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Day of Rest Agitation
The study, ironically published by Sabbath keepers, will certainly be used to promote Sunday worship. The news report included a “day of rest” comment, which most Christians would think of as Sunday, in spite of the fact that the Bible clearly teaches Sabbath observance.
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Day of Rest Agitation · November 15, 2010
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel have been conducting a study of Christians to determine happiness levels in relation to church-going. They studied consumer shopping habits over 30 years, and learned that among women, having money makes them less happy than going to church.
The researchers used data provided by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Council. They looked “specifically at adults who lived in states where ‘blue laws’ (laws prohibiting commercial activity on Sundays) had been repealed between 1973 and 1998, they compared the happiness levels of adults with reported church attendance over that 25-year period. (Because Christians are most likely to attend church on Sundays, while Jews and Muslims normally attend religious services on Fridays or Saturdays, the researchers looked specifically at Christians for this study.)”
“Women, but not men, seemed to experience a steep decline in both church attendance and their happiness levels over the course of the 25-year post-blue law period,” the new study reports. “The data showed that blue law repeals decreased the likelihood of people reporting that they were “pretty happy” to “not happy” by at least 17 percent. But the authors also noted that people whose religious participation didn’t change after blue laws were repealed reported no drop in happiness levels. Using other data collected from the survey, the researchers ruled out the possibility that the declines could be related to women’s increased participation in the workforce or to family issues.”
The study, ironically published by Sabbath keepers, will certainly be used to promote Sunday worship. The news report included a “day of rest” comment, which most Christians would think of as Sunday, in spite of the fact that the Bible clearly teaches Sabbath observance.
“We could all stand to take a ‘day of rest’ from commercialism to get some perspective on what makes us truly happy, whether we consider ourselves religious or not. For those who attend them, religious services provide fellowship and often give people a greater sense of meaning to life, says Danny Cohen-Zada, PhD, assistant professor in the department of economics at Ben-Gurion University and lead author of the study.”
“The Sabbath will be the great test of loyalty, for it is the point of truth especially controverted. When the final test shall be brought to bear upon men, then the line of distinction will be drawn between those who serve God and those who serve Him not.” Great Controversy, p. 605.
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From Silk Cocoon to Medical Miracle
Scientists are crafting arteries, ligaments, circuitry and holograms from worm yarn
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From Silk Cocoon to Medical Miracle
Scientists are crafting arteries, ligaments, circuitry and holograms from worm yarn
Image: Cary Wolinsky Aurora Images
For a millennium, traders brought silk fabrics from the Far East along the Silk Road to Europe, where the beautiful yet tough material was fashioned into dazzling clothes. Today bioengineers are infusing the natural protein fibers spun by silkworms with enzymes and semiconductors. They are processing the modified strands under varying temperature, shear and acidic conditions to create novel materials with remarkable properties.
Physicians like silk sutures because they are strong and compatible with human tissue, meaning the body’s immune system doesn’t reject them. Our laboratory at Tufts University has recently extended those traits to make thin tubes that can be used as grafts to replace sections of clogged arteries, which could eliminate the need to extract a vein for that purpose from a patient’s leg for a coronary bypass, the usual procedure. James Goh and his colleagues at the National University of Singapore have regenerated an anterior cruciate ligament in a live pig’s knee using stem cells implanted in silk scaffolding.
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Jesus Christ To Return In 2019
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Jesus Christ To Return In 2019
Et tunc parebit signum Filii hominis in caelo, et tunc plangent omnes tribus terrae et videbunt Filium hominis venientem in nubibus caeli cum virtute et gloria multa. (Matthew 24:30)
If we watch and discern the signs of the times, we will know the day and the hour of the Lord's return according to Revelation 3:3.
Those who watch will indeed know what day the Lord will return, see 1 Thessalonians 5:4.
According to Matthew 24:34, the generation which saw Jerusalem liberated in 1967 would not pass away before Christ's return, see Luke 21:24.
We know Jesus' return is at hand, because there is not much time of an average generation's time left, from when Jerusalem was reconquered by the Jews in 1967 until Christ's second coming.
The New Testament explains how many years a generation is in Luke 3:23 - 38.
There were 77 generations or 4.000 years from Adam to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
4.000 years divided with 77 generations are approximately 52 years for an average generation.
Thus if we take the year 1967 and add 52 years to it, we get the year of the Lord's return, which is 2019.
The Third Temple will soon be built in Jerusalem, see Revelation 11:1, and I know at least one man who eagerly waits for his time to witness for the Lord Jesus.
Happy are those who have part in the first resurrection, see Revelation 11:12 and 20:6.
"Et dabo duobus testibus meis, et prophetabunt diebus mille ducentis sexaginta amicti saccis", Revelation 11:3.
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50 Years of Ecumenism to be Celebrated by Vatican
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50 Years of Ecumenism to be Celebrated by Vatican · November 15, 2010
On Wednesday, November 17th, “the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity will hold a public commemoration to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.”
Archbishop Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, will preside. The commemoration will be attended by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus, Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican), and Metropolitan Pergamo Ioannis (Zizioulas) of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
On 5 June 1960, Pope John XXIII established the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. 1988 Pope John Paul II changed the name of the Secretariat to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Over the years, the Vatican Papal has guided very successful ecumenical relations with a host of churches around the world.
The theme: “Towards a new stage of ecumenical dialogue,” no doubt reflects on the forward-looking agenda of the Vatican to unite all churches and religious communities ultimately into one visible, sacramental and spiritual unity. This of course would be in opposition to God’s Ten Commandment Law.
Speaking of the United States in particular, the Book Great Controversy (p. 445) says; “When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.”
If that is ever going to happen in the United States, there has to be a worldwide effort to promote unity based on Rome’s principles. The United States simply becomes the engine of the Papacy to enforce the vision of the Vatican in creating a single global worship as described in Revelation 13:15-17. “And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
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