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Do New DNA Discoveries Really Disprove the Bible?
by Minister Michael Brown
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John Kelly Pushed liar-nObama’s
Jihad Policy Chief Out of DHS
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by Neil Munro
{breitbart.com} ~ The holdover official responsible for implementing former President Barack liar-nObama’s failed “Countering Violent Extremism” policy at the Department of Homeland Security finally resigned... just before DHS Secretary John Kelly departed for the White House. George Selim headed the now-defunct CVE program which tried to offer federal support and legal autonomy to Islamic political groups if they redirected Islamic immigrants and youths away from Islamic militancy and jihad. His resignation spotlighted Kelly’s decision to replace liar-nObama’s failed policy with more direct government involvement in Islamic communities. Kelly may use his new White House job to make his anti-jihad strategy a government-wide policy...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/kelly-pushes-obama-cve-jihad-chief-out-dhs/
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Jeff Sessions Set to Block Millions
in Funding to Sanctuary Cities
by Jessica Vaughan
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Department of Justice announced last week that sanctuary jurisdictions will lose access to certain federal law enforcement grants in 2017 if they prohibit officials from communicating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement... if they block ICE from interviewing jail inmates, or if they fail to notify ICE of the pending release of criminal aliens ICE is seeking to deport. These particular grants, known as the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants, are the largest source of federal criminal justice funds for state, local, and tribal authorities. This move is helping fulfill one early promise of the Trump administration: to impose consequences on the most egregious of the more than 300 sanctuary jurisdictions...http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/31/jeff-sessions-set-block-millions-funding-sanctuary-cities/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpBd1l6ZzROREEzTnpZMSIsInQiOiJrUXRhVVZtSk5zSXZkYitKb1NXRzA3bXVSV1p1VjJpeE5EN2lhN0I0RjJcL3hHM05MSmRmdFlYVzl4amZJQ1RaRFBNRzNuTFpqM2RqSENyOVh0XC9IVHZHTFphQ21lMFNBYzdJVWN4RnNNUVJyR3V4VWVwbWJjV2tQTjV6dGFBRFhVIn0%3D
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Now Western media face
wrath of Islamic blasphemy laws
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ A group of international Islamist organizations led by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation, or OIC, recently held a two-day conference on countering “Islamophobia”... in which it recommends imposing Islamic blasphemy laws on the media worldwide. Under Islamic law, it is considered a serious offense to criticize Allah, Muhammad or Islam. In countries like Pakistan, a Muslim can take a non-Muslim to court and claim he was “offended” by something that was said, resulting in a trial and jail time, even death, for the non-Muslim. Christians in Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Sudan and other Muslim-dominated countries with significant Christian minorities have been the targets of brutal persecution, with the blasphemy laws often serving as the catalyst for their incarceration. Christians have been jailed, stoned, beheaded, and even had acid thrown in their faces for violating the blasphemy laws...Hopefully not here. http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/now-western-media-face-wrath-of-islamic-blasphemy-laws/
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Thanks To RINO-McCain, No One Is
Blaming McConnell For Health Care Failure
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by Phillip Stucky
{dailycaller.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to pass a bill repealing liar-nObamacare, but colleagues aren’t blaming him for its failure, according to a Tuesday report, Three RINO-Republicans voted against the bill... Sens. John RINO-McCain of Arizona, Susan RINO-Collins of Maine, and Lisa RINO-Murkowski of Alaska — which were enough votes to kill the measure, meaning the majority of the spotlight is going to RINO-McCain’s last-minute decision to vote against it. The president slammed the three RINO-senators on his official Twitter account minutes after the second vote took place...http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/thanks-to-mccain-no-one-is-blaming-mcconnell-for-health-care-failure/
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Wasserman SCHULTZ – House To Dog House
Then Big House? AWAN Spy Probes Ramp Up
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{rickwells.us} ~ Congress is moving closer to hearings and a full-fledged investigation of the exploding scandal surrounding Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani spies... she and over two dozen other Democrats employed as supposed IT specialists, gaining full access to classified government information, including Intelligence. The Awan spy family is also accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from the offices of House members, according to senior congressional sources of the Washington Free Beacon. Based upon the unfolding developments, congressional leaders have asked the Capitol Police for a formal briefing into its ongoing investigation, now being conducted jointly with the FBI... http://rickwells.us/wasserman-schultz-house-dog-house-big-house-spy-probes-ramp/
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Do New DNA Discoveries Really Disprove the Bible?
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by Minister Michael Brown
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townhall.com} ~ There was a spate of headlines last week claiming that new scientific discoveries disproved the historical narrative of the Bible. Headlines included, “DNA vs the Bible: Israelites did not wipe out the Canaanites” and “Study disproves the Bible's suggestion that the ancient Canaanites were wiped out.” The problem is that the reverse is actually true: The discoveries confirm what the Scriptures explicitly state.

Not surprisingly, these headlines didn’t come from obscure, Bible-bashing websites. Instead, they came from Cosmos Magazine, Yahoo.com, New Scientist claiming that the discovery helped unravel the “true fate” of the Canaanites, and others. As stated in the New York Times, “There is a story in the Hebrew Bible that tells of God’s call for the annihilation of the Canaanites, a people who lived in what are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories thousands of years ago.

“‘You shall not leave alive anything that breathes,’ God said in the passage. ‘But you shall utterly destroy them.’

“But a genetic analysis published on Thursday has found that the ancient population survived that divine call for their extinction, and their descendants live in modern Lebanon.”

The problem, again, is the word “But,” since there is no contradiction between this genetic discovery and the Old Testament accounts. A more accurate statement would have been, “But the Hebrew Bible tells us explicitly that Israel failed to complete this mission of extermination, and a genetic analysis published on Thursday lends confirmation to this account, finding that the ancient population survived that divine call for their extinction, and their descendants live in modern Lebanon.”

As for the study itself, “Dr. Tyler-Smith and an international team of geneticists and archaeologists recovered ancient DNA from bones belonging to five Canaanites retrieved from an excavation site in Sidon, Lebanon, that were 3,650 to 3,750 years old. The team then compared the ancient DNA with the genomes of 99 living people from Lebanon that the group had sequenced. It found that the modern Lebanese people shared about 93 percent of their ancestry with the Bronze Age Sidon samples.”

What did the team conclude? According to Iosif Lazaridis, a Harvard geneticist who did not participate in the study, “it turns out that people who lived in Lebanon almost 4,000 years ago were quite similar to people who lived there today, to the modern Lebanese.”

But why should this surprise us? Or why should this discovery, assuming its accuracy, be taken as a contradiction of the Bible?

You don’t need to be a Bible scholar to figure this out. You don’t even need to read the Hebrew language. Any English Bible will do. The story is forthright and clear.

After the death of Moses, it was up to Joshua to lead the people into the promised land, the land of Canaan, driving out the peoples that lived there. These included “the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites” (Exod. 3:8). According to a number of biblical passages, these peoples were notoriously wicked (see, e.g., Deut. 9:4-5). Still, God told Abraham that he would have to wait 400 years before his descendants could possess their land. At that time, their guilt and wickedness would be complete (see Gen. 15:13-21).

The Book of Joshua recounts Israel’s conquest of Canaan, with city after city falling before them. But was it a complete victory? Was it an absolute annihilation of the enemy? Not even close.

As Joshua itself states, “Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, ‘You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.’” (Josh. 13:1). So, toward the end of Joshua’s life, Israel had hardly completed its mission.

The verses that follow contain a detailed list of all the regions that were not yet taken, including, “all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath, all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians” (Josh. 13:5-6, my emphasis). So, the inhabitants of Lebanon were not driven out, as these DNA discoveries seem to confirm.

Then, in the next book of the Bible, called Judges, which continues the story after Joshua’s death, an angel of the Lord rebukes the people for failing to drive these nations out. The angel even says, speaking for God, “I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you” (Judg. 2:3). In fact, the last 17 verses of Judges 1 detail all the peoples that Israel failed to drive out. Verse 31 specifically mentions “the inhabitants of Sidon,” which was one of the major cities of Lebanon.

And look at what the very next chapter states, “Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before. These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath. They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods” (Judg. 3:1-6, my emphasis).

In the centuries that followed, Lebanon remained a distinct kingdom, sometimes at war with Israel and sometimes with good relations with Israel, but never conquered by Israel. All this is recorded in the Hebrew Scriptures.

So, the headlines should have read, “DNA Confirms the Bible.” Why, then, didn’t these news outlets tell us the truth? Your guess is probably similar to mine.
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