This Week In The News
Current Events
by Norbert Link
We begin with the US Supreme Court’s highly controversial and disunifying decision related to birthright citizenship; continue with Israel’s and America’s attack on Iran and potential dangerous and alarming consequences; and speak on NATO’s embarrassing performance and modern warfare with drones.
We continue with further frictions between the USA and Canada and ICE’s misconduct, as well as further alarming intentions of the Trump administration regarding American citizens; and we address discussions for conscription in Germany and a push by Germany’s CDU leader Jens Spahn to become a nuclear power.
Please view our new StandingWatch program, titled, “Is America Ruled by a King?”
Throughout this section, we have underlined pertinent statements in the quoted articles, for the convenience and quick overview of the reader.
Editorial
Are You Really Free?
Here in the United States, the country will celebrate the 4th of July. This day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776—when the United States declared its intention to break away from Britain and become its own nation.
One of the founding ideas by the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence was their conviction that everyone had individual rights, along with equality and the concept of democracy. Over the last couple of hundred years, this nation has enjoyed freedoms and rights which most other countries in the world have not experienced. God blessed the United States because of His promise to Abraham who had throughout his entire life displayed the righteousness, faith and confidence in God.
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What do we know about guardian angels?
Does the Bible talk about guardian angels? Does every child and even every adult have a guardian angel? If guardian angels exist, when does God assign those to particular individuals? Does the blessing of little children have anything to do with God’s assignments of guardian angels to them? What about those who were never blessed as little children, but come to the faith later in life—do they not have guardian angels?
We say the following about guardian angels in our free booklet, “Angels, Demons and the Spirit World”:
“Many have speculated over the years whether or not the Bible teaches the existence of ‘guardian angels,’ that is to say, a specific angel that God has assigned to a particular person. The Bible leaves no room for doubt that guardian angels do exist. [In] Genesis 48:15–16…, Jacob acknowledged the presence of his guardian angel throughout his life. We read in the Revised English Bible, ‘The God in whose presence my forefathers lived, my forefathers Abraham and Isaac, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day, the angel who rescued me from all misfortune, may he bless these boys.’ Jacob was convinced that God had been with him all of his life, and He was specifically present through a particular angel whom He had assigned to watch over Jacob.
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