7 Dec 2023, Thursday

 7 Dec 2023, Thursday

Prioritized Daily Task

Christmas Traditions 

Call Air2Sea Travel (800-434-6038) for hotel reservations for May 4th, 2024 for James, Debbie, Owen, Madeline, Maggie, Isabella and Melodie and transferred to and from the airport, hotel, to the cruise ship May 5th Then on May 12th from the cruise ship to the Orlando airport

Air2Sea Record Locator: CCYQQT

Alaska Airlines Confirmation Code: IVGADH

Cruise Booking Confirmation Number(s): 65961

Ship Name: WONDER OF THE SEAS

Sail Date: 05MAY24

Saratoga Springs Temple 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

         Initiatatory session - 45 to 50 minutes

         Endowment session - 1:30 minutes to 1:45 through Celestial room

         Sealing session - 45 to 55 minutes

Debbie was up early, we had prayer, and got ready for the day.  I went to the temple and Debbie went to be with her sister, Karlene, while her husband, Joe L., has surgery.  That did not happen because his doctor put him on medication that reacted negatively with his kidneys.  He has to wait to get the medication out of his body or surgery will kill him (Joe L.).  I did some initiatory work from 10:38 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.  Then went on the 12 noon endowment session.  I went on a sealing session and got half of the names I had ready done.  I went on another sealing session and compiled all the names I had for sealings.  I stopped at the grocery store on the way home.  Debbie took Clara to lunch.  Later she got home and Karlene came over after Joe L. went to sleep.  We all visited and when she went to bed.  Debbie and I had prayer.  

Note: In 1894 President Woodruff speaking to a group of temple workers said, “God has held the angels of destruction for many years, lest they should reap down the wheat with the tares. But I want to tell you now, that those angels have left the portals of heaven, and they stand over this people and this nation now, and are hovering over the earth waiting to pour out the judgments. And from this very day, they shall be poured out. Calamities and troubles are increasing in the earth…  

(At the beginning of the 19th century, the number of 1 billion people on the earth was exceeded for the first time in history. Subsequently, growth accelerated and the number of 2 billion people was already surpassed around 1920.)   

Five monarchs fell between 1905 and 1922, in about 17 years. Some had ruled for 5 to 6 centuries and controlled the destinies of one-third of the world’s population.  Never in the history of the world had the fate of so many people changed in so short a time. 

The Habsburg Monarchy was in Austria-Hungary                                    The Hohenzollern Monarchy was in Germany                                                The Romanian Monarchy was in Russia                                                   The Osman Lis Monarchy was in the Ottoman Empire                            The Aisin-Gioro Monarchy was in China                                                Three monarchs in Europe, including the Netherlands, were related through the line of George II of Great Britain.  King George II was born, in 1683, in Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany.   One of the possible reasons the monarchs of England were not removed was that they had already been disposed and had become figureheads with no real power and were not considered a threat.   by Dr. Sean Munger, Ph.D. in History and his law degree in 1998 

The change was not necessarily good for the people.  WWI claimed the lives of over 20 million.  The fall of the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern Monarchs gave rise to the Nazis who killed 16 million people.  The fall of the Romonazon Monarch gave rise to the Communists who killed about 60 million people.         

“How long will you keep killing people?” Lady Astor, Viscountess, (born in America, became a British politician, and was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament) asked Stalin in 1931.  Replied Stalin, “the process will continue as long as necessary” to establish a communist society. .......61,911,000 people have been murdered by the Communist Party—the government—of the Soviet Union. By R.J. Rummel

As bad as this was, smallpox killed between 300 to 500 million people before it was eradicated.   

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