WORLD AT WAR: 10.21.23 - PT.1

TheU.S. Prepares To Use Military Force Against Hezbollah If It Joins The War Against Israel - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-u-s-prepares-to-use-military-force-against-hezbollah-if-it-joins-the-war-against-israel/ We are witnessing an old-fashioned standoff in the Middle East right now. The IDF was supposed to have sent thousands of troops storming into Gaza by now, but threats fromHezbollah and Iran have caused Israeli officials to pause. Do the Israelis really want to fight an extremely bloody two front war? Iran has actually brought up the possibility of �pre-emptive action�, but that would inevitably spark a military response fromthe United States. Do the Iranians really want to fight the U.S. military? There are some that are hoping that this standoff will ultimately allow cooler heads to prevail, but I see it as the calm before the storm. After everything that has happened, there is no way that Israel can allow Hamas to survive. And on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly did not sound like a man that is ready to back down� Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a news conference on Tuesday, described Hamas as �the new Nazis,� andcalled on the world to unite and eradicate the terrorist organization the same way it defeated the Nazis. During his remarks, Netanyahu also stated that the atrocities that Hamas just committed were �the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust�� Hamas-led forces crossed the Israel-Gaza border Oct. 7, slaughtering 1,400 Israeli men, women, children and elderly in what has become the deadliest terror attack in Israel�shistory. �The savagery we witnessed perpetrated by the Hamas murderers coming out of Gaza were the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust,� Netanyahu said during thenews conference. If the Israeli government were to decide not to invade Gaza, Netanyahu would almost inevitably be forced to resign in disgrace. The Israeli people want Hamas to be destroyed, and that means going into Gaza. But if that happens, it will likely mean a two front war. In fact, Iran�s foreign minister has even suggested that there could be �pre-emptive action� even before the IDF sends troops pouring into Gaza� �The possibility of pre-emptive action by the resistance axis is expected in the coming hours,� Iran�s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in a live broadcastto state TV, as he referred to his meeting with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday. Earlier Monday, Iran�s top diplomat and president, Ebrahim Raisi had said time was running out to reach a political solution and warned against the expansion of the Israel-Hamaswar to other fronts. Amir-Abdollahian said Monday that �the resistance leaders� will not allow Israel �to do whatever it wants in Gaza�. Iranian leaders like to make dramatic statements, but I have never seen them talk quite like this. For example, just check out some of the statements that Iran�s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei just made in front of the entire world� � �We MUST Respond to What is Happening in Gaza� � �The usurper Zionist regime must be prosecuted.� � �This should be realized by those who want Iran to stop certain Resistance groups, and they shouldn�t have any expectation from us.� � �All parties should refrain from asking anyone to prevent a group from taking steps in response to the crimes of the Zionists� � �Our numerous intelligence reports show that the US is formulating the Zionist regime�s current policy, and what is being done is governed by US policymaking. The US mustbe held responsible for this situation.� � �If the crimes of the Zionist entity continue, no one will be able to stand up to Muslims and the resistance forces.� � �Whatever crimes the Zionist regime commits will fail to compensate for its disgraceful defeat during the Al-Aqsa Storm operation.� So when Israeli forces finally go into Gaza, what will the Iranian response look like? The first thing I expect to happen is for Hezbollah to join the war. That would mean a two front war, and the Israelis appear to be rapidly preparing for such a scenario. In fact, it is being reported that 28 towns and communities in northern Israel are going to be evacuated� But there are continuing signs the situation is sliding toward that feared two-front scenario, as the IDF has initiated a plan to evacuate all civilians who live within twokilometers of the Lebanese border. They said the repeat rocket and mortar fire make it necessary, also in preparation for potential greater military action. The country�s National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) will oversee transferring of Israeli civilians to state-funded guesthouses. In total a whopping 28 towns and communitieswill be evacuated. NEMA has listed them out as follows: Ghajar, Dishon, Kfar Yuval, Margaliot, Metula, Avivim, Dovev, Ma�ayan Baruch, Bar�am, Manara, Yiftah, Malkia, Misgav Am, Yir�on, Dafna,Arab al-Aramshe, Shlomi, Netu�a, Ya�ara, Shtula, Matat, Zar�it, Shomera, Betzet, Adamit, Rosh Hanikra, Hanita and Kfar Giladi. The good news is that a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah has not erupted just yet. But Hezbollah is calling for �a day of unprecedented anger� on Wednesday� Lebanon�s Hezbollah group denounced what they said was Israel�s deadly attack on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of Palestinians, announcing Wednesday �a day of unprecedentedanger� against Israel and Biden�s visit to the country, according to a statement released by Hezbollah late on Tuesday. �The attack reveals the true criminal face of this entity and its sponsor�the United States, which bears direct and complete responsibility for this massacre,� according tothe statement. And as I write this article, there are reports of vast numbers of protesters heading toward the U.S. embassy in Beirut. WATCH: https://twitter.com/i/status/1714396925695320434 Needless to say, events could spiral out of control very rapidly. If Hezbollah does go to war with Israel, the Biden administration has already discussed using military force against Hezbollah� The White House has been discussing the possibility of using military force if Hezbollah joins the war in Gaza and attacks Israel with its huge arsenal of rockets, three U.S.officials and one Israeli official with knowledge of the situation tell Axios. Once the U.S. starts bombing targets in Lebanon, there will be no turning back. All U.S. facilities and bases all over the Middle East would suddenly become targets for Islamic terrorists, and it is likely that we would see terror attacks inside the UnitedStates as well. So going to war should not be done lightly. But Hezbollah has at least 130,000 missiles ready to be fired at Israel, and once large numbers of missiles start raining down on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem no U.S. presidentis just going to sit there and watch it happen. In fact, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has already told Arab leaders that we are �not fooling around�� Two U.S. officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Arab leaders in the region, with whom he�d met in recent days, that the U.S. �is not fooling around� by sendingso many military assets to the region in support of Israel. At this hour, two U.S. aircraft carriers and thousands of troops are in the eastern Mediterranean waiting for orders� The United States is sending an amphibious task force of thousands of U.S. sailors and Marines toward Israel, where they will be positioned aboard warships in case the conflictthere with Hamas expands. Two defense officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss planned military movements, said Monday that the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group, numbering more than4,000 sailors and Marines, will join a growing American fleet off the coast of Israel that will include two aircraft carriers and their associated escort ships. The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., is deployed with the amphibious task force and trained for a wide array of missions, including some specialoperations. The USS Bataan and the USS Carter Hall, two of the warships carrying personnel from the unit, were in the Gulf of Oman on Monday, having left Kuwait recently after Hamas�s unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel on Oct. 7. We really are on the brink of the hot phase of World War III. Once Israeli troops move into Gaza, we are going to see who was bluffing and who was not. Unfortunately, I think that we will quickly realize that almost all of the threats being made on both sides were actually real. The Great Middle East War is here, and it is going to be extremely bloody. Is the Gaza War part of End Times prophecy? What about Psalm 83? What do the Bible's 20 references to Gaza tell us? - Joel C. Rosenberg - https://allisrael.com/is-the-gaza-war-part-of-end-times-prophecy-what-about-psalm-83-what-do-the-bible-s-20-mentions-of-gaza-tell-us As the situation here in Israel goes from bad to worse, and the death toll and number of wounded continues to climb on both sides of the border, Christians around the worldare sending me great questions via email, text message, WhatsApp, and Twitter�s Direct Messaging. Christian leaders, journalists, and broadcasters also asking me during radio, TV, digital, and print interviews, and on podcasts. Above all, they want to know not just what�s happening moment to moment but where is this all going and what it all means from a biblical perspective. I�m so glad they�re interested. It means they care. My colleagues and I created ALL ISRAEL NEWS, ALL ARAB NEWS, and THE ROSENBERG REPORT on TBN to provide Christians with answers to these and similar questions. In fact, on the special edition of THE ROSENBERG REPORT that I hosted on Saturday evening, I addressed three specific variations of these questions. First, what exactly does the Bible say about Gaza�s past, and its future? Second, is this horrific war in Gaza part of End Times Bible prophecy? Third, what about Psalm 83 � does it reveal something important about the current Gaza war? You can watch the full program here on YouTube. Here, too, is a partial transcript of the program so you can study the answers more carefully. Please share this article with family and friends on social media, and with your pastors and Bible study leaders so it can be a helpful resource to them, as well. WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAZA? What�s interesting to me is that Gaza is actually mentioned no less than 20 times in the Bible � in both the Old Testament and the New. Sadly, most references to Gaza are about how wicked its people and leaders are, how much they hate Israel and the Jewish people, and how God repeatedly sent His prophets towarn of Gaza�s impending judgment. The first time Gaza is mentioned in the Bible is in Genesis, chapter 10, where God describes Gaza as part of the land occupied by the Canaanites, the mortal enemies of God. �The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah�..� (Genesis 10:19) Later in the scriptures, Gaza is described as the base camp of the Philistines, who were constantly attacking and terrorizing the Jews of Israel. In the Book of Judges, chapter 1, the Lord directed the armies of the Israelites � specifically the armies of the tribe of Judah � to conquer Gaza, and they did. In Judges 1:18-19, we read: �And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory. Now the Lord was with Judah, and they tookpossession of the hill country.� Later in Judges, of course, we read the famous stories of Samson. Samson, admittedly, was a deeply flawed character. But God used him to go into Gaza and destroy their wicked leaders, even though it cost Samson his own life. In Jeremiah 47, we see that one of the Pharaohs of Egypt conquered Gaza, beginning a very long and complicated relationship between Egypt and Gaza that remains complicatedto this day. The Hebrew prophet Amos was told by God to write about the wickedness of Gaza and the divine judgment that was coming upon it. �Thus says the Lord, �For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke its punishment�.So, I will send fire upon the wall of Gaza and it will consume her citadels.�� (Amos 1:6-7) God also told the Hebrew prophets Zephaniah and Zechariah to warn of judgment coming to Gaza and its nearby Philistine cities. �For Gaza will be abandoned and Ashkelon a desolation; Ashdod will be driven out at noon and Ekron uprooted.� (Zephaniah 2:4) �Ashkelon will see it and be afraid. Gaza, too, will writhe in great pain; also Ekron�.Moreover, the king will perish from Gaza�.� (Zechariah 9:5) That said, the Bible does have at least one positive reference to Gaza, in the New Testament, in the Book of Acts. �So, when they [the apostles] had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord [all over Israel], they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to manyvillages of the Samaritans [in what is now known as the West Bank]. But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, �Get up and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.� (This is a desert road).� (Acts 8:25-26) And, of course, as he goes to Gaza, Philip comes upon someone who is reading a scroll written by the Hebrew prophet Isaiah. The man is literally reading the Messianic prophecies of Isaiah 53 about the coming death and resurrection of Jesus. But he doesn�t understand what he�s reading, so he asks Philip to explain the passage to him. Being an evangelist filled with the Holy Spirit, Philip is more than happy to explain both the prophecies and how Jesus fulfilled them and how he is, in fact, the long-awaitedMessiah. And right there, on the road leading into Gaza, Philip helps the man repent of his sins and receive Jesus Christ as his Savior and Lord. Then the man asks Philip to baptize him, and Philip does. Just as Paul came to Christ on the road leading into the Arab city of Damascus, so this man came to Christ on the road leading into Gaza. I love that story because it reveals an important truth. Yes, many of the leaders and people of Gaza are wicked. Yes, they hate Israel and the Jews. And yes, if they don�t repent and turn to Christ, they will face judgment. But God loves the people of Gaza. Christ commands us to love Israel and her neighbors. He sends His servants to bring the Gospel to Gaza. Perhaps many Palestinians in Gaza will reject the Gospel. But some won�t. Some will receive Christ as their Savior and Lord. Lynn and I personally know people from Gaza who have come to faith in Christ. Through the work of The Joshua Fund, we have ministered to Christ-followers who live in Gaza. We have welcomed some of them into our home. We have given them platforms to share their remarkable stories with others. So, please � as you pray for the Lord to give victory to Israel over the wicked leaders of Hamas � please also pray for the people of Gaza. They need to be liberated from the slavery and oppression of Hamas. And from the slavery and oppression of Satan and sin. Pray, too, for the terrorist leaders and members of Hamas � pray that God would convert them to Christ before it�s too late. I know former Muslim terrorists who have come to Christ and been radically changed. I�ve interviewed them for my books � and prayed with them � and studied the scriptures with them � and ministered to them. I even know a former Hamas leader who used to be a terrorist and Christ miraculously changed the entire direction of his life, turned him against Hamas, and used him to savemany Israeli lives from Hamas terrorist attacks, including suicide bombers sent to kill them. So, I know that God can do anything. That�s why I�m telling you that it�s our job to pray without ceasing not just for the rescue, salvation, healing, and blessing of Israelis, but also for God to do miraclesin the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, including the leaders and foot soldiers of Hamas. �For,� as the scriptures teach us, �nothing is impossible with God.� (Luke 1:37) WHAT DOES PSALM 83 TELL US ABOUT THE CURRENT WAR IN GAZA? There is a specific Bible passage you need to study carefully. Why? Because it reveals to you what�s driving the demonic hatred in the heart of Hamas. And the judgment coming against every member of Hamas � and every supporter of Hamas � who refuses to repent and give his or her life to Jesus Christ. The passage I�m referring to is Psalm 83. Starting in verse one we read: �O God, do not remain quiet; do not be silent and, O God, do not be still. For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You haveexalted themselves. They make shrewd plans against Your people, and conspire together against Your treasured ones. They have said, �Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the nation of Israel be remembered no more.� (Psalm 83:1-4) Don�t tell me the Bible is a dusty old book that isn�t relevant. Today�s headlines are ripped right out of the verses in Psalm 83. In verses 6 through 8, we read exactly where these various enemies of Israel and the Jewish people live. �The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites� � that�s southern Jordan and Arabia. �Moab and the Hagrites� � that�s central and north Jordan. �Gebal and Ammon and Amalek� � that�s Lebanon and Syria and the Sinai peninsula. �Philistia� � that�s the Gaza Strip. �With the inhabitants of Tyre� � that�s more of Lebanon. �Assyria also has joined with them� � that�s Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Right here, in this brief prophetic Psalm 83 � only 18 verses in English � God is warning us that people who live in these countries will hate Israel and the Jewish people. Why? Because they hate the God of Israel � the God of the Bible. Right? That�s what the writer tells us. Led by the Holy Spirit, he is telling God, �For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have exalted themselves� and �they make shrewd plans against Yourpeople.� Murderous plans. Genocidal plans. These mortal enemies of the God of Israel � including some of the Palestinian leaders and people in Gaza, those who connect themselves to the ancient Philistines � say, �Come,and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.� That�s exactly what Hamas wants. Don�t misunderstand me; I don�t believe that all Palestinians in Gaza agree with Hamas and want Israel to experience a genocide. But clearly some do. And they will lose. They are attacking the apple of God�s eye. They are refusing to understand what God told Abraham in Genesis 12 � �those who bless you I will bless, but those who curse you I will curse.� And what does the writer � led by the Holy Spirit � pray? �O God, pursue them with Your storm.� He asks God to bring fire upon them, and disaster, and humiliation, and shame. Why? Just so they will lose? No � also so that they will repent and turn to the Lord. Look at verse 16 � the writer brings for disaster to come upon all who seek to wipe Israel off the map �that they may seek Your name, Lord.� And again in verse 18 � �that they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.� Amen. That is a Spirit-led prayer. And it�s going to come true. So, please join me in praying for Israel � absolutely � but also for the Palestinians of Gaza that they might turn away from their hatred and give their lives to Jesus Christ,the King of kings and the Lord of lords. --------------------------------------- Iran's Direct Help to Hamas's October 7 War on Israel - by ConCoughlin - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20064/iran-helped-hamas-attack The West Must Stand United Against Both Hamas and Iran While the total destruction of Hamas is understandably Israel's main priority in the aftermath of the organization�s horrific massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, ultimatelyit should be Iran that is held to account for committing these atrocities. Iran's complicity in Hamas's merciless assault against Israeli civilians cannot be underestimated; it has been reflected in the way the Iranian leadership has openly celebratedthe indiscriminate slaughter of elderly women and babies as well as multiplying credible reports, including an almost comical one from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, "Call[ing] On Iranians Not To Speak Out On Iranian Involvement In 'The Hamas-Israel Conflict' -- For Fear Of Harming Iranian Interests And International Status". The Biden administration seems to be doing everything it can to avoid seeing direct involvement by Iran. The precise details of Iran's direct role in authorizing the attack are gradually coming to light, with officials involved in the investigation insisting that both Iran andLebanese Hezbollah (a terrorist organization Iran controls) were involved in the planning of the Hamas terrorist operation. This is hardly surprising given the estimated $100 million a year Tehran gives Hamas to help develop its terrorist infrastructure, part of the �13.1 billion Iran has spenton developing its terrorist network throughout the Middle East during the past decade, from supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen to Shia militias in Iraq. Iran's ability, moreover, to continue funding terror groups across the Middle East has been aided by the Biden administration's decision to release $6 billion in Iranian assetsas part of a recent hostage swap deal, on top of the "closer to $60 billion" Iran was able to acquire while the Biden administration "relaxed" sanctions for years. Iran's support for Hamas has also been especially helpful in enabling the terrorist organisation to develop its own indigenous weapons, such as the thousands of missiles thathave been used to attack targets throughout southern and central Israel. The true extent of Iran's military support for Hamas was recently laid bare by the movement's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, when he revealed that funds received from Tehran hadhelped to fund the development of missile and defence systems designed and built in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In a recent message addressed to Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the summer, Haniyeh praisedIran as "a solid pillar upon which Palestinian resistance groups, and the Axis of Resistance in general, rest as they continue their primary struggle against the Zionist enemy and US hegemony." The significance of Iran's involvement with Hamas's terrorist activity was also evident at the weekend, when Haniyeh met with Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,in Qatar, a country that also has a long history of funding Hamas. According to Reuters: "During their meeting in Qatar's capital Doha, Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian praised the rampage as a 'historic victory' that had dealt a setback to Israel'soccupation of Palestinian territory." A statement later issued by Hamas said the two leaders "greed to continue cooperation" to achieve the terror group's goals. Iran has certainly been quick to celebrate the terrorist atrocities committed by Hamas. Immediately after news of the attack emerged, Iran's foreign ministry declared thatthe attack was an act of self-defence by the Palestinians. According to Iranian state media, ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said: "This operation ... is the spontaneous movement of resistance groups and Palestine's oppressed people in defence of their inalienable rights and their natural reaction tothe Zionists' warmongering and provocative policies." There were also jubilant scenes in Iran's Majlis (parliament), with members of parliament rising from their seats on Saturday to chant "Death to Israel" and "Palestine isvictorious, Israel will be destroyed". Iran's open support for the massacres has inevitably raised fears that the regime could be tempted to respond militarily when Israeli forces launch their ground operationto destroy Hamas's terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. Visiting Lebanon after his meeting with Haniyeh, Iran's foreign minister warned that the conflict might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle,and that would make Israel suffer "a huge earthquake." Concerns that Iran could provoke a major escalation in the conflict by encouraging Hezbollah to open a new front against northern Israel has already seen a rise in tensions,with sporadic clashes reported between Hezbollah and the Israeli military on the Israel-Lebanon border. Israeli warplanes have also been in action bombing airports in Syria, which are used by Iran to transfer weapons and supplies to the network of military bases it has constructedin southern Syria. Washington's decision to deploy two US Navy carrier battle groups, headed by the USS Gerald R Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, to the eastern Mediterranean wastaken as much to deter any further attempt by Tehran to escalate the crisis as to demonstrate American support for Israel. The extent of Iran's meddling in the current war in the Middle East should certainly serve as a wake-up call to the US and its European allies about the danger Iran posesnot just to the region, but the wider world. The timing of the attack, after all, came at a time when the Biden administration was involved in delicate negotiations with Riyadh for Saudi Arabia to normalise relationswith Israel in return for US security guarantees, a move that would have added further to Iran's international isolation. With the Saudi negotiations now on hold, the US and its allies should accept the folly of trying to maintain a diplomatic dialogue with Tehran in the hope that the Iranianregime may be persuaded to sign up to a new nuclear deal. As Iran's open support for Hamas has demonstrated, the ayatollahs have no interest in reaching a peaceful accommodation with the West. Rather, they have been working for yearsto encircle Israel with their proxies -- Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south -- with the intent of obliterating it. Iran has not only been advancing its nuclear program; on Wednesday, the ban on Iranian missiles expires. Iran will be able to sendmissiles into Gulf countries in the Middle East, as well as to Russia to launch into Ukraine. The Iranian regime is only concerned with supporting groups that carry out unimaginable acts of violence against innocent civilians, and should be treated with serious deterrence,if not more, and with the enemy status they fully deserve. ------------------------------------- WeAre Literally On The Brink Of An Apocalyptic War BetweenIsrael And Iran - by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/we-are-literally-on-the-brink-of-an-apocalyptic-war-between-israel-and-iran/ The crisis in the Middle East has taken another very ominous turn. Iran is threatening to get directly involved in the conflict, and that should deeply alarm all of us. Fora long time, I have been specifically warning my readers that an apocalyptic conflict between Israel and Iran would be coming. Sadly, now we are literally on the verge of seeing that happen. Both nations possess weapons of immense destructive power, and thereis going to be so much death and destruction in the days ahead. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to signal that a massive military offensive in Gaza is imminent� Benjamin Netanyahu has today vowed to �demolish� Hamas with Israeli troops on the Gaza border poised to attack at any moment. Israel�s armed forces is �ready� to defeat the �bloodthirsty monsters�, the Israeli Prime Minister said, with a land, sea, and air offensive imminent. Israeli tanks and troops have gathered on the border and are carrying out simulations ready to spring an invasion of Gaza at any time after Hamas terrorists killed 1,300 Israelisin a surprise attack last Saturday. But if Israel goes in, Hezbollah has already indicated that they will almost certainly enter the conflict. Of course Hezbollah would only do that if they were directed to do so by Iran, and according to Axios Iran is now warning �that it will have to intervene if the Israeli operationin Gaza continues�� Iran sent a message to Israel on Saturday stressing that it does not want further escalation in the Hamas-Israel war, but that it will have to intervene if the Israeli operationin Gaza continues, two diplomatic sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios. Wow. So is this really it? Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has publicly stated that his nation �has its red lines�, and that �Iran will have to respond� if Israel conducts a majoroffensive in Gaza� But Amir-Abdollahian stressed that Iran has its red lines. He said that if the Israeli military operation continues � and especially if Israel follows through on its promiseof a ground offensive in Gaza � Iran will have to respond, according to the sources. In addition, Amir-Abdollahian is also threatening America with �heavy losses� if the U.S. military decides to intervene� He accused the United States of coming forward �to preserve the statue and puppet of Israel�. �If the scope of the war expands, heavy losses will befall America as well.� I could be wrong, but I don�t expect Iran to get directly involved in the conflict right away. But I do believe that Hezbollah will jump into the war fairly soon after Israeli forces enter Gaza, and Syria could also be pulled in quite rapidly as well. This would especially be true if the IDF keeps bombing Syria�s largest airports� On Saturday, Israel allegedly launched an air strike against Syria�s Aleppo Airport. The Syrian government confirmed the attack and said, �The Israeli enemy carried out anair attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage to the airport and it being out of service.� The reason why the Israelis are bombing airports in Syria is because that is one of the primary ways that Iran gets weapons to Hezbollah� Referring to this development, Joel Rayburn, Director of the American Centre for Levant Studies, wrote, �Repeated Israeli strikes to disable Damascus and Aleppo airports are,to my mind, a strong indication that 1) the Iranian regime is trying to move strategic weapons to or via Syria to open a northern front and 2) the Israelis are determined to preempt that.� The Israeli official re-shared this post, stating that Iranians are engaged in arms transfers. Syria�s Damascus and Aleppo airports are known as transit points for Iranian arms sent to Hezbollah, a powerful Islamist militant group in both Syria and Lebanon. We are so close to a major regional war. The U.S. and other western powers are trying to keep Iran and Hezbollah out of the conflict, but it just isn�t working. On Sunday, there was more fighting along Israel�s northern border yet again� A Hezbollah spokeswoman, Rana Sahili, says today�s increase in the intensity of the exchanges between Israel and the Lebanese terror group doesn�t indicate Hezbollah has decidedto fully enter into the Hamas-Israel war. The fighting on the border is �only skirmishes� and represents a �warning,� she says. Hezbollah is not ready to formally go to war just yet. But once the Israelis make their move in Gaza, expect Hezbollah to pull the trigger. And once that happens, the Biden administration will have a decision to make. If Hezbollah starts firing thousands of missiles into Israel, I think that the Biden administration will order strikes against Hezbollah. The two aircraft carriers that have been ordered into the eastern Mediterranean Sea have been sent there to deter Hezbollah and Iran, but they will take action if it becomesnecessary� The Pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea and is sending Air Force fighter jets to the region as Israel prepares to expand itsGaza operations, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement Saturday. The US warships are not intended to join the fighting in Gaza or take part in Israel�s operations, but the presence of two of the Navy�s most powerful vessels is designedto send a message of deterrence to Iran and Iranian proxies in the region, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon. The movements are �part of our effort to deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas�s attack on Israel,� Austin said in thestatement. As I have discussed previously, I hope that those carriers are being kept at a safe distance, because Hezbollah does have missiles that are capable of sinking an aircraftcarrier. As this conflict evolves, we are going to see images on our television screens that are going to absolutely shock all of us. So many people are going to die, and our world will be permanently changed by the horrors that we will soon witness. ------------------------ Cycle of Violence - By Hal Lindsey - https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-10-15-2023/ Israel longs for peace. I�ve been there dozens of times and spent quality time with political leaders, such as Benjamin Netanyahu, and with legendary military leaders. I�vespoken at length with regular soldiers and regular people, Jews and Palestinians. I can tell you with certainty that Israel desperately longs for peace, probably more than any other nation in the world. Look at how many times they have been willing to compromisetheir safety for so-called �peace agreements� where the �peace� ended up being only a mirage in the desert. But when someone comes in and murders over 1,300 of your citizens and injures over 3,000 more, what do you do? Hamas took 150 Israelis as hostages. They fired on unarmed youngpeople at a music festival as though it were a shooting gallery. They launched thousands of missiles into civilian areas, even hitting and mostly destroying a children�s hospital. Hamas gunmen invaded Israeli neighborhoods, murdering whole families in theirhomes � families eating breakfasts or who were still in bed at 6:30 on a Saturday morning. The terrorists set houses ablaze. They killed scores of babies and toddlers. They beheaded babies! How should Israel respond? No matter how much it wants peace, howwould any nation respond? Standing beside the Qatari Prime Minister, US Secretary of State Blinken said it well. �No country can tolerate having a terrorist group come in and slaughter its people�. What Israel is doing is not retaliation. What Israel is doing is defending the lives of its people and, as I said, trying to make sure this cannot happen again. And I think any country faced with what Israel has suffered would likely do the same thing. Imagineif this had happened in the United States.� Much of the world�s media sees this as simply another step in the Israeli-Palestinian �cycle of violence.� One side does something bad to the other and the other side reactswith something even worse. Then the first side reacts in a still stronger way. The violence grows more extreme, deepening the hatred that fuels it. Feeding on itself, this process leads to greater violence and mounting rage. And the cycle continues� or sothey say. But that is not an accurate depiction of the cycle of violence at work in the Holy Land. Hamas grew out of Arab and Persian hatred for Israel. Hatred of Israel began as hatredfor Jews. Hatred against Jews is a tenet of faith and an outgrowth of religious zeal. That makes it unappeasable. The real cycle of violence between Israel and Hamas works like this. Hamas attacks, and Israel reciprocates by stopping Hamas�s immediate ability to attack. Under pressurefrom allies, Israel does only enough to temporarily declaw Hamas. Each conflict intensifies Gazan poverty, and after each one, the world�s nations send aid. But because Hamas controls Gaza, Hamas controls the aid. Hamas gives away enough to make regular Gazanssee them as a source of help. But mostly, Hamas leaders make themselves rich and rebuild their war machine. Other nations, such as Iran, hate Israel as much as Hamas does, and they give direct military aid. When strong enough, Hamas attacks again. And again, Israel stops them � still doing only enough to stop their immediate ability to make war. Nations again help. Hamas againrebuilds. And when it is strong enough, Hamas attacks again. That is the cycle of violence Israel faces. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that it will be different this time. He believes the atrocities and war crimes of recent attacks will give his military an opportunity tobring a complete end to Hamas rule in Gaza. But even if he can depose Hamas, the nature of this conflict means that a similar group will arise. Hatred against Israel is not about land, rights, or money. It is a tenet of faith. Israel�s struggle for survival will not end until Israel�s Messiah returns. --------------------------------------- Was Biden complicit in terrorist attack on Israel?- Bill Wilson – www.dailyjot.com The world is aghast at the vicious attack on Israel by Hamas, Islamic Jihad from the South and West, and Hezbollah from the North. Thousands of rockets rained down on civiliansfrom these terrorist groups in a coordinated attack. The White House has put out a statement denouncing the terrorist action, but could the Biden Administration’s financial support of Iran and the “Palestinian” people have not only enabled, but funded thishorrible act against Israel? Follow the money and the intent. Since Biden took office, he has acted decisively to send millions to the “Palestinians” and billions to Iran, which funds all terrorist groups seeklng the demise of Israel. The saying, “when thetide rises all the ships rise as well” is in play. On July 14, 2022, the White House announced its intention to support the “Palestinian” people with new contributions totaling $316 million. The announcement said, “This ison top of the more than half a billion dollars the United States has provided to the Palestinian people since the Biden Administration restored much needed funding to the Palestinians.” This after the a round of funding given in March 2021 as reported by theTimes of Israel: “The administration announced last Thursday that it was giving $15 million to vulnerable Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. A day later, with no public announcement, it notified Congressthat it will give the Palestinians $75 million for economic support, to be used in part to regain their “trust and goodwill” after the Trump-era cuts.” On September 11, the Biden Administration announced that it was “unfreezing” $6 BILLION to Iran in a deal to free four American prisoners. Less than a month later, Israelis attacked. The State Department says the money had nothing to do with the attacks. But can they be so sure? Former Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Kurt Weldon, who was vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, outlined in his 2005 book “CountdownTo Terror” that Iran had developed a coordinating committee on terrorism called the “Committee of Nine.” Weldon said this committee, which has been operational since April of 2003, “supports and manages international terrorist operations, working with al Qaeda,Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Ansar al Islam, and other major terrorist groups [also including Hamas].” Notwithstanding, Republicans are also guilty of supporting “Palestinian” terrorism. Under pressure from President George W Bush, Israel Prime Minister Arial Sharon in August2005 evicted some 9,480 Jewish settlers from 21 settlements in Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank. This was supposed to be the realization of the Bush theory that the Israelis and “Palestinians” would “live side by side in peace.” That conceptwent out the window when these “Palestinians” elected Hamas as their ruling government. Since then, rocket fire and terrorist attacks have been common place. Under President Donald Trump, the Palestinian Authority was defunded, choking the terrorist cabal.Now, Biden has pumped billions into the hands of the terrorists, claiming it’s for humanitarian purposes. History proves otherwise. Sending money to Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas as the government in Gaza, and other places only funds terrorism. The idea that these people and organizations solelydedicated to the demise of Israel can willingly live side by side in peace is foolhardy. The Bible speaks repeatedly about those who will come against Israel in the end of times. They just happen to be the ones the US supports financially, while saying itis a friend and ally of Israel. So here you go with another Biblical prophecy about Israel that has been proven true: Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that curses you.” America is prophetically on thin ices, especially withthis Biden guy in office. --------------------------------- Amir Tsarfati: We Are Facing Something Bigger Than We Have Seen Since The Establishment Of The State Of Israel It was a very quiet morning before 6:30 AM. It was the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, the happiest of all the days of the feast. Tonight, there were supposed to becelebrations across the country with dancing and the reading of the Torah. There were youngsters that had a party all night out in nature. There were a lot of Israelis who were asleep and soldiers who had no clue that in a few minutes, their liveswould either end or change forever. Then, exactly at 6:30 AM, with a barrage of hundreds of rockets, in a very daring move, Hamas terrorists attacked nearly 50 Israeli military outposts along the border. Oncethey neutralized them, they managed to breach the wall and fence, opening a wide road for their vehicles and motorcycles, also using gliders. Within 20 minutes, at least 1,000 terrorists infiltrated Israel and totally surprised the people at that outdoor party, civilians who were sleeping in on Shabbat, and thesoldiers who never saw that coming. Within a matter of one hour, we already counted more than 100 dead. As of now, it’s over 300. But the astonishing thing, the one thing that we dreaded the most, is the factthat they were able to abduct nearly 100 Israelis into the Gaza Strip. They paraded them on the main road, women and children, both elderly and young. Dead bodies of Israeli soldiers were all paraded along the main road. Israel declared war. Ten hours in, thousands of rockets had been fired into Israel. Another disturbing thing that leads me to believe that there is a country behind it, and not just a terroristorganization, is the fact that the Iron Dome missed so many rockets. There were direct hits in many places. Hamas basically declared that they had neutralized the Iron Dome. This capability can belong to only one of two superpowers in the world. And let me guess that it’s not America. We are dealing with Russia right now. Only Russia could trainthem to use drones and drop bombs. Only Russia could sabotage the frequency of radars to that degree. We are facing something bigger than we have ever seen since the establishment of the State of Israel throughout all the wars in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1980, throughout the1990s, and the Lebanon War in 2006. It’s always been the case that Israeli soldiers fought on the frontline. Today, Israeli soldiers did not fight in the frontline. Today, terrorist knocked on the doors of civiliansin their homes. It’s equivalent to roughly 2,000 terrorists taking over a large portion of New York City, grabbing hostages, and transporting at least 1,000 American civilians to Afghanistan.That’s the magnitude of what we’re experiencing right now. At the same time, Hezbollah has elevated its alertness and readiness for war. The United Nations Special Forces in Lebanon is now locked up in its bases in southern Lebanon.They do nothing. The Taliban in Afghanistan just announced that they’re ready to go and liberate Jerusalem if only the other Sunni Muslim countries allow them a free pass all the way to Israel.The second and third armies of the Egyptian military are now on the highest alert. We are facing an existential threat. I’m not afraid because I know that “he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:4). -------------------------- Hamas spokesman says Iran gave support for surprise attack on Israel - https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/hamas-spokesman-says-iran-gave-support-for-surprise-attack-on-israel/ Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad tells the BBC that Iran gave its support to the Palestinian terror group to launch its surprise multi-front attack on Israel on Saturday, as citedby Hebrew media. The unprecedented attack saw 300 Israeli civilians and security forces killed, over 1,000 injured, and an unknown number of people — women, children, men, elderly people,and soldiers — abducted from southern Israel and taken into the Gaza Strip. Tehran is a key backer of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. ------------------------------ Victor Davis Hanson: Analysis — A 50th Anniversary War? - https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1710741034320417027 Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants,taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead? And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands? a) Ostensibly, radical Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—the traditional source of much of their cash—and Israel, by forcingthe issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war”, especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. Iran likely was the driving force to prompt the war—given its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israelirapprochement. b) Arab forces have had only success against Israel through surprise attacks during Israeli holidays, as in the Yom Kippur War (i.e., was it any accident that the presentattack began 50-years almost to the day after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War?). And so they struck again this Saturday during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot—in hopes that others will join inas happened in 1973. (So much for the Arab warnings not for Westerners to conduct war during Ramadan). c) Hamas may have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass leftist street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisionsand thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence. But, more importantly, in a larger sense the Biden administration has contributed both to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player, and to the perceptionthat the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on the following inexplicable policies: 1) In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred$1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel). And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support.In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition: “We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” “All sides?” “Refrain from retaliatory attacks?” So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers? This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible. 2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despiteTehran’s increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were suppliedby Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack. 3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalistRobert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billetsinside the U.S. government. In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjam�­n Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited foran official visit). Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War ReserveAmmunition—Israel” is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis. What to expect in Israel? Expect the following: the usual Hamas/terrorist selling and/or execution of Israeli hostages, the use of Israeli hostages as “human shields” in Gaza, the bargaining/sale ofthe remains of Israeli dead, occasional killings of Jews inside Israel by Arabs who falsely believe there will be a winning Middle East-wide existential war against Israel. And finally, a devastating Israeli counter-response that will eventually earn a U.S.rebuke. What should the U.S. instead do? It should quit talking to Iran and restore full sanctions against it. It should cut off all aid immediately to all the Palestinians. It should undertake a 1973-like massivearms lift of key munitions to Israel and warn Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and others in the Middle East not to intervene or else, given that Israel will need several weeks to deal with Hamas and Gaza. And if it shows any hesitation or weakness, other terroristgroups will opportunistically jump in. Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once agains thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes andexecuting them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945 we were fighting the SS murderers, now we are sending millions in subsidies to their modern Hamas killer squad counterparts. We the American people should demand not one more Americancent to these Gestapo and SS killers. ----------------------------- Israel Vows To Use 'All The Power' Of The IDF To Destroy Hamas’s Capabilities, Tells Gaza’s Residents To 'Get Out Now' In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to use “all the power” of the IDF to destroy Hamas’s capabilities, and tells Gaza’s residents to “get outnow.” Calling today’s events something “never before seen in Israel,” he vows to ensure “it will never happen again.” He begins by saying Hamas “invaded Israeli territory this morning,” and started a “cruel and evil war,” targeting innocent civilians young and old. “We will win this war, but the price will be unbearably heavy,” he says. “Hamas wants to murder us all,” Netanyahu says, “murdering children and mothers in their homes, in their beds. “It is an enemy that kidnaps elderly people, children, young girls,” an enemy “that massacres and slaughters our civilians, our children, who simply wanted to enjoy the festival.” “What happened today has never been seen before in Israel and I will ensure it never happens again. The entire government supports this decision. The IDF will immediatelyuse all its power to destroy Hamas’s capabilities,” he says. “We will fight them to the bitter end and avenge this black day they plotted for Israel and its people.” Israel will target Hamas everywhere — turning the places it “hides and operates” into “cities of ruin.” He tells the “residents of Gaza” to “get out now because we will operate everywhere and with full force.” WATCH: https://twitter.com/i/status/1710769906373775373 ----------------------- Israel...at War - By Hal Lindsey - https://www.hallindsey.com/ww-10-8-2023/ The great earthquake of the Ezekiel 38 war has NOT begun. But we are in the midst of a major foreshock. In the last few hours, Hamas fired thousands of missiles from Gazainto Israel. They targeted Israeli civilians. Hamas soldiers broke through checkpoints and bulldozed parts of the border fence. Their army attacked Israeli neighborhoods in border towns, randomly killing and randomly taking hostages. But this did not originate with Hamas. A peace agreement with Saudi Arabia seemed close just a few days ago. But the Saudis cannot make peace with Israel now because theycannot seem to be taking the side of Jews against Muslims. The reason Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations have been willing to cooperate with Israel is their common enemy, Iran. So, who benefits with peace set aside? Iran. This attack was planned, funded, and equipped by Iran. That’s why I consider it a precursor to the war prophesied in Ezekiel 38 and 39 — a war led by Russia and Iran. Andmake no mistake, Russia is tied to this. Just last month, Iran’s Minister of Defense said, “Russia and Iran have significantly broadened the range of their cooperation over the past few years. In particular, I would like to note regional affairs, such as thejoint war on terrorism and extremism.” How is that for ironic? These are the words of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. If you find it hard to believe that the orders came from Iran, consider this. A few days before the attack began, a billboard went up in Iran’s capital city of Tehran. Thebillboard says, “The liberation operation ‘Storming of Al-Aqsa’ has started.” Al-Aqsa refers to the oldest mosque on the Temple Mount. It irks Iran’s mullahs that Jews have ultimate jurisdiction over what Islam claims to be its third holiest site. Shortly after the attack, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard posted on X (previously Twitter), “We Told You We Would Come for You.” That’s a terrorist organization taking credit forits work! And this is definitely a war of terror. These people are shooting schoolgirls on the streets. They are kidnapping whole families including children and the elderly. Their missiles target civilian neighborhoods and other civilian locations with noconnection to the military. These are terrorists fighting a war of terror! Israel has been standing as a buffer between us and radical Islamic terrorists for decades. If Israel doesn’t stop them now, Iranian terror will continue to spread in theMiddle East and around the world. Never forget that Iran considers Israel the little Satan and the United States the big Satan. We are a target, too. And, ironically, we are helping to fund these attacks on our friends and eventually on ourselves. We keepreleasing money to Iran and Iran keeps using it in its campaign of terror around the world. After the attack began, the US State Department’s Office for Palestinian Affairs put up a post on Twitter urging all sides to “refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks.” After receiving heavy criticism, they removed the tweet. But their knee-jerk reaction was that Israel should allow their citizens to be pummeled without responding. That shows the kind of thinking in the State Department’s entrenched bureaucracy, also knownas the deep state. The Palestinian attack has been especially egregious, easily qualifying as a series of horrible war crimes. How will the world respond? And how will you respond? Christians should remember that this did not catch God by surprise. His plan continues. He’s taking care of you, and His offer of salvation remainsopen to everyone. ---------------------- Is The Attack on Israel by Hamas, Setting Up for The Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy? - https://harbingersdaily.com/is-the-attack-on-israel-by-hamas-setting-up-for-the-fulfillment-of-bible-prophecy/ I woke up Saturday morning and was shocked to read the headline, “Israel is at war.” This is near the anniversary of the last time Israel was officially at war, in 1973, when she was attacked by Egypt, Syria, and others. But this was a different kind of war.Thousands of rockets rained on Israel from multiple directions. Hamas gunmen invaded by land, sea, and sky, and hundreds of people were murdered and kidnapped. They were using what we might describe as ISIS-like methods. They specifically targeted young women and young children. They launched massive, indiscriminate rocket fire toward civilian population centers, as well as terrorist infiltrationof cities and settlements close to the Gaza border. They went home to home, door to door, looking for the young and the elderly. Some of the women they took as hostages were survivors of the Holocaust. When it’s all said and done, this number tragically will only get larger. There are 700 dead and over 2,000 wounded. This is without precedent, causing the Prime Ministerof Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to say they are now at war. Who is Hamas? They’re a terrorist organization funded by Iran. That’s not a secret. In fact, a PR person from Hamas stated that this was funded by Iran. This is somethingthat’s an established fact. Iran has long stated their objective, which is to destroy Israel. An Iranian leader celebrated the attacks, putting out this message: “We will stand by the Palestinian fightersuntil the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem is completed.” Iran has also signaled that they are developing a nuclear weapon. In the past, they have threatened to, in their own verbiage, wipe Israel off the face of the map. One leader of Iran said, “Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? But you had best know that this slogan and this goal are altogether attainable,and surely can be achieved. This regime that is occupying Jerusalem must be wiped from the map.” It’s interesting how it always comes back to Jerusalem. The Bible predicted 1000s of years ago that the end-times events would revolve around Jerusalem. Not Irvine. Not Los Angeles. Not Moscow. Not Paris. Jerusalem, this tiny littlecity, this tiny sliver of land, will play a key role in the events of the last days. It’s a focal point of end-times events. In Zechariah 12:2-3, God says, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and againstJerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.” The irony of all of this is that the Biden administration just gave $6 billion to Iran. What a bad move it is to give any money to a nation that sponsors terrorism aroundthe world. But here’s where it gets interesting for students of Bible prophecy. The Bible tells us in the end times that Israel would be scattered and re-gathered. This has happened.You want to talk about signs of the times; the super sign of the last days, the sign that sets the prophetic clock ticking is the regathering of the nation of Israel into its homeland. It happened on the heels of the Holocaust. Who would have ever thought that these Jewish people, who lost 6 million of their people to the Nazis, would somehow regather intheir homeland, but it happened against all odds. On May 14th, 1948, Israel became a nation. The United States was the first nation to acknowledge the State of Israel. In Ezekiel 37 and 38, the Bible speaks of the regathering of Israel, and then it speaks of a large force from her north attacking her. That force is identified as being ledby Magog. Who is Magog? No one can say with absolute certainty. But many, many Bible students and prophecy teachers believe it’s modern-day Russia. I think you can make a very goodcase for that. On a map of the Middle East, look to the north of Israel, and you will find Russia. Why would Russia ever want to invade Israel? Well, there’s another thing that the Bible says about Magog: one of the allies that will march with her is Persia, the ancientname for modern Iran. The Bible predicted this thousands of years ago. It’s only recently that the Iranians and the Russians have developed a special connection. Not once in the past 2,500 yearshas Russia formed a military alliance with Iran, but they have now signed a billion-dollar accord for the sale of missiles, and the Iranians have helped the Russians by providing them with weaponized drones to use in the Ukraine war. How do you stop something like what is happening in Israel? Some hostages are women, little children, and soldiers. It’s very tricky. Let’s just say, for the sake of a point, if they decided to strike at Iran, specifically because of their funding of this attack, what would that produce? It could producethe conflict we read about in Ezekiel. I’m not saying this is going to lead to the Ezekiel 38 scenario, but I’m saying it’s very interesting. If you get up in the morning and read this headline, “Russia attacksIsrael,” fasten your seat belt. You’re seeing Bible prophecy fulfilled in your lifetime, in real-time, before your very eyes. What should we do in light of all of this? Did Jesus say, When you see these things begin to happen, freak out because you’re dead in the water? He didn’t say that. Jesus said, “When these things begin to come to pass,then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:28). I’m going to ask you to join me in prayer. The Bible tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We want to pray that they arrive at some kind of peace. We want to pray thatthis horrific terrorism stops and that they’re able to get their hostages back. Even then, that is not going to replace the hundreds of lives that were lost in this unprecedented attack. ---------------------------- The Day Israel Changed Forever - What Happens Next? – by PNW Staff - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=6413 We have entered into a new era in which the Middle East will never be the same. Every major news organization is covering current developments going on in Israel and we willdo our best to include stories and links to the most important developments. We have been blessed to develop many friendships and associations with people and organizations on the ground in Israel and hope to bring you stories from those living throughthe current situation so that you can receive first hand information. Much of this information will change rapidly and our updates may be more frequent or at different times of the day to keep you informed on new developments. While the mainstream news is analyzing the geopolitical realties on the ground we also plan to bring you a prophetic perspective on what is happening. How do such events tiein with God's Word about Israel and the end times? How will the involvement of other nations such as Lebanon, Jordan, Iran, Russia, the United States as well as the United Nations impact the prophetic picture? While we are still in the early days of analyzing how all of this will play out in the bigger picture we believe there are several prophetic themes to be watching at thistime. One of those that we believe every person should familiarize themselves with is the potential impact of the Psalm 83 war. The Psalm 83 War In Psalm 83 Asaph petitions the Lord about about a confederacy of nations that will rise up against Israel. There are many prophetic scholars who argue that this event isa reference to a future event and not something that has happened in the past. If this perspective is right then Israel will find itself in another multifront war against several nations and groups of people in the Middle East. Those groups include not onlythe Palestinians/Hamas/Islamic Jihad but also Hezbollah/Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Syria. Many people are familiar with the war of Gog/Magog found in Ezekiel 38 which involves Iran, Turkey and Russia invading Israel. However where are Israel's other traditionalenemies? None of those named in Psalm 83 confederation are included in the Ezekiel 38 Gog/Magog Confederacy. Many prophetic scholars believe the Psalm 83 war will precede the Magog Invasion and result in Israel defeating many of it's neighboring countries, acquiring expanded territoryand then proceeding to dwell safely in the Land (for a time). In essence the Psalm 83 war sets the stage for the Magog Invasion. We are already hearing intelligence reports that the Hamas attack had the support of Iranian and Russian intelligence. Will the current conflict with Hamas expand to include other nations and if so, will this set the stage for this prophetic battle of Psalm 83? We encourage you to watch below Prophecy expert Bill Salus give an interview on the background to the Psalm 83 War and what might be coming next in the Middle East. WATCH: https://youtu.be/bvatAvvJjRQ?si=Z4JUdoyigV4e9nA3 --------------------------- Israel Declares A State of War on the Last Day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) – A.V. Rauf - https://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2023/10/08/israel-declares-a-state-of-war-on-the-last-day-of-the-feast-of-tabernacles-sukkot/ In the previous post I discussed about the importance of peace in the Middle East and how the Bible even calls for us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem according to Psalm122:6: Psalm 122:6–Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. I mentioned in the previous post that Bible prophecy envisions peace in the region in two stages. First, there will be a false peace engineered by a false messiah. Ultimately,the world will witness an even greater and everlasting peace between nations at the return of Jesus Christ as mentioned earlier. The Prophet Zechariah in the Old Testament prophesied the Jerusalem would become focal point in International affairs that would impact the entire world in the last days: Zechariah 12:2-3–“Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that causes reeling to all the peoples around; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be againstJudah. It will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will be severely injured. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it. As of this writing, Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel and Hamas soldiers infiltrated numerous areas of the Israel-Gaza border and captured several border towns.Hamas fighters went into Israeli homes and slaughtered Israeli citizens while they slept and took other Israelis hostage . Reports from the first day of this onslaught are confirming over 300 casualties, over 1500 people injured many critically. As a result, Israel has declared war on Hamas and has killed over 190 Hamas fighters in a limited counterattack. The Israeli Defense Forces have launched ‘Operation Swordsof Iron‘ to strike back against Hamas and are striking Hamas strongholds from the air and sea and are preparing for a land invasion, thus, neutralization of ALL Gaza terrorist organizations is highly likely. All parts of Israel within a 50 Mile radius of Gazaand the entirety of Gaza itself have been designated as a “special military zone” by the Israeli Defense Force. As contingency plans have gone into full execution, this would also be inclusive of the Lebanon and Syria frontiers as well as Judea and Samaria. HAMAS has called upon its allies in Judaea & Samaria and all Arab and Islamic nations to joining in on this war against Israel. It is being reported that Hezbollah statedthat it supports HAMAS war and it is highly anticipated they they too will join in against Israel. This can escalate to a full blown Middle East War if Iran ends up joining the fray. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top military adviser said Tehran supportedthe attacks by Hamas against Israel and would continue to back the Islamist fighters “until the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem.” so if Hezbollah (which is in Lebanon) joins the war, as well as Jordan and Iran through its Islamic Revolutionary GuardCorps.(By the way, The IRGC-QF has between 5,000 and 15,000 personnel, handpicked from the broader IRGC for their competency and allegiance to the regime) this could very well turn lead to the prophetic fulfillment of Psalm 83: Psalm 83: Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.5 For they have consulted together with oneconsent: they are confederate against thee:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the childrenof Lot. Selah. 9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.11 Make their nobleslike Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flamesetteth the mountains on fire;15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, andperish:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth. It also bears mentioning that this took place on the last day of the Jewish Feast of Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles. The first mention of the Feast of Tabernacles in the Bible comes from God as delivered to Moses on Mt. Sinai. In Exodus 23:16, God commands the Children of Israel, throughtheir prophet, to celebrate a special feast of “harvest” or “ingathering.” Later in 23rd chapter of the Book of Leviticus, we learn that the feast should be celebrated in the seventh month, during the autumn season near the end of the year. But of greater significance is the fact that the Feast of the Tabernacles was a celebration of all that God had done to lead and protect his people from freeing them fromtheir bondage in Egypt, to guiding and protecting and providing for them during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. So Israel was caught off guard during their national day of Sabbath and in celebrating this Feast. Now in the New Testament, It was during the Feast of Tabernacles, in reference to the ceremony of pouring water into the silver basin, that Jesus publicly proclaimed His divinityand His mission. In John 7:37-39 we read the following: John 7:37-39–In the last day, that great day of the feast (Feast of Tabernacles), Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.38 He thatbelieveth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) The Bible teaches a future role for the Feast of Tabernacles in the plan of God. Zechariah 12–14 tells of the final, climactic battle of the nations of the world against thenation of Israel. All the people of the earth will come against Jerusalem in battle. Zechariah 14:1-9 —–Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, And your spoil will be divided in your midst. 2 For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; Thecity shall be taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then the Lord will go forth And fight against those nations,As He fights in the day of battle. 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall movetoward the north And half of it toward the south. 5 Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee As you fled from the earthquake In the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God willcome, And all the saints with You. 6 It shall come to pass in that day That there will be no light; The lights will diminish. 7 It shall be one day Which is known to the Lord— Neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen That it will be light.8 And in that day it shall be That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur. 9 And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that dayit shall be— “The Lord is one,” And His name one. Once again to put it into simplest terms, when the LORD comes and removes the faithful Church and unleashes His wrath on this earth and on the kingdom of AntiChrist, He willbe intervening in the strategic conflict against the nation of Israel. This is the Day of the LORD. It is now very obvious to discern what is about to take place in the Middle East. After Christ’s Second Coming and at the conclusion of the Tribulation period (aka The Time of Jacob’s Trouble), in Zechariah Chapter 14 it is mentioned four times that thenations of the world will then be required to go up to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Zechariah 14:10-19–All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gateunto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.12 And this shall be theplague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem;and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in thesetents, as this plague.16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. Remember that the time of Jacob’s trouble is the exact same event Jesus Himself mentioned in Matthew 24 where He prophesies about the coming time of great tribulation thatwill target the entire world in general, and the Jews in particular. Matthew 24:20-21–But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning ofthe world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. Historically, Israel was destroyed in 70 AD, and the Jews were scattered across the nations according to Bible prophecy. In 1948, they were miraculously regathered in exactlythe same place from which they were dispersed. But their regathering was a physical one, not a spiritual one and there has been a mass “Aaliya,“or return of Jews from the Northern , Southern, & Eastern parts of the world. Now Jews from the West have been returningto Israel in massive numbers. God’s covenant with Israel and the Jews is eternal, just like His covenant with the Church is eternal and it cannot be broken, and God is not going to leave them in theirfallen condition. The time of Jacob’s trouble is going to be the means by which He restores His chosen people back to a right relationship to Himself. Hosea 5:15-–I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. As for this current war with HAMAS, how severe the retaliation from Israel will be this time remains to be seen. Whether or not other parties join in on this also remainsto be seen. Ultimately, how the nations react to Israel’s retaliation when this is all said and done also remains to be seen. And on a final note, whether we as the Church are at the cusp of bringing in the “FINAL HARVEST,” beginning on this last day of the Feasts of Tabernacles also remains to beseen. Buckle your seatbelts, because the remainder of 2023 looks to be very interesting! ----------------------- Globalists open second front in World War III: Attack on Israel activates ‘zero hour’ around the world, and America is not immune – Leo Hohmann - https://leohohmann.com/2023/10/08/globalists-open-second-front-in-world-war-iii-attack-on-israel-activates-zero-hour-around-the-world-and-america-is-not-immune/ In the realm of geopolitical events, things are almost never as they appear. The messaging being sent by the media is no longer mere “news.” What we receive from them are carefully crafted narratives meant to advance certain agendas. The same event,in fact, can carry multiple narratives often diametrically opposed to each other because the narratives are tailored to specific audiences and loaded with explosive words and images meant to trigger emotions in those audiences depending on their prior conditioning. And the devastating attack on Israel Friday night was no exception. The “what” cannot be debated – over 600 Israeli citizens were slaughtered and more than 2,000 injured in a brazen and brutal attack by Hamas terrorists. More than 100 otherIsraelis, including an Israeli military general, were captured and are being held as hostages. But the “why” and the “how” – as in why now and how did they get away with it – will be less understood by the average American who’s more interested in who wins the Packers’ game this Sunday or how long Taylor Swift will retain her latest boyfriend. While few realize it, what happened in Israel on the night of Friday, October 6, is an earthquake in terms of the impact on global stability, mostly because of the timing.The events of October 6 cannot be analyzed and properly understood separate from all that has been going on over the last 18 months between the US/NATO and their vassal states and Russia/China and their vassal states. The attack on Israel (a vassal state ofthe US/NATO) by Hamas (a vassal state of Iran which is a vassal state of Russia/China) opens up a second front in the escalating World War III scenario being advanced by the globalists for reasons I’ve provided in previous articles, the most recent of whichwas posted September 25 as “The Four D’s of Digitization, Dehumanization, Destruction and Depopulation.” Ukrainian President Zelensky has already come out with a statement in support of Israel while implying that Russia was responsible for the Hamas attack. We don’t know if that’strue but Zelensky said it so that makes it true for the faction of people who believe Ukraine’s war with Russia is completely just and defensive in nature. The media tells us that Hamas launched a sneak attack on Israel and caught the IDF napping. Excuse me, but there is simply no way the Israeli Defense Forces – the most technologically modern, most adept, most highly trained security force in the world – did not seethis attack coming. For them to be caught off guard is inconceivable. We’re told they were totally surprised. Even on the 50th anniversary of the last massive attack on Israel, the Yom Kippur War of October 7, 1973, they were not prepared foran attack from their arch enemy? They left their border unmanned and unprotected, and it was breached in 29 different places, including in some areas right next to an international music festival where tourists from other countries were partying literallywithin yards of a dangerous Gaza border? Please. I’m not buying it. Nor is former IDF intelligence officer Efrat Fenigson buying into this narrative. Watch what she has to say in a post to the platform X. https://x.com/marcfriedrich7/status/1710752764039397487?s=20 Let this be an object lesson for all of us, in America and elsewhere. In my book, Stealth Invasion, I referred to Muslim Brotherhood documents which prophesied about a “zero-hour event.” Zero hour can be any event that sets off panic and chaosamong the masses, and at this point the Islamic terrorists all join hands to attack the infidel, whether that be Jews in Israel or Christians in the West. All the terror cells get activated. Since around 1990, the United States has imported more than 3 million Muslims to America, mostly through legal channels associated with the Office of Refugee Resettlementand other avenues where Muslims can come here on religious visas, visa lottery programs and countless other visa programs. Refugees are set on a path to full citizenship within five years. I’m not saying all of them are anti-American. But if even 10 percent of them are, we’ve got a problem very similar to Israel’s. Sources of mine in Sterling Heights, Michigan, reported seeing fireworks coming from a site on 15 Mile Road where a mega-mosque is under construction. The mosque is not evenopen for business, yet the property owners used the site to express their celebratory emotions and feelings of giddiness over the news coming out of Israel. Hundreds of miles away in Tampa, Florida, I was informed of a pro-Hamas rally, also expressing jubilation over Israelis being killed. Muslims also rallied in support of Hamasterrorists in America’s largest cities, New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Muslims are also celebrating in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Turkey (a NATO member), among other places. This single event in Israel has triggered themand they will launch more attacks on Jews and Christians around the world. So it would be a mistake to view what happened in Israel as something “over there.” It can and will happen here. In the U.S. and many European countries, the hordes are not standing at the gates, they’re inside the gates, waiting for their zero-hour event.This may be it. The Israelis were not prepared for what happened Friday night. They’d grown too comfortable, too prosperous, too lazy, and maybe some had just grown too tired and weary ofstanding on alert all the time with their weapons at the ready. It can be exhausting being on watch 24/7. Perhaps they got lulled into a false sense of security, placing too much faith in their government to save them from such attacks. When the chips are down, the governmentwill not be there to save us. Not in Israel and not in America, Britain, Germany, Italy or France. Just when you feel you are dwelling in safety and security, then like a thief, Satan will send his minions to attack you in the most vicious way possible. Be aware. World War III is bulldozing its way into our reality. What happened in Israel on the night of October 6 widens the war and draws in the Muslim world. They now havea stake in the outcome of the war. Israel has a stake. Many of the evangelical Christians in the West who were against funding Ukraine’s war with Russia will now feel they have a stake in this new front being opened in the Middle East. We should expect a third front to open soon. Perhaps a Chinese blockade of Taiwan? Serbia attacking Kosovo? All of this will add up to global war and millions of new combatants being drafted into duty on both sides. Americans, are you prepared to offer up your sons and daughtersto the military-industrial complex? If not, then you’d better wise up and refuse to be played by the script writers in the globalist war games. The violence is coming soon to a nation, state, city, and/or community near you. Why? Because, at this point, both sides want it. They’ve been manipulated into mutual hatred and they’re taking the bait. Will you be caught off guard like those Israelis? ---------------------------- When Hamas Decided To Kill And Abuse Women, Children And The Elderly, They Made Peace Impossible - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/when-hamas-decided-to-kill-and-abuse-women-children-and-the-elderly-they-made-peace-impossible/ Hamas has crossed lines that can never be uncrossed, and they have nobody to blame but themselves for what is about to happen. Throughout human history, it has always beenacceptable for soldiers to attack other soldiers. But when they launched their surprise attack against Israel, Hamas showed no restraint whatsoever. Even though they knew that the whole world would be watching, they mercilessly killed and abused women, childrenand the elderly. And now footage has been released of them beheading captives. From this point forward, Hamas will be considered the moral equivalent of ISIS, and that is because they have behaved just like ISIS did. There is a code of honor that all combatants are supposed to abide by everywhere in the world. When a battle is raging, women and children are supposed to be left out of it. But Hamas had no interest in following such rules. In fact, it is being reported that Israeli women were “raped next to the dead bodies of their friends”… A survivor of the rave massacre – in which over 260 young revellers at a party near the Gaza Strip were gunned down by Hamas terrorists – has said that women were “raped nextto the dead bodies of their friends”. Speaking to US website Tablet, the survivor said that several of the rape victims appeared to have been executed later, while others were taken to Gaza. Another survivor returned to the scene later in the day to look for his friends spoke, of seeing cold and mutilated bodies, mainly of young women. He said he saw scantilyclad corpses, many of whom appeared to have been shot at point-blank. Over the past few days, countless videos of the atrocities that they committed have been shared all over social media. Did they not understand how the rest of the world would respond to their behavior? Maybe they are scoring points with their radical Muslim friends, but everyone else is absolutely sickened by what they have seen. And to make matters worse, Hamas has decided to actually start beheading soldiers that they captured… In a statement, Mossad said: “Hamas has released footage of them beheading captured soldiers. We will not share it, but the world needs to know their depravity exceeds thatof ISIS. And we have been telling you all for years. May the precious souls of our men and women be in our hearts forever.” When I first read that, I was hoping that it wasn’t true. But it is. The beheadings have been confirmed and the videos are all over social media. I would not suggest watching any of them. On Monday, Hamas announced that from now on an Israeli civilian will be executed every time the IDF conducts another bombing in Gaza without any pre-warning… Hamas’ armed wing said on Monday it will begin executing an Israeli civilian captive in return for any new Israeli bombing of civilian houses without pre-warning. Abu Obaida, spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, the IQB, said they have been acting in accordance with Islamic instructions by keeping Israeli captives safe. He blamed the intended move on Israel’s stepped-up bombing and killing of civilians inside their homes in air strikes without warning them. I am sure that Hamas would like for the bombing to stop. At this point, the IDF is literally bombing the living daylights out of Gaza. But there is no going back now. The Israelis are absolutely livid, and they have decided to impose a very strict siege on Gaza for the foreseeable future… Now, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said authorities will cut electricity to the Gaza Strip and block the entry of food and fuel, declaring his troops are ‘fightingbarbaric [terrorists] and will respond accordingly’. The measures will essentially enact siege-like conditions that will see the millions of Palestinians living in the tiny, fenced-in region begin to starve as they are attackedfrom the skies. Of course this is just in preparation for the ground invasion that is coming. So many people are going to die in the days ahead. It would be hard to overstate the anger that we are witnessing in Israel right now. The Israeli population is absolutely furious, and that fury is being reflected in the public statements of their leaders. For example, here is how Israeli President Isaac Herzog has responded to the Hamas attack… Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the horrifying reality of the Hamas terror attack, writing on X, “Not since the Holocaust have so many Jews been killed on one day. “And not since the Holocaust have we witnessed scenes of Jewish women and children, grandparents, even Holocaust survivors being herded into trucks and taken into captivity.Hamas has imported, adopted and replicated the savagery of ISIS. Entering civilian homes on a holy day and murdering in cold blood whole families, young and old, violating and burning bodies, beating and torturing their innocent victims.” And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pledging that what the Israeli military is about to do “will echo for generations”… He said: “We have not seen such atrocities from ISIS. Children were executed and entire families were exterminated by Arab Terrorists. “There were atrocities that I will not describe here. Hamas is ISIS and we will destroy it as the world defeated ISIS. “At the end of the war, all our enemies will know it was a terrible mistake to attack Israel. “What we will do to our enemy over the next few days will echo for generations. Any place from which Hamas operates will turn into rubble.” Needless to say, it isn’t just the Israelis that are seething with anger. Here in the United States, there are many that want to see Hamas get absolutely destroyed. In his most recent article, Victor Davis Hanson expressed what he is feeling atthis moment… Apparently, the Palestinians in their now ISIS role also thought their descent into even greater barbarity, rarely witnessed in even the most savage parts of the world, wouldshock Israelis into assuming some sort of collective fetal position, with hands over their ears screaming, “make all these demons just go away.” If so, Hamas sorely miscalculated. The sheer horror of their methods, and the cowardice shown by focusing on teen-aged girls and children rather than the IDF, will have the exact opposite effect, both in Israeland worldwide. Israel now knows there is no living with a precivilizational Hamas. It must destroy it, permanently block off Gaza from itself, and adopt a strategy of chronic disproportionateresponse from now on out. In such a change of strategy, Israel will have the backing of most of the civilized world and its own people, since there is no other choice once Hamas has adopted its campaignof death. We will likely see things in the next month that no one has anticipated, and yet the Israeli response will be in the eyes of most of the world long overdue. Of course what Hamas has done has also emboldened radical Muslims that are living in major cities all over the western world. There have been lots of very large pro-Hamas rallies, and the rhetoric that is being spewed at some of them is absolutely frightening. The following is what one Muslim speakerhad to say to a crowd that had assembled in New York City… In New York City, a Muslim man made a threat to all non-believers. “We’re done being tortured and hurt and judged. This is the correct religion. This is the religion that all of humanity needs to be — Islam.” “We will not stop until it enters every home. So I want you to repeat after me. I want to hear it in every single district. It should tremble Brooklyn should hear it. TheBronx should hear it. Queens should hear it. Say it — There is no God worthy of worship except Allah. The God of Jesus, the God of Moses, the God of Abraham, and the God of the last and final prophet, Muhammed…” Thanks to the very foolish policies of our leaders, there are vast numbers of radical Muslims now living in our communities. And if this conflict between Hamas and Israel does evolve into the great Middle East war that many of us have been anticipating, there will be violence in cities all overthe planet. October 7th, 2023 was a day when everything changed. From this point forward our world will be a much different place, and we will soon see death and destruction on a scale that most people can’t even imagine right now. ------------------------- The Ghost of Golda - By Jan Markell - www.olivetreeviews.org On October 6, 1973, the unthinkable happened. On the watch of Prime Minister Golda Meier, Israel’s enemies gathered on her borders and planned to wipe out the very memoryof her existence (Psalm 83). They nearly succeeded. Meier appealed to President Richard Nixon—no friend of the Jews to be sure. Could America step in and avert the utter destruction of the country? Nixon’s staffers were notin favor of this, but he had the voice of his mother in his ear, who had warned him about a day like this. And when he might encounter it, please come to Israel’s aid. And so, he did. Big time. God and Nixon saved the beleaguered nation. No one imagined that the scenario would repeat itself in 2023. Not the exact scenario, but very similar. That was 50 years ago and a different generation. But I have somevague recollection of the Yom Kippur War and am haunted that the ghost of Golda Meier is still around. Here are some thoughts—and questions: This is a warning to free Western nations to protect borders because some of humanity is barbaric and we don’t wish to be invaded. Learn from this. We keep loved ones insideand those who would harm us, outside. Good fences make good neighbors said Robert Frost. American politicians—and certainly those on the Left—have more concern for Ukraine than for our number one Mideast ally! Voters should take note. The evil on display can only be dealt with through God’s justice, not humanity’s justice. How can many on the Left, starting with “the squad”, side with barbarians? What partof “depravity” do they not get? They are tolerant, but only on behalf of evil. How can one of the world’s most sophisticated and high-tech nations have had such a security and intelligence slip-up? Were there not sensors and cameras along the Gaza border?Was there not chatter among the Gaza terrorists in their many months of planning? Couldn’t Israel’s world-class technology have spied on these terrorists more effectively? Never underestimate the Iranians who planned it all. Hang-gliders, terror squads with thousands of jihadis, bulldozers, and other war-like weaponry, should have been obviousto Israelis who never let their guard down. Yet the killers had five hours to do their dirty work before Israel could even respond! When America lacks a leader, the whole world groans. Earth longs for a leader, a Pied Piper to follow, even if he leads them over a cliff. One is coming who will mesmerizethe left behind world. Israel’s enemies don’t want a dialogue! They want her annihilation. They want Psalm 83! When can we stop forcing her to have peace talks with ruthless Islamists? When an evil society cries “death to America” and “death to Israel”, believe them. They mean what they say! Iran means it. Iran financed the effort, in part, thanks to a $6billion gift from Biden and his cronies. What part of “death to Israel” do you not get? Yet the Left has “appeasing Islam” in their veins. When do we bury the perverted slogan that Islam is a religion of peace? Many denominations and churches cannot comprehend all that is going on. Because of their theology, Israel is an inconvenience and a thorn. A good Mid-East ally but not specialto them. They have made the church the “chosen people.” How many churches this past Sunday ignored this tragedy as they sloshed around in the puddle of Replacement Theology? Jews have not been hunted—and slaughtered—like this since the Holocaust. Not since the Holocaust have we seen so many Jews rounded up, beaten, and humiliated in public. Andnever before has it happened within the borders of modern Israel. Finally, who can forget Golda Meier’s classic statement, “When peace comes, we will perhaps, in time, be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harderfor us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons. Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” Amir Tsarfati wrote this on Sunday, “Pray for Israel. Pray for the families who have lost loved ones. Pray for the captives and the wounded. They will all have incredibletrauma that they will have to process through in the months and years to come. "Pray for wisdom for Prime Minister Netanyahu and the government as they mete out their response against Hamas and evaluate the steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again.Most of all, pray that God is glorified somehow through this.” Am Yisrael Chai. The people of Israel live. But they need a Savior. Be sure to tell them. His Name is Yeshua. Some day soon, they will look upon him whom they pierced andmourn (Zechariah 12:10). Only then will there be the peace in Jerusalem we pray for. (Go see the film "Golda." It is a compelling true story of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It is totally family-friendly and a wonderful history lesson for children.) FINAL THOUGHT: Catch Jan and Amir Tsarfati on this weekend's radiostarting Friday. We will rush online program to Thursday. ---------------------------------- Why were Israelis so defenseless against Hamas terrorists going house-to-house killing and raping? – Leo Hohmann - https://leohohmann.com/2023/10/09/why-were-israelis-so-defenseless-against-hamas-terrorists-going-house-to-house-killing-and-raping/ Let this be an object lesson for Americans: Never give up your Second Amendment rights! By now you’ve all seen the horrifying images from Israel over the weekend. People being murdered in their homes. Women being pulled out of vehicles by their hair and raped.Men being dragged behind vehicles to their deaths. Spat upon. Executed. The victims called the police and military, which did not arrive on most of the bloody scenes for two hours or more. Looking at these images of carnage, many of us have asked, why didn’t the Israelis fight back? Many of us, myself included, assumed that with Israel being surrounded on all sides by such vicious enemies, and living in such close proximity to them, that the Israelislived with firearms at the ready in all of their houses. That assumption would be wrong. According to my sources, the Israeli government makes its citizens jump through so many hoops that only about 2.6 percent of Israeli citizens own a pistol. And it’s virtuallyimpossible to own a rifle. If you are among the ranks of retired military, you are allowed to own a rifle but you cannot store it in your house unless you are among the top elite commandos. This answers the question of, why didn’t they fight back? They were left as sitting ducks by their government leaders, who are, frankly, just as corrupt as our leaders inWashington. They are not in office to protect the people. And because they are so corrupt, they fear the people. And the first order of business for a corrupt government that no longer represents the interest of the people, is to disarm the people. You can’t trust the body politick with weapons if you’re screwing them royally through theivery disguised as heavy taxation that’s weighted against the middle and lower classes.You must disarm them. And that’s exactly what the Israeli government did to those people who were slaughtered in 29 communities over this past weekend. American society is not that different from Israel. We have lunatic politicians seeking to destroy our way of life and take away our freedoms. At the same time, we have manyviolent criminals, especially in our cities, who are allowed to roam free with little risk of extended incarceration. The border has been left wide open for more criminals to join the ranks. Refugees from nations that hate us have been imported since the 1980s,legally and with the full support of traitors in Congress (read my book Stealth Invasion for the whole ugly story of refugee resettlement). The same element that butchered those Jews in Israel is here in America and they will turn on us at some point. We’realready seeing evidence of it with the pro-Hamas rallies held in major cities across the U.S. the last couple of days. All we have left to rely on for our protection is our own personal defensive plans and faith in God. When you need the police, they will not be there to protect you. And don’teven think about the military. They’ve been totally infiltrated and their members answer to a command structure that begins in the White House (need I say any more?). The Second Amendment is the final frontier for American freedom lovers. The First Amendment has been under intense attack for years and has been extremely watered down overthe last three or four years, to the point where it is hanging by a thread. The globalists who run Washington and many state Capitols are now gunning for the Second Amendment. Once that’s gone, that’s all she wrote. It’s game over. We are then totally dependenton the government for our protection. How did that work out for those Israelis? ------------------------------- A New Phase of Accelerated Decline - By Daymond Duck - https://www.raptureready.com/2023/10/07/a-new-phase-of-accelerated-decline-by-daymond-duck/ What is your opinion of America today? Have you said (or heard anyone say), “The America I am living in today is not the America I grew up in?” Have you said (or heard anyone say), “I believe America is headed in the wrong direction?” What is your opinion of the global situation today? Have you said (or heard anyone say), “The world is in a mess?” Have you said (or heard anyone say), “The UN has done a wonderful job of solving the world’s problems for more than 70 years?” Come to think of it, the UN (I call it the United Nothing) has done little, if anything, to solve the world’s problems. I am aware that on Oct. 30, 2008, Pres. candidate Barack Obama said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” and it seems tome that America is going through a fundamental transformation (a spiritual, moral, and economic downward spiral). I am aware that in late Sept. 2015, the UN passed a document called “Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” and UN Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-moon calledit the “start of a new era.” Considering that the fundamental transformation of America and the world was revealed before many of these fundamental changes started coming on the scene, it seems like thechanges must be part of a plan. Having said this, it is a little disturbing to know that UN Sec. Gen. Guterres thinks the fundamental transformation of the world needs to be speeded up. It is even more disturbing to know that world leaders agreed with him on Sept. 18-19, 2023, and they voted to do everything they can to complete the fundamental transformationof the world by 2030 or sooner. They are calling the next seven years “a new phase of accelerated progress.” Have you got that? They called the Sept. 2015 vote the “start of a new era,” and now, they are calling the Sept. 18-19 vote “a new phase of accelerated progress.” Pardon me for being a skeptic, and I hope I am wrong, but I tend to believe the next seven years will turn out to be “a new phase of accelerated decline” (not acceleratedprogress). Here are some recent articles that made the news this week. One, on Sept. 29, 2023, World Net Daily (WND) posted a commentaryby well-known author Craige McMillan that I believe is right on target (and full of hope). According to McMillan: “The real problem for the globalists rolling out a new World War, to bring forth their One-World Government out of the ashes, is that they are battling the Original Creatorof the heavens and the earth for control of His Creation.” “If you doubt the outcome of this globalist war against the Creator, go through the Bible and count the number of battles God has lost.” “Arrogance before one’s Creator has only one possible outcome.” “The globalists will not be left in control of anything.” The entire “system that Satan has built for humanity is coming down.” Here is a link to McMillan’s great article: https://www.wnd.com/2023/09/god-vs-globalists-guess-wins/ Two, concerning the coming global economic collapse: as I am writingthis segment of my article on Sept. 30, 2023, the highly respected credit rating agency called Moody’s is warning that a government shutdown on Oct. 1, 2023, “could have dire consequences for the economy and stock markets.” I am not an economic expert, but as I understand the situation, conservative Republicans blame America’s runaway national debt on excessive government spending, and many Democratsdo not want to reign it in. Conservative Republicans want the U.S.-Mexico border closed, and many Democrats do not want it closed. America is a divided nation, and a nation divided against itself cannot stand. America may be about to move into a new phase of accelerated decline. (Update:On Sept. 30, 2023, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy caved, abandoned most of the major spending cuts conservative Republicans wanted, joined the Democrats, and agreed to a 45-day temporary funding bill to keep the government operating until Nov. 16, 2023. It isa crisis delayed, not a crisis solved, and the division in America continues.) Three, on Sept. 18-23, 2023, the UN General Assembly met in NewYork, and the U.S. greatly criticized Israel for settlement construction on the West Bank and refusing to divide the Promised Land. A record-breaking storm developed off the East Coast and dumped more than eight inches of rain on parts of New York on Sept. 28-29, 2023. New York Gov. Hochul declared a state of emergency; flights were canceled; homes, streets and subways were flooded; and many people were stranded. Four, concerning deceit and corruption in the mainstream media:in late Sept. 2023, it was reported that CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS and ABC were mocking or refusing to cover the Republican impeachment hearings on Pres. Biden. This contrasts with the constant criticism of Trump and the wall-to-wall coverage they gave to the staged Democrat impeachment hearings of Trump. I know that my reporting on this sounds politically motivated. My purpose is to show that the truth has been cast to the ground by the media, and the media’s dishonest reportingis contributing to the fact that America is in a new phase of decline. Five, concerning world government and the decline of America:on Sept. 29, 2023, it was reported that the World Economic Forum (WEF) has taken control of several old U.S. military bases in Panama and is using them to assemble illegal immigrants for transport across the U.S. border with Mexico. A picture was posted of the WEF flag flying over an old U.S. military base near the Panama Canal called Fort Clayton. U.S. citizens paid to build the base, the U.S. flag has been taken down, the WEF flag is flying there, and the base is being used to send hundreds of thousands of illegalimmigrants across Biden’s open border. (My opinion:The decline of America is being deliberately orchestrated to bring our nation into a one-world government. If this is not true, how is it that the WEF is sending thousands of illegal immigrants across our border without government knowledge and permission?) Six, concerning the deliberate destruction of America’s Judeo-Christianvalues: on Oct. 2, 2023, it was reported that Cal. Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Laphonza Butler, a black lesbian, to replace the recently deceased Dianne Feinstein in the U.S. Senate. Butler will be the first openly gay female senator in the history of California. Seven, concerning a normalization agreement between Israel andSaudi Arabia: on Oct. 2, 2023, it was reported that Israeli and Saudi officials believe the Biden administration is hampering the deal. Israeli and Saudi officials believe they are close to a deal, but the Biden administration continues to push for more concessions (more money for the PA, an independent U.S.consulate to serve the PA in Jerusalem, etc.) to the Palestinians that could cause everything to fall apart. Biden just cannot stop telling Israel how to run the country. Eight, concerning corruption, world government, and a populationreduction on earth: on Sept. 13, 2023, two well-known medical professionals were asked to address the European Union Parliament about the so-called Covid-19 pandemic. (Note:Concerning the recognition and credibility of these men, and because the globalist propaganda machine tries to discredit them, I want to re-emphasize that they were invited to address the EU Parliament.) Among other things, Dr. Peter McCullough (cardiologist, professor, and author of many academic papers) suggested that: •The EU should stop Covid-19 inoculations and leave the WHO. •The WHO is part of a massive power grab to depopulate much of the earth and usher in what has been called the Great Reset– having a one-world government. •The mRNA shots are causing enormous waves of diseases. •The path forward is, clearly, for no one to take another shot – no one. •The COVID-19 vaccines and all of their progeny and future boosters are not safe for human use. Among other things, Dr. David E. Martin (professor, researcher, and author of many publications) suggested that: •WHO officials and its supporters and donors have committed crimes against humanity and bio-terrorism. •Until we treat this as a criminal conspiracy of criminal racketeers, resulting in global terrorism for the purpose of profiteering and murder, until we have that conversation,we’re having the wrong conversation. We did not have a pandemic. We had a genocide. Here is a link to the article, which was a reprint from The American Thinker. (here) Nine, following the Rapture of the Church, but during the TribulationPeriod, a one-world religious system will exist that Jesus identified as Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth (Rev. 17:5). The head of this harlot system (the Scriptures present the true Church as a good woman—the Bride of Christ—and the false religious system as a bad woman—the mother of harlots)will support global government and manipulate multitudes to support a government-approved antichrist religion (Rev. 17:2). There are differences of opinion about the identity of the harlots, but I believe they are lost Church members (Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Mormons, Jehovah’sWitnesses, etc.) that will be left behind after the Rapture and unite with other religions (Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc.) in a godless one-world religion. Having said this, on Oct. 3, 2023, the LifeSiteNews staff posted a statement by Roman Catholic Archbishop Vigano that says or suggests (his words and mine): > Pope Francis hid his intentions from those that elected him and used his authority to undermine the Church and make it the handmaid of the New World Order. > The Throne of Peter (the chair of Peter, who, according to Catholics, was the first pope of the Church) is occupied by a person who abuses his power, using it for the oppositepurpose to that for which Our Lord instituted it. > Francis does and says things that are foreign to what is expected of a pope. > In his ten years of papal service, Francis has done things that one would expect an apostate to do but not what one would expect a pope to do. > His support for the globalist elite (the Clintons and others), his proud support for the 2030 Agenda (Ecumenism, ecology, vaccinism, immigrationism, LGBTQ+ and gender ideology,and other instances of the globalist religion), and his opposition and persecution of those who oppose these things show that he is a heretic and blatantly hostile to the Church. Here is a link to Vigano’s stunning and exceptionally long statement. (Here) (My Opinion:Some prophecy teachers think Pope Francis might be the False Prophet. I wonder about that because of his age and health. I do not see him hanging around for another seven years or more. However, I have profound respect for Archbishop Vigano and his willingnessto speak out against Pope Francis. I think the same way he does about Francis.) FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born witha sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6). Finally, are you Rapture Ready? If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believethat Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this. duck_daymond@yahoo.com ----------------------------- Will Israel Soon Turn Damascus into A Pile of Rubble? - by MichaelSnyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/is-israel-about-to-turn-damascus-into-a-pile-of-rubble/ As soon as Israel sends troops into Gaza, a chain of events will begin which nobody is going to be able to control. I believe that one of those events will be Hezbollah enteringthe conflict from the north. As I discussed yesterday, there is no way that Hezbollah is just going to sit there and watch Hamas get systematically wiped out by the IDF. Hezbollah is already mobilizing their forces and making preparations to join the fight. Butif that happens, Israel is going to hit back extremely hard. In fact, there are reports that Israel has already warned Hezbollah that if it enters the war the Israelis will �destroy Damascus�� Ynet News : �IDF will destroy Damascus, target Syrian President Assad if Hezbollah joins war; US warships will support Israel in war.� � Message relayed via France Unfortunately, this threat has not caused Hezbollah to back down. In fact, Fox News is reporting that the Israelis are now �actively fighting a secondary front along Israel�s northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon�� Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said Wednesday that the Israeli army shelled the Lebanese border town of Duhaira and the surrounding areawhere the missile attack came from. He also said Israel was actively fighting a secondary front along Israel�s northern border with Hezbollah in Lebanon, in addition to the counteroffensive the IDF is launching in the Gaza Strip. �We have deployed tens of thousands of additional units along the northern border,� Conricus said, including infantry, special forces, armored forces, artillery, air forces,and �additional assets including intelligence and logistics.� Hezbollah has not formally entered the war yet. But I think that will likely happen very quickly once Israel invades Gaza. So could Israel actually turn Damascus into a pile or rubble? Well, just consider what the IDF is already doing to Gaza. We are being told that Gaza was hit by an astounding 250 airstrikes in a single hour� Pictures show neighbourhoods in Gaza almost destroyed after Israel launched 250 airstrikes in just one hour. It comes after an Israeli defense official promise the strip will become a �tent city� with every building to be demolished. The IDF is not messing around. One Israeli military official admitted that they are attacking �on an unprecedented scale�, and nobody can really argue with that fact� Brig. Gen. Omer Tishler, the Israel Air Force�s chief of staff, says fighter jets are striking the Gaza Strip on an �unprecedented scale.� �We are attacking the Gaza Strip on an unprecedented scale, because what happened here is something that has never happened before. There is an enemy here firing rockets,raiding a civilian population,� Tishler says in a call with reporters. �We are never going back to that,� he says. So far, a whopping 2,687 targets inside Gaza have been hit� The Israel Defense Forces has carried out strikes against 2,687 targets across the Gaza Strip since Saturday, according to fresh military data. According to the data, 1,329 of the targets are multi-story buildings containing Hamas assets, including war rooms where the terror group manages the fighting against Israel. One of those targets was the Islamic University of Gaza. We are being told that it was a �central training center�, and now it has been completely destroyed� The Israel Defense Forces says it has bombed the Islamic University of Gaza, �which serves as a central training center for Hamas engineers.� The military says fighter jets targeted the campus, located in Gaza City. According to the IDF, the university was �an important center of political and military power� for Hamas and a �training institution for the development and production ofweapons.� WATCH: https://twitter.com/i/status/1712022190105743437 In the past, Israel was always so careful to avoid collateral damage when it would conduct attacks in Gaza. But now Israel�s defense minister is making it clear that there will be no holding back� Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, said �all restraints on fighters have been released� and promised an intensification of fighting. �Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be,� he said. �We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground. We�ve been controlling the area since Day Two and we are on the offensive. It will onlyintensify. �Whoever comes to decapitate, murder women, Holocaust survivors � we will eliminate him at the height of our power and without compromise.� If the IDF were to apply the same treatment to Damascus, it would draw Syria into the war. Once Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria have all entered the war, it is probably just a matter of time before Iran joins the conflict too. And once Iran enters the war, there is no telling how far things could escalate. Already, one member of the Knesset named Revital Gotliv has been calling for the use of nuclear weapons� �Jericho Missile! Jericho Missile! Strategic alert. before considering the introduction of forces. Doomsday weapon! This is my opinion. May God preserve all our strength,� Gotliv wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, according to a translation. Another post says: �I urge you to do everything and use Doomsday weapons fearlessly against our enemies,� adding that Israel �must use everything in its arsenal.� On Tuesday, she continued with her calls of urgency. �Only an explosion that shakes the Middle East will restore this country�s dignity, strength and security!� Gotliv posted. �It�s time to kiss doomsday. Shooting powerful missileswithout limit. Not flattening a neighbourhood. Crushing and flattening Gaza. � without mercy! without mercy!� Everyone knows that Israel has nukes, and let us hope that they will not be used any time soon. But we should all be able to understand why she is so furious. At one location that Hamas attacked in southern Israel, �knives were found left in some of the children�� There is evidence in Kibbutz Be�eri that children were slain in front of their parents, Maj. Doron Spielman says. Knives were found left in some of the children. Bodies are still being taken out of the kibbutz, which Spielman says will be remembered as a symbol of Hamas�s massacre, like Auschwitz is the symbol of the Holocaust. Some 1,200 Israelis were slaughtered by the terror group, including over 100 at Be�eri alone. When Hamas decided to rape women, murder children and kidnap the elderly, they awakened the full fury of the Jewish people. And when Israel sends troops into Gaza, the Great Middle East War will be unleashed. In my most recent book, I wrote about an �endless barrage of missiles� being fired at Israel. I believe that is about to become a reality. There is going to be so much death and destruction in the days ahead, and there will be many more cities that will be transformed into piles of rubble before this is all over. ----------------------------------- Amir Tsarfati: Israel Must Eliminate Hamas�To Do So, The IDF Must Stop Caring What The World Will Say � By Amir Tsarfati - https://harbingersdaily.com/amir-tsarfati-israel-must-eliminate-hamas-to-do-so-the-idf-must-stop-caring-what-the-world-will-say/ It was 6:30 AM on a beautiful Saturday Sabbath morning. All over Israel, people were sleeping in on this final day of Sukkot, the joyous Feast of Tabernacles. In southernIsrael, just five kilometers from the border with Gaza, an all-night rave with more than 1000 young people attending was just starting to wind down. Little did these people know that into the serenity of this day, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas wasabout to launch a multi-level, comprehensive attack using capabilities that had never been employed against Israel before. Drones were launched that dropped bombs on the Israeli military outposts along the border fence, immediately neutralizing the ground level chain of command along Gaza. Thus,there was no one left to report to the higher levels of leadership what was taking place. At the same time, rockets began to fire from Gaza into Israel, first hundreds, then thousands. The firing of rockets was not unusual. What was atypical was the huge numberof missiles that made it past the Iron Dome defense system. All this was taking place to mask the third prong of attack, one that has never before occurred from Gaza. The border fence was breached and, in places, completely torn down.More than a thousand terrorists began pouring through the holes, some in cars and trucks, many on motorcycles. They came to hunt Jews. One of the first groups they found were the young people at the rave. The terrorists surrounded the partygoers and opened fire. More than 260 were slaughtered. Others wererounded up and taken back into Gaza as hostages. Meanwhile, in the towns and kibbutzim along the border, families were waking up to pounding on their doors. When they answered, they were murdered in cold blood. Once again, many others were kidnapped back acrossthe border. Once the gunfire began, the first responders were police, firefighters, and EMTs. Many of them were killed as they tried to defend the innocent civilians. Where was the militaryresponse? First, as we saw earlier, the border echelon of communication was severed. Second, when rockets were fired in the past, it was often a ruse to mask terrorists attempted to cross into Israel from Lebanon in the north. Thus, many of the special militaryunits were heading in the wrong direction. It took four hours for the military to mount a concerted response, which was eventually dubbed Operation Iron Sword. By that time, the carnage was devastating. Bodies of Jewishcivilians littered the streets. A still unknown number were kidnapped and taken hostage into Gaza. Women, children, the elderly, no one was spared the violence of these Palestinian criminals. Not since the Holocaust have we seen so many Jews rounded up, beaten,and humiliated in public. And never before has it happened within the borders of modern Israel. Eventually, once the tide of battle had turned, the terrorists fled back into Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) followed them in. Hamas members, from the top leaders down to the soldiers, were targeted, as were their headquarters, warehouses, and homes.This is all part of a three-level response by the Israeli military. The first level is to purify Israel of all terrorists. Anyone who crossed the border as part of this attack and is still in Israel needs to either be arrested or killed. The second level isto take from Hamas and other terrorist organizations that threaten Israel all their military capabilities. To accomplish this, Israel�s government has invoked Article 40 of the Basic Laws, which amounts to a declaration of war. Last time Article 40 was usedwas in 1973 for the Yom Kippur War. This will allow the IDF to use all air, ground, and naval forces to accomplish this feat. The third level of Israel�s response is to hold accountable the countries that assisted Hamas in this attack. Hamas is neither equipped nor sophisticated enough to have pulledthis off alone. Most automatically look to Iran, but U.S. intelligence says the ayatollahs were not involved. The question we have to ask is who has jamming equipment advanced enough to nullify the protection of the Iron Dome? Also, what country has effectivelyused drones to drop bombs on targets? The answer is Russia. The relationship between Moscow and Jerusalem has been souring due to Israel�s expanding exports of natural gas and Russia�s deepening relationships with Israel�s enemies, like Iran, Syria, and Lebanon. To know how to effectively ensure this doesn�t happen again, we must understand what led to this attack and what must happen to guarantee it doesn�t happen again. This terroristaction was not about past grievances or land or any other excuse that liberal politicians and media will come up with. This is purely religious in nature, evidenced by the name they gave to their attack � Amaliyyat Tufan al-Aqsa, or Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.A record number of Jews visited (or flooded) the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, otherwise known as the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem over the holy days surrounding Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The radical Muslims called it provocation, despite it being legal and orderly,and the Jews neither worshipped on the Temple Mount or disturbed the Islamic worship. But the hatred of the Jews has gone on long before last week. If there is one thing that both radical Shiite and Sunni Muslims can agree upon is that the Jews in Israel mustbe exterminated. This is not about land, it is about religious-based genocide fueled by Iran and a radical jihadist agenda. If you want to learn more about the origins of this hatred, watch my video, �The Final Jihad�. Because the origin of this and otherterrorist attacks against Israel is based on religion and ethnicity rather than actions, we know that there is nothing that we can do as Jews to stop them from wanting to come at us again. All we can do is take away their ability to do so. Moving forward, Israel must restore deterrence, whether it�s based on respect for the strength of our military or the personal fear of each potential terrorist as they considerwhat might happen to them, their family, and their home if they join in with the jihadists. Along with that, Israel must eliminate Hamas. To do so, the IDF must stop caring what the world will say and what the media will say. The gloves must come off. Next, there must be a lot of questions answered. What happened at the border? With our incredibly sophisticated equipment and sensors, how could we not see this attack coming?How did we miss the tearing down of the fence and the pouring in of hundreds of vehicles through the breach? How could we not know of their new communications network that was beyond our access? With our intelligence services being among the best in the world,the bottom-line questions are, first, how could we possibly not know about this attack? And, second, if we did know about this, then who stopped the information? These are the questions that are in every Israeli�s mind. I am not among the many conspiracy theoriststhat have popped up, but I one hundred percent agree that there are some very difficult questions that must be answered. Saturday was Israel�s 9/11. Already more than 700 Israeli bodies have been found. I expect the number to reach at least 1000 in the coming days. More than 2000 are wounded,many of them critically. My prayer is that this horrific event will somehow bring unity to my very fractured country. I also hope that as other nations surround us and support us, it will bring greater peace to Israel. But, because I know Scripture, I understandthat any strides forward will be short-lived. Israel is bound to face growing violence as the days progress. What we just experienced is the first phase of the attacks on Israel. One relatively small terror organization wreaking havoc on the Jewish civilian population. Next willcome phase two, when numerous terror organizations will band together for a multi-front attack. Hezbollah will join with other Iranian proxies to bring down Israel. The third phase will be when nations will join other nations to come against Israel. That isthe Ezekiel 38 War. I understand that there are those tying this attack to Ezekiel 38. That cannot be for three reasons. First, the scale is much too small compared to Ezekiel 38. Second, not all of the players of that war were involved in this one. Third,the fact that the U.S. is sending to the region the USS Gerald Ford strike group with around 110 Tomahawk missiles nullifies this from being Ezekiel 38. In that scenario, there will be no one who comes to Israel�s aid. Pray for Israel. Pray for the families who have lost loved ones. Pray for the captives and the wounded. They will all have incredible trauma that they will have to processthrough in the months and years to come. Pray for wisdom for Prime Minister Netanyahu and the government as they mete out their response against Hamas and evaluate the steps to ensure this doesn�t happen again. Most of all, pray that God is glorified somehowthrough this. My heart is broken for my nation and my people. It is times like this that the only place in which I can find comfort is the Scriptures. �All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Panic and pitfall have befallen us, devastation and destruction; my eyes run down with streams of water because of thedestruction of the daughter of my people. My eyes pour down unceasingly, without stopping, until the LORD looks down and sees from heaven�. I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the lowest pit. You have heard my voice, do not hide Your ear from my prayer forrelief, from my cry for help. You drew near when I called on You; You said, �Do not fear!�� (Lam 3:46-50, 55-57) ------------------------------------------ Has Global Antisemitism Officially Reached the Point of No Return? � By Olivier Melnick - https://harbingersdaily.com/has-global-antisemitism-has-officially-reached-the-point-of-no-return/ On Saturday, October 7, 2023, early in the morning in Israel, Hamas terrorists attacked civilians and military personnel in over twenty locations. It didn�t take long forthe world to realize that this was not a localized terrorist attack. This one was big and it was planned. Prime Minister Netanyahu first declared that Israel was in �a state of war,� and soon after, he officially declared that Israel was �at war� by invokingarticle 40 aleph. This had not happened since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, under Prime Minister Golda Meir. It has been less than a week, and casualties are over 1,200 in Israel. More than 150 were taken hostage and some might have been executed in the last fewdays. It breaks my heart to even say this, but Israel is at war, and this is going to be a long and messy one. One thing we cannot say about Hamas is that they didn�t tell us how they feel about Israel and the Jewish people. The Hamas Covenant is clear, �Israel will exist and willcontinue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it (Preamble.) �The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and treeswill cry out: �O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him. (article 7.)� Hamas is a terrorist organization. UN Security Council Resolution 1566 defines terrorism very clearly: �criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intentto cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organizationto do or to abstain from doing any act.� This is exactly what Hamas did on Saturday, Oct 7, 2023, and I certainly wish I could say that the whole world is seeing through them. I wish I could say that Hamas is not fooling anyone, but unfortunately, I can�t! All over the world (Canada, Europe, USA), people have gathered on the streets to protest and speak up. While there were people coming to show their support to Israel, manymore came with a pro-Palestinian agenda and unashamedly voiced their support for Hamas, chanting, �From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall be Free!� which is a euphemism for killing all Jews in Israel. How in the world could anyone support the barbarictorturing and killing of innocent civilians (children, teenagers, adults and the elderly alike, including beheading? This is not about occupation or a two-state solution. This is pure, evil antisemitism. There were even people displaying swastikas during aprotest in Time Square, NY. Jewish people worldwide do not feel safe anymore. When on the street, they have to watch their backs. When at services in Synagogue, they fear armed intruders at any moment.They stay home, lock their doors and pray for the best. This is no life to live, but safety first, I understand, yet, even that, might not be safe anymore. Apparently, a hacker has claimed that he has stolen genetic data from millions of users on the DNA ancestry service 23andMe. The company originally stated that they had notbeen hacked, but they eventually requested that all their users change their passwords immediately. The hacker also claimed that he was willing to sell a million names of individuals with Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jews) lineage. If the hack actually happened,it means that Jewish people are now being identified at the individual level, including personal data and home addresses. We are now seeing the stage being set for the rounding up of Jews. I do not take the Holocaust lightly, considering that I lost my grandfatherin Auschwitz, but we have to start drawing parallels between the 2023 open season on the Jews and the 1930s open season on the Jews. In 1935, the Nazi regime announced two new laws related to race: The Reich Citizenship Law and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. They were meantto identify and ostracize the Jews. As they were first introduced in Nuremberg, they became known as �The Nuremberg Laws.� This was the start of the Nazi death factories. But, before the Nazis could kill 6,000.000 Jews in the Death Camps, they had to transportthem there, and before they could transport them they had to gather and keep them together in ghettos, but before all that, the Jewish people had to be identified, thus the Nuremberg Laws. Once the Nuremberg Laws were put in place, the domino effect started. In August 1938, all Jews had to have the names �Sara� for females and �Israel� for males, added to theiridentification papers for quick identification. Three months later, the stamped red letter �J� was added to the passports of all the Jewish people. One month later Kristallnacht took place in Germany. It has been recognized as the official start of the �FinalSolution to the Jewish Question.� In September of 1941, the Yellow Star patch (that my parents wore in France) became mandatory. Even if the hacker�s story is not true, the mere fact that someone thought of doing such a thing, shows the world�s obsession with the destruction of all Jewish people. Maybethis hacker is a fake and he has nothing, but the idea is now in the open and someone will find a way to get Jewish addresses. This is pure evil and it validates Satan�s main agenda: The destruction of Israel and all Jews. The dominos are in place and it onlytakes one push. This war is going to be won by Israel one way or another. Bibi stated it very simply, �Hamas started the war, but we will finish it!� Hamas will be stopped and incapacitated.The biggest lesson might end up being that it is no longer safe for Jews ANYWHERE including Israel. Antisemitism has been constantly repackaged by Satan over the centuries and even in the last few decades. Today, in a vicious race to get the Jews everywhere,global antisemitism might have reached the point of no return! So, the only remaining safe harbor for Jews is now�on a more individual level�in the homes of loving Christians who will do anything to help Israel. The challenge is thatmost Jewish people don�t know if they can trust their Christian neighbors. It is time to reach out to your Jewish friends and open your home and your heart to them. Let us all model our behavior after the Tribulation sheep of Matthew 25:31-46, �When the Sonof man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: Andhe shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gaveme meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred,and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuchas ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.� These Gentile Christians are reminiscent of the Yad Vashem Righteous Among the Nations who saved Jews during WW2, including my mother and her two cousins. I call them theNew Righteous Among the Nations. Bibi Netanyahu called all Israeli reservists to duty. Maybe it is time for all New Righteous Among the Nations to respond to the call of duty as well. Israel and Diaspora Jews can certainly use a few friends right now! --------------------------------