Isaiah 30, don’t trust in Egypt! A rebellious people, yet God will be gracious, judgment on Assyria.

This Rahab  (רהב) is a nickname for Egypt, not to be confused with the original Rahab (רחב ) from Jericho.

And then there was one. U.S. alone fights climate change the right way.

At the climate conference in Bonn, Germany, Syria signed the so called Paris Accord on Climate Change, leaving the United States alone as a non-signer.

Our European friends are quite upset about this. After all, countries like Denmark and Germany have the highest residential electricity rates in the world to pay for their wind and solar power installed. Here are the countries with reduced CO2 emissions this century:

But if one looks at the absolute decline in CO2 emissions, the U.S. leads the pack hands down:

So, who is the biggest CO2 villain? It is China by 6500 million tons of oil equivalent increase since 2000.    According to the Paris accord China is allowed to emit 6 times as much CO2 as the U.S. And not only that, the U.S. would pay them as one of the “developing” countries to do that!

Isaiah 26, a song of praise, Messianic prophecy.

From the previous chapter we have the double meaning of be-Zion.

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Not only was Jesus from Nazareth, Nazar is the Hebrew word for Christian.            A song:

Other old testament promises of the resurrection:

The New Testament is full of the promise of the Resurrection.

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