Meditation for April 14, 2024 _ After Holy Week _ D. Franklin

Communion Meditation for 14-APRIL-2024: After Holy Week.

Good morning, Church Family! I hope each of you is well on this beautiful Sunday morning! Two weeks ago, we celebrated Resurrection Sunday; and Holy week has now passed for another year. The Robins Egg Easter candies are all gone; and Christ has risen! Amen? So, what happens next?

Our communion meditation today addresses Jesus’ activities here on Earth following His Resurrection and through His Ascension to the Father, a period of approximately 30 days. In this one-part meditation series, we will review just a few of Jesus’ activities and sightings of Him. These witness accounts further support the argument that Jesus was undoubtedly resurrected from death and was seen publicly many times among the people following his resurrection.

There are specific dates associated with some of these accounts. Note that these dates are from the Roman calendar which starts each new day at midnight; not the Hebrew calendar which starts each new day at sunset.

1. Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. Sunday, April 9, 30 AD. Mark 16:9 - 11, John 20:11 – 18: Mary is the first person to whom Jesus chose to reveal himself alive after his resurrection. This occurred at his tomb early Sunday morning after God brought him back from the dead. Mary at first did not recognize Him, mistaking him for the gardener. Then she recognized Jesus, and He instructed her to go tell the other followers.

2. The Road to Emmaus. Sunday, April 9, 30 AD. Luke 24:13 – 33:Jesus unexpectedly appeared to two followers while they are walking to Emmaus (Luke 24:13 - 33). They discussed the events of the week, and He then explained to them all the Biblical verses and prophesy pertaining to the Messiah. He mildly criticized them for not believing what the prophets foretold regarding His coming. They did not recognize Him until after he departed from them. One of the two is Cleopas, the other was likely his wife, Mary, though some accounts identify the second as the Apostle Simon.

3. Appearance with His followers. Sunday, April 9 after sunset. John 20:19. This is the first time Jesus showed himself alive to his followers. Most of the disciples had been hiding behind closed doors since Jesus was arrested in fear of persecution by the Jews. The Apostle, Thomas, was not with the group at this meeting.

4. Doubting Thomas
Sunday, April 16 after sunset. John 20:26 – 29. This was the fourth time Jesus showed himself to humans to prove he has risen from the dead and the first time all those (except Judas) who ate Passover with him saw him as a group. In this passage of scripture, The Lord allowed Thomas to observe the wounds he received on the cross, for Thomas to overcome his doubt.

5. Sea of Galilee, Jesus appears to 7 disciples that were fishing
Between April 17 and May 17. John Chapter 21: 1 - 14. This is the account of the disciples fishing all night and catching nothing. From the shore, Jesus instructed them to cast the net on the other side of the boat, which yielded a net full of 153 fish.

6. Jesus appears to a multitude Between April 17 and May 17
In 1 Corinthians 15:6. The apostle Paul describes Jesus appearing to a crowd of more than 500 people at one time, then again meeting with his brother James.

There are other additional events documented in scripture, including Christ’s Ascension to Heaven on May 18, witnessed by his disciples as described in Matthew 28:18 - 20. Shortly after this, the disciples receive the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, and begin preaching, healing and establishing Christian churches throughout the region.

Jesus, in spiritual form, converts the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus, who had persecuted Christians even to death, to the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. Paul became man of great faith, as we know, establishing churches and writing half of the books of the New Testament.

Holy week has passed for another year, but the work of our Risen Lord continues every day, every week of the year.

Let us pray:
Father God, master and creator of the universe, we thank you for the sacrifice of your son and the gift of your grace. We know we can never repay you for the sacrifice of your son, Jesus, or earn the forgiveness and salvation you have given to us. As we prepare to take communion in His honor, let us always bear in mind that the cup and bread represent His sacrifice that bore our sins away. We praise you and worship You, Father, on this Sunday and every day. In Christ’s name we pray, Amen.

Great conversation between Jason Whitlock and John Amanchukwu regarding all the national days of recognition that are given to the alphabet mafia. This began in the obama era (which, in my opinion, we are living in phase 2 of the obama era) and has now escalated to what we are now witnessing.
Pray for Jason Whitlock, as he is a new believer, still growing and starting a men's movement in Nashville that he calls "Roll Call". Pray for John Amanchukwu, who travels the country visiting school board meetings in protest of the inappropriate books being housed in school libraries.
https://x.com/WhitlockJason/status/1775191469047026095?s=20

I don't know the show but I recognize the actor. I'm curious about his church of universal wisdom. I've never heard of that and I bet the judge has never heard of it either! That may be why his request was denied.

How Your Western Brain Exposes You to 5G Warfare
Living in the Cognitive Trenches of the Left Hemisphere
https://badlands.substack.com/p/how-your-western-brain-exposes-you?publication_id=1135129&post_id=142253325&isFreemail=true&r=1maoyr&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Last year, I walked the ladies in my church through the book of Jude. We wanted to be able to recognize the false teachers, and Jude is as good as any Bible writer when it comes to warning us about the heretics and hirelings who stand in the pulpit today. I posted lesson one on my blog, and I hope that you will be blessed by the Word of the LORD.
https://abiblicalworldview.wordpress.com/2024/03/03/2332/

Stop saying that he is "too old" to be president. His age is not the problem. His cognitive ability is the problem. They keep trying to throw his age around because if they can use his age to remove him, they set a precedent in case they need to remove the next president.

On February 8, 1943, the Nazis hanged 17-year-old Lepa Radic for being a Yugoslav partisan during World War II. When asked the names of her comrades, she replied: “You will recognize them when they come to avenge me.”

German Minister Announces Pre-Crime Surveillance, Prosecution of ‘Far-Right Extremists’

On the road to techno-totalitarianism, Germany’s #1 SS officer, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, has announced an “early recognition unit” that will “detect far-right and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible.”

https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2024/02/17/german-minister-announces-pre-crime-surveillance-prosecution-of-far-right-extremists-n4926520

EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Using Border Crisis to Illegally Order NSA to Spy on Americans With Facial Recognition Technology Based on Fake Terror Alert Issued By FBI

https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-biden-admin-using-border-crisis-to-illegally-order-nsa-to-spy-on-americans-with-facial-recognition-technology-based-on-fake-terror-alert-issued-by-fbi/

These men deserve recognition!

Several psychological terms can be used for those who fail to recognize reality. From the mildest, denial, to perhaps the most extreme, psychosis, all are disorders that should be addressed. What happens when those who have lost contact with reality (or who are simply in denial) are encouraged, and psych "experts" and the law seek to aid and abet them? We end up with pronoun pretension.

https://curetsky.substack.com/p/pronoun-pretension

THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER 'WE ARE LEGION, FOR WE ARE MANY' IS COMING… And There Will Be Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide With New 'Whole-Body Biometric Recognition System'

Michigan State University researchers received a $12 million, four-year federal grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, or IARPA, under its Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range, or BRIAR, program. The IARPA BRIAR program is a 48-month effort to deliver end-to-end software systems capable of detecting individuals at severe imaging conditions, extracting biometric signatures from the whole-body (such as an individual’s gait and/or body shape) and face, and fusing biometric information for robust multi-modal matching. The MSU project entitled “Physics-driven Modeling and Learning for Person Recognition at a Distance and Altitude” is led by Xiaoming Liu, an MSU Research Foundation Professor; Arun Ross, Martin J. Vanderploeg Endowed Professor; and Anil Jain, a University Distinguished Professor — all in the College of Engineering

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2023/msu-researchers-receive-12-million-grant-for-drone-biometric-recognition-system#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20were%20surprised%20to%20learn,long%20distance%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Liu

China is working on advanced 'brain warfare' tech including devices that send enemies to sleep and thought-controlled weapons Biological weapons are being developed to induce sleep and impair cognition

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12889057/china-advanced-brain-warfare-tech-devices-enemies-sleep-thought-controlled-weapons.html

Will the Corrupt US Department of Justice (sic) Be Held Accountable?
It is a paradox that Jack Smith, who in my opinion has less integrity than the infamous Stalinist prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky who prosecuted Stalin’s show trials of the Bolsheviks, was appointed director of the Justice (sic) Departments Office of Public Integrity. Perhaps recognizing Smith’s lack of concern with justice, Merrick Garland, the worst Attorney General in US history, sicced Jack Smith on President Trump and Trump supporters who attended the Trump rally labeled an “insurrection” by the whore media and Democrat Party.

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/12/16/will-the-corrupt-us-department-of-justice-sic-be-held-accountable/

Explaining The Taylor Swift/Inanna Phenomenon;TAYLOR SWIFT OPENLY SPEAKS OF DEMONS DIRECTING HER-THE RISE OF GODDESS WORSHIP BEFORE THE WORLDS EYES!

I’ve been trying to put my finger on the Taylor Swift phenomenon for some time now. Evidently people pay obscene amounts of money to see her, and she is breaking world records on her latest tour. By all accounts (well, not quite all) it’s worth seeing, as Miss Swift parades out on the stage in outfit after outfit and dazzles swarms of people with a show like Superbowl halftime on crack. What’s going on here really, though? In ancient Babylonian mythology, the goddess Inanna gets kicked out of the Babylonians’ version of the Garden of Eden, then returns to exact her revenge on its inhabitants and their god. For a brief time, Inanna was the chief goddess of the pantheon. When King Sargon the Akkadian appointed his daughter high priestess over the first Mesopotamian empire, she dedicated herself to the glories of Inanna. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly this included a lot of ritual sex. Inanna was the sex goddess not only of Babylon, but all the world. The Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, and pretty much everyone else recognized that they all worshiped this same goddess, though she had different names and slightly different origin stories depending on the culture. She was Aphrodite, Venus, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Isis, Lillith, and a host of other names. Yet everyone saw that she was really just the one spirit of illicit sex. Moderns don’t believe in spirits, demons, and goddesses — officially at least. We still have our myths about them, though, like Peter Pan’s Tinkerbell, the sexy fairy. Even in the 1950s Disney cartoon, Tinkerbell’s miniskirt is always just about ready to get hiked up too far. She cannot tolerate Peter’s interest in a sensible girl like Wendy. She would rather kill Wendy, in fact, than give up Peter to the pleasantries of a family life and devoted love in the bonds of marriage. Tinkerbell is one of the best pictures of Astarte in recent years, who comes to bring her flirtatious delights, stays to keep men in a state of perpetual adolescence, and would (if she could) kill the women who might possibly make us into men. I finally realized while listening to “Anti-hero” that she is the embodiment of the ancient goddess Astarte. But I was talking about Taylor Swift, or maybe I have been all this time

https://stream.org/explaining-the-taylor-swift-phenomenon/

"a Republican was elected mayor of Charleston for the first time since 1877."

It would be interesting if voting for the good guys was a sign of the beginning of the end times revival. I am not saying it is, but is this happening because people have been praying?

https://amgreatness.com/2023/11/26/election-of-milei-wilders-and-cogswell-has-the-left-worried/

Sarandon may be a good actress, but she's a horrible person with little cognitive ability.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/asra-nomani-response-susan-sarandon