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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Our Hope


 
Not much is known about Isaiah before king Uzziah died. About the only thing anyone can say with certainty is that his father was more famous than he was. His father's name was Amoz and Isaiah was known as the "Son of Amoz."
 
It's debatable, but tradition says Isaiah's father was king Uzziah's uncle. If that is true, Isaiah and king Uzziah were first cousins. It would explain why Isaiah's father was so well-known (he was the king's uncle) and why Isaiah knew so much about the politics of his day (he was the king's first cousin).
 
Anyway, not much is known about Isaiah before king Uzziah died, but things changed from that point on. Uzziah's death was a major crisis in Isaiah's life and it was a life changing event for the great prophet.
 
Uzziah was 16 years old when he became the king of Judah and he ruled for 52 years. He was faithful to God during the early years of his reign (II Kings 15:3; II Chron. 26:4-5). He gained God's favor for the nation and he was arguably the greatest king since David.
 
With God's help, he took Judah to a golden age of power and prosperity. He conquered the Philistines and the Arabians, collected tribute from the Ammonites, strengthened the defenses of  Jerusalem, built up Judah's army, and improved Judah's agriculture. He was so blessed of God that he became a famous and highly respected leader even in other nations (II Chron. 26:6-14).
 
But about 11 years before the end of his reign he made a terrible mistake. Pride got the best of him and he went to the Temple to burn incense to God on the altar of incense. This was something that only a consecrated priest was allowed to do.
 
Many of the priests, including the High Priest, tried to stop him from breaking the Law of Moses. They asked him to leave but he became angry with them and God struck him with leprosy right there on the spot in the presence of perhaps as many as 80 priests (II Chron. 26:16-19).
 
Leprosy is a contagious disease so for the remainder of his life this great leader had to go into quarantine to keep from infecting others (Lev. 13:45-46; II Chron. 26:20). He was limited in what he could do so his son Jotham was promoted to serve with him as coregent during his remaining 11 years (II Chron. 26:21).
 
Jotham assisted his father during those last 11 years and he served alone for five more years. He was a good king like his father, but he refused to go to the Temple where God struck his dad with leprosy and he allowed religious corruption in the nation (II Chron. 27:1-2). He refused to worship the true God and he let his people worship false gods (II Kings 15:32-35).
 
This sin would eventually lead to the destruction of Judah.
 
Isaiah loved king Uzziah, but 11 years of leprosy and 67 years of age took its toll and the good king died. Jotham was a good man, but he was young and he wasn't the great leader that his dad was. Judah needed someone that would worship the true God, set a good moral example and bring revival to the nation, but Jotham wasn't that kind of man.
 
King Uzziah's death and the pending lone rule of Jotham disturbed Isaiah. His beloved king, his great cousin, his good friend was dead; Judah was in trouble, sin prevailed; the nation's power and prosperity was waning. Its military was declining, people were losing respect for Judah's leader; and the young Jotham wouldn't go to the Temple to seek God's solution for these perplexing problems.
 
The death of Judah's great leader was a crisis for Isaiah. It appeared to be the beginning of the end for Judah.
 
So Isaiah went to the Temple where he received a great revelation: The good king was dead, but God was not dead. A lesser king was on Judah's throne, but God was still on the throne in heaven. The nation was declining, but God was still in control and He knew what to do. The real King is not an earthly king. The real King is the King of kings and Lord of lords.
 
In 2008, a young immoral, incompetent, ineffective leader took the seat of power in the U.S. He needs God's guidance, but his religious background is a disaster and he rarely, if ever, visits a Bible-believing church. He could be a good moral example and try to bring this nation back to God, but he seems to favor Muslim militants and black extremists over those who follow the God of Israel. 
 
He is a proud man who doesn't fear breaking the Law of Moses (same-sex marriage, thou shalt not bear false witness, etc.). With him in office America's power, prosperity and military have declined. He has betrayed our allies and lost the respect of leaders in other nations.
 
Many fear that America's sin will lead to the destruction of the U.S. Many in this once-great nation are discouraged. Some long for another Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy or Reagan, but those great leaders are dead and the man in office doesn't have what it takes.
 
Some think he is the beginning of the end of America, but the true God is still on the throne. He is our hope and He is in control. He is our hope, but we need to do what Isaiah did: Go before His throne, confess, repent and pray.
 
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Israel's survival and regional nuclear war

Israel's survival and regional nuclear war - Louis Rene Beres -
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israels-survival-and-regional-nuclear-war-404377
 
Israel remains the openly declared national and religious object of Arab/Islamic genocide; No other country on this persistently bleeding planet is in a similar or comparable existential predicament
 
Israel's survival problem is basically this: A small state, indeed a micro-state less than half the size of Lake Michigan, is surrounded by several openly genocidal enemy states - some of which still seek biological and/or nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
 
It also continues to be beset by relentless terrorist groups and insurgent forces, more or less sustained by these adversarial states - some of which are comprised of "holy warriors" seeking "martyrdom" via terror or mega-terror, and by the prospect that an entire enemy country could choose to act as a suicide bomber in macrocosm. This would mean acting without any ordinary or conspicuous regard for rational behavior.
 
Faced with conditions wherein the traditional threats of international deterrence could effectively be immobilized, Israel must capably prepare for (1) various still-feasible forms of preemption; (2) improved active defenses; and (3) long-term nuclear deterrence.
 
Israel remains the openly declared national and religious object of Arab/Islamic genocide. No other country on this persistently bleeding planet is in a similar or comparable existential predicament. What is Israel to do? And how might Israel's possible actions or inactions further affect the likelihood of a regional nuclear war in the Middle East? Looking at the current situation systematically, including the prominent rise of Islamic State and the corollary collapse of Iraq, Libya, Yemen and Syria, what can we now expect to happen in this irremediably bad neighborhood?
 
A competent "strategic dialectic" is required. What precise ways might a nuclear war actually begin in the Middle East, between the Jewish state and some of its enemies? Israel's nuclear weapons, unacknowledged and non-threatening, exist only to prevent certain forms of aggression. Plainly, this indispensable deterrent force would never be used except in a defensive reprisal for certain massive enemy first-strikes, especially for Arab and/or Iranian attacks involving nuclear and/or biological weapons. For the time being, at least, Israel's enemies are not nuclear, but this could change in the foreseeable future.
 
Even if it should change, Israel's nuclear weapons could continue to reduce the risks of unconventional war as long as the pertinent enemy states were to: (1) remain rational; and (2) remain convinced that Israel would retaliate massively if attacked with nuclear and/ or biological weapons of mass destruction.
 
Of course, the expected risk reduction offered by Israeli nuclear forces and doctrine would likely be smaller in the event of any terrorist (sub-national or enemy surrogate) adversaries.
 
There are many complex problems for Jerusalem to identify if a bellicose enemy state were allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, problems that belie the seemingly agreeable academic notions of stable nuclear deterrence. Whether for reasons of miscalculation, accident, unauthorized capacity to fire, outright irrationality or the presumed imperatives of "jihad," such a state could sometime opt to launch a nuclear first-strike against Israel in spite of that country's ambiguous nuclear posture.
 
Here, Jerusalem would certainly respond, to the extent possible, with a nuclear retaliatory strike. Although nothing is publicly known about Israel's precise targeting doctrine, any such reprisal might be launched against the aggressor's capital city, or against other similarly high-value urban targets.
 
In essence, there could be no assurances that in response to this egregious sort of Arab or Iranian aggression, Israel would intentionally limit itself to striking back against exclusively military targets - or even to the particular individual enemy state from which the aggression was actually launched.
 
 WHAT IF enemy first-strikes were to involve "only" chemical and/or biological weapons? Here Jerusalem might still launch a reasonably proportionate nuclear reprisal, but this would depend largely upon the Jewish state's calculated expectations of follow-on aggression, and on its associated determinations of comparative damage limitation.
 
Should Israel absorb a massive conventional first-strike, a nuclear retaliation could still not be ruled out altogether. This is especially the case if: (1) the aggressor were perceived to hold nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction in reserve; and/or (2) Israel's leaders were to believe that non-nuclear retaliations could not prevent national annihilation.
 
Recognizing Israel's evidently small size, and its tightly concentrated infrastructures, the threshold of existential harm for the Jewish state is reasonably lower than wholesale physical devastation.
 
In principle, at least, faced with imminent and existential attacks, Israel could decide to preempt pertinent enemy aggression with solely conventional forces. More than anything else, the designated targeted state's response would then determine Jerusalem's subsequent moves. If this response were in any way nuclear, Israel would assuredly undertake nuclear counter-retaliation. If this enemy retaliation were to involve chemical and/or biological weapons, Israel could also opt to take a quantum escalatory initiative.
 
This sort of initiative, known in proper military parlance as "escalation dominance," could prove essential for Israel to ensure favorable intra-war deterrence.
 
If the enemy state's response to an Israeli preemption were limited to hard-target conventional strikes, it is improbable that Jerusalem would resort to any forms of nuclear counter-retaliation. On the other hand, if the enemy state's conventional retaliation were an all-out strike directed toward Israel's civilian populations, as well as to its military targets - an existential strike, for all intents and purposes - an Israeli nuclear counter-retaliation could not automatically be ruled out.
 
Such a counter-retaliation could be excluded only if the enemy state's conventional retaliations were: (1) entirely proportionate to Israel's preemption; (2) confined entirely to Israeli military targets; (3) circumscribed by the legal limits of "military necessity"; and (4) accompanied by explicit and verifiable assurances of no further escalation.
 
It is unlikely - but not inconceivable - that Israel could decide at some point to preempt enemy state aggression with a nuclear defensive strike. While circumstances could arise where such a defensive strike would be completely rational, and also completely acceptable under international law, it is improbable Jerusalem would ever permit itself to reach such dire circumstances.
 
More specifically, an Israeli nuclear preemption could be expected only if: (1) Israel's state enemies had unexpectedly acquired nuclear or other unconventional weapons presumed capable of destroying the tiny Jewish state; (2) these enemy states had made explicit that their intentions paralleled their capabilities; (3) these states were authoritatively believed ready to begin a countdown-to-launch; and (4) Israel believed that non-nuclear pre-emptions could not possibly achieve the minimum needed levels of damage-limitation - that is, levels consistent with its own national survival.
 
Israeli nuclear and non-nuclear pre-emptions of unconventional enemy aggressions could both lead to nuclear exchanges. This would depend, in part, upon the effectiveness and breadth of Israeli targeting, the surviving number of enemy nuclear weapons, and the willingness of controlling enemy leaders to risk Israeli nuclear counter-retaliations. In any event, the likelihood of nuclear exchanges would be greatest where potential Arab and/or Iranian aggressors had been allowed to deploy ever-larger numbers of unconventional weapons without eliciting any appropriate Israeli and/or American pre-emptions.
 
Should such deployment be allowed to take place, as now already seems to be the case with Iran policy, Jerusalem might effectively forfeit the non-nuclear preemption option. Here, its only alternatives to nuclear preemption could be a no-longer-viable conventional preemption, or simply waiting to be attacked.
 
It follows that the risks of an Israeli nuclear preemption, of nuclear exchanges with an enemy state, and of enemy nuclear first-strikes could conceivably be reduced by still-timely Israeli and/or American non-nuclear pre-emptions. These pre-emptions would be directed at presumptively critical military-industrial targets, and/or at pertinent regimes. The latter very problematic option could include dedicated elimination of enemy leadership elites, and/or certain enemy scientists.
 
 ALWAYS, THE objective of Israel's nuclear forces and doctrine must be deterrence ex-ante, not revenge expost. In the final analysis, everyone should understand, nuclear war resembles any other incurable disease. The only true remedies lie in prevention.
 
Looking at the chaotic Middle East, where several Arab states and Iran (however much they might loathe each other) remain commonly sworn to "root out the Zionist cancer," the only durable remedy for Jerusalem is to ensure Israel's nuclear monopoly. Optimally, to survive, Israel should remain the only regional nuclear power.
 
But should this objective no longer prove viable, Israel's strategic planners must then do whatever necessary to upgrade the country's nuclear deterrence posture, including further sea-basing of selected nuclear forces, and taking carefully measured steps away from deliberate nuclear ambiguity.
 
Once Iran has verifiably crossed the nuclear weapons threshold, it will be high time for Israel, in appropriate stages, to take its bomb out of the "basement."
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Inching Closer Towards the Main Event?: Isis vs. Israel -

Inching Closer Towards the Main Event?: Isis vs. Israel - A. V. Rauf - http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/05/25/inching-closers-towards-the-main-event-isis-vs-israel/
 
Isaiah 21:1-2-The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
 
Isaiah 21:14-17-The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim. The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled. For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war. For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail: And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the Lord God of Israel hath spoken it.
 
A Sunni militant blew himself up in the al-Qadeeh village mosque in Saudi Arabia's heavily Shi'ite east during Friday prayers, in one of the worst attacks in the kingdom in years.
 
The suicide bombing took place at a Shi'ite mosque and reportedly killed 21 people. This bombing in Saudi Arabia came as tensions between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims are on the increase in the region. Some clerics in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and mainstay of its Sunni denomination, are deeply hostile towards Shi'ites, whom they regard as apostates.
 
Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia is part of an international coalition carrying out bombing strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.  If Saudi Arabia can no longer secure this part of their country from the Shia Arabs living there, then that gives an excuse for somebody else to come in and secure the area.
 
This is because a goodly portion of Saudi Arabia's oil fields are in these provinces, including the logistical infrastructure that ships it out to the Persian Gulf too.
 
I mentioned in a previous post that as the Arab Spring events commenced in 2011 several governments have been overturned in the Middle East.
 
Meanwhile over in Syria, ISIS has taken control of the Syrian city of Palmyra in the last 10 days. They reportedly have executed 217 people there and caused for 11,000 people to flee for their lives. Just last year, according to the UN Refugee Agency, Syria topped Afghanistan as the country with the largest refugee population under United Nations care, as the country's civil war has now on raged for five years and counting. It is important to note that 5 million Palestinian refugees have registered with the UN Relief and Works Agency, which is dedicated solely to their needs and is independent from the UN Refugee Agency. Palmyra is still called Tadmur/Tadmor today. It was a city captured by Solomon:
 
2 Chronicles 8:1-6-And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the Lord, and his own house, That the cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.  And Solomon went to Hamathzobah, and prevailed against it. And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath.  Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars; And Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities of the horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and throughout all the land of his dominion.
 
And just South of Israel in Jordan, it is being reported that after ISIS controlled the city of Ramadi,(which is the capital of Anbar in Iraq which is approximately 90 miles from the Jordanian border), it may now became a major threat to the Kingdom of Jordan. ISIS does not hide its intention to expand towards Jordan. Is Jordan about to be overrun like Syria?? Keep  close eye one who emerges as the new leader of either of these two nations in the near future: (Syria & Jordan)
 
 
We must not forget that Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Arabic al-Dawlah al-Islamiyyah fi al-?Iraq wa al-Sham, Arabic abbreviation Da?ash or Daesh, also called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and, since June 2014, the Islamic State, first appeared under the name ISIL in April 2013.The group launched an offensive in early 2014 that drove Iraqi government forces out of key western cities, while in Syria it fought both government forces and rebel factions in the Syrian Civil War. In June 2014, after making significant territorial gains in Iraq, the group proclaimed the establishment of a caliphate  
 
Levant is defined as: A region on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea north of the Arabian Peninsula and south of Turkey, usually including the area of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
 
Moving ahead, just last week in Turkey a month removed from the upcoming elections, the Turkish Anadolu Agency reported that Turkey's Prime Minister, Ahmet Davatoglu, made a promise to his people that if they elect him next month that he promises to soon liberate Jerusalem:
 
"Al-Aqsa Mosque [The Temple Mount] is ours forever, and as Allah is my witness and history will testify, it will remain ours forever".
 
Revelation 11:1-2-And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
 
After vowing to retake Jerusalem if elected, Davutoglu stressed that his country "cannot be an ally or friend of those who desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque with their boots" referring to Israelis who had to thwart demonstrations. By this Davutoglu is accusing Israel of desecrating the Temple Mount since it is an abomination in Islam for anyone to enter holy ground unless they are barefooted.
 
The Turkish president himself called on his citizens of Turkey to "raise their hands in supplication for this blessed night towards Allah to restore the Al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] to be re-owned by Muslims, and to remove the mist from their eyes, to see Jerusalem in their hands at every moment and at every opportunity. " Is the Gog/Magog War on the near horizon???
 
Syria and Iran both pose a threat to Israel with their sizable conventional forces and political clout in the region, very much the same way Iraq was before Saddam Hussein was overthrown and ultimately captured. Could it be that Israel may very well believe that it is acting in the interest of its national security by adopting the axiom, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Either way we will have to wait and see how this unfolds. But I assure you that it wont be long before we find out!
 
I have stated before in several posts that it won't belong before Israel jumps in the foray and takes center stage as the prophetic fulfillment of God's Holy Writ is materializing before our very eyes.
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Leading Islamic Voice Calls For Reconquering Jerusalem, Appears In Hologram (Giving Life To The Image Of The Beast?)

Leading Islamic Voice Calls For Reconquering Jerusalem, Appears In Hologram (Giving Life To The Image Of The Beast?) - Leo Hohmann -
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/leading-islamic-voice-calls-for-reconquering-jerusalem/
 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on his countrymen to refocus on the Ottoman goal of re-conquering Jerusalem for Islam and uniting Shia and Sunni tribes for that same mission.
 
In a speech that got almost no coverage in the Western media, Erdogan talked about invading and reconquering Jerusalem, according to an article in the Anadolu Agency of Turkey.
 
"We Muslims lost our aim to head towards Jerusalem," he told throngs of adoring Turks while in the state of Erzincan in central Turkey, according to a translation by Walid Shoebat. "The water of our eyes froze making us blind, and our hearts that was destined to beat for Jerusalem is now instead conditioned for rivalry being in a state of war with each other."
 
Erdogan was in the city to promote numerous service projects, but the speech focused on Jerusalem.
 
"When you mention the word ascension, the first thing that comes to mind is Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque," he said, referring to the mosque that sits on the Temple Mount.
 
The Mount is controlled by Arab Muslim Waqf officials, who do not allow Jews to pray except at the Western Wall. But apparently Erdogan is not satisfied with this arrangement. He told his countrymen to ask "Allah to restore the Al-Aqsa Mosque to be re-owned by Muslims."
 
Erdogan has ruled Turkey for 13 years, but the increasingly vitriolic nature of his anti-Israel rhetoric proves he has consolidated his power over the less strident Islamist views of Fethullah Gulen, a Turk who operates 120 publicly funded charter schools across the United States, says Joel Richardson, a Christian filmmaker and author of the New York Times-best-seller, "The Islamic Antichrist."
 
With Erdogan's rhetoric coming unhinged, Richardson says the Turkish government led by him and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has essentially become the Turkish wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
"The old form of moderate Turkish Islam has been defeated," he said.
 
"They have become the leaders of the Turkish branch of Muslim Brotherhood, and now that the rhetoric coming out of the leaders of the regime is increasingly becoming identical to the inflammatory statements coming out of Iran and even al-Qaida," Richardson said.
 
Richardson said Turkey and Iran are natural enemies, but the views of their respective leaders have converged at a commonplace of darkness - Jew hatred. One represents Shia Islam and the other Sunni, but they agree on one thing: Israel must be removed, cut out like a cancerous tumor.
 
Both are openly anti-Semitic, but Richardson sees Turkey as Israel's ultimate enemy. Whereas most Bible prophecy teachers have been warning of a revived Roman empire, Richardson has his eye on the re-emergence of the Ottoman Empire, which crumbed in the aftermath of World War I. It's a theme he discusses in detail in both of his books, "Islamic Antichrist" and "Mideast Beast," and in his documentary, "End Times Eyewitness."
 
"For years, I've been warning of a last days' revival of the Ottoman Empire, and there's no question that it continues to move in that direction," Richardson said.
 
"This is more than just political rhetoric (by Erdogan). We have to remember that the Ottoman Turks controlled Jerusalem for close to 500 years, and there really is this increasing return of the Ottoman aspirations to control the region once again," he said. "And that means not only Jerusalem but also Mecca and Medina. They're pretending to form an alliance with Saudi Arabia against Iran and its nuclear program, but Turkey and Saudi Arabia don't like each other at all. Much of the Islamic world thinks that the Saudi government is just a creation of Western powers. And the whole monarchy thing has no basis in Islamic law."
 
The geopolitical landscape as described in the last days by the Hebrew prophets is coming into focus like never before, Richardson said.
 
"The prophets Joel, Zachariah and Ezekiel all described the surrounded nations gathering together against Jerusalem in the last days," he said. "Five years ago, it was inconceivable to think the president of Turkey would be talking about the need for the Turks to regain control of Jerusalem."
 
With the Middle East and North Africa rapidly devolving into chaos, Turkey bears watching. As a traditional ally of the United States, it will be given freer rein to maneuver and exploit that chaos. Richardson paints a scenario where Turkey will eventually go to war with Egypt, and those two countries have increasingly been at odds since the Muslim Brotherhood government of Muhammad Morsi was defeated in Egypt.
 
Saudi Arabia has sparred with Iran in Yemen, Syria remains on fire with civil war, and multiple terrorist groups are vying for control of Libya. Erdogan sees all this and believes this state of war has clouded the vision of Muslims from their true aspiration of marching on Jerusalem.
 
The Turkish president called on citizens to "raise their hands in supplication for this blessed night toward Allah to restore the Al-Aqsa Mosque [Jerusalem] to be re-owned by Muslims, and to remove the mist from their eyes, to see Jerusalem in their hands at every moment and at every opportunity."
 
Erdogan has compared himself to Tariq Bin Ziad, who conquered Spain, Alp Arslan and Saladin.
 
"These are the Muslim leaders who fought Christendom, and Saladin was the one who conquered Jerusalem," noted the blog Israel, Islam and the End Times. "He wants to declare war on the strongest fortresses to advance his foreign God, Allah, through warfare."
 
"Khalifat (Caliph) literally is one who rules the world and now Erdogan wants to fulfill Zechariah 12 and 14 where Jerusalem becomes the 'cup of trembling' to 'all surrounding nations' when they storm against Jerusalem to annihilate all Israel."
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Prepare Your Homes and Neighborhoods for the Violence That Is Going To Sweep America

Prepare Your Homes and Neighborhoods for the Violence That Is Going To Sweep America - By Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/prepare-your-homes-and-neighborhoods-for-the-violence-that-is-going-to-sweep-america 

 
The thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis is beginning to disappear, and a new era of chaos and anarchy is coming to our cities.  I don't know if you have noticed, but violence is increasing on the streets of America.  Over Memorial Day weekend, 29 people were shot in Baltimore and 55 people were shot in Chicago.  But of course the trend that I am talking about is much broader than that.  According to the FBI, the number of police officers "feloniously killed" in the line of duty rose by an astounding 89 percent in 2014.  We live at a time when Americans are becoming extremely angry and extremely frustrated, and this is only going to intensify as economic conditions worsen.  But already we have seen some of this anger and frustration boil over into violence in Ferguson and in Baltimore.  And you know what?  The vast majority of Americans expect more of the same in the coming months.  According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey that was recently released, 96 percent of all Americans believe that there will be more civil unrest in America this summer.  What we have seen up until now is just the warm up act.  The main event is still to come.
 
If things are this bad already, how bad will they be when the next great economic crisis hits this nation and unemployment skyrockets and poverty is everywhere?
 
That is why I am encouraging people that currently live in the heart of our major cities to consider moving.  Unfortunately, most Americans are completely dependent on the jobs that they currently have, so moving is not really a practical option for a lot of people.
 
For those that cannot move, you are just going to have to get prepared right where you are.  That means making your home and your family as unattractive a target to potential criminals as you possibly can.  The goal should be to avoid a violent confrontation if at all possible.  So you will want multiple layers of security between you and those that would potentially harm you and your family.  You want to try to deter the bad guys from ever coming on to your property in the first place, but if they do come, you need to be ready to deal with them.
 
At the moment, we are still in the midst of relatively stable economic times.  But even in these relatively stable times, violence is escalating.  Just consider what happened in Baltimore over the recent holiday weekend.  A grand total of 29 people were shot...
 
Police say 29 people were shot, 9 of them killed over this weekend, adding to the  record-breaking violence.
 
The shooting didn't stop on Monday night after a 9-year-old boy and another man were both injured by gun fire in the 2900 block of Arunah Avenue. Police say the child was shot in the leg and another man suffered a graze wound to the head.
 
Overall, this past month has been the deadliest month for Baltimore in 15 years.
 
Things are even worse in the city of Chicago.  Over this past weekend, 55 people got shot...
 
Twelve people were killed and at least 43 - including a 4-year-old girl - were wounded in shootings across Chicago this Memorial Day weekend, police said.
 
The 4-year-old, identified by her family as Jacele Johnson, was shot about 8 p.m. Friday in the West Englewood neighborhood. She and her 17-year-old cousin Romare Wilson were inside an SUV in the 7000 block of South Justine when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside opened fire, according to their family and Chicago Police.
 
Early in April, I went on the record and specifically named Chicago and Baltimore as two of the cities where we would be seeing civil unrest.  Since that time we have seen horrible rioting in Baltimore and the violence in Chicago continues to spiral out of control.
 
Other experts are issuing similar warnings.  For example, consider what an assistant professor at New Jersey City University recently had to say...
 
Urban unrest expert Dr. Max Herman says that the United States is on the "cusp" of a wave of domestic disorder and that the country will see more race riots.
 
Herman, Assistant Professor of Sociology at New Jersey City University, told the New Republic's Joel Gillin that the economic downturn, in addition to incidents of police brutality, have provided fertile conditions for civil unrest.
 
He sees the re-emergence of a 60's-style "protest ideology" amongst black communities which will lead to more disorder.
 
"It's very clear from studying history that these things tend to run in cycles," said Herman, adding, "I think we are at the cusp of another cycle."
 
Author Chris Hedges is saying similar things.  The following comes from a recent article about him in the National Post...
 
The United States is primed for a rebellion. So argues Chris Hedges in his new book, Wages of Rebellion, in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and polemicist examines revolts from 1700s to the ending of apartheid in South Africa, as well as the "sublime madness" that drives the people at the centre of such rebellions.
 
When asked by the National Post why he wrote his new book, this is what Hedges had to say...
 
 
I didn't write it as a warning or a prediction. I wrote it more as an assessment. I covered disintegrating societies like Yugoslavia. I know how they break down; I know what the warning signs are, so it's familiar. I don't think at this point there's much dispute. Even just the financial indicators in terms of wealth disparity and chronic unemployment. The fact that Congress has a nine-per-cent approval rating. Where I'm coming from, the book is an attempt to explain where we are in this particular historical period.
 
But it isn't just that we are entering a new cycle of unrest.  Our "leaders" have made things much worse by the decisions that they have made.  For instance, Barack Obama's decision to leave our southern border virtually unguarded has resulted in a massive flood of illegal immigrants coming into this country.  As a result, violent gangs that have roots in Central America and South America have mushroomed in size.  So now major cities far from the border such as Charlotte, North Carolina are being absolutely terrorized by these gangs...
 
Recent busts of murderous MS-13 gangsters put the lie to President Obama's sympathetic amnesty narrative of illegal immigrants as "workers who mow our lawns, make our beds (and) clean out bedpans."
 
Authorities Wednesday rounded up 37 MS-13 gang members in Charlotte, N.C., on racketeering conspiracy charges, along with charges of murder, attempted murder and firearms violations. All of them are illegal aliens from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. Several are round-trippers - illegals who broke in once, committed crimes, got deported and broke back into the U.S. - proving that our border is porous and unsecured.
 
Charlotte police discovered the rat's nest of foreign gangsters after some of them started shooting up local nightclubs and bars.
 
In 2015, it isn't just our own citizens that we need to be concerned about.  At this point, many of our biggest cities are absolutely packed to the gills with gangs made up primarily of illegal immigrants.
 
I discussed Chicago earlier.  Did you know that it is estimated that approximately 150,000 gang members now live there?
 
When things start really breaking down in this country, those gangs are going to have a field day.
 
America is changing, and not for the better.  And when violence starts sweeping this nation, don't count on the government to come in and rescue you.  After watching what happened in Ferguson and in Baltimore, you should know better than that by now.
 
It is time for the American people to prepare their own homes and their own neighborhoods for the chaos and the violence that is coming.
 
For the moment, things are still relatively stable so we have a little bit of time to prepare, but it won't last for long.
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The Stage Is Being Set: Is Anybody Paying Attention? -

The Stage Is Being Set: Is Anybody Paying Attention? - A.V. Rauf - http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/05/28/the-stage-is-being-set-is-anybody-paying-attention/  
dress re·hears·al
noun
the final rehearsal of a live show, in which everything is done as it would be in a real performance.
 
A rehearsal is an event that occurs as preparation for a performance. It is undertaken as a form of practicing, to ensure that all details of the subsequent performance are adequately prepared and coordinated.
 
Most commonly employed in the performing arts as preparation for a public presentation, rehearsals are nevertheless used in other contexts, as well, to prepare for the performance of any anticipated activity.
 
Well I want to mention a rehearsal of sorts that just took place in Jerusalem:
 
On Monday, May 27, 2015, on a mountain ridge overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem and the ancient Temple Mount, Jewish Ancestral priests otherwise known as Kohanim, performed a dry run of the Temple Service for the Shavuot (Pentecost) holiday.     
 
 All three of the major components of the holiday service - bringing of the first fruits, preparation of two loaves of bread using the season's new wheat, and a special holiday offering - were conducted to as great a level of detail as is possible at this point in time.This ceremony is a joyous one, as the people are able to celebrate God's abundant provision of food.
 
I mentioned in a previous post that the Passover service was also re-enacted by the Jews and that red heifer had been found. Here is the link:
 
http://bibleprophecyfortoday.com/2015/04/14/does-the-building-of-the-third-temple-seem-to-be-drawing-closer/
 
However in fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy of Jews returning to the God given land of Israel and the rebuilding of the Holy Jewish Temple, Monday's reenactment is one step forward to the completion when all the nations will gather at the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem.
 
However, of paramount importance is the following fact: THE SHAVOUT HOLIDAY HAS NOT BEEN CELEBRATED IN THIS MANNER FOR NEARLY 2,000 YEARS!!!!!
 
God is bringing His people back to Israel as He promised He would after returning Israel back to her land after 1,900 years of dispersion.
 
Ezekiel 20:34-42-And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face. Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:  And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am the Lord. As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; Go ye, serve ye everyone his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols. For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things. I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
 
 
Micah 4:1-7-But in the LAST DAYS it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.Jerusalem1
 
Ezekiel 36:16-28-Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.  And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land. But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.  For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
 
It is a surety that even today God is making it possible for Israel to re-establish the Old Testament Covenant, of which ceremonies like this are critical. Of course, Christians who know their Bible need to warn all Jews that this activity, including the rebuilding of the Temple, are preparations for the man of deceit, Antichrist.
 
Most Jews will not listen, but the seed needs to be planted in their minds that the first man on the world scene, claiming to be Jesus Christ, will be the false Christ who will turn to deceive them. He will be followed after 7 years by the real Jesus Christ, Who will come to Earth at the Mount of Olives.
 
It is clear that the Age of Grace is rapidly coming to a close and that the stage is being set for the rebuilding of the temple and the beginning of the tribulation period. The Church Age is near it's end as the stage is being set for Israel to once again take center stage in Bible Prophecy.
 
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Lucifer Makes Prime Time

Lucifer Makes Prime Time - By Jan Markell - www.olivetreeviews.org

 
"But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse..." (II Timothy 3:13).
 
I guess the Fox Network really is fair and balanced. They present the good, the bad, and the truly ugly. In this case the "ugly" is a program about Lucifer. That's right: Lucifer leaves Hell and becomes a resident of Los Angeles. I'm not making this up.
 
A trailer for the show portrays Lucifer as a handsome, British-accented, well-to-do lady killer full of charm and wit. The more subtle side of Satanism in Hollywood entertainment is now a thing of the past. Prime time television now will air blatant drama featuring Lucifer but portrayed by a character who is just a nice guy.
 
Based on the show's trailer, the Lucifer character will be offered up to the masses who watch the Fox program as a likable character with moral and ethical convictions, fulfilling the biblical account of this insidious demonic entity. It's only fitting then, that this modern-day show would portray Lucifer as a type of benevolent god, since this was always his goal. It was to take the place of the real God.
 
One commentator said that the masses are increasingly obsessed with evil so why not make a program glorifying Satan? You might say that Hollywood has done that for decades and featured their offerings to the evil one on the big screen and you would be correct, but this program will be prime time, available to millions with just the turn of a dial or push of a TV transmitter. 
 
Satan, disguised as Mr. Nice-Guy, will come leaping into the family rooms of millions of unsuspecting people, and particularly into the minds of impressionable young people.
 
The entertainment and book industry have paid homage to Lucifer for years and with each generation, the interest becomes more and more staggering -- and more bold and blatant.
 
Hollywood has offered us "The Omen," "Rosemary's Baby," "The Exorcist," endless Halloween dramas, Freddy Kruger's evil, and many nightmares on Elm Street, but now it is not just coming to a street near you, it is coming to your living room. And on a network you thought you could trust. 
 
Lucifer will make prime time TV.  On a reality show that may be all too real.  
 
He has even influenced Christian publishing. In the 1930s, two women channeled a book called "God Calling." They heard from demons in other words. That book remains a big hit today. From that came the modern day best-seller, "Jesus Calling."  This author credits "God Calling" as her inspiration. How is this possible?  
 
Tell me these aren't the last of the last days? Try to convince me that is not true. 
 
There is an undeniable increase in wickedness today. So what is our response?
 
Let our light so shine before men that they see our good works and glorify our Father, who is in Heaven. When evil increases - we must do good. We must delay the decay.  
 
Mike Oppenheimer of "Let Us Reason" writes, "God did not invent evil, however he knew it would come about. Yet He did not stop it but made a provision for it when it would rear its ugly head.  
 
"There is coming a day when this will be taken care of. Right now we are in position of grace where God is commanding all men everywhere to repent."  
 
Oppenheimer says, "First, evil is a necessary part of free will. Man has free will -- we can choose what we want. We sin because we want to sin. It is our natural inclination. We follow our strongest nature at any given time. We are not morally inclined toward God. 
 
"As J. B. Phillips has put it: Evil is inherent in the risky gift of free will. God could have made us machines but to do so would have robbed us of our precious freedom of choice, and we would have ceased to be human. We all exercise free choice in the direction of our nature which is traced to the 'fall' of man. 
 
"This is the basic reason for evil and suffering in the world. It is man's responsibility, not God's. Why does God permit evil?  He could stop it, but in so doing would destroy us all.
 
"It is worth noting that the whole point of real Christianity lies not in interference with the human power to choose, but in God producing a willing consent for us to choose good over evil. He offers us choice and by doing so a chance to grow and understand the difference."  
 
The world was this evil during the days of Noah but they didn't have the entertainment world glorifying it. We know what the consequences of the evil of Noah's day were. The last days are compared to the days of Noah.
 
Need I say more?
 
The devil can roar all he wants. He knows his time is short. But he is making good use of his time. 
 
A final thought: Is Antichrist's reign on earth so close that this paves the way?
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Spirit Speak and Unholy Peace -

Spirit Speak and Unholy Peace - Terry James - http://www.raptureready.com/rap16.html
 
In George Orwell's 1947 novel, 1984, the dictatorship that controlled much of Oceania rearranged news to fit the moment. The propaganda machine rewrote history on a daily, even hourly, basis to fit the narrative Big Brother wanted the hapless victims of the regime to receive. I believe one of the terms used for this journalism was "Newspeak."
 
There was inflicted upon the citizens of this regional superpower the technique called "doublethink," in which everything that was reasonable and good was to be thought of as bad and evil, as long as it fit the Big Brother model for life in Oceania.
 
I'm getting the same feeling as when I read that novel for the first time so many years ago while in college. We are being fed, it seems to me, a line of Newspeak aimed at creating doublethink, while this generation closes in on the very end of the age.
 
The term that comes to mind for what is being foisted upon a dumbed-down world of those who would rather be entertained than informed is something like "Spiritspeak." The world continues to be moved toward a time of an unholy peace--peace that Daniel the prophet called "peace that destroys many" (Daniel 8: 25). Isaiah the prophet calls it a "covenant made with death and hell" (Isaiah 28: 15).
 
Recently, the world's most noted spiritual leader spoke into the ear of the world this Spiritspeak. He gave his personal if not papal blessing to one of God's chosen people's proven enemies. The pronouncement came upon the Vatican's decision to formally recognize Palestine as an independent state. Although not a "spiritual" dictate from Pope Francis, it was issued in Spiritspeak language, with the Pope, in a warm embrace, declaring the Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, an "angel of peace."
 
The pronouncement was given as the Vatican is making moves to align with the European Union in getting firmly into the peace process in the Middle East. While the Obama administration and State Department appear to be stepping back from that process, the Pope and the EU are bringing pressure to bear on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept the proposed two-state solution to the millennia-long conflict.
 
President Obama, practically at the same time Pope Francis was calling Abbas an "angel of peace," was again undercutting the newly-re-elected Israeli prime minister as has become his usual way. In his own Newspeak way, Obama said the following in speaking to Al-Arabiya, the Saudi-owned, pan-Arab television station:
 
"What I think at this point, realistically, we can do," Obama said, "is to try to rebuild trust - not through a big overarching deal, which I don't think is probably possible in the next year, given the makeup of the Netanyahu government, given the challenges I think that exist for President Abbas - but if we can start building some trust around."
 
One doesn't have to be expert at reading between the lines; Obama put it right out there. Abbas is the one who has to put up with the subterfuge and with the sabotage against peace by Netanyahu. But, the president interjects, he hopes trust can be established, despite the Netanyahu government's evil mindset.
 
Both the pope and the U.S. president are rewriting history in this Spiritspeak that is from direction other than from Heaven. God cannot lie (Titus 1:2). The Pope and president are trying to dupe us all into accepting the equivalent of Orwell's literary device known as doublethink.
 
God says such a phony peace as they want established will end up destroying many throughout the world. These "leaders" tell us such peace is man's salvation.
 
We can know of the unholy Spiritspeak taking place that calls good evil and evil good, simply by understanding the real history of the PA leader, Mahmoud Abbas. Although admittedly presented from a pro-Israel viewpoint, the following is true, as an examination of real history of what is written here will verify:
 
The only path forward for a two state solution to the conflict is for the Palestinians to be given statehood only after they have made peace with Israel and not before. Abbas and his predecessor, Yasir Arafat, have repeatedly refused Israeli offers of peace and statehood.
 
To this day, he refuses to sign any deal that recognizes the legitimacy of a Jewish state no matter where its borders are drawn. That alone should be enough to deny Abbas the title of "angel of peace." But that isn't the only reason.
 
Abbas was a longtime deputy to arch-terrorist Arafat and played a role in organizing and financing many acts of brutal terrorism. But unlike other world leaders who might have employed violence in his youth and then became a statesman, Abbas has never really changed. He is the same man who wrote a doctoral thesis that centered on Holocaust denial at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University that was published in 1984...
 
Just as important, though he occasionally makes statements about wanting peace when speaking to Western audiences or the international media, his official PA media incites hatred against Jews and Israel on a regular basis. (Jonathan Tobin, "Sorry, Your Holiness, You Are Dangerously Wrong," Jewish World Review, May 18, 2015)
 
It seems beyond ironic that Abbas, in the year 1984, had published his thesis denying the Nazi Hholocaust against the Jews. It seems that Spiritspeak was particularly active that year, in preparation to the lead-up to the end-times unholy peace.
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