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Shoodboi:
Today (June 20, 2020), is the longest day of the year

For those who have been following the weather (especially children who play a lot, adults who fast, and Muslims who pray around 7 in the evening), you may have noticed that dusk comes much later, and lasts for longer.

(Dusk is the period of brief daylight after the sun has set. It marks the boundary between evening and night.)

Everywhere becomes dark around 7:30 pm or even much later, instead of around a few minutes to seven as it used to be in the past (at least, here in Lagos).

This is happening because we are close to the summer solstice, and in fact, today, June 20, 2020, is the summer solstice.


What does Summer Solstice mean?

As you should know, the earth revolves around the sun. However, the earth is not completely round and neither is its orbit round the sun.

The earth’s orbit is elliptical, which makes the distance between the earth and the sun vary throughout the year.

The earth itself is a bit flat at the north and south poles, which makes its side bulge out like a balloon that is about to burst.

The result is that, once a year, the earth positions itself such that the sun appears at its highest position in the sky in the northern part of the earth.

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The summer solstice is on the left.

That day is called the Summer Solstice and is usually between June 20 and 22 every year.

However, that moment in 2020 falls on 5:44 pm EDT on June 20 (today). For us in Nigeria, that is 10:44 pm WAT (West African Time).


What happens on the Summer Solstice?

The summer solstice is always the longest day and shortest night of the year. This means we will enjoy more daylight today than on any other day of the year.

People living at the northernmost and southernmost parts of the earth will even enjoy 24 hours of sunlight throughout the day.

The summer solstice also marks the beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere (the northern half of the earth).

However, the reverse will happen in the southern hemisphere (the southern half of the earth) where the sun will be at its lowest point, making the summer solstice the beginning of the winter season in the Southern hemisphere.


What about the solar eclipse?

Lucky for us, this year’s solstice will coincide with a very rare solstice solar eclipse that will last from 4:45 am to 9:34 am on June 21. (The next solstice solar eclipse will only come around on June 21, 2039.)

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The eclipse will look like the photo above. That is the moon covering the sun with the thin "ring of fire" line visible.

Tomorrow’s eclipse will be visible from some parts of Africa and Asia.

People living in Congo, Ethiopia, and China will see the eclipse, and so will people living in northern India, southern Pakistan, and the Central African Republic.

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The eclipse will be most visible in the area that is orange in color.

Unfortunately, it appears that it will not be visible from Nigeria.


Source: I wrote this myself with reference from https://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-summer-summer-solstice and https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2020-june-21

DappaD:
Young/old man, for the second time allow me be!

DappaD:
Young/old man, allow me be
You this confused mixed up atheist

hoopernikao:
I have told you severally, that you will need to calm down and start learning afresh. Don't let whatever position or influence you have deceive you. Maturity is personal. And you must be deliberate to expose yourself to it.

Firstly, what is the meaning of hypergrace believer. Is there anything as such? You are only carried about by slangs.

Secondly, does Galatians 3-5 tells you to commit sin and go on until spirit tells you to stop? Don't go around saying things you don't know. You are only making your situation hard.

So, like I said. No Christian falls into what you described earlier. It's only your illusion or you count a Christian by using the persons surname eg Peter, Solomon or count a Christian by using attendance in church. You must know what and who a Christian mean and stop exposing yourself here.

DappaD:
You are a MUMU man!
Below is what I typed:

Those miraculous gifts were needed to identify in a spectacular way that God’s favor had shifted from the Jewish nation and was now upon this new congregation of Christians

How is this still not clear to you? Did I say the Holy spirit was poured on just the Jews after Pentecost 33C.E.? Use sense small abeg

DappaD:
This special gift of tongues received in Jerusalem through God’s holy spirit assisted the disciples there in preaching the good news for a sign to those Jewish worshipers from distant parts of the earth. But the real fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel 2:28-32 on that day of Pentecost 33CE was the fact that those who were filled with the spirit prophesied. Speaking with tongues was incidental, for a sign of authenticity or divine backing.—Acts 2:16-22.

Those miraculous gifts were needed to identify in a spectacular way that God’s favor had shifted from the Jewish nation and was now upon this new congregation of Christians. But it was only temporary, hence Paul said those gifts would be done away with among the Christians of the first century (1Corinthians 13:8-10)
Nevertheless, faith, hope and love remained as the distinguishing mark of true Christianity (1Corinthians 13:13) and it is that mark that has identified Jehovah's Witnesses to be the only Christian group to have divine backing.

Maximus69:
DappaD said it and now it's confirmed, you don't know anything in the Bible Sir!

@ bolded, FAITH is not a gift but one of FRUIT of God's holy NOT GIFT Sir! Galatians 5:22-23

Without FAITH nobody can please God {Hebrew 11:6} so FAITH is a compulsory FRUIT that must reflect in the congregation as a whole Sir not just a GIFT!

hoopernikao:
There is no Christian who believes this bro. There is none.

hoopernikao:
There is no Christian who believes this bro. There is none.

Maximus69:
If you want to know something you must calm down first, otherwise you will continue to beat about the bush with no benefit. How many church claims to be the one and only apart from Jehovah's Witnesses? Kumuyi, Adeboye, Olukoya, TB Joshua, Oyedepo, Oyakilome and others all agreed that they're all worshiping the same God with the exception of JWs alone who keeps saying it and exhibiting it that their God differs!


I have treated this topic with you several times that Jesus only meant that Joel's prophesy {Joel 2:28} will be fulfilled after his departure {Act 2:16-18} and Apostle Paul made it clear that it's just for a short time! 1Corinthians 13:8-10


I have told you that the nine qualities of God's holy spirit can't be found complete in any human apart from Jesus for now but in the Organization that belongs to God all these qualities will manifest because they're the body of Christ {Ephesians 4:12} it's after the 1,000 years reign of Christ that all those exercising faith in Jesus will be clean from head to toe! Revelations 20:5



The GIFTS of God's holy spirit will not last amongst the Christians according to Apostle Paul {1Corinthians 13:8-10} that's why many of them were never cured with miraculous works as you're expecting {1Timothy 5:23} but the love amongst God's people will remain as the sign to help honest hearted persons know the group that belongs to Christ! John 13:34-35 compare to 1Corinthians 13:13

God bless you!

Maximus69:
Mind you this doesn't happen amongst the true Christians (Jehovah's Witnesses)

Yet if i tell you there is just one single Christian group approved by God, you'll start arguing, please which one you dey!

Maximus69:
The other thread is a complete waste of time and effort!

They're trying to fill a basket with water, instead of first asking
"How do we all benefit from the teaching of Christ?"

Each is trying to defend the falsehood handed over to them by their misinformed churchgoer pastors!

If God is one and Jesus (the model God presented to humans) is one, then how do you justify different forms of worship with contradicting teachings and conflicting doctrines all in the name of the same Jesus?

So Myer will continue to dribble them with his atheistic mindset and lastly they'll start arguing, abusing, insulting and cursing one another!

GRIMMJOE:
Who is deceiving who.

DappaD:
If I continue saying you know nothing it would look like an insult to you
I hope you know that like Christendom, Islam has different sects and different beliefs
So how are they now united in belief?
Only Jehovah's Witnesses are united when it comes to anything regarding belief in God's word, the Bible. Because we don't promote sects or divisions, which is listed among the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:20)
We reject anybody trying to promote a sect in our midst (Titus 3:10-11)

Righteousness89:
Not completely correct!

A Marriage needs to be Blessed! Someone who stands as a Representative of GOD needs to Bless the Marriage. E.g Pastor, priest, etc

GOD ALMIGHTY in the Beginning Blessed Adam and Eve..

Gen 1:28..

The Blessings spoken to a couple is important!

All the other things are not really important!

MuttleyLaff:
Erhn now, aspe hin be glutton for punishment and/or one not to miss an opportunity of correcting education, lmao

DappaD:
In the days of Noah as well, the warning wouldn't have been sounded just once. Seth's descendant, Enoch prophesied as regards to the wickedness of men in his time and may have sounded a warning to them. (Jude 14-15). Many may have thought that it was a onetime warning but no, even after Jehovah commissioned Noah to build the Ark, Noah likewise may have sounded warnings too to the wicked people to repent of their bad ways. 2Peter 2:5 called Noah “a preacher of righteousness”. So likely in all the years he spent building the Ark, he may have been preaching to the bad people so they could change.

Matthew 24:37-39
“For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.  For as they were in those days before the Flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,  and they took no note until the Flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.”
So yeah you can keep doubting and ignoring what the Bible actually says concerning the end but that's to your own detriment and no one else's.

jcross19:
my own is concerning the teaching of Christ contradicting the believe of his disciples, and even violating the law given my moses then I concluded that those laws of moses were just for the poor and the common.

Maximus69:
Don't doubt whatever anybody say when it comes to deception, Satan can fabricate anything and called it Church. 2Corinthians 11:14-15
Certainly you'll find people who loves such lifestyles going there for worship all in the name of Jesus as they just want to be associated with that name! Matthew 7:21-23
That's why it's compulsory to ascertain which of the groups claiming Christians are truly practicing Christianity in the right sense?

Myer kept portraying Islam as if there is anything worthwhile to write home about that Religion, whereas 99% of Terrorist acts on this planet today are carried out by persons claiming Muslims!

JhayJoe:
DOES GOD TEMPT HUMANS?

"Let no man say when he is tempted, i am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man"-James 1:13

"And it came to pass after these things,that God DID TEMPT Abraham"-Genesis 22:1

CAN HUMANS SEE GOD?

"No one has ever seen God"-1 John 4:12
"No man has seen or can see God"-1 Timothy 6:16

"The Lord APPEARED to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of that day"- Genesis 18:17
"The Lord would speak to Moses FACE TO FACE, as one speaks to a friend"-Exodus 33:11

Maximus69:
@ bolded!

I can only imagine how most of these religionists would treat a JW who will not participate in their Birthdays, Easter, Christmas, New Year, Virgil, Devotion and most other things that's against our faith,
not to talk of boss to worker secret affairs!
In 1984 the then Buhari~Ìdíàgbon led govt sacked many JWs, drove most of their children out of school all because of the National anthem and pledge!

So my friend, when it comes to sacking of workers, each organization have what they make the yardstick for retaining workers but i've been to places and i'm telling you now that JWs are the best when talking about dedicated workers!

MuttleyLaff:
You'll find seemingly false positive inconsistencies and contradictions in translations, but not an/or never in either of the original texts

DappaD:
Okay, now look closely at last part of Revelation 12:12, “...Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time”
When Satan was completely confined to the earth in 1914, he brought about the First World War in history which led to the slaughter of up to 40million[actual figure not confirmed] people, then still under his influence, in the years 1918-1920, the world experienced casualties as well from the then Spanish Flu (a global pandemic), even so in the year 1930, the whole world fell into economic shambles because of the Great Depression, the recurring earthquakes at the beginning of the 1900's and the Second World War[which is tagged the deadliest human conflict ever] had more than 85million deaths and ever since then the world has NOT known peace because of Satan's direct influence, but wait THERE'S MORE! When Jesus' disciple requested a sign of his presence[i.e as him being appointed King of God's Kingdom], he then told him at Matthew 24:1-14 and Luke 21:7-11, the things that would take place in the time of his presence and the end of this system of things.

Glorymax:
Though I didn't open the link you posted but I know the statement. Mind you, something led to something. There are questions that preceded that statement.
Anyway, thank you so much. We'll remain underdogs in your dream by the time you wake up, you will know where we are.

Enjoy your weekend and keep staying safe

Kobojunkie:
Jesus Christ is the word of God. He is also the truth.
God is true.

The bible is a book that contains the word of God. The Bible is not God' word.

Maximus69:
True Christians (Jehovah's Witnesses) only believe in the code of conduct set by the first century Christians! Act 15:28-29

That's why we totally differ from all of them. You often argue in support of the spirit talking or dealing with people individually, and when i told you that's a lie you start insulting us saying JWs has been brainwashed.
Is it not the same reason we stick to what the book says rather than listening to deceptive spirit?

Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe were the most respected in the southern part of Nigeria during their lifetime, during Nigerias independent both of them said they can only allow JWs to pray for Nigeria in behalf of Christianity!

Go and ask anybody, tell them a JW said so on Nairaland!

Of course the North came to pray in behalf of Muslims but for the Christians they have to write a letter to our branch to come and pray during Nigeria's independent. This was against our rules so the branch wrote a letter to Brooklyn our headquarters in New York, that's when the organization said our brothers should pray since that's what they demanded and that's a sign that they know the truth but afterwards our brothers should not partake in whatever follows!

Go now and ask anybody if it's a lie!

So know today that when it comes to uprightness, JWs come first! Matthew 5:13-16

DappaD:
Jehovah's Witnesses have enough Biblical reasons to believe that Jesus became ruling as King of God's Kingdom in heaven in the year 1914 (Revelation 12:7-12)
If you look closely at verses 9 and 10, we see two events occurring simultaneously, first the permanent expulsion of Satan and the demons from heaven to the earth and then Jesus Christ being crowned as King of God's Kingdom. These two events have already taken place in 1914.

DappaD:
One thing is clear here, I can't keep going further with this discussion because you have no idea about Bible chronology

DappaD:
Every post from you just reveals how shallow you are concerning the scriptures

Revelation 12:12 has no relation whatsoever with Ephesians 6:12

Revelation 12:7-12 talks about the permanent expulsion of Satan and his fallen angels from heaven and their permanent confinement to the earth.

Whereas in Paul's letter to the Christian congregation in Ephesus, he wrote:
“because we have a struggle[wrestling], not against blood and flesh, but against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places . ” Ephesians 6:12

The bolded is talking about the powerful wicked spirit beings, namely, Satan and his band of demons. The italicized “heavenly places” is talking the place/means in which Satan and the demons exercise power and authority from which means the demonic forces under Satan's control influence the world governments and on mankind in general, so figuratively speaking “heavenly places” mean all the worldly governments.
1John 5:19

jcross19:
see truly there are contradictions in the bible but these your verses are not part of them , you did not understand the bible scenario!!!.

Glorymax:
Lies upon lie. MNK never made such statements nor urge his followers to do so. Asari, now I know that you can lie for Africa. This is the dumbest one from you that can make you lose even your closest admirers.
Biafra is a free Nation with respect for human rights and religious freedom. If you have skeleton in your cupboard, that's the only thing that will keep you frightened. If you like don't listen to your people that have advised you to go and work with him, that's if you've repented of the accusation against you