In mid-June, the Israeli air force launched strikes against military and nuclear targets in Iran. This was followed by missile strikes by Iran into Israel. The Israelis are justifying their attack due to the existential threat they perceive from Iran. Israel claims that if Iran were to obtain nuclear capability, Israel would be in jeopardy of a nuclear strike from Iran. But like anything we hear from government officials, we might wonder if this is entirely true.

If Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon at Israel, we know Israel could also do the same to Iran. Israel is known to have a secret nuclear weapons program themselves. They also have never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Iran is a signatory to the NPT. Some estimates put Israel's nuclear weapons at 90. Yet they have never publicly acknowledged having the weapons.

In the beginning of the Church, back some 2,000 years ago, there was an awful lot of controversy surrounding this "Alien visitor" from another dimension of time and space. He was quite the disrupter of the status quo and caused a lot of questions with regard as to who this "Jesus" really was. Some even thought He was a prophet reincarnated from the dead to redress the times in which they lived.

Out of this visitation, many controversies and debates emerged, causing an enormous amount of "flurry" about His claims to be the Son of God. This spawned numerous heresies about His nature and just how could He be God's Son and human at the same time.

Last month in Palm Springs, California, a fertility clinic was bombed. The bomber perished in the bombing, and luckily, no one else did. As information began to filter out about the incident, we learned that the bomber was a 25-year-old who supported antinatalism.

The reason he was bombing a fertility clinic is because fertility clinics help people who have a hard time having a child. These clinics employ different methods to fertilize eggs and implant the egg back into a woman for the possibility of a future birth. The bomber was trying to destroy these future embryos. Fortunately, he was not successful in his plan.

It is an understood fact Pentecost—or, as some identify it, Whitsunday—is a Christian observance. Yes, many people that claim Christ as their Savior will take time to acknowledge and in some cases observe Pentecost as the memorial commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit. This is the fulfilled Christian Holy Day described in Acts 2 as the day the Church was empowered with the “Comforter” Jesus spoke about in John 14 and 16. Essentially, it is the Birthday of the Church as a “spiritual organism”!

The ancient Israelites called it the Feast of First Fruits, or the Feast of Weeks. It was known by them to be associated with the spring barley harvest—the first fruits of the new year. Interestingly, we find Pentecost’s origins actually “shadowed” in the narrative described in Leviticus 23.