Willing Ignorance in Government :: By Daymond Duck

Published on: by RR10 Category:Daymond Duck, General Articles

Concerning the death of too many Palestinians in Gaza, on May 15, 2024, Israel released video (taken by an Israeli drone) of a Hamas terrorist at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) humanitarian aid warehouse in Rafah shooting at Palestinian civilians.

In addition to the video of the Hamas terrorist shooting at Palestinians, other armed Hamas terrorists were videoed inside the UNRWA compound.

Israel Katz (Israel’s Foreign Minister) said no lie from António Guterres, UN secretary-general, and Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of UNRWA, will hide the truth: “UNRWA is an arm of the terrorist organization Hamas. Lazzarini must resign!”

(My Opinion: UN officials make themselves willingly ignorant of UNRWA ties to Hamas.)

(More: The idea that the land from the river to the sea is Palestinian land is another lie, and the UN knows it. History, archaeology, and the Bible confirm that it has been part of Israel for thousands of years. There has never been a nation called Palestine, and the UN knows it, but it is willingly ignorant of this fact.)

(More: In early May, the UN started reporting a significantly lower death toll of Palestinians in Gaza. The revised UN number is almost half the original UN number because the UN was reporting what Hamas was saying without verifying it. The near 50% drop is alarming, and the UN is scrambling to explain it away.)

(More: Pres. Biden was going by the fake Hamas numbers when he delayed the shipment of bombs and weapons to Israel. Many Jews in the U.S. are shocked, and some are beginning to shift their campaign contributions from the Democrats to the Republicans. Also, some large Jewish contributors have notified some Universities that they are reconsidering their contributions to them. But think about it: Biden says Israel must be more precise in its bombing raids, so the bombs he is withholding from Israel are precision-guided bombs. He is making himself willingly ignorant of the threat Hamas poses to Israel to placate Muslim voters in the U.S.)

(FYI: On May 16, the U.S. House of Representatives easily passed a bi-partisan bill that compels the Biden administration to ship the precision-guided bombs and weapons to Israel quickly. The bill is not expected to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate, but Biden said he will veto it if it does. The fake death toll has impacted the White House and Senate.)

(My opinion: It is not surprising that people who can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman don’t tell the truth. Willing ignorance is a sign of the end of the age; II Pet. 3:1-9.)

Here are recent stories that seem to indicate that the end of the age is near.

One, concerning the prosecution of Israel for genocide: on May 17, 2024, a veteran war crimes prosecutor with 38 years of experience said:

  • Hamas can be considered a genocidal group because its stated goal is to murder Jews and because its leaders keep saying they will repeat Oct. 7, 2023, until they have destroyed Israel.
  • Most of the world’s nations have signed the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and that obligates them to prevent genocide as well as to not do it and to see that it is punished.
  • Israel not only has the right to eliminate Hamas, but it is obligated to do so by the Genocide Convention, and all the nations that signed it are obligated to do so by international law.

(My opinion: If this so-called expert on international law is right, every nation that signed the Genocide Convention – and most have – is obligated to prevent Hamas from destroying Israel, but they seem to be making themselves willingly ignorant of their obligation.)

Two, concerning hatred for Israel and efforts to undermine the Israeli government: the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Min. Netanyahu, his defense minister, and 3 leaders of Hamas (Yahya Sinwar, Ishmail Haniyeh, and Mohammed Al-Masri.)

The ICC prosecutor may get the warrants, and he may not, but he has no authority to enter Israel to arrest anyone.

In a letter to Netanyahu on Apr. 25, 2024, Israel’s Finance Min. said:

  • In recent years, the Palestinian Authority has been promoting a series of unilateral moves against Israel in international bodies.
  • This is an effort to isolate Israel, to harm the IDF and the economy, and to impose a unilateral recognition of a terrorist state in Judea and Samaria and Gaza on Israel.
  • You (Netanyahu) must publicly and unequivocally announce that if these unilateral moves are advanced, Israel will sever all ties with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and bring about its immediate downfall, and will extend its immediate and unilateral sovereignty over all the territories of Judea and Samaria.
  • Unilateral steps will be met with unilateral steps.

He also threatened to cease all money transfers to the PA should an arrest warrant be issued for any Israeli civilian or soldier or if the UN recognizes a Palestinian state.

He added that this includes sanctioning any Israeli bank that transfers funds to the PA.

If arrest warrants are issued for Netanyahu and Israel’s defense min., look for Israel to retaliate.

Three, concerning Pres. Biden’s efforts to undermine Israel in Gaza: on May 17, 2024, it was reported that 157 leaders of Christian groups in the U.S. have sent a letter to Biden expressing their disappointment in him and warning that his actions are encouraging enemies of the United States and Israel.

Four, concerning hatred for Israel at the end of the age: on May 16, 2024, it was reported that the LA County Board of Supervisors passed a bill to pay for attorneys and resources to defend pro-Palestinian protestors at UCLA.

Taxpayers will have to pay the legal fees and other costs of dozens of people who promoted an established lie.

Five, concerning the coming global economic collapse: on May 15, 2024, Harold Turner (Hal Turner Radio Show) reported that Cuba’s economy has collapsed, customers bank accounts are empty, ATMs are empty, bank vaults are empty, all the money has been removed from all the banks, and citizens are rioting.

This won’t cause a global economic collapse, but it is a good indicator of what might happen in other countries when leaders decide to switch to a digital currency system.

Turner recommends that citizens not have all their money in banks.

If it happened in Cuba, it could happen in other countries.

(More: on May 16, 2024, Hal Turner reported that China, normally a major holder of U.S. debt, has reduced its holdings by $53.3 billion in the first quarter of 2024.)

Six, while Pres. Biden was trying to force the Two-State Solution on Israel, on May 16, 2024, severe winds (80-117 mph) tore through Texas, toppled powerlines, toppled trees, broke windows, and left about one million people without electricity.

Seven people were killed, and there was major destruction in downtown Houston.

(More: on May 19, 2024, 100 mph winds and baseball-size hail hit Kansas; there was damage for 400 miles, and the electricity went out in tens of thousands of homes.)

(More: on May 20, 2024, an unusually intense hailstorm with hail stones the size of a softball hit the town of Yuma, Colorado.)

(More: on May 21, 2024, portions of Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois were warned that they could face fierce winds, damaging hail, and possibly tornadoes. Update: In Iowa, 3 people were killed, dozens were injured, and there was major destruction.)

Seven, concerning wars and rumors of wars at the end of the age: on May 17, 2024, a Russian diplomat said the U.S. has entered a state of indirect war with Russia through its actions in Ukraine.

Eight, concerning world government: on May 17, 2024, it was reported that the World Economic Forum (WEF) is urging governments to require families that own more than one vehicle to give up one of them to save the planet from climate change.

The WEF still wants to force citizens to drive electric vehicles, but they want to go a step farther by limiting how many vehicles a family can own.

(More: On May 19, 2024, it was reported that the UN is pushing digital ID programs to track people during climate disasters, citizens’ energy usage, vaccinations, lock bank accounts, collect carbon taxes, and inspire behavioral changes.)

(More: On May 21, 2024, Klaus Schwab notified his staff that he is resigning as Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and he will become the chairman of the Board of Trustees on Jan. 1, 2025.)

Nine, concerning the ashes of a red heifer: on May 20, 2024, I saw a report that said 3 of the 5 red heifers that were moved from Texas to Israel have been disqualified, but the report said they will be bred by artificial insemination in the coming weeks to produce more animals without blemish.

The article didn’t say, but I assume Israel still has 2 red heifers that qualify for sacrifice, and 1 is all they need.

Here is my daily update on the Israel-Hamas war.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (Day 223): The one hundred-sixty-seventh day of the resumed war. Day 9 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israel said they will not allow anyone to establish another terrorist government in Gaza that will be used to attack Israel.
  • Israel is trying to secure Rafah above ground before it attempts to secure Rafah below ground.
  • 15 Hamas terrorists were killed in a command center that had been established in a school located on a UNRWA compound.

Thursday, May 16, 2024 (Day 224): The one hundred-sixty-eighth day of the resumed war. Day 10 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israel located and destroyed a wide variety of Hamas rockets and rocket launchers in Rafah.
  • With Biden warning that he will pause U.S. aid to Israel if Israel moves forward in its invasion of Rafah, Israel announced that it is sending additional troops to Rafah to continue the operation.
  • The Houthis said they will target all ships headed to Israel even if they are not in the Red Sea.

Friday, May 17, 2024 (Day 225): The one hundred sixty-ninth day of the resumed war. Day 11 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israeli troops found the bodies of 3 Israeli hostages in a Gaza tunnel.
  • Fighting is raging in one of Rafah’s refugee camps.
  • Israeli planes struck a building on the West Bank, a terrorist commander was killed, and several members of his squad were injured.
  • Israel has already discovered about 700 tunnel shafts in Rafah and about 50 tunnels that cross underneath the border into Egypt. Netanyahu believes Israel must destroy those tunnels to cut off the supply of weapons and ammunition to Hamas and to cut off their routes to escape.
  • Hezbollah fired about 75 rockets from Lebanon into Israel.

Saturday, May 18, 2024 (Day 226): The one hundred-seventieth day of the resumed war. Day 12 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israel found the body of a fourth hostage in the same Gaza tunnel where it found the bodies of 3 hostages on the previous day.

Sunday, May 19, 2024 (Day 227): The one hundred-seventy-first day of the resumed war. Day 13 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israeli planes and tanks pounded targets in Gaza.

Monday, May 20, 2024 (Day 228): The one hundred-seventy-second day of the resumed war. Day 14 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israel has safely evacuated about 950,000 people from Rafah in about 2 weeks.
  • 30-40% of Rafah is under Israeli control, and 60-70% has been evacuated.

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 (Day 229): The one hundred-seventy-third day of the resumed war. Day 15 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Israel uncovered a tunnel and found a shaft leading to a weapons warehouse with a large supply of short-range anti-tank missiles, grenades, weapons, and explosives.
  • Israel said it dismantled “about 70 terror targets” throughout the Gaza Strip, including military compounds, weapon storage sites, missile launchers, and observation posts in the past 24 hours.

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (Day 230): The one hundred-seventy-fourth day of the resumed war. Day 16 of the attack on Rafah.

  • Last night, Israeli drones, planes, helicopters, and tanks fired at Hamas targets in Rafah all night long.

FYI: God does not send anyone to Hell (all of us are born with a sin nature and destined to go to Hell because we sin), but God has provided a way (Jesus) for everyone to go to Heaven (and He is the only way to get there; John 14:6).

Finally, are you Rapture Ready?

If you want to be rapture ready and go to heaven, you must be born again (John 3:3). God loves you, and if you have not done so, sincerely admit that you are a sinner; believe that Jesus is the virgin-born, sinless Son of God who died for the sins of the world, was buried, and raised from the dead; ask Him to forgive your sins, cleanse you, come into your heart and be your Saviour; then tell someone that you have done this.

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When Heroes Abounded :: By Paul Scharf

Published on: by RR10 Category:General Articles

I have always loved Memorial Day. In fact, I celebrate it every Saturday night.

My ritual for the end of the week—normally as I am preparing to speak the next day on Sunday morning—involves watching Combat!, “TV’s longest-running World War II drama.”1 When I am at home—or even in a hotel if I can find it—I watch another adventure featuring the boys from Company K, Second Platoon, right before going to bed.

The soldiers represented by Sgt. Saunders and his men were heroes who rescued the world from tyranny in their generation. According to the National World War II Museum, more than 12 million Americans would be engaged in this conflict by 1945, serving in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard.2 In total, “More than 16 million American men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, and another 3.5 million worked as federal civilian employees during the war.”3 More than 400,000 of them sacrificed all that they had in this world—their very lives—for the cause of freedom; more than 670,000 additional men and women were wounded.4 

When you watch something even as realistic as Combat!, you realize the level of the sacrifice that they made, and you begin to marvel that so many could return to live out healthy and productive lives.

Those heroes of World War II who came home and built families, homes, careers, and businesses by the hundreds of thousands are mostly gone now. But it is up to us to keep their memories alive by honoring them—especially on Memorial Day.

The concept behind Memorial Day is honorable and biblical. There is great spiritual benefit in meditating on the past—not only to acknowledge and remember those who have gone before us, including those who have sacrificed for our benefit, but also to appreciate the legacy they have left behind and to learn from their examples.

Several passages of Scripture come to mind that we might apply to this patriotic holiday.

The first is Moses’ final, extended message to the people of Israel in the book of Deuteronomy. As he recorded it by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he used the word “remember” 15 times, “heard” 12 times, “learn” seven times, “consider” three times, and “memory” once.

He exhorted the people to understand the value of treasuring their heritage in Deuteronomy 5:15 and 32:7, respectively, when he stated:

“Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm…”

…Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations.
Ask your father, and he will show you;
Your elders, and they will tell you.”

Another text that can encourage us on Memorial Day is the great Hall of Faith chapter: Hebrews 11. It tells us about the heroes of the faith, who lived “by faith”—a phrase which is used 18 times. It also speaks of “faith” six additional times.

This is all premised on the author’s quotation of Habakkuk in Hebrews 10:38: “The just shall live by faith.” Here, in the third and final usage of this verse in the New Testament, the emphasis is on those final two words—“by faith.” This is how we are now admonished to live, as we are inspired by pondering “so great a cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1).

Finally, we will be edified on Memorial Day by considering the 2nd Epistle of Peter. Peter included forms of the word “remind” four times in his short epistle (1:12, 13, 15; 3:1).

I like to watch Combat! on Saturday evenings not just because I enjoy a good war story but also because I find that it puts me in the perfect frame of mind for the next morning. It reminds me that I am in a spiritual battle (2 Corinthians 10:3–5; Ephesians 6:10–20). But it also takes me back to the days when The Friends of Israel was founded, and it reminds me of the reasons for forming this historic ministry.

Its origins go back to December of 1938—three weeks after a demonic madman named Adolf Hitler launched the Holocaust through an event called Kristallnacht on November 9 and 10, 1938. Energized by the forces of hell, Hitler’s Schutzstaffel and other troops took 30,000 Jewish men captive into the Buchenwald, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in the devilish days that followed.

This was certainly not the opportune time to launch a worldwide gospel ministry—to say nothing of initiating one that was focused on blessing the Jewish people. But some very brave men and women set out to do exactly that, fueled by biblical faith. They included Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer (the esteemed co-founder and first president of Dallas Theological Seminary) and Dr. Harry Ironside (the iconic pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago). These and many others helped to lay a foundation for a ministry first known as The Friends of Israel Refugee Relief Committee.5 

Under long-time executive director Dr. Victor Buksbazen, godly servants sacrificed to help the Jewish people by any conceivable means in their hour of greatest need.6

I am grateful to God that I have had the privilege of living my life here in the United States. I can say with the psalmist:

“The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places;
Yes, I have a good inheritance” (Psalm 16:6).

I give thanks for every single soldier who gave his or her all that we might continue to live in freedom. As Jesus taught us, “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13).

I am grateful for the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of courageous leaders who formed The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry and have caused it to flourish through eight decades.

Finally, on this Memorial Day weekend, I am grateful for the opportunity to stand on the shoulders of courageous leaders who formed The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry and have caused it to flourish through eight decades—“in season and out of season” (2 Timothy 4:2).

At this point in the history of our beloved nation, powerful winds seem to be blowing against all who would stand for truth. But that simply means that the church—and, indeed, Israel and the Jewish people—need the ministry of The Friends of Israel more than ever.

May God help us to serve Him at this amazing moment—remembering how many have sacrificed that we might enjoy freedom, and honoring their legacies in the physical realm by carrying out our “reasonable service” (Romans 12:1) in the spiritual realm.

Let’s make this Memorial Day a time not only to remember the heroes of the past but also to dedicate ourselves to finding our stations of service in the spiritual battle—just like those first Friends of Israel did … in a season when heroes abounded.

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Reposted with permission from the Friends of Israel Blog.

Endnotes
1 MeTV Staff; “11 action-packed facts about ‘Combat!;’” MeTV; Internet; accessed 23 May 2021.
2 “Research Starters: US Military by the Numbers;” The National WWII Museum; Internet; accessed 23 May 2021.
3 “Research a Veteran: How to locate someone who fought in World War II;” The National WWII Museum; Internet; accessed 25 May 2021.
4 “Research Starters: US Military by the Numbers;” The National WWII Museum; Internet; accessed 23 May 2021.
5 For more details on FOI’s history, see “Our History;” The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry; Internet; accessed 25 May 2021.
6 For more on Buksbazen’s amazing life and ministry, see Elwood McQuaid; “The Friends of Israel Turns 70;” The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry; Jan. 6, 2012; Internet; accessed 23 May 2021.