God Won’t Lose

God Won’t Lose - Nathele Graham - twotug@embarqmail.com “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war with the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. It can be easy to become discouraged today. There are many evils in this world, and so much can strike fear in the heart of even the most faithful soldier of the Lord. Wickednessseems to have no bounds. Babies are casually murdered in the womb, God’s standard of marriage is being trampled, and it’s politically incorrect to upset those who worship demonic gods, such as allah, while we keep our faith in Jesus Christ a secret. Add toall of this a pandemic that seems to be shutting down the world and paving the way for the events described in Revelation to take place. Israel is attacked, but when they fight to protect themselves, they are condemned. There are many end-time prophecies thatare on the verge of being fulfilled, but instead of seeing these events as a rallying cry, Christians are silent. Christians are growing weaker in faith because many pastors don’t teach Scripture from the pulpit. Rather than standing firm on Scripture, theyhave compromised Biblical truth as they embrace practices like yoga, which is satanic in nature, and ideas like the emerging church, new age, meditation, purpose driven, replacement theology, anti-Semitism, and more. The watered-down theology has left Christiansunsure of what they believe and why. Prophecy is ignored, so things happening in the world today frighten most Christians. You have no need to fear if you trust God. Scripture tells us that there will be tribulation in the world, but Satan won’t win. In fact,he’s already lost. The Lord wins. Christians need to do our part for Him and not side with the enemy. Our faith must not be compromised. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” Ephesians 6:10. Our strength is in God andHe won’t lose. THE BATTLE BELONGS TO THE LORD, written by Jamie Owens-Collins In heavenly armour we’ll enter the land The battle belongs to the Lord No weapon that’s fashioned against us shall stand The battle belongs to the Lord Weapons of the world won’t win spiritual battles. We see and hear people all around us singing the praises of evil…newscasters, politicians, Hollywood stars, musicians,and more have much to say that promotes Satan’s work. Remember, these people are not the enemy. They only promote the enemy’s lies. The true enemy is Satan and his minions. The battle is spiritual and it must be fought with spiritual weapons. God makes Hisweapons available to every Christian, but it’s up to us to pick them up, put them on, and learn to use them effectively. “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Ephesians 6:11. No soldier can effectivelyfight in battle if he doesn’t know how to use the weapons of war. In the world today, a musket would be ineffective against a tank. Soldiers must learn to use modern weapons to win battles. So must the Christian soldier learn to use spiritual weapons for spiritualbattles. How do you learn to use them? Study Scripture, including prophecy. Understand that you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and He will guide you in battle. Learn to listen to His voice. Be bold in standing upon God’s truth, and don’t be ashamed of yourfaith. You may lose friends because of your faith, but stand firm. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:16. If you’re ashamedto speak out for Jesus, then you are weakening your spiritual weapons and siding with Satan. When the power of darkness comes in like a flood The battle belongs to the Lord He’s raised up a standard, the power of his blood The battle belongs to the Lord Think of all the wicked things that are done in darkness. Robberies, murders, pornography, and more were once cloaked in the shadows of night, but people today seem to beless concerned about hiding in the dark to do evil. Satan is behind all evil. The darkness of Satan has nothing to do with whether the sun is shining or not. Satan is evil and the darkness that surrounds him is spiritual darkness. There is a much strongerpower than the darkness of evil, and that power is found in the blood of Jesus Christ. What movies do you watch? What words do you use? What music do you listen to? Do the things you write on your heart glorify God, or numb you to the wiles of the devil? Insteadof the darkness of sin, fully turn your life over to Jesus and find power in the blood He shed for your salvation. “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us fromthe power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” Colossians 1:12-14. Satan has no power over us when we are in Christ. His blood paid for our redemptionand the Holy Spirit is sealed in us. Keep your heart, mind, and soul tuned to Jesus and the power of darkness will flee. When your enemy presses in hard do not fear The battle belongs to the Lord Take courage my friend, your redemption is near The battle belongs to the Lord There are many war stories from various battles throughout history where victory seemed out of reach. The battle seemed lost, but then a soldier remembered what he was fightingfor and rallied his fellow soldiers to not be discouraged and to fight harder. The battle was won. Christianity also has war stories of men, and women, who never forget that God will win the war, but understand their part in the battle. Men like the ApostlePeter who did just as Jesus told him to do, “Feed My sheep” and fed them on the pure word of God. The Apostle Paul carried God’s truth to the Gentiles, and, as a Gentile, I appreciate his courage. Brave soldiers took Christ’s command seriously and the Gospelwas shared. “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe allthings whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew 28:18-20. They preached the Gospel just as Jesus commanded, armed with the spiritual weapons of war. As time marched on, many politicians andreligions tried to stop the spread of God’s truth. Men like Martin Luther bravely shouldered the spiritual weapons and fought for God’s truth. Have you ever heard the battle stories of Brother Andrew? He smuggled Bibles into Soviet countries, and now smugglesBibles into Muslim nations. He’s 93 and still spreading the Gospel. Most of the “missionaries” today need to get back to Scripture and preach the Gospel instead of using gimmicks and works hoping that lost people will get the hint that they need Jesus. And we sing glory, honor Power and strength to the Lord We sing glory, honor Power and strength to the Lord. Never stop singing His praises. Songs can keep you courageous when facing the power of the enemy. Sing praises to Jesus Christ who won the victory for you. He will neverleave you. Remember when Paul was arrested in Philippi and was beaten and chained in the prison? The powers of darkness thought they had silenced Paul and Silas. “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.” Acts 16:25. These men could not be silenced. Then an earthquake struck, making escape from the dungeon possible. That would have meant the jailer would be put to death. Because the other inmates heard the songs and prayers of Paul and Silas, they didn’t escape.The jailer was amazed. Because of the songs, prayers, and integrity of Paul and Silas, the jailer gave his life to Christ. Another spiritual battle was fought and a lost soul came to salvation through Jesus. Today the strong soldiers who won’t compromise God’sword, those who share the Gospel and teach God’s truth, are hard to find. Gimmicks are used instead of Scripture and God’s word is compromised. Many Christians are rusty in using the weapons of spiritual warfare, because they forget to study and apply Scripture.Take heart, God won’t lose. What are the spiritual weapons? They’re armor provided by God. “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestlenot against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:11-12. The enemy is Satan and his minions…not people. The battlefield is thehuman soul and the enemy seems fierce, but God won’t lose. To fight in this war effectively, you must train to use the spiritual weapons of God. “Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and havingdone all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able toquench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplicationfor all saints.” Ephesians 6:13-18. The instructions for using these weapons are found in Scripture. Study it from Genesis through Revelation and apply it to your life. The battle may rage and the enemy may seem strong, but God won’t lose. Will you join me as I raise my voice in praise of Jesus Christ, the Commander in Chief of this army of believers? Will you Join me in battle against an unseen enemy whoseeks only to destroy all of mankind? Our weapons are sufficient for victory because they are provided by God Himself. Don’t compromise His word. Victory is assured because God won’t lose. God bless you all, Nathele Graham VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Faith Like a Little Child:

Faith Like a Little Child: by Debbie Holloway "Truly I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it at all" (Mark 10:15). Most of the times I have heard this quote from Jesus used, it has been a reminder to have simple faith. Christians tend get caught up in theological squabbles, and when it gets intense usually someone will chime in at some point with a reminder that the bottom line is to have childlike faith. And while obviously divisiveness is to be avoided among brethren, sometimes I think we forget what children are actually like when we use the phrase “childlike” to describe desired attitudes or attributes. As someone who been around children my whole life,I’ve recently had some thoughts on relating this verse to the truth about how (most) children behave. 1. Children require relationship. If a child is told to do something with no context or established relationship, it is very likely said child will simply be scared, angry, or will even fight. Each one of us is on the journey to build a relationship with God through Christ, but we are eachat a different step in the journey. To expect someone without a relationship with God to “have childlike faith” with what they’re struggling in would be a silly as expecting to convince a stranger’s child to do something they did not want to do. Children knowless than adults, naturally, but children will very rarely follow you instructions unless they know your face. 2. Children never stop asking questions. Unfortunately, being told to have faith like a child is often a response given to a hard question. Kind of a wet blanket, huh? But it’s so misguided, because children naturally ask a million questions a minute! Now obviously as they grow older theylearn tact (and often learn from endless shushings to ask fewer questions), but innately, children are open to learning and want to learn. They want to know the stories behind traditions, the logic behind chores, and they want to rip the mystery off why wedo things the way we’ve always done them. If we are to “be like a little child,” we must never lose our drive to ask questions. 3. You must earn the trust of children. When I was a very young child, a man in my church body used to make a habit of teasing and tickling the children in the congregation. Most children liked him and didn’t mind his antics, but I was an incredibly sensitive toddler – one who rarely felt at homeaway from my mother’s arms. I needed my personal space, and very much resented the intrusions of this (admittedly, very well-intentioned) parishioner. At one point when he accosted me, I am told by my family that I calmly ordered him to “never touch me again.” He had not earned my trust with his particular brand of playfulness, and therefore I was not OK with him being inside my bubble. (*disclaimer: don’t worry, I grew out of this sensitivity. This poor man did not remain my arch-nemesis!) This phenomenon can be seen every Sunday morning when children are dropped off in the nursery and crying fits ensue. Is it because they are bad kids? Of course not! It’s because they have itty bitty reasoning capabilities, and all they know instinctivelyis that they’ve been dumped into the arms of someone who has not earned their trust. And yet so often we, as adult Christians, are asked to put our trust in the hands of pastors, teachers, or specific caricatures of God before they have actually earned our trust. If we raise a concern with how a pastor leads a congregation, or with how someonein position of leadership interprets the Bible, we are far too often shushed and told to just trust, follow, and believe. But if we are to be like little children in God’s Kingdom, surely we ought to place our trust where trust is earned! We should be telling each other to look for fruits of the spirit, look for love and truth, and follow those roads. If someone feels discomfort, pain, or abuse from a source of authority, telling them, “you must have childlike faith,” is quite a faulty comparison. Intersecting Faith and Life: How does the metaphor of God as “father” and us as “children” help us learn how to think of him, and interact with each other? What does accepting the Kingdom of God “like a little child” look like to you? Further Reading >Luke 18:17 Who is Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven? Living as Sons and Daughters, Not Slaves VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Is the stage being set for the prophecy of Zechariah 12:3?

Is the stage being set for the prophecy of Zechariah 12:3? – Olivier Melnick - https://www.newantisemitism.com/antisemitism/is-the-stage-being-set-for-the-prophecy-of-zechariah-123 Having been a follower of Yeshua for 37 years, I have often heard or even said that we are in the last days. To be sure, even 1st-century believers thought they were inthe last days, and each day that passes puts us closer to the end of God’s program for mankind on this side of eternity. So, when people hear that we are in the last days, many of them, suffering from some sort of eschatological fatigue, roll their eyes andmove on. Are those of us claiming that it is 11:59 at the eleventh hour just sensationalists? Are we overreacting and redirecting our focus on the less important at the expense of what matters in life? Frankly, it all depends on what our focus is being redirectedto. I have always been a very literal, context-driven student of God’s Word. If God left us the Bible as His message to us on how to live and what to look forward to, we canlook at it from different cultural vantage points, but we must agree that it contains the same truth for all mankind. We might not like some of the statements that the Bible makes, but that doesn’t give us the authority to declare that they are not the truth.When we survey God’s counsel, we are bound to find many prophecies fulfilled and more yet to be fulfilled. We must resist “newspaper exegesis”, but we need to honestly look at the news through a Biblical lens if we want to know where we are on God’s timelineof human history. Much of that timeline revolves around Israel as God has promised to never forsake Israel or allow for its destruction (Jeremiah 31:35-37). At a time when rockets are raining down on Israel by the hundreds, from a human perspective,the situation looks very bleak. While casualties are inevitable on both sides, God isn’t caught by surprise by the present conflict, and neither should those of us who take His word seriously. Satan’s demise clock is ticking quickly, and he is desperate. Desperatetimes call for desperate measures and Satan finds, in most of the world, a plethora of willing executioners for his anti-Semitic agenda. Truth has long ceased to matter. Fact-checks are politically or socially motivated. If someone believes that they are contributing to social justice, multiculturalism and tolerance, they immediately feel like they are making a difference to improve theworld we live in; even if it is at the expense of someone else, and in this case, as is too often the case, at the expense of Israel and the Jewish people. Not long after the tragedy of the Hyper Cacher Supermarket on the east side of Paris in 2015, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a piece in The Atlantic that still resonates in my head.In it, he made a sobering statement that I was really hoping was inaccurate, but as it turns out, he might have been spot on. He wrote, ” The Shoah served for a while as a sort of inoculation against the return of overt Jew-hatred—but the effects of the inoculation,it is becoming clear, are wearing off. What was once impermissible is again imaginable. Memories of 6 million Jewish dead fade, and guilt becomes burdensome….Israel is coming to be understood not as a small country in a difficult spot whose leaders, especiallylately, have been making shortsighted and potentially disastrous decisions, but as a source of cosmological evil—the Jew of nations.” What Goldberg saw six years ago, was the erosion of Europe’s compassion towards the Jewish people. I have long been a believer that what happens in Europe, and even particularlyin France, is a good indication of what is coming to America. The barometer of the new antisemitism in Europe sets the temperature for what is coming to America. Since 1948–when Israel was reborn as a modern nation–antisemitism, which was localized mostlyto Greater Europe, became a global virus. The tiny Jewish state gave anti-Semites a justification for a Jew-hatred that has now spread over the four corners of the world. The irrational conclusion has been that if Israel is guilty, by proxy, all Jews are aswell. This could lead to the whole world hating the Jews…but wait, isn’t there a prophecy in the Bible about that? The prophet Zechariah wrote, “Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.” (Zechariah 12:2). Mind you, this is a reference to the Campaign of Armageddon, and weare not there since this will be taking place during the final stretch of the Great Tribulation (Revelation 16:16, 19:19). Yet, we cannot afford to put our heads in the sand and ignore the signs of the times. None of this final chapter of mankind, hingingaround Israel is going to happen in a vacuum, but rather, it will be progressive AND exponential. I believe that we are well on the way to that final Biblical curtain call, as the pressure is mounting against Jews worldwide. In the last week: •In a recent conversation with the Pope, Turkish president Erdogan declared, “All of humanity should be united against Israel.” I wonder if he hadany idea of how Biblical he was when he made that outrageous statement? •Pro-Palestinian crowds gathered in Los Angeles and attacked Jewish diners as a result of the current conflict between Hamas and Israel. •Pro-Palestinian crowds rallied in Westwood, CA demanding that Israel stop the airstrikes over the Gaza Strip. They didn’t ask for a ceasefire orfor an end to the conflict, but just for Israel to stop defending itself. •In New York, Jewish people were attacked by pro-Palestinian passing cars who threw fireworks at them, screaming “F…ing Zionists”. One Jewish personwas burned. •In Germany, people marched on the streets shouting “free Palestine for the Jordan to the sea” which is a euphemism for getting rid of all the Jews. •In London, a group of cars drove through a Jewish neighborhood screaming, “F… the Jews, rape their daughters.“ •In Washington D.C., protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy and shouted “Free, Free Palestine” and declared that Israel had no right to exist. As of this writing, Egypt brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. It is uncertain if that ceasefire will hold, but what is sure is that the hatred for Israel andthe Jewish people seems to continue to grow on a global scale, preparing the way for an all-out war against the Jews. The Bible is clear, at some point, all the nations of the world will gather against Jerusalem, but that doesn’t mean that all people willfollow suit. It is time for all Christians and people of goodwill to unite in rebellion against the real oppressor. For the last several decades, under the leadership of the new antisemitism, the Jews became the perpetrators, something that they never havebeen. Now is the time to reset our moral GPS because nobody in his right mind will find any moral equivalence between a country that uses weapons to defend its civilians and a group of people who uses civilians to hide their weapons. Maybe the days of Zechariah 12:3 are closer than we think? VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

The Last Trumpet of the Rapture

The Last Trumpet of the Rapture - By Randy Nettles - https://www.raptureready.com/2021/05/26/the-last-trumpet-of-the-rapture-by-randy-nettles/ There are two types of wind instruments or air horns mentioned in the Bible that the Hebrews used for religious ceremonies and as a signal for the congregation to assemble,or as a call to battle. One is the trumpet and is first described in Numbers 10:2-4. “Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work, you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps.And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tabernacle of meeting.” The Hebrew word for trumpets is ‘chatzotzerah.’ The silver trumpets could only be blown by priests (vs.8) and were used to call the people to gather at the door of the tabernacle of meeting (vs. 3) or for setting thecamps in motion to move out (vv. 5-6). They were also to be used in war against their enemies as an alarm or warning system, and to alert God for His help. “And you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies” (Numbers10:9). Also, they were to be blown in their appointed feasts (Feasts of the Lord) and at the beginning of their months (new moons) when they offered their burnt offerings and peace offerings (vs. 10). Here are a few examples of silver trumpets (chatzotzerah) being blown in the Old Testament: “Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the arkof the covenant of God” (1 Chronicles 16:6). “And when Judah looked around, to their surprise the battle line was at both front and rear; and they cried out to the Lord, and the priests sounded the trumpets.” The second trumpet or bugle is known as the ram’s horn and is actually made from the horn of a ram. The Hebrew word for this horn is ‘shophar’ or ‘shofar.’ This horn makesa loud blasting sound that is guaranteed to get one’s attention. The first undoubted use of the shofar in Jewish ritual is found in Leviticus 25:9 and was used to declare the year of Jubilee (50th year of redemption). “Then you shall sound the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet throughout all your land” (New King James translation). As you can see, in the NKJ translation (and many others), the word is translated ‘trumpets,’ but in other translations, the word is translated as ‘ram’s horn’ or ‘shofar.’ For instance, here is that same verse in the CompleteJewish Bible translation (and others): “Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land.” So, did the sound come from a trumpet or a ram’s horn/shofar? Which translation is correct? To be precise, you must look at the Hebrew word since that is the language thatLeviticus and the Old Testament were written in. The actual Hebrew word that is used for this horn is ‘shophar’ and is described as a cornet or curved horn. In this instance, the CJB is the best translation, and the hornthat is used on Yom-Kippur is a ram’s horn or shofar and not an actual silver trumpet. Also, in Hebrew (as well as Greek), nouns and adjectives are classified as feminine and masculine (sad news for the woke crowd, Lol). Without going into all the details,in the Old Testament, a trumpet is classified as feminine, and a shofar is classified as masculine. In the Greek New Testament, every horn (air blown) that is mentioned is called a trumpet, and the word is feminine. The only translation (out of 53 differentones) that calls it a masculine shofar is the Complete Jewish Bible. In the Old Testament, both the shofar and trumpet were used for various functions or events, sometimes by themselves, and other times together. Here is an example wherethey were both used: “Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn (shofar), with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps” (1 Chronicles 15:28). Shofars werealso used in battle as a call to arms and in religious ceremonies. One of the main differences between the shofar and the trumpet is that while everyone could blow the shofar, only the priests were allowed to blow the silver trumpets. The most famous example of man-made trumpets/shofars used in war was at Jericho when the Israelites first entered the land of Canaan. I wrote in detail on this matter andthe Biblical significance of the number 7 in my article, Seven:God’s Perfect Number and its Biblical Significance :: By Randy Nettles – Rapture Ready, so I will just add a few more thoughts. The Lord instructed Joshua and the men of war to march around the city once for six days. “And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: andthe seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. These trumpets are actually shofars (ram’s horns). The 7th and last time around the city, it happened exactly as the Lord told Joshua, “And it shall cometo pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight beforehim” (Joshua 6:2-5). The wording of Joshua 6: 5 has always intrigued me. It reminds me of the rapture verse of 1 Thessalonians, although it is not a rapture event. “For the Lord Himself willdescend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). However, they are both great victories for the Lord and His people. This great victory at Jericho occurred at the last trump (by the priests’ 7th and last time around the city), and there was a great shout (by the people and not by Jesusand the archangel – although I think the Lord might have shouted at Jericho also) which brought the walls down (the walls of gravity will come down at the Rapture). The warriors of Israel go up into the city of Jericho (like the army of the Church will goup into the city of New Jerusalem) every man straight before him. The first mention of a trumpet (according to many translations) in the Bible is in Exodus 19, which describes the children of Israel’s encounter with God at Mount Sinai.This miraculous event occurred in the third month after the Israelites had gone out of the land of Egypt. “On the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai” (Exodus 19:1). They left Egypt on the 14th day of the first month of Nisan, so they must have come to Mount Sinai on the 14th day of Sivan. The Lord told Moses to get the people ready,for in 3 days the Lord would come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people (vs. 11). The Lord said, “When the trumpet (chatzotzerah/shofar) sounds long, they shall come near the mountain” (Exodus 19:13). This was no man-made trumpet but was thesupernatural trumpet of God. In this chapter and verse, the “trumpet” is actually a shofar. On the third day (Sivan 17), Moses obeyed the words of the Lord and brought the people out of the camp to meet with God at the foot of Mt. Sinai. “There were thunderingsand lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of the shofar was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled” (Exodus 19:16). Mt. Sinai was completely in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascendedlike the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly (vs. 18). Exodus 19:19 describes the shofar of God sounding long, and it became louder and louder, and God spoke to Moses and gave him further instructions. Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and then he built an altar and offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to the Lord. Then he took the Book ofthe Covenant and read it to the people. They responded with, “All that the Lord has said, we will do, and be obedient” (Exodus 20:7). Of course, we know this didn’t last long. Moses took the blood from the sacrifices and sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words” (Exodus 20:8). On Mt. Sinai, God sounded His heavenly shofar to summon the people so they could witness His power and glory. The children of Israel would then truly realize who they weremaking a covenant with, and they would realize the consequences of disobeying the Law and His statutes. To be sure, this exposure to God, with the shofar sounding and the smoke, fire, thunders, lightnings, and shakings was a terribly frightening experience for the childrenof Israel. Although the shofar was a call for the people to assemble, it was also a warning not to come up the mountain or even touch its base. They could only come near the mountain and not up the mountain lest they be killed. Only Moses was allowed to goall the way up the mountain to meet with God “face to face” (actually face to backside). This experience at Mt. Sinai was the first time humans have heard the trumpet call of God, but it will not be the last. In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul lists three last things – the last enemy to be defeated (death), the last Adam (Jesus), and the last trump (trumpet). The first trumpet of God,as recorded in Exodus 19, was for the purpose of assembling God’s people to establish His Law, which Paul called a ministry of death (2 Corinthians 3:7-9). The last trumpet of God, as described by 1 Corinthians 15:52, is for the purpose of calling Jesus’ peopleto Himself by way of resurrection and translation. This calling by the last trumpet of God is a ministry of life. “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). This contrast is made in Hebrews 12:18-24: “For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,and the sound of a trumpet (shofar) and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: ‘And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stonedor shot with an arrow.’ And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, ‘I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.’) “But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of thefirstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men (Old Testament saints) made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” People throughout the ages have wondered why this trumpet of God at the Rapture is called the last trumpet. Many post-tribulation adherents justify their views because theythink this last trumpet of 1st Corinthians 15:52 is the same trumpet blown by an angel in Revelation 11:15 at the 7th trumpet judgment during the Tribulation period. This is wrong on many levels. In Revelation, the trumpet is blown by an angel and not God/Jesus.The Rapture will precede the Tribulation by at least 7 years. Will there be other trumpets of God that are sounded after the Rapture? Yes, there will be more trumpets that are blown by God, such as in Isaiah 27:13, Zechariah 9:14, and Matthew 24:31. So why is this particular one in 1 Corinthians called the last trump? The last trump doesn’t necessarily mean it is the last trumpet to ever sound by God. It could be the last trump blast of a series of blasts, maybe two or more. Also, therecould be two trumpets that are used, and the second one that is blown could be the last trumpet. Remember in Numbers 10, God commanded Moses to make two silver trumpets, and when they were both blown, the congregation was to assemble at the entrance of the tabernacle(worship center). This could be a typology of the trumpet call of God at the Rapture. Numbers 10:4 doesn’t specify that both trumpets were blown simultaneously. Perhaps they had different sounds and were blown separately, one after the other. When the secondor last trumpet of God sounds, the congregation of Christian saints will gather at the entrance (in the air) of their new worship center (the New Jerusalem). However, I believe the main reason the Rapture trump is called the last trumpet is because it occurs on the last day (as mentioned in the book of John) of the Church. TheChurch began on the day of Pentecost and will end on the day of the Rapture. It will be the last day for Christians on the earth in our earthly bodies and the last day for Christians in heaven without a body. It will be such a magnificent and joyous eventthat even Jesus and the archangel will give a great shout of victory. The “last day” (not last days) is mentioned 7 times in the New Testament, all of them in John. Many scholars believe John is referring to the Rapture (in most of these verses)and not Jesus’ 2nd Coming. John wrote the book of Revelation in 95 AD and later wrote his Gospel titled John. The last books of the Bible to be written were 2 John and 3 John between 96 and 98 AD. John was familiar with the teachings of Paul and his writingsand letters, such as 1 Corinthians, which was written in 56 AD, so he would have also been familiar with the concept of the Rapture. John’s audience was not limited to one nation or people (Israel and the Jews); rather, he presents Jesus as the Christ andLord over all nations and peoples. Here are the 7 references to the last day (rapture): 1.John 6:39 – This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 2.John 6:40 – And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raisehim up at the last day. 3.John 6:44 – No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 4.John 6:54 – Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 5.John 7:37 – On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. (Note:this verse is not about the last day of the Rapture but is referring to the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus is talking about the giving of the Holy Spirit, which comes approximately 220 days later on Pentecost.) 6.John 11:24 – Martha said to Him, “I know that he [Lazarus] will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” (Note: Martha was probably referringto the last day before the Millennium Reign of Jesus when the Old Testament saints will be resurrected. However, I believe Lazarus lived long enough to receive the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and he will be one of the saints that will be resurrected at the Rapture.) 7.John 12:48 – He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him – the word that I have spoken will judge him in the lastday. (Note: A non-believer will be judged for their lack of faith and will not be raptured into heaven. Instead, they will have to endure the hardships of the New World Order and the Tribulation.) So, I know what you’re wondering. Is the last trumpet of God, at the Rapture, a shofar or an actual trumpet? I don’t know for sure, but I have my opinion and the reasons for it. If you ask a Gentile Christian, he/she would probably say a trumpet. If you ask a Messianic Jew, he/shewould probably say a shofar. The New Testament was written in Greek. The word for the air horn used in 1 Corinthians 15:52 is ‘salpingi,’ which is described as a trumpet and not a shofar. It is also a feminine noun, which is a good reason for it to be a trumpet.I suppose it doesn’t really matter. What really matters is that you hear it and assemble with the group. The last day for Christians at the Rapture is not the last day for the rest of the non-believing world. The remaining population of the world will have to experience thehorrors of the 7-year Tribulation before the 2nd Coming of Jesus to the earth. Here is how the Old Testament Zechariah describes His return. “Then the Lord will be seen over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord God will blow the shofarand go with whirlwinds from the south. The Lord their God will save them in that day, as the flock of His people” (Zechariah 9:14-16). Once again, God’s shofar will sound; only this time, it will be a call to war. Zechariah tells us who wins the war in Zechariah14:9. “And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be – The Lord is one, and His name one.” The Jews have always required a ‘sign’ (supernatural) before they would acknowledge God. Jesus declared this fact in John 4:48, and Paul did likewise in 1 Corinthians 1:22.The Jewish people asked Jesus twice to show them a sign so they could believe in him, once in John 2:18 and again in John 6:30. I don’t know what kind of a sign they were looking for because Jesus performed many miracles during his earthly ministry. John recorded7 (perfect and complete) signs in his Gospel that proved Jesus’ deity. They are called (anonymously, as far as I know) THE SIGN. Here they are: T – turning water into wine (John 2:1-11) H – healing the official’s son in Capernaum (John 4:46-54) E – elevating the lame man at the Pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-19) S – supper for 5,000 near the Sea of Galilee (John 6:5-14) I – interim on the sea (walking on water – Sea of Galilee (John 6:16-21) G – giving sight to the blind man in Jerusalem (John 9:1-7) N – notification of Lazarus to “come forth” from the grave… perhaps Jesus’ greatest miracle (John 11:1-45) After all the miracles and signs Jesus accomplished (and His own resurrection), the majority of the Jewish people still did not believe He was their long-awaited Messiah.Even to this day, they are still awaiting the Messiah’s arrival. Before Jacob’s trouble begins, Jesus will oblige them with one last great sign – the Rapture of the Church. The Rapture is the supernatural sign that the Messiah (Jesus) is coming (again) to establish His Millennium Kingdom and to fulfill all the prophecies written about Him andthe Kingdom of God. Let’s hope and pray the Jews recognize this sign and finally accept Him as their Messiah and call for His return. “I will go away and return to My place until they (Jews) acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction theywill earnestly seek Me” (Hosea 5:15). “Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near” (Luke 21:28). While you are looking up, you might also want tolisten for the sound of a trumpet. Randy Nettles nettlesr@suddenlink.net VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

On Prophecy: Volume I

On Prophecy: Volume I – Pete Garcia - https://www.rev310.net/post/on-prophecy-volume-i “Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions, and its own peculiar preconceptions.” Carl von Clausewitz It was in the early 1990s that the concepts of Military Revolution and a Revolution in Military Affairs were brought back into the forefront of discussion amongst militarytheorists. These two concepts are, fluid and difficult to define accurately at times because they attempt to codify the ever-changing character of warfare. Whatever their ideological shortcomings, these two, however, serve a point to be a finer point in distinguishingthe unchanging nature of war (why we fight), and its ever-changing character of war (how we fight). Between the two, the Military Revolution (MR) concept pointed toward the rapid change(s) in the way wars were fought (advancing technology plus changes in tactics and doctrine).These rapid changes often occurred with devastating results until the battlefield could be equalized when the enemy adapted either similar weapons or tactics. In terms of geopolitics, MR was/is applied at the swiftness with which drastic political changesoccurred, such as the large-scale departure from monarchial empires in the 19th century, to the communist and Islamic revolutions of the 20th. A Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) on the other hand, often speaks to a more subtle, but still significant, paradigm shift, in how wars are fought. This is usually thesecond and third-order effects brought about by developments in certain technologies that expand the depth and scope of battlefield capabilities. These changes usually go on to fundamentally change the character of warfare (e.g., reorganizing an Army, airpowerto space power, etc.). As the old saying goes, you ride a military revolution; you guide a revolution in military affairs. Along those lines of addressing change (whether suddenly or subtly), the United States Department of Defense (DOD), along with her varied sister intelligence agencies, havelong prided themselves in planning for virtually every contingency, in every domain, known to man. These domains include the traditional ones of land, sea, and air, as well as newer (or revisited) domains of cyber, subterranean, urban, and space. The rapid,20th-century advancements in technology, have also extended into the weaponization of non-corporeal aspects of our existence as well. This includes weaponizing information (propaganda, deep fakes, and disinformation campaigns), global surveillance, as wellas encrypting communication, and digitizing currency. This last part brings us close to the subject at hand. Intangibles Despite the DOD’s expansive appetite for spreading Pax Americana around the world, there is one domain that has seemingly remained elusive to our modern US Government. Infact, it has become one of, if not, the largest blind spot our national defense has, and it is in regards to religion. This is not to say the Department of Defense refuses to acknowledge its existence. Rather, it simply ignores the obvious, and looks for ulterior,and often, more inconvenient motivations for why people and groups do what they do. Religious ideology has simply become too politically charged an issue these days to address objectively, even by a supposed unbiased and impartial government. Even afterbeing mired down in an unwinnable and global “war on terror” for the past twenty years, our government has refused to call Islam what it truly is- an ideological time bomb set to erupt any time our true adversary chooses to pull the trigger. It promotes violenceas a means to an end and is filled with an army of non-uniformed, stateless soldiers absolutely committed to our absolute destruction (i.e., Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, etc.). Even after 9/11, Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom, the US government (depending on the administration) is more often than not, loathe to actually call these wars againsta radicalized ideology. Instead, they often attempt to placate it by calling it a “religion of peace,” and then blame any radicalization by its adherents, victims of westernization, free-market capitalism, YouTube videos, or any other contrived (or real) socialinjustice. This, even after its warriors themselves, claim to be fighting for Islamic domination. The truth is, religious ideologies, are almost always, the sine qua non (for out which, there is not) causation for why people groups do what they do. Even so-called non-religiousbelief systems, such as Atheism, end up becoming systems of faith. These almost always end up in some form of militancy, demanding their views become the accepted and dominant views in their cities, nations, or regions. Atheism, for example, was the ideologicalfoundation upon which Marxism (later Fascism and Communism) was founded upon. Its primary tenet replaced God with government, and those governments, almost without fail, handed over that godlike power to an individual who ended up ruling as a tyrannical despot(Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.) In the wake of its red tide, hundreds of millions lay dead. Godless regimes were not alone in these power-hungry endeavors, organized religion also shares some of the burdens. Roman Catholicism, at the height of the Dark - MiddleAges, attempted to superficially impose its version of the kingdom of God over the nations it held in its sway. Tens of millions of Christians, Jews, Arabs, and non-converts were tortured and killed in the unbiblical Crusades and Inquisitions. Similarly, Islam attempted its many caliphates over the centuries (e.g., Rashidun, Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Ottoman empires). These empires were built by violentlyconverting former Christian and pagan nations (e.g., Syria, Turkey, Bosnia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.) into Muslim nations under the pain of death. For them then (and even now), the non-Muslim world was divided into three sections- the dar al-Islam (houseof Islam), the dar al-harb (house of war), and the dar al-sulh (house of treaty). Those nations who were not already Islamized (house of Islam), were either in the house of war (where Islamists waged war against), or the house of treaty (where non-convertshad to protect and pay tribute to Islamists). Again, none of this is a secret to anyone, but nobody wants to address it not only as a present issue but the issue. Instead, they dismiss the deaths of hundreds of millions of Jews, Christians, and pagans as anantiquated historical footnote. The in-depth discussion of the aforementioned belief systems, exceed the scope and intent of this brief, so their mentions will only be in relation to the primary subject-Bible Prophecy. However, there are three reasons why religious ideologies (especially Biblical Christianity) have become elusive no-go zones for western governments, and those will only be discussed here summarily. Those reasons are political correctness,hermeneutical confusion, and secular humanism. Political correctness (i.e., Cultural Marxism) and human secularism (atheism, agnosticism, nihilism, etc.) have been mainstays in western governments since at least the1950s. Paradoxically, the rise of these largely atheistic philosophies began to occur at the same time we were engaged in a bitter Cold War against an atheist superpower. These two (political correctness and human secularism) have been increasingly effectivetools in silencing any objective discussion on the subjects of the supremacy of Jesus Christ’s divine claims as the King of kings, and Lord of Lords, and to the Holy Bible. It has been so effective in fact, one would be hard-pressed these days to find anyofficial military and/or government literature concerning the strategic geopolitical implications discussed in Bible prophecy. It is almost as if, from a military perspective, Bible prophecy is a non-factor. The insurgence of hermeneutical confusion (hermeneutics being how one interprets the Bible) on the other hand, has been a particularly insidious one. First creeping intoseminaries of the late 1800s, religious liberalism has taken many forms, but its chief objective has only ever been to undermine biblical doctrines like inerrancy and eschatology. Academically, this confusion came in the name of higher (meaning and authority)and lower criticism (the physical documents themself). Whereas human secularism and political correctness almost always attack Christianity from without, religious liberalism has been the enemy in the gates since day one. The intent of this article then is to discuss the five major geopolitical events clearly outlined in the Bible. Whether the “top brass” at the Pentagon finds these topicsrelevant or not is irrelevant; these events are destined to happen. When they do, they will have massive, military/ economic/ political ramifications not just to the United States, but to the global order as well. Each of these topics will be arranged intothe five distinctive categories- what, who, when, where, and why. These events will be discussed purely in a strategic and logistical manner: 1. The Rapture of the Church 2. The War of Gog-Magog 3. The Four Horsemen (Seal Judgments 1-4) 4. The Kings of the East 5. The Armageddon Campaign VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

God Comes from Edom?

God Comes from Edom? – Bill Perkins – www.compass.org Buried in the short book of Habakkuk is a most interesting prophecy. God comes from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount Paran. His splendor covers the heavens, and the earth is full of His praise. Hab.3:3 This prophecy continues with references to the Messiah’s (2nd) Coming just after all the earth’s mountains collapse—a clear reference to the Day of the Lord, the 70th Weekof Daniel, the Time of Jacob's Trouble, the 7 years of Tribulation. What’s fascinating is the reference to God coming from “Teman.” Teman was the capital of Edom, which is today in the southwest part of Jordan. "Seir" refers to a mountainousarea in southwest Edom. What’s that about? Why is God coming from Edom? The next line in the verse has the “Holy One” from Mount Paran, a reference to the place where God moved to from Mt. Sinai and the Israelites could see His glory from adistance. He said, “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran,… Deut. 33:2 So Habakkuk recorded a God-inspired vision of the last days regarding the Lord arriving after the Tribulation to defeat Satan and set up His kingdom for 1000 years of peace—whatwe call the Millennial Reign of Christ. But why is the Lord coming from Edom and the mountains of Seir? What’s that all about? Isaiah sheds a little light on this: Who is this who comes from Edom, with garments of glowing colors from Bozrah, this One who is majestic in His apparel, marching in the greatness of His strength?… Is. 63:1a Isaiah, like Habakkuk, says at the end of the Tribulation God comes from Edom—but more specifically from “Bozrah.” The last clue we’re given is the meaning of the word “Teman” in Habakkuk 3:3: It means “South, as being on the right hand of a person facing east.” So if you face Edom from Israel looking east, on the right side or south of Edom is Bozrah and the mountains of Seir. And guess what is located in the middle of those mountains—theempty city today known as Petra, Jordan. Petra, of course, means “rock” and is located in the rugged mountains southeast of the Dead Sea and near Israel’s eastern border. Petra was the capital city of the Nabateans. This nation seems to have come out of thin air, living for a couple hundred years around the time of Christ on the earth. Then,just as mysteriously, they disappear with no trace of what happened or where they went. The Nabateans were known for their carvings into sandstone. The area where Petra was/is located is full of sandstone mountains. They would artistically begin carving straightinto the soft rock in the high sandstone walls. Today you can see houses that had several rooms carved deep into the sandstone walls. They even carved graves, tombs, water channels and mangers into these walls. After carving all this for 200+ years, it left the area today dotted with thousands of caves. It’s been estimated that when fully excavated, the city could hold up to 5million people. So let’s tie all this together… Matthew 24 and Mark 13 describe an event at the middle of the 7 years of Tribulation when the Jews must flee for their lives. They are warned that when they see the “abomination of desolation” standing in their Temple, that’s the sign to run or be killed. Apparently, based on Zech. 13:8-9, two-thirds of the Jews will be killed on that terrible day as they flee the city from the hand of the Antichrist. But one-third do make it out of Jerusalem alive and flee to the “mountains” where they will spend 3 1/2 years protected from the Antichrist. Much like God provided water and food to the Israelites who wandered in the desert for 40 years after the Egyptian Exodus, God will similarly provide for the surviving Jewswho heeded Biblical warnings to flee when they saw the Abomination of Desolation. Isaiah again fills in some details about the area to which they fled: Enter the rock and hide in the dust… Is. 2:10 Men will go into caves of the rocks and into holes of the ground… Is. 2:19 In order to go into the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs… Is. 2:21 This further confirms that the holes, caves and large caverns that we see today in Petra are where the Jews end up living for the last 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation, protectedand provided for by God. It’s during this time when they have come with nothing but the clothes on their backs, that they lose their pride, repent, and begin understanding their Biblical roots. At the end of the Tribulation, the Antichrist brings the armies of the world to GATHER in the Valley of Armageddon in order to march against the Jews in Petra, to wipe outthe rest of Israel. It's the last act of a desperate Satanic force. With the armies of the world marching south from Jerusalem, the coming doom is easily seen by the Jews high in the mountains of Petra. So Israel cries out to their Lordlike never before. It’s at that time that the Lord returns to the Jews and reveals Himself. “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced;and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.” Zech. 12:10 It will be both a sad and joyful day for the Jews holed up in Petra. They will be absolutely brokenhearted to learn that Jesus came as their Messiah and they crucified Him. But it will be joyous as Jesus then goes from Petra/Bozrah/Edom to wipe out the oncoming armies of Satan with the breath of His mouth (2Thes.2:8). Therefore, Habakkuk is basically saying that just as God came down to His people at Sinai to establish His covenant with them, He will also come to liberate His people andreaffirm His covenant with them by coming from Edom to destroy Satan's armies! VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

I Never Thought I Would See the Day, Part 7

I Never Thought I Would See the Day, Part 7 - By Jan Markell- https://www.raptureready.com/2021/05/21/i-never-thought-i-would-see-the-day-part-7-by-jan-markell/ It just doesn’t stop. Today, up is down, black is white, and evil is good. Thus, I can’t keep up with the astounding stories I read daily, and my conclusion is always—Inever thought I would see the day! So, I’ll keep writing just to keep my sanity. I hope I can help you keep yours as well! I never thought I would see the day when: •A Presidential administration would undermine our allies and fund our enemies. •Transgender illegal immigrants would be prioritized over the non-transgendered. •Non-vaccinated soldiers would be considered “non-deployable.” •Many good people (Christians and conservatives) would be kicked off of Twitter, but a Hamas leader is allowed to celebrate the bombing of Tel Avivon Twitter. •The National Day of Prayer would be compromised in 2021, not allowed at the US Capitol, and God’s Name avoided by the US President. •Many Christians, and even pastors, are in complete denial that the whole Covid–19 ordeal could easily usher in the Beast system as it is excellentconditioning of the people/sheeple. •The popular term “my body, my choice” would NOT apply to the people who choose to deny the Covid vaccines. •Conservatives and Christians in America and Canada would be assigned to second-class status just like the Jews in Germany. •We would allow China’s social credit system known as ESG to invade North America. •Almost everyone on the American Left would fall for the biggest scam in the history of the world – the so-called Green New Deal, that if implemented,would bankrupt the world. •The American Left would be more concerned about “white supremacists” (conservatives and Trump supporters) than Antifa or Black Lives Matter. •Men would actually be allowed to transfer to women’s prisons, even though some may be dangerous sex offenders. I thought I understood delusion, butthis is the essence of that. •Wokism would enter the church even though too many of them are sound asleep! How is such a contradiction possible? It must be the end-times! •A new book called “Prayer of a Weary Black Woman” has the author asking God to help her hate white people. I thought we were now in a woke generationof tolerance and diversity! •A Canadian dad would be sentenced to jail for trying to protect his daughter from a transgender medical procedure. •Government spending and debt in America would get so out-of-control that every US citizen would have to pay $800,000 to pay it off! •Only 6% of Christians now hold to a biblical worldview according to Barna, while 88% of Christians borrow from contradictory worldviews for theirbeliefs. •That’s enough for this installment. I have to process each bullet point, and my brain hurts thinking about each one. In my lifetime, how are all of these items possible? It is a privilege and a challenge to be born for such a time as this. Many days I wouldn’t trade it for any other generation.On other days, I would like to go back to the days of my family members who fled Russia in simpler times. But, they wouldn’t call the pogroms simple. Yet, we may be a privileged generation as we are seeing so many foretold events playing out before our very eyes! Israel back in the land; the convergence of the signs;the predicted perilous times and the anticipated lawlessness. So, nothing should catch us by surprise! And if the Rapture of the Church is today, that shouldn’t surprise us either! Are you ready? Spiritually ready. Call on the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ today (Romans 10:13). VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

Antichrist a Reincarnation?

Antichrist a Reincarnation? - By Terry James - https://www.raptureready.com/2021/05/26/antichrist-a-reincarnation-by-terry-james/ My just-released novel, MICHAEL: Last-Days Lightning, which all too briefly, but nonetheless,thankfully, went to number one in Christian fiction on Amazon, has sparked the beginning of a follow-up novel. I’ve tentatively given the next novel the title MESSIAH: The Prince That Shall Come. The story will build on the protagonist’s experiencing Bible prophecy fulfillment while in a state of having dreams and visions as the result of a serpent bite he receivedwhile he was on the Island of Patmos. MESSIAH will deal with Antichrist coming to power as the world’s greatest deceiver. This understanding is based upon Jesus’ words: I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. (John 5:43) Lord willing, the novel will be the third of the books that began with REVELATIONS: The Rapture Generation, in which Tyce Grayson received that snake bite. The purpose of mentioning all of that—along with, of course, admittedly hoping to promote the novels—is that while researching for writing the third novel, I cogitated onsome things about the Antichrist I’ve often wondered about over the years. One of the primary things that has piqued my thinking—and imagination—is that there are two people in God’s Word who are given the title “son of perdition.” British theologian Arthur W. Pink (1886–1952) more or less framed the idea that provided impetus for my thinking. As we have seen, in John 17:12 Christ termed Judas “the Son of Perdition,” and 2 Thess.2:3 we find that the Antichrist is similarly designated—“That Man of Sin be revealed,the Son of Perdition.” These are the only two places in all the Bible where his name occurs, and the fact that Judas was termed by Christ not a “son of perdition,” but “the Son of Perdition,” and the fact that the Man of Sin is so named prove that they areone and the same person. What other conclusion can a simple and unprejudiced reader of the Bible come to? (from The Antichrist, by A. W. Pink, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/p/pink/antichrist/cache/antichrist.pdf) Pink went on to write that he believed Antichrist, the son of perdition, will be a reincarnated individual. There isn’t sufficient space in this commentary to totally explainhis thinking, but I recommend that you read at the link given above if you’re interested in why he believed this. I can’t fully embrace this notion because of my bias against the belief in reincarnation by those held by Hindus in India and other places, and the fact that God’s Wordsays it is appointed unto man once to die, then comes the judgment. That steels the notion against reincarnation in my mind, but leaves open the possibility for a return from the dead in the case of this one man—Judas Iscariot, who was apparentlylost from the beginning, according to Jesus Himself in His prayer as recorded by John: While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripturemight be fulfilled. (John 17: 12) I, nor anyone, can fully explain to my satisfaction why Judas went to “his own place” upon death, or why he was apparently instructed by Jesus to do what he was supposedto do at the Last Supper—i.e., go betray the Lord to the Judaizers and the Romans. We see these strange things in the following verses: And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. (John 13: 27) After Judas committed suicide, the disciples sought to replace him as the twelfth member of their group with one of two other men. They wanted the now resurrected and ascendedJesus to tell them what to do. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen, That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship,from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place. (Acts 1:24–25) We come then back to Arthur Pink’s statement that both Judas Iscariot and the one who will be Antichrist are called not “a” son of perdition, but “the” son of perdition.These are the only two who are so-designated as this evil individual. Pink goes on, in depth, to point out that Judas was called by Jesus “devil.” Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being oneof the twelve. (John 6: 70–71) This, Pink believed, meant that Judas was so possessed by a supernatural evil spirit–by Satan himself—that he was lost without chance of redemption. This certainly seemsto be the case, considering the total context of what we know about Judas Iscariot and about salvation as given in God’s Word. The key word in the matter seems to me to be the word “men.” Was Judas a “man” at the time of his accepting the sop given by Jesus,? Or was he something other? We look again at the Scripture verse about death and judgment: And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9: 27) Yet Judas Iscariot died, by his own hand, and went to “his own place.” Still, he is “the son of perdition”—same as Antichrist’s designation. Not “a” son of perdition, but “the” son of perdition. Further, Pink writes the following. It is hardly necessary to say that in the Greek there are two different words for “Devil” and “demon.” There are many demons, but only one Devil. Further, in no other passageis the word “devil” applied to any one but to Satan himself. Judas then was the Devil incarnate, just as the Lord Jesus was God incarnate. Christ Himself said so, [as recorded in John 6:70–71] and we dare not doubt His word. (Ibid.) Pink then refers to the following Scripture to round out his thinking on the matter of Judas Iscariot being one and the same as the future Antichrist—a reincarnation, ofsorts. The Beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the Bottomless Pit, and go into perdition. (Revelation 17:8) He points out that most expositors of his time held that Revelation 17:11 referred to the final form of Rome as the last world empire over which Antichrist will rule. Buthis implication was that they denied that an actual being will come from the bottomless pit as that Antichrist character (verse 8). Pink maintains that it is Judas Iscariot in a reincarnation. But it is a supernatural man, indwelt by an evil spirit like noother. He writes: In Matt.12:43 the Antichrist is called “The Unclean Spirit,” not merely an unclean spirit, but “the Unclean Spirit.”… [In] the writer’s mind there is no doubt whatever that none other than the Beast is here in view. If this be the case, then we have further evidence that the coming Onewill be no mere man indwelt by Satan, but a fallen angel, an evil spirit, the incarnation of the Devil. (Ibid.) I’m not at all sure about the term reincarnation in this case. There certainly is something profound connecting Judas Iscariot and the one who will be Antichrist, however.This “beast” will be wounded as unto death, then supposedly brought back to life at the midpoint of the Tribulation—another strange element to consider. My own thinking revolves around the prophecy that foretells the first and second beasts of Revelation being thrown directly in the lake of fire. They apparently get no timeof judgment before the Great White Throne as do men of the human sort. These are apparently already judged. This, to me, means they might not be or any longer have human, redeemable traits, so are summarily cast into that final place of the damned. Nephilim?I don’t know, but it’s interesting to contemplate. Bottom line is that if you don’t know Jesus Christ for salvation of your soul, you will end up in the place where these two beings, the Antichrist and the False Prophet,will spend all of eternity. Here’s how to avoid their fate as well as the fate of Satan, who will be the third being thrown into that place of eternal punishment. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heartman believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. (Romans 10:9–10) VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

America’s Coming Judgment and Destruction

America’s Coming Judgment and Destruction - by Pastor Mike Taylor- https://pastormiketaylor.blogspot.com/2021/05/americas-coming-judgment-and-destruction.html “ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be aswool. 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: 1:20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.” (Isaiah1:18-20) I have been re-reading a very interesting, although controversial book by Rabbi Jonathan Cahn by the title “Mysteries of the Shemitah”. It is an expansion on his first bookthat I also read, the “Harbinger”. In the first book of the “Harbinger” Jonathan Cahn analyzes the parallels of what happened to Israel and the “harbingers” of impending national collapse and what is happening right now in America. The parallels are uncannyand can only be said beyond coincidence. Oh, there are many critics of the first book, as there are critics of this book I’ve been reading, but let us explore what Rabbi Cahn is trying to convey to all who will listen with the spiritual mind, instead of justdismissing without discernment. So what is this “Mystery of the Shemitah” and what does it mean? For the Israelite, it was given by God to use the land for 6 years, but each 7th year, the land was to layfallow, or resting and anything that grew of its own was for whomever wished to gather it. That included the poor, the widow, or the average man on the street. The products were for everyone. We know by reading our Bibles that Israel was sent into exile fornot following God’s command and disobeyed the law of God for 70 consecutive Sabbath years, or for a total of 490 years and were warned by Jeremiah and other prophets that judgment was coming. But Israel rebuffed their words that came from God and persecuted and even killed the prophets for their warning, until God sent them into exile for 70 years. Now the criticsemphasize that this covenant was for the nation of Israel and not for anyone else. So they scoff at the idea that God could use the same test for any other nation. But are they right? Let me state a few obvious things here: -Is our God the same yesterday, today and forever? Of course, He is. -Does God use the Old and the New Testament as learning tools for us today on how he deals with individuals and even nations who obey Him and those who disobey? Yes, Hedoes. -If God dealt harshly with Israel, a nation that He was the center of their culture and they wandered away from His laws and commandments for living, then will He deal harshlywith any other nation that does the same? Maybe, since God has not changed. -Are the Ten Commandments still in force today of how any individual is to live their life and if they are, what other commandments are still in force? 5:18 “ For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shalldo and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”(Matthew 5:18-19) -Finally, what were the Sabbath rest for the land designed for in the first place? Let us consider what the last question, as the first four are obvious to the follower of Jesus Christ, even though most theologians can’t grasp their eternal meaning. Butwhat was the Year of the Shemitah, or a Sabbath rest for the land designed for? It was designed to let mankind know that their substance, their living, and their very breath came from God. These were major economic laws given by God, designed to prevent undue wealth acquired through acquisition of farm land from accumulating in the hands of the rich whilethe poor become further impoverished. God repeatedly emphasizes that people are not to oppress one another (Leviticus 25:14, 17). Deuteronomy 15 says that following these economic laws would bring God's blessing (verses 4, 6, 10). God wants people to learnto be generous and compassionate—to have a "give" attitude rather than one of "get." So every 50th year (the year after 7x7 sabbatical years), men were set free, debts were forgiven, and every man was equal in that they owed no one, but God. It was the yearof Jubilee. But greed and the pursuit of wealth and money clouds and interferes with giving thanks to God as men look to themselves to be their own god, and they don’t need God Almighty.The nation of America has been blessed, and we have used the economic theory of Capitalism, and it has served us well, as men are in charge of their own destiny, and we don't reward sloven behavior in the past, but note that this has all changed, especiallyin the past 8 years of the “Obama, the usurper in chief” that turned our economy into a product of welfare and the social state. The above example instituted by God shows what it required even further by repentance of sinning against God and humbling yourself before Him and growing close to Him, insteadof growing further and further from following His way of life. That was the sin that Israel committed during those 490 years. The land rest was a symbol of national repentance and getting right with God. As Israel grew further and further from God and rejectedGod, they fell further and further into idolatry to even to burn their children in the fires of pagan gods. Finally, God had enough and banished them from their homeland for a national lesson in repentance and being humbled by force by an invading, foreign army of Babylon....Hence,we have gone the way of ancient Israel and have allowed our greed and pursuit of “stuff” to cloud our vision and ability to see to put God first in our economic dealings with other men. BUT ISRAEL IS NOT THE U.S.A? Israel was the only nation that was commanded to observe this year of the Shemitah and true we, the USA are NOT Israel, as many have pointed out, and never will be. We areNOT the New Israel or descendants of a scattered 10 lost tribes as some religions have so erroneously believed, BUT is there a lesson in something that is so prophetic in nature that can be applied to modern times we live in? Can this be used as a propheticsign from God Almighty to any nation either in blessings or in curses as God warned? Let me take a few points that jumped out at me when I re-read Rabbi Cahn’s book and I wish to address them here and I'm paraphrasing in my own words. Such a prophetic signcould be given to any nation that in any way, matches the description and the attributes of ancient Israel. Those attributes would include the following: -Any nation that is in defiance of God’s ways or judgments would be a candidate. Course that could cover a lot of nations, no matter what their religious practices be, whetherMuslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or totally secular. But let’s narrow it down a bit. -A nation that has known God, but has rejected His ways and turned away from Him. That could apply to many “Western” nations that have had the label “Christian”, or is largely post-Christian.But let us narrow it down even further. -A nation that its foundation was laid upon the precepts of Almighty God found in the Ten Commandments and their laws were governed by His Word for the sole purpose of Hisglory and His attributes and to establish a nation “Under God”. Now that narrows it down a whole lot. There are only TWO nations that have built their society, their government, their laws upon God’s law. That would be Israel, and the United States of America!!If you can think of another, because I can't. Our forefathers came to this land and envisioned a new government built upon the precepts of Almighty God when it was a fledgling colony in Massachusetts and from there,through the War of Independence and our founding documents beginning with the Declaration of Independence and then our Constitution, God and His Word was the mold that shaped our new nation, under God. President Ronald Reagan spoke of that very important fact, who is but one of the leaders of our country, down through our history that recognized the importance of God inour society. He said “ If we ever forget that we are a nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under”.( AMEN.) For the last 200 years, God has blessed this nation beyond any nation in all of history and the wealth of this nation has surpassed all nations upon this earth, past andpresent. But times have changed in the last 50 years (and as noted especially the past Democrat rule of 8 years), as our slide into idolatry has grown more pronounced and more anti-God in our schools, our universities, our halls of government, and in our verylives. ( Even to the point that was said in Congress, that God's will has no bearing on this Congress.....Congressman Jerry Nadler).God has been legislated out of the very foundation of our republic and “progressively” (I use that term tongue in cheek) Godhas been told that He is not welcome. We don’t need God, we can handle ourselves. Oh, really and how has that been working out for you in the years of this nations last dictator in chief who thought he was above the law. (thank God he is gone..or is he?) AsObama may be back coaching this mentally challenged individual that was installed as POTUS, not elected, but installed. HAS GOD REMOVED HIS HAND FROM AMERICA? Let us think for a moment, what would it look like in a society that has kicked God out of our everyday affairs. Since the beginning of our founding, God has had His handon this nation and blessed us in business, in resources, in national security, militarily in our wars with victory, and every aspect that makes up the USA. No question of that, as the history books speak of how this nation became a lone superpower, and notby its own might, but by the very Hand of God. Why was that? Because we honored Him, we prayed to Him, and we looked to Him for guidance in the majority of the population. What would happen if God removed that protective hand and removed the protective hedgethat He has placed around us? As Jonathan Cahn wrote in his book: “What if God released “His grip” on the United States and He pulled away His protection from that nation, even for a moment? What if He allowed a nation so deafened andhardened itself to His calling voice, would now allow it to be “shaken”? IMAGINE HOW GOD MIGHT GET THAT NATIONS ATTENTION To a nation that has driven the God it once had known out of its life (as this nation has), rejected His ways, defied His will, and hardened itself to His call, a Shemitahwould be the opposite of blessing, it would be judgment. In Leviticus chapter 26, God gives blessings for following after God, but He also gives curses if they do not: 26:14 “But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 26:16 I also will do this unto you;…….”(Leviticus 26:14-16) God listed all the curses He would level at Israel in the next few verses, and as a warning, an example to us, (as the Bible was written down for the last days for us, readthe curses for yourselves), as He said that He will utterly destroy that nation who does not fear or respect Him. But God is a merciful God, and before He passes judgment, He gives us warnings. Folks, since the 1960s, God has been trying to get our attentionand in the leaders of this country and the elite, they have turned a blind eye and led the population down a torturous road bound for most certain destruction. It was shown that every 7 years of our modern time, since 1973, in a cycle of close to every 7 years, there has been an economic downturn that has affected the nations businessfound in the stock market on Wall Street and our financial structure. And the amazing thing, it all happened on the very year of remission of debts, and the freeing of obligations to another person, the year of the Shemitah. Each and every instance, Wall Streethas taken a hit, and in some years, a huge smack-down of losing near half of it’s worth. The cycle has been ominious in its destruction of a major portion of our national wealth and our GNP (Gross National Product), including prices for goods, and unemploymentwith major losses of jobs, due to businesses being forced to close due to this so called “pandemic”. These warnings have been growing louder and louder, as America has been isolated and protected on our shores through two World Wars and many foreign conflicts, as thoseconflicts never saw an attack on our soil, until…..you guessed it…September 11, 2001 (9/11). America’s security and feelings of invincibility were shattered on that day. What once was the symbol of our economic might and wealth, lay in rubble as so many bricksand mangled steel upon itself, as the Twin Towers fell to the earth. Would it concern you that this was the Year of the Shemitah? Yes, 2001 was a Sabbath Year rest and I believe, a call to repentance for national idolatry. On the following days, the stockmarket crashed, due to the shaking of the economy and the fall of the Twin Towers due to this terrorist attack. Not only has the cycle of economic instability happened every 7 years, but now God was letting evil come against even our infrastructure and leveledone of the tallest buildings on earth, as a warning. America was shaken and filled the churches of the land, but it lasted only a few weeks and we went back to sleep. We continued in unrepentance and ignored a physical warning, I believe was allowed by God. Next came 2008, and yet another Sabbath year. What happened then? We had another stock market crash that pretty well destroyed most of people’s retirement that were basedin the stock market. The stock market fell from over 14,000 points to a little more than 600 in days. It spelled an economic recession and the scrambling of the government to save businesses “too big to fail”. Since then we have printed money out of thin airand the stock market has soared again. We think all is well...is it? But if you think that, you lie to yourself and many people can feel something coming, a foreboding of doom. I watch in amazement as the stock market has soared to unprecedented heights thatgive the nation a false sense of security. I have just watched and waiting for the air to be let out of this bubble that is built on “funny money” and the total collapse of this nations economic might. We are well overdue for a correction in the stock market. WHAT MAY BE COMING? Understand, I make no predictions or set dates of when God will do anything, but the coincidences keep building and a person that has money in the stock market might befeeling a little trepidation, right about now. Why? One indicator of our economic condition is our energy sector. That major source of energy is oil. Now oil had been upwards of 100+ bucks a barrel, and I didn’t like it much, as gas has been expensive, butin the historical aspect of the price of oil that drops its price precipitously, (like a rock to the bottom of the lake fast), spells economic woes for a nation dependent on that energy source. Remember 2008, and 2001 as the price of oil did about the sameas a precursor to a stock market crash? Oil prices were pretty steady, but will it last? When our now “potus” Biden came into office, the first thing he did was shut down the Keystone Pipeline, that made us energy independent...now gas is starting to rise,as it did during Obama reign and will continue to rise. Now we all know, or should that the level of the stock market in 2021 is nothing but a bubble based on cheap money and interest rates. It’s a house of cards that could implode any moment and the stockmarket will make a drastic correction. Investors are making a sucker's bet that they can read the market. As in the past, it will catch them flat footed. First thing, these events have been extremely precise in 2001 and 2008 and for that matter, every stockmarket downturn has happened during the fall of the year, in what is called the month of Tishri, or the beginning day of the Feast of Trumpets, a Holy Day and month given to Israel. It’s all happened either in September or October during that month with theend of the Sabbath year, or the Shemitah on the Elul 29 or the end of the Jewish year and Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets being the first day of the new Jewish year calendar. Coincidence? We are now in the year 2021 and we see the stock market doing a zig-zag of up and down losses and increases since Biden taking office, much like the last crashes that happened.When will the correction begin? If it does come, then how deep will it slide? How long will God allow us to continue in our idolatry to the god of wealth and greed? If the falling of the World Trade Center was a physical warning, along with monetary lossesin the stock market, what could be a even more powerful warning? Since 1960s, America has been going down a slippery road and it became even more slippery, when we let the Supreme Court let stand a ruling called Roe V. Wade and the subsequentmurder of now 75 million babies, inside and outside the womb. What in the past we called evil, we now call good. What was abhorred in the past, we now celebrate. Homosexual marriage, or that lifestyle was an a abomination that was not spoke of in public circles,but now we have parades for “Gay Pride” in all parts of the this country. and what was considered abnormal is now an "alternative lifestyle" and is glorified. Both are evil in the eyes of God (Romans chp. 1) and His Word condemns both. We are being warned. 20 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! 24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because theyhave cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 5:20-24) As Jonathan Cahn testifies in his book, it is not about the land’s Sabbath rest per se, but a call to repentance, a time of humbling, and a time to understand that God isthe source of your very existence. As a nation, we must turn away from the path that we are on. God is a God of being unchangeable and what He has done in the past to any nation, so shall may He also do to ours. I breathed a heavy sigh of relief in the past, when a former first lady did NOT get into the White House, this previous election cycle, as her election would have giventhe elite of this world, their One World Government in a handbasket...with our past POTUS Trump, I believe we were given a short reprieve. Oh, it hasn't stopped our slide, just slowed it down. And note the total resistance from the Liberal left found in ourdereliction of duty we call the “Free Press” and the Political left of the “Communist/Socialist Democrat Party” that is not the party of JFK any longer, but they have sold their soul to the devil. Now any nation on earth is deserving of the wrath of God, andbelieve me, brother, it is coming as the Tribulation drum beats grow louder and louder, but even as Israel was scourged and disciplined most severely by Almighty God, so may the USA be scourged and disciplined just as severely. I believe the ONLY thing holding back the complete destruction of this nation, are God's people who hold onto His Word with both hands and will NOT stop praying for thisnation until they are removed from this planet in what is popularly called “the Rapture, or the HARPAZO” ...then all bets are off. If you should still be here, those who read this and have an ear to hear, you will see this nation fall with such a loud crash,it will make many commit suicide, much like they did in 1929 market crash and causing the Great Depression. WHY IS THIS SO FOR THE WESTERN NATION OF AMERICA? Why, you ask, would this be so? Because like Israel, the USA knows better. Of all lands upon the earth, we were the producers of missionaries, Bibles, and distributed theWord of God from one corner of the globe to the other. But now all we are famous for is pornography and lewd living. Our crime statistics are rampant. Race relations are to the point of a civil war between people of color in BLM and the white majority. Wemurder our unborn. The family, the foundation of a Christian society has been all but torn asunder and when the foundation goes, the nation goes as well. As Paul wrote and God warned us in 2nd Timothy: 3:1 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, de'spisers of those that are good, 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”(2nd Timothy 3:1-7) If that was ever a description of the majority of a population, this prophecy has been fulfilled in America. Judgment is coming, my friend, make no mistake about that. When will it happen and what will lead up to it? Only God knows, but from historical accounts, and what is happeningright now, I feel that like Rabbi Cahn, I am sounding a warning to all who will heed the trumpet call. It is time, no past time, to get right with God. What will happen in the end of 2021 and into the next year or two, only God knows. Will American collapse?Will her economy implode to where the ripple effect causes world-wide panic and other stock markets to also collapse? Will it usher in a “new world order” and be the trigger for a One World government? The puzzle of the end time events grows stronger and stronger. What could be coming? Could it be war in the Middle East, leading to a possible 3rd World War? We see Hamas and Israel in a “cease fire” for now...will it last? I don'tbelieve it will, but could lead to Psalm 83 and the Gog-Magog war of Ezekiel and total devastation of Israel's enemies. Could there be economic catastrophe to the USA homeland that puts the rest of the world into bankruptcy and chaos? Will the USA become athird world country that can’t afford to help Israel any longer when the Gog-Magog war prophecy is finally fulfilled? Will we be ripe for invasion from a foreign nation, much like Babylon invaded Israel and destroyed their nation and many lives? The symptomsof an end time prophecy coming to pass mount up to be unable to dismiss or ignore. I believe that what is being warned of, could possibly even happen this fall. Many prophetic teachers, pastors, and even laymen see something happening this fall...Why? Becausewe are at the end of a generation of the formation of Israel as a nation, (as we are in the 73rd year of the formation of Israel as a nation) and the fulfilling of the prophecy given by Jesus when He warned: 32 “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24:32-36) We are at the end of a generation that will see the coming of the Lord Jesus in the clouds of heaven, that Jesus called “no man knoweth the day or the hour” and is exactlywhat the feast of Trumpets is called. Is it a clue to the coming of our Lord, based on His Feast of Trumpets and the next in line for fulfillment, much as He fulfilled His Spring Feast for the “plan for mankind”? If Jesus comes this fall, and only God knows, then my friend, you will witness all “hell on earth” begin and grow more destructive in a crescendo wave of the annihilationof most of mankind. If what is suggested comes to pass, and friend, I use this in all humbleness, when literal “hell on earth” comes to roost in your own front yard, who will you call to? Willyou cry out to your congressman, your senator, or even the president of the USA? Will your government help you, your senator, or your congressman? No, my friend, nobody will come to your aid. When this scenario or any part of it does come to fruition, thenthere is only One that can help you. He is the Holy One of Israel, the Great I AM that I AM, God Almighty, through His Son, Jesus Christ. Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, theyshall be as wool. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:16-18) Romans 10:8-13 King James Version 8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Think not that you can weather the coming storm all by yourself. The Son of Man, Jesus Christ could be on the very cusp of His return. I make no prediction, but “No manknoweth the day or the hour” (Matthew 24:36) a term used for the ”Feast of Trumpets” the sign of the King…King Jesus. As He has warned us, we take Him seriously of all who call upon His name and will love His appearing. So come my Lord. We look up expectingour redemption as it draweth nigh. This is Pastor Mike Taylor, praying that God reveals Himself to you, through His Son, Jesus Christ. If you need prayer, counseling, or just a listening ear, email me atpastormiketaylor@yahoo.com, . Or visit me online for more biblical lessons in Christian living and prophecy commentaries. God bless you all, till we meet at Jesus feet…….soon. VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM

MIDEAST UPDATE: 5.29.21 - Iran and the Fourth Gaza War

Iran and the Fourth Gaza War - https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306698 Much has been written about the Fourth Gaza War, as I call it, but less about the Iranian role in it. In fact, Iran played a crucial role in instigating the war and the preparations for it by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei incited the Arab masses in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria in the weeks leading up to the war, calling upon Palestinian Arabsto “defend” the al-Aqsa mosque and denouncing Israel as a “terrorist base”. Iran upped its funding of Hamas during the war and is now paying $30 million per month to Hamas alone. Aside from the money, Iran is giving other forms of aid to Hamas aswe will see below. PIJ receives even more and not only in terms of money. The Iranian proxy receives weapons, training, money, and even food from the Quds Force of the Islamic RevolutionaryGuards Corps, said PIJ leader Ramez al-Halabi, one of the leaders of PIJ during an interview with al-Ahd TV in Iraq. PIJ leader Ziad al-Nakhala was similarly blunt when he told the Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV Channel the following: “all the conventional weapons reached Gaza via (assassinatedQuds Force commander) al-Hajj Qassem Soleimani. Hezbollah, Syria, and the entire resistance axis played a part in transporting them.” Iran tried to become directly involved in the latest war with the Palestinian Arab terror groups by again sending a drone full of explosives from Syria across the Jordanianborder with Israel last week. Just as some years ago, when Iran for the first time sent a drone into Israeli airspace, the latest UAV was downed by the Israeli army in the vicinity of the Israeli townof Beit Shean. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed that the downed drone was Iranian during his meeting with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas last week. Iran was more than instrumental when it comes to the build-up of the rocket and missile arsenals of Hamas and PIJ. It is true that today the Gazan terrorist organizationsare able to build their own projectiles. Even the Ayyash, Hamas’ medium-range missile with a range of 250 kilometers was built in Gaza, but Iranian assistance was crucial in this process. Hamas’ representative in Iran, Khaled Qaddoumi, told Al-Monitor that “The Islamic Republic of Iran has helped a lot in transferring knowledge and expertise on one side,and transporting rockets on the other.” He added that Iran helped Hamas to depend on its own local capabilities to produce such advanced technology. In September last year, Al-Jazeera aired a documentary showing footage taken in Gaza of Hamas terrorists reassembling Iranian rockets with ranges of up to 80 kilometers(50 miles) and warheads packed with 175 kilograms of explosives. Hamas and PIJ also used the Iranian-made Sejjil and Badr-3 missiles during the eleven-day war against Israel. The same counts for the Kornet anti-tank missile that Hamas used at least two times during the war resulting in the death of IDF Sgt. Omer Tabib. These missiles were smuggledinto Gaza after Iran shipped them to Sudan and from there they found their way to Gaza via the Sinai Peninsula. The second time Hamas used the Kornet, was on the last day of the war when it shot the missile at an IDF bus. The missile destroyed the rear of the bus but nobody was hurtexcept for one soldier who was hit by shrapnel but wasn't seriously wounded. The driver of the bus later said that a miracle had happened as he had let off about thirty IDF soldiers near the Gaza border a couple of minutes before the Kornet hit hisvehicle. The so-called ‘Metro,’ the underground tunnel complex that Hamas and PIJ built across the territory of Gaza, wouldn’t have materialized without the help of Iran and Hezbollahin Lebanon. Hamas’ and PIJ terrorists and engineers received training from Hezbollah and the Quds Force in both Lebanon and Syria and then returned to Gaza to use their new-found knowledgeto advance the tunnel project and the production of better missiles which had to have a longer range. The Iranians also assisted the Gazan terrorist organizations in developing attack drones. During the latest conflict with Israel, the so-called Kamikaze drones were useda couple of times but were downed by the IDF. Iran has a large drone program and just revealed it has a new type of attack drone by the name of ‘Gaza’. The UAV has a range of 2,000 kilometers. So, the bigger picture of this latest Gaza War is that Israel was not only fighting two Palestinian terror groups. The real battle here was against Iran that has vowed to destroy the Jewish state and is trying to achieve this in different ways. It is done by providing assistance to its proxies in Israel and by stirring up unrest among Palestinian Arabs living in Judea and Samaria as well as among Israeli Arabs.Social media was very instrumental in getting the Arabs in Israel to fight their Jewish neighbors In addition, Iran – via Hezbollah- has been caught trying to create new terror groups in Judea and Samaria as well in northern Israel. -------------------------------------------------------- 10 Takeaways from the Latest Conflict Between Israel and Hamas � Alex Traiman - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4746 Over this past weekend, Arabs were shooting fireworks in the sky, supposedly in celebration of holding Israeli population centers hostage for 11 days with more than 4,000rockets. Fireworks shooting upwards represented a dramatic improvement over the previous week, during which the celebratory projectiles were being shot horizontally at police within Israeli cities, and Hamas rockets and Israel missile defenses lit the nightskies. If sending Israelis in and out of bomb shelters for nearly two weeks is a victory for Palestinian factions, so be it. Israelis came out virtually unscathed. 1. Israel's military is among the world's best The star of the latest conflict was Israel's Iron Dome. While Hamas placed their military fortunes in unsophisticated rockets fired indiscriminately towards Israeli populationcenters, Israeli missile defense demonstrated just how deep the gap is between fighting units. Israel's Iron Dome system shot down nearly 90 percent of the rockets identified in real time as flying toward Jewish civilians. Meanwhile, Israel pounded Hamas infrastructure day after day, striking at 1,000-plus strategic targets with precision accuracy. Such strikes could not possibly have occurredwithout superior intelligence. Included in those targets were Hamas intelligence and operational centers, rocket caches, missile-launchers, drones, naval installations and a sophisticated underground tunnel network. Israel brilliantly manipulated Twitter and mainstream media to announce a ground invasion early on into the Gaza Strip to serve as a decoy to lure Hamas fighters into thetunnels. With terrorists inside, Israel destroyed the entire tunnel network before alerting the media that the announcement had been a mistake. The number of Palestinian civilian casualties at the hands of an Israeli military that struck those 1,000 targets was unmistakably and near-impossibly low for wartime conditions.Unlike previous operations in 2006 in Southern Lebanon and 2014 in Gaza, the 2021 operation was not highlighted by any lack of preparedness, military miscues, cross-border infiltrations, kidnappings or killing of Israeli soldiers. Despite what critics of Israel's government might state, the Israel Defense Forces did its job admirably. Malign actors across the region from Hezbollah in Southern Lebanonto Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran are sure to have taken notice. The military achievement is a continuation of ongoing successful Israeli airstrikes in Syria, as well as covert operations inside Iran. 2. Hamas suffered a military humiliation Well more than 4,000 rockets and 62 miles of tunnel networks that took years of development and cost hundreds of millions if not billions to construct killed a grand totalof 12 people in Israel before being utterly decimated. Furthermore, some 650 of the rockets fired at Israel landed inside the Gaza Strip. It is believed that at least 60 of the casualties inside Gaza were caused by Hamas rockets, including an entire family of eight. To put it into better perspective, Hamaskilled more Gazans with their rockets than they killed Israelis. Despite the celebratory fireworks, Hamas was completely humiliated. In terms of military strategy, Hamas is an unmitigated disaster. Israelis know it, as do Palestinians.It will take Gaza and its terror gang Hamas years to recover. 3. Gaza is not the most dangerous Palestinian battlefront While Israel did all it could to focus attention on Hamas inside Gaza, the southwestern Palestinian enclave is only one front in a larger battle against the Jewish state.Gaza is relatively easy to bombard from the air, while Gazans beyond a border fence cannot commit individual acts of terror inside Israel. In the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of the West Bank--known in Israel as Judea and Samaria--factions including Fatah and Hamas are jockeying for power, as agingkleptocrat Mahmoud Abbas continues to lose his grip on a fed-up Palestinian street. One tried-and-true method for gaining popularity among the Palestinian public has been launching terror campaigns against Israel. Within Israeli territory, more than a million Arabs hold Israeli identity cards. Many are registered voters. Yet with the exception of a few mixed cities, most live in segregatedenclaves, as is the situation in Jerusalem. Rioting and lynching attempts in cities such as Lod, Bat Yam, Jaffa, Ramle, Akko, Haifa, Tiberias and Jerusalem leading up to and during the Gaza conflict demonstrate thatinternal hostilities remain a risk. Though incidents have not reached top headlines, there has been an increase in attacks, including a recent drive-by shooting that killed one and seriously wounded two otherIsraelis two weeks ago in Samaria. Two Israelis were stabbed during a terror attack at a Jerusalem light-rail station on Monday. Just because a ceasefire has been declared in Gaza does not necessarily mean all Israeli-Palestinian hostilities are over. Cooler heads may prevail and calm may be restored,but a new intifada may be lurking around the corner. The IDF and an understaffed police force may not be as well-equipped to handle a surge in urban domestic terror. 4. Narrative warfare: It all started when he hit me back Regardless of measures Israel may have futilely attempted to reduce and avoid hostilities, Hamas--with aid from Western media--had already constructed its narrative: Hamashad no choice but to fire rockets from Gaza once Israeli police had "stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque." It makes no difference in the narrative war that Israeli police entered the complex to break up riots, where Arabs were tossing Molotov cocktails, shooting fireworks andthrowing stones at Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall prayer complex some 70 meters below. The narrative claims that an annual Jerusalem Day parade is now a "far-right nationalist" event that "stoked tensions." Similarly, the narrative insists that a war was necessitatedover the eviction of 13 families from the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. The neighborhood is also home to the Jewish holy gravesite of "Simon the Righteous" ("Shimon HaTzadik"). The property dispute in question was about to be heard in Israel's left-wing Supreme court, had been circulating through the court system for 30 years, and the hearing wasultimately postponed. Either way, according to the narrative, any eviction is the justification for war. Nobody seems concerned that Israel evicted as many as 10,000 Jews from 21 fully-developed Israeli communities in the Gaza Strip in 2005 specifically in an attempt to avoidfuture wars and has evicted Jews from their homes on several other occasions. According to the narrative, evicting Jews is appropriate, while evicting Palestinians, even in the case of outright private property theft, is not. As long as Hamas can sell a narrative--one that most Western media can easily parrot--then there can be justification for an attack. This has happened countless times inthe past and will undoubtedly happen again in the not-too-distant future. 5. Narrative warfare: The battle for hearts and minds The reason that Palestinians claim victory has nothing to do with the exceedingly minor physical damage inflicted on Israel. Rather, it is because Palestinians perceivethat they scored points the greater battle fought in the minds and hearts of Israelis, Palestinians and the international community. Palestinians are convincing themselves and others that Israel has been weakened in an era in which facts, details and context are less relevant than ever before; truth andlies are regularly interchanged in the media; and opinions and buy-ins are what matter most. Israelis don't necessarily see it that way. Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian sentiments, and accusations from the international community, are nothing new. Israelis are amongthe thickest-skinned citizenry in the world, and well-versed in overcoming biases and handling adversity. The opinions that matter most to Israelis are those of Israelis themselves. The only doubts that Israelis have about the recent flare-up is whether theyinflicted enough damage against Hamas before the world begged them to stop. 6. #PalestinianLivesMatter Israelis watched from afar with amazement as violent riots enveloped American cities this past year under the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Race became the most important issue.Members of the anti-Israel community in the United States had long ago linked up with progressive causes--an irony considering how far from progressive Palestinian society is. It appears that Palestinians have successfully adopted the BLM mentality and are being welcomed in with open arms. It doesn't matter that Israel is the most liberal countryin the Middle East by far and one of the most liberal in the world. According to the narrative, Israelis are the white, oppressive colonialists, regardless of the fact that more than 50 percent of Israelis are of Middle Eastern descent (meaningbrown-skinned) whose families were forcibly evicted from their homes out of nearly every Muslim country in the region after living in those countries as second-class dhimmi citizens. Plus, there are a sizable number of Ethiopian immigrants (black-skinned), many of whom arrived as refugees. Among the remaining Israelis of European descent, a large portionare descendants of survivors of the Holocaust--an actual genocide. Yet as long as Palestinians will succeed to remain the step-sister of #BlackLivesMatter, Israel will be in for a bumpy period in the court of public opinion. 7. Does the Democratic Party still support Israel? For decades, Democrats were the party that supported Israel--n large part, because Jews, with roots as an immigrant minority class in America, have overwhelmingly supportedDemocratic candidates. Israel, however, pushed to make support for its defense a bipartisan issue and largely convinced Republicans to begin supporting Israel as well. Evangelical Christians began increasing their support for Israel, further encouraging Republicansto be increasingly supportive. But America has become polarized. In age where there are virtually no bipartisan issues, Israel found itself in a bad spot. With religious evangelical fervor behind supportfor Israel, Democrats have all but dropped the baton. And while the old guard of the Democratic Party has long supported Israel, the younger, more progressive group does not hold Israel in the same regard. They know Israelonly through the prism of the failed Oslo Accords. This young guard has taken over the momentum of the party to the fear of the old guard losing their seats (see: Eliot Engel) in upcoming primaries to younger, more progressive upstarts. As such, even some members of the old guard were hesitant to back Israel with the same intensity that they have in the past, if at all. It's not clear if Israel will beable to count on Democrat Party support in future conflicts. 8. The money trail: towards peace or violence? The Trump administration was charting a new course toward peace in the Middle East. The principles were simple: punish malign actors with sanctions, financially incentivizepeace and solve the Middle East conflict from the outside-in. Iran was sanctioned harder than any nation in history. The Palestinian Authority, as well as U.N. agencies that supported their agenda, such as UNRWA, was defunded. Andnormalization agreements were signed between Israel, and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. The approach worked. The four years of the Trump administration were by and large among the quietest years in Israel's modern history. Yet the approach was a slap in theface of the U.S. State Department establishment that has long posited that there can never be peace anywhere in the region until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is solved. The latest flare-up puts the Israeli-Palestinian issue back on center stage in the familiar territory of the authors and supporters of the Oslo Accords, who are beginningto come back to the forefront after a now-brief four-year exile. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is now headed to Israel, in part to renew ties with Palestinian leaders. The international community is now pledging funds to "rebuild Gaza." When funds were being withheld from malign actors like Iran, the P.A. and Hamas, and financial incentives were being given to moderates in pursuit of normalization, peacefulconditions were prevailing. Now that the flow of funds has reversed, terrorism is back on the agenda. 9. Iran, Iran, Iran Iran has played a key role in the current conflict. In the past several years, months and weeks Israel has been covertly striking Iranian nuclear infrastructure, attackingcommercial vessels and striking Iranian-made weapons transferred into Syria. Iran has tried repeatedly to strike back, recently targeting Israeli commercial sea-bound vessels. Despite recent Israeli airstrikes, Iran has already succeeded in stockpiling more than 150,000 rockets and missiles pointed at Israel by Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon. Andunlike Hamas's rocket arsenal in Gaza, many of the missiles held by Hezbollah are long-range and precision-guided. In a "victory speech," Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh publicly praised Iran for its support during the conflict, stating: "I cannot but thank those who brought forth moneyand weaponry to the valiant resistance, the Islamic Republic of Iran; who did not hold back with money, weapons and technical support. Thanks." A recent report in The Wall Street Journal noted that Hamas rockets are made from Iranian designs, and Iranians have provided Hamas with additional assistance. Almost allmalign activity in the Middle East today has Iranian fingerprints. Iran is attempting to negotiate a return to the nuclear deal with the United States and Western powers. This just-ended conflict should give the West pause regarding Iranianambitions. Tragically, it likely will not. 10. A Jew is a Jew is a Jew Over the past several years, the American Jewish communal establishment has been increasingly critical of Israeli policies in private and in public. The community is overwhelminglyliberal and supportive of Democrats, and less religious than ever before. Many Jewish leaders jumped on board to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Now that BLM appears to be siding with Palestinians, American Jews are being pushed into a choice. Side with BLM and Palestinians, or with Israel--the sole liberal democracyin a often-violent and illiberal region. Sadly, there are signals that many American Jews are not choosing Israel. To those anti-Israel activists now wreaking havoc in Jewish communities across America, disappointing statements by American Jews alienating Israel may not matter. To theenemies of Israel, who are committing violent antisemitic acts at an alarming rate, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew. Israel must do more to repair rifts with the American Jewish community and to fully activate those American Jews who stand proudly with the world's only Jewish state. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did Israel Just Sabotage an Iranian Drone Factory? � Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - https://www.israel365news.com/191137/did-israel-just-sabotage-an-iranian-drone-factory/ When you take the field against your enemies, and see horses and chariots�forces larger than yours�have no fear of them, for Hashem your God, who brought you from the landof Egypt, is with you. Deuteronomy 20:1 (The Israel BibleTM) While rockets from Gaza rained down on Israel and Arab rioting filled the streets, another story of the conflict between Israel and Iran was quietly unfolding. The story began last Monday night when six rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon. All fell short of the border and landed inside Lebanese territory and theIDF responded by targeting the source of the rocket launch in Lebanon with tank and artillery shells. There were no reports of casualties or damage and the incident seemed over, with no lasting repercussions. At around 4 AM on Tuesday, the IDF shot down a drone that was approaching the northern section of the Israeli-Jordanian border near the Israeli city of Bet Shean. �The UAV was being monitored by IDF air control units. The fragments of the UAV were collected by security forces,� the military said. On Thursday, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that the drone was determined to be manufactured in Iran and it was armed with explosives. The suspected launch site forthe drone was either Iraq or Syria. In a similar case in 2018, a drone was flown from Syria into northern Israel before it was shot down by an Israeli helicopter. Coincidentally, on Friday, a post on the website of Iran�s Revolutionary Guards announced the production of a new combat drone dubbed �Gaza� in a tribute to Palestinians.The new drone is purported to be able to carry13 bombs while flying at over 35,000 feet at a speed of almost 200 mph for 20 hours. In a seemingly unrelated incident, Iran announced an explosion and fire at a chemical and fireworks factory in the central province of Isfahan in Iran early Sunday morning.Nine people were hurt in the incident. The Mehr state news agency reported that �the reason for the explosion at the Sepahan Nargostar chemical industry is under investigation.� Post on social media by local residents reported that the ground shook from the explosion at the chemical factory. The Guardian reported on Sunday that the complex reported as a chemical factory was, in fact, a factory for producing drones. �The Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (Hesa), which produces a variety of aircraft and drones for Iranian and pro-Iranian forces, is located in the complexowned by Sepahan Nargostar Chemical Industries,� the Guardian wrote. �There was no independent confirmation of the cause of the explosion or the precise factory hit.� Israel has been accused of sabotaging Iranian facilities in the past, most notably the Natanz nuclear site in April. The incident took place one day after a chain of 164advanced IR-6 uranium enrichment centrifuges went online at the site. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tolerating or standing against hate - Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com The recent terrorist attack on Israel has brought out the haters of Jews in America. Like roaches from that darkest dankest places, they emerged, stirring up violence witha common chant, �Kill the Jews.� This is like Nazi Germany history repeating itself, except this time it is in the land of the free and home of the brave. People, we need to denounce this hate speech, this horrible sentiment, in no uncertain terms. The entirecountry is ablaze with nasty people saying nasty things. They have gone over the top with weaponizing race, ethnicity, politics�you name it, if there is a way to hate, the haters are making it and taking it. These are the same people who go overboard withslogans like �Hate doesn�t live here.� What we are seeing is that people are protesting by channeling their hate toward groups of people under the mask of a political belief. Both are very dangerous. This goesfar beyond the right to free speech, which they have a right to express, but it doesn�t make them right. It goes to the heart of a civilization. The most concerning thing about the riots we have witnessed and tolerated, still ongoing, is that they are destroyingproperty, occupying areas and are violent against others because they are upset about a social ill. In reality, they are advocating an overthrow of the government, which means they demand nothing less than replacement of freedom and liberty with the chainsof anarchy and Marxism. They are pawns of a greater cause, but are too blinded by their hate to see it. We are witnessing elected officials using sly words to espouse and incite hate, and it is actually being tolerated. The recent protests and harassment against Jews by supportersof terrorists are an example. This is how it starts. The seeds of hate are being watered by the words of the haters. It must stop. You see, all the hate is causing such vitriol that if it doesn�t stop, we risk the historic outcome of death and ultimate destruction.There is a right and a wrong. When the head of Hamas, for example, is bragging about how Hamas targeted groups of Jewish civilians with rockets, and a President of the United States demands Israel cease its defense against it, the cry �Never Again� has renewedmeaning. When the actions of Hamas are celebrated in the streets of America and our leaders do not denounce them or it takes days after such a hate-filled protest for the Presidentof the United States to even acknowledge the issue, we have a deep problem as a society. This weaponization of race and ethnicity must stop before it goes systemic deadly. As in the Psalm of David, Psalm 26:3-5, �For your lovingkindness is before my eyes;and I have walked in your truth. I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers. I have hated the congregation of evildoers: and will not sit with the wicked.� There is right and wrong. And these days the wrong is being not only tolerated,but hailed as just. Pray, speak, stand against it that it may not engulf us. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biden's Disastrous Plan to Rebuild the Terrorist State in Gaza � Jonathan Tobin - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4747 In the aftermath of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after 11 days of fighting that left 12 Israelis and 248 Palestinians dead, and approximately 77,000 Gazans homeless,the Biden administration now wants to help. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East this week but his purpose is not, as he claims, to revive the dead-in-the-water peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. Rather, it's to ensure that the truce holds. According to President Joe Biden, Blinken will do so while simultaneously reaffirming "our ironclad commitment to Israel's security"while also continuing "our administration's efforts to rebuild ties, and support for, the Palestinian people, and leaders, after years of neglect." There's a lot to unpack in that sentence. Biden's words signaled a shot at the administration of former President Donald Trump's closeness with Israel and attempt to holdthe Palestinian Authority accountable for its support of terrorism. It also reflected a policy shift to a more "even-handed" approach to the conflict, while at the same time also attempting to claim that its support for Israel is unshaken. Any statement that seeks to reassure both the sector of his party's base that is anti-Israel and Americans who support the Jewish state can't be said to amount to much.That's especially true since the administration's foreign-policy priority until last week was its ongoing efforts to reach a rapprochement with Iran, which would enable Tehran to have even more resources to give to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad embeddedin Gaza. As Biden talks out of both sides of his mouth about the Middle East, it's clear that the one thing the administration is definitely intent on doing is to lead an internationalhumanitarian effort to "rebuild" Gaza. Doing so will be a way for Biden to show that he means what he says about supporting the Palestinians in such a way as to get credit from the growing faction of leftistDemocrats who falsely think that Israeli counter-terror strikes in Gaza are the moral equivalent of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck. Biden clearly wants a policy that will appear to neither openly punish Israel nor reward Hamas. "Rebuilding" Gaza is, he thinks, the way to do it while advancing the creationof an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Blinken and the other foreign-policy establishment luminaries that staff his administration still believe a two-state solution is the only way to prevent future outbreaks of fighting. The fundamental mistake here is not just the notion that America can maintain its alliance with Israel while also being good friends with a Palestinian nationalist movementcommitted to the Jewish state's destruction. Rather, the immediate problem is that Biden and Blinken think they can aid the people of Gaza without helping or even rewarding Hamas. They cannot. What's more, not only is that impossible, anything done to advance such an objective won't be just a tactical error that will give Hamas a short-term advantage.It will also send a message to all Palestinians that the long-term objective of Hamas--namely, the elimination of Israel--is not only still on the table, but a realistic future option towards which they should work. As the international community learned after it devoted many billions of dollars to aid to reconstruct Gaza after the 2014 war, it was virtually impossible to ensure thatthe money helped ordinary Palestinians rather than their Hamas tyrants. There has never been an example in history of cash pouring into a totalitarian regime--exactly what the Islamist-ruled, independent Palestinian state in all but name that exists in Gazatruly is--that could be kept out of the clutches of the rulers in one way or another Some homes destroyed because of Hamas's policy of using civilians as human shields were indeed rebuilt after 2014. But most of the building material that was let into thecoastal enclave went into rebuilding the terrorist group's military infrastructure, including hundreds of kilometers of tunnels used for storing their armaments and providing shelters for their military personnel, though not civilians. There is no reason to believe the next round of rebuilding will go any differently. Nor are there any grounds for believing that United Nations officials tasked with thejob of guaranteeing that civilian needs are dealt with rather than those of Hamas, will do that. While administration officials say they will try to force Hamas to choose between--in veteran peace processor Dennis Ross' words, "their rockets and the well-being of Gaza"--toeven suggest that they would ever choose the latter over the former is to take leave of reality altogether. This attitude always results in foreign officials allowing money and material to pour into Gaza, where it will be used by Hamas to make it an even moreformidable military target. The problem is that Biden, Blinken, the foreign-policy establishment, the liberal media that echoes their arguments and even those left-wingers who are pressuring the administrationto be tougher on Israel still don't understand what Hamas is after. Blinken repeated this past weekend the pious hope that "there has to be" a prospect for a peaceful solution between Israel and Hamas. Some claim that Hamas is actually muchmore pragmatic than their Islamist ideology and wants a modus vivendi with the Jewish state, citing their willingness to accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. But while Hamas is always practical when it comes to their survival and day-to-daytactics, their goals are unchanged. As deputy chairman of the Hamas "political bureau" Musa Abu Marzouk stated in an interview last week (translated by MEMRI), this latest conflict is just one more among manyother "wars" to come in pursuit of their ultimate goal: Israel's elimination. Saying that his group was not composed of "dreamers," he said that Israel will go the way of the Berlin Wall and the apartheid-era South African government. "We are no dreamers. Until recently, they mocked Hamas's rockets and called them children's toys. I do not believe anyone is saying this today. Until recently, the wholeworld supported the white government in South Africa, but things have changed. Where did the Soviet Union go? Where did the Berlin Wall go? The day will come when people ask: 'Where did Israel go?' " He's serious. So are Hamas supporters and those in the West Bank who would prefer it to Abbas. And every step towards normalizing Hamas, rather than isolating and defeatingit, is a signal to a Palestinian people who have been sold such fantasies for the last 100 years that their long war to defeat Zionism is not yet lost. Rebuilding Gaza may help some Palestinians, but it will also enable Hamas to assert that there were no long-term consequences for their actions. By repeating the mistakesmade by every administration prior to that of Trump, and reinforcing expectations that the West will not punish the Palestinians for terrorism and rejecting peace, Biden is not advancing a two-state solution. To the contrary, he will be making peace even more impossible by indicating to the Palestinians that they don't have to surrender to reality and accept Israel's permanenceand legitimacy. So-called humanitarian policies that are rooted in the pretense that the people there can be aided without requiring them to overthrow their Islamist masters is money spent on enabling Hamas, not peace or the welfare of the Palestinians. It's hard to resist arguments that appeal to our sympathy for those who are caught in the crossfire created by Hamas terrorism, even when they are not made in the contextof appeals to delegitimize Israel's right to exist or to defend itself. Nevertheless, the best thing Biden can do to actually advance the cause of peace is to not spend a cent on rebuilding the terrorist state in Gaza. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nazi trend in America, say it isn�t so � Bill Wilson � www.dailyjot.com This country is experiencing years of prolonged derision by loud bullies who label everyone who disagrees with them with terrible accusations. Ignoring any semblance ofconstructive civil conversation, they have weaponized sex, race, and politics, using them as justification to foment violence, defy the civil protections of law, and censure the speech of those who do not share their views. Now, we are witnessing before usthe demonization of Jews by the Hollywood elite, elected officials, and tech giants who censure speech on behalf of Israel, but not hate speech against Israel. It took the American president five days to condemn violence against Jews, but he didn�t condemnthose who committed the violence. The Hill reports that The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) says reporting of antisemitic incidents has jumped 63 percent since the start of the 11-day conflict between Israeland Hamas. Even more disturbing is the trend on social media. ADL reports over 17,000 Tweets with variations of the phrase �Hitler was right� from May 7-14. ADL says that there is extreme content calling for the destruction of Israel and posts saying �Gasthe Kikes race war now.� There has been violence committed against Jews across the nation�Los Angeles, Skokie, Il., Chicago, New York, and in other small towns. The ADL reports that many of these incidents were done by flag-waving, pro-Palestinian protestorswho video recorded their attacks. Reports indicate that Hamas, the US-designated terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, fired more than 4,400 rockets into Israel from May 10-21, killing at least 13and sending millions into bomb shelters. Yet, the Biden Administration is supporting Hamas with your tax dollars. Biden said in a statement that the Secretary of State �will continue our Administration�s efforts to rebuild ties to, and support for, the Palestinianpeople and leaders, after years of neglect. And he will engage other key partners in the region, including on the coordinated international effort to ensure immediate assistance reaches Gaza in a way that benefits the people there and not Hamas, and on reducingthe risk of further conflict in the coming months.� This ignores the fact that all financial aid in Gaza must pass through Hamas, which distributes the aid. Those accusing others of being like Nazis are themselves behaving like Nazis. It is not just the vitriol against Jews, although this is prophetically explicit, it is anoverall assault on law-abiding, peace-loving, God-fearing Americans. It is an offensive against the American ideal and way of life. We in America, who love God and His liberty, need to stand up to this most dangerous trend. The censorship of ideas; the weaponizationof disagreement; the hate for fellow citizens; are all ingredients of destruction. We are better than this. As Ephesians 6:10 says, �Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of HIS might.� Verse 13 exhorts us to take up the whole armorof God, that �you may be able to withstand the evil day, and having done all, to stand.� Yes, we must. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Whatis Hamas? By Hal Lindsey A surprising number of American organizations and politicians have come out against Israel in the recent fighting. They almost always say they are standingwith Palestinians, not Hamas. But that�s like coming out against the United States in World War II, claiming you only support Germans, not Nazis. Hamas runs Gaza. In the month of May, Hamas fired more than 4,000 missiles into Israel from Gaza. But Israel did not return fire with an all-out assaulton the Palestinians of Gaza. They struck military targets. And, yes, they struck them hard. In a matter of days, Israel substantially degraded Hamas�s ability to wage their war of terror. For that, millions now blame Israel. What is Hamas? Why have Canada, the European Union, Israel, Japan, and the United States designated Hamas a terrorist organization? Why have other nations,such as Australia, New Zealand, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom, designated Hamas�s military wing a terrorist organization? And remember, it was their military wing firing rockets at Israeli children. These nations designated Hamas a terror group because terror is the organization�s chief tactic, and violence is its mode of operation. Hamas�s violencegoes back to its very beginning. The preamble to their charter says, �Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.� The eradication of Israel is their goal. They don�t just want to win a military victory over Israel or carve out a Palestinian state. Hamas wants nothingless than the destruction of the Jewish people. Genocide is their aim and reason. How could you describe Hamas as anything but a terror group? In Article 32 of their charter, they say that the Jew�s �scheme has been laid out in the �Protocols of the Elders of Zion.�� The protocols are a hoaxfirst published in Russia in 1903. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, the protocols began to be taught in German schools. But it was proven false early on. For one thing, you can trace much of the source material to known works of fiction. But for Hamasand its supporters, anything against Jews must be true. The Hamas charter depicts Jews using old stereotypes. Article 22 blames the Jews for World Wars I and II, as well as the French and communist revolutions.This illustrates yet again that their hatred is not for Israel alone, but for Jews generally. Article 7 says, �The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks andtrees will cry out: �O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.�� Hamas stands firmly against a negotiated peace in the Middle East. Article 13 says, �So-called peaceful solutions and international conferences arein contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives,proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility.� Article 11 says, �The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [meaning �Holy Possession�] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day.No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it.� Hamas stands for unending violence, war, and terror. To those Americans who have placed themselves in solidarity with Hamas, I have to ask, �Are youfor peace or for never-ending jihad?� ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM