribed to the flags.
"A reasonable person who is not motivated by political or ideological considerations or a desire to affect the outcome of Supreme Court cases would conclude that this event does not meet the applicable standard for recusal," Alito wrote in the letters to Democrats. "I am therefore duty-bound to reject your recusal request."
Democrats had seized on New York Times reports that an upside-down American flag had flown outside the Alitos' Virginia home and a separate "Appeal to Heaven" flag had flown outside his vacation home. They argued the two incidents create an appearance of impropriety that require Alito recuse himself from any matters related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot or the 2020 election.
But going back to 2021, Alito, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush, has consistently said he had nothing to do with the flying of any flag, which he has said was solely an interest of his wife's. He emphasized that point in both of his letters.
On the upside-down American flag that flew briefly outside his Virginia home in 2021, he said in the letters that he had asked her to take it down, and she eventually agreed to do so.
"My wife's reasons for flying the flag are not relevant for present purposes," he wrote, "but I know she was greatly distressed at the time due, in large part, to a very nasty neighborhood dispute in which I had no involvement."
Alito wrote that a house on the street displayed a sign attacking his wife personally, and a man living there at the time followed her down the street and "berated her in my presence using foul language, including what I regard as the vilest epithet that can be addressed to a woman."
"My wife is a private citizen, and she possesses the same First Amendment rights as every other American," Alito continued. "She makes her own decisions, and I have always respected her right to do so."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-justice-alito-wont-recuse-over-flags/?utm_placement=newsletter
Tuesday's Energy Absurdity: The Rapacious Copper Needs of Renewable Energy, Explained
May 28, 2024
A normal Honda Accord needs about 40 pounds of copper. The same battery electric Accord needs 200 pounds.
Onshore wind turbines require about 10 tons of copper, and offshore approx. 20 tons.
The world will need to mine 115% more copper than has been mined in all human history just to meet “business as usual.”
This would meet our current copper needs and support the developing world without considering the green energy transition.
Six new large mines need to come online every year by 2050 to meet global copper demand, but the problem is it takes about 20 years between discovering a new copper mineral deposit and getting a permit to build a mine.
None of this takes into consideration the upgrades to the electrical infrastructure needed to "electrify the world by 2050.”
In short electrifying the world by 2050 is a politician’s pipe dream that will never happen
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-the-rapacious?publication_id=712558&post_id=145057661&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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Monday's Energy Absurdity: Pete Buttigieg Explains Biden's $7.5 Billion EV Charger Boondoggle
David Blackmon
May 27, 2024
I will make this one as quick and painless for you as possible. Sunday, on CBS’s “Face the Nation Program,” Host Margaret Brennan posed a tough question to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: How do you explain the utter failure thus far of the Biden administration to install just “7 or 8” high-speed EV charging station in 3 years despite working with a massive $7.5 billion pot of money?
Buttigieg, who was once considered one of his party’s “rising stars,” shows why few in Washington, DC think of him in that way anymore.
Watch: Video at link
Transcript:
Brennan: The Federal Highway Department says only 7 or 8 charging stations have been built despite having a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021. Why isn’t that happening more quickly?
Buttigieg: So, the President’s goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than just plunking uh, uh, uh, a small device into the ground. There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states, every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work, engaging them…
Brennan: [interrupts with a mocking laugh] Just 7 or 8, though?
Buttigieg: …to get the first handful…Again, this is by 2030, 500,000 chargers, and the very first handful of chargers are already being built.
[End]
I bolded that last bit for emphasis. Think about that statement. We are already 3 years down the road, and Sec. Buttigieg is boasting about “already” having built “7 or 8” out of 500,000 planned charging stations.
Elon Musk and Tesla are able to “just plunk down” hundreds of new high speed charging stations around the world each and every day of the year with seeming ease, yet our Transportation Secretary wants us all to believe this is akin to rocket science.
In other words, he thinks you are all very stupid. And I guess his presence as the nation’s Transportation Secretary proves too damn many of us truly are.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-pete-buttigieg?publication_id=712558&post_id=145039867&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
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Researchers Call for Urgent Action to Address Mass Contamination of Blood Supply
May 27, 2024
Story at-a-glance
Japanese researchers warn of the risks of using blood from mRNA COVID vaccine recipients, highlighting potential deadly effects and the need for urgent action to secure the global blood supply
Blood contaminated with prion-like structures from the spike protein raises the risk of inducing fatal neurodegenerative diseases in recipients. The potential transmission of harmful proteins through exosomes ("shedding") and the risk of autoimmune diseases due to the vaccines' mechanism and components like lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are other major concerns
Proposals for managing blood collection include rigorous donor interviews, deferral periods, and a suite of tests to ensure the safety of blood products
The researchers advocate for comprehensive testing of both jabbed and unjabbed individuals to assess the safety of blood products and suggest discarding blood products contaminated with spike proteins or modified mRNA until effective removal methods have been developed
They call for suspending all gene-based “vaccines” and conducting a rigorous harm-benefit assessment in light of the serious health injuries reported. They also urge countries and organizations to take concrete steps to address and mitigate the already identified risks
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/05/27/blood-supply-contamination.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20240527&foDate=false&mid=DM1578458&rid=31951659
Blood From Jabbed Donors May Pose Risk to Neurological Health
One particular risk addressed in this paper is the implications of blood tainted with prion-like structures found within the spike protein. Prions are misfolded proteins that can cause neurodegenerative diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans, by inducing the misfolding of normal proteins in the brain.
Prion diseases are characterized by a long incubation period, followed by rapid progression and high mortality. The suggestion that the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, especially from certain variants, might contain prion-like domains raises concerns for several reasons:
Transmission risk — If spike proteins with prion-like structures can be transmitted through blood transfusions, there might be a risk of inducing prion diseases in recipients. Prion diseases are notoriously difficult to diagnose early, have no cure, and are fatal, making any potential transmission through blood products a significant safety concern.
Detection and removal challenges — Current blood screening processes do not specifically test for prions, partly because prion diseases are rare and partly due to the technical challenges in detecting prions at low concentrations. If spike proteins with prion-like properties are present in the blood of COVID jabbed individuals, existing blood safety protocols may not be adequate to prevent transmission.
Long-term safety concerns — Prion diseases have long latency periods, meaning that symptoms can appear years or even decades after exposure. This delay complicates efforts to trace the source of an infection back to a blood transfusion and assess the safety of blood supplies over time.
Impacts on blood supply management — Concerns about the potential risks associated with prion-like structures in spike proteins might lead to changes in donor eligibility criteria or the implementation of additional screening measures. These changes could impact the availability of blood products, which are critical for routine medical procedures.
Public confidence — Public awareness of these potential risks, even if they are theoretical or have a very low likelihood of occurring, could affect individuals' willingness to donate or receive blood transfusions, thereby lowering blood donation rates and the overall trust in the safety of blood transfusions.
The authors stress the need for comprehensive studies to better understand the implications of these prion-like structures in the spike protein, not only for mRNA jab safety but also for the broader implications for public health measures like blood transfusion practices.
there will be many in the days to come when they will renounce our Lord........
currency and credit derivatives now: $625,721,950,521,210 and growing
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Executive Order on a U.S. CBDC
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and President Biden have worked together on launching a U.S. CBDC. The president’s interest was explicit when he shared the importance of using technology “to advance democracies to lift people up, not to hold them down.”6
In March 2022, Biden directed the OSTP in partnership with other institutions to scrutinize and come up with a viable answer to the question of digital assets and a U.S. CBDC.7 The White House placed urgency on creating a digital dollar, outlining plans to guide its creation.
The framework took six months and the collaborative efforts of several federal agencies. It contained three core aspects:8
Policy objectives
Interconnected technical and financial design choices
A research and development (R&D) agenda
U.S. Digital Currency Framework
The policy objectives for a U.S. CBDC system require that the CBDC expand equitable access to the financial system, preserve the role of physical cash, and collect only strictly necessary data. The framework also emphasized ensuring that the U.S. CBDC fosters a greener environment and provides excellent customer experience. These policy objectives formed the foundation for the currency’s technical design choices.
The framework also pointed to the need for technical experts with good knowledge of money and payment systems to oversee the technology involved in building the U.S. CBDC. The framework’s digital assets R&D plan is concerned with how cryptography technology can help develop a CBDC that matches the Federal Reserve’s mission.
Central Bank Digital Currencies Around the World
Eleven countries have concluded their risk and benefits studies on the effects of a CBDC on their economies and have implemented one as a supplement to their existing monetary systems. The 11 mostly small, island countries are the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Jamaica, and Nigeria.
As of October 2023, 130 countries were piloting, researching, developing, or otherwise exploring a CBDC initiative for their economies.9
Atlantic Council. “Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker.”
All G7 economies had moved into the development stage of a CBDC as of December 2022. Canada, France, China, India, and South Korea are among the many countries studying or testing a CBDC. The level of interest has grown quickly. Just 35 countries developed an interest in the possibility of having a CBDC in May 2020.9
https://www.investopedia.com/us-cbdc-6740586#Executive_Order_on_A_U.S._CBDC
3. Has the Federal Reserve decided to create a CBDC?
The Federal Reserve issued Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation as a first step in fostering a broad and transparent public dialogue about CBDCs in general, and about the potential benefits and risks of a U.S. CBDC. The paper is not intended to advance any specific policy outcome and no decisions have been made at this time. The Federal Reserve has made no decision on issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and would only proceed with the issuance of a CBDC with an authorizing law. Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee in March 2023, Chair Powell said a central bank digital currency is, “something we would certainly need Congressional approval for.”
https://www.federalreserve.gov/cbdc-faqs.htm
Hover over a country to see its status. Click on a country to learn more.
Last updated: May 2024
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/
Childhood Vaccine Schedule Led to ‘Greatest Decline in Public Health in Human History’
May 22, 2024
Story at-a-glance
A U.S. Senate roundtable discussion, hosted by Sen. Ron Johnson, tackled a taboo topic — why public health agencies have not studied the health outcomes of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children
In 1962, children received just five vaccine doses. As of 2023, children up to age 18 receive 73 doses of 16 different vaccines; the cumulative effects of this childhood vaccine schedule have never been tested
Research shows vaccinated children experienced significantly higher instances of various health issues, including allergies, asthma, behavioral issues and gastroenteritis
The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to report on vaccine safety every two years, but the agency has “never submitted a vaccine safety report to Congress”
Health agencies have data on health outcomes for vaccinated and unvaccinated children, but they refuse to make it public, likely due to financial conflicts of interest
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/05/22/childhood-vaccine-schedule.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240522&foDate=false&mid=DM1576170&rid=27757863
“It’s a diversionary tactic,” Pelosi said. “It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. You demonize — we call it the wrap-up smear,” Pelosi said. “You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest, and then you merchandise it.
“And then you (reporters) write it, and then they’ll say ‘See? It’s reported in the press that this, this, this and this,’ so they have that validation that the press reported the smear, and then it’s called the ‘wrap-up smear.’ Now I’m going to merchandise the press’s report on the smear that we made.
“It’s a tactic. And it’s self-evident.”
Nancy Pelosi recorded on CSPAN, June, 2017
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After World War II the nazis were prosecuted during the historic Nuremberg trials. Judges were puzzled by the fact that Hitler had been able to get the support from the majority of the German people, for his insane mass murdering of millions of innocent people. Hitler's right hand, Hermann Goring, explained how they did it:
"It's easy. All you have to do, is tell them they are being attacked, and... they will follow their leader. This works in every nation.
Basically Goring said: "Just make the people afraid, and they will do whatever you want, in order to feel safe again."
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Electric cars date back to the late 19th century
The earliest prototypes for the first electric-powered vehicles were developed in the 1830s, 50 years before German engineer Karl Benz patented and then built the gasoline-powered Benz Patent Motorwagen in 1886.
These early models of electric cars were more proofs of concept than a viable means of transportation, since they used non-rechargeable batteries. The advent of the first rechargeable, lead-acid battery in 1859 by French physician Gaston Planté lead to the first successful electric vehicle made by Iowan chemist William Morrison, showcased in a city parade in 1888 and at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
Fact check: Viral image of an electric car 'cemetery' shows vehicles from a ride-share company in China
By 1904, electric cars were nearly everywhere, making up one-third of all motor vehicles in New York, Chicago and Boston, wrote Erica Schoenberger, an environmental historian and professor in Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, in her 2014 book "Nature, Choice and Social Power."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/10/18/fact-check-cost-access-drove-decline-electric-cars-early-1900-s/6055786001/#:~:text=Batteries%20were%20not%20as%20energy-efficient%20compared%20to%20liquid,speed%20and%20range%20to%20go%20the%20desired%20distances.
How we are changing the world, for the better!
Our world-awakening films and reports have had a tremendous impact on humanity so far. Before we released MONOPOLY - Who Owns The World?, nobody had even heard of Vanguard, the corporation that owns literally every industry in the world. This effective monopoly gives them the power to impose world tyranny at the snap of a finger.
They were behind the mandates for vaccines, masks and lockdowns worldwide, and they ordered the suppression of all cures for the pandemic.
But not a soul knew about them. Now, since MONOPOLY was released, there are hundreds of millions of people who know about Vanguard.
They are no longer hidden...
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They want to kill you – seriously!
For decades there has been a nefarious agenda to dramatically reduce the world population. The infamous Georgia Guidestones, erected by a group of freemasons in the American state of Georgia, displayed that intent:
Reduce the world population to half a billion people, in balance with nature.
Recently this diabolical monument was destroyed by an explosion, but for decades it stood erect, openly proclaiming the agenda of a select group of wealthy individuals. These entities are willing to do anything - ANYTHING - to kill all of us. Why? Because they believe they are better than us, and have a right to squash other people the same way you would smack a bug.
Within their inner circles they talk about mankind as 'cattle'. Animals without intrinsic value.
They themselves, on the other hand, are the so-called 'pure' humans. The blue blood nobility, with bloodlines that go back to ancient world rulers. These families believe they deserve to suppress everyone else, and kill at will, whenever they see fit.
They are responsible for orchestrating all major wars, where they fund both sides. They also finance both terrorists and the governments that claim to fight them. A good example is the state of Israel, which was funded and founded by the Rothschilds, a ruling dynasty within the global elites, who also funded and founded Hamas, the so-called 'enemy' of Israel (see this revealing film).
They always play strategic games, in order to increase their power and control.
Their greatest fear is that the general public will become aware of their existence and operations, which is why they conceal themselves. Their strategy is to use public puppets like Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Emmanuel Macron, and billionaires like Bill Gates, George Soros and Klaus Schwab.
People think these are their enemies, while the true masters remain hidden in the shadows.
Who are these people? They are called 'the elites'. Other names are 'the 1%', the 'Illuminati', the 'Deep State' and so on.
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How We Can Stop the WHO's Horrific Pandemic Treaty
May 08, 2024
their called prophets
Prophets in the Bible — Who are the prophets in the Bible?
There are a total of forty-eight prophets named in the Bible. It is special that among the first prophets in the Bible were men who had a very close relationship with God. One was Enoch and Genesis 5:24 tells us that because he walked with God, he was taken to heaven without experiencing death (Hebrews 11:5-6). Another prophet was Abraham. Abraham was called God’s friend (James 2:23). These men enjoyed a close relationship with God because they wanted a close relationship with God and God granted their desire.
https://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/who-are-prophets-in-bible/
it seems to me your taking it with a grain of salt.... if you read the the bible there are references from passages that are thousands of years apart and they all lead to other references and or topics. no one can pull off what you would consider a scam. but hey your thoughts as many are to be expected in these times. time is getting close and it looks like you flipped your coin and choose a side. glty
A. The Seventy Weeks of Daniel
1. Historical Placement in the Seventy Weeks
In Daniel 9, the angel Gabriel gave Daniel insight into epochal events of the future both near and far:
24. Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. 25. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. 26. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. 27. And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.
Seven weeks means seven groups of seven years, or 49 years, and sixty-two weeks means sixty-two groups of seven years, or 434 years, for a total of sixty-nine weeks or 483 years.3
Using the Bible’s method of counting “regular solar years"4 from the creation of Adam,5 Dr. David Cooper determined that:
From the year of the decree of Cyrus the Persian to permit the Jews who were captive in Babylon to return to Judea to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until they completed the rebuilding, was 49 years (seven weeks); and that 434 years (62 weeks) later, Messiah was cut off.
To sum up, at the very end of the 483 years after Cyrus' decree - at the very end of the 69th week - Messiah was cut off.
Dr. Cooper continued,
“From all the data, we see that the terminal date of the 483-year period is the time of Messiah's being cut off or executed for the sins of His people. From this conclusion there cannot possibly be any escape."6
Connected with the end of the sixty-ninth week when Messiah will be cut off is the following event: The people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary.
Who is this prince? He could not be Messiah as it was not Messiah's people who destroyed the city and the sanctuary . . . with a flood (a symbol of a military invasion [cf. Isaiah 8:5-8 and Nahum 1:8]). It was the Romans who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. The Prince is the one we've come to know as the Antichrist, and he will be a Roman, for the people of the prince are Romans.
Now, even to the end of the period between the destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the seventieth week, there will be war in the Promised Land. True to the prophecy, since 70 A.D. numerous wars have been fought over the trans-Israeli trade routes that join the nations north and east of Israel with Egypt and the rest of Africa, and over possession of the entire Land; and because of the wars, desolations are determined. The Promised Land has been made desolate and will remain so until the end of the seventieth week. Despite the agricultural and industrial wonders that have taken place in modern Israel, one is still struck by the desolation of vast areas of it.
To sum up, within the seventy weeks of Daniel, the Tribulation will begin at some point after the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. during which the land of Israel will be decimated by warfare.
2. What Specific Event Will Mark Its Beginning?
2 Thessalonians 2 declares that the Tribulation will not begin until Antichrist is revealed:
2b. the day of the Lord . . . will not come unless . . . the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4. who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
But how will he be revealed?
And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.
~ Daniel 9:27 ~
The verse reveals four things:
1. He will make a covenant with Israel.
2. It's duration is to be a full week, or seven years. (This will be expanded upon shortly.)
3. The content of the covenant is revealed by the but: but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering. The content of the covenant is this: Antichrist will guarantee Israel's security for seven years so that they may carry out the Temple sacrifices and offerings unhindered during those seven years.
4. After three and a half years, he will put a stop to that which he guaranteed.
It is by virtue of this unique seven year covenant that Antichrist will be revealed and the Tribulation will begin.
3. Who Are the Many?
Antichrist will make a firm covenant with the many. Who are the many?
The entire passage has to do with Daniel's people, the Jews, and focuses primarily on events in Jerusalem. Therefore, the treaty must be with the nation of Israel; but is the nation of Israel the many? Compared with the rest of the world, they are the few. There are two other views that I am aware of.
One is that the many are the Israeli leadership. At least today, any treaty that Israel enters into must be made with the support of its Knesset (Parliament) - but how can such a tiny percentage of Israel's population be considered the many?
The other view is that which is held by Dr. Cooper: the many are those Israelis who agree with the treaty.7 Keil and Delitzsch agree with this. They comment, "the many, i.e., the great mass of the people in contrast with the few, who remain faithful to God; cf. Mat_24:12." (Matthew 24:12-13 reads, Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.)
Dr. Cooper writes, "Should one speak of this section of the Jewish race in terms of present-day phraseology, he would say that those making the covenant are the modernistic crowd, which has given up largely the national hope and has abandoned faith in the inspiration of the Scriptures and the plan of God. One also comes to the conclusion that the faithful, orthodox Jews who believe in the Scriptures as the Word of God are the ones who hold aloof from such an alliance."
To my mind, the best solution seems to be a combination of the latter two views; the many will include those members of the knesset who carry the vote and those Israelis who agree with them. Both of these groups will favor the treaty after having rejecting or being ignorant of the insight that Daniel 9:27 offers, or any other insight that the Lord may offer.
What will be the fate of the many during the Tribulation? It is likely that some of them will be saved during the preaching of the first half of the Tribulation. The rest will subsequently take the number of the Beast along with those of other nations who have resisted the preaching, and will be the rebels whom God will purge out of Israel by means of death (Ezekiel 20:36-38).
What of the few who disagree with the treaty? No doubt the Lord will draw the 144,000 from among them. Others may be saved from among the few during the first half, as well; and the saved from among the few who disagree with the treaty and survive until the middle of the Tribulation will be among those in the world who refuse the number of the Beast. More on these details below.
B. The Timing of the Great Tribulation Relative to the Rapture
1. Placement in the Prophetic Feasts of Israel
As was demonstrated in The Rapture, the seven annual feasts of Israel are prophetic of seven sequential landmark events in the Lord's timetable from the crucifixion to the Kingdom. Four have been fulfilled, in sequence, by the crucifixion, the sinlessness of the slain Lamb of God, His resurrection and the Day of Pentecost. The next two feasts to be fulfilled are Yom T'ruah or the Feast of Trumpets, which will be fulfilled by the Rapture of the church, and then Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement, which will be fulfilled by the Great Tribulation. The Great Tribulation will occur after the Rapture.
2. How Soon After the Rapture?
Scripture does not say. Having said that, Luke 17:26-30 calls for examination.
26. And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27. they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28. It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; 29. but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30. It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
At first glance the passage seems to indicate that the Tribulation will begin right after the Rapture on the same day. The reasoning is thus: On the day that Noah entered the ark . . . the flood came and destroyed them all. . . . on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Therefore, the Tribulation will begin right after the Rapture on the same day.
But there is a problem here: It is true that on the same literal day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven (Genesis 19:12-25. The day was reckoned from sundown to sundown); but it is not true that on the same literal day that Noah entered the ark . . . the flood came. Genesis 7:7-10 states that it was seven days after Noah entered the ark that the rain began. According to Strong, the Greek for day can refer either to a literal twenty-four hour period or "figuratively a period (always defined more or less clearly by the context)." As Genesis reveals, the Luke passage contains an example of each. The passage cannot therefore be used to prove that the Great Tribulation will begin on the same literal day as the Rapture, nor can any other passage. There may be a significant gap of time between the two events.
C. The Timing of the Great Tribulation In Light of Recent World Events
In light of certain events prophesied to take place relevant to the Tribulation, at least these three things need to be in place:
1. Israel needs to be in the Land of Israel, and they are. After being countryless for nineteen hundred years, God brought them back to their own Land en masse beginning in the latter decades of the nineteenth century, and on May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence as a sovereign nation.
2. Israel needs to be in possession of the "old" city of Jerusalem, that part of modern Jerusalem which contains the Temple Mount, and they are. In 1967, in the defensive Six Day War that contained much evidence of divine intervention, Israel took possession of the old city.
3. The nations of the world need to be able to act quickly and as a unit; and indeed, with modern modes of communication and transportation, they can.
It is easy to see how the Lord is setting the stage for the Great Tribulation.
Two other signs are these:
1. The great bulk of the nations of the world are turning against Israel, which is in keeping with the great worldwide persecution of the Jews that Antichrist will lead (Revelation 12, esp. vv.1-2, 5-6, 13-17); and
2. The great apostasy of our contemporary visible church. The Lord commanded John to write letters to seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3, each of which represents an era in church history. Our contemporary visible church was prophetically pictured in John's seventh letter, to the Church of Laodicea.
The first six periods have come and gone, as follows:
1. Revelation 2:1-7. The Church of Ephesus (meaning: “desired”).
Fulfillment in Church history: Apostolic Church (circa AD 30-100).
2. Revelation 2:8-11. The Church of Smyrna (meaning: “myrrh,” associated with death and embalming).
Fulfillment in Church history: The Church of the Roman Persecution (circa AD 100-313).
3. Revelation 2:12-17. The Church of Pergamos (meaning: “thoroughly married”).
Fulfillment in Church history: Age of Constantine (AD 313-600). Church married to the state.
4. Revelation 2:18-29. The Church of Thyatira (meaning: “continual sacrifice”).
Fulfillment in Church history: The Dark Ages (AD 590 -1517).
5. Revelation 3:1-6. The Church of Sardis (meaning: "those escaping”).
Fulfillment in Church history: The Church of the Protestant Reformation (AD 1517-1648)
6. Revelation 3:7-13. The Church of Philadelphia (meaning: “brotherly love”).
Fulfillment in Church history: The Church of the Great Missionary Movement (1648-1900)
The above six church eras have been fulfilled. The era of seventh Church has already begun, but has not yet come to an end:
7. Revelation 3:14-22. The Church of Laodicea (meaning: “people ruling”).
Fulfillment in Church history: The Church of the Apostasy (circa AD 1900 - End of the Church Age at the Rapture)
The seventh and last era, The Church of the Apostasy, is being fulfilled today.
Apostasy is a departure from the truth that one professed to have. Think of how so many of today's mainline denominations began with great revivals of biblical truth, and of how many of today's great universities began as institutions for the training of ministers, and today are bastions of atheism and theological liberalism. Though beliefs vary on different issues within the apostate church, it has generally departed from belief in the Bible as the Word of God, the virgin birth, Jesus' divinity, the atonement aspect of His death, and His bodily resurrection. The apostate church does not believe or preach the Gospel.
Some other relevant passages:
https://www.biblestudyproject.org/bible-study-library/the-future-the-afterworld-and-eternity/the-great-tribulation-what-when-who-and-why/
Isaiah 43
Amplified Bible
Israel Redeemed
43 But now, this is what the Lord, your Creator says, O Jacob,
And He who formed you, O Israel,
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you [from captivity];
I have called you by name; you are Mine!
2
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.
When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched,
Nor will the flame burn you.
3
“For I am the Lord your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I have given Egypt [to the Babylonians] as your ransom,
Cush (ancient Ethiopia) and Seba [its province] in exchange for you.
4
“Because you are precious in My sight,
You are honored and I love you,
I will give other men in return for you and other peoples in exchange for your life.
5
“Do not fear, for I am with you;
I will bring your offspring from the east [where they are scattered],
And gather you from the west.
6
“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring My sons from far way
And My daughters from the ends of the earth,
7
Everyone who is called by My Name,
Whom I have created for My glory,
Whom I have formed, even whom I have made.”
Israel Is God’s Witness
8
Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,
And the deaf, even though they have ears.
9
All the nations have gathered together
So that the peoples may be assembled.
Who among them (the idolaters) can [a]predict this [that Judah would return from captivity]
And proclaim to us the former events?
Let them provide their witnesses so that they may be justified,
Or let them hear and say [in acknowledgement], “It is the truth.”
10
“You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord,
“And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
And there will be none after Me.
11
“I, [only] I, am the Lord,
And there is no Savior besides Me.
12
“I have declared [the future] and saved [the nation] and proclaimed [that I am God],
And there was no strange (alien) god among you;
Therefore you are My witnesses [among the pagans],” declares the Lord,
“That I am God.
13
“Even from eternity I am He,
And there is no one who can rescue from My hand;
I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”
Babylon to Be Destroyed
14 This is what the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says,
“For your sake I have sent [one] to Babylon,
And I will bring down all of them as fugitives,
Even the Chaldeans [who reign in Babylon], into the ships over which they rejoiced.
15
“I am the Lord, your Holy One,
The Creator of Israel, your King.”
16 This is what the Lord says,
He who makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,
17
He who brings out the chariot and the horse,
The army and the mighty warrior,
(They will lie down together, they will not rise again;
They have been extinguished, they have been put out like a lamp’s wick):
18
“Do not remember the former things,
Or ponder the things of the past.
19
“Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even put a road in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
20
“The beasts of the field will honor Me,
Jackals and ostriches,
Because I have given waters in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My people, My chosen.
21
“The people whom I formed for Myself
Will make known My praise
The Shortcomings of Israel
22
“Yet you have not called on Me [in prayer and worship], O Jacob;
But you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.
23
“You have not brought Me your sheep or goats for your burnt offerings,
Nor honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
Nor wearied you with [demands for offerings of] incense.
24
“You have not bought Me sweet cane with money,
Nor have you filled Me with the fat of your sacrifices;
But you have burdened Me with your sins,
You have wearied Me with your wickedness.
25 “I, only I, am He who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake,
And I will not remember your sins.
26
“[c]Remind Me [of your merits with a thorough report], let us plead and argue our case together;
State your position, that you may be proved right.
27
“Your first father [Jacob] sinned,
And your spokesmen [the priests and the prophets—your mediators] have transgressed against Me.
28
“So I will [d]profane the officials of the sanctuary,
And I will consign Jacob to destruction and [I will subject] Israel to defamation and abuse.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+43%3A1-28&version=AMP
https://www.openbible.info/topics/protecting_israel
The One Promise God Made to Israel that Hasn't Been Fulfilled
Of all God's covenant promises to Abraham, I believe the most amazing is His promise concerning the land. God told Abraham to leave his country, his family, and his father's house and go "to a land that I will show you" (Gen. 12:1). God then led Abraham to the land that would belong to his descendants forever.
The land promised to Abraham and his descendants was described with clear geographical boundaries. It takes in all the land from the Mediterranean Sea as the western boundary to the Euphrates River as the eastern boundary. The prophet Ezekiel fixed the northern boundary at Hamath, one hundred miles north of Damascus (Ezek. 48:1), and the southern boundary at Kadesh, about one hundred miles south of Jerusalem (v. 28). If Israelis were currently occupying all the land that God gave to them, they would control all the holdings of present-day Israel, Lebanon, and the West Bank of Jordan, plus substantial portions of Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.
The strange thing is, Israel has never, in its long history, occupied anywhere near this much land—not even at the height of its glory days under David and Solomon. This fact has caused many biblical scholars to spiritualize the meaning of the term land and equate it with heaven. Others claim these promises were conditional and were forfeited by Israel's disobedience.
In refutation of these interpretations, Dr. John F. Walvoord wrote:
The term land . . . used in the Bible, means exactly what it says. It is not talking about heaven. It is talking about a piece of real estate in the Middle East. After all, if all God was promising Abraham was heaven, he could have stayed in Ur of the Chaldees. Why go on the long journey? Why be a pilgrim and a wanderer? No, God meant land.1
Any normal reading of Scripture recognizes Canaan as an actual place, a piece of real estate, an expanse of soil that belongs to Abraham's descendants forever.
The fact that Israel has been dispossessed of the land in three periods of its history is not an argument against its ultimate possession. Occupation is not the same as ownership. After each dispossession, God brought Israel back to its originally promised land. God has consistently kept His promise to Abraham, and that gives us absolute assurance that He will keep it in the future.
https://www.davidjeremiah.org/age-of-signs/the-one-promise-god-made-to-israel-that-hasnt-been-fulfilled?devdate=2020-04-03
In the Old Testament, the most common name for the Great Tribulation is the Day of Jehovah [Yahveh] or the Day of the Lord
B. Other Designations for The Great Tribulation
A review of other designations for the Great Tribulation should impress upon us its essential character:
In the Old Testament, the most common name for the Great Tribulation is the Day of Jehovah [Yahveh] or the Day of the Lord. . . . It is also found in various passages of the New Testament. . . . But there are a number of other names or designations for this time period found in the Old Testament. Following the translation found in the American Standard Version of the 1901 edition, these names include:2
The Time of Jacob's Trouble - Jeremiah 30:7
The Seventieth Week (a seven) of Daniel - Daniel 9:27
Jehovah's Strange Work - Isaiah 28:21
Jehovah's Strange Act - Isaiah 28:21
The Day of Israel's Calamity - Deuteronomy 32:35; Obadiah 12-14
The Tribulation - Deuteronomy 4:30
The Indignation - Isaiah 26:20; Daniel 11:36
The Overflowing Scourge - Isaiah 28:15, 18
The Day of Vengeance - Isaiah 34:8; 35:4; 61:2
The Year of Recompense - Isaiah 34:8
The Time of Trouble - Daniel 12:1; Zephaniah 1:15
The Day of Wrath - Zephaniah 1:15
The Day of Distress - Zephaniah 1:15
The Day of Wasteness - Zephaniah 1:15
The Day of Desolation - Zephaniah 1:15
The Day of Darkness - Zephaniah 1:15; Amos 5:18, 20; Joel 2:2
The Day of Gloominess - Zephaniah 1:15; Joel 2:2
The Day of Clouds - Zephaniah 1:15; Joel 2:2
The Day of Thick Darkness - Zephaniah 1:15; Joel 2:2
The Day of the Trumpet - Zephaniah 1:16
The Day of Alarm - Zephaniah 1:16
The New Testament names and designations include:
The Day of the Lord - I Thessalonians 5:2
The Wrath of God - Revelation 15:1, 7; 14:10, 19; 16:1
The Hour of Trial - Revelation 3:10
The Great Day of the Wrath of the Lamb of God - Revelation 6:16-17
The Wrath to Come - I Thessalonians 1:10
The Wrath - I Thessalonians 5:9; Revelation 11:18
The Great Tribulation - Matthew 24:21; Revelation 2:22; 7:14
The Tribulation - Matthew 24:29
The Hour of Judgment - Revelation 14:7
C. Conclusion
The nature of the Great Tribulation is summed up in the following passages:
Daniel 12:1: At that time . . . there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time.
Matthew 24:21: For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will.
II. Geographical Scope
How much of the world will the Great Tribulation encompass?
Enclosing Matthew 24:21, quoted above, are these verses: 14. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come, and 30. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn. Each of the verses places the Great Tribulation in a worldwide context.
Isaiah 24 does the same: 19. The earth is broken asunder, The earth is split through, The earth is shaken violently. 20. The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard and it totters like a shack.
The Great Tribulation will be an event which will encompass the whole world.
III. When Will It Begin?
https://www.biblestudyproject.org/bible-study-library/the-future-the-afterworld-and-eternity/the-great-tribulation-what-when-who-and-why/
https://israelmyglory.org/article/the-time-of-jacobs-trouble/
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-771412
Genesis 25:23 The Lord said to her,
“[The founders of] two nations are in your womb;
And the separation of two nations has begun in your body;
The one people shall be stronger than the other;
And the older shall serve the younger.”
Why Is There So Much Hope in the Story of Jacob and Esau?
As famous siblings go in the Bible, Jacob and Esau rate up there with Cain and Abel. While their competition with each other is legendary, the fact that they forgave and reconciled is an equally powerful story.
What Happened between Jacob and Esau before Jacob Ran Away?
As it’s clear above, Jacob and Esau were set up from before birth to be two very different men, which would create problems if they weren’t careful. The fact that their parents picked favorites—Isaac preferred Esau, Rebekah preferred Jacob (Genesis 25:28)—made things more complicated.
Jacob also showed that he wasn’t above taking advantage of situations to get ahead of his brother: one day, Esau came home hungry from hunting and asked Jacob for some stew he was cooking. Jacob made Esau swear to give up his birthright (the firstborn son’s share of the estate), and then gave him the stew (Genesis 25:27-34).
However, the trouble between Jacob and Esau really came to a head when Isaac became old enough that his eyesight was gone, and he wasn’t sure how much time he had left. At that point, he asked Esau to make him a wild game meal, and then he would give Esau his blessing (Genesis 27:1-4). This blessing was separate from Esau’s birthright and had more long-lasting implications. It was about which of the two sons would inherit Abraham’s mantle, continuing the covenant that God had made promising Abraham many descendants and other blessings (Genesis 17).
Urged on by Rebekah, Jacob put on a disguise that made his skin feel hairy like Esau’s and went to Isaac posing as his brother. Isaac was initially confused since this man talked like Jacob (Genesis 27:21-23) but decided to believe the evidence of his hands. He then blessed Jacob, a blessing that promised a number of things: Abundant food from the land (Genesis 27:28), dominance over other people (Genesis 27:29a), dominance over his brothers and deference from his mother’s family (Genesis 27:29b), that whoever cursed him would be cursed, that whoever blessed him would be blessed (Genesis 27:29c).
Esau came shortly afterward, and it quickly became clear what Jacob had done. Isaac told him that he could not bless him, and when Esau demanded something and wept, Isaac said the following:
“Your dwelling will be away from the earth’s richness, away from the dew of heaven above. You will live the sword and you will serve your brother. But then you will grow restless, you will throw his yoke off your neck”Genesis 27:39-40.
Whether this was meant as a rebuke to Esau or a prophecy of what would logically follow since Jacob had gotten the blessing, is hard to say. Either way, Esau stayed angry and plotted to kill Jacob sometime after their father had passed away (Genesis 27:41). Fortunately for Jacob, Rebekah learned about his plans and convinced Isaac to send Jacob away on the pretense of finding a wife among her people.
During the next few years, Jacob had a wide variety of strange experiences. Early on, he had visions in his sleep, of a ladder leading to heaven (Genesis 28:10-22). When he reached his mother’s country he met his uncle Laban and worked for Laban for seven years to marry Laban’s daughter Rachel. Due to some trickery on Laban’s part, Jacob married Rachel’s sister Leah first and had to work another seven years to get Rachel (Genesis 29:15-30). After Rachel had her first son, Joseph, Jacob planned to return home, but Laban convinced him to stick around longer. Jacob finally left when it became clear Laban’s sons resented him (Genesis 31:1-2). Taking the herds and servants he had acquired, his two wives, and the 11 sons he had between those wives, Jacob traveled back home to face Esau.
What Happened between Them When Jacob Returned?
After leaving Laban, Jacob sent messengers to Edom, where Esau had settled. His messengers came back with the news that Esau was coming to meet Jacob…and bringing 400 men with him. Worried this was an army coming to kill him, Jacob sent out a gift of livestock to Esau and cautiously began moving toward a place where they could meet.
After his party had crossed the Jabbok River, Jacob sent his family and possessions ahead and spent a night alone. A man appeared, they wrestled, and Jacob refused to let go until after the man had blessed him. The man replied that Jacob was wrestling with God himself (Genesis 32:24-32).
The next day, Jacob returned to his party, and say Esau arriving. He then moved Leah and her children to the front of his group, Rachel and Joseph to the back, and approached Esau in a humble pose (Genesis 33:1-3). Jacob approach bowing and moving slowly, but Esau ran to him and embraced him. They wept, and Esau asked about the animals Jacob had sent, protesting that he didn’t need a gift (33:4-9). On Jacob’s insistence, he took the gift and returned home (Genesis 33:10-12). Jacob traveled further into Canaan and bought some land that he settled on, naming it Elohe Israel (33:18-20).
Why Is There So Much Hope in Their Story?
There are many things we could take from the story of Jacob and Esau, but maybe the most important one is how hopeful their story is. Jacob and Esau literally were fighting each other from before they could remember. One of them cheated the other in a massive way, and it looked for a while as if revenge was going to settle their rivalry permanently. Instead, Esau forgave Jacob and they reconnected.
Contrary to how it’s often explained, forgiveness doesn’t act like wrong things didn’t happen. Depending on our situation, it may not always be possible to make restitution (which may be what Jacob was aiming for with his gift of livestock). However, this does not mean we should not repent of our wrongdoing, forgive our wrongdoers, and work toward reconciling. We may find that just when it looked like someone couldn’t care less about forgiving us, they are actually prepared to reach out and give grace.
https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-stories/jacob-and-esau-bible-story.html#Who%20Were%20Jacob%20and%20Esau%20in%20The%20Bible?
Genesis 35
Jacob Is Named Israel
9 Then God [in a visible manifestation] appeared to Jacob again when he came out of Paddan-aram, and declared a blessing on him. 10 Again God said to him,
“Your name is Jacob;
You shall no longer be called Jacob,
But Israel shall be your name.”
So he was called Israel. 11 And God said to him,
“I am [c]God Almighty.
Be fruitful and multiply;
A nation and a company of nations shall come from you,
And kings shall be born of your [d]loins.
12
“The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac
I will give to you,
and to your descendants after you I will give the land.”
13 Then God ascended from Jacob in the place where He had spoken with him. 14 Jacob set up a pillar (memorial, monument) in the place where he had talked with God, a pillar of stone, and he poured a drink offering [of wine] on it; he also poured oil on it [to declare it sacred for God’s purpose]. 15 So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel (the House of God).
16 Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath (Bethlehem), Rachel began to give birth and had difficulty and suffered severely. 17 When she was in hard labor the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid; you now have another son.” 18 And as her soul was departing, (for she died), she named him Ben-oni (son of my sorrow); but his father called him Benjamin ([e]son of the right hand). 19 So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). 20 Jacob set a pillar (memorial, monument) on her grave; that is the [f]pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. 21 Then Israel (Jacob) journeyed on and pitched his tent on the other side of the tower of Eder [the lookout point used by shepherds].
22 While Israel was living in that land, Reuben [his eldest son] went and lay with Bilhah his father’s [g]concubine, and Israel heard about it.
The Sons of Israel
Now Jacob had twelve sons— 23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 and the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob born to him in Paddan-aram.
27 Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived temporarily.
28 Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years. 29 Isaac’s spirit departed and he died and was [h]gathered to his people [who had preceded him in death], an old man full of days (satisfied, fulfilled); his sons Esau and Jacob buried him [in the cave of Machpelah with his parents Abraham and Sarah].
Esau Moves
Genesis:36
Now these are the records of the descendants of Esau, (that is, Edom).
Descendants of Esau
9 These are the records of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir. 10 These are the names of Esau’s sons:
Joseph’s Dream
Genesis:37
So Jacob (Israel) lived in the land [cd]where his father [Isaac] had been a stranger (sojourner, resident alien), in the land of Canaan. 2 These are the generations of Jacob.
The Plot against Joseph
18 And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him.
36 Meanwhile, in Egypt the Midianites sold Joseph [as a slave] to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the [royal] guard.
Genesis 25-37
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+25-37&version=AMP
Are you ready for the next pandemic?
All around the world the next plandemic is being announced. The World Hell Organization is trying to convince the world that this time it could be the bird flu, a disease with a mortality rate of 80%. Bill Gates indeed announced that the next pandemic will be many times more deadly.
'This time they will pay attention', Gates said with a wide grin on his face.
They are determined to forcefully push through with their agenda to kill off the majority of humanity, while establishing tyranny on the survivors.
How Bill Gates functions as a true world dictator
Bill Gates dictates the world's healthcare, manipulates the news media, infiltrates the food industry, bribes governments, pushes weather manipulation, promotes GMO industry, develops surveillance technologies, calls for digital ID, and a whole lot more. Meet the man who thinks he is God, and who acts like he is the devil.
A man who has no medical education whatsoever, never treated a patient, and who knows nothing about medical care, has been appointed as the world's leading "health" authority, who dictates to millions of medical professionals what they can, and cannot do.
GATES' PLANS FOR THE WORLD
The following documentaries about Bill Gates are mind blowing eye openers, that the entire world should see. Watch them, download them, spread them far and wide.
hidden puppet masters
Although Bill Gates functions as a type of world dictator, it is critical to mention that in reality he is nothing but a puppet of higher powers, who use him for the eye of the public. As you can see in our World Domination report, the true entities who rule the world are obscured financial interest groups: ancient bloodlines, royal families, wealthy industrials, powerful bankers, and so on.
Many books have been written about these entities. There is for example the classic work "Bloodlines of the Illuminati" by Fritz Springmeier, which was released as a PDF download by the CIA. And there is "The 13 Satanic Bloodlines" by journalist Robin de Ruiter.
other dimensions
I personally learned from several individuals who were part of this worldwide system of intense evil, and who came out of it, that the highest level of the cabal or illuminati is not human. These high level whistleblowers from the cabal don't know each other, yet they shared the exact same information with me. I will not go into detail about this, as it would freak most readers out too much, but let it suffice that at the highest level humanity's enemies are from other dimensions than the physical realm. Yet they need our energy to thrive, that's why they prey on humans.
The answer to this intense evil is to make up our own mind whom we will serve: will we play their game of rebellion, perversion, dishonesty, selfishness, pride, and corruption? Will we keep consuming their dark poisonous entertainment, food, music, tech, and medicine? Will we keep listening to their dark lies about our Creator, our life, and our destiny?
Or will we make a choice to return to the Giver of all that is good?
We cannot fight these forces of deep darkness in our own human weakness, and ignorance. We need help from the One who is greater than all, but who has been rejected by most, because the pleasures of the dark realm enticed many, and their lies deceived the rest.
It is time to make up our own mind what dimension we will serve. Those that corrupt, pervert, twist, abuse, manipulate, and destroy everything, and bind us to thick chains of addiction, sickness, wickedness, and deception? Or the One who is pure love, truth, goodness, and who wants to restore our world to become a paradise, as it was originally intended?
The choice is ours...
https://stopworldcontrol.com/gates/
Doctors Predict Epidemic of Prion Brain Diseases
April 29, 2024
Story at-a-glance
Mounting research suggests a serious side effect of the COVID mRNA jabs could be dementia, and the prions that cause it may be contagious
Frameshifting, as we now know occurs in the COVID shots, can induce prion production and lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
Sid Belzberg's prions.rip website, which collected data on neurological side effects post-jab, found a notably high incidence of diagnosed CJD cases, suggesting an alarming trend
A series of articles highlight biases in clinical trials and observational studies, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines' safety and effectiveness have been massively overstated
The Global COVID Vaccine Safety Project study — funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — reveals significant side effects, including myocarditis, pericarditis, and blood clots, underscoring the need for reevaluation of COVID vaccine risks and benefits
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/29/prion-brain-diseases.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240429_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1564602&rid=8521584
HIV mRNA Vaccines Continue to Fail in Clinical Trials
April 24, 2024
Story at-a-glance
The most recent mRNA failure was a phase 1 trial of Moderna’s mRNA human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) injection
Larger trials were halted after a high rate of “puzzling skin side effects” occurred
In a series of phase 1 trials, 7% to 18% of participants who received the experimental mRNA shots experienced skin reactions, including hives, itchiness or hives caused by scratching
Skin reactions can be an “early warning radar for general immune response” indicative of a greater problem
Although all HIV mRNA shots have failed to pass even the initial trials, we're to believe COVID-19 mRNA shots passed safety and efficacy studies with flying colors and the technology is thereby "proven" safe and effective
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/24/hiv-mrna-vaccine-clinical-trials.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20240424_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1562143&rid=4131672
Roman Gabriel, NFL's first Filipino American QB, dies at 83
Apr 20, 2024
Roman Gabriel had big size and a big arm when he was the No. 2 draft pick of the Los Angeles Rams in 1962. Even while playing in an era of grinding it out on the ground, he still holds the Rams' team record with 154 touchdown passes.
Gabriel, the first Filipino American quarterback in the NFL and the league MVP in 1969, died Saturday. He was 83.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39982942/roman-gabriel-former-nc-state-qb-nfl-mvp-dies-83
A look at what’s in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by the House
April 20, 2024
A look at what’s in the $95 billion package passed by the House on Saturday that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.
Senate passage is expected this coming week. President Joe Biden has promised to sign the package as soon as he gets it.
The broad spending breakdown:
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-aid-israel-gaza-taiwan-c0645ad3f47f9d919c8988a98593e887?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
Solutions for Troubled Times
April 21, 2024
Mike Adams Interviews Dr. Mercola About Chase Debanking
April 21, 2024
Story at-a-glance
Debanking is the weaponization of finance for the purpose of social control, which simply doesn’t happen in a free society
By debanking me, my CEO, CFO, their spouses and children, Chase Bank is giving people a foretaste of how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be used to control the masses
In the U.S., 81.37% of all desktop searches are done on Google. Worldwide, its market share for search is 85.53%. Its monopoly on searches gives Google enormous influence over what people can see and learn about, which is incredibly dangerous. Google, all by itself, can easily mislead and “de-educate” the global population for generations to come
AI systems are also being programmed with pro-pharma propaganda, and that will become the dominant knowledge base for humanity from here on
To preserve life-saving health information that is being actively censored to erase it from human memory, I am creating a master video course that will encapsulate my life’s work. Once completed, the course will be available to Substack subscribers, who can download the videos and share them with others
Whatever crisis gets rolled out, we now know that it will be used to push tyranny, because global slavery is the ultimate goal
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/21/mike-adams-mercola-chase-debanking-interview.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20240421&foDate=false&mid=DM1560607&rid=1538768
The "Holy Father" Has Plans for the Whole World ! Ensure the Good Politicians in Your Country Know !
https://rumble.com/v4lsvel-the-holy-father-has-plans-for-the-whole-world-ensure-the-good-politicians-i.html?e9s=rel_v1_b
WEF is Where Global Leaders Meet to Plan the Destruction of your Lives
https://rumble.com/v482y96-wef-is-where-global-leaders-meet-to-plan-the-destruction-of-your-lives.html?e9s=rel_v1_b
Biden expands Title IX protections for pregnancy, trans people and sexual assault victims
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration has finalized new Title IX regulations that codify protections for transgender people, as well as enhance protections for victims of sexual assault or harassment and pregnant people.
"For more than 50 years, Title IX has promised an equal opportunity to learn and thrive in our nation's schools free from sex discrimination,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona in a statement on the revision. “These final regulations build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.”
The new regulations officially add "gender identity" onto the list of protections from sex-based discrimination for the first time, though the administration said it has already been applying this standard.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-expands-title-ix-protections-pregnancy-trans-people/story?id=109422988
THE END OF HUMANITY
As Planned By The Global Leaders
Biden signed an executive order for the promotion of this development! It is far more serious than any of us understand...
The intent of our film 'THE END OF HUMANITY' is to open the eyes of billions worldwide for the danger of this agenda, as it reveals the true motivation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is promoted as something that will ‘enhance our lives’.
https://stopworldcontrol.com/itishere/
https://rumble.com/v4q7hcq-the-end-of-humanity-as-planned-by-the-global-leaders.html
Senate rejects impeachment articles against Mayorkas, ending trial against Cabinet secretary
April 17, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate dismissed all impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, ending the House Republican push to remove the Cabinet secretary from office over his handling of the U.S.-Mexico border and shutting down his trial before arguments even began.
Senators voted to dismiss both articles of impeachment and end the proceedings, with Democrats arguing that the articles were unconstitutional. The first article charged Mayorkas with “willful and systemic refusal to comply” with immigration law and second article charged him with a “breach of trust” for saying the border was secure. The votes were 51-48 and 51-49, both along party lines.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the House Republicans’ charges failed to meet “the high standard of high crimes and misdemeanors” and could set a dangerous precedent.
“For the sake of the Senate’s integrity and to protect impeachment for those rare cases we truly need it, senators should dismiss today’s charges,” said Schumer, D-N.Y., as he opened Wednesday’s session.
https://apnews.com/article/mayorkas-senate-impeachment-trial-democrats-29aa775c0e866f4160f320583f261a72?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
they also get pathway to citizenship by enlisting
nope, this U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Biden are the probable cause. nothing happens with the military unless it first goes through congress and the commander and chief. oh did i tell you Biden plans to use this new 2.5 million immigrate military force against the u.s. citizen?
Common Stock Outstanding as of March 15, 2024, Fully Diluted 1,458,777,510
Summary of the 2020 Plan
Shares Subject to Plan:
Upon approval of the Plan Amendment (as subject to stockholder approval of Proposal 2(a)), the total number of shares available for issuance under the 2020 Plan will be 151,742,799 shares, which includes 21,742,799 shares currently available for issuance thereunder.
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America's Infant Mortality Rate Increases for the First Time in 20 Years
April 15, 2024
Story at-a-glance
More infants are dying in the U.S. than in the last two decades, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
The U.S. provisional infant mortality rate rose 3% from 2021 to 2022 — the first increase since 2001 to 2002
Infant mortality in the U.S. rose from 5.44 per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 5.6 in 2022, representing 20,538 deaths in infants under 12 months in 2022
Other research found the 2020 infant mortality rate in the U.S, — 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births — was the highest of all the countries analyzed; Norway had just 1.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, for comparison
In the U.S., life expectancy is three to five years lower than that in other high-income countries, despite higher health care spending. Adopting a holistic approach to health can help you maintain wellness at all life stages
Were the COVID-19 Pandemic — and COVID Jabs — Involved?
The rise in infant mortality in 2022 could have links to the pandemic, since most babies born that year were conceived in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic — and the year that COVID-19 shots were widely rolled out. Maternal deaths rose by 40% during the pandemic9 and increases in stillbirths were reported.10
By November 12, 2021, there were 2,620 cases of fetal death or stillbirth among women who received a COVID-19 injection reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).11 Health Impact News ran the same VAERS search but excluded COVID-19 injections — so looking for fetal deaths in women who had been vaccinated with any vaccine other than a COVID-19 jab over the last 30+ years. They found:12
"We are currently on pace to see a yearly total of 2,838 recorded fetal deaths following COVID-19 shots, while the yearly average of recorded fetal deaths following the vaccination of pregnant women for the past 30 years has been an average of 74 fetal deaths per year."
Problems began to appear shortly after COVID-19 shots were rolled out, such that a leaked email from a large California hospital was sent out in warning to 200 nurses. The email, from September 2022, contained the subject line, "Demise Handling," referring to an increase in stillbirths and fetal deaths. A TCW report by journalist Sally Beck shared the email's content, which read:13
"It seems as though the increase of demise patients [babies] that we are seeing is going to continue. There were 22 demises [stillbirths and fetal deaths] in August [2022], which ties [equals] the record number of demises in July 2021, and so far in September [2022] there have been 7 and it's only the 8th day of the month."
Beck reports that one nurse, Michelle Gershman, who works in the neonatal ward had her bonus withheld because she spoke out about the rise in fetal deaths. "We used to have one fetal demise per month. That rose to one or two per week," Gershman said. Beck reported:14
"Her experience, and the experience of doctors working with pregnant women, is contrary to official 'safe and effective' observation and advice, but no one was free to speak out because of a gagging order imposed in September 202115 by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG).
… At the beginning of the rollout, in December 2020, pregnant women who were healthcare workers or deemed to be at risk from Covid began receiving the shots.
By May 2021, the vaccine was being recommended to all pregnant American women, despite the fact that none of the vaccine manufacturers had completed reproductive toxicology reports in animals, and none had started clinical trials in pregnant women. Two months later, hospitals noticed a huge increase in miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm births, pregnancy complications and menstrual abnormalities."
Board-certified internist and cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough stated COVID-19 shots should be given the Category X designation during pregnancy,16 which means, "The risk of use of the drug in pregnant women clearly outweighs any possible benefit. The drug is contraindicated in women who are or may become pregnant."17
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/15/us-infant-mortality-rate.aspx?ui=23bc1bd9fcb4b3356028a747bd75a4fe7be0ae6a710a0f48676267071f8cecf5&sd=20220710&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20240415&foDate=false&mid=DM1557779&rid=2096576260