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U.S. Central Command released footage of sailors aboard the USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) directing a merchant vessel to return back to an Iranian port, during the ongoing U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on April 17.

According to Hungary’s incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, his government will look to reverse Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Additionally, on the Hungary-Israel relationship, Magyar said that EU decisions on Israel will continue to be blocked, but will be investigated on a case-by-case basis.

Following Israeli strikes against Iranian steel, power, and nuclear infrastructure, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said that Iran will exact a “heavy price” for Israel’s strikes, saying that the strikes violate U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s extended deadline for dialogue.

I don’t think I twisted myself into a pretzel. But let me break it down for you even further if that helps. Bethlehem for instance which was taken over by the Palestinian Authority in 1995 was majority Christian. Now it’s majority Muslim. The Palestinian Authority is not Israel. The decrease there had nothing to do with Israel. The entire Middle East is only 4% Christian now. Israel doesn’t control any of that region, except Israel where the Christian population has steadily increased. I don’t know how much simpler I can make it for you, I can’t post in crayon.

People have to realize that all of a sudden you have the influencer class who wants to use theology to push hatred and division, and anybody who has ever read anything in Scripture knows that Christ was the exact opposite of that. They have made the truth synonymous with hatred, and that just means they have a very misguided understanding of who Christ was. It’s not even about what these people are saying, and the fact that a lot of them are theologically incoherent at best, it’s the way in which they’re saying it. Do they sound like people who want to bring you closer to God? I mean, serious question. Because somehow I think that everybody forgets at the end of the day, the entire purpose is to get closer to God.

Tucker is not criticizing Jews. In order to criticize you need to present facts and then argue your conclusion based on those facts. Tucker is lying every time he opens his mouth in order to brainwash people through repetition to doubt everything they believe and know. The only way he can do that on the conservative right is to use the Jews as a scapegoat. Tucker is knowingly repeating lies because he knows that’s how propaganda works. This was done by Goebbels, Hitler and every authoritarian who needed to program people with emotion over logic. We need to be precise in our language. Whether he hates or loves Jews doesn’t matter, what matters is that he is trying to make you question everything you have ever believed and the only way to do that is with shock and awe. When you overwhelm someone with something shocking, their rational brain shuts down and their emotional brain takes over. Then you can control them and steer them where ever you need them to go.

I must have missed the theological argument he was making. Oh wait, he wasn’t making one. He’s telling you that you believe what you believe because you are a coward. That is not persuasion. That’s coercion. It’s a trap. If you defend yourself, you’re a coward. If you agree, you’ve just surrendered your theology under social pressure and called it conviction. That’s not how honest theological argument works. That’s how manipulation works. Did Christ reason like this? Nope. Not to the woman at the well who had five husbands. Not to Zacchaeus. Not to the disciples who fell asleep while he was sweating blood in Gethsemane. Not to the man who denied knowing him three times while he was being tried for his life. Jesus spoke the truth and then he invited people to reason. He never weaponized someone’s fear of their own inadequacy to capture their will The people he reserved his ire for were the ones who used religious authority to make themselves the gatekeeper between ordinary people and God. “You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.” Whatever you believe about the rapture, which by the way has serious scholars that argue both ways, you are allowed to believe it because you read Scripture and prayed and came to a conclusion in good conscience before God. That is not cowardice. That is exactly what faith looks like. Anyone telling you that your private walk with Christ is secretly about avoiding pain, and that the only way to prove otherwise is to adopt their framework, is not speaking in the character of Christ. They’re speaking in the character of the people Christ warned you about.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Christ spoke truth to power and let people come to accept it if and when they were ready.

Those who continuously push replacement theology, always use the following passage to justify it: Galatians 3:28 — “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” This argument is flawed for so many reasons, but let’s start with the easiest ones to understand. Galatians was written before the Book of Romans. Galatians was prescriptive. It was addressing a specific problem that was happening and that is why its tone and its length is significantly different from Romans. Romans was written after so, even if there was a discrepancy or a contradiction the book that was written after as a foundational text for Christianity prevails. It’s literally basic common sense. Romans is the most systematically developed theological text Paul ever produced. It is not a letter addressing a specific local conflict the way Galatians is. Galatians was written in direct response to the Judaizer controversy which was a specific pastoral crisis about circumcision and the law. Romans is Paul’s fullest and most deliberate theological statement written years later with full reflection. So regardless of how you want to interpret that passage in Galatians, it doesn’t matter because Romans supersedes it, and it specifically addresses things that Galatians does not which refutes replacement theology completely. When Paul writes “neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female” he is making one specific point in one specific context. Salvation is equally available to all through faith in Christ. Full stop. That verse is about who can be saved. Anybody who accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior because salvation is through grace. It is not about whether distinctions between people cease to exist entirely. We know this because men and women still exist after Galatians 3:28. Masters and slaves still existed in Paul’s world and he addresses them as distinct categories in Ephesians and Colossians written after Galatians. The verse CANNOT POSSIBLY mean all distinctions are permanently abolished because Paul himself never treats them that way in any subsequent letter. Supersessionists take a verse about equal access to salvation and stretch it into a claim about the dissolution of an entire covenantal identity. Nothing in the actual text of the Bible supports that kind of an interpretation. What supersessionists do with Galatians 3:28 is the exact theological equivalent of what the Supreme Court did with Roe v. Wade. And we all know how that turned out.

@realJennaEllis Matt 7:22-24

It’s really alarming how many so-called Christians on this platform believe the OT isn’t important.

Iranian Christians👇 God answered their prayers🙏🔥

ALWAYS A BANGER ‼️ Former president of Iran Ahmadinejad: “Iran's Secret Service had established a unit to target Mossad agents within Iran. However, the head of this unit turned out to be a Mossad operative himself, along with 20 other agents.”

Imagine taking a time machine back to 2001 and telling these guys that the Apprentice host will be the one to bomb Iran.

This. 👇🏻

Well over a dozen U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T “Stratotankers” and KC-46A “Pegasus” Aerial-Refueling Tankers are continuing to depart tonight from bases in the United States heading eastbound for Europe, as the KC-135s from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida - six in total - are preparing to cross the Atlantic destined for Vrazhdebna Air Base in Bulgaria.

A doctor in the Iranian city of Borujerd [230k population] tells the Independent Persian that the "hospitals turned into war zones" during the protests and that at least "500 people were killed in this city" independentpersian.com/node/418818/%D…

🚨 “THIS IS OUR COUNTRY - DEPORT THEM ALL.” REP. ANDY OGLES DELIVERS A CONGRESSIONAL MIC DROP - YES! - AMERICA IS FIGHTING BACK 🇺🇸 Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) just delivered one of the most raw, confrontational, and unapologetic moments Congress has seen in years, and Washington, the media, and CAIR are predictably melting down. There was no hedging, no soft language, no walk-backs. Ogles opened with a declaration: “Let’s be clear. The United States of America is safer today because of President Trump.” “The United States of America is the dominant predator across all landscapes.” Then he went straight to the numbers Congress has spent decades dodging: “Since the 1965 Hart–Celler Act, we’ve seen chain migration on a scale I don’t think even the authors of that bill could have imagined.” He revealed stunning facts - on the record. “We’ve seen roughly 60 million migrants come into this country - about 90% from third-world countries.” “There are roughly 300,000 Afghans in America. About 200,000 came under Biden.” “Approximately 45% of Afghans are on food stamps. Sixty-eight percent are on Medicaid.” Ogles didn’t stop at domestic impact. He cited official European crime statistics that governments overseas are now openly warning about. “Paris: 48% of crimes committed by foreigners - most of them Muslim - according to the French Interior Ministry.” “London: 40% of sex crimes committed by foreigners, most of them Muslim - Metropolitan Police data.” “Rome: 83% of street robberies by non-EU citizens - almost all Muslim.” He then brought it home. “Minneapolis, Cedar-Riverside - a Somali hub - violent crime rose 56%.” “Dearborn, Michigan: crime 105% above the national average.” Ogles cited a case in his own state that RAIR Foundation exposed, saying that in Nashville, a Somali migrant who entered the U.S. in 2015 raped and killed a woman on the steps of a church. And then came the moment that detonated across social media, cable news, and activist networks. 🔥“I’ve had enough.” 🔥“I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again.” 🔥“Deport them all.” 🚨“This is our country. We decide who comes in, and we decide who has to leave.” Predictably, CAIR and its allies immediately erupted, accusing, labeling, blah, blah, blah, precisely as they did after Tommy Tuberville and Chip Roy spoke the truth. But here’s the reality, they can’t scream away: Andy Ogles didn’t invent these numbers. He cited them. He didn’t incite violence. He articulated a policy position grounded in national sovereignty, law, and public safety. And he said what millions of Americans are thinking but have been told they’re not allowed to say. This was a line being drawn. WE ARE BACK. America’s leaders are finally fighting. And the old intimidation playbook isn’t working anymore. 🇺🇸 Stand with Andy Ogles. 🇺🇸 Stand with leaders who refuse to be silenced. 🇺🇸 America is done apologizing.

Per @TuckerCarlson, Christians have it better in Qatar than Israel. The truth? There are 2x as many Christians in Qatar (~400K vs 188K), but they're almost all migrant workers. Despite Tucker's claim of "so many Christian churches in Qatar," there are SIX. Total. For 400K people. Meanwhile, Israel has hundreds of churches. Heck, there are more Baptist churches in Israel (17) than churches total in Qatar. Another key difference is that almost all of Israel's Christians are actually citizens. They vote, serve in the military, and hold elected office in the Knesset (Israel's parliament). By contrast, Qatar -- officially -- has NO Christian citizens. Why? Because in Qatar, it is illegal to convert from Islam. That's why Qatar closely monitors almost every significant aspect of Christian practice. All six churches by law must be in a single designated area, where the state holds ultimate control, and authorities force people to show ID in order to attend church -- a great way to ensure citizens aren't sneaking in. This is to say nothing of the reportedly horrific living and working conditions for the migrant workers, a system which many have likened to modern-day slavery. So to recap, Tucker took the only possible data points to show anything positive about Christian existence in Qatar -- the raw total number of Christians and the fact that they can attend church -- and obscured literally everything else. Even most paid propagandists would be a little squeamish with such open shilling. But not Tucker. Why?

BREAKING: Now that Trump has sent DHS into Minneapolis, Americans are SPEAKING OUT! “I would say about 80% of the government assisted housing in Columbus [Ohio] is occupied by Somalians, and the parking lot is occupied with a whole bunch of brand new cars. And the women walking around have designer purses with EBT cards and they have Apple iPhones stuck up in their hijabs.” “Then go to the businesses that are owned by the men. Because see, what happens is when you have a restaurant or when you have a little corner store and you have a couple of wives and you only have to claim one, then that means the other wives get EBT cards and you can use those EBT cards to buy food for your store or your restaurant.” Get them ALL OUT!

During a long phone call on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Donald J. Trump for more support in his push for a pardon from Israel’s President Isaac Herzog, who Trump already penned a letter to in November urging him to pardon Netanyahu, according to officials who spoke with Axios. Netanyahu asked Trump to continue supporting his effort to secure a pardon in his ongoing corruption trial, with President Trump telling Netanyahu he thinks the pardon will work out but didn't commit to any further steps, one official said, “Netanyahu wants Trump to do more, but the President has done all he can do.”

Reports of a shooting near the Farragut West Metro Station in Downtown Washington, D.C., only about a mile from the White House, with casualties and fatalities including two members of the National Guard.