Jesus Is The Gateway Into Heaven And If You Don’t Come In By That Door You Will Never Enter
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Jesus Is The Gateway Into Heaven And If You Don’t Come In By That Door You Will Never Enter
We must understand and never forget that there is but one true gospel that the Bible proclaims. That is that Jesus is the only way that sinful humans can be reconciled unto God. Jesus said that “I am the way, the truth, and the life” no one comes to the Father except through me.” Jesus is the gate or door that leads to eternal life. When Peter and John where defending themselves before the Sanhedrin In Acts 4, Peter said, “Jesus is“the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.” Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” So if anyone and I do mean ANYONE, that preaches another gospel with the claim that there are many ways to heaven let them be accursed. Paul once said “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” (Galatians 1:8)
John 10 New International Version (NIV)
1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” 6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
7 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.[a] They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again.18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”
19 The Jews who heard these words were again divided. 20 Many of them said, “He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?”
21 But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon.Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
Further Conflict Over Jesus’ Claims
22 Then came the Festival of Dedication[b] at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23 and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. 24 The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
25 Jesus answered, “I did tell you, but you do not believe. The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, 26 but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[c]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”
31 Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?”
33 “We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are “gods”’[d]? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be set aside— 36 what about the one whom the Father set apartas his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37 Do not believe me unless I do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.
40 Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, 41 and many people came to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign, all that John said about this man was true.” 42 And in that place many believed in Jesus.
Socialist In America Silent About Venezuela Power Outages
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hospitals struggled to get back-up generators running, businesses shuttered and families anxiously tried to contact loved ones amid Venezuela’s worst-ever power outage Friday, raising tensions in a country already on edge from ongoing political turmoil.
Much of the nation of 31 million people was still without electricity as the blackout stretched into a second day and patience began to wear thin.
“This has never happened before,” a frustrated Orlando Roa, 54, said, decrying President Nicolas Maduro’s administration for failing to maintain the electrical system and letting qualified engineers leave the country. “This is the fault of the government.”
Maduro ordered schools and all government entities closed and told businesses not to open to facilitate work crews trying to restore power.
The blackout was reported to have hit 22 of 23 states, striking during the peak of evening rush hour Thursday, sending thousands of people on long nighttime treks home through some of the world’s most violent streets. Until now, Caracas had been spared the worst of a collapse in the nation’s grid and the outage was still wreaking havoc more than 18 hours after it began.
Venezuela’s socialist government blamed the power failure on right-wing extremists taking orders from the United States, including Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, and said they were intent on causing pandemonium for several days but offered no proof.
“The electricity war declared and directed by the imperialist United States against our people will be overcome!” President Nicolas Maduro wrote on Twitter in his only public comments on the outage. “No one can defeat the people of Bolivar and Chavez. Maximum unity patriots!”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shot back saying only Maduro was to blame.
“Maduro’s policies bring nothing but darkness,” Pompeo wrote on social media. “No food. No medicine. Now, no power. Next, no Maduro.”
The outage comes as Venezuela is in the throes of a political struggle between Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido, the head of congress who declared himself the nation’s rightful president in January and is recognized by the United States and about 50 other nations.
Without power to charge cell phones, normally hyper-active social media was eerily quiet. Even state TV — the government’s main vehicle for handing down a political line to its followers — went silent. Those who managed to get a signal used the hashtag #SinLuz — meaning without light in English — to share images of cities throughout the country that on Friday resembled ghost towns.
One user posted a video of a nurse manually pumping air into the lungs of an infant. Others posted photos of long lines of cars queuing up at gas stations in hopes of getting fuel. A man anguished that he’d gone 17 hours without hearing from his mother.
“What impotence!” he lamented.
Netblocks, a non-government group based in Europe that monitors internet censorship, said online connectivity data indicates the outage is the largest in recent record in Latin America. The observatory warned Friday that some of the remaining networks were starting to fall offline as generators and backups began depleting and cell towers shut down.
The director of CODEVIDA, a coalition of Venezuelan health advocacy groups, reported that thousands of dialysis patients were going without treatment as a result of the blackout. While some hospitals were able to rely on back-up power sources, others were dark.
At the maternity ward at the Avila Clinic in wealthy eastern Caracas Thursday night, several mothers wept as nurses held candles to monitor the vital signs of premature babies in incubators.
Zaida Rodriguez, 40, a cardiovascular technician, walked several miles to the private clinic where she works only to be told by bosses that she should leave because the facility would treat only urgent cases and operate with a skeletan staff in order to save on power.
“How is it possible for an oil country like ours to be without an emergency backup in place for these types of situations?” she asked. “This is pathetic.”
Venezuela’s electrical system was once the envy of Latin America but it has fallen into disrepair after years of poor maintenance and mismanagement. High-ranking officials have been accused in U.S. court proceedings of looting government money earmarked for the electrical system.
While intermittent outages have become regular occurrences in Venezuela of late, rarely have so many states simultaneously been without power for such an extended period.
The government keeps home power bills exceptionally low — just a couple dollars a month — relying heavily on subsidies from the Maduro administration, which is under increasing financial duress.
The nation is experiencing hyperinflation projected to reach a mind-boggling 10 million percent this year, is grappling with food and medical shortages, and has lost about 10 percent of its population to migration in the past few years — including many with valuable energy expertise. Venezuela’s economic woes are likely to increase as U.S. sanctions against its oil industry kick in.
State-owned electricity operator Corpoelec blamed the outage on an act of “sabotage” at the Guri Dam, one of the world’s largest hydroelectric stations and the cornerstone of Venezuela’s electrical grid. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez described it as a “cyber” attack intended to derail the whole system. He said electricity in Venezuela’s eastern region had been restored within hours.
“What’s the intention?” he said. “To submit the Venezuelan people to various days without electricity to attack, to mistreat, so that vital areas would be without power.”
Pro-government officials often blame outages on Venezuela’s opposition, accusing them of attacking power substations with Molotov cocktails, though they rarely provide any evidence.
Guaido did a survey of Caracas Friday to evaluate the impact of the blackout, blaming Maduro for the sorry state of affairs and looking to capitalize on what some decried as a sign of Venezuela’s newfound status as a “failed state” even though it sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves.
“It’s clear who is responsible for this disaster,” he said, renewing his call for Venezuelans to take to the streets Saturday in protest. “They keep making excuses, they keep looking for scapegoats, when corruption, calamity are what have caused this situation.”
Rubio, who has been driving the Trump administration’s confrontational stance toward Maduro, seemed to relish Rodriguez’s accusations that he was somehow to blame for the power crisis.
“My apologies to people of Venezuela,” the Florida Republican said in a message on Twitter. “I must have pressed the wrong thing on the ‘electronic attack’ app I downloaded from Apple. My bad.”
The blackout snarled traffic amid confusion generated by blackened stoplights; the subway in Caracas broke down; and there were reports that a flight Thursday from neighboring Colombia was turned back because the Caracas airport’s backup generators failed, leaving customs officials without the ability to screen those arriving.
A video posted online of the Caracas airport showed angry passengers waiting in front of check-in counters in the dark Thursday demanding to be let on planes.
“Flight! Flight! Flight!” they cried out.
As the blackout wore on, Venezuelans already struggling to put food on the table worried the little they have would get spoiled in fridges without power. Business owners griped over losses that were certain to compound their already bleak economic outlook.
“The only thing left for me to do is wait for the light to return,” said Jose Rodriguez, 51, the owner of a small restaurant in Caracas. “Today will be a lost day for me.”
James Clapper Busted About Lying To Congress: Wyden Says He Was Sent NSA Surveillance Question Before Testimony
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) on Wednesday slammed former National Intelligence Director James Clapper for claiming he did not purposely lie to Congress when asked about an NSA mass surveillance program in March 2013, saying he sent the longtime intelligence official the question ahead of the hearing.
“James Clapper needs to stop making excuses for lying to the American people about mass surveillance. To be clear: I sent him the question in advance. I asked him to correct the record afterward. He chose to let the lie stand,” the Oregon Democrat responded to Clapper’s excuse in a tweet.
James Clapper needs to stop making excuses for lying to the American people about mass surveillance. To be clear: I sent him the question in advance. I asked him to correct the record afterward. He chose to let the lie stand.Mediaite✔@MediaiteJames Clapper: ‘I Didn’t Lie’ to Congress About NSA Surveillance, I ‘Simply Didn’t Understand’ the Question http://mediaite.com/a/zlalp 10.6K1:03 PM – Mar 6, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy6,482 people are talking about this
Ron Wyden✔@RonWyden · Mar 6, 2019
James Clapper needs to stop making excuses for lying to the American people about mass surveillance. To be clear: I sent him the question in advance. I asked him to correct the record afterward. He chose to let the lie stand.
When intelligence leaders mislead the public about surveillance, they fuel the cynicism and mistrust of government that lets wannabe authoritarians gain power.3,2301:03 PM – Mar 6, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy1,054 people are talking about this
“When intelligence leaders mislead the public about surveillance, they fuel the cynicism and mistrust of government that lets wannabe authoritarians gain power,” the lawmaker added.
On Tuesday, Clapper denied making false statements to Congress on whether the National Security Agency (NSA) used to spy on American citizens’ phone records, claiming he bungled his answer because he did not understand the surveillance program Wyden quizzed him about.
Clapper said in an interview with CNN’s New Day host John Berman:
[T]he original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, and the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign communicant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot, and was put in place during the Bush administration for that reason. I always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you’d have this to refer to.
The Deep Stater added:
As far as the comment, the allegation about my lying: I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about. I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time. I just didn’t understand that.
In the exchange below, Wyden asks Clapper directly: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
“No, sir. … Not wittingly,” Clapper infamously replied.
That, of course, was false.
The Washington Times reported:
Three months later, Classified documents leaked to the media revealed three months later that the NSA had been compelling U.S. telecommunication providers for copies of telephone records, known as metadata, for essentially every call and text occurring over domestic networks.
Secretly implemented after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the NSA bulk metadata collection program was significantly reformed under the USA Freedom Act passed in 2015 and is slated to expire at the end of the year unless renewed by Congress.
Luke Murry, a national security adviser to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, said in a recent interview that the NSA quietly suspended the program in 2018 and that it is not guaranteed to be reauthorized, however.
In a June 2013 letter to the Senate Oversight Committee, Clapper wrote that he “simply didn’t think” of the NSA’s efforts to collect the phone records when testifying that the agency “not wittingly” survived their communications. “I simply didn’t think of Section 215 of the Patriot Act,” the intelligence official wrote to panel chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). “I apologize,” he continued. “While my staff acknowledged the error to Senator Wyden’s staff soon after the hearing, I can now openly correct it because the existence of the metadata program has been declassified.”
Some Republican lawmakers called on the Department of Justice to prosecute Clapper before a five-year statute of limitations for perjury passed on March 12th, 2018, but the matter was never taken up by the law enforcement agency.
Media Silent On The Fact That 103,000 Migrant Women Will Be Sexually Assaulted Entering The U.S. In 2019
Crime data shows that roughly 2,600 migrants will be murdered and roughly 103,000 will be raped or assaulted during their 2019 migration to the United States, says an estimate prepared by Steven Kopits, president of Princeton Policy Advisors.
“We estimate 80,000 migrant women were raped or coerced into sex during 2018, rising to 103,000 on higher migrant numbers in 2019,” said a statement from Kopits, whose predictions of migration increases been repeatedly validated by the eventual numbers. “These are persons … Incidents could be up to 50% higher.”
Alongside the murder and rapes, Kopits predicted 34,000 kidnappings, 21,000 cases of forced labor trafficking, and 106,000 robberies during 2019.
Kopits argues that the massive level of brutality could be sharply reduced if the United States expanded the current blue-collar guest workers programs. For example, the H-2B program brings in roughly 80,000 guest workers from Jamaica, Mexico, Honduras, and many other countries for manual labor at resorts, hotels, restaurants and forestry firms.
The similar H-2A visa program delivers more visa workers to agriculture companies, both to replace illegal aliens and also avoid the purchase of labor-saving machinery. Both programs require foreign workers to return home one a year or so, so keeping many of their families in the home country.
“In a market-based approach, 95% of the [criminal] pathology noted above disappears, virtually overnight (as does the domestic exploitation),” Kopits said in a statement to Breitbart News. He continued:
One can only imagine that, say, [Democratic Rep.] Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would want to support legislation which would protect 100,000 women per year and see up to 100,000 imprisoned migrants released … If you have AOC, by definition you have [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi. Democrats have little choice but to support a market-based approach, to the extent it is not otherwise cruel.
Kopits’ proposal is here.
Pro-American immigration reforms groups oppose both the blue-collar programs and the white-collar programs, such as the H-1B, L-1, and OPT programs. They argue the visa worker programs lower wages and salaries and create a huge incentive for companies to exploit foreign workers and discriminate against Americans.
But it is also unclear if Democrats are willing to use the visa worker programs to prevent the murder and rape of migrants.
On March 6, for example, Democrats simply ignored the issue of crime against migrants during their questioning of Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen, even though she spoke repeatedly about the crime.
“Because of the increase in violence, at ICE, when we have families with children, we have to give every girl a pregnancy test over 10,” Nielsen said during her March 6 testimony.
Investors want cheap migrant labor, retailers want more consumers, progressives want to claim nobility by aiding distant strangers. Too bad a huge share of the female migrants do get raped during the process. But Trump & his voters are the bad guys, right? http://bit.ly/2tMD1xT 735:09 PM – Mar 4, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacyNew York Times Admits Mass Rape of Latino MigrantsThe New York Times has admitted that many Latino migrants are being raped by the coyotes who transport them to jobs in Democratic-run cities.breitbart.com47 people are talking about this
However, several Democratic legislators tried to undermine President Donald Trump’s pro-American border policy by loudly declaring their concern for two sick children who died in U.S. custody after they were carried across the border by their migrant parents.
The Democrats also complained about the “cages” where migrants wait to meet with lawyers before border processing and release, and they complained that some economic migrants are required to wait in Mexico instead of being immediately released into the United States.
The Democratic chairman of the House panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson, began one set of questions by asking, “Madam Secretary, are we still using cages for children?” Nielsen rejected the claim, prompting Thompson to continue:
I’ve seen the cages. I just want you to admit that the cages exist … I saw the cyclone fences that were made as cages. and you did too. All you have to do is admit it. if it’s a bad policy, then change it. but don’t mislead the committee.
Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin berated Nielsen for housing children while their migrant parents were detained. She said:
So what did you do? I understand it’s complicated. We have a big bureaucratic system. When you saw those pictures of babies in cages, what did you do? What did you do to just scream bloody murder up the chain to the president, to say, I cannot represent an agency that is forcing its border patrol to do this? What did you do?
Nielsen pointed out that the U.S. government does not send children to jail with their convicted parents.
Rep. Nanette Barragán, a Democrat from Los Angeles, and a leader of the Latino caucus, vented against Nielsen. “You have no feeling, no compassion, no empathy here,” she claimed.
Barragan did not suggest any measures to reduce the crime against migrants — for example, the estimated 80,000 rapes and assaults — except for even quicker and easier entry by economic migrants into the United States and into the U.S. job market.
After the hearing, Democrats competed to display their anger at Nielsen via Twitter.
Lauren Underwood✔@RepUnderwood
As a nurse, I’m concerned about the trauma young children and families are experiencing as a result of DHS separating families at the border. Tearing kids away from their parents is unacceptable, immoral, and just plain wrong. 6,7362:05 PM – Mar 6, 20192,059 people are talking about thisTwitter Ads info and privacy
Kathleen Rice✔@RepKathleenRice
This is a lie.
Lying to Congress under oath is a felony.
The last person who did that is going to prison.Aaron Rupar✔@atrupar.@SecNielsen confirms that she’s aware of parents who have been separated from their children & deported without them, but says “there was no parent who has been deported to my knowledge without multiple opportunities to take their children with them.”10.4K3:54 PM – Mar 6, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy4,329 people are talking about this
In contrast, Republicans repeatedly brought up the crime issue. For example, GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw cited the case of one girl who was brought across the border to serve as a prostitute in the United States for five years:
Dictator Angela Merkel Wants Hungary, Poland, And Others To Surrender Control Of Their Borders Over To The EU
The Hungarian government is warning that the EU’s unelected executive and Germany’s Angela Merkel want to take away national governments’ power to control their own borders and turn Europe into “a continent of immigrants”.
State Secretary for International Communications and Relations Dr Zoltán Kovács warnedthat plans to reform and expand the role of the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) were an attempt to “infringe on the sovereignty of member-states” by taking border control out of national governments’ “competence” and handing it to the supranational body.
To support his claims about the European elite’s intentions, he quoted arguably the bloc’s most influential player, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany:
“[President of the European Commission] Jean-Claude Juncker has already put forward a proposal that states that Frontex must be reinforced. However, this also means – and this is what I support, at least – that member-states on the external border of the EU must give up their national competencies in order to give Frontex truly comprehensive competencies.”
“Beware when a senior figure says that countries ‘with external EU borders’ should ‘surrender their national competences’,” Kovács warned.
“That should set off warning bells throughout the EU,” he added — comparing Mrs Merkel’s words to those of billionaire plutocrat and open borders activist George Soros, when he boasted that “our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle”.
The Hungarian emphasised EU leaders’ constant stress on border management — “It’s never ‘strengthening’ or ‘defending’ borders. It’s always about ‘managing’ them and that’s a euphemism for immigration,” he asserted.
Breitbart London@BreitbartLondon
EXCLUSIVE – Hungary Rejects Mass Migration, Prefers Social Cohesion, Pro-Family Policies https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/02/11/exclusive-hungary-rejects-mass-migration-prefers-pro-family-policy/ …2,3365:28 AM – Feb 11, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacyEXCLUSIVE – Hungary Rejects Mass Migration, Prefers Pro-Family PolicyHungary’s foreign minister told Breitbart his govt rejected multiculturalism and mass migration for social cohesion and pro-family policies.breitbart.com1,100 people are talking about this
Meanwhile, Hungarian foreign minister Péter Stíjjártó claimed that the increasing hostilityof the Brussels establishment to pro-sovereignty, anti-mass migration conservative and national populist governments in Europe to their refusal to become “migrant hosts” at a joint press conference with his Polish counterpart, Jacek Czaputowicz.
In particular, the foreign minister highlighted the EU’s anger at Hungary and Poland being among the first European countries to follow U.S. President Donald Trump in rejecting the United Nations Global Compact for Migration — championed by the unelected EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in what the Hungarian described as an attempt to “force it down nations’ throats”.
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EU Chief Backs Proposed U.N. Compact, Will ‘Enhance Legal Pathways’ for Mass Migration to Europe https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/27/eu-commissioner-pledges-enhance-legal-pathways-managed-mass-migration/ …1512:00 PM – Sep 27, 2018Twitter Ads info and privacyEU Commissioner Pledges to ‘Enhance Legal Pathways’ to Mass MigrationCommissioner for migration Dimitris Avramopoulos has pledged to the UN that the EU is working to “enhance legal pathways” to mass migration.breitbart.com