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Read what a few friends have written about Hidden Holiness.

“This book offers a rich account of the nature of holiness with regard to God and to us. Along the way Crump undoes some common misapprehensions, shaking us out of our complacency about what it means for God to be holy, and challenging us to rethink what we mean by holy living in relationship with the Holy One.” Suzanne McDonald, professor of systematic and historical theology, Western Theological Seminary.

“God is hidden and revealed. Threatening but attractive. Wholly Other, yet eager for relationship. The holiness of God properly understood, says Crump, compels us toward personal consecration and neighborly kindness. This small book asks a big question: do we dare abandon the comfortable gods of our imagination to bow before a Dangerous Redeemer?” Bruce N. Fisk, retired professor of New Testament, Westmont College and senior research fellow, Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East

Hidden Holiness is available from the publisher as well as from Amazon.

I pray the book will bless every reader and encourage God’s people to live lives of daily adoration.

In violation of the UN charter, international humanitarian law and the US constitution, the United States has joined Israel in its war of aggression against Iran.

We can only wait for the blowback and inevitable escalation which could — quite literally — lead us to World War III. While Trump’s bloody-minded, MAGA sycophants cheer on his doomsday recklessness, the remainder of the  world’s thinking citizenry can only hold their breath contemplating the arrival of an imminent Apocalypse.

This is what can happen when two nuclear-armed nations (the US and Israel) are governed by two psychopaths (Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu) with no conscience, no capacity for empathy, no concern for the rule of law, no regard for actual facts, and inflated egos always starving for greater adulation.

THIS is the principle fact of the matter: every US intelligence agency has agreed that — at least until yesterday’s attack — Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program. Iran has not had a nuclear weapons program since 2003.

Israel’s description of their attack as a “preventative first strike” offers nothing more than a malicious cover story for Israeli aggression. It is a blatant violation of international law. And the US now shares in that needless, illegal aggression against a nation that poses no threat whatsoever to US security.

Israel and America are wanton bullies whose crimes endanger the human race. That is not an exaggeration.

For more on these facts, please check out the following analysis of former UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter:

Three things now are as certain as death and taxes:

One, the US has become an aggressor in a needless war that could eventually include Russia, China, Pakistan, Turkey, and parts of Europe;

Two, Iran now almost certainly is developing a clandestine nuclear weapons program. That’s the big lesson from these events — if you don’t yet have nukes, get ’em quick;

Three, as Israel-watchers now turn their attention from Gaza to Iran, Israel will hasten its wholesale slaughter of innocent Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/7/10/freed-former-palestinian-bodybuilder-alleges-abuse-by-israeli-jailers

As the assault on Rafah continues I notice how regularly the news headlines follow a similar pattern: residential home bombed + at night + X number of women & children killed.

I strong suspect that these repeated headlines offer more evidence that Israel is continuing to use the AI programs Lavender and Where’s Daddy? Programs that I have discussed here previously.

The IDF uses these programs to intentionally bomb (1) the homes of suspected Hamas fighters (2) after dark (3) when the families are sleeping together. Hardly the practice of a military that was sincere in its insistence that it worked hard to avoid civilian casualties.

Well, here is yet another story demonstrating Israel’s disregard for murdered civilians.

When you bomb a crowd of people waiting for their turn to access a public internet connection, what else can you expect but — NUMEROUS CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. It’s not rocket science.

No one but no one can claim that these deaths were accidental, collateral damage due to the fog of war. It’s long past time for the LIES to stop.

Maung Zarni is a scholar who has been nominated for a Nobel Prize. He has spent his career studying genocide, specifically the Nazi holocaust.

In a recent interview he stated that “what is happening in Gaza is simply mass extermination without the gas chambers.”

You can read a excerpt from the article by Ahmet Gurhan Kartal at “If Americans Knew” below:

“What we are seeing in Gaza is simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,” he said, referring to the brutal Nazi method of killing prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

“You don’t need to destroy a population with gas chambers only. If you are able to carpet bomb … 80% of the living space, the residential area, most schools, hospitals, you are destroying the population.”

Zarni also pointed out Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s statement that “no one in Gaza is innocent.”

“That’s 2.3 or 2.4 million Palestinian people, including infants. Half of the 2.3 million Palestinians are children and youth,” he said.

“So, what we are seeing is the repeat of Auschwitz in Gaza.”

You can read the entire article here.