📖 President
Trump Reads 2 Chronicles 7:11-22 at America Reads the Bible
Donald
Trump did not place his hand on the Bible during his 2025
inauguration oath. Though Melania Trump held two Bibles nearby, Trump
held his right hand up and left the other at his side, diverging from
traditional practice
5 U.S. Presidents Who
Didnt Use a Bible for Their Oath:
John
Quincy Adams (1825): Used a book of law instead of a Bible.
Franklin
Pierce (1853): Affirmation on a law book rather than a Bible.
Theodore
Roosevelt (1901): Sworn in without a Bible following McKinley's
death.
Calvin
Coolidge (1923): Sworn in by his father without a Bible.
Lyndon
B. Johnson (1963): Used a Catholic Missal found on Air Force One.
📦Donald Trump's Trouble is Linked to The Biblical Ark of The
Covenant and Ethiopia
🥚 Easter, known as
Fasika in Ethiopia, is the most widely celebrated religious holiday
among Ethiopian Christians—especially followers of the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
and unlike Western celebrations, Fasika in Ethiopia is deeply
spiritual and filled with rituals that reflect centuries-old
traditions.
Ethiopian Orthodox
Christians celebrate Easter anywhere from a week to two weeks after
the western Church (sometimes, they occur at the same time, due to
the vagaries of the Eastern Orthodox calendar, which Ethiopians
follows). Fasika (Easter) follows eight weeks of fasting from meat
and dairy. On Easter Eve, Ethiopian Christians participate in an
hours-long church service that ends around 3 a.m., after which they
break their fast and celebrate the risen Christ.
The Long Fast Before
Fasika
Leading up to Easter,
Ethiopian Christians observe a two-month-long fasting period called
Hudade, during which they refrain from eating meat, dairy, and eggs.
Most believers fast daily until 3:00 PM, though some may fast until
12:00 PM, except on Saturdays and Sundays. Religious leaders often
fast until 6:00 PM. This period mirrors the biblical sacrifice and
suffering of Jesus Christ.
Easter
Sunday – Joyful Resurrection and Celebration
At midnight or early Sunday morning (around 2–3 AM), church
services are held to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. Families
return home to break the fast with a traditional feast featuring Doro
Wot served with injera. The day is filled with joy as families and
friends gather to eat, drink traditional beverages like tella and
tej, and share laughter. It is the most important Christian
celebration in Ethiopia.
👹 Satan
Hates ♰
Christians: This is The Primary Driver For
The Ongoing Christian Genocide in Ethiopia
🥴
Senior military officials tell the New York Times that Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotion of two female officers
and two Black officers. The NYT also reports Hegseth's chief of staff
told the Army Secretary that President Trump would not want to stand
next a Black female officer at military events, according to three
current and former defense and administration officials familiar with
the exchange.
🤩 The
Pharisees' Blindness: A Warning Against Pride
♰ In
the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Nicodemus is revered not only
as the secret disciple who helped bury Our
Lord Jesus Christ
(John 19:38-42)
but also as a model of transformation—moving from fear and pride to
bold faith.
He is
commemorated during the Great Lent (specifically today,
the 7th Sunday) as an example of one who abandons worldly attachments
and pride to be "born again" through.
In the
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Nicodemus is revered not only as
the secret disciple who helped bury Jesus but also as a model of
transformation—moving from fear and pride to bold faith.
He is
commemorated during the Great Lent (specifically the 7th Sunday) as
an example of one who abandons worldly attachments and pride to be
"born again" through baptism.
❖ Key
Aspects of Nicodemus in Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition:
Overcoming
Pride and Fear: As a wealthy Pharisee and ruler of the Jews,
Nicodemus initially came to Jesus at night, symbolizing a struggle
between his worldly position and his desire for truth. The Ethiopian
tradition highlights his journey from this initial fear to publicly
helping Joseph of Arimathea bury Jesus, overcoming the shame and
pride associated with his status.
The Lesson
of Rebirth: Nicodemus is central to teaching the Orthodox
understanding of being "born again" through water and the
Holy Spirit (Baptism). The teachings highlight that he asked
questions about salvation directly from Christ, representing a
childlike humility.
A Saint of
Transformation: Ethiopian liturgy often emphasizes that Nicodemus's
story is a call for believers to move from the "darkness"
of hidden, timid faith to the "light" of bold, open
discipleship.
Commemoration:
The 7th Sunday of the Great Fast (Lent) is dedicated to Saint
Nicodemus.
😇
Nicodemus the Righteous, “A secret disciple of Christ”
Nicodemus was a
Pharisee and ruler of the Jews during the Apostasy era, who learned
Lord Jesus Christ sermons. This man was a teacher himself but knew
that our Lord’s Holy words were the only powerful and true. He use
to go Him in the night hour to hear His words seeking to avoid others
spotting speaking to Him. He also craved to escape the world of
darkness since he saw the light of salvation and life in Christ. Our
kind and caring Lord Jesus did not reject but received him with
Heavenly instructions. He talked to Nicodemus in a way that
encouraged Him to ask questions.
Nicodemus then
asked Lord Jesus, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who come
from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is
with him.” Lord Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.”(John 3:2-5)
Lord Jesus
explained to Nicodemus the precondition of salvation in the kingdom
of God which exists only if he believed that he was God’s own Son,
that he was equal with God the Father, and that the power to become
children of God by rebirth is available only through the mystery of
Baptism, which is one of the seven sacraments of the Church. (John 3:
2-13, 5: 17-18)
Nicodemus
desired to become a child of God and was baptized. He had love for
God and desired the grace of Baptism. Lord Jesus Christ explained to
him about the regeneration of man through Holy water. But at that
time, Nicodemus did not understand the mystery of Baptism to mean how
a man could be born again. When the Lord reprimanded him for his
ignorance and accepted it with humility, He believed in the Words of
Jesus who descended from above. (John 3:1-21)
Nicodemus never
again came to Lord Jesus in the dark due to his shamelessness but
loved Him. He came back to Lord Jesus Christ from time to time,
defended Him to the Pharisees and even became His follower proudly!
He was also the one who brought spices to anoint His body during His
crucifixion. (John 7:50-52, 19:39)
The seventh
Sunday in the Great Fast is named after Saint Nicodimus directing to
the new birth given by water and the Holy Spirit. After being cast
out the synagogue for his faith in Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Nicodemus
went to live with Saint Gamalile at his country house until his
death.
May God
cleanse our Soul with His Holy water, Amen!
“But if the
Lord creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and
swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down
alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised
the Lord.”
❖[Revelation
9:1–4]❖
“And the
fifth angel blew his trumpet, and qI saw a star fallen from heaven to
earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose
smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were
darkened with the smoke from the shaft. Then from the smoke came
locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of
scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the
earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do
not have the seal of God on their foreheads.”
🛑 We
have to interpret these dramatic events as evidence that The Almighty
Egziabher God is on the move.
Enormous sinkholes
measuring hundreds of feet in depth have been appearing across
genocidal Abiy Ahmed's babysitter Turkey, prompting some observers to
draw parallels with biblical scripture.
The Book of Numbers,
Chapter 16, recounts the ground opening to consume people as divine
retribution for defiance, a passage that certain individuals have
connected to the ground collapses occurring in the Konya Plain.
Turkey's Disaster and
Emergency Management Authority has documented 648 substantial
sinkholes throughout the vital wheat-producing region.
Prior to the turn of the
millennium, such collapses were rare, with only a small number
occurring per decade.
Now, however, scores of
massive ground failures happen annually, with some exceeding 100 feet
in diameter.
Researchers at
Konya Technical University have identified over 20 fresh sinkholes
within the past 12 months, supplementing approximately 1,900
locations already charted by 2021 where subsidence or early-stage
collapse was detected.
Prolonged
drought over the past quarter-century has been identified as the
primary driver behind this dramatic surge in ground failures.
Declining water
tables beneath the surface are creating cascading problems, including
depleted wells, damaged ecosystems, failing harvests, and sinking
terrain.
Agricultural
workers extracting additional groundwater to sustain their sugar beet
and maize crops are worsening the crisis.
According to
Turkey Today, farmers have already suffered crop losses or been
compelled to vacate fields considered hazardous.
NASA's Earth
Observatory data indicates Turkish water reserves fell to their
lowest point in 15 years during 2021.
Researchers
caution that comparable dangers could materialize across portions of
the US, Asia, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Australia as
groundwater reserves continue to diminish.
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