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Prophecy Update: Eyes on the Prize: Israel and Prophecy     4/24/2020

One of the fun things about writing a blog weekly on history, prophecy, and current events is that it resembles doing a puzzle. Asking God each week to open my eyes to the puzzle of prophecy is exciting and fun. This week several pieces fell into place. Two of the most intriguing puzzle pieces are Israel and the mark of the beast. Concerning Israel, forming a government after 2 years of being in limbo provides the stability to deal with a whole host of problems. Concerning the mark of the beast, technologies are advancing that can actually fulfill the prophecy of Revelation 13.

The epicenter of all prophecy is the nation of Israel. Jeremiah 30:3 tells us about what God is going to do in the last days regarding Israel: ‘For behold, days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when I will restore the fortunes of My people Israel and Judah.’ The LORD says, ‘I will also bring them back to the land that I gave to their forefathers and they shall possess it.’ We live in the day where fulfillment of this prophecy happens daily. The last 30 years, Israel has become very rich in natural resources and business. They are the number two start up nation in the world, just behind the USA. They have so many new businesses, and business models that produce new products. They are on the cutting edge of new technologies especially in agriculture and medicine. While they advance as a culture, their enemies seek more and more ways to harm them. The rise of antisemitism the last few years has brought a whole host of condemnation.

The Atlantic had this article in January:  Seventy-Five Years After Auschwitz, Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise. “The recent eruptions of anti-Semitism in America have awakened us to a prejudice that has long resided, in quiet ways and in many forms, in this country. And the part of it that now disguises itself as anti-Zionism—hatred of the Jewish state that was established in the wake of the Holocaust as a refuge for Jews—has even seemed, to some, virtuous, a sentiment they believe puts them in humanity’s moral vanguard.” I have run into too many people who say they are not anti-Semites; they just are against the state of Israel. Using anti-Zionist hatred to mask antisemitism is not moral or virtuous.

New report says coronavirus pandemic is fueling anti-Semitism, The Hill 4/24/2020. “Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress (EJC), said Monday there has been a rise in accusations that Jewish people are behind the spread of the virus or are directly profiting from it.” As people use the coronavirus as an excuse for antisemitism, churches also have got into the anti-Semitic act.  “Danish Bible Society Removes Over 60 References To The Nation Of Israel.” To change the Bible to advance the fiction that the church replaced Israel is false.

Here is what God says to the nations and churches of our day: Jeremiah 31:10, “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare in the coastlands afar off, and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him and keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.” Each nation has an obligation to assist in what God is doing to bless Israel. Since God scattered Israel into the nations, the nations have an obligation to look after them and help them. When God who scattered them sends them home, the nations should help them. Unfortunately, we see nations threatening Israel and attacking.

One such nation that is attacking Israel is Iran. The National Interest magazine had this interesting article in January, This Is How Iran Has Threatened Israel With Destruction. “Tehran has a plethora of lethal options that could be employed against its arch-nemesis. Its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon could conduct small ground raids into northern Israel, or even unleash some of its estimated 150,000 Iranian-supplied rockets (though at the risk of triggering a full-scale Israel-Lebanon war that could drag in Iran and perhaps the United States).” The last few weeks, Israel has attacked Iranian positions in Syria with devastating results.

As Russia tries to hold Syria together, Iran and Turkey continue to battle groups in Syria and support proxies to attack Israel. The three main groups that Iran pays to attack Israel are Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Not all three of these groups put together can defeat Israel. Iran knows this so that is why they are increasing their military presence in Syria, close to Israel. Israel is determined to attack the bases built by Iran. Israel is now in a better position to defend themselves.   

The deal is done: Netanyahu, Gantz ink coalition pact. By GIL HOFFMAN   APRIL 21, 2020.

“As part of the deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served as caretaker prime minister since December 2018, will remain prime minister for another 18 months and then will be replaced in October 2021 by Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, who will serve as vice prime minister in the meantime. Netanyahu will become vice prime minister under Gantz after that – but if he leaves the Prime Minister’s Office sooner, Gantz will take over.” Israel will need to be strong for the next phase of Gods work. On July 1 of this year, Netanyahu promised that he would annex the settlements in Judea and Samaria. The Palestinian Authority promised they would go to war.

 A key word in the Bible regarding the land of Israel is “possess.” It used 100 times and the majority of times it means that God gave the land to Israel. A contrast regarding the conflict over the land exists is Psalms: 69:35 and 83:12. The contrast between Israel regathered to her land and those who wish to stop it! 69:35 says, “For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.” This verse is typical of the 15 times the prophets say that Israel will possess her land. 83:12 says, “Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.” This verse is representative of the many times the world and nations prevent Israel from getting her land.

Israel will get more and more of her land back. Annexing the settlements in Judea and Samaria is just the start of God doing a miracle. Satan will respond to Gods work with war from Russia and Iran as described for us in Ezekiel 38-39. The next few months will be exciting to say the least. This Passover Jews from all over the land were sheltered in their homes just like the first Passover. After that Passover, 3500 years ago, they started on a journey to get their land. It is the same this Passover, the Jews are on the journey to possess the ancient cities of Bethel, Bethlehem, Shechem, and Hebron just to name a few. We should keep watching Israel because God said Israel is the apple of His eye. (Zechariah 2:8)

That brings me to my second topic: the technology used to track every human being on earth.

This story starts over 100 years ago. In the 1800’s the USA would do a census every ten years. It would take seven years to accomplish the goal because every census form filled out had to be secured and counted manually. This was a tedious task until Herman Hollerith built a machine to help count the census forms. Hollerith created a machine to count the census forms called the ‘Tabulator.’ The Tabulator used punch cards to organize the counting and it was so successful, Hollerith started the Tabulating Machine Company in 1896.

In 1910, they started selling the machines to Germany and named the German operation Dehomag. One year later, they sold Dehomag for one million dollars and they put Thomas J Watson in charge. In 1923, they named the prosperous business IBM, International Business Machines. The German subsidiary of IBM called Dehomag, the Germans used to track and kill the people in the concentration camps. In the 1933 German census, Hitler was able to begin tracking people. Key word is tracking!

Hitler met with Thomas Watson in Germany and provided the Nazis the machines and punch cards needed to track and gain information on every German. Watson invested one million dollars to the Dehomag operation. There was a Hollerith tabulating machine in every concentration camp. The camps designated a number on the punch cards: Auschwitz was 001, Buchenwald was 002, Dachau was 003 etc. The number used for Jews was 8. They even had a number for the type of death the people in the concentration camps experienced. The punch cards were supplied by IBM. The company denies this to this day, but the evidence is overwhelming. Edwin Black wrote the book “IBM and the Holocaust” which documents the collusion between Hitler and IBM. Corporations will collude with the antichrist to track and kill all of the enemies of the new world order! That leads me to Bill Gates and his desire to track every human on earth.

Bill Gates and Microsoft applied for patent 2020-060606 linking human brain to crypto payment system, Filed in NEWS ANALYZES by Martin Vrijland on 20 April 2020. “Microsoft did one on June 20, 2019 patent 2020-060606 application for linking human body to crypto payment system. It is a cryptocurrency mining system that uses human pulses such as brain waves and body heat to perform online tasks such as using search engines, chatbots and reading advertisements.” I don’t understand how this works but from what I read, it can give information to the handlers that you will not want them to have.

I have been warning people for years about the introduction of a point system based on the Chinese Credit system, it is the pre mark of the beast system. The coronavirus pandemic provides the perfect alibi for the introduction of a tracking system that will be used against the citizens. One blogger said this about the system: “In concrete terms, this means that in the first instance a score of your behavior (expressed in points) will be kept in the cloud. If you follow the rules neatly, you can take public transport or plane. If you do not follow the rules, your score will drop.”

Soooo, the same Bill Gates is behind the ID2020 initiative that wants to develop a digital ID for vaccination registration. If you combine such a digital ID quality mark with a digital passport (ID) and with patent 2020-060606, then you have enslaved people completely. Did you notice the 666 in the patent?   Consider this next story:

The coronavirus outbreak is sparking the rollout of more digital surveillance. Dave Hodges on Thursday, April 23, 2020. “The global coronavirus pandemic and the measures being implemented to stop its spread are rewiring people’s sensitivities about digital surveillance and data privacy. Governments around the world are now rolling out surveillance schemes — even some that are particularly invasive — all in the name of stopping the pandemic. According to security professionals, the coronavirus pandemic could become a watershed moment similar to 9/11. In the aftermath of the attack, governments around the world ushered in new surveillance powers in the name of protecting public safety. Jim Harper, an original member of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, warned that once such surveillance powers are in place, they are rarely ever removed and often become repurposed as a political tool.”  

What if the government said they would eliminate all of your debt if you agreed to take the vaccine and ID2020 digital immunity passport? Remember that the IBM system used the numbers on the punch cards to brand the people. If you had 8 on your body, you were a Jew and you would be killed either by a bullet or the gas chamber. Think of what this means for the future. The ability to use your phone and technology in your body to track and control you is a reality. The Antichrist has a lot of technology to use to pull off what Revelation 13 describes as the Mark of Beast. The Mark of the Beast will be given to people who declare allegiance to the Antichrist. The mark will be put on the forehead and hand. It is about loyalty.

What we see today as tracking technology is not the mark of the beast. Why? Because none of it is used to declare your allegiance to Antichrist.  It is not the mark of the beast because we are not in the tribulation period. However, using tracking technology is being used to take away your God given rights. It is in the globalists interest to remove the sovereignty of the United States. Freedom is a threat to globalism. Government is not god—it is a form of idolatry. God warned us in I Samuel 8 about having a government that is god.

The pressure to social distance, stay home, and stay away from people, is all a form of control. How far are the people going to let this go on? Everything is inflated, hyped, and over stated. This next week, churches are going to start opening. I am praying that we are a demonstration to the world that we are not afraid, we serve a great God and savior Jesus Christ. Coming back together to worship, pray, and hear the Word of God is going to be awesome. Pray we can get back to church soon. God commanded (Hebrews 10:25) that we are not to forsake our own assembling together as is the habit of some (we are all trying to meet online, not the same), but encouraging one another and all the more as we see the day (Day of the Lord, rapture, Tribulation) drawing near. Pray with me that we can go to church soon!! Blessings everyone.

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Prophecy Update: The Devil is a Liar              4/17/20

The group “Seawind” sang a song in the 1970’s called “The devil is a liar.” One of the ways they described Satan in the song went like this, “he promises you all the kingdoms of gold but leaves you standing alone in the cold, he’ll trick and deceive you, entice and leave you, see…. the devils going to do a number on you yeah.” Jesus spoke of Satan’s nature in an argument with some who objected to His teaching, Jesus said:

John 8:44, “You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

In this prophecy update I want to do a survey over the last few months and show you how deception reigns in the media. In order to do that I am surveying magazines that I read. Beginning in December: National Review: Dec.31^st edition, cover story said, “This is CNN, Hysterical, obsessive, self-important, and biased.” There were no articles on China or the virus. The Week: “Putin’s Gloating: How Russian disinformation about Ukraine is deepening the US partisan divide.” Many of the stories in both magazines are about impeaching the president. There is this gem from the Washington Post, “The case against Trump is clear the Constitution specifically lists bribery as an impeachable offense.” Commentary Magazine: They told the story concerning the National Basketball Association and the government of China. The Houston Rockets general manager tweeted his support for the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. “Soon after the NBA’s official Chinese broadcast partner, a company called Tencent announced that it would suspend all business with the Rockets. There followed Chinese boycott campaigns and endorsement retractions aimed at punishing the team.” As you can guess, the NBA bowed to the communist pressure and issued apology after apology. Imagine; an American sports team supporting communism over capitalism?

The Washington Examiner had this doozy from Nancy Pelosi in December, “all roads lead to Putin.” Not one article about the virus, but an overwhelming number of articles on why impeaching the President would be in the best interest of the country. January started with a bang. The Washington Times has an article called, ‘Barr: No repeats of single sourced Crossfire Hurricane.’ Crossfire Hurricane was the FBI and Obama directed probe in which they began spying on the Trump campaign in July 2016. The criminal probe into Trump was a hoax. This article, regarding China should open your eyes to the deception and lying coming from China by Bill Gertz, “Prosecutions of Huawei proceed after trade deal.” The US government is moving ahead with its pursuit of criminal charges against China’s Huawei Technologies despite the temporary truce in the trade war between Washington and Beijing.” This tech firm operates like all Chinese companies; they steal and use every dirty trick to attack the USA. Still no article on the virus. By the way, T-Mobile was awarded 4.8 million dollars in damages for Huawei theft.

Jan 14: The Washington Examiner front cover: “America Versus Iran, What’s next in the shadow War?” Not one story on the virus. Jan.21^st Washington Examiner, front cover: “Obama’s Biden Betrayal.” Still no story on the virus. Jan.27^th National Review front cover: “The Missing Babies: Americas Fertility Crises.” Still nothing on the virus. On to February!

Decision Magazine had this front-page headline to start the month off: “Confronting the Lies that Deceive a Nation.” That is a great way to start February! The article highlights the lies of mainstream media. World Magazine also started the month off with a doozy: “The Gospel According to Pete.” The article is about how a gay man is running for president and he is claiming to be a Christian. Buttigieg is quoted as saying, “those who affirm the Biblical teaching that homosexuality is sinful have a quarrel with my creator.” World pointed out the lies of the devil being pushed by the media regarding Buttigieg. The Feb. 4^th, 11^th, and 18^th editions of the Washington Examiner had nothing about the virus. The Feb. 10^th and 24^th of National Review had nothing on the virus. Really? The Feb.24^th edition though the cover story was: “Wayward Shepherd on Pope Francis’s erroneous path.” This article is worth reading because it does a great job showing how antichristian the Vatican has become. February ended with no articles on the virus in three more of the magazines I read. Great article in the 2/15 edition of World worth reading called “The Rising Evil of Anti-Semitism.”

March: Finally, the first mention of the virus from the Washington Times on March 2^nd. Headline, “Politics of an Outbreak.” It is interesting to me that the coronavirus breaks into the news as the Obama Administration feels the heat over the illegal spying on the Trump Administration. In the March 2^nd edition of the Washington Times, this headline appeared: “Page Says FBI abuses go beyond what Horowitz report uncovered.” As I write this today, indictments are being prepared for the major players in that illegal operation. More on that later. In addition, there was an article on Chinese tech deals. States that made a deal with the Chinese are vulnerable to tracking, hacking, stealing, and abuse by the communists and their faulty equipment. Here is a quote: “Leading Chinese technology companies have sold equipment to state governments in the US that can be used by Beijing to obtain sensitive information, according to a security analysis made public” As we are in the midst of dealing with the virus, more evidence surfaces that the Chinese lied about the virus. The father of lies has worked through the Chinese government. Communist governments have an obligation to lie because they live for their father the devil. They are deceived into thinking that their atheism means they do not have a god. They have a god called Satan, the Dragon!

In the March 3^rd edition of the Washington Examiner, this article appeared: “China’s Political Warfare Strategy Takes Hit with Coronavirus. Beijing’s response to the crises undermines its credibility and proves the Chinese Communist Party is a global threat.” Just as the Communist regime made the NBA back off supporting Hong Kong, China has accused the USA of racism. Just saying the virus came from China will bring a firestorm from the liberal press.  The official line from the Chinese is that the virus originated from the USA. Decision Magazine ran a story how Franklin Graham has been disinvited from speaking in Great Britain because he hates everyone. Really? The LBGT lobby has successfully scared everyone into dropping Graham from preaching the gospel. What a day we live in; Pray for Britain. The March 17^th edition of the Washington Examiner had five articles on the coronavirus. The March 14^th edition of World had this article: “Infectious Anger, as the coronavirus spreads in China, so does the fury at the government.”

This is how God was working thru the virus in Wuhan, “with the local government completely overwhelmed by the coronavirus, Wuhan churches have stepped up to provide aid to the desperate. Those whom Christians have helped are grateful and some want to learn more about the faith.” As Satan lies to people, God tells the truth and the Gospel is spreading! In the March 23^rd edition of National Review, here is the headline: “Plagues and Panics, Ancient and Modern, the world’s reaction to the coronavirus is disproportionate to the threat.” Here in lies the problem with this virus and its aftermath. It is very hard to sort out truth from lies. Satan loves this tool; it is called confusion!

I read five more magazines in March and the bottom line is that the virus took over the press. God was going to have His witness though. Newsmax had this as their cover story in April: “The True Believers Trump and His Evangelicals.” Although the majority of the articles were about the virus, this article about Christian support for Trump was amazing. Here is one quote: “President unwavering support and commitment to defend the State of Israel is a key reason for his rock solid evangelical support.” The amazing thing is all of the prayer for the president. God hears and responds. That gives me hope.

Over the last three months, there have been speeches by Trump Administration officials about the Chinese and their attacks on the USA. In addition, there have been speeches about the court cases regarding Operation Crossfire Hurricane. Today, this came out!

“Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified a slew of footnotes from Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse.”

Two things are happening simultaneously. The Justice department is investigating a pedophile ring at the same time they are bringing charges against the people who ran Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The two are related. Why? Because the same people who ran Operation Crossfire Hurricane are connected to the pedophile ring of Jeffrey Epstein!

“A new documentary, Out of the Shadows, exposes the origins of false narratives in Hollywood. It points to the documents in the post World War II-era verifying the CIA’s Operation Paperclip and Nazi programming, and later to the Satanist cult of the PizzaGate exposed by Wikileaks and to Jeffrey Epstein’s network of pedophiles involvement in Hollywood.” The Jeffrey Epstein story includes many prominent people participating in his pedophile ring. Some of those people are being investigated for attacking Trump.  

The Federalist reported this 4/15/2020:

It was clear even before yesterday’s additional declassifications that the “Obama Administration Spied on the Trump Campaign Big Time.” But now we know that in addition to the electronic surveillance of Trump campaign associate Carter Page, the FBI conducted “physical searches targeting Carter Page,” which could include “physical premises or personal property,” and that the FISA court authorized “overseas surveillance” of Page.

“The declassifications also revealed extensive contacts between Steele and Eurasian oligarchs—something that concerned the FBI’s Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit. The footnote further added “that Steele’s contact with 5 Russian oligarchs in a short period of time was unusual and recommended that a validation review be completed on Steele because of this activity.” That Steele had such close connections with five Russian oligarchs also raises questions concerning whether the oligarchs were feeding Steele disinformation on behalf of Putin. The three footnotes declassified last week revealed that “the Crossfire Hurricane team had received reporting ‘indicating the potential for Russian disinformation influencing Steele’s election reporting.’”

These revelations have people like former FBI director James Comey and CIA Director John Brennan running for the hills. The feds were said to be “scrutinizing” the phone and email records of Brennan in order to “assess” his involvement in what the New York Times still refuses to admit was a failed coup d’etat against the duly elected president of the United States. Brennan voted for the Communist candidate for president in 1976, back when the Soviet Union actually posed a real threat to the United States. This guy is an anti-American and the small-timers always rat out the boss. That’s the true mark of a thug — snitching on one’s fellow criminals. US Attorney John Durham is in charge of breaking up this Red sedition ring and has hid the witnesses so they don’t kill them like they did Jeffrey Epstein!

The devil is a liar, he hates children and the Jeffrey Epstein’s of the world are workers for Satan. The Federalist reported in July 2019 about the Epstein arrest: “The swamp gets swampier as links to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire accused of sex trafficking underage girls, and Washington heavyweights.”  These rich people are scared because President Trump is determined to put in jail all of the people who were involved with the false Russian collusion farce and the pedophile ring. The coronavirus shutdown has given the feds the room to advance both cases. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people! Pray that our nation heals from these evil sins! Psalm 2:2-3, adequately describes our day. Stand firm my friends:

Psalm 2:2, The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!” Thank God Jesus Wins!!

Prophecy Update: Do you believe in Miracles? 4/2/20

Numbers 14:21, “but indeed, as I live, all the earth will be filled with the glory of the LORD.” God is very clear about His goal. He is orchestrating the events of the world, mixing together multitudes of circumstances leading to a conclusion. The ultimate goal is to fill the earth with the glory of God. The coronavirus disaster is a step towards global government, global control, and global economics. Conditioning Americans to give up their freedoms and rights to authorities who have nefarious motives is an unfortunate byproduct of this trial. My question is this: Do these events fit in to Gods goal of filling the earth with His glory? The answer is yes!

Jesus gave us a short list of events that would signal to us that we are close to God accomplishing His goal of filling the whole earth with His glory. “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in various places” (Mat 24:7). Jesus is clear that at the time of the end, wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes will increase like birth pangs of a woman in labor. All of these are increasing and growing in intensity.

Jesus mentions deception as one of the signs and the coronavirus is a perfect example of spreading deception. Taiwan warned the world in January that the Chinese were lying about the virus. The World Health Organization parroted Chinese talking points and spread false information. Tucker Carlson of Fox News reported that 60 Minutes of Australia exposed the lies of the Chinese and the World Health Organization.

The Lord gave us a book that explains what is going to happen, Revelation. The book of Revelation is very clear that there will be a seven-year period called the Tribulation. The seven years is the final showdown between Satan and God. After the judgments of the Tribulation period, God will fill the earth with His glory.

I want to deal with two issues that must happen before the Tribulation starts. First, Israel must possess all of her land. Secondly, the coalition of nations described in Ezekiel 38-39 must be in place. First, we will deal with Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu is going to lead the government in Israel for the next 1.5 years. Daniel 4:17 says “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers and the decision is a command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, and bestows it on whom He wishes and sets over it the lowliest of men.” As I watched what was happening in Israel for the past two years, it was a nation in a civil war much like America. The anti-Zionist, socialist parties were working overtime to remove Netanyahu from the government. It is a miracle that Netanyahu is still Prime Minister.

Netanyahu has an enemy in the Arab party called the Joint List. Making up the Joint List are anti-Zionist Arab leaders whose stated goal is to destroy Israel’s foundational status as a Jewish state. God is very clear in the scriptures that prior to the Tribulation Period, the reestablishment of a Jewish State will happen. He predicted that the world would rebel against His will. This prediction is coming true! Dominating the conflict is the two state solution. God says one state and the enemies say two states. Part of the conflict is the annexing of Judea and Samaria. Netanyahu wants to annex the land and the enemies do not want that to happen.

This unity government will most likely fail. The coronavirus is driving the Israeli government to work out their problems. The new government formed to deal with the virus and challenges in Israel. This conflict will eventually cause the annexing of Judea and Samaria.

Another conflict is Iran! Iran is currently running war operations in Yemen through a proxy group called the Houthis. Part of the goal is to use the Red Sea to launch operations against Israel. 4.8 million barrels of crude oil is shipped through the southern shipping lanes of the Red Sea. “The National Interest wrote that the Bab el-Mandeb is the world’s most dangerous shipping lane. More than half of that trade sailed into the Mediterranean Sea and into Europe and North America. Think about the consequences of Iran shutting down this key maritime passage.”

“On March 3, the Saudi-led coalition intercepted a small fleet of four fishing boats on the Arabian Sea, one of which was packed with explosives. But there was something odd about these vessels: There was no crew. The boats were controlled remotely. These aquatic suicide drones were intercepted as they attempted to target an oil tanker 90 miles off Yemen’s southern coast in the Arabian Sea.” The goals of Iran and Yemen are to control two very important choke points, the Strait of Hormuz (Persian Gulf) and the “Bab-el-Mandeb is a strait located between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. It connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.” The threats have increased over the last 24 hour because of this speech given in Iran:

What Iran’s severe virus crisis might mean for its threat to the region. March 31, 2020. Times of Israel. “The confluence of hard-hitting sanctions on the country and Iran’s floundering theocracy frustrated an adequate response to the pandemic, according to most accounts, but the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, knows who to blame: Genies. And Americans. Khamenei’s March 22 speech marking Nowruz, the Persian New Year, has spooked regime watchers inside and outside the country. He blamed the pandemic on the demons identified in the Quran as “Jinn,” known as genies in Western lore, and the American intelligence services working in tandem.”

“It’s an alarming prospect: If Khamenei truly believes that the CIA is working hand in hand with demons to engage in biowarfare against Iran, he may see fit to respond in kind. And any response would likely bring in Israel, the closest American ally in the region.” Add to this a speech from Yemen: “Houthi Politician Abd Al-Wahhab Al-Mahbashi: The Jews, U.S. Are Behind Coronavirus Pandemic; We Should Unite in Jihad against the Jews; Enmity towards Them Is an Identifying Characteristic of Muslims.” Across the Middle East Muslims are crying out for war against Israel and the USA.

The Houthi politician went on to say this: “The only path is the path to Jerusalem, the path of Jihad against the Jews. This is the path that will sort out all the other movements and guide them in one direction – the direction of enmity towards the Jews. Enmity towards them is the number one criterion for the believing [Muslims]. Tell me who your enemy is and I will tell you who you are. If the Jews are your number one enemy, then you are a believing [Muslim]. If they are not your enemy, then that changes what you are. Allah says: ‘You shall find the people strongest in enmity towards the believers to be the Jews.’ Anyone who sees the Jews as friends cannot consider himself to be a believer. That virus that has spread all over the world – the Jews are behind it. The Americans are behind it. It is not us saying this. It was said by the people who were the first to be afflicted by this plague: the Chinese.”

As you can see, the world is in conflict over this virus but it is also being used to call for war between nations. Jesus said, wars and rumor of wars! President Trump just tweeted this regarding the threats of Iran (Wed.4/1): “Upon information and belief, Iran or its proxies are planning a sneak attack on US troops and/or assets in Iraq. If this happens, Iran will pay a heavy price indeed!” Israel also struck Syria this afternoon, claiming that the Iranians are the target. The US moved two aircraft carrier groups into the Middle East: USS EISENHOWER & USS TRUMAN.

There is a power build up in the Middle East for a preemptive strike against Iran. The specific threats include the American Embassy in Baghdad and the shipping lanes at the southern end of the Red Sea. Europe is beginning to respond to Tehran’s meddling in the Red Sea. “On January 30, the first French frigate began patrolling the Persian Gulf as part of Europe’s new anti-Iran naval mission, supported by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. This is just the beginning. Expect Europe to become more involved in this region.”

The EU formed a Red Sea council in February to handle the problem. Several nations signed on.
EU had “grave concerns” about threats from Houthi rebels and the smuggling of Iranian weapons to them. “Speaking on behalf of the EU, we obviously deplore any attempts to destabilize the area around the Red Sea.” Leave it to the EU to tackle the problem with another council.

This leads me to the Ezekiel prophecy and the eventual close relationship between Iran and Russia. In Iran, there is a movement that threatens the Islamic State. It is nationalism! Persian nationalism has been attacked by the Islamic State, beat down, threatened, but nothing has worked. Nationalists have a symbol they call the Paisley which goes back to 500BC. Listen to this quote from an article about Persian nationalism:

Imagining a path to beyond the clerical regime in Iran.
March 4, 2020 David Wurmser “Beneath all the Islam, the paisley remains the essence of the nation. The two coexist, but are always in some tension, especially since those who champion the Islamic overlay fear the resilience and authenticity of the non-Islamic historic core.” Notice this weird fact: Israel celebrates Cyrus king of Persia and Islamic leaders in Iran hate Cyrus. The Islamist’s have to stay silent about Cyrus because of the love for Cyrus among the people. It really chafed the leaders of Iran when Israel made a coin with King Cyrus and President Trump on a coin celebrating Jerusalem. The nationalists in Iran cheered. Ikes!

There are several possibilities from this existing problem:
First, Iran could use war to tamp down the nationalist surge. With so much pressure on Iran from US sanctions and the coronavirus, this is a logical move. Secondly, the nationalists could overthrow the Islamist leaders and join Nationalist Russia in an attack on Israel. I do not see this as very likely since the nationalists in Iran like Israel. Third, a civil war could erupt in Iran and war with Israel would be the only thing that could put a lid on the fight. Iran is heading towards some type of showdown in the Middle East and the question is will it be within their own borders or an attack on Israel? Encouraging Persian nationalism at the expense of Islam is the mood of the nation at this time. Wurmser went on to say: “Another of the most visited internal pilgrimage sites in Iran recently has been the grave in Hamadan of the Jewess Queen Esther (of the biblical Jewish Purim story) and her uncle Mordechai. Iranians believe her to have been either the daughter-in-law to, married to, or the mother of, Cyrus.”

The Islamists have been threatening to destroy the tomb to Esther and it has made most of the nation irate. Thank God that His providence over Persia during the days of Esther is the same providence that covers us in this current crises! The Gog Magog prophecy will happen, its fascinating that God is making it so hard on the Iranians to accomplish their evil Islamic will! AS the Iranian regime gets weaker and weaker internally, the more dangerous the regime becomes.

In June of 2015, the Pope wrote that he wanted “a global entity to wrest control from local governments.” The call for global government because of coronavirus is increasing and that fits the end times scenario God set forth in scripture. Watch and wait for the Lord to move in this situation but do not be surprised if American sovereignty is attacked. They will say that global climate change is a global problem like coronavirus. They will use global climate change to usher in global government. It has to happen sometime—is it time? What is happening now is the set up for the end time global government. Here are two verses to give you hope.

Habakkuk 2:14 “For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” As a student of God’s Word, the coronavirus , locust plague, earth quakes, the wars, rumors of wars among the nations who are ready to attack Israel on its northern border, are all the signs Jesus said to look for when he returns for his bride, the Church of Jesus Christ. Pray this verse from Psalms to give you hope!
Psalm 72:19, And blessed be His glorious name forever; and may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen. This is my prayer today, that God will get glory from this world crises. Pray with me that churches will be open for Easter/Passover because Jesus is our Passover sacrificed for us, therefore let us enjoy the feast!
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Prophecy Update: Psalm 80: Our Current Crises and Israel! 3/26/20

Christians should have reason to be thankful for the confirmation of Scripture. The recent troubles shed light on the faithfulness and glory of God and His Word. I have no doubt that the current troubles that the world experiences is directly linked to the refusal of nations to bow to Gods will regarding Israel. Refusing to declare Judea and Samaria sovereign Israeli territory will bring more judgment from God. As God judged Israel during the dispersion, so He will judge the nations for their rebellion! Since the Romans destroyed the temple in 70 A.D., the Jews have been scattered across the globe, but mostly in Europe. Our text in Psalm 80:1 says, “Oh, give ear, Shepherd of Israel” You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who are enthroned above the cherubim, shine forth!” Jacob said as much in Ge.48:15 when he said, “The God before whom my father’s Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day” and Psalm 28:9, “Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; Be their shepherd also, and carry them forever.” As Christians, it is special to declare that our God is a shepherd. Jesus said as much in Matthew 26:31 when He quoted Zechariah 13:7, Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, And against the man, My Associate,” Declares the LORD of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered; And I will turn My hand against the little ones.”

Jesus quoted this verse to describe what was to happen as He went to the cross. Today, I am looking at the Psalm 80 passage as a description of how Jesus, the Shepherd of Israel is sovereignly moving the nations into position for the day when Israel possesses all of the land of Israel. Unfortunately, the majority of so called churches in the past have declared that Israel does not have a shepherd! Here are a few quotes from Jews who experienced great persecution among so called Christian Europe: Joseph Ha-Kohen was a Rabbi in Avignon, wrote a book in 1496 called the ‘Valley of Tears.’ It is a history of his people from the destruction of the Temple to his time. It is a book described by David Baron as the record of an “almost unbroken chain of unparalleled sufferings, a chronicle of massacres, oppressions, banishments, fiendish tortures, spoliations and degradations which have been inflicted upon the Jews for the most part by so called Christian Nations.” While Israel is scattered, the righteous hand of Gods judgment is summarized for us in Psalm 80:4, O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry with the prayer of Your people?

Another Jewish historian Samuel Usque in the sixteenth century said, “To which part of the world shall I turn to find healing for my wound, forgetfulness for my pain, and comfort for my heavy, unbearable sufferings? Among the riches and enjoyments of Asia I find myself a heavy laden pilgrim. In Sun burnt Africa, rich with gold, I am a wretched, starving exile. And thou, Europe, my hell on earth! What shall I say about thee? How shall I praise thee, vicious warring Italy? Like a hungry lion hast thou fed on the torn flesh of my lambs! Ye corrupted French meadows, poisoned grass did my lambs eat on you. Proud barbaric, mountainous Germany, thou hast thrown down and broken to pieces my young men from the top of thine Alps” Another Jewish author, Joseph Ibn Verga said, “Europe is as one in their hatred against the Jews, all creatures in heaven and on earth are united in sworn hostility to them.” Not to be outdone though are the many Church Councils that announced judgments and persecutions of the Jews. One example will suffice because Hitler used this nugget of history: Lateran Council of 1215: The whole of Western Christianity was represented by 71 archbishops, 412 bishops, 800 abbots, and a whole host of other dignitaries. They wrote 70 canons and four of them directly impacted the Jews. One of them said, “Henceforth the Jews in all Christendom and in all times were ordained to wear a distinctive dress or badge.” This was humiliating and designed to persecute the Jews because they could easily be identified. Remember the ‘Star of David’ Hitler made the Jews wear? One commentator of this era said, “were the Jews by this badge of degradation given over by the church and the representatives of the Christian religion to shame and reproach for half a millennium.” But the Shepherd of Israel began in the 1600’s several movements of Christians who would defy the church dogma and believe the promises God made in the prophets. Promises that seemed to lay dormant until the late 1800s with the rise of Zionism.

Zionism: “a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. It was established as a political organization in 1897 under Theodor Herzl, and was later led by Chaim Weizmann. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Zionism has come to include the movement for the development of the State of Israel and the protection of the Jewish nation in Israel through support for the Israel Defense Forces.” Israel is a prophet of judgment and a warning to all Christendom. As God moves to fulfill all of His promises to Israel, the Church needs to pray and assist.
Psalm 80:14, “O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech You; Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine.”
Has not God been doing this since 1948? Micah 7:19-20 describes this perfectly: “He will again have compassion on us; He will tread our iniquities under foot. Yes, You will cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. You will give truth to Jacob And unchanging love to Abraham, Which You swore to our forefathers From the days of old.” The unchanging love that Jesus had on Israel during the judgment of the dispersion is now actively fulfilling promises made long ago!

Christian Zionism is the movement among Christians who believe that God is fulfilling His promises as written in the Scriptures regarding the reestablishment of Israel. It teaches that the secular State of Israel is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. In the 1800’s many pastors began to teach that God would fulfill His promises and reestablish the state of Israel. Against all odds, these pastors like Charles Spurgeon, J.C. Ryle, Horatious Bonar, and Dwight L Moody were right. As Jews began to trickle back to Israel they began to do the impossible. “In Britain, politicians such as Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Palmerston, David Lloyd George, and Lord Balfour saw the value of a Jewish state because of the Scriptures. The Jewish Zionist movement also grew, largely due to British Christian leaders such as William Hechler. Zionism eventually gained international recognition through the Balfour Declaration, which in 1917 (during World War I) guaranteed a Jewish homeland in Palestine.” God was on the move! After the Balfour Declaration was proclaimed the next year a pandemic broke out all over the world, the Spanish Flu. Coincidence? Just as the nations rejected the Balfour Declaration, so the nations are rejecting the move to annex Judea and Samaria which started in 2019! That rejection led to the pandemic: coincidence?

A friend of mine sent me this (Tuesday 3/24/2020): “When Jerusalem was captured back on Dec 11 1917 the British commander was Edmund Allenby, a Christian, who had been praying for the Jews since childhood. He was praying over invading the city and the bloodshed. It would be in Christian control (not Arab) for the first time since Nebuchadnezzar burned the city in 586 BC. (almost 25 Centuries) He read Isaiah 31:5 “like birds flying over The Lord of Host will defend Jerusalem”. It dawned on him to fly airplanes over Jerusalem. The Turks ran from the city and Allenby (some interpret -God-sent) captured Jerusalem without firing a shot. Not a bomb dropped, and not a drop of blood shed. Before his troops entered the city he read that verse to them. Of course after that the Balfour Declaration & the one day prophecy (Isaiah 66:8) May 14, 1948.” It is not out of the realm of possibility that God would use the coronavirus to drive the circumstances so that Israel gets all of her land back. The prophecies will not be complete until He does. That brings me to today: the coronavirus broke out after the World Court and International Criminal Court threatened Benjamin Netanyahu with war crimes if he annexed Judea and Samaria. Coincidence? The Israeli government is in conflict. The Blue and White party has lost their minds. Here is why–

“They are working feverishly to cobble together a radical government with the post-Zionists in Labor-Meretz and the anti-Zionists in the Joint List. All of which will be hard-pressed to work with the Trump administration.” This is a civil war of ideas: those who believe that God is giving the land to Israel and those who do not want to take the land. The Blue and White party act like the ten spies of Numbers 14—no faith, no courage, and no heart for God and His ways. They agree with the UN, Russia, China, EU, and all of the Muslim nations that want to drive the Jews into the sea! Since 1948, every time the pacifists get control, war ensues. I pray that the Israeli Zionists take control of the country and obey God by annexing all of the land of Israel. It is going to happen. The Shepherd of Israel teaches us that the dispersion was a testimony to both Gods righteous judgment and preserving love. Psalm 80:6 says, “You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.” There is no doubt that God preserved Israel while they have suffered as no other group. They did survive though and ended up in the land God promised them. That is a miracle and God pictures this preservation in Psalm 80:19, “O LORD God of hosts, restore us; Cause Your face to shine upon us, and we will be saved.”

Amos 9:14-15 is a prophecy that is being fulfilled as I write this blog. It says, “Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them; They will also plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit. I will also plant them on their land, And they will not again be rooted out from their land Which I have given them, Says the LORD your God.” Israel is at this moment considering a bill to annex the settlements in Judea and Samaria. It is the next step in the fulfillment of the prophecies. (this movement to annex started last April)
God said they would come back as a nation and it happened in 1948. God said that they would control Jerusalem and it happened in 1967. God said they would possess and rebuild the ancient cities in the mountains of Israel, that has not happened fully yet. I remember back in 2000 Camp David Summit, when ‘Ehud Barak the leftist offered PLO chief Yasser Arafat Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Temple Mount, as well as the Golan Heights to Syrian dictator Hafez Assad.’ I remember Bill Clinton hailing the peace deal as a great deal for the Israeli’s. I remember thinking that Clinton and Barak are crazy and disobeying the scriptures—God did not allow that foolishness to go forward. He will not allow the foolishness of the Blue and White party to go forward.

Here is why—Ezekiel 36:1-2, And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD. ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’
First, God hears what the nations are saying about the ancient cities. The UN and Palestinian Authority are in lock step saying that Hebron is not a Jewish city, David never lived there, it was never the capitol city of Israel under David, and that the tomb of the patriarchs is Muslim not Jewish. God will conquer Hebron and Israel will possess the city—it is going to happen very soon.
Secondly, the taunting, hatred, and cursing of Israel at the UN, EU, and universities of the USA and Europe will be dealt with. God says in Ez.36:6-7, Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have endured the insults of the nations.’ Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, ‘I have sworn that surely the nations which are around you will themselves endure their insults.” I also have endured the constant cursing of Israel from the media. When Nikki Haley went to the UN, I rejoiced because she stood up for Israel like no other American representative at the UN. She exposed the hatred of Israel at the UN. Ezekiel 36:12 says, ‘Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.’

This is very important: God will cause His people Israel to possess the cities. It will not come about by the work of man but the work of God! There are many Hebrews coming from France, USA, and other places soon—where are they going to go in Israel? I think that they will go to the ancient cities—Bethlehem, Hebron, Shechem, Shiloh, Bethel, and Jericho. These cities have Jewish settlements near some of these towns but they are not possessed by Israel—yet!! Satan has organized most nations and most of the world’s press against Israel and against Christianity. The one movement that has remained resolute in its support for Israel and sound Biblical teaching is the loose-knit conglomeration of individuals and groups that form the entity called “Christian Zionism.” I like to think that Christian Zionists are just simple people who believe all that the Prophets foretold. Either you believe the Word of God or you don’t!

Quick fact: Hebron has 1000 Jews and 216,000 Arabs. I pray for the Arabs living in Hebron that they will ask the Lord for His mercy. He will give mercy to those who break their hearts before Him. Soon the prophecy will be fulfilled, what will happen to all of those people? God will not put up with this hatred and war against His land and people forever. The first time that the Lord took the land, it was when the sins of the people who lived there were full. (Genesis 15) After God established the nation of Israel God told them He would kick them out of the land if they did not obey. After the Babylonians took them into captivity the remnant trickled back after the 70 years of captivity (Jeremiah 29:10, Daniel 9), but the Jews lived under the Persians, Greeks, and then Romans until 70AD. Ezra was right when he said in Ezra 9:8-9, “But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage. For we are slaves; yet in our bondage our God has not forsaken us, but has extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us reviving to raise up the house of our God, to restore its ruins and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.” Notice how he says they are slaves. It was like this in Jesus day, they were under the sovereignty of the Romans.

Israel stayed in the dispersion until the late 1800’s as more and more Jews started moving to Israel. This led to the establishment of the Nation of Israel again on the earth. No nation has ever been scattered as a people and then came back as a nation like Israel. It is a miracle and it has never happened before or since! This is why I am so confident that God is going to fulfill His word regarding Israel today. The signs of the times are ripe for fulfillment. Here is a headline that bears out this truth: BIN: As Coronavirus Distracts the World: Israeli Law-Makers Move to Annex Judea-Samaria. “Politicians from Netanyahu’s Likud party have filed a private member’s bill that would immediately apply sovereignty to all Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria reports Makor Rishon.” This was March 19th and since then the enemies of Israel and Gods plan went into action to stop it. They will fail.

What really excites me about Psalm 80 is vs.17-18, “Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself. Then we shall not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.” The Father is going to turn to His Son Jesus and say, it is time. Romans 11: 25-26a says, “For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved.” God will save the nation of Israel, they will come to their Messiah and be saved. Zechariah pictures this time when it tells us how Jesus will come and fight to destroy those who came together to fight Israel. Then in verse 10 He says this amazing thing: “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.” What a day that will be!

There are two key words in Psalm 80, revive and restore. Please add these two words to your prayers as we face the coronavirus tragedy. President Trump said three weeks ago: “Israel is a light to the nations, the land of Israel is the promised land and historic homeland of the Jewish people.” That sent the UN into a tailspin, with their supporters Biden, AOC, Talib, and Sanders and the rest of them. You could hear the howling across the globe. God will make the nations accept this biblical truth. Maranatha!

Prophecy Update: Coronavirus Thoughts? 3/19/20

The coronavirus has caused a worldwide shut down. This is a ramping up of the birth pangs. The book of Revelation tells us that a time is coming when all things will be global. Global government, global economy, global information technology, and global control are becoming more evident in times like this. The spread of this virus was not possible before the modern airline industry. The spread of the coronavirus has caused fear to spread among the nations. As Christians, we do not act in fear. God tells us that part of our witness is to act in courage. Isaiah 41:10 says, “Do not fear for I am with you, do not anxiously look about you for I am your God, I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” When facing global problems, we need a universal answer. Who better than the God of the universe to supply the answer, courage, and hope we need to face this trial! Our nation faced this problem by calling a national day of prayer, which the nation of Israel joined in with us! God promises that our prayers will be heard and acted upon. Ask and you will receive. (Matt.7:7-11) China meant this for evil, God meant it for good!

Let us back up and look at what happened. What is coronavirus, how did it start and could the outbreak grow bigger? Telegraph UK 16 March 2020. “Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that cause disease in animals. Seven, including the new virus, have made the jump to humans, but most just cause cold-like symptoms. The source of the coronavirus is believed to be a “wet market” in Wuhan which sold both dead and live animals including fish and birds. Such markets pose a heightened risk of viruses jumping from animals to humans because hygiene standards are difficult to maintain if live animals are being kept and butchered on site. Typically, they are also densely packed. The virus broke out in December 2019. More than 169,000 cases have been confirmed since the outbreak started, and the death toll has exceeded 6,500. The vast majority of cases are in China, but the virus has spread to more than 100 other countries.” The problem with this quote is that China has not revealed the numbers from their country. Are they honest about it? I say no!! According to this article this week, only 2.6% of the people are dying. It is interesting because these numbers are not consistent. The other thing not stated in this article are the many reports that say the coronavirus is a bioweapon. Sooooo there is a lot of confusion out there concerning this trial. China did not tell the truth in December, sent their people all over the world and spread the disease. They need to be held accountable.

Here is the problem with context, tens of thousands of people are dying from the flu bug. It makes coronavirus look like a pest not a pandemic. “President Donald Trump, seeking to reassure Americans about the novel coronavirus at a Wednesday press conference, said he was “shocked” to learn that the flu kills “from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year in the United States.” So far this flu season, 16,000 Americans have died from flu, according to the CDC.” So let me get this straight—we can have 25,000 people die of the flu bug this season and only 6,500 people have died globally from coronavirus. The numbers do not match with the panic! In February, the CDC said this: “In contrast, at least 29 million people in the U.S. have experienced flu illnesses this season, the CDC estimates. About 280,000 people have been hospitalized so far, and an estimated 16,000 have died, including 105 children.” (These numbers are from early Feb.) Those are real numbers and no one disputes them as they do the coronavirus numbers. To add to the confusion, I heard that as of today, 3/19/20, fifty thousand people have died from the flu bug in the USA. Confusion! Who is the author of confusion? Satan!

On the other hand, and here is where the confusion grows, the European CDC said this: “I don’t think we are dealing with the flu here… this is a virus that is now circulating in a population that has absolutely no immunity to it…. You might have an attack rate that is three times higher than seasonal flu with a mortality rate that is ten times higher. “The most concerning thing about this virus is the combination of infectiousness and the ability to cause severe disease or death. We have not since 1918 — since the Spanish flu — seen a virus that combined those two qualities in the same way.” So you can see that some are expecting the worse! Thanks China!

As I pray about this challenge, the first thing that struck me is that God has a sense of humor. Think about it—the globalists claim that there is no such thing as national borders. If you are for national borders you are a racist. The virus has forced nations to declare their national borders and protect them. One headline said this: Coronavirus: Some Of These 24 European Countries Have Closed Their Borders To Tourists. Forbes Mar 14, 2020. “The pandemic has already prompted almost a dozen of the 26 countries in Europe’s border-free Schengen zone to shut their borders, either fully or partially, to visitors over coming weeks. Thus ending the right to free movement for many of the EU’s 400 million citizens, as well as tourists, business people and foreign residents.” Pres. Trump is calling it the China Virus!

I had to laugh at this headline from Mexico: Report: Mexico Thinking of Closing Border to Shut Off Wuhan Virus Cases from US. 3/16/2020. “Now in an ironic twist, Mexico’s health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell suggested at a press conference that they might employ “restriction” to keep folks coming from the U.S. to Mexico.” The irony is that anyone in America who suggests limiting immigration from Mexico is called a racist. Illegal or otherwise. Side note: calling illegal immigrants legal is another proof of calling evil good and good evil! Panama is banning entry of non-resident foreigners and Honduras closing its borders to passenger traffic for a week. The leaders of Argentina and Peru also announced border closures on Sunday to curb coronavirus. Argentina will close its borders for 15 days to non-residents, President Alberto Fernandez said in a televised press conference.

Whenever I see travel restricted, it means that God is up to something. Why would God restrict people to stay in their own countries? The whole schedule of Americans have been upset, schools canceled, sporting events, restaurants prohibited to open their doors, and churches closing their doors. God has restricted travel and the normal rhythm of life. Why? You now have more time to spend time with Jesus!!

First, God wants the nation to focus on something that is common to all of us. This crisis can bring Americans together or it can divide us further than we already are. The divisions in America are so deep and divisive that no one believes that they can be healed. Will we pull together and face this trial with faith in God or deny God even further. Here is an example of the division:
Mike Pence mocked for praying with coronavirus task force at White House: March 4th 2020. “Vice President Mike Pence received a new round of criticism this week from some on the political left after the White House released a picture of the vice president praying with the coronavirus task force in his West Wing office.” Here is an example of some of the mocking that Christians get for praying to the God of heaven and earth: Dr. Angela Rassmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, also criticized the prayer. “I have yet to attend a scientific meeting that begins in prayer,” she wrote. Angela, that is your problem, if you turned to your creator for help, He is merciful to all who call on Him. The New York Times weighed in with this: Thomas Chatterton Williams, a contributing writer with the New York Times Magazine, shared the photo of Mike Pence praying with the coronavirus task force on Twitter and commented that “we are so screwed.” To make matters even more divisive, the President called a national day of prayer to confront the problem. I was absolutely thrilled, the pagans were apoplectic!

Donald Trump’s National Day of Prayer Call Receives Mixed Reactions: Against Church, State Separation: March 15, 2020. Hold On, Here Comes Horror: Amid the Wuhan Wigout, President Trump Declares Sunday a ‘National Day of Prayer’ March 14, 2020. These two articles show the direct division and what is at stake in America. On one side are believers in the One true God and those who are for freedom of religion, who like it when people pray. On the other side are those who wish to get rid of all prayer in America. They will stop prayer at all sporting events, prayer anywhere in public, prayer in your home. Wait, did I say prayer in your home? Yes, you must recognize that the movement that represents the anti-God, anti-prayer freedom in America is a direct threat to Christianity, Judaism, and freedom of religion in America. I thank God that our community came together in prayer, we prayed for the nation, pastors and Christians gathered to pray for the nation. What China meant for evil God meant for good.

The Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party is anti-God, communists who have killed our brothers and sisters in every country where communism has been tried. He desires to make us into the Soviet Union who killed Christians for believing that there is someone with more authority then the state. Bernie Sanders believes that the state is a higher authority then God the creator. Our rights come from God in America, he wishes to change that. Today, China is experiencing the judgment of God on its nation for persecuting the church and shedding innocent blood. Xi Xingping thinks he is God, he is reaping the whirlwind from the Sovereign of the Universe. Xi is rewriting the Bible in honor of his god Mao, he is killing pastors, he is destroying churches, he made Bible study illegal, and he is filling his concentration camps with anyone who believes in an authority higher than the state. America is at a crossroads—do we want the communists to rule or do we want God fearing people who stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

God wants us to focus on Him and our nation showed Him that we will not come together to do that. I am thankful for all the people who prayed and bowed the knee to our true King who is King of Kings on Sunday. It revealed that we are truly a nation divided and this virus will make the fissure larger. Why has God sent the fissure, the division in America? He sent it to further the divide. Matt.18:7 says, “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks for it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come, but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes.” If we suppose that the divisions of the past 20 years, between left and right are the stumbling blocks that have caused this current crises, and that left and right have sinned against a holy God, and that this virus is an occasion given to us to come together, in Gods providence haven’t we proven to God that we will not come together in belief and trust in Him?

Have we not shown the God of the Universe and Jesus His king that we will not repent of killing babies in the womb, give up hatred of Israel, put prayer back in schools, and humbly bow before Him. I call on the Supreme Court to meet this week and overturn Roe vs. Wade, the stumbling block that has caused the hand of Almighty God to pressure us and force us to make a decision. Has not Gods judgment been light—merciful towards us? If we do not repent, then the hand of God will put more pressure on us. I call on the Supreme Court to disavow and throw down the decision to throw prayer out of public schools. I call on the Supreme Court to reverse the decision to declare that Jerusalem is not Jewish.

I still cannot believe they did this, here are the details: Zivotofsky v. Kerry, 576 U.S. 1059 (2015), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the President has the exclusive power to recognize (or not recognize) foreign nations, and, therefore, Congress may not require the State Department to indicate in passports that Jerusalem is part of Israel. What happened is that a couple had a baby in Jerusalem so they wanted to put on their birth certificate and passport that he was born in Jerusalem, Israel. John Kerry and President Obama objected and said that Jerusalem is not in Israel. They rejected the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy act and the 2002 decision of the congress to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the embassy to Jerusalem. Only President Trump had the courage to tell the truth that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Now all of the presidential contenders want to reverse this decision and declare that Jerusalem is not Jewish. Pay attention to this: since Biden and Sanders said they would move the embassy back to Tel Aviv, are they not putting the country in more danger of the anger of God!
Zechariah 12 is very clear that God will not put up with this behavior of nations and will bring His heavy hand of judgment.

Lastly, the Supreme Court needs to repent and overturn the decisions they made to advance immorality in our nation: especially the gay marriage decision. Overturn these decisions this week and you will see the blessing of God. In Amos 4 God sent a series of 5 medicinal judgments to Israel and kept asking them to repent. Each time they refused and he said to them five times, “Yet, you did not return to Me.” The last judgment was the final judgment and God said, “Prepare to meet your God.” We have had many chances to repent as a nation and each time the nation has refused. Individuals have repented, but the repentance is incomplete because the Supreme Court will not overturn their evil decisions. When they do that the repentance will be complete. Churches have had prayer meetings and the many people have repented, God has been merciful to America and has not sent the full weight of His righteous wrath. America should be thanking the faithful Christians for the delay in His wrath. The Coronavirus is an opportunity, pray and repent for the nation. Daniel did this in Dan.9, he prayed in a way that we all can learn from. Take some time to pray for America the way Daniel prayed for Israel. It will bless your socks off!!

Prophecy Update: Israeli Elections and the Sovereignty of God 3/11/20

Isaiah: 34:8, For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

I want to focus this update on the Israeli elections. These elections are telling us a lot about the drive towards the one world government, the fight over Jerusalem, and the eventual victory coming to Israel over her enemies.

The key verse is Isaiah 34:8, have you noticed that God has a lot to say regarding the ‘cause of Zion.’ This cause is talked about in many places and God is very clear about what He wants in Israel. The cause of Zion includes the regathering of Jews to Israel, the possession of all of the land of Israel, the establishment of Jerusalem as the capitol of the world, the attitude of God towards Jerusalem, and the battle that will commence over these issues. As we talk about the election, keep in mind that God has sovereignly upset the whole political class of Israel for His own purposes. One of which is to direct the circumstances so that Israel will gain more of her land. One big dispute in the election is the annexing of the land. Many of the political class want to follow the world and push a two state solution. God says there is only one state with defined Israeli borders. God will get His way in this, I promise you, and we are watching a biblical drama playing out in front of our eyes.

4 takeaways from Netanyahu’s decisive 3rd election victory: by Alex Traiman , JNS Published on 03-04-2020. “Once again, Israel’s overly vibrant hyper-democracy has proven, by a definitive 20-mandate victory, that after 11 years at the helm it is only the voters that still want Netanyahu to be their leader.” As I read this article I could not help think of two biblical stories. First, Jesus said that a country divided against itself could not stand. Israel is divided by leaders who hate each other and will do anything, and I mean anything to prevent Netanyahu from staying in power. The second story is the 12 spies. Israel resembles the 10 spies who said we will not take the land, we will not fight, there are giants in the land and we cannot win. The two leaders who lived by faith in the living God said the opposite. The whole political class in Israel are like the ten spies who God punished for their lack of faith. The two faithful ones are those who live in the settlements, who take the land God commanded them to occupy, who endure the insults of the nations for living in Judea and Samaria. The article points out some interesting facts.

“Benjamin Netanyahu won a decisive victory over his challengers. Garnering 36 mandates is the best-ever showing for the embattled prime minister over a span of nine different elections in which he ran at the head of the Likud Party. The 20-mandate gap (59-39) represents a landslide victory for Netanyahu and his supporters over the direct and secondary supporters for Gantz.”
As you can see, this was the most decisive win Netanyahu has ever had, but the press talked about one thing and only this—that Netanyahu would not be able to form a government. In the parliamentary style government that Israel follows, you need 61 mandates to form a government. The article goes on to tell us why Netanyahu will not form a government.

“The 20-mandate gap (59-39) represents a landslide victory for Netanyahu and his supporters over the direct and secondary supporters for Gantz. Despite the outsized gap, the total currently leaves Netanyahu precariously two seats shy of a 61-seat parliamentary majority prior to the start of upcoming coalition negotiations. Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation as Defense Minister in November 2018, and the removal of his six-seat hawkish Yisrael Beytenu Party from Netanyahu’s previously stable 67-seat right-wing majority government served as a major catalyst in setting early elections into motion. While Lieberman is almost singlehandedly preventing Netanyahu from forming a new government, like the Arab parties, he, too, is holding Israel’s political system hostage and ignoring the results of the elections.”
It is clear that among Netanyahu’s supporters, some are jealous of all that he has been able to accomplish. Netanyahu has reigned over the greatest economic and political boom in their history (starting in 1948). This has caused some who have always supported him to become enemies. This does not happen in a vacuum. In God’s sovereign purpose, this friction is causing Israel to reevaluate their priorities. Will they annex their land or not?

When Israel annexed Jerusalem and the Golan Heights they received scorn and ridicule from the world but God blessed those decisions. Every time that Israel divided the land, God cursed the decision. My heart has been broken so many times watching Israel divide her land and following the world, not the Holy One of Israel! I was dumbfounded when Israel gave Bethlehem to Yassir Arafat—I was so heartbroken over it—a tragedy of epic proportions. Our own nation has been impacted by dividing the land. When we forced Jews out of Gaza, God sent Katrina to our shores. When we put pressure on Israel to sign a land for peace deal, God sent planes to destroy the twin towers. When will we ever learn that God is serious about His land, He does not want anyone to divide the land! Netanyahu promised to annex the Jordan Valley and all of the settlements but has not done it yet. Do it!!! Tell the world to take a hike and get the job done, God will bless the faith and obedience.

Did you notice that the Democratic party lashed out at Netanyahu when he made the promise. Here is a headline: Senators Sanders, Warren push resolution decrying PM’s West Bank annexation idea, Move by group of Democrats an apparent warning to Netanyahu, who has recently spoken in favor of extending Israeli law to all settlements.
Satan hates Israel getting her land. So the enemies of Israel lashed out. Those enemies include Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden. God says in Zechariah 1:17, Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the LORD will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.” Zech.2:12, “The LORD will possess Judah as His portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.” Zech.8:2, “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’ (God says He is jealous for Jerusalem three times in Zechariah) God has been giving Israel prosperity and success in their cities, out of His grace, even though they still have not obeyed Him regarding the rest of the land. What is God’s attitude, He is exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and His land. Let me describe for you the fight going on in Israel between those who want to give all of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians and Netanyahu’s party:

“Blue and White pasted major billboards likening Netanyahu to Turkey’s Islamic dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claiming that Netanyahu is subverting democratic principles by attempting to use his continued premiership as a get out of jail free card for three separate corruption cases that are tentatively scheduled to begin on March 17.” The enemies of God’s will regarding the land have called Netanyahu a dictator. The false charges against him are all an attempt by the George Soros crowd, the one-world nuts, and the left to keep Israel from annexing the land. That is the bottom line: the world does not want to see Israel take all of her land! Erdogan wants a million man Muslim army to come to Israel and kill every Jew in the land—that is who they compare Netanyahu with? This is sick behavior from people who want to run the government. The enemies of Israel will try to exploit this weakness that they perceive in Israel at this time. Israel is not ready for the attack that is coming in this time of division. Israel has Arab members of the Knesset that believe and preach: Israel should not exist! Israel should not be Jewish! Israel needs to be destroyed! How can a country accept parliament members who are traitors? The Blue and White Party wants to join hands with these Arabs in the Joint Arab List. That would be a disaster for Israel. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

The battle between Netanyahu and the Democrats is exacerbated by the hatred of the land of Israel. Bernie sanders said this: “Sanders did not just politely decline his invitation to address AIPAC; he issued a statement attacking the organization for giving a platform to far-right figures, including evangelical pastors and nationalist European politicians, who “express bigotry and oppose basic Palestinian rights.” He branded Netanyahu a “reactionary racist.” According to Sanders if you are for the land of Israel going to Jews, you are a racist. Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, fired back Sunday at the conference, calling Sanders “a liar, an ignorant fool or both.” Netanyahu himself addressed conference attendees via video, saying Sanders’s charges were “libelous.” AIPAC prides itself for being neutral politically, but that is not possible with Democrats who favor the destruction of the Jewish state and who think Zionism is racist. Sanders went on to say that Ilhan Omar is ‘one of the greatest people I know.’ Omar is an anti-Semite bent on the destruction of Israel and she represents the Democratic Party and their view of Israel today. Is it any wonder that Newsweek reported that “Muslim voters love Bernie Sanders.”

The last few weeks I have seen articles claiming that war is going to break out between Israel and Jordan, Hamas, Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Iran. Rather than quoting from these articles, let me say that the war birds are in the air. The Jordan and Israel relationship is at an all-time low over the annexation of land Jordan deems their own. The Jordan Valley is disputed by Jordanian leaders, some of those leaders have advocated open warfare with Israel over the land. Soon, Israel will annex all of Judea and Samaria, including parts of Edom and Moab, and Jordan will submit to Israel: It is biblical prophecy. Isaiah 11:14 says, They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west; Together they will plunder the sons of the east; They will possess Edom and Moab, And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.” This prophecy predicts that Gaza and most of Jordan will be taken over by Israel. I cannot wait for this to happen. Until then, the deep state will start killing, attacking, any who wish to stop the deep state from their goal of crushing dissent—including pro-Israel pro-Jesus people. Here is an article about that.

Republican lawmakers sound alarm over death of DHS whistleblower Philip Haney: 3/10/20. ‘He was murdered’ Counter-terrorism expert Philip Haney was murdered for what he was warning America over militant Islam. During the Obama Administration, Haney was attacked because of his warnings. They ordered him to delete 850 pages of documentation regarding the threat to America from militant Islam. He said in 2009, “DHS ordered me to scrub records of Muslims with terror ties.” Haney called this the first purge. A second purge happened in 2011, targeting those warning America. Haney came under scrutiny and threatened, driven out of government. Obama attacked anyone standing against militant Islam. Obama called the policy ‘Engagement and Dialogue’ this has proved to be disastrous. You remember that the Obama administration gave lip service to Islamic attacks on Americans, blaming others but not Islam. Haney wrote a book called ‘See Something, Say Nothing.’ The deep state works with these Islamic groups and hates those who stand in their way. Here are some quotes:
Two Republican lawmakers — Reps. Louie Gohmert (Texas) and Steve King (Iowa) — are sounding the alarm over the death of Philip Haney, the former Homeland Security official turned whistleblower during the Obama administration. March 9, 2020– “Phil often said, ‘I would never commit suicide,'” King explained, adding that he was a good friend of Haney’s. “I’d been concerned about his safety, with all the information he knew and people who could’ve gotten in trouble.” Gohmert said. “We had a mutual pact. It said: Either one of us ended up committing suicide, then the other is going to make sure that the truth wins out.” This man had firsthand knowledge of many of the Democrats involved with Islamic terror. He was killed for what he knew and for helping the Trump Administration to go after those traitors. His work was obliterated by Obama, although he identified 300 terror suspects. Remember the Boston marathon attack, Orlando and San Bernadino attacks by Islamic terrorists who Obama tried to protect and said were not terrorism. Haney exposed the ties with Muslim Brotherhood members in the USA who were protected by Obama. Haney went to congress with his info. This infuriated Obama, and now the deep state is killing some of those who are a great threat. Obama claimed Haney violated the rights of the terrorists. Haney said he was “investigated nine times, for the violation of civil rights and liberties and privacy rights of foreign nationals.” Under Obama the US government submitted to the goals of Jihad.
Much of the information that I am giving you is from the movie, sabotagethemovie.com, that you can watch free. It is about the work of the Muslim Brotherhood in America. I think this battle in America is about stopping America’s support for Israel. If Trump were not elected, the Brotherhoods goals would have been met in Hilary Clinton. Both Netanyahu and Trump are being attacked because of the support of Israel getting her land, and being against the two state fiction. God is moving the circumstances to accomplish His goals in the world. The goal of possessing the land of Israel and the important cities which God promises will be inhabited by Jews is inevitable! The conditions on the ground are ripe for war, anarchy, and conflict.

I hope Isaiah 26:8-9 will be a comfort to your heart, it says: “Indeed, while following the way of Your judgments, O LORD, We have waited for You eagerly; Your name, even Your memory, is the desire of our souls. At night my soul longs for You, Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently; For when the earth experiences Your judgments The inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.”

I hope that you are waiting for the LORD with great expectancy-He is at work and doing a great job accomplishing all that He said He will do! Does your soul long for the living God? The promise that God gives is that the world will learn the reason for judgments—His righteousness. The world has a habit of rejecting the Lords righteousness—let us trust that God will get it done!