1 Jan 2023

The Most Savage War

(I posted this week a piece on the Times of Israel blog, and I’d appreciate it if you’d read it and consider forwarding it to your network. It involves anti-Semitic statements made by Christian leaders in the wake of October 7. Also, my Patreon page is growing by leaps and bounds and I’d ask that you continue reading and if you think beneficial, recommend to friends. Thank you.)

One day, history will look back in wonderment at the war Israel is forced to wage against Hamas. No military in history has been so handicapped by international opinion, malevolent diplomats and other political operatives, religious figures, and Media. In fact, one doesn’t know where to finger-point first. I will say that by far the most disappointing enemy that has emerged against Israel is the American Christian leadership.

(By the way, one aspect of this that is truly disgusting is the fact that evangelical leaders in America almost never criticize one of their own, even if anti-Semitic statements are made. The silence is infuriating.)

In any case, Israel is assaulted from all sides, including the Regime in Washington that is, while illegitimate, in charge. The “support” we’re seeing from Washington is purely in American interests; there is no love or the Jews among the Regime.

It is also coming out that the average Gazan is hardly innocent. It is being demanded that Israel minimize civilian casualties. This is rich coming from countries with a history of flattening enemy cities during war. The real reason “caution” is urged as Israel moves deeper into Gaza—far from caring about human life—is to further handicap Israel’s ability to fight and win.

I think Israel will win, but as came out in a conversation with an Israeli friend, we can rightly wonder, “What will victory look like?”

One of the hostages that was released has revealed that she was kept captive by a regular Gaza family. “No one is innocent in Gaza,” she said. Meaning, of course, that almost all Gazans support Hamas. In fact, the citizenry voted for the murderous gang in 2007. Now, notice what is being pointed out on social media.

On December 29, Marc Zell posted the following on X:

“The evil of Palestinian Terrorism knows no bounds. The other day I posted a story about a four-year old Palestinian child who was found wandering in Gaza by IDF soldiers. They took care of her, giving her food and drink and returned her to the Gazans through the International Red Cross. Now it turns out that she was not an innocent lost waif. Rather she had been sent by the Palestinian Terrorists to scout out the whereabouts of the IDF troops and report back so that the Terrorists could attack the Israeli soldiers. Yesterday, a Palestinian terrorist hid out under the wheelchair of an elderly Gazan woman. When the IDF soldiers approached, the Terrorist opened fire. Freed hostage Mia Schem reported in an interview that she was held captive by a Palestinian family with women and children. Her conclusion: all of Gaza is Hamas. It really doesn’t matter whether all Palestinians support Hamas. Most do and want to see more like October 7th. That doesn’t make them legitimate cannon fodder, but it does illustrate the challenges facing Israel as it acts to eradicate Palestinian Terror and create the conditions for normalcy on the borders of the world’s only Jewish State. Wishing all a peaceful weekend wherever you may be.”

How grotesque, to use small children to fight Israel. I know for a fact that Israeli troops are 100 percent benevolent when encountering children. Yet Westerners, like former writer Donald Miller in America, post terrorist propaganda. Miller’s 2012 blood libel blog post, in which he accused IDF troops of murder (shooting children) was never retracted or apologized for, a fact that stains whatever Mr. Miller does in the future (he has a marketing group now).

According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center:

“The IDF forces continued to attack terrorist targets in a number of central locations in the Gaza Strip, among them Daraj and Tufah in the northern Gaza Strip, the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, where the IDF expanded its activity. In Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, the IDF completed the destruction of the underground tunnel complex. Meanwhile, activity began in the area of Khirbat Khiza’a in the southern Gaza Strip near the Israeli border. The Palestinians reported that the IDF’s ground maneuver in the central Gaza Strip focused on the Juhor al-Dik area (Wadi Gaza) and the al-Bureij refugee camp, which control the Salah al-Din road, the main road running the length of the Gaza Strip. Hamas’ military-terrorist wing announced it was using ‘new weapons.’”

As hamstrung as Israel has been, there are clear indications the Hamas leadership is desperate. They have “informed” mediator Egypt that any post-war scenario that excludes Hamas and Islamic Jihad from a role in the Gaza Strip is “unrealistic.”

It is also troubling that the conflict is slowly spreading in the Middle East. The Islamic Resistance Front in Iraq claimed responsibility for attacking a vital target in the Golan Heights. Iraq, my friends. Syria and Lebanon are also involved in attacks against Israel.

Israel at the moment is heavily engaged in fighting in refugee camps that straddle the Salah al-Din Road, which runs the length of the Strip. Military, Israel has made remarkable progress, but the progress also parallels realistic assessments by the IDF that this process might take up to a year. Hamas spent the better part of two decades building a terror infrastructure second to none.

It is the use of civilians though, and adult civilians’ love for Hamas ideology that makes the post-war scenario very dicey. I do believe the Israelis, at the end of the day, will control the Strip for years, as they have promised. They have no other choice.

A recent Washington Institute poll shows that while a still-minority of Saudi citizens support Hamas, an overwhelming 90 percent see the conflict as a “win” for the Palestinians. This is known as nuance. What I think it clearly shows is that the Middle East continues to overwhelmingly be radical against Jews.

I believe the survivors that Gazans are cheering on the October 7 attacks.

This will prove to be the most problematic development of the war.

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1 Jan 2023

The Great Resist

Those of us who believe we are charged by the Lord to be “watchers” on the wall look at the acceleration of stage-setting for prophetic fulfillment as a wondrous thing to behold. There can be no missing the reality that we are fast approaching the dénouement of the Age of Grace.

No recent development has been more significant than the movement toward establishing a New World Order. A specific element that is most troubling within that movement is termed “the great reset.”

This term, defined within the title of a book by the same name, means the globalization of the entire world—those who intend to establish a world under a single governmental rulership must, in their view, not be thwarted. The very existence of the planet depends upon their being able to achieve their goals—goals encapsulated within what they call Agenda 21 and now Agenda 30This “agenda” means they must accomplish all their shaping of this global order no later than the year 2030.

These would-be globalist masters don’t see the things developing as we do by looking at them through the prism of Bible prophecy. While we see things advancing toward Antichrist’s regime at an amazing and frightening pace, the globalists, such as author of the book, The Great Reset, see things as being slowed and inhibited by forces they must eliminate. That is, they must eliminate those like us, for example. And by “us,” I mean both we who are Christians pointing out their evil, and this nation, the United States of America, whose people have been steeped in basic liberty and God-given rights from a Judeo-Christian foundation for almost three centuries.

America is the single most powerful hold-up to Agenda 30 and the Great Reset. This nation, the most materially blessed in history, will not “go gentle into that good night,” as Dylan Thomas would have it. We won’t easily be made to ride bicycles, stay within fifteen-minute cities, and eat bugs instead of the foods we love, like the Great Resetters and their agenda insist we should do. There will be major pushback for as long as the nation exists as it is presently comprised.

Of course, the American, liberty-loving/enjoying constituency is under constant attack by the powers and principalities of Ephesians 6:12, both demonic and human. And that luciferian cabal is determined to take down America and eliminate all opposition to their agenda. These minions call the opposition they face “the retreat from globalization.” The following excerpt gives more detail of Klaus Schwab and his cohorts’ determination to change things so their neo-tower of Babel can be built, free of opposition.

Klaus Schwab and Theirry Malleret’s book Covid-19: The Great Reset identified “the global governance free fall” as an existential challenge, and if we do not collaborate, “we are doomed.”

“Nation states make global governance possible (one leads the other),” the book states. “The more nationalism and isolationism pervade the global polity, the greater the chance that global governance loses its relevance and becomes ineffective. Sadly, we are now at this critical juncture. Put bluntly, we live in a world in which nobody is really in charge.”…

[Managing director of the International Monetary Fund] Kristalina Georgieva suggested “concentrating on the areas where, without working together, we are doomed.” The examples she gave as “we are doomed” without globalization were “climate change,” the “green transition,” and debt…

The authors don’t explain why there is a need for an “individual reset”; they simply assumed it was a consequence of the Covid “pandemic.” However, as they did throughout the book, they used collectivism as a tool of social control. “If, as human beings, we do not collaborate to confront our existential challenges (the environment and the global governance free fall, among others), we are doomed,” they claimed…. The rise of nationalism makes the retreat of globalization inevitable in most of the world – an impulse particularly notable in the West. The vote for Brexit and the election of President Trump on a protectionist platform are two momentous markers of the Western backlash against globalization,” the two authors wrote. (“Klaus Schwab wants to stop the retreat of globalization and global governance with a new form of globalization and global governance,” Rhoda Wilson, Expose-news.com 12/19/23)

As the writer of the article further writes:

As we have said before, the term “the common good” and its ugly sister, “the greater good,” represent collectivism, which is found in socialist, communist, and fascist movements. These movements use “the common good” as a tool for social control.

This is exactly what we see happening within the American political process today. The incessant drive to bring about a Marxist collective system is at the heart of the attempted Great Reset being foisted by the human minions, assisted by the demonic of Ephesians 6:12, in my studied opinion.

I heard a senator speaking before the Senate chamber the other day. I like what he said, although I’m almost certain he didn’t realize the true import of his statement.

He said something like: “Instead of the un-American Great Reset, we need the Great Resist. We must resist this attempted Marxist-type tyranny.”

The Great Resist is precisely what is given within God’s Word as opposition to Satan and his minions’ attempts to bring to power the man of sin, Antichrist, and his regime of horrors.

“And now ye know what [restrains]that [Antichrist] might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only [the Holy Spirit] who now [Restrains] will [Restrain] until [the Holy Spirit] be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming” (2 Thessalonians 6-8).

We who know the Lord Jesus for salvation are part of the Great ResistPastors, listen up! Don’t resist the Great Resist. To resist the Great Resist, you are aiding and assisting those who want to bring about the Great Reset.

Preach Bible prophecy—and from the pre-Trib viewJesus is about to intervene in the wicked affairs of humankind. The Rapture, according to all the signs and signals of the coming Tribulation raging in every direction, is about to disrupt life on planet Earth!

For those who haven’t done so, here is how to be prepared, thus be assured that you will go to Jesus Christ when He calls all believers to Himself in that stupendous moment of rescue from this judgment-bound earth.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).

—Terry


The New Year: Continued March to ‘Great Reset’ :: By Jonathan Brentner

At the start of each calendar year, it’s natural to wonder what lies ahead in the upcoming months. What changes might we expect in our world? Could this be the year that the Rapture occurs?

Although I cannot predict the future, from what I know of biblical prophecy, I believe we can expect the globalists to continue building their Marxist one-world government based on the following trends they have carefully cultivated during the past decade or so:

  1. The growing acceptance of Digital Currencies in many nations
  2. The continued empowering of the World Health Organization to dictate the world’s response to future pandemics.

As for 2024, it’s in these two realms that the enslavement of humanity will continue unabated.

1.  Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Continue to Grow in Popularity

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are becoming increasingly accepted as the way of the future by many nations. Governments and banks alike are promoting them on the basis that they will make financial transactions happen instantaneously and provide greater ease in paying bills. Fully implemented, CBDCs will reduce financial fraud, if not eliminate it.

However, there’s a huge downside to what the elite plan for our future in this regard. Peter Koenig, a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), warns us about them in a recent article:

CBDC may be upon us, humanity, rather sooner than later. Programmable CBDC is a weapon of mass destruction. The weapon has been in the planning for decades – and it fits right into the Bigger Picture of the Great Reset / Agenda 2030.

Programmable – means the money can be programmed on how it is to be spent by an individual, or blocked, or made to expire, or made to be used for certain goods or services – or it can be totally withheld, wiped out, depending on how well you behave, according to the standards of the all-commandeering death cult elite.

In the end, CBDCs will give the government total control of one’s finances. They will provide the technical framework for the world for what Revelation 13:16-18 describes as the “mark of the beast.”

Once implemented on a national scale around the world, by the midpoint of the Tribulation, the antichrist will easily transition them to a worldwide CBDC over which he will control and set all the parameters for how humanity buys and sells goods. He will forbid cash transactions.

2. Health Tyranny Via the World Health Organization

The majority of people in the world do not want the tyrannical rule of the elite. I often read about mass demonstrations protesting the ever-increasing government control of our lives.

The globalists, however, will not allow their agenda to be sidetracked by the unpopularity of their agenda. (They thrive on the chaos, but that’s a topic for perhaps another time.) In 2024, they intend to take a giant step forward in eliminating the sovereignty of nations through the World Health Organization (WHO).

An article on the Prophecy News Watch website sounds the alarm about what the WHO plans for our future:

The WHO’s 194 member nations are slated to meet again in May 2024 to adopt some version of the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Meanwhile, the public details of the proposed treaty already indicate that it will, indeed, pose a threat to national sovereignty and decision-making….

Hidden within the Pandemic Agreement is language that makes it clear the agreement is about organizing UN governing bodies that can draft up rules that member governments, or Conference of the Parties, will be required to follow in the event of a declared pandemic or a declared climate emergency, etc.

In the same Peter Koenig article referenced above, he also warns people of the inherent totalitarianism in the plans of the WHO:

If these new IHR / Pandemic Treaty are approved by the World Health Assembly at the end of May 2023, the world (currently 194 WHO members) will be living under a “health tyranny.”

WHO would have overreaching powers over otherwise autonomous countries, being able to overrule national Constitutions and decide whether a disease must be treated as a pandemic, i.e., with massive vaccination.

It does not matter what the people want; the powerbrokers of our world plan to enslave humanity under their dictatorship. If the “pandemic treaty” is adopted by member nations, it will give the WHO sovereignty over nations and leave even local governments subject to their rules and demands.

Sadly, Peter Koenig sounds the alarm as someone outside of Christ and thus without any hope for the future. His hope lies in people rising up against the tyranny, but Scripture tells us the globalists will succeed for a short while.

I might succumb to much fear apart from knowing what the Bible says about our future as New Testament saints. We know Jesus is coming for us before the antichrist usurps control of the nations and begins his reign of terror (1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10). We will reside in paradise before that happens.

We are ever so close to the midnight hour when Jesus will catch us up to meet Him in the air and take us home to glory. It might not happen in 2024, but just the same, I will be surprised if we are still here at the start of 2025. Please, please know I’m not predicting the timing of the Rapture or setting a deadline for it; I’m just saying that the nearness of the seven-year Tribulation makes me believe that Jesus’ appearing is ever so close. We live in the season of His glorious appearing.

What we see alarms us at times, but what Scripture reveals about our future encourages us and fills our hearts with hope and peace amid the turmoil of this world.

-Jonathan