Day: April 13, 2023

THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMILE: New Jersey shore town offers boardwalk in shape of the cross despite criticism: ‘Can’t hide our faith’

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From foxnews.com

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association president Michael Badger says the pier reflects seaside town’s ‘Christian mission’

New Jersey shore town’s cross-shaped pier causes stir

President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Michael Badger explains why he designed his privately owned pier in the shape of a cross.

A New Jersey beach town is making a grand gesture to start this summer in good faith.

Ocean Grove, New Jersey — known for its Christian roots and values — has rebuilt its massive oceanfront pier in the shape of a cross.

The boardwalk was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 — and its new design is now set to be revealed at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, April 15.

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association president Michael Badger said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the symbolic design was not intentional, but “organic.”

Badger, who has a background in engineering, said he and his team aimed to build the “best pier” possible.

New cross-shaped pier in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The original pier was destroyed during Hurricane Sandy in 2012. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

“The more we thought about it [and] prayed about it, [the more] the inspiration came for the present design,” he said. 

“We’re always going to be welcoming and seeking for people to be engaged by the gospel – and that’s what we have to offer.”

The thought behind the design was to add “more ends” to the pier, which resulted in the shape of a cross, Badger said.

“It’s functional,” he continued. “But it became obvious to us that it is in the shape of a cross — and how fitting it is for our Christian mission.”

He added, “So this is just a culminating of a design process that sought to create an optimal pier — and we do see the blessing of God’s hand in this.”

Easter morning sunrise over the new cross-shaped pier in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, as seen on April 9, 2023. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

Construction on the pier began in Sept. 2022. It stretches nearly 500 feet long and 24 feet wide across the extended arms.

The $2 million project was 100% donor-funded, according to Badger.

The stormproof pier will be completely open to the public for visitors to fish, relax and enjoy nature.

Cross-shaped pier in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. “People are going to love it,” said Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association president Michael Badger. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

“It is fabulous,” Badger said. “People are going to love it.”

The build did not come without scrutiny, Badger said. Some people were quick to criticize the pier’s Christian symbolism.

The cross should still be a “part of the American fabric,” as Americans are free to exercise religion “even in public spaces.”

“There are some people who feel that, in this day and age, Christians should take the crosses and move them inside their buildings and close the doors,” he said. 

“And that’s not a sentiment that we agree [with].” 

“Christianity is a global faith … We’re always going to be welcoming and seeking for people to be engaged by the gospel — and that’s what we have to offer.”

A statue of Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association founder Ellwood H. Stokes, in front of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. (Joshua Comins/Fox News Digital)

The cross should still be a “part of the American fabric,” as Americans are free to exercise religion “even in public spaces,” Badger also said.

“We can’t hide our faith,” he continued. “It’s something we live out day to day, and I would be concerned if there ever came a day when that wasn’t allowed.”

Badger continued, “Anyone is allowed out on the pier, and we would celebrate them going out.” 

Despite some backlash, most of the feedback about the pier has been positive, he said; most Ocean Grovers are just happy to have a boardwalk back on the beach.

View of a cross on the Ocean Grove Beach in New Jersey.  (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

“People are celebrating being whole again and better than we’ve ever been,” he said. “This is the best pier that Ocean Grove’s ever had.”

Badger added that there’s been a lot of “optimism” about the pier and its inclusive nature — which allows anyone to walk out onto the water.

“I’m hoping that people find peace there. I’m hoping they find joy,” he said. “I’m hoping they’re able to communicate with others and can feel a part of the community.”

“This isn’t political; this is spiritual. And for Ocean Grove, it’s historical.”

Badger volunteers in his role as OGCMA president.

He is responsible for managing Ocean Grove’s beach, boardwalk, historic buildings and religious and secular programming.

An aerial view of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove at Bridgefest. (Courtesy of Bridgefest/Stan Berger)

The association owns all the land in the 153-year-old beach town, which was founded after the Civil War.

“It was a time when America had been divided,” Badger said. “They were broken physically, emotionally. Family members had fought against family members. Churches were splitting.”

People sought out Ocean Grove as a place for “healing and restoration,” he noted.

It’s a place, he said, “for people to go beside nature and to be in communion with God and to heal.”

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association Headquarters are shown in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

Ocean Grove continues to maintain that same mission by creating a location for “holy leisure,” Badger added.

“We see that as what God’s mission for us to do is to create opportunities for spiritual birth growth and renewal, and that’s done through educational, recreational worship and similar means,” he said.

Colts Neck Community Church Pastor Chris Durkin expressed his support for Ocean Grove’s mission in an interview with Fox News Digital, calling it a community that is “very near to our hearts.”

While Ocean Grove has been nicknamed “God’s square mile,” Durkin said the new pier is a “wonderful addition to the Jersey shore.”

He said, “It represents not only Ocean Grove’s history – it represents so much of a ministry that happens there. More than just wood, this will point to the faith that’s helped shape this town for decades and decades.”

Sunrise during a recent morning on Ocean Grove Beach, New Jersey. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)

The pastor said he believes it’s important to continue representing the “viewpoints of Christians” as a nation that has “not shied away from the cross.”

“The cross is the most celebrated symbol across the world,” he said. “So putting a cross along the Jersey Shore reminds us of the hope that Jesus Christ gives to all who believe.”

He added, “This isn’t political; this is spiritual. And for Ocean Grove, it’s historical.” Source

What a beautiful and meaningful article from fox! We hear so much negativity and hatefulness towards Christians. I can just imagine Jesus smiling at this article!

HALLELUJAH!

HOW CAN I BE SAVED?

MARANATHA!

U.S. government leading all nations into global beast system that would require compliance with digital health tyranny enforced by U.N. World Health Organization

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From leohohmann.com

Key to defeating this system is ‘the 25 percent’who refuses to buckle under the pressure of tyrants

Under whose flag do you wish to live?

We’re about to find out.

Last summer the Biden regime was pushing an amendment to the international health regulations administered by the U.N. World Health Organization that would have given the WHO the power to dictate U.S. policy whenever there is a declared “public health emergency of international concern.”

Even a public health emergency of “regional concern” would have triggered the WHO’s authority to step in and enforce rules on mask wearing, social distancing and lockdowns. Even vaccines, of which Big Pharma always has a new one at the ready, could be mandated by the United Nations agency headed by the corrupt Ethiopian communist Dr. Tedros.

But here’s the worst part. Guess who would get to declare such an emergency under these amended regulations? Of course, it’s the WHO and Dr. Tedros.

As Joe Hoft writes for The Gateway Pundit, the amended agreement would prevent Americans from doing anything that the United Nations world government apparatus didn’t want to be done “and would in essence take away all rights of Americans in an emergency like COVID.”

Thanks at least in part to the efforts of conservative news outlets like this one, the Biden regime’s push for a new level of global governance was defeated last year at the World Health Assembly in Geneva when a bloc of mostly African nations balked and walked.

But now the Biden regime is back at it, as Hoft reminds us, “pushing for this insane action to destroy Americans’ rights once and for all.”

The Biden regime publicly affirmed their commitment to a “legally-binding” Pandemic Accord in a press release in February which will give the World Health Organization (WHO) control over U.S. pandemic policies, though work remains in certain areas.

They are calling it an “accord” instead of a treaty in an effort to bypass U.S. Senate approval. Yes, the Biden regime is attempting to unilaterally hand over U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations World Health Organization while pushing other nations to do the same.

This anti-American document is designed to undermine the U.S. Constitution and its emphasis on individual God-given rights in favor of a collectivist “for the greater good” mentality. It emphasizes “equity” and “inclusiveness” which are merely code words for collectivist policies under a centralized power structure. In other words, this document would cement in stone the death of the American republic as we know it.

Former Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who now serves as dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, shared her concerns about this backdoor to global government being pushed by the Biden administration in a recent interview with Steve Bannon.

Bachmann reminds us that this push by the entity in Washington that claims to be our government to make their tyranny global is all about corralling the nations into a new digital system policed by techno-tyrants armed with the latest technology.

Here’s the key quote from Bachmann in the above video:

“They could declare an emergency for a pandemic or even the possibility of a pandemic and then nations would be forced to do the bidding of the WHO. And every single human on earth would be given a digital identity, on your phone, there will be a QR code, and if you’re in compliance with what the WHO has mandated for you — testing, shots, boosters — then you get to travel, or you don’t get to travel. And that would be merged with your electronic medical records, and eventually that will be merged with the digital currency, and your whole life will be on your QR code, but it will be run through the World Health Organization, through the U.N. That’s the platform for global governance. We’ve never had this level of control, ever, in history. This would be a first, where we have a global body, and all 194 nations would give up their sovereignty to the World Health Organization.”
As she also stated, “once you give up freedom, you don’t get it back. It doesn’t get any bigger than this. This is as big as it gets.”

While this “accord” would formalize things, the U.S. federal government has already handed over its sovereignty to the WHO in a de facto sense. Even when Trump was in office, he followed the recommendations of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who were merely passing on the “recommendations” of the WHO regarding lockdowns, facemasks, vaccines, etc.

The one defense the U.S. had against Fauci, Birx and the WHO was federalism, as quite a few states like Florida and Georgia, went against the

recommendations coming down from Geneva through Washington, D.C., to the state Capitols. But if you were unlucky enough to reside in a Democrat or RINO-controlled state, you didn’t even have that. You were stuck with lockdowns and mandates on small businesses and individuals that were completely extra-constitutional in nature.

Remember, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says the Bill of Rights apply unless we are in a state of emergency.

So, given what we learned with Covid, even if this new global health accord giving real enforcement powers to the WHO gets defeated again at the 2023 World Health Assembly in July, we have a lot of work to do in educating the American public in the art of non-compliance. Because whether an unconstitutional usurpation of rights comes from a sovereign U.S. government or an international body, the end result is still the same. We are effectively living under a communist or fascist regime where individual rights are no longer respected as being “endowed by our Creator,” but rather they are seen as being “allowed” to be exercised at the whim and pleasure of human authorities. The only way to deal with a tyrant is through mass civil disobedience and noncompliance. 

‘The 25 percent‘
The CDC came out this week and said the number of Americans who never agreed to be jabbed with even one shot of Big Pharma’s toxic mRNA concoction was “larger” than previously reported. A full 25 percent of Americans not only said no, but hell no. This is a slightly higher percentage than the 21 percent figure the CDC gave us last year when they wanted to make the refusniks feel like they were among a tiny minority. 

In my assessment, a major reason why the clot-shot mandates and lockdowns were finally dropped was because of this 25 percent. Anytime you have 25 percent of society willing to exercise noncompliance, it becomes extremely difficult for tyranny to totally take hold over that society.

If 25 percent of German Christians had stood up and said, no, we will not cooperate with this tyrannical government’s policy of extermination, you can bet that the Nazis would not have been able to do what they did to the Jews.
BOTTOM LINE: Whether it’s your governor, president, or some global bureaucrat at the WHO barking orders for you to “stay home” or “get the shot” or “don’t hire employees who haven’t taken the shot,” as followers of Christ we simply say no and go on living life as usual. This is the only way to defeat globalism. That is, if it is even defeatable. 

If we truly are in the last of the Last Days, then we know a global beast system will be allowed to dominate the world for a short period of time and, when it does, there will be no escaping the consequences. Even now there are consequences for obeying God instead of human authorities. If you were among the 25 percent who rejected the Covid shots, there’s a good chance you lost your job, you weren’t allowed into certain venues, or maybe you lost a valued relationship with a friend or loved one. 

The Bible says that when you follow Christ you will encounter tribulation and hatred from the world. Many Christians confuse tribulation the “wrath” of God. This is not the wrath of God. This is the wrath of Satan and the world against the followers of Jesus Christ, and it will increase as we get closer to Christ’s Second Coming, as described by Jesus himself in Matthew 24. Of course the worst thing these followers of Lucifer can do to us is kill our physical bodies, which are all on a collision course with death anyway. The antichrist kingdom will be brief, and at the appointed time God will unleash His wrath on Satan and all his minions, who will be thrown into the lake of fire while the rest of us get taken up to everlasting glory with the Lord of lords and King of kings. 

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Texas dairy explosion leaves at least 18,000 cattle dead, 1 person critically injured

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Sounds to me as if they rounded up those 18k cows for the slaughter. I also think that this has Bill Gates’ fingerprints all over it.

From foxnews.com

Approximately 18,000 cows were killed, and one person was critically injured, in an explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle on Monday. 

The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed with Fox News Digital that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt.

Very few cows in the holding area survived, officials told local outlet KFDA. 

“Your count probably is close to that. There’s some that survived, there’s some that are probably injured to the point where they’ll have to be destroyed,” Castro County Sherif Sal Rivera told KFDA. 

Smoke is visible a day after a massive explosion at a Texas dairy farm that left one person critically injured and 18,000 cattle dead. (Castro County Sheriff’s Office)

The explosion and fire were reported just before 7:30 p.m. Monday at Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt, Texas.(KFDA)

Police said they received eight calls just before 7:30 p.m. Monday about an explosion and fire. Callers said some employees were trapped inside the milking building.

When law enforcement officials arrived at the dairy farm, they determined only a woman was trapped in the dairy building. 

Officials said the trapped individual was rescued from the building and airlifted to UMC Hospital in Lubbock for treatment. Lubbock is located about 80 miles from Dimmitt. 

Emergency personnel respond to a massive explosion at a dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas, on Monday. (Castro County Sheriff’s Office)

Plumes of smoke rise a day after a massive explosion at Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt, Texas. (Castro County Sheriff’s Office)

Officials said all the other dairy employees were accounted for and were safe.

The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire. source

Do you get the feeling that America’s food supply is being targeted? This is deliberate and nefarious.

COME LORD JESUS!