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Things Christ Bore For Us

It's the feast day of St. Antonio Maria Claret, a 19th-century Spanish missionary priest who is known as the "spiritual father of Cuba."

Doug: When I first got into the habit of ending every edition of The International Speculator (and later The Casey Report) with a quote – starting in the 1990s – I almost always referred to at least one of my four favorite modern philosophers—Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Edward Gibbon, and H.L. Mencken.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved ." (2 Thessalonians 2:7-10) "Jesus saith ..., I am the Way, the Truth , and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me." (John 14:6) New World Order Exposed is not a politically correct Blog.

Finally, Isaiah writes, "by His wounds we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5d) which can certainly mean physical healing and in many cases, miraculous events took place and someone who was thought gone is healed, but the larger context of this chapter we can see it's more about our sins, iniquities, and transgressions that colds, the flu, or a physical sickness.

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