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The Citrus Eagle - Executive Producer, Elaine T Kleid
August 8, 2023
EL NINO AND SOLOMON’S WISDOM
Ecclesiastes 1: 7 “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”
El Niño is a weather phenomenon that includes the warming of the waters in the Pacific Ocean in the equatorial latitudes. El Niño means “little boy” in Spanish. El Niño also means “the Christ Child.”
Spanish and other South American fishermen and seafarers first noticed the unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean in the early 1600s. They named that occurrence El Niño de Navidad, because El Niño typically peaks in December, the believed time of Christ’s birth.
What was realized by the early American settlers and explorers was that varying weather/climatic conditions changed from year to year. They likely rationalized the weather patterns were an act of God and did not blame mankind or the squirrel population or other somewhat laughable scenario for causing the weather fluctuations.
And they did not start building electric buggies thinking that would change the climate and make the world a better place. A certain fact we can postulate about our ancestors, they were much smarter than we.
The power to charge the buggy batteries would have to be produced by something! Blaming “non-causes” for societal and environmental conditions appears to be another sign of our declining intellect.
King Solomon, second son of David and Bathsheba, was given wisdom by the Lord. He not only possessed great knowledge and skills; he was also resourceful and had an insight into many things, most did not have.
God asked Solomon in a dream what He could give him. Solomon said, “Give me wisdom that I may lead this great people of Yours.”
Solomon was a genius architect and engineer. His construction skills were unsurpassed for the time. Solomon also had extensive abilities as a gardener and a musician.
2 Chronicles 1:11-12 “And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou may judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.”
The fame of Solomon as a very wise king spread throughout the (known) world. Other kings and queens came great distances to sit in his presence and hear him voice wisdom. Many of them brought presents such as pure gold. Solomon accumulated, some believe, as much as forty tons of pure gold, valued (by one source) at $64,300,800,000 today. No wealth today is compared to what God gave Solomon.
Solomon’s wisdom was also witnessed in his writings that became books of the scripture (Old Testament). The penning of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon are credited to him.
Solomon was also a great philosopher. In Ecclesiastes he stated his frustration with the boredom of life. Nothing is ever satisfying. God and His teachings were the only satisfaction to Solomon and he directly makes a point of this.
In making the point of “there is nothing new under the sun,” he used several examples from the physical world. One such example regards the cycling of water on our planet.
Ecclesiastes 1: 7 “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”
Solomon probably never saw an ocean. He would likely have seen the Great Sea (Mediterranean Sea) and that body of water appears as an ocean from the beaches of Spain to Israel to North Africa.
At times there are more violent seas on the Mediterranean than on oceans, especially in the Strait of Gibraltar. The winds funneling into the strait from the Atlantic are extremely violent and seldom lay. Solomon would have been familiar with the characteristics of the earth’s largest bodies of water.
Solomon made a point that God was a recycler from the beginning. The hydrologic cycle as described in Ecclesiastes 1: 7 is a point Solomon had no way of knowing. It therefore becomes evident God had to tell him to write this verse.
The hydrologic cycle is God’s way of recycling water. Basically stated, the rain falls, the earth uses it; the water evaporates into the atmosphere or the excess flows to the sea. In the seas, the water evaporates, floats back over the land and the rains come again.
We are actually using the same water as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob used over 4000 years ago. When we consider El Nino, the jet stream patterns and the changing climate due to the natural cycles of the earth, extremes in temperature and precipitation become a certainty.
The development of El Nino this year has caused a much greater evaporation rate than normal. Thus we are experiencing much larger amounts of rain and therefore flooding. Abnormal weather characteristics will likely be experienced for the remainder of this year. Long range weather prognosticators simply follow the patterns.
The reason for the weather/climatic anomalies seems obvious. Varying conditions on our earth have existed for centuries and will continue to manifest themselves making weather from year to year uncertain. Some of the hottest temperatures on record (120 degrees upward) were recorded in 1936.
Just as our Creator God set the seasons and the earth and solar system in their cycles and orbits, so He determines those varying conditions. To blame the “cause and effect” on anything else would be a test of our Creator and recklessness in fact.
For students of the Holy Bible, God’s word, knowledge and wisdom has revealed to us; the more we study, the more we’ll be convinced of its validity. To be convinced of the reliability of the scriptures is dependent on one’s exposure to its teachings. It certainly does appear those that deny its authenticity have not read it and sought out its truths.
For those that have been influenced to believe, it seems reasonable to deduct, if God knew the hydrologic cycle three-thousand years ago and was in control of it, He most certainly is today and our weapon of choice is TRUTH (John 14: 6).
Since eternal life is a reality as the scripture indicates (Romans 6: 23), it seems logical to believe what He tells us about salvation. Eternal salvation is by a faith based belief in Christ Jesus crucified for the remission of sin and resurrected. This is the only eternal salvation (Acts 4: 12).
Job 37:6 “For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
Van Yandell is a retired Industrial Arts teacher, an ordained gospel evangelist and commissioned missionary, from Fredonia, Kentucky. A part of the Bible Connection series.
Term Limits
Speaker MCCarthy is already caving in to the left. As far as impeachment goes MCCarthy says we need more evidence. Who is he kidding? Do your job as a Republican and get things done. Stop with the talk and putting the brakes on the impeachments. Has he endorsed President Trump? I do think he has or will endorse President Trump. He is the alligator in the swamp. He is proving what he really is. That is what I mean about the Republicans doing their job. They are stone walling everything. What else is new? We need term limits for all these politicians that are like Biden. God bless America.
Anna DeRose
Hunter The Liar
It doesn’t matter where or to whom Hunter Biden talks he lies. He’s been trained to hedge by stating the asserted fact and then saying I’m not sure about that. He’s never been held to account so he never tells the truth. Now Daddy’s Justice Department facilitates and covers up the lie. The Biden Administration is in the process of turning the entire federal government into a Big Lying machine.
There’s the DOJ which controls junior lawyers by firing those who dare to be honest, when Garland replaced the whole Delaware Biden legal team just before the plea deal to put in the compliant Leo Wise.
There’s Mayorkas who repeatedly claims the Southern Border is secure and when asked in Congress whether he has done a good job, praises the work of the junior people in the Border Patrol who are probably 4 or 5 levels down in the hierarchy.
There’s Anthony Blinker’s State Department that claims that the hasty and disastrous withdrawal fro Afghanistan was well done, when 13 US soldiers were killed by terrorist suicide bombers in a “highly secure area” during the exit, there are the tens of thousands of Americans and allied Afghans left behind by us to be at the mercy of the Taliban.
There’s the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who after an embarrassing surrender in Afghanistan says the biggest issues in our military are Systemic racism and Climate Change.
There’s the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Trans-woman who has been caught stealing luggage in airports twice.
There’s the lying CDC that repeatedly tells us that the MRna treatment is safe and effective at stopping infection and transmission of Covid 19 and reduces hospitalization and must be taken by children who have infection rates under 1% and adverse side effect rates (including heart attack over 3%.
We could go on, but that record is horrible enough to warrant the expulsion of every senior employee in those departments.
Blessings,
Mark Conley
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss -- HHS: Slavemaster
If you have not seen Sound of Freedom, or even if you have seen it, watch it anyway: https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/many-unaccompanied-minors-sent-to-traffickers-not-family-members-hhs-whistleblower-tara-rodas-breaks-down-red-flags-5424219 Its an Epoch Times interview by Jan Jekeliek of Tara Rodas.
It is a detailed validating account of the Child Trafficking service that the HHS is now running with tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Children in America. Leftists weep and wail over slavery when it first came to America in 1619; but this link details the modern child slavery, that HHS as Slavemaster is running. The US government has set up the business for the Child Trafficking Cartels and is complicit in importing the children and transporting them to a child trafficker anywhere in the US and then paying the traficker for “looking after” their new Child slave. This is not a conspiracy theory; it is real and Mayorkas and his DHS are running this with the assistance of HHS and covering it up with the assistance of Democrats in Congress like Ocasio Cortes and her ilk.
Please pass it on so as many people as possible know about it.
Blessings,
Mark Conley
Remember?
Suitcases Full of Ballots Hidden Under Tables Inside Precinct?\
Precinct Workers Boarding Up Windows To Stop Us Seeing How They Were Cheating?
Are We Alone?
This has been a question that has dogged mankind since the beginning of time. The answer may come tonight on the series The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. The final episode is tonight on the History Channell at 9:00pm (EST). Whatever the government knows about whether we are alone, or not, they apparently do not want us to know for they have always stopped anyone who dared inquired about this subject. Airline pilots, decorated military personnel, to include reputable scientists, have all been shut down by government when it comes to this subject, much like those who investigated the JFK and RFK and MLK assassinations. Why, must one ask? Is there life out there in the universe? After four years of hi-tech research, along with the most sophisticated equipment put in use outside of the military and applied to this research, finally, tonight's final episode of the series may provide us all an answer. Tune in... Our government just might find delight in keeping most of us out of the loop...
John 14:2-6
King James Version
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Autumn Life, Autumn Spice
(Relevant Inspirational Insight)
I think we all know a few underachievers and those who took the wrong path in life, and now, in their later years, have found fault with everyone else but their own selves. I am not talking about those with disabilities or have fallen on hard times. They tend to be humbler and more gracious in their suffering. And then there are those others, the ones who hate this, and hate that, and just seem outright miserable and have designs on making those around them miserable. This piece covers the full spectrum; to include those who failed to enrich their lives when the opportunity presented itself, to those who do not get along with anyone because the world hates them, or so they have convinced themselves of this, to those who are just plain lazy. What do we say to such people? How can we get them to accept responsibility for their dire situation? How can we get them to be more humbled and appreciative in their ways? We can’t! Not unless they are willing to look at life, and themselves, in a different way. You can also share the following with them, and please, feel free to do so…
“In life, all things are possible, depending on what we believe in, who we believe in, and what we believe about ourselves. We just need to discipline our minds, purify our hearts, and prepare ourselves for the impossible.
The decisions we make are critical and our judgments must be sound, likewise, so it is with those we need and cultivate as our most trusted and devoted of friends. The few we have and look towards for support and for confiding in, must be trustworthy, carefully chosen, discreet when it is required, and hopefully those who walk in the Light.
The way we communicate with others is the key to our success, as well. We cannot flourish in our relationships with others if we do not respect each other, share similar values and mores, and we never seem to ever grow in that relationship. It’s about being the right person, as well as finding the right person. In love and romance, there are many paths.
Pick your path wisely, I say. This should be something we give a lot of thought to; one, because certain paths can be horribly unforgiving; two, because many are fraught with danger. So, I say, let it be the right path. And let it be the righteous path. There lies our destiny and where we will potentially end up in life…” CS Bennett
“Word to the wise, and unwise; life can be overwhelming, and challenging, and our backs bent from all the suffering we must endure, but with the Almighty Father, YAHWEH, the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, as your guide, your life will be enriched, and your soul will come to know pure love and enjoy complete fulfillment. And then you will prosper…” CS Bennett
“In the beginning, my mind was strong, though my body weak. Overtime, and after numerous life and health challenges, I learned that both, body and mind, were resilient. It was then that I knew I would prevail and endure… “ CS Bennett
Psalm 8:3-5
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings[a]
and crowned him with glory and honor.
CS Bennett (The Collector)
Thinking About Auctioning Off A Rare Tootsie Roll Candy Dispenser
Marketed By The Hasbro Company (Early 1960s)
Very Rare (Like New)
