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Page 14 His Grace Magazine! February 2022
Financing Cut Off!
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President Biden has cut off Western Financing and Condemns Putin's invasion of Ukraine
President Biden's administration is calling Valadimir Putin's for entering into areas of Eastern Ukraine, beginning an invasion and is answering with severe sanctions put against Russian banks, businessmen and lawmakers. President Biden said, "He bizarrely asserted that these regions are no longer part of Ukraine and their sovereign territory. To put it simply, Russia just announced that it is carving out a big chunk of Ukraine."
George Thomas with CBN is in the region and he is reporting that those provinces are now having a heavy escalation of fighting. "Now that Russia has rolled its tanks into parts of Donbas region, attacks against Ukrainian postions have been spiking. Since Monday's invasion, there have been more than 5,000 ceasefire violations, the overwhelming majoirty of them committed by Russian forces. Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy is calling up some 250,000 reservists, as new satellite images show Moscow deploying more troops to Belarus and western Russian."
It was the Russian lawmakers who gave approval to Putin's request to use military force on the outside of Russia in the Ukraine. United States' reply from President Biden was, "We've cut off Russia's government from western financing. It can no longer raise money from the West."
Sen. James Lankford (Rep. OK) was recently on the Jay Skulow show and he said what the sanctions will mean to the Kremlin. He said, "Russia has a smaller GDP (Gross Domestic Product) than the state of Texas has. They're basically a gas station that's selling oil and natural gas to Europe and to Asia and whoever wants to buy it. If we cut that off, Russia's economy collapses, and Putin faces real consequences."
The European Union has also imposed sanctions with Germany freezing a major new Russian natural gas pipeline called the Nord Stream 2.
The United States has also sent 800 extra soldiers, along with fighter jets and helicopters are being relocated in areas to help NATO members in the Baltic states.
The sanctions that have been put onto Russia are going to have an impact here as well. Gas prices have already jumped 20 percent over last month's prices and if Russia's taps are shut down, those prices could jump even higher.
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China's changing Bible?
China has been rewriting the Holy Bible, they are calling Jesus a 'Sinner' and much more
China's Communist Party is on a mission to start rewriting the Holy Bible through a communist lens. Their mission has reportedly created astonishing twisting of scripture and the Gospel truth.
Todd Nettleton, a spokesman for The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), who is a persecution watchdog serving all Christians around the world, said the Chinese government has had an ongoing effort to rework the Bible. "This is a project that the Chinese Communist Party announced in 2019. At the time, they said it would be about a 10 year process, to release a new translation of the Bible, noting it would include Confucian and Buddhist principles, among others. This new translation would really support the Communist Party."
Todd Nettleton talks about all the shocking Bible translations that they have done as well as the wider religious freedom issues that are going on in China. The VOM has shared a reworked version of the Bible. One of the changes to the Bible is the popular story that focuses on Jesus and His love and compassion with the woman that was caught in the sin of adultery. The VOM said, "The Chinese Communist Party announced plans to update the Bible to 'keep pace with the times.' The revisions will include adding 'core socialist values' and removing passages that do not reflect communist beliefs. In a textbook for high school students released in September 2020, the authors included a passage from John 8, as revised in their new version."
Now before we look at the revised communist version of the Bible, let's look at John 8 as it is written in the original Bible.
As a popular forgiveness story, the Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in adultery. They then challenged Jesus, saying, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. What do you say?" Now the Bible observes that the Jewish leaders were trying to trap Jesus so they could accuse Him. But Jesus just started to write on the ground with His finger. John 8:7 says, "So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first."
The Chinese has a different version for their bible, that is totally anti Bible.
The Chinese bible says, "When everyone went out, Jesus stoned the woman himself, and said, 'I am a sinner.'"
One thing that is shocking to Todd Nettleton is that they are directly attacking Jesus' divinity in their bible. He said, "In one sense, it's just like so arrogant to think, 'I'm going to rewrite the story of Jesus...but then you think about denying the deity of Christ. If Jesus is a sinner, then He's not God."
He also said, "The issue for the Chinese Communist Party is control. It is always about control. And they see the Christian message as something that would take control away from the communist party."
