Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe

The U.S. carried out air strikes in Syria. The strikes followed an increase in attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq. A non-American contractor was killed at a U.S. military base at Erbil International Airport in Kurdish-run Northern Iraq on Feb. 15 and, in the days that followed, rockets were fired at a base, hosting U.S. forces and near the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

Biden’s decision to strike only in Syria and not in Iraq gives Iraq’s government breathing room as it conducts its own investigation into the Erbil attack, which also wounded Americans.

GOD USES EVERYBODY

The unique contribution of populations worldwide proves that ADONAI is a God of the covenant. He is not prejudice and never looks down on people but always responds to justice and kindness. There are those relations such as Daniel and the four Pagan rulers. Two main schools of thought on the four kingdoms of Daniel are the traditionalist’s view, supporting the conflation of Medo-Persia and identifying the last kingdom as the Roman Empire and The Maccabean Thesis, a view that supports the separation of the Medes from the Persians and identifies the last kingdom as the Seleucid Empire.

After Israel was free to return to their homeland, Daniel’s GOD kept the prophet behind to assist those powerful kingdoms with peace and stability.

Daniel Prayed

Editor: Val Gunter

Daniel 2:19-24
(AMP)
¹⁹ Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night, and Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
²⁰ Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever! For wisdom and might are His!
²¹ He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding!
²² He reveals the deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him!
²³ I thank You and praise You, O God of my fathers, Who has given me wisdom and might and has made known to me now what we desired of You, for You have made known to us the solution to the king’s problem.
²⁴ Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon! Bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation. Where is the prophet Daniel today?

In honor of Black History Month

The Warrior Queen of The Ethiopians

A passage in the book of Acts tells the story of how Philip, the evangelist, obeyed GOD, in the opportunity to witness to an African Ethiopian eunuch, who was Queen Kandice’s Finance Officer. Philip shared his faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth and lead him to faith in Jesus the Christ. This eunuch was under the authority of the Queen of the Ethiopians. Tradition has it that when the eunuch returned from Jerusalem, he witnessed to his queen, and she too came to believe in Yeshua. As the ruler of a country, no doubt her Christian faith impacted hundreds of people for years to come. This Blog acknowledges the conversion of African Jews into the Messianic faith.

Kandake bowed to the Messianic King and was baptized into His ever lasting Kingdom, according history.

Tradition says that after Kandake or Amanitore’s death, she was laid in this site in Sudan, the humble Pyramid of the Great Warrior Queen.

She never wanted to be a Queen, because she was a warrior.

Acts 8:27-28 reads:

And he (Philip) arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

The name of the Queen of the Ethiopians was not Candace. Candace (also written as Kandake or Kentake) was the term that Nubian people groups used for “queen” or “queen-mother”. According to John McClintock and James Strong, the female sovereigns of Ethiopian Proper all bore the appellation of “Candace,” which was not so much a proper name as a distinctive title, common to every successive queen, like “Pharaoh” and “Ptolemy” to the kings of Egypt, and “Caesar” to the emperors of Rome. Many believe that the queen mentioned in the Acts 8 account was a woman called Amanitore, but we don’t know for certain.

Acts 8:25 Candice gave a large offering to the building of the Jewish Temple.

Acts 8:25-37
(AMP)
²⁵ Now when [the apostles] had borne their testimony and preached the message of the Lord, they went back to Jerusalem, proclaiming the glad tidings (Gospel) to many villages of the Samaritans [on the way].
²⁶ But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Rise and proceed southward or at midday on the road that runs from Jerusalem down to Gaza. This is the desert [route].
²⁷ So he got up and went. And behold, an Ethiopian, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure, had come to Jerusalem to worship.
²⁸ And he was [now] returning, and sitting in his chariot he was reading the book of the prophet Isaiah.
²⁹ Then the [Holy] Spirit said to Philip, Go forward and join yourself to this chariot.
³⁰ Accordingly Philip, running up to him, heard [the man] reading the prophet Isaiah and asked, Do you really understand what you are reading?
³¹ And he said, How is it possible for me to do so unless someone explains it to me and guides me [in the right way]? And he earnestly requested Philip to come up and sit beside him.
³² Now this was the passage of Scripture which he was reading: Like a sheep He was led to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so He opens not His mouth.
³³ In His humiliation He was taken away by distressing and oppressive judgment and justice was denied Him [caused to cease]. Who can describe or relate in full the wickedness of His contemporaries (generation)? For His life is taken from the earth and a bloody death inflicted upon Him.
³⁴ And the eunuch said to Philip, I beg of you, tell me about whom does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?
³⁵ Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this portion of Scripture he announced to him the glad tidings (Gospel) of Jesus and about Him.
³⁶ And as they continued along on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch exclaimed, See, [here is] water! What is to hinder my being baptized?
³⁷ And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart [if you have a conviction, full of joyful trust, that Jesus is the Messiah and accept Him as the Author of your salvation in the kingdom of God, giving Him your obedience, then] you may. And he replied, I do believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

There is much historical information about Candace, Queen of the Ethiopians, but what can we glean from the bit of information that the Bible gives on her?

1. Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, heard the Gospel of Jesus the Christ and believed. With all her wealth and power, Candace recognized that there was something more to life. She had hundreds, if not thousands, of people under her rule, yet she realized that there was still Someone greater than her.

Several of the Ethiopian female rulers are described as “warrior queens” and perhaps this Candace was one of them. Despite the wars she might have waged and despite the kingdoms she probably conquered, Candace surrendered her heart to the Righteous Warrior who died on the cross for her sins.

It doesn’t matter who you are, or your profession, from Daniel to the Nubian Queen, God can use you to change the lives of many.

What the Queen didn’t know was that she was already on GOD’s radar, because she heard from GOD when HE told her to send worshippers with gifts and offerings to support the building of the Temple of the GOD of Israel.

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