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I don't think I have ever been to Gloucester. The beef I bought was 30 day hung and cheaper joints are 21 days hung. The cost for 30day was £12,00 per kilo, a kilo kis 2.2 lb. I think the exchange rate is about $2.2 to the £. As it was an Easter offer it was £6 per per kilo. The lamb was £6.50 per kilo, downfrom £13.00. There is a butcher about 5-10 mins walk from here but they are much dearer. As a butcher, Jim, you will know the difference in the length of maturing, but I don't know except that the longer seems more tender.

As a matter of interest (or not as the case may be) 666 is the sum of all the numbers from 1 to 36. I once read a book where these numbers were arranged in 6 columns each column adding up to 111 and each line adding up to 111, and if I remember each diagonal also. It said it was the mystic square of Bacchus. Irenius gave the answer as Lateinus, the Latin Man. Which had some connection to Romulus.

I have the same problem as my wife is a vegetarian. I get a roasting joint and cook it one day, keep enough for the next day and then slice and freeze the rest. I have a beeh joint and a leg of lamb in the freezer. I bought them both as they were on ½ price offer for Easter. My sister and her husband came down the same weekend and she brought 2 ½ legs of lamb for my sister. She said there was such a crowd round the aisle that she wasn't able to reach the whole legs. She got hers from Tesco and I got mine from Sainsburys online. They both had the same offer. Yesterday I had lamb leg steak in gravy, with roasted mixed vegetables cooked on a hereby tomato sauce, and what they seem to call Parmentier bsked Potatoes here. I'm not sure why, because in France pommes Parmentier seems to be mashed potatoes or things with mash on top. Anyway it was all very tasty. Today I am having haddock and chips. I got the fish from Aldi the other day and they ore the only shop that seem to do large pieces of fish. Even branded "Extra large" is about ¼ of the size of a normal portion in the fish and chip shop.

Most things in my freezer have been there too long. Today I did mince and veggie penne for me and veggie penne for my wife. I often do stir fry and been using fresh ginger, however recently I have been using frozen ginger. It is in 400g packs which is a bit less than a lb,and comes in small cubes, each is enough for 1 portion that usually use. It is chopped small so I don't have to do anything to it. Much easier than fresh ginger and less expensive.

Thanks Jim that verifies what I said. "One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism"

It was written to the church,for the church so that they would know of the tribulations the saints would suffer, mainly under pagan Rome and then Papal Rome. I have a friend who says that he doesn't believe the church will go through tribulation. I say "What world are you living in? Have you never heard of the inquisition, the wars of religion in France, with pastors having their bodies broken on the wheel, then hung and men found in assemblies being sentenced to life in the valleys and women sentenced to incarceration in places like the Tower of Constance in the aptly named town of Aigres Mortes (Bitter Deaths). Or the massacres at Wassy and St Bartholomew. Or John Brown, a Lollard or the town I am now living in, who was imprisoned in Canterbury, than had his feet burned through to the bone, then forced to walk to the place where he was burned to death." Preterism and futurism were both started by Jesuits to counter the Christian teaching the the Pope is antichrist, which was taught by the Waldensians from about 1200 AD when the papacy reached it's full persecuting powers. These two bedfellows also tea h that Revelation is nothing to do with the church. It was written to the church to tell them what was soon to happen, Rev 1:1 see also AMOS 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

The Irvingites who were the first to preach dispensationism said the church would be raptured and would be left without a preacher or witness.

Also Russia. On the 1420 YouTube channel where they ask Russians what they think of various things, a number of women said "They are all LGBT" one added "They have 82 genders" another said "They are Soddom". I was reading a book on prophecy* written in about 1890 where the author comment on the statement of Jesus, that when he returns, it would be as in the days of Lot, and he said that he couldn't think how that could happen. The unbelievable is happening. *History Unveiling Prophecy, Or Time as an Interpreter.

The greatest miracle today is Salvation where the sinner, dead in sins is raised to life in Christ.

If it was a genuine repentance the repentant would show a change which will be noticed. That is why special meetings and camps where many are "saved" are dangerous. There was a church near here, it was Assemblies of God but changed its name to the ".net Church" They had a "Battle of Bands" event in a local park. This consisted of the church band playing against secular bands. Included in the event was an "I said yes to Jesus" campaign. They passed out cards which said "I said yes to Jesus" they got them to sign it and then told them that they were now a Christian. They then invited them to come to the church for a curry, and no doubt that was the last they saw of them.

Hitler was a catholic. He never won an election the got more votes than any other party but not a majority. The Pope told the Catholic Party to vote Hitler in and then disband. Hitler said he based his SS on the Jesuits. He said that Himler was his Loyola.

What about the OT saints?

Such as?

The church "fathers" were before the Catholic church. That is why I call them early church writers. The writers believe that the church is the temple and they were correct in that. This was believed by all the non Catholic church until the Catholic futurist teaching spread to th protestants in the early 19th century. They were closer to the Apostolic times than we are and when the all agreed I believe that were probably following teaching handed down and when the disagreed they were probably giving their opinions. The book of Revelation was written to the church. It comforted the saints and martyrs through the catholic tribulation that lasted 100s of years and murdered millions of saints, when they could see that retribution would come upon their persecutors. You will no doubt say I am wrong, but I ask you to prove that Futurism was taught in non catholic churches before 1800.

Thank you. My old church in Whitstable do a seniors lunch every Tuesday, and we have asked my daughter if she can take us over there as we would rather meet people we know and love than just go out. We were in that church for over 28 years until we had to move to live with our daughter as she said she didn't think we were coping on our own.

There is a video of a man on you tube pretending to be homeless and asked for food. For over 2 hours no one spoke to him, the a black woman stopped and spoke to him and said she would be back. Some time later she returned and gave him something, a can't remember if if was cash or food. He said thank you very much I am not really homeless I just wanted to see what it was like and he gave her $1000. Sometime later another person stopped and offered him money and he gave her some as well. I agree that we should not give money. A pastor of mine said people came to the church asking for money. He said he never gave them money, but if they said they wanted he would say, "come home with me and my wife will make you some sandwiches", or if they said that they wanted to buy a train ticket to London, he said "meet me at the station and I will buy you a ticket". They never did.

What are we coming to. The British Prime Minster is a Hindu which is a fire worshipping religion. The Mayor of London and the probable next leader of Scotland are Mulim whose God is the moon. The Welsh leader is an extreme woke socialist. The US president is a member of a "Church" which in the tribulation of the middle ages and later murdered untold millions of true Christians. The whole western world has turn to supporting the LGBTQ etc perverts (I would call them by their real names, LSE., Lesbians, Sodomites, and Eunuchs.) God destroyed Sodom in the time of Abraham, in the law he said that it was an abomination for a man to lie with a man as with a woman, Paul also includes women "for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature" Romans 1:26. And says that they and also those that support them are worthy of death. Jesus gave two indications is when he would return, as in the days of Noah and Lot. Luke 17:26-29. We are almost there. We are doomed. He has given the west over to our lusts. Romans 1:24-26.

It's my birthday tomorrow and my daughter has offered to take my wife and I out to lunch if I would like to choose somewhere. The trouble is, my wife does not eat very much these and doesn't think it worth paying for a full meal when she only eats half of less. One restaurant we have been to a number of times does a good meal at lunch time if you buy two meals in the range, which are slightly smaller portions than normal. My daughter arranged for 10 faily members and friends to go out for a Christmas meal just before Christmas. My wife could only eat about ¼ of hers and asked for a box to take the rest home. The waiter said they couldn't as they didn't have a takeaway licence which was absolutely nonsense. My daughter actually gave him a big tip. I wouldn't have given him anything. The next time we went I was torn between refusing to pay for her lunch if they refused, or take our own boxes. I decided the latter. Most places would offer you something to put it in.

The early Christian writers said it is symbolic of Christians, representing either the complete church or 144,000 Christian virgins. They also said the temple in Revelation represents the church.

After the reformation the Church of England did away with altars and replaced them with a communion table which is what the called it. Archbishop Laud returned the altars, I think it was in the reign of King Charles the first. They also had the 10 commandments the wall. If it is a table why don't you call it so. Calling it an altar makes one think of Catholicism.

If you say so.

They are obviously not saved. We do not accept any in our church who say they are saved but don't show signs of repentance and regeneration.

The trouble with multiple instruments is that churches can bring someone in who is an unbeliever to fill a vacancy. I was in a church once that had a brass band and they had that problem when eventually they brought in a band leader who, if he didn't like a sermon, played the next him very loudly. I have been in the Brethren where they had unaccompanied hymns in the morning service. In our church we have an organ and a man who has been playing for years wh plays the introduction very fast and in the singing it is painfully slow. I once asked him why? and he said they have their own speed of singing. I thought he should be leading not following. We have a relatively new pastor and his eldest son is a good pianist but he has not been well for just over a year and not often well enough to play. He had to give up on his first year at university about this time last year.

Please give your opinion. My answer is NO.

Altars are for sacrifices. Our church doesn't have sacrifices so we don't need an altar. They are for Roman Catholics and fellow travellers.