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by | 2022/03/11 · 7:31 pm

Sanctions are crippling the economy of ‘Fortress Russia’

March 4, 2022

A shuttered stock market, close to default, business boycotts and a rush to the cash machines: the Russia economy is on its knees just eight days into the invasion. The scale of the looming economic collapse has clearly alarmed Russia’s business elite following a tidal wave of Western sanctions with oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin breaking cover to criticise the invasion. JPMorgan warned on Friday that the country is facing a hit as great as Russia’s 1998 financial crisis, predicting an 11pc peak-to-trough GDP plunge. The Centre for Economics and Business Research expects a 14pc hit in lost output in Russia over two years.
Oil and gas is still flowing from Russia to Europe, keeping a vital revenue source for its economy and the Kremlin intact.  But shoppers and industries, including banking, shipping, aviation and retail, are already feeling the heat as the West severs economic ties and turn Russia into a pariah state.

In just over a week Russia has suffered an economic meltdown. And worse is too come. The Economist said this week that the sanctions introduced by the US / UK / EU on the 26th February are causing “financial mayhem” in Russia causing Putin to increase Russia’s nuclear alert level. With incredible foresight, Brother John Thomas wrote these words in 1848,

“Let the Russian treasury be as empty as it is said to be, and its expenditure exceed its revenue by double the alleged deficit, it will only operate as a pressure from within, causing her autocrat [Gog], to enter into countries, and to overflow and pass over, and to enrich himself with the spoil of those he is destined to subdue.”

Ezekiel wrote

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords (Ezekiel 38:4)

The hook in the jaws is the lure of spoil in Israel (gas/oil) required by Gog to replace lost revenues in Europe…

Andy Walton

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Looking at a “Man from the North” endangering the world

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  5. US insight from the Independent for the first week of March 2022

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by | 2021/09/25 · 7:49 pm

Submarine ‘treason’ shows Britain is vassal state of US, say fuming French

France has labelled Britain an American “vassal” and denounced Australia for “treason” over its decision to cancel a €56 billion deal to buy 12 French diesel-electric submarines.
The Australian government has opted instead for more sophisticated nuclear-powered submarines from Britain and America; a move described by a furious Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister, as a “stab in the back”. Le Drian announced on Friday that he was recalling France’s ambassadors to Australia and the US in protest, an extraordinary step among such close allies and a sign of the Macron government’s displeasure at having been given only a few hours’ warning of the change, made public on Wednesday.
Clément Beaune, France’s outspoken Europe minister, turned his fire on the UK.

“Our British friends explained to us that they were leaving the EU to create Global Britain. As you can see, it is a return to the American fold and accepting a form of vassal status,”

he told Public Sénat, a state television station.

Andy Walton in his Weekly World Watch comments:

Even though Britain could have forged this new agreement with the UK and Australia before Brexit it is highly unlikely they would have done so. Before Brexit, Britain was in the EU and would have been obligated to tell their partners of something like this. But post Brexit, Britain is looking to become a global power again and forge closer ties with the wider world outside Europe. This has incensed the French as this new nuclear submarine deal cancels their own deal with Australia costing France billions. Again with Bible in hand we see how this fits with Bible prophecy. Britain is NOT part of the EU alliance of nations (political Babel / Babylon) that come together under the false religion of Rome (spiritual Babylon).

Brother John Thomas understood this 150+ years ago!

Britain is not included in the ten toes. She is reserved of God to antagonize Russia” and “The ten toes belong to the image as a united dominion; hence Britain cannot be included among them. (Elpis Israel – written by John Thomas)

the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, (Daniel 2:42)

 

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by | 2021/05/01 · 7:14 pm

Los Cristadelfianos — Una Comunidad Mundial

Los Cristadelfianos se formaron a mediados del siglo pasado en el noreste de los Estados Unidos. Desde ese entonces nos hemos extendido por todo el mundo, con grupos fuertes y antiguos en los Estados Unidos, Canadá, Inglaterra y Australia. Actualmente, estamos creciendo más rápidamente en el África y la India. En el mundo latino, tenemos congregaciones en Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina y Colombia, y miembros aislados en otros países Sur Americanos.

Si quisiera información respecto al grupo más cerca de usted, mándenos un mensaje por correo electrónico a preguntas@labiblia.zendesk.com.

Nos llamamos ‘Cristadelfianos’ por algunas razones. Primeramente, porque a nuestro fundador le pareció que el nombre ‘Cristiano’ había perdido su sentido, con mil denominaciones supuestamente ‘cristianas’ pero sin unanimidad de criterio y convicción entre ellas. Segundo, John Thomas no quería que el grupo recibiera su nombre, los ‘Tomasitas’, o algo por el estilo. Tercero, como somos objetores de conciencia (y nos parece muy extraño que personas que supuestamente siguen a Cristo piensen que se justifique el homicidio, solo porque el gobierno del país donde por casualidad han nacido considera conveniente exterminar a los moradores de otro lugar), en la Guerra Civil de los Estados Unidos nos fue necesario registrarnos como organización formal, para poder solicitar el no tener que participar en la guerra. Y finalmente, el nombre se creó como una derivación de dos vocablos griegos, y su significado es simplemente ‘Hermanos en Cristo’ (ver la introducción de Pablo en su carta a los Colosenses). En todas partes del mundo tenemos el mismo nombre.

Una Comunidad de Estudiantes Bíblicos

Los Cristadelfianos creemos que los 66 libros de la Biblia son inspirados por Dios, y son la completa y suficiente fuente del conocimiento que lleva a salvación. No creemos que ningún Cristadelfiano, en el presente o pasado, haya recibido alguna revelación especial, ni tenemos otros textos que consideremos inspirados.

Creemos que solo por la persistente lectura de las Escrituras y la ferviente oración es que se puede llegar a una comprensión verdadera del propósito de Dios en el mundo y en nuestras vidas.

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by | 2021/04/27 · 6:27 pm

¿Qué significa ‘Cristadelfiano’?

La palabra ‘cristadelfiano’ fue formada por nuestro hermano fundador, John Thomas, allá por el año 1870. En ese tiempo él había formado una comunidad nueva e independiente. Cuando comenzó la guerra civil en los Estados Unidos por esa fecha, para que los miembros se pudieran inscribir como objetores de conciencia (para no prestar servicio militar) la comunidad tenía que tener nombre, así que escogieron ese.

Viene de dos palabras griegas: ‘Cristo’ y ‘adelfos’. El primero está claro, el segundo significa ‘hermanos’. En total, significa ‘hermanos en Cristo’. Fue tomado de los primeros versiculos de la carta de Pablo a los Colosenses, donde se dirige a ‘los hermanos en Cristo de la iglesia de Colosas’.

Los cristadelfianos afirman basar sus creencias enteramente en la Biblia y no aceptan otros textos como inspirados. Creen que Dios es el Creador y Padre de los creyentes. En su doctrina, Dios Padre y Jesucristo no son un solo ser, sino dos diferentes, mientras que el Espíritu Santo no es una persona, sino el poder de Dios utilizado en la creación y para dirigir a las personas a la salvación. Este fue concedido a los creyentes para propósitos específicos en algún tiempo de la historia de la iglesia, no solo en el Nuevo Testamento, sino a través de toda la historia de Israel, por lo tanto, su accionar mediante los “dones espirituales ha cesado.

La narrativa bíblica relata en su libro Génesis, como el dios Jehová en siete días crea la luz, la vida y los primeros seres humanos.

Los cristadelfianos creen que las personas se separaron de Dios por causa de sus pecados, pero se pueden reconciliar con Él convirtiéndose en discípulos de Cristo. Creen que la salvación se obtiene al seguir el ejemplo de Cristo, por lo cual niegan la creencia nicena de que la muerte de Jesús tiene un valor expiatorio. En sus palabras los seres humanos son redimidos porque “mueren con Cristo” diariamente al pecado dentro de su humanidad. Creen que una fe sin obras es una fe muerta y no salva, pero se trata de una fe basada en el razonamiento lógico de las Escrituras. Lo importante, según ellos, no es aceptar una doctrina, sino saber lo que Dios quiere de sus hijos.

> Nuestra Fe:

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by | 2017/04/03 · 2:25 pm

Who cries out against a hearty and uncompromising castigation of error

“I have never heard a man yet, thoroughly imbued with the Truth and love of it, cry out against a hearty and uncompromising castigation of error, as bitter and too severe.

Where men’s faith is weak, and their minds are full of uncertainty, and they are conscious that their own deeds will not bear the light, you will find them full of ‘charity’, and sensitively fearful of the corrupters and transgresors of the Word. They don’t want their feelings hurt lest it should do harm! The fact is they don’t want the Truth too plainly demonstrated, lest it should make themselves obliged to defend that of which they were not fully assured”

Bro John Thomas

foto van Trevor Snow.

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by | 2016/12/21 · 1:33 pm

The Spirit of liberty is the Spirit of Christ

The Spirit of liberty,
based upon the law of faith,
is the Spirit of Christ;
and this spirit all the Sons of God are privileged to possess,
and having it, to breathe.

I claim the right of exercising this privilege,
as well as my contemporaries;
and I require of them that they should do to me as once they loudly required others to do to them…

(written by John Thomas, the founder of the Christadelphians,
when he was against creeds in The Apostolic Advocate magazine, August 1836)

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