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In his August 18th post, “Who and When Were the ‘Last Days Scoffers’?”, Gary DeMar calls two witnesses. 1 The first is John Lightfoot, the seventeenth-century Hebraist, quoted from an assize sermon on James 5:9. 2 The second is R. T. France, whose Tyndale commentary on Matthew is cited on the meaning of Matthew 26:64. 3 Both quotations are accurate. Neither witness says what the post needs him to…
The Conquistador is the newest addition to Altadis U.S.A.'s Espada line, announced in April 2026 and beginning to ship in July of that year, blended once again by Rafael Nodal in collaboration with the Plasencia family and rolled at Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Estelí. It is deliberately positioned between the original Espada, the first all-Nicaraguan Montecristo when it debuted in 2014, and the…
The Espada Signature Valiente is a collaboration between three names that rarely share a band: Rafael Nodal of Altadis U.S.A., the Plasencia family, and Altadis's elite rolling team, the Grupo de Maestros, who hand-roll every cigar in the line at Plasencia Cigars S.A. in Nicaragua. The release began with a quiet soft launch to Casa de Montecristo stores in late 2021 before reaching wider retail in…
I came across a piece on Substack from Darren Doane arguing that the entire New Testament should be read in light of AD 70, including 1 Corinthians. Doane is a good friend of Gary DeMar and appears to have gone the full preterist route. One text he comments on is 1 Corinthians 7. Paul writes, “I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is” (7:26). “Are you…
The Buffalo Trace Special Selection is Scandinavian Tobacco Group's collaboration with Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, one of the most celebrated bourbon producers in America, and the line stands apart from the crowded bourbon-cigar crossover market because the barrel aging is applied to the binder rather than the filler or wrapper, a subtler and more structurally integrated…
How long, Lord, look'st thou on? from those destructions they intend Rescue my soul, from lions young my darling do defend. 18 I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, within th' assembly great; And where much people gathered are thy praises forth will set. 19 Let not my wrongful enemies proudly rejoice o'er me; Nor who me hate without a cause, let them wink with the eye. 20 For peace they do not speak…
False witnesses rose; to my charge things I not knew they laid. 12 They, to the spoiling of my soul, me ill for good repaid. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, in sackcloth sad I mourned: My humbled soul did fast, my prayer into my bosom turned. 14 Myself I did behave as he had been my friend or brother; I heavily bowed down, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in my trouble they…
Plead, Lord, with those that plead; and fight with those that fight with me. 2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold, stand up mine help to be. 3 Draw also out the spear, and do against them stop the way That me pursue: unto my soul, I'm thy salvation, say. 4 Let them confounded be and shamed that for my soul have sought: Who plot my hurt turned back be they, and to confusion brought. 5 Let them be…
The Lord is ever nigh to them that be of broken sp'rit; To them he safety doth afford that are in heart contrite. 19 The troubles that afflict the just in number many be; But yet at length out of them all the Lord doth set him free. 20 He carefully his bones doth keep, whatever can befall; That not so much as one of them can broken be at all. 21 Ill shall the wicked slay; laid waste shall be who…
Jaime García, pronounced Hi-may, is the son of the legendary Don Pepín García and a full partner in the My Father Cigars operation his father built. The Reserva Especial debuted in December 2009 at a private event at Cigar Inn in New York City, blended entirely by Jaime working solo, and the reception was immediate enough that it became a regular production line under his own name. What…
