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 November 24. The Bible is tied together. Did anyone ever do the “Walk Through the Bible” event? The value of such a thing is to see all the connections in the Bible. Almost everything stated in the Bible is tied to somewhere else. One of the least used study helps are those notes in the margins or middle, where there are references to other passages about that passage. So I am going to tie together three passages; the first two for about 10 minutes and then the last, going to my slides of Turkey to show the connections. II Chronicles 36 We already had this lesson the last time I taught, three weeks ago. Josiah the last good, righteous king, died in battle with Egypt. His son Jehoahaz became king, and a bad one. The King of Egypt took over in Jerusalem, carried off Jehoahaz (a trophy), and made his brother Eliakim king and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Jehoiakim was evil. After years of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Chaldeans) was the military power and car...

  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-resignation-from-congress-after-president-trump-withdraws-endorsement Most people will not care, but she is my Congresswoman, so I do.   Her speech is interesting, although self-aggrandizing. She wants us to feel sorry for her being away from her family while being in Congress. Sorry, what did she expect? She doesn't get points there. Everyone does it. It's almost like she ran for Congress without knowing the job.  Her antics have sometimes been an embarrassment.  https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resign-in-january The reasoning: She doesn't want to lose her election because Trump is going to primary her, so she quits. I guess we'll have a quickie election. Who will it be? I'm sure the party leaders has someone in mind. They aren't happy with her anyway. My son worked with leaders in the carpet industry here and that was clear. There was a billboard here in Dalton as...

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/larry-summers-steps-public-roles-house-release-epstein-correspondence Okay, I know I am  not supposed to read Fox News. Who says? It used to be listed on a graph of reliable and questionable sources for students to use in college.  But I'm not using it for a research paper, it really has a better news organization than it's given credit for (but still too pro-Trump) and this particular story is from another source.  Larry Summers and Bill Gates were two of the non-politicians affiliated with Epstein. He really, really made some bad decisions here.  I don't usually get into conspiracy theories and scandals, but this one matters. 

 As one of her "constituents," (never voted for her but live in her district), I'm elated.....I think. I hope that she gets voted out. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-drops-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsement-calls-her-ranting-lunatic-hints-backing-primary-rival But she wants back in... https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385175423112 There is resistance to her here, even in the Republican party. She needs to be replaced with a non-drama-queen candidate.

 The cross is the greatest possible being expressing the greatest possible virtue in the greatest possible way. Romans 5:1-8. I saw this quote on an advertisement for the Colson Center Conference, given by a former Muslim. I believe the only thing that will reach Muslims is love; their religion is devoid of it.  *** I heard a podcaster saying the other day that a political ad had pictures of a bunch of random black people to impress constituents.  People can not be random.  Randomly chosen, perhaps, but not random. Although I have been guilty of saying things like "There were a bunch of random people there..." random cannot apply to people, only their actions or the actions done to them.  And really, very few things are random, when you dig into it.  **** Add your own random thoughts (!)

I watched the first episode last night. I will at least watch one more.  I don't want to give it away, just to say it's about a virus that zombifies the world's population for a while and then has its permanent effect on all humans because victims make sure they infect everyone by licking kissing, breathing, etc.. All humans except a dozen who don't know each other. The protagonist is one of the immune ones. She's a negative, pessimistic person, now one of twelve in a world with a hive mind of . . .  it's hard to tell what after one episode. Reviews say happiness, but it's a shallow happiness so far.  I enjoyed it because the pessimist is a best-selling author who knows her books, a series, have become crap, but she makes a lot of money at them.  I also wondered if it is a parody of cult members (evangelicals, Mormons).  Or if, even deeper, it's a desire for something closer to that hive mind.  It's well produced to give creepy thrills, and I like th...