24 Jun 2024

“I don’t know that they haven’t”

 This week I listened to Hugh Hewitt interview former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren discuss the war situation in Israel right now. One quick answer to a Hewitt question stopped me in my tracks.

With focus shifting to a seemingly imminent war with Hezbollah in the north, Hewitt wondered about Israel’s own weapons capabilities. As you well know, the Biden Regime is holding up weapons and ammunition, in order to see that Hamas emerges intact (that’s the obvious truth few will acknowledge in the media). In particular, the discussion had turned to air power. Hewitt asked if Israel will ever build its own long-range bomber.

“I don’t know that they haven’t,” Oren posited.

Wow! It was almost a throwaway line; the interview was concluding. But it tells us a lot.

Look, Israel has vast experience with intelligence and disinformation and misinformation. They are the best when it comes to understanding propaganda and messaging. Oren’s quick, casual answer was a message:

“We have capabilities no one knows about.”

It is estimated that in one more week, the IDF will have completed its control of Rafah and thus, the Gaza Strip. Of course, it will be years before they leave and as of right now, no one knows the fate of the remaining hostages. But focus is shifting to the war deemed far more existential. Hezbollah’s rocket and missile stockpile has long been a worry. We’re about to find out how fearsome they are. It is also estimated by some that Hezbollah’s foot soldiers will pose a real challenge to the IDF. I’ve heard they are “battle-hardened.” Tough to know how they got battle-hardened against defenseless civilians in Lebanon. I also remember hearing similar nonsense from Iraq before both Gulf Wars.

In any case, I am just as convinced, as one or two IDF generals are, that the IDF can fairly quickly bomb Lebanon back to the second millennium B.C. I believe it.

This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 80 attacks on military and civilian targets in northern Israel, compared to 52 attacks the previous week. Attacks escalated in response to the killing of Taleb Sami Abdallah, the commander of the al-Nasr unit and a long-time Hezbollah operative. Hezbollah increased its use of surface-to-air missiles and advanced UAVs to attack Israeli Air Force aircraft in the skies of south Lebanon. Two Israeli civilians and two IDF soldiers were injured in the attacks and considerable damage was caused by extensive fires which broke out in northern Israel. This week, Israel killed more commanders in Lebanon.

We could be going back to a pre-2006 reality, where Israel maintains a deep buffer zone in Lebanon. That would allow 100,000 Israelis to return home.

It was in 1982-83 that the IDF invaded Lebanon, that time to push-out the PLO. Hezbollah is a much more formidable opponent, sure, but the IDF can impose its will.

It’s also important to note that there are serious adversaries for Hezbollah in Lebanon. As it was 40 years ago, Christian militias stand prepared to rise up if Israel threatens Hezbollah. Kamil Chamoun, leader of the Free Nationalist Party, warned that twenty thousand armed Sunnis, Druze and Christians would take to the streets if Hezbollah attacked the Christian areas.

That ain’t chopped chicken, friends.

On June 9 and 12, Hezbollah announced it had attacked IAF fighter jets with anti-aircraft missiles. On June 13, 2024, Hezbollah announced that it had attacked an IDF post with a double-barreled, 23mm diameter anti-aircraft gun mounted on an ATV (Hezbollah combat information Telegram channel, June 13 and 14, 2024). It was apparently the first time the weapon had been used in the current conflict.

Now, in the event of all-out war, the terrorists claim they can immediately send Pro-Iranian militias from Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. This alleged force would also include Palestinians.

I think that an important point to always keep in mind in these situations is closely linked to Michael Oren’s comment/message: Only Israel knows what it can and will do. My personal belief is that an unrestrained Israel is well able to vanquish any enemy.

And I will constantly beat this drum: Stop being scared for Israel. What enemy can stand before God? We like to say that “We win in the end.” Yes, but…

God wins in the end.

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The Insanity Gene :: By Terry James

Let me assure at the outset of today’s venture into the blogosphere. I by no means intend to be disparaging of or demeaning to those with hereditary or other mental disorders of any sort. It is the Spiritual health to which I refer by the use of the article’s title, not the physical.

That said, I must state without reservation that there is a growing Insanity in this nation and world. It is hereditary in nature –rather, I should say, it is hereditary in the supernatural sense. The loss of normal sensibility becomes overtly more apparent with each news cycle that delivers the news of human activity.

The cause of the Insane condition is as ancient as the time of the first humans to exist. Adam and Eve suffered the beginning of the spiritual mentality breakdown the moment Eve fell victim to Lucifer’s lies and Adam to his own temptation choice to disobey God’s Commandment to not eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree. All of their progeny have within our genetic bloodstream the infection God calls sin.

The gene that causes the Insanity affects each and every one of us until the Cure is accepted. That cure must be voluntarily received as surely as did our human father Adam voluntarily receive the deadly gene upon his rebellion at the moment he chose to disobey his Creator’s warning to not eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The Cure is, of course, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and His Sacrifice on the cross at Calvary. He died for the sin of mankind and was Resurrected to Life so that all who believe this Truth and accept Jesus’ cleansing blood as a Cure for the sinful condition are instantaneously healed of all unrighteousness –forever.

However — it is sad to have to say — the vast majority of humanity throughout the ages has not accepted God’s Cure –that is, His belief system for Salvation. Thus, humanity remains untreated for the Insanity gene that runs throughout mankind’s spiritual bloodstream. And now, at this late prophetic hour so near the time of the most terrible time of all history according to Jesus, the Spiritual Insanity is manifesting in ways that cannot be missed.

One article of recent vintage makes the point.

In 2016, Ash Williams became pregnant for the first time. Williams wants to be a parent eventually — but he wasn’t ready for a child then. He didn’t know much about what an abortion entailed, and he needed a ride, so he called up a friend who drove him. When they got to the clinic, Williams, who is trans, remembers the people working there didn’t care enough to get his name right — using, instead, the name on his license. Never mind asking about pronouns. “Working with the actual provider was really [expletive deleted] up, too,” he says. “I just remember he didn’t say one word to me, and I felt sad about that.”

It’s all there, isn’t it? In a single paragraph, we have all of the most insane and insidious progressive views on display. There’s the fiction of the “pregnant man.” There’s the “pregnant man” getting an abortion — that is, a gender-dysphoric female having her child killed by an abortionist. There’s the fact that the abortion clinic staff is faulted not for facilitating feticide but for paying insufficient attention to pronouns…

It’s a potent, eye-watering ending to a profile that manages to showcase everything wrong with our culture in 2024. “Pregnant men.” “Abortion showers.” For that matter, “abortion doulas.” Celebrating someone for an abortion (“Congratulations — it’s dead!”) People “deserve” abortion. It reminds me of a line from Proverbs 8: “All those who hate Me love death.”

[Source: ‘Pregnant man’ becomes ‘abortion doula’ to assist others who want to kill their babies, LifeSite, Jonathon Van Maren, June 5, 2024]

When considering such as reported here, one’s end-times thinking might go to Paul’s 2 Timothy chapter 3 perilous times prophecy. “In the last days… they will be without natural affection…”

Certainly, there can be nothing more natural than a man being a man and a woman being a woman. Unless it is a woman having a baby and wanting only to love and nurture that little one. Yet today, a broad swath of humanity prefers the murder of millions and millions of babies in the wombs of their mothers –even up to the moment of birth, and in some cases, just beyond the actual birth.

For example, in listening to the Chris Plante Show one morning recently, I heard him report on those protesting at an abortion clinic who were arrested for blocking a young woman from going into the clinic.

Whether they actually did so or not, I don’t know, but the story told was that the young woman was on the floor in the last stage of giving birth. She was in heavy labor. She was going to the clinic for an abortion. The pro-abortionist prosecutors were charging the pro-life protesters with interfering with the birth of the young woman’s child. (Thus charged even though she was trying to get into the clinic to have her child murdered.)

Is there any doubt, upon hearing report after report of such craziness, that the Insanity gene inhabits humankind?

We consider again God’s Word on that Insanity gene, its cause and effect.

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient…” (Romans 1:28).

There is forgiveness for the heinous sin of abortion and that of homosexuality, as well as all other anti-godliness. Here is the Cure for the Insanity gene that rules the reprobate mind. It will cleanse and change all into the Mind-likeness of Christ, which saves the soul and makes any person acceptable for dwelling with God in Heaven for eternity.

“That if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and will believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).