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by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News: As artificial intelligence accelerates into every corner of modern life, the dominant narrative remains one of inevitability. With smarter models and total automation, many feel catapulted toward a future reshaped by machines that outperform humans at almost everything. But increasingly, tech insiders are vocalising alternative views: that the trajectory is neither healthy, sustainable, […]

In a story befitting its source material, the Biblical film "David" is more than holding its own against some true Goliaths at the Hollywood box office. Produced on a modest budget by Angel Studios, the faith-based epic arrived without the marketing muscle, celebrity overload, or franchise pedigree that usually define...

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The Great Commission, most famously recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, was Jesus’ final instruction to His disciples before His resurrected body ascended into heaven.In Matthew 28:18-20, after gathering them on a mountain in Galilee, He said: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”Since that command was given roughly 2,000 years ago, generation after generation of faithful Christians have been bringing the gospel message to every corner of the world. Today, that mission is nearly complete, says entrepreneur, Christian ministry leader, and author Douglas Cobb, who just published a book on this subject titled “The Sprint to the Finish: The Global Push to Complete the Great Commission in This Generation.”Less than 100 unreached people groups remain; Bible translation organizations project that 100% of the global population will have access to the Bible or key parts of Scripture by 2033; right now, mission networks are planting churches in the last untouched regions on Earth.We are inching ever closer to fulfilling the Great Commission — a precursor to Christ’s final return.On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace and Cobb discuss this question: Are we living in the generation that will finish the mission Jesus gave His church? “Jesus said in Matthew 24:14: ‘This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come,’” Cobb recites.“As I read the Bible, it’s one of the most, if not the most, direct promise about the timing of Jesus’ return. He’s given us a mission to take the gospel to the whole world, and when we’re finished with it, that will open the door to His return. I don’t think He’ll come back until we’ve done that,” he tells Deace.But the crazy thing is, we’re on the verge of doing it. The people alive right now might just be “the ones that finish this race,” Cobb says.“Based on my understanding, I think we’re within a year or two of seeing the ‘every nation’ finish line crossed, and what I mean by that is, gospel work begun in every people group,” he continues.According to the Finishing Fund — an organization Cobb started to accelerate the fulfillment of the Great Commission — the list of unreached people groups who “do not have a gospel program, a gospel effort under way” is “well under 100,” he says.“The folks who work on Bible translation — the second finish line — have set 2033 as their deadline for the completion of the Bible in every language on the planet. And another group that I’m a part of, the ACHIEVE Alliance ... [is] pursuing the ‘every place’ finish line, and similarly, they are working toward a 2033 goal for that effort of a church in every place everywhere,” he adds.“We’re down to under 10 years on all three finish lines.”To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from Steve Deace?To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A gold and porcelain snuffbox made by Sèvres for Madame Adélaïde, the daughter of King Louis XV, will return to the Palace of Versailles for the first time since the French Revolution. Beautifully painted on the outside of the lid, inside of the lid and on the bottom with portraits of royal dogs and cats, it is one of only four Sèvres snuffboxes depicting the pets of the French royal family known to have been made. Only three of them survive today, and only one of the three belonged to another royal princess (Adélaïde’s younger sister Madame Victoire). The other belonged to the king’s mistress Madame de Pompadour. The box has an extraordinary and well-documented ownership history. The Royal Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory made the oval porcelain snuffbox with a bleu-lapis ground in its hallmark deep blue shade and a chased and engraved gold mount by royal goldsmiths Charles Ouizille and Pierre-François Drais in 1785. Madame Adélaïde (1732-1800), the formidable daughter of Louis XV and Queen Marie Leszczyńska, commissioned the paintings of her four dogs and one cat, starring her white barbet Vizir with his distinctive lion cut on the lid. One of Sèvres’ finest painters, Nicolas-Pierre Pithou the Younger, created the miniature portraits. The lid depicts Vizir and a pug playing in a garden; on the bottom a greyhound and spaniel frolic in a wooded landscape. The interior cover features a fluffy black and white cat wearing a pink ribbon on a cushion with a garland of flowers, a pair of lanterns on a stick and a dog collar inscribed “Adelaid.” The cat is pawing at a ring toy that looks like something you could get from a pet store today. The Sèvres sales records document the stages of this creation, culminating in an entry on January 19, 1786: “delivered to Madame Adélaïde: 1 blue snuffbox mounted in gold and painted with dogs and a cat.” The princess had three years to enjoy her snuff out of this box before the Fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, and less than two years after that, she and her sister Victoire fled France for Rome, escaping with their lives, an entourage of 80 and a baggage train full of valuables and cash. They had to flee again when Revolutionary France invaded Italy in 1796, this time finding refuge in Naples. In 1799, France invaded Naples. The sisters fled yet again, first to Corfu, then to Trieste. Adélaïde died there on February 27, 1800. At what point Adélaïde had to let go of her doggie snuffbox is unknown. It is next documented in the collection of Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), who inherited his father Baron James de Rothschild’s collection of porcelains, so it was likely acquired by James (1792-1868). It could have entered the objets d’art market after Adélaïde’s death, but she could also have sold the snuffbox herself during her time in Italy. An English travel writer from the period describes her and Victoire selling their jewels to support emigrées. The snuffbox has been in the Rothschild family be descent since the 1800s. The last inheritor of it put it under the hammer at Bonham’s London on December 2nd. It sold for £190,900 ($257,000), a new world record for a Sèvres box. The non-profit Society of the Friends of Versailles acquired it for the national collection. This snuffbox is thus an extraordinary example of a royal personal object whose history is fully documented, making it a privileged testimony to the art of living at Versailles in the 18th century . With this acquisition, the Palace of Versailles enriches an already remarkable collection of artifacts dedicated to Madame Adélaïde and the daughters of Louis XV. Highly sought after on the market, royal snuffboxes of this quality – often dismantled to recover the mounts and precious stones – are almost impossible to identify. The arrival of such a prestigious and intimate object in the collections of the Palace of Versailles represents an exceptional opportunity.

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