HEADLINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH - PROPHECY UPDATE



Date 3/11/16? PROPHECY UPDATE NEWS HEADLINESYesterday's Prophecies - Today's HeadlinesHEADLINES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH?TRACKING BIBLE PROPHECY missile tests, UN urges Iran act with restraint, 'good sense'Russia to ship first S-300 missile system to Iran in summer U.S. plans to publicly blame Iran for dam cyber breachSaudi could 'turn page' if Iran changes policiesHundreds attend Jewish immigration conferenceNew Report Documents 'Serious' Antisemitism Across UK CampusesIsraeli Holocaust survivor confirmed as world's oldest man at 112Poll: Only 8 percent of Israelis think gov't is doing enough to combat terrorismEgypt discovers enormous tunnels coming from GazaIsrael Is Building a Secret Tunnel-Destroying WeaponSecurity cabinet approves completion of barrier around JerusalemIsrael shutters Palestinian radio station for incitement in overnight raid Obama sees Netanyahu as most disappointing of all Mideast leaders - reportIndyk: Two-state solution may be dying on Obama's watchReport: Abbas rejects US peace initiativeThe UN is failing. 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TODAY'S NEWSLETTER...?Featured Articles: Kings and Prophets?Policy of "terror containment" puts soldiers behind sandbags in Israeli cities??Iran's Tested Ballistic Missiles Adorned with Hebrew Message: Destroy Israel??Governing your enemies is the price you pay to be free??Watchman Warning: Israel and the Front Runners?Who Is to Blame for The Rape Epidemic That Is Sweeping Across Europe???Daily Jot: Shooting to kill and the Police State?Daily Devotion: No Longer on the Outside???Kings and Prophets - By Steve Schmutzer - ?? ?I believe God pays close attention to the ways of kings and prophets. There is a direct relationship between the moral condition of a nation and the choices of its political and spiritual leaders.? ??We seldom use the terms "kings" and "prophets" anymore, but these institutions of leadership still continue in God's eyes. The political office of "king" has been replaced by titles like "president" and "prime minister," and by institutions like the Congress, Senate, or Parliament. The spiritual office of "prophet" continues today in the roles of pastors, priests, ministers, and clergy.??In the Old Testament, God's people were familiar with both offices, and it was not uncommon that good prophets served the Jewish nation during the reign of bad kings. For example, the prophet Samuel served during the reign of Saul, Elijah served during Ahab, Jeremiah during Jehoiakim, and so on.?? ??When the political leaders dropped the ball, the ministry of God's prophets kept spiritual accountability in the mix. As long as the prophets said and did what God told them to say and do, the national condition was never completely hopeless. Things could get really bad, and sometimes did-yet God's loyal prophets could prompt a carnal generation to turn completely around.??But the Scriptures show that kings of early history seldom tolerated being told their choices were wrong. Those who did tell them such things were killed. And so these kings were predictably surrounded by bootlickers: People who flattered them, appeased them, and let the kings have their way. I must say as I look around now, things haven't changed much. The human condition is now as it was then.?Those biblical conditions were perilous for anyone who dared to speak the truth, because unlike the ubiquitous "yes-men," the true prophets of God were never mindless acolytes. God's prophets embodied courage. They were the conscience of the nation. They said what needed to be said to whomever most needed to hear it - even if it was not "politically correct" to do so.? ?A story from the Bible that illustrates this tension is one featuring King Ahab. The King sought Elijah, and when he found him Ahab asked:?"Is that you, you troubler of Israel?" Ahab had a wide blind spot, so Elijah opened his eyes, "I have not made trouble for Israel, but you and your father's family have. You have abandoned the Lord's commands...." ( 1 Kings 18:17-18).? ?Elijah's words were straight to the point, but the medicine of truth is most effective when it's not sugared. Remarkably, Ahab repented (1 Kings 21:27).?? Somewhere deep, buried under the layers of his pride and arrogance, Ahab knew Elijah was spot on. When a prophet responsibly declares the Word of God and divides right from wrong, good from bad, wisdom from foolishness, and truth from lies, the Holy Spirit will minister to proper effect-even to an arrogant and corrupt king.??It's also true that a plain declaration of God's Word can result in repentance from an entire group of people. Remember Ninevah? God granted His mercy and withheld His wrath when a clear message of pending judgment was responsibly delivered to the city. Again, the simple truth had profound effect. When things are said that should be said, it acts as a preserving agent.?But what happens when the king and his nation need to be confronted and be told they are no longer honoring God's commands, but the prophets do not do this? What happens when the prophets stay silent, look the other way, dilute the necessary message or even support the king's misconduct?? ?In other words, what becomes of a nation when its political and spiritual leaders are both woefully ineffective? It's not an encouraging picture, and regrettably I believe this is the picture that defines America today.??The prophetic voice that's most needed in this country right now is one that holds firm to the Word of God, one that boldly confronts sin, and one that ignores the suffocating tentacles of the PC police to "call a spade a spade." Political correctness is seldom a friend of sound doctrine, so placating those who predictably cry, "Foul!" is only guaranteed to dull the edge of the sword of the Spirit.??And this is important to consider because two alarming situations have developed for us: one from the kings and the other from the prophets. Kings lead by power and law since these things are necessary to preserve order in a society. But the kings have mishandled their power and ignored the rules. Order is now collapsing, and so is our civilized culture.? ??On the other hand, prophets lead by truth and example because these things are necessary to preserve God's standards. But the prophets have diluted the truth and eroded their calling. God's standards are disintegrating as entire bodies of believers now doubt the fundamentals of the faith.?? ??However, forget the bad kings for a moment, because let's be honest here; ineffective kings have always been around, and it's categorically foolish to try to legislate our country's path to spiritual renewal. That's not where the spotlight should be. That's not the change that's most urgently needed.? ??The turnaround that's most needed in this country right now is from those within the church. To gain this, today's prophets must plainly declare the warnings of Scripture from the pulpit. They must confront sin by God's standards and not by the ideals of humanist agendas. They must teach what God's Word says and not what they wish it said.??They must deal with the entirety of the Bible and not just portions of it. They must give wide berth to the impotent themes of popular culture and emphasize instead the potency of unpopular truth. But, these things are hardly happening, and the net effect is the salt is losing its flavor (Matt. 5:13). It's na?ve to believe the Church's present choices and values are not contributing to God's judgments on our nation.??My words here will likely upset the crowd that wants their church to be attractive to the lost. They will probably offend the ranks of those who wish to constantly draw attention to the positive? benefits of the Christian life. But enticing the lost is not what saves them any more than sipping doctrine through a straw provides a strong biblical foundation. The fact is it's much easier to tickle itchy ears with milky devotionals of mutual cooperation than to incur the bruises of a meaty confrontation (2 Tim. 4:3-4).??? ??We're in a tight spot. Our kings are high-fiving themselves for every step they take away from virtue, and our prophets are patting themselves on the back for every step they take toward apostasy. The first group cares little for the truth about responsibility, and the second group cares little about responsibly telling the truth.?? ??In the movie, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson's character thundered, "You can't handle the truth!" I feel many of today's prophets can't handle the truth; that they are enabling our nation's shameful state of affairs. So we euphorically sing about new generations rising up with selfless faith to near revivals, but that's only willful pretense.??It's not reality-not here, anyway. A "new generation" in the U.S. is departing from the truth in record numbers. The Barna Group, a leading research organization, says less than one-half of one percent of Christians between the ages of 18-23 have a biblical worldview, defined as believing:?*? Absolute moral truth exists.*? The Bible is completely inerrant.*? Satan is a real being, and not symbolic.*? A person cannot earn his or her way into the kingdom of God though good works.*? Jesus Christ was God incarnate and lived a sinless life on earth.*? God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and reigns over the entire universe today.?This problem with our young people is due in large part to the problem with our prophets. Swelling ranks of church leaders no longer believe in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, the deity of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the promises of Jesus Christ, and the return of Jesus Christ. Bluntly put, they really don't know Jesus Christ at all!?The abysmal failure of today's prophets recalls the church of Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-22). That church's problems were many, but looming large were its arrogance and self-satisfaction. Though it was in dire need of a genuine faith, the Laodicean church felt it was doing just fine. It failed to see itself accurately, and this describes far too many churches in America today. They are not only turning away from truth, but in thinking more highly of themselves than they ought to. They are also delusional.?? ??The story of Ahab and Elijah introduces a sobering fact: those who turn away from the Word of God invite serious trouble. And when the judgment of God comes (and it will), it will be their own fault.? I believe we're seeing the beginning of the end now.?Some of the readers will undoubtedly close their eyes and place their hands over their ears at this point as they "LaLaLa" their way to their own nirvana. But according to Scripture, five qualities characterize the Church of the latter days. Whether one wishes to accept this or not, it's easy to see the role of today's prophets with these things right here right now:?1. GIVE UP - The church of the latter days will? give up traditional, strong, convicting truth and corrective teachings. It will opt instead for popular themes and approaches that upset nobody, sedate everybody, include anybody, and ignore "Somebody." (2 Tim. 4:3-4) ?2. COUGH UP - The church of the latter days will be rich in resources, and it will cough up money for new buildings, new programs, new salaries, new campaigns, new equipment, and this list is virtually endless. Obsessed with money, the church will meet about it, talk about it, teach about it, pray for more of it, and worry about less of it. (Rev. 3:14-20) ?3. TURN UP - The church of the latter days will? turn-up its nose at prophecy, specifically the literal prophecies surrounding Jesus Christ's second return. Rather than grasping the immense value of prophecy in the believer's life, the church will mock it, doubt it, shun it, twist it, and even ban it.? (2 Thess. 2:5; 2 Pet. 3:3-4) ?4. SET UP - The church of the latter days will? set-up people, practices, and programs to convince itself it is thriving. Rather than measuring itself by God's standards, it will instead embrace false teachers, false signs, false wonders, false faith, and false values.? (Matt. 24:24) ?5.? THROW UP - The church of the latter days will cause God to throw up. He will see it as comprehensively lukewarm, categorically lethargic, and completely lost.? (Rev. 3:16)?A hard fact that emerges from this five-point outline is that responsible prophets speak the full truth while irresponsible ones don't. Because it's the full approach that exposes who we really are and how we're really doing, it is inherently confrontational to what we want to believe about ourselves and the world in which we live. And that's exactly what makes the entire Word of God so vital in tenuous times as these.? ?To underscore this point, let's look at the gospel as an example. The gospel is a popular theme in pulpits today-as it should be. Concurrently, new coalitions are infatuated with it and discussion forums obsess about it. Sermons are manipulated to conform to it. Sunday school curriculums are designed around it, and pressure increases on multiple fronts to interpret every single passage of Scripture by it. Even while all these trends and passions mount, more young people are falling away from it. Something is terribly wrong. We're missing something.?When the angel of Rev. 14:6-7 will declare the "eternal gospel" to the whole world, it's a divinely-mandated disclosure. But it's not the easy-to-swallow, user-friendly, seeker-sensitive delivery of the pabulum we typically hear today. There is no goal in the angel's words to be attractive to the lost. There is no agenda to identify with one group or to avoid offending another. Instead, the message will be in-your-face, confrontational, brief; and by every one of today's tepid standards, it will be "politically incorrect."?? ?And, oh yes-it will also be very effective!?Today's prophets need to see a standard in that angel's message. For starters, the gospel the angel proclaims is comprehensive. It starts with creation and it ends with judgment. That's one way of saying the proper gospel message stretches from Genesis to Revelation. There's no emphasis on the New Testament. There's no focus on promoting Christian community, making the unsaved feel welcome, or developing good neighbor habits. The angel's message is the urgency of the entire Word of God delivered in a take-no-prisoners style.?Secondly, the angel's gospel message leaves no wiggle room. The late Andrew Murray once said, "To convince the world of the truth of Christianity, it must first be convinced of sin. It is only sin that renders Christ intelligible." Let's put Murray's quote another way: "The gospel makes most sense when it is plainly stated alongside a frank declaration of the presence and consequences of sin."? ?That's the sort of gospel message that has always changed lives. But it's difficult to communicate this sort of gospel in churches where genuine preaching is set aside in favor of "having a conversation," where judgment is never mentioned, where sin is seldom defined, and where true remorse is hardly encouraged. Summarily speaking, it's difficult for the prophets to promote repentance when they are not doing their job!?Let's return to our original issue and confess that, yes, kings will fail! And yes, prophets will let us down, too. But we cannot afford protracted, widespread, and willful collapse of essential duties on both fronts at the same time. Unfortunately, that's happening-right now in the good ol' USA!?In these precarious circumstances, the burden of immediate accountability lies with the prophets, who, unlike the kings, claim to conduct their lives with eternal objectives. And if the prophets don't see the situation for what it is; then those they claim to serve should speak out. The bottom line is this: The Church was never commissioned to provide? pulpit pep talks to make the unsaved feel welcome; those "talks" are much more effective at keeping God outside the door.??As long as it's still here, the Church continues to be God's representative on the earth, but it finds itself in a weak spot. Given the graduating spiritual crisis in this country, it's silly to chase popular songs that have zero foundation in reality, and it's recalcitrant to applaud a host of standards which cozy up to Christian culture rather than Christ-likeness.??Till such time as that may come, we are indeed the Laodicean church; we are broken, wretched, and naked. The best thing that can be said about us is we are lukewarm; and by biblical standards-that's absolutely horrible. We defend a premise that isn't and we perpetuate things we shouldn't. We are marinated in a form of godliness but we have no real power (2 Tim. 3:5).?? ??Instead, we celebrate mediocrity, and we despise those who shed any light on the real problems.?? It is critical that we strain our ears and listen for the soft knock that's being drowned out by our own self-indulgent antics. We need to repent and humbly invite God back into our fellowship.?? This is our nation's only hope.?? ?I'll wrap up here by putting these important issues into historical perspective. Alexis De Tocqueville, the French political thinker? from the 1800s once noted of our country:?I looked throughout America to find where her greatness originated. I looked for it in her harbors and on her shorelines, in her fertile fields and boundless prairies, and in her gold mines and vast world commerce, but it was not there. It was not until I went to the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand?? the secret of her success. America is great because she is good, and if America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.? ?Alexis De Tocqueville got it right. There is a direct connection between the health of our nation and the health of our churches. Today's prophets must repent themselves and once again blaze truth from their pulpits.? ?Our nation's prognosis-indeed its very survival depends on this!?Policy of "terror containment" puts soldiers behind sandbags in Israeli cities - ??Israel's city centers will very soon see knots of soldiers armed with special rapid response weapons and gear for scotching Palestinian terrorist attacks before they deteriorate into rampages. Some of them will hide behind sandbag walls. Their deployment reflects the decision to persist in Israel's defensive strategy as articulated in a special security forum summoned by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday and Wednesday, March 8-9, in the face of surging Palestinian terror.?Other members of the forum are Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Public Security Minister Gilead Erdan, Shin Bet Director Yoram Cohen, Police Commissioner Ronnie Alsheikh and assorted security experts and evaluators.?Dubbing its strategy "containment of terror," the forum rejected the more proactive measures suggested by members of the opposition, as well as government members, for cracking down on Palestinians resorting to terror and their supportive environments, by such deterrents as long-term lockdowns of their neighborhoods (in Jerusalem too) and villages, the blockage of internet and cell phone services in Palestinian areas and the deportation of families of terrorists to the Gaza Strip.??One suggestion was to "relocate" to other parts of Palestinian Authority-ruled territory the kinsmen who are complicit in, or have knowledge of, a terrorist's crimes.?All in all, after three Israeli cities were struck by terrorists in a single day, the top decision-making forum on security precluded offensive military action, including the takeover of the Palestinian towns, villages or districts producing terrorists.??? ?The only change discernible Thursday, March 10, was an intensified police sweep for illegal Palestinian workers employed in Israel.?One of the forum's members commented to debkafile: The forum's decision amounts to carrying on as before, except that IDF soldiers will boost the security and police forces in their counter-terror functions.?Other sources maintained that the policymakers are not about to change much, despite the spike in attacks to two or three a day on average, and the increasing use of firearms by the assailants.??It is estimated that a hard core of 200-300 young Palestinian hotheads is orchestrating the violence, whether street disturbances, rocks, firebombs, knifings, car-ramming or drive-by shooting. They use social media for internal communication and for stoking the angry fire that sends Palestinian youths out to seek glory as martyrs by killing Jews.?debkafile's intelligence and counterterrorism experts note that the Netanyahu government has followed a policy of "terror containment" for nearly two years, ever since Hamas kidnapped and murdered three Israel teens at the Gush Etzion intersection on June 12 2014.?While Israelis argue back and forth on methods for putting a stop to the Palestinian violence, its level keeps on rising.? On Wednesday, a Palestinian car with guns poking out of its windows rampaged in the middle of the day through the streets of Jerusalem in search of victims.?"Containment" is no deterrent for terror. After the guns, bombs may be next.Iran's Tested Ballistic Missiles Adorned with Hebrew Message: Destroy Israel - ?"Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully." Psalms 52:4 (The Israel Bible?)?The last time an Iranian official used Hebrew to communicate with Jews was Rosh Hashanah 5776, when President Hassan Rouhani wished a happy new year for the Jewish community all over the world. "May our shared Abrahamic roots deepen respect & bring peace & mutual understanding," Rouhani tweeted, ending his message with the Hebrew phrase "L'Shanah Tovah," meaning "May it be a good year."?This week, though, the Iranians used Hebrew in a radically different context: The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday fired 2 Iranian-made "Qadr H" ballistic missiles from the Eastern Alborz Mountains, as part of ongoing IRGC drills in Central Iran and elsewhere around the country. According to Fars, "One missile had a message written on it that said in Hebrew: 'Israel should be wiped off the Earth.'"?According to Israel Radio, the Hebrew message actually read: "Khayavim l'hashmid et Israel" - "Must destroy Israel," not wiping "off the Earth."?Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the IRGC said the missile firings are a firm response to the embargoes against Iran's missile defense program. "Our enemies have realized that broader sanctions and security pressures have had little impact on our capabilities. That's why they now seek to confine us in the missile field through economic sanctions," Jafari said.?He insisted that Iran's defense power and national security are non-negotiable, adding that the ballistic missile firings proved the IRGC's silos are operational. He further noted that "the security of Iran is the security of the region, and we will do our utmost to ensure our country's security."?Jafari then added, "It is the enemies of the Islamic Revolution and regional security that should be afraid of the IRGC missiles."???Governing your enemies is the price you pay to be free - By Caroline B. Glick - week we learned that Lebanon is no more. It has been replaced by Hezbollah's Iranian colony in Lebanon.?Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia listed Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and canceled its $3 billion aid package to the Lebanese military. The Gulf Cooperation Council followed suit. Rather than support the move by his sponsors and allies, Saad Hariri, the head of the anti-Hezbollah March 14 movement, flew to Syria to meet with Hezbollah leaders.?Saudi Arabia's decision to end its support for the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) doesn't mean that Saudi Arabia is making peace with Hezbollah. ?It means that the Saudis are no longer willing to maintain the fiction that with enough support, the LAF will one day challenge Hezbollah's effective control of Lebanon.?Hezbollah and its bosses in Tehran don't seem too upset about the Sunnis' decision to acknowledge that Hezbollah is a terrorist group. And they are right not to care. In essence, the Saudi move is simply an admission that they have won. Lebanon is theirs.?Hezbollah's isn't the dominant force in Lebanon because it has better weapons than the LAF.?Unlike the LAF, Hezbollah has no air force. It has no armored divisions.?Hezbollah is able to dominate Lebanon because unlike the LAF and the March 14 movement, Hezbollah is willing to destroy Lebanon if doing so advances its strategic goals.?This has all been fairly clear for more than a decade. But it took the war in Syria to force the truth above the surface.?And now that it is clear to everyone that Lebanon has ceased to exist and that the country we once knew is now an Iranian colony, the time has come for Israel to reckon with the lessons of its own misadventures in our neighbor to the north.?Since the mid-1990s, Israel has implemented three strategies in Lebanon and in Syria. All of them originated on the Left. All of them failed.?The first strategy was appeasement.?From the mid-1990s until the Syrian war began five years ago, Israel's strategic framework for understanding Syria was appeasement. Initially, the notion was that Syria was our enemy because we control the Golan Heights. If we surrendered the Golan to Syria, we would have peace in exchange.?In the years leading up to the Syrian war, our leaders embraced the idea that Syria was the weakest link in the Iranian axis. If we gave the Golan Heights to Syria, they said, then the Assad regime would withdraw from the Iranian axis.?As it turned out, these positions had no basis in reality. Appeasement failed.?Then there was unconditional surrender - or disengagement. Then-prime minister Ehud Barak implemented this strategy when he removed IDF units from the security zone in south Lebanon in May 2000.?From the mid-1990s on, Yossi Beilin was the chief advocate of unconditional surrender in Lebanon. The logic of surrender was similar to that of appeasement - of which he was also a principal architect and advocate.?The surrender strategy in Lebanon was based on the idea that Hezbollah fought the IDF in south Lebanon because the IDF was in south Lebanon. If the IDF were to leave south Lebanon, Hezbollah was have no reason to fight us anymore.?So if we were gone, Beilin argued, Hezbollah would stop fighting, ditch terrorism and Iran, and become a normal Lebanese political party.?The war with Hezbollah in 2006 destroyed the credibility of the surrender strategy. But the Left didn't despair. They simply replaced surrender with the strategy of internationalization.?The internationalization strategy forms the basis of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that set the cease-fire terms at the end of the war with Hezbollah. IDF soldiers, who left Lebanon without victory, were replaced by UN forces from UNIFIL. UNIFIL forces were supposed to block Hezbollah's reassertion of control over south Lebanon by facilitating the LAF's takeover of the border with Israel. While UNIFIL was protecting the LAF on the ground, the LAF itself would be empowered by a massive infusion of US and Saudi aid.?Saudi Arabia's belated recognition that Hezbollah dominates the LAF, and controls Lebanon, makes clear that like appeasement and disengagement, internationalization is an utter failure.?To a certain degree, Israel's serial strategic blundering did have one ameliorative effect. Through them, Hezbollah has become so powerful that it now poses a threat to the great powers. So Russia in Syria now needs to curb it. So, too, it is so powerful that Iran is loath to waste it on a war with Israel that it will lose when it is fighting to win the war in Syria.?For now then, Hezbollah is not an immediate threat. This is the case despite Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's recent threat to bomb Haifa's chemical depots and cause a fireball with the cataclysmic effect of a nuclear bomb.?But that doesn't mean that the lessons of our repeated strategic mistakes in Syria and Lebanon shouldn't be applied today. They should be applied, but toward another, more immediate foe - the Palestinians, toward whom Israel has applied the same failed policies, one after another, with similarly destructive outcomes.?After the first intifada ground to a halt in 1991, Israel adopted the Left's first strategy. The so-called peace process with the PLO, which began in 1993, was an attempt to implement a strategy of appeasement. We would gradually give the PLO Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem.?In return, the PLO would stop supporting terrorism and live at peace with Israel.?The failure of the appeasement strategy led to the second intifada. The second intifada caused Israel to adopt the Left's second strategy - unconditional surrender.?Israel's 2005 disengagement from Gaza failed just as spectacularly as its 2000 disengagement from Lebanon. Not only did it lead to the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. It led to the further radicalization of the PLO and Palestinian society as a whole. The latter became convinced that terrorism worked. The former became convinced that the only way to garner public support was by being just as anti-Israel as Hamas.?Today, the center-left parties - the Zionist Union and Yesh Atid - cling to the failed strategy of disengagement. The far Left, together with the Arab political parties, have already moved on to the internationalization strategy. In the Palestinian context, the goal of the internationalization strategy is the collapse of Israeli sovereignty.?This strategy was in evidence this week with Peace Now head Yariv Oppenheimer's outrageous claim Wednesday that in killing the terrorists who were in the midst of murdering innocents in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv, civilians and security forces carried out summary executions.?Oppenheimer, whose group is funded by foreign governments, did not make the claim because he wished to build his support base at home. He demonized his fellow citizens to advance his paymasters' goal of delegitimizing Israeli sovereignty by among other things, criminalizing Israel's right to self-defense.?The goal of this delegitimization campaign is to make it impossible for Israel to function as a coherent nation-state and for it instead to become a powerless ward of Europe and the US.?In the face of both the rise in Palestinian terrorism and of efforts by Oppenheimer and his comrades to use Palestinian terrorism as a means to cause the collapse of Israeli sovereignty, the government is at a loss. Its paralysis doesn't owe to a lack of will. Rather it is the consequence of the government's difficulty in contending with the coalition of powerful domestic and foreign actors that together make it all but impossible for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his ministers to abandon the Left's failed strategies and embark on a new strategic course.?Perhaps the most poignant and infuriating expression of the government's distress is its constant demand that PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas condemn Palestinian terrorism.?On seemingly a daily basis our leaders voice the demand that the man who heads a regime that indoctrinates its youth - including its young children - to murder Jews condemn his own actions.?Beyond being irrational, the demand is both defeatist and self-defeating. By demanding action from Abbas, we legitimize him and empower him. But so long as Israel refuses to abandon the appeasement strategy, and continues to accept that there is a peace process that can be resuscitated, the government will be unable to stop treating Abbas as legitimate and moderate.?So, too, so long as the Knesset fails to take serious, concerted action against the nonprofit groups funded by hostile foreign governments and foundations, the government will be unable to take effective action against the radical Left and its partners from the Joint (Arab) List that openly support both Palestinian terrorists and Hezbollah.?Just as Oppenheimer's remarks weren't directed toward the domestic audience, but to his European sponsors, so the Arab Knesset members who this week announced their opposition to Saudi Arabia's decision to label Hezbollah a terrorist group, were directing their remarks toward their supporters - and Hezbollah's sponsors - in Qatar.?While adopting in turn every failed strategy the Left could invent and recycle, for the past generation, Israel has avoided implementing the only strategy that has ever worked. That is the strategy of sovereignty - or, more broadly, of governing territories necessary for our defense.?From 1982 through 2000, Israel restrained Hezbollah and prevented it from taking over Lebanon by maintaining security control over the security zone in Lebanon. For 28 years, Israel prevented the Palestinians from becoming a terrorist society dedicated to the destruction of the people of Israel, by exerting security and civil authority over Judea, Samaria and Gaza through its military government and its civil administration.?And it worked. By fighting our enemies rather than empowering them, we weakened them.?The image of the first intifada that convinced us to legitimize the PLO was the teenager with a slingshot.?The image of the second intifada that convinced us to run away from Gaza was a bombed out bus.?So far, the image of the third intifada is a girl wielding scissors attempting to stab Jews. And we still haven't figured out our response to her, although the Left would like us to run away or collapse.?It is time to let this image guide us though.?The girl with the scissors is not empowered. She is both dangerous and pathetic. She is both an enemy and a victim. You cannot destroy her. You can only punish her and then raise her up. In other words, you need to govern her.?Governing enemies is unpleasant. It brings no instant gratification. Instead it promises only thankless, Sisyphean efforts. In other words, governing your enemies is the price you pay to be free.?NOW BOTH DVDs FOR ONLY $29.95NOW SHIPPING!!!MAGOG RISINGMore than 2,500 years ago, God gave?the prophet Ezekiel an astonishing prophecy to give to the world, one that would be fulfilled in "the latter days." Many Bible scholars feel that the prophesied events, found in Ezekiel 38 and 39, could be fulfilled in the near future, and that we might already be witnessing the stage being set and the actors being moved into place, in light of current events happening in the Middle East, right now.?In Ezekiel 38, Russia, Iran, and an alliance of Muslim nations invade Israel due to a "hook placed in the mouth of Russia" to bring Russia down to invade Israel. That hook could very well be the natural-gas fields discovered off the coast of Israel or the more recent finding of massive oil deposits in the Golan Heights.?With Russian and Iranian military forces now cooperating? and engaging in combat in Syria, just miles north of the border of Israel, people are asking if these events are setting the stage for the fulfillment of what Bible scholars call the "War of Gog & Magog" that is supposed to take place in the End of Days??Join us in this exciting new DVD as we examine Ezekiel 38 & 39 and the infamous war of Gog & Magog, and compare it to today's headlines and current events in the Middle East.The Fate of Damascus and the Psalm 83 War?About the time of the end the biblical prophet Ezekiel tells of a future invasion of Israel by a vast coalition of nations, known as the battle of Gog and Magog, we find this in Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. As we read the headlines in the newspapers of today, and witness the conflicts in the Middle East, it's not hard to imagine that this invasion prophesied over 2600 years ago, could be fulfilled in the immediate future.? Ezekiel 36-37 predicts a gathering of the Jews to the nation of Israel, which will be followed by this massive invasion.? For 19 centuries, the Jewish people were scattered throughout the world, and until May 14, 1948, there was no nation of Israel to invade.? With the nation of Israel now a reality, the stage seems set for the war that will usher in the tribulation and the rise of the Antichrist; a war that will end with the destruction of Israel's enemies by God Himself, and lead to the signing of a peace treaty with the Antichrist.?As you read Ezekiel 38 and 39, it isn't just the creation of the nation of Israel that makes this prophecy seem likely to be fulfilled in the near future.? The nations that God tells us will form this coalition against Israel seem more likely now than perhaps ever before to form just such an alliance." The leaders of this coalition will be Russia and Iran, and currently both of these nations are right on Israel's doorstep, under the pretense of battling ISIS in Syria. I believe that there are a couple of unfulfilled prophecies that will lead-up to this massive invasion of Israel, and as we read today's headlines, we find that the fulfillment of these two prophesied events,?could happen very soon! ?The Fate of Damascus and the Psalm 83 War?TO ORDER THIS NEW DVDS - CLICK HERE?For every "Convergence" DVD that you purchase, you will receive a second one for FREE to out hand out or give away. For example, if you buy 5 DVDs, you will receive 10."CONVERGENCE of the End Time Signs" -?Bible Prophecy fulfillment is in a period of acceleration, a time of Quickening, the world is racing towards Armageddon, now more than ever we must be ready! We are about to enter a time like no other time, a time that no man has ever seen, a time like no other time in the history of this world, as a matter of fact we are about to enter the end times. Since the dawn of mankind, there have always been wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, famines, pestilences, disease, strange-weather and false Christ's just as Jesus predicted. Fast forward nearly 2,000 years since Jesus made this prediction, and you have today's headlines lining up exactly with the Word of God. The big thing?isn't?that these events?are happening today, is that they are all happening at the very same time! Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right before our very eyes.? Fulfilled prophecy is increasing in frequency and intensity just like birth pains, and Jesus said when you see these know that I am near, even at the door.All the signs of the last days are converging at the same time. Bible Prophecy is happening right before our eyes and like birth pains, ?the predicted events are happening more frequently and more intently. Never, in the history throughout the world have so many forces, including economic, scientific, techno-logic, ecologic, cultural, geopolitical, moral, spiritual and religion, converged together to bring this world that's already teetering over the edge into the abyss, to a point of no return. "CONVERGENCE" brings it all together and will clearly show where all this heading and what people need to do!To Order this Video on DVD Click Here!Watchman Warning: Israel and the Front Runners - By Hal Lindsey - One: Hillary Clinton? Though questions remain, the U.S. presidential campaign is beginning to take a definite shape.? Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump presently lead their respective parties, but things could still go wrong for either one.? An indictment of Secretary Clinton remains possible.? It's hard to know what direction that would take the presidential race.? Donald Trump must try to defeat his primary opponents without further alienating their voters.? He says he's a "uniter."? Right now, that's a big job because the Republican Party seems on the verge of ripping itself apart.? For many decades, much of my ministry focus has been on the prophetic implications of the renewed State of Israel.? In line with that, I would like to look at that aspect of the campaign.? It's only one of many Bible-based issues we could talk about, but it's an important one.? This week we'll examine Hillary Clinton's relationship with Israel.? Next week, hopefully, we can take a look at the other frontrunner, Donald Trump.? Secretary Clinton's track record gives a good picture of what her approach to Israel might be if elected President.? For four years she served as Barack Obama's Secretary of State.? During those years, the United States continued its military partnership with Israel, but at great cost to the Jewish state.? In her book, Hard Choices, Clinton wrote, "Despite our policy differences, Mr. Netanyahu and I worked together as partners and friends."? But the differences were not just on policy.? In 2012, she spoke of Israel's "lack of generosity" and "lack of empathy" regarding the Palestinians.? That's not policy.? That's personal.? As Secretary of State in 2010, she gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a 43-minute tongue-lashing.? The government of Israel had granted permits to build houses in East Jerusalem during a visit to Israel by Vice President Joe Biden.? She claimed the United States had been humiliated.? This is another strong indication that as President she would insist on a divided Jerusalem.? In 2014, she said in regard to Netanyahu, "I was often the designated yeller."? She claims to be pro-Israel, but during her time as the head of U.S. foreign policy, the United States repeatedly pushed and bullied Israel into doing things detrimental to their country's security.? Her website points out that, when she served in the Senate, she "cosponsored the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act in 2006."? It doesn't mention that she was one of 90 Senators who co-sponsored the bill.? There are only a hundred Senators total, so she was hardly going out on a limb for Israel.? Caroline Glick is an American-born Israeli journalist and editorial writer.? She serves as the deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post.? She wrote, "Whether or not Obama's anti-Israel policies will survive his tenure in office depends on who succeeds him.? If Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is elected to serve as the next president, there is no question that they will survive him.? During her four years as Obama's Secretary of State, Clinton was a full partner in Obama's hostile policies toward Israel.? Moreover, as her internal emails have shown, all of Clinton's close advisers are hostile to Israel."? The emails are especially troubling.? They reveal a deep, abiding policy partnership between Secretary Clinton and Sidney Blumenthal, a former aid to President Bill Clinton.? Blumenthal served as a "Senior Adviser" to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign.? She wanted to hire him at the State Department, but powers at the White House blocked the appointment.? So, the Clinton Foundation hired him at $10,000 a month.? At least part of the time, he made that money merely as a consultant.? Blumenthal's emails to Secretary Clinton take for granted that she agreed with his strong anti-Israel bias.? The Observer gave a list of extreme anti-Israel articles he sent to her.? It then said, "Ms. Clinton often responds positively to Mr. Blumenthal's suggested reading, asking for them to be printed.? In fact, she never once challenged Mr. Blumenthal on their anti-Israel content, and never asked him to stop."? Sidney often sent articles on Israel written by Max Blumenthal, his son.? Max is one of the most virulent anti-Israel zealots in the world.? He calls himself an "anti-Zionist."? He's a major proponent of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.? He constantly compares Israel to Nazi Germany.? He calls Israel "JSIL," for "Jewish State in the Levant."? With that little gem, he's saying that the State of Israel and ISIS (or ISIL) are morally equivalent.? This young man has filled books, columns, and articles with his venomous hatred for Israel, and for his own people, the Jews.? His works are so extreme they embarrass other pro-Palestinians.? He calls for the expulsion of Jews from Israel, and he defends Palestinian terrorism.? Yet Secretary Clinton is known to have had copies of at least one of his articles distributed among her staff.? Hillary Clinton's praise of Max Blumenthal goes well beyond the polite responses you might expect after a friend sends his son's articles.? She says: "Please congratulate Max for another impressive piece.? He's so good."? And, "A very smart piece as usual."? And, "Will Max's piece be published anywhere else?? It is powerful and touching."? Sydney Blumenthal has been called "the Clinton's closest adviser," yet he is anti-Israel to the core.? What does that portend for Israel if there is a Hillary Clinton Administration? ? These things are important for many reasons, but the big one can be found in God's promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3.? "I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse."? Next week, I hope to examine the Republican frontrunner's positions regarding Israel.? As usual with Donald Trump, it will be interesting.?Who Is to Blame for The Rape Epidemic That Is Sweeping Across Europe? - By Michael Snyder - of women in Europe are now deathly afraid to walk outside their own homes at night, and with each passing day more news reports of absolutely horrific rapes and sexual assaults come pouring in from all over the continent.? So who is to blame for this epidemic of rape?? I think that the answer might surprise you, because a very famous politician in the United States is at least partially responsible.? But first, let's examine why women all over Europe are living in such fear right now.? I have written previously about this rape epidemic, but since that time it has gotten even worse.? At this point, this plague is even affecting small towns in the far northern portions of the continent.? For example, just consider what is happening in a small town in northern Sweden known as Ostersund...?Women in a town in northern Sweden have been warned not to walk alone at night in the wake of a spike in violent assaults and attempted rapes.?Police in ?stersund made the unusual move to ask women not to go out unaccompanied after dark, after reports of eight brutal attacks, some by 'men of foreign appearance', in just over two weeks.?Speaking at a press conference on Monday, police said they 'have never seen anything like it in ?stersund', a small town in the north of Sweden with a population of just 45,000.?Of course things were not always this way in Sweden.?At one time, Sweden had some of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world, but now the number of reported rapes in Sweden has risen by more than 1,000 percent since the mid-1970s.?So what is causing this??A massive influx of immigrants from the Middle East and other third world nations is fundamentally changing Swedish society.? During 2015, Sweden brought in an additional 163,000 migrants and refugees, and that was the highest level in all of Europe per capita.?Politically-correct Swedish citizens have opened up their arms to warmly welcome their new friends, but all of this kindness has not prevented an absolutely chilling wave of sexual crime.? In particular, public pools have quickly gained a reputation as places where young Swedish women are very likely to be raped or sexually assaulted.? The following is an excerpt from an outstanding article by Ingrid Carlqvist...?In 2015, when roughly 163,000 asylum seekers came to Sweden, the problems at public pools increased exponentially. More than 35,000 young people, so-called "unaccompanied refugee children," arrived - 93% of whom are male and claim to be 16-17 years old. To prevent complete idleness, many municipalities give them free entrance to the public pools.?During the past few months, the number of reports of sexual assaults and harassment against women at public pools has been overwhelming. Most of the "children" are from Afghanistan, widely considered among the most dangerous places in the world for women. When the daily Aftonbladet visited the country in 2013, 61-year-old Fatima told the paper what it is like to be a woman in Afghanistan: "What happens if we do not obey? Well, our husbands or sons beat us of course. We are their slaves."?In her article, Carlqvist lists example after example of sex attacks by immigrants at public pools.? This is just one of those examples...?On January 21, there were reports that the number of sexual assaults had increased dramatically at the Aquanova adventure pool in Borl?nge. In 2014, one case was reported; in 2015, about 20 cases were reported. The incidents involved women having their bikinis ripped off, being groped in the water slide and sexually assaulted in the restrooms. Ulla-Karin Solum, the CEO of Aquanova, told the public broadcaster Sveriges Television that many incidents "are due to cultural clashes."?And this kind of sexual violence is not just limited to Sweden.? Wherever there has been a large influx of refugees we are seeing the same things happen.?Here is one recent example from Belgium...?HORRIFIC footage has emerged of a group of young men, including five migrants, laughing, dancing and singing in Arabic as they gang rape an unconscious 17-year-old girl.?It is believed the attack happened after the girl passed out after drinking at a party.?One of the rapists later told police: "She can't complain. Women must obey men."?Next, here is an example from Germany...?An Algerian man who almost killed his 25-year-old student victim shouted out 'if Allah wills it' in Arabic as he raped her in a darkened alley, a court has heard.?The man, identified only by his first name Rheda, is accused of following the student as she walked home from a nightclub at 5am in Hannover, Germany.?Afterwards, with his victim badly beaten, he is alleged to have climbed off her and asked her if she enjoyed it.?Finally, here is a particularly disturbing example from Austria...??An Iraqi migrant has admitted to raping a ten year old boy in a Viennese swimming pool so ferociously that the boy had to be hospitalized for his injuries. The man said he knew it was wrong but couldn't help himself as he hadn't had sex in months.?Police investigators have ascertained that the 20 year old man entered Austria on the 13th September, travelling into the country via the Balkans.?Because most European leaders are so politically correct, they simply cannot face the truth.?In fact, some top European politicians have resorted to blaming the victims in a desperate attempt to maintain the fiction that these immigrants are responsible citizens...?One particularly divisive issue is the extent to which officials have tended to "blame the victim", so to speak. For instance, Cologne mayor Henriette Reker drew sharp criticism for suggesting that it was German womens' duty to prevent assaults by keeping would-be assailants "at arm's length."?Then there was the now infamous case of the 17-year-old Danish girl who faced a fine from police after she allegedly used "illegal" pepper spray to deter an attacker.?Okay, I promised that I would reveal a top politician in the United States that is at least partially responsible for this epidemic of rape.? So let me try to explain how I arrived at my conclusion.?Most of the immigrants that are flooding into Europe are coming from areas that have been ravaged by war.? In particular, more immigrants are flooding into Europe from Syria than anywhere else.?If we go back five years ago, Syria was actually a very peaceful place.? In the early portions of 2011, the Arab Spring was raging, and leaders all over the Middle East were being deposed.? At that time, a decision was made by officials in the Obama administration that it would be an ideal opportunity to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria as well.?Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their Sunni allies in the region were quite eager to get rid of Assad.? Syria is part of "the Shiite crescent" that stretches across the Middle East, but 74 percent of all Syrians are actually Sunni.? So the idea was to create a "popular uprising" that would overthrow Assad, and Syria would then be transformed into a full-fledged Sunni nation and the balance of power in the Middle East would be fundamentally altered.?This effort was spearheaded by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.? Huge protests were organized against Assad in Syria, and those protests rapidly turned violent.? A civil war began, and members of "the coalition" poured millions upon millions of dollars into jihadist groups that were attempting to overthrow Assad.? And at first the plan was working well.? The "resistance" was taking lots of ground and it looked like they were going to be able to push all the way to Damascus and topple Assad.?But then Assad enlisted the help of Iran, Hezbollah, Shiite militias from Iran and most importantly the Russians.?Russian air power has completely turned the tide of the war, and now the Sunni militant groups are being routed.? This is why Saudi Arabia and Turkey are in such a panic, and they are looking to the Obama administration to finish what it started.?Of course all of this has brought us to the brink of World War 3, and most Americans have absolutely no idea how we got here.?And it is this horrific conflict in Syria which Hillary Clinton played such a key role in starting that has caused the worst refugee crisis that Europe has experienced since World War 2.?So how will Hillary Clinton be rewarded for her fine work??Well, it appears quite likely that she is going to become the next president of the United States, and that is a very, very depressing thought.?Daily Jot: Shooting to kill and the Police State - Bill Wilson - ?Yesterday, I watched the very disturbing video of the FBI shooting a white man, Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, who was one of the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. The Oregon State Police has, of course, ruled that shooting Finicum was justified. I have also seen video of other police shootings that were called justified--a black youngster playing in a park with a toy gun; an unarmed black man running away from a policeman during a traffic stop; a black man getting shot while he reached into his car to retrieve his registration as ordered by the policeman. I always have been a staunch supporter of law enforcement, but something needs to change.?When deadly force is used, it should be used as a last resort. I know that there are going to be thousands saying, "Yeah, but these policemen put their lives on the line every day. They don't know when someone is going to actually shoot. So any threat of that requires that the policeman shoot to kill." In some cases, I agree. In others, I disagree. Taking a life should be the last resort. If the video I saw on Finicum is accurate, Finicum told the FBI that he was going to see the Sheriff and that they could come along, but that he was going to see the Sheriff. A chase ensued. Finicum tried to go around a police barricade, stalled in the snow, got out of the truck, and was summarily shot to death. ?The policy of "If you shoot, shoot to kill" needs to be modified. Shooting needs to be accompanied by good judgment. In this country, policing has gotten out of hand, ie. door to door searches without warrants, aka Boston. The Washington Post reported last week about several police break-ins against innocent people because they had gotten the wrong information. The IRS, Education Department, Social Security, and who knows what other unconstitutional government agency have fully equipped police forces. Most of the time when one of these "police" forces does the wrong thing, ruins someone's life for a time, or takes a life, it is always coldly justified. The result of the government's absolute power.?These are types of examples that lead to a police state. Policy needs to be reviewed. Death should be the last resort.? Making martyrs of criminals doesn't compute with the law abiding. But most can understand a police state. It is one thing to shoot to kill in self-defense. It is another to asses a situation and determine deadly force as a last resort. The deadlier force is used, and the more it is justified, the more commonplace it becomes. There needs to be balance between when an officer's or an innocent's life is truly threatened and when it is not. A blanket shoot to kill policy doesn't fit all situations. The Lord said in Zechariah 7:9, "Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother." Criminals get what they get, but we need to be just in doing it. A death penalty without trial is not always just.Daily Devotion: No Longer on the Outside - Greg Laurie - ?Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. . . . -Matthew 27:51?If I could have been present at certain moments in history, one event I would like to have seen was the veil of the temple being torn in two. ?In the inner court of the temple in Jerusalem, in the Holy of Holies, was the Ark of the Covenant. That was where the high priest would go once a year to offer atonement for the sins of the people. A veil, a very thick, woven curtain, separated the Holy of Holies from the rest of the temple. ?When Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, that heavy curtain was torn from top to bottom. It was not ripped from bottom to top, as though a man were ripping it. Instead, it was ripped from top to bottom, because God was ripping it.?God was saying, "You no longer are on the outside. You can come in. My Son has made a way for you." ?The apostle Paul explained how we can now draw near to God:?Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith. (Hebrews 10:19-22)?The veil was torn. Jesus is now our Intercessor. We don't have to go through a person to reach God anymore. We don't have to go through rituals anymore. Instead, Jesus made a new and living way for us to reach God. ?Jesus paid it all. And that is so important to remember.FROM THE HEART??IF YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED THROUGH THIS MINISTRY, THEN WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD PLEASE REMEMBER PROPHECY UPDATE IN YOUR GIVING - WE ARE TRULY,?TRULY,?THANKFUL FOR YOUR SUPPORT??Prophecy Update has no corporate sponsors. This ministry is paid for and prayed for by readers and supporters. 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